Brexit: How do other EU countries see a 'no deal'?

Summary: European Union leaders are meeting in Brussels and at the top of their agenda is a review of the Brexit negotiations. They are demanding better clarifications from the UK over its financial commitments, and the impasse has led to a lot of talk of a "no deal" Brexit.

We ask journalists covering the summit how their countries view the possibility of no formal agreement between the UK and the EU. Germany: Daniel Brössler, Süddeutsche Zeitung Brussels correspondent The German thinking now is that a "no deal" scenario is not what you want - of course it would have an impact on British-German trade. But my impression is that the German government thinks that a bad deal, from the European perspective, would be even worse. They are saying we need a fair deal. But if there is no deal we will survive it, it will be tough but the EU will survive it - and Germany has a lot of trade with the rest of Europe. So far the talks are not seen in Germany as having broken down - people think there is still time to make a deal, that enough progress might be made in December. But people see that there is a risk. Politicians see responsibility for this on the British side - and Brexit has already estranged us to a certain degree. There is a feeling of them and us, you can see a pretty strict mood in Berlin. People say we need a fair deal, but there is no mood to have a deal just to please the British. Denmark: Lotte Mejlhede, TV2 News correspondent I don't think any country in Europe wants a "no deal" result. Business people and politicians in Denmark are very interested in having a good future trade deal with the UK. Denmark has quite a lot of trade with the UK, and we have an issue with the fishing quotas. Some Eurosceptic politicians want to join the UK outside the EU, but in general the attitude is that we're better off staying in, and that's also because of our size - our population is 5.5 million, and it's quite hard to do big trade deals alone. When the UK leaves, the axis of the EU will be France and Germany. Now I think everybody is hoping for a deal. But we know businesses are also preparing for the worst-case scenario. Poland: Maciej Sokolowski, TVN24 News correspondent People in Poland were just waiting for the announcement on Wednesday by the British Prime Minister [Theresa May] that everyone living in the UK can stay there with the same rights as today. That's the most important thing for Poles living in the UK, the guarantee that they can stay. The change of tone was really important. There were rumours like: "Do we have to go back to Poland?" and "Do we have to leave our jobs now?" Brexit isn't the main topic now in Poland. Of course there's about a million Polish people in the UK, but Poles are not talking much about the money, or the Ireland issue. On freedom of movement - the UK isn't in the Schengen area, so it shouldn't be much worse after Brexit. But no-one knows now what no deal really means. We still see the UK as our biggest friend in the EU, with Hungary. So after Brexit it will be a political problem for Poland, being without our main friend in the EU. Spain: Adolfo Lorente, El Correo correspondent Ordinary people don't understand what has happened with the UK. The situation is very complicated. We read that the UK is very angry with the EU, that it doesn't want to pay the bill. People don't understand the economic impact, but it's very important for Spain - we export fruit, wine. Many Spanish people go to Britain to learn English or work. Now there is a lot of doubt - people ask "What is happening with Brexit?" and "What about exports and passports?" It's like the situation with Catalonia - Spanish people feel that they don't want to be with us, they want to be separate. But we think that being together, united, is better. Gibraltar is also a big issue for us. Patriotism in Spain is very high now. Theresa May's support for Spain over Catalonia in exchange for [Spanish PM] Mariano Rajoy's support over Brexit is a real possibility. Some diplomats here in Brussels smile and say it's possible.

यूरोपीय संघ के नेता ब्रसेल्स में बैठक कर रहे हैं और उनके एजेंडे के शीर्ष पर ब्रेक्सिट वार्ता की समीक्षा है। वे अपनी वित्तीय प्रतिबद्धताओं पर यूके से बेहतर स्पष्टीकरण की मांग कर रहे हैं, और गतिरोध ने "नो डील" ब्रेक्सिट की बहुत चर्चा की है।


Suspected LTTE cadres remanded

Summary: The Sri Lankan navy has arrested four Indians and two suspected LTTE cadres trying to smuggle a kilogram of heroin into the country.

The men were traveling in a boat from southern India when they were captured near Mannar. They were produced before the Mannar district judge who remaded them untill 12th of April. After questioning those in the boat which transported heroin, Nobertsingham from Killinochchi told Navy that he carried them to hand over to Sandanan in Pesalai. Sandanan was later arrested by police. Police said the two men were allegedly have involved in making identity cards for two LTTE members in an earlier occasion, therefore they suspect them to be members of LTTE.

श्रीलंकाई नौसेना ने देश में एक किलोग्राम हेरोइन की तस्करी करने की कोशिश कर रहे चार भारतीयों और दो संदिग्ध एलटीटीई कैडरों को गिरफ्तार किया है।


Brixton youth club stabbing: Second teen charged with murder

Summary: A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murder after a man was fatally stabbed at a south London youth club.

Glendon Spence, 23, from Lewisham, was attacked at the Marcus Lipton Youth Centre in Brixton at about 18:45 GMT on 21 February. He was pronounced dead at the scene in Minet Road less than an hour later. A boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested in Manchester on Wednesday and charged with murder on Thursday. He will appear at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court on Friday. Another 17-year-old boy was charged with murder on 24 February. A provisional trial date has been set for 12 August at the Old Bailey.

दक्षिण लंदन के एक युवा क्लब में एक व्यक्ति की चाकू मारकर हत्या करने के बाद एक 17 वर्षीय लड़के पर हत्या का आरोप लगाया गया है।


Etna: Life beneath the volcanic dust of repeated eruptions

Summary: Irene Corsaro will never forget her first driving lesson under a rain of black ash from Mount Etna. Like many Sicilians from Catania, the 18-year-old has learnt quickly how to make her way home on a road covered in volcanic dust during one of the volcano's 11 eruptions in the past three weeks. A 12th eruption was under way on Friday.

By Francesca MarcheseCatania, Sicily Every so often, the volcano's four main craters awake with intense, simultaneous blasts. These episodes create a spectacular natural firework display, replete with bubbles, fountains and flows of lava. Within minutes, neighbouring towns and villages are showered with flakes of ash and other debris. 'Lava falling on my roof' Irene's trip with her mother through the deserted streets of her home town of Nicolosi, on Etna's slopes, turned into a nightmare when her Peugeot 107 car was stopped by a sound she had never heard before. "It was like a sudden crackling; like hail pouring down and popping around. I thought it was because of the ash on the street," she said. "Instead, it was fragments of lava (lapilli) falling on both my roof and my windscreen from a giant red cloud right over me." It was 16 February and the sky was already inflamed by the sunset. It was to be the first in an array of violent episodes on Etna, increasing in power each time. Those paroxysms have since come in the middle of the night, at sunrise, during a storm and even under the light of a full moon. Irene Corsaro could feel the stones grinding under the car's tyres and she soon realised how lucky she was to be wearing her anti-Covid facemask. "The red-coloured air was very poor, heavy to breathe in." They rushed home to pack in case they needed to evacuate. Clouds of sulphur dioxide (SO2), visible from space, have reached as far away as China. But the ash and the heavier lapilli stay local. They drape the sides of the volcano and blanket at least 16 towns around Etna's cone. Fornazzo, Giarre and Zafferana are among those affected, and even coastal towns like Riposto and Torre Archirafi. Etna has released some 40 million cubic metres of volcanic material, says volcanologist Boris Behncke, who monitors Etna closely for the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV). "It is quite a lot," he tells the BBC. In comparison, the Etna eruption that threatened the town of Randazzo in 1981 released a mere 20 million cubic metres of material. Watching Etna's destructive power From my window, 20km (12 miles) south-east of Etna's summit, I have an unbroken view of the volcano. There is something primordial about being indoors as nature unleashes its energy. It starts with a column of dust that can climb as high as 12km, then lava fountains, pyroclastic flow and even lightning - mainly from the south-east crater, but from the other three as well. The eruptions may be spectacular, but they are a nuisance too. Lava dust falls over my head and over my washing line. I have spent much of the past three weeks of curfew sweeping the floor. My car windscreen is constantly covered by a dark patina of grime, but you must not use water to clear it. This glaze contains sharp glass particles that will scrape it beyond repair. No wonder some people have wrapped up their parked cars in bed-sheets to protect them. When it rains, the drizzle turns carpets of lava dust into something resembling concrete. It blocks gutters and drainage channels, prompting flooding and water seeping into houses. Etna's explosions generate "infrasonic waves" that the human ear does not pick up because of their low sound frequency, but the glass in the windows does. After so many eruptions, you can now tell what Etna is doing simply by listening to the trembling of the windows. It wakes you up with a jolt in the middle of the night. The sound of a column of ash and dust is different, more of a jingle-jangle. Twelve tonnes of dust The damage to the area has been immense and the Sicilian region has declared a crisis for 13 towns on Etna and another 30 surrounding the volcano. Orange groves and other crops have been destroyed and on one occasion the motorway between Fiumefreddo and Giarre was shut to allow dust to be cleared. Motorbikes are banned and the speed limit has been cut to 20km/h. Schools in Giarre were shut for three days and the weekly market suspended. Locals have been instructed to collect the dust in transparent bags and not to mix it with ordinary rubbish. "We have to deal with six kilos of volcanic dust in every square metre, with a total of 12 tonnes," Giarre Mayor Angelo D'Anna told the BBC. "The latest black rain lasted just 30 minutes and generated as much rubbish as we usually have in a year. It'll cost up to €600,000 (£510,000) and we are worried because it is going to happen again and again. How can we pay for it?" The regional government is to provide €1m and will ask the Rome government for more help, but there is no regional plan to manage the dust. It may be a natural phenomenon, but it is treated as waste and there is not yet anything planned to remove it. Sweeping balconies of black dust has become a regular event for the thousands who live in the towns around Etna. Every roof, terrace, porch, veranda and geranium-adorned balustrade has turned black. Even gardens are barely green any more. How unusual are the eruptions? Etna is no stranger to these episodes. Despite the extraordinary amount of volcanic material that has erupted, experts agree the volcano is merely repeating previous patterns of behaviour. But they also admit that the power released is greater than before. "In the past we witnessed two or three strong events, and others that were weaker," says volcanologist Boris Behncke. "Now every paroxysm is strong. Nonetheless, at the moment Etna is deflating, there is no more magma coming and its system is stable." I have sensed a change too. I have always seen an eruption with a flame that goes on and off like a lighter. This time I have seen at least three tongues of flame with lava fountains on both sides of Etna, and a constant wall of flame. As long as the activity remains on the summit there is no danger. More eruptions are likely, but not even the experts can predict when. Related Internet Links Etna: Italy's INGV

आइरीन कोर्सारो माउंट एटना से काली राख की बारिश के तहत अपना पहला ड्राइविंग सबक कभी नहीं भूलेगी। कैटेनिया के कई सिसिलियनों की तरह, 18 वर्षीय ने पिछले तीन हफ्तों में ज्वालामुखी के 11 विस्फोटों में से एक के दौरान ज्वालामुखी की धूल से ढकी सड़क पर घर जाना जल्दी से सीख लिया है। शुक्रवार को 12वां विस्फोट हो रहा था।


Germany jolted by AfD right-wing poll success

Summary: "I don't see it as an existential problem for the CDU, but I do see it as a problem," Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted as she summed up her centre-right party's poor performance in key regional elections in three German states on Sunday.

By Damien McGuinnessBBC News, Berlin German politics is suddenly looking a lot less predictable and potentially less stable. It's all because of the astonishing success of the anti-migrant Alternative for Germany (AfD). Many German voters appear rattled by the large numbers of refugees and migrants arriving in Germany - 1.1 million in 2015 alone. Politicians are now getting down to the nitty-gritty of coalition-building. But all the cards have been thrown up in the air so it's a question of seeing where they will settle. And it's going to get messy. Papers say Merkel 'paying price' Profile: Angela Merkel AfD leader Frauke Petry Splintered politics Each of the three regional premiers should be able to hang on to power. Popular Green party Premier Winfried Kretschmann, of the south-western state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, has shown that the Greens' success in what used to be a conservative heartland is not just a blip from a 2011 election held in the aftermath of Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. Centre-left SPD Premier Malu Dreyer, of Rhineland-Palatinate, confidently saw off the CDU's promising rising star Julia Kloeckner by rather bizarrely doing a better job at imitating Mrs Merkel's centrist stance on refugees than the chancellor's own candidate. CDU Premier Reiner Haseloff also held on in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, where AfD polled almost a quarter of the vote. But this is far from a continuation of the status quo. They will have to govern with new, and in some cases untested, coalition partners. Gone are the days of two major parties, one on the right, one on the left. German politics has become splintered. Smaller, more radical parties are gaining influence. And adventurous coalition combinations are now possible, including in Saxony-Anhalt, where a distinctly uncomfortable menage-a-trois between centre-right CDU, centre-left SPD and the left-wing Greens looks like the only feasible option. The right-wing AfD's tough populist talk has attracted voters angered by the influx of migrants, chipping away at the traditional support base on both the left and the right - conservative voters who are disenchanted with Angela Merkel's pro-refugee approach as well as blue-collar left-wingers who feel nervous that state spending on migrants will undermine their own position in society. The big question is what this means for Angela Merkel's stance on refugees. Closed borders along the Balkan route have effectively already slammed shut her open door invitation to Syrian refugees. No credible rivals But Mrs Merkel's pro-refugee rhetoric has barely changed. She still believes Germany, and indeed the rest of Europe, has a responsibility to shelter people fleeing war. She refuses to contemplate a cap on numbers coming to Germany. "We need a European solution and this solution needs time," she told journalists in Berlin on Monday afternoon. So have these elections undermined Chancellor Merkel's leadership? Yes and no. The gains of the AfD will certainly embolden conservative critics within her own ranks, who accuse her of betraying right-wing values, by dragging her party to the centre-ground. Awkwardly, many of Mrs Merkel's supporters on the refugee issue are in opposing left-wing parties. Not a great help when it comes to managing her own political bloc. But Angela Merkel still has no credible rivals within her government and no other party or politician has yet come up with a popular viable solution for the migrant crisis either. Despite the success of the AfD, this election campaign has shown that her approach still enjoys the support of mainstream society. It was the candidates, whether on the left or the right, who backed her approach who won out. In Rhineland-Palatinate for example, voters were treated to the astonishing sight of a TV duel in which the centre-left Malu Dreyer argued with CDU Julia Kloeckner over who was most loyal to Mrs Merkel's position on refugees. It is not so much Angela Merkel who has been punished by these elections, as her increasingly divided government.

चांसलर एंजेला मर्केल ने रविवार को तीन जर्मन राज्यों में प्रमुख क्षेत्रीय चुनावों में अपनी केंद्र-दक्षिणपंथी पार्टी के खराब प्रदर्शन का सारांश देते हुए स्वीकार किया, "मैं इसे सीडीयू के लिए एक अस्तित्वगत समस्या के रूप में नहीं देखती, लेकिन मैं इसे एक समस्या के रूप में देखती हूं।


Boeing 787 Dreamliner: The impact of safety concerns

Summary: Plane manufacturer Boeing and an extensive number of aerospace analysts have responded relatively calmly to a cracked cockpit window, an electrical fire possibly caused by faulty batteries, fuel leaks, and brake problems possibly caused by computer problems.

By Jorn MadslienBusiness reporter, BBC News All the faults were discovered in one type of aircraft - the hyper-modern 787 Dreamliner - and the incidents, which have all occurred in a matter of weeks, have generally been treated as safety-scares by passengers and the general media. Industry observers have responded differently, however, with many insisting they have not been surprised by what has happened. But as the number of worrying occurrences has increased, the chorus of analysts' dismissals - which have generally described them as to-be-expected "teething problems" that are supposedly commonplace whenever an all-new aircraft goes into service - is beginning to sound hollow to many. Suggestions that each situation has merely uncovered easy-to-fix faults, clearly raises the question why were they not both discovered and fixed before the plane went into commercial service in October 2011? After all, deliveries of the plane to launch customer All Nippon Airways (ANA) was delayed by three years. Might it not be tempting to expect Boeing's engineers and safety inspectors to have spent their time during those years ensuring the plane was ready to enter service? "I don't think there's any excuse for these problems any more," Qatar Airways' chief executive Akbar Al Baker told BBC News in a recent interview, ahead of many of the latest scares. Reputations at risk Regulators around the world are investigating. Boeing says it is co-operating with the authorities. Beyond that there is little to be said about that until conclusions are reached. In the meantime, Boeing's airline customers are left hanging, counting the cost of keeping planes grounded as a result of safety concerns, or to facilitate investigations or time-consuming repairs. The Japan authorities were the first to ground 787s owned by its airlines. Most of the other relevant authorities have followed suit meaning most of the existing global fleet of the plane is out of service for the time being. The airlines are also acutely aware of the damage such incidences can cause their reputation, as made clear by ANA's vice-president Osamu Shinobe and executive Hiroyuki Ito's actions as they bowed in shame to apologise to passengers and their family members for causing them concern. Indeed, in an effort apparently designed to calm concerns, one of Boeing's airline customers - Bjorn Kjos, chief executive of Norwegian Air Shuttle - has come out in defence of the plane, echoing the view that "minor problems" such as these should be expected. Norwegian has yet to take delivery of the Dreamliner, though the aircraft is vital to its ambitious plan to expand by offering long-haul flights. Japan's two main airlines ANA and JAL also have long-haul plans for their fleet of Dreamliners, which were destined to operate on European and American routes. Qatar's Mr Baker has long questioned whether the recurring faults are merely "teething problems" and has voiced concerns about how the Dreamliner's delays, and now its faults, have made it difficult for successful airlines to plan ahead and to expand as quickly as they would like to. Mr Baker has already said he would expect Boeing to pay compensation for its failure to deliver usable planes. "They will have to if they deliver aeroplanes that can't fly," he said in the recent interview. "We are not buying aircraft to put in museums, we're buying them to fly." It seems inevitable that there are armies of lawyers out there getting ready for similar discussions with Boeing on behalf other airlines customers. But damage claims from airlines may not be the aerospace giant's biggest headache right now. Worst-case scenario A greater concern is probably the impact the latest scares might have on its own order book, which currently contains some 800 Dreamliners scheduled for production and delivery over the next decade. A worst-case scenario would be one where airlines started backing away from their orders, though given that no-one currently makes a similar aircraft they are unlikely to do so - not least since there are no guarantees a forthcoming rival plane, the A350 from Airbus, will be introduced without problems of its own. Another painful scenario would result from regulators discovering serious problems that would require time-consuming work that could delay future deliveries, perhaps resulting in demands for compensation payments or discounts on a vast scale. That would not only threaten Boeing's break-even target of 1,100 Dreamliner deliveries over the next decade, but also sour its relations with airline customers at a time when there is much talk of the emergence of new rival aircraft manufacturers in Russia and China. Against such scenarios, the best outcome for everyone - whether planemakers, airlines or end-customers - is one where faults are quickly identified, resulting in repairs being carried out within months. And whatever the investigations throw up, everyone concerned are eager to stress that although cost concerns are deemed important, the only thing that really matters is that flights are safe.

विमान निर्माता बोइंग और बड़ी संख्या में एयरोस्पेस विश्लेषकों ने कॉकपिट की खिड़की में दरार, संभवतः दोषपूर्ण बैटरियों, ईंधन रिसाव और संभवतः कंप्यूटर की समस्याओं के कारण ब्रेक की समस्याओं के कारण होने वाली बिजली की आग पर अपेक्षाकृत शांति से प्रतिक्रिया दी है।


Arrest after woman who fell from Tonbridge A21 bridge dies

Summary: A man has been arrested after a woman found with serious injuries near a main road in Kent later died.

The woman had fallen from a road bridge on to land below the A21 near Tonbridge, at about 02:25 BST. Kent Fire and Rescue Service were also called to tackle a car fire at the same location, Kent Police said. Police are investigating if there was a link between the car fire and the woman's death. A 31-year-old man from London remains in custody. Police are appealing for anyone with information to contact them.

केंट में एक मुख्य सड़क के पास गंभीर रूप से घायल एक महिला की बाद में मौत हो जाने के बाद एक व्यक्ति को गिरफ्तार किया गया है।


Peak District: Marking 70 years of the UK's first national park

Summary: Ramblers, climbers, cyclists and, of course, photographers - the Peak District National Park has been attracting visitors for 70 years, ever since its designation in 1951 as the UK's first national park. But what are the stories that lie behind the views of sweeping valleys and sheer, rugged heights? BBC News Online meets people who turn to the park in their times of need.

By Amy WoodfieldBBC News, East Midlands Diane Burrows says Chatsworth is her "sanctuary". She first "fell in love" with the house and gardens on a school trip when she was just 10 years old. "I remember going in the house and in one of the bedrooms there's a Stradivarius - a violin - painted as though you could just pick it up and play it," said the 63-year-old, who lives in Bramcote, Nottinghamshire. "That image has stuck with me. There was something about the place even then." Fifty-three years later - married and with four grown-up children - she said Chatsworth has become a place she visits whenever there is any significant family milestone or event. "There's something about Chatsworth that is so evocative. "We can sit on the grass with our flask of hot chocolate or we can walk with the house in view. "It just restores us and renews us and we feel refreshed," she said. A key memory for Mrs Burrows is the time she and her husband visited Chatsworth after dropping their daughter off at university. She said: "It's over 20 years ago now - Leanne was the first one to go off to uni and we'd taken her as a family to Manchester. "We took her on the Sunday - my husband had booked the Monday off because we knew we'd be good for nothing - and we planned to go to Chatsworth. "It was a September day and it was glorious. "There was something about the atmosphere of the place that kind of put something back. It was restorative." James Lowery, 28, is from Sheffield but, despite living close to the Peak District, he only began visiting regularly two years ago. "I suffer with anxiety and depression and, one day, I just thought to myself I'm going to buy a camera [and photograph the national park]," he said. Capturing the Peak District's ever-changing vistas has since become a means to help him manage his mental health. "The only way I can describe it really is it makes me feel somewhat normal. "It clears my head from everything I've got going on with my anxiety. "I don't really think much when I'm there, which is a good thing," he said. Mr Lowery said the Peak District is the perfect place to capture the natural style of photography he has "come to know and love". His favourite place to take pictures is Ladybower Reservoir. "I enjoy spending hours searching for a new spot to take a picture or exploring around the River Derwent, watching the birds and other wildlife," he said. Amy McDonald, 33, a photographer from Derby, has been going regularly to the Peak District since 2014. She said the spot known as Surprise View holds a special place in her heart. "From Derby, it's about an hour's drive - you have loads of different routes that you can pick from and you wouldn't expect the view you get. "On a clear day, there are full 360 views featuring Mam Tor, Castleton, Higger Tor and Stanage Edge, to name a few. "The reason I like it so much is, because no matter what season you go up, it looks different every single time," she said. It's a place she has found especially therapeutic at times during 2020 when Covid restrictions eased. She said the pandemic made her feel like she had had her "wings clipped". "You're out in the fresh air with nothingness and it's just refreshing, rather than being amongst the hustle and bustle of the town centre or on the road or in a supermarket surrounded by a million people. "It's just taking yourself away from what you do daily to enjoy what is on your doorstep and what is just naturally amazing," she said. Zoe Cutter, 39, enjoys hiking in the Peak District and said a trip there "always feels like a mini holiday". "Even though I've been going for 16 years, I'm always discovering new places. "There are so many places that I've not yet seen that are really just on my doorstep. "You don't need to go to the other side of the world to discover somewhere new," she said. She was introduced to the national park by a colleague and friend. "We found it helpful for de-stressing," she said. She believes it to be "one of the most outstanding beauty spots in the country". "My favourite recent memory was just enjoying a peaceful moment sat on the top of Derwent Valley, looking out at the scenery," she said. Ms Cutter lives in a flat in Nottingham without its own garden. She said the national park has been a "godsend" during the pandemic, at those times when travelling has been allowed. The Peak District's rugged countryside - situated between Derbyshire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Yorkshire and Greater Manchester - attracts more than 13 million people each year. Paul Elliott, a professor of modern history at the University of Derby, said the 70th anniversary is an opportunity to reflect on the success of the park and its relevance during a time of crisis. "It's interesting the parks were kind of a way to revitalise the country after World War Two. "Although we haven't had a global war we're sort of in a parallel situation - it's national parks that are going to help us get out of the situation we're in now," he said. The park's chief executive Sarah Fowler said: "The Peak District National Park has been here for 70 years, inspiring the lives of thousands of residents and millions of visitors. "Whilst no-one could have anticipated the global circumstances in which we find ourselves looking forward to this remarkable milestone, it is perhaps holding a mirror to the Peak District's ground-breaking early years as people sought sanctuary within the open spaces that contrasted with our daily and urban lives - just as we are now." Follow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk. Related Internet Links Peak District National Park

रैंबलर, पर्वतारोही, साइकिल चालक और निश्चित रूप से फोटोग्राफर-पीक डिस्ट्रिक्ट नेशनल पार्क 70 वर्षों से आगंतुकों को आकर्षित कर रहा है, जब से इसे 1951 में यूके के पहले राष्ट्रीय उद्यान के रूप में नामित किया गया था। लेकिन व्यापक घाटियों और सरासर, ऊबड़-खाबड़ ऊंचाइयों के दृश्यों के पीछे क्या कहानियां हैं? बीबीसी न्यूज ऑनलाइन उन लोगों से मिलता है जो अपनी आवश्यकता के समय पार्क की ओर मुड़ते हैं।


Peterhead carbon capture: Shell and SSE proceed without European funding

Summary: The backers of a proposed carbon capture and storage project in Peterhead have admitted defeat in their efforts to secure European funding.

Shell and Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) hoped the NER300 scheme would help part-finance plans to transform the Buchan town's power station. Developers are now relying on securing money from the UK government. Peterhead and Drax were earlier named as the preferred bidders in the £1bn project. Under the planned scheme, greenhouse gas emissions from the power plant would be captured and transported to the Shell-operated Goldeneye gas field in the North Sea for storage, using, as far as possible, existing pipeline infrastructure. Grangemouth and the Teesside Low Carbon Project had submitted unsuccessful bids.

पीटरहेड में एक प्रस्तावित कार्बन ग्रहण और भंडारण परियोजना के समर्थकों ने यूरोपीय वित्त पोषण को सुरक्षित करने के अपने प्रयासों में हार स्वीकार की है।


More Guernsey foster children may be sent to UK

Summary: More children may be sent to the UK if foster homes cannot be found in Guernsey, the island's family placement service has warned.

Team manager Michael Carter said despite the number of local foster carers doubling to 20 in the past two years, more were needed. He said those especially in need of homes were aged nine and above. Mr Carter said at this important time in a child's development they needed to be in a home with a family.

द्वीप की परिवार नियोजन सेवा ने चेतावनी दी है कि अगर ग्वेर्नसे में पालक गृह नहीं पाए जाते हैं तो और बच्चों को यूके भेजा जा सकता है।


Bledrow Ridge: Plan to close recycling centre backed

Summary: Plans to permanently close a Buckinghamshire rubbish tip have been approved by county councillors.

The council's cabinet backed the closure of the Bledlow Ridge Recycling Centre near High Wycombe - as part of £1.2m of cuts to balance its books. The meeting heard local councillors are still looking at whether it could be saved by being run as a commercial business. Thousands of residents signed a petition opposing its closure.

बकिंघमशायर कचरा टिप को स्थायी रूप से बंद करने की योजना को काउंटी पार्षदों द्वारा मंजूरी दी गई है।


Guernsey Airport work starts despite review threat

Summary: The prospect of a judicial review into the Guernsey Airport redevelopment will not distract the contractor, the Public Services minister has said.

The Public Services Department signed a £55m contract with Lagan Construction on Friday. Two deputies have said they would bring forward a judicial review of the planning process. However, Deputy Flouquet said: "We're legally obliged now to get on with the project." He said: "We're not going to know what a judicial review outcome would be for quite a few months. "If someone is minded to bring a judicial review to the Environment Department, well that is under a point of law and that's to do with the Environment Department and that individual."

लोक सेवा मंत्री ने कहा है कि ग्वेर्नसे हवाई अड्डे के पुनर्विकास में न्यायिक समीक्षा की संभावना ठेकेदार को विचलित नहीं करेगी।


South Korea's whaling: Faux and cons

Summary: This is the eighth meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) that I've covered; so I'm always a bit chary of the possibility that over time I've become a more grumpy, wizened, curmudgeonly old cynic than the organisation's politics might merit.

Richard BlackFormer environment correspondent So it's been refreshing to chat with a few first-timers this year - and confirmatory that some of them, after just three days of what's been a functional meeting by recent standards, already find the waters of hypocrisy and selective memory running deep and strong. What's got the waters flowing stronger then ever is South Korea's proposal to begin whaling around its coast under regulations permitting hunting for scientific research. Is science the rationale? South Korea's own statement here suggests it's not, admitting that pressure is coming from fishermen who say whales are eating too many fish, lowering their catches. These are the same fishermen from communities near the town of Ulsan who routinely snare whales in their fishing nets, accidentally or not - perhaps as many as 150 per year - and are allowed under South Korean law to sell the meat to markets and restaurants. The logical thing from their point of view would be to regularise what happens anyway, and make the hunting easier. That was the implication of a submission that South Korea made a few years back as part of the "IWC peace process"; if Japanese villagers were allowed to hunt whales as part of an eventual compromise deal, they said, Koreans would demand the same right. The peace process came to naught; but it's hard to escape the conclusion that the desire to satisfy a small but genuine whaling community is the real drive behind the scientific whaling proposal too, particularly with an election looming in December. But whether or not the South Koreans really intend to go ahead with the plan, it's been easy for them to construct a case for it. In the debate that followed the South Korean revelation here, delegate after delegate from anti-whaling governments cited and lauded the commercial whaling moratorium that their predecessors voted through in 1982. Strangely, they all forgot to mention the bit of the moratorium wording where they promised to review it. The South Koreans were happy to remind them; and to help any still suffering from the collective amnesia, it goes like this: "This provision will be kept under review, based upon the best scientific advice, and by 1990 at the latest the Commission will undertake a comprehensive assessment of the effects of this decision on whale stocks and consider modification of this provision and the establishment of other catch limits". Countries like South Korea and Japan are still waiting. Some whale stocks have indeed been re-assessed; but "considering modification" is not on the agenda of most IWC members, and they have no hesitation in making clear that it never will be. Australia's commissioner Donna Petrochenko, for example, was as forthright as her populace would demand in declaring that "Australia is resolutely opposed to commercial whaling in any form" and "strongly supports the moratorium". But that statement also makes clear that her government has no intention of honouring the international pledge it made 30 years ago. Nor does the US, UK, Germany, the Seychelles - yes, the Seychelles played a key role - or the rest of the roll call. From a modern democratic point of view, they're quite right. The world, as many say, has moved on, and a majority see whales as creatures to be hugged rather than harpooned. Few governments in Europe or Latin America would see their popularity rise by pledging to re-open the global whaling ban. But what does it say to communities in South Korea, Japan, Greenland and so on who see whale hunting as quite normal? South Korea mustered other arguments too. On Tuesday, IWC governments voted to allow the Bequians of St Vincent and the Grenadines to continue hunting whales under "aboriginal subsistence" rules, designed for peoples with an established tradition. The Bequians' tradition dates back about 130 years, to the time when Yankee whalers taught them how to do it. Korea's, meanwhile, dates back 8-9,000 years - the oldest documented anywhere on the planet - with ancient rock art showing the unmistakeable coming together of harpoon and whale, and piles of bones testifying to their consumption. But Koreans, unlike Bequians, aren't allowed to hunt anymore. Both decisions are made according to the rules; but that's only OK if you think the rules are OK, which the Koreans don't. The Korean "whales eat fish" argument is one of the most easily debunked in the book, and I'm sure the Koreans know it - as must the Japanese officials who used to deploy it as a justification for whaling. But when anti-whaling countries here pointed out that it's nonsense, did they also recall that they had a chance four years ago to get Japan's signature on a conference motion saying it was nonsense, and blew it? One delegate from a government that spoke vehemently in public against the South Korean proposal put it like this in private: "They're just frustrated". And it makes scientific whaling their only legal option. Are the Koreans genuinely intending to do it? It's hard to tell. But what is clear is that the IWC's tangled and often conveniently forgotten history gives them reasons for real frustration, and the wherewithal to construct faux frustration if they choose. As the Korean proposal puts it: "Good faith and pacta sunt servanda ('agreements must be kept') constitute the two fundamental principles of international relations." Really?

यह अंतर्राष्ट्रीय व्हेलिंग आयोग (आई. डब्ल्यू. सी.) की आठवीं बैठक है जिसे मैंने कवर किया है; इसलिए मैं हमेशा इस संभावना से थोड़ा चिंतित रहता हूं कि समय के साथ मैं संगठन की राजनीति की तुलना में अधिक क्रोधी, भ्रमित, विकृत रूप से पुराना सनकी बन गया हूं।


Air pollution death ruling: What comes next?

Summary: For the first time in the UK - and possibly the world - air pollution has been recognised as a cause of a person's death. But was the ruling just a one-off? And what does it mean for others?

By Claire MarshallEnvironment correspondent On 16 December, Southwark Coroner's Court in London found that air pollution "made a material contribution" to the death of nine-year-old Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah. She had lived near the South Circular Road in Lewisham and died in 2013, following an asthma attack. Her case has been making headlines around the globe. Ella had a rare type of acute asthma; she was particularly susceptible to the toxic gases and particles in air pollution. In his verdict, the coroner Philip Barlow said the cause was "multi-factorial. It was down to both genes, and the environment". From a legal perspective, David Wolfe QC, a barrister specialising in public law, said: "Although this decision does not have any binding impact on other courts, it is still important as the first formal legal recognition of air pollution as contributing to the death of a particular individual. "That will help other individuals who want to press for greater action on air pollution. That could be action from public bodies which make decisions about polluting activities such as traffic and roads, or the public and private bodies which themselves cause major air pollution." At the conclusion of the two-week inquest, Mr Barlow said Ella had been exposed to "excessive" levels of pollution. The pollutants included nitrogen dioxide (NO2) - a gas emitted by combustion engines that can irritate the airways and aggravate respiratory diseases. Levels of NO2 near Ella's home exceeded World Health Organization (WHO) and European Union guidelines. The inquest heard that, in the three years before her death, she had had multiple seizures and was admitted to hospital 27 times. Katie Nield, a lawyer with the firm Client Earth, which has brought numerous legal cases against European governments over air pollution, said: "This was a decision about the cause of Ella's death, rather than a determination of who was at fault - so it doesn't provide a direct precedent that others can rely on." "By explicitly identifying air pollution as a cause of death, this could serve as a signal for the possibility of justice for other people. The evidence at this inquest was found to be strong enough to show that pollution played a role in cutting Ella's life short. "The possibility of making this link in a court of law for the many people who suffer as a result of breathing the dirty air around them may now seem like less of a leap." But does this case alter how experts view the science behind air pollution? In his verdict, the coroner noted that the health impacts of air pollution "have been acknowledged for many years". He referred to a report by the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee in 2010, which concluded there were 35,000 premature deaths a year as a result of air pollution. He also referred to several other papers. The key in Ella's case was that a leading professional in his field, Prof Sir Stephen Holgate, was prepared to investigate all the evidence to find the link between a single death, and levels of pollutants in the air. He was the star witness in the inquest. "This is the first time a distinguished medic has stuck his head above the parapet," said environmental health and air quality scientist Prof Roy Harrison, from Birmingham University. "He looked at the data, looked at the health records, and said on the balance of probabilities air pollution was a major causal factor in the death of this child." Establishing links However, Prof Harrison said it had not changed the science in any way. Instead, it had confirmed what scientists had long known was the case, Nevertheless, he said, it would be hard for pollution to be put on another death certificate without such a detailed inquiry. "I'm afraid that same thoroughness would be required in other cases," he explained. Ella's mother, Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, has worked tirelessly to uncover the facts behind her daughter's death. "Unless a parent or a dependent of a person… were extremely persistent, as Ella's mother was in this case, I think it's very unlikely. I don't think a doctor is going to feel sufficiently confident in writing a death certificate to put air pollution as a causal factor, even though it's opened up as much more of a possibility for them." He added: "Establishing that link in an individual case is going to be extremely difficult." But Prof Harrison said that, now, the UK government couldn't "turn around and say it's just a load of statistics". Asked whether this verdict only be relevant to people with asthma as unusually severe as Ella's, Prof Jonathan Grigg, another of the expert witnesses in the case, said: "The evidence isn't that... actually, the evidence we know about asthma attacks, asthma deaths, causation of asthma, is for the whole mix of asthmas. You don't have to have this particular variant. It shows that small changes have this avalanche effect." He told BBC News that asthma deaths were rare. But now, for an individual living in a zone of known high air pollution, he said it was "going to be difficult to say that air pollution has not had a role". He added: "You wouldn't have to have such a detailed discussion. What it will do [is that] the profession will be much more amendable to discussing this." Re-housing case? Prof Grigg said that a patient could now be advised: "You live on the North Circular road, your child has severe asthma, you know the case of Ella, how can we help you to consider moving away from that area? "If you are in social housing, there would now be a strong case for the council that they had to re-house you. That could make a tremendous difference to a lot of individuals who have severe asthma." Prof Gavin Shaddick, a government adviser on air pollution, who conducts epidemiological studies on a national and global scale, said the harmful impact of air pollution had "often been difficult to understand, and communicate". "This deeply regrettable case will help us to think about the effects of air pollution in a bottom-up manner; effects on individual people that together sum to those population level estimates of health impacts. "It will... add to the substantial, and growing, evidence of the adverse health effects of air pollution, both in the UK and internationally." Follow Claire on Twitter.

ब्रिटेन में पहली बार-और संभवतः दुनिया में-वायु प्रदूषण को किसी व्यक्ति की मौत के कारण के रूप में पहचाना गया है। लेकिन क्या यह फैसला सिर्फ एक बार था? और दूसरों के लिए इसका क्या मतलब है?


A twist in the familiar tale of cuts

Summary: The Holyrood budget had little to do with austerity. It was modest in its ambitions, but political too. The big themes included the environment, children in poverty and re-balancing the tax burden. The background economic story is not looking good, with growth sluggish and red flags being raised more widely.

Douglas FraserBusiness/economy editor, Scotland At last, a budget that wasn't dominated by austerity. It's not that the impact of the 10-year squeeze has gone away. But the draft Holyrood budget was more about a positive, though modest, range of choices than about the familiar tale of cuts. Amid the numbers issued with Thursday's draft budget for Holyrood was an assessment of the journey from 2010, as Conservative chancellors sought to "consolidate" the budget, and get the deficit down. By 2016-17, the real terms impact of the squeeze on Scottish government funding brought spending 8.3% below the previous peak of 2010-11. Since then, the grip of the Treasury has been relaxed. The shortfall on 2010 levels fell to 1% in real terms during the current year. At last, it turns positive in 2020-21, at 0.9% above the level a decade ago. So, it's as you were? No. During that time, the demand on the budget has changed. Health and social care gobbles up an ever-bigger chunk of it. Together, that budget has topped £15bn for next year. With health costs, expectations, chronic conditions and demographics, that's only likely to go in one direction. It is local authorities that have faced much of the squeeze. They get £500m more out of the 2020-21 budget, but much of that is earmarked for the Scottish government priority of childcare and to fund a second year of the teachers' pay deal, as well as pensions. Belching As with any half-decent budget, Kate Forbes - the first woman to present and manage a budget at Holyrood or at Westminster - had political priorities in mind. She aimed to please or placate every lobby group - or at least, groups that vote. This will be the last financial year before the next Hollyrood election, so it has a political job to do. Here, then, are three themes. Climate change is requiring some big shifts in spending priorities. Add up all the elements, and you get to quite a lot that's intended to impress on visitors to Glasgow's mega-conference in November that Scotland is making an effort on reducing harmful emissions. That includes funds to replace gas heating for homes and businesses, with a shift to district heating schemes. They will require a lot of pipework, so the money is only a down payment on a lot of work yet to be done. It should be good for job creation though. There's more to turn around the declining use of buses, and so-called "active" travel - cycling and walking. Buses are being championed by Labour and the Greens, with similar calls for free tickets if you're under 25. Expect to hear more of that at next year's hustings. With much bovine belching, farming is a major contributor to those damaging emissions, and there is a down payment to help spark the change that will be required to agricultural practice. Forestry already has an ambitious tree-planting schedule, at 12,000 hectares a year. That's being stepped up to 15,000 hectares, using leaves to absorb carbon dioxide. Likewise, peatlands act as a carbon sink. Protecting and enhancing that role is getting more funds from April, and a big SNP election pledge of £250m over the next 10 years. Legacy Theme two: families and poverty. While the really big number being added to this year's budget is the £3bn of Westminster welfare spending being devolved to Holyrood, only one minor change is scheduled to come in any time soon - a Scottish child payment. Other changes to disability living allowance and to attendance allowance will have to wait until the systems are ready for divergence, and until ministers can see how much a more generous welfare system is likely to cost them. But underlying recent budgets at Holyrood has been the expensive project of expanding childcare to hit the target intended for the 2021 election. That works for parents (mostly mothers), it helps with early education and with relieving stress on the many families living in poverty. That is what Nicola Sturgeon wants to take to the electorate next year, having chosen this over other possible priorities. It's about legacy. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, with expertise in poverty policy, praises the Scottish government for its child payment, but says the 2020-21 budget choices do not go far enough. Scottish director Jim McCormick is looking for a longer-term commitment to lowering the cost of housing, and to a deeper, more sustained commitment to those in poverty despite being in work. Two thirds of Scottish children in poverty are living in such households. Fiscal creep Theme three: being progressive. That means a shift of the tax burden towards those better able to shoulder it. The risk is that pushing that re-balance so far that it proves counter-productive. This budget made only a modest change in that direction. Those earning up to £43,431 will see tax thresholds rise with inflation. That means their tax bills, on a given income level, will take no more off them in real terms. But those with earnings above £43,431, that threshold will remain the point at which Scottish ministers begin to take 41 pence of every extra pound they earn. That's what they call "fiscal creep": as earnings go above that level, people move into the higher tax bracket, and as pay goes up with inflation, the Scottish government takes a bigger chunk of it. Mind the gap Not knowing what Sajid Javid will do with his tax choices on his budget day, March 11, we don't yet know how Scottish tax will compare with that in other parts of the UK. There have been hints that the chancellor will shift the threshold at which people start paying National Insurance contributions. Being undevolved to Holyrood, that would not alter the relative tax bills. But as things now stand, the gap has quite a significant look to it at higher income levels. The Chartered Institute of Taxation has helpfully provided me with a ready reckoner. It shows that Scots paying tax on lower levels of income are a whole £21 better off than those on the same pay down south. The level at which Scots start paying more in tax than someone on the same pay in England has gone up by £250, to £27,243. If you're on £40,000 a year, the gap is only £128. Not much to ask for free prescriptions etc? But on a £50,000 salary, that rises to £1,542 (£,7500 income tax paid south of the border, and £9,042 in Scotland). On £100,000, the gap is just over £2,000. Fragile Looking back over the past decade, getting up the pay scale has also been proving tough. The Scottish Fiscal Commission published its updated assessment of the Scottish economy and revenue, alongside the budget. It reflects the state of the Scottish economy, and it's not looking that healthy. Employment levels remain strong, even though a gap with the rest of the UK has opened up recently. Growth was weaker than forecast last year, at 0.9%. It's little better this year, at only 1%. That barely grows in the next few years. That has a lot to do with productivity growth. It is up on a dismal 0.3% in 2019, but at 0.6%, that's a dispiriting measure of how much more prosperous we can expect to become this year. There are new measures in this budget intended to help. Capital funding for the Scottish National Investment Bank is one of the bigger items, though it's hardly a quick fix. Others are more modest. Evidence from business has recently suggested more clarity about Brexit, following the December election, has helped unlock some more business activity. But it's not yet looking like a game-changer. The economic end of Brexit uncertainty continues. It's still a drag on business confidence. And the potential impact of coronavirus is raising red flags about supply chains and travel disrupted, bringing a sharp decline in global growth. Beyond Holyrood, the wider economy looks fragile.

होलीरूड बजट का मितव्ययिता से कोई लेना-देना नहीं था। यह अपनी महत्वाकांक्षाओं में मामूली था, लेकिन राजनीतिक भी था। बड़े विषयों में पर्यावरण, गरीबी में बच्चे और कर के बोझ को फिर से संतुलित करना शामिल था। पृष्ठभूमि आर्थिक कहानी अच्छी नहीं लग रही है, विकास की धीमी गति और लाल झंडे अधिक व्यापक रूप से उठाए जा रहे हैं।


The play dispelling the British Vietnamese 'nail-bar' cliche

Summary: Opening this week is what's being presented as the first British Vietnamese play. Summer Rolls at London's Park Theatre shows the younger generation embracing cultural change - and unsettling their families who arrived as migrants 40 years earlier.

By Vincent DowdArts reporter, BBC News Tuyen Do's play is itself illustrative of this change. Its cast was chosen from the growing pool of British Vietnamese actors - something which would have been impossible just a few years ago. In the late 1970s, most people in Britain would have been hard-pressed to identify a Vietnamese presence in the country at all. Today the community has grown but it's still not huge - probably just over 50,000 people nationwide. Do's play gives a rare insight into what life has been like for British Vietnamese families since their perilous journeys from home after the fall of Saigon in 1975 and the end of the Vietnam War. Though her story takes place mainly in Britain, it starts in 1979 on the Mekong river. A mother sends her 11-year-old son off on a boat to what she hopes will be prosperity elsewhere. Do says the term Boat People isn't much liked by today's British Vietnamese community. But she knows it's what will come to mind for many audiences. "After 1975 people around the world saw TV pictures of Vietnamese leaving the country on these unsafe boats. Some came to Britain, normally by way of Hong Kong. Really it was the first Britain knew of Vietnamese people. "But what I'm trying to do is get away from the cliche that the British Vietnamese now all work in restaurants and in nail bars." Do says the story is fictional. "But a lot of the detail and the characterisation comes from my own lived experience," she adds. "Mai is a younger daughter and she has to negotiate her own way through life in Britain as a second-generation immigrant. "So partly it's a very personal story about love and tension within a particular family and how far parents can intervene in a young woman's life. But also there's a bigger picture about the status of refugees." Do says when writing the play she was conscious of parallels with political events today. "The terrible situation of many migrants was just the same as now. Where were they going to find homes and safety? Which nations would take them? I think the problems go on and I'm sure people watching the play are going to pick up on that." The numbers who came to the UK immediately after the Vietnam war were quite small - more Vietnamese left later following border disputes with China. The best estimate is that around 23,000 people had settled in the UK by the late 1980s. But Do says she wants the play to work mainly through its depiction of family life. The importance of food is central, as the title Summer Rolls might suggest. "Eating together around a table is a celebration and it's a way of connecting. And of course over the past 15 years Vietnamese food has also had a real impact on British culture. It's exploded onto the scene and, though I'm not keen to deal in stereotypes, that's part of the story of British Vietnamese people too." Though she's not appearing in her own play, Do has been acting for several years. Last year she was in The Great Wave at the National Theatre, set in Japan and North Korea. She's pleased Summer Rolls boasts a wholly British Vietnamese cast (apart from Keon Martial-Phillip, who plays Mai's Black British boyfriend). Michael Phong Le is another member of the cast. He left drama school in Birmingham five years ago and says for an actor being British Vietnamese has proved a two-edged sword. "It's rare that there's a specific role to go up for. But on the other hand, if there is one it's likely I'll be called in to audition. The category of actors I fit into is very small and I spent a long time thinking there just wasn't a group of British Vietnamese creatives out there. I was wrong - but in terms of actors you could probably count us on the fingers of both hands." So does Phong Le find himself considered for other Asian roles such as Chinese or Korean? He smiles. "I think I used to be but it's become more difficult. The industry as a whole has become very worried about casting and it's trickier than it was. "When I first came out of drama school I was seen for specifically Chinese roles. But everything is now so sensitive that casting directors and producers sometimes feel only people of Chinese descent should be seen for Chinese roles. "On TV I've been in the Catherine Tate Show, DCI Banks and Hooten & the Lady. Two of those roles were Vietnamese but one was Chinese. The day before we shot they phoned me up: they were worried I was Vietnamese and we had to talk the whole thing through. I think maybe now I'm seen less often for Chinese parts. "But I'm a bit of an optimist so overall I'd say things are getting better for ethnic minority actors. But Vietnamese people are often seen as a minority within a minority, which creates its own problems." But there's a bigger question which casting directors and writers now face. Why should performers be limited by their ethnic background anyway? There will never be a huge number of specifically British Vietnamese roles on stage or TV - but why can't actors such as Phong Le and Do be considered to play, say, an administrator or a doctor where a specific ethnicity is irrelevant? Phong Le says his dream is to be cast as "'Dave the normal guy at the office'. Yes my heritage is completely Vietnamese but I was brought up here in Britain and I could play a range of British characters. We're at the point now where we need to persuade the industry to see us that way. We're not there yet." Do is as ambitious in her acting career as she is as a playwright. "I want to be Sandra Oh and have an Emmy award in my hand. I want to be recognised as an artist more than for being British Vietnamese." Summer Rolls is at the Park Theatre in London until 13 July. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

इस सप्ताह के उद्घाटन को पहले ब्रिटिश वियतनामी नाटक के रूप में प्रस्तुत किया जा रहा है। लंदन के पार्क थिएटर में समर रोल्स युवा पीढ़ी को सांस्कृतिक परिवर्तन को अपनाने और 40 साल पहले प्रवासियों के रूप में आने वाले अपने परिवारों को परेशान करते हुए दिखाता है।


Putin's palace? A mystery Black Sea mansion fit for a tsar

Summary: On a thickly wooded mountainside overlooking Russia's Black Sea coast, an extraordinary building has gradually taken shape. It is alleged to be a palace built for the personal use of Vladimir Putin, with massive and illegal use of state funds.

By Tim Whewell BBC News Originally conceived, it is said, as a modest holiday house with a swimming pool, it now boasts a magnificent columned facade reminiscent of the country palaces Russian tsars built in the 18th Century. The massive wrought-iron gates into the courtyard are topped with a golden imperial eagle. Outside are formal gardens, a private theatre, a landing pad with bays for three helicopters, and accommodation for security guards. All this and more is revealed by satellite images of the area and photographs on the internet, some of which you see here, which campaigners say were leaked by workers at the site. The mystery of why the palace was built and who provided the enormous sums of money required to pay for it is much harder to uncover. But now, with Vladimir Putin about to be sworn in for a third term as Russia's president, one of his former business associates has spoken to BBC Newsnight, giving more detail than ever before about how he says the mansion was built to the leader's specifications for his personal use. Sergei Kolesnikov, who now works in the Estonian capital Tallinn having fled Russia, was for several years one of those responsible for building the palace. He is the first insider from Mr Putin's business circle to blow the whistle on what he says is the high-level corruption threatening to destroy the country's economy. Kolesnikov says he was involved with two of Mr Putin's friends - Nikolai Shamalov and Dmitri Gorelov - in a venture, proposed by Mr Putin himself, to provide Russian hospitals with new equipment. Several Russian oligarchs, including Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich, donated millions of dollars to help upgrade Russia's hospitals. Kolesnikov imported the medical equipment, and he says his company was able to get big discounts on the supplies. Some of the donors deny that was possible. But Kolesnikov says millions of dollars were saved in this way, and at Mr Putin's suggestion much of that money was put into offshore companies - without the donors' knowledge - for use in other investment projects. These included ailing industries such as shipbuilding - projects Kolesnikov says he discussed directly with Putin - but an ever-greater proportion of the extra funds, he says, went into "Project South" - the Black Sea palace near the village of Praskoveevka. Kolesnikov told Newsnight that he was at a meeting with Putin at his country house outside Moscow when the issue of the Black Sea palace was raised directly. He says the Russian leader ordered his powerful deputy prime minister, Igor Sechin, to deal with it. Shortly afterwards, Kolesnikov says, Sechin summoned him to discuss details. He also says he had many other meetings at the palace itself where Mr Putin's instructions for fittings and furnishings were discussed with a senior officer in the Federal Security Service, which guards the president and prime minister. More usually, he says, Putin passed on his instructions for the building through his friend, and Mr Kolesnikov's partner, Nikolai Shamalov. "He didn't seek to justify it," Kolesnikov says. "He considered that whatever the tsar decided, it wasn't our business to discuss. "There was a tsar - and there were slaves, who didn't have their own opinion," Kolesnikov says. But the whistleblower says he eventually became disgusted by the sums being spent on the palace, and fell out with his partner Shamalov. "I hadn't worked 15 hours a day for 10 years to build a palace," he says. "That didn't interest me." In December 2010, Kolesnikov wrote an open letter to President Dmitry Medvedev detailing the involvement of himself and others in the project and outlining his allegations against Putin, then prime minister. Newsnight attempted to contact Shamalov and Kolesnikov's other former partner Dmitri Gorelov, but their companies said they were unavailable for comment on this story. Putin's spokesman has denied Mr Kolesnikov's allegations, along with other claims about the Russian leader's personal assets. Officially the palace belonged, until recently, to a company partly owned by Shamalov. Now it is owned by another businessman who is not directly connected to Putin. But documents obtained by one of Russia's few opposition newspapers, Novaya Gazeta, and seen by Newsnight suggest that the Kremlin lied when it said it had no involvement in the building of the palace. An agreement to build the mansion on state-owned land was signed by the head of the Department for Presidential Affairs, Vladimir Kozhin, who subsequently denied knowing anything about the site. The documents do not prove that the palace was meant for Putin himself, or that he was personally involved in its construction. But mystery still surrounds it. When anti-corruption campaigners managed to get through to the front of the palace last year, they were met not only by private security guards, but also by uniformed members of the official Kremlin guard service. Later the private security company claimed its employees had simply bought the uniforms - and Kremlin identity cards - in a shop. But for the campaigners, and for Kolesnikov, the Kremlin guards' presence and the elaborate infrastructure indicate the true purpose of the building, and what they say is the massive illegal use of state funds. "It's the building of a road direct to the palace on government money," Kolesnikov says. "A high-power electric line, direct to the palace. The government spent tens of millions of dollars on these. "If it was just for Putin's friend Shamalov, why would the Federal Guard Service commission and monitor the building of the palace? Why would he need three helipads? "A private person doesn't need these. But for a president they're essential."

रूस के काला सागर तट को देखते हुए घने जंगल वाले पहाड़ पर, एक असाधारण इमारत ने धीरे-धीरे आकार ले लिया है। यह कथित तौर पर व्लादिमीर पुतिन के व्यक्तिगत उपयोग के लिए बनाया गया एक महल है, जिसमें राज्य के धन का बड़े पैमाने पर और अवैध उपयोग किया गया है।


Man admits attempted murder over Bomere Heath stabbing

Summary: A man has admitted attempted murder after stabbing one woman and injuring another near Shrewsbury.

The stab victim was injured in the chest on 8 March outside property in Sefton Drive, Bomere Heath, and another woman had head injuries. Wayne Williams, 54, of Sefton Drive, admitted one count of attempted murder and one of grievous bodily harm with intent. He will be sentenced at Stafford Crown Court on 10 July. Read more news for Shropshire

एक व्यक्ति ने श्रूसबरी के पास एक महिला को चाकू मारने और दूसरे को घायल करने के बाद हत्या के प्रयास को स्वीकार किया है।


National Gallery: Will Gompertz reviews the UK's first major museum to reopen ★★★★★

Summary: I missed an appointment the other day because it took me 10 minutes to figure out how to leave Broadcasting House. My place of work has changed a bit since I last set foot in W1A pre-lockdown. A one-way system has been introduced to allow for social distancing, which is a good idea. That the job was given to a brilliant escape-room game designer is evidence that someone, somewhere has a mischievous sense of humour.

Will GompertzArts editor@WillGompertzBBCon Twitter Still, better get used to it. One-way is the new way nowadays. Supermarkets, coffee shops, and now arts venues have all gone down the same one-way street. The National Gallery in London was the first of the major national museums to reopen to the public on Wednesday, offering a lockdown-easing visitor experience that is markedly different from the pre-pandemic wander-at-will affair. It is still free to see its collection of world-class paintings but tickets have to be booked online for a specific day and time. Once in the gallery you are encouraged to wear a face covering, use the hand sanitiser stations, and choose from one of three prescribed one-way routes: A, B or C (you can do them all if you want). Each trail takes around 30 minutes and features hundreds of stunning paintings. All three options are something of a smorgasbord of styles and epochs, but broadly speaking route A focuses on Italian paintings, route B is more Flemish and Dutch, and C is German and British. There are way-finding arrows on the floor which double-up as two-metre markers for social distancing. They work well on the whole, but become a little confusing when the B and C routes converge. I was whisked off in the direction of Lucas Cranach the Elder's mean-mouthed masterpieces when I'd set my sights on the swirling Baroque of Peter Paul Rubens. As wrong turnings go, that's hardly a disaster. But you can't rectify your mistake. The defined routes are like motorways, once you're on one you have to go with the flow until the next exit, which in this case, is the exit. That said, there are plenty of visor-wearing gallery assistants to ask for directions. They are very helpful as long as you don't try to swim against the tide; if you do they'll read you the riot act (moon walking won't fool them, I tried). Fair enough. The safety of visitors and staff alike is paramount, and with levels of anxiety running high, the gallery can't afford to have people going off-piste. The digressive pleasures of gallery-going have gone, for the time being at least. The new normal is the curated walking tour, which, it turns out, has a lot going for it. It is helpful, for instance, if you're not a regular at the National Gallery, which can be overwhelming: which way should you turn, what should you see? Now, you can't go wrong, each of the three routes serves up room after room of exquisite paintings, contextualised within their period and style. Take your pick: do you fancy a gallery full of Rembrandts or one chock-a-block with Holbein's (my advice, go around twice, see them both). Route A is the shortest and has fewest pictures, and conveniently takes you back to the starting point for all three options, unlike B and C which both finish with the Impressionists and a five-minute hike back to the beginning if you want to try another option. It also features some wonderful pictures including Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks, Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Portrait, and Piero della Francesca's The Baptism of Christ, which is one of the most exceptional paintings you will ever set eyes upon. Route B is just as good. Not only has it the aforementioned rooms dedicated to Rubens and Rembrandt (including the splendid A Woman bathing in a Stream, and a very late, very moving self-portrait), but also Velázquez's The Toilet of Venus, Seurat's magnificent Bathers at Asnières, and Caravaggio's Supper at Emmaus. Does that mean Route C is the weakest link? Absolutely not. It has Turner's The Fighting Temeraire, Constable's The Hay Wain, and Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump. And that's just a few of the Britons. Elsewhere, you'll also see Van Gogh's A Wheatfield with Cypresses, Holbein's The Ambassadors, and Bruegel's Christ and the Woman taken in Adultery. It's like a feast of all your favourite dishes, served at once, leaving you with no choice other than to gorge yourself until you can't take any more. Maybe it is too much, but it's difficult to see what more the National Gallery could do in the current circumstances. It has clearly thought long and hard about how to best display its collection in a manner that will give the greatest access to its greatest pictures, while also giving confidence to the public visiting at a time when Covid-19 still lurks ominously like the black spot of syphilis in Hogarth's famous moralising satire Marriage A-la-Mode (route C). I was just happy to be back among one of the finest fine art collections in the world, and grateful to all of those who have made it possible. It felt safe enough, and the few small teething problems are insignificant compared to the show that has been put on in such a challenging climate. Welcome back the National Gallery. And congratulations for finding an intelligent solution to a difficult situation: turning expert curators into art-route planners might be more than a quick fix, it could be the future. Recent reviews by Will Gompertz Follow Will Gompertz on Twitter

मैं दूसरे दिन एक मुलाकात से चूक गया क्योंकि मुझे यह पता लगाने में 10 मिनट का समय लगा कि ब्रॉडकास्टिंग हाउस को कैसे छोड़ना है। जब से मैंने पिछली बार लॉकडाउन से पहले डब्ल्यू1ए में कदम रखा था, तब से मेरा काम करने का स्थान थोड़ा बदल गया है। सामाजिक दूरी की अनुमति देने के लिए एक तरफा प्रणाली शुरू की गई है, जो एक अच्छा विचार है। कि एक शानदार एस्केप-रूम गेम डिजाइनर को नौकरी दी गई थी, यह इस बात का प्रमाण है कि कहीं न कहीं किसी में शरारती भावना है।


Met Office issues yellow weather warning for Wales

Summary: Motorists have been warned to care on the roads on Tuesday with ice predicted for most of Wales.

The Met Office's yellow warning comes into effect on 00:00 GMT on 22 January and lasts for 12 hours. A spokesman said there could be ice on roads and pavements, and warned that railway journeys might also be affected. The warning is also in place for the whole of England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

मोटर चालकों को मंगलवार को सड़कों पर सावधानी बरतने की चेतावनी दी गई है और अधिकांश वेल्स के लिए बर्फ की भविष्यवाणी की गई है।


Missing 5ft pet lizard returns to Swansea home

Summary: A 5ft (1.5m) long pet lizard that went missing from a Swansea garden after being let out of the house for some exercise has been found.

It disappeared from King Edwards Road at around 16:30 BST on Saturday. South Wales Police made appeals for sightings of the lizard which has black and white scales to be reported. But the force said on Monday that the lizard, which is not considered dangerous, has now been found and returned to its owner.

एक 5 फीट (डेढ़ मीटर) लंबी पालतू छिपकली जो कुछ व्यायाम के लिए घर से बाहर छोड़े जाने के बाद स्वानसी बगीचे से लापता हो गई थी, पाई गई है।


The child abuse survivor fighting to save others

Summary: In India, child sexual assault must be reported within three years or a case cannot be brought against an abuser. But for adult survivors who struggle to come to terms with their ordeal this means their abuser, frequently someone close to the family, will never be brought to justice. The BBC's Geeta Pandey met one survivor campaigning for a change in the law.

A 53-year-old Canadian woman of Indian origin recently met with India's Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi. Her mission was to lobby for a change in the law so that adult survivors can report childhood sexual abuse. Purnima Govindarajulu, who grew up in the southern Indian city of Chennai (formerly Madras) before moving to Canada in 1986, says she was abused by her cousin's husband regularly between the ages of six and 13. After meeting Ms Govindarajuluin in Delhi, Mrs Gandhi said her ministry was "considering measures that will help child abuse survivors report their abusers, many years after the crimes had been committed". The law at present says a case must be brought within three years of abuse. "I would wake up at night to find him sitting next to me in the dark. He would put his hands and mouth on my private parts," Ms Govindarajulu, who works as a conservation biologist for the Canadian province of British Columbia, said. Although the "more intrusive penetrative acts took place at night or while travelling during the holidays", the abuse continued during the day too. "Whenever he would find me alone, he would stick his fingers into my panties. There would be fondling, groping." Growing up in conservative Chennai, she says she had no clue that what was happening to her was wrong and was not her fault. "I never thought of protesting because I believed I was evil, I was dirty, I was bad. I had no idea about sex. I had three older brothers and when at the age of 13, I began menstruating I thought I had cancer. "I thought I was about to die but that came as a relief to me because I was so miserable in my life." But then an aunt showed up and saw her "blood-soaked panties and assured me that I was not going to die". "She said you are a woman now. She told me it was normal. She said this means you can have a baby. She also told me don't let anyone touch you." It was advice that had come too late for Ms Govindarajulu, but it was still good advice. "For the first time it made me feel I had some sort of power. So the next time he tried to touch me, I told him to stop." And he did. "He said, 'Okay if you don't want it, I'll stop.' I realised I could have done it earlier. And that made me feel terrible that why didn't I do it?" So all through her teen years, she says, she struggled with self-hate, and was "depressed and suicidal". Incest and child sexual abuse are huge problems in India. According to a 2007 government study, 53% of children surveyed said they had been subjected to some form of sexual abuse. The study also revealed that a substantial number of abusers were "persons in trust and care-givers" which included parents, relatives and school teachers. But there's a general reluctance to talk about the topic and abuse by family members is rarely reported. It's not surprising then that Ms Govindarajulu had no idea that what had happened to her was not unique. It was only in the late 1980s when she had moved to Canada and saw a television programme on child sexual abuse that the penny dropped. "I was sitting on the couch in my brother's home with his wife, we were flicking channels and we came across this show. I realised I wasn't alone. I wasn't evil or bad or dirty." Marrying a cousin is not uncommon in some Hindu communities in southern India and her sister-in-law is none other than her childhood friend, her abuser's daughter. "She said, 'This would never happen in India.' I contradicted her, 'It does, it happened to me'. She asked me, 'It was my father, wasn't it?'," Ms Govindarajulu says. It made sense to other family members too because, as they all said, "he doted on you while you hated him". It still took her - and her family - years to do something about it. In 1999, when her brother visited Chennai, he confronted the abuser about it. "Initially he denied it. Then he said, 'Yes I touched her, but always with love.' My brother asked him if he'd also touched his daughter that way. 'Of course not,' he said. "My brother asked him if he'd touched others too? 'None of your business,' he told him. "And then he added, 'At least I never used my penis.' Maybe he was trying to tell him that he had done nothing illegal," Ms Govindarajulu says. "When my brother spoke to my abuser's wife, my cousin, she said, 'That makes sense. I'd see him around her bed at night but he always said that he was comforting her because she'd had nightmares." Ms Govindarajulu says her cousin called her to say it was best to let bygones be bygones. "She said, 'I've forgiven him, you forgive him too. He's god to me. I'm married to him.' I have not spoken to her since. It's been a huge loss for me. She was a big sister to me." On his return from India, her brother sent out an email to the wider family. And a cousin, who didn't want to go public, confided in him that she too had been abused by the same man. Her brothers and the rest of the family rallied around Ms Govindarajulu, offering her support, and everyone vowed that they would make sure the man had no access to children again. But in 2013, when Ms Govindarajulu visited his house to meet her aunt who was bedridden and couldn't leave home, she felt that little had changed. So in 2015, she took the tough decision to go public. "I went to the police in Canada, I told them I wanted to file a case but they said they had no jurisdiction" since the abuse had happened in India and that all the people were based there. "But they were extremely supportive, they counselled me and wrote out a report for the Chennai police." Ms Govindarajulu says the Chennai police were also "very sympathetic", but they said they couldn't register a complaint because the statute of limitations had run out. So last August, she filed a petition on change.org demanding that the law must be amended to allow adult survivors to report childhood abuse to stop repeat offences by molesters. Her petition has received more than 120,000 signatures and her cause has also won support from the women and child development minister. In recent days, some of the Indian press has reached out to the man, but he has refused to respond to Ms Govindarajulu's allegations. "I have already spoken to the police about this last year. There is nothing more that I would like to say," he told one website. Ms Govindarajulu, however, says she's not seeking just personal justice. Moreover, she says she has little hope that she will ever see her abuser prosecuted. "He's 75 and even if a court case is brought against him, it will take a long time and he may not even live that long. But such people are almost always repeat offenders and I feel guilty about not being able to protect other children. At least we can stop him from abusing other children in future." The abuse, she says, has affected her entire life. "I struggled with relationships, I couldn't have children." But she draws some satisfaction from the fact that after she went public, his social status has suffered and her other cousins no longer socialise with him. But her decision to go public has not found favour with her eldest brother who says it could embarrass the abuser's son and daughter. "But I say there's only one criminal in this story and that's not me," says Ms Govindarajulu.

भारत में, बाल यौन उत्पीड़न की रिपोर्ट तीन साल के भीतर दर्ज की जानी चाहिए या किसी दुर्व्यवहार करने वाले के खिलाफ मामला नहीं चलाया जा सकता है। लेकिन वयस्क उत्तरजीवी के लिए जो अपनी पीड़ा को समझने के लिए संघर्ष करते हैं, इसका मतलब है कि उनके दुर्व्यवहार करने वाले, जो अक्सर परिवार के करीबी होते हैं, को कभी भी न्याय के दायरे में नहीं लाया जाएगा। बीबीसी की गीता पांडे ने कानून में बदलाव के लिए अभियान चलाने वाले एक उत्तरजीवी से मुलाकात की।


Birmingham clubber dies after 'bad batch' of drugs

Summary: A clubber has died after taking a "bad batch" of drugs which hospitalised four others, police said.

The 18-year-old man from Chelmsley Wood, Solihull, was taken to hospital on New Year's Day after partying at the Rainbow in Digbeth. Three men and a woman have now been released from hospital after treatment. Police believe class A pills were distributed inside the club by a woman and two men, one of whom may have been wearing a fluorescent jacket. All five casualties went to the same nightspot on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day.

पुलिस ने कहा कि दवाओं की "खराब खेप" लेने के बाद एक क्लब सदस्य की मौत हो गई, जिससे चार अन्य अस्पताल में भर्ती हो गए।


Covid-19: How are couples coping with home working?

Summary: Before the Covid-19 pandemic, working from home was often seen as a luxurious oddity. For many, though, it has become the norm - not just for them, but their partners, too. How are couples coping?

By Laurence CawleyBBC News When James and Jo Williamson first started working from home together, everything was fine. "We both had our desks set up in our home office. It was all lovely," says James. "But then it turned out I was too loud to work next to." James, an analyst programmer, and Jo, a contracts officer for a university, began working together at home, in Jaywick, Essex, in March. It was the month that Prime Minister Boris Johnson advised people to do so if possible to reduce the risk of Covid-19 infection. Office of National Statistics (ONS) figures show that by the following month, nearly half the entire UK workforce was doing at least some of their work from home. Yet home-working was not possible for millions of workers, including those most at risk of infection - such as nurses, paramedics and others in the healthcare sector. People in the professional, technical and managerial occupations were, according to the ONS, the most likely to be able to work from home, while those in skilled trades, sales or factories were the least likely. A study into the high death rate among another group who could not work from home - London bus drivers - concluded an earlier lockdown would likely have saved their lives. The Williamsons, however, doubled up in their home office with extra monitors, a desk and an office chair for Jo. "It is like a control centre in there," says James. "I can do the majority of my work from home, which has been pretty handy. I can get access to all the servers and bits and pieces that I need to." But their side-by-side experiment was over within days. "I moved out," says Jo. "That's because when our meetings clashed, which they often do, he's just a lot louder than I am, so I had to go off and shut the door. "So I am now in another room." Gareth and Courtney, who asked for their surname to be withheld, have had to adapt the living arrangements in their small townhouse in Woburn, Bedfordshire, to accommodate their new working-from-home set-up and the needs of their two young children. The couple both hold senior roles with internationally-known firms. You might also be interested in: Before the pandemic, Courtney was travelling to up to three different countries per week in her role. "It has been a juggling act," she says. "We had to figure out a really robust plan, and that even involved us setting up an Excel schedule and painting one of our walls with blackboard paint and then writing out our work calendars on it and then working out who has the more critical meetings that day." Gareth has largely been based in a spare bedroom while Courtney has set up shop on the kitchen table. "I think we will look back on this year at some stage and feel a bit nostalgic about it. I've never felt more married than I have this year and it has tested every inch of our family dynamic," she says. While working from home together has worked for Jo and James and Gareth and Courtney, it has not been plain sailing for many other couples. One Suffolk mother, who wishes to remain anonymous, tells how her and her husband's marriage collapsed after lockdown brought their differences into sharp relief. "We both have quite high powered jobs and our little boy was previously in full-time nursery," she says. "Lockdown meant that all changed and he was at home all of the time." Her husband, she says, refused to play any role in looking after their son, leaving childcare entirely to her, which meant she was starting work in the very early hours and restarting, often working into the small hours. "He played no role whatsoever. In reality it just highlighted things that had been building in our relationship for a number of years. "It was the sense of isolation that was the worst thing. There are few things more lonely than feeling alone in a marriage." Marriage counselling via the internet failed, and she left the family home in May, with her son. "We live in a flat now, which I just love," she says. "The strange thing is that now the custody arrangements are in place, my ex-husband has become a much better father." How to be happier while working from home Source: BBC Relate, which offers relationship support, surveyed its counsellors and found that of the 68 who responded, more than half reported an increase in clients struggling to maintain a good work-life balance, and 65% said they had seen a rise in the number of clients presenting with issues relating to a change in job or working circumstances. One of Relate's counsellors is Holly Roberts, who has also found herself working from home alongside her partner in their Brighton flat. "One of the common issues seems to stem from when somebody had been working, or primarily in the home, since before the pandemic. They have then had the issue of trying to manage the space and responsibilities between them," she says. "There have also been difficulties with sharing issues at work, in which a person working from home tries to talk about things they would normally talk about in the office with their partner. The other person sometimes finds themselves saying, 'Look, I'm your partner, not your co-worker.'" Then there the expectations people have of each other, including domestic tasks such as doing the laundry or making lunch. "That kind of things can cause friction," she says. "The year has been anxiety-inducing in all sorts of ways and, for those with children too, it has been really hard to manage relationships, time, work and children and it has left some feeling that they are a terrible partner or parent. "I've had couples who tell me they thought they had a really good relationship and they now worry that perhaps they don't have as good a relationship as they thought." So how does she help them resolve their issues? "I'm trying to help people understand that what they are feeling is entirely natural, to be kinder to themselves, to accept the feelings they are having and to know they are so far from being the only people feeling that way." Find BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk

कोविड-19 महामारी से पहले, घर से काम करना अक्सर एक शानदार विचित्रता के रूप में देखा जाता था। हालाँकि, कई लोगों के लिए, यह आदर्श बन गया है-न केवल उनके लिए, बल्कि उनके भागीदारों के लिए भी। जोड़े कैसे सामना कर रहे हैं?


Glen Parva stabbing death: Murder charge after death of 92-year-old

Summary: A man has been charged with murder after a 92-year-old man was stabbed to death at a house in Leicestershire.

Police were called to a property in Greendale Road, Glen Parva, at about 16:00 BST on Tuesday and found Edwin Whatsize's body. Darren Whatsize, 46, of Greendale Road, Glen Parva, has been remanded in custody to appear at Leicester Magistrates' Court, on Thursday. An elderly woman was in the property at the time but was not injured. Follow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.

लीसेस्टरशायर में एक घर में 92 वर्षीय व्यक्ति की चाकू मारकर हत्या करने के बाद एक व्यक्ति पर हत्या का आरोप लगाया गया है।


London riots 2011: 'We were getting hit all the time with missiles'

Summary: During the summer riots in 2011 police officers came under attack from thousands of people involved in civil unrest and looting. Lawlessness broke out in cities across England in perhaps the largest example of disorder in post-war Britain.

Here, two former Metropolitan Police officers describe what it was like policing London, where the riots began. The view from the front line The riots began following a protest in Tottenham over the shooting of Mark Duggan by police. Sgt Simon Willmott and a fellow officer filming the disorder found themselves facing a violent mob of several hundred people. He only had a see-through plastic shield to protect himself. "I was on the front with the shields with the other officer who was doing the filming, and we were getting hit," he said. The pair were hit with bottles and fruit. "It just seemed surreal. We were then getting attacked with tins of baked beans and soup. We weren't trained for that. "We were getting hit all the time with missiles. I thought it is only going to be a matter of time when we will get hit with something that will cause me serious injury." While not specifically afraid for his life, at the back of his mind was the knowledge he could be shot at too. "Being in an area such as this [Tottenham, north London] with the link to firearms that it has, there's that risk of threat as well," he added. Flitting through his mind was the thought: "Is a gunman going to come out of the rioters and suddenly shoot at you?" Years of training and experience stopped him from being paralysed with fear though. "You are working with your colleagues who you trust and you're there to do a job. At the end of the day, whilst there were several hundred, if not thousand, people causing destruction on the streets of Tottenham, we were there to protect many other thousands that were in that area." Mr Willmott, a police officer of 32 years, retired from the Met in 2013, but for him the memories of 2011 are still vivid. "I was involved in policing many violent disorders in my career, but this was without doubt the most serious one. "It went on for the longest, the intensity was quite overwhelming and the destruction on the night will forever stay in my mind." Buildings burned down, windows were smashed and glass, bottles and other debris clogged the roads. In his experience "serious disorders don't last long". "I expected this one to sort of peak-out quite soon, but it just seemed to go on, and on, and on." It was light when we he started his shift and it was light when he and his colleagues finished the following morning as more officers moved in to replace them. He said walking down Tottenham's High Road on the second day of the riots was like surveying a "war-torn scene". Afterwards he spent hours poring through the tapes he and his colleague had filmed to see if they could identify any of the rioters and looters. "It was an opportunists' night, people came and seized what was a peaceful demonstration - and in some eyes a justifiable one - and turned that around and attacked the community." "They wanted to hurt people, regardless, I think, of who they were." The view from the control room Former Croydon Borough Commander Adrian Roberts said he felt helpless many times as he watched events unfolding on the screens in front of him in the police control room. Five years on, he recalls the moment when he thought the situation had escaped from police control. "We had received some intelligence of looting taking place and we got there as the looters were entering the premises," he said. "The looters made their getaway with a series of police officers chasing after them down the street, and I was watching this all on camera. The next thing I saw was two vehicles driving back running over police officers. "I think for the first time in my career I felt, we've lost police officers. That just sent a cold chill through the rest of my body, but then remarkably those officers got up and they only suffered minor injuries. "That was a rude awakening, you felt responsible. You felt you were leading this and when you saw that, you just thought 'this is out of my hands and I can't do anything to put it right'." Mr Roberts, who retired as a chief superintendent after 30 years in the Met, praised the bravery of the officers. "The thing that still stands out for me now, from those four or five days in August, was we saw the very worst and best of society. "On the one hand, we had brazen criminality and lack of regard to property and life in some respects, and tremendous losses by communities which were devastating. "On the other hand, we had outstanding bravery and leadership by the emergency services, not just by police, and communities coming together. They were making a very clear statement that they are not going to tolerate this and we want to get back to normality as soon as possible." "My job is to protect people and that was probably the only time in my career that it had come to the point where the police service was really stretched so far that we weren't able to achieve that everywhere. "People, largely yes, but property, no. "It felt awful. There came a point when I had to make a decision about life over property in some areas. That's not a difficult decision to make, but to see the videos of people, criminals, targeting outlets and stealing property and us not having the resources to deal with it, that was soul destroying." On a personal level he found it particularly upsetting to see his borough suffer over the course of a couple of evenings. "I was brought up here in Mitcham. Croydon was my local town. I was married in Croydon. My wife's from Croydon. "I was at Croydon for the best part of four years, worked with the local communities and chief executives and we had really made a difference in Croydon. In a couple of nights this had all been threatened." After the third night of riots on Monday 8 August, his wife called to chide him about not contacting her for hours during the unprecedented levels of disorder. "[She] rang me up and told me off for not speaking to her for 12 hours on the phone, and was in tears, and said 'do you remember that was where we bought our first sofa, from Reeves Corner that got razed to the ground'. "That got me very upset. Just like the carpet store in Tottenham, it was a symbol for local communities. It had always been there. It was somewhere we always used locally. And the fact that had been razed to the ground was evidence about how serious it was and how unique this whole tragic event was. "When I went back to Croydon at the end of the week and walked the town and saw the absolute devastation, thankfully it seemed as if the local communities had quickly restored themselves and moved forwards." The loss of the 144-year-old furniture shop House of Reeves is something he says he will never forget. "We had never experienced anything like this in the UK before, such widespread criminality, in such large areas, driven by social media. "What doesn't make the press was the many places we managed to get to and save," he adds.

2011 में गर्मियों के दंगों के दौरान नागरिक अशांति और लूटपाट में शामिल हजारों लोगों ने पुलिस अधिकारियों पर हमला किया। इंग्लैंड के शहरों में अराजकता फैल गई जो शायद युद्ध के बाद ब्रिटेन में अव्यवस्था का सबसे बड़ा उदाहरण है।