Green light for major retail development in Newtownards

Summary: Environment Minister Alex Attwood has granted planning approval for a major retail development on the edge of Newtownards, County Down.

This planning application for a £50m development at the historic Castlebawn site has been in the planning system for seven years. It is for a 20,000 square metre development. It will straddle the Ards town centre boundary with one quarter of the retail floorspace within the town centre. This application comes shortly after the minister also gave approval to extend the Ards shopping mall. He says there is enough trading potential in the town for both developments.

पर्यावरण मंत्री एलेक्स एटवुड ने न्यूटाउनार्ड्स, काउंटी डाउन के किनारे पर एक प्रमुख खुदरा विकास के लिए योजना की मंजूरी दे दी है।


Laura Huteson death: Man admits manslaughter

Summary: A man has admitted killing a woman who was found dead at a house in Hull.

Laura Huteson, 21, died when she was attacked and seriously injured at a property in Milldane in the Orchard Park area of the city on 27 February. Jason Gaskell, 24, denied murdering Miss Huteson but pleaded guilty at Sheffield Crown Court to a charge of manslaughter. Gaskell, of Milldane, has been remanded into custody ahead of his sentencing on 10 August. More stories from across Yorkshire

एक आदमी ने हल में एक घर में मृत पाई गई एक महिला की हत्या करने की बात स्वीकार की है।


Manslaughter charge over death of man hit by car after Rochdale attack

Summary: A man has been charged with manslaughter over the death of a man who was hit by a car after an assault.

Ammar Terbeche was pronounced dead at the scene after he was found by police near The Esplanade, Rochdale, shortly after 03:00 BST on 20 September. Greater Manchester Police previously said the 32-year-old had been set upon after a conversation with three men and hit by a vehicle "a short time later". A 27-year-old man is expected to appear at Manchester Magistrates' Court later. Why not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk

हमले के बाद कार की चपेट में आने से एक व्यक्ति की मौत पर एक व्यक्ति पर हत्या का आरोप लगाया गया है।


Man denies murder over West Malling house fire death

Summary: A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a 65-year-old woman who died following a house fire.

Jacqueline Allen died following the blaze in Spitfire Road, West Malling on 17 November. A child was treated in hospital for a leg injury and smoke inhalation. Simon Childs, 52, of Hurricane Road, denied murder and attempted murder at a hearing at Maidstone Crown Court. He is due to stand trial on 13 May at the same court.

एक आदमी 65 वर्षीय महिला की हत्या के आरोप में अदालत में पेश हुआ है, जिसकी घर में आग लगने से मौत हो गई थी।


MP Simon Danczuk spends two nights in Spanish police cell after arrest

Summary: MP Simon Danczuk was arrested in Spain following an alleged incident with his estranged wife, the BBC understands.

The 49-year-old spent two nights in a police cell in Alicante following a loud row with wife Karen Danczuk. The Rochdale MP was suspended by the Labour Party in December after he admitted sending lewd texts to a 17-year-old girl. Mr Danczuk, who is separated from his wife Karen, was later released without charge, Spanish police said. The Foreign Office said it was providing support to a British man detained by police in Spain. The Labour Party refused to comment.

बीबीसी समझता है कि सांसद साइमन डैनज़ुक को उनकी अलग रह रही पत्नी के साथ एक कथित घटना के बाद स्पेन में गिरफ्तार किया गया था।


Who cares for the carer when they're bereaved?

Summary: There are 6.5 million people in the UK caring for sick loved ones. But when their relative dies, the support network often disappears - dealing a double blow to those not only bereaved but who have lost their identity as a carer too. What is it like for them to grieve both?

By Jessica LabhartBBC News "When you say your vows, in sickness and in health, you think you know what it means. But until it happens to you, you don't." Helen, not her real name, cared for her husband David for 17 years after he had a stroke in 1995. A former nurse, she gave him round-the-clock care until his death. "I used to feel resentment sometimes. I'd take him to the doctor and it would be about making sure David was OK, which was so important. "But sometimes I'd sit there and think, 'what about the carer, what about me and how I feel?'" The 84-year-old said she did everything to help David, who would ring a bell when he needed her. She would take him to the toilet, provide his meals and his medication. When he died in 2012, Helen said her "two wonderful daughters" stayed with her for a while, but eventually she "just wanted to be on her own" to get used to being in the house without her husband of 50 years. "There's a void, when that person you're caring for dies. A huge void which leaves you completely isolated," she said. "Many of my friends who have gone through this too have fallen into it, the black hole that is left behind. "I've pulled myself up and just got on with it. It's sink or swim." The Department of Health and Social Care says there are millions of registered carers in the UK. Many receive government support, including Carers Allowance, Carers Credit, tax credits and other benefits, but this often ceases when the cared-for person dies. Elizabeth, who lost her husband in 2014, sought help from Caring with Confidence - group sessions which she described as a "lifeline". "I was determined to do everything for Phillip when he was alive. To keep that confidence after he had died, that's another story. "It's like all the time they're alive, you are secondary in the pecking order. You don't question it, because you love them so much. "No-one tells you how hard that is going to be afterwards. You try and put yourself at the top again, but it doesn't quite feel natural. "So you fill your life with other ways to help people, to still care. The only thing that worked was getting out there. It took a lot to do that." You might also be interested in I was tired at school, says young carer The bereaved parents losing up to £100,000 in benefits What's the cost of care in your area? Caring with Confidence was launched in 2009 as part of the government's "New Deal for Carers" programme, but funding was cut a year later. Monthly meetings are now held in Solihull, Shropshire, Wolverhampton and Dudley in the West Midlands and South Warwickshire, run voluntarily by the Omega Care for life charity. "The best thing we did was go out and find support," said Helen, who also attends the sessions. "That's the first thing you learn as a carer, and the thing that stays with you when the person you've been caring for has gone. "No one is going to do it for you. So you better pull yourself up by the bootstraps and carry on." Bob Hasketh knows all too well the importance of asking for help. The 62-year-old from Bilston in the West Midlands has been a carer twice - first for his late wife Jean, who died in 2009 and his father William, who died five years later. His wife had struggled with mobility issues since tripping over the pet dog in 1998 and had often used a wheelchair with Bob's help. Shortly before her death she contracted a rare kidney infection and her husband of 30 years had to make the difficult decision to turn off her life support. Struggling to cope with the grief, he considered suicide. "I told the doctor and asked for some pills. He refused to give me any medication and instead got me referred to a psychiatrist. "The psychiatrist really helped me focus on what I enjoyed doing, so I threw myself into working on my garden, and it didn't give me time to feel sorry for myself." 'Don't go through it alone' It was a technique Bob employed again when his father died. "I think going through a bereavement as a carer, and as a man, is different because men are less likely to talk about things or ask for help. If I hadn't have gone to the doctors when I did, I genuinely believe I wouldn't be here now. "And so that's what I'd say to anyone going through bereavement as a carer - reach out, go to the doctors, speak to someone. "Because people just expect you to get on with it, but I know what it's like. Don't think that you have to go through it on your own." Independent Age has recently published a report on bereavement which looks at what the death of a cared-for person means to the carer - from loneliness and isolation, to mental and physical health, financial and practical considerations, and grief. "Carers often go through anticipatory grief while the person they are caring for is still alive, and further grief after they have passed away," said head of policy and campaigns, Ray Mitchell. "This requires a particular kind of support that we do not think the government currently adequately provides." For Joshua Fletcher, grief came in stages after he lost his 16-year-old brother Harry to a rare liver cancer. The 28-year-old psychotherapist from Manchester was left with a "maelstrom of emotions" - from limbo to freedom and later, anxiety. "My life had revolved around Harry, as had my mum's. I was relieved for him. But I saw my whole life through a new lens. My dad died a year later as well, and the trauma of what happened to Harry came flooding back. "Looking back, I can see how I was experiencing grief. That feeling in the jaw, in my sternum. The experiences I had brought out an anxiety disorder. I was off work for a month. "I'd say to anyone going through a similar scenario, accept those emotions for what they are, whether they're guilt, joy at the freedom, or a deep sadness and desperation. It is heartbreaking, but whatever those feelings are, give yourself time and space to feel them." Carers Week, which runs from 11 June, aims to raise awareness of how carers deal with losing a loved one. Emily Holzhausen, director of policy and public affairs at Carers UK, said: "This year [we are] focusing on how carers can be supported to look after their health and wellbeing and stay connected. "Caring can feel all-consuming, making it hard to maintain relationships with others and look after your own health needs. "This means that too many carers end up socially isolated, at risk of loneliness and in poor health. When bereavement brings an end to a caring role, this change in identity and purpose can feel like a double loss." The government said in its recently published Carers Action Plan it would take action to help recently bereaved carers. It said it did not know how many carers were bereaved but said they "must be a priority too" and the plan would look at more ways of offering help. A spokeswoman added that "people affected by a death should have access to support", but said this varied from region to region. Jane Hunt, from Omega, said there were no "quick fixes" for carers dealing with grief, but regular group sessions could help. Certainly for Helen, joining the charity's support session was "the best thing" she did following David's death. "People don't really know what to say when that person dies, they think it's a blessing for you, as if you're finally free. But it's not like that. "That's why Elizabeth and I still go to the carers group, because being a carer stays with you. It never goes away." Help and advice for carers and those coping with bereavement is available at the BBC support pages.

ब्रिटेन में बीमार प्रियजनों की देखभाल करने वाले 65 लाख लोग हैं। लेकिन जब उनके रिश्तेदार की मृत्यु हो जाती है, तो समर्थन नेटवर्क अक्सर गायब हो जाता है-न केवल शोक संतप्त लोगों के लिए बल्कि एक देखभाल करने वाले के रूप में अपनी पहचान खो चुके लोगों के लिए भी दोहरा झटका। दोनों के लिए शोक मनाना कैसा होता है?


Three Metro Travelshops to be closed by operators Nexus

Summary: Metro operator Nexus is to close three of its nine Travelshops.

Sales at the shops have dropped since season tickets were made available at new ticket machines, the company said. It plans to close the outlets at Four Lane Ends Interchange, Heworth Interchange and Monument metro station in October. Director general Bernard Garner said: "Two thirds of four-weekly Metrosaver tickets and 97% of weekly Metrosavers are now bought at ticket machines." Tickets were now being sold in local shops in the Payzone network and would be available online later in the year, he added. Nexus will continue to sell Network One bus tickets at the remaining Travelshops. Staff at the closed shops will be found alternative roles wherever possible, the company said.

मेट्रो ऑपरेटर नेक्सस अपनी नौ यात्रा दुकानों में से तीन को बंद करने जा रहा है।


Chennai Six: Nick Dunn reveals what Indian prison life was like

Summary: Nick Dunn was one of six British ex-servicemen who spent years imprisoned in India for a crime they did not commit. They faced the daily threat of violence, a scramble for food, and encountered rats the size of cats. How did the former paratrooper, who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan, cope with incarceration?

By Duncan LeatherdaleBBC News A thin mattress on a filthy stone floor for a bed. A hole in the ground for a toilet. Scavenged carrots and potatoes for a meal. The photographs Nick Dunn snapped on a spy-pen are grainy and fleeting, but for he and his fellow members of the Chennai Six (named after the Indian city where they were incarcerated), what they depict was their everyday reality for two and a half years. "The conditions were bleak, basic and dirty," recalls Nick, from Ashington in Northumberland, adding: "Every day was like Groundhog Day." Nick and the other five men were working as armed security guards, employed to protect against Somali pirates, when they were intercepted on the merchant ship MV Seaman Guard Ohio off the Indian coast in October 2013. They were accused of being illegally armed in Indian waters - they weren't, as a court ruled some four years later. They had all the required documentation for their weapons, and their presence in Indian waters was justified because they needed to pick up emergency supplies amid stormy weather. From Nick's point of view it was a misunderstanding, one that would no doubt be cleared up after a brief period of confusion. But Indian prosecutors persisted with the case. Days turned to weeks, weeks turned to months and months into years as it limped through the courts. Some of their time was spent in hostels and hotels, thanks to a 130,000-signature petition collected by the men's families and submitted to the UK government calling on the Indian authorities to grant them bail. But much of it was spent in prison, sometimes four of them in a cell, other times more than 20 of them - the six Brits and their fellow crew. They were the only westerners in a prison full of Indian criminals, including murderers and rapists. They were targeted from day one; stones were thrown at them and they had to walk around in groups, ready to fight off any attack. Their would-be attackers, stirred up by the official narrative that these newcomers were terrorists, were usually deterred by the size of these ex-military men. But one day a brawl did break out. "All hell broke loose", Nick recalls in his new book Surviving Hell. The Brits were set upon by a group of inmates while visiting the prison doctor, with crutches and chairs being used as weapons. "Punches were thrown, prisoners were grappling with each other, and a number of bodies hit the ground," Nick said. "It was complete pandemonium all around, with bodies being thrown about and fists flying." The intervention of the guards brought the battle to an end, and the fight actually worked to the benefit of the men. The other prisoners "must have looked at this group of big blokes, and the damage we had caused and, suddenly, they weren't so keen on a scrap", Nick wrote. "They must have got the message because we never had any more trouble after that, at least not from the inmates." Any diversion from the grimness of prison life had to be organised by the men themselves. Gym equipment was fashioned from the stones that littered the prison yard, a lifting weight made from a metal bar and rocks. "The guards would always dismantle our makeshift gym, but every time they did, we rebuilt it again," Nick wrote. "In the end, we pleaded with them to leave our equipment alone. Surely, we said, they could recognise we were setting a good example to other prisoners." On 10 September 2017, while his sister Lisa ran the Great North Run to raise legal funding and awareness of her brother's plight, Nick completed his own half-marathon around the prison yard. It was 27 laps in near 40C heat, much to the bewilderment of his guards and fellow inmates. Some of his fellow Brits ran part of the race with him, while another managed to secure some oranges to provide a much-needed energy boost. Food was generally scavenged from the scant supplies on offer, a rota being drawn up to decide who would go and cook in the prison's kitchen for the rest of the group. A bit of old pipe was rigged to a tap to create a rudimentary shower, an improvement from washing in a bucket. "We were forever trying to make up for losing the comforts we took for granted when we were back home," Nick said. "We just did what we had to do to make out lives a bit easier with what we had available, which wasn't a lot. "You've got to keep on top of our hygiene. In that situation it's so easy to fall ill because it's just not a clean place." They bartered with Indian cigarettes called bidis and ate eggs, chapatis and stews fashioned from whatever they could source. "Every day in that cookhouse was a battle," Nick said, adding: "We were coming to blows just to get hold of a pan, and we would have to kick off to make sure we had enough food to survive." Chennai Six timeline While the men languished in prison, their families campaigned relentlessly for their release. Nick's sister Lisa, who had slipped him the spy-pen during one of her visits, harangued the UK authorities, appealing for them to intervene, but the men's appeal limped on through the courts and showed no signs of making any progress. "I would say that it would take the death of one of us to end the ordeal for all of us," Nick said. He was scarily close to the truth. In the autumn of 2017, with the men two years into a five-year sentence, the tide started to turn. Their ship's Ukrainian captain became seriously ill and "it became clear to everyone that he might be dying", Nick said. "As I predicted, suddenly, the sluggish judicial system started to take notice of our case again. "The death or serious illness of one of our number while we were in an Indian prison would be a serious embarrassment to the authorities." The case swiftly reached the country's chief justice Dipak Misra, who ordered it be resolved. Judgement day was 27 November 2017, a Monday, the men staying in prison to await news of their fate. After hours of nothing, the message came through - they had been acquitted. "My knees just crumpled," Nick said, adding: "I was exploding inside." They walked free from prison the following day and returned to the UK six days later. Loud cheers reverberated through the arrivals hall at Newcastle International Airport when Nick finally emerged, his hair long and lank, to be embraced by a throng of family and friends. Several years on and Nick still works in security, although he is less keen to do so abroad. "Things have changed in my life after going through what I went through," he said. "I take each day as it comes now. "There are days when I can feel a bit down and out, but I know I've been through a lot worse." Follow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.

निक डन उन छह ब्रिटिश पूर्व सैनिकों में से एक थे जिन्होंने एक ऐसे अपराध के लिए भारत में कई साल जेल में बिताए जो उन्होंने नहीं किया था। उन्हें हिंसा के दैनिक खतरे, भोजन के लिए हाथापाई, और बिल्लियों के आकार के चूहों का सामना करना पड़ा। पूर्व पैराट्रूपर, जिन्होंने इराक और अफगानिस्तान में सेवा की थी, ने कारावास का सामना कैसे किया?


World War One: Carl Lody - Edinburgh's WW1 spy

Summary: Soon after the outbreak of World War One, the Germans sent a spy to Edinburgh to gather intelligence. The untrained spook's "amateurish" methods soon led to him being caught and executed by firing squad at Tower of London.

By Steven BrocklehurstBBC Scotland news website Towards the end of August 1914 a man checked into what is now the Balmoral Hotel in the centre of Edinburgh claiming to be an American tourist. In reality he was a German spy who had been sent to gather intelligence from the British. Carl Lody, by now 37 years old, was a junior naval officer who had been forced to retire for health reasons but was looking for other ways to serve the fatherland. "He was especially attractive to German naval intelligence because he had lived for years in the United States and spoke English fluently, although with an American accent," according to Peter Jackson, professor of history at the University of Glasgow. He says Lody was asked to focus in particular on the Firth of Forth, which was of special strategic importance because it was a "very significant deep-water harbour" which always had a number of important British warships at anchor. The Forth Bridge was also seen as a vital strategic artery connecting southern Britain with Scotland's north eastern seaboard, which looked out on to the North Sea and the German high seas fleet. Lody travelled under the alias of Charles Inglis, having obtained a bogus passport in this name from the American consulate in Berlin, by claiming to have mislaid his passport. Prof Jackson says: "Lody's methods of communication were very amateurish. It showed that he had been given almost no training before having been dispatched to Great Britain via Norway. "He communicated mainly by telegram or by post to a German agent in Stockholm named Adolf Buchard. "Buchard was on the watchlist for MO5 (now MI5), the British counter-intelligence, and all of the communications between anyone in Britain and Buchard were monitored. "Letters were opened, telegrams were recorded and monitored and it was in this way that MO5 became aware that a German spy was operating in Edinburgh, very soon after Lody began his activities." During his weeks in Edinburgh, Lody sent regular messages in English and German to his contact in Stockholm. Some of these were allowed to go through because they contained misleading information that would alarm the Germans but cause no harm to Britain. Attracting attention The poor quality of his reporting was demonstrated by letters he sent about a supposed landing of "large numbers of Russian troops", repeating a rumour that thousands of Russians "with snow on their boots" had been sent to fight on the Western Front. Prof Jackson says: "This was of course nonsense but the fact that Lody reported it without comment suggests that he was not the most critical of intelligence collectors." After almost a week at the North British Hotel, Lody became worried that his presence was attracting attention. Lody left the hotel and requested that it re-addressed his letters to the Cunard Co. in Liverpool. However, instead of moving to Merseyside, he took a room at a boarding house at 12 Drumsheugh Gardens in Edinburgh. Prof Jackson says: "There is some evidence that the family with whom he was lodging had become suspicious of his activities. "There was the fact that he would go out on a bicycle every morning and come back quite late in the evening. There was also some idea that his accent had begun to betray him." But even before the suspicions of the family, Lody was being watched by the British intelligence services. Prof Jackson says: "He was being shadowed by a member of special branch. "It appears that Lody thought it would be a good idea to take the heat off by travelling across country to Liverpool and then to Ireland." After he had written a letter with detailed intelligence on the state of several British warships in Liverpool harbour, the decision was made to arrest Lody. He was tracked to a hotel in Killarney on his way to Queenstown (now Cobh in County Cork), which was the largest British naval station in Ireland. After his arrest he was taken to London where he was put on trial, charged with spying for Germany, convicted and executed by firing squad at the Tower of London on 6 November 1914. Prof Jackson says: "Lody's was the first execution carried out at the tower for 150 years. "Lody's behaviour was impeccable during his trial. He refused to give the names of any of his superiors in German naval intelligence. He also seems to have been resigned to his fate and to meet it with honour and courage, commensurate with that of a German officer." The day before his execution Lody wrote to his family saying that knowing he was to die "in the service of the Fatherland" made death easy. He added: "I have had just judges and I shall die as an officer, not as a spy. Farewell."

प्रथम विश्व युद्ध के शुरू होने के तुरंत बाद, जर्मनों ने खुफिया जानकारी जुटाने के लिए एक जासूस को एडिनबर्ग भेजा। अप्रशिक्षित स्पूक के "शौकिया" तरीकों के कारण जल्द ही उसे पकड़ लिया गया और टॉवर ऑफ लंदन में फायरिंग दस्ते द्वारा मार दिया गया।


Taunton's £11m Halcon homes plan given planning consent

Summary: An £11m scheme to build new houses in a deprived part of Taunton has been given planning permission.

In March, Taunton Deane Borough Council agreed to spend £7m on the project to build 92 homes in the Halcon estate. The scheme will also be funded by Knightstone Housing through a £4m government grant. Building work will begin at the Creechbarrow Road site by the end of the year and is due to be completed by 2016. The council will pay for 60 of the homes and the housing group pay for the remainder. The project will also see playground space for children included alongside the houses.

टौनटन के एक वंचित हिस्से में नए घर बनाने के लिए 11 मिलियन पाउंड की योजना को योजना बनाने की अनुमति दी गई है।


London Underground: More than 36,000 shifts lost to Tube strikes

Summary: Trade unions suspended a threat of strike action on the London Underground last week after successful talks with Transport for London (TfL). There has not been a strike on the Tube during 2019 but have industrial relations improved since Sadiq Khan took over as Mayor of London from Boris Johnson three years ago?

By Thomas MackintoshBBC News, London Figures obtained by the BBC show that in the past 11 financial years, since Mr Johnson took over as mayor from Ken Livingstone, there have been more than 36,000 days lost to strike action. The number of days lost is so high because TfL counts "one day lost for every member of staff missing" and it has led one academic to describe the London Underground as "a museum of bad industrial relations". Various disputes over issues including ticket office closures, job cuts, new rotas, employee dismissals and the introduction of the Night Tube have resulted in 68 individual dates of strike action since April 2008. The London School of Economics's Prof Tony Travers explained these industrial rows resembled "trigger points" that each mayor would aim to avoid in order to prevent any big strikes. "These trigger points are usually something new," he said. "These include the Night Tube, Olympics or working Boxing Day. "Unions have long used the Underground as good leverage when trying to get better pay because of the monopoly that it serves." Between April 2008 and May 2012, during Mr Johnson's first spell as Mayor of London, 12,523 shifts were lost to strike action - despite him trying to negotiate no-strike deals with the Tube unions. Figures showed a further 19,689 working days were lost while he was mayor during his second term between May 2012 and May 2016. In his 2016 Mayor of London election campaign Mr Khan pledged to "reduce the number of days lost to strike action" and he has seen 3,824 shifts lost to strike days during his time at City Hall. While there have been significantly fewer working days lost to strikes under Mr Khan, there have been 25 dates of industrial action in his three years as mayor, compared with 33 across the whole eight years Mr Johnson was in office. "Under Sadiq there have been fewer days lost," Prof Travers said. "But the entire record for Tube strikes is particularly dire." TfL said the effect of any strike was dependent on the nature of the dispute, the number of unions involved and where the strike had been called. The figures included strikes that affected either the whole Tube network or just part of it. A spokesman for the Mayor of London said strike action had "reduced" under Mr Khan because he "listens to the concerns of workers". However, Conservative London Assembly member Keith Prince defended Mr Johnson's record, instead accusing Mr Khan of having a "worse strikes record (than) any of his predecessors". According to the TfL data, strike action was predominantly taken by the RMT union, which has about 10,000 members employed on the Tube, and saw workers walk out on 34 occasions. Aslef, which represents 2,456 Tube drivers, took 13 dates of strike action, while Unite had eight disputes which led to industrial action. The Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) walked out on two occasions over "employee terms and conditions". Aslef's Finn Brennan said his union had "regular meetings between transport unions, Mr Khan and his team". He added: "Aslef uses these meetings to highlight issues that go beyond the remit of the machinery meetings with employers and to encourage a more reasonable attitude on matters we have raised with the company."

ट्रेड यूनियनों ने ट्रांसपोर्ट फॉर लंदन (टी. एफ. एल.) के साथ सफल बातचीत के बाद पिछले सप्ताह लंदन अंडरग्राउंड पर हड़ताल की धमकी को निलंबित कर दिया। 2019 के दौरान ट्यूब पर हड़ताल नहीं हुई है, लेकिन तीन साल पहले बोरिस जॉनसन से सादिक खान के लंदन के मेयर के रूप में पदभार संभालने के बाद से औद्योगिक संबंधों में सुधार हुआ है?


Imprisoned by cladding: The flat owners who cannot sell

Summary: Thousands of people in the UK are living in flats they cannot sell, because the outside wall is covered in cladding. Sometimes it's combustible, like the material that turned Grenfell Tower into an inferno. But people may become prisoners in their homes even when it isn't - because the freeholder hasn't paid for it to be tested.

By Thea de GallierBBC News "It's lovely round here," says Dan Gilson, looking across the canal basin outside his home. A duck paddles in the water, and narrowboats bob gently. The water catches and bends the sun's rays on the bright February morning, and the quietness belies the fact we're inside the M25. Dan sighs. "It's just a shame about the cladding." The flat Dan, 38, and his wife Rhiannon Robertson, 34, share in De Beauvoir Wharf in Hackney is covered in wood-effect panels that they've recently discovered have a combustibility rating of D, signifying a "medium contribution to fire". Since the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, in which 72 people died, cladding has become a national concern. Highly combustible "aluminium composite material" (ACM) cladding spread the Grenfell fire at terrifying speed. The most recent government figures show that 450 buildings are covered in it, 356 of which are residential. Freedom of Information requests by the BBC have identified a further 99 tower blocks covered in high-pressure laminate (HPL) cladding, which is also combustible - although the true figure may be higher, as only about two-thirds of local authorities responded. This is the material that covered the student accommodation block in Bolton that caught fire in November 2019 - and is also what covers Dan and Rhiannon's building. As a result, fire marshals now watch over it 24 hours a day. The couple became aware something was wrong the month before the Bolton fire, when Rhiannon, who'd bought the flat in 2013, tried to get a new, cheaper mortgage. The new lender sent a surveyor around, who made clear the cladding was going to be a problem. "I contacted [housing association and building owner] L&Q and couldn't get through to anyone for love nor money. They have a central call centre who don't know anything," says Rhiannon. "I eventually managed to get it out of someone that we had HPL. One of the first letters we got about this said, 'We're really sorry to hear about the situation, but this could take several years to resolve.'" Since then, after repeated requests from Dan, Rhiannon and other residents, L&Q has confirmed that a non fire-resistant form of Trespa Meteon HPL cladding covers some of the walls. Because of this, the flat was valued at £0, which put an end to Rhiannon's plan to remortgage it. L&Q told the BBC that some tests on the building had been carried out, but more would be needed. "We will not be able to provide a timescale for any remedial works to be carried out until our investigations are complete. Our immediate priority is the safety of our residents which is why we have introduced fire marshals to this building while the investigations are carried out," the company said. It added that it was committed to testing any cladding on the buildings it owned, but that this work would be "prioritised based on risk, with higher-risk buildings being inspected/having necessary remedial work carried out first". Many flat owners are finding themselves in a similar position, even when the cladding on their building is classified as low-risk. So cautious have lenders become, in fact, that even non-combustible cladding is preventing owners from selling or remortgaging, effectively trapping them in their homes. Most high-street lenders are now asking for extra tests if someone wants to buy a flat in a building with cladding. Santander told the BBC it needed "confirmation the building has been tested in accordance with the latest government guidance" for buildings over six storeys, while Lloyds "currently doesn't offer new mortgages on high-rise block properties with cladding" unless they have been independently assessed. Barclays needs similar assurances of a building's safety. Some other lenders didn't reply to the BBC's request to comment. To get these assurances of safety, flat owners usually have to apply to the freeholders of the building. The freeholders then have to find a company to take samples of cladding from the external wall, at various heights, which are sent away for testing. In June 2012, Angela, 33, an IT manager at a charity, bought a 30% share of a flat in Wallington, south London, also through L&Q. "This was my dream, to have a place of my own," says Angela, wiping tears from her eyes. "I'm from a council estate. My mum was a cleaner, and my dad wasn't around. I went to uni and got my IT career, and I wanted to own something. I couldn't afford anything as a full owner, and I haven't got anyone to ask for help, so I did shared ownership. I thought, 'This is it, I can finally do it.'" Canon Court, the building in which Angela lives, is the old headquarters of camera manufacturer Canon. Work to transform the former office block into flats finished in September 2010, and as part of the renovation, the building was covered with cladding called Rockclad. Last year it looked as though Angela would be able to buy the remaining 70% of her flat, when her bank, Santander, approved her for a larger mortgage. But Rockclad is classified as being combustible - albeit having a "very limited contribution to fire". Angela sobs quietly as she describes how the flat, once everything she ever wanted, has now become a prison. "I just want out," she whispers. The story of flat 113 Of the eight people who took refuge in a flat on the 14th floor of Grenfell Tower four survived, and four died. The strengths and weaknesses of the London Fire Brigade's response to the huge challenge of Grenfell may explain why. Preventable deaths? The story of Grenfell tower flat 113 Although Santander was ready in principle to lend her more money it wouldn't give her a mortgage to buy the rest of the flat without further tests on the cladding. At this point, she decided to try to sell the flat instead, and as she feared, her interested buyer got a £0 valuation from Barclays. If extra tests could be performed, Barclays said, to ensure it was safe, a mortgage could be approved. But L&Q told her in a letter that there was a "nationwide shortage" of qualified surveyors, and any tests and remedial work could take "several years" - the same as they told Rhiannon and Dan. In this case, L&Q is not the freeholder, so it isn't responsible for "providing the documents that mortgage lenders are asking for", it says. Instead a survey is being organised by Trinity Estates, acting on behalf of a residents' management company. "We appreciate the difficulties this may cause some customers and will provide them with an update of expected timescales and, of course, the content of the completed survey," a Trinity spokesman said. While the cladding on Angela's building makes a "limited contribution" to fire, the terracotta cladding on the tower block where Adam Woznicki lives is fully compliant with the latest regulations. But he too cannot sell. Adam, 44, moved to the UK from Poland in 2000. He bought a 25% share of the flat in Zenith House, Colindale, from housing association Notting Hill Genesis (NHG) in 2015. He and his wife, also Polish, had their first child, a son, two years ago. Soon after the birth, Adam's wife began experiencing postnatal depression, which was made all the more difficult by the fact that her parents back in Poland had been diagnosed with cancer. The couple decided to sell and move back to Poland, but found themselves plunged into a nightmare when they also received a £0 valuation, and a request from the buyer's bank for a fire risk assessment. First the risk assessment provided by NHG was rejected, because it was carried out in 2016, before the Grenfell fire. NHG says a new fire risk assessment has been carried out, but Adam is now being told that samples of the cladding, and the insulation underneath, must be tested before he can sell. When these tests will be carried out is unclear. An NHG spokesperson said: "Unfortunately, the resident's block is not one of those identified as highest priority for testing." In desperation, Adam has tried to arrange a survey himself. "I've spoken to the fire brigade, and they can't do any checks on the cladding. An independent fire assessor would cost me about £15,000, and they'd probably need agreement from NHG anyway to start fiddling with the cladding." The NHG spokesman confirmed this, saying: "We cannot allow intrusive surveys to be independently arranged, as we need to maintain control over who conducts these surveys and witnesses them." Adam's wife has now moved back to Poland with their son. "It's so hard for us," he says. "I just want to be together with my family. If I could afford it, I'd find a job in Poland and pay the mortgage here." As it is, three-quarters of his income goes on the mortgage, rent and bills, and out of the little that remains he has to pay for flights every second weekend to see his family. "Otherwise my boy will start drawing him and my wife without a dad," he says. A light at the end of the tunnel for Rhiannon and Dan, Angela, and Adam seemed to come in the form of a new procedure announced in December 2019. Devised by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the Building Societies Association, and UK Finance, the External Wall System (EWS) review is described as "a new industry-wide valuation process which will help people buy and sell homes and re-mortgage in buildings above 18 metres". It involves a "qualified professional" conducting a fire-risk assessment, before signing an EWS1 form, which is valid for five years. The surveyor can tick a box saying there are no combustible materials, or recommend remedial works are carried out. But Dan and Rhiannon, Angela and Adam have found themselves in a Catch-22. The BBC has seen correspondence to all of them, from L&Q and NHG, with letters and emails saying that the form can't be issued without intrusive tests to the cladding... which is exactly what the residents are already waiting for. In Adam's case, NHG said their insurers were "not happy with the liability" of signing the EWS1 form to say the building was safe. The RICS told the BBC: "A building owner, as the responsible party, should be able to confirm what materials are on the building, and the EWS process is a set way for them to confirm to valuers that an external wall system has been assessed by a suitable expert." However, it added: "It is true that in some cases where all attempts to establish the cladding system have been taken and it is still unclear, intrusive works will still be required." What is the government doing? The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said: "The government has committed £600m in total for remediating buildings with unsafe ACM cladding in social and private sectors." It did not explain what action it plans to take in connection with buildings covered in other forms of combustible cladding, though the BBC understands that the government has begun logging them. Adam, like the others trapped in their flats, is at the end of his tether. He shows a desperate letter he's written to NHG's chief executive, explaining his pain at being separated from his loved ones, and appealing to her "sense of family". "No-one has a clue what's going to happen," he says. "Unless the government step in and do something, nothing will."

यू. के. में हजारों लोग ऐसे फ्लैटों में रह रहे हैं जिन्हें वे बेच नहीं सकते हैं, क्योंकि बाहर की दीवार क्लैडिंग से ढकी हुई है। कभी-कभी यह ज्वलनशील होता है, जैसे कि सामग्री जिसने ग्रेनफेल टॉवर को आग में बदल दिया। लेकिन लोग अपने घरों में कैदी बन सकते हैं, भले ही ऐसा न हो-क्योंकि फ्रीहोल्डर ने इसके परीक्षण के लिए भुगतान नहीं किया है।


Hull hosts free City of Culture 'thank you' party

Summary: Free entertainment is taking place in Hull as a "thank you" to people who supported the city's successful bid to be the UK City of Culture in 2017.

The event in Queen Victoria Square features 40 live performances and short films involving 300 local performers and artists. Hull won the title over rival bids from Leicester, Dundee and Swansea Bay. The city council said residents' "phenomenal" support for the bid had been a key factor in its success.

2017 में यूके सिटी ऑफ कल्चर बनने के लिए शहर की सफल बोली का समर्थन करने वाले लोगों के लिए "धन्यवाद" के रूप में हल में मुफ्त मनोरंजन हो रहा है।


Rockets target Tel Aviv after Gaza tower destroyed

Summary: Palestinian militants say they fired 130 missiles at the Israeli city of Tel Aviv after an Israeli air strike felled a tower block in the Gaza Strip.

The 13-storey building was attacked an hour and a half after residents and local people were warned to evacuate, Reuters news agency reports. Israel's military says it is targeting militants in Gaza in response to earlier rocket attacks. At least 31 people have died in some of the worst violence in years. The international community has urged both sides to end the escalation, which follows days of unrest in Jerusalem. Militants had already fired hundreds of rockets towards Jerusalem and other areas. Three people have been killed in Israeli areas while at least 28 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli air strikes. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier that the main militant group, Hamas, had "crossed a red line" by firing rockets towards Jerusalem for the first time in years. Hamas, which controls Gaza, says it has been acting to defend Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque from Israeli "aggression and terrorism" after the site, which is holy to Muslims and Jews, saw clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians on Monday that left hundreds injured. The past few days have seen the worst violence in Jerusalem since 2017. It followed mounting Palestinian anger over the threatened eviction of families from their homes in occupied East Jerusalem by Jewish settlers. Tension had already been stoked by a month of altercations between protesters and police in the predominantly Arab part of the city. What do we know of the latest fighting? Hamas said it had launched rockets at Tel Aviv and its suburbs in response to "the enemy's targeting of residential towers". Video footage from the city shows rockets streaking through the night sky, some exploding as they are hit by Israeli interceptor missiles. A 50-year-old woman was killed by a rocket in Rishon LeZion, near Tel Aviv, Israeli official said. In the Tel Aviv suburb of Holon, a rocket hit a bus just after it had been evacuated. A girl of five and two women, one 50 and one 30, were injured. In Tel Aviv itself, pedestrians ran for shelter and diners streamed out of restaurants while others flattened themselves on pavements as the sirens sounded, according to Reuters. Ben Gurion Airport briefly halted flights and an energy pipeline between the cities of Eilat and Ashkelon was hit. The rockets were launched after the destruction of the Hanadi Tower in Gaza, which houses an office used by the political leadership of Hamas. Hours after the collapse, there were still no reports of casualties. There are reports that a second high-rise building was also destroyed by the Israelis after a warning to evacuate. Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz said the Israeli strikes were "just the beginning". "Terror organisations have been hit hard and will continue to be hit because of their decision to hit Israel," he said. "We'll return peace and quiet, for the long term." Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said the group was "ready" if Israel chose to escalate. "If [Israel] wants to escalate, we are ready for it, and if it wants to stop, we're also ready," he said in a televised address. "There is a new balance of force." The UN Security Council will meet privately on Wednesday to discuss the conflict, diplomats said. The open wound of an unresolved conflict The fundamental reason for the renewed violence does not change. It is the open wound of the unresolved conflict between Jews and Arabs that has blighted and ended Palestinian and Israeli lives for generations. This latest episode has happened because of tension in Jerusalem, the sharpest part of the conflict. The holy sites in the Old City are national as well as religious symbols. Crises affecting them have often ignited violence. The triggers for what has happened this time include heavy-handed Israeli policing of Palestinians during Ramadan and controversial efforts in the Israeli courts to evict Palestinians from their homes. But other events could have had the same effect. This was a crisis waiting to happen, in a conflict that, once again, has been left to fester. Leaders on both sides have concentrated on safeguarding their own positions. The biggest challenge, of making peace, has not been addressed seriously for years. Earlier on Tuesday, two women, one in her 60s and the other in her 80s, were killed in a rocket attack on the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, with one other person seriously injured, medics say. Hamas said it had fired 137 rockets at Ashkelon and nearby Ashdod in the space of five minutes, and warned it had "many surprises" prepared if the fighting continued. At least 95 people received treatment in Israeli hospitals as a result of the attacks. The Israeli military said earlier that 90% of rockets had been intercepted by its Iron Dome missile defence system. Among the "terror targets" in Gaza it said it had struck were two attack tunnels being dug under the border with Israel. Among those killed by Israeli air strikes was the head of the Islamic Jihad group's special rocket unit, Samah Abed al-Mamlouk, and the commander of a Hamas anti-tank missile unit is also said to have been killed. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza reported that at least 28 Palestinians, including 10 children, had been killed in Israeli strikes and more than 150 others had been injured. Victims included a 59-year-old woman and her disabled son and seven members of one family, including three children, in Beit Hanoun. What has caused the violence? The fighting between Israel and Hamas was triggered by days of escalating clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police at a holy hilltop compound in East Jerusalem. The site is revered by both Muslims, who call it the Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary), and Jews, for whom it is known as the Temple Mount. Hamas demanded Israel remove police from there and the nearby predominantly Arab district of Sheikh Jarrah, where Palestinian families face eviction by Jewish settlers. The fate of Jerusalem, with its deep religious and national significance to both sides, lies at the heart of the decades-old Israel-Palestinian conflict. Israel in effect annexed East Jerusalem in 1980 and considers the entire city its capital, though this is not recognised by the vast majority of other countries. Palestinians claim the eastern half of Jerusalem as the capital of a hoped-for state of their own. Timeline: How the violence escalated The worst violence in years between Israel and the Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip has seen dozens killed. It follows a month of spiralling tensions before open conflict broke out. Here is what happened in the lead-up to the fighting. 13 April Clashes erupt in East Jerusalem between Palestinians and Israeli police. Palestinians are angry over barriers which had been placed outside the Damascus Gate entrance to the Jerusalem‘s Old City preventing them from gathering there after prayers at the Old City’s al-Aqsa Mosque on what is the first night of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Palestinian discontent had been stoked earlier in the day when President Mahmoud Abbas called off planned elections, implicitly blaming Israel over voting arrangements for Palestinians in East Jerusalem. Hamas - Mr Abbas' Islamist rivals who control Gaza and were running in the elections - react angrily to the postponement. Violence around Damascus Gate and elsewhere in East Jerusalem continues nightly. 15-16 April Rockets are fired from Gaza at Israel, which responds with air strikes after a relative period of calm between Israel and the Palestinian enclave. 19 April Clashes spread to the mixed Arab-Jewish port city of Jaffa, next to Tel Aviv. 20 April In Jerusalem, Jewish youths, angry over a spate of filmed assaults by Palestinians on Orthodox Jews posted on the TikTok video-sharing app, attack Arabs and chant anti-Arab slogans. 23 April Hundreds of ultra-nationalist Jews shouting “Death to Arabs” march towards Damascus Gate in protest at the Arab assaults on Jews. Clashes erupt at the site between Palestinians and police trying to separate the two groups, injuring dozens of people. Violence between Arabs and Jews spreads to other parts of the city. 24 April Militants fire dozens of rockets at Israel from Gaza, drawing retaliatory air strikes. 2 May President Abbas' Fatah faction and Hamas condemn the looming threatened eviction of Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah district of East Jerusalem by Jewish settlers ahead of a planned court hearing. Hamas calls on Arabs to form “human shields of resistance” there. In the days that follow, police and protesters repeatedly clash at the site as it becomes a focal point for Palestinian anger. 4 May Militants in Gaza begin sending incendiary balloons into Israel over successive days, causing dozens of fires. 7 May Two Palestinian gunmen are shot dead and a third is wounded after opening fire on Israeli security forces in the northern West Bank. Israeli authorities say the group planned to carry out a “major attack” in Israel. Later on after Friday prayers - the last of Ramadan - major clashes erupt at the al-Aqsa mosque compound, injuring more than 200 people. Israel's police force says it used “riot dispersal means”, firing rubber bullets and stun grenades after officers came under a hail of stones and bottles. 8 May A second night of violence erupts in East Jerusalem after tens of thousands of worshippers prayed at the al-Aqsa mosque for Laylat al-Qadr, the holiest night of Ramadan. Police and protesters clash at Damascus Gate, with police using water cannon, rubber bullets and tear gas against crowds of Palestinians, some throwing stones. More than 120 Palestinians and some 17 police are injured. 9 May Israel's Supreme Court postpones the hearing on the Sheikh Jarrah case following calls to delay it because of the growing unrest. Tensions remain high though and more clashes take place between Israeli police and Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah and at Damascus Gate. 10 May Early morning clashes break out between police and Palestinians at the al-Aqsa mosque compound, where crowds throw stones and officers fire stun grenades. Palestinian anger has been inflamed by an annual Jerusalem Day march planned for later in the day by hundreds of Israeli nationalists to celebrate Israel's capture of East Jerusalem in 1967. The march is due to pass through predominantly Arab parts of the Old City in what is seen by Palestinians as a deliberate provocation. It is rerouted at the 11th hour, but the atmosphere remains volatile with more than 300 Palestinians and some 21 police injured in the violence at the holy site. Hamas issues an ultimatum to Israel to “withdraw its soldiers... from the blessed al-Aqsa mosque and Sheikh Jarrah” by 18:00. When the deadline passes without an Israeli response, rockets are fired towards Jerusalem for the first time in years. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the group has “crossed a red line” and Israel retaliates with air strikes, killing three Hamas fighters. A continuing exchange of rocket-fire and air strikes quickly escalates into the fiercest hostilities between the two sides since they fought a war in 2014.

फिलिस्तीनी उग्रवादियों का कहना है कि उन्होंने गाजा पट्टी में एक टावर ब्लॉक पर इजरायली हवाई हमले के बाद इजरायल के तेल अवीव शहर पर 130 मिसाइलें दागीं।


Just when you thought it safe to go back in the water

Summary: Time for an update on Brexit, which hasn't gone away, and nor have the UK or EU edged any closer to a deal on their future relationship. Boris Johnson goes into a summit this month, where he decides whether to keep trying for an agreement, or walk away and pay the high economic cost of 'no deal'. Fisheries has become a totemic and a real obstacle to a deal, where compromise looks particularly difficult, and here's why.

Douglas FraserBusiness/economy editor, Scotland Much of Britain seems to have gone to the beach. In hot weather, why not take a cooling dip in the sea, and leave lockdown constraints on the beach with your towel? But apart from the crowds and infection risk, beware of the political and economic undercurrents. Brexit is about to surface once more - a giant creature that's been lurking in the shallows while attention has been turned elsewhere. With each round of inconclusive talks, it is those waters, and specifically the fish and shellfish in them, that become more central to the outcome. It features a trial of negotiating strength, guile and apparently quite a lot of self-delusion. A great deal more depends on the outcome than the fishery jobs. Yes, it's four months since the UK left the European Union, and seven months until the transition is scheduled to end. This week is an important one for deciding the terms of the new relationship, and the early signs are that it's going badly. So it's time for an update, with a reminder of what was going on last time you paid any attention. Aussie-style At the end of January, Boris Johnson was busy booking his place in history, or so he thought. What he was doing rather less was heeding the warning klaxons about an infection spreading rapidly in China. It's the latter that seems more likely to define his term as prime minister. However, the way things are looking, we could be heading not only for the biggest recession at least since the 1930s, thanks to Covid-19, but also that Brexit cliff-edge we were talking about last year. There's no sign of entente breaking out via the Microsoft Teams meetings that have had to become the diplomatic channels for UK and EU negotiating teams. Supporters of Brexit are determined there will not be a delay on the 31 December end to transition. That remains, firmly, the government's position. It can't simply play for time, and kick the can down Theresa May Boulevard, because the transition deal states that any delay has to be for at least two years. To Brexiteer Tory MPs, that's an impossibly high price for accepting an extension. Later this month, in a summit meeting, the two sides are scheduled to reflect on their negotiations and make a judgement as to whether it is worth continuing the effort to get a deal. And if they conclude there is not, those Brexiteers say: so be it - the UK would be trading with the European Union on what we have learned to call World Trade Organisation (WTO) terms. Mr Johnson calls them Australia-style terms. Either way, they are the WTO's least effective arrangements to ease trading. 'Johnny Foreigner' For now, there are two broad schools of thinking on this. One embraces a future where Britain can shed Europe's environmental, social and labour rules, and become more competitive than the European Union. For them, sovereignty is all and compromise is for Johnny Foreigner. The other is aghast - looking at the unprecedented calamity that has struck the British, European and global economies due to Covid-19, and wondering how anyone could consider this a good time to take a risk on a full break from Europe's single market and customs union. Brexiteer outrider commentators are arguing that the Brexit pain won't feel so bad in the context of suffering something much worse. But from the academic network known as UK in a Changing Europe, there's been a reminder that their modelling suggests an economy that will grow 8.1% less in the next 10 years than it might otherwise be expected to do, while UK government modelling suggests a 7.6% shortfall. (We're very unlikely to be able to measure the true impact of Brexit, because there will be other, very powerful factors at work in trying to repair the economy post-pandemic. The closest we're likely to get is by comparison with similar countries still inside the EU.) 'Dispensable' In this crunch week of talks, the negotiating gulf is around promises which the EU members thought they had secured in tying Britain to Europe's "level playing field" of common standards on environment, social and labour market standards. There is a big gap also on their expectation of how disputes over such standards will be resolved. The EU wants that in its Court of Justice. The UK says "no way, Jose". And then there's fish. How is it that fisheries have become the third track of disagreement and impasse? And why, when one considers the industry is tiny, relative to the British economy (0.1% of economic output) and population, and it's tinier by EU ones? One part of the answer is that fishing occupies a totemic and political role more than an economically significant one. This was the British industry that was hit hardest by entry into the European Common Market. Whitehall in the 1970s saw it as "dispensable", or so it was admitted in an internal memo. Everything since then - including increased efficiency of catch forcing a reduction in the number of boats and men, and the harsh counter-measures to over-fishing - has been implemented through European institutions, so it's been blamed on Brussels. It has come, therefore, to be a special focus for Brexiteers. With well over half the tonnage of fish caught in UK waters landed by foreign-registered boats - roughly eight times the amount caught by British boats in EU countries' waters - it has also become commercially important to the fishing fleets of the UK's nearest neighbours. Quid pro quo The EU negotiating mandate wants to retain what it calls "relative stability", which is an allocation of quota based on the shares back in the 1970s. If anyone thinks European capitals are ready to go soft on Michel Barnier's mandate, they should be aware that he was told to strengthen the mandate - that is, not to trade away those fishing rights. Look at it from President Emmanuel Macron's point of view: his re-election efforts will not be helped if there's uproar and port blockades in the politically-significant Pas de Calais region. We recently got a taste of what is a serious risk, with a skirmish between boats fishing around the Channel Islands. The British want annual negotiations, based on sustainable quotas. In the jargon, at which fishery management excels, it's called "zonal attachment". This assumes that the British government will have control over UK waters, so its fleet will get a much bigger share. This is important to the UK negotiating position, which is the other reason fishing is disproportionately important to these talks. This is one industry on which the UK has leverage. It has a lot to gain from ending CFP quotas, and a lot it could give. But it needs to avoid quid pro quo deals in which fish are traded with access to European markets where the UK badly needs concessions from Brussels, such as the finance sector's reach into European markets. Parking the sharing of fish quotas, by saying they'll be decided each year on the evidence available, and that Britain can relate to the CFP in the same way as Norway, would avoid the pressure to give ground on quota specifics as part of an over-arching deal. The EU is firmly saying that the whole deal has to be integrated, without such side deals. It also has some leverage on fisheries, in that Britain sells a lot of fish into the European market, and there are more jobs in processing than in fishing. Not all fishing businesses or communities are as gung-ho for Brexit as in north-east Scotland or Cornwall. Neither Hebridean creelmen nor Grimsby gutters want the disadvantage of tariffs being levied on those export sales, or of delays at the Channel for delivery of fresh produce. Capitulation How will this work out? With difficulty. Negotiations often involve bluster, claiming to be digging in to "red line" negotiating positions and timetables. The British side has been big on that approach since the 2016 referendum, allied to a consistent misreading of where negotiating power lies. It hasn't worked well so far, instead leading to a series of embarrassing capitulations. But this week, it's still the tactic being used. This month, Boris Johnson will have to choose whether he continues the talks or plays to hardliners in his party who prefer "no deal" to compromise. Through his handling of lockdown and the Cummings affair, the prime minister has weakened his position within Tory ranks. Facing him in the Commons, he now has a Labour opponent, in Sir Keir Starmer, who can hound him over the choice he makes. The current impasse may turn out to be bluff. There's no point in hinting at an extension until the point when you have to propose one. Compromises, when they eventually come, tend to be made quickly. But surprises aren't always welcome. For both sides, there is the need to get the deal through the European Parliament and 28 national parliaments. Westminster is one. Another parliament, without a veto, is at Holyrood. It will have a say, however, and a noisy one, in the months leading up to the next election. In Scotland, Brexit is a faultline that currently looks likely to suit the SNP better than Jackson Carlaw's Tories.

ब्रेक्सिट पर एक अद्यतन के लिए समय, जो दूर नहीं हुआ है, और न ही यूके या ईयू अपने भविष्य के संबंधों पर किसी सौदे के करीब है। बोरिस जॉनसन इस महीने एक शिखर सम्मेलन में जाते हैं, जहां वह निर्णय लेते हैं कि क्या एक समझौते के लिए प्रयास करना जारी रखना है, या चले जाते हैं और 'कोई सौदा नहीं' की उच्च आर्थिक लागत का भुगतान करना है। मत्स्य पालन एक टोटेमिक और एक सौदे के लिए एक वास्तविक बाधा बन गया है, जहां समझौता विशेष रूप से कठिन लगता है, और यहाँ क्यों है।


Meet India's latest Games recruit - Chhotu the monkey

Summary: Athletes and tourists at the Delhi Commonwealth Games will be protected by the Indian army, police - and monkeys. The black-faced langurs are deployed at sporting venues to chase away smaller stray monkeys who have menaced the city for years. Gayathri Sreedharan went on patrol with Chhotu (Little One), the latest addition to stadium security.

The "gorilla warfare monkeys" - as some in the press have dubbed them - are the newest members of the Commonwealth protection team, deployed near sporting venues across Delhi. Chhotu is one of 10 langurs - originally from the state of Rajasthan - specially drafted in by the Delhi Municipal Corporation for the Games. City authorities have used the black-faced simians to combat smaller monkeys regularly - and with good reason. In 2006 a senior Delhi government official fell from his first floor residence after being attacked by a gang of monkeys - he died from his injuries. It seems langurs are the only primates here that can take on the rhesus macaques without fear. Monkey business Chhotu works a long shift - from nine to six and sometimes longer - as part of his contract. His job is to stand guard by Gate Number Three at Talkatora stadium, where the boxing and swimming venues are. Scowl firmly in place from birth, he strolls up and down along the pavement on Mother Teresa Crescent Road, albeit on a leash, making his presence felt. This serves as a warning to other monkeys. But watching and waiting in the sun is no easy task, and snacks and water breaks are hard to come by. For this, his handler is paid 6,400 rupees ($130) per month. Chhotu was brought to Delhi when he was one, and has had three of years of intensive training. Langurs are often treated as pets in north Indian villages, but for Chhotu a life of recreation has been surrendered to a life of work. Training therefore, is essential. He has learnt not to run away, to listen for and obey certain commands like sit, eat, hold, run and catch. Significantly, he has learnt not run too far up into a tree when on a leash - trained langurs often run the risk of accidentally hanging themselves by the chains or ropes around their necks. A langur can cost up to 10,000 rupees ($200), especially those like Chhotu and his three-year-old companion, Raja, another monkey-catcher-in training. That is double the amount charged for a Labrador in India. ''Chhotu is very friendly, really quite harmless, but can be pricey in other ways too,'' his handler Raja Goswami reveals, as his pet primate perches above him on a branch, peering lazily at his surroundings. He lets out a yawn, baring a set of sharp white teeth known to tear through and kill smaller animals in seconds. ''He can be moody, and when angry or irritated he can be difficult to control; but at such times we have to make him a peace offering, something nice to eat, a titbit or sweetmeat. With a snack in hand, he'll climb down in no time,'' Mr Goswami says. His favourites? Chick peas and fruit. "They aren't just a livelihood - they're our friends, no, children! We treat them like our children," Mr Goswami says. "Our days begin and end with them. We wake up, bathe them, feed them, sit them down on the back seat and cycle to work with them. My entire day is spent with my langurs; what else would you expect?'' Langurs are nothing new to Delhi residents who say the rhesus macaques are a big problem. One passer-by on his way to work stopped to admire Chhotu. "We need these creatures more than anything in Delhi," Rajender Singh says. "Bandars [monkeys] are such a problem here, it's difficult to step out with children because we're afraid of what they might do. "I've seen them [langurs] working on the presidential estate - I really respect them for taking on those trouble-makers."

दिल्ली राष्ट्रमंडल खेलों में एथलीटों और पर्यटकों की रक्षा भारतीय सेना, पुलिस और बंदरों द्वारा की जाएगी। काले चेहरे वाले लंगूरों को खेल स्थलों पर तैनात किया जाता है ताकि वे छोटे आवारा बंदरों को खदेड़ सकें जो वर्षों से शहर को खतरे में डाल रहे हैं। गायत्री श्रीधरन छोटू (लिटिल वन) के साथ गश्त पर गई, जो स्टेडियम की सुरक्षा में नवीनतम जोड़ है।


Pedestrian and cycle plan from Aberdeen City Council

Summary: Three Aberdeen city centre streets could become pedestrian and cycle-only from evenings into early morning, under council proposals.

Justice Mill Lane, Langstane Place and Windmill Brae are the focus of the plan, aimed at "enhancing evening activity". The proposal is to make the three streets pedestrian and cycle routes only in the evenings, through the night and into the early morning. This would also be seven days a week. Views sought The council is also considering permanently banning vehicles from a short stretch of Langstane Place between Dee Street and Crown Street, and the permanent introduction of a one-way section on Windmill Brae between Crown Street and Bath Street. Local businesses and residents are being asked for their views on the plans. A report is expected to to go before the council early next year.

परिषद के प्रस्तावों के तहत, एबरडीन शहर के केंद्र की तीन सड़कें पैदल चलने वाली और केवल शाम से सुबह तक साइकिल चलाने वाली बन सकती हैं।


Brexit negotiators removed 'adequate' from worker rights plan

Summary: An internal UK government memo on the consequences of Boris Johnson's Brexit deal renegotiation singles out the removal of the word "adequate" from the UK-EU Political Declaration to describe mechanisms for enforcing common social, environmental, and labour standards after Brexit.

By Faisal IslamEconomics editor The word "adequate" appears to have been replaced by the word "appropriate". Extracts of a note written for the government's cross-Whitehall Economic Partnership Steering Group, and seen by the BBC, say the "parties will include "appropriate" (rather than "adequate") mechanisms for dispute settlement" of key "level playing field commitments" in a future trade deal with the European Union. The consequence of that change, the note says, is that it means that it is now possible to argue it is "inappropriate for the future UK-EU relationship" that disputes about these commitments on employment, environment, tax, state aid and other standards should be subject to binding arbitration. Level playing field The memo, first leaked to the Financial Times and marked "Official Sensitive", contains a series of claimed negotiation wins from the Brexit deal renegotiation, weakening the scope and strength of Level Playing Field Commitments (LPF), a crucial element in a future UK-EU trade arrangement. "The previous Protocol applied wide-ranging LPF measures on a UK-wide bases as a response to UK access to the EU market through the single customs territory. "UK negotiators successfully resisted the inclusion of all UK-wide LPF rules" says the memo, with the last four words put in bold for emphasis. "The only level playing field provisions in the revised Protocol are those necessary to support the operation of the Single Electricity Market and state aid measures that affect trade between NI and the EU," it says. The title of the memo is "Update to EPSG (Economic Partnership Steering Group) on Level Playing Field Negotiations". This is the first acknowledgement that changing the Level Playing Field commitments agreed by Theresa May was a specific aim of the PM's renegotiation. Weaker provisions In public, the PM focused on changing what he referred to as "the anti-democratic backstop", which had been rejected by the government's parliamentary allies, the Democratic Unionists. In the end, the PM's new solution, creating a new trade and regulatory border in the Irish Sea, further alienated the DUP. Backbench eurosceptic Conservative MPs have, however, been won over to the deal. Theresa May's original 2018 deal included a range of specific enforceable common standards for the UK and the EU within the legally binding Withdrawal Treaty. Some of these standards were related to EU law, others referred to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development), International Labour Organisation and the Council of Europe. These were all removed, along with the backstop, and the only reference remaining in the overall deal was in the non-binding Political Declaration. The memo shows that within Whitehall, weakening these provisions was a key part of the renegotiation. Regarded as an internal success, their removal paves the way for a "much more open starting point for future relationship negotiations" that allow for "a range of landing zones" for a future deal. 'Exaggerated' "The Political Declaration text provides us with a framework for negotiating FTA-style commitments on Level Playing Field," the memo concludes under the headline "Next Steps". That is a reference to the fact that, unlike the original Brexit deal agreed by Theresa May, dispute settlement mechanisms have not applied to existing standard EU Free Trade Agreements. Sam Lowe, trade fellow at the Centre for European Reform, said: "The Level Playing Field commitments in the EU's Free Trade Agreements with Canada and Japan are unenforceable, because they are specifically excluded from the dispute settlement mechanisms. The government appears to be aiming for the same treatment." Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, Conservative Party chairman James Cleverly rejected suggestions there are attempts to relax workplace rights or environmental protections. "In many areas we have already gone further than the European Union," he said. "We are making hard improvements on worker rights through an increase in the National Living Wage." The government was also strengthening rules on maritime protection and animal welfare, he added. On Saturday, ministers said stories about the leaked memo were "not correct" and "way exaggerated". The government also said: "The UK government has no intention of lowering the standards of workers' rights or environmental protection after we leave the EU. "UK level playing field commitments will be negotiated in the context of the future UK-EU free trade agreement, where we will achieve a balance of rights and obligations which reflect the scope and depth of the future relationship."

बोरिस जॉनसन के ब्रेक्सिट सौदे की पुनः वार्ता के परिणामों पर एक आंतरिक यूके सरकार के ज्ञापन में ब्रेक्सिट के बाद सामान्य सामाजिक, पर्यावरणीय और श्रम मानकों को लागू करने के लिए तंत्र का वर्णन करने के लिए यूके-ईयू राजनीतिक घोषणा से "पर्याप्त" शब्द को हटाने का उल्लेख किया गया है।


Covid-19: 'Getting married is the most important thing'

Summary: Covid lockdowns and restrictions have thrown many wedding plans into disarray over the past year. Following the prime minister's announcement on Monday , there is hope that they can go ahead later in 2021. What does this mean for the industry and to those waiting to tie the knot?

By Kate Scotter and Phil ShepkaBBC News, East 'We're having two weddings' Lucy Scragg and Chris Roe not only work in the wedding industry but are also engaged to get married. They had plans for the end of last year but, like many others, postponed their special day. The couple, who run a bridal business in Chelmsford, put it back to May this year. After Monday's announcement, they decided to bring it forward to April, with 15 guests at Copdock Hall, near Ipswich. They then plan to return to the same venue to have a "big wedding" next summer, with 170 guests. Miss Scragg, 32, says: "Getting married and having a baby is the most important thing to us right now." Covid restrictions and rules around weddings Mr Roe, 34, adds: "We have decided, after the announcement, to bring our wedding forward a bit more, hopefully by about month, and just have 15 people so we can still be married. "Then we are going to postpone our big wedding until next year so we can have all of the guests there. "It's been so difficult to get excited about planning the wedding because we don't know what's going to happen. "We haven't been able to be excited about planning a wedding because until now we didn't even know what we were going to do about our wedding." 'We have confidence for the future' For wedding photographer Carl Middleton, the pandemic has hit his business hard. He says he would normally be capturing images at 40 weddings a year - but has only been to five in the past 12 months. His wife, who is also a wedding photographer and director of the firm, has had to take on a temporary part-time job and he says they got a "tiny bit" of furlough money. Mr Middleton says although Monday's announcement has given them "some sort of good future from June onwards, it's wiping out all of the first part of this year as well". The Ipswich-based photographer says from the moment Boris Johnson made the announcement on Monday, his phone has been "ringing off the hook". "A lot of people whose wedding falls just before 21 June are all trying to move to July or August or next year, so we've got a very empty calendar for the start of this year but then it gets very, very busy after June," he says. Mr Middleton, who has been a photographer for 18 years, says the announcement gives them "confidence for the future, certainly for weddings in 2022", which he says they expect to be back to "completely normal". However, he fears "people's confidence in big weddings is going to be eroded" and thinks they can expect to see few years of a lot smaller weddings going ahead. 'It's almost like the floodgates have opened' "There is light at the end of the tunnel," says wedding venue owner Ian Evans. "To say from 21 June you can now operate normally is a huge relief and weight off our shoulders." Mr Evans, who runs Copdock Hall, a Grade-II Elizabethan barn, near Ipswich, welcomes Monday's announcement. He says: "It was actually really good and useful for a business like us who have been frustrated over the last 12 months because basically we didn't know what we could and couldn't do. "Now it's quite clear, we can do weddings for 15 people for a certain time, then 30. "But most importantly from the end of June onwards we can have normal weddings with normal ceremonies, discos and drinks, everything you'd expect to have at a wedding. "So actually, yes it's a bit frustrating that it's a bit slower than we'd want, but actually having a date where we can start is a godsend." He says the past year has been "painful", not only for his business but also for other venues, suppliers, DJs, caterers, hairdressers and everyone associated with the industry. "And of course it's been very painful for couples who are looking forward to their big day but then can't put a date in the diary," he adds. But, he says, Monday's announcement has brought some "certainty" and the "phone hasn't stopped ringing" "It's almost like the floodgates have opened, not just for existing clients, but the new ones." 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 Coronavirus (COVID-19)- guidance and support - GOV.UK

कोविड लॉकडाउन और प्रतिबंधों ने पिछले एक साल में कई शादी की योजनाओं को अस्त-व्यस्त कर दिया है। सोमवार को प्रधान मंत्री की घोषणा के बाद, उम्मीद है कि वे 2021 में आगे बढ़ सकते हैं। उद्योग और शादी के बंधन में बंधने की प्रतीक्षा करने वालों के लिए इसका क्या मतलब है?


Facebook beheading video: Who was Mexico's Jane Doe?

Summary: A film of a woman being beheaded in Mexico caused an international outcry in October when Facebook refused to remove it from its site. There have been hundreds of reports about the video - but why has no-one identified the victim in it?

By Will GrantBBC News, Mexico City In the grainy footage, the woman is on her knees in jeans and a pink top, before a masked man holding a knife behind her says in a gruff voice: "Well, gentleman, this is what happens to all those in the Gulf Cartel. On behalf of Los Zetas." The rest of the video is a gruesome 40 seconds of cold-blooded murder, which caused international controversy recently when it was posted on Facebook. "Irresponsible" was the word used by the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, about the social network's policy permitting the video to be uploaded. After a day or so of impassioned debate on both sides, Facebook reversed its decision and took the video down. Needless to say, it is still easy enough to find online, especially in Mexico. There are numerous websites dedicated to uploading videos of "narco-killings" or murders similar to the Facebook example. Yet despite the fact the victim is clearly identifiable and that presumably someone somewhere in Mexico must recognise her - as their wife, daughter or sister - no-one has come forward to name her. As far as the BBC has been able to ascertain, there is no investigation under way in Mexico to establish the woman's identity, or find the culprits of her murder. "The place to start [such an investigation] is with the municipal police," says Dr George Grayson, one of world's authorities on Los Zetas and author of the book, The Executioner's Men, about the criminal organisation. The problem, he says, is that although many municipal police officers may work for the public during the day - and sometimes even that is questionable - at night they work for the cartel. As such, he says, fear is a powerful tool used by both the Zetas and their rivals. "People are reluctant to report crimes, even heinous crimes. State forces are not much better in terms of their corruption and their collaboration with the cartels." Meanwhile, the unfortunate lady in the controversial film continues to be nameless and with no known identity - a "Jane Doe", reminiscent of dozens, perhaps hundreds of others who met a grisly end on camera in Mexico. In the case of the Facebook victim, one is faced with an even more basic problem when trying to identify her. Based on the non-descript wasteland in the video clip, it is almost impossible to establish where in Mexico she was killed and therefore which local authorities are responsible for investigating her murder. In essence, the act could have happened almost anywhere in the country where there is drug-related violence. Los Zetas' and Gulf Cartel's areas of influence, Oct 2013 Q&A: Mexico's drug-related violence Stratfor: Cartel influence map "This gets to the heart of one of Mexico's biggest dramas - and that's the issue of investigation," says newspaper columnist, Julian Andrade, who has also published a number of books on the drug war. "Remember that statistics show we have a 96-98% rate of impunity. The majority of crimes are never going to be investigated here in Mexico. This is the profound problem - that even high profile cases like this one which make an impact in the world's media still reflect the incapacity of the authorities to carry out investigations." The BBC was due to interview the National Security Commissioner in Mexico, Manuel Mondragon, to pose questions about security and the investigation into the beheading which appeared on Facebook. Despite repeated requests, the security commissioner's office has still not granted us an interview or made any comment on the video. It may be the case, of course, that the woman in the film was deeply entrenched in the drug war as an active member of the Gulf Cartel, as her killer intimated before the attack. But George Grayson says it is almost impossible to know for sure what her supposed crime against Los Zetas was. "Often these ghoulish events take the form of settling scores against someone who has offended Los Zetas or is in conflict with Los Zetas," he says. It's possible she was just a relative or friend of a member of a rival drug gang, and was killed for revenge. He recounts a story he has written about in the past in which a woman in Nuevo Laredo, said to be an informant, was allegedly beaten to death by the sadistic former leader of Los Zetas, Miguel Angel Trevino or "Z-40", in front of an assembled group of corrupt policemen, sending out a clear message not to cross the cartel. "Twenty to 25 years ago, women were involved in the narco-trade but you typically didn't kill women. Now all the rules have changed and the Zetas have been the main impulse in changing the rules." Despite the reams of words written about the Facebook beheading video, seemingly no-one asked the basic question, "Who was this woman?" If her murder is now considered so normal in today's Mexico that it doesn't even merit an investigation, in the final analysis, it is perhaps this - rather than any decision by Facebook - that is the most "irresponsible" element of this brutal killing. Follow @BBCNewsMagazine on Twitter and on Facebook

मेक्सिको में एक महिला का सिर कलम किए जाने की फिल्म ने अक्टूबर में अंतरराष्ट्रीय स्तर पर आक्रोश पैदा कर दिया जब फेसबुक ने इसे अपनी साइट से हटाने से इनकार कर दिया। वीडियो के बारे में सैकड़ों खबरें आई हैं-लेकिन इसमें किसी ने पीड़ित की पहचान क्यों नहीं की?


Look out for a 4G Tuesday

Summary: It's the biggest week of the year in the mobile phone world, with Apple launching its new iPhone in California on Wednesday. But for some industry watchers - at least in Britain - an event the day before in London looks even more important because at the Science Museum on Tuesday we will begin to see the shape of 4G Britain.

Rory Cellan-JonesTechnology correspondent@BBCRoryCJon Twitter Everything Everywhere (EE) - that's T-Mobile and Orange to normal people who haven't spent millions on an outlandish new brand - has summoned journalists to the museum in an invitation which gives little away. "Please join us for exciting information on our new brand and the latest innovation in network technology," the company says. The latest innovation is obviously 4G. After all, 11 September is the day from which Ofcom has allowed EE to use some of its existing spectrum for a fourth generation network, a move which has infuriated rival operators. But another new brand? Perhaps it will be Something, Somewhere, because it isn't clear at this stage exactly what kind of 4G service will be provided to customers and in which parts of the country. Still, I'm now hearing rumours that the event will provide news that could really shake up the mobile landscape. We had thought that EE's 4G might not be up and running until the end of the year, and then only for people using broadband dongles. But a source tells me that the company will announce deals that will see four or five devices available very soon to consumers wanting to go 4G. On Saturday the Financial Times reported that Nokia was in talks with Everything Everywhere to make the network the exclusive launch partner for the new Lumia phones it launched in New York last week. I understand that the two Nokia phones will be among those announced for the network's 4G service on Tuesday. If that is indeed the case, then it will be good for both partners. Nokia, which made little or no mention of 4G and said nothing about network deals at its New York event last week, was obviously keeping its powder dry. Now it could have a great launchpad for the Lumia 920 and 820, combining with Everything Everywhere to advertise them as the UK's first 4G phones. The 920, which already looked a very attractive product in the brief moments I had my hands on it last week, will have something to make it stand out from the crowd - in the UK at least. For Everything Everywhere, whose 4G network may now have a year's start on its rivals, there is the opportunity to get people experiencing faster speeds and new services with a manufacturer which will be very keen to cooperate. But there are a couple of shadows looming over the Everything Everywhere event. The fact that it is being held the day before Apple's launch suggests either that the network does not have a deal to sell the new iPhone, or that the device will not be compatible with its particular brand of 4G. One imagines that EE's executives were desperate to offer Apple just about any deal, in order to be the only operator offering a 4G iPhone in the UK, but it now seems unlikely that will happen. Of course, if it does, then Nokia's phone will look much less attractive. The other shadow is the one that has darkened the outlook for 4G in this country for years, the threat of legal action. Ever since Ofcom announced its ruling allowing Everything Everywhere to go ahead with its early 4G plan, Vodafone and O2 have been muttering darkly about doing something to stop it. Both know that any legal move which stopped consumers getting a service already available in many parts of the world would make them look bad. But if the service unveiled on Tuesday looks like a real threat to their profits and market share, they may decide that they cannot afford not to unleash their lawyers. A fascinating week ahead then in the chess game which is the UK's mobile phone market - we will try to keep you abreast of all the latest moves.

यह मोबाइल फोन की दुनिया में साल का सबसे बड़ा सप्ताह है, जिसमें एप्पल ने बुधवार को कैलिफोर्निया में अपना नया आईफोन लॉन्च किया। लेकिन कुछ उद्योग देखने वालों के लिए-कम से कम ब्रिटेन में-लंदन में एक दिन पहले का कार्यक्रम और भी महत्वपूर्ण लगता है क्योंकि मंगलवार को विज्ञान संग्रहालय में हम 4जी ब्रिटेन का आकार देखना शुरू कर देंगे।


Poppi Worthington death: Man and woman's bail cancelled

Summary: Two people arrested over the death of a 13-month-old girl have had their bail cancelled, Cumbria Police has said.

Poppi Iris Worthington died in December 2012, and her father, Paul, 46, and a 30-year-old woman were later arrested. An inquest in October ruled the cause of death could not be ascertained and their bail has now been cancelled. Police said the inquiry was continuing and a file had been passed to the Crown Prosecution Service for consideration whether to bring criminal proceedings.

कुम्ब्रिया पुलिस ने कहा है कि 13 महीने की बच्ची की मौत के मामले में गिरफ्तार किए गए दो लोगों की जमानत रद्द कर दी गई है।


Recycle week: Three eco-warriors share their tips

Summary: Recycling and how to cut down on single-use plastic has become a hot topic of conversation in recent years. Plenty of people get rid of their cardboard, glass and tins responsibly, but how do you go the extra mile? Three women championing recycling in their corners of England share their top tips.

Get scheming Erika Shilling felt so strongly about recycling plastic she started a scheme for the town of Ilkley in West Yorkshire. The 51-year-old uses Terracycle, a company that accepts certain recyclable plastics by post that would otherwise go to landfill, and encourages people to put them in a yellow wheelie bin in the alley behind her house. "I thought, I can't just keep throwing my stuff away knowing what damage is being done," she said. "I thought I'd become a public drop-off point and let the whole of Ilkley recycle their stuff too. Ms Shilling said the most popular items dropped off are crisp packets, toothpaste tubes, toothbrushes and hair colouring kits. "I collect the rubbish, then I take it out and separate it into the different types and send it off to the different recycling schemes I've joined. "Terracycle pays the postage and my local Tesco gives me boxes to send it off in. I'm now looking at how we can expand plastic recycling in Ilkley and get more people involved." Look at the problem Claire Mills runs Rubbish Baskets, a course in village halls and homes that teaches people how to turn waste plastic into yarn baskets. "My children have learnt a lot since I have been making the baskets," said the 38-year-old from Pitstone, Buckinghamshire. "I try and teach them how everything takes energy to make, so the more we use something the better it is for the environment, but the less we use in the first place the better still. "I'm still working on teaching them that recycling their old toys by passing them on to other children is a really good idea but they're not convinced on that one." Ms Mills also cuts up her children's old school shirts to make cleaning cloths and takes plastic tubs to the shops to collect her groceries in. She said society needed to bin its "out of sight, out of mind" approach to waste and that changing language could be the key to changing our behaviour. "Say you're 'sending it to landfill' - because 'throwing away' suggests rubbish is magically disappearing and is no longer our problem," she added. Tips from Recycle Now The building blocks of change Dr Lorena Nessi is launching PastPlastic, a business to help people go plastic-free with alternatives to disposable household items. She fills bottles with waste plastic like bags, crisp packets, straws and cling film before donating to a not-for-profit enterprise called Ecobricks, which uses reusable building blocks. "Coincidentally my daughter's school became involved in a project with the local supermarket to make Ecobricks," said the sociologist, who specialises in culture and consumption. "The children made enough bricks to build an animal shelter for a farm in Chipping Norton. After the project was over I carried on and now I go around collecting Ecobricks and I take them to a collection point near Bristol. "Once you see how much you can fit inside a bottle you will realise how much plastic you are using." Dr Nessi, from Great Rollright in Oxfordshire, packs lunches to avoid buying pre-packaged food and carries a reusable coffee mug with her. "We need to think about the items we are choosing as consumers and how we're going to put them back into the environment," she said. "Try to start with small changes for a week and see how you get on."

रीसाइक्लिंग और एकल-उपयोग वाले प्लास्टिक पर कटौती करना हाल के वर्षों में चर्चा का एक गर्म विषय बन गया है। बहुत से लोग अपने कार्डबोर्ड, कांच और टिन से जिम्मेदारी से छुटकारा पाते हैं, लेकिन आप अतिरिक्त प्रयास कैसे करते हैं? इंग्लैंड के अपने कोनों में रीसाइक्लिंग करने वाली तीन महिलाओं ने अपने शीर्ष सुझाव साझा किए।