NI ports: What led to checks being suspended on Irish Sea border?

Summary: Staff working for Northern Ireland's Agriculture Department (Daera) at border posts at Larne and Belfast ports are returning to work on Wednesday, more than a week after the department temporarily suspended physical checks at the ports.

By Luke SprouleBBC News NI BBC News NI examines the events leading up to checks first being suspended and what has happened since. 1 January: The Irish Sea border comes into effect The end of the Brexit transition period sees the Irish Sea border come into effect. It's a result of the Northern Ireland Protocol - the part of the Brexit deal which keeps Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods. This avoids the need for checks on the Irish border. Instead EU customs rules are enforced at Northern Ireland's ports. Mid-January: Anti-protocol graffiti begins to appear Many unionists and loyalists are strongly opposed to the protocol. Graffiti opposing the Irish Sea border begins to appear in some loyalist areas of Northern Ireland including parts of Bangor, Belfast, Glengormley and Larne - which is home to one of NI's main ports. On 27 January Assistant Chief Constable Mark McEwan tells MPs there are also signs of discontent on social media platforms. In February two men will be charged with painting graffiti in Larne. 28 January: Concerns raised about potential threat NI's Chief Vet Robert Huey represents Daera at a routine meeting of the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives (Solace). Recalling the discussion at a meeting of Stormont's Agriculture Committee on 4 February, Mr Huey recounts that the topic of the graffiti was raised and he informed the meeting that police had "been reassuring that it was not a serious threat". He says he was then told by "the representative there for Mid and East Antrim [council]" that this "was not the case, that the threat was serious and that I should be taking it seriously". Mr Huey says that the next day - 29 January - he reported this to the daily "gold command" meeting which was attended by representatives from local authorities across Northern Ireland. Mid and East Antrim Council has not responded to BBC queries about whether its chief executive Anne Donaghy attended the Solace meeting. "Council has a very low threshold concerning threats and the safety of its staff, and will always take decisive action to prioritise the safety and wellbeing of employees," said a council spokesperson. 31 January: Minister raises safety concerns Daera Permanent Secretary Denis McMahon says he received a call on 31 January from the then-minister in the department, Edwin Poots, to "express his concern about the safety of staff at the ports of entry". Mr Poots said a "local government officer" had contacted him to "alert him to potential health and safety risks as a result of threats to staff" at Larne Port, Mr McMahon told the agriculture committee on 4 February. BBC News NI has asked Mid and East Antrim Council if it was Ms Donaghy who contacted Mr Poots, but the council has neither confirmed nor denied. Mr Poots added that he had had conversations with political colleagues across Northern Ireland as well as other stakeholders who were reporting the same, added Mr McMahon. Mr Poots had subsequently contacted police to provide more details, he added. 1 February: Checks are suspended Mr McMahon says he receives a call from Mr Poots at midday on 1 February. He says the minister formally registers his concern about the health and safety of Daera staff working at the point of entry/border control post. Mr McMahon speaks to a senior police officer, who says officers are gathering additional intelligence and arranging a meeting with stakeholders, including Mr McMahon, the following day. The permanent secretary says the officer tells him he will share a threat assessment after that meeting, but at that stage it has not changed from the previous week. Later that day, at the request of Solace, Mr Poots meets the chief executives of Mid and East Antrim Council and Belfast City Council. At that meeting, concerns are highlighted about threatening graffiti and reports that the vehicle registrations of staff had been recorded, and that they feel threatened. Mr McMahon says the issues are primarily raised around Larne. An email, seen by BBC News NI, is sent from an officer in trade union Unite to the head of HR at Mid and East Antrim council, at 13:45 GMT. In it, the union says staff appear to have been threatened by graffiti "and potentially other methods", and asks for assurances that the council is risk-assessing the issue. Unions later say they understand that following receipt of that email the council contacted police at about 15:00 and asked them if there were issues around threats to staff before subsequently being told by the PSNI that there were not. That evening, Mr Poots phones Mr McMahon again and tells him he wants Daera staff stood down at Larne and Belfast, given the risks identified. Mr Poots adds he is "not convinced police had a full understanding of the risk" and that Mid and East Antrim Council has already taken action. Mr McMahon speaks to the chief vet and they decide that despite the lack of a formal police risk assessment, temporarily suspending physical checks on food and other animal products would be a "measured proportionate approach". At about 19:00 Mid and East Antrim Council makes a decision to immediately withdraw all its staff from inspection duties at Larne Port. At 21:50 Daera says it is temporarily suspending physical inspections of products of animal origin at Larne and Belfast. Belfast City Council staff remain at work and Daera checks on live animals at Larne continue. Documentary and seal checks - the other two-thirds of the Irish Sea border process - continue. Documentary checks are online while seal checks are completed at British ports. Meanwhile, at a Mid and East Antrim Council meeting, Mayor Peter Johnston tells councillors: "Trade unions - on behalf of council members of staff assisting with the checks at the port - have raised serious concerns around suspicious activity such as apparent information gathering, including the taking of personal registration plates from their vehicles". That night Mr Poots announces he will stand down as Daera minister to undergo surgery for a cancerous growth on his kidney. He is replaced by fellow DUP assembly member Gordon Lyons. 2 February: EU staff withdrawn The EU condemns threats against staff and tells EU officials working in Northern Ireland not to attend their duties. ACC McEwan tells BBC News NI there is no evidence to corroborate an anonymous claim that any of the main loyalist paramilitary groups were behind the threats. He adds there is no evidence that car registrations of staff were being gathered, adding that there was nothing to suggest an attack on anyone was imminent. 5 February: Council staff resume inspections Mid and East Antrim Council says its 12 environmental health officers are returning to work after it received a threat assessment from police. It adds it has carried out its own risk assessment and staff safety is its priority. 6 February: Trade unions dispute threat claims Trade unions Nipsa, Unite and GMB distance themselves from Mid and East Antrim Council's account of alleged threats to workers around "increasing suspicious activity such as apparent information gathering, including the taking of personal registration plates from their vehicles". The trade unions write to Mayor Peter Johnston asking him to withdraw the remarks he made at the 1 February council meeting. In a letter written written on behalf of the unions by TUS secretary Alan Law, they say: "As this was an official statement issued on behalf of council at the monthly meeting please would you clarify which trade union made this claim as neither Nipsa, GMB nor Unite did, and we absolutely distance ourselves from these remarks." 7 February: 'No credible threats' Chief Constable Simon Byrne says police have no evidence of "credible threats" against port workers in Larne or Belfast. He says Mid and East Antrim Council's decision to withdraw staff was taken by "people outside of the purview of policing". He says police worked with the council to reassure them there was no credible threat, ahead of workers returning on Friday. Meanwhile a Daera spokesman says resumption of full checks will by informed by a formal threat assessment from police, which it has received, alongside its own internal risk assessment. 9 February: Council statement 'untruthful' Alan Law says the trade unions are particularly concerned about Mr Johnston's remarks which said unions had raised concerns over staff number plates being gathered. He says that while Unite had contacted Mid and East Antrim Council on 1 February over concerns about graffiti and "potentially other methods" no union had raised the issue of number plates. "The mayor [Peter Johnston] references the trade unions, he says the trade unions advised the council that number plates were being recorded," Mr Law says. "Now that simply didn't happen and that's the main issue we have with the council's statement. "These are very serious situations and we would expect an employer like the council to take the matter extremely seriously and ensure any statement they would put out would be accurate and would not attribute untruthful remarks to the trade unions." In response, Mr Johnston tells BBC News NI the council acted on "lots of information from different stakeholders". He says the email from Unite was "certainly one of the pieces of information which was brought to the table". "We had information elsewhere and that all formed part of the decision. Not only did we have the letter from the union..but we had information from many other stakeholders," he adds. "When we presented the information we had we received cross-party support and unanimous support to withdraw the staff. "Throughout all of this our priority and our duty of care ultimately is with our staff." Meanwhile Daera confirms staff will return to work from Wednesday 10 February, meaning physical checks on products of animal origin can recommence.

लार्ने और बेलफास्ट बंदरगाहों पर सीमा चौकियों पर उत्तरी आयरलैंड के कृषि विभाग (डेरा) के लिए काम करने वाले कर्मचारी बुधवार को काम पर लौट रहे हैं, विभाग द्वारा बंदरगाहों पर अस्थायी रूप से भौतिक जांच को निलंबित करने के एक सप्ताह से अधिक समय बाद।


France: How was it dragged into the Malian conflict?

Summary: For anyone under the illusion that the early impact of French air strikes presages a rapid defeat for jihadist fighters in northern Mali, the latest news is a reminder of awkward realities.

By Paul MellyWest Africa analyst The militant Islamists have seized control of the western town of Diabaly, just 150km (about 90 miles) from Segou and the country's economic heartland. Officials in Paris were clearly not exaggerating when they said that without their intervention, the jihadist forces could have been in the capital, Bamako, within days. And that would have been a strategic disaster for Mali above all, but also for West Africa as a whole, threatening the stability and democratic structures of the entire region. It is understandable that in making the case for intervention to his domestic audience, President Francois Hollande has stressed the threat that would have been posed to Europe's security if Mali had been transformed into a new safe haven for radical Islamist groups. But arguably the most worrying message - for Africa and the wider international community - would have flowed from allowing a once stable West African state to collapse entirely in the face of an assault by armed groups with an agenda of exporting revolutionary jihad. That would have imperilled the long-term development and political security of countries from Senegal to Nigeria. Even now, after the initial French and Malian success in halting the militant advance, many of the tough questions remain unanswered. How will the unity and authority of the Malian state be restored? Are there underlying local grievances that need to be tackled? How will foreign troops or the Malian army cope if they have to take on the militants in desert combat during the hottest months of the year? Peaceful handover But these questions already faced the Malian government, France and the troop-contributing countries of West Africa, as they were developing plans for a more gradualist intervention later this year - September had been the target date for launching offensive action to retake control of the north. Restoring Mali's unity and stability was always going to be a complex, slow and costly process, beset with both political and military complications. But now the plans that were being so carefully worked out, and endorsed by the UN in late December, will have to be re-phased at the very least. The original plan had been for European Union (EU) experts to retrain the Malian army first and deploy West African allied troops gradually, while elections were held to re-establish a government with a democratic mandate to replace the current transitional regime established in the wake of the March 2012 coup. Only after all this was a serious military offensive envisaged - and then only if the jihadist groups had failed to negotiate a peaceful handover back to government rule. France expected to lead the EU training mission - and was briefing to that effect only last week. But it did not expect to lead front-line combat. But debate over the fine details of the intervention plan was then dramatically overtaken by the decision of the jihadist groups occupying northern Mali to launch a major new offensive. In March and April they had seized the key towns in Mali's north - Kidal, Timbuktu, Gao and Niafounke. A few months later they occupied Douentza, in the absence of Malian army resistance. But after that the military situation subsided into stalemate, with neither side showing aggressive intent. Late last year Ansar Dine, a jihadist group constituted largely of local Tuareg, even joined the peace talks that the government had already started with the secular Tuareg rebels of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA). Ansar Dine later announced its withdrawal from talks, but this appeared to be no more than a negotiating tactic. And when the militants last week advanced towards Konna, the northernmost outpost of government control, it seemed reasonable to speculate that the group's wily leader Iyad Ag Ghaly was merely stepping up the pressure in hope of securing extra concessions. Rear bases But the jihadists pressed forward, seizing Konna. It became clear that Ansar Dine forces were partnered by katibas (fighting units) from the other militant factions, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim) and the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (Mujao). French intelligence identified about 200 vehicles and thousands of men, mounting a two-pronged offensive - from Douentza in the east and from Lere in the west, near Mauritania - aimed at seizing the strategic city of Mopti, gateway to the Malian south. This was clearly a lot more than a negotiating tactic. There was a danger that the militants would have seized control of Bamako and the southern Malian heartland before any of the European military trainers or the West African intervention forces had arrived. The air strikes and troop deployments of the past few days have brought a halt, and enabled France to hit the militant groups' rear bases in Gao and Timbuktu. Some local people report that most of the radical fighters have abandoned these towns. But although dramatic recent events have forced a re-phasing of the intervention strategy developed over recent months, many of the key ingredients will still be required: West African troops, the retraining of the Malian army, a credible political and development strategy for the north. The West African forces are already arriving or about do to so, as governments in the region respond to the current emergency: Senegal, Niger, Burkina and Togo are all despatching troops. Nigeria is providing the command. And after previous regional or UN operations in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast, these armies have had experience working together. Many have also been involved in training exercises with the French and the Americans. Meanwhile, the MNLA - the secular Malian Tuareg movement - has offered to join the offensive against the jihadists. They will be able to contribute valuable familiarity with operations in the Sahara, their home environment. But local Tuareg political, social and clan structures are complex. In the past, Malian governments have attempted to create a Tuareg militia to tackle Aqim in the Sahara but these arrangements have not always proved easy to manage. So a critical priority will be to ensure that military progress for the government forces and their allies is rapidly followed by humanitarian assistance and development support. This will be essential to assist the long-suffering civilian population in the north and start to rebuild local faith in the capacity of a state whose patchy delivery of basic services and administration had contributed to the weakening of security in the region over recent years. Around the BBC Africa Today podcasts Related Internet Links Ecowas United Nations European Union MNLA (in French)

इस भ्रम में किसी के लिए भी कि फ्रांसीसी हवाई हमलों का प्रारंभिक प्रभाव उत्तरी माली में जिहादी लड़ाकों के लिए एक तेजी से हार का अनुमान लगाता है, नवीनतम समाचार अजीब वास्तविकताओं की याद दिलाता है।


Could China save UK art galleries?

Summary: An exhibition of art treasures from Bury, Bolton and other northern English towns has become a success in China. Could booming foreign nations offer cash-strapped British galleries a route out of financial crisis?

By Ian YoungsArts reporter, BBC News When Bury paper tycoon Thomas Wrigley amassed a collection of 200 artworks during the Industrial Revolution, England was known as the "workshop of the world". Bury Art Museum opened in 1901 to house Wrigley's fine collection. But the industrial boom is now long gone. Like others across the country, the council-run gallery has faced the prospect of funding cuts. China is now the "workshop of the world". Industrial barons So the jewel in Wrigley's collection, JMW Turner's sublime Calais Sands, has been dispatched, along with around 80 other artworks from Bury and 18 other north-west galleries, on a money-spinning six-city tour of China. The venture was put together by Bury Art Museum manager Tony Trehy, who saw that art collected by industrial barons across the North West of England could be a big draw overseas. He corralled other galleries to put their "greatest hits" together and head east. "Put it this way," Mr Trehy says. "It's sufficiently lucrative that people have stopped talking about cutting us." The exhibition is titled Toward Modernity: Three Centuries of British Art. As well as the Turner, it includes works by Constable, Lowry, Henry Moore and Lucian Freud, culled from collections in Chester, Carlisle, Salford and Stalybridge. Chinese galleries pay to host the exhibition, which Mr Trehy is now hoping to take to other countries, and which could provide the template for further themed exhibitions. "Assuming we can do it on a regular basis, it becomes a significant new source of funding for museums," he says. Uproar over Lowry While local council cuts are forcing some galleries and museums to reduce staff and opening hours, Mr Trehy believes income from foreign tours could eventually entirely replace public funding for some such institutions. "If you've got the right works, if you've inherited the right artists from the Victorians or whoever, it is a licence to print money basically," he says. "We're in negotiation with various museums in Japan and Taiwan, we're just about to start looking at making proposals to the Americans. I've had meetings in the Gulf about working with Emirates museums, but they're only exploratory meetings. "The British Council are now talking about Brazil for the future because of the World Cup and Olympics." Bury Council caused uproar in the art world in 2006 when it sold an LS Lowry painting to plug a budget deficit. The idea of taking a picture on tour is that "rather than sell it, we can essentially rent it", Mr Trehy says. Foreign touring exhibitions are nothing new, but he says this is the first time it has been done by a consortium of regional British museums rather than a national institution with an established global brand, such as the Tate, British Museum or V&A. "I think economic circumstances have made us more efficient and entrepreneurial," says Emma Varnam, head of culture for Tameside Council, which has contributed four works to Toward Modernity. She runs the Astley Cheetham Art Gallery in Stalybridge, which was built in 1901 to house the collection of cotton mill heir John Frederick Cheetham. The gallery is a member of the new Greater Manchester Museums Group. 'Fantastic collections' The Chinese venture has boosted both the finances and profile of the gallery as well as allowing staff to learn new skills, such as conservation, she says. "From my point of view, it's fabulous to see these assets being used for the benefit of the community and being used hopefully time and time again so that people across the world will see these fantastic collections, with an economic benefit to that community rather than us having to contemplate selling those pieces." Toward Modernity is also a rare example of a foreign exhibition venturing beyond the main centres of Beijing and Shanghai. "In Beijing, for example, general public and press showed very high interest in this show," says Fei Xu, of the Beijing World Art Museum. "For other provincial museums, this exhibition is the first foreign exhibition introducing British art, especially the oil paintings from famous artists of the UK." Chinese galleries have been slowly opening up to foreign exhibitions over the past decade. The Tate took a major Turner show to the National Art Museum of China in Beijing in 2009, while the British Council organised an extensive festival of UK culture to coincide with the 2012 London Olympic Games. "More and more people in China are interested in British art and culture now," says Fei Xu. "Since the UK hosted the Olympic Games successfully in London last year, Chinese people are interested in its long history, its merging of different ethnic groups and the development process of Britain in the past decades." Other countries, too, have seized the chance to tap into this Chinese cultural curiosity. The Beijing World Art Museum, part of the city's imposing Millennium Monument, has also hosted exhibitions from Italy, Spain, the US and Mexico. "China is building museums every week," says David Elliott, director of arts at the British Council in China. "Major things. They're huge. Massive infrastructure projects. "China's leadership, which changed last month, has put a great emphasis on culture. The problem is they build all these great museums and theatres and concert halls but they kind of forget that they need to put things in them. "So the Chinese are very interested in working with British museums." This will all be music to the ears of UK Culture Secretary Maria Miller, who recently exhorted British museums and galleries to think of culture as a "compelling product" that the world wants to "buy into". In a speech, she praised the Hay Festival for launching an Indian offshoot and Bolton Museums for taking its Egyptology collection to Taiwan and China, where it has been seen by more than a million people. Ms Miller also mentioned the V&A in London, which regularly sends shows overseas. Anna Jackson, the V&A's head of Asian collections, says there has been a gradual increase in co-operation with Chinese counterparts over recent years. "What's changing, I think, is the fact that now China is becoming part of that international world of exhibition and object exchange, which is relatively new," she says. 'Soft diplomacy' The V&A's latest export, an exhibition from the museum's Indian collection, has just opened at the Palace Museum in Beijing. "We're not just a museum in South Kensington," Ms Jackson says. "We're involved in quite a lot of these emerging countries - India, China, Russia. We have a good relationship with the Kremlin. "We're thinking about doing things about Brazil. These are growing markets, in the same way perhaps that we first started to work with Japan 25 or 30 years ago, when Japan first started to hold international exhibitions." Culture can help cultivate diplomatic and economic relations, too. When David Cameron visited China in 2010, the directors of the V&A and the British Museum went with the prime minister. "People call it soft diplomacy, don't they?" says Ms Jackson. For the Chinese public, this invasion of international exhibitions also provides proof of their growing global standing, Ms Jackson believes. "These exhibitions get very high numbers. I think for people who live in Beijing, to have changing shows that come from different parts of the world, it really shows that they're engaging much more internationally. "It's about their prestige as well as ours."

बरी, बोल्टन और अन्य उत्तरी अंग्रेज़ी शहरों के कला खजाने की एक प्रदर्शनी चीन में सफल हो गई है। क्या उभरते विदेशी राष्ट्र नकदी की कमी से जूझ रहे ब्रिटिश दीर्घाओं को वित्तीय संकट से बाहर निकलने का रास्ता दे सकते हैं?


Three things that could save the High Street

Summary: The retail sector took a battering in 2018.

By Danielle HewsonReporter, BBC Radio 5Live Some 40,000 jobs have been lost or are at risk. Household names like House of Fraser, New Look and Marks & Spencer have been forced to close stores and take a long look at how they do business. A profit warning from Asos , the online fashion firm, in December suggested that even the internet might not be retail's panacea. So, is the industry on life support? Or is there something more fundamental happening? And is technology part of a shift that could ensure the future of the High Street? BBC 5 Live's Wake Up to Money team has been looking at the key technology trends that could ensure the future of retail. Artificial Intelligence Many of us will have unwrapped a smart speaker this Christmas but few will have thought about its value as a shopping tool. "I think the day (most people) make purchases on it will be the day they don't look back" says Jon Copestake who has been researching the future of shopping for EY, the accountancy firm. But he thinks artificial intelligence (AI) will be a double-edged sword for the High Street. "I think that consumers will become much more time-poor and they are going to rely much more on algorithms or AI to actually pre-empt their shopping needs, that will free up time for them to focus on shopping with the brands and products that really engage them," he says. "There will always be a place for consumers to go to shops, to experience things, but I think those things are going to be things that they care about." Data This year will be remembered as one full of scandals involving our personal data. However, experts think that data holds the key to the future of shopping. Thread, the online personal shopping platform, uses customer information to help men, especially those with a fear of fashion. The company launched six years ago as a purely online operation but Terry Betts, its head of business development, thinks Thread's ethos could work equally well on the High Street. "I think what you've got to give back is something that is infinitely better than just walking into a regular store," he says. "I guess essentially what we are building is a store where everything is in your size and your budget and we know you. We remember what you've bought and so we are only making suggestions based on what you tell us." Mr Betts adds: "I think expectations are high right now. You just have to deliver something that's superior and that's where the loyalty comes." Influencers There may have been a bit of backlash around fraudulent influencer accounts but micro-influencers in particular are still hitting a sweet spot with key audiences. That kind of personal recommendation has seen millions of pounds of advertising revenue shifted online and for one brand it's meant the resurgence of the Avon Lady. Louise Scott, Avon's chief scientific adviser (pictured), says: "We have six million micro influencers around the world who are all about authentically recommending products, whether it be through social media or it be face-to-face." A key part of Avon's turnaround plan, under chief executive Jan Zijderveld, is to make better use of different technology platforms, allowing the company to be more agile. Ms Scott says: "I believe trends today are moving at a speed of light. My challenge as a creator of products is really all about recognising that a product, to be Instagram worthy, actually has to look beautiful as well as work." Clicks trump bricks? Wake Up To Money asked shoppers in Leeds about the future of retail. Most told the programme that they believed the internet will take over from our High Streets as the main way we shop in the future. But some experts disagree. The High Street isn't dead, says Samantha Dover, senior retail analyst at Mintel. "It's the value, the brand awareness that having a physical store presence has that is really important to recognise." She says the best performing retailers recognise that online and physical shopping are intrinsically linked as consumers compare prices and research products or use click and collect services. Retailers will have to change though, says Mr Betts . "I think you're going to see retail as tastemakers. More local, more targeted and recommendation based." You can listen to Wake Up To Money's Future of Shopping Special here.

2018 में खुदरा क्षेत्र में गिरावट आई।


Live WW1 bomb kept above fireplace in Norfolk

Summary: A man has discovered he had a live mortar bomb from World War One sitting on his mantelpiece for five years, police have revealed.

Its owner, who did not want to be identified, thought the shell had been deactivated when given it as a gift. The man from Wormegay, Norfolk, gave it pride of place above the fireplace before his son decided to send a photograph of it to a collector. He identified it as a live German Granatenwerfer mortar. Norfolk police and a bomb disposal team were notified and a controlled explosion of the mortar was carried out.

पुलिस ने खुलासा किया है कि एक व्यक्ति को पता चला है कि उसके पास पहले विश्व युद्ध का एक जीवित मोर्टार बम था जो उसके मेंटलपीस पर पांच साल तक बैठा था।


Isle of Man TT visitors told roads 'not a race track'

Summary: Motorcyclists visiting the TT races are being warned the open roads are not a race track after there were 95 crashes last year.

Police said three people died in the crashes involving people visiting the Isle of Man's annual festival, which is taking place between 27 May and 9 June. Enthusiasts congregate to watch racers who reach speeds of up to 200mph. The island's road safety campaign aims to encourage tourists to ride within their capabilities. From 26 May the A18 Mountain Road, between the Ramsey Hairpin and Creg Ny Barr, will operate as a one-way system. Acting Dep Ch Con Kevin Willson said: "The festival is one of the greatest spectacles on the sporting calendar and we want everybody to have fun and behave responsibly."

टी. टी. दौड़ में आने वाले मोटरसाइकिल चालकों को चेतावनी दी जा रही है कि पिछले साल 95 दुर्घटनाओं के बाद खुली सड़कें रेस ट्रैक नहीं हैं।


London mayoral elections 2021: What do the manifestos say?

Summary: There are immense challenges facing the next mayor of London.

By Sam Francis & Raphael SheridanBBC News, London He or she will lead London's public health and economic recovery after a year of Covid restrictions, as well as being responsible for keeping the capital moving and making its streets safe. The candidates for the four largest parties in London have now set out their policies on policing, the economy, housing, transport and the environment. What do their manifestos say? Covid recovery London has borne the brunt of the economic fallout from coronavirus worse than any other region. The next mayor of London will have a £19bn budget and plenty of economic levers at their disposal, although all of the main money-raising and spending decisions will be made by central government. Sadiq Khan, Labour Shaun Bailey, Conservative Sian Berry, Green Luisa Porritt, Liberal Democrat LONDON'S ELECTION: THE BASICS What's happening: On 6 May, people will vote to elect a mayor and 25 members of the London Assembly. Together they form the Greater London Authority, which governs the capital. Why does it matter? The mayor has a £19bn budget, is responsible for transport and policing and has a role in housing, planning and the environment. The London Assembly holds the mayor to account. Find out more here. Who is standing? There are 20 candidates running for London mayor and a full list can be found here. Transport The mayor sits as the head of Transport for London (TfL), which before Covid handled up to five million passenger journeys in the capital a day. Since coronavirus hit, the government has provided £4bn in emergency funding to keep TfL solvent. Keeping TfL running and independent will be a key challenge over the next mayoral term. Sadiq Khan Shaun Bailey Sian Berry Luisa Porritt Crime and policing About 30% of the Metropolitan Police's budget comes from the mayor, with the remainder coming directly from national government. But the mayor has a key role in setting police policy and staffing levels. He or she acts as the police and crime commissioner for London. Sadiq Khan Shaun Bailey Sian Berry Luisa Porritt Environment What happens in London to deal with the environment and air quality is linked to national and global decisions. However, the mayor has some powers over London's roads and can legislate to limit exposure to certain pollutants. The Congestion Charge and the Ultra Low Emission Zones both came from the mayor's office. The mayor also has the power to put cycle lanes on London's main roads, although local councils are responsible for all other roads. Sadiq Khan Shaun Bailey Sian Berry Luisa Porritt Housing City Hall estimates London requires about 66,000 new homes a year to provide enough dwellings for current and future Londoners. The mayor's main powers involve setting targets on numbers and affordability of homes, and then working with local authorities and developers to reach these goals. He or she can also reject or approve larger house-building projects. Sadiq Khan Shaun Bailey Sian Berry Luisa Porritt Read the manifestos of the mayor of London candidates below:

लंदन के अगले महापौर के सामने बहुत सारी चुनौतियों का सामना करना पड़ रहा है।


Bell Bridge collapses into River Caldew

Summary: A historical stone bridge in Cumbria has collapsed more than six weeks after it was damaged during Storm Desmond.

Bell Bridge, near Sebergham, was closed after cracks were found in the wake of flooding which devastated the region in early December. The Grade II-listed single-track stone structure dates back to the 18th Century, and was used by walkers on the Cumbrian Way. Following heavy rain on Tuesday it has now collapsed into the River Caldew.

कुंब्रिया में एक ऐतिहासिक पत्थर का पुल तूफान डेसमंड के दौरान क्षतिग्रस्त होने के छह सप्ताह से अधिक समय बाद ढह गया है।


Center Parcs Woburn Forest is officially opened

Summary: A £250m Center Parcs resort in Bedfordshire will pump £20m a year into the local economy, the company claims.

The holiday firm said most of its 1,500 employees at its newly-opened Woburn Forest village in Warren Wood would live within 15 minutes of the centre. The site of the new park was previously used for commercial forestry. Mid Beds District Council refused permission for the project in 2006 but Center Parcs successfully appealed against that decision. Bedfordshire Chamber of Commerce said the new attraction would mean "local people will have money in their pockets". Center Parc's chief executive, Martin Dalby, said the resort will cater for 350,000 guests a year.

कंपनी का दावा है कि बेडफोर्डशायर में 250 मिलियन पाउंड का सेंटर पार्क्स रिसॉर्ट स्थानीय अर्थव्यवस्था में प्रति वर्ष 20 मिलियन पाउंड का निवेश करेगा।


Russia's 'Humpty Dumpty' hackers: What were they trying to do?

Summary: Russian police have arrested members of a prominent group of hackers that leaked information about Russian officials and state ministries. BBC Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg meets a "Humpty Dumpty" member hiding out in Estonia who explains why the notorious group did what they did.

In a restaurant in the city of Tallinn, Alexander Glazastikov tells me how he got into the business of stealing and leaking information. "I was bored with my job, I wanted to try something else. Something interesting." Along with former journalist Vladimir Anikeev, Glazastikov created "Anonymous International". The group became known as "Shaltai Boltai" - the Russian name for "Humpty Dumpty". Mr Anikeev is now under arrest in Moscow. "I was like an editor and at the same time I did some analytics," Alexander explains. "When Mr Anikeev gave me downloaded mailboxes, I looked through them trying to find pieces of information which could be interesting to publish." 'Enemies of the Kremlin' He describes the group's work as originally "a politically-oriented project in opposition to the Kremlin", with Mr Anikeev providing the private emails of "top Russian officials", as well as powerful Kremlin-connected businessmen. "We wanted to make this information public," Alexander says. "We were ideological enemies of the Kremlin. Later, yes, there was some commerce: we sold something, or deleted old posts for money. But originally the project was to fight corruption." The leaked information highlighted the scale of corruption in Russia. "We did find some honest people," he says, "but I can count them on fingers of one hand. Almost everyone is corrupt." Did the group ever try to hack the president? "Putin is not an IT guy. But Medvedev is," he replies. On one occasion, Humpty Dumpty hacked Prime Minister Medvedev's Twitter account. Eventually the group began to feel the pressure. "Two years ago we heard rumours that Russian military counterintelligence is after us," recalls Alexander. "They were crazy after we published some information about locations of submarine bases, about renovations of these bases and their exact locations. " He claims that in 2016 "a top official" of Russia's security service, the FSB, became Humpty Dumpty's "handler". A gentleman's agreement "From the beginning, the project was independent. But in the middle of last year Mr Anikeev informed me that a high-level official from the FSB had come to him - a handler or a middle man," Alexander says. "He'd said: 'Guys, we already have information about you and your project. But we want to cooperate. So we will cover you - for your security. We will have the right of veto. Inform us the day before you publish anything. Maybe, we will ask you to publish something.' "There was a gentleman's agreement. Mr Anikeev never told me the name of the handler." "So, you had support at the top levels of Russian intelligence?" I ask. "It was not support," replies Alexander. "As you see now, Mr Anikeev is in prison. This is not support." In Russia three men are in custody in connection with the Humpty Dumpty case. There have been recent arrests, too, at the FSB. Among those detained is Sergei Mikhailov, deputy head of the FSB's information security centre. He's been charged with treason in the interests of the United States. The Russian authorities insist there is no connection between the arrests at the FSB and the Humpty Dumpty case. But Russian media have speculated that Mr Mikhailov may have been Humpty Dumpty's FSB handler. As for alleged Russian state-sponsored hacking of the West, Alexander denies that Humpty Dumpty was involved. "We never had any interest in finding or hacking information about anyone outside Russia," he says. "There was no other target. Our target was the Kremlin and people who surround the Kremlin." Read more: I ask Alexander how he sees himself: as a kind of Robin Hood, or a criminal? "If you ask me, did I hack any mail account or not, I didn't. I received information. I read it, analysed it and put it on our website. "Did I receive some dirty money? Yes. Maybe I preferred not to ask where the money comes from. Maybe that is a mistake on my part. But that's life. I'm not proud of it." 'I didn't buy a Bentley' He admits that he knew the information was "probably stolen" but says most of what the group published was "a matter of public interest, so somehow it excuses me". "Did you make a lot of money?" I ask. "No. I didn't buy an apartment, or a Bentley," he smiles. Alexander says he plans to ask for asylum in Estonia. Is he worried the authorities here may send him back to Russia? "I hope they will not. Estonia doesn't like the Kremlin. I like Estonia. And I don't like the Kremlin." He is certain he will be arrested if he returns to Russia. "I didn't make treason," Alexander says, "but I touched government interests".

रूसी पुलिस ने रूसी अधिकारियों और राज्य मंत्रालयों के बारे में जानकारी लीक करने वाले हैकर्स के एक प्रमुख समूह के सदस्यों को गिरफ्तार किया है। बीबीसी मॉस्को संवाददाता स्टीव रोसेनबर्ग एस्टोनिया में छिपे हुए एक "हम्प्टी डम्प्टी" सदस्य से मिलते हैं जो बताते हैं कि कुख्यात समूह ने ऐसा क्यों किया जो उन्होंने किया था।


The love letters returned after 70 years thanks to Facebook romantics

Summary: A shoebox full of love letters between a courting couple has finally been returned home after 70 years thanks to well-wishers on Facebook, a stranger with a penchant for romance and a daughter wishing to fulfil her mother's wishes.

By Dhruti ShahBBC News When Kim Rowe was sorting through her attic recently, she rediscovered the letters sent in 1948 and 1949 between a Norma Hall in Kent and a Bob Beasley in the British Army overseas. Her mother had taken the letters 20 years previously when a neighbour in Aldershot, who had discovered them in her attic, told her she was planning to throw them in the bin. "My mother - Cherry Vallance - took a look at the box and realised they were somebody's love letters and so she could not bear for them to be dumped." Cherry even took the letters with her when her family moved to Somerset. She never got the opportunity to find Norma and Bob before her death in 2016. But when Kim came across the letters again this year, she felt it was important to find the couple and return the memories to them before it was too late. She told the BBC: "I only read two of the letters for information purposes but not the rest as I feel they are private to the couple. Bob obviously loved Norma very much and I assume it was Norma who kept the letters." Kim posted a picture of the envelopes on Facebook telling friends the only clues she had: "As you can see, Bob was in the forces and Norma lived in Kent. The postmarks are 1948 and 1949. Facebook please do your stuff". She had no inkling that her call for help would lead to 11,000 shares and 1,500 reactions but most importantly an address and, subsequently a new pen-pal friend coming into her life. One of Kim's friends on Facebook did some digging and told her the couple appeared to have got married in 1951 in Uxbridge. "His name is Howard R Beasley. So maybe a Robert. So lovely to find these letters and know they actually did marry," was posted under Kim's original request. Kim sent a letter to the address hoping it was the right family, telling the couple she had ownership of their letters but wanted them to be back in their rightful hands. Norma Beasley, nee Hall, had indeed been an 18-year-old woman who met Bob Beasley on the Woolwich Ferry in the 1940s. Impressed by his banter, they started out as friends before the relationship eventually developed into long-time love. Now aged 88 and living in Lincoln, she had no idea the letters the sweethearts had written while she was living at her parents' home and Bob was on military service overseas were even still in existence. She was shocked to receive Kim's letter, especially as Bob had died just a few months previously in December 2018. She hurriedly wrote back, delighted that the letters were coming home and astonished they were still in the original shoebox. Norma told the BBC the couple married soon after Bob returned from his tour of the Middle East and Egypt and moved to the village of Iver in Buckinghamshire in 1951. Bob worked in carpentry with a specialism in building aeroplanes, while Norma became an office worker. They had five children and six great-grandchildren. She recalled their early exchanges. "We would write to each other - first as friends - but then it became something more. He'd tell me about his life and I'd tell him what was happening at home. I don't think my life was as interesting as his out in Egypt. "I didn't even like writing letters but I would write to him every week. I used to send him a magazine every week." However, although she's pleased the letters are back in her possession, she admitted she can't yet face opening the envelopes and love notes without Bob there. "The letters are still in the original wrappings I put them them in. I can't read them just yet." Norma said she had left the letters at her parents' home but had no idea how they had got all the way to Somerset via Aldershot. She presumed her parents had left the letters behind accidentally when they moved from Kent to Christchurch in Dorset. "Maybe Mum didn't take them and whoever bought the bungalow kept the letters and moved about. I just don't know - it's a mystery. "I thought they had gone forever." But that's not the end of the tale - Kim and Norma have exchanged telephone numbers and plan to keep in touch. Kim told the romantics keeping an eye on her Facebook page that she spoke to Norma for the first time in August, describing her as a "wonderfully warm lady, with a lovely laugh". They'll even continue to write letters to each other, with Kim adding: "There's a message here... in this age of electronic communication, write to your loved ones - on paper, snail mail - just once in a while." Illustrations by Katie Horwich

एक प्रेमी जोड़े के बीच प्रेम पत्रों से भरा एक जूता बॉक्स आखिरकार 70 साल बाद घर लौट आया है, फेसबुक पर शुभचिंतकों की बदौलत, रोमांस के लिए एक अजनबी और अपनी माँ की इच्छाओं को पूरा करने की इच्छा रखने वाली एक बेटी।


Jaffna security reviewed

Summary: Security officials in the northern Sri Lankan town of Jaffna have agreed to scale down their presence in an attempt to bring the normalcy to the city where violence increased before talks between the government and the Tamil Tigers.

The regional commanders of the Sri Lanka military have pledged to human rights activists not to deploy security forces in front of schools in Jaffna. It is agreed to deploy police instead, representative of the national Human Rights Commission (HRC) in Jaffna Rohitha Priyadharshana told BBC Sandeshaya. The commanders and the representatives of the HRC and NGOs met on Wednesday to discuss the concerns of the general public. Upon request, the security officials agreed to make special arrangements for public sector workers at road blocks, Priyadharshana said. The delegation has also raised the concerns of residents in High Security Zones (HSZ). Rohitha Priyadharshana told bbcsinhala.com that the HRC has received complaints from 1570 fishing families that they could not engage their way of living due to security restrictions. The HRC was told by the security forces that the restrictions could only be removed after analysing the national security situation.

उत्तरी श्रीलंकाई शहर जाफना में सुरक्षा अधिकारियों ने उस शहर में सामान्य स्थिति लाने के प्रयास में अपनी उपस्थिति को कम करने पर सहमति व्यक्त की है, जहां सरकार और तमिल टाइगर्स के बीच बातचीत से पहले हिंसा बढ़ गई थी।


Bruce Springsteen to be honoured at Grammy charity gig

Summary: Sir Elton John, Sting and Neil Young are among the stars who will appear at a concert to salute Bruce Springsteen before this year's Grammy Awards.

Springsteen has been named the MusiCares Person of the Year by the Recording Academy, which organises the prestigious US music awards. The concert to honour Springsteen will be held in Los Angeles on 8 February. The academy said he was chosen for "his exceptional artistic achievements as well as his philanthropic work". Other artists due to appear include Patti Smith, British band Mumford and Sons, Mavis Staples and Jackson Browne. The show will raise money for emergency financial assistance, such as rent, medical expenses and addiction recovery treatment, for "members of the music community". Past MusiCares Person of the Year recipients have included Tony Bennett, Bono, Phil Collins, Neil Diamond and Aretha Franklin.

सर एल्टन जॉन, स्टिंग और नील यंग उन सितारों में से हैं जो इस साल के ग्रैमी अवार्ड्स से पहले ब्रूस स्प्रिंगस्टीन को सलाम करने के लिए एक संगीत कार्यक्रम में दिखाई देंगे।


China's super-rich feel slowdown says report

Summary: Some of China's richest people have felt the effects of economic slowdown in the country, with their wealth reducing in the past year, according to the Hurun Rich List.

China has 251 people worth $1bn (£616m) or more, 20 fewer than last year. However, the number is still a huge increase compared with 2006, when there were only 15. It is the first time in seven years that the number of billionaires in China has fallen. The Chinese economy has slowed in recent months with growth falling to a three-year low of 7.6%, compared with the previous year. The benchmark gauge of shares listed at the Shanghai Stock Exchange has fallen 23% this year and the property market has declined, subdued by government measures to bring down prices. Of the 1,000 richest people tracked by Hurun, nearly half saw their wealth shrink in the past year. Topping the list this year is Zong Qinghou, from the beverage company Wahaha, who is worth $12.6bn.

हुरुन रिच लिस्ट के अनुसार, चीन के कुछ सबसे अमीर लोगों ने देश में आर्थिक मंदी के प्रभावों को महसूस किया है, क्योंकि पिछले एक साल में उनकी संपत्ति में कमी आई है।


What's in a name: Is 'Isis' too toxic for businesses to use?

Summary: Originally the name of an ancient Egyptian goddess, in Oxford "Isis" is merely the name for the River Thames within the city's boundaries. And the name's been very popular in marketing, with businesses and organisations wanting to subtly vaunt their Oxford links.

But since the growth of the militant group known by some as Isis - an acronym for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria - has the word become too toxic for everyday use? After all, there appears to be no way back for the swastika - originally a symbol meaning "good fortune" or "well-being" until it was purloined by the Nazis. So who's rebranding and who's sticking with the name? Isis Business Brokers Dominic Marlow says his company, which sells businesses, is going to keep the name, although it triggered "an ongoing conversation that comes up on a daily basis". However, he believes the positives associated with the name outweigh the negatives. "I had a payment held up from the US, probably due to the name, and I had to go through quite a lot of extra money-laundering checks just to get registered as a payee by the US bank concerned." He says the majority of feedback about the issue is positive and has been praised for not changing the name. Isis Education Isis Education, an Oxford-based chain of language schools, was rebranded in 2015 as the Oxford International Education Group. Because its students are usually non-English speakers from overseas, the group had concerns about international perceptions of the Isis name, as well as issues about internet search engines and the results that might follow from someone looking for Isis training centres. There were also a few "negative comments" for staff wearing their branded Isis T-shirts. Oxford Isis Korfball Annaliese Taylor from the club says it plans to keep its name, despite a "healthy debate at our AGM last week" about the issue. She says the club, which was established in 2007, "is proud of its local heritage" and "is determined to have a laugh about it and keep it light-hearted". "As a relatively unknown sport, we'd had a couple of comments that people would be less likely to come along and try out Oxford Isis Korfball Club due to the name. "On top of that, walking around in our Oxford Isis Korfball kit and playing at tournaments outside of Oxfordshire can raise a few eyebrows." For those more puzzled about the "korfball" than the "Isis", it's a game with similarities to netball and basketball. The Isis Academy The Isis Academy in Oxford changed to the "Iffley Academy" to protect its "reputation, integrity and image". A statement issued by the school said it had changed name following "the unforeseen rise of Isis (also known as Isil and the Islamic State) and related global media coverage of the activities of the group". Isis Boutique The problem isn't just in Oxfordshire, though. Now rebranded Juno Boutique, a clothes shop in Malvern was named Isis because owner Jill Campbell comes from Oxford. Ms Campbell said some "very unpleasant" posts were made on social media about her shop, leaving her in the position "of thinking do I change the name or do I stick it out?" When she opened a second boutique in Ledbury, Herefordshire, she decided to change the brand for both outlets. "I have absolutely no sympathy with these monsters in Syria and it is for very innocent reasons that we chose the name," she says. Isis Beauty Academy The Isis Beauty Academy in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, was named by owner Carolyne Cross after the ancient goddess of rebirth. As the so-called Islamic State became more prominent, life got difficult for the beauty school. "We'd have people ringing up, saying 'why do you call yourself that, are you a terrorist group training students?' "So we had to have a long think, and as bookings were dropping and so were student numbers, we changed the name," Ms Cross says. It's now the Omni Academy of Beauty. Who are IS and what do they want?

मूल रूप से एक प्राचीन मिस्र की देवी का नाम, ऑक्सफोर्ड में "आइसिस" केवल शहर की सीमाओं के भीतर थेम्स नदी का नाम है। और यह नाम विपणन में बहुत लोकप्रिय रहा है, व्यवसाय और संगठन अपने ऑक्सफोर्ड लिंक को सूक्ष्मता से देखना चाहते हैं।


Prince William in Trooping the Colour rehearsal

Summary: The Duke of Cambridge has taken part in the military rehearsal for the Queen's Birthday Parade, also known as Trooping the Colour, for the first time.

Tourists may have caught a glimpse of the future monarch in uniform riding his horse Wellesley in The Mall. As Colonel of the Irish Guards, Prince William inspected the troops ahead of the parade on 17 June. More than 6,000 spectators watched the inspection in Horse Guards Parade. There were more than 200 military horses on parade and 400 musicians. Trooping the Colour has commemorated the birthday of the sovereign for more than 250 years. It also functions as a display of army drills, music and horsemanship. The Duke of Cambridge became the Colonel of the Irish Guards in 2011. The last time the battalion trooped the colour in front of the Queen was in 2009.

ड्यूक ऑफ कैम्ब्रिज ने पहली बार रानी के जन्मदिन की परेड के लिए सैन्य अभ्यास में भाग लिया है, जिसे ट्रूपिंग द कलर के नाम से भी जाना जाता है।


Johnny Depp on Donald Trump: Crime or free speech?

Summary: Actor Johnny Depp has caused controversy after he appeared to threaten US President Donald Trump at the Glastonbury Festival. "When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?" he asked the crowd. It is a crime in the US to make threats against the president, so could his remarks get him into trouble?

What did he say? As he introduced a screening of his film The Libertine, Johnny Depp asked the audience: "Can you bring Trump here?" After receiving jeers from the crowd, he added: "You misunderstand completely. When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?" The comment seemed to be a reference to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by actor John Wilkes Booth in 1865. "I want to clarify," he added. "I'm not an actor. I lie for a living [but] it's been a while. Maybe it's about time." Could he be in trouble? Under the United States Code (Title 18, Section 871), threatening the US president is a class E felony. Anyone who "knowingly and wilfully" makes "any threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm" upon the US president could be sentenced to up five years and/or be fined. It also includes the vice-president and presidential candidates. The US Secret Service is the agency tasked with investigating suspected cases. And US media reported that the service was aware of the actor's comments. But, when it comes to statements made by artists, courts have usually declared the cases to be protected speech under the First Amendment to the US Constitution. Stanford University Law Professor Nathaniel Persily told USA Today newspaper: "People are allowed to wish the president dead," up to the point they express a real intent to harm him. "To threaten someone you need words that encourage some sort of action." It's not the first time, is it? No. Singer Madonna said earlier this year that she had thought "an awful lot about blowing up the White House", sparking furious reaction from Trump supporters. She later said her remarks were taken out of context. Reacting to the controversy, one Secret Service official told the New York Post that any action against her would depend on whether the remarks were considered a genuine threat - which could also be the case with Johnny Depp now. The official said then: "It's all about intent. Is she intending to do harm to the White House or President Trump? Otherwise it will be characterised as inappropriate." Other cases included rapper Snoop Dogg, who shot a toy gun at a Donald Trump character in a music video and comedian Kathy Griffin, who posted a photo in which she appeared to hold a fake bloodied head that resembled Mr Trump. And earlier this month, a show in New York depicted the assassination of a Julius Caesar that resembled Mr Trump, sparking not only criticism but also threats. Despite the angry responses sparked by all those cases, there was no public acknowledgment that officials were investigating them as genuine threats against the president. But, after the storm caused by Griffin's photos, the Secret Service said on Twitter that it had a "robust protective intelligence division" monitoring "open source reporting and social media" to evaluate threats, adding that: And here is an example of that: a man in the state of Illinois was charged this month with threatening the president after posts he made on Facebook. Why so much controversy? Perhaps it all goes down to the controversial nature of Mr Trump. Artists say it is part of their work to be provocative and have often cited freedom of expression to protect what they do and to convey political messages. But critics, including Trump supporters and the president himself, say many have crossed the line of what it is acceptable, suggesting a double standard when it comes to remarks against the president. But during the presidential campaign last year, Mr Trump himself was accused by his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, of inciting violence by saying that gun rights supporters could stop her from winning. He was not investigated.

अभिनेता जॉनी डेप ने ग्लास्टनबरी महोत्सव में अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति डोनाल्ड ट्रम्प को धमकी देते हुए दिखाई देने के बाद विवाद खड़ा कर दिया है। "आखिरी बार कब किसी अभिनेता ने राष्ट्रपति की हत्या की थी?" उन्होंने भीड़ से पूछा। अमेरिका में राष्ट्रपति को धमकी देना अपराध है, तो क्या उनकी टिप्पणी उन्हें मुसीबत में डाल सकती है?


Timeline: Bristol Rovers' stadium supermarket campaign

Summary: Talks over what to do with Bristol Rovers' home ground have been a long running saga. The club first mooted plans to expand the Memorial Ground in 2005. Those were later ditched in favour of a 21,000 seater stadium on the outskirts of the city. Here is how the story developed.

2005: June: Bristol Rovers applies for permission to expand Memorial Stadium October: The football club announces plans to develop the Memorial Stadium into an 18,000-seater ground. 2006: September: Revised plans for the stadium are submitted 2007: January: Bristol City Council grants planning permission to expand Memorial Stadium following a consultation. 2008: January: Bristol Rovers and Bristol City Council sign the legal agreement that will allow work to start on the re-development June: Plans are to be delayed by a year. 2011: June: Bristol Rovers Football Club proposes a move to a new £40m stadium near the city's ring road. December: Contracts are signed for a new Bristol Rovers stadium. The football club reached a deal with University of the West of England (UWE) and Sainsbury's so it can build a new stadium on university ground. 2012: April: Hewlett Packard criticises UWE Stadium plans in its submission to the planning process, primarily on the ground that it would devalue neighbouring commercial properties. May: A planning application to develop a supermarket on the site of a football stadium in Bristol is submitted to the city council. July: South Gloucestershire councillors approve plans for 21,700 seat stadium on UWE land. They vote 12-1 for the development at Stoke Gifford subject to certain conditions. November: Bristol City Council delays its decision on whether the Memorial Stadium can be redeveloped by Sainsbury's. It says it wants more time to consider the effect a stadium would have on traffic in the area. 2013: January: Plans for a supermarket and 65 homes and apartments at Bristol Rovers' Memorial Stadium are backed by Bristol City Council. The plans are referred to the government for approval. 14 January: A petition on the Bristol City Council web site supporting the Sainsbury's plans is signed by 1,750 people. March: The government gives the go-ahead for plans to build a supermarket on the football ground in Bristol. September: Campaigners TRASHorfield submit request to the High Court for judicial review into the Sainsbury's planning application. The Green party donates to the judicial review fund. November: A High Court judge rules a judicial review into plans for a supermarket at the Bristol Rovers football ground can go ahead. Bristol mayor George Ferguson and Bristol MP Charlotte Leslie speak out against it and urge people to sign a petition opposing the judicial review. 2014: 5 March: A petition in support of Bristol Rovers' plans to sell their football ground to Sainsbury's is handed in to Downing Street. 13 March: Judicial Review held at the Bristol Civil Justice Centre before Justice Hickinbottom. Bristol Rovers chairman, Nick Higgs, says it is "excellent news" a final decision will be revealed on 20 March. 20 March: Justice Hickinbottom dismisses the judicial review paving the way for the supermarket - and stadium - to be built. 2015: 20 January: Bristol Rovers confirms it will take Sainsbury's to the High Court in a bid to force through the deal - after the supermarket said it would pull out. 13 July: The High Court rules in favour of Sainsbury's saying the way the deal was structured was an "insuperable barrier to the club". Chairman Nick Higgs describes it as a "huge disappointment".

ब्रिस्टल रोवर्स के घरेलू मैदान के साथ क्या करना है, इस पर बातचीत लंबे समय से चल रही है। क्लब ने पहली बार 2005 में मेमोरियल ग्राउंड का विस्तार करने की योजना बनाई। बाद में उन्हें शहर के बाहरी इलाके में 21,000 सीटों वाले स्टेडियम के पक्ष में छोड़ दिया गया। यहाँ कहानी कैसे विकसित हुई है।


Referendum laws 'not a priority' says Guernsey States

Summary: The laws needed for Guernsey to hold a referendum will not be coming in any time soon, the Policy Council has decided.

In 2002 the States agreed to introduce a system for referring vital issues to the electorate. However, before any referendum is held, the laws would need to be drafted. Members decided it should not be prioritised this year due to limited staff within the Policy Council and the heavy work load of the law officers. The issue will be put before the Policy Council again in the second half of 2011.

नीति परिषद ने फैसला किया है कि ग्वेर्नसे के लिए जनमत संग्रह कराने के लिए आवश्यक कानून जल्द ही किसी भी समय नहीं आएंगे।


Kasabian join The Who onstage at Teenage Cancer gig

Summary: Kasabian's Tom Meighan and Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder made guest appearances as The Who played a charity gig at London's Royal Albert Hall (31 March).

With the veteran rockers playing their 1973 album Quadrophenia, Meighan joined them dressed as a Bell Boy carrying suitcases during the song of the same name. Vedder appeared to sing I'm One and I've Had Enough alongside the Kasabian singer. It was the final night of a series of gigs by the likes of Noel Gallagher, JLS and Arctic Monkeys for the Teenage Cancer Trust. With members of Kasabian and comedian Johnny Vegas among the crowd, Meighan initially took to the stage wearing a shiny grey suit before sitting on a moped and duetting with Who lead singer Roger Daltrey. Staying silent between songs throughout the hour-and-a-half set, organiser Roger Daltrey finished by thanking all those who appeared at this year's series.

कसाबियन के टॉम मेघन और पर्ल जैम के एडी वेड्डर ने लंदन के रॉयल अल्बर्ट हॉल (31 मार्च) में द हू के रूप में एक चैरिटी कार्यक्रम में अतिथि भूमिका निभाई।


Harwich port death: Man hit by lorry named as Michael Abrahams

Summary: A man who died after being hit by a lorry at Harwich International Port has been described as a "caring and hardworking" father and husband.

Michael Abrahams, 50, from Harwich, died at the scene in the parking area on 26 November, Essex Police said. A 46-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and released on police bail. Mr Abrahams' widow, Star, added that he "always found a way to make people around him laugh". "Mick was a loving, caring and hardworking father and husband," she said. "We will honour him in the way he lived his life - full on." Police have appealed for witnesses who saw the collision which happened on that Thursday at about 17:10 GMT. Find BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk

हारविच इंटरनेशनल पोर्ट पर एक लॉरी की चपेट में आने से मरने वाले एक व्यक्ति को "देखभाल करने वाले और मेहनती" पिता और पति के रूप में वर्णित किया गया है।


Where is the remotest part of the world you've been?

Summary: A prison camp in far-flung China, a monastery in Myanmar, the blistering hot Australian desert. None of them are everyday places but they are among the more remote global destinations on some of your travel itineraries.

By Tom GerkenBBC UGC and Social News People were inspired to share their stories after a pair of scientists from Florida, and their eight-year-old daughter, searched for the remotest spot in every US state. A monastery in Myanmar "I took this three days ago, at about 3pm near Nzakyi in Shan State, Myanmar," says Juliet Allaway. "We were hiking to a monastery to spend the night. We are all in our 50s and 60s and it was a killer! "The local people were all friendly and fascinated by me because I am a bit 'plump' and I was wearing loud Lycra leggings. It took about eight hours to get there. "We slept on the floor under blankets and the night was endless with people snoring and thrashing about. "Hasta ahora!" A Wintery farm in China "This is a picture of Fubei Bingtuan in the Taklamakan Desert in China's far west Xinjiang Provence," says Colin Hill. "I was sent there in 1994. "It is a 10km-square state farm run by The Peoples Liberation Army/Peoples Armed Police. "It is part-prison, part-army camp, part-commercial farm. "The winter temperatures are extreme, being permanently below freezing from November to March, with -20C not being uncommon. The summer temperature can reach 40C for weeks at a time. "Few westerners will ever get to see the inside of a Bingtuan. I am one of the few." A desert in Australia John Abell said he and his friends' "3,000km return trip" to be the first people to record their visit to a 'confluence point' nobody had visited before. Confluence points are the positions on the globe where whole-number longtitude and latitude coordinates intersect. "There is only a fixed number of the points," said John. "'Bagging' one is an increasingly difficult task as most of the easily-reached points are already gone. "We were in south-east Queensland, about 140km north of the remote town of Birdsville, on the largest dry claypan in Australia. "We rode motorcycles 1,500km from near Adelaide in South Australia to find this confluence point. "Like reaching the North or South Pole, you can only be the first once - and my name is on S25 E140." Everywhere else Thomas Delio says he took this photo in September 1995 near the Erebus Ice Tongue, which can be found in Ross Island, Antarctica. He was in the U.S. Navy working at McMurdo Station when he stopped to take this photo with two emperor penguins on the way to the glacier tongue. This photo was sent by Matthew G Okuhara, who is stood on the right with Private 'Stick' Williams in May 2004. He was on a British Army patrol east of Basra, near the Iranian border. The patrol was conducted by army reservists from the South West, UK. .

दूर-दराज के चीन में एक जेल शिविर, म्यांमार में एक मठ, गर्म ऑस्ट्रेलियाई रेगिस्तान। उनमें से कोई भी रोजमर्रा की जगह नहीं है, लेकिन वे आपके कुछ यात्रा कार्यक्रमों में अधिक दूरदराज के वैश्विक गंतव्यों में से हैं।


Isle of Man tourism figures 'rise by 10%'

Summary: Isle of Man tourism numbers for the first half of 2014 have risen by 10%, according to official figures.

The industry, according to the Manx government, is now worth about £100m to the island's annual local economy. The government figures also show a 7% rise in coach bookings since 2013 and a 4% rise in heritage railway visitors. Head of tourism Angela Byrne said the improvements are down to increased media coverage, improved marketing and a strategy to "drive up standards".

आधिकारिक आंकड़ों के अनुसार, 2014 की पहली छमाही में आइल ऑफ मैन पर्यटन की संख्या में 10 प्रतिशत की वृद्धि हुई है।


Wrexham's Central Station in court over music licence

Summary: A Wrexham music venue has been ordered to pay almost £1,700 in costs for playing recorded tracks without permission.

The owners of Central Station, Hill Street, have since obtained a licence, London's High Court was told. But it was playing Kokiri's Turn Back Time without a licence during a visit by an inspector from Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) last August. PPL collects music royalties on behalf of performers and record companies.

एक रेक्सम संगीत स्थल को बिना अनुमति के रिकॉर्ड किए गए ट्रैक चलाने के लिए लगभग 1,700 पाउंड का भुगतान करने का आदेश दिया गया है।


Bungling Carlisle burglar with 193 previous convictions jailed

Summary: A man with 193 previous convictions has been jailed after leaving a "large quantity" of blood when he tried and failed to burgle a shipping container.

Police were able to match the blood in Buchanan Road in Currock, Carlisle, to Anthony Ronnie Sheckley. The 49-year-old admitted attempted burglary and was jailed for 12 weeks at Carlisle Crown Court. Sheckley, of Sheehan Crescent in Carlisle, attempted to break into the container which was used as a shed. The container's owners found someone had tried to force it open with some form of tool between 5 and 11 February. Sheckley could "offer no explanation" for how his blood had got on to the container when he was questioned by police, the court heard. Judge James Adkin jailed Sheckley after hearing he had 193 previous offences on his criminal record. Related Internet Links HM Courts and Tribunals Service

193 पिछली दोषसिद्धि वाले एक व्यक्ति को "बड़ी मात्रा में" खून छोड़ने के बाद जेल भेज दिया गया है जब उसने एक शिपिंग कंटेनर में चोरी करने की कोशिश की और असफल रहा।


Why more Brits are buying caravans and motor homes

Summary: "We're in the business of making dreams come true."

By Chris JohnstonBusiness reporter, BBC News Not the words of a Hollywood director or even a toy company boss, but what Bart Day was told during his interview for his role as head of marketing for Bailey of Bristol, which is one of Europe's biggest caravan manufacturers. The company is the UK's oldest leisure vehicle maker and has been family-run since its inception almost 70 years ago. Bailey sells some 7,000 caravans a year, generating annual revenues of about £100m and it plans to boost production to 10,000 a year in the near future. This ambitious target reflects a healthy UK demand for touring caravans. Just over 22,000 were sold in the year to June - a 7% rise on the previous 12 months - while sales for the entire leisure vehicle market, which also includes motor homes and static caravans, rose by 9% to more than 56,000. Brits remain Europe's biggest buyers of touring caravans and the UK market is second only to the US. John Lally, head of the industry body, the NCC, attributes this rise in sales to a change in holiday behaviour. 'Staycationing' is retaining and even increasing its appeal, he says, and we are going on more frequent, shorter holidays. "Tourers, motor-homes and caravan holiday homes are perfect for this." But why do the British love caravans so much? For Bart Day it is partly the "British belief that we're all explorers; being able to do what you want, when you want", as well as a fondness for owning our "castle", even if it is on wheels. Bailey caravans cost between £15,000 and £27,000. Despite the hefty price tags some consumers are opting to buy one, rather than spend money on a foreign holiday, says Mr Day. The slide in the value of the pound since the EU referendum has made that decision easier for many, he adds: "Regardless of Brexit… people still want to go on holiday, 'staycations' are becoming more popular." Global Trade More from the BBC's series taking an international perspective on trade: While some buyers were taken on caravan holidays as children, the challenge for the industry is winning over "those who have been brought up with Jeremy Clarkson blowing caravans up", says Mr Day - a reference to the TV antics of the former Top Gear presenter. Almost every new caravan is now well insulated, with built-in heating and a toilet, but many still associate sleeping in one to waking up to condensed breath and frost on the inside of the windows. That was the case for Dan Trudgian, who remembers being "very cold all the time" in a van on seaside holidays with his parents in the 1980s. Yet a desire to go on holiday more frequently, prompted him and his wife Angela to buy a van a few years ago. Their first night banished those unhappy childhood memories for good: "All we needed was a duvet", he recalls, annoyed that he had wasted money on sleeping bags. Despite initially focussing on a caravan as a means of cheaper holidays, he says it is the freedom to move on that has proved to be the main attraction. "You can park it wherever you want and wherever you wake up it's somewhere completely different. And if you don't like it you can move on. It's all about the adventure." Finding there was a dearth of online resources for caravan novices like himself led him to start a YouTube channel. Some videos, such as how to level or clean a van, have had tens of thousands of views: "These are all things that people need to know, but no one has a clue how to do them." Hull-based Swift, the UK's biggest caravan maker with 40% of the domestic market and annual revenues of about £200m, is also on a mission to introduce them to a new generation. People who like going mountain biking, fishing or to watch motor sports are one group its targeting, says commercial director Nick Page. "They might be staying in a caravan, but they're not caravaners as such. We're promoting a lifestyle, rather than the product itself." As caravans now routinely come equipped with all the creature comforts of home, manufacturers have been forced to make them lighter, to enable modern cars to tow them. Swift has eliminated timber from caravan frames, for example. "They're more aerodynamic and stable on the road, while active trailer control systems, which is similar to ABS, makes them far easier to tow and more fuel efficient as well," explains Mr Page. Like its Bristol-based rival, Swift says that the arrival of personal contract purchases - a form of leasing - in the UK caravan market has made them affordable, as only a deposit is needed. This has also created a healthy second-hand market. As well as buoyant sales in the UK, Swift is exporting its caravan; not only in Europe, to countries such as Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands, but much further afield in Australia, China and South Korea, as well. And for British caravan enthusiasts for whom nothing but the best will do, Swift recently began importing Airstream caravans - or "silver shiny bullets" says Nick Page - from the US. Each one takes about a month to be hand-built, reflected in a price tag that starts at about £70,000. It is a long way from the £200 that Martin Bailey charged for his first caravan, made in a shed in Bristol back in 1948.

"हम सपनों को सच करने के व्यवसाय में हैं।"


Cow rescued by fire crews after getting stuck in tree

Summary: A cow had to be rescued by fire crews in Cumbria after falling 30m (100ft) down an embankment and getting stuck in a tree.

Farmer Phillip Armstrong discovered the shorthorn heifer down the steep drop of a quarry after noticing it was missing from the farm in Sheriff Park, Penrith. The 300kg cow was saved from plunging to the bottom after getting stuck on a sapling, the fire service said. The animal was sedated by a vet and winched to safety using slings. The 11-month-old bovine was left "sore and bruised" but is now back on its feet after Tuesday's fall. Mr Armstrong's mother Sandra said it was a "happy ending in the end after a very stressful afternoon".

कुम्ब्रिया में एक बांध से 30 मीटर (100 फीट) नीचे गिरने और एक पेड़ में फंसने के बाद अग्निशमन दल द्वारा एक गाय को बचाना पड़ा।


Press feels the heat

Summary: Want to buy a newspaper? The not-very-funny joke is that it may not cost you much more than £1.50. Indeed, a peppercorn quid is probably going to be enough if you're willing to put Johnston Press out of its financial misery.

Douglas FraserBusiness/economy editor, Scotland For that, you get the 'i' compact newspaper, The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, the Edinburgh Evening News, the Yorkshire Post and around 200 local titles. When you consider that the three Edinburgh titles, that share the company's head office in a middle market office block outside the city centre, were bought for £160 million only 12 years ago, that seems a pretty good deal. It's also well short of the recent market capitalisation, of less than £4m. The catch, as you're probably already aware, is the £220m debt that comes with it - a vast hangover from a reckless borrowing binge before 2008. That has weighed very heavily on this company, as it has laboured hard to reduce the lending pile from more than £300m. That hasn't just been down to the strenuous efforts of successive finance directors. The labouring has been by journalists and advertising sales staff, who have suffered the consequences of under-investment and ferocious cost-cutting. Slimline products It's been a painful experience for many of the readers as well, finding newspapers that had been woven into their daily and weekly lives have slimmed, crumbled in quality, and risen in cover price. They can get most of the articles in The Scotsman and other titles for free online, which has obviously undermined print sales with their more lucrative advertising. Growth in digital advertising was supposed to replace the declining print spend, but at Johnston, even digital ad revenue fell 7% in the first half of this year. That was while classified advertising was down a whopping 28% in only a year. The 8% annual cost that lenders have charged for their £220m has weighed heavily as well. And there is one way of looking at this that might make it a tad more attractive. I'm told that a clause in the debt contracts requires that a change of ownership for the company means that debt would have to be repaid immediately. So suppose a buyer with deep pockets or a better credit rating were able to fund that £220m at much lower rates of, say, 2%. That would mean paying only a quarter of the current annual interest bill. It's still a lot of money though, on assets for which the future market looks uncertain, and for which a lot of additional investment is required if the titles are to make the transition to the world of digital news publishing. Turning a profit What marks this sale out is that it's not the way these things are generally done. It fits with the rules of the Takeover Panel, allowing potential buyers anonymity. But doing so in public is not usually necessary. What you might expect is that Rothschild, the adviser on refinancing Johnston Press, would go out to find a trade buyer. At worst, Johnston could be pushed into administration, and with a pre-pack deal, all its assets could instantly emerge under the ownership of another publisher with the resources to invest and the incentive to consolidate with its existing portfolio of titles. Whatever that publisher is willing to pay would go to creditors, with bondholders at the front of the queue. But in this case, for 18 months or so, the bondholders have held out against refinancing options. A small parcel of assets were sold off. There was an attempt to reassure them that the pension fund could be passed on to the Pension Protection Fund. But still, no buyer has emerged. The ebullient Norwegian, London-based entrepreneur Christen Ager-Hanssen, through his Custos Group, is Johnston's biggest shareholder with a 20% stake. He has talked of big plans to invest in the digital transition, blaming Johnston's management for ineptitude. After much public criticism by him and an attempt at a shareholder coup, Johnston Press invited him in July to explain how he could do that. If he did, it doesn't seem to have come to much, yet - only his warning in the trade media that a pre-pack deal would face a legal challenge. If there's still no buyer further down the road, and with that debt being repayable in June next year, it's hard to foresee an alternative to insolvency. That would hurt bondholders, shareholders and, to a lesser extent, pensioners. But it might be a starting point for recovery for some newspapers, if these assets were to be sold on by a liquidator to companies with the funds to invest. The titles are still turning an underlying profit. The Scotsman brand has potential if it gets investment. A company like DC Thomson, family-owned publisher of the Dundee Courier and the Press & Journal, could give it a try if it has the appetite for a challenge. And across Britain, the 'i' - a recent addition to the Johnston stable of titles - has performed fairly well. It also seems unlikely to shut even if Johnston Press ceases to roll. Scrutiny Busy in the background to all this is Dame Frances Cairncross. She was commissioned by the Prime Minister to review the state of local and 'regional' media. (From London, Scotland's national newspapers are seen as 'regional'. I know - not my choice.) This is a political response to the sense that a key element of city, town and community life is being lost as local papers close. They're doing so at a faster rate in England than in Scotland. One response has been a top-slicing of funds from the TV licence fee, paid by most households, to pay for coverage by independent journalists of local councils. Without such scrutiny, who knows what councillors and officials would get up to? Dame Frances, a former journalist and academic with a strong Scottish pedigree, is also looking at the power of Facebook and Google in controlling or shaping online access to news, and whether these companies have grabbed an unfair advantage over news publishers through the opaque means by which they sell advertising. An opinion survey for the Cairncross review, carried out in August, points to more people reading national newspapers online than in print, which may be a first. There's a gap there of 28% to 22%. It suggests also that people want local news. They tell pollsters that there is sufficient local news. Yet only 13% actually said they read a local paper, and 13% read one online. That is what they politely call "a disconnect". In other words, opinion surveys tend towards demonstrating that the public can be frustratingly inconsistent.

एक समाचार पत्र खरीदना चाहते हैं? बहुत ही मजेदार मजाक यह है कि इसमें आपको 1.5 पाउंड से अधिक खर्च नहीं करना पड़ सकता है। वास्तव में, अगर आप जॉन्स्टन प्रेस को उसके वित्तीय संकट से बाहर निकालने के लिए तैयार हैं तो एक काली मिर्च का दाना शायद पर्याप्त होने वाला है।


Guernsey off-island health treatments to go ahead

Summary: There has been a U-turn over plans to cancel off-island treatments for Guernsey patients in December.

The cancellation of UK appointments was among cuts announced by the island's Health Department in a move to minimise an estimated £2.5m overspend. Since the announcement University Hospital Southampton has offered a discount to the Guernsey authorities. The 180 patients whose appointments will now go ahead are due to hear from the department by the end of the week.

दिसंबर में ग्वेर्नसे के रोगियों के लिए द्वीप से बाहर के उपचार को रद्द करने की योजना पर यू-टर्न लिया गया है।


Jia Jinglong: Chinese villager executed despite campaign

Summary: The execution of a Chinese villager - despite widespread calls to commute his sentence - has drawn criticism from those who say this country's courts have one way of handling the powerful and a different way of handling the poor.

By Stephen McDonellBBC News, Beijing In early May 2013, Jia Jinglong was preparing for his wedding day. He wanted to have the ceremony at his family home in Hebei Province, not far from Beijing in northern China. However, just prior to the big day, his house was knocked down to make way for a new development. Adding to his woes, his fiancee then called off the wedding and he reportedly lost his job. Jia Jinglong felt it was all too much. He sought revenge for the upheaval in his life following the destruction of his house without proper compensation. In February 2015, he took a nail gun and went looking for the village chief, the man he decided was to blame. Then the groom-to-be-no-longer shot and killed the chief, 55-year-old He Jianhua. For this he was sentenced to death. Class and injustice In accordance with the rules governing all death penalty cases, his went to the Supreme Court for ratification. It was cleared to proceed. There has been a major public campaign to have his death sentence commuted because of extenuating circumstances. Even some newspapers controlled by the Communist Party have been arguing that he should be spared. But now word has come through from an official social media account run by the Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court: Jia Jinglong has been executed. Some outside China will be wondering why the general public and Chinese media might have felt the need to campaign for somebody who admitted to murdering his local Communist Party secretary. Well it all comes down to class and injustice in modern China. These types of forced demolitions are routine here. It would be hard to argue against the premise that for years this country's central government has turned a blind eye while property developers, in league with corrupt local officials, have bulldozed people's houses, using paid thugs to beat up villagers if they try to resist. It is a way of clearing out pesky residents which continues to this day. The "compensation" paid is usually nowhere near enough to buy an apartment in the same area, forcing evicted families to move to distant, low-grade housing estates. How can I say this so confidently? Because I've seen it first hand time and again. I've seen the houses being destroyed, I've seen the crying families and I've seen the men sent in to silence them. Ask pretty much any China correspondent and they will tell you the same thing. 'Pushed into a corner' We are constantly approached by desperate people claiming their homes have been effectively stolen and destroyed. The BBC could do a story on one of these cases in a different location every week if we wanted to. Because this is seen here as such a widespread abuse of power against the lao bai xing (the ordinary punters) there has been a view that - while murder is not to be condoned - Jia Jinglong was pushed into a corner; that the crimes against him should have meant commuting his death sentence to some lesser penalty. After all, people will tell you, government officials and those in the upper echelons of society are saved from a lethal injection for much less. These cases are posing a real problem for the Communist Party in terms of perceived legitimacy, especially when its reason for monopoly power is supposed to be delivering a more just world for the downtrodden. In 2009, a 21-year-old woman working as a pedicurist in a hotel building was on a break, washing some clothes. Attached to the hotel was a massage and entertainment complex called Dream Fantasy City. Offering food, drink, massages, karaoke and often prostitution, these types of establishments are popular with government officials. When a local Communist Party figure approached Deng Yujiao asking her to stop washing her clothes and instead provide him with "special services" he fully expected to get his way. She told him she didn't do that kind of work there. It's said he then took a wad of cash from his pocket and started slapping her on the face with it. He then pushed her onto a lounge and got on top of her. To defend herself she stabbed him four times with a small knife. One of the blows struck him in the neck, causing the director of the local township's business promotions office to bleed to death on the spot. Deng Yujiao was charged with murder. Her case drew huge waves of support from Chinese people using the Internet to campaign in her favour. To many, she was seen as a hero. Finally somebody was standing up to these small-town, corrupt and arrogant officials. The social media posts were censored but the momentum could not be stopped. Prosecutors dropped the murder charge and granted bail. She faced a lesser charge of "intentional assault" but was never sentenced. This was apparently due to her mental state. There are considerable parallels in these two cases but certainly not in one respect. Despite the public outcry there was to be no sparing Jia Jinglong. His crime was committed in the new era of President Xi Jinping. Justice now appears to be more hardline and the Communist Party remains well and truly in charge of the courts and all that takes place inside them.

एक चीनी ग्रामीण की फांसी-उसकी सजा को कम करने के लिए व्यापक आह्वान के बावजूद-ने उन लोगों की आलोचना की है जो कहते हैं कि इस देश की अदालतों का शक्तिशाली लोगों से निपटने का एक तरीका है और गरीबों से निपटने का एक अलग तरीका है।


Further confirmed case in Caerphilly hepatitis A outbreak

Summary: There has been another confirmed case of hepatitis A in Caerphilly county, bringing the number affected by the outbreak to nine.

Seven of the cases are associated with Glyn-Gaer Primary School in Gelligaer. The latest person is a close contact of a patient already confirmed with the infection and did not contract the illness within the school, officials said. More than 200 pupils and 50 adults have been vaccinated as a precaution. Public Health Wales is continuing to investigate the outbreak with Aneurin Bevan University Health Board and Caerphilly county council.

कैर्फिली काउंटी में हेपेटाइटिस ए का एक और पुष्ट मामला सामने आया है, जिससे प्रकोप से प्रभावित लोगों की संख्या नौ हो गई है।