France's 'children of the revolution'

Summary: Every morning for the last 10 days, the headmaster at the Lycée Sophie-Germain in the desirable Marais district of Paris has arrived to find a pyramid of rubbish containers piled up against the entrance to the building.

By Hugh Schofield BBC News Student leaders take it in turns to climb to the top of the pyramid and harangue their friends with talk of strikes and blockades. Those wishing to attend school are turned away. The story of the "lycée under siege", and its "suffering headmaster" Michel Vaudry, was told in Le Monde newspaper. "The worst day was the first, Tuesday, when about 50 troublemakers came, some with death-masks on, some in hoods or with their faces hidden. They attacked us with an almost military precision," Mr Vaudry said. "They forced us against the entrance with the container-bins, which we were trying to remove, then they started flinging bins and barriers right in our faces … We had to take refuge inside the school." On another occasion, Mr Vaudry said he was confronted by a young man who was not from the lycée but was clearly organising the protests. The man took his ground in front of the headmaster and said: "I can't work out what it is that is stopping me planting my fist in your face!" What is it that makes French students revolt so? Across the country similar scenes are being acted out daily now, as tens of thousands of lycéens join in the anti-government protests. A kind of delirium has set in, propelling teenagers onto the streets in a re-enactment of an imagined revolution. That French lycéens have reason to be concerned about their future is perfectly true. The school and university system is pumping out generations of youngsters whose expectations vastly exceed their prospects. Most survive on placements, extra studies and part-time work before finally landing a proper job in their late 20s. Their argument for opposing Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reform - that the longer old people stay in work, the longer youngsters will have to wait to move into their shoes - may be debatable economics. But you can see why the future looks less than rosy. And if French students believe they have good cause to protest, the method follows quite naturally. Carefully handed down from generation to generation, the modus manifestandi has become part of national lore. Quite consciously, the makers of this student rebellion are acting out the parts created by their forefathers and -mothers in that greatest of all student rebellions: May 1968. The rituals are identical: the 'general assemblies' in which budding leaders bellow into bull-horns, the arm-link procession, the look of beatific joy. The slogans are straight from 1968. The students chant: "Sarkozy, t'es foutu, la jeunesse est dans la rue" (Sarkozy you're screwed, the youth is in the street) - which apart from the name is a formulation unchanged from De Gaulle's time. Bizarrely, even the clothes look the same. Today if you want to look like a student radical, you wear floppy jeans, scarves, hats and badges that could be your parents' castaways. Some things have changed of course. Today's lycéens have the extraordinary organisational tool which is SMS texting and the internet. Ahead of each day of action, millions of text messages circulate like wildfire, and the more radical lycées have their own blockade Facebook pages. Not surprisingly there are suspicions of manipulation. It would not be hard for far-left groups to infiltrate the movement and incite the protests, though this is vehemently denied by students. Also today, lycée students have a much greater sense of their own power. Back in 1968 la jeunesse had genuine reasons to feel excluded. In today's youth-centred zeitgeist, teenagers are constantly being told how important they are. Middle class phenomena Ségolène Royal, the defeated socialist contender in the 2007 presidential election, said last week: "At 15 or 16, I believe that young people are responsible and understand why they are taking to the street. What is more I ask them to come down to the street, in a peaceful way." She denied she was encouraging school children to demonstrate, but how else would you interpret what she said? One other thing remains unchanged from 1968. The student protests are still an overwhelmingly middle-class phenomena. Back then they were demanding social change. Today they are demanding the opposite: the preservation of a social system. But in both cases, those protesting are not the poorest. Michel Vaudry noticed the same thing at his besieged lycée in the Marais. "The ones who are doing the blockading, above all they are ones who are best-off - the ones who have nothing to lose because their parents can always pay for private lessons so they can catch up," he told Le Monde.

पिछले 10 दिनों से हर सुबह, पेरिस के वांछनीय माराइस जिले में लाइसी सोफी-जर्मेन के प्रधानाध्यापक इमारत के प्रवेश द्वार पर ढेर किए गए कचरे के पात्रों का एक पिरामिड देखने के लिए आते हैं।


'The screeching drill, the burnt flesh - my dental nightmare'

Summary: Eight years ago, Natalia Guerrero was persuaded to have veneers on her front teeth, and then crowns - even though they had been fine as they were. It was the start of a painful dental nightmare that cost a small fortune. And it set her thinking about the millions of people who desperately need dental care but cannot afford it.

It was a treatment I didn't need and I didn't really want. A treatment that left me in agony. A treatment that had to be re-done, over and over again costing thousands of dollars, hundreds of sleepless nights and countless hours of unbearable pain. I remember the screeching of the drill, the smell of burnt flesh mixed with the sickening scent of blood, my blood. I remember the sympathetic face of the dental assistant who held the suction hose as the dentist juggled inside my anaesthetised mouth. And even more painful is the memory of taking advantage of a 10-minute break to look at myself in the mirror. Behind my inflamed face I could see that my six front teeth were suddenly gone. Instead, I had tiny vampire-like cones. I was numb with shock - shock that I had been so tremendously stupid. This was just the last of a chain of unnecessary procedures, disguised by my dentist as essential treatment for "badly worn" teeth. First he had attached veneers to six front teeth. Then, when these kept breaking, he suggested crowns - which he described as similar but more resistant. Stupidly, I hadn't asked enough questions, and hadn't realised my natural teeth would now be reduced to Dracula stumps. But not only was the procedure unnecessary (all I needed was a mouth guard to stop me grinding my teeth in my sleep) it turned out my dentist wasn't up to the job. Find out more Listen to Putting your money where your mouth is, Natalia Guerrero's investigation of the relationship between cavities and cash Or browse other programmes in the BBC World Service's Money and Power series Over the last eight years I have repeatedly needed surgery to repair my gums. I've had to have all my crowns replaced twice - and those on my upper front teeth three times. If you haven't had to undergo this, you won't know that it is unimaginably hard to break a porcelain tooth - it is an arm-wrestle between the dentist and the crown inside your mouth. You just lie there. Humble. Silent. Waiting for the hours to pass. Also, anaesthesia has a shorter effect on my body than on most other people, so I have to have repeated injections - and in between I experience intervals of pain. The pain continues long after leaving the dentist's chair, inside and outside my mouth. I've had to endure persistent aches in my inner ears, jaw, eye sockets and neck, and intense headaches that have lasted for up to two months. And let's not talk about how much I have paid to try to fix the whole mess. You might think I have been unlucky, but in a way I have been tremendously lucky. At least I was able to afford the treatment. Most people would like to improve their teeth - either to heal pain or to look better - but have no way of paying for it. Almost everyone knows a friend or relation who needs dental work. When someone receives a windfall or an inheritance, this is one of the things it's most likely to get spent on. "You think twice before laughing because you'll feel ashamed," says one of my aunts in Colombia. Bad dentistry she was subjected to in Spain led to the loss of three upper back teeth, so she now wears a visible prosthesis. The bill for implants would amount to three or four months' pay cheques. "A mouth without teeth is like a garden without flowers," was the metaphor a woman used to let my uncle Edgar know that she wasn't interested in dating him any more, because of his missing teeth. Edgar is quite a character, a big smoker, and a party animal. His problems started when he ignored a decayed tooth and the tooth next door became infected. Eventually he had only three left. Being kind of a hippie, he had no problem in letting his beard grow very long to hide his mouth, but the day he finally got a full set of dentures, he went to the hairdresser and then sent a bunch of sweetly smiling selfies to the family Whatsapp group. He was triumphant - whole again at almost 60. It wasn't just the cost that made him put off seeing a dentist. He says his generation is genuinely afraid of getting treatment. As a child, my uncle Oscar was tied to the dentist's chair, Edgar says, and he just sat there and screamed. Across the world, oral health is a powerful indicator of social inequality. Bad teeth can bring not only tormenting pain, but the loss of job opportunities, ostracisation, and disease. The cost of dental care is beyond the reach of many. In the US in 2016, about 74 million people - nearly a quarter of the population - were not covered for dental care by insurance or public health programmes. And even those who were covered often had to pay part or all of the bill for any treatment needed. An extraction can cost between $200 and $600 depending on where it is carried out and whether anaesthesia is used. The price of a crown ranges from $1,000 to $2,000. So the country that is the home of the Hollywood smile and sets a global standard in dental perfection, a country where people spend more than $1bn on teeth whitening products every year, is also one where millions worry about how to treat a toothache or an infection. These less well-off Americans rely on free clinics and charities, which have a tendency to remove teeth rather than trying to repair them. Survey data published in 2015 by the National Center for Health Statistics revealed that one in five people aged 65 and over have no teeth. None. And in the black population the figure is nearly one in three. "Every year we come to Wise, Virginia, and we extract 4,000 teeth, and the next year is the same," says 82-year-old Stan Brock, founder of Remote Area Medical (RAM), an organisation that provides free medical services to those who would otherwise have no access to them. Since 1985, RAM has treated more than 740,000 people worldwide, thanks to the help of more than 120,000 volunteers. At a rural airport at another location in Virginia I saw hundreds of people queuing for treatment with a doctor, a dentist or an ophthalmologist. Some arrived at dawn they were so desperate not to miss out. "People die in this country of disease from dental infection. That's terrible," says Brock. "When you get an acute infection, it can go to the brain - it can lead to diabetes, it can lead to heart disease. People do die in this country because they can't afford to go to the dentist." In the US a basic dental examination costs an average of $275. In the UK, the National Health Service (NHS) charges $24 (£19) - less than a 10th as much. But even the British rates are too high for many people. Surveys suggest that one in five patients have delayed treatment for financial reasons. Which is one reason why RAM wants to start operating in the UK too. "If I can get an invitation from the government, we'll see thousands of people just like we do in [the US], free of charge, high-quality care," says Brock, himself a British national. "I hear that Wales is in dire straits." The US and UK are not special cases. In many countries - developed and underdeveloped - dental care appears today to be a luxury. A healthy smile depends on a healthy bank balance. Sometimes when I close my eyes, I remember the glittering smile I once had. I remember how small, square and exceptionally strong my teeth were. I miss grabbing an apple from a tree and biting it. It's been eight years since I was able to do that. Now it hurts when I bite, both physically and emotionally, because it reminds me of my big mistake. When I look at Carolina, my identical twin sister, I sometimes experience a secret sorrow. She has retained her perfect teeth, as healthy as mine were before they were filed away. She notices my glance - but she tells me that my new teeth are lovely, that they are like an actress's. "A good dentist never takes out healthy teeth, he knows they will never grow again," a dentist once told me in rural Colombia. She was right. Natalia Guerrero is a Colombian journalist based in New York More from BBC Stories It began in 2011, when girls and young women in Japan suddenly wanted to look like singer and actress, Tomomi Itano. But the craze for snaggle teeth, when a dentist places a ceramic protruding false tooth over a patient's upper canine, has not gone away. Read: The appeal of snaggle teeth Join the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter.

आठ साल पहले, नतालिया ग्युरेरो को अपने सामने के दांतों पर लिबास और फिर मुकुट पहनने के लिए राजी किया गया था-भले ही वे ठीक थे। यह एक दर्दनाक दंत दुःस्वप्न की शुरुआत थी जिसकी कीमत बहुत कम थी। और इसने उन्हें उन लाखों लोगों के बारे में सोचने पर मजबूर कर दिया जिन्हें दंत चिकित्सा की सख्त आवश्यकता है लेकिन वे इसे वहन नहीं कर सकते।


Paignton death: Woman arrested over suspected murder

Summary: A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of a pensioner was found at a house in Devon.

Police were called to Midvale Road, Paignton, at 12:36 GMT on Wednesday, where they found the body of a man in his 70s. Devon and Cornwall Police said a 40-year-old woman from Paignton had been arrested and was in police custody. A police cordon is in place at the address and the emergency services remain at the scene. See more news from Devon The force said the man's next of kin had not yet been informed and asked for anyone with information to come forward.

डेवोन में एक घर में एक पेंशनभोगी का शव मिलने के बाद हत्या के संदेह में एक महिला को गिरफ्तार किया गया है।


Judge Dredd: 2000 AD's futuristic lawman turns 40

Summary: Grim, gun-toting lawman Judge Dredd was launched on the comic stands in 1977. Now aged 40, the character's satirical take on authoritarian attitudes is as relevant now as ever, argue his writers.

By Dave GilyeatBBC News It was in a London office above the Fleet River in March 1977 that Judge Dredd was born. Outside, the punk scene was at its height. The Sex Pistols and The Clash were storming the charts and young comic readers now had their own anti-hero to cheer. Drawing on a perceived increase in right wing politics, and inspired by the 1971 film Dirty Harry, Dredd was a no-nonsense 21st Century lawman. He patrolled over a hugely over-populated metropolis in an extremely right wing North America. "It took the irreverence of punk and put it into hard-edged adventures," says current artist Matt Brooker, who works under the name D'Israeli. "It was pointing out the emperor's got no clothes, and pulling down the trousers of authority." In Dredd's first ever appearance in the comic 2000 AD, he tackled a gang of killers who had been ambushing his comrades. His response? He casually shot two of the men dead and - after punching the third in the face - gave him a life sentence on the spot. Dredd's unbending, unsentimental approach satirised right wing approaches to law enforcement, while also injecting a large dollop of humour. Instead of being sent to prison, the criminal was marooned on an extremely busy traffic island with no hope of escape. "There was no way I was going to approve of a fascist cop," original editor Pat Mills insists. "It had to have a satire, so it wasn't saying we were approving of this guy." The character was created by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra. Covered head-to-toe in body armour, his face has never been shown in 40 years, remaining concealed beneath a mask. With the combined powers of a police officer and judge, he hands out sentences for everything from littering to murder, with the result that sympathetic characters are often unfairly treated. But Dredd lives in Mega-City One, a chaotic and crime-ridden city which the writers treated as a character itself. "Mega-City One had 800 million inhabitants, which would be a major job for any police force to look after, so it was an excuse for the judges to be like that," says Alan Grant, one of the strip's early writers. "He was a heroic fascist cop who had no sense of humour himself, but the stories were liberally laced with humour." "It was largely anti-authority, and that was what drew me to it, because I've always had a strong bias against authority," he adds. "We tried to mix fascism with black humour. It paid off in terms of reader loyalty. "We ran a survey and asked 'Do you think Dredd's too heavy-handed?' and 90% of readers said he wasn't heavy-handed enough, so we went with that. "He's a very, very right wing policeman, in a very, very right wing society." A playground in which to conceive outrageous scenarios, Mega-City One featured fashion-conscious citizens deliberately making themselves ugly via plastic surgery, while others were gigantically obese, only able to get around on wheels. Meanwhile the city's massive and violent housing blocks were often named incongruously, after people like Enid Blyton, Frank Zappa, or Betty Crocker. According to Dan Abnett, who has worked on the comic since the 1990s, writing it is a "tricky balance". "There's a very fine line to walk between making it very action-orientated and exciting, but also to retain the essential satire. "The greatest stories over the years have acknowledged the mockery of American society and excess." Dredd's adventures are now overseen from the Oxford-based computer games company Rebellion, which took over the publication in - appropriately - the year 2000. Current editor Matt Smith says writers were "looking at news reports, coming up with a satirical version, and transplanting it into the future". "Dredd is part of a totalitarian system in which democracy has been sidelined for the sake of order and rule," he adds. "He's the villain in lots of ways. But he's the guy you want on your side when the criminals turn up, so he's very complex, and that makes it an interesting strip to read, and is part of its success." Predicting President Trump The makers of 2000 AD, the comic anthology where Judge Dredd strips appear, have got several predictions right. One of their most notable was casting a certain TV reality star as a future president. As editor Matt Smith explains, the world of the story in question, published in 2011 as The Day the Zombo Died, was "run by this rubbish government getting everything wrong". A ruthless President Trump is seen firing members of his staff, similar to the contestants on his hit show The Apprentice. "That's 2000 AD picking cultural figures and lampooning them, not realising how close to the bone it would end up being," Smith concludes. Dredd's success later resulted in him getting his own comic, Judge Dredd Megazine, as well as spin-off computer games, books, newspaper strips, and even Royal Mail stamps. He also made it to the big screen, with portrayals by Sylvester Stallone in 1995 and Karl Urban in 2012. But while weighty themes of law and order, and the freedom of the individual, chimed with readers when sprinkled with absurdity, neither film set the box office alight. Grant thinks it's because the world has become "more and more Judge Dredd-like". "When you see riot police they look like Dredd - anonymous, behind helmets, hard to attack behind riot shields, and with the heaviest duty weapons for fighting back," he says. "It's horrible to think you're predicting the future, when all you meant to do was write a funny story. To see it playing out in reality is a shock." Smith says Dredd has "become a shorthand for harsh law enforcement, so it's become a very important strip in that sense". "Modern cops in certain countries actually look scarier than Dredd," Mills adds. "The future has not only caught up with us - 2000 AD's world is a little safe compared to the harsh reality." The Class of 2000 AD, and what they did next... Several 2000 AD writers and artists have gone on to success in the comics and film industry: Dan Abnett - Guardians of the Galaxy Brian Bolland - Batman: The Killing Joke, Wonder Woman Steve Dillon - Hellblazer, Preacher, The Punisher Neil Gaiman - American Gods, Coraline, The Graveyard Book, Neverwhere, The Sandman, Stardust Dave Gibbons - Green Lantern, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Watchmen Mark Millar - The Authority, Kick Ass, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Marvel: Civil War, The Ultimates, Wanted Alan Moore - Batman: The Killing Joke, From Hell , The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, V for Vendetta, Watchmen Grant Morrison - All-Star Superman, Batman, New X-Men Frank Quitely - All-Star Superman, The Authority, New X-Men John Wagner - Batman, Doctor Who, A History of Violence

कठोर, बंदूक चलाने वाले वकील जज ड्रेड को 1977 में कॉमिक स्टैंड पर लॉन्च किया गया था। उनके लेखकों का तर्क है कि अब 40 साल की उम्र में, सत्तावादी दृष्टिकोण पर चरित्र का व्यंग्यपूर्ण दृष्टिकोण अब हमेशा की तरह प्रासंगिक है।


Portugal's unemployed heading to Mozambique 'paradise'

Summary: In 1975, just after Mozambique had won its independence from Portugal after a bitter struggle, a quarter of a million Portuguese settlers fled the country. Fearful for their lives, but also without prospect of a livelihood, the mother country was a safer bet.

By Alexis AkwagyiramBBC News Now, nearly 40 years later, the flow is reversing. With Portugal staggering economically, many now see the country's former colony as holding out more prospects than home. Businessman Paulo Dias tells a story that is increasingly common. He moved to Mozambique in 2010 after the financial crisis in Portugal convinced him that his future lay elsewhere. "I decided to leave because I felt the situation in Europe was catastrophic," says the 42-year-old, who now lives in the capital, Maputo. In Portugal, Mr Dias ran a company marketing cruise trips. But, after months of struggling, he shut it down. Within a year he had relocated to Mozambique, where he set up a business building prefabricated houses. "It was a fresh start and the best decision I ever made," he says. Henrique Banze, Mozambique's deputy foreign minister, says about 200 tourist and working visas are being granted every day, marking a "huge increase" on recent years. "In the last two years there have been many more Portuguese coming," he says adding: "I suppose it must be to do with the crisis in Portugal." It is difficult to get firm figures for the influx, but Mr Banze says it is clear that thousands of Portuguese people are relocating each year. The vast majority - around 20,000, according to some reports - base themselves in Maputo, where the majority of business opportunities exist. "A tsunami hit Portugal and now everyone is coming here," says Mr Dias. "I don't believe the economic situation in Portugal will improve within the next five years." Two years ago, when he arrived, most of his countrymen in Mozambique were manual labourers. Now, he says, the middle classes are moving in. Some, he says, are working for large mining companies with operations in Mozambique. Others, like him, come to set up their own businesses. Bitter legacy Mr Dias' new life is not without challenges. He says the cost of living is high and he struggled during the first year in his new home until he established a partnership with a local businessman who provided the patronage needed to broker deals. But he has seen his business grow, working on a range of projects from social housing to homes for employees of mining companies. A few years ago, the thought of moving to one of Africa's poorest countries in search of work would have seemed unthinkable for most Portuguese, particularly given the bitter legacy of the colonial period. But Mozambique is changing and times are hard in Portugal. At more than 17%, its jobless rate is among the highest in the eurozone. And if there were any doubts of where future opportunities lay, Portugal's Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho sent a stark message in 2011. He told unemployed teachers in Portugal to emigrate, urging them to leave their comfort zone and move to Portuguese-speaking countries like Brazil and another former African colony, Angola. The prime minister may have been talking about teachers, but it was clear that the invitation to leave extended to people in other fields of work. Thousands are heeding his advice. Several factors, beyond a shared language, have made Mozambique particularly attractive. Despite Mr Dias' complaints, the cost of living is much lower than in Angola, where the capital - Luanda - was, until recently, the most expensive city in the world. There is also a perception that Mozambique's growth rate and stable government make it a good place to start a business. Recent gas discoveries have compounded this sense of optimism. "With these new discoveries, and with the influx of foreigners here, people will start to spend more and they will want to eat in better restaurants and try different types of food," says Portuguese restaurateur Marcos Silva, who opened an upmarket fish restaurant in Maputo a year ago. Mr Silva studied interior design in his native country but decided to pursue his passion for food. Business is now booming. His 160-seat restaurant is often booked out, he says. In keeping with local laws that cap the number of foreigners working in a company, Mr Silva's partner and manager are both Portuguese, while the rest of the staff - who deal with kitchen and orderly duties - are Mozambicans. Mr Silva is quick to reject any suggestion that this is an unfair power dynamic. "It should be seen as an advantage, not as a conquest," he insists. "At the end of the day, it is a niche waiting to be developed. It is a leap of faith we are taking." Mr Silva's desire to stress this is, perhaps, unsurprising given the Portuguese history in Mozambique. The former colonial master benefited from slave trading in the 18th and 19th centuries. Portuguese rule was often heavy handed in the 20th Century. Mozambicans had few rights and were barred from highly skilled and managerial positions until the years immediately preceding independence. Tense relations and local discontent sparked the military coup which brought independence. Charles Mangwiro, a Maputo-based journalist at Radio Mozambique, was a baby when Mozambique gained independence. But, since childhood, his parents have told him about the indignities that befell them and fellow Mozambicans under colonial rule. "They told me there was segregation and the Portuguese were racist. "My parents say the way the Portuguese spoke to us was insulting and they treated people like they were from a lower class." Altering attitudes Turning his attention to the new generations of Portuguese settlers, Mr Mangwiro says local reaction to the influx has changed within a few years. "At first they were unwelcome because of concerns they would take jobs," he says. But that changed after people began getting jobs with the new businesses. "It's mainly unskilled work - in shops, for example - but it means locals can get money and keep their families running," he says. Mr Mangwiro says the spike in Portuguese settlers began about four years ago. He says Chinese workers came next, mainly constructing roads and buildings - transforming the capital's skyline. Brazilians and Indians are also coming in droves, he observes. Although most Portuguese base themselves in Maputo, some - like Susana Vidal - have gone further afield to benefit from Mozambique's growing tourism sector. The 39-year-old, who has a master's degree in tourism, left her Algarve home for a life in the coastal Mozambique town of Vilanculos four years ago after a three-month job hunt in her native country ended in failure. Ms Vidal divides her time between her job at a tourist lodge and working with her British boyfriend, who has set up a kite-surfing school. She says local tourism is growing thanks to secluded beaches that are relatively untouched. "I go home every year and every time I have to come back after two weeks to my little paradise. It's a good feeling to be here. "We don't plan to go to Portugal or the UK to start a family. That's a good indication that we feel happy here."

1975 में, एक कड़वे संघर्ष के बाद मोजाम्बिक के पुर्तगाल से अपनी स्वतंत्रता प्राप्त करने के ठीक बाद, दस लाख पुर्तगाली बसने वालों में से एक चौथाई ने देश छोड़ दिया। अपनी जान के लिए डरते हुए, लेकिन आजीविका की संभावना के बिना, मातृ देश एक सुरक्षित विकल्प था।


Mikhail Khodorkovsky news conference: In quotes

Summary: Former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky has given his first news conference following his release from prison after 10 years. Here is a selection of quotes from the event in Berlin, on issues ranging from President Vladimir Putin to the forthcoming Sochi Olympics.

On his release "It was 2am when the commandant of our camp woke me up and he told me I was going home. After that, on the trip, I found out that this trip was supposed to end in Berlin." On Putin "Mr Putin spent 10 years contemplating my release. I hope the decision he came to after such long reflection will not be seen by him as a mistake." On revenge "Back when I was involved in big business, I realised I was involved in tough games. Of course I was given slightly tougher treatment than usual. At the same time, I have to say that my family was left untouched, in other words my family was always treated decently. And for that reason I didn't take the confrontation to heart. I took a pragmatic view of a problematic relationship and pragmatism has no place for vengeance and hatred. Those are just the rules of the game." On politics "I am not going to engage in any political activity, and I said that in my letter to President Putin and have reiterated it several times since. I am going to engage in public work. The struggle for power is not for me now." On dissidents "Do not see me as a symbol of Russia no longer having political prisoners. Please see me as a symbol of how the efforts of civil society can result in even people seen as hopeless cases being freed." On imprisoned Ukrainian opposition politician Yulia Tymoshenko "I hope that President [Viktor] Yanukovych, who frequently communicates with the president of my country, will follow his example in this matter, with the release of a political prisoner." On returning to Russia "At the moment, if I were to go back to Russia, I might not be allowed to leave the country again." On future plans "I would like to devote the rest of my active business life to repaying my debts to people who are worse off than myself - in other words, those still in prison - and to Russian society, which really needs to change a little, so that we can live a bit better in Russia." On the Winter Olympics 2014 in Sochi "It's a celebration of sport, something which millions of people will celebrate. Obviously, it should not become a great party for President Putin." On business "I believe I have achieved what I wanted to achieve in the course of my business career." On money "My financial situation doesn't require me to work just to earn some more money."

पूर्व रूसी कुलीन मिखाइल खोडोरकोव्स्की ने 10 साल बाद जेल से रिहा होने के बाद अपना पहला समाचार सम्मेलन दिया है। यहाँ राष्ट्रपति व्लादिमीर पुतिन से लेकर आगामी सोची ओलंपिक तक के मुद्दों पर बर्लिन में हुए कार्यक्रम से उद्धरणों का चयन किया गया है।


Ipswich BMW had seven passengers on back seat

Summary: A car stopped by police was found to have seven people squeezed on to the back seat.

Four adults and three children climbed out of the BMW's rear doors after an officer pulled over the driver on Major's Corner, Ipswich, on Saturday. Police said the passengers in the back of the saloon were not wearing seatbelts. The driver of the car, which had a foreign number plate, was fined at the roadside. Related Internet Links Suffolk Constabulary

पुलिस द्वारा रोकी गई एक कार में सात लोग पीछे की सीट पर दबाए हुए पाए गए।


Bug leads to Worcestershire hospital visitor restrictions

Summary: Visits to patients at Worcestershire's main hospitals are being limited to those in "exceptional circumstances" after a norovirus outbreak.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust said there were restrictions at the Alexandra, Worcestershire Royal and Kidderminster hospitals. It said it would consider requests from relatives who had a particular need to visit a patient. It urged anyone showing symptoms of vomiting or diarrhoea to stay away.

वॉरसेस्टरशायर के मुख्य अस्पतालों में रोगियों का दौरा नोरोवायरस के प्रकोप के बाद "असाधारण परिस्थितियों" में उन लोगों तक सीमित किया जा रहा है।


Growing threat to American birds, says report

Summary: Martha the passenger pigeon, who died 100 years ago, is being remembered this month as a prescient symbol of what can happen when man meets nature. A comprehensive new report finds that many more American bird species could meet the same fate.

By Jane O'BrienBBC News, Washington Passenger pigeons were once the most common bird in North America - if not the world- but rapid land development in the 19th Century forced them from their natural forest habitat. Huge flocks descended on farms, destroying crops and livelihoods, and their doom was sealed. Considered a major pest (and a valuable source of meat and feathers), they were relentlessly hunted down. On 1 September 1914, round about noon, Martha, the last of her species, died in the Cincinnati Zoo. Ectopistes migratorius, once numbering in the billions, joined the ranks of the dodo and the great auk. One hundred years later, it is tempting think that we know better. But as a new report today makes clear, birds across the US are in deep trouble. "Right now, about a third of all bird species in the US are in decline," says Steve Holmer of the American Bird Conservancy, one of the 23 organisations that contributed to the State of the Birds report, the most comprehensive review of bird trends and data ever undertaken in the US. "The decline points to a very broad-scale problem where we're seeing habitat loss and a variety of threats," he says. "We're particularly concerned about the birds that live in deserts and grasslands in the West, such as the sage grouse. These lands are being heavily used and there's a great deal of oil and gas development, so it's created a huge conservation challenge." Birds living on the coasts are faring no better. Almost half of all shorebird species, such as ruddy turnstones, red knots and piping plovers, are either endangered or at risk of becoming endangered. In Hawaii the situation is even worse. "Hawaii is the extinction capital of the world," says Pete Marra, director of the Smithsonian Institution's Migratory Bird Center. "We've seen about 10 extinctions in the past 40 years and all 33 species of endemic Hawaiian birds are in trouble." Avian malaria is one of the biggest threats facing Hawaiian birds. The birds have no natural immunity to the disease. "There are other invasive species there like cats, rats and mongoose," says Marra. "Biologists are working very hard to create enclosures to protect bird populations and keep those invasive species out or even remove them." Birds brought back from the brink of extinction If it is hard to protect birds contained on an island, imagine the challenges when it comes to migratory birds that cross borders. "They only spend three or four months of the year in the US or Canada so there's only so much we can do," says Marra. "If they spend most of the year in places like the Caribbean and Central and South America, only international co-operation will help reverse the declines - and international co-operation at levels we haven't seen before." In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt created the first federal bird reservation on Pelican Island in Florida. Since then there has been a raft of wildlife legislation including the Wilderness Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Endangered Species Act. In spite of such action, four more species have been added to this year's State of the Birds watch list. The whip-poor-will, chuck will widow, bobolink and evening grosbeak have become the latest of a total of 230 bird species that are endangered or at risk of becoming endangered. But experts say that without such legislation, the plight of birds in the US would be even worse. "In cases where we have done the planning, spent the money, figured out the right recipe for conservation, we find that conservation does in fact work," says Holmer. "We are seeing a number of species coming back very quickly now - the bald eagle is a great example." Wetlands have also benefitted enormously from conservation, says Dan Ashe, director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. The North American Wetlands Conservation Act protects a total area the size of Tennessee and has helped reverse declines in species such as the mallard and the blue winged teal. "The optimistic message is that we can produce habitat for birds if we develop the land thoughtfully," says Ashe. "We can provide for economic use as well as the habitat that these species need." Species on the brink of extinction are sure to grab headlines. But equally disturbing is the decline of birds that are still considered common, such as the eastern meadowlark and nighthawk. The State of the Birds identifies more than two dozen such species that are in "steep decline". That's worrying because birds are excellent indicators of overall environmental health, says Marra. "We need to keep common birds common," he says. But time is running out. "The reality is that we have five, 10, maybe 15 years before we start seeing more declines," he says. "But some of these species don't have that much time and I don't want to see another species become extinct in my lifetime."

मार्था यात्री कबूतर, जिसकी 100 साल पहले मृत्यु हो गई थी, को इस महीने एक पूर्व-वैज्ञानिक प्रतीक के रूप में याद किया जा रहा है कि जब मनुष्य प्रकृति से मिलता है तो क्या हो सकता है। एक व्यापक नई रिपोर्ट में पाया गया है कि कई और अमेरिकी पक्षी प्रजातियां भी इसी भाग्य का सामना कर सकती हैं।


Renfrewshire increases council tax by 4.64%

Summary: Renfrewshire has announced it is to increase council tax by 4.64%, slightly less than the 4.84% maximum available to the local authority.

The rise will see a Band D bill going up by £58.32 to £1,315.41. Renfrewshire Council said its £440m budget would "safeguard services and jobs". Councillors have agreed a £35m investment package with £2.25m going towards town centres and local culture and heritage projects.

रेनफ्रूशायर ने घोषणा की है कि वह परिषद कर में 4.64% की वृद्धि करेगा, जो स्थानीय प्राधिकरण के लिए उपलब्ध 4.84% अधिकतम से थोड़ा कम है।


Coronavirus: Luton people share their concerns as infections rise

Summary: People in Luton are being urged to take a coronavirus test - whether or not they have symptoms - amid a surge of cases. At a time when some lockdown measures are being loosened elsewhere, how does it feel to live in a town in a state of high alert?

By Laura Devlin, Phil Shepka and Rachael McMenemyBBC News Gyms, pools, fitness and dance studios and other sports facilities reopened nationally on Saturday but in Luton, they are still closed. The town, which has a population of 214,100, is designated an "area of intervention" by Public Health England (PHE) due to a rise in coronavirus cases. Last week Luton Borough Council urged people in certain postcode areas to get tested. Now all residents are being encouraged to do so. The town's infection rate in the week to 23 July was 19.1 per 100,000 people. In Blackburn, also an area of intervention, the figure was 73.9. Councillors and health officials hope to avoid following Leicester, the first city in the UK to go into a second lockdown. The rate there was 64.2. Further changes from 1 August, including the reopening of bowling alleys, skating rinks and casinos, are not expected to take effect in Luton, and shielding advice will remain in place after 31 July, the council said. The new advice came as three Luton councillors apologised for breaking lockdown rules after attending a large social gathering. 'Everything going back to how it was unsettles me' Nevada Claxton was so excited about 2020 as she cheered in the new year with her friends. She was turning 18, finishing sixth form and starting university in September. Fast-forward nearly seven months and she has had a lockdown birthday and her plans for "one last summer of fun" with school friends are in tatters. She has considered deferring her university place in London and worries about friends in areas of Luton where cases are on the rise. Having noted that few people were wearing masks before they became compulsory in shops, the increase in infections did not surprise her. "When they said cases were spiking, I kind of expected it - it was obvious they would," she said. "It's scary to think that although it might not affect you, a lot of your friends and their families live in areas where cases have spiked. "It affects BAME (black and minority ethnic) people at such a high rate and you just hope no-one comes down with anything." Nevada said lockdown was "like a grieving process" of adjustment and she has mixed emotions about the possibility of another. "Everything going back to how it was at the start of lockdown; it unsettles me a little," she said. "But looking around, there are people who have lost their lives and that didn't happen to anyone I'm close to and I have to be grateful." 'We have to keep reminding customers to social distance' Kadeja Gedeon, 18, should have been looking forward to moving to Leicester to begin a course in child nursing at De Montfort University. Instead, from September her studies will be online, and the prospect of her eventual move 70 miles (112km) up the M1 fills her with trepidation. "What if I catch it or someone that I'm living with catches it?" she said. "There's just a lot of emotions and thoughts that play in mind when it comes to moving. It doesn't give us a chance to experience what uni is like in our first year." For now, she is also concerned about the increase in cases in Luton. Her great uncle died after contracting the virus in April. Like Nevada, she has seen problems with people not socially distancing. "It worries me. We were getting to a stage where it was under control but now it makes me wonder, will we ever get out of this process? "If people just listened to the rules we had in place it would be much easier, but everyone has their own opinions and views so they just tend to do whatever they want. "I work in a Caribbean supermarket and we have to keep reminding customers to social distance. "When I've been into Luton town centre you've got people walking up close to you." 'If a lockdown is necessary, I'm all for it' Ben Summerson, 23, a manager at a learning disability charity, worked throughout lockdown, receiving regular coronavirus tests. Covid-19 has not directly affected him or his family but he is aware that friends have lost loved ones. "That is very disconcerting. The more people that have it, the worse it is on your mental health - you want people to be well," he said. "I've been very lucky and I am OK in the daytime when I'm working, but in the evenings I've found it really challenging because I'm a sociable person and I want to get out and see people." On the rise in cases and the pause in lockdown easing, he said: "I think it's a shame. "A lot of people I know are getting back into normal routines, including me, so it's disappointing. "I'd been to barbecues, met up with friends, been to the pub and for walks, catching up with people I hadn't seen for quite some time. "I was looking at rejoining the gym - I've put on a bit of weight in lockdown - so it's a shame I can't do that. "Anything to keep people safe is the way forward, so if a lockdown necessary I am all for it." Find BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk

ल्यूटन में लोगों से कोरोना वायरस परीक्षण करने का आग्रह किया जा रहा है-चाहे उनमें लक्षण हों या नहीं-मामलों की वृद्धि के बीच। ऐसे समय में जब लॉकडाउन के कुछ उपायों को कहीं और ढीला किया जा रहा है, तो हाई अलर्ट की स्थिति में एक शहर में रहना कैसा लगता है?


In the lion's den: The Indian women who answer cat calls

Summary: For a group of women forest guards working in India's Gir sanctuary, the only home to Asiatic lions, protecting and rescuing big cats is all in a day's work. The BBC's Geeta Pandey travels to Gir forest to meet some of them.

Rasila Vadher Rasila Vadher was among the first batch of women guards recruited by the forest department in the western state of Gujarat in 2007. The women's unit was set up that year, when then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi - now India's prime minister - ordered a 33% quota for women in Gir. At the time, "I knew nothing about the forest department, animals or Gir", she tells me as we sit chatting in her office in the rescue centre, interrupted at regular intervals by growling leopards and roaring lions. "My father had died early and my mother worked on other people's farms to send me and my younger brother to school. People in my community are very conservative so they told my mother, 'why educate the girl, she will get married and cook for her husband's family'. But my mother agreed to educate me because I wanted to study," she said. In 2007, Vadher heard that the forest department was hiring guards, so she took her brother to the recruitment centre. "I wanted him to get a job in the forest department. He was asked to take a physical fitness test, where he had to run and participate in a high-jump and long-jump competition. But he chickened out, so I decided to try my luck. And I made it through," she says. Initially she was assigned office work, "but that was boring, so I thought let's try something new". When Vadher began working as a guard in the field, protecting and rescuing wild animals, her male colleagues weren't too enthused about having a woman in their midst. "Will we have to take care of the animals, or this woman?" they asked. "I said let me try and we'll see how it goes," she says, adding that she "loves a good challenge". Today, Vadher has come a long way from those days - she's a highly respected member of the rescue team and has been involved in nearly 900 rescues - 200 of them involving lions and 425 involving leopards. Recently, along with some of the other women guards, Vadher has played a starring role in a four-part Discovery Channel series called The Lion Queens of India. "My most memorable rescue was on 18 March 2012," she tells me. "A leopard had fallen into a well, chasing a civet cat. The well had been newly-dug, it was dry and about 60-foot deep. We tried to tranquilise it, but we kept missing it because it was too far away. So I said I would go down in a cage and once the leopard is in range I would shoot the dart. "I was lowered into the well in a small metal cage with a dart gun. The leopard was angry and growling. I had no experience and I was really afraid. But I fired the dart and hit the target. Once the animal was tranquilised, I captured it in a rope cage and it was hauled up," she says. Vadher, who married last year, says she had warned her husband before they married. "I told him this is my work. And it's 24x7. I may be called in even at 3am. And I'll be working with men. He agreed. He understands and has no problems." Darshana Kagada Kagada comes from a family of eight sisters, and has no brothers. "I belong to the Rajput caste which is very conservative. Girls and women in our families are treated as inferior beings. We are meant to get married, look after our families, cook and clean, and not have a career," she says. Her father, she says, was no different in his beliefs. "I had just finished senior school in 2011 when I heard that the forest department was recruiting. I went to my sister's house and persuaded her husband to take me for the exam. "For 600 posts, there were 600,000 applicants," she says, adding that the competition was "very tough". "First I had to clear the physical fitness test. Then I was taken on a 10km walk through the forest where I had to identify flora and fauna. That was followed by a written test and then an oral examination." She told her father only after she got the job. "Today, he's very proud of me," she says. On a cool October morning, 24-year-old Kagada escorts me into the lush green Gir forest. We are in an open jeep and just a few minutes into our journey, we stop as we come across three guards patrolling the forest on foot. As Kagada chats with them, I turn to my left, and there, less than three metres from us are three lionesses lounging around with five cubs. The guards only have wooden sticks, but they seem unconcerned. "Lions are royal animals. They don't care about you and me," explains Kagada. "They will attack humans only if we intrude into their space, or if they feel you are threatening their cubs or you get too close to them when they are mating." As the lionesses settle down to take a nap, we continue to hang around, chatting and looking at them. The only time one of the lionesses turns her head to look in our direction is when one of the guards starts talking a bit loudly on his walkie-talkie. Kagada is among 48 women guards who are involved in the protection and rescue of lions and leopards in Gir. She also trains forest guards and officials and teaches nature education courses to school children. "I love my job, lots of children, especially girls, tell me they want to be like me," Kagada says. "These women guards are an inspiration to women all over the country," says Sandeep Kumar, Deputy Conservator of Forests in Gir. "Even Prime Minister Modi has said that people don't come to Gir to see lions, they come to see these women guards," he adds. Geeta Ratadiya For as long as she can remember, Ratadiya always wanted to be a forest guard. "I was born in Gir, my grandfather and my father both worked as forest guards," she says. Unlike Vadher and Kagada who had never seen a lion until they became forest guards, Ratadiya had her first encounter with the big cats when she was just four years old. "My father used to take me to the forest with him all the time. One day I saw him standing close to a lion and a lioness. I was very afraid, I thought they would attack him, I started to cry," she says with a laugh. But she continued to accompany her father into the jungle and, she says, gradually the fear faded. "when I told my parents that I wanted to work in the forest, my mother thought I was too frail and would not qualify. She was thrilled when I was selected. But I always wanted to wear the khaki uniform and carry a walkie-talkie like my dad." In the six years that she has worked as a forest guard, Ratadiya has been involved in many rescue operations and also takes care of the animals at the rescue centre. On the days there is no rescue, there is plenty for her to do, taking care of injured, sick and abandoned animals. Ratadiya had been married for just a couple of months when she got the forest department job. Today, she often takes her two-year-old daughter to work. "She pesters me to bring her here every day. She loves looking at lions and other animals." I ask her if her daughter will also grow up to be a forest guard. "No," she says, adding, "I don't mind if she joins the department, but I want her to study and be a senior official."

भारत के गिर अभयारण्य में काम करने वाली महिला वन रक्षकों के एक समूह के लिए, एशियाई शेरों का एकमात्र घर, बड़ी बिल्लियों की रक्षा करना और उन्हें बचाना एक दिन का काम है। बीबीसी की गीता पांडे उनमें से कुछ से मिलने के लिए गिर जंगल की यात्रा करती हैं।


The winners and losers of Portugal's golden visa scheme

Summary: "Do I get four Golden Visas for this?" jokes Yili Chen as estate agent Nuno Durao shows him round a 2m euro ($2.8m) apartment in the seaside town of Cascais. The 28-year-old, who prefers to be called Li, is from Shenzhen in southern China. He has been lured to Portugal by its Golden Residence Permit programme.

By Susana MendoncaBBC world affairs reporter, Portugal It gives foreign investors who spend 500,000 euros on a property here the right to live in Portugal. They are also free to travel around all the EU countries in the Schengen area and after six years they can apply for Portuguese citizenship. Li, who got married last year, wants to send his children to European universities. He is also concerned about what the financial future may hold for China, so he is looking to invest in Europe. "You cannot put all your eggs in the same bucket. So we try to put something in Europe and this is a very good opportunity. We can earn some money and also get the visa," says Li. High demand Since the residence scheme began in 2012, the Portuguese government says it has issued 734 so-called "Golden Visas" and that's generated more than 440m euros. Not all of that has come from property sales though, because foreign investors can also get a Golden Visa by investing a million euros in capital or creating 10 jobs in Portugal. The vast majority of the people signing up - 578 of them - have come from China. Brian Tang, from Hong Kong, got a Golden Visa last year. He says demand is so high in China, that he's opened a branch of his immigration agency CBIEC, in Lisbon, to put people like Li in touch with Portuguese estate agents. "There's a huge appetite from China coming over to Portugal. Eighty per cent of the applicants are Chinese," says Brian Tang. He says part of the appeal is the flexibility. Foreigners only have to be in Portugal for seven days in the first year of residency. But the growth in schemes like this across Europe is an issue of concern for some in Portugal who think it is effectively selling access to the EU. I meet Socialist MEP Ana Gomes for coffee in central Lisbon. As we watch the tram trundle along the cobbled street past an estate agent office emblazoned with the words Golden Visa, she tells me it is bad for Europe. "I think this is indeed a race to the bottom, and it's actually something very anti-EU," says Mrs Gomes. "Each country is trying to out-do the other in terms of better conditions to attract all this foreign money." Lower price tags Foreign investor residence schemes have long existed in the UK and other parts of the world. But Europe's new wave has lower price tags. In Portugal and Spain investors have a minimum spend of 500,000 euros on a property to get a permit, in Cyprus it is 300,000 euros, and in Greece it is 250,000 euros. Ana Gomes says cash-strapped European countries are so focussed on reviving their property industries that they are not looking at potential risks. "There might be all sorts of corrupt and even criminal organisations behind those who are benefiting from these schemes…and it might be another very dangerous avenue to import additional corruption and criminality into the EU," she adds. But the Portuguese communities minister, Jose Cesario, tells me there is nothing to worry about: "We don't sell visas or passports. They are very scrutinised. We investigate everything about them. We are very rigorous with them." Back in Cascais, as we watch the boats sail by, Nuno Durao from the property firm Fine & Country, tells me Golden Visas have saved the real estate industry here, and everyone benefits. "The people that are coming are investing in Portugal. The Chinese love European brands. They buy vineyards, pig farms. All this helps Portugal a lot." But a locksmith working on the docks disagrees. Joaquim Mendes Dionisio, who is in his 50s, has seen his pay cut since Portugal's 78bn-euro bailout three years ago. He thinks the government should be coming up with schemes to help hard-hit workers. "Those rich people come here because they want the sun and the sand... It doesn't benefit the workers at all. Because the money they bring in, it's just for them. It's not for workers like me." While it is drawing in foreign cash though, the Golden Visa is here to stay.

यिली चेन मजाक में कहता है, "क्या मुझे इसके लिए चार गोल्डन वीजा मिलते हैं?" एस्टेट एजेंट नूनो डुराओ उसे समुद्र तटीय शहर कैस्काइस में 2 मिलियन यूरो के एक अपार्टमेंट के आसपास दिखाता है। 28 वर्षीय, जो ली कहलाना पसंद करता है, वह दक्षिणी चीन के शेनझेन से है। उसे उसके गोल्डन रेजिडेंस परमिट कार्यक्रम द्वारा पुर्तगाल का लालच दिया गया है।


AG ordered to show cause

Summary: The Supreme Court in Sri Lanka has ordered the Attorney General (AG) to explain as to why security forces photographed Tamils in Modera area.

Three-member bench chaired by Chief Justice Sarath N Silva made the order as a petition against the move by the security forces were taken for the hearing. The petition was filed by the Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC), a coalition partner of Rajapaksa administration. A counsel representing the CWC informed the judiciary that security forces have brought a group of Tamils in Modera to a playground on 02 July and taken individual photographs. Taking photographs of only Tamil nationals amount to violating their Fundamental Rights, he argued. Admitting that the action was controversial, the CJ ordered the AG to consult submit a report with the response from Modera police station.

श्रीलंका में सर्वोच्च न्यायालय ने महान्यायवादी (ए. जी.) को यह बताने का आदेश दिया है कि सुरक्षा बलों ने मोडेरा क्षेत्र में तमिलों की तस्वीरें क्यों लीं।


The gay Anzacs who refused to stay silent

Summary: Stuart Martin looks back with pride on his six years as a nursing officer in the Royal Australian Air Force. But he also recalls having to "not be gay". And one incident from that era sticks in his mind: a veterans' leader physically blocking a group of gay ex-servicemen trying to lay a wreath during an Anzac Day service.

By Kathy MarksSydney It was 1982, and the man obstructing them was the notoriously bellicose Bruce Ruxton, long-time president of Victoria's Returned and Services League. On Monday, as Australians remember their war dead at Anzac Day ceremonies, Mr Martin - health permitting - will be among current and former military personnel placing a rainbow wreath at that same shrine in Melbourne. The service and sacrifice of gay and transgender members of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) will be similarly honoured at ceremonies in Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide, Brisbane and Townsville - thanks largely to Mr Martin, who decided last year that it was time to "address an injustice" and "acknowledge all those who have gone before us". That the ADF has given its blessing to this new Anzac Day tradition is testament to how much things have changed since Mr Martin's day, when military police would "hang about gay nightclubs looking for people with very short haircuts and take pictures of them to compare with the military files," he recalls. Back then, as elsewhere, gay people were still barred from joining the armed forces. Mr Martin says: "I was prepared to be quiet about it, but there was always that worry at the back of your mind, and many people I knew had a terrible time. Military police were doing a lot of undercover work rooting out gay people and with the emergence of HIV/Aids the witch hunts intensified. That was the climate at that time." Those who were outed were given the choice of receiving a dishonourable discharge or resigning, according to Dr Noah Riseman, an Australian Catholic University historian researching marginalised groups in the military. Most chose the latter and from then on were unable to march with their units in Anzac Day parades. 'Stand up, be visible' Max Campbell, who was in the Air Force for 20 years and subsequently formed the Gay Ex-Services Association (GESA), led the 1982 attempt to lay a wreath, along with a card stating: "For all our brothers and sisters who died during the wars." Mr Ruxton accused him and his comrades of "denigrating" Anzac Day, declaring: "I don't mind poofters in the march, but they must march with their units... We didn't want anything to do with them." Last year, on the centenary of Australian troops landing at Gallipoli, and on "one of the best days of my life", as he called it, 71-year-old Mr Campbell proudly placed a rainbow wreath at Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance. Accompanying him was Mr Martin, who had instigated the push for gay personnel to be included in Anzac Day ceremonies. The Victorian coordinator for a group that succeeded GESA, the Defence Gay and Lesbian Information Service (DEFGLIS), Mr Martin says: "It's about righting a wrong for all those people who served silently, and saying to all those veterans out there that you can finally stand up and be visible and play your part in Anzac Day. "It's also about raising awareness that there's a history of LGBTI service in the ADF and of people sacrificing their lives. We existed then, we exist now, and we no longer need to hide." Although the ban on gay servicemen and women was lifted in 1992, the ADF's culture has changed only gradually. It was not until 2005 that family benefits were extended to same-sex partners, while a prohibition on transgender people in the military was abolished only in 2010. Now the Defence Force actively targets gay recruits, and high-ranking members such as Air Vice Marshal Tracy Smart and Group Captain Cate McGregor, the world's most senior transgender military officer, enjoy a high profile. At last month's Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, 140 Army, Air Force and Navy personnel marched in uniform. In September, DEFGLIS will organise its second Military Pride Ball. There have been bumps along the way. In 2011, for instance, Jim Wallace, a former SAS commander and head of the Australian Christian Lobby, caused outrage with an Anzac Day tweet expressing hope that "as we remember servicemen and women today we remember the Australia they fought for - wasn't gay marriage and Islamic!" Pockets of homophobia persist within the military itself - as Dr Riseman notes, the institution is bound to reflect the spectrum of opinion in civilian society. However, gay people can now "serve openly and without fear", says former Army officer and DEFGLIS secretary James Montague Smith, paying tribute to the courage and hard work of Mr Campbell and his comrades.

स्टुअर्ट मार्टिन रॉयल ऑस्ट्रेलियाई वायु सेना में एक नर्सिंग अधिकारी के रूप में अपने छह वर्षों को गर्व के साथ देखता है। लेकिन वह "समलैंगिक नहीं होने" को भी याद करता है। और उस युग की एक घटना उसके दिमाग में रहती हैः एक पूर्व सैनिकों के नेता ने एंजैक दिवस सेवा के दौरान पुष्पांजलि अर्पित करने की कोशिश कर रहे समलैंगिक पूर्व सैनिकों के एक समूह को शारीरिक रूप से अवरुद्ध कर दिया।


Keith Morris: Body confirmed as missing photographer

Summary: Police have confirmed a body recovered from the sea was that of a missing photographer.

Teams searching for Keith Morris, 61, found a body off Borth beach in Ceredigion on Saturday, two days after he was last seen. The freelance press and wedding photographer was a regular contributor to radio and television programmes. People paying tribute to Mr Morris have described him as an "Aberystwyth institution".

पुलिस ने पुष्टि की है कि समुद्र से बरामद एक शव एक लापता फोटोग्राफर का था।


Man critical in Wavertree forklift truck accident

Summary: A man is in hospital with "major trauma" injuries after an industrial accident with a forklift truck, paramedics said.

The accident happened at Chestnut Building Centres on Picton Road, Wavertree, Liverpool, at 11:05 GMT. The man, in his 60s, was taken to Aintree Hospital by air ambulance, where his condition remains critical. Officers are working to establish the full circumstances of the incident, Merseyside Police said. The site has been cordoned off while detectives speak to witnesses. Related Internet Links Merseyside Police

पैरामेडिक्स ने कहा कि एक आदमी एक फोर्कलिफ्ट ट्रक के साथ एक औद्योगिक दुर्घटना के बाद "बड़े आघात" चोटों के साथ अस्पताल में है।


Goole woman named as M62 crash victim

Summary: A woman killed in a four-vehicle crash on the M62 in West Yorkshire has been named by police.

Karen McDonagh, 51, from Goole, East Yorkshire was killed on Thursday, on the eastbound carriageway, near Huddersfield. West Yorkshire Police renewed an appeal for witnesses or anyone with dashcam footage to contact them. A 47-year-old man arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving has been released under investigation. The crash involved a Volvo HGV, a Volkswagen Passat, an Iveco and a Volkswagen Toureg.

वेस्ट यॉर्कशायर में एम62 पर चार वाहनों की दुर्घटना में मारे गए एक महिला का नाम पुलिस ने लिया है।


Cumbria University's Ambleside campus works get go-ahead

Summary: Planning permission has been granted for the next stage of redevelopment at the University of Cumbria's Ambleside campus.

The Lake District National Park Authority has approved modifications to the Scale How building and Percival lecture theatre. Mike Berry, director of estates, said progress could now be made on the "long-term vision" of the university. Up to 500 students will study on the campus by September 2014.

कंब्रिया विश्वविद्यालय के एम्बलेसाइड परिसर में पुनर्विकास के अगले चरण के लिए योजना की अनुमति दी गई है।


A Point Of View: The doors of perception

Summary: In Arthur Machen's supernatural stories, the everyday city landscape of London is portrayed as an illusion, hiding a mystical world. The writer John Gray considers what they teach us about the limits of perception.

There's probably nothing more firmly fixed in our minds at present than the idea that the meaning of life is found in changing the world. Some of us attach ourselves to large political projects, others to small-scale efforts to improve things. We may aim to alleviate world poverty, or simply to make ourselves rich. Our focus may be individual or collective, local or global. Whatever our practical goals, we're convinced that it's only by changing things around us that we can find fulfilment. Unless we succeed in somehow altering the world, we may be tempted to feel we've failed as human beings. This belief in the supreme importance of being active is so embedded that we can hardly imagine any other way of living. Yet there have always been some who've understood that achieving something in the world isn't the only way in which human beings can find meaning in their lives. In the past the idea that action isn't the whole of life has been promoted by the great religions, with their traditions of meditation and prayer. In more recent times, people have looked for alternative ways of living in less familiar traditions. One such person was the writer of fantasy and horror fiction Arthur Machen, who never accepted that action was the sole meaning of human life, or always life's most important part. Machen's own life was shaped not by any desire for fame or success but by a continuing struggle to make ends meet. Wanting always to write of the elusive vision that was closest to his heart, he enjoyed brief periods of fame followed by long spells of obscurity and poverty. Born in 1863 as the son of an impecunious Welsh clergyman, he tried to make a living as a writer on the fringes of the decadent movement that flourished in London at the end of the century. He achieved celebrity as the author of stories that mixed the paranormal with paganism and intimations of sexuality. In 1914 he published a short story, The Bowmen, in which he imagined British soldiers being assisted in the battle of Mons by phantom archers from the battle of Agincourt in the early 15th Century. Machen described the story as a "light fiction", but it led to an outbreak of rumoured visions of the bowmen and while he repeatedly dismissed such reports he was linked, until he died in 1947, with ideas of the supernatural. It's true that many of Machen's stories are about unwise explorations of a world beyond the one that's revealed to the senses. But like Walter de La Mare, it wasn't so much the supernatural as the mysterious qualities inherent in what we think of as our everyday environment that fascinated Machen. He had a life-long interest in esoteric traditions, for a time joining an occultist society along with the poet WB Yeats, and in later life was increasingly drawn to a mystical version of Christianity. His view of life is perhaps best presented in one of his most memorable short fictions, published in 1936 when he was 73, which for reasons that aren't altogether clear he entitled simply "N". It's typical of Machen that he should have set a tale of magical transformation in the seemingly prosaic location of the London suburb of Stoke Newington. "He who adventures in London", he wrote, "has a foretaste of infinity". Machen viewed London as unknowable, and believed that if you walked around the city without any premeditated plan or direction you might stumble on regions that haven't been seen before or would be since. There are echoes in his writings of Thomas de Quincy, who during his opium-fuelled wanderings claimed to have walked through streets that weren't on any map, and of Edgar Allan Poe, who is mentioned in the story and in fact went to school in Stoke Newington. The magical transmutation of which Machen writes, occurs as a story within the story. An idle scholar by chance finds a book, A London Walk: Meditations in the Streets of the Metropolis, supposedly published in 1853 by the Reverend Thomas Hampole. In the book the Reverend writes of becoming acquainted in Stoke Newington with a reclusive devotee of mystical philosophy, who believes that "what we now regard as stubborn matter was, primally, the heavenly Chaos, a soft and ductile substance, which could be moulded by the imagination of uncorrupted man into whatever forms he chose it to assume". These ideas, the Reverend Hampole writes, strike him as "of an extremely fantastic, I would even say fabulous, nature". He is inclined to attach no credence to them, and when the mystic asked him to look out of the window of his flat in the suburb, Hampole at first sees "exactly what I had expected to see: a row or terrace of neatly designed residences". But when he is told to look again, he finds - to his surprise, delight and then terror - an entirely different scene: "In place of the familiar structures, there was disclosed a panorama of unearthly, of astounding beauty." Instead of the suburban vistas, there are deep dells, overhanging trees, shaded walks, radiant flowers and glowing colours. Gasping for breath, Hampole rushes out into the street, only to find it has resumed its usual aspect, with the trees leafless and black in the dull March daylight. Machen's story ends inconclusively. When the scholar who finds Hampole's book visits the suburb, he finds nothing that resembles the beautiful garden. We're left unsure whether any such place ever existed. The garden could have been - and according to all normal standards of evidence and reasoning, must have been - a hallucination or else sheer invention. Machen's fictions aren't intended to persuade the reader that events of the kind he describes could actually happen. He thought of the world as a kind of text in invisible writing, a cipher pointing to another order of things - but you needn't accept anything of this occult philosophy to find his stories more than just entertaining. What they deal with is the nature of human perception. William Blake wrote that "if the doors of perception were cleansed then everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern". When he wrote of London giving a foretaste of infinity, Machen expressed the same thought. Machen became one of the founders of psycho geography - the practice of exploring the human environment, especially in cities, without any definite purpose or preconception of what you may find. When he writes of wandering about London and coming on streets he could never find again, he's usually interpreted as hinting at occult experiences of the kind described in his tale of the mysteriously vanishing garden. But he may mean something different, and perhaps more valuable. Our exclusive concern with purposeful action crowds out a vital part of human fulfilment. Some of the most valuable human experiences, observes Machen, come about when we simply look around us without any intention of acting on what we see. When we set aside our practical goals - if only for a moment - we may discover a wealth of meaning in our lives, which is independent of our success or failure in achieving our goals. Matter may not be soft and ductile as Machen's reclusive mystic believes, but our lives are changed when we no longer view the world through the narrow prism of our purposes. Introducing a collection of his stories, Machen writes of "the unsealed eyes" through which he views regions of London that haven't been seen before. What we see through eyes sealed by habit and convention is only an infinitesimal fragment of what actually exists. Struggling to change things around us, we forget that another kind of change is possible - an inner change, through which we can enter a richer and more spacious world that was there all along. The unknown vistas of which Machen writes aren't revelations of another dimension - an invisible order of things hidden behind appearances - but glimpses of the larger world that passes us by unnoticed every day. You can follow the Magazine on Twitter and on Facebook

आर्थर माचेन की अलौकिक कहानियों में, लंदन के रोजमर्रा के शहर के परिदृश्य को एक भ्रम के रूप में चित्रित किया गया है, जो एक रहस्यमय दुनिया को छिपा रहा है। लेखक जॉन ग्रे विचार करते हैं कि वे हमें धारणा की सीमाओं के बारे में क्या सिखाते हैं।


Christmas traffic: Where to avoid on the roads and rail

Summary: The Christmas getaway means congested roads and cancelled trains. Drivers are facing potential delays of up to three hours as millions of cars take to the motorways. But where should you avoid and at what times will traffic be busiest?

Traffic experts expect the busiest times to be Thursday and Friday afternoon as shoppers, commuters and people trying to go away for Christmas all use the same roads. Most roadworks on motorways in England will be lifted or finished by 06:00 GMT on Friday but some will stay in place for safety reasons. Meanwhile, strike action by South Western Railway and Northern rail workers will come ahead of hundreds of engineering works that will affect major stations including London Victoria and Paddington. The roads to avoid Inrix, which provides traffic information, said the M6 motorway north of Stoke-on-Trent is likely to be one of the most congested roads with warnings the journey to Wigan could take three hours longer than usual. The predictions are based on analysis of traffic flows during previous Christmas getaways. The route also includes 40 miles of roadworks. The RAC estimates about 2.5m journeys will be made by car on Thursday and a further 2.8m on Friday. Based on a survey of its members, it predicts about 6.8m journeys on Boxing Day as drivers travel to see family and friends. Joshua Kidd, from Inrix, said: "Compared to a normal day, Thursday will see the biggest increase in cars on the road. With most drivers setting out mid-morning, traffic will become heavier over the course of the afternoon and stay congested into the evening. "But it's not just those off to see family and friends - commuters, last-ditch shoppers and online deliveries will contribute to clogging the roads." Longest sets of roadworks over Christmas Highways England said 97% of roadworks on motorways and major routes would be cleared by 06:00 on Friday and would not resume until 2 January. There are about 40 sets that will stay in place because it would not be safe to remove them. Traffic Scotland said most of its roadworks would also be clear but advised drivers to check its website. When to avoid the trains More than 330 sets of rail engineering works will take place between Sunday 23 December and Tuesday 1 January. Network Rail said it would do most of the works when no trains are scheduled to run, including Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Timetable changes affecting journeys on other days include: Workers on South Western Railway (SWR) will go on strike on Saturday 22 December in a long-running dispute over guards. SWR operates services from London Waterloo to Berkshire, Surrey, Hampshire, Dorset, Devon, Somerset and Wiltshire. The strike will begin at 00:01 and end at 23:59 GMT. More walkouts are planned for 27 and 31 December. Northern rail workers represented by the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union will also strike on 22 and 29 December as part of a series of walkouts on Saturdays in December. Very few trains are expected to run after 17:00 GMT on those days. Details of all engineering works are available from National Rail Enquiries.

क्रिसमस पर निकलने का मतलब है भीड़भाड़ वाली सड़कें और रद्द की गई ट्रेनें। ड्राइवरों को तीन घंटे तक की संभावित देरी का सामना करना पड़ रहा है क्योंकि लाखों कारें मोटरवे पर ले जाती हैं। लेकिन आपको कहाँ से बचना चाहिए और किस समय यातायात सबसे व्यस्त होगा?


Gloucester Diocese open meeting to discuss new bishop role

Summary: People living in the Diocese of Gloucester are being given the chance to have a say on what skills the next bishop will need to bring to the post.

The Bishop of Gloucester, the Right Reverend Michael Perham, who is due to retire in November, withdrew from the role for "personal reasons" in August. He was interviewed by the Metropolitan Police investigating two allegations of indecent assault but was not arrested. The open meeting is at Gloucester Cathedral at 19:00 BST on Monday. The Bishop of Tewkesbury, the Right Reverend Martyn Snow, has taken up Bishop Perham's duties in his absence. The person appointed will be responsible for more than 300 parishes and almost 400 churches, covering an area from the Welsh border in the west of the county to Lechlade in the east.

ग्लूसेस्टर के डायोसिस में रहने वाले लोगों को यह कहने का मौका दिया जा रहा है कि अगले बिशप को इस पद पर आने के लिए किन कौशलों की आवश्यकता होगी।


Fly-tipping: How are councils tackling it?

Summary: Fly-tipping figures have fallen in England for the first time in five years but it's still happening across the country on average 2,700 times a day. Readers asked what councils are doing to tackle it.

Councils recorded 997,553 instances of illegal dumping during 2017-18, which is a slight decrease on 1,011,000 in 2016-17 and the first time the figure has dropped since 2013. The BBC's Local Democracy Reporting Service has been taking a look at the different tactics English councils are employing to combat fly-tipping. Detective work "Usually fly-tipped rubbish has some sort of revealing information - such as a delivery address. Is this information often used?" asked Lorna Morris, 46, from Liverpool. In London, Bromley Council has so far spent £15,000 on private investigators to track down fly-tippers - but none of their covert operations have resulted in a prosecution. In figures obtained through a Freedom of Information request, it has emerged three "covert fly-tipping operations" have been carried out between 2015 and 2018 at £4,800 a go. Bristol City Council is piloting a scheme where enforcement officers act as "fly-tipping detectives", rifling through rubbish to find evidence of the perpetrator. In the first week of the checks 31 pieces of evidence were found. Fines "How many fines get issued?" asked Ricardo Lacombe. The number of fixed penalty notices issued across England has increased, up 20% to 69,000 from 2016/17. Councils have had the power to issue on the spot fines of up to £400 for fly-tipping since 2016. The government plans to expand this to cover people who pay someone else to get rid of their rubbish for them by the end of the year. Free skips "Why do councils continue to charge residents and businesses for bulky waste disposal? If they stopped charging there'd be no reason to fly-tip," asked John Fox, 58, from New Milton in Hampshire. Wendy Barrington asked: "Would it not be more cost effective to make disposing of items easier and cheaper than cleaning up the mess and damage to the environment?" Community skips are being trialled in the London Borough of Brent. Worcester City Council is looking into bringing back a similar scheme that was temporarily suspended over health and safety concerns. However in Hertsmere, Sussex, councillors say community skips would generate more waste than the authority could cope with. Councils in North East Lincolnshire and Newham are planning to offer bulky waste collections next year to encourage residents not to dump furniture and other rubbish on the streets. Walsall Council is planning to put a free skip in each of its 20 wards every Saturday. The area recorded 4,367 incidents of fly-tipping in 2017-18, a slight drop on the year before. Caught in the act "In Harrow fly-tipping happens daily in my area. The council needs to have people sitting in cars at night in the known areas to catch these people," said a reader who did not want to be named. "Many have a phone with camera," said John Kay, 69, from Gloucestershire. "Make the fine a minimum £400 with half going to any person providing evidence leading to a successful prosecution." Barking and Dagenham Council has been exposing fly tippers by uploading CCTV of them onto YouTube. The series has received more than 10,000 views since its launch in August and had led to £1,650 of fines being issued, a council spokesman said. Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council said since sharing CCTV footage of suspected fly tippers in action, it had identified a number of people and issued fixed penalty notices for the illegal activity.

इंग्लैंड में पांच वर्षों में पहली बार उड़ान भरने के आंकड़ों में गिरावट आई है लेकिन यह अभी भी पूरे देश में एक दिन में औसतन 2,700 बार हो रहा है। पाठकों ने पूछा कि परिषदें इससे निपटने के लिए क्या कर रही हैं।


Murder arrest after man stabbed to death in Barnsley

Summary: A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a man who was stabbed to death in Barnsley.

Stephen Riley, 43, was found injured in Darley Avenue in the Athersley area just after 23:00 BST on Friday and died in hospital. A post-mortem examination concluded he died from a single stab wound to the chest, South Yorkshire Police said. A 37-year-old man from Barnsley has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is in custody. Follow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.

बार्नस्ले में चाकू मारकर हत्या किए गए एक व्यक्ति की हत्या के संदेह में एक व्यक्ति को गिरफ्तार किया गया है।


The Beatles: What really inspired Eleanor Rigby?

Summary: In a graveyard in Liverpool lies a headstone bearing the name Eleanor Rigby. Its deeds are being auctioned later as part of a sale of Beatles memorabilia, but what is the real story behind the Fab Four's famous hit?

By Tom MullenBBC News It was at a church fete in 1957 that John Lennon and Paul McCartney first met. Just yards away lay the grave of scullery maid Eleanor Rigby, who had died, aged 44, in 1939. Nine years later, McCartney would pen the lyrics for what became one of the band's most celebrated songs. Often described as a lament for the lonely, or a commentary on life in post-war Britain, it tells the story of a woman who "died in the church and was buried along with her name". It is tempting to picture the teenage Lennon and McCartney sombrely contemplating the headstone, imagining the life of Eleanor and later dreaming up the lyrics. But the reality is few knew of the grave's existence until the early 1980s, and McCartney himself has denied it was the inspiration behind the song. This hasn't stopped the deeds to the grave being listed for auction with a guide price of £4,000. They are part of a sale which also features other Beatles items and concludes on Thursday. David Bedford, who has written several books about the band, said he thought it was "weird" there was such interest in a woman seemingly unconnected to the song. "The score of the song you can understand but a grave, I find it really unusual," he said. "I'm not quite sure who would want to buy the deeds to a grave, and I'll be interested to see who does buy them, and for how much money." But Mr Bedford said he believed it would be "too much of a coincidence" if the grave had never figured in McCartney's mind, at least at some subliminal level. "The mythology of the grave grows every year," he said. Factfile: Eleanor Rigby The song seems to have gone through several stages of development. McCartney said when he first sat down at the piano he had the name Daisy Hawkins in his mind. He later changed this to Eleanor, after the actress Eleanor Bron, who had starred with The Beatles in the film Help! The character's surname at one stage was Bygraves, according to Spencer Leigh, author of The Beatles book Love Me Do to Love Me Don't. But McCartney later changed this to Rigby, from the name of a store he had spotted in Bristol - Rigby & Evens Ltd, Wine & Spirit Shippers. "I just liked the name," he said in 1984. "I was looking for a name that sounded natural. Eleanor Rigby sounded natural." In 2008, a birth certificate for the woman buried in the graveyard of St Peter's Church, Woolton, was put up for auction. "Eleanor Rigby is a totally fictitious character that I made up," McCartney said in response. "If someone wants to spend money buying a document to prove a fictitious character exists, that's fine with me." However, he has conceded in the past the headstone may have influenced him in a subconscious way. Mr Leigh said it was easy to see how McCartney's childhood visits to the churchyard would have been very memorable for him. "John Lennon had connections in that church and had even been in the choir there," he said. "[Lennon's] uncle died in 1955 when he was quite young. His name was George Toogood Smith. John loved the name and quite often he would take his friends into the graveyard to show them. "It's quite possible McCartney saw the Rigby grave and just stored it away in his head. It's just possible that he kept that in his mind. But we actually don't know, and I think McCartney himself doesn't know." Karen Fairweather, from Omega Auctions, conceded the connection between the real Eleanor Rigby and the song was a matter of "folklore", none of which was rooted in "concrete fact". "There is of course the gravestone, and the Rigbys lived on the road that backed on to the road where John Lennon lived," she added. Yet, whatever the origin of the name, Eleanor Rigby remains an integral part of the band's story and Liverpool's Beatles industry. The gravestone itself is regularly visited by guided tours and an Eleanor Rigby sculpture can be found in Stanley Street. Mr Leigh describes the song as "perfect", both in its melodies and its representation of a typical Liverpudlian woman of the time. "The real Eleanor Rigby worked as a sort of scullery maid," Mr Leigh said. "It just fits so perfectly." He said the jazz singer George Melly put it best when he said: "Eleanor Rigby seemed to be written out of their experiences in Liverpool. "Liverpool was always in their songs but this was about the kind of old woman that I remembered from my childhood and later: very respectable Liverpool women, living in two-up, two-down streets with the doorsteps meticulously holystoned (scoured) and the church the one solid thing in their lives. "There's the loneliness of it and it struck me as a poem from the start. "If you read Love Me Do without the music, it doesn't mean much but if you read Eleanor Rigby, it is a poem about someone, which [was] something unprecedented in popular song."

लिवरपूल के एक कब्रिस्तान में एलेनोर रिग्बी नाम का एक पत्थर पड़ा है। इसके कार्यों की नीलामी बाद में बीटल्स की यादगार वस्तुओं की बिक्री के हिस्से के रूप में की जा रही है, लेकिन फैब फोर की प्रसिद्ध हिट के पीछे की वास्तविक कहानी क्या है?


Tour de France in Yorkshire diary

Summary: With the world's biggest bike race starting in Leeds on 5 July, BBC Yorkshire's Tour de France correspondent Matt Slater rounds up the best of the gossip, opinion and stories, and also tries to explain some of cycling's mysteries.

By Matt SlaterBBC Yorkshire Tour de France correspondent TOP STORIES Spectator hubs Football-style "fan zones" with big screens, refreshments and other entertainments - are one of the big innovations that Yorkshire is bringing to the Tour de France this year, and after the first batch were announced last month, new venues are being confirmed all along the Grand Depart route. York, where the second stage starts on 6 July, now has four hubs, with three more being added at Monk Stray, Rowntree Park and York Designer Outlet. The city's first hub, at the stage's start at York Racecourse, proved very popular, with 20,000 free tickets being snapped up in a matter of days. More than 20 hub venues have now been revealed, and it is expected that there will be 30 across the three days of Tour in England. Full story: York Press Picture this London-born Graham Watson has been taking photographs of the Tour de France for 30 years, and his super snaps have appeared in leading titles across the globe. Now his work will be showcased in an exhibition at Leeds' White Cloth Gallery from 22 May until the end of Tour on 27 July. Watson started off as an assistant to a photographer who specialised in taking pictures of foreign royals, but soon graduated to capturing the exploits of cycling's aristocracy. Full story: Yorkshire Evening Post Italian job The Tour is still two months away but there is a very big bike race starting not too far away from Leeds this week: the Giro d'Italia. Cycling's second most prestigious Grand Tour is starting outside mainland Europe for the first time this Friday when three days of racing in Northern Ireland and Ireland begins in Belfast. There are many similarities between the two races, and what the respective authorities want to achieve by staging the races on their patches. But there is one big difference: the colour scheme. Where Le Tour sees yellow, Il Giro goes pink. Full story: The Guardian TWEET OF THE DAY Dan Martin @DanMartin86 tweets: Still a surreal feeling to be sat at the airport flying to Belfast for the giro. #onthewayireland CYCLING ROUND-UP With the first of cycling's three Grand Tours (the three-week slogs around France, Italy and Spain) starting on Friday, it is a relatively straightforward week in terms of the often confusing global cycling calendar. Those not going to Belfast are mainly resting after last week's exploits, and/or preparing for bigger races to come. There are a couple of minor men's races starting on Wednesday in Dunkirk and Azerbaijan, but the best event prior to the Giro is undoubted the inaugural Women's Tour, which gets underway in Oundle, and finishes in Bury St Edmunds on Sunday. Nearly all of the best female riders in the world are present, including British stars Lizzie Armitstead, Emma Pooley and Laura Trott. Meanwhile, the two men's races that finished on Sunday really could not have gone much better for British cycling fans. Last year's winner of the Tour de France Chris Froome claimed his second win of the season at the Tour de Romandie, while sprint king Mark Cavendish won four of the eight stages at the Tour of Turkey. But perhaps the best result of the week went to 21-year-old Adam Yates who claimed the overall prize in Turkey: his first senior victory in his first full season. A TO Z OF LE TOUR A is for… A bloc - The French term for riding flat out, not something that can be sustained for long, so timing is everything. Alps - There is no getting around these at Le Tour and they feature every year, only the order in which you tackle France's two major mountain ranges changes: Alps then Pyrenees, or Pyrenees then Alps. And just when you think you have worked that out, the organisers throw in a detour through the Jura or Vosges for added enjoyment. Arc en ciel - The French word for rainbow, but in this context the rainbow jersey worn by reigning world champions in one of cycling's disciplines. It is white with five horizontal bands of colour wrapped around the middle. Easy to spot and worn with pride. And remember, you should never buy one of these: they must be earned. Arrivee - The finish, in Yorkshire's case Harrogate and Sheffield. L'Auto - The French newspaper that started the whole thing back in 1903. Boosting sales was the idea then, and it certainly worked for a while, with circulation doubling from 25,000 copies within a year, and peaking at 854,000 in 1933. Autobus - Nothing to do with the above, this is the group of riders who collect at the back of the field during the tough mountain stages and work together to beat the time cut for the day. They are the riders too big, heavy or muscular for the steep stuff, and their daily battles against gravity are often waged 30 minutes behind the leaders and the TV cameras. That does not make them any less impressive. FACT OF THE DAY This year will be the 20th time the Tour de France has started outside France, with the first foreign Grand Depart coming in 1954, when this most quintessentially of French events started in Amsterdam. Since then the race has started in nine different countries, with London hosting Britain's first Grand Depart in 2007.

5 जुलाई को लीड्स में शुरू होने वाली दुनिया की सबसे बड़ी बाइक दौड़ के साथ, बीबीसी यॉर्कशायर के टूर डी फ्रांस संवाददाता मैट स्लेटर गपशप, राय और कहानियों को सबसे अच्छा बताते हैं, और साइकिल चलाने के कुछ रहस्यों को समझाने की भी कोशिश करते हैं।


Tom Lewis death: Fifth arrest after Wisbech stabbing

Summary: A fifth person has been arrested as part of a murder inquiry after a man died from stab injuries to his leg.

Tom Lewis, 23, of Larksfield in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, was stabbed in Norwich Road in the town on 8 September and died at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge on Thursday. A 23-year-old man from Wisbech was arrested on Monday on suspicion of murder. Four people arrested last week have been released under investigation. Find BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk Related Internet Links Cambridgeshire Constabulary

पैर में चाकू लगने से एक व्यक्ति की मौत के बाद हत्या की जांच के तहत पांचवें व्यक्ति को गिरफ्तार किया गया है।


New stop and search powers in Slough after street fight

Summary: Extra stop and search powers were put in place after a fight involving up to 20 males in Slough armed with sticks and baseball bats, police have said.

The incident took place in Frank Sutton Way, Farnham Road and Buckingham Avenue at about 18:00 GMT on Sunday. The Section 60 order was put in place at 21:00 on Sunday and ended at 12:00 on Monday. Insp John Braddy said the measure was aimed at stopping any other incidents. He said: "This will understandably cause concern in the local community, but I would like for members of the public to be reassured that this order is in place to prevent any re-occurrence of such incidents." The force said it was not believed anyone was injured and no arrests were made.

पुलिस ने कहा है कि लाठियों और बेसबॉल के बल्ले से लैस स्लॉ में 20 पुरुषों की लड़ाई के बाद अतिरिक्त रोक और तलाशी के अधिकार लगाए गए थे।