Covid-19: Sandringham Royal Family fans left 'disappointed'

Summary: For the past 32 years the Queen and other members of the Royal Family have spent Christmas at her estate in Sandringham, Norfolk. But this year, because of the coronavirus, the Queen has chosen instead to celebrate "quietly" at Windsor Palace. What will this mean for the Christmas regulars who gather at Sandringham?

By Mariam IssimdarBBC News Royal snap 'like a lottery win' Karen Anvil and her daughter Rachel are regular Christmas Day visitors to church in Sandringham. Ms Anvil shot to fame three years ago after her mobile telephone snap of the 'Fab Four' - The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Sussex - was bought by agencies and used worldwide. She describes the money she made from it as being "like a lottery win". Her good fortune was repeated in 2018 when she took and sold a photo of a pregnant Meghan. "I would have liked to have gone this year but would probably have just got pictures of them in their face masks," says Ms Anvil. But she admits seeing the Royal Family at Sandringham this year would have brought some much needed "normality" to her life. Ms Anvil works as a nursing auxiliary at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, where her daughter is also employed. She says they might volunteer to work Christmas Day instead. On first-name terms Mary Relph, from Shouldham in Norfolk, is one of those Royal fans who gets her Christmas Day started by joining the throngs hoping to catch a glimpse, a wave or a chat with the Queen and members of her family. She is known to the Queen by her first name, which, for someone who is not an aristocrat, politician or celebrity, is no mean feat. Mrs Relph has been turning out each year to greet Her Majesty on Christmas morning since 1988. "Ooh it's one of the biggest events Norfolk ever has, isn't it?" she says. She is disappointed by the cancellation of this year's gathering, but thinks the Queen has set an example to others by not going to Sandringham. "I wasn't expecting them to come, not really, not after all the trouble with the [Covid-19] virus," says Mrs Relph. "I think she's wise. I think we sort of knew with events she wouldn't come." For her Sandringham visits, Mrs Relph is usually accompanied either by a friend from Dereham or with a Glaswegian friend she made one year amongst the crowd. She says she normally gets her own "spot" from which she can watch and speak to members of the Royal Family. "I'm one of the chosen few, I think, because I've been going for so many years," she says. "I don't have to stand and queue at the gates like I used to. It's wonderful. "We spoke to Kate last year and we always ask her about the children and what they're doing." 'It makes our Christmas' Peter Gray, 61, and his wife Stella, 60, live on the Sandringham estate in the hamlet of Babingley. Turning out to watch the Royals has been part of their Christmas morning routine for the past eight years. "It just makes our Christmas," says Mrs Gray. "It's a good start to the day. We're up there by 07:00 GMT, take a flask, mince pies, sometimes brandy!" Her husband Peter is a keen photographer and loves snapping the Royal Family. He says his relatives in Australia wait for him to post his photos online. "The rest of the family are going to be disappointed not to get my Royal photos this year," says Mr Gray. "We get there and start queuing, start talking to people from all around the world. It's not just about seeing the royals, it's about the people from China, Canada, Australia and the US too. "We stand by the same place each year to ensure a good spot, by the gate, as they come through. They don't normally talk to you heading into church but they do afterwards." Mrs Gray says she has been a royal fan "forever". "I've spoken to Camilla, she's come up and said 'Merry Christmas'. Prince William has come up and said 'hello', too," she says. "Prince Andrew has come up and been err, 'what are you all doing here? You should be at home'. He's quite abrupt! "I don't think he understands why we're all out there in the freezing cold wanting to look round and see him, but we enjoy it." She says things will be "different" this year, and a "bit strange". "I suppose there are people for whom the day is their whole lives," she says. "It's certainly a big part of our Christmas Day. But we're realists and it is what it is. "Maybe next year." 'Everybody is happy' Also wondering how he will fill his Christmas morning is hair salon owner Tom Tokelove, 31, who lives in Dersingham, Norfolk, with his husband Ashley. The couple and their three poodles have spent the past four Christmases "freezing" outside St Mary Magdalene Church. "Why? It's such a magical morning," says Tom Tokelove. "Everybody is happy. "Even if you're not a massive royalist, it brings everyone together and it's just some way of keeping some sort of tradition." The couple start the day with a glass of champagne before walking the 20 minutes to the estate. "Last year we left at seven in the morning just to make sure we got there in the front of the queue," he says. "We really, really wanted to see Kate and Wills. Kate said 'good morning' to myself as she glided by, looking very elegant with the children, too. "And Charles waved and said 'Merry Christmas'." The Tokeloves usually only stop to watch the Royal Family head into church. But last year they stayed on and joined in with the carols as the service was broadcast to those outside. "It will be a much different dog walk this year - obviously there'll be no Royals about to celebrate with," says Mr Tokelove. "[We'll] probably drink much more champagne in the morning and have a more relaxed day." 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 Sandringham

पिछले 32 वर्षों से महारानी और शाही परिवार के अन्य सदस्यों ने सैंड्रिंघम, नॉरफ़ॉक में अपनी संपत्ति में क्रिसमस बिताया है। लेकिन इस साल, कोरोनावायरस के कारण, रानी ने इसके बजाय विंडसर पैलेस में "चुपचाप" मनाने का विकल्प चुना है। सैंड्रिंघम में इकट्ठा होने वाले क्रिसमस नियमित लोगों के लिए इसका क्या मतलब होगा?


The secret world of the UK's immigration removal centres

Summary: Every year, tens of thousands of would-be immigrants to the UK are taken to detention centres while the authorities seek to deport them. What happens to them once they get there and become isolated from the outside world?

By Catrin Nye BBC Asian Network and Newsnight Edwin Sandy is watching a football match between fellow inmates at Dover immigration removal centre in Kent, as he tells the BBC what life in detention is like. "Who's playing? There's Albanians, Sierra Leone, French, Arab, Moroccan. Very international match," he says. Dover holds about 300 people, and there is tough competition to be one of the 10 selected each day to play football. Despite the camaraderie of the game, Sandy feels isolated because so few of the other inmates have English as their mother tongue. "Every day you meet new people, people coming in and out, and different nationalities. There's a language barrier. It's like a mental asylum, it's very crazy," he says. Sandy gives his account of life inside the centre by mobile phone - reporters are not allowed on the premises. Now 35, he says he came to the UK from Sierra Leone when he was 13, but recently lost his right to remain in this country because of an 18-month stay in jail after being convicted of kidnapping a woman he lived with in 2001 - a conviction he continues to contest. The authorities in Sierra Leone have denied him the right to live there too, because they say his passport is a fake. When an attempt was made to deport him, he was sent back to the UK, where he was detained. There is no time limit restricting how long detainees stay, although the Home Office says most are removed within two months. Some, like Sandy, stay far longer. "I've actually been here 10 months now and I'm starting to feel stress now. I don't sleep at nights. I spend a lot of time thinking about what the outcome is going to be like," he says. Like most detainees, he has had to share sleeping accommodation for some of that time, and was one of six in the same room at one point. He now has his own room, but says the conditions in which he is being held add to his anxiety. He says: "The food in here is rubbish. People spit on the floors, there's people even using showers as toilets. It's very, very shocking." Sandy is one of a number of detainees around the country whom BBC Asian Network managed to contact. The often harrowing calls were recorded over a period of three months. In the recordings, the inmates tell variously of jail-like conditions, of fights breaking out, and say their medical complaints are not taken seriously by staff. "The healthcare? You go there, they tell you you are faking it. Any time you go to healthcare, they say you trying to help your case," says a woman who gives her name as Nozuko, and says she is from South Africa. Four months ago, her working visa expired and she was brought to Yarl's Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire - a facility mostly for female detainees - where she is still waiting for her asylum claim to be heard. Tiny wage One of the many complaints she makes about life in Yarl's Wood is the use of detainees as cheap labour. Although technically unable to work in the UK, special legislation means inmates can be employed within the centres, serving food or cleaning. The centres are exempt from the minimum wage, and the detainees earn a tiny wage, which they can spend in the centre's shop. "The women here are not legally allowed to work outside detention. But when they get to Yarl's Wood, they can work, they can do cleaning, they are employed, for £1 an hour," she says. "What is that? Is that the law?" she asks, indignantly. Between them, the 13 immigration removal centres in the UK can hold about 3,000 people at any one time. More than 30,000 people passed through them in 2013 - and Nozuko says the high turnover brings its own problems. "You get used to this roommate and then they are gone. They are taken back home. Then you get another person, they are crying. You see women as old as your mother," she said "You are sleeping and men are going to open your door. There is no dignity in this place." Shinda Bajwa speaks to the BBC from Harmondsworth immigration removal centre in Middlesex, the largest in Europe. He complained of bullying by staff and having his pictures torn down from the wall of his room. "It is worse than prison. To be honest to you, I want to even go to prison, prison is better than this," he says. He is 35 and from India, and was discovered to be in the UK illegally after he was arrested for shoplifting. Bajwa agreed to be deported 11 years ago - but India refuses to allow him to return because he has no passport. So he is in limbo, and has been in and out of detention ever since. Some craft activities are laid on for the inmates, they are allowed to watch TV and to study and use the internet. Bajwa says he is in no mood to use any of the facilities though. "I really don't know what to do. I'm just stressed out. I can't sleep, because I don't know what will happen. I cry all day, I stay in my room and then I just cry all night. It's not a life." The Home Office says that detention and removal are essential elements of an effective immigration system and it detains people for as little time as possible. "Detention is used as a last resort. Detainees' welfare is extremely important and we are committed to treating all those in our care with dignity and respect," a Home Office official says. Bajwa was released from detention on bail around two months after he first began speaking to the BBC, by a judge who ruled that the Home Office had proved unable to remove him. He now wears a tag to monitor his movement, which he describes as another form of detention, and he is worried he might be taken back to one of the removal centres that caused him so much distress. "I am out of detention, yeah, but I'm not free," he says. "If they want to put me back in detention, keep me, what can I do?" he says. Additional reporting by Stephanie Harvey and Daniel Gordon. You can listen to Catrin's full documentary, The Detained, online now.

हर साल, ब्रिटेन में आने वाले हजारों अप्रवासियों को हिरासत केंद्रों में ले जाया जाता है, जबकि अधिकारी उन्हें निर्वासित करने की कोशिश करते हैं। एक बार जब वे वहां पहुंच जाते हैं और बाहरी दुनिया से अलग-थलग हो जाते हैं तो उनका क्या होता है?


Could online bug hunting make me rich?

Summary: It's Thursday night. My wife is out with friends and won't be back until late. The kids are fast asleep. There's nothing on TV I want to watch. But I have idle hands, a laptop and a fast internet connection.

By Mark WardTechnology correspondent, BBC News Whatever can I do to pass the time? Isn't it obvious? I'm going to have a good look for cross-site scripting bugs on popular websites. This is more than just a way to fill an idle hour. More and more security researchers are spending time finding and reporting bugs so they can be fixed. Many companies now run bug bounty programmes that pay people to disclose errors responsibly so they can be fixed, rather than exploited. Apple is the latest to launch such a programme, years after tech rivals such as Facebook and Google. The smartphone giant offers a top reward of $200,000, but its scheme is open only to experienced security researchers who have previously helped Apple - so I don't qualify just yet. "There's a critical talent shortage globally," says Casey Ellis, who started the Bugcrowd site. It now has 30,000 skilled hackers on its books who help to find security bugs on the web. "At the moment there are just not enough good guys to go around," he says, making me wonder if I can join their ranks. Finding flaws I've got a good chance of finding cross-site scripting bugs, which can let attackers inject their own code into web pages viewed by other people. There are lots of them. One estimate by security company Spiderlabs suggests 82% of all web applications suffer from them. That ubiquity should mean the bugs are easy for a clueless newbie like me to find. But where should I start? Apparently, on any site that accepts user input, according to Cameron Dawe, a veteran bug hunter who makes his living by finding flaws on websites and in software. "Everyday features of web applications that rely on user input such as search boxes, 'about me' sections on profiles, and login forms - they're all likely places to find cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities," he says. "I first came across XSS in my early teens without knowing what it was," he said. "I used to put basic HTML code on some of my profiles online to make my name be a different colour. "I guess this was an early form of harmless XSS. "It wasn't until many years later I learned that executing code like that on websites is a security risk." One problem I will face on my quest to become a master bug hunter is that I am coming relatively late to the game. Many researchers now use automated tools to scour the web for targets and pummel sites with well-known attack strings. And that means the most obvious flaws, the ones I am most likely to find, will have been found and fixed a long time ago. I will have to get creative. So I go for sites I am pretty sure steely-eyed white-hat hackers will not consider: garden centres, haberdashers, plumbing suppliers and running shoe shops. It is a good tactic. I get a hit within a few minutes... and then another. In less than an hour, I find seven sites that do too little to sanitise the words and code strings I submit via their search boxes and forms. Basic bug I am using the most basic approaches to find these bugs, and I am far from expert. There is also the nagging feeling that if I can find these flaws then they cannot be that serious, can they? They can, says Lawrence Munro, European director of Spiderlabs' research team. The types of responses I have managed to get from these sites could be indicative of deeper problems, he said. "Generally a cross-site scripting vulnerability is pretty serious, but there are various levels of severity," Mr Munro said. The ones I found are the least severe, known as reflected XSS, and fire only in very particular circumstances, he said. "An attacker would create a malicious link, using the vulnerability in the website, and entice a user to click on it in an email," said Mr Munro. By following the link, a victim might unknowingly surrender small text files known as cookies to an attacker. That could let an attacker hijack their account. Matt Lewis, a security expert at the NCC Group, who regularly audits web apps, says many are vulnerable in the most basic ways. "The biggest problem we have seen is where people have developed web applications without knowing how to write secure code," he said. "They should never trust what comes from the browser," he added. "That should be every web developer's mantra. Yet it still happens that we find these flaws." While a site may not suffer the consequences of an XSS bug, it might put their users at risk. Suddenly stories about data breaches start to make more sense - a vulnerable site might be abused by cyber bad guys who use the data they steal to get at accounts which those victims have on other sites. If the bad guys can snare an administrator's account via an XSS bug, that can let them reach deep into a site and get at its core data - just as if they were that employee. Misuse and abuse When I tell Mr Munro about what I have found, he raises the question of the legality of this code-based poking around. "Most of the Computer Misuse Act is about intent, but if you don't own the system, you're at risk," he said. This has been worrying me, because one of the sites I got a hit on was High Street retailer Debenhams. It came up in my search for haberdashery shops, and I tried it just because it was on the page of search results. I yelped when the XSS bug fired on that site. Disclosure - publicly revealing a security flaw - is always tricky, said Mr Munro. Some companies ignore the warnings, others dismiss them as trivial, and now and then they accuse the bug's discoverer of being a malicious hacker and seek legal redress. Sites that run bug bounty programs help avoid such accusations. Debenhams is so well-known that I decide to contact it directly. But by the time I have sought advice about how to describe the bug, the site has been hardened against it. My basic attack string no longer fires. Online, I find a bug report from a researcher that seems to have prompted Debenhams to tighten up its site. I quiz the retailer's press office, asking for information about how it was fixed. "We don't comment on cybersecurity issues," said a spokeswoman. If there is one lesson to take away from this, it is that the bug hunting hobbies of hackers can make the web a safer place. They may use the same tactics as the cyber-thieves but do it for positive results, said Mr Casey from Bugcrowd. And because of that, it's appropriate that they should get rewarded rather than slated for what they find, he said. "These are my friends," he said. "I grew up in the hacker community. I want to keep them out of jail and I want them to get paid."

गुरुवार की रात है। मेरी पत्नी दोस्तों के साथ बाहर है और देर तक वापस नहीं आएगी। बच्चे सो रहे हैं। टीवी पर कुछ भी नहीं है जिसे मैं देखना चाहता हूं। लेकिन मेरे पास बेकार हाथ, एक लैपटॉप और एक तेज़ इंटरनेट कनेक्शन है।


Gemma Chan: The Homecoming is 'very full on'

Summary: Humans star Gemma Chan is the sole actress in a 50th anniversary production of Harold Pinter's Homecoming, a darkly ambiguous look at issues including masculinity, abuse and repression surrounding the return of one of three brothers to his father's London home.

By Kev GeogheganArts and entertainment reporter The play co-stars John Simm, Keith Allen, Ron Cook, Gary Kemp and John Macmillan. Chan plays Ruth, the wife of Teddy, the eldest and most successful of three sons who has returned to London from the US where he is greeted by his physically and mentally abusive father and his brothers and uncle. Gemma - this play is quite an intense experience for the audience and, we suspect, the cast? Yes it's full on, it doesn't let up at all - you can't drop your concentration for a second. It's a wonderful play because there's no fat on there. In every moment there is something going on, the power is shifting or the dynamics of the scene. I've not watched it from the outside but when you're in it, it's very full on. It's been 50 years since it was written, does it still resonate? It's wonderful writing and Pinter, in a way, these characters he created - particularly the male characters and their attitudes and the way they behave - it's still quite shocking. I can't imagine how shocking it would have been in 1965 but I think he created characters that are still incredibly interesting. The traits that you see in certain characters you can still see in society today. I still think the play's got something to say and I love my character - she's been fascinating to explore and try and understand where she's coming from. A lot of people think she's controversial and ask why she behaves the way she behaves, and it's been really interesting trying to work that out. There's a great deal of ambiguity in the role of Ruth. There is a lot of ambiguity with the character and in [Pinter's] text, but as you work on it you have to make choices and decide what your truth is. It was interesting to work with [director] Jamie [Lloyd] and the other actors to say: "What is the truth with these characters, what's happened between Teddy and Ruth and their marriage?" And could that change after you start doing more performances? It could well change. We've got three months to go and I have my own ideas of what she might do next and I'm looking forward to getting to grips with that. What about getting to grips with the text? With Pinter everyone says it's as much about the pauses as the lines of dialogue. I've loved it. I love a pause and a silence so I will happily milk those. But Jamie said to us when we were rehearsing: "You've got to explore why the pause might be there, they're not just there by coincidence." He's put them there for a reason - sometimes it might just be because he thinks there will be a laugh, other times there's something going on between the characters and you have to allow that to be alive on stage. It's been really technical but once you have examined it forensically, you can then just enjoy what he's written. You're the only actress in the cast - most of the actors are a lot older than you, have they shared their experiences? I'm the same age as John Macmillan (who plays amateur boxer Joey) but I can't compete with their anecdotes during rehearsal, they have a few between them. They have been wonderful - there are quite a few personalities in there but I can honestly say that we didn't fall out once, which was great. All the drama was in the scenes, there's been a lot of laughter. Your career is very much taking flight right now with the success of things like Humans on Channel 4, what's next? I don't know, I haven't really got a master plan. After this, I have to do Humans series two and that's five months of next year. Then I'm open to to anything interesting that comes up. Humans was a big success, tapping into our fears in our tech-obsessed age, was that something you recognised? Absolutely, I have a love/hate relationship with technology. It's frightening how much we rely on it but how little we understand it and when it breaks, we're screwed because we don't know how to fix it. I hate that but at the same time, I couldn't live with without it. I think the show's resonated with people because of their dependence on and wariness of rapidly advancing technology. Have you seen the scripts for series two? Do you know where its going? I haven't, I've heard some rumours but they are keeping me in the dark too. Where would you like to see it heading? I'd love to see it expand and to see what's going on in other parts of the world. I'd love the characters to be moving on and exploring, particularly my character. I've heard that the scripts are very good though. The Homecoming runs at the Trafalgar Studios until 13 February.

ह्यूमन स्टार जेम्मा चैन हैरोल्ड पिंटर की होमकमिंग की 50वीं वर्षगांठ के निर्माण में एकमात्र अभिनेत्री हैं, जो तीन भाइयों में से एक की अपने पिता के लंदन घर वापसी के आसपास मर्दानगी, दुर्व्यवहार और दमन सहित मुद्दों पर एक गहरा अस्पष्ट नज़र है।


Former Keighley teacher accused of sexually abusing boys

Summary: A former deputy head teacher has appeared in court accused of sexually abusing two young boys more than a decade ago.

Stephen Loryman, 58, who previously worked in Keighley, appeared at Bradford Crown Court earlier. He denied four charges of sexual assault against the boys between 2008 and 2010. Mr Loryman, of Burnsall Mews, Silsden, West Yorkshire, was granted bail until a trial date set for 30 November. The trial is expected to last for five days.

एक पूर्व उप प्रधान शिक्षक एक दशक से अधिक समय पहले दो युवा लड़कों के यौन शोषण के आरोप में अदालत में पेश हुआ है।


Dover cemetery death: Two people face murder charges

Summary: A man and a woman have been charged with murder after the body of a man was discovered in a cemetery.

Piotr Lacheta, 55, died at the scene in Cowgate Cemetery, Albany Place, Dover, at 07:00 BST on Tuesday. Kent Police charged Claire Lunn, 47 and Justin Burnett, 37, of no fixed address, with murder on Thursday. They have been remanded in custody and are due before Margate Magistrates' Court later. Det Ch Insp Gavin Moss urged witnesses to come forward. Related Internet Links HM Courts Service

कब्रिस्तान में एक पुरुष का शव मिलने के बाद एक पुरुष और एक महिला पर हत्या का आरोप लगाया गया है।


Boris Johnson could regret virtual Parliament victory

Summary: This is what a working majority feels like.

Mark D'ArcyParliamentary correspondent The government's emphatic defeat of moves to bring back online voting for MPs unable to attend Westminster during the pandemic shows that it can comfortably see off the kind of rebellion that plagued Theresa May, and always threatened David Cameron (in his post-coalition mini-majority phase). Pleasure at the victory shone through the professional impassivity of the Chief Whip, Mark Spencer, as he cast the final vote in yesterday's division. This government will not be haunted by its rebels, and will enjoy the kind of room for manoeuvre that was never gifted to Boris Johnson's two predecessors. But could it still prove to be one of those victories that the victor comes to regret. The upshot of yesterday's vote is that the Commons will decide issues through the "Mogg Conga" - the pungent phrase coined by Labour whip Chris Ellmore, for the long queue of MPs which will snake out of the chamber, through Central Lobby, round into a coil in Westminster Hall, and then (via subway) into the parliamentary office block, Portcullis House. Under this method, each vote will take around 40 minutes to complete, which meant that the three votes held on Tuesday 2 June absorbed two hours of MPs' time, provoking much grumbling, including on Twitter. Three votes in a single Commons day is hardly unusual, and there can be many more. On the two days in January when MPs went through the Committee Stage consideration of the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill, there were votes on ten amendments - which would imply getting on for seven hours of voting under the current system. That is surely unsustainable. For the last few weeks the Commons has avoided votes as much as it can; that can't go on much longer. A vote on abortion in Northern Ireland looms, the detailed consideration of the Immigration Bill is sure to involve large numbers of amendments, and their proposers will frequently push them to a vote. We could see MPs wilting in hot weather, drenched in wet weather and furious at spending unproductive hours in a socially-distanced queue. One of the arguments made in favour of the pre-COVID system of voting through the division lobbies is that it gave MPs a chance to tackle ministers about issues of concern, as they all queued to vote. That does not apply here; under the new system the chance of quick useful conversations is minimal. 'Weaponised' Worst of all, for ministers, this is a procedure that could be weaponised. If Labour, or even one of the smaller opposition parties, took it into their heads to bring the Commons to a halt, all they would have to do is force regular votes. This was pointed out by former Chancellor George Osborne, recalling his days as a junior whip, when Tory awkward squaddies like David Davis and David Maclean did just that. (It's worth remembering that the greatest disruption campaign in Commons history was run by Charles Stewart Parnell and his Irish Party, in the 1880s - and Parnell is a great hero of many SNP MPs…..) Then there's the issue of MPs who can't attend for health reasons. At PMQs today, Boris Johnson offered them the prospect of using the proxy voting system already in place for MPs on parental leave, which goes further than the concession made by his Leader of the House, Jacob Rees Mogg, to allow them to participate in question times and statements by video link. There is a lot of sympathy for MPs, like the Education Committee Chair Robert Halfon, who can only participate in full in the work of the Commons, at the risk of their health. 'Pale shadow' To be sure, the virtual Commons is a pale shadow of normal parliamentary working. The debates are stilted and ministers get a much easier ride, the sudden tides and surges in parliamentary opinion which can wrong-foot a government are softened and baffled by Zoom. But for a lot of MPs, and their constituents, it's the only option available. Which is why MPs can expect to return to the issue pretty soon. Mr Rees-Mogg has a motion down to allow limited virtual participation for those MPs, and the Opposition parties have responded with amendments to allow full participation and remote voting, so another debate is coming soon. And a crisis focused government will be spending more political capital on a procedural issue.

एक कामकाजी बहुमत ऐसा ही महसूस करता है।


HMP Littlehey prisoner charged with false imprisonment

Summary: A convicted sex offender has been charged with false imprisonment in connection with an assault on a female prison officer.

Liam McCarthy, 27, has also been charged with actually bodily harm after the incident at HMP Littlehey on 9 January. Cambridgeshire Police said the alleged attack happened at about 10:41 GMT. The prison, near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, houses more than 1,000 male sex offenders.

एक सजायाफ्ता यौन अपराधी पर एक महिला जेल अधिकारी पर हमले के संबंध में झूठे कारावास का आरोप लगाया गया है।


What is the least valuable British coin ever?

Summary: The government has decided to keep the penny piece following a consultation, despite the suggestion from a survey that six in 10 of UK 1p and 2p coins are only used once before being put in a jar or discarded.

By Anthony ReubenBBC Reality Check One argument for the withdrawal of the 1p piece, raised in the government consultation on the subject, is that its value has been falling, meaning that it's becoming less useful compared with the cost of producing and distributing it. This led the Reality Check team to wonder if it is in fact the least valuable British coin there has ever been. And that in turn led us to Queen Anne, who came to the British throne in 1702 pursuing greater political integration between England and Scotland. Five years later, Article 16 of the Act of Union declared that for the first time all of Great Britain would have the same currency - so that seems like a good starting point for British coins. In 1707 the smallest coin was the farthing, which was a quarter of a penny. At the time there were 240 pence to the pound - that was changed in 1971 when the currency went decimal, with 100 pence to the pound, as it is today. If you put the value into the Bank of England's inflation calculator, it turns out that a quarter of a penny in 1707 was worth about 25p in 2018 money. Comparisons of values over such a long period are somewhat difficult to do, with considerable changes in the sorts of things people were buying then and now, but the difference is large enough to be able to say with confidence that you could buy more with a farthing in the early 18th Century than you can with a penny today. The farthing was the smallest coin until 1960, except for a 27 year period in the mid-19th Century under Queen Victoria, when there was a half farthing. Even the half farthing never dipped below a value of five pence in modern terms. After the farthing was withdrawn in 1960, the halfpenny was the lowest denomination coin until its demise in the run-up to decimalisation. The pre-decimal penny was the lowest value coin for a few years until 1971, when the decimal halfpenny took over. The halfpenny was finally withdrawn in 1984 under Margaret Thatcher's government, when it was worth 1.6p in 2018 money, 60% more than a penny piece is today. So we can conclude that since at least 1707, Britain has not had a coin worth less than the current 1p piece. Nonetheless, the government decided to keep the 1p and 2p coins, noting their historic and cultural importance, concerns that prices might go up if prices were rounded up to the nearest 5p and "a number of responses from the seaside amusement industry", which didn't want to lose the "2p push machine". What claims do you want BBC Reality Check to investigate? Get in touch Read more from Reality Check Follow us on Twitter

एक सर्वेक्षण के सुझाव के बावजूद कि ब्रिटेन के 1 पी और 2 पी सिक्कों में से 10 में से छह सिक्कों का उपयोग जार में डालने या फेंकने से पहले केवल एक बार किया जाता है, सरकार ने एक परामर्श के बाद पैसे के टुकड़े को रखने का फैसला किया है।


Policing protests: Containment or contagion?

Summary: In Istanbul it was plans to build on a city centre park.

By Claudia AllenBBC News In Sao Paulo it was an increase in the price of a bus ticket. In both cases seemingly local issues triggered initial protests which then spread around the country. And in both Turkey and Brazil, allegations of police brutality have seemed to fuel the protesters' ire. In Turkey, the unrest began on 28 May as a protest against plans to develop Gezi Park, a rare green space in central Istanbul. After riot police used tear gas and water cannon to clear the park, the demonstrations mushroomed, with thousands of people protesting in Taksim Square, and solidarity protests around the country. The Turkish government later admitted that the violent police response to the initial protests was an overreaction. Tear gas use Medical officials now estimate that 5,000 people have been injured and at least four killed since the protests began in earnest. The police's use of large quantities of tear gas over the past weeks has drawn sharp criticism from the Turkish Medical Association, which has warned of the dangers of exposing large numbers of people to the chemical. Across Brazil, protests have been taking place for more than a week against corruption, inefficient public services and high levels of spending on preparations for next year's World Cup. Anger at police tactics at earlier demonstrations, notably in Sao Paulo a week ago, has given young people more incentive to protest, according to the BBC's Gary Duffy. The police have been accused of firing rubber bullets at peaceful protesters, with many officers allegedly hiding their name-tags to conceal their identities. Journalists from national news organisations were among those injured, and they said they had been deliberately targeted. Both Turkey and Brazil have a quite different style of policing from the more "democratic" British tradition, according to Roger Gomm, a former public order commander for London's Metropolitan Police. Forces in the UK try to use a "community policing" approach to managing protests and put a high value on communicating and negotiating with demonstrators, he says. On the beat The British "bobby" might spend one day walking the beat talking to people and the next deployed on a public order job, so is more used to communicating with locals than an officer from a more military-style police agency such as those found abroad, according to Mr Gomm. "If demonstrators do block an area, there is a balance to be struck between their right to assemble and express their views, and others' right to go about their daily business." In 2009 British Tamils occupied Parliament Square in central London, lobbying the British government to intervene in the Sri Lankan conflict. At times protesters blocked roads, and communication was sometimes difficult, but despite these challenges for the police the protest was allowed to continue, and it slowly wound down over a period of three months. The tactic of containment or "kettling" of protesters has been used extensively by the Metropolitan Police in recent years, notably at the G20 protests in 2009 and at anti-cuts demonstrations in 2011. In a ruling on Tuesday relating to a rally in 2011, High Court judges found that containment was necessary, but they said being filmed and handing over personal details as "the price of release" was a step too far. During the riots in several English cities in August 2011, some commentators called for the police to use water cannon. In fact, water cannon have never been used in mainland Britain, though they have been deployed for unrest in Northern Ireland. Human rights group Liberty claims that there are measures in use in Britain which undermine the right to peaceful protest, pointing out anti-terrorism stop-and-search powers and laws on anti-social behaviour, in particular. Trigger? Former commander Roger Gomm says that when protests become violent, the police are duty bound to act - and then the situation becomes more challenging. "What you want to avoid is police being the trigger" for further unrest, he adds. And that is exactly what can happen according to Steve Reicher, a psychology professor at the University of St Andrews, who says a police clampdown can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Professor Reicher, an expert in crowd psychology, says the balance of voices within a heterogeneous crowd is affected by the relationship between the crowd and the police. Under conditions where the crowd is treated as all the same, and all dangerous, the crowd changes, he says. The police actions have given credence to the views held by some in the crowd that they are living in a society where their opinions aren't listened to. Similarly, authorities' attempts to "pathologise" crowds as looters and vandals, or as immature, can backfire, he claims, pointing to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's exhortation to parents to "take their children in hand". Right to assembly The right to peaceful assembly and to expression of views, referred to by Roger Gomm, is set out in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which Turkey ratified in 1954. In a statement earlier this week on the developments in Turkey, the Council of Europe drew attention to the standards set by the ECHR on freedom of assembly, and its limits. Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland pointed out that the European Court of Human Rights had previously ruled that "the use of tear gas in confined places, including hospitals, is neither necessary nor proportionate" under European law. Technology is changing protests. Not only can protesters use smartphones to arrange flash mobs, they can also use them to take pictures of police. And those pictures can be sent around the world in a flash. This makes it harder for authorities to portray protesters as "other" - or to suppress all coverage of protests - and makes it easier for demonstrators to win the propaganda war.

इस्तांबुल में एक सिटी सेंटर पार्क बनाने की योजना थी।


'Rivers of acid' in Zambian villages

Summary: Zambian villagers are taking a multinational copper mining firm to court in the UK, accusing it of poisoning their water. The BBC's Nomsa Maseko visited the area which has allegedly been polluted.

Dressed in colourful sarongs and t-shirts, the women of Hippo Pool village collect their water on the banks of the Kafue River on Zambia's copper belt. As the sun sets and the weather starts to cool down, they carry the water in large buckets which they balance gracefully on their heads as they walk back home. It is water they will cook with, clean with, drink and irrigate farms. But a catastrophe may be looming. When I visited, I could smell and even taste the pollution. The communities of Hippo Pool, Kakosa, Shimulala and Hellen say the Mushishima stream and the Kafue have become rivers of acid. Hundreds of villagers who claim copper mining operations in the area have poisoned their water source and destroyed farmland are taking Zambia's biggest copper mine, Vedanta Resources Plc, to court. Leaked documents, that the BBC has seen, appear to show that Vedanta Resources - through its Zambian based Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) - have been spilling sulphuric acid and other toxic chemicals into the water sources. A whistle-blower, who worked for 15 years with KCM, alleges that since Vedanta bought the mine in 2004, corners have been cut to save the costs of running operations. "I see an environmental catastrophe coming our way," said the source, who asked not to be named. "The lives of the people will be shattered. "I decided to speak out because I could no longer be part of the destruction any more because the next generation will not have kind words for us," Konkola Copper Mine (KCM) denied in a statement to the BBC that it had failed to maintain critical equipment adequately or that heavy spillages and massive leakages occurred due to degraded equipment and leaking pumps and pipes. KCM went on to say that it has spent $530m (£350m) to improve the environmental performance of its operations. This includes replacing slurry waste pipelines to the pollution control dam and putting in a new smelter, which it says captures 99.7% of sulphur emissions. Destroyed farmland The soil in the copper belt used to be rich and highly productive but now produces virtually nothing. The community believes this is due to pollution entering the stream. Leo Mulenga's only source of income used to be farming. The 65-year-old showed me cassava plants which normally reach up to four meters in height. His were not even one metre tall and they were dying. "I used to grow cabbages, potatoes, tomatoes and bananas but now, there's no future here - only poverty and suffering for everyone because this land is damaged and spoiled," said Mr Mulenga. Foul smell Walking around the dry and dusty farmland, I saw a thick sludge of copper sulphate residue. Near it was a shallow well from which the community draws their water. There is only one water source for the children at Shimulala Community School. We took a sample of the water which was cloudy and had a foul smell. A few minutes later the colour of the water turned bright orange and the smell was overpowering. The damage is not just to the farmland and water supplies - people's health is also being affected. Floribert Kepapa draws water from the Kafue River. He spent four months in hospital battling paralysis and stomach pain. He also lost his wife and baby son to illness. He believes the water is to blame and he holds the copper mine responsible. "The water was clean before KCM took over. If my children and grandchildren are to survive and live healthy lives here, then KCM has to go," said Mr Kepapa. Paralegals from a British law firm Leigh Day recently visited the copper belt to gather testimonies from 1,800 members of the community in Chingola mining town. The villagers have joined forces to take their pollution claims to the High Court in London, where proceedings have been issued against Vedanta and Konkola Copper Mines KCM. KCM insist that it is minimising the environmental impact of its operations because, it says it "cares for its employees, the environment and communities around its mining areas". But this is not the first time Vedanta has faced facing legal action. 'Dehumanised by greed' In 2011, the Lusaka High Court ordered Vedanta Resources and KCM to pay approximately $1.4m (£900,000) to 2,000 residents of Chingola after sulphuric acid and other chemicals spilled into the confluence of the Mushishima stream and the Kafue River in 2006. In his ruling, the judge said Zambians "should not be dehumanised by greed and crude capitalism which put profit above human life". Vedanta later appealed against the judgment, denying that it was responsible for the pollution. Even though the verdict was upheld, the Supreme Court significantly reduced the compensation to people affected by the leakage. Resolving these latest claims could take years. Until this case is heard, and possibly settled, the real price paid for copper could be one of poverty and hardship for communities living in the boom and bust of the Zambian copper belt.

ज़ाम्बिया के ग्रामीण एक बहुराष्ट्रीय तांबे के खनन फर्म को ब्रिटेन में अदालत में ले जा रहे हैं, उस पर उनके पानी में जहर डालने का आरोप लगा रहे हैं। बीबीसी के नोम्सा मासेको ने उस क्षेत्र का दौरा किया जो कथित रूप से प्रदूषित हो गया है।


Francis: The Pope's calling

Summary: With leaders of the Catholic Church about to gather in the Vatican to consider the future of the Church's teaching on the family, the BBC's director of news and current affairs, James Harding, asks whether Pope Francis is the moderniser progressives hope for, or an orthodox pontiff with a personal touch.

Just over a year ago, a phone rang in the offices of La Repubblica - Italy's main centre-left newspaper. Stella Somma, personal assistant to the editor, answered. The man at the end of the line said he would like to speak to Eugenio Scalfari, the founder and former editor of the paper, a 90-year-old atheist, and a hero of the secular left. "Who's speaking?" Stella asked. "Papa Francesco," the man said. "Ah, the Pope," Stella replied - and put the call through to Scalfari. "Listen, I have the Pope on the line." Scalfari picked up the phone at home and told Stella: "You're crazy, it must be a joke." "No, it's not a joke, I can't make the Pope wait, so let me put you through." Scalfari remembers a voice saying, "'Good morning, this is Pope Francis… you asked me for a meeting, and I want to do that. Let's fix a date.' And with the phone on his ear, he tells me, 'Wednesday I can't. Maybe Monday? Is that OK for you?' And I told him: 'Any day is fine for me. Monday is fine.'" Eugenio Scalfari is not the only person to have received a call out of the blue from Pope Francis, who has made outreach to the unexpected one of the hallmarks of his papacy. And their unlikely dialogue about faith and conscience, paedophilia and celibacy, corruption and the Church produced an intriguing insight into the character of the man who has transformed expectations of the Catholic Church. After further phone calls and a series of private meetings with Francis, Scalfari concluded: "He is a revolutionary Pope." The man the Italians dub the "cold-call Pope" has, in little over a year, lifted the mood of the Vatican and raised new expectations of the Catholic Church. But can he meet them? Is he the radical moderniser that progressives have hoped for or, rather, an orthodox priest with a ready smile and a knack for outreach to the unexpected? From Sunday, 5 October, the world will begin to get some answers. Cardinals, bishops, priests and lay Catholics from around the world will arrive at the Vatican to consider how Church teaching on the family relates to the reality of modern life. The "extraordinary Synod" - the third of its kind in the modern history of the Catholic Church - is part of a process of reflection that will last more than a year. It's likely to reveal both the nature and, most likely, the limits of the change heralded by Pope Francis. When I visited Scalfari, he recounted his conversation with the Pope. "I told him all popes have reformed the Church, for better or for worse, but you are not reforming this Church, you are not a reformist. You are a revolutionary." According to Scalfari, the Pope told him he is not revolutionising the Church, that his task is just to apply the conclusions of the Second Vatican Council. The Second Vatican Council - commonly known as Vatican II - was, in theory at least, the seismic event in the modern history of the Catholic Church. It ran from 1962 to 1965. Vatican II It was supposed to set the Church on a course to meet the modern world - not by rewriting doctrine, but by spelling out a fundamental change in the Church's outreach to other religions, in the conduct of the Mass, in the role of the laity in the running of the Church and much more. Not long after the destination had been set, the Church stalled. Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor, the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales from 2000 to 2009, says Pope John Paul II "pressed pause" on Vatican II, while under Pope Francis "we have a push… the button is being pushed again". The Synod will address what Cardinal Murphy O'Connor describes as some "neuralgic questions" - contraception and homosexuality for example. And, the one that's generated most debate - and the greatest expectation of change - is whether Catholics who divorce and then remarry civilly should be allowed to take communion. Church teaching is that they can only do so if their first marriage has been officially annulled by the church - civil divorce doesn't count. But obtaining an annulment can be a lengthy and expensive process. The problem has led to an unusually public spat as conservative cardinals have lined up to argue that Church teaching must not change. John Allen, a long-time Vatican reporter for the Boston Globe, expects that the outcome will not be new doctrine, but new practice. "Pope Francis is not a doctrinal radical. This is not Che Guevara in a cassock," he says. He predicts annulment will be made faster, simpler and less expensive. There seems to be agreement among Vatican watchers that on all issues before the Synod, radical doctrinal change isn't on the agenda. Instead, Pope Francis has changed the emphasis. Jane Livesey, General Superior of the Congregation of Jesus - a global religious order of some 2,000 nuns - says Pope Francis's message is: "There are different ways of interpreting the doctrine, and my way of doing it is through the prism of mercy and forgiveness." In this, she says, the Pope leads by example. "Francis is a man who completely gets that - that you can preach all you like, but actually most of the important things in life are caught, not taught." John Allen says this is because, at heart, Francis is not a theologian or a politician, but a pastor. "When he picks up the phone and calls a mother in southern Italy whose son is in the hospital," he says, "part of that is just genuine pastoral outreach, but part of it is also recalibrating the model of what leadership in the Catholic Church looks like." The Bishop of Rome, as Francis likes to call himself, has positioned himself as one among many. He has made it clear he's in favour of decentralising the Church, and that means that while the rules may stay the same, he's giving bishops and priests more room to interpret them. "Every parish priest has to make these kind of judgements," says Cardinal Murphy O'Connor. "In moral theology there's what's called the objective truth and subjective, and sometimes you have to take account of the subjective situation of various people. And a good priest does just that and I think a good pope does that too." But, of course, leaving the teachings of the Church to that kind of subjective interpretation by bishops and priests - making that age-old tradition of ambiguity the guiding principle of the papacy - threatens to disappoint and frustrate people across the Catholic spectrum. Joseph Shaw, a Catholic blogger and fellow of St Benet's Hall, Oxford, argues there's a danger that the Pope's approach will obscure the Church's teaching. "Pope Francis seems to specialise in causing confusion on certain issues," he says. "It's upset people who appreciated having very, very clear teaching, even when it was unpopular, which is what we got from Pope Benedict." To judge his papacy so far, Francis has behaved like a man who watched his predecessor - encrusted by the Vatican machine and defined by doctrinal argument - and has chosen, quite conspicuously, to be a different kind of pope. How is it working? Well, it's clear St Peter's is busier, Catholics have a renewed spring in their step and, if the issues of child sex abuse and financial wrongdoing have not yet been fully resolved, the Vatican story is nowadays about more than that. Then again, there's no solid evidence yet that the pews are fuller. Francis has proved a surprise as Pope, even to those who thought they knew him, and he has demonstrated the power of a priest with a personal touch. But, by his own admission, he is not a revolutionary. He is, though, a herald of change. A pope with a deliberately different approach to his calling. Behind the story For a number of years, I watched, fascinated, by the apparent paralysis inside the Vatican as Pope Benedict's papacy was engulfed by scandals of child sex abuse, financial wrongdoing and court intrigue. His resignation, the first in 600 years, confirmed that the Holy See was in crisis. Then Jorge Bergoglio succeeded him in March 2013, becoming the first Jesuit and the first priest from the New World to become Pope. From his first evening on the balcony overlooking St Peter's, Pope Francis seemed to take the world by storm. Although not a Catholic myself, I, like thousands of journalists the world over, was intrigued - and started angling for an interview for the BBC. I began to discuss the possibility with a range of senior figures in the Church and then went to Rome to make the case to Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, that the Pope should consider the BBC, given its audience of 250 million people around the world. Father Lombardi, plainly inundated with such requests, smiled and with some charm left me with the impression that the Pope was having no trouble reaching a global audience. So, after that, I went for lunch with Ezio Mauro, the editor of La Repubblica, whom I'd met some years before. (We got to know each other, oddly enough, interviewing Vladimir Putin and, since then, had tried to help each other out getting access to interesting interviewees.) He could barely contain his excitement. His predecessor, Scalfari, had just been called by the Pope and gone for a meeting at the Santa Marta Convent. From then on, I kept in touch with Mauro and La Repubblica watching, if you like, the unusual drama from the wings. Then, when I was on holiday in Italy over the summer, I asked whether I could visit Scalfari in Rome and discuss what he'd learned of Pope Francis. It was a way of trying to understand the man who presides over a global congregation of 1.2 billion people. And, in turn, it prompted a more concerted effort to answer the question: what, really, is the calling of Pope Francis? You can listen James Harding's documentary for BBC Radio 4's The Report on the BBC iPlayer. Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

कैथोलिक चर्च के नेता परिवार पर चर्च की शिक्षा के भविष्य पर विचार करने के लिए वेटिकन में इकट्ठा होने वाले हैं, बीबीसी के समाचार और वर्तमान मामलों के निदेशक, जेम्स हार्डिंग पूछते हैं कि क्या पोप फ्रांसिस आधुनिकतावादी प्रगतिशील उम्मीद हैं, या व्यक्तिगत स्पर्श के साथ एक रूढ़िवादी पोप हैं।


Two men charged over death of HMP Glenochil prisoner

Summary: Two men have been charged in connection with the death of a 30-year-old prisoner following an incident at HMP Glenochil.

Dean Ramsey was taken to Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert on Saturday, but died two days later. Two men, aged 50 and 31, have since been arrested in connection with the incident. A Police Scotland spokesman said both men were due to appear at Alloa Sheriff Court at a later date.

एच. एम. पी. ग्लेनोकिल में एक घटना के बाद 30 वर्षीय कैदी की मौत के मामले में दो लोगों पर आरोप लगाया गया है।


Shrovetide Football in Ashbourne through the ages

Summary: The traditional - and fairly violent - game of Royal Shrovetide Football is entering its second day in the Derbyshire town of Ashbourne. Played for centuries, its origins are now forgotten. But while the world may have changed, the game's popularity remains the same.

Each year, hundreds of participants try to "goal" by banging the cork ball against one of two stone plinths which are three miles apart. There are few rules - pushing and shoving are essential, but it is forbidden to intentionally harm other players. In 1890, a fire destroyed much of the Derbyshire town's written records, leaving the origins of the game lost in time. But the advent of cameras allowed the spectacle to be captured on film, and photographers have been chronicling the annual scrum ever since. As the picture above shows, players in the 1920s were not afraid to take a dip in Henmore Brook to wrestle the ball from the opposition. And, while the rules have remained mostly the same over the decades, the outfits of those taking part have not - a full suit was once not uncommon, as here in 1952. There were huge crowds in 1966 when footballing hero Stanley Matthews "turned up the ball" (started the game) - an event recorded in the organising committee's archive. Every year, before the game begins, local dignitaries meet for a traditional lunch. In 1969 they were serenaded with the Ashbourne Football Song, which was written in the 19th Century. That same year - when fashion in the town was dominated by knitwear - wealthy aristocrat the Earl of Yarborough started proceedings. That year's ball, leather wrapped around cork, was donated by the Earl and was duly decorated with his family's coat of arms. The early calm was shattered once play had started and the "hug" formed. In 1969, despite the snow and chilly temperatures, competitors still took to the water to chase the ball. Over the centuries, many of the games have played out in the river. According to one of the few rules, those living north of the river play for the Up'ards, and those to the south, the Down'ards. In 1975, Brian Clough, then manager of Nottingham Forest, had plenty to say to the crowd before he got the game under way. Confusingly, the ball used dates from 1973 when he was at Derby County. By then, fashions had changed again, with more hair and fewer hats on show. Despite the black and white photograph, it is still possible to make out steam rising from the scrum - the ball is harder to spot. The 21st Century did not get off to a good start after an outbreak of foot and mouth disease forced the cancellation of the game in 2001, but everyone was in high spirits when Prince Charles turned up the ball in 2003. Today, the event's popularity is secure. It attracts thousands of players and spectators each year, while dozens of photographers continue to document the eccentric pastime.

रॉयल श्रोवेटाइड फुटबॉल का पारंपरिक-और काफी हिंसक-खेल एशबोर्न के डर्बीशायर शहर में अपने दूसरे दिन में प्रवेश कर रहा है। सदियों से खेला जाने वाला, इसकी उत्पत्ति अब भुला दी गई है। लेकिन दुनिया भले ही बदल गई हो, लेकिन खेल की लोकप्रियता वही बनी हुई है।


Local Elections 2021: Cambs and Peterborough mayoral candidates on flood risks

Summary: Overdevelopment of flood-prone areas has been blamed for worsening flooding in Cambridgeshire towns such as March. One voter says he believes the planning system needs to be overhauled to prevent the situation getting any worse. How do mayoral candidates feel they can help?

County councils advise new developers on issues to do with flooding during the planning stage of building. However, the next mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough will have a budget for new developments and infrastructure - and where those developments are could impact on people like James Hill and his mum Christine Morrison. After serious floods in 2014 and 2020, she has had to pay tens of thousands of pounds for repairs her home in March. Mr Hill believes the overdevelopment of the area is to blame, and that the new housing prevents the water draining. He said: "She is constantly on edge. "The town has grown at such a rate there is nowhere for the water to go, whereas previously it would seep into the field," he said. In alphabetical order, the candidates for mayor set out their plans below. Nik Johnson, Labour "The mayor, with the combined authority executive, has to lead in recognising the challenge of water management resources and make the important decisions to prevent the paradoxical self-inflicted wounds of flooded homes in the winter, dried riverbeds and a failing natural chalk aquifer in the summer. "I am calling for an urgent independent review of all future housing developments and how to balance the risk of flooding and over-exploitation of dwindling water resources." James Palmer, Conservatives "There is strict guidance when it comes to land being developed in areas that are susceptible to flooding. "All planning decisions are made by planning authorities and the mayor does not have any final say on planning decisions. "The Fens cover vast swathes of Cambridgeshire, not just Fenland, and development on fenland is not usually sought or delivered because of the significant danger of subsidence." Aidan Van de Weyer, Liberal Democrats "In response to the climate emergency, we need to think about how to make our communities more resilient to extreme weather. "We certainly should not be building more houses on areas at risk of flooding. Recent flooding has also shown just how vulnerable many houses can be, especially in the Fens. "The Conservative government's cuts to flood defences need to be reversed and quickly." Current figures from the Local Government Information Unit (LGIU), show that for every £100 spent by Cambridgeshire County Council, £5.37 goes on environmental services. However, this does not include other forms of council spending such as one-off capital investments. A modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. More information about these elections Who can I vote for in my area? Enter your postcode, or the name of your English council or Scottish or Welsh constituency to find out. Eg 'W1A 1AA' or 'Westminster' A special programme with all three candidates - called A Mayor for Cambridge and Peterborough - will be broadcast at 14:20 BST on Sunday on BBC One in the East. Related Internet Links Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority

मार्च जैसे कैम्ब्रिजशायर शहरों में बाढ़ की स्थिति बिगड़ने के लिए बाढ़-प्रवण क्षेत्रों के अति-विकास को जिम्मेदार ठहराया गया है। एक मतदाता का मानना है कि स्थिति को और खराब होने से रोकने के लिए योजना प्रणाली में सुधार की आवश्यकता है। महापौर उम्मीदवारों को कैसे लगता है कि वे मदद कर सकते हैं?


Smaller bins for Cardiff to help increase recycling rates

Summary: Homes in Cardiff could be forced to recycle more as the council considers introducing smaller waste bins.

Cardiff council wants to replace 240 litre wheelie bins with 140 litre ones - and restricting the number of black bags collected. Recycling in the city is at the 50% level, but the council wants to increase that to 70% over the next 10 years. The plans will need to be approved by full council in April. The council said larger families would be able to register to keep their 240 litre bin, and homes will be issued with more green recycling bags.

कार्डिफ में घरों को अधिक रीसायकल करने के लिए मजबूर किया जा सकता है क्योंकि परिषद छोटे अपशिष्ट डिब्बे शुरू करने पर विचार कर रही है।


Gregoire Ahongbonon: Freeing people chained for being ill

Summary: For almost 30 years, Gregoire Ahongbonon, a former mechanic from Benin, has helped thousands of West Africans affected by mental illnesses, caring for them in residential centres run by his charity, the Saint Camille association. Above all else, he is determined to stop the practice of keeping mentally ill people in chains.

By Laeila AdjoviBBC News, Benin Aime has just come out of his room. He is taking tiny steps - his ankles held in leg irons. The scene takes place in a small house in the city of Calavi, on the outskirts of Cotonou, the capital of Benin. Aime, 24, has a mental illness and his elder brother and sister have been looking after him to the best of their abilities. "We've had to lock him up because he disturbs people and they come to our house to complain," says his brother, Rosinos. "Sometimes he even attacks people in the street saying they've stolen something. He can't stop screaming, day or night. He can't sleep, so neither do we. I'm so overwhelmed by all this." The family could not afford for Aime to be treated at the country's only state-run mental health institution, the Jacquot Public Hospital, where fees start at 20,000 CFA francs per month, almost half the average salary. Instead they gave him medication prescribed by the hospital - but after eight months they could no longer afford that either. Aime had become calmer, but without treatment his illness quickly returned. Rosinos and his sister, Edmunda, were in desperation when Edmunda went to a lecture by Gregoire Ahongbonon, campaigning against the stigmatisation of mental illness. Afterwards Edmunda asked Ahongbonon for advice, and Aime is now being taken to a centre run by the Saint Camille association in Calavi. The association has more than a dozen centres across Ivory Coast, Benin, Togo, and Burkina Faso. They care for thousands of patients and charge very little. Ahongbonon and his staff find homeless people, thrown out on to the street by their families, and give them a home. They also travel across West Africa on alert for reports of mentally ill people shackled or mistreated in remote villages. When they find such people they offer to take them in. "Mental patients here are seen as possessed by the devil or victims of witchcraft," says Ahongbonon. "That's the case in Africa in general, but in Benin it's even worse, because Benin is the home of voodoo, so it's even stronger here." In Benin, when someone becomes ill, the family's first instinct is often to take the patient either to a traditional healer or to evangelical churches that claim they can heal the patient by praying for his soul. When Pelagie Agossou's grandson, Judikael, became ill, friends encouraged her to take him to a church to have the "evil spirits" cast out. She rejected this advice, but tried just about everything else, including a traditional healer. Judikael's problem was a form of schizophrenia, in which he heard voices telling him to take his clothes off and run out of the house. "Once, after my child had run away from home yet again, a girl came and told me Judikael was wandering around the city in his underwear," says Agossou. "So I dashed there but when he saw me he started to run… I ran after him and people started to chase him too, thinking he was a thief. And I was shouting 'No don't hurt him, he's my child.' I was so scared that the police would hurt him thinking that he was a thief." She tried taking him to a private clinic but it was too expensive, and it was at this point that she visited a traditional healer, where she paid 80,000 CFA francs (£93) for a medicine that had no effect. Find out more "I called him to say the medicine did not change anything," Agossou says, "and he replied, 'Well just stop giving it to him.'" There are different types of traditional healer. A bokhonon deals with spiritual matters using divination to find and cast out curses, while the amawato is the herbal doctor. "When the patient comes for the first time, I consult the divinities, and then I know if he broke a taboo, if he offended anyone, or if a spell was cast on him," says Nestor Dakowegbe, one of the most respected traditional healers in the country. "It is much easier to treat a mental illness when it comes from a spell or the bad behaviour of a patient towards his ancestors - then you just have to restore balance. But when it is a hereditary illness or the result of a natural phenomenon like a head trauma for example, it becomes more complicated." Nestor Dakowegbe is both bokhonon and amawato, so his remedies can consist of medicinal herbs, but also prayers to the gods, or actions that the patient has to take. He is proud of the knowledge that has been in his family for generations, and doesn't feel threatened at all by modern science. "Some doctors already know me. When they have a patient and they see that their treatment from the white man's medicine is not doing any good, they often turn to me," he says. "It happened many times, and we become partners. Sometimes, I also turn to modern doctors to come and support me on some difficult cases." Gualbert Ahyi, one of the first trained psychiatrists in Benin and the former director of the Jacquot hospital, also believes that psychiatrists and healers can work effectively together. He tells me the story of a woman suffering from depression, whom he took to a blind traditional healer, with beneficial effects. "It took a great dose of humility for me, a skilled and trained doctor with all his degrees, to go and find a blind healer to help 'see' what was wrong," he says. "Some healers say beware: 'You treat but we heal.' And they mean that after I have treated a patient, they must finish the job. They must restore balance, so that the patient becomes a social being again in his own culture." But Gregoire Ahongbonon is sceptical about this approach. "The perception that we have about Africa is that healers are more efficient than doctors at treating mental illness. But I've seen otherwise. Most patients start in churches and with healers, and so before they reach proper treatment their condition has deteriorated very badly," he says. "So are healers really doing any healing? That's the question." The Saint Camille association has no psychiatrist permanently on its staff in in Benin but it has occasional visits from psychiatrists in Europe, who come for a couple of weeks every few months. The priorities are a humane approach combined with low costs. Medication is paid for by the families of the patients, so the centres only use a small range of cheaper drugs. Many of the staff are former patients. For Aime it has brought immediate improvements. He is sleeping again, and has tried to walk out just once, though no-one knows if, when, or how Aime will recover - or as people say here, if he will be able to "find himself again". Meanwhile, Judikael now comes once a month as an out-patient to get his injection. He has been treated at Saint Camille for almost a year, and takes one pill every day to silence the voices in his head. He still struggles with some of the side-effects of his medication, which makes him sleepy and numb in the jaw and mouth, but he has started training as a tailor. "Since I was a child I would always see grandma sewing, and I always found that interesting," he says, immensely grateful to his grandmother for bringing up him and looking after him during his illness. Gregoire Ahongbonon recognises that not everyone is so lucky. "We can't cure everyone because for many who come to us the illness is already chronic," he says. "But we can help stabilise them, allow them to retrieve their dignity. My struggle is against the use of chains. "In the third millennium the fact that we can find people in chains, and shackled to trees, I can't accept it, it has to stop. And I will say it again and again - as long as there is just one human being in chains then the whole of humanity is in chains." In The Mind - a series exploring mental health issues Explained: What is mental health and where can I go for help? Mood assessment: Could I be depressed? In The Mind: BBC News special report (or follow "Mental health" tag in the BBC News app) Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox. Related Internet Links The Friends of Saint-Camille (in French)

लगभग 30 वर्षों से, बेनिन के एक पूर्व मैकेनिक, ग्रेगोइर अहोंगबोनन ने मानसिक बीमारियों से प्रभावित हजारों पश्चिम अफ्रीकियों की मदद की है, उनकी देखभाल उनके चैरिटी, सेंट केमिली एसोसिएशन द्वारा संचालित आवासीय केंद्रों में की है। सबसे बढ़कर, वह मानसिक रूप से बीमार लोगों को जंजीरों में रखने की प्रथा को रोकने के लिए दृढ़ हैं।


David Cameron budges on UK taking more child refugees

Summary: In the last couple of days David Cameron has been under more and more pressure to change his mind and allow more child refugees, on their own and vulnerable in continental Europe, to come to the UK. And despite his refusal to budge just seven days ago, budge he has.

Laura KuenssbergPolitical editor@bbclaurakon Twitter But the plans the government is putting in place are not crystal clear. So what do we know about the "plans" and what details are still missing? Since September charities and some MPs have been calling on the government to offer homes in Britain to some of the thousands of child refugees who have already made it to mainland Europe. The government has continually said no. Ministers have been firm for months on the principle that it is far better to help those caught up in the migrant crisis in the region - in the camps and temporary accommodation in the Middle East and Africa than help those who are, they argue, in relative safety in European countries like Italy, France or Greece. The prime minister and his team have gone on the record on countless occasions making that case, and pointing out that the UK has been a far more effective and generous donor to the aid efforts in the region than any other European country. That's now changed. Downing Street diplomatically calls their new strategy a "twin track" - in other words, Number 10 has given way on a long held principle. Children who have made their way alone to Europe as migrants and who arrived in Greece, Italy or France before 20 March will now be eligible to come to the UK. Those who are selected, probably by aid workers on the ground in those countries, will be given five year residence permits for the UK, what was described to me as "humanitarian visas". What we also know is that the government was likely to lose the vote on this in the Commons next week. With the referendum campaign making everything tense, Number 10 was evidently just not willing to let that happen. But much about the plan is not yet clear. One source familiar with the conversations told me "there have been five different positions in the last 36 hours". Most crucially, what we do not yet know is how many children will be eligible, and how many will actually come. Discussions will now take place between the government and local councils over how many children on their own they could accommodate. There is of course already considerable strain on resources in local authorities right across the country What we also don't know is if there will be any extra cash available for councils who say they will take some in. But one source close to the negotiations told, "if this is done properly it will mean thousands". Finally, what is impossible to predict is what effect this will have on the "pull factor" - the concern ministers always voiced, that allowing more refugees to come to Britain once they were already in Europe would only encourage more to make the dangerous journey across the sea. But now the prime minister has ditched his principle and promised to open the door, campaigners, Labour, the Liberal Democrats and their own backbenchers will be pushing to make sure he does.

पिछले कुछ दिनों से डेविड कैमरन पर अपना मन बदलने और महाद्वीपीय यूरोप में अपने दम पर और असुरक्षित बाल शरणार्थियों को ब्रिटेन आने की अनुमति देने के लिए अधिक से अधिक दबाव बना हुआ है। और सात दिन पहले पीछे हटने से इनकार करने के बावजूद, वह हिल गए हैं।


Bloodhound Diary: 'Big Cat' climbs aboard

Summary: A British team is developing a car that will be capable of reaching 1,000mph (1,610km/h). Powered by a rocket bolted to a Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine, the vehicle will mount an assault on the world land speed record. Bloodhound will be run on Hakskeen Pan in Northern Cape, South Africa, in 2015 and 2016. Wing Commander Andy Green, the current world land-speed record holder, is writing a diary for BBC News about his experiences working on the Bloodhound project and the team's efforts to inspire national interest in science and engineering.

By Andy GreenWorld Land Speed Record Holder Great news this month, with the announcement of Jaguar as a main partner in our World Land Speed Record attempt. Jaguar has been involved in the Land Speed Record for over 30 years, supporting Thrust 2 in the 1980s and then helping Thrust SSC to the set the current supersonic record in 1997. With Bloodhound, we're going to be pushing the technology harder than ever, and Jaguar will be more involved than ever before. Nammo's hybrid rocket will be fitted to Bloodhound early next year, with the pump powered by the Jaguar's 5.0 litre V8 supercharged engine, so Bloodhound will literally be "powered by Jaguar". Our early rocket tests, including the hybrid test firing two years ago, used a 750hp Cosworth F1 engine. Since then, Cosworth has left F1 racing, so we've been looking for a new engine. We've also improved the efficiency of the rocket pump, so we only need around 400-500hp. As a result, the 550hp Jaguar engine will be more than powerful enough. The other big advantage of the Jaguar engine is reliability. While F1 engines are very high maintenance, needing hours of pre-heating and preparation before start-up, the Jaguar engine is exactly the opposite - just put in some petrol and it runs every time you press the button. We've got plenty of new technology to worry about elsewhere in the car, so having a bullet-proof reliable rocket pump is exactly what we need. Our support vehicles will also come from Jaguar, including our high-speed rapid-response vehicles. While they won't be expected to keep up with Bloodhound at 1,000mph, it's nice to know that the high-speed Jaguars can cover the whole of our 12-mile track if either Bloodhound SSC or the support team need immediate assistance. We've already got a long list of volunteers to drive them! The Jaguar partnership announcement was made in South Africa, as part of our first high-speed comms test. The Bloodhound requirement is for VHF radio comms between the car and the team, over the whole track, plus a high-capacity data network to stream live video and live data from the car during every run. Emcom is supplying the VHF radio, while the MTN phone network enables the video and data. However, this isn't quite as simple as it seems. In addition to Bloodhound's private MTN data network, there will be thousands of visitors on Hakskeen Pan next year, all coming to watch Bloodhound and all expecting mobile phone coverage. The world's media will also be there, needing high-speed internet and mobile phone connections, so we need a large public 3G network. The VHF frequency band will also be busy - in addition to the Bloodhound operations frequency, we'll have separate support channels, working with the local police, event management, the media helicopter(s), and so on. The frequency spectrum is going to be very busy and we need to check that all the radios will play nicely together. The next major complication for Bloodhound communications is that the world is round. Standing at one end of Bloodhound's 12-mile track, the other end is about 30m below the horizon, due to curvature of the Earth. VHF will propagate (bend) below the horizon to give some coverage beyond line of sight, but the signal strength rapidly falls off. Worse still, the all-important live video feed uses a much higher frequency range, so it does not propagate much at all. To provide solid data coverage over the whole track, including seeing over the sand dunes which line Hakskeen Pan, the MTN masts have to be up to 70m tall. To make the problem slightly harder still, we will have "doppler shift" to worry about. Doppler shift is the effect that causes the engine note of a race car, or a jet fighter, to drop as it passes you: the frequency of the sound rises for an approaching vehicle and falls when it's going away from you. The same thing happens for radio waves. While radio signals travel at the speed of light, Bloodhound's speeds of up to 1000 mph will cause a small but significant frequency shift, so we need to check that the radio comms work at high opening/closing speeds. We don't have a 1,000 mph vehicle available yet (it'll be ready to run next year!), so we simulated the effect with a fast jet and the new All Wheel Drive Jaguar F-Type, giving closing speeds of over 600mph. As you can see in the video of the test, Emcom's VHF radios worked perfectly, while the MTN data signals were also looking good across the whole desert. There have been some other remarkable changes around Hakskeen Pan over the past few years. Four years ago, I spoke at the local primary school on the edge of the Pan, as part of the John Orr engineering lecture tour of South Africa. At that time, the school had one old computer, no internet connection, and no real links to the outside world. As you'll see from our comms test article, Groot Mier school now has a computer room and high-speed internet access. The head teacher summed it up perfectly: "Up until a few days ago, none of us even knew the word 'Google' but now look! "We can go anywhere, see everything...'. With MTN's help, Bloodhound's "Engineering Adventure" is already creating a life-changing education effect in this corner of South Africa. I've just got back from India, where there is also a lot of interest in our Engineering Adventure. I was giving the IET's annual Lord Austin lecture. Everything is done on a large scale in India, including the lectures - I've never talked to a 3,000-seat lecture theatre before! The highlight of the lecture was a question from one of the local students: "Can you tell me how to go about designing a supersonic car, as I want to break your record in 20 years' time?" The answer, of course, is to take the advice from the world's leading expert in the field, Bloodhound's designer Ron Ayers, in this Cisco BHTV video talking about the shape of the car. An Indian Land Speed Record attempt is now in the early design phase - you heard it here first. Meanwhile, the build of the world's first 1,000mph car is coming on well. After months of precision work, the upper-chassis is finally complete, with all 11,500 rivets now in place. The chassis, still on its jig, is now off to the National Composites Centre. The NCC is one of the few places in the country which has an autoclave (technical world for oven) to cook the whole structure at 175 C. This will cure the bonding agent (glue) which will further stiffen the structure, before it goes back on the car. URT is still busy churning out the remainder of our composites and the tooling to build it. A dedicated team has been working long hours to get through the rest of the car's front structure and we are looking very good to be able to mock up the front of the car before Christmas, giving us a feel for the first time of how the front of the finished vehicle will look. Following the successful pressure test of the jet engine intake, we've now posted a Cisco BHTV video of the test. If you want to know how important tests like this are, just watch the faces of the engineers as the pressure builds in the intake. Listen closely, and you can even hear the individual carbon fibres crackling and popping under the strain. Not much is said, but you can see how hard everyone is concentrating. Like setting the record itself, engineering success only counts once you've got proof. Every bit of Bloodhound is being built and tested with this level of care. It is really is becoming the most amazing Land Speed Record car ever… and next year we'll be running it. Can't wait.

एक ब्रिटिश टीम एक ऐसी कार विकसित कर रही है जो 1,000 मील प्रति घंटे (1,610 किमी/घंटा) तक पहुंचने में सक्षम होगी। एक यूरोफाइटर-टाइफून जेट इंजन को बोल्ट किए गए रॉकेट द्वारा संचालित, वाहन विश्व भूमि गति रिकॉर्ड पर हमला करेगा। ब्लडहाउंड 2015 और 2016 में उत्तरी केप, दक्षिण अफ्रीका में हक्सकीन पैन पर चलाया जाएगा। विंग कमांडर एंडी ग्रीन, वर्तमान विश्व भूमि-गति रिकॉर्ड धारक, ब्लडहाउंड परियोजना पर काम करने के अपने अनुभवों और विज्ञान और इंजीनियरिंग में राष्ट्रीय रुचि को प्रेरित करने के लिए टीम के प्रयासों के बारे में बीबीसी न्यूज के लिए एक डायरी लिख रहे हैं।


Manchester Arena Inquiry: Terror attack investigation opens

Summary: The public inquiry into the Manchester Arena terror attack has begun.

The hearing comes more than three years after Salman Abedi set off a bomb as people left a concert on 22 May 2017, killing himself and 22 others. It was due to start in June, but was delayed by the trial of Abedi's brother Hashem, who was jailed for at least 55 years for 22 murders on 20 August. The inquiry is being held at Manchester Magistrates' Court, less than a mile away from where the bombing happened. The Manchester Arena Inquiry was established on 22 October 2019 by Home Secretary Priti Patel with the aim of investigating the victims' deaths. Ms Patel said it was "vital that those who survived or lost loved ones... get the answers that they need and that we learn the lessons, whatever they may be". It will have a much wider scope than Lord Kerslake's review of the "preparedness for and emergency response to" the attack, which in March 2018 concluded that there had been some failings in the response. What is the Manchester Arena Inquiry? The inquiry, which will be chaired by Sir John Saunders, will "explore the circumstances leading up to and surrounding the terror attack", according to its website. It will look at whether the attack could have been prevented, what happened on 22 May 2017, the security arrangements around the arena, the emergency response to the bombing and the radicalisation of Salman Abedi. The inquiry will also hear how each of the individual victims died and hear personal evidence about them from their families. Speaking in October, Ms Patel said she established the inquiry after carefully considering advice from Sir John, who concluded that due to legal constraints, a "full, fair and fearless" investigation could not be "achieved through the inquests and must be done by establishing a statutory public inquiry". It will take place in two courtrooms in Manchester Magistrates' Court, which will mostly be filled with legal teams and "core participants", defined as "individuals, organisations or entities with a significant interest in an important aspect of the matters to which the inquiry relates". Social distancing guidelines mean a further two courtrooms will be available for members of the public - the majority of whom will be victims' families - and a small number of journalists to use. Further hubs will established in nearby buildings. Why is it being held? The inquiry's website said the focus would first be on determining "exactly what happened" and then on working out "what must be done to prevent it from happening again". Public inquiries cannot determine criminal or civil liability, but do have the capacity to highlight where failings have occurred. In the aftermath of the attack, the police conducted a criminal investigation, which culminated in Hashem Abedi being convicted earlier this year and jailed last month, while the coroner opened inquests into the deaths. However, following a ruling by Sir John that evidence from MI5 and the police should be kept secret on national security grounds, he called for a public inquiry, which would allow such testimony to be heard in closed sessions. Who will give evidence? The inquiry, which is expected to last for about four months, will hear testimony from a wide variety of witnesses, including some who were at the arena on the night of the attack and some who helped in the emergency response. It will also hear, in those closed sessions, from the security services about what was known about Salman Abedi and what steps were taken in relation to him. Those giving evidence will be questioned by legal representatives for the inquiry and for those with "core participant" status, which includes the emergency services, the Home Office, the victims' families, the arena owners and Kyle Lawler, an arena steward who Sir John previously said "may have played a significant role or may be subject to explicit or significant criticism". Why has it been controversial? More than 900 people were injured in the blast and a group of those survivors made a legal challenge to be given "core participant" status. In April, Sir John ruled they would not be given that status and two months later, following an appeal and a judicial review, his ruling was upheld. Martin Hibbert, who was the closest casualty to survive, said the group were "perplexed as to the ruling, given what we've seen, what we've heard and what we've been through". "We were there and we survived... so we've got a lot of information that we feel is imperative for a thorough investigation," he said. At the time, counsel to the inquiry Paul Greaney QC said many survivors would give evidence at the hearing and they were being encouraged to raise any issues with the inquiry team. Why not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk

मैनचेस्टर एरिना आतंकी हमले की सार्वजनिक जांच शुरू हो गई है।


Philip Green keeps promise to 'sort' pension problem

Summary: The BHS flagship store on Oxford Street is still boarded up.

Simon JackBusiness editor The workers are long gone but the debate about the pension mess that was left behind and the corporate culture which let it all happen has carried on. Sir Philip was vilified by public and politicians alike as a mascot for corporate greed and he featured as a bogeyman in speeches by the prime minister. Throughout, Sir Philip promised to "sort", in his words, the pension problem. Those close to him were confident he would make good on that and today he did improve the lot of the pensioners. Although this settlement was described as voluntary, he was being vigorously pursued by the Pensions Regulator and faced months or even years more in dispute. The regulator will see this as establishing an important precedent for getting former owners to pay up when pension schemes go bad. He has not enjoyed the last three years one bit and has not said anything publicly today. Privately he says he wants to return to being a private businessman. In truth, he was never really that, he was not shy about living the high life quite publicly. According to the Sunday Times Rich List this sum represents just over 10% of his net worth. His reputation and his knighthood were probably worth that to him. Whether he can hang on to either is still not - in his words - "sorted".

ऑक्सफोर्ड स्ट्रीट पर बी. एच. एस. का प्रमुख स्टोर अभी भी खुला हुआ है।


Six Nations ref Owens stars in mockumentary called 'Nige'

Summary: International rugby referee Nigel Owens has been preparing for the 2018 Six Nations by starring in a mockumentary about his career.

The programme, called 'Nige', follows him and his new 'team' as he prepares to referee in this year's tournament. Nige has been split into five "chapters" but the whole 20-minute production is available on BBC iPlayer. Owens will start the 2018 tournament by officiating France v Ireland in Paris on Saturday.

अंतर्राष्ट्रीय रग्बी रेफरी निगेल ओवेन्स अपने करियर के बारे में एक मॉक्यूमेंटरी में अभिनय करके 2018 सिक्स नेशंस की तैयारी कर रहे हैं।


Cycling: Councils under pressure to relax bike shed planning laws

Summary: As more and more people get on their bikes during the pandemic, cycle sheds have been popping up in front yards and gardens. But some of the structures are falling foul of the law and causing planning problems.

By Rick KelseyNewscast Reporter Cycling has seen record growth throughout the pandemic as people avoid public transport, but this has brought the problem of where to store your bike. Now, councils in England are under pressure to change their planning rules to make it easier to have cycle sheds in front gardens. It comes after a family in Leicester won a planning case to keep their structure after the council asked them to take it down. BBC News has found other recent cases where people have been sent enforcement letters to remove bike sheds. Kavi Pujara, 49, who built the shed with an eco-roof for his children in Leicester said cycle storage had become a major problem. "We didn't set out to set a precedent on this issue but I hope other cyclists can soon apply for planning for convenient, secure cycle storage," he said. In Scotland, the rules changed in April to allow homes to put up cycle stores up to 1.5m in height without applying for planning permission. The Local Government Association, which represents councils in England, says the sheds should be "suitable and appropriate for their environment". Some councils are trying to remove the cycle stores because they are classed as an outbuilding or shed - and in order to fit national permitted development rights, outbuildings cannot be constructed in front of a house. Once a council has written to a resident, they normally have 21 days to remove the structure, if not they could be liable for a fine up to £20,000. Cyclists affected argue they often have nowhere else to store bikes, due to a lack of street provision. In Kavi's case, the mayor of Leicester was unhappy with the original decision to remove the shed and asked the planning committee to get involved. James Whittingham from north London is in a dispute with Haringey Council over his shed, which sits near his front window. He says there are already more than 100 bike sheds in his immediate area, the vast majority of which have not sought planning permission. "We went back pointing all this out with supporting pictures, highlighting that they should be encouraging cycling. Not discouraging it." James says he initially asked about a place in one of the street bike shelters. "They told us we are not a priority as we have a front garden and therefore have the option for our own storage, yet we are now being asked to take it down. It's totally mixed messaging that makes no sense," he added. Haringey Council said it "very much encourages cycling in the borough", but it had received a complaint about a bike shed in a conservation area and had "a duty to send our enforcement officers to investigate". New approach Retail figures from The Bicycle Association suggest sales of bikes have grown by 60% since March 2020, with one in every five pounds spent on e-bikes. Cycle campaign groups say the removal notices go against many local authority plans to increase cycling for everyone. Duncan Dollimore from Cycling UK wants councils to take a new approach. He said: "It lies within their gift to use what are called local development orders, which grant planning permission for specific types of development, and they could do that for cycle sheds." Duncan believes removal notices are giving mixed messages. "We have active travel teams saying we need more people cycling. Then in the planning department we have a situation that restricts active travel," he said. A Local Government Association spokesperson said: "Councils are promoting active travel, and encouraging more people to cycle through greater investment in cycle-proofing new and existing roads and junctions, cycle parking facilities and introducing 20mph zones. "This is in keeping with a planning system that exists to ensure that all developments are suitable and appropriate for their environment, and that all material considerations can be taken into account."

महामारी के दौरान जैसे-जैसे अधिक से अधिक लोग अपनी साइकिलों पर चढ़ते हैं, सामने के यार्ड और बगीचों में साइकिल शेड बन रहे हैं। लेकिन कुछ संरचनाएं कानून की अवहेलना कर रही हैं और योजना बनाने में समस्या पैदा कर रही हैं।


Mother of Solihull murder accused denies assisting him

Summary: A man accused of murdering a woman, and his mother, who is accused of assisting him after the alleged killing, have appeared in court.

Kerry Woolley, 38, was found with fatal neck injuries at her home on Warwick Road, Solihull, on 12 July. Lynda Bennett, 62, of Moordown Avenue, Solihull, is charged with assisting an offender "in disposing of evidence", a court heard. She denied the charge during a hearing at Birmingham Crown Court. Her son Ian Bennett, 37, of the same address, is set to enter his pleas at a hearing on 16 September. A trial has been provisionally listed to start on 11 January 2021. Follow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk Related Internet Links HM Courts & Tribunals Service

एक महिला की हत्या का आरोपी एक व्यक्ति और उसकी माँ, जिस पर कथित हत्या के बाद उसकी सहायता करने का आरोप है, अदालत में पेश हुए हैं।


Guernsey and Isle of Man leaders look to work together

Summary: Guernsey and the Isle of Man need to work more closely together on mutual areas of interest, according to the chief ministers of both islands.

They were meeting for the first time since Guernsey's general election in April, when Peter Harwood was elected. His Manx counterpart Allan Bell said closer working was needed on the development of international business. He said cooperation was also needed on the islands' constitutional relationships with the UK. Deputy Harwood agreed the islands, along with Jersey as the third of the Crown Dependencies, had a lot of common ground on which they could collaborate.

दोनों द्वीपों के मुख्यमंत्रियों के अनुसार, ग्वेर्नसे और आइल ऑफ मैन को आपसी रुचि के क्षेत्रों पर अधिक निकटता से काम करने की आवश्यकता है।


Hartlepool fishermen rescued after nine hours at sea

Summary: Two Hartlepool fishermen were rescued by a Dutch couple after spending nine hours adrift on a life-raft when their boat sank in the North Sea.

The men had been fishing 12 miles (19km) off the coast of Sunderland when their vessel hit a submerged object and quickly sank at 16:40 BST on Monday. The pair were picked up by a Dutch couple who were sailing to Whitby after they spotted one of the men waving. The couple said they had "never seen anyone happier" after saving the men. They contacted Hartlepool RNLI, who transferred the fishermen from the yacht onto the lifeboat. The fishermen and their life-raft were taken to Hartlepool Fish Quay. Garry Waugh, from Hartelpool RNLI, said the men, who were shaken up, but otherwise OK, had been "very lucky". The Marine Accident Investigation Branch has been informed.

दो हार्टलपूल मछुआरों को एक डच दंपति ने जीवन-यान पर नौ घंटे बिताने के बाद बचाया जब उनकी नाव उत्तरी सागर में डूब गई।