'We're in love but never have sex'

Summary: Some 18% of respondents under the age of 30 have had sex fewer than 10 times in the past year, a survey of 2,000 people on websites Mumsnet and Gransnet has found. Among all ages, the figure was 29%. We meet three couples who, while madly in love, fall into this category.

By Claire WilliamsBBC Victoria Derbyshire programme "Our lack of sex life at the moment is down to me," Amanda, 35, tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme. "I'm so tired all the time because my job is full on and it's full on at home. It's like my libido is tired." Amanda and Steve have been married for six years. Watching their 22-month-old son, Elliott, happily marching around the room, they laugh to one another as they explain why they now have sex about once every six weeks. "Daytime sex and afternoon sex - with a kid around that's not happening," says Steve, from London. "Even if you put him down for a nap for two hours, you're just kind of like, 'I should probably do other stuff or catch up on some sleep.'" But it is not just parents having less satisfying sex lives, according to counsellor and sex therapist Martin Burrow, from the organisation Relate. "We certainly seem to be seeing more people reporting that they are dissatisfied in their sexual relationship," he says. "Whether that's a cultural shift in people being more comfortable to talk about sex or whether people are having less sex, I'm not sure. "You can have a successful relationship whether there is sex in it or not. "Some people don't need to have sex to be happy - some people do." Jacob and Charlotte, both 23, are very much in love - but sex is not part of their relationship. "We've been together for four years. We haven't had sex for the last three of them - and we're not planning to," Charlotte says. She is asexual, though Jacob is not. "We sort of tried [having sex] to see what worked for the first six months. It really wasn't making either of us happy. "Jacob doesn't want to be having sex with someone who doesn't want to be having sex." For some men, this might have been a deal-breaker - but not for Jacob. "I have a fantastic relationship with a wonderful person," he says. "There are other ways to show affection." Others, however, are not always as understanding. Charlotte says: "I don't think I can have a conversation with someone about it without it being implied [not having sex is a] burden that's been put on me, when actually it's a choice I've made. "It's really sad how some people prioritise sex over happiness." Thom and Steve, from Bristol, have been together for four years, and got married last year. They have never had sex with each other. Both identify as asexual and joke that their first date - when they ended up sleeping next to one another - was "one of the best one-night stands we've both had where nothing has happened". Thom believes society is becoming increasingly sexualised but this is "not reflective of people having more sex". Although he adds: "There's more pressure to have sex and maybe people are forcing themselves to have more regular sex". The couple say people are shocked when they say they have never had sex, and often ask how they can love each other without it. The reply they give is simple: "You can have sex without the love, so why can't love without sex exist?" For Martin, when it comes to the amount of sex in relationships, "normal doesn't exist". Some couples, he says, can "reach high levels of intimacy without having sex". For others, the amount of sex they have will often ebb and flow, affected by things such as having young children, work, fatigue and illness. Amanda says communication between her and Steve has been the key to having a healthy and strong relationship without regular sex. "Don't be too disheartened," she advises new parents in a similar position, "because it happens to all of us." She laughs as she turns to Steve and says: "We will get it back. I promise." Watch the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 BST on BBC Two and the BBC News channel in the UK and on iPlayer afterwards.

वेबसाइट मम्सनेट और ग्रांसनेट पर 2,000 लोगों के एक सर्वेक्षण में पाया गया है कि 30 साल से कम उम्र के लगभग 18 प्रतिशत लोगों ने पिछले वर्ष में 10 से कम बार यौन संबंध बनाए हैं। सभी उम्र के लोगों में यह आंकड़ा 29 प्रतिशत था। हम तीन जोड़ों से मिलते हैं, जो प्यार में पागल होते हुए भी इस श्रेणी में आते हैं।


Essex lorry deaths: The Vietnamese risking it all to get to the UK

Summary: An hour's drive inland from the French coast, a dozen Vietnamese men nurse tea over a smoking campfire, as they wait for a phone call from the man they call "the boss". An Afghan man, they say, who opens trailers in the lorry-park nearby and shuts them inside.

By Lucy WilliamsonBBC News, northern France Duc paid €30,000 ($33,200; £25,000) for a prepaid journey from Vietnam to London - via Russia, Poland, Germany and France. It was organised, he says, by a Vietnamese contact back home. "I have some Vietnamese friends in UK, who will help me find jobs when I get there," he told me. "These friends help me get on lorries or container trucks to go across the border." Security is much less tight in the nearby lorry park than around the ports further north. But few people here have managed to get past the border controls. We were told there is a two-tier system in operation here; that those who pay more for their passage to Britain don't have to chance their luck in the lorries outside, but use this base as a transit camp before being escorted on the final leg of their journey. A Vietnamese smuggler, interviewed by a French paper several years ago, reportedly described three levels of package. The top level allowed migrants to ride in the lorry cab and sleep in hotels. The lowest level was nicknamed "air", or more cynically "CO2" - a reference to the lack of air in some trailers. A local volunteer in the camp told us that they'd seen Vietnamese and British men visiting migrants here in a Mercedes. And that once migrants arrived in the UK, some went to work in cannabis farms, after which all communication stopped. Duc tells me he needs a job in the UK to pay back the loan for his journey. "We can do anything," he says, "construction work, nail bars, restaurants or other jobs." A report by one of France's biggest charities described smugglers telling Vietnamese migrants that refrigerated lorries gave them more chance of avoiding detection, and giving each of them an aluminium bag to put over their heads while passing through scanners at the border. No one here had heard about the 39 people found dead this week. This journey is about freedom, one said.

फ्रांसीसी तट से एक घंटे की अंतर्देशीय ड्राइव पर, एक दर्जन वियतनामी पुरुष धूम्रपान करने वाले कैम्पफायर पर चाय पीते हैं, क्योंकि वे उस व्यक्ति के फोन कॉल का इंतजार करते हैं जिसे वे "बॉस" कहते हैं। वे कहते हैं, एक अफगान आदमी, जो पास के लॉरी-पार्क में ट्रेलर खोलता है और उन्हें अंदर बंद कर देता है।


Jack Maynard: When stars' social media posts come back to haunt them

Summary: YouTube star Jack Maynard and rapper Stormzy are the latest celebrities to discover that ill-judged and offensive things they said years ago on social media can come back to damage their reputations and possibly their careers.

By Ian YoungsArts & entertainment reporter Virtually every celebrity breaking through today - certainly all those who are as big on YouTube as Jack Maynard is - will owe at least part of their success to social media. But, as Maynard has discovered, living your life online means opinions you expressed years ago can resurface when you least expect it. Like when you're in the Australian jungle. The 22-year-old, whose funny videos have attracted 1.2 million subscribers to his YouTube channel, was kicked off I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here on Tuesday. That was after a series of tweets, most of which date from 2011-13, came to light. Maynard was between 16 and 19 at the time. In the offending messages, he used homophobic language and referred to friends using the n-word. His representative has said he is "ashamed" of the posts and realises the language was "completely unacceptable". Many fans and members of the vlogging community have leapt to his defence. Meanwhile, some viewers have wondered why Maynard was singled out when questionable tweets from fellow I'm A Celeb contestant Amir Khan have emerged - and the show let the outspoken Katie Hopkins stay a decade ago. She has voiced her support, writing: "Dear @Jack_Maynard23 - they kept me in, my love. You're an angel by comparison. It's all just noise. Breathe quiet air." ITV hasn't confirmed why he was removed from the reality show - there have also been reports that he was axed because he sent private messages asking a 14-year-old girl for photos of her in her bra, when he was aged 16. She has told The Sun he didn't know how old she was at the time. ITV told the BBC they had no comment on the reports and Maynard's spokespeople have not yet given a response. He is one of a number of celebrities whose unsavoury public remarks have recently been dredged up. Stormzy apologised on Wednesday for using homophobic tweets between 2011 and 2014. He says they were views "that I've unlearned as I've grown up and become a man". He's 24 now. And last week, vlogging queen Zoella apologised for a number of old tweets about gay people and "chavs". The posts were from 2009-12, when she was around 19-22. She said she "would never say those things now". But can such comments be explained away by youthful ignorance and the passage of time? In a highly personal column, The Sun newspaper's showbiz editor Dan Wootton recounted how he was bullied at school by people using the same language as Maynard had tweeted. Wootton said "I feel deeply sorry for the millennial generation whose every utterance from their earliest years is archived on the internet. "But that's not what this situation is all about." Using such words "was completely unacceptable long before the invention of Twitter, as Jack learned the hard way", he added. The thing Maynard, Stormzy and Zoella's tweets all had in common was that they all featured homophobic insults. A spokesperson for LGBT rights group Stonewall said: "It's important that homophobic abuse and slurs are called out. People need to understand that this sort of language is, and always will be, deeply damaging and harmful. "We also know people can and do change. At Stonewall our mission is to get people to understand the impact that discriminatory attitudes and abusive words have on lesbian, gay, bi and trans people." And Sarah Davis, a PR manager and fashion blogger, was among those criticising him on Twitter. David Levin, co-founder of social media agency That Lot, says celebrities should be cut some slack for saying things when they were "young and daft". "But there's a limit," he says. "Most 10-year-olds would know it's wrong to say something sexist, racist or homophobic. And the fact that they tweeted it makes it worse. "Celebrities need to realise that journalists are probably trawling through their social feeds right now. And that stupid thing you tweeted is gonna bite you on the arse." There's one exception, of course: "Unless you happen to be the President of the United States." Mr Levin has written tweets on behalf of high-profile personalities as well as brands and broadcasters. "If a high profile individual is about to be in the spotlight for whatever reason, they're encouraged to look back through their feeds and discreetly remove anything that may be taken, or reported, the wrong way out of context," he says. "Or in more extreme cases, deleted immediately because it was a stupid thing to say." Growing up in public PR guru Mark Borkowski says Jack Maynard's actions highlight that there's nowhere to hide for the generation who have grown up on social media. "Perhaps it proves a degree of abject ignorance and arrogance," he says. "Past attitudes and social hubris will haunt many, many celebrities who now attempt to plunder celebrity status. They will reach the realisation that fame is toxic fame." And it shows your social history can be dredged up by anybody - be they journalists or HR people deciding on jobs in other walks of life. "I tell my own kids, 'Be careful what you post,'" he says. "And I think kids are pretty savvy about it now, and I think this is a fantastic lesson for anybody of the millennial generation to learn that your life is no longer your own." Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

यूट्यूब स्टार जैक मेनार्ड और रैपर स्टॉर्मज़ी ने हाल ही में यह पता लगाया है कि सोशल मीडिया पर वर्षों पहले कही गई गलत और अपमानजनक बातें उनकी प्रतिष्ठा और संभवतः उनके करियर को नुकसान पहुंचा सकती हैं।


iPhone X: 10 key moments leading up to the new handset

Summary: Apple's 10th anniversary iPhone launch is expected to be the biggest single upgrade the handset has seen since its launch.

By Leo KelionTechnology desk editor A revamped design with an edge-to-edge display, facial recognition ID system and advanced augmented reality features is expected. Several analysts have predicted the asking price for the top-end models will hit new heights too. In a world in which the smartphone has become ubiquitous, it's easy to forget how much of a surprise Steve Jobs's unveiling of the original was a decade ago, and how divided opinion was about whether it was truly a game-changer. To mark the occasion, we have picked 10 key moments from its past. 1. 2004: The birth of Project Purple After the success of first the iMac and then the iPod, Apple began developing a tablet as its next breakthrough product. But around 2004, ex-iOS chief Scott Forstall recalls having a critical conversation over lunch with chief executive Steve Jobs. "We were both using our phones and hated them," he told an audience earlier this year. "We looked around, and like everyone around us has a phone, and everyone looks very angsty as they're using them. "And Steve said, 'Do you think we can take that demo we are doing with the tablet and multi-touch and shrink it down to something… small enough to fit in your pocket?'" This prompted Apple's engineers to create a basic contacts app that was constrained to a corner of the prototype tablet's display. "The second [Steve Jobs] saw this demo, he knew this was it," Mr Forstall said. "There was no question. This was the way a phone had to behave." As a legal filing would later reveal, by August 2005 Apple's industrial designers had already created a concept form factor - codenamed Purple - that is recognisable as the basis for the iPhone that followed. 2. July 2008: First iOS App Store apps released There are now well over two million native apps available for the iPhone's iOS operating system, and most owners have several pages and folders worth of the programs. But for a while, after the first iPhone launched, there weren't enough to fill even a single screen. That's because third-party developers were initially limited to creating software that ran within the device's web browser. Steve Jobs reportedly believed policing a native app marketplace would be too complicated. It wasn't until more than a year after the handset went on sale that the App Store was launched. And history was made on 9 July when Apple made a handful of native apps live in advance of the marketplace opening its virtual doors. Among them was Moo - a cow sound simulator - from Denver-based developer Erica Sadun. "I had come from the jailbreak community [in which developers modify smartphones to add capabilities], which put a lot of pressure on Apple to have its own store," Ms Sadun said. "The App Store completely revolutionised how independent developers could create businesses, monetise their product and present it to a community of people that was larger than anybody had ever dreamed of. "It created a gold rush that I don't think we are ever going to see again." 3. September 2008: HTC Dream unveiled It sounds fanciful now, but once upon a time Google's chief executive was a member of Apple's board of directors. Eric Schmidt did not resign from the post until 2009, but his days were numbered as soon as the first commercial Android phone was announced. The HTC Dream offered features the iPhone still lacked, including copy and paste, Street View and multimedia messaging. And while reviews were tepid - suggesting it was "best suited for early adopters" - they recognised the potential of a more open smartphone platform to iOS. Curiously, the Dream was theoretically capable of supporting "multi-touch" gestures - recognising how many fingers were in contact with the screen - but the feature was disabled. That was probably because Apple had patented the technology. When HTC added the feature to a follow-up handset in 2010, Steve Jobs was infuriated. "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product," he subsequently told his biographer Walter Isaacson. "I'm willing to go to thermonuclear war on this." 4. February 2010: Siri app released by SRI These days, Apple spends millions making adverts starring Siri and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, among other celebrity co-stars. But when the virtual assistant was first released on iOS, it was a relatively low-profile app from a fairly obscure Californian research institute, which had been part-funded by the Pentagon. Its business model was to charge restaurants and event promoters a fee for any voice-controlled bookings made for their businesses, and the plan was to release follow-up versions for Android and Blackberry. But that changed two months after its launch, when Apple bought the technology, reportedly for more than $200m (£150m). The app remained live on the App Store until October 2011, at which point an upgraded version became an exclusive feature for the newly launched iPhone 4S. 5. June 2010: The first selfie iPhone When the iPhone 4 was released, reviews highlighting its addition of a front camera focused on its use for video calls rather than self-portraits. Perhaps that was understandable. Although the word "selfie" had already been coined, it had yet to become commonplace. And while the iPhone 4 was not the first handset to feature a camera on both its sides - Sony Ericsson did so in 2003 - it can claim to have been a driving force in the rise of selfie culture. "The iPhone 4 was important as you had a device that was very easy to use, a big teen demographic with access to it, and an explosion of mobile apps," said Charles Arthur, author of Digital Wars. "It's a classic example of unintended consequences. "Now, the selfie has taken over from the autograph. "Watch people at any public event where they are meeting stars, and they're always trying to get a selfie with them." 6. October 2011: The death of Steve Jobs When Tim Cook - rather than Steve Jobs - unveiled the 4S on 4 October 2011, he faced criticism for his performance. The BBC even accused him of appearing "dull". What wasn't apparent at the time was that Mr Cook must have been aware that his mentor and friend Steve Jobs was close to death. He died the next day. It is likely that Apple would have collapsed had Mr Jobs not returned in 1997 to the company he had co-founded, meaning there would never have been an iPhone. Or had he not subsequently stayed at Apple, it's possible the company's engineers might have pursued a rival mobile phone design based around the iPod's click wheel. Certainly, since his death, Apple has yet to launch a product that has come anywhere close to achieving the iPhone's level of success, and some question whether it ever will. Mr Jobs's last public appearance was at Cupertino City Council in June 2011, where he sought permission for Apple to build a new headquarters. The new iPhone will be the first product to be launched at the new campus, within an event space called the Steve Jobs Theater. 7. April 2012: Facebook's $1bn takeover of Instagram If ever proof were needed of the disruptive economic impact of the iPhone, the takeover of Instagram provided it. The app had been in existence only 18 months when the deal was announced. It had just 13 employees and had been an iOS-exclusive until the week before the revelation. Its takeover provided a bonanza to both Instagram's investors as well as to other smartphone-related start-ups seeking venture capital cash. At the time, many thought Facebook had wildly overpaid. Now, as Instagram sucks in ever more advertising dollars while offline media's funding struggles worsen, it seems like a bargain. Other apps that debuted on the iPhone - including Uber, Deliveroo and Airbnb - have shaken up industry in other ways. And by one estimate, the total value of the global app economy - including software sales, advertising and mobile commerce - was $1.3tn (£993bn) for last year. 8. July 2012: Apple buys AuthenTec Apple's $356m takeover of a fingerprint sensor chip-maker in 2012 caused a particular problem for Samsung. The South Korean company was already using the Florida-based company's components in its laptops and had just announced a deal to add another of its security products to its Android phones. But while the idea of frustrating its arch-rival probably had some appeal, the biggest benefit to Apple was the ability to launch its Touch ID system in 2013's iPhone 5S. As reviews noted, previous attempts to introduce fingerprint scanning to phones had proven "unreliable, often causing more aggravation than they're worth" but the new system worked "pretty much flawlessly". Initially, the feature was limited to being used to unlock the phone and make digital purchases from Apple. But it later made it possible for the company to introduce Apple Pay and add security to third-party apps without requiring the hassle of typing in a password each time. One side-effect of the sensor's success is it may have prolonged the life of a physical home button on the iPhone. If rumours are to be believed, Apple has struggled to replace it with a part that could be hidden beneath the screen and may be about to replace it altogether with facial recognition scans on the iPhone X. 9. August 2013: Steve Ballmer says he is stepping down as Microsoft chief In 1997, Microsoft threw Apple a lifeline by taking a $150m stake in the failing company. Apple returned the favour by launching a product that Microsoft first failed to properly understand and then struggled to match. Chief executive Steve Ballmer famously laughed at the iPhone's prospects after he first heard about it. "That is the most expensive phone in the world, and it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard," he said in 2007. Six years later, he announced the takeover of Nokia's phone business for 5.4bn euros ($6.5bn; £5bn) in an attempt to catch up, only for the sum to be written off in 2015 after he had departed and his successor finally accepted Windows Phone was a flop. The irony is that if Microsoft's stake in Apple had not been sold off under Mr Ballmer, it would now be worth more than $40bn and he might have shared in its success. "Like so many other people, Steve Ballmer completely underestimated the impact of the iPhone," said Ben Wood, from the CCS Insight consultancy. "His arrogant dismissal has certainly come back to haunt him." 10. July 2016: Pokemon Go released Pokemon Go fever is now well past its peak, and the app more likely to make headlines for botched events than rare monster sightings. But its legacy has been to prove that augmented reality (AR) apps - in which graphics are mixed with real-world views - can have mass appeal. AR actually dates back to 2009 on the iPhone, when a French developer created an app that shows nearby shops and other points of interest in Paris. But it's set to come of age with the imminent release of iOS 11, which includes ARKit - software that makes it easier for developers to anchor graphics to the world beyond and take account of its lighting conditions. Several demos released in advance have looked impressive, not least a version of PacMan where you walk through the maze. The question remains whether users will be satisfied experiencing the action on their iPhones, or whether Apple will feel compelled to release an accompanying headset to let them go hands-free.

ऐपल की 10वीं वर्षगांठ आईफ़ोन लॉन्च होने की उम्मीद है कि यह अपने लॉन्च के बाद से हैंडसेट का सबसे बड़ा एकल अपग्रेड होगा।


I'll be back to front: Arnold Schwarzenegger cycles on wrong side

Summary: Action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger has taken to the streets of Edinburgh for a morning bike ride.

Setting off at a leisurely pace through the west end, the former governor of California promptly began cycling on the wrong side of the street. The Terminator star was in the capital to attend a black-tie dinner in his honour at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. The Hollywood star is often spotted cycling at home in California. He shocked London commuters last year when he jumped on a Boris bike to enjoy a sightseeing tour.

एक्शन हीरो अर्नोल्ड श्वार्ज़नेगर सुबह की बाइक की सवारी के लिए एडिनबर्ग की सड़कों पर उतर आए हैं।


Beavers, burpees and bread: 2020's most-searched

Summary: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

By Chris SmithNewsbeat reporter It was the age of Wagamama katsu curry, it was the age of homemade IKEA meatballs. It was the season of Schofield, it was the season of sanitizer. But most of all, it was the season of sourdough. Yes, it's that time again when Google Trends releases the UK's most searched-for terms of the year. And, as you'd expect, 2020's list makes for fascinating reading. Pandemic panic Not surprisingly, the coronavirus pandemic dominates this year's list - as a quick look at the top How To questions of 2020 will testify. How's that for a snapshot of 2020? (Apart from the bit about eels, which we'll come to later.) Meatball mania As lockdown confined so many of us to our kitchens, it's not surprising that recipes were some of the top searches. The ubiquitous sourdough bread makes an appearance of course, with bread at the top of the list and "white bread" and "soda bread" also making the top 10. But perhaps a little surprisingly, the second most searched-for recipe in the UK this year was the classic French comfort food beef bourguignon. People were also missing their favourite meals out while restaurants were forced to close. Wagamama katsu curry comes in at seven - and people pining for the middle-class McDonalds sent the term ''IKEA meatball recipe" to number nine. Tiger titillation While that sourdough starter was beginning to bubble, lots of us reached for the remote. The most searched-for TV show of the year was Love Island. The reality show made its first winter appearance back in grey January - though the tragic death of former presenter Caroline Flack was announced before it had finished its run. Normal People also proved a big online talking point, as did Tiger King, which became a hit in March just as the pandemic really started to bite. And as I'm A Celebrity eased people through the end of Lockdown II, the campmates in the castle promoted several trending search terms. That explains the strange appearance of "how to cook eels" on the earlier food list - the contestants found eels in their basket one dinner time. And the resulting meal made it obvious that they would have greatly benefited from a Google recipe search. Radio 1's own Jordan North also became the UK's fourth most searched-for celebrity off the back of his castle antics. He was only beaten by the stars of Tiger King and TV host Philip Schofield, who came out in February. Living-room lunges As so many of us harbour vague ideas of taking up intermittent fasting or something in January 2021, fitness was a big theme in our online lives. Living rooms across the nation echoed to the sounds of "bunny hops! Silly billies! Cor, I've got a right sweat on!" at 9am sharp every morning in the first lockdown. The culprit? Joe Wicks, of course - now Joe Wicks MBE thanks to his valiant efforts keeping the nation dripping sweat from their noses onto the lounge rug. But just behind Joe was Australian YouTuber Chloe Ting, whose online workouts also proved a hit with UK searchers trying to offset all that homemade bread. When? It's a question millions of people wanted an answer to in 2020… When? Here's the full list of the top UK search terms beginning "when" from this year. For full effect, wail the list out loud while clasping your hands together. Lyrics Song lyrics googled this year provide a strange mix of the patriotic and the, er, not quite so patriotic. Dame Vera Lynn's wartime banger We'll Meet Again was high on the list - along with Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory - spurred on by the VE Day anniversary celebrations in May. What is VE Day? was also the most-searched question beginning "what is?". But it was Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion who most people wanted subtitles for. If you're not familiar with the song, here's your NSFW warning. We suggest you don't search for the lyrics if you're easily offended. Beaver bafflement The main list of 2020's most commonly-asked questions in the UK throws up just one final surprise. Among the usual suspects of "who won the election?" and "when will lockdown end?" there was an odd-looking entry at number two. The question is this: "Where does vanilla flavouring come from?" We've traced this one back to a TikToker named Sloowmoee, who asked people to film themselves searching that question and post their reactions. It would have led many people to a National Geographic article with the clickable headline Beaver Butts Emit Goo Used for Vanilla Flavouring. The article's about a substance called castoreum which can indeed be harvested from the hindquarters of beavers. But, to avoid you choking on your latte, we're told most vanilla flavourings are now synthetic. If 2020 had a fitting conclusion - this is quite probably it. Follow Newsbeat on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

यह सबसे अच्छा समय था, यह सबसे बुरा समय था।


Tees Dock workers mark port's 50th anniversary

Summary: This week marks the 50th anniversary of the official opening of Tees Dock. The port, near Middlesbrough, is now the country's third largest. BBC News spoke to former workers about their memories of life down the docks.

Walking around the present day Teesport, retired docker John Wade is amazed by the scale of the operation. "In 1963 all you had at Tees Dock was two cranes, one brick shed and a cabin for the dockers," he said. "It was a brick cabin with coat hangers and nothing else. Nobody could have imagined how it would change." The port now handles 40m tonnes of cargo each year and about 1,500 people pass through every day. Mr Wade, 78, was among dozens of men who transferred to Tees Dock from Middlesbrough Dock, just along the River Tees. Half a century on, he is still telling tales of hard graft and endless banter with his workmates. "Middlesbrough dockers back then were the best in the world because they were perfectionists," he said. "Dockers had to be able to do everything. Loads had to be flat and flush. The only thing that I saw go on a ship that wasn't put on by dockers was a racehorse." Staff past and present are being invited to anniversary celebrations this week and while reminiscing will be top of the agenda, bosses at parent company PD Ports have one eye on the future. Steel from the nearby SSI plant now sails to Thailand from the port and chief executive David Robinson said "major investment" was planned for the next three years that would see "bigger ships" dock on Teesside. Former docker Mr Wade gathered together a group of former colleagues to share stories from their days spent loading ships bound for all corners of the globe. Peter McGee, 74, recalled a recruitment process that was short and to the point. "There were three questions, 'can you read, can you write and can you carry 16 stone on your back?' and if you answered yes to all three questions you got a job." Mr McGee said certain shifts took on legendary status among dockers thanks to the backbreaking quantities of cargo that were moved. The "white mountain" in the late 1960s saw so much salt loaded that the men could barely enjoy a beer to toast their efforts because their muscles were so sore, he said. "They went for a pint afterwards in Middlesbrough and it took them 20 minutes to pick the glass up from the table." In those days, the vast majority of work was done by hand. Now, Mr McGee says, technology means "they can do in about two minutes what we did in a shift". Fellow dockers Terry Brown, 71, and Trevor Hodgson, 68, agreed that despite the backbreaking work, the atmosphere on shift meant time often flew by. Mr Hodgson said: "There's no job in the country where the banter could be any better." "It was a pleasure to go to work," Mr Brown said.

इस सप्ताह टीज़ डॉक के आधिकारिक उद्घाटन की 50वीं वर्षगांठ है। मिडल्सब्रो के पास बंदरगाह अब देश का तीसरा सबसे बड़ा बंदरगाह है। बीबीसी न्यूज़ ने पूर्व श्रमिकों से बंदरगाहों के नीचे उनके जीवन की यादों के बारे में बात की।


Cross-border trains disrupted by landslide

Summary: A landslide along the railway line between Newry, County Down, and Dundalk, County Louth, has disrupted cross-border train services.

The line was closed between the two stations on Thursday evening due to "subsidence" on the track north of Dundalk, according to Translink. Passengers were bussed between Newry and Dublin in both directions. The line has reopened but Translink has warned of knock-on delays on Friday. 'Delays' Translink has apologised "for any inconvenience". A spokeswoman for the company told BBC News NI that Enterprise services between Belfast and Dublin will operate on Friday. However, she said there will be "likely delays of 15-20 minutes to northbound services".

न्यूरी, काउंटी डाउन और डुंडालक, काउंटी लूथ के बीच रेलवे लाइन पर भूस्खलन ने सीमा पार ट्रेन सेवाओं को बाधित कर दिया है।


Family Guy's Cleveland enlists music stars

Summary: Kanye West, Black Eyed Peas's will.i.am and U2's Larry Mullen Jnr are just some of the stars lending their voices to new Family Guy cartoon spin-off The Cleveland Show.

By Greg CochraneNewsbeat music reporter The series, showing on E4 in the UK, and created by Family Guy boss Seth MacFarlane follows the adventures of Cleveland Brown and his family. Mike Henry, who voices the main character said: "Kanye could not be a cooler guy at our show - we do definitely have some jokes where he makes light of himself." "He does some things out in public that stir up controversy and opinions. He knew that and we contacted him and he was totally up for doing the part." 'Cool' guy The show, which began in the US last autumn and is already commissioned for a second season, has managed to enlist a number of big name musicians including the outspoken rapper. "He's a recurring character," says Henry of Kanye West, who voices a character called Kenny West in the show. "He does an extended rap-off with Cleveland Jnr in an episode first season and he and Cleveland hook up and do another rap in season two. "The first time we had actually written a rap for him. Five of our writers sat down to write this rap and they were like, 'I wonder how he's going to like it?'. "But he was genuinely laughing. He very humbly asked if we could change one line which didn't feel right. He was even joking that we should write a song for his next album." More stars Of course, this isn't a new idea. Over the past two decades we've seen cameos from the likes of Green Day, Aerosmith and, most recently, Coldplay in shows like The Simpsons. Other music stars lined up to take part in season two of The Cleveland Show are Black Eyed Pea's will.i.am and rapper T Pain - who'll play sidekicks for Cleveland Jnr. "We just recorded him last week and he was absolutely hilarious. He could do his own animated show he's got so many voices," says Henry of Will.i.am. U2's drummer Larry Mullen Jnr also got in touch with the programme's creators through a mutual friend and asked to be involved. "He came in and we hung out for a couple of hours. We just recorded him doing a couple of different parts and he was very funny. "It's a thrill for me to do all this. U2 is my favourite band of all time and David Lynch the film director plays a part on our show. "He [Mullen Jnr] plays a mobster in one episode; he plays a bad Elvis impersonator by design in another episode. "He's got his own studio so we just record it from Dublin. You don't have to record at a certain time. It's an easy gig and one that people like to do. "It's very cool to have all these people from different walks of entertainment participating in what we're doing." The Cleveland Show airs at 10pm on E4 every Monday.

कान्ये वेस्ट, ब्लैक आइड मटर का will.i.am और U2 का लैरी मुलेन जूनियर कुछ ऐसे सितारे हैं जो नए फैमिली गाइ कार्टून स्पिन-ऑफ द क्लीवलैंड शो को अपनी आवाज दे रहे हैं।


China faces to watch: Bo Xilai

Summary: China is gearing up to change its top leaders, a process that begins at the end of the year. This week, the annual parliamentary session will give those in the running the chance to show off their credentials. The BBC's Michael Bristow profiles key figures.

Bo Xilai, 62, is the nearest thing China has to a Western-style politician. Like Xi Jinping, he is the son of a famous communist hero, but he has gone on to forge his own unique public personality. He ran the big coastal city of Dalian and then became commerce minister, before moving to his post in charge of Chongqing, a sprawling city in western China. But a scandal during this posting proved to be his undoing and state media reported that he was removed from office on 15 March. He has been replaced by Vice-Premier Zhang Dejiang. The scandal erupted when his former chief of police in Chongqing, Wang Lijun, spent a day at a United States consulate in Chengdu last month. Bo Xilai launched two high-profile campaigns in Chongqing, including one to promote China's communist past. The other sought to crack down on the city's organised crime, which previously seemed to operate with the protection of many government officials. Suave and sophisticated, Mr Bo sent his son to study at Harrow, one of the UK's most exclusive private schools. The politician seems at home in front of the cameras and appears to enjoy pushing his policies in public. During China's annual parliamentary session, the National People's Congress (NPC), Mr Bo spoke about his ex-police chief, answering questions from journalists at a meeting on its sidelines. He said he had not imagined Mr Wang would run off. It came suddenly, Mr Bo said. "I feel like I put my trust in the wrong person." It is unclear what the future holds for him now.

चीन अपने शीर्ष नेताओं को बदलने की तैयारी कर रहा है, एक प्रक्रिया जो वर्ष के अंत में शुरू होती है। इस सप्ताह, वार्षिक संसदीय सत्र दौड़ में शामिल लोगों को अपनी साख दिखाने का मौका देगा। बीबीसी के माइकल ब्रिस्टो ने प्रमुख हस्तियों की प्रोफाइल बनाई है।


Who, What, Why: What can you be flogged for in Iran?

Summary: A campaign has begun in Iran to get an actress flogged after she was seen being kissed at the Cannes Festival. Flogging is common in Iran - but what offences in Iranian law are punished with the lash, asks Tom de Castella.

Who, What, WhyThe Magazine answers the questions behind the news It was a normal French greeting. The actress Leila Hatami - best known for starring in the Oscar-winning film, A Separation - received a kiss on the cheek from festival president Gilles Jacob. But she has come under attack from religious hardliners for accepting the greeting rather than ducking away. Radical students have condemned her "sinful act of kissing a strange man in public" and demanded she be flogged under article 638 of the criminal code, which deals with public morality. Adultery, kissing in public, theft, homosexual acts, drinking or selling alcohol, and blasphemy are all grounds for flogging in Iran. Offenders are usually sentenced to between 10 and 100 lashes across the back, carried out with a one-metre (three-foot) whip. The pain is so severe that they often faint after seven or eight strokes, says Anicee Van Engeland, a specialist in Iranian law at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies. Faranak Amidi of the BBC's Persian Service says the punishment would traditionally have taken place in a public square, in order to humiliate the culprit, but is now often done in a police station. It's a common way of punishing young people for going out and mixing with the opposite sex, she says. She herself was sentenced to 10 lashes after a police raid at a party, although she chose the option of paying a fine instead. Her cousin received 100 lashes for a similar offence and had to be taken to hospital. Flogging can also be used as a "lenient" punishment for other types of crime, such as adultery, where the death penalty or death by stoning is a possible sentence, says Van Engeland. Children are spared until the age of 18. Foreigners are unlikely to be punished for holding hands, but those who have sexual relations with a Muslim may be flogged. Amnesty International's Tom Davies says flogging equates to a form of torture and is banned by international law. As well as physical injury, he says, it can cause long-lasting psychological harm. Follow @BBCNewsMagazine on Twitter and on Facebook

कान महोत्सव में एक अभिनेत्री को चूमते हुए देखे जाने के बाद ईरान में उसे कोड़े मारने का अभियान शुरू हो गया है। टॉम डी कैस्टेला पूछते हैं कि ईरान में कोड़े मारना आम बात है-लेकिन ईरानी कानून में किस अपराध के लिए कोड़े से दंडित किया जाता है।


Southsea beach torso find: Murder accused in court

Summary: A 46-year-old has appeared in court charged with the murder of a man whose torso was found on a Hampshire beach.

The remains of David Guy, 30, were discovered by a group of students on Southsea beach, Portsmouth, on 3 July. David Hilder, of Richmond Road, Southsea, appeared before Portsmouth magistrates earlier. He spoke only to confirm his name, age and address. He was remanded in custody to appear at Winchester Crown Court on Thursday. Mr Guy's torso was found wrapped in a pink curtain inside a black bin liner on 3 July. His lower body was discovered nearby on Friday. After the hearing, Hampshire Constabulary confirmed that officers were searching an allotment in Locksway Road, Portsmouth, in connection with the investigation.

एक 46 वर्षीय व्यक्ति एक व्यक्ति की हत्या के आरोप में अदालत में पेश हुआ है, जिसका धड़ हैम्पशायर समुद्र तट पर पाया गया था।


Cameron takes centre stage on NHS

Summary: This morning the prime minister's official spokesman said something important.

James LandaleDeputy political editor@BBCJLandaleon Twitter He was asked to comment on reports in the Financial Times that David Cameron was personally overseeing plans to prepare the NHS for a cold winter that could put pressure on accident and emergency departments. The spokesman said this: "Is the PM working very closely with the Secretary of State for Health on health matters, with a particular focus on A&E? Absolutely he is doing that." He was then asked if it was true that the prime minister had demanded weekly updates on how many people were being admitted to A&E. The spokesman replied: "Yeah, he does want to and he continues to be up-to-date with the very best and latest figures, including the A&E statistics." So at a time when Labour is warning gloomily of what it calls a "winter crisis" in A&E, when some doctors are saying that emergency care is already under pressure, when some weather forecasters are predicting a bitterly cold snap as the gulf stream heads south, the prime minister has chosen to get personally involved. As Sir Humphrey might have said, that is rather bold. For it means that Mr Cameron will be seen to be making himself personally responsible for whatever happens in the NHS this winter. If anything goes wrong, he will not be able to blame his health advisers, his health secretary, his health secretary's advisers or even the health department as a whole. The buck will now stop in Number 10. Government sources say it is all about the prime minister showing that he is taking the issue seriously, that he is focused on the operational details, that he cannot be accused of complacency. But the former Labour Health Secretary Aneurin Bevan once said that in a centralised NHS the sound of a bedpan falling in his local hospital would reverberate in the Palace of Westminster. And this winter, if A&E departments struggle to cope, it could be sound of patients complaining from trolleys that will reverberate in the corridors of Downing Street.

आज सुबह प्रधानमंत्री के आधिकारिक प्रवक्ता ने कुछ महत्वपूर्ण बात कही।


The 'Heilsberg 39': Remembering England's WW1 prisoners of war

Summary: Almost 100 years after a group of British soldiers died as World War One prisoners of war, 39 headstones have been erected at a cemetery in Poland in their memory. But who were the men who died so far from home?

By Emma HallettBBC News Before World War One broke out the paths of Seymour Blewett, Frank Bower and James Grier were unlikely to have crossed. Blewett was a printer and book binder in Truro, Cornwall, living miles away from railway clerk Bower in Ravensthorpe, West Yorkshire, and Grier in the Channel Island of Alderney. But in 1918 they found themselves housed in overcrowded and insanitary wooden barracks, starving hungry and forced to work. Each is believed to have died after spending time in the hospital at the Heilsberg prisoner of war camp in east Germany (now part of Poland) and were buried at the nearby Lidzbark Warminski cemetery. Between August and December 1918, 39 British prisoners of war would die at the camp where they had been held among thousands of Russian prisoners. David Tattersfield, development trustee of the Western Front Association, has been researching the history of the "Heilsberg 39". The Western Front Association, a charity which aims to educate the public in the history of World War One, has recovered and saved numerous documents including pension cards and service records that were due to be destroyed. "There were three massive offensives in the spring of 1918," he said. "The 21 March 1918, which is when Blewett was captured, the April offensive on the Lys, when Bower was captured, and the third one was the Chemin des Dames, when Grier was captured, any one of which could have potentially won the war for the Germans." Pte Bower joined the 22nd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, aged just 17 and underwent a prolonged period of training before being posted overseas when he turned 19. He joined the Houplines sector, near Armentieres - supposedly a quiet part of the front. But this was about to change. "He's sent out and lo and behold he doesn't ever fire a shot as he is in hospital with a stomach bug when the Germans launched a massive attack," Mr Tattersfield said. Bower was moved to Heilsberg prisoner of war camp, about 80 miles east of the city of Danzig (now Gdansk), and it was here, on 29 October 1918, he died of pneumonia. "There was a massive blockade of Germany at the time, so it was basically being starved on the home front," Mr Tattersfield said. "The priority was to feed the army, then second came the civil population, who were on starvation rations, and bottom of the pile would have come prisoners of war. "In the meantime they were being expected to work whether it was down mines or farms or in factories." Also being held at Heilsberg was 22-year-old gunner Grier. He was an early volunteer and is believed to have enlisted late in 1914 or early 1915, before being sent to France in May 1915. It is not certain which unit Grier originally joined, but he ended up in 251st Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. During the war Grier saw a lot of action and it was while his brigade had been sent to recuperate that he was captured in May 1918. "There were beautiful landscapes of flowers blooming, beautiful May weather, it was quiet, nothing going on and then all of a sudden all hell breaks loose," Mr Tattersfield said. "The Germans launched an absolutely massive attack through this area where people were supposed to be resting, in an area called Chemin des Dames." Grier and his comrades were "extremely unlucky" and almost all were captured. He was shipped off to the prisoner of war camp and died on 19 October 1918. Following an appeal by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) and Mr Tattersfield's research, members of Grier's family were tracked down in Rainham, Kent. Mia and Steve Mannion know very little about their great uncle James, but Mr Mannion has kept a number of old family photos and Grier's diary. On 30 May 1918 it reads: "Today we got the same rations as yesterday, but still we are unable to eat them. We have also had a terrible hard day's work and are getting badly knocked about." Mr Mannion said: "That's his last entry. He was captured and really badly looked after by his captors...he hadn't experienced any life at all. A sad loss I would say." The Heilsberg camp contained mainly Russian and other eastern European prisoners, and it is believed that in October 1918, there were about 1,000 British PoWs at the camp, out of a total of 95,000 prisoners. Blewett, who would become a husband and stepfather during the war, joined the Royal Berkshire Regiment on 10 December 1915 when he was 33-years-old. He volunteered to be transferred to the newly created Machine Gun Corps and was captured on 21 March 1918 - the first of three spring offensives, called Operation Michael. He would spend eight months as a prisoner of war. While Germany signed an armistice with the Allies on 11 November 1918 - the official date of the end of World War One - Blewett was at the camp for another month before he died on 2 December. "Blewett died after the war ended, which makes me think he would have been in hospital, otherwise he would have been making his way home once the war finished, suggesting he was incapable of getting home," Mr Tattersfield said. The Germans made a cemetery at Lidzbark Warminski for the prisoners who died - containing 2,800 graves - with the British graves numbering 39. The Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission realised in the 1930s that the 39 British burials could not be located among the mass graves. However, the men were commemorated on the site. This continued until the 1960s when it became apparent that the cemetery could no longer be maintained and the men were instead commemorated on a small memorial at the Malbork Commonwealth War Cemetery. Now the CWGC has rebuilt the cemetery in Poland and erected 39 headstones for those that died at Heilsberg. During his research for the Western Front Association into Blewett, Mr Tattersfield found that for the last 96 years Blewett's sacrifice been remembered on a memorial bearing the wrong spelling of his name - something the CWGC will now put right. Peter Francis, from the CWGC, said: "The records were put together by the army (in 1919) and you sometimes find that a clerk mistyped a name or misheard a name and we think that is probably what happened in this instance. "David has been able to help us with finding some of the original documents and it became clear that this was an error that we are able to rectify, to make sure we are able to honour that man correctly."

प्रथम विश्व युद्ध के युद्ध कैदियों के रूप में ब्रिटिश सैनिकों के एक समूह की मृत्यु के लगभग 100 साल बाद, उनकी याद में पोलैंड के एक कब्रिस्तान में 39 पत्थर खड़े किए गए हैं। लेकिन वे लोग कौन थे जो घर से अब तक मारे गए थे?


From cuddles to counting - PTSD coping strategies shared

Summary: When a woman in Taupo, New Zealand, wrote about the love and support of her husband during her night terrors and dark days of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), she didn't expect the huge reaction that followed.

Christine Welten, who posted on Reddit about how much she appreciated her husband telling her it was OK to wake him up for cuddles, said: "I actually initially created my post more to highlight my husband's amazing nature, than my battle with PTSD." But it soon became apparent that she had touched a lot of people also struggling with the disorder, people who were inspired to share their stories. Her post received more than 25,000 upvotes in 10 days. "It was humbling for both my husband and I to see the love and community that came out of one simple post," she said. As an author and public speaker on mental health matters, Christine is quite accustomed to starting discussions on social media, but said she found it much harder to speak openly about the issues behind her PTSD. "Even when it is uncomfortable, I try to be as open as I can," she said and praised all those who shared their own experiences of PTSD as "so brave". "It restored my faith in humanity hearing so many people say they want to support and love their partners the best they can." One comment included advice on getting through a panic attack by counting down and naming five things you can see, four things you can touch, three things you can hear, two things you can smell and one thing you can taste. "This has literally never failed me during a panic attack," Reddit user renderdoodles wrote. "Sometimes I panic so much I can't focus to just do it in my head and I'll force myself to mutter it aloud under my breath. I've yet to make it all the way to the end without becoming less anxious." You might also like: As the sharing continued, one uploader confessed they had always wondered how to show empathy better to their partner, adding they would "shamelessly steal" Christine's husband's idea. Praise poured in for him, with one person calling him a "keeper", while others shared their own struggles with PTSD, saying half the battle is simply having someone there. One Reddit user shared the similar tactics used by their boyfriend: "My boyfriend does something similar. I have terrible OCD and often get into a panic at night and I'll just cuddle up to him and he'll wake up and hold me, never angry. If it's really bad and I'm in tears, he'll sit up and help me through it, get me water etc. It's one of the many reasons I love him." Christine responded to some of the posts about coping strategies, and particularly loved one from somebody praising their partner's kindness, consideration and compassion which read: "I never expected anyone to act that way. I've never felt more loved. I love my best friend and team-mate." The post added that the person's partner gives them a "pop quiz" before bed to calm them down. "He asks me where he's at, when can I wake him up, and so on. The answers are always in the other room and whenever I need him. It doesn't matter if he's asleep, if I'm having a bad night and need him, just go. "It is the sweetest thing, and I didn't know people were that considerate and compassionate and loving, or more so." Although there were one or two people who questioned whether PTSD is a real condition, Christine said she was taken aback by some of the heartfelt comments: "To find myself in tears from some of the posts and the overwhelming sense of love I received from the majority of them was hugely cathartic and validating," she said. What is PTSD? Help and information on PTSD is available through the BBC advice pages. Written by Sherie Ryder, UGC and Social News

जब टाउपो, न्यूज़ीलैंड में एक महिला ने अपने रात के भय और पोस्ट ट्रॉमेटिक स्ट्रेस डिसऑर्डर (PTSD) के काले दिनों के दौरान अपने पति के प्यार और समर्थन के बारे में लिखा, तो उसे उसके बाद आई भारी प्रतिक्रिया की उम्मीद नहीं थी।


Carla Lane's sitcom Bread and its legacy in Liverpool

Summary: Carla Lane, who has died aged 87, was perhaps best known for creating the popular 1980s sitcom Bread, set in her home city of Liverpool. But while for many viewers the trials and tribulations of the Boswell family were simply a slice of early evening entertainment, Liverpudlians had a far more complex relationship with the show.

By Bronwyn JonesBBC News Its depiction of the working-class Boswells struggling to make their way in Thatcher's Britain was pilloried for stereotyping Scousers as much as it was praised for its humorous portrayal of life in Liverpool. There's no doubt that 1980s Merseyside was blighted by deprivation, high unemployment and poor prospects, with the docking industry in decline and dole queues out the door. Bread captured that troubled period through the Boswells' daily grind to fill the family kitty - and reached huge audiences, with more than 21m viewers tuning in to watch Aveline marry Protestant vicar Oswald in 1988. But at the same time it painted the city in the national imagination as home to workshy, benefit-cheating dossers. A TV critic for The Times picked up on this, writing in 1986 that Bread "reinforces the cultural stereotype of the inhabitants of that self-destructive city as a bunch of spongers abusing the welfare state". The Liverpool Echo's former TV editor Peter Grant agrees that Bread "didn't do the city any great favours". He said the characters were "cartoon-esque" and could have survived "without that backdrop of being scroungers" but that "if people took it too seriously, they were missing the point" as humour was at the heart of the show. Ultimately, though, Grant believes Bread "didn't do any long-lasting damage" to the city. And he remembers fondly the thrill he got at the time from "seeing the River Mersey", nudging his dad to say: "We're on the telly!". "It was like a postcard to the rest of the country from Liverpool," Grant says. Peter Howitt, who played leather-clad Joey, the oldest of the Boswell children, has an even more positive take on the programme, remembering his time in Bread with happiness. He said: "It was a joy to be in Liverpool" and "to be appreciated by the local community", who "loved" the show. Howitt's view is that Lane had an "incredible take on human nature" and her writing "was geared to make you think about where you are and where you'd like to be". All of the Bread family, he argues, "wanted to be somewhere they weren't quite yet - so how are they going to get there?" Nick Conway, who played youngest son Billy, said Lane "just used to be able to encapsulate Scouse humour" and "there was an honesty behind her portrayal of families and their relationships with each other". For Merseyside author and screenwriter Frank Cottrell-Boyce, many shows - often made in the city - have contributed to a negative image of Liverpool, but he thinks Bread was "warm-hearted". "A lot of comedy now is quite cold but Bread was funny and quick and still had a heart." He said Lane gave "lots of opportunities to Liverpool actors and writers" and "left a legacy of talent," adding that "she was not a spokesperson for the city... that was not her responsibility". And the stereotyping of Liverpool that some see in Bread was hardly unique to the show. From a city crippled by unemployment in Boys from the Blackstuff, to a crime-ridden drug-den in BBC documentary Mersey Blues, you would think there was no aspiration or opportunity in Liverpool. But what did Lane herself make of the impact of her creation? Speaking years after the show had come to an end - it ran from 1986 to 1991 - she said she felt its critics had misunderstood Bread. "I just didn't take any notice because you can't... there were enough people loving it," she said. "Everything I wrote was what I knew. "The whole of this country was talking about Liverpool and I didn't do any disfavours to Liverpool. "I mean, the Bread family were a good family. They didn't do anything terrible at all."

कार्ला लेन, जिनका 87 वर्ष की आयु में निधन हो गया है, शायद 1980 के दशक के लोकप्रिय सिटकॉम ब्रेड के निर्माण के लिए जानी जाती थीं, जो उनके गृह शहर लिवरपूल में सेट किया गया था। लेकिन कई दर्शकों के लिए बोसवेल परिवार के परीक्षण और क्लेश केवल शाम के मनोरंजन का एक टुकड़ा थे, लिवरपुडलियन का शो के साथ कहीं अधिक जटिल संबंध था।


Charleston shooting: Race, rage and the American condition

Summary: After the shootings, Charleston's beloved mayor struggles with an ugly reality of racism and rage. Yet his campaign to combat inequality shows how big the problem is - and how small some solutions can feel.

By Tara McKelveyBBC News Magazine Mayor Joseph Riley Jr, speaks eloquently about British architecture and the history of Charleston. When asked about Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old from Eastover who's been charged with nine counts of murder, though, he struggles. "We had the tragic misfortune of this evil person committing this act who came from a distant town," the mayor says. "It's like almost like an alien source appeared here," he says. "It's not this city." His language reflects his personal anguish over the massacre in Charleston, a place of beauty and charm. His response is understandable - and common. Just as he says the assailant is from somewhere else, so do people in New York, Washington and other Northern cities try to push away the notion of racism and extremism. Oh, that's in the South, they say. Perhaps now after this particularly brutal act in Charleston, it's time to take stock of what's happening. These shootings come as the conversation about racial injustice in America has become increasingly heated, with a continuous series of unjust police encounters, deadly assaults, inhumane prison treatment and burdensome legal fees symbolising a structural racial injustice Taken together these events make it harder to say violence against African Americans is random or confined to another place, wherever that may be. They also make the portrayal of Roof as an outsider, at least according to New York University's Charlton McIlwain, seem "disingenuous". McIlwain has studied race for years, and he tells me platitudes and kind gestures from those in power will only get us so far - especially if they come at the expense of structural change at institutions and in federal and state policies in the US. Cal Morrison, a retired security-systems manager in Charleston, agrees. Wearing a black "Do you believe us now?" T-shirt, Morrison says Roof and his racist violence is hardly alien. "It is us," Morrison says. "It is part of our culture from the vestiges of slavery." Two days after the shootings, the mayor heads for Emanuel AME Church. Paint is peeling from the spire, showing splotches of charcoal-grey, and the stained glass windows are dark. Someone puts a tulip near a sign that says: Rev Clementa Pinckney Pastor Sundays at 930 AM It's a makeshift memorial for him and Ethel Lance; Sharonda Coleman-Singleton; Depayne Doctor; Cynthia Hurd; Susie Jackson; Tywanza Sanders; Daniel Simmons, Sr and Mira Thompson. A balloon tied to a flowerpot says: "Officially the best dad ever". A teddy bear sits with its head slumped on its chest. Riley, 72, is wearing a striped tie and a light-beige, cotton jacket ("Charleston uniform", says one of his aides). Despite the 90F degree (32C) he looks cool while he talks to journalists. Unlike them, he doesn't have damp splotches on his shirt. His shoes are rust-coloured, and the leather looks as soft as butter. He says he once marched "on these two feet" from Charleston to Columbia, the state capital, to protest against the Confederate battle flag over the statehouse. At that time, it flew directly over the capitol dome. As a compromise, it was moved to the grounds directly in front of the statehouse. The march, which covered 120 miles and took place more than a decade ago, is one of the reasons he's beloved. A progressive, he talks about gun control and race issues and has helped build the city's award-winning parks and market squares. He decided to run for mayor, he says, because he wanted "to build a bridge between the black and white community". He was elected in 1975 and afterwards went on a trip to Europe, spending time in England. In Bristol he saw a park built with big, new trees rather than small ones and with granite instead of concrete. "I understood that you don't apologise for using good materials," he says. "If you're going to build something for citizens, then you build it with great beauty." The parks, he says, are for everyone, "poor and rich, black and white," saying they have "enriched our city emotionally". The city has a dark past - and much to overcome. Nearly half of the slaves in the US who arrived on ships came through Charleston. More recently the city's Emanuel AME Church served as the centre of the civil-rights movement. Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr spoke there in 1962. As Riley moved into the mayoral office schools were being integrated, and discriminatory policies abolished. "There was change in America," he says. "I realised the South needed to change." Keith Waring, 59, a city councilman, says the mayor has over the years helped bring together blacks and whites and is known for his "open-door policy" for civil-rights activists and others. The mayor appointed the first black police chief, Reuben Greenberg, a pioneer in community policing, in 1982, and has worked to foster better race relations. The New York Times' Frank Bruni says Riley is arguably the "the most loved politician in America". That afternoon Riley sits in a wooden chair in a second-floor room at city hall. He points to an oil painting of an African-American civil rights activist, Septima Poinsette Clark, and says once the room had portraits only of white people. Because of his efforts, he says, her portrait along with one of Daniel Joseph Jenkins, an African American who founded an orphanage, are now on the wall. Later I count the paintings - 27. Two portraits of African Americans are better than none, but it hardly seems like sweeping reform. Riley grew up about a mile from city hall. When he was little, he used to buy wildflowers from an African-American family who had a stand across the street from the building. Sheila Taylor, 62, now sells sweet-grass baskets, the kind slaves made when they laboured in the fields, on the same corner. "He's a very nice man," she says, describing the mayor. "He's been good to the black people." Her baskets cost $70 (£44) apiece, more than wildflowers. Otherwise little has changed. He's chosen to do things incrementally, and the results are modest. At times he comes across as a kind-hearted plantation owner, a man overseeing a system that, while functioning, is deeply flawed. "To his credit he has put race relations at the forefront," says McIlwain. "But his failures are symptomatic of how entrenched racism is in Charleston and elsewhere." The number of blacks living in Charleston has gone down over the years. Activists and city officials say many have been driven out by high prices and by wealthy, white residents who are buying up property. For many of those who remain, poverty, unemployment and homelessness remain a serious problem. The shootings in the church reflect the rage, violence and racism that lurk below the surface, exposing a wound. However you try to understand its reasons, one thing is clear - the pain has permeated the city. "Every heart is broken," Riley says. "White people, black people, everybody is mourning." That evening he sits in a large auditorium near the church. People are carrying long-stemmed roses. Hundreds of them were de-thorned and donated by a florist in New York. Outside it smells like sandalwood, wafting from an incense stick someone has stuck in the dirt. Inside an African-American activist, J Denise Cromwell, 52, holds a sign about justice. She runs a barbershop and a homeless programme and knows about the challenges the mayor faces. "His work is a very difficult task," she says. She says she isn't convinced by his claim that the assailant is from a distant land, though, a place the mayor says lies "a two-hour drive" and "almost 100 miles" away. "The real truth is it ain't somewhere else," she says. "We got to face it here." As she talks, a young white woman in a ponytail comes over and puts her head on her shoulder. "My daughter," Cromwell says. I look at them, puzzled. Cromwell recalls how she saw the woman, Asia Cromwell, who's now 24, as a three-day-old baby in a hospital. Her birth mother was unwilling or incapable of caring for her, says Cromwell, who decided on the spot to adopt her. "I really didn't see the colour," Cromwell says. She swirls her hand in the air, showing how it seemed to disappear. Since the shootings in the church, people in Charleston, including those who lost loved ones, have spoken of forgiveness. It's an extraordinary gesture, but not everyone thinks it's the right path. The mayor, for one, says he can't muster it. "I don't know that this man can be forgiven for what he did," he tells me. "I don't know that I can do that." On this point McIlwain agrees. He believes people in the US have tried for too long to overcome racism simply by striving for greater love and kindness between blacks and whites. "You hear, 'It's time to heal,' and, sure, I'm all for that. But I think it's not the cure," he says. For change to occur, he says, political and economic institutions must be reformed. Some things have happened. The Confederate flag - the one Riley protested about years ago - may soon come down. Governor Nikki Haley says it should be taken from the State House building. Lawmakers are considering steps for its removal. And while not everyone is ready to forgive, they're trying to look ahead. "You know few cities have escaped their histories unscathed, and this is one of those brutal injuries that this city is experiencing," Riley says. "But our people know that you move forward." Like others, he'll carry on with his work. For the event in the auditorium he's changed into a dark suit. He sits near the podium as church leaders talk about the dead. During the speeches he wipes his face with a handkerchief. It's near the end of a long day, one so draining even he has started to sweat. Photographs by Colm O'Molloy

गोलीबारी के बाद, चार्ल्सटन के प्रिय महापौर नस्लवाद और क्रोध की एक बदसूरत वास्तविकता के साथ संघर्ष करते हैं। फिर भी असमानता से निपटने के लिए उनके अभियान से पता चलता है कि समस्या कितनी बड़ी है-और कुछ समाधान कितने छोटे महसूस कर सकते हैं।


M1 closed overnight after man dies in crash

Summary: A man has died in a crash between two lorries on the M1 motorway.

The crash happened at about 19:00 GMT on Friday near junction 21a for Leicester Forest East and forced the closure of the southbound carriageway overnight. A 52-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene, but no-one else was hurt. Leicestershire Police has appealed for any witnesses to the crash to get in touch. The carriageway reopened at about 05:00 on Saturday.

एम1 मोटरवे पर दो ट्रकों के बीच दुर्घटना में एक व्यक्ति की मौत हो गई है।


Burundi's tit-for-tat killings spread fear

Summary: Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza has given gunmen opposing his third term five days to surrender and be granted an amnesty or face tough anti-terrorism legislation to be introduced by the end of the month. It follows months of shootings in the capital, which the BBC's Alastair Leithead says has raised fears of a return to civil war:

I have been receiving the photographs for several weeks now. Every few days they pop up on my phone - usually with a little note: "These are the latest found today." The person who is texting me is talking about bodies. Almost every day in Burundi a body is found, dumped in a storm drain or beside a road. Often they have been shot or stabbed in the chest; sometimes they have been tied up - usually somebody takes a picture. The photographs and videos are posted on Facebook, or messaged from phone to phone - it is how people share information now. The independent media is all but shut down. Many journalists and human rights activists have been scared out of the country. One of the photos which appeared on my phone was of a well-known woman who had worked for the opposition party. The picture was delivered two days after she had gone missing. Another was of Eloi Ndimira, a 54-year-old man who walked with a crutch and had tried to stop the police beating someone on the street. They turned on him. The photograph is truly horrific. I will not even describe it. We met his family as they were laying flowers on his grave; they were afraid to speak, to be seen with us. Cleaning up his body for the burial, they found he had been beaten, stabbed, shot. And his heart had been cut from his chest. Widespread terror They were not the only two people to die in Burundi's capital, Bujumbura, in the last few weeks. I recognised the neatly painted blue house number from the video clip: Number 48 Buye street. Flies now buzzed at the foot of the red metal doors, where the video had shown a pool of blood-stained earth, marking the spot where Christophe Nkezabahizi had been shot twice, at close range, having done as the police asked, and opened the door. Mr Nkezabahizi was a cameraman for the state broadcaster. He was not like the underground activists we met who know the risks of photographing the latest body to have appeared on the street. He had not protested against the third term the president had gained after an election widely described as flawed. He had told the stories the government wanted telling. The policemen knew this - he told them just before he was killed. They knew this when they told his family to lie face down in the street - just before they were all murdered. Who is President Pierre Nkurunziza? Burundi's football-playing president Presidents who cling to power Like its close neighbour Rwanda, Burundi has a dark past. It was not called genocide here, but in the 1990s hundreds of thousands of people died in ethnic violence between Tutsis and Hutus. This time the killing, so far at least, has not been based on ethnicity but is connected to Africa's new fever - third termism, where presidents are determined to have a third term in office whatever the constitution says. It is sweeping the continent from Burkina Faso to the Congos, from Rwanda to Burundi. But here, where ethnic divisions run so deep, there is a real fear - expressed openly on social media, or whispered in the close communities of the capital - of what could happen if this spiral of violence is not stopped. Ethnic hate speech is starting to emerge from the shadows, the language of "us" and "them". Terror is widespread, and that is probably the idea. Politicians have been assassinated, perhaps the president's most powerful security figure was killed, and the country's best-known human rights campaigner barely survived after being shot in the face. Murder is sometimes tit-for-tat, but also can be as random as it is brutal. People are picked up and tortured. I met one man - a truck driver - still in great pain after being arrested in June. "His black week," he calls it. He was forced to sit in acid, to stand on nails, a jerrycan of sand was hung from his genitals. He escaped when the cell door was accidentally left open. Too weak to walk, his last hope was to crawl out on his hands and knees. He still does not know why he was picked on. They accused him of weapons training; he says he is just a businessman from out of town. Not all the killing is being done by shady police units aligned to the government. Those who were protesting on the streets have been driven underground and now are responsible for their share of murder. Grenades are thrown at patrol cars, police are kidnapped and killed. It provokes a brutal response and the cycle continues. Retaliation is why the police knocked at 48 Buye Street. Mr Nkezabahizi did not kidnap or kill a policeman, but not knowing who did, the police picked on him and sent a strong warning to the community… those who act violently in Burundi, act with impunity. How to listen to From Our Own Correspondent: BBC Radio 4: Saturdays at 11:30. Listen online or download the podcast. BBC World Service: At weekends - see World Service programme schedule or listen online. Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

बुरुंडी के राष्ट्रपति पियरे नकुरुंजिजा ने अपने तीसरे कार्यकाल का विरोध कर रहे बंदूकधारियों को आत्मसमर्पण करने और उन्हें माफी देने या महीने के अंत तक पेश किए जाने वाले कठिन आतंकवाद विरोधी कानून का सामना करने के लिए पांच दिन का समय दिया है। यह राजधानी में महीनों की गोलीबारी के बाद है, जिसके बारे में बीबीसी के एलिस्टेयर लीटहेड का कहना है कि इसने गृह युद्ध में वापसी की आशंकाओं को बढ़ा दिया हैः


'I would have died without Help to Rent'

Summary: For Steve, homelessness started when his relationship broke down.

By Becky Morton and Tom BatemanBBC News He moved into shared accommodation and after going into hospital with pneumonia he came home to find the landlord changing the locks. Soon he was on the streets. "People think if you're homeless you must be some kind of addict or a bad person," he says. "But it takes such a little spark to cause the fire of homelessness. And trying to find help is actually quite hard because it's not that well signposted." Councils have a legal duty to help families, pregnant women and other vulnerable people who find themselves homeless. But as a single man Steve did not qualify as "priority need" and the private rented sector was the most viable option. But renting in the private sector is expensive. With most landlords requiring a deposit, a month's rent in advance and agency fees of up to £350 the costs add up. Research by homelessness charity Crisis found these upfront costs can range from around £900 for shared accommodation in Yorkshire to over £2,000 for a one-bed flat in London. This would be a significant amount for anyone, but for someone who is homeless it can be an insurmountable barrier. This is on top of the fact that most landlords are unwilling to rent to someone on benefits, let alone someone who is homeless - research by Crisis found only 20% of landlords would be willing to let to homeless people. Eventually Steve was put in touch with a charity in Elmbridge, Surrey, an area he knew. Elmbridge is in Chancellor Philip Hammond's constituency and is one of the most expensive postcodes in the country. Rents and therefore deposits are very high. Owning virtually nothing except for a few clothes, Steve had little hope of getting the money together for a deposit to rent. Elmbridge Rentstart helped him find a suitable home and provided a six month bond on his deposit, as well as paying the first month's rent. Instead of a cash deposit the charity provides a guarantee to the landlord to cover any damage to the property or unpaid rent, removing the financial risk. If there is any damage to the property at the end of a tenancy the charity either tries to rectify the issue using volunteers, for example through redecorating, or will pay the landlord directly. However, they found with the right support deposit deductions tend to be low. Long-term solution Rentstart also provided support to help Steve understand the process and the benefits he was entitled to. "Without Rentstart's help I would probably have been dead," he said. "I wouldn't have known where to start looking for benefits. I wouldn't have even known benefits were available. I would have been on the streets in the winter and I probably wouldn't have seen the winter through." The scheme aims to find a long-term solution, matching tenants to suitable homes and providing ongoing support. "I've been living here for four years. And it's because they did their research," he explains. "They didn't just say 'well you're homeless, you're going here'. I knew the area, I knew the people and I knew where to look for work. I had connections." Ahead of the Budget, Crisis is calling for the government to fund more Help to Rent schemes like the one in Elmbridge and a national rent deposit scheme. This would provide a commitment from the government to guarantee a deposit for tenants who can't afford to pay one upfront. A spokesperson for the Department for Communities and Local Government said it was investing £950m up to 2020 to reduce homelessness and a further £2bn in affordable housing. But Helen Watson, Chief Executive of Elmbridge Rentstart, said a government-funded rent deposit scheme would make a huge difference to organisations like hers. "It would mean the really limited resources we have to hold to have our own bond scheme would be freed up to house more people in other ways," she says. The Westminster Policy Institute estimated funding the scheme would cost £31m a year. But Crisis says the long-term annual savings could be up to £595m, by taking pressure off local authority services and preventing people becoming homeless, allowing them to move off benefits and back into work. The Homelessness Reduction Act, which comes into force next year, places extra responsibilities on councils to prevent homelessness. Crisis says Help to Rent would help homeless people into the private rented sector, taking the pressure of councils. Immediate help Helen Watson acknowledges the need for more social housing but says the private rented sector could also offer solutions. "With the private rented sector you can pick where you want to live. So if you've got problems in a particular area because the network's not good and you're trying to recover from a drug or alcohol problem, somewhere else, perhaps where you can find work, is a really good solution," she says. "Of course we need more social housing but the private rented sector is a good solution when it's properly managed by the right sort of organisation." Tom Say, a senior campaigns officer at Crisis, agrees. "We absolutely need to build more social housing but that's a long term goal. It will take years to build that new housing to get the stock we need," he said. "There are homeless people that need help right now and this is a quick way for the government to help those people." Steve now works for Elmbridge Rentstart himself, spending his evenings locating homeless people in the area who might be in need of help. He says the Help to Rent scheme changed his life. "Without the support and guidance it gave me, I'd be worse off than the guys I go out and help."

स्टीव के लिए, बेघरता तब शुरू हुई जब उनका रिश्ता टूट गया।


Inquiry after North Sea platform production shut down

Summary: Shell has said it has no imminent plans to resume operations on its four Brent platforms after an incident in the North Sea.

A fender, which protects the legs of the Bravo platform and weighs several tonnes, fell off the installation. Production at Bravo and the three other Brent platforms - Alpha, Charlie and Delta - was shut down as a result. Shell said nobody was injured and inspections suggested there was no significant structural damage. The company said it did not know when work would resume at Brent, which lies 150 miles north east of Shetland.

शेल ने कहा है कि उत्तरी सागर में एक घटना के बाद अपने चार ब्रेंट प्लेटफार्मों पर परिचालन फिर से शुरू करने की उसकी कोई आसन्न योजना नहीं है।


Liverpool's Turner Prize-winning streets - one year on

Summary: A year ago, a project to regenerate four run-down Liverpool streets won the Turner Prize - normally the preserve of the art elite. As well as shaking up the art establishment, the victory brought the winning area impetus, pride, attention - and tension.

By Ian YoungsArts & entertainment reporter When Sumuyya Khader was five years old, her mother let her walk the short way from her house to Sam's newsagents on her own. "It was two minutes away from where I lived," Ms Khader recalls. "So I was allowed to potter around. You knew everyone." Twenty-three years later, the newsagent is boarded up - like a number of houses on the road. But Ms Khader has returned. She came back to Cairns Street in Toxteth last year to be operations manager for Granby Workshop, a cottage industry that was set up to capitalise on the spotlight the Turner Prize put on the area. Inside, Ms Khader and Jade Crompton, 25, craft terracotta lampshades and bespoke bathroom tiles and ceramic handles, which were originally designed for the houses in the Turner Prize-winning regeneration scheme and which are now being sold to the wider world. The workshop is temporarily based in one of the empty terraced houses on Cairns Street, but in the new year it will to a permanent home - the old newsagent. "Part of the reason I was so keen to get involved is I knew it as Sam's newsagents," Ms Khader says. "With living down the road when I was a kid, it was something I was interested in straight away. I wanted to be involved in something creative and giving back to this area." A year after the Turner Prize win, Granby Workshop is taking orders from around the UK as well as countries ranging from Switzerland to Japan. The workshop is "the number one achievement" since the Turner Prize win, according to Lewis Jones from design collective Assemble. Assemble were awarded the prestigious prize for their collaboration with the Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust (CLT) - a group of residents who have fought for years to bring the area back from dereliction. "It's a way of directing that attention and publicity into something that could continue to benefit the neighbourhood," Mr Jones says of the workshop. "People from all over the world are placing orders for products and that helps everything here." Down the road from the workshop is a row of three houses with doors painted different colours - yellow, blue and orange. Five houses renovated by Assemble have already been rented out, but these three are the first to be sold. They are empty as they await their new owners. Assemble's fireplaces - made using brick, slate and stone that was reclaimed from the houses themselves - are visible through the curtainless windows. But the fact that these houses contain Turner Prize-winning designs has not been used to push up the prices. In fact, the CLT has deliberately sold them below market value. "We don't want them to become 'Turner houses', if you know what I mean," says Granby CLT chair Erika Rushton. "Because we want local people to live in them forever." In fact, priority has been given to those with a connection to the area, either themselves or through family, and who can afford the £90,000 asking price but would struggle to buy something on the open market. The average house price in Liverpool is £121,000. Once they have bought it, the deeds also say they cannot sell the house on for a big profit - it must always be sold below market value, as calculated using the average Liverpool wage. Next door to the Granby Workshop, a house is boarded up and a notice pasted to the door informs passers-by that anything of value has been removed. On the other side, green hoardings surround the next two houses. These were initially earmarked for habitation but have since been deemed uninhabitable - one has no roof. So instead of being brought back to life as houses, work is starting any day now to turn them into a winter garden, with a glazed roof and rampant greenery. Assemble came up with the idea after peering through the grill of a derelict house on a neighbouring street to see the front room being reclaimed by nature. "It's really important to recognise what they [Assemble] did for the Turner Prize," says CLT vice-chair Hazel Tilley, 61, who has lived on Cairns Street for 25 years. "They brought ordinary people into focus. It's a major political piece of art, I think, and it's beautifully done. "It deserves more than the Turner Prize because what their art has done is it's helped to restore - not pride because we always had pride in our area - but our faith. These young people didn't know what couldn't be done, so they did it. "Twelve months on, we've got the investment for the winter garden because of the Turner Prize. The winter garden is the most amazing, incredible thing and it will be four doors away from me. It's such a beautiful, beautiful idea." Unlike the stereotypical Turner Prize trend-setter of yesteryear, Assemble do not appear to be in it for the notoriety or the money. "They're still not rich," Mrs Tilley adds. "They don't work in a way that makes money. They work in a way that makes a difference. And that is the true calling of the artist. I have such a lot of respect for them and quite a lot of love for them." The next major project may prove to be two roads down - Ducie Street, where every single house is empty and every window and door has been boarded or bricked up. Since the Turner nomination, every house has been decorated with colourful murals - nothing to do with the official Turner project, but they deserve a prize of their own. Around the corner, one critic has daubed the words "arty farty" on a brick wall. Some locals have clearly watched the Turner whirlwind with a large dose of irreverent scepticism. Assemble and the Granby CLT have still only renovated eight houses over the four streets, with a possible five more pencilled in for now. Many more properties have been done up by the council, housing associations and private individuals, while others are still rotting. The attention from the Turner Prize "brought stresses and strains as well as good things", Ms Rushton admits. "It would be honest to say that. Some people really advantaged from that profile and publicity and not everybody did. So there were not exactly winners and losers, but that brought some tensions I think." One year on, however, the experience has been good for the area as a whole, she believes. "Historically, Toxteth had a really negative name because it once had a riot many moons ago," she says. "And the Turner Prize has transformed a negative story into a positive story. It's done a good thing for us there." Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

एक साल पहले, लिवरपूल की चार जर्जर सड़कों को पुनर्जीवित करने की एक परियोजना ने टर्नर पुरस्कार जीता-आम तौर पर कला अभिजात वर्ग का संरक्षण। कला प्रतिष्ठान को हिलाने के साथ-साथ, जीत ने विजेता क्षेत्र को प्रेरणा, गर्व, ध्यान और तनाव दिया।


Schoolboy hit by car near to Coventry school

Summary: A schoolboy was injured when he was struck by a car near to a school in Coventry.

The crash happened near to Bablake School in Coundon Road at just after 08:00 GMT. He was treated at the scene before being taken to hospital by ambulance for further assessment and treatment, West Midlands Ambulance Service said. An ambulance and a paramedic officer were sent to the scene. Related Internet Links West Midlands Ambulance Service

कोवेंट्री में एक स्कूल के पास एक कार की चपेट में आने से एक स्कूली छात्र घायल हो गया।


Review: Beyonce and Jay-Z go Crazy In Love as tour opens in Cardiff

Summary: For all the reports of trouble in their marriage, Beyonce and Jay-Z's joint On The Run II tour, which opened in Cardiff on Wednesday, was a two-and-half hour display of affection.

By Mark SavageBBC Music reporter As they raced through more than 40 hits - from Crazy In Love to 99 Problems - the couple flirted, teased and held hands - not just when the spotlights were on, but deep in the shadows, between the songs. At one point, Beyonce sidled up to her husband and started twerking, giving him the giggles. When he rapped about "the rock on your finger" in Upgrade U, she flashed her wedding ring, a big goofy grin spread across her face. The show didn't shy away from Jay-Z's infidelity, which was dissected on songs from Beyonce's Lemonade album, and atoned for on his own 4:44, but the overall message was one of healing and redemption. Stadium-width video screens showed images of the couple being torn apart and separated, their house on fire, before reuniting in a church and renewing their wedding vows. "Endless love," read a message on the screen. Jay-Z's pendant put it more prosaically: "Bling for love." "Urgh," you might be thinking, and rightly so, but the lovey-dovey stuff was just a backdrop to the night's soundtrack: a thrilling joyride through the stars' back catalogues that covered feminist anthems (Flawless); hip-hop classics (Dirt Off Your Shoulder) and the obligatory display of Beyonce's vocal force (Resentment). The stars traded control of the stage throughout the show, which allowed for some clever transitions, as when the Arabian riff of Beyonce's Naughty Girl bled into Jay-Z's Big Pimpin'. However, the show lacked the conceptual and political strength of Beyonce's recent set at the Coachella music festival. Where that concert presented radical and powerful statement of black resilience and feminine power, the On The Run II Tour largely failed to settle on a theme, mixing up religious iconography with a confused metaphor about love and crime. A simple greatest hits set would have been fine - but there were some issues there, too. Beyonce unwisely chose to mould her song choices to Jay-Z's material, focusing on beat-heavy tracks like Diva and Formation at the expense of the chart hits the audience were clearly expecting. That meant no Single Ladies, no Halo, and nothing from the Destiny's Child collection, while Irreplaceable was reduced to a one-line chant over a trap beat. Jay-Z also ran out of space for hits like Izzo (HOVA), Empire State of Mind and Hard Knock Life. However, with up to 60 songs rehearsed for the tour, the setlist could easily change from night to night. And despite those few glaring omissions, the crowd were rarely off their feet - with N****s In Paris and a funked-up Deja Vu shaking the Principality Stadium to its rafters. Visually, there was plenty to feast your eyes on - from the how-did-they-do-that acrobatics of Beyonce's dancers to the police mugshots of Mick Jagger and Snoop Dogg that appeared during 99 Problems. Jay-Z unexpectedly had more costume changes than his wife, who used one of his stage absences to address the #MeToo movement. "Ladies, are we smart? Are we strong? Have we had enough?" she demanded during Sorry, before leading the audience in chant, the text of which is unprintable here. By the end of the show, however, love was in the air again. As Beyonce performed her Ed Sheeran duet Perfect, home videos of the couple and their three children flashed up on the screens. After holding hands throughout the song, Mr and Mrs Carter turned and held each other, eyes closed and oblivious for just a couple of seconds to the thousands of people watching them through their cameraphones. Sure, it could have been staged but, for what it's worth, the lingering tenderness of the embrace seemed too unvarnished to be rehearsed. "Thank you guys for sharing this beautiful night with us," said Beyonce as they walked away. "It feels so good to be on stage with the one I love." Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

उनकी शादी में परेशानी की सभी रिपोर्टों के बावजूद, बेयॉन्से और जे-जेड का संयुक्त ऑन द रन II दौरा, जो बुधवार को कार्डिफ में शुरू हुआ, ढाई घंटे के स्नेह का प्रदर्शन था।