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People living in Imber, on Salisbury Plain, were evacuated in December 1943 and were never allowed to return. The service will take place at St Giles Church which is one of the only buildings left standing in its original form. The village will only be open to visitors for two hours on Saturday. It will be the ninth time Imber has held a remembrance service since it was taken over by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). The most recent previous service was held in 2003. Fifty years ago, thousands of people marched into the village to protest at its continued use by the Army. The MoD said the village still played a vital role in training troops for operations.

ستقيم قرية ويلتشير التي كانت مهجورة بعد أن استولت عليها القوات للتدريب خلال الحرب العالمية الثانية، قداسًا تذكاريًا.

قرية إمبر المهجورة تقيم قداسًا تذكاريًا

Tomas Ball, from Ambergate, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, which happened on the A6 between Ambergate and Whatstandwell at about 20:40 BST on 30 June. Derbyshire Police said its investigation was ongoing. A force spokesman appealed for any motorists with dashcams who were on the A6 that evening to contact police. Follow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk. Related Internet Links Derbyshire Police

تم تسمية صبي يبلغ من العمر 15 عامًا توفي بعد أن تورط السكوتر الذي كان يستقله في حادث اصطدام بشاحنة.

اصطدام سكوتر A6 وشاحنة: صبي يبلغ من العمر 15 عامًا هو الضحية

By Lucy ToddEntertainment reporter Shelley came up with the idea at the age of 18 after being challenged by romantic poet Lord Byron, while in Switzerland, to construct a ghost story. The results were to have a monumental impact. This was the kernel from which the story of Frankenstein would emerge. The novel - originally published without Shelley's name - received mixed reviews, but came into prominence after being picked up and re-versioned by theatre companies a few years later. However, it was cinema that really took the ball and ran with it. The first adaptation for the silver screen was made in 1910. Since then, there have been about 150 further versions on different mediums. But why is the story still such a success and how close are modern adaptations to Shelley's original novel? 'The quintessential teenage book' Horror films have imprinted the idea of Frankenstein as a story about a murderous, unthinking, man-made monster. But Shelley's original creation was quite different. "Shelley's dealing with the same themes the Greeks were dealing with," says Patricia MacCormack, professor of continental philosophy at Anglia Ruskin University, who has published papers on the horror genre. "The good film versions share a critical view of life, looking at what our purpose is and the role we fill. The monster did not choose to be born and questions its own existence: 'How do I become a good person?'" Shelley's creature, brought to life by Victor Frankenstein, was characterised as sensitive, nuanced and inquisitive. Professor MacCormack says the creature addresses the most fundamental human questions: "It's the idea of asking your maker what your purpose is. Why are we here, what can we do?" Film director Guillermo del Toro describes Frankenstein as "the quintessential teenage book" and says he hopes to one day make a modern re-telling of the story. "You don't belong," he told Den of Geek. "You were brought to this world by people that don't care for you and you are thrown into a world of pain and suffering, and tears and hunger. It's an amazing book written by a teenage girl. It's mind blowing." Shelley's novel also contains the fantastical and the horrific - and it's the combination of these elements which have made the story such a success. "We're fascinated because it talks about that relationship between life and death," says Dr Sorcha Ni Fhlainn, senior lecturer in film studies at Manchester Metropolitan University and member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. "Death is an absolute. So the idea that you can reanimate flesh is both shocking and enthralling." A 16-minute short film produced for the Thomas Edison Film Company made in the very early days of cinema used Frankenstein as its subject. Released in 1910, almost 20 years before the advent of sound in film, it shows Victor Frankenstein in a domestic narrative, preparing to get married. "It's one of the first films and shows a collection of quite bizarre makeup, mop of hair and mess of sinew," says Dr Ni Fhlainn, who nevertheless describes it as "absolutely brilliant". With the cries of, "It's alive, it's alive!" the 1931 Universal Studios film gave us the most enduring image of Frankenstein's monster, played by Boris Karloff. "That's the iconic one. Karloff's depiction cemented it in popular culture," says Dr Ni Fhlainn. "The bolts show up his artificiality and otherness. And we see the same imagery time and again in, for example, The Munsters, The Addams Family and then in cartoons like Scooby-Doo." "It created the definitive movie image of the mad scientist and his monster," says Sir Christopher Frayling, author of Frankenstein: The First Two Hundred Years. "And in the process, [it] launched a thousand imitations: all subsequent film versions of Mary Shelley's novel have had to take into account how their plot, characterisations and make-up conform to, or differ from, the Universal Studios template." This is also where the hulking, groaning version of Frankenstein's monster comes from says Professor MacCormack. "There is a brutism but also a vulnerability - there are very few versions which show him differently. The monster responds in a way a child or an animal does when they are threatened or afraid. "It's ironic that in these depictions the monster is seen as less than human but has super-human strength," Professor MacCormack adds. However, it is the 1935 follow-up which is the real hit for many. "The Bride of Frankenstein is closer to the novel," says Professor MacCormack. "It introduces the themes of pathos and self-loathing, bringing the monster into this set of relations. It also shows the god complex of [Victor] Frankenstein. "The performances in the film are hypnotic and, aesthetically, that's what people think of when they think of Frankenstein." Britain's Hammer Films took on the Frankenstein horror franchise in 1957. The Curse of Frankenstein starred Christopher Lee as the monster and was the "first really gory horror film, showing blood and guts in colour", according to Professor MacCormack. The film's monster had a very different aesthetic, covered in scars and transplanted tissue - partly because the Karloff-era make-up had been copyrighted, says Sir Christopher. But it's this "patchwork human, which was touted as the closest to the monster of Mary Shelley's book," says Prof MacCormack. "The idea of a patchwork humanity is at the very core of Shelley's story." Dr Ni Fhlainn says the film carries a strong message from the original book: "Beware ambition, it seems to say. It's all about men circumventing the role of women and the role of god - and the consequences of that." The Frankenstein franchise was spun out by Hammer for another six films, varying in quality and increasingly divorced from the source material. "It's a frustration," says Dr Ni Fhlainn. "If you love the novel, it wasn't Shelley's intention to create something that goes out and mindlessly kills, but I can see how this can be useful in films. "When the monster is seen as non-human it's very easy to dismiss him and kill off. When he's more human it's very difficult to do that." The Frankenstein genre was taken in a different direction by the 1960s sitcom The Munsters, which created its own Karloff-inspired version of the monster. Hermann Munster was the head of a loveable family of monsters, vampires and werewolves in the series, which ran for more than 70 episodes. The similarly macabre Addams Family also purloined Karloff's aesthetic for their character, Lurch. These productions, along with many others, contributed to the idea of Frankenstein's monster being a monosyllabic zombie-like creature. Andy Warhol's Flesh for Frankenstein is described Dr Ni Fhlainn as "arthouse, verging on softcore pornography". "It's interesting because in some ways it makes it all about the flesh and gore with none of the high-mindedness of science-fiction," she says. In the film, produced by Andy Warhol, Baron Frankenstein dreams of restoring Serbia to glory, so he builds male and female monsters whose children will become the new master race. Prof MacCormack calls it a "sexy, visceral, perverse, gory film, which is beautiful and deeply critical of fascism." "I was 16 years old when it came out," she recalls. "I saw it every day for its whole run. There was something magical and fairytale-esque about it." Kenneth Branagh returned to the source text for his multi-million-dollar film, released in 1994. "The Branagh version is very sticky and gory - particularly the monster's creation," says Dr Ni Fhlainn. "That scene with the monster (Robert de Niro) and Victor Frankenstein (Kenneth Branagh) clutching at each other in a mass of amniotic fluid is very homo-erotic. "De Niro is really interesting in it - almost new-born, like when he's learning to walk. I thought this was documented quite well. His stitched face and stitched features are also reminiscent of Shelley's own description of the creature's skin being stretched to the point of bursting." Despite Branagh's good intentions, however, Dr Ni Fhlainn finds the film "overblown in its emotions." Sir Christopher says the film suffers from "too much prestige". "It seemed to confuse critics and audiences because it didn't conform to the age-old conventions of Frankenstein films." A stage adaptation at the Royal National Theatre, written by Nick Dear and directed by Danny Boyle, saw Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternating in the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the creature. This was a return to the nuance of Shelley's book, says Dr Ni Fhlainn. "Benedict Cumberbatch's portrayal is very intellectual. You see him reading Milton and identifying with Adam. He questions everything. "Jonny Lee Miller is more brawny and more physical in his performance. It's more childlike." Dr Ni Fhlainn sees it as unique in the canon of the Frankenstein genre: "It's really well done because it's all from the creature's perspective." And the Frankenstein genre doesn't stop with adaptations of Shelley's classic. According to Dr Fhlainn, Bladerunner, Terminator, Edward Scissorhands, AI, Prometheus and scores of other films can be considered "Frankenstein stories". "Terminator is just the next step," she says. "It's about what it means to be alive. "Rutger Hauer says: 'I want more life,' in Bladerunner. He talks of seeing things and feeling them - and it's this understanding of life, which makes him more human than those who are trying to kill him. But it's the idea that he is rejected which is one of our great tragedies." Shelley posed a question that's more relevant today than ever, says Dr Ni Fhlainn. "What is a sentient being? [If] you can have a conversation with Siri or Alexa - where does life start and end?" Professor McCormack says: "In the 1980s, the idea of a man-made man became less horror and more science fiction. Now its cyborgs, robots, Prometheus. I would be interested to see if they could de-technologise the story and come up with a new, modern retelling. "We got Twilight with sexy, sparkly vampires and no-one wants to touch Frankenstein." In May 2017, Universal announced that Bride of Frankenstein will be remade with Bill Condon, director of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, at the helm. So perhaps it's time, after all. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

يصادف هذا العام الذكرى المئوية الثانية لنشر رواية ماري شيلي الكلاسيكية فرانكشتاين - التي طُبعت لأول مرة في الأول من يناير عام 1818.

فرانكشتاين: وراء تحطيم الوحش

"Baba! Baba!" calls out the driving instructor. Thirteen-year-old Jiawei sits at the back of the car while her dad takes his driving lesson. Father and daughter exchange confused glances, then burst out laughing. The instructor, who has heard this Chinese word during one of Jiawei's father's previous lessons, looks puzzled. "Doesn't 'baba' mean 'move forward' in Chinese?" he asks. "No," says Jiawei. "It means 'father'!" Jiawei was in the unusual position of acting as an interpreter for her dad as he learned to drive. She took notes and repeated in Chinese exactly what the instructor said in English - things like "Turn left at the roundabout," or "Slow down at the junction." She's proud that she helped her father pass his test. "It was quite fun and I thought I was doing something to help my family," she says, looking back. "I was also learning how to drive myself without knowing it, doing something that other kids didn't get to do." A year earlier, Jiawei's family had moved from China to the UK and while she had managed to pick up basic English at school, her father was struggling. Jiawei became a crucial link helping him find his way in a new country. Thousands of migrant children in the UK translate for their families every day. My colleague Dr Sarah Crafter and I have come across child interpreters, some as young as seven, helping their parents communicate in shops, banks, and even police stations. It can be stressful for them, especially when adults are rude or aggressive. "It is very visible and young people feel very noticeable," says Sarah Crafter. "It is also an emotional thing, because if you are treated well you feel good - and if you are not treated well you feel bad about yourself and it really impacts on young people's identities." Seventeen-year-old Oliwia, who has translated from Polish to English for her mother since 2008, is familiar with that feeling. She's used to hearing xenophobic comments. Find out more Humera Iqbal's radio documentary Translating for Mum and Dad is on the BBC World Service from 9 October Click here for transmission times or to listen on BBC Sounds "Some say, 'You're in England, speak English,'" she says. "I hate that so much. People should be more understanding." In fact, her mother has tried hard to learn English, but is not yet fluent. Once, when Oliwia and her mum experienced racist abuse on a bus, Oliwia was faced with the choice of either translating it or shielding her mum from the hateful words. Translating at the doctor's can be especially tricky. Esmeralda, who is 16 and from Peru, was suddenly confronted with the word "cyst" after her mother's minor surgery. "I had no idea," she says. "I didn't know how to say it in English. I was so confused and I was trying to communicate with the doctor to try and say something similar to it. I didn't know what to say." She adds: "Sometimes I don't want to go because my mum's thing is really, really complicated." Professional translators are available for this kind of situation, but not all newly arrived families know about them or realise that they are free of charge (in some areas, anyway). And some just prefer to use their own family members. Moreover, in an emergency professional translators are not always on hand. The rules say a translator should be 18 or over. But if the patients want their children to translate, and the children aren't refusing, what should medical staff do? It's an ongoing debate. Like Esmeralda, 17-year-old Lesly, from Ecuador, has sometimes translated for her mother in hospital. At other times, though, people have tried to stop her. "They say I am under 18, [but] she needs a translator and there is no-one else there. I continue talking and tell them what my mom tells me," she says. "They think we are minors so we don't understand, but they underestimate us." At a school in London, Marian, who is 13 and from Bolivia, is translating from English to Spanish for her mum, Mary Luz, at her own parents' evening. Marian's computer science teacher pays a visit to her table. "Are you translating?" he asks Marian, who nods her head. He goes on to tell Mary Luz that she has reached her target grades. A great start, and Marian calmly translates word for word without hesitation, her mother nodding earnestly. However, this isn't the end of the conversation and things rapidly take a different turn. "While she is working well… she can be a bit chatty with Carolina," he adds. Marian's eyes dilate slightly, and her cheeks rapidly turn a bright red. She pauses, takes a moment to think and goes on to translate the message. "Oh Marian! I wasn't aware you spoke during class!" Mary Luz says in Spanish, waving her finger from side to side. Marian tells me it's not a big deal and she can fix it, but her mum doesn't look convinced. I ask Marian if she thought about changing the message to soften the blow while she was translating. "I was questioning whether I should translate it like, 100% or not! That's why she is reacting like this! Also, my mum can read the face of the teachers, so it's useless if I lie!" she says. As the main English-speaker in her family, Marian has found herself in the middle of some difficult conversations. When they first arrived in the UK, they lived in rented accommodation where the heating did not work - and it was up to Marian to get the landlord to fix it. She made countless phone calls and sent text messages, but her requests were ignored. Marian's parents kept urging their daughter to show anger, in order to emphasise that the problem needed to be fixed urgently. But Marian resisted. "I do not like confrontation and I did not have the anger in me to do it," she says. She was caught between an angry parent and a stubborn landlord - not an easy place to be for a 12-year-old. Her way out was to be doggedly persistent. "I just texted him daily." A whole year later, the heating finally got fixed. For Marian, it felt like a huge accomplishment. At the parents' evening, her English teacher and head of year come to the table. "She is doing very well," the teacher begins. Marianne translates word for word. "Her effort, behaviour and homework are all outstanding. She's very respectful and participates and is enthusiastic. And it's a pleasure to teach her." "Gracias!" Mary Luz calls out, patting her daughter on the back, her eyes glistening with pride. Marian is herself proud of this and so she should be. She came to the UK four years ago with no knowledge of English and now she is reading, writing and speaking at an outstanding level. During our research, Sarah Crafter and I have come across children who are translating not just between two languages but between three or more. At her school in east London, 17-year-old Fatima has a band of friends who, like her, moved to the UK from Italy in their early teens. All are from South Asian families, so they speak Bengali, Sinhalese or Urdu at home, Italian with friends and now English, sometimes switching between all three languages. Often the children were not pleased to be dragged from Italy to the UK; learning a new language and translating for their parents was a burden. Fatima's friend Rashani, for example, has to help her mother understand all the correspondence she gets from her workplace, a fried chicken shop. One text message she had to grapple with said: "Hello Team, please check what items are missing from last week - if you don't understand anything, ask the team leader, they will explain we need to control all the missing items." "In the beginning it felt like it was all on me and I remember thinking this is so unfair," Rashani says. But since then she has become more aware of the upsides. "Now I feel like I'm kind of head of the family, as I influence the decisions of my parents even though I'm young!" Jiawei clearly remembers the day of her father's driving test. She felt nervous, but translated carefully the driving examiner's words, knowing she had to do this quickly without fluffing. "It went really smoothly and we got through the test," she recollects. "I remember the moment the instructor said he had passed and I translated the good news to my dad. 'You've passed the test!' He was overjoyed and I was too. It was a moment in our lives we will share forever." Years later, and now an adult, Jiawei rarely translates for her baba as his English has improved significantly. But perhaps her experience as a young translator has influenced her choice of career? After completing a PhD in medical sciences, she and her partner founded a start-up to develop technology that translates complex medical documents from English into Chinese. She is now learning to drive herself, which has brought back memories of the time she spent with her father and his instructor. The basic principles of driving were already familiar to her, even before she started lessons. Jiawei is looking forward to the day when she tells her baba she has passed her own driving test. "Life has found a way of coming around in a big circle," she says. Dr Humera Iqbal is a lecturer in psychology at University College London You may also be interested in:

عندما تصل عائلة إلى بلد جديد، غالبًا ما يكون الأطفال هم أول من يتعلم اللغة الجديدة - ومن المحتم أن يصبحوا مترجمين للعائلة. تصف الباحثة الدكتورة حميرا إقبال ما يعنيه أن تكون طفلاً مسؤولاً عن التعامل مع الأطباء وأصحاب العقارات وموظفي البنوك أو موردي المطاعم.

ترجمة لأمي وأبي

By Rob England & Daniel WainwrightBBC News Every week, Public Health England (PHE) publishes a list of areas it is concerned about based on new coronavirus infection rates and other local intelligence. These places are categorised as either "areas of concern", "areas of enhanced support" or "areas of intervention". Measures range from increased testing to stricter lockdowns. Areas of intervention The government has put Greater Manchester, parts of east Lancashire and West Yorkshire into the highest risk category, requiring the most support. People have been told not to meet those from other households indoors or in private gardens. In Leicester, the city stepped back into a stricter lockdown than the rest of England in July, with non-essential shops and businesses closed and travel restricted. Luton and Blackburn were marked for intervention on 23 July and that meant gyms, pools, fitness and dance studios and other sports facilities remained closed, even though elsewhere in England they were allowed to reopen on 25 July. And while Luton stepped down a rung on Friday, Blackburn is still in a tighter lockdown. When Blackburn saw a spike in cases, officials introduced measures such as: Council Leader Mohammed Khan said the authority was given support to increase testing, including home tests and tests for those with and without symptoms in the worst-affected areas. But Mr Khan also said further testing capacity was needed, and had requested resources from the government to set up a new test centre in the area before it was moved up to "intervention". Areas of enhanced support Areas in this category receive extra resources, such as more mobile testing. In Pendle, Lancashire, people were issued with stricter guidelines to the rest of England. On Friday it joined the eastern part of Lancashire, parts of Yorkshire and the whole of Greater Manchester in moving up to "intervention". Luton and Oadby and Wigston moved down from intervention to enhanced support. The Director of Public Health for Lancashire, Dr Sakthi Karunanithi, said being put in a higher risk category on the watchlist meant there had been extra support similar to that seen in higher risk areas. This included the ability to test people with or without symptoms, extra testing kits and help analysing data by national experts. "If these areas are going to be on the list for a long time, this needs to be compensated with the right level of resources," he said. "We're able to manage at the moment, but if more areas [in Lancashire] make the list then we will be asking for more support." He said more resources would be needed to help test and trace efforts, supporting the community and businesses and communicating with people. Areas of concern Areas of concern are those at the lowest end of PHE's watchlist, but will have some of the highest rates of new infection in the country. In these cases the local council will take action. For example they might do more testing in care homes or work with communities they have identified as higher risk. Under their existing Covid-19 powers, councils could close down a venue, such as a pub, but would not be able to order them all to close. Sandwell Council was one of two areas, along with Eden in Cumbria, added to the watchlist on Friday after cases more than tripled over three weeks. Its director of public health, Dr Lisa McNally, said it had already dealt with outbreaks, with an enhanced local test and trace programme and more direct involvement with businesses. She added support from the national test and trace system had "failed" and the council was doing its own. "We've been saying over and over again that when we get the daily data through on who has tested positive that we need names and workplaces," she said. Dr McNally said the PHE data the council was sent had a column for occupation, but it was often either blank or limited to things like "engineer", "healthcare" or even simply "citizen", rather than containing the information about where the person worked. She said language barriers were one of the main problems with test and trace in areas where English was not the first language of large numbers of people, so staff who speak other languages had been redeployed to help. What if my area comes off the list? Coming off the list does not mean it is all over. Oldham, which this week recorded the biggest surge in new cases in the country, was an area of concern a fortnight ago only to be removed last week as cases started to rise. Now the area is back on it at the highest alert level. Sheffield came off the list of concern last week. Public health bosses said that meant they were classed as "business as usual". "If cases rise in Sheffield and we meet the criteria for one of the other three categories, we would expect to be re-categorised accordingly," a spokeswoman said. Barnsley in Yorkshire was on the list but came off it on 23 July after the number of new infections fell. Julia Burrows, director of public health, said the area now had a better chance of getting on top of the spread of the virus, thanks to the additional testing. The area would "definitely not" be easing up, however. "The virus is still with us and will be for the foreseeable future," she said. "We continue to urge adherence to the guidance, to make sure we continue to prevent transmission of the virus, so we don't start to see infection rates creeping up again." A spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care said: "As demonstrated in Leicester, we will take all necessary steps to stop the spread of the virus and we continue to urge the public to play their part by following government guidance." Additional reporting: The Local Democracy Reporting Service

ويعيش أكثر من ستة ملايين شخص في إنجلترا في مناطق مدرجة في قائمة مراقبة كوفيد-19، والتي يمكن أن تنتهي بإغلاق مشدد كما هو الحال في ليستر وأجزاء من الشمال إذا لم تتم السيطرة على فيروس كورونا. ماذا يحدث إذا تم إدراج مدينتك في القائمة؟

فيروس كورونا: ماذا يحدث إذا كنت في منطقة مدرجة في قائمة المراقبة؟

BBC TrendingWhat's popular and why But Nadiya Hussain's Muslim background became the focus for some newspaper columnists. Before the final, the Daily Mail columnist Amanda Platell claimed white contestant Flora Shedden didn't have a hope with her chocolate carousel in the semi-finals whereas "if she'd made a chocolate mosque, she'd have stood a better chance". After the victory, The Sun's TV columnist Ally Ross claimed BBC executives "no doubt did a multi-cultural jig of politically-correct joy" when judges Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry crowned Nadiya their winner. Follow BBC Trending on Facebook Join the conversation on this and other stories here. Online, the Great British Bake Off has a huge fan base - with over 300,000 tweets sent about the final programme alone. The majority of fans rapidly rallied behind Hussain. "Hold tight political correctness, hold tight chocolate mosques," said one, while another added "chocolate mosque is the new humble pie". Times columnist Sathnam Sanghera tweeted "people of colour know how this works: you apply yourself, prove your talent and then have your success deemed pc". Although not everyone supported that view, with @GeneGenieGene writing: "The Great British Bake Off is old, stale & stinks of BBC PC madness!". Hussain's Muslim fans also discussed her identity, with some considerable measure of pride. She is a British Muslim of Bangladeshi heritage. Within minutes of the result being announced, fellow Muslim @b4by007 tweeted "She won!!!! So awesome to see Nadia, a Muslim girl win such a British competition! Respect to her x". British Pakistani Sohail Ahmed added "Nadiya wins the Great British Bake Off! So immensely proud. Thank you for representing Muslims up and down the country." Other tweeters claimed Hussain's identity as a Muslim was inconsequential to her victory. Pritha Bardhan tweeted: "Jeez, give Nadiya Hussain a break. She won the Great British Bake Off because she's able not because she's a Muslim woman. Her soda can cake & choco peacock were amazing" while @nonwatcyn added "I'm confused with all refs today to Nadiya winning Great British Bake Off as a Muslim - thought she won it as best baker… or not?" Finally Hanna Hanafiah ‏concluded "she won. She won because of her baking skills. Anything else detracts from that fact". Blog by Jonathan Griffin Next story: Is this manga cartoon of a six-year-old Syrian girl racist? The image and caption were posted by a right-wing Japanese artist last month. Now, more than 10,000 people have signed a Change.org petition in Japanese urging Facebook to take it down. READ MORE You can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending, and find us on Facebook. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.

مسابقة الخبز التلفزيونية النهائية في بريطانيا. وصلت سفينة Great British Bake Off إلى ذروتها يوم الأربعاء. وكانت المنتصرة هي أم لثلاثة أطفال من مواليد لوتون تبلغ من العمر 30 عامًا، وقد خبزت "كعكة زفاف بريطانية كبيرة سمينة" مزينة بمجوهرات من يوم زفافها لتكون بمثابة العارضة في المباراة النهائية يوم الأربعاء.

Great British Bake Off: المشجعون يدافعون عن نادية حسين ضد السخرية "الصحيحة سياسياً".

By Sachin GogoiBBC Monitoring Also lost in the fire was her tiny shop in Tinsukia district that enabled her to raise the three children. She is confident that the house and the shop could be rebuilt. But Ms Saikia says she is heartbroken at the loss of her late husband's photographs that were gutted in the fire. "My children will have to grow up without a photograph of their father to look at. After a while, they will probably no longer be able to associate a face to their father's name," Ms Saikia said. The blaze that started on 9 June, following a gas blowout in Baghjan area, has raged for about 150 days now, making it the longest such fire in India. Three people have died in trying to contain the fire, which initially forced 3,000 people in neighbouring villages to leave their homes and take shelter in makeshift camps. While most of the people have since returned to their homes, scores of families who were living closer to the site of the fire are still in temporary shelters. "The heat, smoke and the gushing sound have made the area a hazardous place. Many locals are complaining of health complications such as anxiety, migraine, loss of appetite and burning eyes," says local journalist Nawantik Urang. The OIL said that they had provided 2.5m rupees ($33,858; £26,124) as immediate compensation to each of 12 families that completely lost their homes, and they continue to give 50,000 rupees ($674) per month as livelihood support to each family which is now forced to stay away from their homes. Some of the locals have been protesting, demanding speedy compensation and a quick resolution of the crisis. "We have only received funds from the company for our immediate livelihood support. We are yet to receive any compensation for the house and crops damaged in the fire," said 40-year-old farmer Dandeshwar Borah, who has now been living in a makeshift hut about 1.5km away from the site of the fire. Officials of the state-run company say they are close to containing the flames, but there are complaints about their initial handling of the fire. Bijit Bordoloi, a retired manager with a state-run electricity distribution firm, is also unhappy with the OIL's handling of the situation. His 25-year-old son Arnab, an engineer with the OIL, was one of the three people who died in efforts to contain the fire. "We have several questions on the circumstances that led to the death of my son. The OIL is yet to offer any clarity on those. To start with, Arnab was relatively new in the organisation and did not have the required qualification or experience to operate in that kind of a crisis," Mr Bordoloi said. The OIL, however, says that blowouts and fire are not uncommon in the oil and gas industry anywhere in the world. But the firm admits that the fire has affected the environment, while asserting that the impact will be short lived. "Because of the nature of the gas and the condensate, they easily evaporate and are washed away by rains. These elements do not have long-term impact either on the air or the soil," said Tridiv Hazarika, a senior public relations manager of the OIL. However, an Assam government expert involved in the process of assessing the environmental impact told the BBC on the condition of anonymity that the incident posed a threat to the local ecology. "The full assessment of the environmental impact is a work in progress so far. But the incident has caused damage that would require years to repair or heal. There are several crucial biodiversity zones, which are at distances of about three kilometres from the site of the fire," said the expert. Using a heavy oil well intervention process called snubbing, the oil company hopes to extinguish the fire by the middle of November - although a number of such targets were missed in the past months. "This is something that we did not have to use in the past and we are hopeful that snubbing will do the magic for us" said Mr Hazarika.

فقدت لابانيا سايكيا، وهي أم عازبة لثلاثة أطفال في ولاية آسام شمال شرق الهند، منزلها بسبب حريق مشتعل بدأ من بئر غاز قريب تابع لشركة أويل إنديا المحدودة التي تديرها الدولة في يونيو/حزيران.

حريق آسام: أطول حريق غاز مشتعل في الهند يدمر الأرواح

Will GompertzArts editor@WillGompertzBBCon Twitter And so begins the latest series of The Crown, Peter Morgan's (Frost/Nixon, The Queen, The Last King of Scotland) dramatized romp through the lives and loves of the House of Windsor over the course of the 20th Century. The historical focus of the fourth season (as notoriously tricky for a TV show as a pop group's "difficult" second album) is the 1980s, thereby heralding a winning combination of juicy plot lines, marvellously flawed characters and bulging shoulder pads. As always with The Crown, there's a bit of acclimatisation required before it starts to beguile with the discreet charm of a courtier bringing tea and cake. I spent the first episode thinking I was watching a very bad remake of Spitting Image, in which the puppets were replaced by gurning actors doing terrible impersonations. Erin Doherty plays Princess Anne as if a petulant six-year-old with a mouth permanently pursed in pent-up fury. Colman is excellent until she gives us one of her trademark toothy smiles, at which point her monarchical authority evaporates like a Martini in front of Princess Margaret and we're left with a jolly soul from an Enid Blyton book. As for Gillian Anderson's Margaret Thatcher, well… She was terrific in Sex Education and very good in The X-Files. But she flounders badly as the Iron Lady, a role in which she appears to have been directed to mimic the head movements of a turtle. She's forever craning her neck from side-to-side as if scanning for a tasty lettuce leaf, while over-egging her Thatcher impression to such an extent she is close to unwatchable at times. And then there is Diana. Lady Diana Spencer lit up the Royal Family when she arrived on the scene in 1980, and she lights up this 10-part series, which, if it were a movie would be called The Crown: Diana's Decade. Emma Corrin is superb in a part much easier to get wrong than get right. She does the latter, from the first encounter with Prince Charles when a schoolgirl fluttering around her stately home, to the wrung out, strung out, bulimic wife stuck in a loveless marriage a decade later. It's not simply a matter of producing a serviceable likeness of Diana's mannerisms and voice, which Corrin does, it is a case of creating a three-dimensional character whose personality makes the actions of others credible. In an ensemble where there is precious little character development, Corrin stands apart by taking Diana from a shy but flirty teenager to a vulnerable international superstar with the backbone to stand-up to the veiled threats of the Duke of Edinburgh (Tobias Menzies). She should clear a shelf before the awards season kicks off. Helena Bonham Carter makes a welcome return as Princess Margaret, putting down all around her with merciless wit while pulling hard on a fag jammed into her horn cigarette holder. The Queen largely escapes her sister's waspishness, and even outflanks her more gregarious sibling by pointing out a man Margaret fancies is "a friend of Dorothy" - an allusion that apparently needs explaining to the party girl. The two actresses make for a good double-act, albeit drifting a little close to a French & Saunders spoof on occasion. In one episode there is a flashback to 1947 when the then 21-year-old Princess Elizabeth was in South Africa recording a message to the Commonwealth. It affords us another look at Claire Foy in the lead role, and a reminder that she gave the character an inscrutability that Olivia Colman cannot match. That's fine for large swathes of the show, in which Colman's Queen goes about her daily business of lunching with her mother and sister and giving orders to her private secretary. But in the scenes where she needs to be the ice Queen - an audience with Margaret Thatcher about Britain's attitude to apartheid in South Africa, or coming face-to-face with Michael Fagan who had broken into Buckingham Palace - she is too accommodating and the dramatic tension peters out. She is at her best when dealing with her errant children. She gives Prince Charles a right royal rollocking for being whiney and entitled, and is suitably repulsed by Prince Andrew when he boasts over lunch about a porn film starring his girlfriend Koo, who plays a teenager sexually abused by older men. It's a reminder that the programmes might be set in the 1980s but they have a contemporary perspective. That sense of a revisionist history runs through the season, which tackles the Falklands War, Bob Hawke's republican ambitions for Australia, Prince Charles's adoration of Camilla Parker Bowles (Emerald Fennell), Mark Thatcher's (Freddie Fox) hapless navigation on the Dakar rally, Princess Anne's marriage difficulties, Margaret Thatcher's rise and fall, Lord Mountbatten's assassination by the IRA, and the leaking of a political opinion from the Palace. All of this makes for a vivid backdrop of events that have taken place in living memory, against which the imagined relationships that make this show so compelling are played out. There is a very good episode centred around the vipers' nest that is the Royal Family at Balmoral, into which both the Thatchers and Diana step with very different outcomes. The residents test and tease their guests, while sniping at one another in an attempt to gain brownie points from Her Majesty. It's difficult to keep up with which particular stately home the action is taking place in, but the themes are consistent. Diana loves Charles, Charles loves Camilla, Camilla loves being on the phone and smoking, and the Queen is devoted to her job. As is Margaret Thatcher. And so, over the course of around nine hours of television, we watch these passions make and nearly break our protagonists as they go about the daily soap opera that is their lives. It is never gripping but it is always entertaining: a much-needed dollop of well-made, well-written, slowly-paced telly. Recent reviews by Will Gompertz: Follow Will Gompertz on Twitter

إنها أواخر السبعينيات. تريد الملكة (أوليفيا كولمان) من تشارلز (جوش أوكونور) أن يجد زوجة بدلاً من الاستمرار في حياة شخص آخر، ويريد الجيش الجمهوري الإيرلندي تكثيف حملته، ويريد شاغل المنصب الجديد الصلب ذو الشعر الكبير في رقم 10 داونينج ستريت أن يتزوج. جعل بريطانيا عظيمة مرة أخرى.

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By David EdmondsBBC News It seems many people are. But why? After all, you presumably know what F with asterisks stands for. It has the same meaning as the non-asterisked version. The BBC tries to avoid swear words whenever possible, but on the rare occasions that they are considered integral to the story, they are used without the asterisks. Some other news outlets, such as The Times do adopt the asterisk convention and only print swear words when they are quoting other people. This reflects the view that using swear words is more offensive than merely mentioning them. The paper's journalists mention the swear words used by others, but do not use them themselves. But to understand why the full-frontal swear word might be considered worse than its pale asterisked imitator, we first need to define what a swear word is. By definition, swear words are offensive. If a word, over time, ceases to be offensive, then it falls out of use as a swear word. Offence alone is not enough, though, for we can offend with language without swearing. The N-word, for example, is what is called a slur: it is a derogatory term about an entire group. It is profoundly offensive, but it is not a swear word. Philosopher Rebecca Roache says that as well as the ingredient of offence, swear words tend to have a cluster of other characteristics. We will often use swear words "to vent some emotion", she says. "If you're angry or particularly happy, swearing is a catharsis. Swearing also centres on taboos. Around the world swear words will tend to cluster around certain topics: lavatorial matters, sex, religion." There's also a paradoxical component to swearing, says Roache. "As well as being taboo-breaking, swear words are taboo-breaking for the sake of taboo-breaking. The whole point is that you're not allowed to use them, but they exist just for that rule to be broken." Find out more Listen to the Philosopher's Arms on BBC Radio 4 at 20:00 on Monday 27 February Or catch up later here Words develop their power over time; it's a historical process. In the past, many swear words were linked to religion. But as countries like Britain have become increasingly secular, imprecations such as "Damn" and "Jesus Christ", have begun to lose their force. The Times leader writer, Oliver Kamm, author of Accidence Will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide to English, says that the swearing lexicon now draws less from religion and more from body effluvia. "There's a hierarchy of effluvia, according to how disgusting we find them in public. 'Shit' is worse than 'piss' which is worse than 'fart' which is worse than 'spit' which is not a taboo word at all. It's an interesting linguistic hypothesis that the taboos relate to how disease-ridden or dangerous or disgusting we find the effluvia themselves." The emotional release from swearing has been measured in a variety of ways. It turns out that swearing helps mitigate pain. It is easier to keep an arm in ice-cold-water for longer if you are simultaneously effing and blinding. And those who speak more than one language, report that swearing in their first language is more satisfying, carrying, as it does, a bigger emotional punch. Catharsis aside, swearing can boast other benefits. The claim has been made that swearing is bonding: a few blue words, uttered in a good-natured way, indicates and encourages intimacy. A very recent study suggests that people who swear are perceived as more trustworthy than those who are less potty-mouthed. But back to the conundrum. If writing F with asterisks alleviates the offence of the full word why should this be? Roache says swearing is best viewed as a breach of etiquette. It is a little like putting your shoes on a table when you are the guest in someone's house. If you know it would offend, and do it anyway, you are guilty of showing insufficient respect. "It doesn't matter that it's a swear word. Imagine meeting someone who has a fear of crisps, and who finds references to crisps traumatic. If you carry on talking about crisps in their presence, even after discovering about their phobia, you are sending a signal that you don't respect them, you don't have any concern for their feelings." Using the F-with-asterisks version acknowledges that we are taking the feelings of others into account. By censoring the word we show respect. It's a view shared by Oliver Kamm, who endorses his newspaper's policy on asterisking swear words. Readers cannot help, he says, finding the full word "involuntarily off-putting". Like most people, I find exposure to too many swear words disconcerting. So I'm off to wash my mouth out with soap. David Edmonds (@DavidEdmonds100) is the producer of The Philosopher's Arms. The programme on swearing can be heard here Join the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.

تحتوي اللغة الإنجليزية على حساء أبجدي من الكلمات البذيئة. يمكن لأولئك الذين لديهم تصرفات شتيمة الاعتماد على الكلمة A، والكلمة B، والكلمة C، والكلمة F، والكلمة S، والكلمة W وغيرها الكثير. إذن، إليك اللغز - إذا رأيت كلمة F مكتوبة بالأحرف الأربعة، فهل تشعر بالإهانة أكثر مما تشعر به عندما تقرأ F مع العلامات النجمية؟

لماذا يقسم الناس؟

Gavin Hoskins, 26, from Bristol, pointed the laser at the helicopter while it was overhead in the Fishponds area at about 19:30 GMT on 20 January. He pleaded guilty to recklessly or negligently acting in a manner likely to endanger an aircraft or a person in an aircraft. Hoskins will be sentenced at Bristol Crown Court on 19 March.

اعترف رجل بتسليط الليزر على مروحية تابعة للشرطة تحلق فوق مدينة بريستول.

رجل من بريستول يسلط الليزر على مروحية الشرطة

He is under pressure to address the Senate after prosecutors reportedly began investigating links between his nationalist League party and Russian businessmen. While he rejects the corruption claims as "fantasies", they raise new suspicions of Russian money being used to buy influence in the West, in an effort to reverse sanctions imposed since Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014. What are the allegations? Milan prosecutors opened a preliminary investigation, said to be for international corruption, after journalists alleged a secret meeting had been held at a Moscow hotel on 18 October 2018 between three Italians and three unidentified Russians. The Italians present at the meeting have been identified as: According to l'Espresso, which broke the story on 21 February, the men allegedly discussed an oil deal through which the League would receive payments worth millions of euros. A Russian oil company would sell fuel to Italian energy company Eni at a discount through intermediaries, according to a transcript of an audio recording of the meeting published later by Buzzfeed. The discount, worth around $65m (£52m; €58m) by Buzzfeed's calculation, would be secretly channelled to the League while the unidentified Russians apparently stood to make millions of dollars for themselves, the website reports. A man identified as Mr Savoini is quoted in the transcript as telling the other Italians present that they and he must act as a "triumvirate" (a group of three equals wielding power together). "You, me, represent the total connection for both the Italian and their 'political side' [sic]," he is reported as saying. Eni says the deal never happened and strongly reiterates that it does not engage "in transactions aimed at financing political parties". How do the Italians explain the meeting? Mr Savoini was called in for questioning but invoked his right to remain silent, Italian media report. However, he insisted on his innocence in an interview with La Stampa newspaper on 11 July. He had attended the meeting, he said, but had understood "nothing at all" of the business discussions, and had been in Russia to discuss cultural exchanges. He said he had met the other people at the talks "a few hours before" at a business conference. "They recognised me in the hotel lobby and we started talking," he said. "If we had had anything really confidential to discuss, do you really think we would have stayed in the lobby?" Before being questioned in turn, Mr Meranda wrote to another Italian newspaper, La Repubblica, to confirm he had also attended the meeting but as "general counsel of an English-German investment bank... interested in purchasing Russian oil products". He insisted he had "never dealt with political party funding". Police searched documents belonging to Mr Vannucci after he came forward, Italian media report. Who is Gianluca Savoini? He has known Mr Salvini 25 years and has been a member of the League since the early 1990s, he has told La Stampa. He also describes himself on his Twitter profile as a journalist and expert in geopolitics who heads the Lombardy-Russia Association, which presents itself as a non-party cultural association that identifies with the values of President Vladimir Putin. On several occasions, he has accompanied Mr Salvini on visits to Russia. He told La Stampa he had had "no mandate to negotiate anything whatsoever on the League's behalf". But the League's leader seems to be distancing himself from him. On 4 July, Mr Savoini tweeted a video clip of Mr Putin at a government reception in Rome attended by Mr Salvini and other Italian leaders, saying it had been a "great pleasure" to be there. A clearly exasperated Mr Salvini said later that Mr Savoini had not been invited by his ministry. What impact is this having on Salvini? The interior minister, who is also deputy prime minister in Italy's ruling coalition, has never made any secret of his own admiration for Mr Putin but denies ever taking "a rouble, a euro, a dollar, or a litre of vodka in Russian funding" for himself or his party. He was also in Moscow at the time of the hotel meeting but there is no suggestion he was involved in the discussions. However, he is under mounting political pressure over the affair that Italian media have dubbed "Russiagate" (a play on "Watergate) or "Moscopoli" (a play on Tangentopoli, the bribery scandal that rocked Italian politics in the 1990s). His year-old populist coalition with the Five Star Movement was already trouble, even before the allegations arose. And last year an electoral payments scandal landed the League with a court order to repay the state €49m. Is Moscow trying to buy political influence? The Kremlin has denied offering money to any Italian politicians "either directly or from some sort of deals". While there is no proof the Kremlin covertly funds political allies in the West, France's far-right Front National in France legally took out Russian loans worth €11m (£9.4m) in 2014. Earlier this year, the head of Austria's far-right Freedom Party, Heinz-Christian Strache, resigned as vice-chancellor after being caught on camera discussing a deal to offer public contracts to what he thought was a Russian investor in return for the investor buying a stake in an Austrian newspaper. Meanwhile, Italy proceeds with its preliminary investigation, overseen by a veteran anti-corruption prosecutor. If anyone can get to the bottom of what happened in Moscow last October, it's probably Fabio De Pasquale, whose previous corruption investigations led to the conviction of two Italian prime ministers, Bettino Craxi in 1994 and Silvio Berlusconi in 2012.

تهدد مزاعم الفساد بابتلاع حزب ماتيو سالفيني، وزير الداخلية الإيطالي الشعبوي، الذي جعله تشككه في الاتحاد الأوروبي ومواقفه المتشددة ضد الهجرة غير الشرعية أحد أشهر السياسيين في أوروبا.

رابطة إيطاليا: مزاعم النفط الروسي تسيطر على حزب سالفيني

By Reevel AldersonHome affairs correspondent, BBC Scotland As a committed nationalist, he says he is looking forward to the Holyrood election in 2016 and possibly a further independence referendum. But he knows he may not see that happening. The 66-year-old grandfather lives in a care home on the south side of Glasgow, where his disabilities mean he requires help for all of his personal needs - including feeding and drinking. He suffers from Parkinson's disease, which gives him violent shaking fits, leaving him weak and exhausted. He also has a condition which has damaged his nervous system, meaning he has no feeling in his hands or feet. 'Very sore' This means he cannot stand, and must drink from a straw in a plastic bottle. He crushed a glass in his fingers, because he was unable to gauge how strongly he should grip it. He did not wish to film an interview because he was feeling ill, but spoke frankly to BBC Scotland about his condition. "I shake very badly; an attack can last at least a quarter of an hour and it is very sore," he said. "Afterwards I am left dripping in sweat and shattered. "I know my condition is deteriorating, but I am hoping I am getting to a plateau so things can be more stable for a while." Mr Ross, a former television producer who also worked as a care home inspector, says his disability means he could not now take his own life should he want to - although he constantly emphasises that he wishes to continue living. But he argues he has lost the choice an able-bodied person has - and he had himself until a few months ago. "If I wanted to end my life because my condition has become unbearable, I would require help to do so," he said. 'Need help' "But anyone who helped me could face prosecution. This discriminates against me as a disabled person. "A younger person could take the decision to end their life. I could have done so a couple of years ago. But I didn't want to then, and I don't now. "But if the time comes, I will need help." He said he wanted to be able to attend the Judicial Review case at the Court of Session in person. But after a test run in a taxi to see if he could cope with the journey from Glasgow, they turned back. In the case he hopes to force the Lord Advocate, Scotland's senior prosecutor, to issue guidance, similar to that in England and Wales which means a person assisting in a suicide "for altruistic reasons" will not face prosecution. That guidance was issued after a case at the UK Supreme Court which upheld a ban on doctors helping patients to end their lives, but ruled that judges do have the "constitutional authority" to intervene in the debate. 'Deliberate killing' The ruling challenged parliament to re-examine the predicament of those who are severely ill and wish to die but cannot do so without medical assistance. MSPs are currently debating a bill which was brought forward by the late independent MSP Margo Macdonald. The Lord Advocate, Frank Mulholland QC declined to give evidence to Holyrood's health committee in January 2015 because the judicial review was pending. But in a letter to MSPs, he outlined the legal position. He said: "If someone assists another to take their own life, such cases would be reported to the procurator fiscal as a deliberate killing of another, and it would be dealt with under the law relating to homicide." He went on: "There is a high public interest in prosecuting all aspects of homicide where there is sufficient available evidence." There is opposition at Holyrood to the Bill but Gordon Ross said even if it went ahead, it might be too late for him. "That's why I need a decision quickly, and why this court case is so important," he said.

إن جوردون روس واضح تماما: فهو لا يريد أن يموت.

ناشط الحق في الموت جوردون روس: "إذا جاء الوقت، فسوف أحتاج إلى المساعدة"

The Mulkerrin Report was set to be released to the public on 11 January, but was put back to 13 January. It was commissioned in the wake of poor GCSE results at two of the island's secondary schools, and was discussed by the Policy Council on Monday. The group said the delay would give the Education Department a chance to read the report ahead of its release.

تم تأجيل إصدار مراجعة معايير التعليم في غيرنسي من قبل مجلس السياسات في الجزيرة.

تأخر إصدار تقرير التعليم في غيرنسي

More than two dozen states are now seeing increases in new cases over the last 14 days. Of these, Texas, Florida, Arizona and California have emerged as the country's latest virus epicentres. But while cases are clearly rising, state leaders and health experts are divided on the cause. Here's a look at these four US hotspots, the facts and figures raising alarm, and the theories that may help explain each surge. What about testing? First, it's important to note that across the US, more efficient testing has played some role in the climbing case count. The number of Covid-19 tests being administered now is nearly double what it was in April and May. But the positive test rate tells us that testing can't explain away the rise. If lots of tests are being conducted and the spread of the coronavirus has been reduced, then the positive case rate would fall in tandem. The World Health Organization says that states should have a positive case rate at or below 5% for two weeks before they loosen restrictions on movement. Even with testing success stories, it's clear that the southern and western US are seeing a particularly sharp spike in infections and their rate. As of 30 June, Texas, Florida, Arizona or California all fall under that category - and all fail to meet the bar. Texas After nearly three months of new cases hovering between 1,000 and 2,000 each day - Texas' infection count has spiked in the last two weeks, with up to 6,000 new illnesses reported in a single day. The sharp rise in cases has been mirrored by record highs in hospital admissions - reaching at 5,913 on Monday - and stoking fears that the state's hospitals will soon be overwhelmed. If this trajectory persists, Houston, the state's most populous city, "would become the worst affected city in the US", possibly rivalling what's happening now in Brazil, wrote Peter Hotez, director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children's Hospital, on Twitter. "I cannot really see how things get better on their own." Why the rise? Many point to the south-western state's leading role peeling back lockdown measures. Texas Governor Greg Abbott allowed his stay home order to expire on 30 April, with almost all businesses - including bars and restaurants - operating to at least 50% capacity by early June. Last week, amid the surge, the governor shut down all bars and ordered restaurants to cut down capacity from 75 to 50%. "If I could go back and redo anything, it probably would have been to slow down the opening of bars," Mr Abbott said to El Paso station KVIA-TV. A "bar setting, in reality, just doesn't work with a pandemic". Packed restaurants and bars may also fit with another national trend: the average age of people diagnosed with Covid-19 has decreased gradually throughout the pandemic. In certain counties, people under the age 30 make up the majority of Covid patients, Mr Abbott said at a press conference earlier this month, which "typically results from people going to the bar-type settings". Parts of the state are now also enacting rules on face coverings. Policies on masks are one of the factors differentiating states like Texas from those seeing lower transmission rates. In 11 states with mask rules in place - including New York and Illinois - the number of new cases has declined 25% in the last two weeks, according to an analysis by the Philadelphia Inquirer. On the other hand, in states where only some employees have to wear masks, new cases have risen by an average of 70%. Florida Florida's stay home order expired shortly after Texas', on 4 May. While the state's most populous counties, Miami-Dade and Broward, held off until 18 May, Florida still had one of the more aggressive reopening strategies in the US. Disney properties and beaches began reopening by the end of last month, just as Americans across the country celebrated the Memorial Day holiday. Days into June, bars, restaurants, gyms, and shops were also resuming business. Now, the Sunshine State is seeing a surge in Covid-19 - this past weekend saw over 8,500 new cases per day. In the last two weeks, cases have increased fivefold, according to the New York Times. Hospitalisations are up as well, but Florida's death toll has not seen so sharp a rise thus far. The governor's answer for why that may be lines up with what the White House has said: more testing and more young people with infections. Republican Governor Ron DeSantis said a backlog "test dump" coupled with transmission in the 18 to 35 age range is behind the concerning counts. He said that 20% of Floridians aged 25 to 34 are testing positive, and called on younger residents to be more careful, citing graduation parties that ignored social distancing rules. "We've been stressing avoiding the three Cs, which are: closed spaces with poor ventilation, crowded places with many people nearby and close-contact settings, such as close-range conversations," Mr DeSantis said. But some experts say even with testing, the numbers still point to community spread linked to more social contact. Former CDC Director Tom Frieden told Fox News on Sunday: "As a doctor, a scientist, an epidemiologist, I can tell you with 100% certainty that in most states where you're seeing an increase, it is a real increase. It is not more tests; it is more spread of the virus." Mr DeSantis has stopped short of enacting any mandatory measures to curb Covid-19 transmission - however, mayors in South Florida, the hardest-hit region of the state, have been discussing next steps. In Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach, beaches will be closed for the Fourth of July Independence Day weekend. Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez will also be limiting gatherings to no more than 50 people, with masks required. Arizona Arizona may be the region with the most concerning surge in America. In mid-June, a Harvard epidemiologist noted the state had a higher case count and percent positivity rate than Brazil and Peru at the time. It's a familiar story here too: the south-western state's spike follows its reopening timeline. Republican Governor Doug Ducey lifted Arizona's stay-at-home order on 15 May. In the time since, dine-in restaurants, bars, casinos, gyms, golf clubs and swimming pools reopened. There were health recommendations but no mandate on face coverings or enforcement of social distancing. As of 30 June, cases have been increasing by 85% in a 14-day period, according to the Covid Exit Strategy tracker. Saturday alone saw a new record of over 3,500 new infections reported. Arizonians between 20- and 44-years-old make up the bulk of the nearly 80,000 confirmed cases, but 1,200 of its 1,600 deaths are from those aged 65 and up, according to state data. Native Americans make up 18% of the state's deaths, but just over 5% of the state's population. In addition to the case counts, it's the speed at which they're increasing that concerns health experts. Arizona's summertime climate could be adding to the problem, as many opt for indoor activities thanks to the triple-digit temperatures. Among indigenous groups, some households are without running water, making frequent hand-washing difficult, and live in areas with limited access to healthcare facilities. There has also been local pushback to following health guidance, with anti-lockdown and, more recently, anti-mask rallies. Amid this new outbreak, Arizona's hospitals - which are in emergency mode - have warned intensive care units (ICU) could soon be overwhelmed. Bed space is already in short supply, with 88% of ICU beds and 84% of hospital inpatient beds occupied, according to AZ Central. The state's health director on Monday announced hospitals could activate "crisis care standards" that would allow them to prioritise resources to patients based on factors like likelihood of survival. Following criticism from public health officials and Democrats over his inaction, Mr Ducey ordered bars, nightclubs, gyms, movie theatres and water parks to shut for at least 30 days to "relieve stress" on the healthcare system on 29 June. California Of the four states hit hardest by the resurgence, California is in many ways an outlier. Its 19 March stay home order - the first in the nation - is widely credited with helping guard against the death tolls seen in other large states like New York and New Jersey. But two months after Governor Gavin Newsom said the Covid curve had "arguably flattened", cases are now sharply on the rise, hitting an all-time single day high of new cases on 30 June, with 8,086 confirmed new cases. Hospital admissions jumped 43% in the last two weeks. Los Angeles County has the most Covid-19 cases confirmed in the nation, at over 100,000 as of 30 June, according to a Johns Hopkins University count. Local health officials have warned that one in 140 residents may unknowingly have the virus - last week, that estimate was one in 400. California officials pin the surge in part to a rise in social and family gatherings, particularly among residents in the 18-49 age group, who make up the majority of California's positive cases. Easing restrictions on indoor businesses, like gyms and restaurants, likely also played a role. State leaders have also noted that many bars and restaurants were not following social distancing protocols or requiring face coverings. Seven counties on Sunday, including Los Angeles, were ordered to shut their bars. Counties and cities, like San Francisco, have reversed reopening plans. Disney also delayed plans to reopen, citing a lack of guidance from the state. Clusters of the virus have emerged in prisons, nursing homes, as well as rural and urban areas. The San Francisco Bay Area's San Quentin Prison reported more than 1,000 Covid-19 cases among its 3,500 inmates this week, following a transfer earlier this month from a prison experiencing an outbreak. State data also shows a significantly higher number of Latino residents have been infected: Latinos account for around 39% of the state's population, but 56% of the total positive cases as of 30 June. California's big cities, like thousands across the nation, also saw massive protests in the wake of George Floyd's death - though we still don't have data on how those gatherings may affect the virus' spread. Reporting by Holly Honderich and Ritu Prasad

مع السيطرة على تفشي فيروس كورونا ببطء في العديد من الأماكن حول العالم، تعد الولايات المتحدة من بين عدد قليل من البلدان التي تواجه موجة من الإصابات الجديدة.

فيروس كورونا: ما السبب وراء تفشي المرض الجديد المثير للقلق في الولايات المتحدة؟

By Mukul DevichandEditor, BBC Trending These are the words of a grieving mother, Panzy Edwards, who I met on the South Side of Chicago, one of America's most iconic black neighbourhoods. It's a violent place - almost 50 people have been shot dead in Chicago just this year, many of them in this area. Her 15-year-old son Dakota Bright was shot dead, too. But those who killed him weren't robbers or gang members. They were police officers - the protectors of law and order. "My baby was a baby," she told me. "And they got every excuse in the world as to why they killed him." The facts are still murky and despite it being a three-year-old case, it's still under investigation. In the past, the police have said the teenager was armed, a claim his mother refutes. But the 2012 shooting is suddenly an issue again now, in part because Dakota was black. There are over a thousand deadly shootings by police in the US each year, and those killed are disproportionately African-American. Over the past two years, a powerful hashtag and movement has grown up to protest against such killings - "Black Lives Matter". It is a complex, amorphous group: both a formal organisation and, at the same time, a vast informal collection of ordinary people who tweet the slogan. It's also both a narrow protest movement about police killings and at the same time a broader, radical campaign that argues that racism, first woven into the American system through the original sin of slavery, has never really ended. But can Black Lives Matter now become a new civil rights movement, a force that will change America in an election year? "When my son was killed, I couldn't get nobody to stand up with me," says Panzy Edwards. But that's changed now, she says, "because now people are getting tired." A movement spreads Black Lives Matter began in 2013, after an in California named Alicia Garza wrote a post on Facebook. "Black people. I love you. I love us," she wrote. "Our lives matter." She was furious that George Zimmerman - not a police officer, but a volunteer for a neighbourhood watch scheme - had been cleared of the murder of a black teenager, Trayvon Martin. She and two others started using the phrase "Black Lives Matter" as a hashtag online. The idea gained some traction among activists. But the wider world might not have noticed if it weren't for events in a suburb of St Louis, Missouri in 2014. In August of that year Michael Brown, a black 18-year-old, was shot dead by officer Darren Wilson. Wilson was never charged over the killing because a grand jury, and a federal investigation, saw merit in his claim of self-defence. Despite that, Michael Brown's death unleashed a deeper anger about racial injustice in policing. There were protests, civil unrest and the hashtag Black Lives Matter surged across the country. And that was only the first time. Febrile atmosphere New cases of allegedly unfair police killings of black people now keep emerging around the country. Right now, it's Chicago's turn. There's a febrile atmosphere on the South Side, with regular protests against the city authorities calling for investigations and resignations. This is the raw end of Black Lives Matter - if there's going to be an immediate political impact of the movement, it's in places like this. The gathering where I met Panzy Edwards was called at short notice on the South Side. Despite freezing temperatures, around 50 teenagers and older people turn up outside a school and chant for the cameras. It's organised by William Calloway - a noted 26-year-old activist who helped pressurise the city into releasing a graphic dashboard camera video of a black teenager being shot dead by police. Black Lives Matter: The Story of a Slogan Download this special programme as a podcast from the BBC World Service The video shows Laquan McDonald, 17, who was armed with a knife. A police officer gets out of his patrol car, draws his gun, immediately shoots and then empties the clip into McDonald's lifeless body - 16 shots in all. The officer, Jason Van Dyke, has now been charged with murder. The incident happened in 2014 but city authorities refused to release the video for more than a year. When they were ordered to by a judge, in November 2015, the political fallout kicked off protests and a political storm that has now engulfed Chicago. "His blood being spilled in the street caused an international uproar," Calloway tells me. "That's why you're here." "I think we're seeing a more bold and fearless attitude," he adds. "More millennial activists rise up in these days and times to speak out against injustices." But the police, and their supporters, defend themselves against the criticism - and there's even been a counter hashtag to defend them: "Blue Lives Matter". "I don't think our members have any aggression towards any race or ethnicity," says police union chief Dean Angelo. "Our members have aggression towards crime. Some of the worst neighbourhoods in our country are a stone's throw from where we are right now." Local musician Ja'mal Green - now a noted Black Lives Matter activist - says high levels of crime cannot excuse what he sees as discriminatory treatment. The total number of white people shot by police in the US is still higher than the number of black people, but of course white people are in the overall majority. Young black men - just 2% of the population - are nine times more likely than the average American to be killed in police shootings. "People have to understand black people are treated different from white," Ja'mal Green says. "Not saying that whites don't count, just that we go through different things. We go through police brutality, racism, things they may not understand." After the release of the Laquan McDonald tape, Mayor Rahm Emanuel - a former chief of staff in the Obama White House - sacked his police chief and apologised. Ja'mal Green had once worked for the mayor as an ambassador against violence in schools. Now he wants Emanuel to resign - a clear example of using radical protest to try to change America. 'Not your grandfather's civil rights movement' For many people, the fact that Black Lives Matter exerts this sort of pressure, and the new and creative protest tactics being used, shows echoes of the black civil rights struggle of the 50s and 60s. But one of Chicago's young Black Lives Matter activists, Kristiana Rae Colon, has a story to tell about the Reverend Jesse Jackson - the giant of civil rights and black politics who is based in the city, and who once marched with Martin Luther King Jr. When she got back from protesting in Ferguson, she paid a visit to his organisation on the South Side of Chicago, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. "That meeting started out with a member of Rainbow PUSH standing up and saying, 'I don't get why you young people are so disrespectful, don't you know we've been doing this for XYZ number of decades?'" she recalls. So her group of activists fell out with some of the old guard. The new movement sees the older leadership of black rights organisations as too male and too hierarchical. Having found each other online, they often don't see the need for churches or other religious organisations to be at the vanguard. But older leaders have criticised the young too - seeing them as too slow to condemn violence. "I don't advocate violence," says Kristiana Rae Colon. "But I don't condemn justified rage. I don't think you can have change if people are comfortable and complacent. So yeah, sometimes traffic has to stop." Another criticism of Black Lives Matter is that it lacks clear leadership. "You must have leaders. A movement without accountability or responsibility is not a sustainable model," I'm told by Jesse Jackson. "Who is accountable, who is to rouse the troops? It can't just be social media. Leaders matter." But he reacts sagely when I read out some of the rhetoric on Black Lives Matter forums - like one post that describes him as "dethroned." "I've never sat on a throne," he says. "I'm a servant. I affirm their actions. I believe Black Lives Matter… And so we must be united by purpose and love, not separated by labels." Mainstream politics Jackson believes the way to achieve change is to work within mainstream American politics - and form coalitions. After all, he ran for president twice in the 1980s and once mentored a young Barack Obama. His message is now being heeded in and around Ferguson, Missouri - where there is now a Black Lives Matter PAC, or Political Action Committee. PACs are the grease that keep the wheels of the American political system turning. They raise money, put out messages on the issues and sometimes endorse candidates. "An election year is an opportunity for Black Lives Matter," says Kenny Murdock, the local radio host who has set it up - despite the fact that other activists think it's better to stay apart from the political fray. "It is time for us to unite and put up numbers, so that every political party sees that our issues are important to them, or else their candidates do not get into office," he says. Murdock belongs to the Democratic Party, and at a national level the party's presidential hopefuls - Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley - have directly responded to the Black Lives Matters agenda in debates. On the Republican side, the movement has been criticised, for example by Donald Trump - which of course means it has been noticed. In the run-down suburb of Ferguson, I meet the father of the teenager whose killing inspired so much of this. Michael Brown Sr is now something of an activist himself. Despite the fact that the officer who pulled the trigger was never charged, the father believes the rebirth of black radicalism that his son's death helped inspire will now change America. "Mike opened the doors for those other people, if not him, to get some type of justice," he says. "There ain't no sitting down no more or sweeping up under the carpet. We standing on top of the carpet now and letting you know that we're not taking it no more." Next item: 5 things we learned from Kanye's epic Twitter meltdown It may well go down in history as the most epic Twitter rant of all time.READ MORE You can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending and Facebook. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending

"لقد قتلوه بلا سبب، ولديهم كل الأعذار في العالم لماذا قتلوه".

هل ستغير "حياة السود مهمة" أمريكا في عام الانتخابات؟

Some called those actions repressive - a sentiment expressed most clearly in a video produced by the Catalan cultural organisation Omnium Cultural. It's been viewed more than a million times. One of the most striking claims in the video was that police subjected Catalan voters to "a degree of force never seen before in a European member state". After Spain's constitutional court declared the poll illegal, police officers were authorised to stop it going ahead. They prevented some people from voting, and seized ballot papers and boxes at polling stations. Speaking to the BBC on Sunday, Spain's foreign minister Alfonso Dastis, claimed images of police violence were "fake". Who is correct? Fake photos It is true that fake photos have been used but virtually all of the media coverage showing police violence was real - including all of that shown by the BBC. Photos which are six years old have been shared online purporting to show violence in Catalonia on 1 October. For example, this photo was shared in a manner that suggested a disabled Catalan voter was being hit with a baton. In fact, the photo was shared by bloggers in 2011, when police clashed with anti-austerity protesters in Barcelona. Various examples have been collected by Spanish fact-checkers Maldito Bulo ("damned hoax") - such as this use of a photo from a firefighters' protest in 2013 to suggest that firefighters were squaring up to police officers on October 1. Police brutality? Just because some of the photos were fakes doesn't mean that all or even many of them were. Reality Check has spoken to journalists who witnessed police shoving people, grabbing them by the hair and throwing them down stairs. And photojournalists saw police firing rubber bullets, Indeed, the Spanish Government accepts there was some violence - and has apologised for it. The worst in Europe? So there was police violence on 1 October. Was it the worst ever seen in an EU member state? Some of the early reports of injuries were exaggerated. One woman had claimed that police had intentionally broken her fingers. In reality, her fingers weren't broken, just inflamed - as she explained to the Catalan state broadcaster TV3 after she'd received treatment. On 20 October, the Catalan department of health released revised figures of the number of people who had sought medical treatment because of police action on polling day. These figures were gathered by the various hospitals, clinics and paramedics who treated them. They say 1,066 people sought medical treatment, 991 on the day and 75 in the days that followed. Most people - 886 - were classed as having only a minor injury or condition. Five were considered to be seriously injured. These figures are from the Department of Health, which is a branch of the Catalan government. We have no way of independently verifying whether all 1,066 injuries were caused by police officers. This is the only data available, and has been used in arguments by both sides of the independence debate. Earlier totals had been disputed by Spanish ministers and newspapers - arguing that people might turn up at a clinic despite having no medical complaint. However, the Catalan health service insists everyone included in these latest figures received a diagnosis from a medical professional. Twelve police officers were also injured on polling day. This figure is agreed by both the Catalan department of health and the Spanish government. It is difficult to find examples where as many civilians were injured during clashes with police. Yet when assessing the level of violence, the degree of force is important, not just the number of injuries. There are various cases where police in EU member states used an equivalent or even higher degree of force in public. Here are some recent examples: It is worth noting that none of those events were votes. Read more from Reality Check Follow us on Twitter

أعلنت إسبانيا أنها تستعد لتعليق الحكم الذاتي الإقليمي لكاتالونيا، بعد أن هدد زعيم كتالونيا كارليس بودجمونت بإعلان الاستقلال. وحتى قبل هذه الخطوة، أدان الانفصاليون تصرفات الحكومة الإسبانية والشرطة خلال استفتاء الاستقلال المحظور في الأول من أكتوبر.

كتالونيا: هل واجه الناخبون أسوأ أعمال عنف من الشرطة على الإطلاق في الاتحاد الأوروبي؟

Nathan Burton, 27, was found seriously injured at a property on Woodhurst Road, Moseley, on 7 April and died in hospital the following day. A post-mortem examination found he died from a single stab wound to the chest. Chad Henderson, 43, from Woodhurst Road, appeared at a hearing at Birmingham Crown Court and a trial is due in Coventry on 13 September. Follow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk Related Internet Links HM Courts & Tribunals Service

دفع رجل بأنه غير مذنب في جريمة القتل، بعد أن تعرض أب لطفل للطعن في إحدى ضواحي برمنغهام.

طعن موسلي: رجل ينفي مقتل ناثان بيرتون

Sandy Cooper, 72, was one of three people chosen to represent Elgin City North ward. He stood as an independent. He tendered his resignation in a letter to the council's chief executive. Completed forms for new nominees must be lodged by 12 June. The by-election will be held on 13 July, with the count the following day.

تم فتح باب الترشيحات للمرشحين المحتملين في الانتخابات الفرعية لمجلس موراي بعد استقالة عضو جديد في المجلس بعد خمسة أيام فقط من انتخابه.

الانتخابات الفرعية لمجلس موراي: فتح باب الترشيحات بعد الاستقالة

In its hey-day Spanish City, with its distinctive white dome, attracted thousands of visitors to Whitley Bay each year. But it fell into disrepair in the 1990s and shut to the public in 2000. Grade II-listed Spanish City and the Whitley Bay Pleasure Gardens opened in 1910. A 60-bed hotel, a care home, 20 apartments and 24 town houses are also planned in a bid to help regenerate the area, the council said. Ivor Crowther, Head of HLF North East, said: "This iconic building holds an incredibly special place in the hearts of all of us who live in the North East and beyond." The grant would "unlock the potential of Spanish City", in the hope of encouraging private investment and wider regeneration.

سيتم استعادة وإعادة فتح منطقة جذب سياحي ساحلية عمرها 103 أعوام بفضل منحة صندوق يانصيب التراث (HLF) البالغة 3.7 مليون جنيه إسترليني.

تم توفير المدينة الإسبانية الإدواردية بمنحة قدرها 3.7 مليون جنيه إسترليني

By Will GrantBBC News, Havana On 1 January 1959 Fidel Castro's fighters rolled victoriously into Havana having overthrown the Batista regime. But 17 December 2014 was as momentous a day as any in the revolution's 56-year history, one that many Cubans thought they would never live to see: the announcement of a diplomatic thaw with Washington. As some broadcasters carried the news, they split the screen in two. Raul Castro on one side with President Obama speaking on the other. The two leaders - indeed, Havana and Washington - were singing from the same song-sheet for the first time in over five decades. Diplomatically, it was a bold move. The presidents announced that the mutual goodwill had already begun with a swap of high-profile prisoners: USAID contractor Alan Gross released in return for the remaining members of the Cuban Five in jail in the US. Most importantly, though, full diplomatic ties, frozen since January 1961, would be re-instated. Embassies would be re-opened and ambassadors appointed to their respective capitals. But now the dust of the initial announcement is beginning to settle, ordinary people on both sides of the Florida Straits are trying to work out what it means for them and their families. Tourism boost With travel restrictions being eased, more US citizens will inevitably visit the communist island in 2015. "If relations normalise with the US, I think people from third countries will also feel more comfortable coming to Cuba for travel and work", says Orlando, the owner of a small bed-and-breakfast in Havana's old town. "More tourism will be good for everyone. When the hotels are overbooked, people come to private homes." But it is not just Orlando who is looking forward with positivity. Everyone you speak to in Cuba's emerging private sector - restaurant owners, taxi drivers, people on the fringes of the state-dominated tourism trade - are cautiously optimistic about the next few years. "Vamos a ver", they say, a non-committal Cuban phrase simply meaning "we'll see". Ultimately, though, the new measures feel like change, and for many in Cuba, change can only be a good thing. President Castro also knew that things could not go on as they had done until now. Cuba was too dependent on oil-rich Venezuela's largesse to continue along the same path it had throughout the Cold War. With the oil price plummeting, he spied a unique window of opportunity for detente with the old enemy. "I've seen an extraordinary degree of political will, it's surprised me", says Jesus Arboleya, former Cuban consul to Washington. "But that's not to say that the problems have been resolved nor that there won't be bumps in the road ahead." Socialist model Almost pre-empting those bumps, Raul Castro was adamant that the country's socialist model was not coming to an end in his final address of 2014. "There are profound differences between the governments of the US and Cuba that include differing concepts about national sovereignty, democracy, political models and international relations," he said as he closed parliament for the year. "Just as we have never expected them to change their political system, we demand respect for ours." "The positions of the two governments are clear", says Jesus Arboleya. "I think Cuba has negotiated an agreement along the lines of which it aspired. But the US Government has got what it wanted too, expressing its interest for political change in Cuba and its right to continue with projects for the promotion of democracy in Cuba," he adds. President Castro did not only temper Cubans' expectations with his speech. He also praised President Obama for the move towards normalisation particularly the announcement that the Secretary of State, John Kerry, would investigate whether Cuba should be removed from the US Government's list of state sponsors of terrorism. Given Havana's current role hosting peace talks between the Colombian government and Colombia's largest left-wing rebel group, the Farc, it seems likely they will be taken off the list soon. Economic embargo But Cuba clearly wants President Obama to go further, specifically to see the US economic embargo on the island lifted completely. Even if he wanted to, and it is clear that he thinks Washington's policies of the last 50 years towards Cuba have been counterproductive, that may be almost impossible for the US President to achieve. He would need to get it through Congress and there are powerful voices lined up against him in the form of key Cuban-American politicians. Instead, he seems determined to make the economic embargo all but toothless during his next two years in office. The potential economic benefits of the thaw are significant for the island, particularly for its international finances, says economist Ricardo Torres of the Centre for Studies of the Cuban Economy. "Hopefully we'll see an important reduction in lending costs for the country," he says. "In establishing normal relations in terms of financial transactions between the US and Cuba, probably (Washington) will do less in terms of prosecuting foreign banks or other entities related to financial transactions with Cuba." Those sanctions and fines have amounted to around $11bn (£7bn) over the past few years. "It's been kind of scary for foreign banks to do business with Cuba," Mr Torres says. That change alone, if it bolsters the country's Central Bank and foreign currency reserves, puts a hugely different complexion on the economic outlook for Cuba in 2015. While much has been written and said about the rapprochement, for now, the man who brought the revolution to power 56 years ago - Fidel Castro - is keeping quiet. Cubans are used to seeing his reflections appear in the state-run newspaper, Granma, the day after major news breaks on the island. Yet despite these being the most significant steps for Cuba since the fall of the Berlin Wall, nothing from Fidel Castro has been published so far. "I can say for sure that none of this was done without Fidel's express approval", says Mr Arboleya, who served as Cuba's consul to Washington during the 1980s. That is almost certainly true. As a man who has spent more than five decades of his life eyeball-to-eyeball with Washington, he was never likely to blink first.

هناك العديد من التواريخ المهمة في الثورة الكوبية.

وتأمل كوبا أن تحظى باحتضان واشنطن الكامل

By Katy WatsonBBC Mexico and Central America reporter Kate del Castillo is a Mexican actress who brokered the deal between the Hollywood star and the most wanted man in Mexico and also was present at the meeting. She is an actress who does not shy away from controversy. Back in 2012, del Castillo made an open appeal to El Chapo urging him to use his drug trafficking empire for love, not violence. She even said that she believed more in El Chapo than in "governments that hide the truth". Life imitating fiction? According to Sean Penn, the drug lord's lawyer contacted del Castillo after the appeal because El Chapo wanted to send her some flowers. That was the starting point that led the actress to become the go-between for the Rolling Stone interview. Kate del Castillo is a famous name here in Mexico for her acting roles. Born in Mexico City in 1972 into an acting family, she is best known for her portrayal of drug boss Teresa Mendoza in the soap opera La Reina del Sur (Queen of the South). La Reina del Sur is a drama based on the novel of the same name by Spanish author Arturo Perez Reverte. In the series, del Castillo plays a young woman from Mexico who rises through the ranks of the Sinaloa drugs cartel to become the most powerful drug trafficker in southern Spain. But for this latest "role", del Castillo has moved away from the fictional world of drug lords and is now at the centre of a real and very controversial drug trafficker's tale. Del Castillo has not given any public comments since the Rolling Stone interview was published on Saturday.

بينما كان هناك الكثير من الانتقادات الموجهة إلى الممثل الأمريكي شون بن بسبب لقائه بإمبراطور المخدرات المكسيكي الهارب خواكين "إل تشابو" جوزمان، إلا أن هناك اسمًا معروفًا آخر وراء المقابلة بين الممثل وزعيم الكارتل.

إل تشابو: من هي كيت ديل كاستيلو؟

Councillors gave the Circuit of Wales unanimous approval on Wednesday saying it would create "thousands of jobs" near Rassau Industrial estate. Developers want to make the track capable of hosting all motor racing championships - except Formula One. Government inspectors may yet step in. But today Blaenau Gwent councillors gave the plans their backing with council leader Hedley McCarthy saying the "benefits for us all are huge". "There will be the creation of thousands of jobs when the circuit comes into operation plus the development of engineering, science and technology businesses," he said. "For so long, the heads of the valleys have needed sustainable investment. "We are looking to the future and that future is bright." The plans also include an international kart track and motocross tracks as well as a technology park for research, development and support services in the automotive and motor sports sectors. Developers have revised up the estimated number of jobs created by the plans quoting 3,000 construction posts as well as 4,000-6,000 new full-time jobs when the track is due to completed in 2015/16. Michael Carrick, chief executive of developers the Heads of the Valleys Development Company, pledged to "deliver a truly innovative and sustainable business, helping to deliver long term economic and social benefits for the region". He said: "It is a hugely important development, not just for the regeneration of Blaenau Gwent but also for the UK economy, and will enable significant private capital to be mobilised. "This is a showcase for a new type of investment model, a partnership between private investment and government to deliver a transformational business to the region." A £2m loan from the Welsh government has been made and the developers are trying to secure more public money. The rest of the money is being borrowed from banks with the intention to raise £150m from institutional investors such as pension funds which would become part owners of the track. Despite some environmental concerns, the scheme occupying 335 hectares (830 acres) was recommended for approval by council officials before councillors gave it their approval. Gwent Wildlife Trust, Brecon Beacons National Park, and Natural Resources Wales objected to the plan. Meanwhile, the Association of Motor Racing Circuit Owners (AMRCO) said the track would harm motorsport. Jonathan Palmer, chairman of AMRCO which represents 17 UK race tracks, said: "The UK circuit industry welcomes innovation and investment, however history and experience suggest that an investment of this magnitude in a motor racing circuit will never produce a return for investors. "It is a real concern that this will turn into a white elephant at the expense of much needed public funds, and we hope this project will now be subject to careful scrutiny by Welsh government inspectors and the Wales Audit Office." In response, a spokesman for the Circuit of Wales said:"It's no surprise that we are seen as a competitive threat to many of the existing sites that we have in the UK. "Over the course of the last three years we have met with senior management of 11 of the 17 circuit owners, many of whom have input into our business plan and several operators who have expressed interest in providing services to the circuit." Welsh government inspectors are still considering whether to review the project.

تم منح الضوء الأخضر لخطط إنشاء مضمار سباق بقيمة 280 مليون جنيه إسترليني بالقرب من Ebbw Vale وسط مزاعم بأنه سيجعل Blaenau Gwent "وجهة الذهاب" لعشاق رياضة السيارات التي تجلب 50 مليون جنيه إسترليني سنويًا للاقتصاد.

مضمار السباق في حلبة ويلز يُمنح الضوء الأخضر للمضي قدمًا في Ebbw Vale

Linda YuehChief business correspondent It's embarking on a roadshow that will finalise its share price, which is in the range of $60-66 per share, and expects to set the price on September 18 with trading on the New York Stock Exchange starting the next day. It means that Alibaba could be valued at about $163 billion. That's larger than 95% of the companies on the S&P500 and would make it the third most valuable Internet company after only Google and Facebook. If its underwriters - the banks offering the share sale - don't buy additional shares, then Alibaba would raise as much as $21 billion, which would still be more than Visa's $17.9 billion raised in 2008 that had been the largest US IPO. So, the largest US IPO is now a Chinese company. It's a sign of things to come as Chinese firms that have huge scale gained from their massive domestic market "go global." For more on corporate movers and shakers, watch Talking Business with Linda Yueh. Broadcast times are found at: Talking Business with Linda Yueh.

وتسعى "علي بابا" إلى جمع ما يصل إلى 24.3 مليار دولار (15 مليار جنيه استرليني) من بيع أسهمها، وهو ما سيكون أكثر من المبلغ القياسي السابق الذي جمعه البنك الزراعي الصيني البالغ 22.1 مليار دولار. بمعنى آخر، سيكون "علي بابا" أكبر طرح عام أولي في التاريخ.

علي بابا – من المقرر أن يكون أكبر طرح عام أولي في الولايات المتحدة في التاريخ

When the rains began on Saturday evening, residents welcomed the respite from Chennai's usual hot and humid weather. But on Sunday, with no signs of the rain letting up, life in the city slowly began turning nightmarish. The situation grew worse after excess water in reservoirs was released to prevent flooding. That is when the suburban parts of the city began going underwater. Roads resembled rivers, pedestrian subways began filling up with water, schools and colleges were shut. A holiday was declared until 22 November. The city slowly and surely ground to a halt. I was one of the fortunate few who lived in an area of Chennai where flood waters did not enter homes. 'Unprecedented horror' But in many localities, ground floor apartments were flooded. A woman who lived in the Velachery area described the situation as "unprecedented horror". "We live in a duplex house and the ground floor was sinking. The furniture was floating. We have never seen anything like this before," she told the BBC. Adding to the woes of the residents was the fact that excess water from the Chembarambakkam lake was released into the already polluted and stinking Adyar river, causing it to overflow. "It is stinking so much in Manapakkam because of Adyar water that we had to move out. We have to wait until things return to normal," S Sangeetha, a resident of the area, said. In many areas, the power supply was halted to prevent incidents of electrocution. Power has now been restored to most areas except for the places which are still submerged. Political play As the city struggled to breathe underwater, opposition political parties began pointing fingers at the state government, led by Chief Minister J Jayalalitha. Television channels loyal to opposition leaders ran almost hysterical coverage of the floods, telling viewers that Chennai was on the brink of all-out collapse and anarchy. The Jaya TV channel, which is loyal to the chief minister, solely concentrated on relief efforts and images of grateful rescued people. In general, however, city residents were of the opinion that the floods showed up the city's preparations to deal with monsoon showers. There has been some relief with the involvement of the army, navy, air force and fire services which rescued people using boats. The air force deployed helicopters to rescue stranded people. In the midst of the madness, an Indian taxi app service launched a free boat rescue service to help those stranded. The boats, provided by Ola, which normally organises cars for its users, have been ferrying food and water as well as stranded passengers. With rains finally stopping, the city is limping back to normal. And in what will come as further relief to Chennai residents, the meteorology department has said there will be no heavy rain in the coming days.

تسببت الأمطار المتواصلة منذ ما يقرب من أسبوع في ولاية تاميل نادو بجنوب الهند في مقتل 71 شخصا على الأقل، في حين تم نشر الجيش والقوات الجوية لإنقاذ الأشخاص الذين ما زالوا عالقين بسبب الفيضانات. وكانت تشيناي (مدراس سابقاً) واحدة من أكثر الأماكن تضرراً، وهي عاصمة ولاية تاميل نادو، التي بدأت تعود ببطء إلى وضعها الطبيعي. تقرير مراسل بي بي سي التاميل ك موراليداران يتحدث عن كيفية تأثير الأمطار، التي توقفت للتو، على سكان المدينة.

كيف شلت الأمطار مدينة تشيناي الهندية؟

By Leo KelionTechnlogy reporter The ideas may sound outlandish but they could become commonplace if "computational photography" lives up to its promise. Unlike normal digital photography - which uses a sensor to capture a single two-dimensional image of a scene - the technique records a richer set of data to construct its pictures. Instead of trying to mimic the way a human eye works, it opens the activity up to new software-enhanced possibilities. Pelican Imaging is one of the firms leading the way. The California-based start-up is working on a handset part which contains an array of 16 lenses, each attached to either a blue-, red- or green-colour sensor, which link up to a chip that fuses the data they produce together. "You end up with a standard Jpeg-image that has a depth map of the scene that allows you to identify where all the edges of all the objects are right down to human hair," chief executive Christopher Pickett tells the BBC. A companion app uses this information to let the snapper decide which parts of their photo should be in focus after they are taken. This includes the unusual ability to choose multiple focal planes. For example a photographer in New York could choose to make the details of her husband's face and the Statue of Liberty behind him sharp but everything else - including the objects in between them - blurred. "Because we have no moving parts we also have super-fast first shot, as we're not hunting for focus," adds Mr Pickett. "You get the perfect picture as you just don't miss." Another firm, Lytro, already offers similar functions on its own standalone light field camera - but Pelican suggests offering the tech via a component small enough to fit in a phone will prove critical to its success. Nokia has already invested in Pelican, leading to speculation it will be among the first to offer the tech when it becomes available next year. For now, high dynamic range (HDR) imaging offers a ready-to-use taste of computational photography. It uses computer power to combine photos taken at different exposures to create a single picture whose light areas are not too bright and dim ones not too dark. However, if the subject matter isn't static there can be problems stitching the images together. Users commonly complain of moving objects in the background looking as if they're breaking apart. One solution - currently championed by chipmaker Nvidia - is to boost processing power to cut the time between each snap. But research on an alternative technique which only requires a single photo could prove superior. "Imagine you have a sensor with pixels that have different levels of sensitivity," explains Prof Shree Nayar, head of Columbia University's Computer Vision Laboratory. "Some would be good at measuring things in dim light and their neighbours good at measuring very bright things. "You would need to apply an algorithm to decode the image produced, but once you do that you could get a picture with enormous range in terms of brightness and colour - a lot more than the human eye can see." Even if current HDR techniques fall out of fashion, computational photography offers other uses for multi-shot images. Last year US researchers showed off a process which involves waving a compact camera around an object or person to take hundreds of pictures over the space of a minute or so. The resulting data is used to create what's called a light field map on an attached laptop. Software makes use of this to render views of the scene, letting the user pick the exact vantage point they want long after the event has ended. Another technique involves analysing two photos taken in quick succession, one with flash the other without. "You can use this to work out what features of the image are shadows," explains Dr Martin Turner, a computer vision expert at the University of Manchester. Microsoft has filed a patent for this idea saying the information could be used to make flash photographs look less "jarring" by automatically improving their colour balance, removing ugly shadows cast by the bright light and treating for red-eye. Ultimately you end up with what looks like a highly detailed low-light image that doesn't suffer from noise. Some of the most exotic uses of computational photography have been pioneered by Stanford University where researchers came up with a way to "see through" dense foliage and crowds. By positioning dozens of cameras at different viewpoints and processing the resulting data they were able to create a shallow-focus effect that left the desired subject sharp but obstructing objects so blurred that they appeared transparent. Their research paper suggested surveillance of a target as a possible use for the tech. "They spent $2m [£1.3m] to build this great big camera array and it took a team of dedicated grad students to run the thing," says Prof Jack Tumblin, a computational photography expert at Northwestern University, near Chicago. "It was a wonderful lab machine, but not very practical." Prof Tumblin is currently trying to develop a budget version of the effect using only a single camera. His theory is that by taking lots of shots from different positions, with the lens's exact location recorded for each one, he should then be able to use software to remove an undesired object from the final photograph. The caveat is that the thing involved must be static. Perhaps the biggest potential benefit of computational photography isn't new gimmicky effects but rather the ability to capture the best two-dimensional shot possible. One area of research is to create a high-quality image that currently requires a heavy lens containing several precision-polished glass elements to take it - but to do so with a smaller, cheaper, less complex part. The idea is to stop trying to avoid any imperfections in the image cast onto the sensor but rather control what kinds they are, limiting them to ones that can be fixed with software. Another technique involves taking shots in quick succession and moving the sensor as little as half-a-pixel between each one before combining the information to create a "super-resolution" image. Hasselbad already uses this on one of its high-end cameras to let its 50 megapixel sensor create 200MP photos. And there's the suggestion that building a hybrid device which takes takes both stills and high-speed video simultaneously could solve the problem of camera shake. "The purpose is to get an exact measurement of how the photo has been blurred," explains Prof Tumblin. "If the video camera part focuses on some bright spot off in the distance it can be used to work out the trajectory. That lets blur caused by your hand moving in random ways become quite reversible."

تخيل كاميرا تسمح لك برؤية حشد من الناس للحصول على رؤية واضحة لشخص ما قد يكون محجوبًا، أو هاتفًا ذكيًا يتوافق مع عدسات ذات ميزانية كبيرة للحصول على جودة الصورة، أو صورة تتيح لك تغيير وجهة نظرك بعد التقاطها. .

التصوير الحسابي: اللقطة هي البداية فقط

Bystanders rushed to the rescue when a bus crashed through a bridge and fell into a river in Murshidabad district. A huge crowd which had gathered around the scene started to throw stones at the police when they arrived. The police retaliated by using tear gas to disperse the mob. Two officials from the fire brigade and one policeman were reportedly injured in the clashes. The crowd is said to have overturned police vans and even set fire to two of them. Locals told BBC Hindi the bus had had more than 50 passengers on board. "Rescuers have retrieved 36 bodies so far," state transport minister Subhendu Adhikari told AFP news agency. Nine passengers were taken to hospital, he said. Reports say a number of people are still missing. The state has ordered an inquiry into the incident.

هاجم سكان غاضبون شاحنات الشرطة والمسؤولين الذين اتهموهم بالوصول متأخرين إلى مكان الحادث الذي أسفر عن مقتل 36 شخصا في ولاية البنغال الغربية بشرق الهند.

هجوم الشرطة "المتأخرة" في الهند بعد حادث حافلة أسفر عن مقتل 36 شخصًا

Brian TaylorPolitical editor, Scotland However, intriguingly, there was rather more peace in the Holyrood committee room than one might have anticipated. The advance billing was primarily of conflict. The BBC, it was said, was failing to serve Scotland. Not enough output made it to the network. Licence fee payers north of the Border got a raw deal. Plus continuing disquiet, emanating from the SNP in particular, about news coverage. To be clear, there was exceptionally close questioning directed at the BBC bosses - the Director General Tony Hall, the Managing Director for Finance Anne Bulford, and the Director Scotland Ken MacQuarrie. In that regard, the committee convener Stewart Maxwell was to the fore - but was ably supported by members such as Chic Brodie, Mary Scanlon and Liam McArthur. The BBC in Scotland What is raised and what is spent? £323m Licence fee generated in Scotland £123m - Scottish-only output spend £82m - Scottish-made network output £132.5m - UK programmes and services available to Scotland In particular, the SNP's Gordon MacDonald - a former management accountant - plainly relished a return to his old profession, pursuing his financial inquiries with thoroughly admirable diligence, reminiscent of an indefatigable terrier. George Adam even contrived to work in a reference to his beloved Paisley. Steven Moffat - he of Dr Who and Sherlock - is apparently a Buddy (and, who knows, a buddy.) Mr Adam followed this up with sharp questioning about money and power. But still the overall tone was business-like rather than overtly adversarial. It seemed to me that the committee scented the prospect of a negotiated settlement which could be distinctly to Scotland's advantage. That impression has not lessened from subsequent conversations. That tone persisted in the evidence session with the Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop. She stressed she was not seeking a fight. She wanted a deal - which would bring investment and jobs to Scotland. Things, she suggested, were moving in that direction. To the detail. Sundry MSPs parsed these numbers. What were those top-up costs? How were they justified? Why was investment per head still greater in Wales and Northern Ireland than in Scotland? In particular, those network programmes made in Scotland. How did they qualify to be Scottish? Were many of them not just "lift and shift" - that is, programmes envisioned elsewhere but transferred to Scotland? The argument flowed back and forth. It was argued forcibly that programmes with a Scottish base contribute to jobs and development here. 'Scottish Six' However, Tony Hall acknowledged that it was now time to move to a new phase: with further power in Scotland allied to programmes which offered a more sustained and authentic portrait of Scotland. Further, the Director General confirmed a review of news, due to report in the Spring - which might include such familiar concepts as a Scottish Six, a TV programme encompassing Scottish, UK and global news. Ken MacQuarrie was questioned about earlier ideas such as new Scottish TV and radio channels. Those, he said, had never formed part of a formal plan. They were notions around during the earliest stages of preparing for the Charter Review, itself due to be completed by the end of this year. Tony Hall suggested the focus now - particularly in the light of the relatively constrained licence fee settlement - might more usefully be upon programmes, rather than delivery mechanisms. On governance, he said that he favoured a unitary board for the BBC with a distinctive Scottish presence. In essence, his argument was for an enhanced BBC Scotland offer within a renewed BBC. To be clear, once more, there remains deep scepticism among the MSPs. Across parties but particularly in SNP ranks. This has by no means, by no means, been entirely assuaged. So where now? But they heard the BBC executives, led by Tony Hall, seeking to address their concerns, moving to acknowledge issues surrounding funding, commissioning and decision-making. So where now? I believe those three elements - funding, commissioning and decision-making - will form the core of the committee report. I believe further that the committee members will seek to sound a positive note, amid the scepticism, urging the BBC to act in a fashion which could generate investment and jobs for Scotland. I believe, further, that the committee report next month - unanimous if that can be achieved - might then form the subject for a full Parliamentary debate, applying pressure to the BBC to deliver.

وإجمالاً، استغرقت جلسة الاستماع الأخيرة في هوليرود حول مستقبل هيئة الإذاعة البريطانية ما يقرب من ثلاث ساعات. ما يقرب من نصف المدة الكاملة للمسلسل الجديد الحرب والسلام على قناة بي بي سي وان. ولكن بنفس الدرجة من التعقيد تقريبًا.

بي بي سي اسكتلندا المحسنة في بي بي سي متجددة؟

Police arrested the boy on Tuesday after a number of reports of women being harassed along the route, regularly used by runners and cyclists. A police spokeswoman said: "The arrest came about as a result of increased proactive police activity in response to community concerns." The teenager has been released on bail. Before the arrest, users of the path had called for action regarding a number of incidents in recent weeks. Insp Deepak Kenth of the Bristol East neighbourhood policing team said police patrols had been stepped up in the area in response. Follow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk

ألقي القبض على صبي يبلغ من العمر 13 عامًا للاشتباه في ارتكابه اعتداءً جنسيًا، فيما يتعلق بتقارير التحرش على مسار سكة حديد بريستول وباث.

فتى، 13 عاماً، ألقي القبض عليه بشبهة الاعتداء الجنسي

The raid at Marsh Farm in South Woodham Ferrers happened overnight, police said. "After the break-in an amount of damage was done and two gnome figures were stolen from the Santa display." Staff at the farm said they had gone into work on Saturday to find trees knocked over and some distinctive elf figures stolen. Police are appealing for information.

قام المخربون الذين اقتحموا سوق عيد الميلاد في إسيكس بتدمير مغارة سانتا وسرقوا اثنين من مساعديه.

مغارة سانتا في سوق مزرعة إسيكس دمرها المغيرون

Corbet is best known for his contribution to Guernsey's culture through his English, French and patois writing as well as his paintings. The plaque, which was paid for by the Forest parish, was put at La Roberge Farm where he lived for about 50 years. Dave Gorvel, who now lives in the farmhouse, nominated Mr Corbet for the plaque. A short service was held where poetry from Corbet's Les Chànts du Draïn Rimeux was read, before Sir Geoffrey Rowland unveiled the plaque. It is the third blue plaque on the island.

تم الكشف عن لوحة زرقاء في غيرنسي تكريما للكاتب والفنان في القرن الثامن عشر دينيس كوربيت.

لوحة زرقاء ترفع إلى كاتب القرن الثامن عشر دينيس كوربيت

By News from Elsewhere......as found by BBC Monitoring The new law obliges wedding planners to notify the local authorities in advance, and cut back the length of the celebrations, as well as the number of guests, singers and rented cars, the Kun.uz news site reports. The new regulations, which also apply to birthdays and funerals, come into force in January 2020, and are the latest in a long campaign by the authorities against public pressure on families to host lavish festivities that push them into debt. Only last year, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev criticised "shameless spending" on feasts, which can cost $20,000 in a country where monthly incomes rarely exceed $300, and urged families to use the money to help those in need. His recommendation to cap the number of guests and singers fell on deaf ears, prompting the government to enforce the curbs. You may also be interested in: There is considerable support for the move on social media, as reported by the BBC Uzbek Service, but this is coupled with scepticism about its effectiveness, as well as irritation at perceived official high-handedness. This irritation has grown since Senator Maqsuda Borisova demanded an audit of people's incomes to see whether they are spending more than they earn. "We need to find out where people get the money for these lavish weddings, if they don't earn much. It could be illegal," the leading pro-government legislator told state TV's Munosabat talk show - a suggestion that goes far beyond anything specified in the new legislation. 'Try your own pocket' Her comments prompted anger on social media. "You want to know where the people's money has gone? Try your own pocket," read one comment on the Troll.uz site's Instagram page, while another feigned sympathy with the senator - "her surprise is reasonable, as politicians should have ensured that the people have no money left at all by now". Ms Borisova is only the latest legislator to weigh in with draconian suggestions for dealing with wedding excesses. Senator Iqbol Mirzo, a noted poet, wants offenders to "account for their disgraceful behaviour in the media, as fines don't work", while MP Alisher Hamroyev dubbed them "vulgar and brainless". 'Fees support families' But more eye-catching than social-media sniping is the counter-offensive launched by Uzbekistan's wedding singers, who have come together to defend their reputation. Stars like Ozoda Nursaidova have posted videos and graphics on Instagram to protest that their wedding fees let an army of musicians, drivers and bodyguards feed their families. Singer Minusa Rizayeva told her 3.1 million followers that her fees support nearly 150 people a month, according to Radio Liberty's Uzbek Service. Whatever the rights and wrongs of the curb on celebrations, one social-media commentator spoke for many when he wondered what Mr Hamroyev's nuptial feast was like. "Something tells me it wasn't a modest wedding," he posted on the UPL24 news site. Reporting by Martin Morgan Next story: Tajik taxis ban hugs and kisses Use #NewsfromElsewhere to stay up-to-date with our reports via Twitter.

فرضت أوزبكستان قيودا على ما تعتبره إنفاقا مفرطا على حفلات الزفاف، لكن الاقتراحات باتخاذ إجراءات أكثر صرامة أثارت غضبا شعبيا وحملة قام بها كبار نجوم الغناء في البلاد.

القيود المفروضة على حفلات الزفاف الأوزبكية تثير ردود فعل عنيفة

Trussell Trust food banks provide at least three days nutritionally-balanced food for local people in crisis. They are community projects led by churches and supported by schools, businesses and local individuals who donate all the food, give their time to volunteer and, where they can, donate money too. Food banks are a lifeline when people can't make ends meet. Health problems Thousands of frontline care professionals across the country use food banks week in week out to prevent people they are working with from falling into a downward spiral that so often could lead to them losing their home, suffering family breakdown, getting caught up in crime or facing serious mental and physical health problems. With a shocking 13 million people living in poverty in the UK - half of them in working households - the need is massive. Flat-lining incomes, rising food and fuel prices, higher rents and changes to tax and benefits all mean the situation for so many is set to get worse over the coming years. Two out of three households have no savings so unemployment, an unexpected repair bill, a cut in hours or overtime mean the household books simply won't balance any more. Again and again, food banks meet people who have been going without proper food for days - often so that their children can get a square meal. Christian charity In winter the stark choice is between eating and heating and there are no winners. The Trussell Trust, a Christian charity, believes every community should have a food bank: no-one in the UK should have to go hungry. Since 2004 the charity has launched a network of 200 food banks. It aims to launch 450 food banks by April 2015. Highland food bank, based in Inverness, was the first in Scotland. It launched in 2005, and this year will feed about 3,300 people across the Highland region. In the past year, nine new food bank projects have launched across Scotland in places such as Glasgow, Renfrewshire and Angus. The trust is working with local communities to establish a food bank network right across Scotland and to do so as fast as possible. BBC Scotland Investigates: Breadline Scotland transmits on Sunday 29 April at 16:32 on BBC Radio Scotland

يدير Trussell Trust الشبكة الوحيدة من بنوك الطعام في المملكة المتحدة. وهم يديرون أكثر من 200 بنك طعام في جميع أنحاء المملكة المتحدة، بما في ذلك 10 في اسكتلندا. وفي العام الماضي، قاموا بإطعام ما يقرب من 129 ألف شخص، أي ضعف العدد في العام السابق. وفي اسكتلندا، تم إطعام 6000 شخص من طرودهم الغذائية. يقول كريس مولد، الرئيس التنفيذي للصندوق، إن بنوك الطعام هي شريان الحياة عندما لا يتمكن الناس من تغطية نفقاتهم.

بنوك الطعام: ماذا يفعلون

Corby Developments has been given the go-ahead for the final 735 homes at Priors Hall alongside the A43 Stamford Road by East Northamptonshire Council. Plans for more than 4,000 homes on greenfield land and a secondary school had been approved in 2007. The final stage was backed by the council development control committee.

تمت الموافقة على المرحلة النهائية من مشروع تطوير 5000 منزل بالقرب من كوربي في نورثهامبتونشاير من قبل أعضاء المجلس.

المرحلة النهائية من خطة المنازل بالقرب من كوربي المدعومة

In a small room in her Bangalore home that has been converted into a museum of sorts are dozens of garments. The kind of clothes we see women around us wearing all the time. But each item has a story. This is Jasmeen Patheja's collection of the clothes of sex assault survivors. One red-and-black jumpsuit was donated by a woman who was caught up in the widespread sexual assaults that took place at New Year's Eve celebrations in Bangalore last year. "She said she was present at the celebrations when mobs went berserk, groping and assaulting women," Ms Patheja says. "She talked about how she was harassed, about seeking refuge." Then she holds up a cream-coloured kurta (tunic) with red and black prints - a garment almost startling in its simplicity. It was donated by a woman who was groped while travelling on a train in the southern city of Coimbatore. "She told me she was dissuaded from reporting the assault." The pink dress she shows me next came to her from a woman in Montreal. "She said if you don't take it, I'll have to throw it away. It made her even sick to have it," Ms Patheja says. As we go through the rack, she points out a white dress, a swimsuit, a champagne-coloured gown, a pair of trousers, a school uniform - examples that she describes as "a mirror" to the fact that all women experience abuse and gender violence. "It's got nothing to do with what you're wearing, there's never any excuse for such violence and nobody ever asks for it." And that's why her project is called - "I Never Ask For It." "The project wants to contain and hold space for our collective stories of pain, and trauma." Her fight against sexual- and gender-based violence began nearly a decade and a half ago, just after she moved to Bangalore from the northern city of Kolkata (Calcutta) to study art. "It's not that there was no harassment in Kolkata, but I was new to Bangalore. I was 23 and I had no family to run to for protection," she says. "It was also a time when street harassment was being dismissed as just 'eve-teasing', something that boys do and girls must experience. It was being normalised. There was an environment of denial and silence around the issue, which made it okay to continue it." To address this denial and to break the silence, she decided to start a conversation. "One day, I got all female students into a room and said, 'Let's come up with words that evoke a public space.' In three minutes, we had a vast mind map of only negative words." The result wasn't a surprise - harassment in public places is all too common and almost every woman has experienced catcalls, lewd remarks, touching and groping. And anyone who questions it is told that the fault actually lies with them - she may have done something provocative, she may be wearing clothes that showed skin, she may have been out late at night, she may have been drinking, she may have been flirting: in short, she may have asked for it. "Girls are raised to be careful, we are raised in an environment of fear which is constantly telling us to be careful. We are told if you've experienced assault, then maybe you're not being careful enough, that's the underlying message we're given." She set up the Blank Noise collective in 2003 to "confront" that fear. "We believe that blame leads to shame, shame leads to guilt, guilt leads to more silence and that perpetuates sexual and gender-based violence." The first step to confronting any fear, Ms Patheja says, is to start a conversation around it and one of the things that Blank Noise does as part of the "I Never Ask For It" project is to gather testimonials from women. So they approached girls and women on the streets of Bangalore and other cities, inviting them to write down their testimonials. Ms Patheja says "when one person writes, it encourages others to do the same", so they returned with white boards filled with names, ages, incidents of abuse, what happened, where it happened and what time, what were they wearing, what they did and what they wished they had done. One woman wrote about being harassed on a bus by a middle-aged man and how she just changed her seat, a schoolgirl wrote about how she was stalked by two men on a bicycle, another said she had been groped multiple times in multiple cities. There were testimonials from 14 and 16 year olds and also from women in their 30s and 40s and sometimes older. Almost all women chose to describe what they were wearing at the time of the assault and, Ms Patheja says, that's what gave them the idea about the museum of garments. "We found women often wondering about their garments. They'd say, "I was wearing that red skirt', or 'I was wearing that pair of jeans', or 'I was wearing that school uniform'. So it became a deliberate question at Blank Noise and we began asking, 'so what were you wearing'?" And Ms Patheja says if the question then arises - did I ask for it? - the answer is an emphatic no. "I Never Ask For It." "But we ask people to remember their garments, bring them in because they have memory, and in that memory it's been a witness and it's your voice." This story is part of a series about Indian women fighting for equality.

غالبًا ما يتبع التحرش الجنسي في جميع أنحاء العالم إلقاء اللوم على الضحية، والسؤال الوحيد الذي يطرحه الناجون دائمًا هو: "ماذا كنت ترتدي؟" تجمع الفنانة والناشطة الهندية ياسمين باثيجا الملابس التي تبرع بها الضحايا كدليل على أنهم ليسوا مسؤولين، حسبما ذكرت مراسلة بي بي سي جيتا باندي.

المرأة التي تجمع ملابس ضحايا الاعتداء الجنسي

An unusually warm spring day. I skip up to the door of the family home, it's been a good day at work and a pleasant cycle home. I'm enjoying the lighter evenings and I'm home early - it's only four o'clock! Maybe I can have a cuppa out in the back yard. And then it hits me. I open the front door and a Sahara-like jet of air billows out. HE'S GOT THE BLOODY HEATING ON! I tell a neighbour. She produces a bath plug from her pocket. "I take it out with me so he can't spend all afternoon in the bath, while I'm out working to keep a roof over our heads," she says. You may be forgiven for thinking we're both in dysfunctional relationships with men, and in a sense we are - with our sons! Our sons in their 20s, who are forced to live at home because their wages won't cover London rents (and I mean just the rents, you can forget other bills). According to the Civitas think tank, 49% of 23-year-olds are now living with their parents, up from 37% in 1998. These are our kids. The ones who aren't privileged enough to enjoy the services of the bank of mum and dad, but are privileged enough to enjoy (or not) the lodgings of mum and dad, at a hugely subsidised rent. I have to say at this point that my son Morgan is not lazy. Hard-working, driven, determined to earn money and get on in life - how else would he pay for his trainer habit? I feel for him too. After three years living in Manchester, enjoying independence, spreading his wings, leaving dirty dishes in the sink and festering towels on the floor, to have to come back to a small room in a terraced house where all your conversations - your every breath - can be overheard… that must be desperate. How do I stop myself from turning back into nagging mum and let the boy breathe? Morgan Elliott comments: This Moncler jacket that I basically spent my whole student loan on isn't proving enough for the Arctic conditions I've found myself in recently. I don't even think Bear Grylls would be able to survive the temperatures that my mother chooses to put us through. It's ironic that she spends literally a tenner a day on coffee but she can't afford to heat up the house for her dear son. There are glasses in the dishwasher full of dirty water because they have been loaded the wrong way. He has a university degree, how can he not know how to put a glass in a dishwasher? The glass is neither half-full nor half-empty; the glass is fully full WITH SCUMMY DISHWASHER WATER. The luxury chorizo sausage that was meant for a family tea has been demolished. Maybe I can use the chicken breast instead? No, apparently not. Or the lamb chops? No. All gone. "What?" he says. "You didn't say not to eat it." We have regressed. He into petulant teen, me into screeching banshee. Morgan comments: Seeing as I'm her son, it makes sense for my mum to want to feed me. However, this doesn't seem to be the case. Sometimes I'll spot a bit of chicken in the fridge and I might just decide to cook it up into a wholesome meal. Mum's phone's off but I'm sure providing her son with something to eat won't be too much of a problem. This is always a big regret though. This small decision of mine has now somehow become a case of me potentially being kicked out of the house, and this isn't even an exaggeration. "YOU'RE A 23-YEAR-OLD MAN!" she screams. Exactly! And a 23-year-old man needs to eat! Take the heating, again. Have I mentioned the heating? If it's cold when I'm working at home I light the fire in one room, Ebenezer-Scrooge-like. Imagine my wrath when I see him flitting about the house in a T-shirt and boxers with all the radiators full on. What to do in this instance? Option 1. Ground him. No he's 23, this is not a real option. Option 2. Ask him to pay more rent and risk an argument over money. Option 3. Let it go in a Zen-like fashion and pay the extra heating bill, ignoring the nagging voice that tells you what a mug you are. Option 4. Ask him to leave if he can't keep the bills down. Seems a bit drastic… It's the hidden expense that Morgan doesn't see. It costs money to use an entire washing machine cycle for a pair of shoelaces. The oven turned up to gas mark nine to cook one sausage - and then left on for the rest of the day, costs money. "I've even considered turning the gas off when we're out," laughs my husband. I laugh too, pause, and cast him a sideways look. "Can that be done?" He tells our son tales of how, in his day, he was expected to contribute most of his wages to the family coffers, putting the money in a teapot. "But that was 350 years ago and times were harder then," I interject - once again undermining him, just as I did when the boys were little. The whole family is regressing. If we were flatmates one of us would be under the floorboards rolled in a body bag. But then, as so often happens in families, moments later you're laughing in the kitchen, everything is forgotten in an instant. Until next time. Morgan comments: Annoyingly for me, I happen to have a lot of wealthier friends and so the idea of my mum taking money from me instead of giving me money towards rent seems absurd. It isn't really a problem in itself, and I do completely understand that bills need to be paid, but it seems my rent is increasing on almost a monthly basis. My mum will look for any excuse to raise it - the more I earn the more she wants me to pay! The whole system kind of feels like some sort of online scam in which you subscribe and in the small print it says *rent will increase by £50 each month*. A six-month contract would at least give me an idea of how to budget for the coming months. And yes, that may include buying trainers. Morgan says he feels judged by us and to a certain extent that's true. We got to play out our mistakes in rented flats above shops, visiting our parents with the fresh-faced clean-living industrious demeanour reserved for them and them alone. But I also feel judged by him. When we're sprawled out on the sofa on a Friday night with a bottle and a bag of Kettle chips and the boys are going out around the time we're thinking of going to bed I feel like a social failure. When we're going out or having friends around I proudly tell my kids - and realise I'm seeking approval. "See I have friends, I have a social life, I'm cool too." Morgan comments: Talking about judging, imagine this non-hypothetical scenario: I've just got home from work and I'm completely exhausted - for once I feel like a cheeky smoke. In summer I'd happily take a leisurely stroll down to the park at the end of the road, but right now the garden seems more appropriate. BUT… if I get caught then my mum will definitely think I'm a crackhead, and judging by the commotion she causes when I turn up the heating she definitely can't afford to send me to rehab this year. Also, my brother's window's open and if the wind blows the fumes into his room my dad will definitely sniff me out and shut down my operation swiftly. Not that he was any better at my age. Yes it's true, I do judge... noticing his new trainers. "Why are you buying £150 trainers when you could be saving for a deposit on a flat?" I casually mention. No sooner are the words out of my mouth than I wish I could take them back again. Because why shouldn't he? When I was younger, in fact when he was a baby, I bought myself expensive clothes because at that time I hadn't got a hope of buying a house, so why not? "If I'm paying rent I should at least be able to bring girls back," he says. Well, girls yes, as in girlfriends. But ultimately this is still a family home (not that his teenage brother would mind - it would give him an excuse to do the same). Living in an alpha male household there's nothing I love more than a girlfriend - I'm almost begging them not to leave me as they walk out of the door. But it's not a bachelor pad and so I'd at least like to see them and chat to them. Now I feel like a prude. A neurotic, prudish, stingy harridan. Do other cultures know how to do it better? Do they have the rules - the family traditions that make inter-generational living easier? Morgan comments: It's 3am in Shoreditch and I feel like I could have just potentially met my future wifey. We've walked around the area about 10 times trying to find a bar that's still open but it seems like we're out of luck… I'm acting like I don't actually have anywhere to take her back to. I do of course, but I'm not sure how comfortable she will be meeting the Munster family just yet. They'll assume she's my girlfriend and start questioning her. Or worse, what if there's something unpleasant left in the toilet? I'm really starting to doubt whether the cheap rent in Dalston is worth it. When I was younger, it was a lot easier bringing girls back - but now I'm bringing grown women back, ready to challenge the domain of the lioness. "The next thing is he'll leave and then you'll miss him," says a friend. "And then they come back and you have to get used to that, and then they leave again, it's called boomeranging." A study carried out last year by the LSE concluded the boomeranging generation causes a significant decline in parents' mental health. But I know I will miss him when he's gone. My kids are now 17 and 23 and when we're all chatting in the kitchen, or I hear them laughing in the living room I come over all emotional at how fantastic they both are. They are excellent company, funny, interesting, thoughtful, and their banter is on point. One day they will go. "But that's OK," I tell myself. "They'll be back soon enough." You may also be interested in: Lately, Sue Elliott-Nicholls has been to lots of weddings where the bride and groom have been together for decades. And in September she, too, did the deed in her 50s. So why are all these middle-aged couples finally opting for marriage? (October 2018) Read: Why we said 'I do' after 30 years together Join the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter.

أصبح من الطبيعي أن يقضي الأطفال الكبار سنوات في المنزل حتى بعد بدء العمل، بسبب عدم التطابق بين الرواتب والإيجارات. تتفق سو إليوت نيكولز وابنها مورجان إليوت على أن الأمر قد يكون كابوسًا. إليكم قصة سو مع مداخلات من مورغان.

رفقاء منزل من الجحيم أنا وابني البالغ من العمر 23 عاماً

By Matt Bardo & Hannah O'GradyBBC Panorama The two senior officers were thousands of miles from the dust and danger of Helmand province in Afghanistan. One had recently returned from the war where his troops reported their understanding that a policy of execution-style killings was being carried out by Special Forces. The other had been at headquarters, reading reports from the frontline with growing concern. They showed a sharp rise in the number of "enemies killed in action" (EKIA) by UK Special Forces. Special Forces are the UK's elite specialist troops, encompassing both the SAS (Special Air Service) and the SBS (Special Boat Service). After the conversation, a briefing note believed to have been written by one of the most senior members of UK Special Forces was passed up the chain of command. The message contained clear warnings for the highest levels of Special Forces and concluded that these "concerning" allegations merit "deeper investigation" to "at worst case put a stop to criminal behaviour". The documents were released to solicitors Leigh Day, as part of an ongoing case at the High Court, which will rule on whether allegations of unlawful killing by UK Special Forces were investigated properly. The man bringing the case is Saifullah Ghareb Yar. He says that four members of his family were assassinated in the early hours of 16 February 2011. It follows a BBC Panorama programme last year, which reported on the deaths. The programme worked with the Sunday Times Insight team to reveal evidence of a pattern of illegal killings by UK Special Forces. The government maintains that the four members of Saifullah's family were killed in self defence. But now correspondence in the newly-released documents shows that some had grave concerns about the UK Special Forces mission. Just hours after the elite troops had returned to base, other British soldiers were exchanging emails describing the events of that night as the "latest massacre". 'Shaking with fear' At 01:00 in Nawa, rural Helmand, on 16 February 2011, Saifullah's family were asleep in their home. They woke suddenly to the sound of helicopter rotors, followed by shouting through megaphones. Saifullah was still a teenager but he was about to find himself in the middle of a Special Forces "kill or capture" mission. These "night raids" were a common tactic at the time. They were typically carried out in partnership with Afghan forces under cover of darkness. Their purpose was to target senior members of the Taliban. "My whole body was shaking because of the fear. Everyone was frightened. All the women and children were crying and screaming," Saifullah told BBC Panorama. He described how his hands were tied and he was put in a holding area with the women and children. He had not been there for long when he heard gunfire. After the troops had left, the bodies of his two brothers were discovered in the fields surrounding their home. His cousin had been shot dead in a neighbouring building. Going back into his house, Saifullah found his father, lying face down on the ground. "His head, the forehead area, was shot with many bullets, and his leg was completely broken by the bullets," he said. Last year, Panorama exposed how the intelligence that identified the targets for these raids was often deficient. Philip Alston, the former UN Special Rapporteur on executions, told the programme: "I have no doubt that overall many of the allegations [of innocent people being killed] are justified, and that we can conclude that a large number of civilians were killed in night raids, totally unjustifiably." Saifullah believes his family were wrongly targeted and then executed in cold blood. In Nawa district, there was an outcry after the killings. The Governor of Helmand believed the victims were innocent civilians. British military emails from the aftermath of the raid obtained by Panorama suggest that eyewitnesses from the Afghan military supported Saifullah's version of events. A commanding officer from the Afghan forces is quoted as having said that no one was firing at the British but the four family members were shot anyway and that "he sees this as confirmation that innocents were killed". The Afghan commander suggests that "two men were shot trying to run away, and that the other two men were "assassinated" on target after they had already been detained and searched". The correspondence shows that these events sent shockwaves through the British military from Helmand to London. Emails outline concerns over Afghan forces refusing to accompany the British on night raids because they did not believe the killings were justified. This was not the first time that the Afghan forces had made this complaint. One senior Special Forces officer comments that this kind of falling out "puts at risk the [redacted] transition plan and more importantly the prospects of enduring UK influence" in Afghanistan. "Aside from alienating our Afghan allies, the narrative of murderous British forces played right into the hands of the insurgents," said Frank Ledwidge, a former military intelligence officer who served as a justice adviser in Helmand. "The actions of some Special Forces actively undermined the overall counterinsurgency mission, which was challenging enough already," he said. 'You couldn't make it up' Among the documents released to the court is a detailed summary marked "secret". It includes an extract of the classified operational summary (OPSUM), which provides the official account of what the strike team did at Saifullah's home. The UK Special Forces reported that after initially securing the compound they went back in to search the rooms with one of the Afghan men they had detained. While there, it says he suddenly reached for a grenade behind a curtain. "He poses an immediate threat to life and is engaged with aimed shots. The assault team members take cover. The grenade malfunctions and does not detonate," the OPSUM says. That man was Saifullah's father. After the shooting, the OPSUM reports that another Afghan was moved into the neighbouring compound to help with the search of the buildings. They say he was also shot after picking up a weapon. That man was Saifullah's cousin. Both of Saifullah's brothers are reported to have run away when they spotted the unit arriving. One hid in a bush with a grenade and was shot and killed when the explosive was spotted, says the OPSUM. The other was reported to be hiding a short distance away with an assault rifle. When he emerged from a hiding place under a blanket with the weapon, he too was shot. This official account of the killings was met with suspicion by some in the British military. An internal email requests a copy of the OPSUM within hours of the killings and asks: "Is this about [redacted] latest massacre!" The reply includes a summary of the unlikely events in the official report and concludes by saying: "You couldn't MAKE IT UP!" It looks as if the soldiers reading these reports had concerns that they were being falsified using near-identical cover stories. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Defence said "This is not new evidence, and this historical case has already been independently investigated by the Royal Military Police as part of Operation Northmoor. It has also been subject to four reviews conducted by an Independent Review Team. "These documents were considered as part of the independent investigations, which concluded there was insufficient evidence to refer the case for prosecution. "The Service Police and the Service Prosecuting Authority of course remain open to considering allegations should new evidence, intelligence or information come to light." 'Perverting the course of justice' The suspicious pattern of similar incidents leading to the killing of Afghan men during Special Forces night raids caught the eye of several people back at UK Special Forces headquarters in England. The court documents show a review was ordered. A Special Forces Major examined all of the official reports of killings by the elite troops between December 2010 and April 2011. He wrote to other senior officers to say the number of killings led him to conclude "we are getting some things wrong, right now". His report highlighted 10 incidents in which the similarity of the accounts in official paperwork raised his suspicions. All involved the shooting of men who were detained before they unexpectedly grabbed a weapon during a search of the buildings. The Major also found at least five separate incidents where more people were killed than there were weapons recovered. That means either the weapons went missing or the people who were killed were not armed. In one case, nine people had been killed and only three weapons had been recovered. The newly-released evidence appears to support revelations in last year's Panorama and Sunday Times investigation. Panorama reported that a large scale Royal Military Police (RMP) investigation called Operation Northmoor had linked dozens of suspicious killings on night raids. Among them were the deaths of Saifullah's family members. When the RMP interviewed the Special Forces troops who took part in the raid of 16 February 2011, all of them claimed they could not remember the specifics of the mission that night. Operation Northmoor was investigating whether official operation reports had been falsified. In one case, the RMP had even brought charges against members of the UK Special Forces for murder, falsifying a report and perverting the course of justice. But the charges were dropped and the government closed down Operation Northmoor without prosecuting a single case. Insiders said it was closed too soon for them to complete their investigation. "It seems to be one of the unique characteristics of British Special Forces that they are truly accountable to no-one," said Frank Ledwidge. "Accountability must apply to everyone and particularly to the senior commanders and politicians who have allowed, condoned or ignored these alleged crimes and created the environment for them to happen". You can watch Panorama, War Crimes Scandal Exposed on BBC iPlayer

في ذروة الحرب في أفغانستان عام 2011، التقى ضابطان كبيران من القوات الخاصة في حانة في دورست لإجراء محادثة سرية. وأعربوا عن خشيتهم من أن تكون بعض القوات البريطانية ذات التدريب العالي قد تبنت "سياسة متعمدة" لقتل رجال غير مسلحين بشكل غير قانوني. وتظهر الآن الأدلة التي تشير إلى أنهم كانوا على حق.

هل قامت القوات الخاصة البريطانية بإعدام مدنيين عزل؟

About five inches (13 cm) of snow fell on parts of North Yorkshire, causing traffic gridlock during the evening rush hour in Scarborough. A Met Office yellow warning of further snow and icy driving conditions remains in force for the east of the county. Major routes were gritted overnight, according to North Yorkshire County Council. North Yorkshire Police said drivers should take extreme care on the roads and only travel if their journey was essential.

تم تحذير سائقي السيارات في شمال يوركشاير من ظروف القيادة الجليدية بعد تساقط الثلوج بكثافة يوم الاثنين.

حذر سائقو شمال يوركشاير من الطرق الجليدية

By Steve DuffyBBC News We seem to be bombarded with different measures, but what do they mean and how does Wales compare with other parts of the UK? Here, we try to answer some of the questions and explain what the different measures are and also give some of the most recent figures. Where in Wales are the most cases? Case rates can tell us how many people with Covid-19 symptoms are presenting themselves for tests and which then come back positive. Public Health Wales (PHW) says recent days have shown "an alarming rise in rates of Coronavirus in nearly every part of Wales". The case rates compare different parts of Wales and sizes of populations - and 15 council areas hit their highest figures yet on Monday, with signs of them pulling back slightly on Tuesday. Seven of the 22 council areas still have case rates of 500 cases per 100,000, and are among the 10 highest in the UK. As we can see from the map, only the north-west corner of Wales has Covid case rates at comparatively low levels. Merthyr Tydfil was the hardest-hit area for case rates in the UK at the end of October and it has passed that peak level. It is now 822.2 cases per 100,000 people, after jumping to 870.3 on Monday. Its positivity rate remains the highest - more than 30%. There is a mass-testing programme in the area, with positive tests around 1.5% so far. All parts of south Wales have been on an upwards trajectory but now showing signs of pulling back Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) now has a case rate of more than 585 per 100,000 and rising, reporting more than 1,400 new positive tests in the past week. Areas like Ferndale and Maerdy, and Tonypandy and Clydach Vale are among hotspots but the numbers have fallen. It has been overtaken by Newport, with its case rate increasing rapidly in the last week. It went beyond 678 but is now 622.6 cases per 100,000. Torfaen has dropped under 500 cases per 100,000 in the past week, while its positivity rate is below 20%. Cardiff's case rate has also been rising but is back at about 450 cases per 100,000. Blaenau Gwent is at 575.4 cases per 100,000 people after hitting its highest rate so far. Neath Port Talbot still has the second highest case rate in Wales and it is still more than 742 cases per 100,000. Health officials in the Swansea and Neath Port Talbot (NPT) areas warned last week of record infection rates and said everyone had a role to play to "stave off a potential catastrophe". Seven of its communities are in the highest 20 places for localised case rates in Wales, with Aberdulais and Resolven the highest in the county on 1,096.8 cases per 100,000. The county also has a positivity rate of nearly 27%. Caerau, near Maesteg, in Bridgend county has the highest localised case rate in Wales - 1,850.5 per 100,000 - for the past seven days, with 131 cases. Maesteg East is second highest (1,433.2 cases per 100,000) and the western part of the town is also in the highest 10. Overall, the county's case rate is around 660. Swansea had also seen its case rate rise above 660 although it has now dropped slightly. Public health officials warned Covid rates could soon reach "catastrophic levels" unless people in the Swansea Bay area followed the rules on social distancing over Christmas. They believe people mixing with others at home, in the street, at work with friends and strangers alike was the "driving force" behind the rise in numbers. Carmarthenshire has increased to more than 413 cases per 100,000, dropping back from its highest level. Ceredigion's earlier issues linked to "super spreader" events such as parties and large social gatherings in pubs seem to have eased off, especially in Cardigan, and it has dropped below 200 now. The positivity rate in Wales has now reached 20% on average, its highest point. Nine council areas have more than 20% of tests proving positive in the last week. The lowest rates were in Conwy, Gwynedd, Anglesey and Denbighshire, which are still in single figures. The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended the positivity proportion of tests should be no more than 5% before areas come out of restrictions. Wrexham's case rate has climbed to about 250 cases per 100,000, with a steady increase also seen in Flintshire, although case rates in most parts of north Wales are fairly stable, with a slight nudge upwards at the start of the week The lowest case rates in Wales remain in north-west Wales in Gwynedd, Anglesey and Conwy. Why do we now look at cases per 100,000 going back about five days? Because of a lag in test results coming back, Public Health Wales (PHW) publishes case rate figures going back to an earlier seven-day period. It says this makes the figures more accurate. So, we wait for those late results to come in before looking at what the picture is - a bit like in football, waiting on a Saturday evening for all the final scores to come in before looking at the league tables. How many people are infected? The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) infection survey estimates the proportion of those testing positive has risen in recent weeks in Wales. It took throat and nose swab tests from more than 19,400 people at random in Wales over six weeks. From the results, it can estimate that 25,600 people in Wales had Covid-19 in the week to 4 December, 7,500 more than the week before. This is one in 120 people or 0.84% of the population. ONS says "our modelling suggests that the percentage of those testing positive has increased in recent weeks in Wales." The survey found a total of 142 positive tests, in 122 people from 99 households over six weeks. Similar surveys suggest cases have fallen in England (one in 115 people estimated to be infected) while falling back, although rising in London. In Northern Ireland it was estimated at one in 235 people and falling. Positivity rates in Scotland were stable (an estimated one in 120 people). Rates continue to be highest among secondary school-age children. Local breakdowns are not possible within Wales. How many people are in hospital with coronavirus? The seven-day average in total daily admissions to hospitals of confirmed and suspected Covid-19 cases remains fairly steady if slightly up, running at a daily seven-day average of 90 for confirmed and suspected Covid-19. This is around 13% currently of all hospital admissions. NHS Wales said last week that Covid admissions have "generally decreased" since the start of November although there is volatility and it is subject to fluctuations. What about infections in hospital? There has been a rise of Covid-19 infections within hospitals in recent weeks. There were 248 hospital onset cases across Wales in the week to 6 December, according to official PHW figures. This is a fall of five on the previous week. Hywel Dda health board has seen "probable" and "definite" hospital infections more than double, to 48 in the latest week. Llandovery Hospital has been closed due to an outbreak amongst patients and staff and the health board said it was facing extreme pressure. Over the summer PHW revealed hundreds of patients caught coronavirus while in hospital. Early in the pandemic, there were high numbers of hospital infections in the Aneurin Bevan health board - which with Swansea Bay was a hotspot for Covid-19 in March - followed by Cwm Taf and Cardiff and Vale in April and in Betsi Cadwaladr over the summer This followed analysis into "probable" and "definite" infections of patients, an issue particularly early on in the pandemic. Overall, 94% of Covid-19 infections occur in the community - only 6% are caught within hospitals. Health officials say we should also look at how many people are consulting their GP - as another indicator of how the virus is progressing. This surveillance data involved about 400 GP practices. PHW's data dashboard also shows consultations for flu and respiratory conditions. The most recent figures showed around 25 consultations per 100,000 people for suspected Covid-19 - the highest rate since May. It compared with about 1.6 per 100,000 for flu symptoms. How many deaths have there been? In Wales, there were 207 deaths in the week ending 4 December, this was 11 fewer deaths than the week before and a decrease for the second successive week. and 27.4% of all deaths, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Both Aneurin Bevan and Swansea Bay health boards saw the highest numbers of weekly deaths since the end of April, at the peak of the first wave of the pandemic. There were 54 deaths involving Covid in the Swansea Bay health board area, including 39 in hospital and 15 in care homes, in the week ending 4 December. The hospital deaths involved 21 residents from Neath Port Talbot and 18 from Swansea. A similar pattern can be seen in Aneurin Bevan health board, with 53 deaths registered involving Covid-19 - including 38 in hospital and 13 in care homes - again the highest there since the end of April. The hospital deaths including 15 patients from Caerphilly county. Cwm Taf Morgannwg saw deaths fall from 62 to 42, while there were 18 deaths in the Hywel Dda health board area. There were 24 deaths in Betsi Cadwaladr in north Wales, 14 deaths involving Covid-19 registered in Cardiff and Vale, and two in Powys. The total number of Covid deaths in Wales up to and registered by 4 December was 3,892 deaths. When deaths registered over the following few days are counted, there is a total of 3,983 deaths occurring up to 4 December. RCT, with 537 deaths, has the largest number of Covid-19 deaths in Wales. Cardiff has had 464 up to the latest week. What about 'excess deaths'? So-called excess deaths, which compare all registered deaths with previous years, are above the five-year average. Looking at the number of deaths we would normally expect to see at this point in the year is seen as a useful measure of how the pandemic is progressing. In Wales, the number of deaths rose from 797 to 836 in the latest week, which was 157 deaths higher than the five-year average for that week. In Wales, the number of deaths from all causes in 2020 up to 4 December was 34,541, which is 3,139 (10%) more than the five-year average. Of these, 3,892 deaths (11.3%) mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate. The mortality figures up to the end of October show the peak was on 8 April. Is there a Welsh hot spot? Early on in the pandemic, the hotspot was in the Aneurin Bevan health board area of south east Wales. Over the summer, Betsi Cadwaladr health board, in north Wales, showed more of a spike in Covid-19 deaths compared with health boards in south Wales. But Cwm Taf Morgannwg, due to the hospital outbreaks, has now shown a rise in recent weeks. RCT has 232.8 deaths per 100,000 people - the second highest rate across all local authorities in England and Wales. This is followed by Merthyr (204.4 per 100,000, now ranked eighth for mortality rate involving Covid-19) and Blaenau Gwent (179.3, 28th). Ceredigion, once second lowest behind the Isles of Scilly, now has the 10th-lowest death rate with 39.7 per 100,000. Pembrokeshire is also in the bottom 20. Which area has the most deaths? When looking at the highest death rates across England and Wales, Tameside in Greater Manchester is the highest, with the likes of Barrow-in-Furness, Rochdale, Oldham and Wigan also in the top 10. Across England and Wales, north-west England again had the largest number of deaths involving Covid-19 (458 deaths) in the most recent week, although this is again lower than the previous week. Across the UK, there were 1,820 more deaths than the five-year average. Of 13,956 deaths from all causes, 3,160 involved Covid-19. In the latest week, England had 2,623 deaths, followed by Scotland with 232 deaths, Wales with 207 deaths and Northern Ireland (98 deaths). What about deaths in care homes? There have been a total of 950 Covid-19 deaths in care homes up to 4 December, making up 24.4% of all coronavirus deaths in Wales. Meanwhile, Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW) compiles its own figures, which showed they have been notified of 5,914 deaths among adult care home residents, from all causes, since 1 March. This is 40% more care home deaths than notified in the same time period last year, and 35% higher than for the same period in 2018. Of these, 1,057 deaths involved suspected or confirmed Covid-19, which makes up 18% of all reported deaths. CIW is now updating its figures every two weeks. There were 42 care home deaths in Wales where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate in the latest ONS weekly total in Wales, fewer than last week. Ten of the deaths were in care homes in Swansea, six in Torfaen and five in Neath Port Talbot. The ONS said, across England and Wales, deaths involving Covid-19 in care homes as a proportion of all deaths in care homes fell in the latest week - to 22% of all care home deaths. Overall deaths in care homes were above the five-year average. What about deaths at home? More than 1,600 extra deaths have occurred in people's own homes in Wales so far this year than average, according to analysis by the ONS. Deaths from heart disease amongst men in their own homes were 22.7% higher compared with the five-year average - while there were more than 29% fewer deaths through this cause in hospital. Deaths for women from dementia in their own homes almost doubled in Wales, while in hospitals they fell by 25.5%. "While deaths in hospitals and care homes have dropped below the five-year average since the initial peak of the coronavirus pandemic, we've consistently seen deaths in private homes remain well above the five-year average," said ONS analyst Sarah Caul. Unlike the high numbers of deaths involving Covid-19 in hospitals and care homes, the majority of deaths in private homes are unrelated to the virus. Up to 11 September, there have been 7,440 deaths in people's homes in Wales, with 134 of these involving Covid-19. This was 1,624 deaths more than the five-year average for the same period. Nearly two-thirds of these excess deaths came in the 70 to 89 years age group. One expert has suggested these deaths would normally have occurred in hospital. People may have been reluctant to go, discouraged from attending, or the services have been disrupted, Sir David Spiegelhalter of the Cambridge University said. What else can we tell? The ONS has published figures which suggest the mortality rate is nearly twice as high for Covid-19 deaths in Wales' poorest areas than its least deprived ones. There were 173,4 deaths per 100,000 population in the period up to 20 November in the most deprived areas. This compares with 82.1 deaths in least deprived parts, according to the analysis of the figures by Public Health Wales. Wales on average has a mortality rate of 103,6 per 100,000, where Covid-19 is mentioned on the death certificate. The ONS has also developed a tool so people can see the number of deaths from the virus at a neighbourhood level. How do deaths from Covid-19 compare to other causes, like flu? Covid-19 was the biggest cause of death in Wales in both April and May, before dropping to third in June. Over the summer it dropped significantly as a cause of death, but was back to being third leading cause of death in October, behind dementia and heart disease. The age-adjusted mortality rate in Wales for deaths due to Covid in October was 81.9 deaths per 100,000 - significantly higher than in England (63.5 per 100,000) for the first time. This was still was 83.5% lower than the peak in April. For flu and pneumonia, there were 34 deaths per 100,000 - the seventh leading cause of death. Meanwhile, so far this year, there have been more than twice as many deaths from Covid-19 than flu and pneumonia in Wales up to the end of August. ONS said a smaller proportion (65.2%) of Covid-19 deaths in Wales occurred in hospitals and private homes (4.9%) compared with 2020 deaths due to influenza and pneumonia and the five-year average. However, 28.6% of Covid deaths occurred in care homes, more than twice the proportion of deaths due to influenza and pneumonia so far this year. Are deaths really 'due to' Covid-19? It has been estimated by ONS that 88.9% of deaths, where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate, that it was the underlying cause of death. So in October, 236 deaths were due to Covid-19. But there were another 49 when Covid-19 was involved and mentioned on the death certificate, and a factor in the death. In Wales, 29,018 deaths from all causes had been registered by 7 November, which was 1,419 more deaths than the five-year average. Covid-19 was the underlying cause of death in 2,629 of those deaths (9.1%). The ONS in December said around 70% of Covid deaths in Wales (2,139 out of 3,040) were linked to a positive test result, while 470 of people with positive Covid tests did not have it mentioned on the death certificate. Deaths involving Covid also had "considerably more" numbers of other conditions recorded on the death certificate than non-Covid deaths, which suggested doctors "showed care" to include all relevant information and conditions. Who is being tested in Wales? More than 1.6 million tests had been carried out by 6 December, including 748,303 on key workers and care home residents. The biggest proportion of positive tests - 60% - are women and the age group with most positive tests are those in their 50s. A total of 16,878 people in their 20s have also tested positive - 1,893 more than the week before and the number has been steadily rising. The proportion has also slightly grown over the month and this age group is now more than 18% of all people tested so far. Nearly twice as many children under 10 and nearly 50% more children and young people aged 10 to 19 are also testing positive than a month ago. Analysis of tests amongst university students found all higher education institutions in Wales had a seven day rolling average of fewer than seven positive Covid-19 cases over the last two weeks. Separate figures, now published weekly, show nearly 60% of schools have been affected by the virus since September. Fifteen counties had all secondary schools experiencing at least one case. We can also see from more detailed PHW figures how many different key workers and others have been tested - and how speedily results are coming back. What about testing in care homes? Across Wales, 3,705 care home residents were tested in the most recent week and 265 (7.1%) were positive - fewer than the previous week. But it has dropped from the numbers we saw at the end of October. Also, 108 care home workers tested positive, the lowest numbers since mid October, with around 97% of tests negative. Care Home Inspectorate Wales also now publish separate figures around testing, which showed 120 care homes in Wales (11%) had notified one or more positive cases in staff or residents in the last week and 27% had within the last month. Neath Port Talbot had 16 care homes which had notified at least one case in the week ending 6 December; Swansea was next with 13 care homes; Caerphilly and Cardiff were next highest, each with 11 care homes. Since March and up to 6 December 119msurgical-type face masks 92.7maprons 262.7mgloves 5.9mhand-wipes 3.95mface visors 328,464hand sanitisers What about tracing contacts? The "test, trace, protect" system for contacting people with coronavirus and tracing contacts has seen a slight drop in speed in the most recent week, but it has dealt with the highest numbers so far. Of the 9,457 positive cases that were eligible for follow-up in Wales in the most recent week, 91% were reached, 61% within 24 hours of referral to the contact tracing system and 85% were reached within 48 hours - both worsening times. This equates to 67% of those successfully reached being reached within 24 hours and 93% within 48 hours. Of the 25,861 close contacts that were eligible for follow-up, 59% were reached within 24 hours of being identified by a positive case, fewer than the previous week (64%). What are the differences between these different measures? The ONS and public health bodies are measuring things in a different way - and information is available at different times so do not expect to see the same thing. The data is revised and PHW refines and verifies it and then each individual fatality is assigned to the date at which it occurred. Can we compare the two sets of figures? The graphic above shows how it looks when you compare figures from all the different data sources - and how there is a difference of around 1,145 deaths between ONS and PHW and 1,215 between ONS and the UK Government count, which is of people who died within 28 days of a first positive test for Covid. The figure for total deaths being given by PHW has been consistently around 60% of what has turned out to be the total figure when including all registered deaths. NHS Wales' chief statistician argues to look at the trend and the curve of the outbreak, it is best to focus on deaths on the day they have occurred rather than the daily PHW figures as they first appear, as these can be volatile. So the chart above shows the daily deaths, as they have been adjusted, as well as a seven-day rolling average. By 8 December, there was an average of around 17 deaths a day, with the 31 deaths occurring on 5 November, the highest daily figure since the last week of April. Meanwhile, analysts at Johns Hopkins University in America have been looking at the global picture in detail, giving regular updates, and currently rank the United Kingdom third highest in terms of mortality rate for major countries in cases per population. How many people recover? Getting accurate figures on how many people recover is difficult. NHS Wales in early November estimated nearly 16,000 people had been discharged from hospital after being treated for coronavirus since the pandemic started. Meanwhile, doctors are looking to the effects of "long Covid," with one study estimating one in 20 people are ill for at least eight weeks. Doctors at Wales' largest hospital, the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff in May said 30% of patients admitted to its intensive care unit with Covid-19 had died and said the road to recovery was long. Another hospital in the valleys had a survival rate of 55% for those critically ill with suspected or confirmed Covid. Analysis of more than 10,700 patients who had been in critical care units with Covid across the UK found 60% survived. Of those 6,460 who were transferred to acute beds, 91% recovered and were later discharged from hospital, 4.4% were still recovering in hospital and 4.9% died. Further research into 856 critical care patients admitted from the start of September found 11.6% died and more than half were still in critical care.

ماذا يمكن أن تخبرنا الإحصائيات المختلفة عن فيروس كورونا في ويلز حتى الآن؟

Covid-19 في ويلز: ماذا تخبرنا الإحصائيات؟

By Jonathan AmosBBC Science Correspondent, New Orleans Mt Hope, which is sited in the part of the Antarctic claimed by the UK, was recently re-measured and found to tower above the previous title holder, Mt Jackson, by a good 50m (160ft). Hope is now put at 3,239m (10,626ft); Jackson is 3,184m (10,446ft). The map-makers at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) were prompted to take another look at the mountains because of concerns for the safety of pilots flying across the White Continent. "In Antarctica there are no roads, so to get around you have to fly planes. And if you're flying planes you really need to know where the mountains are and how high they are," explained Dr Peter Fretwell. As well as giving Mt Hope its new status, the reassessment has provided a more complete description of the relief across the quadrant of Antarctica claimed by Britain. This encompasses the long peninsula that stretches north towards South America. Some of its mountains have now been "moved" up to 5km to position them more accurately on future maps. Mount Vinson, which sits just outside the British Antarctic Territory, remains the undisputed tallest peak on the continent at 4,892m (16,049ft). Dr Fretwell's team is releasing its findings on UN International Mountain Day. Elevation data-sets are a topic of discussion here at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) - the world's largest annual gathering of Earth and planetary scientists. The BAS group used a combination of elevation models built from satellite data to make the new mountain assessment. When this medium-resolution information threw up the possibility that Mt Hope had been underestimated, the researchers then ordered in some very high-resolution photos for confirmation. These pictures, taken from orbit by the American WorldView-2 spacecraft, allowed for a stereo view of the summits of both Hope and Jackson. "We call this photogrammetry," said Dr Fretwell. "Because we know the position of the satellite so well, if we use it to take two images of a mountain that are ever so slightly offset from each other, we can then employ simple trigonometry to work out the height of that mountain." The process raised Hope from 2,860m to 3,239m. The measurement technique carries an uncertainty of just 5m, so there should be no argument over the mountain's new-found superiority. The long chain of peaks that runs down the spine of the Antarctic Peninsula is one of the most spectacular landscapes on Earth. The chain was initially built some 50-100 million years ago when an oceanic tectonic plate slid under the Antarctic continent, said BAS geophysicist Dr Tom Jordan. "This produced volcanism and a shortening and a thickening of the crust. Then, more recently, the ice sheet and its glaciers have cut deep trenches into the Antarctic Peninsula, removing rock and depositing it offshore. "As this mass has been removed so the whole of the peninsula has rebounded, uplifting the peaks fairly significantly," he explained. At the AGU meeting in New Orleans, US researchers are showcasing very similar work - but on a much more extensive scale. Dr Paul Morin, from the Polar Geospatial Center at the University of Minnesota, has led an effort to re-map the elevation of both the Arctic and the Antarctic. These projects have access to several years of WorldView images and time on a supercomputer to process all the data. The Arctic map has an elevation point, or "posting," every 2m across the region. The Antarctic map, due to be released early next year, will have the postings every 8m. "With this availability of data, Antarctica has gone from the poorest mapped place on the planet to one the best," Dr Morin told BBC News. "It makes better science cheaper and faster to achieve. And it also makes science much safer because we know where everything is." Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos

بريطانيا لديها أعلى جبل جديد.

تثبيت جبل الأمل كأعلى قمة في المملكة المتحدة

The new Endeavour Unit at Middlesbrough's James Cook University Hospital boasts three treatment rooms. A spokesman for South Tees Foundation Trust said the unit would offer a full radiotherapy service by early next year. The new two-storey building is part of a new £35m cancer services programme.

تم افتتاح وحدة خارجية جديدة في مستشفى تيسايد كجزء من برنامج استثمار بملايين الجنيهات الاسترلينية في خدمات السرطان.

افتتاح وحدة جديدة للمرضى الخارجيين للسرطان في مستشفى جيمس كوك

Nick TriggleHealth correspondent@nicktriggleon Twitter That much is clear from the proportion of adults worried about the threat they believe the virus poses to themselves. Older people are the most concerned, but even among younger age groups the majority believe they are at risk. But have we got this out of perspective? How much actual risk does coronavirus present? The people who are most at risk are older people and those with pre-existing health conditions. The overwhelming majority of deaths has been among these groups. But young people are, of course still, dying - by late April there had been more than 300 deaths among the under-45s. What is more, there are many more who have been left seriously ill, struggling with the after-effects for weeks. So how should we interpret that? And what does that mean for post-lockdown life? Our constant focus on the most negative impacts of the epidemic means we have "lost sight" of the fact the virus causes a mild to moderate illness for many, says Dr Amitava Banerjee, of University College London. The expert in clinical data science believes it is important not to jump to conclusions about the deaths of younger, seemingly healthy adults. Some could have had health conditions that had not been diagnosed, he says. But he admits there will be otherwise healthy people who have died - as happens with everything from heart attacks to flu. In future, we need to stop looking at coronavirus through such a "narrow lens", he says. Instead we should take more account of the indirect costs, such as rising rates of domestic violence in lockdown, mental health problems and the lack of access to health care more generally. A 'nasty flu' for many On Sunday Boris Johnson is expected to set out how restrictions will be eased in England. All indications are that it will be a very gradual process to keep the rate of transmission of the virus down. But some believe we do not need to be so draconian. Edinburgh University and a group of London-based academics published a paper this week arguing restrictions could be lifted quite significantly if the most vulnerable were completely shielded. That would require the continued isolation of these individuals and the regular testing of their carers - or shielders as the researchers call them. If we could protect them - and that would require very good access to quick testing and protective equipment - the researchers believe we could lift many restrictions and allow a "controlled" epidemic in the general population. Good hand-hygiene, isolating when you have symptoms and voluntary social distancing where possible would be needed. But people could return to work, and school - in a matter of months. The majority could even be eating in restaurants and going to cinemas. For the non-vulnerable population, coronavirus carries no more risk than a "nasty flu", says Prof Mark Woolhouse, an expert in infectious disease who led the research. "If it wasn't for the fact that it presents such a high risk of severe disease in vulnerable groups, we would never have taken the steps we have and closed down the country. "If we can shield the vulnerable really well, there is no reason why we cannot lift many of the restrictions in place for others. "The lockdown has come at a huge economic, social and health cost." It is, he says, all about getting the balance of risk right. A risk to live with It is a point others have made. Cambridge University statistician Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter has highlighted evidence which shows the risk of dying from coronavirus is very similar to the underlying risk people of all age groups from early 20s upwards have of dying anyway. His point is that for the average adult getting infected means you are effectively doubling your risk of death. The younger you are, the lower the risk. For children, as you can see on the graph, the risk from the virus is so small that you might be better off worrying about other things. After the first year of life cancers, accidents and self-harm are the leading causes of death. Researchers from Stanford University in the US have been trying to count the risk another way - equating it to that which we face from dying while driving. In the UK, they calculate that those under the age of 65 have faced the same risk over the past few months from coronavirus as they would have faced from driving 185 miles a day - the equivalent of commuting from Swindon to London. Strip out the under-65s with health conditions - about one in 16 - and the risk is even lower, with deaths in non-vulnerable groups being "remarkably uncommon". Putting risk in perspective is going to be essential for individuals and decision-makers, the authors suggest. If we do, we may learn to live with coronavirus. We may have to.

من المفهوم أن التدفق المستمر للأخبار السيئة حول فيروس كورونا، من ارتفاع عدد الوفيات، إلى الأطباء والممرضات الذين يخاطرون بحياتهم بسبب نقص معدات الحماية، تسبب في قلق كبير.

فيروس كورونا: هل حان وقت تحرير الأصحاء من القيود؟

Vijayprakash Kondekar is now a familiar face in Shivaji Nagar in the western city of Pune. For the past two months the 73-year-old has been going around the neighbourhood trying to drum up support for his election campaign. "I just want to show people that party politics is not the only way in the largest democracy in the world," he says. "I plan to give the country independent candidates like myself. It's the only way we can clean up all the corruption." Mr Kondekar is contesting a parliamentary seat that will go to the polls in the third phase of voting on 23 April. India's mammoth general election kicked off on 11 April and is taking place over seven stages, with votes being counted on 23 May. Mr Kondekar is running as an independent candidate. One day, he hopes to become prime minister. If that happens, he says he will give every Indian citizen 17,000 rupees ($245; £190). He says doing so would be "easy enough" if the government reduced other expenses. Until the late 1980s, he used to work for the state electricity board in Maharashtra. Now, he can often been seen walking around Pune, pushing a steel cart on wheels with a signboard attached to it. Previously, locals say, the board carried a request for donations - but not much, less than a dollar. Now the signboard says "Victory for the boot" - a reference to the election symbol allotted to Mr Kondekar by India's Election Commission. It makes for an amusing sight in the city's streets. While many people ignore the aspiring politician, others request selfies. Mr Kondekar happily obliges, hoping to benefit from free publicity on social media. Others openly scoff at what they see: a frail man with long white hair and a beard, walking in the hot April sun to canvass for votes while wearing only cotton shorts. And that's before they find out that Mr Kondekar has contested - and lost - more than 24 different elections at every level of the Indian political system, from local polls for municipal bodies to parliamentary elections. He is one among hundreds of independent candidates trying their luck in this year's national election. In 2014, just three of the 3,000 independent candidates who contested won. Read more about the Indian election Although there is precedent for independent candidates to succeed en masse - in the 1957 election, 42 of them were elected as MPs - it very rarely happens. Since the first election in 1952, a total of 44,962 independent candidates have run for parliament, but only 222 have won. Independents rarely win because parties have far more money and better resources available to them. And there's no shortage of parties, with 2,293 registered political parties, including seven national and 59 regional parties. The governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and opposition Congress are the two major national parties but in many states they trail strong regional parties with hugely popular leaders. But Mr Kondekar says he has found a novel strategy to gain an advantage. As per election rules, candidates from the national parties are listed first, followed by those from state parties. At the bottom are the independents. "My appeal [to the public] is vote for the last candidate, the one listed before the none-of-the-above option. In all probability, it will be an independent candidate," he says. For Tuesday's vote, he has changed his surname to Znyosho, so that his name appears last on the candidate list. Despite the disadvantages they face, independent candidates jump into the fray every election for myriad reasons. For some it's a vanity project, while many are fielded by political parties hoping to divide votes. Others, like K Padmarajan, contest the polls as a stunt. He has taken part in - and lost - more than 170 elections only to earn a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Mr Padmarajan, who is competing against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in the southern seat of Wayanad this Tuesday - recently said, "If I win, I will get a heart attack." Such candidates have even prompted India's law commission to recommend a ban on independent candidates contesting state or national parliamentary elections. That never happened. And although more and more independents are taking part, their success rate is not increasing. "Political parties have a stranglehold on the Indian political system," says Jagdeep Chhokar, founder of election watchdog the Association for Democratic Reforms. There are several systemic problems stymieing independent candidates' election campaigns, Mr Chhokar adds. For one, there are limits on how much can spent by individual candidates but not the political parties backing them. Independent candidates also don't enjoy the income tax exemptions that political parties do. "There are candidates who genuinely want to make a difference but funding limitations, lack of influence and public perception in favour of big parties often constrains their chances." Mr Kondekar is aware that he's unlikely to win. Over the years, he has sold ancestral land and a house to raise money for his campaigns. His only source of income - as per the disclosures he made while filing his nomination - is a monthly pension of 1,921 rupees ($28; £21). But while admitting that his fight is mostly symbolic, Mr Kondekar refuses to give up hope. "It's a contest between their [political parties'] iron sword and my paper cut-out," he says. "But I want to keep trying. Given my age, this will most likely be my last election. But perhaps things might be different this time."

تبرز في كل انتخابات هندية عدة مرشحين مستقلين، والذين، على الرغم من الصعوبات التي يواجهونها، يغتنمون فرصة الديمقراطية. يتحدث أومكار خانديكار عن رجل خسر عشرين مرة لكنه يرفض التوقف عن المحاولة.

الانتخابات الهندية 2019: الرجل الذي خسر 24 مرة لكنه لن يستسلم

Network Rail said the problem, which affected the line between Manchester and Stoke-on-Trent from about 17:00 BST, has now been resolved. However, it will take some time for services to return to normal. Arriva Trains said passengers can travel between Manchester and Crewe/Warrington using any route.

واجه ركاب السكك الحديدية اضطرابات بعد أن أدى خطأ في الإشارة بين مانشستر بيكاديللي وويلمسلو إلى تعطيل الرحلات في ساعة الذروة.

يؤدي خطأ إشارة مانشستر بيكاديللي إلى بؤس السكك الحديدية في ساعة الذروة

Our Celtic cousins have distilled whisky in Wales since the middle ages, but not continuously. The late 19th Century temperance movement opposed the demon alcohol, and whisky production ended in 1910 when the Welsh Whisky Distillery Company closed its doors for the last time. In 1915, in an attempt to reduce the impact of alcohol on the war effort, the then Chancellor Lloyd George's Immature Spirits Act stipulated that whisky must be matured for at least three years. It led to the drink's reputation as a premium product, and the irony of a Welshman boosting the Scotch whisky industry. Welsh whisky wasn't produced again for almost 100 years until the Penderyn Distillery in the Brecon Beacons National Park in South Wales released its first batch on St David's Day 2004, exactly 13 years ago. It's gone on to be a multi-award-winning product, with a bit of Scottish help including a still from the McMillan company in Prestonpans in East Lothian. Penderyn's Sian Whitelock says they've learned plenty of good practice from the industry in Scotland in areas such as sourcing the best barley and barrels. The company's Jon Tregenna says the learning experiences are going both ways. "We have no plans to be releasing a 12-year, or a 15-year, or an 18-year," he said. "There is a rise in non-age statement whiskies and some Scottish distilleries are making advances in that direction as well, realising that out of this fashion maybe the old 12, 18, 25 might start to change a bit over the years." The company is planning a second distillery in two years' time, its copper stills to be located appropriately enough in the area of Swansea nicknamed Copperopolis from when the ready supply of coal for energy made it the epicentre of the world's copper industry. Penderyn is also aiming for a third distillery at a yet to be disclosed location in North Wales, while another firm Halewood International has also submitted plans for another whisky distillery also in the north near Bangor. But currently, the tiny distillery which actually gives Wales that all-important EU recognition as a whisky-producing country is based at a small organic farm in west Wales. The Da Mhile micro-distillery in Llandysul stands out for a number of reasons, not least because in an area where the Welsh language is king its name is actually Scots Gaelic, and means two thousand. It takes its name from an organic whisky that farmer and cheesemaker, and now proud distiller, John Savage Onstwedder commissioned from the Springbank Distillery in Campbeltown to celebrate the new millennium. The first locally-distilled Da Mhile whisky went on sale last November and promptly sold out. Mr Ontswedder says the scale is small but the aim is for the standard to be high. "One cannot survive in rural Wales by producing mediocrity. It won't work. So it has to be top quality," he said. The still was made in Germany, the home of schnapps, but elsewhere on the farm Scottish connections run deep. John Savage Onstwedder is himself half Dutch, half Scots and his son John-James trained at the small Kilchoman distillery on the west coast of Islay. Whisky in Wales is a growth industry, and while lawyers for the industry in Scotland will make sure that they'll never be able to call it Scotch, the regular awards demonstrate that the quality of the product is not in question. So from west Wales "Iechyd da!" - "Cheers!" "Dydd Gwyl Dewi hapus!" - Happy St David's Day.

إذا كنت مهتمًا جدًا بعيد القديس ديفيد هذا، فقد ترغب في شرب نخب قديس ويلز مع كأس من الويسكي الويلزي. وبوجود مصنعي تقطير، يعترف الاتحاد الأوروبي الآن رسميًا بويلز كدولة منتجة للويسكي. أفاد ديفيد أليسون مراسل بي بي سي في اسكتلندا أنه مع التخطيط للعديد من مصانع التقطير الأخرى، عادت الويسكي الويلزية...مع القليل من المساعدة الاسكتلندية على طول الطريق.

نخب الويسكي الويلزي في يوم القديس ديفيد

Anthony McLellan, 35, of Stoke Road, Stoke St Mary, appeared at Taunton Magistrates' Court on Wednesday. He is accused of six charges of common assault on an emergency worker, three charges of common assault and one charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm after the incident on Monday. Mr McLellan has also been charged with causing criminal damage. He was remanded in custody and will appear at Taunton Crown Court on 1 February. Related Internet Links Avon and Somerset Policewww.avonandsomerset.police.uk

مثل رجل متهم بالاعتداء على مسعف وضباط شرطة خلال حادث في بريدجواتر أمام المحكمة.

رجل سومرست متهم باعتداءات الشرطة والمسعفين

The decision to build it came in the immediate aftermath of the devastation caused to the previous structure by incendiary bombs during World War II. Hundreds of people had a hand in its construction, not least Sir Basil Spence who won a competition to design the cathedral in the 1950s. But it could have looked very different if the man behind Birmingham's Rotunda had won the contract. Jim Roberts, an unknown architect at the time, was one of many given 12 months to submit a design. He felt he played by the rules unlike Sir Basil. Quality craftsmanship Mr Roberts said: "The rules of the competition were specific. They asked to associate the new scheme with the existing tower and spire. "Basil Spence provided the right answer but as far as I was concerned it was a total contravention of the instructions that the competitors were all given. "With my scheme the ruins would have been obliterated because you would have kept the tower and spire but to glue the new building onto it meant the whole of the ruins would have been decimated." One of those who worked as an architect on the successful cathedral project was Anthony Blee, Sir Basil's son-in-law. Mr Blee said: "I saw it as a great opportunity because the building had been designed and yet there was still a lot of design to do. "What I'm proud of is nothing to do with me. It's the level of craftsmanship that is consistent here." The attention to detail is evident throughout. From the tapestry of Christ and the Baptistry Window to the pennies embedded in the floor and the walls of the building itself. Peter Walker and Roy Burnett were just teenagers when they began making the stones for the cathedral in a Staffordshire yard. For Mr Burnett, it was a labour of love. He said: "I reckon one in every 20 stones came through our hands. "Working the ends of the stone, you could probably do 10 or 15 a day. "But if it was a piece of the Baptistry Window you did one every 14 hours. "A lot have got my wife's name underneath them." The cathedral's foundation stone was laid by the Queen on 23 March 1956. But according to Mr Walker, it was not the one Sir Basil had initially picked out. He said: "The first one toppled over. "It had frozen during the day and it was balanced on two blocks. When it thawed the stone tipped and knocked a big piece out of it." Digging up bones One of those to work on the cathedral ahead of its consecration on 25 May 1962 was Tony McGregor, who helped dig the foundation for the Chapel of Unity. Mr McGregor said: "There were graves and we were told any bones or skulls that we dug up we were to put them to one side. They were going to bury them as a communal grave. "We were throwing all the soil onto the wagons. "We didn't wear gloves in those days and some of the lads didn't like handling the bones or the skulls so they used to throw them on the wagon. "Apparently [the police] found the skulls on the tip and they thought a mass murder had been committed." Mr McGregor admits that it is only years after that he appreciates his role in the cathedral's construction. He believes it has stood the test of time. "It'll take a good German bomb to shift this cathedral," he added. "It's so solid." To celebrate the occasion, BBC Coventry & Warwickshire has recorded 50 stories about the cathedral from those who have played a part in its history. The 50 Stories for 50 Years have been shared on the radio and on the station's on the station's Facebook and Audioboo pages.

تحتفل كاتدرائية كوفنتري، وهي مثال مشهور للهندسة المعمارية في القرن العشرين، بمرور 50 عامًا هذا الأسبوع وأصبحت على مر السنين، إلى جانب آثار سانت مايكلز المجاورة، رمزًا عالميًا للسلام والمصالحة.

كاتدرائية كوفنتري: ذكريات بنائها بعد مرور 50 عامًا

By Lauren HirstBBC News Online The events form part of the government's Events Research Programme (ERP), which will explore the risk of transmission and the effectiveness of measures such as ventilation and testing. Liverpool's involvement is not the first time the city has been used to help shape national policy during the pandemic, as in November it was also selected for the mass testing trial where residents were offered regular coronavirus tests. The city's director of public health Matt Ashton believes part of the reason Liverpool has been trusted to take on the trials dates back to July 2020, when concerns started to grow over a spike in cases in the city's Princes Park ward "right in the heart of one of our most disadvantaged communities". In a bid to stop the virus from spreading, people living in the area were advised to avoid mixing with other households, a walk-in testing centre was opened, community buildings were closed and a local public health campaign was launched. Mr Ashton said this local response not only ensured the outbreak was "squashed in under two-and-a-half weeks" but it also "showed what local areas can do when they take control of the situation". This partly led to the decision to select Liverpool for the mass testing pilot as "the government was keen to work with us as a result of our previous success", he said. So when discussions started over the ERP, Mr Ashton knew the city had the "knowledge and infrastructure in place to deliver complicated projects safely". "We have been knocking on government's door since last year wanting to be a part of pilot events [as] we know we can do it safely and well." He said he was "massively proud of the way Liverpool has come together to fight this awful pandemic," adding it was a "continuation of the city's long-standing tradition of carrying out pioneering public health work". 'Huge honour' The first ERP trial was held on Wednesday and saw 400 people gather for the start of The Good Business Festival at ACC Liverpool. Guests did not have to wear masks or socially distance, but all attendees had to take a test before and after the event. "It is much safer coming to these events than it is going to the supermarket," said Liverpool's director of culture, Claire McColgan, who was part of the team organising the festival. She said it was important to help get these kinds of gatherings back up and running as the events sector "represents more than half of our economy, so also plays a major role in the success of the city". "Liverpool is a really interesting city because it always does put its hands up for things, always has done," she added. Paul Grover, the chairman of the Liverpool China Partnership, was one of those who went along. He said it was a "huge honour to be a part of the project", which had been "really exciting". He added that he hoped it had been "a snapshot of where we are going to get to hopefully in a few weeks' time". Jayne Moore, the chief executive of Jayne Moore Media Group, also attended the event. She said there was a lot of excitement as it was "really important for our economy that we get back to normality as quickly as possible". "I think Liverpool is famous for being first for many things and that's because we are such a tight, well-organised community," she added. 'Old school normality' Other trials in the city will be held at Bramley-Moore Dock warehouse with a nightclub event hosted by Circus, Luna Outdoor Cinema and in Sefton Park, where rock band Blossoms will headline a near-normal gig without any social distancing or mask wearing. Yousef Zaher, the co-founder of Circus events and DJ, said he was "excited to be able to contribute to getting the whole nation back into the real world". He said his event would be "monumental for a thousand reasons" and added that once those attending are through the doors, it would be "old school normality to gather data to be able to get us to 21 June with as least resistance as possible". A spokesman for Liverpool City Council said the choice of the city was down to its "can-do attitude and real sense of community spirit". "People get the importance of being part of something significant that helps get life back to normal," he said. "We saw how people embraced mass testing and similarly we are seeing the same with the ERP." Why not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk Related Internet Links Liverpool City Council Department of Health and Social Care

تقام الأحداث في ليفربول لاختبار سلامة الجماهير والتحقق من تأثير تخفيف قواعد Covid-19 قبل الرفع الكامل للقيود في وقت لاحق من العام. ولكن لماذا تأتي المدينة في طليعة هذه التجارب وما هو شعور الناس تجاه استخدام المدينة كموقع اختبار؟

كوفيد: لماذا يتم استخدام ليفربول كموقع اختبار؟

By Gareth LewisBBC Radio Wales It was impossible to grow up in Bridgend in the 1980s and 1990s without a connection to Ford. One of your family worked there, you knew someone who worked there, or you were lucky like us and knew Pete, who worked at the factory and did car services on the side. Even now, in 2020, there are still boys I went to school with working at the plant. The house I grew up in looked down on to the industrial estate and the two big names that for decades now have been synonymous with Bridgend: Sony on the right with its big neon sign, and to the left the sprawling Ford building with its unmistakable oval logo towering above it. Motown in my home town, the pride of Detroit in south Wales. But how? Why here? Even as a child it seemed pretty incongruous. But when the deal was struck back in 1977 they were different times. It came down partly to a personal meeting at Chequers where the then Prime Minister James Callaghan wooed Henry Ford II, grandson of the original Henry. Wales wanted Ford, and in the end Ford wanted to come. We did not even have the ironic cheek to specify the colour of the factory. But now Ford - like Sony - is gone. Someone I spoke to this week called it "tragic." Manufacturing they said, is "under immense threat and it will only deteriorate further". 'End of an era' And the future does look more uncertain than it did back in 1977. It feels pretty hard to take that something which started in the year I was born is now over. An industry that provided so many jobs when those in coal were starting to burn out. The end of an era in Welsh manufacturing and despite that concerted wooing 43 years ago, the end of the marriage between Bridgend and Ford.

سيتم إغلاق مصنع فورد في بريدجند للمرة الأخيرة في وقت لاحق، مما يعني إنهاء أربعة عقود من الإنتاج في الموقع. سيكون للإغلاق، الذي تم الإعلان عنه في يونيو 2019، تأثير كبير على المجتمع المحلي في بريدجيند، مع فقدان المئات من الوظائف الماهرة ذات الأجر الجيد. عند افتتاحه في مايو 1980، كان يُنظر إليه على أنه معلم صناعي في ويلز. وبالنسبة لأولئك الذين يعيشون هناك، مثل مذيع راديو بي بي سي في ويلز، غاريث لويس، كان شعارها الأزرق يلوح في الأفق على مدى الحياة. "مرادف لبريدجند"

فورد بريدجيند: "لقد انتهى الأمر، ومن الصعب تحمله"

Thank you for joining me here today and many thanks to The Trampery for hosting us. I visited the Trampery's sister office in Farringdon in my second week in the job in October. I left excited by the energy and potential of the entrepreneurs I had met. And I am pleased to be able to come here today to speak about my new plan for RBS. Strategic Thought Organisational strategies are often very complex. For me it is very simple. As an organisation we must remember and then never forget that RBS exists to help our customers, to support them, and to make their lives easier. We cannot do this if our customers do not trust us. We are the least trusted company in the least trusted sector of the economy. That must change. So the goal of my plan is very simple. We have to be a bank that earns your trust. And let me be clear. RBS is not going to regain trust through charitable donations and expensive advertising campaigns. We are going to get on with the job of being a much better bank. I know I am not the only banker using this sort of language. But I assure you I am serious about making this language meaningful and delivering real change. I will set out in a moment how I plan to do that - for example, calling time on teaser rates, on special deals that penalise existing customers, and on preferential online rates that disadvantage branch customers. Listening to our customers But to shape the future we have to understand the past. I do not plan to repeat in detail what is well known to everyone but I will simply say this: RBS lost its way before 2008 because it became detached from the customer-focused values that have to be at the heart of any bank. The Bank, and of course the British taxpayer, paid a very heavy price for the self-serving decisions that were made at RBS. I have made it my job over the last five months to listen: to listen to staff, to customers, to regulators, to Government, and to our private sector shareholders. The people you saw in the video played before I spoke were among the hundreds I have met as I have travelled around the country. Everyone I met had different stories and different personal circumstances. But the themes I heard were consistent. They were challenging. But they were also encouraging. What I have learned is that our customers and our staff have not given up on us. They know that everyone in the UK has a stake in RBS. They see often that we have good employees with good intentions. Our customers are often frustrated, but if we can get our house in order, they are eager for us to support them to meet their financial goals. They do want us to succeed. I really believe that. But they want us to do much better. I know we can. The first thing is to have real clarity about our ambition. As a bank, we spent the decade leading up to 2008 trying to get bigger and bigger. We tried very hard to become famous. And boy did we succeed. So we need to do something about the fact that it can take up to five months to open a business banking account and that in 2014 you still cannot open a personal current account in one day. We need to keep supporting our top quality relationship managers who are helping thousands of businesses all around the country. We need to acknowledge that the sale of interest rate swaps and PPI has seriously undermined trust in this industry. But we should celebrate that our customers like our branch staff and do trust them to do the right thing for them. We need to understand that allegations of mis-treatment of small business customers have undermined trust in this bank. We have to restore that trust. But we need to make sure that we do not lose the skills and abilities from a team that has saved over 162,000 British jobs by successfully restructuring 700 companies during 2013. And we need to recognise that while we have the best online and mobile banking in the UK market, customers will not give you credit for innovation that is not built on a resilient and reliable platform. The customers I have met have told me that they have not given up on us. This is a bank that was worth saving and it remains a bank that is worth improving. We can make this a bank that earns the trust of our customers and re-earns that trust every day. Creating Stronger Foundations So how will we earn people's trust? So let me spell it out very clearly: the days when RBS sought to be the biggest bank in the world - those days are well and truly over. Our ambition is to be a bank for UK customers, the best bank for UK customers. A bank that gets the basics of everyday banking right. A bank that can support small businesses to grow. A bank that provides support for the biggest UK companies and employers as they play their full role in the global economy. A bank that earns the trust of our customers every day. Change will not happen overnight. It will require hard graft. It will also require us to do things differently so people can judge success for themselves. We cannot take trust for granted. We have to earn it by how we act and how we behave. Today won't be the end of bad headlines. Past failures will continue to haunt us. But we can weather them. A Stronger Platform The challenge now is to develop stronger foundations - financial and cultural. We cannot spend money as though we are in profit when we have lost £46 billion in six years. So we need to be a smaller, simpler and smarter bank. We have to protect the foundation of the bank: our capital position. No one can ever doubt again that RBS will be a strong and secure bank. I will do whatever it takes to put the strength of our capital position beyond doubt. Capital strength is a cornerstone of trust. We also have to be smaller. An RBS that is no longer trying to take on the world will not require a back office as big as the one we have today. That will mean making difficult choices on jobs in the years ahead. We have to be simpler. We need to cut our cost base. Our cost to income ratio has soared to over 70%, in a normal state we need to get that down to around 50%. This year that will mean cutting around £1 billion of operational spending on things that don't help our customers. We will move from a corporate structure fit for a global titan to one better suited to a first-rate UK bank. We will move from a bank with seven divisions, with seven HR departments, seven product departments and seven operations teams to a bank with three customer businesses - personal, commercial, and corporate - supported by one shared support structure. We will make this a much simpler bank. These changes will also allow us to invest, particularly in our technology. We have made progress over the last year in improving the resilience of our systems, but our customers are still experiencing outages. Our investments in the next twelve months will continue to focus on resilience. And once we have a resilient base, in the following two years we will seek to make progress in building an agile and flexible technology platform that makes banking easier for our customers. Let me address briefly the issue of bonuses. I made it clear when I took this role that I did not want to be considered for a bonus for 2013 or 2014. I did this because I wanted the distraction of the annual bonus to be taken off the table and to be able to focus on the job. We have made progress already in the way the people in our branches are measured on the customer service they deliver, rather than the products they sell, but I know we need to go further. The annual bonus round is undermining trust with our customers and further change is needed. A shrinking but still important part of our business operates in international markets and our customers expect us to have the best people in the world supporting them in those markets. We will keep increasing the link between pay and performance and will continue to be a back marker for pay in investment banking. But in our UK high street bank, and the operations that support it, I want to see everyone measured and rewarded for what they do for customers. We must improve current arrangements to improve trust. I will give more details on this later in the year. Customer If we improve our financial and cultural platform we will be a very different bank. But our customers will legitimately ask - 'This is all well and good but what does it mean for me? How is it going to help me in my life now?' - and they would be right to ask. So let me tell you that the work to earn back the trust of our customers starts now. Firstly, we will stop offering deals and products to new customers that we are not prepared to offer our existing customers. Sweeteners and cash payments might encourage people to switch banks but they send a terrible message to loyal customers and to staff about our priorities. This practice has no place at the new RBS I am building. While long-established business customers will always understand, for example, that you provide free banking to help a start-up, they won't tolerate discriminatory rates for established business owners who switch from another bank. If we have an offer it will be for all customers, new and old. Introductory offers are not fair. We will also ban teaser rates, including zero percent balance transfers in our credit card business. Others can continue with this but we will not be in the business of trapping people in debts they cannot afford. We will run a credit card business that is fair and transparent for our customers. This new policy will be in force from mid-March. The second big thing we're going to do is to stop offering different rates to customers who apply online, in branch or by phoning our call centres. Customers should be able to bank with us in the way that is best for them. Our branch staff should not have to send customers away to apply for products online when they could just help them there and then. A lot of people are talking down the value of branches these days and banking is changing. Our busiest branch in 2014 is the 7:01 from Reading to Paddington - over 167,000 of our customers use our Mobile Banking app between 7am and 8am on their commute to work every day. Over 2.1 million customers use our mobile app every week. We have to be where our customers are, which is why we announced last week that customers could deposit and withdraw money through the Post Office. Moves like this are so important because with 30% declines in branch usage since 2010, we will have less of them over time. But I am a firm believer in the value and the future of the High Street branch. And RBS will retain a very large branch network. Our branches need to be places where great conversations take place, places where our staff help people plan for their futures and get on top of their finances. The third thing we will do is to put business bankers back on the high street. We will have hundreds of Business Bankers in our branches to help small business people open accounts, apply for loans, and get the help they need. We will start making small business lending decisions in five days, not five weeks. If you have an idea for a business and need a loan to expand, you don't have time for weeks and weeks of discussions with your bank. You will get a clear 'yes' or 'no' from us, and you will get it quickly. Fourthly, we will stop confusing our customers with complicated language they cannot understand. By the end of this year we will be able to explain all of our personal and SME charges on one side of A4. We will use simple language in our customer letters, on our websites and in our branches. By the end of this year we will cut in half the number of personal and SME products on offer. We need a smaller number of simpler, good value loans and accounts. The vast array of products banks currently offer serve only the industry, not our customers. And the fifth thing we will do is speed up our account opening process for personal customers. We will cut how long it takes to open a personal current account from five days to next day by the end of this year. Last year we reduced the time it takes to get a debit card to three days. And now, by the end of this year, you will have access to Mobile Banking and Online Banking within one day. We will also improve the process to open a personal current account online so customers can upload their identification, such as their passport, and open their entire account from home. As I speak, our staff are preparing to make these changes. In the coming days we will be taking down the marketing material and cancelling the advertising for products I can no longer support. These changes are happening now and I will update you on our progress throughout the year. Taxpayer We are doing all these things because they are transparently the right thing to do. They are fair to our customers and fair to the British taxpayer who own the majority of the bank. I also want to take this opportunity to be straight with the British people. We need to recognise that we are not yet a strong enough bank that can be privatised at a profit for the taxpayer in the immediate future. The journey to recovery and renewal is harder than was first anticipated back in 2008. There is no point avoiding this inconvenient truth. We know that paying back the taxpayer is important but we also know that the taxpayers of this country want the bank they saved to help change the industry and the economy for the better. That is what we will do. What I will deliver is a bank that taxpayers can be proud of. I will deliver a bank that earns customer trust. I will deliver a bank that is number one for customer service in every customer category we compete in, from personal banking to support for big UK businesses. And together, with my team, and everyone who works at RBS, we will build a bank that is an asset to the UK. Conclusion Change will be hard. But we will build a bank that earns your trust. Thank you.

وقد أوضح الرئيس التنفيذي لبنك إسكتلندا الملكي، روس ماك إيوان، استراتيجية شركته للجمهور بعد أن أعلنت عن خسارة قدرها 8.2 مليار جنيه استرليني لعام 2013. وبنك إسكتلندا الملكي مملوك بنسبة 81٪ لدافعي الضرائب. وفيما يلي كلمته كاملة:

RBS: خطاب روس ماك إيوان كاملاً

By Sarah Jane GriffithsEntertainment reporter, BBC News The black-and-white animation pays homage to his favourite, classic horror movies, which Burton's parents say he was watching on TV "before I could walk or talk". It is also just in time for Halloween. But Burton says his intention has never been to make a frightening film. "I don't think I've ever made any scary movie, ever, even if I've tried to. I've never made a scary movie," insists the director, whose visually stunning, darker-than-average films include Beetlejuice, Corpse Bride and the recent Dark Shadows. He also points out that serving up "scary" subject matter to children is nothing new. "You know I grew up on Disney movies and I always thought that's what partly made Disney movies. From Snow White on, they've always dealt with some [scary] imagery. "Those are the most memorable parts of the movie as far as I was concerned," says Burton. He was "never afraid" of the 1930s horror films such as Dracula and The Mummy but as a young boy growing up in Burbank, Los Angeles, who felt "a little isolated", he instead identified with the title characters. "I just linked up the feeling with Frankenstein with the way I felt. The creature, and also the mad scientist. And my neighbours were the angry villagers," he explains. Childhood memories In true Burton style, Frankenweenie deals with death and darkness with a light touch. It tells the sweet story of young science buff Victor Frankenstein, who tries to bring his pet dog Sparky back to life. Burton based Victor on himself as a boy: "On an emotional level anyway, obviously it's not real. "I liked making little Super 8 films and I was a lacking sportsperson. [I] loved my dog," explains Burton. Sadly for the film-maker, his dog Pepe also died. But as well as loss and bereavement, the film also touches on issues of making friends and finding your way in life. "I think a lot of kids feel like they're just sort of loners," explains Burton. "But you also get along, you go to school. In fact I always felt like the other kids were much stranger than I was, which I tried to reflect a little bit in the film." Victor's schoolmates, ranging from toothy misfit Edgar 'E' Gore to Boris Karloff lookalike Nassor and the wide-eyed Weird Girl with her fluffy cat Mr Whiskers, certainly seem to reflect Burton's views of his classmates. "What was fun for me on this is to really delve back into the memory bank. We tried to base everything on a real actual person or memory or a combination of people. And then also how those [horror] movies kind of helped me through those years." 'Powerful combination' Created by Burton and screenwriter John August, Frankenweenie's characters were brought to life as stop-motion puppets at Three Mills Studios in east London, with each animator painstakingly creating just a few seconds of footage in an average week. They were inspired by the original drawings Burton made while working at Disney in 1984. Burton chose to use stop-motion and black and white as they are a "powerful combination" for 3D technology which "shows the artist's work more". "I just felt it was more emotional in black and white than in colour, and more real in a strange way," says Burton. As usual, Burton called on actors he could trust to voice the characters, from Edward Scissorhands star Winona Ryder, to Ed Wood's Martin Landau - who plays Victor's inspirational science teacher Mr Rzykruski. In fact both Catherine O'Hara (Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas) and Martin Short (Mars Attacks!) voice three characters each. O'Hara - who met her husband on the set of Beetlejuice more than 20 years ago - voices Victor's mother Mrs Frankenstein, Weird Girl and the school's overbearing PE teacher. The director persuaded her to base the latter on an "obnoxious" woman on US TV. "The monsters in Tim's life are these scary people who take themselves seriously, and are arrogant and oppress others," explains O'Hara. 'Risky business' Working with people "who just believe in you and basically take a shot" is also Burton's way of negotiating the business end of Hollywood, where "everything is risky". Despite having achieved box office success with films like Batman, he says each project can still be "a struggle to mount". So far critics have raved about Frankenweenie, which opened the London Film Festival last week. But Burton remains unsure of what the public's reaction will be, and is even primed for some "initial resistance". "When I did my first couple of films, Pee Wee's Big Adventure or Beetlejuice, they were on the 10 worst movies of the year list! A few years later people change their minds." Producer Allison Abbate - another longtime Burton collaborator - hopes parents will give it a shot, rather than assuming the animation is too dark. "We've had parents say, 'I like this movie because I can talk to my kids about stuff'. It does seem like a pity if people can't find the movie because they think it might be too scary. "But once kids see it and say 'I wasn't scared', more people will go and see it." With such a personal project as Frankenweenie, the stakes are higher than usual for Burton. "You're always worried, you always feel a bit exposed. I get quite vulnerable and actually depressed." Burton continues: "I never know. Every movie I've ever done could go either way. "I've heard 10-year old girls say they love Sweeney Todd. On other movies people say, 'When one of your films comes on, my dogs love watching it'!" Frankenweenie is released in UK cinemas on 17 October.

بعد ما يقرب من 30 عامًا من طرد شركة ديزني تيم بيرتون لأن فيلمه القصير Frankenweenie كان "مخيفًا للغاية" بالنسبة للأطفال، يصر المخرج - الذي أنتج نسخة طويلة ثلاثية الأبعاد من القصة - على أنه "لم يصنع أبدًا فيلمًا مخيفًا". .

تيم بيرتون: لم أصنع فيلمًا مخيفًا من قبل

By Duncan CrawfordBBC News A camera shakily films a group of rebel fighters preparing to pray, lined up in rows, their weapons at their feet. A young man walks into shot and takes off his rifle before briefly turning towards the camera. "That's Brian," says Ingrid de Mulder, pointing at her nephew in the online video on her computer. "I'm 100% sure. That's him. No doubt." Nineteen-year-old Brian de Mulder from Antwerp is one of hundreds of Europeans authorities believe to be in Syria. "It's not the Brian brought up by his mother," says Ingrid. "Brian was athletic, he was sporty, he was helping everybody. We never saw him like this. For me it's a programmed robot." The BBC can't verify the video but analysts believe it was filmed in Syria and European voices can be heard in the background. Ingrid says Brian converted to Islam two years ago. The family were at first supportive but say he gradually became more radical after getting involved with a group known as Sharia4Belgium. "He became fanatic. He wanted to pray only. He left school," says Ingrid. The family were so worried they moved to a new home 100 miles from Antwerp in the summer last year, but it didn't work. "He started saying 'I can do whatever I want and even if I die I am not afraid, I will go to the paradise of Allah,'" she says. Brian left in January this year. By then he had changed his name to Abu Qasem Brazili. His 12-year-old sister Ashia was the last family member to see him. "Brian told her he was saying goodbye. He said: 'I love you but you will never see me again.'" says Ingrid. "To leave all your family and not contact your mother anymore. I think he's in a state of being a soldier. A soldier of Allah," she says. Belgian police raided dozens of houses of people linked to Sharia4Belgium last week. The authorities have accused the group of recruiting more than 30 people to fight in Syria in the last year. The EU's anti-terror chief says that hundreds of Europeans have gone there and that some could join radical groups. "Not all of them are radical when they leave. But most likely many of them will be radicalised there, will be trained," says the EU's counter terrorism co-ordinator, Gilles de Kerchove. He says the UK, Ireland, France, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands and other EU nations have significant numbers involved in the fighting. "As we've seen from previous situations this might create a serious threat when they get back." "They will be veterans and they may inspire other people and all of this may have a sort of radicalising impact," he adds. Earlier this month, a survey by King's College London found that up to 600 people from Europe have taken part in the conflict since it began two years ago. There are other online videos which back up the findings. In one, rebel fighters appear to be in a firefight and a Flemish voice says: "Only shoot once when you see them". "It's dangerous. Make sure you aim," says a Dutch voice in another video. Bashar al-Assad has repeatedly said the insurgency against him is largely the result of "foreign-backed terrorists". So far the US and EU have refused to supply the rebels with weapons, partly over concerns that they may end up in the hands of Islamist extremists inspired by al-Qaeda. Jacques Beres, co-founder of medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, says that he treated five injured Europeans in Syria last year. "Two brothers were from France, two others were from the UK and there was a Swedish national who was of Syrian origin. They seemed to be completely lost. They looked as if they were machines. It was terrifying." Mr Beres says one of the brothers was inspired by Mohammed Merah, a gunman who killed seven people in south-western France last year in the name of al-Qaeda. Merah was killed in an armed siege after police surrounded his block of flats in Toulouse. "He (the French brother) told me that the real hero is Mohammed Merah, that he was an example to follow," Mr Beres says. Intelligence agencies across Europe have stepped up investigations in response to the growing number of European fighters in Syria. The Netherlands raised the terror threat level from "limited" to "substantial" last month, partly over concerns about radicalised citizens returning. The UK has increased efforts to track how fighters are recruited and funded. And in Belgium, some politicians have called for pre-emptive action to stop young Belgian Muslims from travelling. "People suspected of wanting to go to Syria should have their ID cards confiscated in advance," says Flemish Socialist MP Hans Bonte. The EU is pushing to bring in a Europe-wide passenger database for air-travel which in future could help track individuals down. Questions have also been asked about what Muslim leaders are doing to deal with the problem. The body that represents Muslims in Belgium has rejected claims they haven't spoken out forcefully enough against radical elements. "Some people may be talking in a way that might radicalise some Muslims but we categorically condemn this," says Semsettin Ugurlu, the president of the Muslim Executive in Belgium. "As a body we do not accept words of hate and of violence in mosques," he adds. For Brian de Mulder's family the waiting continues. They say Brian put up a notice on his Facebook page a few days ago saying they need to become true believers. "You are not my family anymore," he wrote. "My Muslim brothers are now my family. If I ever contact you again, you must be on your knees asking forgiveness and convert to Islam first." He added: "I will never come back to Belgium as it's a country full of unbelievers." The family say Brian also messaged a friend saying he was near the Syrian capital Damascus. His aunt Ingrid fears her nephew will never be the same again. But sitting in her garden, staring at photos of him in his old football kit, she clings on to hope. "I'm praying every day. I hope he sees the light one day. To use their words: inshallah [God willing]."

ويقاتل مئات الأوروبيين مع قوات المتمردين في سوريا، وتشعر وكالات الاستخبارات بالقلق من احتمال عودة البعض إلى ديارهم لشن هجمات إرهابية. تقول إحدى العائلات البلجيكية إن ابنها انضم إلى المتمردين الذين يقاتلون نظام بشار الأسد.

من المدرسة البلجيكية إلى ساحة المعركة السورية

Two animals died immediately and another 10 had to be put down later at West Scales farm in Rigg on 1 November. Police Scotland said a 50-year-old local man had been traced and reported in relation to the incident. They said he would be charged with offences under the Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act 1953.

قالت الشرطة إنه تم إبلاغ النائب العام المالي برجل بعد حادث أدى إلى نفوق عشرات الأغنام في مزرعة بالقرب من غريتنا.

أبلغ الرجل بعد غريتنا الغنم القلق

My husband Steve and I decided to foster children after we had our daughter, Becky, in 1984. We were unable to have any more children but did not want her to be an only child - now she jokes she's been brought up with half of Swansea. At the last count, we'd fostered 1,000 children and on the whole it's a rewarding job, although it can be very difficult as you're taking on other people's problems and trying to manage them. There was a time in the 1990s when all my boys were involved in car crime - car theft, that sort of thing, which was quite prevalent in Swansea at the time. Steve and I were in police stations and courts daily - we were on first name terms with the solicitors and they knew us well at Swansea Prison. There is a bypass that goes behind our house and if the boys had stolen a car they would beep all along the bypass - I would hear it and know to expect a call about 20 minutes later from the police after they'd been arrested. But that's when Steve and I would do a lot of our work to help those children. When they were locked up in a police cell I would ask to go and sit in there with them. We're talking about hardened criminals here, but at that point they would be at their most vulnerable - their defences would be down and they would just sit and put their head on my lap - that's when I felt I was really making a difference. Not all made it out of that cycle okay. Sometimes I'm in Swansea shopping and I walk past a few familiar faces who are now homeless and live on the streets. I have also lost about 20 children over the years - some through suicide, others through drugs - and that is sad. It devastates me. They are just children who don't have a good start in life. And that's why I think we need to do all we can to help these kids - and giving them one less bill to pay by exempting them from council tax when they first leave home would help. We mainly take in teenagers and a lot of what I do is to try to equip them for life on their own when they leave us aged 18 or 19. Some choose to leave at 16 and they then go into supported lodgings. Unlike most children, they do not have a mum or dad who they can turn to for help or money - they don't have the luxury of a mother at the end of a phone. They have also been through a lot in their lives already - many are immature and struggle in school. So I feel I have a lot to cram in to prepare them for living on their own at such a young age. I usually start when they are about 15 with basic things like teaching them to do their own washing, to tidy up after themselves and to do their own shopping. I give them £25 a week and with that they have to buy everything they need - toiletries, clothing, food... they have their own cupboard in the kitchen and an area in the fridge and freezer. It takes a while for them to get to grips with it and I have to stay firm - it's thinking about tomorrow, not today. A lot of them are keen to leave - they want to live on their own. Initially when they do, they are put in a little studio flat - or a bedsit as I would call them - in a shared house owned by the local council. But when the reality hits, we often get calls from them in tears saying they want to come back to us. Your instinct is to mother them and at first I would find it hard. But now I know you have to hold firm. 'Guiding hand' Every child is different but facing the world as an adult can be very stressful and it's a shock for them. Just grasping the concept of bills is hard. All of a sudden they are having to pay things like water rates and it's funny because they say to me "don't be silly, you don't pay for water, it comes out of a tap". And they really don't understand council tax - it's really hard to explain it to them. They might come from a background where maybe their parents didn't pay this stuff anyway - they would just move from place to place to avoid it. They have been brought up to think you don't pay, you vanish. Equally, many have come from a background where education isn't seen to be important so going to school and college can be very frightening for them. But sometimes, when they are given an opportunity and a guiding hand, they can surprise you. We have been so proud to see some of our children go on to college and make a good life for themselves. We keep in touch with lots of them - you never know who will show up at Christmas time and that's lovely. I must admit, I find it hard to remember all of their names - sometimes someone comes to the door and I recognise the face but just can't find a name, so I just say 'come in, come in' and get chatting and hope the name pops into my head. 'Feeling of belonging' I would say it's been a huge learning curve - I took in my first foster child when I was just 28 and he was 15 and I wasn't really old enough to be his mother. I was more like a sister. But I've grown in confidence and learned a lot over the years - I used to feel threatened by their families, for example, but now I love working with them. Our second foster child is 46 now - but I still call him my child - and he always comes for Sunday lunch. One of our other boys has just come out of prison, which I'm so pleased about. I'm 61 now and I suppose I'm thinking of retiring in the next few years - Steve retired from his job on a youth offending team last year. But I think I'll have to do it gradually - go down to two children at a time perhaps - because I know I will miss it all so much when it ends. It's a lovely feeling having them all - I suppose it's a feeling of belonging. It's a strange circle we have here, but it's our own little bubble and we love it.

قامت ويندي تايلور وزوجها ستيف برعاية أكثر من 1000 طفل منذ أن استقبلا طفلهما الأول قبل 34 عامًا. وبينما تدعو الجمعيات الخيرية جميع المجالس الويلزية إلى إعفاء الشباب الذين يتركون الرعاية من دفع ضريبة المجلس حتى يبلغوا 25 عامًا، تصف ويندي التحديات التي يواجهها أطفالها عندما يغادرون المنزل لحياة مستقلة في سن 18 عامًا.

الزوجان في سوانسي قاما بتبني 1000 طفل

By Emma JonesEntertainment reporter Speaking as the film had its world premiere at the Sundance festival in Utah, 26-year-old Radcliffe called making Swiss Army Man "one of the most joyous experiences of my entire life". Yet the media had differing opinions with Rolling Stone calling it '"Sundance's craziest movie" and the Guardian's headline reading "Daniel Radcliffe's flatulent corpse prompts Sundance walkouts" - a reference to the amount of people who deserted the premiere, apparently in disgust. From start to finish, Swiss Army Man is controversial. Paul Dano, currently starring in the BBC drama War and Peace, plays Hank, a lonely young man on the shore of a desert island. He is thinking about finishing it all, when the body of Radcliffe's character is washed up. Manny, as the corpse is called, can't control any of his bodily functions, but his gaseous presence saves Hank's life, and he's not prepared to let him go, taking him bodily back into civilization. Dano says he spent most of the weeks of filming "dragging Dan's corpse around the woods". But Radcliffe, far from having an easy job, says he found playing a dead body a difficult move. "It was a massive challenge physically," he says, "I mean he's dead, rigor mortis is setting in, so everything has to be said with the eyes. It was weirdly emotional, playing a corpse, but I'm really pleased about just how dead I look in the film." The actor, who after finishing Harry Potter, has taken parts such as beat poet Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings, and Igor in Paul McGuigan's gothic Victor Frankenstein, admits "a liking for the strange and fantastical". "Why did I take this part? Well, why not? I think it's a fantastic and important movie and it's just an amazing work of imagination." Kwan and Scheinert, Americans who met at a college animation class, collectively call themselves the "Daniels", and are known for making music videos, as well as a short film called My Best Friend's Sweating. They say that after writing Swiss Army Man they "thought we would just have to act in it ourselves, because the plot is so crazy, we really thought we would never get any actor to do it". Radcliffe says: "I didn't know what I was doing until I turned up, even though I had read the script. In fact I didn't know what I was doing from day to day. As you'll see if you watch the film, it was a hard one to be prepared for. But I had such a good experience. "A lot of my friends would say that playing a dead guy is a good role for me, I took some flak on that before I even filmed it. I don't want to say exactly what happens to me, apart from getting lugged around by Paul Dano, but his character uses and abuses my character's body. "It's going to split opinion, it's going to be divisive, and you're either going to love it or hate it. There's something very, very absurd about the movie." But Radcliffe denies that his heart now lies in independent film-making, saying "people should stop thinking big budget films aren't a challenge to make for actors". "I am sure I'll do one again sometime. For me, it's all about the freedom to do what project I want at the time. " Now living in New York, Radcliffe was due to take a part in a John Krokidas comedy about George W Bush's senior advisor Karl Rove, but the project is on hold. However, taking such a controversial role in Swiss Army Man will do his career no harm. According to trade magazine the Hollywood Reporter, it has all the makings of a cult classic. It says: "By turns enchanting, irritating, juvenile and yet oddly endearing… Swiss Army Man will probably make very little money theatrically. But over the long haul, there will be plenty of punters willing to watch it." Radcliffe himself says he has no regrets: "This is a film where cinematically, anything goes. It's crazy and wild. Am I happy I did it? You bet." The Sundance Film Festival runs until 31 January. Swiss Army Man is yet to receive a release date in the UK.

لقد كان الفيلم الأكثر تداولًا في مهرجان صندانس السينمائي، وهو من بطولة ممثل هاري بوتر دانييل رادكليف. لكن رجل الجيش السويسري، وهو فيلم روائي طويل لأول مرة للمخرجين دانييل كوان ودانيال شاينرت، يتصدر عناوين الأخبار لسببين - ليس فقط أن حبكته المثيرة أدت إلى انقسام ردود الفعل النقدية، ولكن رادكليف يلعب دور جثة هامدة تعاني من مشاكل انتفاخ البطن.

تحدي دانييل رادكليف العنيف للجيش السويسري

Once described by the Prince of Wales as looking like "a place where books are incinerated, not kept", the concrete building is being cleared as part of a major redevelopment project. Built more than 40 years ago, it has been stripped inside, although work is not expected to be finished until next autumn. Campaigners had wanted it to be given listed status and preserved. Updates on this story and more from Birmingham They handed a 2,000-signature petition to the city council earlier this month. Crowds gathered to watch the city's "important example of brutalist architecture" be slowly taken down. Designed by local architect John Madin, who was also behind the BBC's Pebble Mill studios and the chamber of commerce building in the city, it was opened in 1973. A "concrete cruncher" is being used initially to "nibble" at the exterior, but because of the impact of the work the building has been strengthened with about a dozen steel joists, developers said. Timeline: Birmingham Central Library The nearby one-way Paradise Circus loop has been closed to enable demolition equipment, including a special excavator used on buildings in tightly constrained places, to be put in place. While work to clear the site takes place, a walkway through the old Paradise Forum has been closed, along with a large part of Chamberlain Square. Pedestrians and cyclists are being re-routed through Fletchers Walk. Developers described the start of the demolition work as a "significant milestone". Once fully demolished, it will be replaced with office space as part of the £500m Paradise regeneration scheme. The 10-year project will see new offices, shops and walkways created, which will link Chamberlain and Centenary Squares. A new £190m library opened in Centenary Square in 2013.

بدأت أعمال الهدم في المكتبة المركزية القديمة في برمنغهام.

مكتبة برمنغهام المركزية: بدء أعمال الهدم

The players visited the memorial garden to pay their respects before rejoining their clubs. The village was devastated in 1966 when a colliery waste tip collapsed, with slurry engulfing Pantglas Junior School on the last day before half term. Manager Chris Coleman described the visit as "humbling". "In a small way we wanted to show our respect and reflect on the tragedy of 50 years ago," he said. "It puts everything into perspective."

زار فريق ويلز لكرة القدم مدينة أبرفان للاحتفال بالذكرى الخمسين لكارثة التعدين التي أودت بحياة 144 شخصًا.

فريق ويلز لكرة القدم يحتفل بالذكرى السنوية لكارثة أبرفان

The new minimum wage of £6 for anyone over 19 and £4.26 for 16 to 18 year olds, starts on 1 October. All workers including part-timers will also have to be provided with written terms and conditions of service. Commerce and Employment will be holding seminars on the requirements of the new minimum wage at Les Cotils on 2 and 8 September.

يمكن للعمال وأصحاب العمل معرفة المزيد عن نصائح الحد الأدنى للأجور في غيرنسي من خلال ندوتين.

تقدم عيادات غيرنسي نصائح بشأن الحد الأدنى للأجور

In a prefabricated cabin in the sprawling camp, a girl, 13, sat on the floor engulfed by a frilly white dress, and a hooded silk cape. She was surrounded by children, not much younger than her, clapping and singing a nursery rhyme. What looked like a game of dressing-up was in fact her wedding reception. Her Mother looked on from a distance and wept - for her war torn homeland, and perhaps for her daughter. She asked us not to give their names. No choice Earlier, at a makeshift beauty salon, a fellow Syrian refugee curled the girl's hair and layered make-up on her face - the finishing touches to the end of a childhood. The bride told me her 25-year-old husband had been chosen by her family and she had never seen him before. She appeared relaxed, and said she was happy to be getting married. The reality is she had no choice. Almost one third ( 32% ) of refugee marriages in Jordan involve a girl under 18, according to the latest figures from Unicef. This refers to registered marriages, so the actual figure may be much higher. The rate of child marriage in Syria before the war was 13%. Some families marry off their daughters because of tradition. Others see a husband as protection for their daughters, but the UN says most are driven by poverty. City of the dispossessed "The longer the crisis in Syria lasts, the more we will see refugee families using this as a coping mechanism," said Michele Servadei, deputy Jordan representative for Unicef. "The vast majority of these cases are child abuse, even if the parents are giving their permission." In Zaatari camp - a city of the dispossessed sprouting in the desert - some are married before they reach their teens. Jordanian midwife Mounira Shaban, known in the camp as "Mama Mounira", was invited to the wedding of a 12-year old girl and a 14-year old boy. She could not bring herself to attend. "I felt like I wanted to cry," she said. "I felt like she was my daughter. I think this is violence. It's a shame. If a girl is 18 or over they think she is old and will not marry." Mounira tries to spare young girls from adult burdens. At her clinic she lectures refugees, sitting on benches in the sand, about the problems faced by young brides. "They don't know how to cook," she said, "and they don't know how to read and write. They have to take care of their husbands, when they want to go outside and play. Many of them get divorced." That is what is ahead for a slender 17-year-old we met who did not want to be identified. She was married at 15 and has a treasured baby girl. 'Not scared of divorce' The two-month old wriggled in her arms, snug in a pink and white baby-grow, and her mother's love. But her husband is threatening to take the child away, as the price of her freedom. "I am not scared of divorce. I know I will start a new life, but I am scared that my daughter will be taken from me," she said. "I will die without her. A mother's heart burns if her child is taken from her." At the other side of the camp we met Alaa, a shy young girl in a floral headscarf. Back home in Syria she loved school but now her only lessons are in housework. When we heard the sound of dishes being dropped her 20-year old husband Qassem joked that she was no good at cooking. Not surprising perhaps. Alaa - an orphan - is just 14. She fled Syria with her extended family. When she had to share accommodation with male relatives she was married off to Qassem, her cousin. The couple seemed happy in each other's company, but Alaa is pregnant, and worried. "I am scared of having the baby because I feel I won't be able to look after it," she told us, over a pot of sweet tea. "I wish I could have continued my studies and become a doctor and not got married so young." Shopping for brides Not far from the camp, in the city of Mafraq, there is an organised trade in young girls, according to Syrian refugees and local aid workers. It involves Syrian brokers and men - mainly from the Gulf States - who present themselves as donors, but are actually shopping for brides. They prey on refugee families, living in rented accommodation, who are struggling to get by. Local sources say the going rate for a bride is between 2,000 and 10,000 Jordanian dinars ($2,800/£1,635 to $14,000/£8,180) with another 1,000 ($1,400/£818) going to the broker. "These guys from the Gulf know there are families in need here," said Amal, a refugee, and mother of four. "They offer money to the family and the first thing they ask is 'do you have girls?' They like the young ones, around 14 and 15." Some men want even younger children like 13-year-old Ghazal, a slight but spirited girl with blue nail varnish. A 30-year-old Saudi man proposed to her, but she turned him down - against her family's wishes. She told us she was determined to continue her studies, but it is unclear how long she can defy her parents. Saying "no" was not an option for another teenage refugee in the city, who had dreams of becoming a lawyer. Instead she was married off at 14 to a 50-year-old from Kuwaiti. She told her story from beneath a black veil, which concealed her face, but not the pain in her eyes. "Usually a girl's wedding day is the happiest day in her life," she said, "for me it was the saddest. Everyone was telling me to smile or laugh but my feeling was fear, from the moment we got engaged." Her mother - a Syrian war widow - sat alongside. She told us she accepted 10,000 Jordanian dinars ($14,117/£8,248) for her daughter because she had seven more children she could not provide for. "I would never have considered this back in Syria but we came here with nothing, not even a mattress to sleep on. I thought the money would secure the future of my children. He took advantage of our situation." Instead of a better future, the family now has another mouth to feed. Her daughter has a four-month-old baby boy. His Kuwaiti father has never met him. He abandoned his young bride as soon as she became pregnant.

هناك ارتفاع مثير للقلق في عدد الفتيات السوريات اللاجئات في الأردن اللاتي يجبرن على الزواج المبكر، وفقا للأرقام الجديدة الصادرة عن الأمم المتحدة. وكما أفادت أورلا غيرين من مخيم الزعتري للاجئين، فإن الفقر يجبر بعض الأسر على بيع بناتها فعلياً لرجال أكبر سناً بكثير، وهناك الآن تجارة منظمة في الفتيات الصغيرات.

الصراع السوري: بؤس لا يوصف للعرائس الأطفال

By Sarah RainsfordBBC News, Moscow "I don't sleep much. It's probably the hardest time of my life and I've been through perestroika and all the crises," Mr Sidnev confides, recalling the Soviet Union's reform and eventual collapse. But while the businessman shares his own trials on social media, the struggle in Russia's state care sector plays out old-style, largely behind closed doors. "I know of many care homes right now fighting the virus, it's just not public," Mr Sidnev says. 'In our place no-one does autopsies' The story of a Covid-19 outbreak at the Vishenki home for the elderly in Smolensk, 400km (250 miles) west of Moscow, is one hint at how that wider picture may look. "What's happening here is a nightmare," a carer told the BBC by telephone, one of dozens from the state-run home who are now off sick after residents and staff caught coronavirus. All those we spoke to asked to remain anonymous because they want to keep their jobs. "By 3 May lots of residents had a fever and they started dying," the nurse recalled. "I think about eight people died and that's just on my floor." She believes their "accompanying illnesses" were given as their cause of death, rather than Covid-19. "In our place, no-one does autopsies," she said. "No-one even told us there was Covid-19 in the home!" an orderly complained bitterly, in a separate call. "We found out when the ambulances came and they were dressed in those suits." "We sent a lot of people to hospital," she said, and confirmed that other residents had died. The local governor's office did not respond to a BBC enquiry about fatalities and as of Tuesday Smolensk region had counted just 21 coronavirus fatalities in total. Is Russia unusual in Europe? Across Europe, frail care home residents account for up to half of all coronavirus fatalities. The figures in Smolensk are in line with the unusually low overall mortality rate that Russia is reporting in this epidemic, at around 1%. The government insists that's down to early diagnosis and treatment, though it only counts those found to have died of Covid-19 directly. More from Sarah on Russia's pandemic: So is Russia some kind of exception to a shocking trend? The official mantra is that the country used its couple of weeks' grace to good effect, bracing before the full force of Covid-19 hit. The government certainly advised care homes to stop group gatherings and restrict access in early April. On 17 April, a telegram then recommended "full quarantine", with carers living in at work for a fortnight at a time to reduce exposure to the virus. "The statistics from the UK were terrifying and that helped places here hunker down, desperate not to let the virus in," explains Elizaveta Oleskina, the head of the Starost' v Radost' (Joy in Old Age) charity which works with many state-run homes. 'Nothing to pay us with' But the homes are funded from limited regional budgets and full quarantine is expensive as carers must self-isolate for a fortnight between shifts. Staff at Vishenki said their home was already stretched to the limit before the epidemic, with even incontinence pads in short supply. Managers did consider locking-down from 1 May, they said, then decided against it. "The director said she had nothing to pay us with," a nurse explained. By then, coronavirus had already penetrated. "When the elderly started getting sick, we guessed what it was and said it was time to quarantine," a third employee recalled. "But the director said it was just flu, and we shouldn't worry." The Smolensk governor's office told the BBC its care homes had been informed of all government recommendations and were funded "in full". The Fear Factor Covid-19 is now spreading through Russia's care system. "There are cases in places out in the Taiga, 300km from any town, and in a village care home where no Muscovite has ever been," Elizaveta Oleskina explains. Her charity says at least 95 homes have reported cases so far, out of 1,280 in total. Many are old with large, shared rooms and bathrooms. "If a home is big, the virus is like a forest fire - it spreads instantly," Ms Oleskina warns, stressing repeatedly that the sector here is battling the same extraordinary challenges as the rest of the world. But there is one very Russian factor. A report by sociologists at Moscow's Higher School of Economics describes what they call the "total concealment" of incidents in care homes, driven by a fear of prosecution for negligence. On Tuesday, the prosecutor's office announced it was looking into the situation at Vishenki; the director has already been cautioned. 'We don't really know death toll' Alexei Sidnev believes in transparency, so that everyone learns vital lessons in this unprecedented crisis. But the man who runs six facilities called Senior Homes near Moscow suspects that old habits die hard. "We now know what happened roughly 30 years ago: we learned about it from an HBO series," the businessman says, referring to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and Soviet cover-up, recently dramatised on TV. "The true amount of the death toll and what's happening, we don't really know," he says. "Maybe we'll find out later." Coronavirus in Europe's care homes:

عندما رأى أليكسي سيدنيف الرعب الذي سببه فيروس كورونا في دور الرعاية الأوروبية، عرف أن عليه التصرف بسرعة. بالعودة إلى شهر مارس، قبل أي إغلاق في روسيا، بدأ بإغلاق المنازل الستة التي يديرها بالقرب من موسكو وشراء الملابس الواقية للموظفين.

فيروس كورونا: الكابوس ينتشر في دور الرعاية في روسيا

The colourful invitation on our cluttered fridge had said it would be a dog-themed birthday party. "That's cute," I thought - and different. Traditionally in this country dogs are not well-liked or looked after. But that wasn't the only surprise. To celebrate their little girl turning six, her family had turned an empty piece of land in Menteng, the most expensive part of Jakarta, into a park for the day. Security guards escorted us off the street into another world. Real grass - an incredibly rare thing in this concrete jungle - had been rolled out. There were also fully grown trees and an obstacle course for dogs. In one corner, a groomer was giving appreciative canines - which had also been specially brought in for the event - massages and baths. In another was an air-conditioned marquee where the parents were sipping freshly made iced coffees - and, later in the day, wine. High alcohol taxes here mean wine is expensive. The middle of the "park" was filled with dog-shaped balloons, a bubble-blowing performer and a slime-making station. That was back in October and I had just got back from reporting the destruction, grief and devastation in Palu, on the island of Sulawesi, which had been hit by a tsunami and earthquake. It made for a bizarre, almost surreal contrast. "Where do you go from here?" I whispered to one of the other parents. "What would an 18th birthday party have to be, if you kept this up?" "It's not what the children ask for, it's really for the parents," she replied. The party bag we left with was three times the size of the present we had brought. I'm not sure why I'm still surprised. Parties like this have become the norm among the upper-class Indonesian children that my kids now go to school with. One family hired a film company to re-edit the Hollywood blockbuster Suicide Squad so that the birthday girl appeared as a character in key scenes. The kids watched it on a cinema-sized screen in the ballroom of a top hotel. On that occasion I had recently returned from a trip to the remote province of Papua, where I was covering a children's health crisis - tiny malnourished toddlers dying in a measles outbreak. When the film Crazy Rich Asians came out here in September, people took to Twitter to tell stories of the "crazy rich Indonesians" they knew, particularly in country's second biggest city, Surabaya. The hashtag #crazyrichsurabayans started trending on social media after a local teacher at an elite school shared anecdotes about the family of one of her students - tales of them travelling to get their vaccinations done in Japan and of holidays in Europe. She is now writing a book about it and there is talk of a movie. Recently, the luxurious lavish wedding of a couple from Surabaya was dubbed the ultimate Crazy Rich Surabayans event by local media. Hundreds of guests from Indonesia and abroad attended, it was reported, and all were said to have been entered into a prize draw for a Jaguar sports car. The groom, it's understood, had proposed with the assistance of a flash mob in front of hundreds of total strangers at the Venetian Macao resort. Many members of Indonesia's growing upper-middle class, concentrated solely in the west of the country, have money their parents would never have dreamed of - and most think it's normal, and perhaps even essential, to show it off. Following a massive reduction in the country's poverty rate in the last two decades, one in every five Indonesians now belongs to the middle class. They're riding a commodities boom - the burning and churning-up of this vast archipelago's rich natural resources, including logging, palm oil, coal, gold and copper. This, combined with aggressive domestic spending, low taxes and little enforcement of labour laws, means that those who know how to play the system are raking it in. Salimun is one of the many who don't understand that system - but has, in a way, also eked out a future for his children that is very different from his own life. He is a street sweeper, paid the minimum wage of £194 ($254) a month to take away the waste of the wealthy houses in Menteng - great plastic mountains in front of Greco-Roman-inspired concrete mansions - piles of rubbish like monuments to out-of-control consumerism. He drags by hand a cart that he banged together from scavenged wood. He is the strongest man I have ever seen. My children call him Superman. He pulls anything that might have value out of the trash, sorts it and stores it at our house - and then sells it on. Salimun lives in a room behind our house - he effectively came with the property. He was squatting there at the time we came to look it over before deciding to rent it, and asked if he could stay. I am glad we decided, after some debate, that he should - he has become like an uncle to my children. He's a farmer at heart who has turned our swimming pool into a fish pond and the garden into a banana plantation. When I cleaned out my wardrobe and left a pair of high-heeled leather boots I didn't wear any more out at the front to give away, I found him wearing them. He had cut off the heels and was very pleased with them. Whatever he earns, he sends home to his family in a village in central Java, going home just once a year to see them. That money from the waste of the rich has meant that his children finished high school and now have jobs in manufacturing, producing goods for the shops in the giant glittery shopping malls of Jakarta. "What's an iPad?" he once asked me. "My son says he really needs one. How does it work?" I talked him out of paying for one, suggesting a cheaper alternative. His daughter came to stay briefly - she seemed very interested in her phone. Salimun might not be crazy rich, but the next generation are already seasoned consumers. Join the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter.

تعد إندونيسيا، الدولة التي تضم أكبر عدد من السكان المسلمين في العالم، موطنًا لطبقة متوسطة سريعة النمو. وكما أفادت ريبيكا هينشكي من جاكرتا، فقد أدى هذا إلى ظهور ظاهرة لافتة للنظر - أو ما يطلق عليه الإندونيسيون "الأثرياء المجانين".

كيف أصبحت دولة فجأة "غنية بجنون"

BBC NewsWashington, DC This is the lesson Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella learned the hard way on Thursday. "It's not really about asking for the raise, but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along," Nadella said during an on-stage interview. "Because that's good karma. It'll come back because somebody's going to know that's the kind of person that I want to trust," he said. Given that this was a tech industry conference, Mr Nadella's controversial remarks appeared on Twitter and other social media sites practically the moment they were spoken. By morning they were making national headlines. The resulting commentary is the stuff of Microsoft public relations nightmares. "Nadella achieved this emotional engagement by offering up the most deplorable and incorrect advice to women in the workplace since Joan Holloway told Peggy Olson to wear something that showed off her darling ankles," writes Nitasha Tiku on the tech blog ValleyWag, referring to the television programme Mad Men, which depicts office culture in the 1960s. At Time, Laura Stampler writes: "Gender pay gap got you down? Take a crash course from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's Etiquette Academy For Polite Young Ladies: Smile pretty and don't be so unbecoming as to ask for a salary bump. After all, a raise is a lot like a male suitor, and if you pursue it, you might just drive it away." Although the "karma" portion of Nadella's speech gained the most attention, Stampler reserves her sharpest words for "the system" that Mr Nadella says will take care of female workers. "Unfortunately, that system that Nadella wants women to put all their blind trust in only provides them with 78 cents to the dollar of what men earn. And if we look closer at the women Nadella was specifically addressing, the reality is fairly grim: a gender pay gap exists on every level of Stem [science, technology and maths] jobs. In Silicon Valley, men with bachelor's degrees earn 40% more than their female educational counterparts," She goes on to say that some technology companies have even taken advantage of the assumption that women are paid less. She tells the story of start-up founder Evan Thornley, who said earlier this year that a perk of hiring women is that their salary is still "relatively cheap compared to what we would've had to pay someone less good of a different gender". As the outrage grew, Mr Nadella backtracked late Thursday afternoon, tweeting: "Was inarticulate re how women should ask for raise. Our industry must close gender pay gap so a raise is not needed because of a bias." He reiterated the idea an hour later in an email to employees, saying he believes men and women should get equal pay for equal work. "I answered that question completely wrong," he writes. "Without a doubt, I wholeheartedly support programmes at Microsoft and in the industry that bring more women into technology and close the pay gap. I believe men and women should get equal pay for equal work." That doesn't fly for Nicole Kobie of the PC Pro Blog, however. She points that Mr Nadella, as CEO of one of the 10 biggest technology companies in the world, has a unique ability within the industry to close the gap - and it's not by tweeting about it. "Want to close the pay gap? Here's what to do: examine the salaries of women and men at Microsoft in comparable jobs," she writes. "Does there seem to be a gap? No. Awesome; issue a press release about how wonderful you are. But if there is a pay gap? Fix it. Pay them more." In fact, just days before the keynote address, Microsoft released data about its staff diversity. Time magazine's Charlotte Alter uses those numbers to show that at Microsoft, like many tech companies, a pay gap is not the only discrepancy between men and women. "Microsoft's leadership is only 17.3% female," she writes. At the same time, "women make up less than 30% of the entire company as a whole." Thanks to its CEO's remarks, Microsoft suddenly has become the poster child for what critics see as a larger issue of disparate pay in the technology sector and beyond. With the spotlight fixed on the computing giant, we'll see if it has any good karma left. (By Micah Luxen)

عندما تكون متحدثًا في "احتفال بالنساء في مجال الحوسبة"، ربما لا تكون فكرة جيدة أن تدلي بملاحظات غير رسمية حول كيفية ثقة النساء في "النظام" لمنحهن الأجر الذي يستحقنه.

نصيحة "الكارما" لساتيا ناديلا: "مؤسفة وغير صحيحة"

The facility is needed to replace laboratories built at the Caithness plant in the 1950s which no longer comply with modern standards. York-based Yorkon, part of the Shepherd Group, has been named preferred bidder for the building contract. Work could start in March 2012 if planning permission is given. Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL) said the construction project would provide work for 40 people.

يمكن بناء مختبر جديد لتحليل المواد المشعة وغيرها من المواد الخطرة في موقع دونري النووي بتكلفة 9 ملايين جنيه إسترليني.

خطة معملية جديدة بقيمة 9 ملايين جنيه إسترليني لموقع Dounreay النووي في كيثنيس

By Oliver JarvisBBC Stories "I have my own hair on my hands, on my clothes and down in the bath below me. As I wash, then brush, more continues to fall out. "In the mirror I can see my appearance change, strand-by-strand." Carly Clarke is reliving her experience as a cancer patient, showing me one of the many self-portraits she took during six painful months of treatment. Eventually, she would ask her dad to shave the last hairs from her head. She was just 26. "I used to have a lot of hair. Now I look like a cancer patient," she notes. Six months before these photographs were taken, Carly had been living out a dream in Canada - shooting a final-year university photography project in Vancouver's poverty-stricken downtown eastside. She had been sick for months, with a violent cough, appetite loss and pain in her chest and back. Doctors had diagnosed her with illnesses ranging from pneumonia to asthma and warned her she could suffer a collapsed lung on the flight. But she had ignored them. "I wasn't going to let this illness - whatever it was - get in the way of living my life," she says. "In Vancouver, I could empathise with those with illnesses and addiction. My concern for my own life made me compassionate during the shoot." Many of those she spoke to on the near-freezing streets had become hooked after taking strong opiates in hospital, as they were treated for serious conditions, such as cancer. Three months later, Carly would need morphine herself to alleviate the pain in her chest and back, so she could sleep. Persuaded by Canadian doctors to go home for specialist attention, she was finally diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma - a rare and quite aggressive form of cancer - in March 2012. A tumour the size of a grapefruit had already grown in her right lung and chest wall. "I burst into tears at Guy's Hospital in London," she says. "I didn't know if I would survive the chemotherapy treatment, being diagnosed at such a late stage. I was terrified." It was hard for her family to take. "My parents felt like their stomachs fell out. There hadn't been a lot of cancer in the family," she says. "My boyfriend was also devastated and he flew out from California to England to be with me." Back at home in Eastbourne, Carly scrawled hospital appointments and medication timetables on to a calendar that not long before had been packed with coursework deadlines and photoshoots. "My life slowed down to concentrating on getting through each moment, drug to drug, endless examinations, giant needles, biopsies drilling deep into bone, tubes down my throat, and hoping for some day, the pain to end," she says. Pain from her chest was now radiating down her arm, fluid on her lungs made breathing difficult, and she could not shake an "awful, non-stop cough". "A plastic line through my arm fed sickening but healing medicine into my heart, trying to kill the cancer but taking my strength with it," she says. "My skeleton became more visible by the day, a reminder of each precious pound lost. Out of nowhere my life was on the line." Her view of the world - and herself - was changing. So she decided to photograph it. "I thought that having a creative outlet would allow me to step out of some of that reality for a moment or two and think about my current trauma from another perspective," Carly says. Reality Trauma was to be a series of self-portraits documenting her changing appearance, her life in and out of hospital, and her resilience. During day visits, or short stays, the hospital gave her the freedom to use a tripod and cable release as often as she could. Doctors and nurses sometimes pushed the shutter for her. "I thought about how others might view these images further down the line and whether or not I would even be around to tell my story," she says. Carly wanted her work to inspire others to "have the courage to stare cancer in the face" and not let it take over their identity entirely. Image-by-image, Carly noticed her skin was becoming paler and tighter around her bones, giving her an "unfamiliar, almost alien" appearance. She lost around 12kg (26lb) in the space of two months and needed regular blood transfusions to make up for circulatory problems that were starving her body of oxygen and turning her blue. "People were afraid to look at me. Especially, I think, parents with children also going through cancer - because they saw me and probably feared the worst for their own," she says. "Seeing myself that way made me feel uneasy and frightened." Soon afterwards, she found herself attending hospital so frequently she was admitted full-time. At her lowest, constantly nauseous or asleep, she would reject all food from the hospital trolley. She was unable to study and, some days, too tired to photograph herself or phone her boyfriend. By now she was also coughing so hard she would bring up blood. And sometimes she would wake after a night of cold sweats, itching and drenched as if she had showered in her hospital bed. But then one day, after about three months of chemotherapy, the coughing stopped. Her other symptoms also began to ease. The treatment was working, she thought. Biopsies confirmed it: the cancer was losing. Her perception of life changed again. "Helplessness turned into hopefulness - and then euphoria. When you come so close to death, suddenly you want to live your life to the fullest." The hospital ward went from being a place of pain to home. Staff became friends, and some patients even closer. Now Carly would venture outside her room. The fish tank in the communal area of the ward attracted patients of all ages. An elderly couple, being treated for different types of terminal leukaemia, would often undergo chemotherapy on the same day as Carly. One day, the husband said his wife had been told she would not make it to Christmas. "I remember hugging her and wishing her well - that couple would never leave my mind." As Carly began to feel better, she also started to connect more with the world outside. Her boyfriend and friends would take her for lunch, sometimes driving to Beachy Head - where white cliffs meet the sea - and Carly would talk about the future while watching boats move slowly across the horizon. From course mates and tutors, she began to realise that her photographs were affecting other people. Not only were they capturing the physical and emotional effects of cancer treatment but demonstrating that it didn't always have to be scary - it could be positive, Carly says. "Looking back at the images I had taken, it made me feel stronger because in those photos I was faced with an end-of-life situation but a part of me still believed I could get through it." Carly began showing her work to other cancer patients and took portraits of some of them in the ward. It became a way of starting a conversation or putting a smile on their faces. "If it's true that a simple smile, small gesture of help or kind word can change how a person feels and brighten their day, and have a positive effect on every cell in one's body, then a positive photographic story can help change someone's life," says Carly. "It can be the defining factor in someone's mental strength and affect their willpower enough to keep them going through the suffering in hope that it will soon end and that, in my opinion, is what helps to keep you alive against all odds." As Carly's treatment came to an end, in September 2012, she could look back through each phase of her journey, in 15 rolls of film and 150 photographs, and say she survived cancer. It was a moment for celebration, but returning to the family home - to "piece her life back together" - was not easy. When she took back her boxes of unused medicine, she felt sad she was no longer in hospital. "The hospital staff and some of the patients felt like family to me because we had built a very close relationship over many months." A few months later, Carly flew to California and stayed with her boyfriend for most of the following year. She returned home several times, and visited the hospital ward for the first of her twice-yearly check-ups. Every time she went back, she looked around for old faces: nurses who had treated her, patients she had shared moments with. On one occasion, a few years after finishing treatment, she arrived early for a consultation and sat alongside a woman in the waiting area. "We casually glanced at each other and suddenly tears came to my eyes." It was the woman whose husband had told Carly she would not live to see Christmas back in 2012. "I couldn't believe it was her," Carly recalls. "Moments like this are beautiful." Carly quickly rediscovered her hunger to document the lives of people around the world. In 2014, she spent four months in India. Her work on that trip would garner honourable mentions in the International Photo Awards in 2018. That same year her "Last Day of Chemotherapy" photograph from Reality Trauma was shortlisted in the Portrait of Britain Awards. She got work assisting photographer Michael Wharley, producing promotional images for Summerland, a forthcoming film starring Gemma Arterton. As her inbox filled with awards invitations and her calendar with shoot schedules, she began drawing up a project concept with her local hospice, St Wilfred's, to take portraits of cancer patients in their last stages of life. She wanted to document how terminal illnesses affect people's psychological state, and the ways patients spend their remaining moments, trying new hobbies or saying last goodbyes. But that plan was halted abruptly in September last year by a phone call from her older brother, Lee. He told her their younger brother, Joe, had been diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma - the very same cancer Carly had beaten six years earlier. "We both shed tears on the phone," says Carly. Joe was just 16 and starting college. His cancer was less advanced than Carly's had been but - just like his sister - he had also been ill for months before being diagnosed. Doctors had initially put his severe itching down to "dry skin", or imagination. "He wasn't prepared for his diagnosis. None us of were," says Carly. Hodgkin lymphoma The NHS says Hodgkin lymphoma is an uncommon cancer that develops in a network of vessels and glands called the lymphatic system. It can quickly spread throughout the body but is also one of the most easily treated types of cancer. Joe tried to live as normally as he could, spending time with his girlfriend, learning to drive and making career plans. But as he spent more and more time travelling to hospital and back, his grades took a hit and he began to lose touch with some of his friends. Wanting to spend more time with him, earlier this year Carly asked if she could photograph his cancer journey. He agreed. Sixteen years older than Joe, Carly had left home when he was still young. But, as his only sister, she had always felt a responsibility towards him, teaching him how to draw and paint when he was a toddler. Later, when Carly moved to London for university, they saw each other only occasionally. With each visit, she noticed him stand a little taller, his voice slightly deepen. But now she stood behind the camera in his hospital ward, she captured a rapid change with every photograph. The hair he'd dyed blonde and then coloured flamboyantly, knowing it would fall out, came out in chunks until he shaved it off, as Carly had done, to stop it getting all over his clothes and bedroom floor. He began covering his head in the photos, and talked about wearing a wig. The steroids he took in preparation for the next stage of chemotherapy aged him, and had another dramatic effect. "Joe put on weight to the point where he was unrecognisable. The pictures also showed his stretch marks from the severe weight gain," Carly says. More and more, Joe reached out to Carly for support and advice. As a young boy he'd seen her go through cancer; he knew what the illness had done to his sister, but he also saw her defeat it. "Even when he had doubts and misgivings, the fact that I recovered meant I could provide him with the hope and positivity to continue his treatment," she says. Because Joe's cancer was less advanced, she thought his treatment would be quicker and her photographic series shorter. The collection would represent the journey of a young man overcoming cancer. But Joe's first round of chemotherapy was unsuccessful. "The news shook everybody up a lot. Our relationship changed, it became a little more unstable," Carly says. Having suffered a relapse, Joe would have to endure four more months of chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplants. His hair, which had begun to grow back, fell out again. Joe said he no longer wanted to be photographed - a decision Carly says she understood and respected - but with time came greater determination and fresh positivity. A month or so later, he changed his mind again. "The image I liked most was him turning away in a contemplative manner. There, he knew what was to come, and his eyes glared into the distance," Carly says. "It showed how he had changed and how he had adapted to this role of being a young cancer patient." Against his consultant's advice Joe stopped stem-cell treatment. He feared the side-effects - the breathing trouble, skin problems, jaundice and diarrhoea that can occur if donor cells attack the host - would blight his life. And shortly after taking that decision, in May, his scans came back clear. It meant that he was put into remission and able to join his family on holiday in Menorca, and then at Lee's wedding. He will have regular appointments over the next few months to monitor his condition, but he has lost the weight he gained and his hair is finally growing back again. Carly says her images offer stark evidence of how reality changed for the family during a time in which both her and Joe's "body, mind and soul were tested to the ultimate ends". "These photographs I have captured, of both Joe and I, evoke some painful memories for me; however, they also remind me of the huge capacity of the human body to endure through such hellish times. "This collection of images may give only a glimpse into those times but my hope is that an audience can see not just the horrifying aspects, but also the promise that being a survivor of cancer gives and the tremendous hope for others facing a similar condition." Photographs: Carly Clarke

عندما تم تشخيص إصابة كارلي كلارك بالسرطان في عام 2012، شرعت في تصوير كيف تغيرت خلال ما كان يمكن أن يكون الأيام الأخيرة من حياتها. وبعد مرور سبع سنوات، وبمحض الصدفة القاسية، تقف إلى جانب شقيقها، وتقوم بتصويره وهو يمر بنفس المحنة.

أنا، كاميرتي، أخي... سرطاننا

The alarm was raised shortly before 10:30 BST about the vessel in distress in Allonby Bay, off Crosscanonby. Workington RNLI, Maryport Inshore Rescue, a fishing boat and a windfarm service boat went to the scene. The two women and baby were taken off the yacht which RNLI crew members boarded and pumped out water before it was towed to safety. Follow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk

تم إنقاذ خمسة أشخاص، من بينهم طفل يبلغ من العمر ستة أشهر، عندما بدأت المياه تتسرب إلى يخت قبالة ساحل كومبريا.

إنقاذ طفل من بين خمسة أطفال من غرق يخت في خليج ألونبي

By Jayne McCormackBBC News NI Political Reporter But for Dave Morton, who has a learning disability, it has always seemed an intimidating experience. That's why he has never voted before. But thanks to virtual reality technology, he and others have been taken through the entire process in time for next month's council elections. 'Confidence' The learning disability charity Mencap has been working to create a scheme to ease anxieties that disabled people might have about going to the polling station. It walks users through everything, from explaining what canvassers are to showing them how to mark their ballot paper. Mr Morton told BBC News NI he "never had the confidence" to go out and vote, because he found the environment too unfamiliar. However he is determined to vote this year and said being walked through the ins and outs of a polling station had really helped him. "Other people probably don't realise there are people with disabilities who do need help and support," he added. The deadline to register to vote is Friday 12 April, ahead of the council elections on 2 May. Mencap is hoping the new project will encourage more disabled people to get on the electoral roll. 'Basic rights' Its director in Northern Ireland, Margaret Kelly, said disabled people faced "many barriers" in society that most people take for granted. "People with learning disabilities are often excluded in so many ways," she said. "For me, voting is one of the most basic rights in society and and one of most basic ways of being included as a citizen." She said research carried out by the charity in 2014 suggested that only 26% of people in Northern Ireland with a learning disability had voted. There are also concerns that some disabled people have been excluded from voting by turning up to a polling station, and not having enough support to help them cast their vote properly. "We want to give people the tools and resources to help them vote. We should help people with a learning disability feel a bit more important in our communities," added Ms Kelly. The technology is not only for first-time voters. It's also hoped disabled people who have had to rely on carers or parents to help them vote before, might feel confident enough to vote independently next time. 'Every vote counts' One of those hoping to do that this year is Christopher White. He said his mum had to help him cast his vote before and that he had always found the process "confusing". "It's very important to me to be able to vote," he said. "People with learning difficulties are human beings too, sometimes people only see the learning difficulty - they don't see the person." The Electoral Commission has also helped Mencap draw up a guide, in an easy-read format, to explain the process of voting. So what's the verdict from those who have tried it out? Mr Morton said he would encourage other disabled people to test out the technology, and use it to get rid of any worries they might have about voting. "They have the right to go out and vote - every vote counts."

يجب أن يكون الإدلاء بصوتك في يوم الاقتراع أمرًا بسيطًا.

يساعد الواقع الافتراضي في إزالة الغموض عن التصويت للأشخاص ذوي الإعاقة

It should allow the project in Hawick to be completed by 2022. Stuart Marshall, who represents the area on Scottish Borders Council, described it as an "early Christmas present" for the town. The scheme was drawn up in an attempt to address repeated problems with flooding in the area. A report to the local authority recommended approval for the plans. It concluded that with no objections from people in areas affected by flooding or by the work, there was no need to refer the scheme to Scottish ministers.

أعطى المجلس الموافقة النهائية على خطط مخطط الفيضانات بقيمة 44 مليون جنيه إسترليني لحماية أكثر من 900 عقار.

حصل مخطط الحماية من الفيضانات في هاويك على الموافقة النهائية

Contact was lost after the CH-148 Cyclone took off from the frigate HMCS Fredericton during a Nato exercise on Wednesday. Canadian officials gave no further details. Greek media say there were between three and six people on board. They say rescue teams are searching international waters off Greece's Kefalonia island.

قال مسؤولون إن طائرة هليكوبتر كندية اختفت فوق البحر الأيوني قبالة سواحل اليونان.

اختفاء مروحية كندية قبالة اليونان

During her visit Princess Anne will visit the island's prison in Jurby and spend time at the Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture. The princess will also open an equestrian centre in Santon and visit Peel cathedral for a briefing on its current development campaign. Her last visit to the Isle of Man was in June 2008 when she attended the Tynwald ceremony in St John's. She has visited the Isle of Man on a number of occasions since the 1970s.

ومن المقرر أن تزور الأميرة رويال جزيرة مان يوم الثلاثاء.

الأميرة آن تفتتح مركز الفروسية في جزيرة مان

By Ed LowtherPolitical reporter, BBC News British 1919 Amritsar Massacre, February 2013 During a visit to India David Cameron described the Amritsar massacre as "a deeply shameful event in British history". Writing in the memorial book of condolence, he added: "We must never forget what happened here." Although he did not offer a formal apology Mr Cameron was the first serving prime minister to pay his respects at the site in person. The death toll at the massacre in 1919 - when British riflemen opened fire to disperse a crowd - is disputed, with an inquiry by colonial authorities putting it at 379 and Indian sources putting it nearer to 1,000. The killings were condemned by the British at the time - War Secretary Winston Churchill described them as "monstrous" in 1920. Unnecessary deaths at Stafford Hospital, February 2013 Prime Minister David Cameron apologised to the families of patients who were subjected to years of abuse and neglect at Stafford Hospital. In a Commons statement on the outcome of a public inquiry into failings at the hospital, he said he was "truly sorry" for what had happened, which was "not just wrong, it was truly dreadful". The unnecessary deaths of hundreds of patients were caused by failings that went right to the top of the health service, inquiry chairman Robert Francis QC had concluded. Mr Cameron announced that a new post of chief inspector of hospitals would be created in the autumn. Hillsborough disaster and cover-up, September 2012 David Cameron said he was "profoundly sorry" for what he called the double injustice of the Hillsborough disaster. He was addressing the House of Commons following an independent report into previously unseen documents about what happened on 15 April 1989. Ninety-six fans died as a consequence of the crush at Sheffield Wednesday's ground, which was hosting an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. The report was compiled by the Hillsborough Independent Panel, which scrutinised more than 450,000 pages of documents over the course of 18 months. The medical advisor on the panel, Dr Bill Kirkup, said up to 41 of the 96 who died could have potentially been saved if they had received treatment earlier. The report also showed police and emergency services had made strenuous attempts to deflect the blame for the disaster on to fans. Mr Cameron said the safety of the crowds at Hillsborough had been "compromised at every level". Bloody Sunday killings, June 2010 Giving the UK government's response to the Saville Report, produced after a 12-year inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday, David Cameron said the killings that took place that day were unjustified and unjustifiable. He said he was "deeply sorry". Thirteen marchers were shot dead on 30 January 1972 in Londonderry when British paratroopers opened fire on crowds at a civil rights demonstration. Fourteen others were wounded; one later died. The report was heavily critical of the Army and found that soldiers fired the first shot. Child migrants sent abroad, February 2010 Gordon Brown apologised for the UK's role in sending more than 130,000 children to former colonies, where many suffered abuse. He expressed regret for the "misguided" Child Migrant Programme, announcing in the Commons that he was "truly sorry". He also announced a £6m fund to reunite families that were torn apart. The scheme sent poor children for a "better life" to countries like Canada and Australia from the 1920s to 1960s, but many were abused and lied to. "We are sorry they were allowed to be sent away at the time when they were most vulnerable. We are sorry that instead of caring for them, this country turned its back," he told MPs. Alan Turing's prosecution, September 2009 Gordon Brown said he was sorry for the "appalling" way World War II code-breaker Alan Turing was treated for being gay. A petition on the No 10 website had called for a posthumous government apology to the pioneer who made significant contributions to the emerging fields of artificial intelligence and computing. In 1952, Turing was prosecuted for gross indecency after admitting a sexual relationship with a man. He was given experimental chemical castration as a "treatment", and subsequently committed suicide. He is most famous for his code-breaking work at Bletchley Park during WWII, helping to create the Bombe that cracked messages enciphered with the German Enigma machines. Slavery, March 2007 Tony Blair said sorry for the slave trade, not long before the 200th anniversary of its abolition. His previous statement of "deep sorrow" had been criticised for stopping short of a full apology. "I have said we are sorry and I say it again," he said after talks with Ghanaian president John Agyekum Kufuor. The most important thing was "to remember what happened in the past, to condemn it and say why it was entirely unacceptable," Mr Blair said. Guildford Four miscarriage of justice, June 2000 Tony Blair apologised to the Guildford Four, who were wrongfully convicted of IRA bomb attacks in England in 1974. In a letter, Mr Blair acknowledged the "miscarriage of justice" which they suffered as a result of their wrongful convictions. Paul Hill, Gerry Conlon, Patrick Armstrong and Carole Richardson, were given life sentences for bombing public houses in Guildford, Surrey. Each of them spent 15 years in prison before the convictions were overturned by the Court of Appeal in 1989.

وصف ديفيد كاميرون مذبحة أمريتسار بأنها "حدث مخزي للغاية". وعلى الرغم من أنه لم يصل إلى حد تقديم اعتذار رسمي، إلا أنه ينضم إلى عدد من الأحداث الأخرى - التي سبقت وصولهم إلى المرتبة العاشرة - والتي تناولها رؤساء وزراء المملكة المتحدة في السنوات الأخيرة.

لمحة سريعة: اعتذارات عن الماضي من قبل رؤساء وزراء المملكة المتحدة

By Zoe KleinmanTechnology reporter, BBC News In an interview with the BBC's Chris Fox, Microsoft president Brad Smith admitted that the plan was a "moonshot" - a very big idea with no guaranteed outcome or profitability - for the company. He stressed there was simultaneously a sense of urgency and a need to take the time to do the job properly. He also said that the tools required don't entirely exist yet. Mr Smith talked about tree planting, and direct air capture - a way of removing carbon from the air and returning it to the soil - as examples of available options. "Ultimately we need better technology," he said. But don't expect Microsoft to roll up its sleeves: "That's not a business we will ever be in but it's a business we want to benefit from," he added, announcing a $1bn Climate Innovation Fund, established with the intention of helping others develop in this space. Microsoft makes 'carbon negative' pledge He expects support from the wider tech sector, he said, "because it's a sector that's doing well, it can afford to make these investments and it should." But historically, isn't it also one of the worst offenders? CES in Las Vegas, the huge consumer tech show, has just ended. It was attended by 180,000 people most of whom probably flew there, to look at mountains of plastic devices clamouring to be the Next Big Thing. From gas-guzzling cars and power-hungry data centres to difficult-to-recycle devices and the constant consumer push to upgrade to new shiny plastic gadgets - the tech sector's green credentials are not exactly a blueprint for environmental friendliness despite much-publicised occasional projects. There was no immediate announcement from fellow tech giants about any collaborations with Microsoft, or indeed similar initiatives of their own - but the aim is ahead of the current ambitions of many, including Facebook, Google and Apple, which have not (yet) made a "carbon negative" commitment. That said, software-maker Intuit has pledged to be carbon negative by 2030, and Jeff Bezos announced in September 2019 that Amazon would be carbon neutral by 2040. Mr Smith made an open offer to share Microsoft's carbon-monitoring tools. "Competition can make each of us better," he said of the notoriously rivalry-fuelled industry. "If we make each other better the world is going to be better off and we should applaud each other as we take these new steps." Mr Smith agreed that "the switching on of an Xbox", Microsoft's games console, was as much part of the firm's carbon footprint as the carbon that went into creating the cement used in its buildings. However, he did not suggest scaling back on collaborations with the big energy firms - on the contrary, we are going to need more power rather than less in the coming decades, he said - and that has troubled campaigner Greenpeace. "While there is a lot to celebrate in Microsoft's announcement, a gaping hole remains unaddressed - Microsoft's expanding efforts to help fossil fuel companies drill more oil and gas with machine-learning and other AI technologies," commented senior campaigner Elizabeth Jardim. Environmental awareness, especially among the under-30s, will ultimately prove to be a big driver for market change, Mr Smith believes. "I think it's interesting to think about a future where buying a product and understanding how much carbon was emitted to create it is like going to the supermarket and looking at what's on the shelf and seeing how many calories it contains," he said.

أعلنت شركة التكنولوجيا العملاقة مايكروسوفت عن طموحين جريئين: أولا، أن تصبح سلبية للكربون بحلول عام 2030 - وهذا يعني أنها ستزيل من الكربون من الهواء أكثر مما تنبعث منه - وثانيا، أن تزيل المزيد من الكربون بحلول عام 2050 مما تنبعث منه، في الإجمالي، في تاريخه كله.

هل يمكن أن ينجح هدف الكربون "Moonshot" الخاص بشركة Microsoft؟

Ilex said the bad weather caused difficulties for construction staff working on the bridge over the Christmas period. Programme manager Sean Currie said there had been a delay of approximately four weeks. "The snow and ice caused problems accessing the bridge." "Snow had to be cleared from the deck before they could begin work and in the bad weather it was too dangerous to allow anyone to go up in the basket to the masts." A meeting is to be held on Monday to finalise the completion date.

من المتوقع أن يتم الانتهاء من جسر السلام الذي تبلغ تكلفته 13 مليون جنيه إسترليني عبر نهر فويل بحلول شهر مايو، وفقًا للشركة التي تقف وراء المشروع.

جسر ديري للسلام جاهز لشهر مايو

Thirty-three apartments had been planned at the site in St Peter Port, with work due to be completed by 2016. Developer Comprop said submissions being made to planners would include a redesign which would see more of the planned units moved to the seafront side of the site. The redesign would also increase the number of homes to 34, it added.

تم تقديم الخطط المنقحة من قبل أحد المطورين لموقع مصنع الجعة غيرنسي السابق في خليج هافيلت.

الخطط المنقحة لتطوير مصنع الجعة غيرنسي

Hope, Betty and Kate will graze on Wanister Bog, near Chester-le-Street, which is part of the Waldridge Fell Site of Special Scientific Interest. It has been drying out and is in danger of losing some of its plants. The weight of the cattle and their grazing breaks up grass, allowing the area to become wetter. The cows will graze on the bog over the winter.

يتم استخدام ثلاثة من أبقار المرتفعات للحفاظ على موطن الأراضي الرطبة في مقاطعة دورهام.

ماشية المرتفعات تحافظ على مستنقع مقاطعة دورهام

Ten thousand children were evacuated by parents desperate to get them to safety. Acts of commemoration are taking place this week, but as survivors grow old, how should their stories be remembered? BBC Newsnight hears the stories of four of them. FRANK MEISLER, TRANSPORTED FROM DANZIG, AGED 12 I slept through the actual night of Kristallnacht and in the morning as I walked onto the streets there was glass everywhere, and crowds, and I realised something very sensational had happened. There were Nazis standing around in uniform and big smears all over the walls saying "Die, Jews" and so forth. And through all of this I walked to the school. It was from Kristallnacht on that the Kindertransport started. I don't remember my parents discussing the decision to send me, although they must have. My father was abroad at that time because Jews had been made to leave their businesses, and my father had transferred his truck business from Danzig [now Gdansk] across the border into Poland. My mother had two sisters and her mother living in London at that time, so it was arranged that I would be taken in by my mother's family. 'Totally disorientated and hungry' My group was the last of three that left Danzig. I was one of 18 children, and we travelled for three days, passing through Berlin, at Friedrichstrasse station, with a Gestapo guy who accompanied us, and a member of the Jewish community who took us all the way to London. In Berlin we had arrived at around four or five in the morning, and an aunt of mine was standing in the station with bananas for all the children because she had heard that we were passing through. The Gestapo guy got off at the railway station at the border between Holland and Germany, and we then went on to the Hook of Holland, and from there by ferry to Harwich and from Harwich to Liverpool Street station in London. By the time we arrived in Liverpool Street we had been sleepless for three days and three nights and we arrived totally disorientated. We were hungry and didn't know the language, and it was a strange world to us. There was a mixture of emotions, a combination of excitement at being in a strange place and of sadness at having parted with one's parents. We weren't aware, and I think maybe many parents weren't quite aware, that this was the last parting ever, because of course the [concentration] camps had not been built. That's what I wanted to show in the sculpture that I did for Liverpool Street station - disorientated, tired, slightly elated, somewhat depressed, bewildered children coming into a wartime England not knowing a word of the language, I wanted to show it the way I remember it was. My mother's two sisters were at Liverpool Street station and off I went. Others were taken in by people who had previously agreed to accept children to their homes. Where there was no place for the children in homes, they were taken to some kind of hostel. One of my aunts was married to a Bavarian doctor who had resettled a year or two before and had a practice in Harley Street. They lived with my grandmother, so there was my mother's sister, her husband, their son and my grandmother. When my parents said goodbye to me on the platform, my father said: "Whatever happens, study, go to university," which I tried to do and did. That's the advice I got, and for better or worse I carried it out. 'I'm an orphan' I had to learn English first, for which I got private lessons, and then was accepted into a boarding school in north London. In terms of what was happening back home during the war, I think the British government suppressed a great deal of what they knew concerning the concentration camps. They had their own reasons to underplay this, but the German refugees here knew all about it. The rumours were rife there, and people knew what was happening in Auschwitz and in Buchenwald, that something terrible was happening there, which the British authorities did not want known. I remember being taken by the school to a play in the West End, and it was in the middle of the play that I was sitting there with all the other students, when I suddenly said to myself: "I'm an orphan." I suddenly realised that the chances of my parents still being alive after what I had heard were minimal. I don't know why it came to me in the theatre, but I remember sitting there in that chair and coming to that understanding. I got the confirmation of this from the Red Cross after the war, and also from my father's brother, who had survived and had himself passed through Poland during the war and looked for them. When I try to piece together what there would be in common between all of us who were on the Kindertransport, it would be that, as I wrote in a book, we entered the train in Danzig as children; we disembarked in Liverpool Street Station as adults, because we were now responsible for our own lives. We experienced too much too soon. I think that probably is the epitaph of our youth. BERND KOSCHLAND, TRANSPORTED FROM BAVARIA, AGED 8 There are a number of things that often play in the back of my mind as I think about the transports, the feeling that parents must have had to make that decision to send their child away; added to that, the promise of "we'll see you again shortly, hopefully", which of course in many cases never occurred. I was a young child and I cannot remember my reaction to being told I was going abroad. I know my parents made me a promise. They promised me a suit with long trousers, because in those days boys wore shorts only, when I had my bar mitzvah. But of course the promise was unfulfilled as they didn't survive. I cannot remember much of how I felt at my time of leaving for England. It's almost like a curtain came down and blacked it all out. I didn't know the language except one sentence. Interestingly my parents taught me a sentence in English, which was: "I'm hungry, may I have a piece of bread?", or words to that effect, which I've fortunately never had to use. Prayer books and a photo album All of the children were allowed only one small piece of luggage. I still don't know to this day why, but I was able to take two cases with me: an ordinary big case and an old-fashioned trunk. I had clothes and a hairbrush, which mother packed to make sure that her darling little son kept his hair tidy, and a shoe bag and other bits. Father would have probably left most of the packing to mother, but he ensured that I took things that were important from a Jewish point of view. He came from an Orthodox Jewish home and he made sure that I had prayer books. And there was a photo album that was given to me, a little tiny one. I don't really remember saying goodbye to my father and sister. My mother came with me to Hamburg and we boarded the liner and I said goodbye to her there. When I got to England I was sent to Margate, where I lived in a group of 50 youngsters up to the age of about 16 or 17. I was the youngest. I learned English and learned to play games which I'd never heard of, such as hopscotch. I was lazy when it came to writing to my parents, and also I had to choose whether I would use my pocket money to buy sweets or stamps, but I did write and I got letters back. Unfortunately I destroyed all those letters when war broke out. An older child said: "You can't keep those, if the Germans come here it's no good," so sadly I destroyed all my parents' letters. Once the war broke out there was no further communication. Around about 1942-43 we tried to contact them via the Red Cross, as a number of people did, but we heard nothing, as by that time they were no longer alive. My father died in January 1942 and my mother in the March. I heard about my parents' death in 1945. My sister met me from school and told me and I just went on with my life. There was nothing much more I could do and that was that. I'd already sort of lived with the loss in my own mind because I'd not heard from them since the war began. GERTUDE FLAVELLE, TRANSPORTED FROM VIENNA, AGED 11 I remember it was night when we went to the railway station because, I think, they didn't want the population to know what they were doing. In a way I didn't understand it all. I wasn't stupid or anything, but it was just a thing that you couldn't comprehend. I remember my father telling me that I would like it in England because I would be able to ride the horses, but the reality wasn't like that at all. The journey was such a blur. On the boat we had bunks because we crossed in the night. I remember going to the toilet, and when I was out of the compartment I cried and one of the helpers who was on the journey said: "Don't do that, you'll set the young ones off." When we arrived in England we stayed overnight in London with the uncle of Eve, the friend I had travelled with. In the morning we took a train to Hinckley in Leicestershire, where we were both due to go. I remember my foster parents coming in. He wore a bowler hat, which he took off. He was quite an elderly gentleman and she was a fairly stern-looking lady. 'I was basically a maid' I don't know whether they were just the type of people who didn't hug or kiss or anything. I can't ever remember being hugged, you know? Of course we couldn't talk together either, which I suppose was a hindrance. I went to school for a couple of years, and my foster parents went to work, both of them. I was basically a maid, hoovering and polishing and washing up, and I was a young pair of legs for going shopping. Then of course we come to the time when I left school at 14. On the very next Monday I was introduced to my first factory job, where I promptly ran the needle of the sewing machine through my thumb. I don't think I lasted very long in that factory. But then there was always another one. And so it went until I was 18, when I decided to leave my foster parents. I took lodgings with one of my workmates. Until I left my foster parents, I was sort of continuously homesick, and it's a horrible feeling. You know, it was always there. We didn't part on terribly good terms, because I think they thought I would live there for ever. I suppose they were fond of me. I just don't know. It was a matter of luck who you went to and I just wasn't that lucky. But then again you've got to think that they saved my life. EVE WILLMANN, TRANSPORTED FROM VIENNA, AGED 5 I came to England in April 1939 and I was five and a bit years old. The passport I travelled on was issued by the German Reich, and on the front page there was a J in red to designate that I'm Jewish. My father was a doctor and he had his practice near the showbiz part of Vienna. My mother worked as a dancer in one of the theatres and she went to him as a patient and they fell in love. Since she wasn't Jewish, she converted. I don't remember getting on the train, but I do remember the train stopping and people coming in and giving us a sweet drink and then we carried on. First I stayed with quite a strict family. I recall silly things, like having to wear a straw bonnet and being forced to make my own bed with hospital corners. I don't think I stayed there that long. It probably wasn't more than a year or so, and then I moved to Cambridge. 'A lovely holiday' I remember at one point a card coming from my parents, and rushing down the stairs and then being quite emotional. I think that must have been the first contact then, since I remember it as an event. In Cambridge I moved to a very nice family. They had a son about the same age as I was, a beautiful house and a big dog, and I started school. I think the family would ideally have adopted me because they had a boy and I was a girl, but then the mother had to go into hospital to have an operation and so I went to another family in Cambridge. After that I was in a hostel and another family, until eventually I moved to stay with my uncle from Moravia and his family, who had settled in Hartlepool. The refugee committee hadn't wanted me to go to them until they had a stable set-up, but when they became established in West Hartlepool and my uncle got a steady job as a teacher I was allowed to have a holiday with them there to see how I liked it. I had a lovely holiday and my aunt said to me: "You know you're going back now, but when you come back it will be for ever," and so it was. My mother was working in a factory during the war and she was killed when it was bombed. I felt sad, but I didn't really know her. I just sort of had flashes of memory of her. My father managed to survive the war and in 1948 he came over, full of hope, to see his only child, but it was quite a traumatic experience because I'd more or less got a new father. Things did thaw during his stay but it was quite hard because for him it was a continuation, but for me it was something new. I was all geared up to go to Vienna the following year, but unfortunately in the February of that year he had a massive heart attack and died. WATCH NEWSNIGHT'S FULL FILM ON THE KINDERTRANSPORT

لقد مر 75 عامًا منذ أن وافقت بريطانيا على مهمة جلب الأطفال اليهود إلى المملكة المتحدة بعد الدمار الذي خلفته ليلة الكريستال، عندما نظم النازيون هجمات معادية للسامية في ألمانيا والنمسا، بما في ذلك تحطيم نوافذ الشركات المملوكة لليهود.

Kindertransport: الأطفال الذين فروا من النازيين إلى بريطانيا

The deal - brokered by the US - was signed in the Bahrain capital, Manama, on Sunday. For decades, most Arab states have boycotted Israel, insisting they would only establish ties after the Palestinian dispute was settled. Bahrain is now the fourth Arab country in the MIddle East - after the UAE, Egypt and Jordan - to recognise Israel since its founding in 1948. Palestinians have condemned the diplomatic moves as a "stab in the back". At a ceremony in Manama on Sunday evening, Bahraini and Israeli officials signed a "joint communiqué" establishing full diplomatic relations. The two countries are now expected to open embassies. Israeli media report that the document did not include any references to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Following the signing, Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani said in a speech that he hoped for "fruitful bilateral co-operation in every field" between the two nations. He also called for peace in the region, including a two-state solution to the Palestinian conflict. The Israeli team flew on El Al flight 973 - in reference to Bahrain's international dialling code - and passed over Saudi Arabia with special permission from the kingdom. Saudi leaders have so far resisted calls to normalise relations Israel. Regional rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran has played a role in this diplomacy - a decades-old feud exacerbated by religious differences, with Iran a largely Shia Muslim power and Saudi Arabia seeing itself as the leading Sunni Muslim power. The UAE and Bahrain - both allies of Saudi Arabia - have shared with Israel worries over Iran, leading to unofficial contacts in the past. US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin accompanied the Israeli delegates. He will also accompany Israel's first delegation to the UAE on Tuesday. The Israeli agreement with the UAE came after Israel agreed to suspend controversial plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. Palestinian leaders were reportedly taken by surprise by that announcement. They have condemned the UAE deal and the later Bahrain agreement. The Palestinian foreign ministry recalled its ambassador to Bahrain after the deal was announced last month, and a statement from the Palestinian leadership spoke of the "great harm it causes to the inalienable national rights of the Palestinian people and joint Arab action".

أقامت إسرائيل والبحرين علاقات دبلوماسية رسميًا.

تقيم إسرائيل والبحرين علاقات دبلوماسية رسمية

They were 37-year-old father-of-three Jonathan Graham and 19-year-old Jasmine Herron. Their bodies were discovered near a car on the B8024 south of Ormsary at about 09:00 on Sunday. A police spokesman said an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the crash continued and officers were speaking to witnesses. Anyone with further information is urged to contact Police Scotland.

أعلنت الشرطة عن رجل وامرأة عثر عليهما ميتين بعد حادث سيارة في أرجيل.

العثور على رجل وامرأة ميتين بعد حادث تحطم طائرة في أرجيل

By Stephanie HegartyPopulation correspondent James Smith is angry, hurt and tired. Every death of a black person at the hands of a police officer takes him back to the moment in October when Atatiana Jefferson was killed. "I have to live with this guilt, with this cloud hanging over me for the rest of my years," he says. Because he was the reason that the police were there that night. At around 02:30 on 12 October he was woken by his niece and nephew, who told him the front door of their neighbour's house was wide open and the lights were on. The owner of the house, Yolanda Carr, had a heart condition and had recently been in and out of intensive care, so Smith was worried something had happened to her. He went across the road and noticed the lawnmower and other gardening equipment were still plugged in, which he thought was strange. So he dialled a number in the phone book to request a "wellness check" - expecting that a police officer would come out, knock on the door and check the family was OK. He didn't know that Carr was in hospital that night and that her daughter and grandson were up late playing video games. He was standing directly opposite the house when the police arrived. One of the officers, Aaron Dean, had his gun drawn as he approached the front door and then walked around the side of the house to the back garden. Seconds later there was a gunshot. "When that bullet went off I heard her spirit say, 'Don't let them get away with it,'" Smith says. "And that's pretty much why I stayed out there all night long until they brought her out." Police soon filled the street, but they wouldn't tell him what had happened. It wasn't until they wheeled a body out six hours later that he knew Yolanda Carr's daughter, Atatiana Jefferson, had been killed. The two families were still getting to know each other. Yolanda Carr had bought the house four years earlier and was fiercely proud of it. Her house is separated from James Smith's by a road and their wide, green, manicured lawns. Smith is a veteran of the neighbourhood. He's raised children and grandchildren there, and five members of his family still live on the same street. Keeping the yard straight is like a ritual in the area, he says, one that Atatiana's family had been quick to adopt. He describes Yolanda Carr as a hard-working lady. "She had some problems in life that she overcame and her home was her trophy." Atatiana had been staying in the house while her mother was unwell. She was saving for medical school while caring for her mother and her eight-year-old nephew. A few days before the killing there had been a car crash on the street, James Smith remembers. Atatiana rushed out to help, and she stayed with the people in the car until the ambulance came. That was just her nature, he says. "She intended to become a doctor," he says, before going silent for a moment. "But that's not going to happen now." Sometimes he would mow their lawn for them, Atatiana would bring him water and they'd chat. The day that she died she had been mowing the lawn herself, showing her nephew how to do it. On the footage from the officer's body cam, released after she was killed, officer Aaron Dean can be seen walking up to a window at the back of the house, where Atatiana briefly appears. "Put your hands up, show me your hands!" he shouts. He has barely finished speaking when he fires through the window. He never declared he was a police officer. Aaron Dean resigned before he could be fired. He was quickly arrested and in December he was indicted for murder, but the trial has been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. Fort Worth police chief Ed Kraus said he "could not make sense" of why Atatiana Jefferson had to lose her life. In a press conference he seemed emotional as he spoke about the damage that her death had done to relations between the police and the community. But James Smith doesn't find any of this reassuring. Atatiana's death has destroyed what little faith he had in law enforcement. "We don't have a relationship with the police because we don't trust the police," he says. "So if we can stay out of their way, we're fine." He's more reluctant than ever to call them. Recently, when his sister heard gunshots in the neighbourhood she asked him to call 911, but he refused. "It's an experience that unfortunately, you would have to be a person of colour to understand," he says. "I don't buy the police kneeling and hugging people, because we've been kneeling and hugging and praying for 60 years." He doesn't feel that the case against Aaron Dean is being pursued properly. It troubles him that no-one from law enforcement has come to speak to him since the night of the shooting. It's his belief that if he hadn't spoken to the media the following morning, Atatiana's death might not have been investigated. He's also upset with the pace of the trial. "With the pandemic going on they said it could be 2021 before this thing starts. On the other hand, had it been a person or colour we'd be tried, convicted and have started our sentence already," he says. "We're still holding our breath. Pardon the phrase, but we can't breathe." There are about 1,000 "officer-involved shootings" in which someone is killed every year in the US. These statistics are not centrally collected but various organisations and researchers have been compiling the data, mostly from media reports. According to one of these organisations, Mapping Police Violence, in 2019 black people represented 24% of those killed by police despite making up only 13% of the population. Dr Philip Stinson of Bowling Green State University has also compiled an extensive database on police crime and, analysing cases where police have been arrested, has found that police crimes against black people tend to involve violence more often than police crimes against other races. Convictions for these crimes are rare. Between 2013 and 2019, Mapping Police Violence recorded more than 7,500 cases in which officers shot and killed someone, but according to Stinson's database only 71 were charged with murder or manslaughter and only 23 were convicted of a crime related to the killing. Since 2005, Stinson calculates, only five non-federal police officers have been convicted of murder. When James Smith went on TV to talk about his neighbour's death he learned that this was the seventh officer-involved shooting of 2019 in Fort Worth, a city of less than one million people. But shootings are only part of the problem. In the midst of the George Floyd protests in early June, a Fort Worth police officer called Tiffany Bunton spoke out about the death of her uncle in police custody two years ago. Christopher Lowe died in the back of a police vehicle after being detained by two officers. The body camera footage of his arrest shows officers dragging him to their car. It's disturbing to watch. Though he's compliant throughout the arrest, the officers taunt Lowe as he struggles to stand up and to walk. He tells them he's sick. "I can't breathe," he says, "I'm dying." "Don't pull that [expletive]," the officer says. And later, "If you spit on me bud I'm going to put your face in the [expletive] dirt." Thirteen minutes later Lowe was found dead of a drug overdose in the back of the car. Tiffany Bunton believes his death could have been prevented if the officers had called an ambulance, instead of ignoring his symptoms and insulting him when he told them he was unwell. Five officers were fired in January 2019, as a result. A year later two of them got their jobs back. When I asked James Smith if he was familiar with this case he simply replied, "That's what we go through. So we avoid the police as best we can." Two weeks after Atatiana's funeral, her father, Marquis Jefferson, died from a heart attack. His brother believes it was grief that killed him. Her mother Yolanda Carr was in hospital the night her daughter was killed and was too sick to attend her funeral. In January she was well enough to return home, and James Smith said he'd treat her to lunch. He was waiting for the barbecue place to open when an ambulance screeched down the street and parked outside the house. He rushed over and found paramedics trying to resuscitate her. She was wearing a T-shirt covered in portraits of her daughter, and lying on a cushion that Smith had given her, decorated with a print of Atatiana's face. In early June the mayor of Fort Worth, Betsy Price put out a statement on the death of George Floyd - who was killed in Minneapolis when officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck. In the statement the mayor mentioned Floyd by name but referred to Atatiana only as Fort Worth's "own tragedy". "She didn't even mention Atatiana's name," Smith says. It felt like a knife being twisted in his gut. As he watches protests all over the country in response to George Floyd's death, he wonders why people didn't respond to the killing of Atatiana in the same way. "The quieter we are the more likely that Atatiana is forgotten and I don't want her forgotten," he says. On 19 June Atatiana's remaining family - her sisters and brothers - are launching a foundation in her honour, funded by donations they received in the wake of her death. The Atatiana Project will focus on education and on improving relations between the police and the community. It will be based in the house where Atatiana was shot. On Facebook, James Smith proudly posts pictures of a wall in his home, filled with framed photos of his children, nieces and nephews in their graduation gowns and mortarboard hats. They're smiling, holding rolled up bachelors and masters' degrees. He and Yolanda Carr should be American success stories. A postal worker and a nurse who worked hard, saved money, educated their children and bought beautiful homes on a quiet street to enjoy into their old age. But James Smith is not sure if he can be happy in this neighbourhood again. "I look through my dining room window and I see Atatiana's house. When I wash my dishes I look out of my window I see Atatiana's house. When I sit on my back deck I see Atatiana's house." And every time the image of that night comes back to him. "I'm going to see these people coming across the street and going to the back of the house and bang! I'm going to see this when my great-grandchildren are born… when I'm sitting on a rocking chair." You may also be interested in: Robert Jones was arrested in 1992, accused of killing a young British tourist in New Orleans. Four years later, he went on trial - by this time another man had already been convicted of the crime, but he was prosecuted anyway. The judge who sentenced the young father to life in prison now says his skin colour sealed his fate. Locked up for 23 years - when the real killer had already been jailed (2015)

لم يكن جيمس سميث يريد أبدًا أن يفعل الكثير مع الشرطة، لكنه اتصل بهم للاطمئنان على جارته في مدينة فورت وورث بولاية تكساس، لأن الوقت كان متأخرًا في الليل وكان بابها الأمامي مفتوحًا على مصراعيه. وبعد ذلك بوقت قصير سمع صوت إطلاق نار، ثم رأى فيما بعد جثة امرأة تبلغ من العمر 28 عاماً، وهي ابنة جاره، محمولة على نقالة.

أتاتيانا جيفرسون: "لماذا لن أتصل بالشرطة بعد الآن"

By Rebecca WoodsBBC News But soft play centres face being wiped out amid the coronavirus pandemic as one of the last industries to have a proposed opening date. In the last three weeks, at least 15 have closed their doors permanently and many more are set to follow. More than 25,000 people have signed the #RescueIndoorPlay petition, calling on the government to make a decision on reopening or offer more financial support to the UK's 1,100 centres, which employ 30,000 people. There is also concern among operators about the impact closure could have on families with young children, which rely on soft play centres for sanity and socialisation. "I feel for children and parents' mental health," says Helen Whittington, who has started a crowdfunder to replace "tricky to clean" ball pools at DJ Jungles in St Albans and Hemel Hempstead with new sensory areas that would enable social distancing. "We have baby classes, NCT meets and are a place for people to socialise - postnatal depression could increase and children lose the confidence to mix and make friends, share and take turns." Simon Bridgland made the heartbreaking decision to close Big Fun House in Canterbury at the beginning of July, which he'd run for six years. The announcement was met with an "outpouring of love" from customers on his Facebook page. "I was blown away by the volume of comments," he says. It was not an easy decision to make, with 17 staff losing their jobs. "We'd not had any income whatsoever since March. Soft play isn't the gold mine people think it is - you make your money in winter to get through the summer months. Most are in big warehouses and cost a lot of money to keep going." Only last year he opened a £50,000 go kart track which had just a few months of use. Instead, he has decided to diversify. Mr Bridgland runs Snowflakes Day Nursery on the same site, and is going to extend it into what was Big Fun House. Children will have the run of the place and its facilities. "It's going to be one hell of a nursery, what with the sheer volume of space and lots of unique features. "Personally, I think soft play is dead. The kids, they can't social distance. So we were left with no option but to repurpose the centre." Another owner reworking their business is Ellis Potter, managing director of the Riverside Hub in Northampton, who is soon to get a delivery of 80 tonnes of play sand for a pop-up beach on the car park. "It's cost us about £1,000 a day just to stand still with the doors closed, which is a serious chunk of money," he says. "We've received hundreds of emails from parents who want to bring a sense of normality back to their children's lives, because it's the children that are being affected in all of this. "We've implemented massive hygiene and safety measures, and spent tens of thousands of pounds with air sterilisation and antibacterial fogging - all the things that we can do to keep safe but the government are just not having it. They just won't let us open indoor play. "We've 60 staff on furlough who are apprehensive about the future, and we want to give them some clarity. There's been some very dark times but emails and Facebook messages from customers have kept us going." Mikey Johnson, assistant manager of Jungleland in Telford, said the lack of clarity for soft play centres was "diabolical". Takings went down 90 per cent in the week before lockdown as worried families stayed at home. Within a week it was zero. As the pandemic took hold, Jungleland became a drop-off point for a local food bank. In March the firm had 26 members of staff. Now eight remain on furlough, all eyes on the next government announcement. "At the minute it's an unknown," said Mr Johnson. "Even if we have a date, it's the rebuilding period after that. "We'd probably be working at half capacity, and that's just not a viable business. We need bums on seats. It's just a waiting game." Representatives from the British Association of Leisure Parks, Piers and Attractions (BALPPA) - many in furry costumes - descended on 10 Downing Street recently to raise awareness of their #RescueIndoorPlay campaign. The pandemic meant they weren't allowed to physically hand in a petition, but that is gathering pace on Change.org. "We've had a huge amount of support from people who use these centres all the time - they are embedded in our local communities," said Paul Kelly, chief executive of BALPPA. "We want the government to tell us the date we can reopen, or tell us why we can't. There are 1,100 centres and I can't see them surviving if we don't hear something soon. "We are heading for a cliff edge." Lizzie Elston, 45 from Harpenden, mum to Oliver, eight, is among those who are backing the campaign. "The benefits of soft play are massive. Oliver's not into organised sport - we've tried to get him into rugby or cricket, but he's at his happiest when he's jumping off things just being a ninja," she says. "He's always absolutely loved soft play - just being a lunatic - so it is brilliant as a parent because you can have a coffee with friends and know he's safe, either by himself or with friends. It's so important for his physical and mental wellbeing just not being in front of a screen. "It can't be overestimated, the importance of soft play - it helps how they develop, how they learn and socialise, so it's critically important for their mental health." Additional reporting by Vanessa Pearce

إنها الخلاص في يوم ممطر - حيث يمكن للأطفال أن يقذفوا أنفسهم بلا خوف إلى أعلى وأسفل الحصير الإسفنجية ذات الألوان الزاهية بينما يبحث الآباء عن العزاء مع القهوة والدردشة، وعادة ما تغرق هذه الأخيرة بصراخ يصم الآذان والهذيان بالسعادة.

فيروس كورونا: "اللعب الناعم يتجه نحو حافة الهاوية"

Suzanne Evans The former UKIP deputy chairman launched her bid for the leadership saying she would make the party less "toxic" and aim to occupy the "common sense centre" ground. She told the BBC she would "pour oil on troubled water" after there had been "a bit too much testosterone" in UKIP". Ms Evans was unable to compete in the last leadership election because of a temporary suspension, now lifted, after an internal dispute. A former Conservative councillor, she defected to UKIP in 2013 and is credited with presenting a softer, less abrasive side to the party. She wrote its 2015 election manifesto. But she is also mistrusted by sections of the party and accused one-time contest rival Raheem Kassam (who pulled out shortly before nominations closed) of seeking to take the party too far to the right. Paul Nuttall Paul Nuttall sees himself as the man to "bring the factions together" in UKIP and believes he has "huge support" among both the grassroots and the top of the party. The ex-party chairman, former deputy leader and Bootle-born MEP did not stand for the big job in the summer, reportedly because of the effect that it would have on his family life. But launching his bid this time around, he told the BBC: "I felt that with Brexit that my job and Nigel's job was done and we could hand over to the next generation. "That doesn't appear to have been the case and maybe it's time for someone who's an older hand in many ways." He said UKIP needed to come together as it was currently "looking over the edge of a political cliff". "I want to be the candidate who will tell us to come backwards," he said. "We need a strong UKIP there in the background to ensure that Brexit means Brexit and I believe that UKIP can become the patriotic face of working people." John Rees-Evans The former soldier announced he'd be running for leader on Daily Politics. Mr Rees-Evans describes himself as "a patriot who believes in the innate common sense of the British people." He has not previously held an elected office - his attempt to win the seat of Cardiff South and Penarth at the 2015 general election resulted in a third-place finish. Not standing: Elizabeth Jones Another former leadership contender, Elizabeth Jones came last in the previous contest to replace Nigel Farage. Deputy chair of the party's Lambeth branch, she stood unsuccessfully in May's London Assembly elections and came fifth in last month's Tooting by-election. The family law solicitor is a member of the party's national executive committee but decided not to run this time around. Lisa Duffy A previously less well-known figure in Westminster circles, Lisa Duffy, a town and district councillor in Cambridgeshire, came second in the last leadership contest, with 4,591 votes out of 17,970. She won the backing of key modernising figures in the party such as Suzanne Evans - who was unable to take part in the contest due to a suspension - and MEP Patrick O'Flynn, for whom she is chief of staff. Ms Duffy is a former mayor of the town of Ramsey, and as campaigns director played a key role in fighting by-elections. She joined UKIP in 2004 and stood unsuccessfully against Labour's Hazel Blears in Salford in the 2005 general election. Raheem Kassam A former chief of staff to Nigel Farage, he left his role following a bout of infighting in the wake of the 2015 election and has been editor of the London edition of the Breitbart website. He hit out at what he described as "chicanery and duplicity" at the top echelons of the party and pledged to campaign for a "strong, united UKIP free of Tory splitters". He said he was the man to continue Mr Farage's legacy inside UKIP but pulled out of the contest shortly before nominations closed, claiming the top of the party was treating the contest "like a coronation", criticising his treatment by the media and saying he had not raised enough money to run anything beyond "a digital campaign run from SW1". David Kurten Holding one of two UKIP seats as a London Assembly member, David Kurten sits on the transport, housing and environment committees and the education panel of the Assembly. Announcing his candidacy, he insisted UKIP remained a "vital force" in British politics and has vowed to "not rest" until the country is built up again after decades of "embracing destructive ideologies of political correctness". Before starting his career in politics, he was a chemistry teacher for 15 years. He pulled out of the contest the day before nominations closed on 31 October. Andrew Beadle Andrew Beadle was UKIP's parliamentary candidate for Bermondsey and Old Southwark in the 2015 general election. He lost out in the Wallington South by-election of the same year. Mr Beadle said that UKIP "needs a full time leader not a part-time caretaker" and wants to drive the party forward with its "potential" and "staggering ability". Announced he was pulling out of the contest on 26 October. Bill Etheridge A Conservative activist before joining UKIP in 2011, Mr Etheridge has called for major reform of the penal system, including restricting prisoners' privileges, banning visits during the first six months of a sentence and an automatic 10-year increase in sentence for anyone attacking a prison officer. He has also called for far-reaching changes to the tax system, including a 50% cut in alcohol and tobacco duty, replacing VAT with a local sales tax and gradually merging national insurance and income taxes. On 25 October he announced he'd be abandoning his leadership campaign. Steven Woolfe The 49-year-old barrister was a front-runner in the contest - but withdrew, and resigned from UKIP, after a row with party colleagues. Mr Woolfe was taken to hospital after the clash with fellow MEP Mike Hookem in the European Parliament, with the two men giving conflicting verdicts on what happened. He was previously the bookies' favourite for the job, vowing to make UKIP "the main opposition party", to stand up for the "ignored working class" and to bring about a "radically different political landscape in Britain for a generation". But he will now see out his term as an independent MEP. Peter Whittle The party's culture spokesman and most prominent gay representative has dropped out of the race to succeed Diane James. He previously told the the BBC UKIP was "not going anywhere soon" and insisted it was "here to stay". On 4 November Mr Whittle recommended that his supporters back Paul Nuttall instead, saying: "UKIP needs a leader who knows the party inside out and who can command the loyalty of members across the board." Other leading figures Douglas Carswell: The party's sole MP, who defected from the Conservatives in 2014, has repeatedly said the job of leader is not for him Neil Hamilton: The former Tory minister, who is leader of UKIP in the Welsh Assembly, has said he has no interest in becoming leader under any circumstances. Mr Farage, who has a fractious relationship with Mr Hamilton, has said this would be a "horror story".

يعقد حزب استقلال المملكة المتحدة مسابقة جديدة على زعامة الحزب بعد استقالة ديان جيمس المنتخبة مؤخرًا بشكل غير متوقع بعد 18 يومًا في المنصب. وسيتم الإعلان عن بديلها في 28 نوفمبر. مع إغلاق باب الترشيحات، من سيترشح؟

قيادة UKIP: المتنافسون على خلافة ديان جيمس

By Katie HopeBBC News, Davos But what is it and why do they go? Here are 10 handy facts to make sure when someone next mentions Davos you can nod wisely and look like you know what you're talking about. 1. It isn't really called Davos Although everyone calls it Davos, the January get-together is actually the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Davos is simply the name of the Swiss mountain resort where the summit is held. The town's association with the glitzy gathering means plenty of rival events have tried to capitalise on the name's cachet, with a proliferation of conferences claiming to be "Davos" this or that. But last year when a Saudi investment conference was dubbed "Davos in the desert" around the time of the controversial death of prominent government critic Jamal Khashoggi, WEF finally hit back. It warned it would use "all means to protect the Davos brand against illicit appropriation". 2. It's not just a conference The World Economic Forum is a not-for-profit group with the ambitious mission of improving the state of the world. Its annual jamboree is officially a conference. There are endless speeches and sessions on everything from the outlook for the global economy to managing stress. In reality, most people aren't there for the sessions but to network relentlessly. Being in a relatively tiny space for four days enables corporate bosses, politicians and journalists to have an incredible number of meetings in an efficiently short space of time with no travel required. This networking carries on late into the night with daily dinners, drinks and parties, put on by the firms who are attending. 3. Meetings can lead to action Forum founder Klaus Schwab started the annual shindig in 1971 to discuss global management practices. Now WEF has a much broader remit, but critics argue that it's still just a talking shop. But the isolated setting of Davos offers politicians a valuable chance to meet away from the public glare. North and South Korea held their first ministerial level meetings in Davos in 1989, for example. Last year, the Greek and Macedonian prime ministers met face to face for the first time in seven years, paving the way to the end of a 27-year dispute over Macedonia's name. 4. Only businesses pay (a lot) to attend The only attendees who pay to attend WEF are companies; all other attendees are invited free of charge. The charge for companies is 27,000 Swiss francs (£20,900; €23,800) per person. But that's not all. Attendees must also be a member of the World Economic Forum. There are a number of tiers of membership, starting at 60,000 Swiss francs per year to a whopping 600,000 Swiss francs to be a so-called "strategic partner". It's a pricey business, but top members get access to private sessions with their industry peers and unlike everyone else, slipping and sliding over the icy pavements, they also get a dedicated car and chauffeur. A price worth paying, some might say. 5. Conference passes are colour coded Improving inequality is always a big talking point at Davos, but WEF operates its own very unequal system determined by a complicated caste system of coloured badges. Yes you might be in the same place as Prince William or the New Zealand PM but it's unlikely you'll bump into them in the loo. Such high-profile guests get a white badge with a hologram on it, giving them access to everywhere - including the hyper-exclusive special backroom meetings. There are different coloured badges for participants' spouses and journalists, all offering various levels of access. The lowest level is a "hotel" badge, which means you can't get into the conference centre at all, but crucially can attend the nightly parties or indeed go skiing. Arguably the best badge going. 6. There are a lot of men In the 49 years since Davos started hosting its annual meetings, men have vastly outnumbered women despite a quota system for large firms who must bring one woman for every four men. "Davos Man" has even become a description in its own right, synonymous with the stereotypical attendee: a powerful and wealthy elite male - whom many see as out of touch with the real world. Of course, this largely reflects the current reality: those at the top in both business and politics are predominantly male. But while photos of the suit-heavy gathering captioned "spot the woman" do the rounds on social media every year, the situation is steadily improving. This year, 22% of attendees will be female. It's not great, but the percentage of women has doubled since 2001. 7. It's not a young crowd It takes time to claw your way to the top and wangle a Davos invite and the average age of attendees reflects this: it's 54 for men and 49 for women. Of course there are some anomalies. At just 16, South African wildlife photographer Skye Meaker is the youngest participant this year, while the oldest is 92-year-old broadcaster Sir David Attenborough. 8. It has its own language Complicated corporate jargon is a hallmark of the conference. What anyone actually means can be mystifying, even to the seasoned WEF watcher. Even the theme of each year's conference is often incomprehensible. This year's is Globalization 4.0: Shaping a Global Architecture in the Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. What's it actually about? Umm, we'll let you know next week. 9. It's like flying... without the actual flying This year's attendees include Japanese and New Zealand PMs Shinzo Abe and Jacinda Ardern, as well as Prince William and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Given the high profile of many of the attendees, security is understandably tight. There are snipers on every roof and a secure zone that you need the right pass to access. Every time you enter the main conference centre you have to remove your coat, scan your laptop and bag and then put it all on again. It's like constantly going through airport security without ever flying anywhere. 10. Everyone loves a free bobble hat The attendees may be wealthy heads of state and chief executives earning hundreds of thousands or even millions, but the lure of a free bobble hat is surprisingly irresistible. Every year Zurich Insurance provides bright blue knitted hats you can help yourself to from a hole in the wall. And almost everyone does. Months later if you see someone wearing one, you can nod at each other discreetly. You're part of the Davos set.

في شهر يناير/كانون الثاني من كل عام، ولمدة تقرب من 50 عاماً، يجتمع زعماء العالم ورؤساء أكبر الشركات في العالم وعدد من المشاهير في بلدة جبلية سويسرية صغيرة تسمى دافوس لحضور المنتدى الاقتصادي العالمي.

10 أشياء لا تعرفها عن دافوس

By Kelly-Leigh CooperBBC News Fans of the show took to Twitter to complain about the service misrepresenting, censoring and simplifying dialogue from a variety of shows. Tweets by Rogan Shannon, a deaf Netflix fan, in which he demanded that the service explain why it was not captioning word for word, have been shared thousands of times in recent days. His tweets claim the subtitles censor profanity and edit dialogue for brevity. Others accused the service of failing to caption foreign language inserts and correcting distinct dialects into Standard English. Mr Brown, the Queer Eye cast member who focuses on culture, said reading fan comments had broken his heart. After the outpouring of social media complaints, Netflix thanked fans for raising concerns, and said on Twitter that it was looking at fixing some the issues raised - a move that was welcomed by Mr Brown. Subtitles are created in different ways by different broadcasters, with many employing outside subtitling firms. They can be written manually and time-coded to audio, or are generated using dictation software or audio recognition. Gemma Rayner-Jones, 31, from Canterbury in England, uses subtitles to help her to concentrate when watching shows online because of a cognitive impairment. Because she is able to hear and notice the differences, she has been tracking and complaining about inaccuracies in Netflix's subtitles for about two years. She estimates that she has submitted about 150 complaints in that time, and says she has not had a response. "Everyone should be getting the same experience," she told the BBC. "It seems a shame to have a system to report faults there to placate people, but they don't seem to be doing anything about it." She wants Netflix to be more transparent about how it handles complaints, so that users can check in whether action has been taken. Student Chrissy Marshall, 18, studies film at the University of California and runs a YouTube account trying to raise awareness about deaf culture, accessibility and sign language. She was one of many who took to Twitter to complain about inaccuracies in Queer Eye's subtitling. For her, online streaming still remains one of the best entertainment options available. "I don't watch cable or normal TV because captioning is always messed up or lagging. As for movie-going in theatres, the experience normally sucks," she told the BBC. "Netflix is what I use as a primary source for streaming because typically it is the most accessible, but even the most accessible has its issues. "Captioning as a job is not to 'clean up' language, it's to provide accessibility, full accessibility. "We don't care if it's a bad word, vulgar, or maybe inappropriate, if hearing people get to know what is being said, we deserve to know as well." This is not an issue isolated to Netflix itself. While regulations are in place for closed captioning (user-activated) subtitles on typical television services, many on-demand services still lag behind. One YouTube vlogger, Rikki Poynter, has dedicated years to working on accessibility on the platform, lobbying it to improve its automatic subtitle service using the hashtag #NoMoreCRAPtions. 'Second-class service' In the US, the Federal Communications Commission has strict regulations which specify that captions "must match the spoken words in the dialogue and convey background noises and other sounds to the fullest extent possible" - but it only requires the regulations on shows on television, which means that Netflix-exclusive original series may not qualify. The National Association of the Deaf sued and made a four-year agreement with Netflix in 2012, where it committed to ensuring all its programmes were subtitled. Although the four-year decree has now run out, on Thursday the group told the BBC it was "disappointed that Netflix appears not to be providing captioning at the level that was promised" and said it hoped it would ensure it was using verbatim and accurate captions. In the UK, Action on Hearing Loss has spent three years on a Subtitle It! campaign aiming to get the UK government to extend regulation to captioning of video-on-demand content. Dr Roger Wicks, the group's director of policy and campaigns, told the BBC that any attempt by providers to summarise or edit language on subtitles was a "very bad approach" which could lead to people who were deaf or hard-of-hearing feeling "alienated or patronised". "Subtitles are a replacement for speech, they're meant to be verbatim so people have full access," he told the BBC. "Any attempt to summarise is offering a second-class service. I think this is well-intentioned, but it's getting it wrong." He told the BBC his group intended to contact Netflix over the issue. Mr Shannon, whose widely-shared tweets helped spark the debate, wants the company to change and check the way it subtitles its shows. "I'd like to see more oversight on captioning agencies, more strict procedures for checking the captions," he told the BBC. "I'd also like to see those who are doing the hiring, such as Netflix, to check that all the files that they get are accurate, and not just assume they did everything right. "I'm aware that it's time consuming, but this will continue to be a problem if there are no checks and balances. Accessibility really matters." 'There's no reason to miss words out' - Nalina Eggert, BBC News Deaf and hard of hearing people have been saying for years that subtitles just aren't good enough - whether on traditional TV or streaming platforms like Netflix - and it's wonderful that the clamour for change has led to a commitment this time around. I'm hard of hearing and I watch all my on-screen entertainment with subtitles. In many ways streaming has made that easier - if I watched live TV I'd be missing loads of what was going on. If you've ever watched a news channel with the sound off in the gym, you'll know what I mean - whole sentences are missed, random words pop up... But when things are scripted and pre-packaged, in my view there's no reason to miss things out. An estimated nine million people in the UK have a hearing impairment of some kind - more than live in London. Many of us completely depend on the subtitlers to get the meaning across. And many hearing people watch subtitles on their phone when they have no headphones, or for all sorts of other reasons. Programme-makers must realise subtitle users are part of your audience - don't sell them short. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

أضاف كارامو براون، مقدم برنامج التجميل الناجح للغاية Queer Eye، صوته إلى نقاش على وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي يحث Netflix على تحسين ترجماتها للمشاهدين الصم وضعاف السمع.

يدعم مضيف Queer Eye المشاهدين بشأن تغيير الترجمة في Netflix

The Blaencwm tunnel, closed for nearly 50 years, could reopen after a campaign by the Rhondda Tunnel Society. The society wants to reopen the route, which runs for 3km (1.8 miles) to Blaengwynfi, Neath Port Talbot, for cyclists, walkers and tourists. The tunnel was closed during cutbacks of the UK railway network in the 1960s. In May this year, the Welsh government said it would commission a study to look at reopening the tunnel for tourism.

تم نشر الصور الأولى من داخل نفق السكك الحديدية المهجور في روندا، والذي يريد الناشطون تحويله إلى طريق للدراجات.

النظرة الأولى داخل نفق روندا المطلوب لمسار الدراجات

Lord Justice Lloyd Jones - Sir David Lloyd Jones - has been a judge on the Wales circuit and was appointed to the Court of Appeal in 2012. One of three new justices, he was born and brought up in Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff. The concept of needing a Welsh member of the highest court in the UK had been rejected as "premature" by a former deputy high court judge in 2015. Lord Thomas of Gresford said that while Scotland and Northern Ireland had long-standing judicial systems, cases of Welsh law would "not be frequent" and did not require one of the 12 Supreme Court judges to be from Wales. However, the court's then chief executive Jenny Rowe said as the body of Welsh law increased due to devolution, appointing a justice with a Welsh background would have to be considered. On Friday, the Supreme Court said 65-year-old Lord Justice Lloyd Jones would begin work on a date to be agreed. The Supreme Court has handled rows over whether certain powers reside with UK or Welsh ministers. They involved a Welsh asbestos compensation bill in February 2015 and, in July 2014, moves by ministers in Cardiff to protect the wages of agricultural workers.

تم تعيين أول عضو ويلزي في المحكمة العليا.

تم تعيين أول قاضي في المحكمة العليا في ويلز

Rayan Saab, from Birmingham, has been charged with six counts of disseminating terrorist publications between 13 April 2019 and 31 December 2020, West Midlands Police said. The 21-year-old was arrested at a property in Bloomsbury Walk in the city on Wednesday. He is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, the force said. Follow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk Related Internet Links West Midlands Police

ووجهت لرجل اتهامات بارتكاب جرائم إرهابية متعددة.

اتهام ريان صعب بنشر منشورات إرهابية

Peake played a female Hamlet at the Royal Exchange, while Jones starred in the same theatre's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando. Other stars on the list include Robert Lindsay, for his role in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at Manchester's Opera House. The winners are announced on 13 March. A panel of 11 of the region's leading theatre critics has selected the nominees, which include several productions at Bolton's Octagon Theatre and The Lowry in Salford. Here are the main nominees: Best Actor Best Actress Best Actor in a Supporting Role Best Actress in a Supporting Role Best Actor in a Visiting Production Best Actress in a Visiting Production Best Production Best Musical Related Internet Links Manchester Theatre Awards

ستتنافس الممثلتان ماكسين بيك وسوران جونز وجهاً لوجه في حفل توزيع جوائز مسرح مانشستر لهذا العام، بعد أن تم ترشيحهما لعروض مبادلة بين الجنسين.

نجوم مسرح مانشستر مرشحون لجوائز

The firm said flight EZY6819, which left Glasgow Airport at 11:20, requested a priority landing at Berlin Schoenefeld Airport. Flight Info and Alerts' Twitter account noted it was descending at high speed. An EasyJet spokeswoman said the the aircraft was met by emergency services and passengers disembarked normally. She said engineers in Berlin were working to identify and resolve the issue. "The safety of its passengers and crew is easyjet's highest priority," she said. "We would like to apologise for any inconvenience experienced due to delays."

أصدرت رحلة طيران EasyJet المتجهة من غلاسكو إلى برلين تنبيهًا طارئًا وهبطت مبكرًا بعد ورود تقارير عن رائحة دخان في قمرة القيادة.

هبوط اضطراري لطائرة إيزي جيت بعد "رائحة دخان"

By Philip SimBBC Scotland political reporter In the first instance, very little is going to happen. Politics is essentially on hold while the country is in the grip of the coronavirus crisis - there are frankly far more important things to be dealing with right now. But there is already much activity beneath the surface, with both opposition politicians and some within the SNP starting to pose questions. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she will answer many of them in due course. What did we learn during the trial which could give an indication of the political fallout from the case? To start at the end of the trial, what did Mr Salmond mean when he said outside court that there was "certain evidence I would have liked to have seen led in this trial" which had not come out? This almost certainly refers to the limits placed on the questions which can be asked of complainers in sexual offences trials. Primarily this refers to questioning about their sexual history, but it can also extend to other matters. There was much debate in pre-trial hearings - which could not be reported until after the trial itself - about what could be asked of the complainers. The defence wanted to press some of the women about later developments, around the judicial review process where Mr Salmond challenged the government over its handling of internal complaints against him. Lady Dorrian ruled that this would remove the focus of the trial to another matter - which took place a decade after some of the charges - and would distract the jury from the merits of the charges themselves. The defence actually tried to challenge this decision with another judge, but were rebuffed by Lady Stacey in similar terms. Why did the defence want to talk about the judicial review? Because they believed it was central to a politically-driven conspiracy against Mr Salmond. There was little direct talk of this in the trial itself, Gordon Jackson's assertions that "this stinks" in his closing speech aside. Mr Salmond said some allegations had been "deliberate fabrications for a political purpose", but the jury were never told why this might have been the case. To again look to the pre-trial hearings, here the defence were able to be much clearer. Mr Jackson said there had been "a great deal of egg on faces" in government over the "spectacular" collapse of its case in the judicial review. He said that after this, people working within the current administration turned their attention "very directly" to the criminal probe and "sought to influence that process to discredit the former first minister". Text messages were read out saying Mr Salmond's ire over the botched internal probe risked "bringing down Nicola on the way". Where might this evidence come out, then, if not in court? MSP Alex Neil has called for a "judge led public inquiry" - post-coronavirus - to find out if there was a "criminal" conspiracy to "do in Alex Salmond". However, a series of inquiries are already waiting in the wings, having been set up in 2019 before being put on ice after criminal charges were brought. A parliamentary inquiry is due to examine the role of Nicola Sturgeon and her advisors in the internal inquiry, which the government conceded had been unlawful shortly before Mr Salmond's legal challenge was to be heard at the Court of Session. Ms Sturgeon insisted at the time that the process was "completely robust" and had only fallen down in one "deeply regrettable" area in the case of Mr Salmond. However, one of the complainers in the trial also hit out at the government process, saying it was "flawed" and that she didn't want to be part of the internal inquiry because there was too much "risk" around it. This is almost certainly set to be the focus of much of the parliamentary inquiry - along with the questions posed repeatedly at Holyrood back in 2019, about what Ms Sturgeon knew and when. The first minister has also referred herself to a standards panel who will decide whether she broke the ministerial code during the government investigation of her predecessor. Ms Sturgeon told MSPs she had face-to-face meetings with Mr Salmond and spoke to him on the phone while the probe was ongoing, but insisted that she "acted appropriately and in good faith" at all times. Ms Sturgeon previously insisted that she first heard about complaints against Mr Salmond at a meeting at her house in Glasgow on 2 April, 2018. She has also said this meeting was party business, rather than that of the government - negating the need for official notes to be taken. This meeting was facilitated by Mr Salmond's former chief of staff, Geoff Aberdein. And while giving evidence under oath, Mr Aberdein said he had held an earlier meeting with Ms Sturgeon at her Holyrood office, on 29 March. The question eliciting this revelation appeared to be specifically prompted by Mr Salmond, who called his QC across for consultation before it was asked. Clearly, the former first minister thinks this a significant point. What actually happened at that meeting was not discussed in court, but the fact it was held sparks immediate questions. If it was in the first minister's parliamentary office, was it government business? And why did we only hear about it via testimony in court? And outside of government itself, there have also been questions asked about the role of the SNP. Mr Salmond's supporters were quick to comment on the verdict, with Kenny MacAskill calling for resignations - without specifying whose - and Joanna Cherry demanding an independent inquiry into the party's internal complaints procedure. One complainer, Woman H, said she had made a complaint to the SNP specifically so it would be on file for vetting purposes should Mr Salmond ever run for office again. The court heard she had received a text message from a party official saying "we'll sit on that and hope we never need to deploy it". Woman H was clear that this was at her request, but questions are sure to be asked about a process which saw a complaint of sexual assault effectively buried. What else might political parties be "sitting on"? Mr Salmond quit the party at the point he launched his judicial review. Will he now seek to rejoin it? Or has the rift with the current leadership grown too stark? Finally, while he has walked free from court acquitted on all counts, has Mr Salmond's reputation come through the trial intact? He will not mind that one verdict was "not proven" rather than not guilty - in practice, they mean the same thing, that he is innocent in the eyes of the law. He is free to return to normal life and society - albeit a society currently in lockdown - and will presumably keep his arm in the political debate while presenting his TV show on Russian channel RT. But the defence case readily admitted that he had not always behaved well. Mr Jackson said throughout that the "touchy-feely" Mr Salmond could certainly act inappropriately, and led witnesses who called him "extraordinarily pugnacious" and "extremely demanding". The QC said in his closing speech that the former first minister "could certainly have been a better man" - but that none of this made him a criminal, something the jury accepted. Mr Salmond admitted to having a "sleepy cuddle" with one complainer, and what Mr Jackson called "a bit of how's your father" with another - both members of his staff far younger than he, and neither of them his wife. The defence also never really attempted to dispel the slightly raucous image of Bute House drawn by the prosecution, of exotic liquors being poured late at night after celebrity dinners and staff being invited to do paperwork in the bedroom. To stress again, a jury has ruled that none of this was criminal conduct. But that does not mean nobody will question it. The SNP's equalities convener has already called elements of it "deeply inappropriate", although Mr Salmond is also sure to fight for his reputation in light of the verdict. While the trial may be over, the political fallout is only just beginning. This is a difficult moment for all concerned - ultimately, very few people may come out of this affair well.

تم إطلاق سراح أليكس سالموند من المحكمة العليا بعد تبرئته من تهم الاعتداء الجنسي - لكنه أوضح أن هذا أبعد ما يكون عن نهاية الأمر. مع سلسلة من الاستفسارات قيد الإعداد، ما الذي سيأتي بعد ذلك؟

محاكمة أليكس سالموند: ما هي التداعيات السياسية؟

By Richard WatsonBBC Newsnight The man in a white robe with the microphone at the front of the hall addressed his audience of al-Muhajiroun supporters. Even with cameras there, he didn't hold back. "When Tony Blair came out, George Bush came out at the same time and he said: 'Are you with us or you're with the terrorists?' What did we Muslims say?" He paused for effect. "We're not with you, we're with the… terrorists." The audience finished his sentence for him and cries of Allahu Akbar [God is great] echoed around the room. It was April 2004 and I'd been invited to film at an al-Muhajiroun meeting at a community hall in Bethnal Green in east London. I was following a convert to Islam called Sulayman Keeler - born Simon Keeler - for a film I was making for Newsnight. The next speaker was no less extreme. Abu Uzair, real name Sajid Sharif, took the microphone. The engineering graduate from Manchester launched into one of al-Muhajiroun's favourite topics - the 9/11 attacks on America. "When the two planes magnificently run through those buildings… people say, 'hang on a second, that is barbaric. Why did you have to do that?' You know why? Because of ignorance." At this point, I put my hand up to interrupt, asking him how it could be justifiable to call the killing of innocent people in the Twin Towers "magnificent". Abu Uzair replied: "For us it's retaliation." I pressed on: "But the killing of innocent civilians can't be right." Jabbing his finger at me, Abu Uzair answered: "It can't be right according to you. According to Islam it's right. Do you not kill innocent civilians in Afghanistan?" "I wouldn't call that magnificent," I ventured. Abu Uzair replied: "Islamically speaking it's magnificent." And with that exchange, the extreme, aggressive ideology of al-Muhajiroun became clear. It was a message of defiance, of hate. No compromise. For them Islam was at war with the West. They knew our camera was rolling but they were justifying violence. This was a year before the London bombings on 7 July 2005 that claimed 52 lives. The BBC understands that Abu Uzair has never faced legal action in the UK. He gave this lecture 13 years ago. The legal picture has changed now. New laws ban the glorification of terrorism and there've been many more successful prosecutions over the past decade. After the Manchester Arena bomb attack last month, MI5 let it be known that the scale of the threat from militant Islamists is huge. Some 3,000 people in the UK are assessed to have current links to violent Islamist extremism, with another 20,000 assessed to have had recent links. That makes for a longlist of 23,000 people - the population of a small town. The fact that al-Muhajiroun was allowed to recruit in towns across the UK for years, largely unfettered by the state, is part of the picture. The group was the creation of the extremist preacher Omar Bakri Muhammad. Born in Syria, he was expelled in 1977 for his anti-Baath Party views and travelled to Lebanon where he joined Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir. Their aim was to create a single Islamic State - a caliphate - across the entire Middle East and, eventually, the world. After a brief stay in Egypt, Bakri Muhammad settled in Mecca in Saudi Arabia. In 1983, he created a new group there called Jamaat al-Muhajiroun. The name means "the community of the emigrants". In 1986, Bakri Muhammad's extreme Islamist views and connections to the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir led the Saudis to expel him. He fled to the UK where he was given asylum. He immediately created a UK branch of Hizb ut-Tahrir and began an aggressive recruitment drive among young British Muslims. In the UK, Bakri Muhammad's sermons called for the black flag of Islam to be hoisted over Downing Street and for a global caliphate. The next decade was spent peddling his narrative - that Muslims were the victims of international conspiracies, that Sharia [Islamic law] must come to the UK. But Hizb ut-Tahrir's international leadership grew tired of the man who would become known as the Tottenham Ayatollah, a reference to his office in north London. His focus on the UK was seen as a distraction from the wider goal of establishing a caliphate across the Middle East. He was expelled from the party in 1996. And that prompted him to set up a new group in the UK - al-Muhajiroun. In the late 1990s, Bakri Muhammad toured towns and cities with large Muslim populations in a recruitment drive for his new group. He was largely unchallenged by the British state, which had been preoccupied by the threat posed by Irish republican groups. They dismissed Bakri Muhammad as a fool. In the wider community, few realised how divisive and dangerous his views were. Over the years, I've spent a lot of time in Crawley, investigating terrorism for the BBC. With its well-kept houses and leafy streets, this Sussex new town seems an unlikely recruiting ground for jihad. But some of the UK's most notorious Islamists were born there. Three of those later convicted of planning to detonate a huge fertiliser bomb in 2004 grew up in the town. The leader of the plot, Omar Khyam, had strong links with al-Muhajiroun. Omar Khyam and another of the fertiliser bomb plotters, Jawad Akbar, both attended Hazelwick secondary school in the town. At one point Bakri Muhammad managed to get himself invited to talk to sixth formers there. The headteacher of Hazelwick school at that time was Gordon Parry. "At the time our involvement with him was simply to promote religious tolerance and understanding and inclusivity," he says. "I will put my hand up now and say that was an utterly naïve thing to do. But at the time I didn't understand what he represented." Fast-forward to 2017 and the terror attack at London Bridge had a strong link with al-Muhajiroun. The attack leader Khuram Butt was a supporter of the network, even appearing in a Channel 4 documentary last year called The Jihadis Next Door. Butt didn't exactly hide his extremist sympathies, and this raises a huge question for the British state - was the threat posed by radicals linked to al-Muhajiroun underestimated for years? One senior former government adviser on the threat from terrorism certainly thinks it was. Richard Kemp was chairman of the Cobra Intelligence Group at the time of the London bombings in 2005. He was responsible for co-ordinating intelligence from the Security Service MI5 and the Secret Intelligence Service MI6, reporting to the secret Cobra committee that briefs the government on national security at times of crisis. "We've been far too tolerant of al-Muhajiroun," says Kemp. Their use of abusive language and threats was not tackled, he suggests. "It was a major failure and we've seen the consequences - we've seen Lee Rigby [murdered] by a follower of al-Muhajiroun, we've seen numerous attacks around the world." Kemp, also a former commander of British armed forces in Afghanistan, says there was a certain amount of complacency about al-Muhajiroun, both in the intelligence community and in successive governments. "There was a real failure politically and among the police and intelligence services to understand the way this situation was going to develop." There was a period of inaction on the part of the authorities before 9/11 - but also after - that was extremely dangerous, Kemp believes. "The networks and the individuals involved in them saw that we were weak. They saw that we wanted to appease them and we wanted to let them continue and they exploited that - in terms of developing and building a network. "There was an element of complacency among those people who were monitoring their activities. I certainly heard words used like 'blowhard' and 'windbag' in relation to some cases… that we're looking at people who talk a big war but don't actually fight it and don't pose a big threat to the UK." Peter Clarke, the former head of counter-terrorism at the Metropolitan Police, doesn't agree with this analysis. "It is easy to say with hindsight that more should have been done sooner to focus on the Islamist threat. This is too simplistic. The Good Friday agreement may have been signed in 1998, but the dissident republicans of the Real IRA were attacking targets on the mainland UK, including the BBC, until 2001. At that time Islamist groups were involved in low-level criminality to raise funds to send back to political organisations in their countries of origin." Mr Clarke says he never heard the term "blowhard" being used. In 2004 it was clear the threat had escalated. An intercepted electronic communication about perfecting the ingredients for a massive fertiliser bomb prompted a huge counter-terrorism investigation by the police and MI5 - Operation Crevice. This was followed a few months later by another big investigation, Operation Rhyme, to foil a second Islamist bomb plot in the UK. There was a race to investigate these plots, Clarke says. "These were both intercepted as a result of intensive investigation by MI5 and police, and preceded the 7/7 attacks. So it is not right to say that the Islamist threat was ignored. "Priorities were chosen according to the threat posed by various groups. After 9/11, Irish terrorist groups pulled back on their activities, allowing a shift in focus towards finding out if Islamists did indeed pose a threat." The fertiliser bomb plotters - and the 7/7 London bombers who murdered 52 people the following year - also had strong links to al-Muhajiroun. By 2004, it was clear that the al-Muhajiroun network had been at the very least a gateway to terror. Al-Muhajiroun and its leaders always played a cat and mouse game with the state. Bakri Muhammad wound up the group in 2004 because he thought it was about to be banned. But the network then launched a series of groups which were, in effect, different names for the same thing. Al-Ghurabaa and the Saviour Sect both emerged in 2005 as splinter groups, and were proscribed in 2006. Other groups created by the same network included Muslims Against Crusades, Islam4UK, Shariah4UK, Call to Submission, Islamic Path, the London School of Sharia, and Need4Khilafah. All of them were proscribed by the government after they emerged. All of these groups can be considered as the al-Muhajiroun network. They all wanted to see Sharia law introduced to the UK by force, do not believe in democracy, and have hostile views about Shia Muslims and other minorities that they claim are consistent with the teachings of the Koran. So why was more not done? This was ideological extremism and the leaders of the network, like Anjem Choudary, were always careful to stay, just, on the right side of the law so they could not be arrested. "No-one knew whether the ideological stance of al-Muhajiroun was going to inevitably lead to violence in this country," says Mr Clarke. "Once the threat from dissident republicans receded, the focus on the Islamist threat grew very quickly. It's also probably fair to say that no-one had before encountered a terrorist threat that was rooted in ideology rather than political goals, that knew no boundaries and for whose adherents capture or death was not a risk but an aspiration." The British state did take action. Bakri Muhammad was stopped from re-entering the UK after the 7/7 bombings in London in 2005, moving back to Lebanon, where he is serving a prison sentence for terrorism offences today. But his network continued under different names. The network's supporters have been linked to terror plots across the world. And a number of adherents in the UK have been imprisoned. In addition to the five fertiliser bomb plotters - Omar Khyam, Jawad Akbar, Waheed Mahmood, Anthony Garcia and Salahuddin Amin - other followers such as Sulayman Keeler and Abu Izzadeen have been convicted of terror-related offences. Figurehead Anjem Choudary was eventually jailed for five years for inviting support for so-called Islamic State. This latest connection, between the recent London Bridge terrorist attack and al-Muhajiroun, is likely to feature in the ongoing police investigation. We know Khuram Butt, the attack leader, was a long-term supporter of the group. But if you dig a little further some interesting facts emerge about the gym in east London where he used to train - the Ummah Fitness Centre in Ilford. Newsnight discovered that a man called Sajeel Shahid applied for planning permission to create a gym for Muslims from warehouse space in 2011. To understand the significance of this, we have to look back to the late 1990s when Omar Bakri Muhammad set up a branch of al-Muhajiroun in Pakistan. Sajeel Shahid is alleged to have helped run the office in Lahore. Just after the 9/11 attack, an American jihadist called Mohammed Junaid Babar joined them. Three years later, he turned against his old friends and became a jihadi "supergrass", testifying against people in the al-Muhajiroun network who went on to plan a terror attack in the UK. We obtained a confidential transcript of the FBI's interview with Junaid Babar. In it, Junaid Babar tells the FBI that Sajeel Shahid was the leader of al-Muhajiroun in Pakistan. The document alleges that Junaid Babar said that Sajeel Shahid co-ordinated training for jihadi recruits at a camp in Pakistan where they "most likely received explosives training". Junaid Babar also said in court, during the 2007 trial of the fertiliser bomb plotters, that in February 2003 he and Sajeel Shahid had found a good location for weapons training in Pakistan's north-west frontier province near the town of Malakand. The future leader of the fertiliser bomb plot, Omar Khyam, and the future leader of the London 7/7 bombers, Mohammad Siddique Khan, trained there. We tried to contact Sajeel Shahid to ask him about this, but a man answering the phone number we had simply said it was the wrong number and hung up. There's absolutely no suggestion that Sajeel Shahid had a hand in the London Bridge attack, and he has never been charged with any terror-related offence. Sajeel Shahid has previously denied being the leader of al-Muhajiroun in Pakistan and said that he had only been a student in the country. The named groups connected with al-Muhajiroun have been proscribed, but the networks of supporters persist. After the recent spate of attacks, Prime Minister Theresa May said "enough is enough" and declared her intent to do something about it. But based on the last two decades of various governments failing to get on top of the problem of radicalisation, Richard Kemp remains worried. "I'm not sure that there is a political courage or the political will." Richard Watson's report for Newsnight can be seen on BBC iPlayer

وكان أحد منفذي هجوم جسر لندن من أتباع شبكة المهاجرين المحظورة. ولكن هل كانت المملكة المتحدة مذنبة لأنها لم تأخذ الجماعة الإسلامية على محمل الجد بما فيه الكفاية؟

هل تم الاستهانة بالمهاجرين؟

Swansea Bay University Health Board said it was also introducing a one visitor at a time policy immediately. Visiting at all sites, including Morriston, Singleton and Neath Port Talbot hospitals, will run from 15:00 GMT. It said those with suspected COVID-19 could not have visitors. The health board said its measures include no child visitors. The rules "may be relaxed" for palliative care patients, the health board added. The restrictions apply to all sites, including community and mental health wards. It apologised for the inconvenience or distress caused by the restrictions. Powys Teaching Health Board has said it had no restrictions in place at the moment. Hywel Dda University Health Board advised families to restrict visiting to what is necessary and not visit if unwell.

من المقرر أن يُسمح للمرضى في مستشفيات سوانسي ونيث بورت تالبوت بالزيارة لمدة ساعة واحدة فقط يوميًا في محاولة لوقف انتشار فيروس كورونا.

فيروس كورونا: مجلس صحة خليج سوانسي يقيد زيارات المستشفى

The 21-year-old was hit by the truck on the A16 at Newborough, near Peterborough, at about 20:25 GMT on Thursday and was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the lorry was not injured and has not been arrested, Cambridgeshire Police said. The road was initially closed, but has since reopened.

توفي رجل بعد أن صدمته شاحنة.

A16 نيوبورو: وفاة أحد المشاة بعد أن صدمته شاحنة

Rory Cellan-JonesTechnology correspondent@BBCRoryCJon Twitter HTC certainly needs some good news. Last year it had just 2.2% of the smartphone market according to the analysts IDC - down from nearly 9% two years earlier. The company made its first ever quarterly loss last year, though it was in good company - apart from Samsung and Apple, everyone is struggling to make money in this business. I got a brief chance to try the new HTC One this morning in the company of the firm's co-founder Cher Wang. It's another good-looking, nice feeling, all-metal device with one standout feature - a camera that allows you to perform all kinds of tricks with a picture after it has been taken. The Duo camera enables you to change which area of the picture is in focus, so that those photos where you find you've focused on the building in the background rather than the person in front of it won't be such a problem in future. The phone also has excellent speakers, producing the kind of sound you used to expect from something much bigger, and it features the latest version of HTC Sense, the software overlay that provides a customised version of Android. A quick demo revealed an experience not unlike the Flipboard app, delivering news, weather and your social media comings and goings with a few swipes of a finger. Here's the problem. I've no doubt that for the kind of people who pore over the list of technical specs when choosing a new smartphone, the HTC One (M8) will prove a popular choice. But that's a minority. To most of us, these days just about every smartphone looks the same - an oblong pane of glass with some icons. I rather suspect that if you walked out on the street and showed this phone to a crowd, many would struggle to distinguish it from a Samsung Galaxy S5 or a Sony Xperia Z1 or an LG G2. So in the end it all comes down to marketing - how big a budget you have to make your phone stand out from the crowd. Cher Wang admits that this is a challenge for HTC. "We have to communicate better. If we go out and actually communicate with our customers, I think they will love it." It is hard to see how HTC can outspend the mighty Samsung, although Ms Wang contends her firm will win by spending its money more smartly. Some, however, may question whether the name HTC One (M8) is such a smart piece of branding. She made a brave prediction that HTC would increase its market share this year - "2014 is HTC's year", she told me. Right now, the firm is in 10th place in IDC's smartphone league - Samsung with 31%, and Apple with 15% are way ahead of the rest of the pack. Four Chinese firms, Huawei, Lenovo, Coolpad and ZTE, are all ahead of HTC, and they, too, are likely to have more to spend on marketing - and a bigger base in their home market - than the Taiwanese phone-maker. Then there's Nokia, which under the new ownership of Microsoft should also have quite a substantial war-chest. The smartphone business is beginning to look a bit like football's Premier League - only the richest have any chance of winning. The concern for HTC must be that it will continue to muddle along in the middle of the table - and that looks like a very unprofitable place to be.

لقد كان بإجماع الجميع الهاتف الذكي المتميز لعام 2013. وقد فاز هاتف HTC One، بمظهره الفولاذي الأنيق وأدائه المفعم بالحيوية، بجميع أنواع الجوائز. ولكن ما لم تفعله هو بيع ما يكفي لإخراج HTC من دوامة الهبوط. فهل يمكن للإصدار الجديد، المسمى HTC One (M8)، أن يحقق خدعة إسعاد النقاد وتحقيق مبيعات هائلة؟

لقد حان وقت HTC لإعادة التركيز

By Johanna CarrBBC News Then two teenagers died falling from cliffs, while a third was seriously injured - all in the space of a few days. Suddenly time was up on Newquay's days of dangerous debauchery. "I can't describe what it was like when the under-18s were coming," says Tracy Earnshaw, who was involved in campaigning to change the culture of the resort. "Indecent exposure was the norm. You used to ring Newquay police and not get much response." In 2009, Tracy lived with her young family in Newquay town centre. Life was pretty tough - they struggled to sleep at night due to the noise, were only able to drive "bangers" because of the number of times wing mirrors and wipers were snapped off, and were trying desperately to sell up and move away. Her campaigning took up a lot of time. "My focus was mostly the underage drinking and lap-dancing clubs which contributed to the antisocial behaviour," she says."They were just all feeding on one another and people were not being held accountable. There was a lot of vested interests and a lot of turning a blind eye." Now she is pleased nobody wanted to buy her home and is glad she still lives in the town. She becomes emotional talking about how things have changed. "It has been quite a phenomenal change, actually," she says. "The less stag groups that came, the less anti-social behaviour there was. You stopped finding knickers in your front garden." In the immediate aftermath of the deaths in July 2009, residents like Tracy rose up and marched on Newquay Town and Cornwall councils, demanding an end to the permissive culture in the town. Soon measures were brought in to try to ensure young people's safety. Newquay Safe - an award-winning partnership between the council, police and about 20 other agencies - was set up and schemes like a bar crawl code of conduct, Challenge 25 and alcohol-free under-18s club nights all aimed to tackle the resort's problems. At the time, Insp Dave Meredith was relatively new to the top policing job in Newquay. Tracy says Insp Meredith, who is retiring at the end of the month, was "instrumental" in changing the culture of the town. "He didn't really care who he upset by simply doing his job," she says. "I would say he was the first person who actually looked at the problem and decided something should happen. He wasn't shy about going into licensed premises and saying 'what is going on here?'" Insp Meredith says Newquay is "absolutely a different place" today. "It was sort of a Wild West town back then," he says. "It was just power drinking and fighting and all that… I knew it was going to be a really challenging job. It is great that we have moved forward in 10 years from something that was causing concern to a lot of people. It was 10 years or so of hard work." He describes himself as "very forthright" and says he was an advocate of "robust" action. He says one thing he looked at was the town's lap-dancing clubs. He found there was "compelling evidence showing issues with them". "That is why we decided to take them to licensing review," he says. "I think Newquay is a far safer place with the closure of these lap-dancing clubs." This summer for the first time in many years Newquay's nightclubs and campsites did not run any dry nights for under-18s because there were no longer enough coming to make it worthwhile. Insp Meredith says there is now a "very robust policy making sure that under-18s don't go into pubs and clubs". He says they work very closely with the licensees. "They realise it is not worth risking their business by letting these people in," he says. "These days we don't have a real problem with underage drinking." Another change has been what is acceptable for people to wear while out drinking in Newquay. A mankini ban has been credited with helping to reduce crime and antisocial behaviour. Insp Meredith says this was never a police initiative but rather the venues banding together and deciding they no longer wanted customers dressed in that way. Inflatable genitalia and T-shirts bearing offensive slogans were also prohibited in a code of conduct for the Newquay Pubwatch scheme, meaning people wearing or carrying such items would not get into venues signed up to it. Robin Jones is one of the faces of the new Newquay - a town of upmarket cafes, wine bars and yoga studios. He owns a wine and tapas bar and says life and holidays here have become more family-orientated. Robin says he would not have wanted to live in Newquay in 2009 but moved to the town seven years ago and loves it. "It is such a beautiful place around the beaches and the coastline," he says. "I think it was massively let down by the town identity and the culture that went with it. House prices have risen dramatically and I think that is attracting a different sort of person to the town. There happened to be three wine bars all started up about the same time three years ago." He says he thinks their success is down to Newquay's new clientele wanting somewhere a bit more upmarket. The entrepreneur says there are fewer stag and hen dos now and those that do come and dress up tend to get turned away. "A lot of the businesses won't let them in any more," he says. "I feel a bit sorry for them because they are walking around with nowhere to go to. "All the people that come in the bar say what a different town it is and how much nicer and calmer it is." Tourism data from Visit Britain shows Newquay does not appear to have suffered a big drop in visitor numbers since the changes. The tourism survey indicates there were 526,000 visits to the town in 2009 and 441,000 in 2010. Between 2016 and 2018 there was an average of 487,000 visits each year. You may also be interested in: Debbie Anderson-Jones has also noticed how much calmer Newquay is. She started volunteering as a street pastor a decade ago and has seen the worst the nightlife had to offer. The street pastor scheme has now ended and these days she runs Pirans Angels, which offers a similar service on a reduced number of nights. Of the drinking culture, she says: "It started on a Saturday afternoon and [you used to think] if we are going to town we have got to get in and out before they start... by 10pm people were like 'you need to get off the streets because all hell will break loose'." She says they are now seeing far fewer people on the streets who have made themselves vulnerable through drink, and anyone who causes trouble is effectively instantly banned from all the other venues. "If someone is difficult in one club, door staff and the cameras work together to identify that person and that group and relay that message to every pub and restaurant," she says. "If you are kicked out of one place you are not getting in anywhere. We will say to them 'I just heard what you did, you are all on CCTV, you might as well go home now'." Debbie says the stag groups that still come are different from their predecessors and seem to want to do other activities as well as drinking. As for Tracy, she says her life has completely changed. Recounting incidents of being flashed at and meeting a 15-year-old girl wandering the streets after being raped, she says she can't quite believe how much is different, and credits the change to the right people being in the right places at the right time. "I think a lot of people will forever be grateful to Dave Meredith because he made a difference," she says. "These kids who were 15 and 16 were here to get hammered without any accountability... it was grim and we were made to feel guilty if you had a problem with it. "You had to be really resilient. We always knew we were right and what was happening was wrong. It was unacceptable and actually it was against the law."

في صيف عام 2009، كانت صورة نيوكواي في حالة يرثى لها. كانت المدينة تُعرف بأنها منتجع الحفلات المتشددين حيث يحدث أي شيء. قام الآلاف من المراهقين بالحج بعد الامتحان إلى ساحل الكورنيش للشرب حتى فقدوا الوعي، بينما كانت عصابات الأيائل والدجاج تغزو الشوارع، مما جعل المدينة منطقة محظورة بعد حلول الظلام للعائلات والأزواج.

إعادة اختراع نيوكواي: "لقد توقفت عن العثور على كلسون في حديقتك"

The East Sussex Wildlife Rescue and Ambulance Service said it has received over £4,500 in donations. Founder Trevor Weeks said the charity has been at full capacity since Easter, which has had an impact on its funds. He said: "Thanks to everyone's donations our bank balance is up enough for us to start rescuing again."

أشادت جمعية خيرية للحياة البرية في شرق ساسكس، والتي أطلقت نداءً طارئًا للمساعدة بعد "انخفاض" أموالها، باستجابة الجمهور.

تمت الإشادة باستجابة النداء الخيري للحياة البرية في شرق ساسكس

By Kathleen HawkinsBBC News, Ouch "There are days when I wake up and I think gosh my shoulder hurts, or wow my stumps are sore, but I just keep on pushing forward," Alex Lewis explains. He's on speakerphone as he is unable to hold a phone now he has no hands. As well as losing his limbs, Lewis also lost his lips and nose. Surgeons have since grafted skin from his shoulder into lips leaving him, he jokes, looking like a Simpsons character and with a nose that constantly runs. The positivity 34-year-old Lewis, from Stockbridge, Hampshire, has found over the past year has been remarkable for those close to him, and he says he feels happier now than before his illness. Many would find it hard to believe, but he says that great things have come of it. "It's made me think differently about being a dad, a partner, a human being," he says, and a new charity set up in his name has given him a huge impetus to help others. Despite this positive attitude, he can't do a lot of the things he once loved, like cooking and playing golf. He and his partner Lucy have lost the pub they once ran. 'Survival chance of 5%' It was in November 2013 when Lewis thought he had "man flu", but when he spotted blood in his urine, followed by blotchy, bruised looking skin he knew something more serious was happening. It turned out to be a streptococcal infection (type A) and he was rushed into hospital in Winchester on 17 November 2013. The infection penetrated deep into his tissues and organs, and triggered blood poisoning, or sepsis, a life-threatening condition that causes multiple organ failure. The skin on his arms and legs, and part of his face had quickly turned black and gangrenous. For his family and friends, at his bedside every day while he was on a life support machine, it was shocking to see. But for his son Sam, just three at the time, it looked merely as though Daddy was covered in chocolate. Lewis's infected limbs were starting to poison his body and, as soon as he was off life support, he was told he would have to have his left arm amputated above the elbow. He says he felt no sadness or emotion at the news because the doctors were incredibly matter-of-fact. "It was a case of 'this arm is killing me so it has to go,'" he says. It was the second week of December and although he had lost an arm, he wasn't yet out of danger. His damaged legs were beginning to poison his body and, in quick succession he had two more operations to amputate first one leg, then the other, leaving him with just one limb - his right arm. "I processed every amputation individually," he says. "Part of me thought let's just get this process done so I can get out of hospital and home." But ultimately he says he didn't have much time to think. His right arm had been damaged too, but doctors thought there was a chance of saving it. It took 17-and-a-half hours in an operating theatre on Christmas Eve 2013 to rebuild it. Surgeons stripped the arm to scrape the dead tissue away. Then they took 16.5ins (42cm) of his left shoulder blade, along with the skin, muscle, nerves and tissue and grafted it on to his right arm. Having lost three limbs already, use of that remaining hand was seen as crucial by doctors and Lewis was desperate to do what he could to keep it. "I learned along the way that all the quadruple amputees I've met say the one thing they'd kill for is a hand," Lewis says. "It means you can still do your daily stuff, get a drink, write." But the damage proved to be too severe and, one night, while he was asleep, Lewis rolled over and snapped the arm in two. "My hand was dangling down by my elbow," he says. His partner Lucy was devastated, and imagined a far harder life for him now he had no limbs - but Lewis says he didn't care. "There is no point waiting for five years trying to get an arm working again," he says. "I think psychologically it would have been much more damaging to wait all that time and then lose it." With all four limbs amputated, Lewis had to learn how to go about his new life. He could no longer get himself up and washed and dressed in the morning, so had to get used to a carer coming in once a day - but first on his to-do list was learning to walk. He began a 10-week walking course at Queen Mary's Hospital in Roehampton but after just two weeks he surprised everyone by successfully walking on devices called "rocker pylons" - prosthetics on a short pole, with a large rocking foot. He's been walking on them for almost three months now and says he is making great progress but still finds them awkward. "Going up stairs is difficult because of the shortness of them," he says, "and different terrains are hard." He has chosen to use prosthetic arms and currently uses ones with hooks. His attitude is: "I might as well try what is best and then make my mind up." The prosthetics let him do things like open a fridge, pick up a drink or open a bag of sweets, actions which aren't possible using his stumps. He says it still feels like he's living in a dream world and that it's all "a bit alien". Catching sight of himself in a mirror feels uncanny, he says, because the body he had become used to for 33 years has changed beyond his recognition. "It can be upsetting but I just think it is incredible what the human body is able to overcome," he says. Follow @BBCOuch on Twitter and on Facebook, and listen to our monthly talk show

في غضون أسابيع قليلة، تحول أليكس لويس من كونه صاحب حانة، إلى مرض خطير وبتر أطرافه الرباعية. ومع ذلك، فهو لا يزال يصف العام الماضي بأنه الأفضل على الإطلاق.

"العام الذي فقدت فيه أطرافي كان الأكثر روعة في حياتي"

By Andrew DawkinsBBC News They are just the latest clubs to leave their long-established homes - a trend which began in the 1990s and which shows no signs of abating. So what became of England's lost football grounds? Arsenal: Highbury. Closed in 2006 There are hundreds of flats around the old Highbury pitch and John Jeans lives in one with a view of the famous turf from the old North Bank. However, while this is a dream for many Arsenal fans, Dr Jeans has slightly mixed feelings about it. He is a Chelsea fan. "I did say to my wife we'd never live at Highbury," he said. "But a year and a half later, because of the practicality (of it), we ended up moving there." "The Arsenal fans, they like to point out where (Thierry) Henry scored a free kick or (Dennis) Bergkamp scored that goal. "We're very lucky to live in the old stadium.... (But) you feel vaguely irritated by the scene." The North Bank and Clock End stands were demolished after Arsenal left in 2006, but the facades of the old East and West Stands were preserved, while the pitch became a garden. Dr Jeans, 30, a season ticket holder at Chelsea from 1997, said there had been "queues of people" at his gated community since he moved there last year. "Every home game at the Emirates (Arsenal's new stadium) there are people huddling at the four corners of the (old Highbury) ground. "When someone comes out, they pile in... You have stewards trying to take people out. "Before cup finals there are queues of people who come to kiss the old Highbury pitch." Oxford United: The Manor Ground. Closed in 2001 Oxford United now play in League Two but in the 1980s they were briefly a First Division club. Matthew Cavill was nine years old when the club put one over Sir Alex Ferguson in his first game in charge of Manchester United at the Manor Ground in 1986. "Myself and my brother were taken on a whistle-stop tour of the ground," he said. "(Sir Alex) went 'I'm sorry son, but we're going to ruin your day because we're going to win'. (But) I told him in the room we would win 2-0 and we did." However, it was the opposite emotion at the final game there against Port Vale in 2001 before the site became The Manor Hospital. "I was one of the last people to leave the ground. When you have spent so much of (your) life there and then it's gone and we've been relegated, I just felt very empty." Mr Cavill, 37, from supporters' trust OxVox, said the Manor Ground was "never very aesthetically pleasing, but it gave off an aura" which the new Kassam Stadium, the club's home since 2001, "has never had". "(The Manor Ground's) atmosphere was superb. Because it was a small, tiny ground, you felt like with a packed crowd you were about on top of the players and it had a slope which I never appreciated until I got older and played there for my school as a full back. "The (Kassam Stadium) capacity is over 12,000 and our ground average is about 5,500. It's got an open end, the car park end behind the goal... The noise gets lost." "The entrance for the London Road End where the main Oxford fans chanted, that's the same as one of the entrances to the hospital. It's a very weird feeling when you walk up there." Middlesbrough: Ayresome Park. Closed in 1995 After Middlesbrough's Ayresome Park ground closed, Robert Nichols, editor of the fanzine Fly Me To The Moon, decided to live in a house built on the site of the former ground. "I'm just off the pitch. I'm roughly where the Boys End was... where my schoolmates and me watched the matches," he said. "It cost us 50p to get in, which was our pocket money." Boro's old home is not forgotten, though. About 10 bronze sculptures were made to show where key parts of the ground were. In one front garden, a sculpture of a football shows where the penalty spot was. A jumper and a scarf signify two corner flags, while a set of football boots on one doorstep is in the middle of the old centre circle. "The lady in the house is really proud of them," Mr Nichols, 52, said. "The other penalty spot is under someone's front room carpet." Only the vandalised Holgate Wall behind the popular end survives at the site. He has had visitors from Scandinavia, North Korea and South Korea while giving tours of the site, "I wanted to live at Ayresome Park, but I chose the best house from my point of view. It's special enough living at Ayresome Park!" Stoke City: The Victoria Ground. Closed in 1997 "There were grown men who were crying, tears streaming down their faces." Ian Dodd, 72, remembers the day Sir Stanley Matthews returned to his hometown club in the 1960s, but he first went to the ground aged seven, when "the turnstile guy used to let us younger kids sneak under the barrier". "If you got there early enough you could sit on the wall which was right on the edge of the pitch, unless you got a particularly stroppy policeman who made you stand behind it," he said. Mr Dodd, from Clayton, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, also remembered when the Butler Street stand "blew down in a gale" and evidence of the Potteries' industrial heritage - a man "covered in clay, completely white from head to toe". "He would've come straight from the pot banks... You'd go home and you'd be dusting clay off you where the bloke had been squashed up against you in the stand." Now, though, 17 years after the last game, the site owned by developers St. Modwen is a fenced-off field awaiting planning permission for new housing. The former Stoke City social club opposite the ground's main entrance - at one time a scooter garage - is also derelict. "Shops suffered... Also the pub on the corner, The Victoria, that shut too. "It's sad that nothing's been done with the land... It's completely overgrown, there is fencing all around, there is rubbish, dogs running along and fouling, and it's sad to think what went on here years ago and what has happened to it." Bristol Rovers: Eastville Stadium. Demolished 1998 "I bought a square metre of turf. Me and my son used to play Subbuteo on that piece of grass, when he was growing up - we put it on a paved area on the patio." Mike Jay, 59, paid about £5 for his slice of Eastville history, while other Bristol Rovers fans bought bulbs from floodlights. After being inspired by England's World Cup triumph in 1966, he became a Rovers supporter in 1967 and remembers the smell of gas which gave fans the nickname of Gasheads. "The gas works was immediately behind the Tote End. It was just a whiff of gas... (But) certainly in the evenings you could smell it." Although Rovers relocated in 1986 and an Ikea store was later built at Eastville, Mr Jay said one floodlight remained near the M32 motorway for many years after the football club had left and the greyhound track around the pitch had gone. "In the centre of the store I've tried to visualise where the pitch would have been, but it's not that easy," he said. "The tills are where the North Enclosure was, where I spent most of my time watching. "You come down the steps to the entrance to Ikea (in the same place as) steps on the way down to where the turnstiles were. "We would go to a football match rather than go into a Swedish furniture store. It doesn't hold the same excitement for me as going to a football match!" Southampton: The Dell. Closed in 2001 Southampton left The Dell in 2001 and the site is now a mixture of houses and flats with apartment blocks named after former players, such as Le Tissier Court, after Matt. The development follows the shape of the ground, if not the size, with buildings being erected around a central open space, the Ugly Inside fanzine editor Nick Illingsworth, 53, said. However, the origin of the name Crossley Place, a social housing area where the ground's car park used to be, is unclear. "The only connection I can find is Matt Le Tissier's only penalty miss was against Nottingham Forest and the goalkeeper was Mark Crossley," said Mr Illingsworth. "Was someone in the developers a Nottingham Forest fan with a bit of a sense of humour?" Bolton Wanderers: Burnden Park. Closed in 1997 Anthony Rearden, a season ticket holder from the age of three, has lived in Bolton all his life. The telesales worker watched games from all four sides of the ground and now shops "every other day" at the Asda store where he once stood at the Railway Embankment end behind the goal. There are about 10 football photos by windows near the checkouts, including pictures of the ground "in its prime" in the 1950s when Nat Lofthouse was banging the goals in, but he feels "sad" going back to the area, he said. "The people who have never been there would not know there's been a football ground," the 44-year-old said. There are also stores on the old car park outside the former "Manny" (Manchester) Road stand and on the former Burnden Terrace behind the opposite touchline on the right of the photo. "It changed the geographical thing of Manchester Road. The pubs down there used to be packed every day. "(Of) three pubs, two are still there but not run as pubs... (However) the pie shop on Manchester Road is still there. You used to see the players coming out of the pie shop before and after the game." Additional reporting from Matt Lee

ومن المقرر أن ينتقل وست هام يونايتد إلى الاستاد الأولمبي في ستراتفورد من أبتون بارك في 2016، بينما سيتعين على توتنهام هوتسبير، الذي لديه خطط لبناء ملعب جديد بجوار ملعبه الحالي وايت هارت لين، العثور على ملعب مؤقت لبطولة 2017. 18 الموسم.

ماذا حدث لملاعب كرة القدم المفقودة في إنجلترا؟

By Shaun LeyNewsnight It started well. John Nathan-Turner, the new producer, revamped the opening titles. He cast a new doctor, Peter Davison, and cut the jokey tone. Other changes were out of his hands. Doctor Who was evicted from its Saturday time slot, the itinerant Time Lord roaming the TV schedule in an increasingly desperate search for an audience. At the same time the big budget sci-fi cinema seen in films like The Empire Strikes Back was being emulated by US TV imports such as Battlestar Galactica. But what didn't change was the way Doctor Who was made. Complex special effects had to be conjured up in evening studio recordings, a way of producing TV more suited to courtroom drama or soaps. Sylvester McCoy, lead actor from 1987 until the programme was cancelled in 1989, laments that there was never enough time to do the special effects well - a Time Lord unable to turn back the clock. The case for the prosecution? Colin Baker, McCoy's predecessor forced to wear possibly the most distracting costume ever devised for a leading man, the casting of celebrities (including Beryl Reid, Richard Briers and Ken Dodd) as well as minor pop stars in guest roles, and forgettable baddies, like a green sea monster called The Myrka. The actors inside the costume had managed to give some character to the pantomime horse in the children's programme Rentaghost, but even they couldn't save The Myrka from plumbing the inky depths of TV special effects. The demise of the Myrka was played on Room 101 to illustrate Michael Grade's antipathy to 1980s Doctor Who. As Controller of BBC One, he suspended the show for 18 months in 1985. "I thought it was rubbish. I thought it was pathetic," Grade told the programme, "cardboard things probably clonking across the floor, trying to scare kids. You just sit and laugh at it." Hang on, though. 1980s Doctor Who doesn't have a monopoly on imaginative ideas that don't work. The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964) was apparently carried out by wobbling flying saucers which wouldn't have been out of place in the classic cinema flop Plan 9 From Outer Space. The Talons of Weng Chiang (1977), an evocative slice of life on the seedy side of Victorian London, is marred by a laughable giant rat costume. Years later, the costume designer, James Acheson, given more money and time on feature films like Dangerous Liaisons, deservedly won three Oscars. So why do stories from the 1980s routinely get such a hard time? Production techniques and effects budgets could not match feature films. Even video games made Doctor Who look dated. BBC bosses of the time now admit they did not know what to do with the programme, and rather hoped it would go away. John Nathan-Turner tried to keep Doctor Who in the public eye, with a series of bold attempts to generate publicity. In 1986, Bonnie Langford was cast as the Doctor's sidekick. She made headlines, though fans were appalled. At the start of the 1980s they had adored John Nathan-Turner, or JNT as he was known, and he enjoyed the adulation. But pleasing the fans and satisfying the casual viewer simultaneously was hard to pull off. At the end of the decade, though, having survived an 18 month suspension, Doctor Who was on the up. Effects may still have been hit and miss - contrast The Destroyer ("Battlefield") with the Cheetah People ("Survival") - but scripts were more sophisticated, exploring race and sexual identity, and passing critical comment on 1980s Britain. The performance of Sheila Hancock as Helen A in The Happiness Patrol was a homage, of sorts, to Mrs T. Too late to save it, though. As one former BBC insider told Richard Marson, author of a biography of JNT, to be published later this month, by putting it out at the same time as Coronation Street was airing on ITV, in 1989 Doctor Who was "scheduled to death". The 1980s are being re-lived at the British Film Institute right now, as part of the programme's anniversary celebrations. First, Russell T. Davies and now Steven Moffat have made the 21st Century version both a critical and popular success. The lesson of the 1980s, though, is not to take it for granted. A powerful producer can drive a programme forward, but in time can also become a barrier to change. Fans can buoy you up, but pleasing them can leave you deaf to the wider audience. Doctor Who in the 1980s may not have won awards, but behind the latex and laser guns, there were some bold ideas fighting to be heard. Watch Newsnight's Doctor Who film on Wednesday 29 May 2013 at 2230 on BBC Two, and then afterwards on the BBC iPlayer and Newsnight website.

دكتور هو يبلغ من العمر 50 عامًا هذا العام ولديه الكثير ليحتفل به. ولكن تمامًا مثل الفرق الموسيقية التي تتصدر المخططات والتي لديها ألبومات يتمنون لو أنها لم تصدرها أبدًا، حصل برنامج الخيال العلمي التلفزيوني المخضرم على نصيبه من الديوك الرومية. لماذا يعتبر عقد الثمانينات هو العقد الذي يحب الكثير من المشجعين أن يكرهوه؟

هل كان دكتور هو قمامة في الثمانينات؟

Police said 92 firearms, along with dozens of knives and other weapons including a cross bow, were surrendered at police stations across the island. Firearms Officer Carl Woods said scale of the response was "surprising". The scheme, authorised by the Attorney General, meant people handing in items are exempt from prosecution. Similar surrenders have taken place in the UK.

تم تسليم أكثر من 90 سلاحًا ناريًا خلال عفو عن الأسلحة استمر لمدة شهر في جزيرة آيل أوف مان.

العفو عن الأسلحة في جزيرة مان: تم تسليم أكثر من 90 قطعة سلاح ناري

We've already had our second spike - in care homes - and we know the third is waiting impatiently in the wings. Epidemics often have long and bumpy tails. If you catch Covid-19, your risk of death if you're over 80 is 15%. If you are under 50, it is less than 1%. We were late in protecting our care home residents and far too many have died far too early. But most of our older people live independently, many of them alone. Our new Covid-era NHS will have to adapt quickly to care for them, whenever possible keeping them out of hospitals, where the virus abounds, but also looking after them when they are discharged as survivors. In Bradford we are fortunate to have an innovative team called the Virtual Ward, who've been fulfilling this role for the last couple of years. It's almost as though they knew Covid was coming. It was a member of staff on the Virtual Ward that noticed all was not well with Mary Blessington, after she was discharged and returned to her loving husband, Michael. Mary and Michael were both admitted to hospital with Covid-19 on the same day, having most likely caught the virus at the funeral of one of their sons on 16 March. They have been together since the age of 13 and, coincidentally or not, it was when they were placed side by side on the same ward that they began to recover. (I wrote about this here.) Michael was discharged first, and the family was overjoyed when Mary was allowed home a few days later. But Elaine Martin, a trainee advanced clinical practitioner who visited Mary at home, noticed that she was still having difficulty breathing, and that she was deeply worried both about her husband's health and her own prospects of recovery. "She was still having symptoms, she still felt breathless and chest tightness but I think a lot of it was anxiety. She felt she was going to die, and her husband had recovered but has an underlying condition, so there was a lot of anxiety," Elaine says. The decision was taken to bring Mary back to hospital - which was fortunate, because that night her condition worsened. It was thought she might only have hours to live, so Michael and the couple's two surviving sons came to the hospital early in the morning, put on PPE and sat with her, saying their goodbyes. But I am glad to say Mary recovered again. She remains very poorly, and is receiving help for her anxiety, but we hope she is on the mend. Mary is only 67. We have had numerous older parents who have recovered on our wards from Covid-19, but there is a good reason for keeping older people out of hospital if we can and sending them home as soon as it is safe to do so. For elderly patients, every day in hospital leads to "deconditioning", a loss of physical and mental functioning. For some, the strange environment can cause delirium - a condition with symptoms ranging from drowsiness, confusion and rambling speech to hallucinations. The Virtual Ward allows elderly patients to remain instead in familiar surroundings, or to return to them quickly - perhaps enjoying the company of a spouse, children or friends - while also continuing to receive complex clinical care. Staff are on call 24/7, and patients remain the responsibility of the doctors who referred them. "There are really important clinical reasons for people to be in hospital, of course, but for multiple reasons, elderly people just do better at home," says Kate Moore, an occupational therapist trained to understand what equipment and adaptations frail people need at home after being discharged from hospital. "People get weaker when they're in hospital, there's incontinence, not eating and drinking, all those things seem to get worse for people when they're in a hospital bed, and especially in a world where people are wearing masks and they might feel very disorientated. So we try to replicate the care of the ward but in people's own homes." Front line diary Prof John Wright, a doctor and epidemiologist, is head of the Bradford Institute for Health Research, and a veteran of cholera, HIV and Ebola epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa. He is writing this diary for BBC News and recording from the hospital wards for BBC Radio. With an ageing population in the UK, many living alone with chronic health problems, there are many people who need more help than local authorities currently provide - all of the political parties accept that. Reform has been promised for years. And now we have Covid to contend with as well. The virus has been disrupting the support networks that some frail and elderly people rely on, and increasing their isolation. "There's a huge problem and growing one around depression and loneliness, because people are doing less with family members. They probably aren't walking as far as they used to. People that we would normally refer to a group for group exercise aren't going to group exercises. So people are getting weaker. So we're going to see more falls," says Kate. One of her patients, 81-year-old Phyllis Holmes, fell and broke her wrist several weeks ago. More recently she developed a cough and diarrhoea and was admitted to hospital with suspected Covid-19 - two warning signs seen in many elderly patients - but her swab came back negative. So she is now back at home, but coping alone is hard. "I can't open my front door or turn on the taps properly - I tried turning them on and nearly flooded the place," she says. "I haven't been able to wash my hair since March. I can't open my pills because I can't get the grip on the bottle - my neighbours would help in the past but they're staying away because of Covid." Before the lockdown, Phyllis also got help from her daughter, but she too is now staying away in case she picks up the virus at the supermarket where she works. The rest of Phyllis's family are isolating for their own health reasons. Kate says she will practise some wrist exercises with Phyllis and help her to find ways of opening the door and getting out into the garden. Another patient on Kate's calling list is Vernon Fearing, who is in his late 80s. Vernon came to Bradford from Jamaica in the 1960s to work on the railways. He has diabetes, and recently had a minor stroke. A couple of weeks ago, when his blood sugars plummeted, he was taken to hospital by ambulance treated and discharged. A week later, when he developed a high temperature, he was admitted to hospital again with a suspected urine infection. But when he was tested, it turned out he had Covid-19. Vernon has been sent home to recover but he is still infectious and this has to be carefully managed. "What we're desperate to try and do for him is just make sure that he doesn't get any weaker than he already is. He's upstairs in his house. He can't come downstairs so I'm taking him a walker to see if that helps him at least get up from bed," Kate says. "I'm going to try to educate the family a little bit on exercises they can do, partly for physical stimulation, but also mental stimulation because obviously, with Covid sometimes people get a hypoactive delirium, which means they get less active, they become very, very drowsy." If that happens, there's then a risk that they will lose interest even in eating and drinking. The person who will help Vernon with his exercises is his granddaughter, Jodie. His wife, Carmen, is in her room, coughing - she is waiting for a test result that will reveal whether she is also Covid-positive. Vernon has trouble speaking. He says he wants to see the sun from his bedroom window so Kate helps him get up and suggests that he dresses each morning. She's going to try to get him re-tested to find out if he is still infectious - which is a concern for Jodie, who has a condition that requires her to take drugs to suppress her immune system. "I can just count my blessings because I know there's a lot of other families that are going through even worse, where they've actually lost members of their families," Jodie says. "And I've just got to be grateful. I'm thankful, even though it's not the best situation." Apart from the two days she spent at home, Mary Blessington has now been in hospital for six weeks. It's not only patients admitted to intensive care - like Mohammed Hussain - who need prolonged treatment for Covid-19. Mary is also not alone in having had return to hospital after being discharged. When Mary is feeling better she asks her son, Craig, to bring her food - a prawn salad, a fruit salad with melon, or crisps - which he leaves at the entrance of the hospital to be taken to the ward. I heard good news on Saturday morning that Craig was en route to the hospital with a big lunch order. When Mary eventually leaves hospital for the second and hopefully final time, she is likely to need further care at home for many more weeks. It will be the Virtual Ward that provides this, until her recovery is complete. Follow @docjohnwright and radio producer @SueM1tchell on Twitter

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Kamal AhmedBusiness editor@bbckamalon Twitter After predictions that Shell might well give up on its Arctic adventure following a collapse in the oil price, endless legal challenges and operational headaches that saw one of their rigs catch fire and a drilling barge run aground - today the oil giant has announced it is restarting operations. Or at least it would like to. It still doesn't have the correct drilling permits and is facing court actions. But if these matters can be sorted out - and that's an IF probably worth writing in capitals - Shell's chief executive told me that the oil major hoped to start exploratory drilling again this summer. Two years ago the oil giant announced a "pause" in its operations in Alaska which were first given the go-ahead a decade ago. The decision came after a string of controversies which you can read about here. But it is now clear a pause did not mean the end of the project. "We didn't abandon all the infrastructure, you cannot, for such a large and complex operation, scale down and scale up whenever you want," Mr van Burden told me. "We have been preparing all this for a potential return." Simon Henry, Shell's chief financial officer, made the point with numbers. It will cost Shell just over $1bn to restart operations this year. And it will cost just under $1bn to keep the project approximately mothballed. "The potential in the Arctic is very, very significant," Mr van Beurden said. Some estimates suggest that there are as many as 24 billion barrels of oil under the Arctic, enough to satisfy America's thirst for hydrocarbons for more than three years. "We believe that the Arctic probably holds the largest yet to be discovered resource base," the Shell chief executive said. The oil major is clear. This is exploring for "potential oil" rather than actual reserves it knows are there. Shell has already discovered gas and the judgement is that there is likely to be a large oil rim around the field. The company believes there is a better than 50% chance of finding oil. Now, for something that is indisputably risky, some might see that as a pretty low percentage. Certainly, Greenpeace doesn't think it is worth it. "Despite announcing cuts [to other investments] Shell hasn't taken the opportunity to cut its most high-cost, high-risk project," Charlie Kronick from the pressure group said. "Shell is taking a massive risk doggedly chasing oil in the Arctic, not just with shareholder value, but with the pristine Arctic environment. "A spill there will be environmentally and financially catastrophic. It's time for investors to recognise that it's impossible for Shell to justify its continued pursuit of offshore Arctic oil." Of course, Mr van Beurden is not ignorant of the issues. "I am very much aware of these concerns. We share the concerns," he said, arguing that there would be "multiple lines of defence" for the environment. "We are as well prepared as any company can be, to mitigate the risks and to make sure we can deal with consequences if there is an issue. "But I know it is an issue that divides society. There is always going to be a difference of opinion about drilling in the Arctic. I don't think we will ever be able to convince everyone that this is the right thing to do." He then goes on to make a broader point. "It is however true that the world does need more hydrocarbons for many years to come. "The energy system is going to double again in its size in the first half of this century. We will need a significant amount of renewables and oil and gas to actually meet that demand. "Oil companies have been there for many, many years. Let's not think that the Arctic is untouched. There have been many activities there which have been very successful without any spills in many, many decades." Shell will need to be ready for a prolonged fight.

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It is not clear when the footage was filmed. The animal has been tied in ropes and can be seen trying to get away. Deputy Environment Minister Sharon Ikeazor branded the video "very distressing", and said officials were trying to rescue the creature. Ms Ikeazor said the incident took place in the oil-rich Niger Delta region, and called for an awareness campaign "to educate our people to protect the manatee". Manatees are large marine mammals, which are mostly herbivorous. It is illegal to hunt them in Nigeria, but they are still killed for their meat, oil, and organs which are used in traditional medicine, the AFP news agency reports. Many people in the Niger Delta are poor, despite the region's oil wealth. Pressure group the Blue Planet Society, which campaigns to preserve ocean life, said it was shocking that a "supposedly protected West African manatee can be abused in such a public way". There are about 10,000 manatees along the coast of West Africa, AFP reports, but their numbers are in steep decline. Around the BBC Africa Today podcasts

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