Christmas shopping done with weeks to spare

Summary: When the November lockdown was announced a "mini-rush" of shoppers headed for the High Street, determined to squeeze in a bit of the normal festive experience before the shutters came down and the closed signs went up.

By Lucy HookerBusiness reporter But for Rochelle MacKenzie-McQueen there was no need to scramble into action. She started weeks ago and now has her Christmas gifts in the bag, for around 10 friends and family members. "Normally I would have waited until early December," she says. "But because of Covid I thought, I'll just get them now." The 29-year-old has a medical condition that means she has to be particularly careful to avoid the virus, so she shopped online. But she could see another lockdown was looming and knew others would be doing the same. "I thought better to get it done early, because as soon as Black Friday hits everyone is going to be trying to order," she says. Now she's relieved the pressure is off. Even in a normal year there is a divide between those of us feeling a bit smug that by Guy Fawkes Night we've done everything, down to the labels and ribbons, and those of us planning an adrenaline-fuelled dash around the stores on Christmas Eve. But in 2020 it is harder to work out how to tackle it. The face masks, hand sanitiser and queues have made the shopping experience an uncomfortable balance of risk and reward. We don't even know exactly where we'll be able to shop and when, whether deliveries will come on time. It is even less clear whether there will be bargains to be found or if some things will be hard to get. Recent surveys for American Express and John Lewis suggested that, as a result, more of us planned to get ready for Christmas early this year. The department store found that less than 2% of us were going to leave it until the last minute, while 60% of us hoped to have all the presents, prosecco, pyjamas and panettone sorted by the end of November. Laura Pemblington has not only bought all of her Christmas presents - for her parents, her husband, her two young boys and a few other friends and family - but she has wrapped and carefully stashed them out of sight. "I just sat here one night and said, 'I need to cheer myself up.' I made myself a hot chocolate, put on Elf - that's my favourite Christmas film - and wrapped." That was about three weeks ago now. As for shopping, she started that during the first lockdown in the spring. "There were some good deals," she says. "Because I was sat at home I thought, 'I'll buy that.' Before I knew it, I was done. I was shocked myself." She thinks she saved money too as long as she can be disciplined about not adding to the pile. Shopping early doesn't work for everyone though, says Kate Hardcastle, consumer expert at Insight with Passion. A lot of people look forward to the experience of Christmas shopping itself as a ritual, a marker at the end of the year when they can let go and treat themselves. "There is something about the ambience - the lights, the smell of chestnuts in the street, we're wrapped up and glowing, maybe we're bumping into people we know, and we've got longer to stop and chat - that enhances the shopping experience," she says. It might make us spend more, but it also makes us feel good, she says. You won't get that same experience shopping in August or online, but she points out, you may not get it this year at all, even if you wait until December. "If the stores do reopen after this four-week period, there's going to be a different type of shopping. It's going to be very frustrated, pressurised shopping. It's going to be very anxious shopping," she says. "No time for frivolousness, no time for browsing. "Nothing says Christmas less than wearing a bright blue medical face mask, does it?" And in the end that may just mean we end up buying less than we might have. There are a lot of people, says Ms Hardcastle, who prefer to shop in person, looking for inspiration, using cash. In particular, grandparents are eager to treat grandchildren who they haven't been able to spend as much time with this year. There are things they would pick up in stores that they wouldn't necessarily come across online. But if shopping is curtailed, you can always get started on other seasonal activities instead. Laura has followed up Elf by watching Miracle on 34th Street, It's a Wonderful Life, The Grinch (cartoon version once, Jim Carrey version twice) and The Nightmare Before Christmas (too many times to count). "I think it's because this year has been so rubbish," she says. "With everything that's gone off I'm trying to make it extra festive." Others are taking the same approach. Members of Mumsnet admit their Christmas trees have been "twinkling away" since the half-term break, and plan to put on the Christmas songs playlist and decorate their homes by mid-November. But we won't all be rushing to get on with it. Rochelle is pretty sure her brother will be sticking to his usual timetable. "He'll literally buy Amazon vouchers on Christmas Eve and have them emailed to us," she says. "I tell him to put some thought into it. He just says, 'Everyone's happy with vouchers.'"

जब नवंबर में लॉकडाउन की घोषणा की गई तो हाई स्ट्रीट की ओर जाने वाले खरीदारों की "छोटी-भीड़" ने शटर के नीचे आने और बंद संकेतों के ऊपर जाने से पहले सामान्य उत्सव के अनुभव को थोड़ा निचोड़ने का दृढ़ संकल्प किया।


Living on mobile money

Summary: A couple of weeks ago I wrote about my frustrating efforts to use various new mobile money applications on my phone . I promised then to have another go, to give up cash and try to pay by phone alone. So, how did it go? Not very well, I'm afraid.

Rory Cellan-JonesTechnology correspondent@BBCRoryCJon Twitter I started by loading up my phone with a variety of apps which - supposedly - would help me get by without cash or even cards. My main weapons were to be O2 Wallet and Barclays Pingit, two new services which allow you to send and receive money from your phone. But I also installed the Paypal app, and a range of others that allow you to buy a coffee or pay for a taxi from your phone. Within minutes of starting, I ran into trouble. It was my turn to buy the office tea and coffee round, and the coffee outlet only took cash. No problem - I would get my colleague Anthony to pay and refund him via one of my mobile money pay-by-text services. With Barclays Pingit playing up (I never got it to work, even after deleting the app and going through the lengthy verification system again) I turned to my O2 wallet. Just two or three passwords later, I had texted a £2.80 money message to Anthony. Then the fun began. He spent days - quite literally - trying to make sure this and a couple of other payments from me made their way from his phone into his bank account. Much of that time was spent in increasingly intemperate phone conversations with O2. At one point the company told him their "triage unit" was on the case. Anthony's verdict? "No need for triage - it's terminal!" I quickly realised that although I wanted to rely solely on my phone, this approach wasn't going to work. I would need to use credit and debit cards as well, plus my Oyster touch-and-go card for travel around London. By paying for meals via my debit card - which meant I had to spend more than £5 - I did manage to get by without cash for a couple of days. Then I took a trip to Oxford and had my first failure. Getting on a bus to the city centre without a travelcard, I found myself obliged to dip into my pocket for some coins to pay the fare. And my bus trip proved a timely example of how useful mobile money could be if it were more widely adopted. On a busy route, every time we stopped dozens of school children and students queued to pay by cash, making our progress very slow. While neither of my mobile money services proved at all useful over the week, there were two things - taxis and coffee - that proved easy to pay for by phone. The taxi app market is now fiercely competitive and I found Hailo, a service that lets you order a London cab, pretty efficient at delivering a driver to me within five minutes. I also tried Ubicabs to order minicabs, and this again worked fine - although my driver ended up asking me to navigate to my destination. These services make it very easy to move around without cash or credit cards - if only in the London area - but they have one major downside. You end up racking up big bills without even thinking about it. The same applies with the Starbucks app, which allows you to load money onto a virtual payment card on your phone, then swipe your phone against a reader to pay for coffee or a sandwich. Because this was the only easy way I found to buy food from my phone, I ended up spending far too much on cappuccinos. When I ended my experiment, I breathed a sigh of relief - as did my colleague Anthony, who is still trying to extract from his phone the money I owe him. Trying to live off mobile money, which is supposed to make life easier, has been a stressful experience. The inevitable concerns about security are making most of these new services so complicated to use that you have to be slightly deranged even to bother. That is not to say the whole idea is doomed to failure. We will see further innovation over the coming weeks as payments firms unveil plans to allow visitors to the London Olympics to pay with their phones. But here's my advice to the companies pushing these services - your "triage units" are in for a busy time.

कुछ हफ्ते पहले मैंने अपने फोन पर विभिन्न नए मोबाइल मनी एप्लिकेशन का उपयोग करने के अपने निराशाजनक प्रयासों के बारे में लिखा था। मैंने तब वादा किया था कि मैं एक और प्रयास करूंगा, नकद छोड़ दूंगा और अकेले फोन से भुगतान करने की कोशिश करूंगा। तो, यह कैसे हुआ? बहुत अच्छा नहीं, मुझे डर है।


Thankful villages: The shame of surviving World War One

Summary: A thankful village is a community where everyone who went to fight in World War One came back alive. But what seems like it should have been a cause for celebration was actually a source of embarrassment and shame for many.

By Duncan LeatherdaleBBC News Edward and Ann Jameson experienced a lot of heartbreak. Four of their 13 children died at a young age, then, after the outbreak of war in 1914, they had to watch four of their sons head off to fight the Germans. It seemed unlikely they would all survive. Makepeace, 23 when war began, was wounded twice in 1916 and later hospitalised by influenza - the disease killed millions of people in 1918. His youngest brother Joshua, 16 at the outbreak, joined up later and was struck by shrapnel which remained in his leg for the rest of his life. But they and their brothers Michael and Ted all survived, along with a fifth villager, Arthur Taylor. Hunstanworth, a cluster of farms, houses and a church high in the moors of County Durham, had become one of the lucky few - a thankful village. But as a blanket of grief shrouded thousands of communities, the thankful villages experienced a different emotion - shame. "They were surrounded by villages where people were not returning," said the Reverend Michael Hampson from the thankful village of Arkholme in Lancashire. "For example, just up the road in Whittington the big landowning family there lost two generations in the war. "That was typical around the country; the number who died was devastating. "For the thankful villages, it was almost as if they had not joined in the sacrifice. "They benefited from the peace after the war but felt like they had not paid the price." That shame lasted decades. "We started talking about it around the millennium and still then there were people saying 'no, we should not shout about this, we do not want to blow our trumpet over our embarrassing privilege'," Mr Hampson said. "There was a self-imposed silence and censorship; it was felt that it would be quite wrong to celebrate that as some kind of triumph." Perhaps in part for this reason, it is only relatively recently that any attempt to list all the thankful villages has been made, the work being led by historians Norman Thorpe, Rod Morris and Tom Morgan. The first task was to decide how to define what made up a "community" - a figure of about 16,000 was eventually established. "We have always looked for a definite community, not just a few houses or an isolated farm with two or three cottages," Mr Thorpe said. "A church, a school, a village hall, any sign of some social unit is what we look for." According to mathematician Michael Dunne-Willows, who has used the historians' research to help him try to calculate the likelihood a community would lose no men in World War One, it was always statistically probable there would be some thankful villages. Of the six million British who went to war, about 700,000 died. Crudely then, there was about a one in eight chance of being killed. Crunching the numbers further, statistician Mr Dunne-Willows tried to account for various unknown variables, making some assumptions and plugging the gaps with educated guesses. One area of uncertainty relates to questions about the individual circumstances of soldiers and villages. "Perhaps the village of residence played a role in which area soldiers were deployed to," said Mr Dunne-Willows. "This would result in some villages having a higher or lower probability of being thankful, depending on the conditions. "Perhaps the fact that often groups of friends, football teams and the like enlisted together played a role in survivability of smaller groups." After some clever mathematical manoeuvring featuring N values and D quantities, Mr Dunne-Willows has arrived at an answer for how many thankful villages he reckons there should have been. That number is 22. Out of about 16,000. The number of thankful villages in England and Wales - none have been identified in Scotland or Northern Ireland - actually stands at 54. However, fresh information can change the tally, for instance in the case of the Herefordshire village of Pipe Aston. It had been considered thankful until 2012 when new research yielded the name of Pte John Deakin. Deakin's place of residence was not noted but his parents were listed as living in Pipe Aston. Because he was aged 20 when he was killed in October 1917, Mr Thorpe said: "We must consider the possibility that John was living with his parents when he left home to go to war. "Until we can verify or disprove these possibilities, we have moved Pipe Aston (off the list)." Arkholme is on the list thanks to the 59 villagers out of 320 inhabitants it sent to war, who all survived. No thankful village sent more, although in percentage terms Knowlton in Kent was dubbed the "bravest" village by a national newspaper for sending the highest proportion of residents. The 12 who went - and came home - represented 31% of the 39 villagers, and the Weekly Dispatch presented it with an impressive stone monument. But of course just because everyone came back alive, this does not mean they were unaffected by what they had been through. A collection of coins belonging to the blacksmith of Catwick is testament to this. All 30 men who went to war from the East Yorkshire village gave John Hugill a coin he nailed to his doorpost below a horseshoe. All 30 came back but, as noted by writer Arthur Mee, who coined the term thankful village in his 1930s series of King's England books, one man called Joseph Grantham "left an arm behind". John Hugill cut a notch in one of the coins to represent the lost limb. During World War Two, Catwick's villagers and blacksmith performed the same coin trick. "If it worked in one world war why might it not work in the second?", said John Hugill's grandson, also called John Hugill, who is now the owner of the coins. "People were fairly keen to keep the tradition up." And somehow there was the same outcome: all those who went to war against Hitler's Germany and its allies came back home. So Catwick is one of an even more elite group of villages, those said to be doubly thankful. This list numbers just 17, although Mr Thorpe and his colleagues said further research was required. For example Hunstanworth is not on the doubly thankful list but it might well have a case to be. Villagers John and Ellen Hunter certainly believe so. Mr Hunter can remember all those who went from the village to serve in World War Two, which is to say both of them. And both men returned alive. There is some debate about a third man, however, a flight engineer called Jim Cook who was never found after the plane he was on crashed. He was married to Mr Hunter's neighbour Barbara, but though he spent a lot of time at her Hunstanworth house, his actual home would appear to be the airbase where he was stationed. It is the sort of situation encountered numerous times by the researchers. But there is one simple factor the historians and statisticians do agree makes a village thankful. Luck. "We have studied this from several aspects," Mr Thorpe said. "The only conclusion we can reach is that the safe return of all those who served from a particular village was simple chance, like casting a die." With the passage of time and the consequent change in attitudes, these thankful villages no longer feel the same shame. In 2013, a group of motorcyclists toured the nation's thankful villages, presenting plaques celebrating their status. Mr Hampson said changes to Remembrance Day had helped. "It used to be about each village remembering its dead and the individual sacrifices it made," he said. "But as time went on, new generations no longer remembered those who had been killed. "Now it has become a much bigger thing about remembering the folly of war, the one day when everyone is united against the tragedy of it."

एक आभारी गाँव एक ऐसा समुदाय है जहाँ प्रथम विश्व युद्ध में लड़ने जाने वाला हर कोई जीवित वापस आ गया था। लेकिन ऐसा लगता है कि यह उत्सव का कारण होना चाहिए था जो वास्तव में कई लोगों के लिए शर्मिंदगी और शर्म का कारण था।


Welsh speaking rule faces challenge by two councils

Summary: Plans for members of the public to be allowed to speak to council officials in Welsh without translation look set to be challenged.

Carmarthenshire and Flintshire councils are not opposed to the Welsh Language Commissioner's proposals but there is a feeling they are not practical. It is among a host of standards they need to deliver in Welsh from 2016. Nine councils are still considering the rules, six are happy but Pembrokeshire said it would cost them £500,000.

जनता के सदस्यों को बिना अनुवाद के वेल्श में परिषद के अधिकारियों से बात करने की अनुमति देने की योजना को चुनौती दी जाएगी।


Coronavirus: The capital starts to grind to a halt

Summary: The centre of Edinburgh would normally be bustling with tourists, office workers and shoppers. But as more people follow social distancing advice in a bid to halt the spread of coronavirus, the capital has begun grinding to a halt.

By Angie BrownBBC Scotland, Edinburgh and East reporter Edinburgh's main thoroughfare has become a lot quieter with few people walking along Princes Street and many neighbouring streets being deserted. Many shops and food outlets have closed with others restricting access. Buses are running empty, including the city's sightseeing buses for tourists. And the capital's iconic park, Princes Street Gardens, is bare apart from some council gardeners cutting the grass and tending the flower beds. Shops Most big department stores have closed or are closing in Edinburgh's city centre. Those shops that are not shut have signs in their windows saying "contactless card payments only", "no money" and "only one customer at a time". Many cafes and big coffee chains are closed. Only a couple of them are serving takeaway coffees. Most restaurants have signs in their windows saying they have been "forced to close" while a few are still trying to make ends meet by running food deliveries only. Cafe Nero on Lothian Road even has a sign offering free drinks to NHS staff. Workers could be seen inside the closed Pret a Manger on Lothian Road cleaning down all the fridges. Tourism Several of the people seen in the city centre were tourists. Alyse Sugahara, 32, and her husband, Shota Sugahara, 34, from Osaka in Tokyo said their flight to Japan had been postponed. Mrs Sugahara, a translator, told BBC Scotland: "We were due to fly home today (Monday) but our flight has been cancelled and we were thrown out of our Airbnb because they needed it for the next people. "We are sitting here in the Grassmarket because we have nowhere else to go. We have managed to get another Airbnb but we can't get in until later. "We are getting really worried now that we are running out of money. We are hoping there is now a flight we can catch on Wednesday but everything is changing at the last minute now. That it is a big concern for us. "We have had all our trips and flights during our stay cancelled and we have not had refunds so it's been hard." Health Many dentists have now closed and doctors' surgeries are only taking phone appointments. People have been queuing outside the dental hospital in Chalmers Street in Edinburgh. Magdalena Kujawska, 25, from Edinburgh, told BBC Scotland that toothache had caused her cheek to swell. She said: "I'm in so much pain that I cant wait for a few months until the dentists reopen. "They won't let us into the building and instead are saying we have to phone the number that's on a sign in the window but nobody is answering. "I don't know what to do. I'm worried. I was also sacked from my job as a carer because of coronavirus so this is a very difficult time." Parks Princes Street Gardens is now deserted with only a few gardeners tending to the flower beds and cutting the grass. The Meadows is also empty apart from lone joggers circling the perimeter and a few cyclists. Streets There are still quite a lot of buses running along Princes Street but there is a marked difference in the numbers of pedestrians. There are very few people now walking along the capital's main thoroughfare. The Royal Mile is very quiet now, not eerie yet, but almost as empty as it is on Christmas Day.

एडिनबर्ग का केंद्र आम तौर पर पर्यटकों, कार्यालय कर्मचारियों और खरीदारों से भरा रहता है। लेकिन जैसे-जैसे अधिक लोग कोरोनावायरस के प्रसार को रोकने के लिए सामाजिक दूरी की सलाह का पालन करते हैं, राजधानी रुकने लगी है।


Jobs update for 50 workers at 2 Sisters' factory postponed

Summary: A meeting where a decision will be made on the 50 remaining jobs at an Anglesey poultry plant has been postponed.

Workers at the 2 Sisters factory in Llangefni had expected to find out if their jobs were saved on Friday. It follows February's announcement that 270 jobs were under threat but since then 50 people have taken voluntary redundancy and 170 agency workers have moved elsewhere within the business. Union officials will now meet bosses next week over the remaining jobs. The cuts were a result of the company wanting to cut an entire production shift from its operation.

एंग्लेसी पोल्ट्री प्लांट में शेष 50 नौकरियों पर निर्णय लेने वाली एक बैठक को स्थगित कर दिया गया है।


Viewpoint: 'Why every woman should be offered menstrual leave'

Summary: Several provinces in China now have laws in place to ensure women can take a day or two a month off work if they suffer from period pain. Events organiser Churan Zheng regularly takes menstrual leave, and says it is an essential option for every woman.

I suffer from severe period pain and every month post a picture on my social media accounts showing a woman tied to an invisible cross with arrows stuck into her stomach. It always get a lot of "likes" because it vividly visualises what many women suffer during their period. I always get a heavy feeling and stomach cramps the night before my period starts. And when I wake up, the pain that accompanies the menstruation is so unbearable that I always imagine myself grabbing my intestines and tearing them out of my body, or cutting them out with a pair of scissors. I feel like vomiting. Ever since I left university and started work I have taken painkillers almost every month but the drugs make me feel tired and sleepy. I need hot water bottles as well in order to battle the pain. It's often difficult during these times for me to concentrate on my work, which makes me curse my gender. Fortunately my company - Pride Planning, which works on female rights campaigns - offers female staff one paid day's leave every month. Employees do not need to get doctors' notes, or worry about their salary being deducted for dropping a day's work. In my case, as long as there is no business trip scheduled or important work to be finished, I normally take half a day or a day off. I just stay at home, sleeping after taking painkillers or doing some work in bed. Some people think allowing women to take menstrual leave costs the business money, so there is a debate about whether it could discourage companies from hiring women. However, so far as I know, my company - where female employees are in the majority - doesn't suffer significant financial loss despite the fact that almost every woman takes menstrual leave every month, or every other month. What is period pain? Most women experience pain as part of their menstrual monthly cycle. It is usually experienced as abdominal cramps, which can spread to the back and thighs. Period pain can be felt as a dull ache or painful spasms. Women can also experience nausea, diarrhoea and headaches. The scientific term for period pain is dysmenorrhoea. Levels of the hormone prostaglandin, produced by cells in the lining of the womb, cause it to contract. The higher that level, the more strongly and more often the womb contracts, causing the pain. Some women can also experience pelvic pain, even when not on their period. We tend to plan ahead before we take the leave, or try to catch up as soon as we can afterwards. Male colleagues don't seem to feel unfairly treated. In fact if anything our work environment has become more positive and friendly since the policy was introduced. Other people might think that such policies are too protective of women and that they could result in female employees being seen as weak or lazy. However, so far as I know, women who don't experience period pain normally don't take this kind of leave. Apart from anything else those who work for corporations that have a very competitive work culture do not want to be seen as "feeble" or "fussy". And as I say, in my company, people who do take the leave have to catch up with their work as soon as they get back, which brings added pressure. It's strange that even today the idea of a day's paid leave for women can cause such heated debate and criticism. Profit and efficiency are worshipped above everything else. Nature cannot free women from period pain, but isn't there something our society can do for women? I cannot stop thinking that if men had periods then menstrual leave might have been written into national constitutions from the very beginning. What is 100 women? BBC 100 Women names 100 influential and inspirational women around the world every year. We create documentaries, features and interviews about their lives, giving more space for stories that put women at the centre. Other stories you might like: 'I married a man to keep my girlfriend' 'Adults are so obsessed with children they have no time for important things' Who is on the BBC's 100 Women 2016 list? Translation by Natalia Zuo

चीन के कई प्रांतों में अब यह सुनिश्चित करने के लिए कानून हैं कि महिलाएं मासिक धर्म के दर्द से पीड़ित होने पर महीने में एक या दो दिन काम से छुट्टी ले सकती हैं। कार्यक्रम के आयोजक चुरान झेंग नियमित रूप से मासिक धर्म की छुट्टी लेते हैं, और कहते हैं कि यह हर महिला के लिए एक आवश्यक विकल्प है।


Air India cleared for privatisation by Delhi

Summary: India's cabinet has approved plans to privatise Air India.

The debt-laden airline has been struggling to become profitable amid growing competition from low-cost rivals. Finance minister Arun Jaitley said the government had given an "in-principle" approval for the stake sale. India will form a committee to decide on the details, including the size of the government's stake to be sold, he said. The committee will also decide whether India will write off some or all of Air India's 520bn rupee (£6bn, $8bn) debt pile. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has been looking into ways to privatise Air India, which was given a $5.8bn bailout in 2012 and relies on taxpayer funds to stay afloat. Privatisation plans have been abandoned before, however, and unions have threatened wide-ranging protests if ministers push ahead this time. Once the country's only airline, Air India has lost market share to new entrants and suffered from a reputation for poor service and cancelled flights. It remains India's biggest international carrier, flying to 41 destinations, and has just under a fifth of the market. Air India has 14.6% of the domestic air travel market.

भारतीय मंत्रिमंडल ने एयर इंडिया के निजीकरण की योजना को मंजूरी दे दी है।


Sheffield Live TV channel launches on Freeview and cable

Summary: Sheffield's local TV channel has broadcast for the first time.

Sheffield Live is screened on Freeview and on a local cable network. The channel was launched at 18:30 BST, with Charlotte Reid the first face and voice the public saw on SLTV. In August, the local television channel reached its funding target of £160,000, including £90,000 from individuals and groups who have become "community shareholders". Ofcom initially received 57 bids to run channels in the UK. A total of 19 licences were awarded. The first station began broadcasting in Grimsby last November. The BBC is contributing up to £40m towards local channels, including an agreement to buy news footage.

शेफ़ील्ड के स्थानीय टीवी चैनल ने पहली बार प्रसारण किया है।


Brough Superior motorcycle pioneer George Brough honoured

Summary: The inventor and maker of what was regarded as the world's first superbike - the Brough Superior - a motorbike made famous by Lawrence of Arabia and playwright George Bernard Shaw is finally being honoured with two plaques at houses in which he lived in Nottingham.

By Neil HeathBBC News, Nottingham Nicknamed the "Rolls Royce of motorcycles" in The Motor Cycle newspaper because of George Brough's attention to detail and quality, the Brough Superior SS100 motorcycle was built between 1924 and 1940 at his factory in the city's Haydn Road. Each machine was certified to reach 100mph (160km/h) and one was used to set a motorcycle land-speed record, when British racer Eric Fernihough reached 163.82mph (263.64 km/h) over a mile, in 1936, before hitting a speed of 169.79mph (263km/h), a year later. But, despite the popularity and fame of the motorbikes, George Brough's memory has been largely forgotten. The Haydn Road factory, where he worked his magic, and which was used to make Spitfire engines during World War Two, no longer exists and a small housing estate stands in its place. Hilary Sylvester, from the Nottingham Civic Society, said it was a shame there had been no recognition for Brough until now. "He was a local boy who found worldwide fame," she said. "A son of Nottingham who stayed here all his life." "George Brough's bikes were the Harley Davidson's of the day and were taken up by all sorts of people like Orson Welles and George Bernard Shaw. "It's rumoured that Bernard Shaw even introduced the Brough Superior to TE Lawrence." World War One British army officer TE Lawrence, also known as Lawrence of Arabia, owned seven of the bikes and was killed riding one in Dorset, in 1935. The Sheriff of Nottingham is due to unveil a plaque on the birthplace of George Brough at 10 Mandalay Street, Basford, before being driven in a Brough Superior car to a second venue at 101 Arnold Road, where Mr Brough lived when he was first married. Terry Hobden, from the Brough Superior Motorcycle Club, who helped arrange the tributes, said: "George was an engineer, a showman, and entrepreneur. "He set out to make something significantly different." Mr Hobden added that as part of Mr Brough's marketing strategy he would enter races like the Land End Trial, a timed run from London to Lands End and back. He said: "Everything he did was done with a great flourish, he was larger than life." Brough Superiors continue to capture the imaginations of enthusiasts and command high prices at auction, one of the vehicles which dated back to 1934 sold for £166,500 in April 2008. Of the 3,000 made there are thought to be about 1,100 models left worldwide that are still on the road, according to the Brough Superior Motorcycle Club. However, in 2008, a British man Mark Upham bought the rights to the Brough Superior name and started building new bikes. The bikes live on and so does the name George Brough who will finally be honoured in his home city.

अरब के लॉरेंस और नाटककार जॉर्ज बर्नार्ड शॉ द्वारा प्रसिद्ध की गई दुनिया की पहली सुपरबाइक-ब्रो सुपीरियर-के आविष्कारक और निर्माता को आखिरकार उन घरों में दो पट्टिकाओं से सम्मानित किया जा रहा है जहां वे रहते थे।


Gruff Rhys among Welsh acts unveiled for Festival No.6

Summary: Gruff Rhys of the Super Furry Animals, 9Bach and Y Ffug are among a host of Welsh acts announced for Gwynedd's Festival No.6.

The 10th anniversary event will also mark 150 years since Welsh settlers arrived in Patagonia with a day of dedicated performances. Headliners Grace Jones and Belle and Sebastian will be joined by Catfish and the Bottlemen and Badly Drawn Boy. It is held in the Italianate village Portmeirion from 3-6 September. Rhys will perform songs from Set Fire To The Stars, the soundtrack he composed for last year's biopic about Dylan Thomas, starring Elijah Wood. Other Welsh acts announced include Y Pencadlys, Yws Gwynedd and Ifan Dafydd.

सुपर फ्युरी एनिमल्स के ग्रफ राइस, 9बैक और वाई फफग ग्वेनेड्स फेस्टिवल नंबर 6 के लिए घोषित किए गए वेल्श कृत्यों में से हैं।


Sturgeon to visit US and Canada for talks on trade links

Summary: First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is to visit the US and Canada next week.

The trip is planned in a bid to build stronger trade links between Scotland and North America. It comes as figures show the US is still Scotland's top export country. It is estimated £5.5bn worth of exports were made in 2017. Canada is in the top 20 export destinations, and was worth £580m in the same period. Building on existing links Ms Sturgeon will have trade and cultural engagements in Washington DC, New York, New Jersey, Ottawa and Toronto during the five-day visit. This will include discussing Brexit and Scotland's future at an address at Georgetown University, in Washington DC, and the launch of the Scotland is Now campaign in Canada. Ms Sturgeon said Scotland had a "long-standing relationship with North America", and that the new figures highlighted the importance of the trade relationship between the countries to Scotland's economy. She added: "This visit will build on the existing links between our countries and provide new opportunities for us to work together and learn from each other's expertise in areas including climate change, renewables and gender equality. "With the shadow of Brexit hanging over our economy, it is more important now than ever to reassure businesses that Scotland is an open and welcoming country and an attractive place to invest in, visit and live."

प्रथम मंत्री निकोला स्टर्जन अगले सप्ताह अमेरिका और कनाडा की यात्रा करने वाली हैं।


How much science is there in new Planet of the Apes film?

Summary: The latest instalment in the Planet of the Apes film franchise opens in the US on Friday. The rubber masks of the 60s and 70s films have been discarded in favour of motion capture suits and CGI. But how much did science inform the new movie's portrayal of our close relatives?

By Paul RinconScience editor, BBC News website In a career spanning nearly 40 years, Frans de Waal has cemented a reputation as one of the leading authorities on the behaviour of great apes. The Dutch-born professor at Emory University in Georgia, US, has made a major contribution to our understanding of primate communities - uncovering many parallels with human societies. But he's not impressed with the way our evolutionary cousins have often been portrayed on screen. "If they were shown in a respectful way, that would be one thing. But they are usually made to be clowns, which is not helpful for the conservation case or the ethical case," he tells me. So what did this top primatologist think of the new instalment in the Planet of the Apes franchise? Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which goes on release in the US on Friday, is a bold sequel to the 2011 re-boot. That movie - Rise of the Planet of the Apes - saw a group of genetically modified primates revolt against their human masters. The new film continues the story of that rebellion's instigator, an intelligent chimpanzee by the name of Caesar, but picks up his story after a manmade virus has devastated the human population. Amid the rubble of our civilisation, the apes are pitted against surviving pockets of Homo sapiens in a battle for mastery of the planet. Prof de Waal calls the storyline "impressive", adding: "I'm not usually into action films like this one, but this held my attention. "The apes are very humanised: They walk on two legs, they talk - somewhat - they shed tears. In real life, apes do a lot of crying and screaming, but they don't produce tears like we do." However, other aspects of ape behaviour in the film, he says, are true to life. "We know chimpanzees are aggressive and territorial - they wage war. The use of tools and weapons is also a possibility," he explains. To quote a colleague in his field, he said: "If you gave guns to chimps, they would use them." The primatologist says the reconciliation following a fight between Caesar and Koba - a bonobo character in the film - rang true in terms of ape interactions. He says he also recognised real-life behaviour in a scene where the apes are seen bowing before their appointed leader. In real groups, Prof de Waal says, "when an alpha male makes an appearance, the other apes grovel and make themselves appear small". But he draws attention to the contrast between the thoughtful male chimp Caesar and Koba - a bonobo - who is the most aggressive character in the film. "It's strange because, in reality, the bonobo is a more peaceful ape than the chimpanzee. There is also the character of an orang-utan, who is interested in teaching and in books, so they have added some twists to it." Fans will recognise this as an allusion to the position of orangs as a clerical caste in the ape society depicted by the 60s and 70s films and the 1963 novel by French writer Pierre Boule, on which the movies were based. In real life, orang-utan males are rather solitary, but actress Karin Konoval, who plays the orang Maurice in both Dawn and Rise of the Planet of the Apes, says she understands why the forest primates were characterised as wise elders. "At core, they are the watchers, who are able to assess everything. They never do anything gratuitously," she told BBC News. "There is nothing gratuitous that I've ever seen with any of the orang-utans I've known. They are very specific and clear in every choice that they make." To prepare for the role of Maurice - the trusted confidant of Caesar, played by British actor Andy Serkis - Ms Konoval studied videos of the animals and read "every book that had been written" about the apes. "The movement of a mature male orang-utan is very specific. So one of the challenges I had on Rise [of the Planet of the Apes] was getting the weight right in my performance. I'm a 120lb woman, and Maurice is a 250lb orang-utan male. One of the things we did in the original film was to weight down my arm stilts," she says. But she says that being invited to spend time with the five orang-utans at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle gave her a wealth of experience to bring to her performance in Dawn. Her initial introduction to the group was via a 40-year-old orang male called Tuan, who has something of an artistic streak. "I watched him paint on a canvas for an hour, an hour-and-a-half at a time. He moves the canvas around and considers it as he goes; this is not slapping the paint around. It was a real artwork. It was amazing," she says. If the studio were to make another instalment, Prof de Waal says he would advise the filmmakers to include more female and juvenile ape characters, to give a sense of real group dynamics among the animals. In the wild, gorilla and orang males rarely co-operate, as they do in the film, though this is more likely for chimps. But he praises the film's "astonishing" visual effects, which leads us on to an issue that exercises the professor - the welfare of primates in entertainment. Prof de Waal strongly opposes the use of real primate actors in advertising, film and television, and comments that Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' realistic depictions of apes using computer technology alone proves that the industry has no need for the genuine article. "I hope the practice disappears completely," he tells me. "The first Planet of the Apes movie raised some philosophical issues: What are the ethics of keeping humans in a cage? Which is a reversal of the issue we are faced with now: What are the ethics of keeping an ape in a cage?" So if apes really did usurp humans as the dominant group on the planet, what does de Waal think it would be like with chimps, bonobos, gorillas and orangs at the top of the pecking order? "Hmmm," he replies, pausing for a moment. "I'm not an optimist in that regard. The male chimpanzee is very aggressive. I'm not sure they would be angels of peace, as Caesar is in this movie. "The bonobo would be a more peaceful character - they do not wage war on other groups as chimpanzees do. These groups have even been shown to mingle in the wild on occasion." "It would be more like Woodstock - and a completely different movie." Follow Paul on Twitter.

प्लैनेट ऑफ द एप्स फिल्म फ्रैंचाइजी की नवीनतम किस्त शुक्रवार को अमेरिका में शुरू हुई। 60 और 70 के दशक की फिल्मों के रबर मास्क को मोशन कैप्चर सूट और सी. जी. आई. के पक्ष में छोड़ दिया गया है। लेकिन विज्ञान ने हमारे करीबी रिश्तेदारों के नए फिल्म के चित्रण की कितनी जानकारी दी?


Action pledged over fly-tipping in County Durham

Summary: Action has been promised to deter persistent fly-tippers from targeting an area of County Durham.

More than £25,000 has been allocated to fence off and secure an embankment in Chester-le-Street which has been the focus of concern from residents. In recent months household rubbish, fridges, cookers and even a caravan have been dumped at the site, near Jacques Terrace. Durham County Council said work on the project would start soon.

लगातार उड़ान भरने वालों को काउंटी डरहम के एक क्षेत्र को निशाना बनाने से रोकने के लिए कार्रवाई का वादा किया गया है।


Esam Ayad death: Four charged with murder over man shot in face

Summary: Three men and a teenager have been charged with murder after a man was shot in the face.

Esam Ayad, 26, from Harlow in Essex, was seriously injured in an attack in Ogard Road, Hoddesdon, at about 21:25 GMT on 4 December 2018. The father of two young children later died in hospital. The four appeared before St Albans' Magistrates Court on Thursday and were remanded in custody to appear before St Albans Crown Court on 28 October.

एक व्यक्ति के चेहरे पर गोली लगने के बाद तीन पुरुषों और एक किशोर पर हत्या का आरोप लगाया गया है।


Russell Watson to perform at Blackpool Illuminations

Summary: Opera star Russell Watson has been added to the line-up that will see Robbie Williams flick the switch on this year's Blackpool Illuminations.

The singer will also be joined by X Factor finalist Olly Murs. Strictly come Dancing star Alesha Dixon will also be appearing at the launch on Friday 3 September. Blackpool council said demand for tickets to the event had been overwhelming with 120,000 applications for 15,000 places. Successful applicants will find out if they have managed to get a ticket in just over a week's time. Blackpool Council leader Peter Callow said: "This is an absolutely brilliant star line-up. It will be a fantastic event and a wonderful evening for everyone." The illuminations will remain switched on for 66 nights until 7 November.

ओपेरा स्टार रसेल वाटसन को उस लाइन-अप में जोड़ा गया है जिसमें रॉबी विलियम्स इस साल के ब्लैकपूल इल्युमिनेशन्स को चालू करते हुए दिखाई देंगे।


What now for Jeremy Corbyn?

Summary: He, and they, did it. Now what? Jeremy Corbyn's victory was not the work of Labour MPs, power brokers, or the party's once powerful machine, but the flex of an old muscle - Labour's left-wing rump - once so weakened, now strong, emboldened by thousands upon thousands of new supporters.

Laura KuenssbergPolitical editor@bbclaurakon Twitter They will have their celebrations tonight - deservedly so. Corbyn has achieved a rarity in modern politics - expanding an electorate. Persuade more people who agree with you to take part, and you can win, however out of fashion those ideas are. But now installed, there are problems everywhere for Labour's new leader. He has always been an outsider, an insurgent in his own party. How can he expect loyalty from his colleagues, unite the party, when he has rarely displayed it himself? MPs have been discussing ousting him for weeks. There will likely be initial faint support from most. Don't expect a rapid coup. But don't doubt most smiles behind him at the despatch box will be through gritted teeth. And shadow ministers' resignation letters have already been written. It won't be easy for him to build a team robust enough to function in Westminster's brutal world. And wise Labour heads worry it's inevitable the party will return to a fight it's had before - moderates battling to squeeze out the left. His opponents outside the party won't let him forget his past associations - reaching out to Irish Republicans and vocal opponents of Israel - peacemaking in his view, unacceptable to others. That, combined with his economic views, out of step with the mainstream, means for most Conservatives his success is a political gift. They believe his election is a chance, not just to poke fun week after week, at an accidental leader, but to maim Labour for a generation. And his election expresses a fundamental truth - the least palatable for Labour at Westminster. The party's core was unable to offer an idea, or a personality attractive enough to inspire or convince. What was, for them, an uncomfortable fantasy is now real. But the biggest gamble is this: Corbyn won against all the odds by stitching together old voices, new activists and union support. That was enough to win the party's own election. Could that powerful niche ever expand to become a true national movement capable of winning a general election? That really would be breaking the rules.

उन्होंने, और उन्होंने, यह किया। अब क्या? जेरेमी कॉर्बिन की जीत लेबर सांसदों, सत्ता दलालों, या पार्टी की एक समय की शक्तिशाली मशीन का काम नहीं था, बल्कि एक पुरानी मांसपेशियों का फ्लेक्स था-लेबर का वामपंथी रंप-जो कभी इतना कमजोर था, अब मजबूत है, हजारों नए समर्थकों द्वारा प्रोत्साहित किया गया है।


Royal Ascot: Fans dress up at home for Ladies' Day

Summary: Royal Ascot's Ladies' Day was held without any spectators because of coronavirus - but some of those who have missed out this year continue to dress up to watch it on TV.

Flat racing's biggest meeting is taking place behind closed doors in Berkshire for the first time, with strict safety protocols for jockeys. But keen racegoers have still been enjoying watching at home and have posted pictures on Twitter using the hashtags #StyledWithThanks and #hatsfromhome, while raising cash for charities. Stradivarius, ridden by Frankie Dettori, put in a majestic performance to land a third successive Gold Cup in the feature race of the week. All photographs copyrighted.

रॉयल एस्कॉट का महिला दिवस कोरोनावायरस के कारण बिना किसी दर्शक के आयोजित किया गया था-लेकिन जो लोग इस साल चूक गए हैं, उनमें से कुछ इसे टीवी पर देखने के लिए तैयार हैं।


Shooting violated ceasefire - SLMM

Summary: The ceasefire monitors in Sri Lanka say, shooting of a Sri Lankan soldier by the Tamil Tigers was a clear violation of the cease-fire agreement. A spokeswoman of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission also said that it was not yet apparent who was fully responsible for the incident.

“However, it is not thought this will upset the ongoing peace process”, said the spokeswoman Helen Olafsdottir. The Norwegian monitoring mission in Sri Lanka is currently investigating the killing of the soldier before making a ruling. “We have two different versions of the event” said Ms Olafsdottir, but before making a ruling they would have to establish exactly what happened. Currently both the LTTE and the Sri Lankan Army are claiming that the soldier was closer to their own forward defence line. In accordance to the current ceasefire agreement, the sides are allowed to encroach only 50 metres into the 600 metre separation zone. The rebels are reported to have told peace monitors they shot a soldier who had gone beyond the line, armed with binoculars and a hand grenade. However government officials have lodged a complaint saying the soldiers were unarmed and within their designated area. Answering question from the BBC Sandeshaya on the implementation of any ruling given by the SLMM, Helen Olafsdottir said, “In the past various rulings have been made that have not been upheld by the violating group but these situations cannot be looked back upon.” She added that they would do everything to implement the ruling on this occasion.

श्रीलंका में युद्धविराम पर्यवेक्षकों का कहना है कि तमिल टाइगर्स द्वारा एक श्रीलंकाई सैनिक को गोली मारना युद्धविराम समझौते का स्पष्ट उल्लंघन था। श्रीलंका निगरानी मिशन की एक प्रवक्ता ने यह भी कहा कि यह अभी तक स्पष्ट नहीं है कि इस घटना के लिए पूरी तरह से कौन जिम्मेदार था।


The Rwandan radio show which brought children back from the dead

Summary: This is the story of three little boys almost lost forever in the wave of people fleeing the violence which engulfed Rwanda in 1994. It is also the story of how a radio broadcast cut through the fear and the chaos to reach across borders and decades to bring them from the dead, and home to their families. "It restored hope among us," Theogene Koreger told the BBC, 25 years after his nephews disappeared. "The message reached where we could not reach - they delivered messages we could not have got otherwise."

By Flora DruryBBC News This story begins at the end of the genocide in Rwanda. One hundred days of murder and rape had finished with an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus dead. Hundreds of thousands more had fled their homes in search of safety and, among those, were an estimated 120,000 children who had become separated from their families. Mugabo and his little brother Tuyishimire were just two of the 40,000 who had crossed the border to find safety. And Mugabo - at just seven years old - had become the head of his tiny remaining household. After all, the last job his mother had given him before she had died was to look after Tuyishimire, who was just a toddler. But now they were alone in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and struggling to survive in one of the refugee camps which had sprung up along Rwanda's borders. "We could live on begging, tomatoes and fish," he recalls, a note of defiance - and pride - still in his voice 25 years later. But the camps were dangerous places: the million or so refugees who had sought shelter there may have survived the genocide, but now there was cholera and dysentery to contend with. Tens of thousands more would die before they were able to go home. "The camps were bad, bad. There were diseases everywhere," Rene Mukuruwabu tells the BBC as he sits in a garden in Kigali, miles from the place where he and his family ended up when they were forced to flee. Rene, in some ways, was one of the lucky ones: his family was intact when they arrived in Tanzania in 1994. But then his father disappeared and his mother, who had set up a clinic to help the sick, became one of the camp's many deaths. Within the blink of an eye, his family had become just him, his little brother Fabrice, and their step-sister. And it would take just another moment for five-year-old Rene to find himself entirely alone. After the genocide ended in July 1994, humanitarian agencies were faced with a raft of problems - how to heal the wounded, how to feed the hungry, how to house the homeless. And how to reunite lost children with their families. But - in a time long before the internet or mobile phones, when people have run away with nothing, when a country is in turmoil - how do you start to find what family they had left? "It was the idea of Neville Harms, who was the manager of the BBC's Swahili service in 1994," Ally Yusuf Mugenzi explains. "He decided to establish a lifeline project to reunite families which were missing each other." And so a plan was hatched to create a short, 15 minute programme which would be broadcast by the BBC into Rwanda, and the surrounding countries. It would start with a news bulletin and be followed by people appealing for their missing relatives. Actually putting it together was, of course, not as simple, and involved working together with the Red Cross, which would record and then send short tapes to the studio. "We would run the voices of people from these camps," explained Mugenzi, who became one of the show's two presenters. It would end up being named Gahuzamiryango, meaning "the unifier of families" and was first broadcast 25 years ago. It was supposed to last for just three months. That deadline, however, quickly came and went. More on the genocide: The last time Rene laid eyes on his family members, they were heading back towards Rwanda. And then, they were gone. "Can you imagine a kid who gets lost?" he asks. "I was crying, losing hope. I could see many people around but I could not see any of my relatives." By the time he was swept up by aid workers, he had lost the ability to speak. "They asked for my name, my address. But because of fear and losing hope and trust I could not talk." He did not speak again for months, as he moved through orphanages filled with children who, like him, had found themselves alone in the world. But then - when his world had settled into steadiness with an adoptive family - a voice reached out across the airways. "My neighbour came running to tell me they were reading my name on the radio," he remembers. He ran to his neighbour's house to hear for himself. "They were reading names - my names." "I couldn't remember my names, but I could remember my young brother's name," Mugabo reveals, as he shows the BBC a picture of the two small boys the Red Cross discovered living alone in DR Congo. But it was enough: back in Kigali, their uncle Theogene heard the announcement on the radio. "When I heard from the radio I thought it was a message from heaven," he says, the memory still making him smile almost a quarter of a century later. "That's because people who were here in Rwanda, had no communication, we had no messages from anywhere." But hearing the names was just the first part of a long journey to bring the boys home. The country was still riven by conflict, and the roads were dangerous. But mainly, the boys were scared to come back. "I saw the letter of my uncle that was in Rwanda and that he wanted to see us. But I refused," Mugabo says. "I saw my father die, I saw my mother die, so why should I go back?" And there was one more thing: his uncle was a soldier with the Rwandan Patriotic Front - the Tutsi rebel army which took power in Rwanda, ending the genocide. And those soldiers, Mugabo had been taught growing up, were cockroaches who had tails. But his uncle had one more card to play: he sent a picture of himself and another of their brothers. It was enough: after a year in the jungle, Mugabo and Tuyishimire went home. Rene doesn't know now why he didn't do anything when he heard his names on the radio all those years ago. Fear, possibly: he knew he had a happy life with his adoptive family. Perhaps that was safer. And yet, it gave him a slither of hope that maybe someone out there was looking for him. "It was always on my mind," he says now. "I was wanting to hear it again on the radio but it never came." It made him hold onto his name, even when his adoptive mother suggested he might like to change it so he could truly be part of the family. And so, when he entered it into Facebook more than 15 years later, he did wonder if someone might recognise it. He didn't have to wait long for his answer. "I put my name on on Saturday, and on Sunday, they found me." 6 April 1994President Habyarimana, a Hutu, killed in plane explosion Over 100 days Hutu extremists kill some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus 4 July 1994 Tutsi-led RPF rebels capture the capital Kigali Two million Hutus flee to Zaire, now DR Congo, fearing revenge attacks 93ringleaders indicted by a UN tribunal 12,000community courts try more than 1.2 million suspects "In 1995 we did try to find him," Rene's uncle Charles tells the BBC. "We did not find him, but we did not forget him. We were thinking he was dead. We left him in history. "And then, 18 years after, it was like a miracle for us to see he was still living." It was Rene's cousin Olivier who found him on Facebook - it was him who got to tell his family the boy left in history had returned. He was no longer a boy, but the family were in little doubt it was him. "You look like your younger brother," Olivier told Rene the first time they met. "It is you, no doubt." This was the first time since the pair were separated all those years ago that Rene knew for sure his brother had survived. The radio broadcasts were not the only way the Red Cross and other aid agencies tried to reunite children with the families. Photos were shared, lists were made and children were even driven around from village to village in order to find their families. In the end, Espèrance Hitimana, now the protection data manager at the International Committee of the Red Cross in Kigali, estimates they managed to reunite 70,000 people. But the work still continues. "We still see about two or three cases a month," she says. "Some cases we succeed and we find the families. Other cases we don't have any news. We don't have any choice but to tell them we have done what we could." As for the BBC's radio service, that is also still going - although it no longer reads out the names of the lost. Nowadays, it boasts a an interactive programme "Imvo n'imvano", and has turned its attentions to digital. Mugenzi - who now runs what became the BBC's Great Lakes Service - beams with pride when he thinks about what they have achieved over the last 25 years. "It is the platform which has been giving the news which is true, which is fair and which is independent for all these years," he said. But he knows people still remember how it all started - people like Rene, who now lives with his uncle in Kigali, near to his younger brother, and like Mugabo and Tuyishimire, who live within walking distance of their uncle Theogene. And it is Theogene who sums up exactly what those broadcasts meant. "Without the BBC," he says simply, "they would have died."

यह तीन छोटे लड़कों की कहानी है जो 1994 में रवांडा को घेरने वाली हिंसा से भाग रहे लोगों की लहर में लगभग हमेशा के लिए खो गए थे। यह इस बात की भी कहानी है कि कैसे एक रेडियो प्रसारण ने डर और अराजकता को काटकर सीमाओं और दशकों के पार उन्हें मृतकों में से लाने के लिए, और अपने परिवारों के लिए घर पहुँचाया। "इसने हमारे बीच आशा बहाल की", थियोजेन कोरेगर ने अपने भतीजों के गायब होने के 25 साल बाद बीबीसी को बताया। "संदेश वहाँ पहुँच गया जहाँ हम नहीं पहुँच सकते थे-उन्होंने संदेश दिए जो हमें अन्यथा नहीं मिल सकते थे।"


Deeside Leisure Centre library shake-up agreed

Summary: Three libraries will shut in Flintshire when a central hub opens at Deeside Leisure Centre.

Libraries at Hawarden, Mancot and Queensferry will be closed under the plans agreed by the council's cabinet committee on Tuesday. A report to the committee said the changes would make a significant saving in building costs and future repairs and maintenance. The plan was agreed despite concern some may be unable to get to the hub.

डिसाइड लीजर सेंटर में एक केंद्रीय केंद्र खुलने पर फ्लिंटशायर में तीन पुस्तकालय बंद हो जाएंगे।


Covid in Scotland: Retail's bleak midwinter

Summary: Christmas is shaping up to be like no other for retailers, who were already going through a radical restructure. Enforced closures and home delivery of groceries have been pushing more transactions online, while costs and jobs are being cut, and there are widespread battles with landlords over rent. As Edinburgh Woollen Mill joins the casualties, the challenge is either to double down on food sales, or think outside the shopping trolley.

Douglas FraserBusiness/economy editor, Scotland Building layer upon layer of tradition, the pre-Christmas TV advert is now some kind of cultural event. Or so the advertising industry would have us believe. Opinion research shows that advertising is an important signal to get us into the festive mood. This year is a tough one, reports trade website The Drum. Planning for these events began long before the pandemic arrived. And once it did, how do retail advertisers reflect the unique circumstances of festivities in a pandemic? It's tricky to celebrate the bringing together of families when that's what they probably cannot do this year. So is it fantasy, a child's point of view, or humour? In an economic crisis, is this any time to be pushing luxury purchases? And how much do they have to spend? The estimate is of a cut by more than 10% in the money being spent on advertising this year. And that reflects the deep crisis that conventional retail is facing, as it heads into a vital time of year. Non-essential shops are re-opening in Wales, and are newly closed in England, for four weeks, when it would hope to be shifting pre-Christmas stock. Footfall remains very subdued in Scotland. Rent battles The past few days have also cost thousands more jobs in British retail, as it adjusts to both a pandemic and the long-term trend away from conventional shops. The latest casualty - not unexpected - is Edinburgh Woollen Mill, founded in 1947, and taken over by Philip Day in 2002 as the starting point for building his billion pound retail empire. It doesn't have much to do with the Scottish capital these days. Headquartered in Carlisle, it imports most of its low-margin line in knitwear and other clothing. It had carved a niche, but it was the wrong one for a sustained pandemic. Older customers are not venturing out for non-essential woollens these days. And coach parties aren't going anywhere, least of all the tourist destinations where Edinburgh Woollen Mill could often be found. Of its 284 outlets, 56 have not re-opened after lockdown. Put into the hands of administrators on Friday, 750 jobs are to go out of 2,571. A similar fate has befallen EWM's Ponden homeware chain, with 116 job losses. And that's just for a start. Philip Day is battling to get most value out of his much larger Peacock's chain of stores, with the higher end Jaeger brand also given a further two weeks by the High Court for the group to find buyers. Much of that battle is to do with commercial landlords, threatening them with store closures if they don't lower rents. That's in common with numerous other retail chains. Mike Ashley, the retail entrepreneur who has expanded Sports Direct into Frasers department store chain, is still sitting on many outlets with the threat of closure hanging over landlords who would struggle to find other uses for the property. England's renewed lockdown of non-essential shops has added to their woes, and provoked a classic Ashley grump against government, and Michael Gove in particular, for the restrictions imposed on retail. You may recall he started the spring lockdown in a spat with the government about essential retail and whether that included his leisure wear outlets. Argos shuttered Beyond that, it's been a horrible week for Marks & Spencer, reporting its first loss in more than 80 years as a public company. J Sainsbury, one of the big grocery retailers, and owner of Argos, announced 3,500 jobs are going as it revamps the non-food retail chain. At the same time, it has been taking on numerous jobs, mostly temporary, to cope with the sharp increase in online shopping. Covid-19 has added £290m to its costs, mostly offset by the fiscal-year business rates holiday for retail. The grocer's Edinburgh-based banking arm was rumoured for a sale. With exceptionally low interest rates, there aren't many profits to be had in banking. Nor are there many buyers for bank assets such as Sainsbury's Bank, so it remains on board for now. It was Argos that took the brunt of Sainsbury's change. The catalogue pioneer in the 1980s, which has stopped producing its printed catalogue, is also to cut back sharply on its standalone stores. Argos was bought by Sainsbury in 2016, and had 583 stores. The plan is now to reduce that to only 100 or so by 2024. That means a lot more empty shops at the brasher and bleaker end of the retail street. The Argos proposition is being shifted inside Sainsbury stores. Those 3,500 job losses also pull down the curtain on the theatre aspect of supermarket retail. On the periphery of superstores, meat, cheese, fish and pizza counters hark back to the days of a more personal touch, a chat and some advice on cooking times. But they're not adding much value. Driven to compete on price, that's just what Aldi and Lidl are not doing. So Sainsbury's can't afford to do it either. Buy back or take back John Lewis department stores, which is attached to Waitrose groceries, is shedding 1,500 staff, mainly from head office. With its unique ownership model, owned by its own staff, the John Lewis Partnership has the opportunity to think longer term than others. And it has to do so. Under pressure from online retailers, it has ditched the claim made since 1925 to never knowingly being undersold - on price, that is. Last month, having refused to pay a staff bonus/dividend for the first time since 1953, it set out a new strategy that moves it out of dependence on conventional retail. Online is projected to reach more than half of John Lewis turnover within five years, and account for 40% of profit. Waitrose has this year increased its home delivery capacity by more than four-fold since the start of this year. In comes a plan to embrace the circular economy, taking on a trial of renting rather than selling furniture. By 2025, it wants to have a proposition across its ranges of "buy back" or "take back". To develop its homeware offer vertically, it's making a bold move into home building for rental. Expect more like this. Retail is going through a crisis unlike any it has seen before. It has developed extraordinary efficiency in its supply chain. It has embraced the online revolution and home deliveries. The option now is to double down on the resilient food market, with its tough price pressures, or to think outside the shopping trolley.

क्रिसमस खुदरा विक्रेताओं के लिए किसी और की तरह आकार ले रहा है, जो पहले से ही एक कट्टरपंथी पुनर्गठन से गुजर रहे थे। किराने के सामान की जबरन बंद और घर पर डिलीवरी अधिक ऑनलाइन लेनदेन को आगे बढ़ा रही है, जबकि लागत और नौकरियों में कटौती की जा रही है, और किराए पर मकान मालिकों के साथ व्यापक लड़ाई हो रही है। जैसा कि एडिनबर्ग वूलन मिल हताहतों में शामिल हो जाता है, चुनौती या तो खाद्य बिक्री को दोगुना करना है, या खरीदारी ट्रॉली के बाहर सोचना है।


Covid-19: Eleven more coronavirus-related deaths in NI

Summary: Eleven more people have died in NI after contracting Covid-19.

That brings the Department of Health's daily toll, based on a positive test result being recorded, to 708. Seven of the deaths happened in the last 24 hours, and another four were outside that time. First Minister Arlene Foster has said the current restrictions in NI will end "as planned" on 13 November, while the PM announced a second lockdown for England. The NI-only restrictions began on Friday 17 October. In a tweet on Saturday evening, Arlene Foster said she had had a "useful call" with the Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove. "We must adapt to coexist with the virus. That means increasing hospital & testing capacity," she said. Responding to Boris Johnson's announcement on Saturday evening, Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill wrote on social media to remind people the restrictions would not apply in Northern Ireland. Ms O'Neill said that restrictions in Northern Ireland "remain in place and will be reviewed by 13 November". Schools in Northern Ireland will reopen on Monday. In his address on Saturday night, the prime minister said the government's furlough scheme, due to end at midnight, would be extended by one month. The extension will be applied across the United Kingdom. Through the scheme, staff kept on by their employer while unable to work are paid 80% of their wages - up to a maximum of £2,500 per month. In Northern Ireland on Saturday, the Department of Health reported 649 new cases of coronavirus bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Northern Ireland to 38,431. There are 346 people in hospital with Covid-19, eight fewer than Friday. There are 48 patients in ICU, up five on Friday. Some 41 of them require ventilation support, an increase of three compared to Friday. Hospitals in Northern Ireland are operating at about 96% occupancy, with 11 ICU beds available and 128 general beds available. In the Republic of Ireland, five further deaths related to Covid-19 were announced on Saturday. There have now been 1,913 Covid-19 related deaths in the country to date. Some 416 new confirmed cases were announced, bringing that total to 61,456. As of 14:00 local time, 320 Covid patients are in hospital in the Irish Republic, 41 of which are in ICU.

एन. आई. में कोविड-19 से संक्रमित होने के बाद ग्यारह और लोगों की मौत हो गई है।


Isle of Man ferry dry-docked for repairs

Summary: The main vessel which supplies goods to the Isle of Man from the United Kingdom is due to go into dry dock on Friday for essential repairs.

The Ben-my-Chree, which will be out of service for three days, is being repaired at Cammell Laird shipyard. The Steam Packet ferry company said repairs will be made to the bow thrust unit which was damaged earlier this year after the vessel ingested debris. The Ben-my-Chree has been operating on one bow thrust unit since then. The Steam Packet company added that over the weekend there will be additional freight-only services on the Manannan fast-craft vessel to ensure supplies reach Manx retailers. Manannan sailings on Friday are scheduled for 08:45 (GMT) and 14:15 (GMT).

यूनाइटेड किंगडम से आइल ऑफ मैन को माल की आपूर्ति करने वाला मुख्य पोत आवश्यक मरम्मत के लिए शुक्रवार को ड्राई डॉक में जाने वाला है।


Why has NSA failed to keep its own secrets?

Summary: WASHINGTON: The past week has been a wretched one for the US National Security Agency (NSA), with revelations of large-scale trawling of phone call data in France and Spain, as well as of eavesdropping on German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Mark UrbanDiplomatic and defence editor, BBC Newsnight During these months, since thousands of files copied by former NSA contactor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden started leaking into the public domain, the US has been compared to an Orwellian Big Brother state. But I cannot help wondering, if the NSA is as powerful as its critics have claimed, why has it been so useless at protecting its secrets? Where are the worm viruses unleashed into the computer systems of newspapers that have published US secrets? The court orders to prevent additional disclosures? And, if you enjoy spy fiction, the deniable operators climbing over balconies in Brazil or Hong Kong to steal laptops or indeed terminate their owners? The American system of official secrecy has for years operated on the basis of targeting the leaker "pour decourager les autres". In August, the trial of Private Bradley Manning ended with a 35 year sentence for passing classified material to Wikileaks. As for this latest bout of revelation, involving information about phone and internet spying that is much more highly classified than anything Pte Manning had access to, on the surface it seems only the British authorities have acted in an attempt to stop further publication. British intelligence officers have watched journalists destroying some computers at the Guardian newspapers. 'Aspects of incompetence' And David Miranda, the partner of one of the journalists holding the largest amount of Snowden files, was also stopped in August as he changed planes at Heathrow airport, questioned and had memory devices confiscated. Indeed, the Miranda episode is pretty much the only one since the publication of the Snowden stories that suggests some kind of joined up response aimed at frustrating further publication. It had the hint, with its foreknowledge of Mr Miranda's travel plans and the fact that he was carrying these files, of an operation based on precisely the kind of intelligence gathering that Mr Snowden has warned of. In the US though there has been pretty much nothing. And this is despite the fact that it is common journalistic knowledge that the Guardian journalists sitting on a great many more files, drip feeding them into the public domain, have been operating in New York. There are aspects of incompetence to it. Mr Snowden was part of an army of more than 800,000 people with clearance to access such damaging material, and was able to get it again when working with a contractor despite concerns having been expressed at the CIA about his motives. Some "lessons learned" studies have been launched within the intelligence community, but not yet with any result in terms of cutting the numbers given access to such secrets, or barring from similar work the contractor that employed him. As for the media, well this crisis should put to bed the idea that that a call from the White House to the editor of the Washington Post or New York Times can simply squash a story like this. There have been no US legal attempts to force journalists to destroy or turn over what they have, and in the UK a DA Notice on the subject has been widely ignored. Even the PR response has been limited and ill co-ordinated. Monday's New York Times comments that "the administration has seemed uncertain about how to handle the reports", concerned the interception of the German leader's mobile phone. Last week, the attempts of one former NSA director to fight back turned into farce when his briefings to journalists by phone were overheard by a fellow passenger on a train who started tweeting updates. Spying allegations The latest revelations, about tapping world leaders phone calls, also leave one wondering what use the content of Ms Merkel's calls were to US policy makers? The White House has tied itself in knots over whether to admit the president was actually briefed on what she was saying, but it can hardly be said that it gave the US some amazing advantage in the bilateral relationship with Germany. Some in Washington have detected in the president's unwillingness to take stronger action in defence of the NSA, a desire to see the vast intelligence bureaucracies that grew up after 9/11 cut down to size. Whether or not that is the case, any attempt to halt the revelations by legal action would inevitably have brought accusations of an assault on cherished constitutional freedoms. So the leaks continue and today we discover that the NSA recorded the call data (ie the numbers dialled and duration, rather than the actual content) of 60m Spanish calls during one month. Perhaps Kafka rather than Orwell provides the better literary template for this ongoing story. The NSA has grown into a huge data-mining bureaucracy driven by its own organisational imperatives. It pursues ever greater coverage, storage of data, staff and budget. In many cases it does things because it can, rather than because somebody has asked whether the information is useful, whether it is worth the potential price if discovered, or whether the activity can actually be prevented from coming into the public domain.

वाशिंगटनः अमेरिकी राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा एजेंसी (एन. एस. ए.) के लिए पिछला सप्ताह निराशाजनक रहा है, जिसमें फ्रांस और स्पेन में बड़े पैमाने पर फोन कॉल डेटा के साथ-साथ जर्मन चांसलर एंजेला मर्केल की जासूसी के खुलासे हुए हैं।


Yeovil District Hospital scales down 'black alert' status

Summary: A hospital in Somerset that has been on "black alert" for nearly two weeks has downgraded its status, but said it was still under "significant pressure".

Yeovil District Hospital put a black alert in place on 24 February, after being overwhelmed by demand. The alert has now been de-escalated to red, due to a reduction in A&E patients and after a small number of beds became available. The hospital trust thanked people for their "understanding and patience". However, a spokesperson said although there had been a "slight reduction" in the number of people attending the hospital's emergency department, it was "still under significant pressure going into the weekend". The hospital will now concentrate its efforts on rescheduling elective surgery appointments and asked that people only attended A&E in case of emergency.

समरसेट में एक अस्पताल जो लगभग दो सप्ताह से "ब्लैक अलर्ट" पर है, ने अपनी स्थिति को कम कर दिया है, लेकिन कहा है कि यह अभी भी "महत्वपूर्ण दबाव" में है।


Peel and Laxey project will 'stop raw sewage being pumped into sea'

Summary: A £23.5m scheme to deal with Manx waste has been backed by Tynwald as it would "finally stop the pumping of raw sewage into our sea", a minister has said.

Politicians unanimously supported Dr Alex Allinson MHK's move to introduce a second phase of Manx Utilities' Regional Sewage Treatment Strategy. The plan, which has yet to get planning permission, would see treatment plans built at Peel, Laxey and Baldrine. Infrastructure minister Ray Harmer said it was "fantastic news". Manx Utilities currently pump sewage through outfall pipes into the sea near Peel and Laxey. A spokesman for the firm said the project, which should be completed by 2021, would bring the discharges up to "internationally recognised bathing water quality standards". Dr Allinson said he would now submit planning proposals for the scheme.

एक मंत्री ने कहा है कि मैनक्स कचरे से निपटने के लिए एक £ 23.5m योजना को टिनवाल्ड द्वारा समर्थन दिया गया है क्योंकि यह "अंततः हमारे समुद्र में कच्चे सीवेज को पंप करना बंद कर देगा"।


Shoreham air disaster: 'Silence' as jet crashed in flames

Summary: For 26 years Shoreham had enjoyed an air show that attracted 20,000 visitors and left the town buzzing but in 2015 the unthinkable happened. A jet crashed on to a dual carriageway, leaving 11 people dead.

By Tanya Gupta & Piers HopkirkBBC News The trial of pilot Andy Hill, who was cleared of the manslaughter of the victims on Friday, has prompted some of those who saw the disaster unfold to remember the palpable silence that descended as the aircraft burst into flames. Photographer Archie Tipple had met up with friends to enjoy the show and was taking pictures as the Hawker Hunter came across the bridge and went into a loop manoeuvre. When a plume of smoke went up and turned into "a ball of flame", at first he thought it was part of the event. "We initially thought that's pyrotechnics and they've gone a bit over the top," he said. "And then it didn't come out of the smoke." As it slowly dawned on those watching that the vintage jet had crashed, onlookers began to realise "something catastrophic" had taken place. The quiet that followed the crash on Saturday 22 August 2015 has stayed in Mr Tipple's mind ever since. "Everything just went really silent. People were stood there in disbelief, waiting for an outcome that never really happened," Mr Tipple remembers. "And when the news came that the pilot had come out of the plane, we were like 'oh that's great news'." At that point, onlookers believed the jet had landed in a field. "Then news started filtering through that he'd actually landed on the A27," Mr Tipple said. "And that was when I think the reality of how big an event this was hit myself and everybody, the people we were with, the spectators that were here." Those close to the crash felt a shockwave as the plane hit the ground and the site was later described as being like a warzone, with debris, smoke and road signs left peppered with shrapnel. Spectators felt the searing heat of the blast on their skin, while witness Terry Smith, from Worthing, remembered seeing a car with the top sliced off as he dived for cover. Traffic in the area ground to a standstill and, as the sound of sirens took over, Mr Tipple ended up going to a friend's house because he could not get out of the town. When he got there, he looked at his camera and discovered he had captured the moment of the plane's impact and the ensuing fire. "He's literally below the roofline. You can see just the cockpit and the front part of the plane," he said. "Then the next thing which I got is just a ball of smoke." He said it was when he looked at his pictures "it really hit home". The news several people had died came out on the day of the air crash but Sussex Police were only able to confirm numbers later, as investigations took place, and victims were identified over the coming days. The parents of one of the 11 men who died, Jacob Schilt, said they realised on the day of the crash they had lost their son. He had been due to play in a football match and the team got in contact with them after a photo of the car he was thought to be travelling in with teammate and fellow victim Matt Grimstone was spotted on social media. The couple waited for five days for Jacob to be formally identified but said they understood police had to carry out their investigations. Jacob's mother, Caroline Schilt, described her sickness as the realisation he had died hit home on the day of the crash, likening it to a "horrible, indescribable feeling". In the hours her son was missing, she had been calling his phone. Mrs Schilt said: "We now find that was a horrible time for the emergency services because they had all these phones going off that they couldn't touch, they couldn't answer them, but they were ringing and ringing and ringing in this crash site." At the time, police said more than 200 people reported concerns for missing relatives or friends. Jacob's father, Bob Schilt, said: "People talk about that terrible feeling. It kind of goes right through you when you know, you finally know. "It's just a terrible, terrible feeling of hopelessness and loss." As the community began to come to terms with what had happened, and the names of all the victims emerged, the "awful silence" that came directly after the crash gradually turned to the quietness of sadness and respect, according to the local vicar and MP. The Reverend Terry Stratford, who was then a vicar in Shoreham but has since retired, saw the plume of black smoke go up on the day of the air show. He knew immediately there had been an accident but he also knew there had been other, less serious, accidents before. "I don't think I took on board the enormity of what was going to unfold," he remembers. He said it did not hit him until late that night that a disaster had taken place on the church's doorstep and he realised "people are going to be looking to us… we need to find something to say". Mr Stratford spent that night preparing to help people who would turn up at the church the next day. The quiet hit him as people gathered for Sunday's service. "There was a kind of awful silence over the town," he said, "as if no-one really knew how to react. "It was almost as if people were walking around on tiptoe, afraid of disturbing anyone else, just waiting for the news to come through as to how bad it was." Meanwhile, Tim Loughton, East Worthing and Shoreham MP, had driven along the A27 five minutes before the jet crashed. As soon as he heard what had happened, he went straight back. He recalled the atmosphere of the air show held every summer in Shoreham, bringing numbers of about 20,000 to watch the spectacle. The air show has not taken place since the crash. But traditionally it would have seen the town full of excitement and activity, as crowds who had spent a day watching the aircraft by the sea would then finish in a local pub with a drink afterwards, leaving the streets "buzzing", Mr Loughton said. After the Hawker Hunter hit the road "there was an eerie quiet about the town". Mr Loughton said a "great outpouring of grief" emerged as tributes turned the town's toll bridge into a "bridge of flowers". "There was a quiet, respectful silence," he said. "People came along, gave their flowers, made their own memorial in their own, quiet way." Colin Baker, chairman of the directors of the Shoreham Airshow, said the event was stood down in deference to everyone involved, particularly the bereaved families. He said it would not resume until matters were settled, including the inquest, and then organisers would have to seek agreement from the Civil Aviation Authority, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch, the police, fire service, council and others, before they could stage another event. Mr Baker, who was at the show that day, was taken to the scene of the crash. "It was the sort of thing that you shouldn't see. Nobody should see it," he said. "Immediately our thoughts, my thoughts and everyone else's was for those that had been killed and injured. "That ball of worry is still there. It's like a cloud over the air show organisers all the time. It won't go away. "We do so feel for the people, for the families, for the relatives, the friends of the people that were killed." More than three years on from the crash, tributes have gone from the bridge, Shoreham has a permanent memorial to the 11 and life in the town has started to move on. But the trial of pilot Mr Hill at the Old Bailey has meant the families and community have again been confronted by the reality of what happened that day in 2015. "It's shocking," Mrs Schilt said. "Because we've seen footage that we haven't seen before. It brings it home to us exactly what happened. "But at the same time, it is telling us exactly what happened and we feel we need to know. "I know he didn't intend to crash his plane. He certainly wouldn't have intended to kill anybody. And I really don't know how he feels about it. "I'd actually quite like to have a conversation with him really, not to point the finger at him or be unpleasant but just because I don't really know what is going on inside his mind." Mr Schilt said: "I don't for a moment believe that he had any intention of doing harm. I don't really feel any bitterness like that. "I'm very bitter about what has happened."

26 वर्षों तक शोरहैम ने एक एयर शो का आनंद लिया था जिसने 20,000 आगंतुकों को आकर्षित किया और शहर को गुलजार कर दिया लेकिन 2015 में अकल्पनीय घटना हुई। एक जेट दोहरे कैरिजवे पर दुर्घटनाग्रस्त हो गया, जिसमें 11 लोग मारे गए।


Who gains from Vince Cable's immigration outburst?

Summary: It's one thing disagreeing with colleagues in private.

By Laura KuenssbergChief political correspondent, BBC News channel It's another, publicly describing their comments as "very unwise". Prime Minister David Cameron says he wants "good immigration, not mass immigration". But his cabinet colleague Vince Cable told me that his words were "very unwise" and that the PM risked inflaming extremism. He also distanced himself from the prime minister's promise to limit immigration to tens of thousands, not hundreds of thousands, saying that was Conservative party policy, not a coalition plan. Yes, the coalition agreement outlined a cap on immigration that the business secretary, Home Secretary Theresa May, as well as Mr Cameron and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, worked hard to agree. It did not have the promise of cutting immigration to under 100,000. And agreeing the government's actual policy was not an easy process. Clash of ideas Vince Cable was outspoken then, calling continually for the cap to have the flexibility that business requires, while others were more keen on calming public concerns about immigration. Indeed in the early days of the coalition that was one of the first tests of how different views could be aired in public in way that just couldn't happen under single party government. Under a single party government they would have been portrayed as an enormous cabinet rift. Was it really that under a coalition government? Today though, it's not really a clash of ideas that's the problem. There is a sense in some Lib Dem quarters that the two parties had a truce on immigration, having negotiated the policy. And that Mr Cameron has pushed that to its limit, making Mr Cable's criticism fair game. And it is the kind of language the prime minister chose to use that has angered Mr Cable. Powerful effect Perhaps if he had seen the whole of the PM's speech, like his boss Nick Clegg, rather than reading about it in this morning's papers he would not have felt the need to speak out. A fear of being excluded can have a powerful effect. And just as Nick Clegg's team say this speech is a Conservative prime minister speaking to Conservative voters in the middle of an election, Vince Cable and the Lib Dems are also of course fighting a campaign, speaking to Lib Dem voters. And - as many Lib Dems have for months been concerned about maintaining a separate identity to the Conservatives - perhaps Mr Cable's comments are an attempt to do just that. But who actually gains from his intervention? The PM has chosen to give a strongly worded speech in the run up to an election, well aware that his stand will appeal to many members of the public, hoping to put him on the side of the majority of public opinion. A senior Lib Dem then wades in questioning the wisdom of such an approach. So although Mr Cable's risked a big cabinet row, David Cameron might not be entirely distressed by today's events.

सहकर्मियों के साथ निजी तौर पर असहमत होना एक बात है।


SLA accused of killing civilians

Summary: The judiciary in the northern Sri Lanka has ordered a senior Sri Lanka Army (SLA) officer to appear before the courts as five bodies of civilians found in Vavuniya.

Vavuniya district Judge ordered the police to record a statement from the officer in charge of Vessankulama SLA camp and produce him before the courts on Monday. Five unidentified bodies were found shot dead near the camp on Sunday morning. Four of the bodies were later identified by the relatives at the inquest. Gunshots heard They disappeared after leaving for work two days ago, relatives told the magistrate inquest. Relatives were told by the officials at the SLA camp that they had no knowledge of the five men despite information that the men were detained there. Another witness told the inquest that he heard the noise of a van and gunshots near the camp on Saturday night. In a letter to the top security officials in Vavuniya, district judge M Ilanchelian has urged maximum cooperation with the investigation.

उत्तरी श्रीलंका में न्यायपालिका ने श्रीलंका सेना (एस. एल. ए.) के एक वरिष्ठ अधिकारी को वावुनिया में पाए गए नागरिकों के पांच शवों के रूप में अदालतों में पेश होने का आदेश दिया है।


Boy injured in Birmingham shotgun attack

Summary: A 16-year-old boy has been injured in a shotgun attack in a Birmingham street.

The boy was hurt in Leonard Road, Handsworth, just before 01:20 GMT on 26 December, West Midlands Police said. He was taken to hospital with injuries caused by shotgun pellets and placed in an induced coma. His wounds are not believed to be life-threatening. Detectives are checking CCTV footage and carrying out house-to-house enquiries. Anyone with information is asked to contact the force.

बर्मिंघम सड़क पर बन्दूक के हमले में एक 16 वर्षीय लड़का घायल हो गया है।


Crunch time for British apple farmers

Summary: The wettest summer for 100 years has wiped out a fifth of Britain's apple crop but with the UK still importing about two-thirds of the apples it consumes, farmers have more than just the weather to contend with.

By Peter JacksonBBC News With 2,200 varieties of apple in Britain, you could eat a different kind every day for six years - and still find more. But try to source a Peasgood's Nonsuch, Port Wine Kernel or Lord Lambourne at your local supermarket and you will struggle. In fact, just two varieties - Gala (28%) and Braeburn (19%) - now account for almost half of all sales across UK outlets, British growers say. The supermarkets sell about 85% of the total. The market remains dominated by cheap imports and focused on a few easy-to-grow varieties with long shelf-lives that travel well - depriving consumers of valuable choice. Farmer David Knight, 65, who has run Pippins Farm in Kent for 30 years, says some traditional varieties have been pushed out as they are prone to disease, crop every other year or do not keep well. But other fantastic varieties, he says, never see the light of day. "Two things really matter for supermarkets and that's the shelf-life and appearance," he says. "Those are two huge things and quite a long way down come the flavour and taste, whatever they say, but maybe they're getting a bit better." Mr Knight's 50-acre farm produces 50 varieties of apple but only six or seven are taken by the one major supermarket chain he supplies as part of a co-operative. 'Obsessed' He dedicates just one-and-a-half acres to heritage varieties, which he sells at special festivals, fairs and in the farm shop. He's also planting popular new foreign varieties such as Cameo (US), Jazz (Australia), Rubens (Italy) and Fuji (Japan). "They [supermarkets] have lost sight of seasonality, they're obsessed with having everything on the shelf every week of the year and none are going to break ranks," he says. Mr Knight says he recently grubbed four acres of one of his favourite apples - Russets - as they were not selling. "The apple's great, but it has a limited season, and it's not red, it's not green, it's golden brown, so it doesn't fit in very easily. "They sell at market stalls if you go into London because there's someone behind the counter to talk to the customer... but you've got to produce what you can sell." He says supermarkets have strict specifications on size, colour and surface characteristics, with any deviations leading to rejections. Eating apples must range from 55-80mm, Bramley cooking apples from 75-110mm, and apples must be almost entirely free of russeting, frost cracking and hail and insect marking, he says. English Apples and Pears, which represents growers, says consumers should also take responsibility for the limited varieties on offer as they do not often choose based on taste or seasons. "People want the same thing available 12 months of the year and however much we urge them, the reality is many consumers buy on appearance rather than taste," says chief executive Adrian Barlow. "We don't like it but we have to be realistic." He says the number of British growers has fallen dramatically from 1,550 in 1987 to just under 400 today but the industry has seen a revival in recent years. Supermarkets have greatly improved their support for British growers, he says, increasing the overall home-grown market share from 23% in 2003 to 38% today. The industry has also been boosted by investment in more efficient cold stores and pack houses, which help prolong the British season. The supermarkets say they work closely with British growers but also need to satisfy demand from shoppers for other varieties that cannot be grown in the UK. Golden Delicious, Granny Smith and Pink Lady do not grow successfully in the UK because of the climate. Sainsbury's says it stocks just short of 100 varieties of apple, of which 52 are home-grown, with up to 65% British during peak season. It says its orchards develop new varieties and stores will promote traditional and new apples in "Best of British" packs. Morrisons says around 40% of the 45 varieties it sells are British during the home season, while Tesco says 21 of its 34 varieties are home grown. Waitrose says it stocks 50 varieties, half of which are sourced from the UK, rising to 85% in November and December. And last year Asda says it stocked 56 different kinds, 40 of which were British.

100 वर्षों की सबसे नम गर्मी ने ब्रिटेन की सेब की फसल का पांचवां हिस्सा मिटा दिया है, लेकिन ब्रिटेन अभी भी अपनी खपत का लगभग दो-तिहाई सेब आयात करता है, किसानों के पास केवल मौसम से अधिक है।


1971 message in a bottle reunited with Carlisle man

Summary: A man has been reunited with a message in a bottle he wrote 44 years ago after it was found washed up in Scotland.

Australian couple Sean and Shelley Thomas found it in a sand dune at Rattray Head on the north-east coast. The note inside is dated 15 January 1971 and was written by then 14-year-old Raymond Davidson from Carlisle at the start of the 1970s. Mr and Mrs Thomas tracked down Mr Davidson and his wife Denise after a social media campaign to find him. Mrs Thomas said Mr Davidson has given it to the couple to take back to Brisbane as a souvenir. He said he was "overwhelmed" by the social media campaign and he has had more friend requests since it started than when he opened his account.

एक आदमी को एक बोतल में एक संदेश के साथ फिर से मिलाया गया है जो उसने 44 साल पहले स्कॉटलैंड में बहते हुए पाए जाने के बाद लिखा था।