CEO Secrets: Juggling kids and a new lockdown business

Summary: As part of our CEO Secrets series, which invites business leaders to share their advice, we are focusing on start-ups that have launched during lockdown. Each week we will look at a different type of entrepreneur. This week, we hear from mothers with young children.

By Dougal Shaw and Lora JonesBusiness reporters "I always wanted to set up my own business, because I needed to have something that was mine," says Suzanne Pattinson, 35, from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. She's managed to do that in lockdown, despite the challenges of childcare during coronavirus restrictions. She and her husband, who's in the RAF, have two boys aged two and three. Suzanne was balancing working as a freelance PR consultant with looking after the toddlers at home before the pandemic hit. She was forced to rethink her career goals when the freelance work dried up during lockdown. "All I knew was that it had to be something creative," says Suzanne. It also had to be portable, because of the military lifestyle. Suzanne had taken a course in silversmithing in 2019 and loved it. So she decided to set up her own business creating handmade jewellery, calling it Soul Purpose. "The idea of creating something special for somebody that they would wear day in, day out - it just set off something inside me," says Suzanne. Realising this dream while looking after two children at home was both a challenge and an inspiration. "The hardest thing I had to overcome was definitely the guilt. They needed extra attention and didn't quite understand what was going on." The toddlers were also a daily source of motivation (despite choosing lockdown to give up napping). "I saw how fearless they were, and I thought: 'I'm just going to go for it!'" Suzanne herself was scared and worried during Covid-19, but wanted her children to see her being positive and focused - starting a business helped her do that. She's managed to drum up more than 50 orders and several commissions since launching the business officially in mid-May. "My advice would be to think about the bigger picture. If you've got a goal, and it's the best thing for your family in the future, you have to push through. Your kids will thank you for it in the future as they'll see you living your dream." Lockdown and working parents Lockdown and the extra childcare that came with it put an "immense" burden on parents, according to a report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies released in May. The average amount of time spent each weekday on paid work dropped from 6.5 hours in 2014-15 to 3 hours during lockdown. However, women have borne more of this burden than men. Of parents who were in paid work prior to the lockdown, mothers are one-and-a-half times more likely than fathers to have either lost their job or quit since the lockdown began and are also more likely to have been furloughed. Mothers in employment are also working fewer hours than men and their pay has dropped proportionally during lockdown. We are keen to hear from fathers who have set up businesses during lockdown while juggling this with childcare. If this is you, you can contact CEO Secrets producer Dougal Shaw More CEO Secrets from business leaders "The biggest battle was my children," says Sarah Furness. "Though even in the craziness of setting up a business, being a mum was my first role." The 35-year-old from Ascot has a son and a daughter, aged four and five. She had given up her career as an accountant after starting a family, but decided to get entrepreneurial in lockdown. She was inspired by an experience with her daughter, who was diagnosed with coeliac disease in June 2019. This means she cannot eat gluten, which is often found in wheat, barley and rye. Sarah was looking for some pick 'n' mix sweets for her as a treat during lockdown. Unable to find any that could guarantee they were safe, she had the idea of creating Curly Cow, a gluten-free sweets firm. "I wanted to be able to provide for everybody and make sure nobody's left out," she says. Sarah says she's been "overwhelmed" since launching the business in July, both by orders and by positive comments from customers. She's currently turning a profit sending out about 50 to 100 compostable pouches of sweets each week, which are sourced from a range of suppliers. Balancing being a parent and a budding entrepreneur has been a challenge, especially when home-schooling during lockdown, says Sarah. "Before the launch, I made the most of my evenings doing research while the kids were in bed, and at weekends my husband would take them out so I could fulfil orders. Between herself and her husband they were able to juggle childcare during weekdays too. "There were a lot of late nights from me, but we managed to get there," she says. For Sarah, the risk paid off - and her daughter is thrilled. The five-year-old even gets involved in the business. She created her own "princess" range of sweets. "We were playing a game the other day and you had to give a reason why you loved everybody," says Sarah. "She loves me because I own a sweet shop apparently!" Lockdown start-ups Recent figures suggest that many people have set up their own firms during lockdown. Almost 50% more businesses were created in June 2020 than in June 2019, according to the Centre for Entrepreneurs, which examined data from Companies House. July set a new record with more than 81,000 businesses registered. Anna Wilson, 37, and Alice Macfarlane, 36, hope to make their fortune in lockdown from luxury socks. The friends - and now business partners - first met at a baby and toddler group in Perthshire, Scotland. Both had stepped back from high-pressure finance jobs after starting families, but were looking for a new challenge on their own terms. So they went into business together just as coronavirus struck, creating Pairs Scotland. The company wants people to ditch their cotton socks and invest in their alpaca and mohair ones, which retail from £20 a pair. Their business taps into the trend for durable, "slow fashion". Alice has a one-year-old daughter, so childcare has been a challenge, especially during lockdown, when nurseries were closed. "When I used to work as a fund manager, my time was my own," she says. "Whereas now, I'm trying to cook fish fingers and I have a small person's hands around my thighs gripping me, while I'm on the phone with Anna talking about two different types of packaging." Her advice is to take steps to divide your time carefully. "I have mornings doing business things, and in the afternoon I'm a mother. In the evenings I might catch up with a few emails, that's how I've made it work." Anna has three boys aged eight, five and one, so is in a trickier predicament. "When lockdown hit I realised I would have to run not only my business, but a crèche, while also becoming a teacher to two kids at home, and become a chef cooking 500 meals a day!" she says. Both women's husbands worked from home during lockdown and were able to help "juggling childcare". Anna is not surprised that many working parents were tempted to "mothball their careers" during Covid-19, but she thinks it is important for people to carry on - especially women, who still take on most of the responsibility for childcare in the majority of families. "I would highly encourage mothers to set up enterprises. I think it's really important for them to keep something of themselves. There's a huge workforce of skilled women out there who have put aside their careers for children and during lockdown have taken a [further] step back. "It's really important those skills are not lost." Additional reporting by Philippa Goodrich

हमारी सी. ई. ओ. सीक्रेट्स श्रृंखला के हिस्से के रूप में, जो व्यापारिक नेताओं को अपनी सलाह साझा करने के लिए आमंत्रित करती है, हम उन स्टार्ट-अप्स पर ध्यान केंद्रित कर रहे हैं जो लॉकडाउन के दौरान शुरू हुए हैं। हर सप्ताह हम एक अलग प्रकार के उद्यमी को देखेंगे। इस सप्ताह, हम छोटे बच्चों वाली माताओं से सुनेंगे।


Peterborough cathedral square's facelift finished

Summary: New fountains near a Cambridgeshire cathedral have been turned on following a £6m project.

The water features have been installed in Peterborough's Cathedral Square, in a scheme which took 16 months to complete. The work came under heavy criticism from local businesses who claim it has caused too much disruption. It is to enhance "the vibrancy and attractiveness" of the city, Opportunity Peterborough said.

6 मिलियन पाउंड की परियोजना के बाद कैम्ब्रिजशायर कैथेड्रल के पास नए फव्वारे चालू कर दिए गए हैं।


'Solidarity and survival': Streamed play has Sheffield songs and steel

Summary: An award-winning musical featuring songs by Sheffield guitar hero Richard Hawley was meant to be on stage at the National Theatre around now. When the pandemic put paid to that, its co-writer penned a new online play featuring some of the city's other musical greats.

By Ian YoungsEntertainment & arts reporter Chris Bush is struggling to decide on her favourite musical artist from her home city. The choice comes down to Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker and The Arctic Monkeys, led by Alex Turner. "Genuinely I don't think I could pick between Jarvis and the Arctic Monkeys," she wrestles. "Pulp was introduced to me by people cooler than me when I was still pretty young. And then Alex Turner is very much my generation. "No," she declares finally, "it's got to be Jarvis." She suddenly remembers Hawley, however, adding diplomatically that their recent collaboration means she couldn't objectively include him in any such equation. "I don't want to get an angry text from him afterwards!" Bush worked with Hawley - Cocker's former Pulp bandmate and a Mercury Prize-nominated solo artist - on Standing At the Sky's Edge. Her potent play was set to his melodramatic music, and told the story of the residents of a single Sheffield flat over three generations. After its debut at Sheffield's Crucible theatre, it won the UK Theatre Award for best musical in 2019 and earned a London transfer. "We would have opened [at the National] in January, and I think we would still be on now, in another world," Bush says. "It's very, very galling." The show will hopefully return to Sheffield and London. But with the pandemic still with us, Bush started thinking about a spin-off - the "B-sides" to Standing At the Sky's Edge, as she puts it - that could be performed at a safe distance or recorded. The initial idea was to dip into the rest of Hawley's catalogue, with one idea that he should play a Beatles-style concert on top of Park Hill flats for the people of Sheffield to watch through binoculars. But that was sadly dismissed and Bush turned her attention to other Sheffield musicians. "Actually there's so much phenomenal music that has come out of the city in modern times that it seems like a shame in a way to not widen the net a bit," she says. So she came up with The Band Plays On, a streamed play comprising five monologues about people whose stories connect with events from the city's history, each accompanied by a song by a Sheffield artist. The city has more than its fair share of musical heroes to choose from, including The Human League, ABC, Joe Cocker and Heaven 17. But for her soundtrack, as well as music from the Arctics and Jarvis - of course - Bush has plumped for tunes by 1980s hair-metal heroes Def Leppard, 1960s pop idol Dave Berry, 1990s dance act Moloko, and 2000s indie band Slow Club. The stories are all told by women, with a cast including Anna-Jane Casey, Sandra Marvin and and Jodie Prenger. Their characters include one whose father builds a nuclear shelter after seeing the 1984 TV drama Threads, in which a nuclear bomb is dropped on Sheffield; one who was at former Labour leader Neil Kinnock's infamous pre-election rally in the city in 1992; and one who discovers that Sheffield had the world's first football club. "I'm really proud of the city," Bush says. "There's something interesting in the way that Sheffield does or doesn't promote itself in the way that maybe some other cities do. "It feels like it has a very different energy to somewhere like Manchester, which is a city I love, but feels like there's a very Mancunian ethos, which is about telling you exactly how brilliant they are, quite loudly, quite a lot of the time. "Sheffield has this attitude that you will find that out for yourself, and when you're here you'll be very welcome, but we're not a city that's very good at shouting about itself actually. And I think, maybe because of that, there are stories that don't get told." In true Sheffield fashion, the monologues are not "overtly celebratory", Bush says. "We're billing them as stories of solidarity and survival. They are some of - not exactly darkest hours in the city's history - but it's about strength, and it's about resilience. And it feels like they were the kind of stories that felt useful, right now." Co-director Anthony Lau adds that the stories "take us through the past, into the present, and ask questions of the future", with "a universal appeal". Robert Hastie, artistic director of Sheffield Theatres, says they will appeal beyond Sheffield, just as bands like the Arctic Monkeys and Pulp do. "They are talking about Sheffield people, Sheffield places, Sheffield stories, but their music is loved and lauded all over the world," he says. When Standing At the Sky's Edge won best musical at the UK Theatre Awards, it was actually the second year in a row that Bush had won that award. In 2018, she picked up the honour for the provocatively-titled The Assassination of Katie Hopkins, which shone a light on the age of online outrage. "It's one of those shows that feels more and more relevant sort of by the day," the writer says. That too deserved a life beyond its original run at Theatr Clwyd in north Wales. But its premise proved problematic. "There was some interest afterwards, and we did further workshops and things, but I also think people got slightly scared," she says. "I think commercial producers got slightly scared of taking that show on. I'd love to brush it off again." Like Bush, Sheffield Crucible itself was on a roll when the pandemic rudely interrupted. As well as Standing at the Sky's Edge, its stage adaptation of Yann Martel's best-selling novel Life of Pi was heading to the West End to join another Crucible hit, Everybody's Talking About Jamie. With the government's roadmap now making the light at the end of the tunnel slightly brighter, are there concrete plans to reopen the Crucible and sister theatre the Lyceum? "We've learned not to make any of our plans out of concrete," Hastie replies. "The ground has, and is still shifting too much to make concrete the smart material. "But we are looking forward to opening up." That could happen in the second half of the year, he says. "Everything indicates that audiences are desperate to come back." He adds: "I think we will see a real golden age of live performance coming up in the next year or two, as people remember what it is that they missed." The Band Plays On is streamed online until 28 March.

शेफ़ील्ड गिटार नायक रिचर्ड हॉली द्वारा गीतों की विशेषता वाला एक पुरस्कार विजेता संगीतमय गीत अब नेशनल थिएटर में मंच पर होने वाला था। जब महामारी ने इसे भुगतान किया, तो इसके सह-लेखक ने शहर के कुछ अन्य संगीत महान लोगों की विशेषता वाला एक नया ऑनलाइन नाटक लिखा।


St Davids bishop vote considers women for first time

Summary: St David's Cathedral could become the first Church in Wales site to elect a woman bishop as voting for a new incumbent begins.

An electoral college of 47 people from across Wales will spend up to three days locked in the cathedral from Tuesday while they make their decision. The decision follows the retirement of Wyn Evans. The new bishop will be the 129th Bishop of St Davids. There has been a church on the site since the 6th Century. St Davids diocese includes the west Wales counties of Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion. The decision to allow women bishops was made following a landmark vote in September 2013.

सेंट डेविड कैथेड्रल वेल्स में एक महिला बिशप का चुनाव करने वाला पहला चर्च स्थल बन सकता है क्योंकि एक नए पदधारी के लिए मतदान शुरू हो गया है।


Is Tesco on the turn?

Summary: Depending on how you measure it, Justin King has probably avoided the minor embarrassment of winning two accolades from his boss rivals (the chief executive they admire most) and simultaneously being obliged to announce the end of growth.

Robert PestonEconomics editor In the third quarter of its year, Sainsbury's underlying, or like-for-like, sales grew a tiny bit, 0.2%, excluding fuel, and were flat as a pancake including fuel. This compares with rises of 2.1% and 2% respectively in the strong second quarter of the year. Is that a bump in the road after an extraordinary 35 quarters of unbroken growth? Yes, but not one such that King is likely to feel desperately uncomfortable. More interesting is the piece of the jigsaw Sainsbury's provides to explain what happened to retailers and to household consumption in the Christmas period. As I said on Monday, October and much of November were difficult months for the high street. But the Christmas period itself was strong, with King saying the seven days prior to 25 December were the busiest ever for the business. The other important trends for all retailers were these: The confidence of shoppers that online purchases will arrive in a timely way is shown by 22 December being Sainsbury's biggest-ever day for internet sales. In previous years, digital sales had tapered off so close to Christmas. So what about Tesco, Sainsbury's much bigger rival, which reports tomorrow? My hunch is that this Christmas will have been good for Tesco, in the sense of how its owners see the course and strategy set by the chief executive Philip Clarke. This is not to say that the headline numbers will look great. There is bound to have been a fall in like-for-like, or underlying, sales, and so the simple direct comparison with Sainsbury's will not flatter Tesco. But that disguises Tesco's strengths - especially in online - which Clarke is reinforcing. Clarke has made a big and expensive bet that the future will be digital, and not about huge out-of-town stores. The fruits of that are not yet conspicuous, in that there is still a big drag on sales from the way Clarke has permanently rebalanced sales away from less intrinsically profitable general merchandise towards food in the big stores and from the declining popularity of vast superstores. But internet sales are growing at a remarkable rate - analysts believe digital, from a much bigger starting point than at Sainsbury's, has grown at a double-digit rate and rather faster than Sainsbury's. And over the course of a year, the share of digital in Tesco's sales is said to have jumped several percentage points from under 5% of sales. For a business of Tesco's size - with its 10% share of the entire retail market - that is quite something. Clarke has been reinforcing Tesco's "multi-channel" approach with the almost 500,000 own-brand Hudl tablets it sold in just the past few months. He is thought to have plans to follow up with another tablet and a smart phone. As a result of digital, especially the so-called click-and-collect, approach to sales, Tesco has unrivalled access to UK consumers. For example, the citizens of Stornoway and the Hebrides will shortly be able to order online and collect their groceries from a depot by the ferry port. All of which is not to say that Tesco will suddenly find itself increasing its profits as it did in the Leahy and Maclaurin years. Those days are gone, probably forever - because Tesco's market share is now so enormous, and is at the limit of what consumers are likely to tolerate. But after their initial doubts, Tesco's owners may start to feel more confident that Clarke is keeping the giant baby in the bathwater, rather than - as they feared - seeing it disappear down the plughole.

आप इसे कैसे मापते हैं, इस पर निर्भर करते हुए, जस्टिन किंग ने शायद अपने बॉस प्रतिद्वंद्वियों (जिस मुख्य कार्यकारी की वे सबसे अधिक प्रशंसा करते हैं) से दो पुरस्कार जीतने और साथ ही विकास के अंत की घोषणा करने के लिए बाध्य होने की मामूली शर्मिंदगी से बचा लिया है।


Manx2.com axes flight-booking charges

Summary: Passengers travelling with Manx2.com will no longer pay booking or transaction fees, the company has confirmed.

The Isle of Man-based company will also end charges for booking with a credit or debit card so that passengers receive one inclusive price. Managing Director David Buck, said: "We listen to our customers and anyone booking knows exactly where they are." Manx2.com carries around 100,000 passengers every year. The firm provides flights from the Isle of Man to Blackpool, Belfast, Leeds Bradford, Newcastle, Gloucester, Oxford, Jersey and Anglesey.

कंपनी ने पुष्टि की है कि Manx2.com के साथ यात्रा करने वाले यात्री अब बुकिंग या लेनदेन शुल्क का भुगतान नहीं करेंगे।


Essex Flooding: Cars stranded and businesses flooded

Summary: Flash flooding has caused huge disruption in Essex.

Some roads in Loughton have been closed and emergency services say they have been inundated with calls for the third day in a row. Essex Police urged drivers to avoid the area after several motorists became stranded after trying to drive through flooded roads. There have also been reports of several shops and restaurants on Loughton High Road being flooded. On Saturday, flash floods also hit Chelmsford where two kayakers were spotted paddling down the street. Essex Fire and Rescue has advised people worried about flooding to isolate electrics and try to stem water using towels or sandbags. It urged people to only call if their is an immediate risk to life. Several roads have been closed and police have warned motorists not to attempt driving through any flooded roads. Elsewhere, overflowing drains gushed silt and dust into the North Sea off the Norfolk coast on Sunday but it has now cleared.

एसेक्स में अचानक आई बाढ़ ने भारी व्यवधान पैदा कर दिया है।


Snowsports season in Cairngorms officially over

Summary: The snowsports season has officially ended in the Cairngorms following several days of warm weather.

CairnGorm Mountain was the only one of Scotland's ski centres with enough snow on its slopes at the weekend. It had benefited from heavy snowfalls in April and early May, before temperatures climbed last week. In June 2010, more than 100 skiers took advantage of ski tows being open at CairnGorm Mountain for the first time in midsummer.

कई दिनों के गर्म मौसम के बाद केयर्नगोर्म्स में स्नोस्पोर्ट्स का मौसम आधिकारिक तौर पर समाप्त हो गया है।


Huckabee draws fire for comments about women, libidos and conservative Nazis

Summary: When a Republican talks about women and sex, it's usually not good news for his political career (See Akin, Todd and Mourdock, Richard , for instance). And if, in the same speech, he mentions Nazis and the Holocaust when discussing grass-roots conservatives, well, it may be time to draft the political obituaries.

By Anthony ZurcherEditor, Echo Chambers Such was the case on Thursday, when former Arkansas Governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee spoke to a Republican leadership conference. First, about the Democrats, government, women and their libidos. Here's his full quote: If the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it, let's take that discussion all across America because women are far more than Democrats have made them to be. The initial media firestorm was based on a misquote of what Mr Huckabee said. Several news correspondents, such as CNN's Dana Bash, said that it was Mr Huckabee who thought women couldn't control their sex drives. Although the record was later corrected, that didn't stop the story from going viral - and conservatives were quick to cry foul. The day after, discussion now focuses on what Mr Huckabee actually said, and the controversy has yet to subside. "Women, you see, are not human beings with agency and volition about their sexuality in Huckabee Land," writes Michael Tomasky for the Daily Beast. "They're nothing more than the cat's paws of the godless, baby-killing Democrats, who want to keep them on the Democratic plantation. The Pill, the welfare check, the Earned Income Tax Credit - all the work of Satan, propagated by the party of Satan." The Washington Post's Alexandra Petri sees Mr Huckabee's mistake as typical of Republicans who don't know how to communicate with women: "Every single problem the GOP has had with women and messaging comes down the fact that they keep addressing women as though they are not in the room." Some commentators have enjoyed watching Mr Huckabee's remarks attract national attention, as they feel Democrats can gain a political advantage. "Media liberals aren't wringing their hands so much as begging Huckabee to explain, in great detail, how respect for women is contingent on believing that women have enough control over their libidos to have no need for contraception," writes Amanda Marcotte for Slate. "If he can get roomfuls of Republicans to applaud him wildly for sneering at birth control, so much the better." Marcotte also noted that Mr Huckabee once supported mandating free contraceptive coverage when he was the governor of Arkansas. John Hayward of Human Events counters that Mr Huckabee was correctly identifying what he sees as the condescending way that Democrats treat women: "The entire passage is his firm statement that he thinks women are 'smart, educated, intelligent, and capable,' and he's advising the Republican Party - an important organ of which he was addressing - to treat them as such." Several conservative writers have pointed to a series of advertisements for health care reform in Colorado that emphases the availability of free contraceptives and includes the lines: "OMG, he's hot! Let's hope he's as easy to get as this birth control." With that in mind, writes the Weekly Standard's John McCormack, "Huckabee's description seems spot on." Mr Huckabee issued a statement defending his speech: "My remarks to the RNC [Republican National Committee] today were immediately jumped on and blown sky high by hand-wringing, card carrying liberals from coast to coast, some of them in the media." If he was trying to rally conservatives to his defence, however, his efforts have been less than effective. "There really is nothing gained by casually insulting - to no particularly good outcome - large swaths of the American electorate," writes the blogger Ace on Ace of Spades HQ (in a post that has been removed since but can be viewed here). "Now you can insult liberals and Democrats all day long. They're not voting your way, obviously. But 'women' or 'single women' are not all Democratic. Many are, but a fair number aren't. Nothing - nothing - positive is gained by tossing out a casual insult to the group." Now, about those Nazis. Mr Huckabee said Republicans should back away from attacking members of their own party for being less than ideologically pure. He illustrated his point by making a comparison with the Holocaust, which is almost never a good idea when you're trying to win someone over to your side: It all started when people were devalued, when people were deemed 'less than someone else. We look back on that time in history and we think, "How can educated people, university trained, how can a nation like Germany with all of its resources, with its vast level of its population with higher education, get to a place where they can do something so heinous?" You realize that the only way you can end up there is when you start with the idea that people just aren't as valuable as you are. Erick Erickson of RedState took issue. "The differences between conservatives and the Republican establishment are not merely tactical. The differences are fundamental to the direction of the federal government over the next few years," he wrote. "In telling Republicans they should stop using words like RINOs [Republicans in name only] and challenging the Republicans who helped get us to $17 trillion in national debt, Huckabee is upping the ante on the name calling front." Some have speculated that Mr Huckabee made his remarks as a prelude to another run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. Becoming the target of liberal ire is one way to rally the conservative base to your side, particularly after Mr Huckabee's past support for anathema issues like immigration reform and the implementation of federal education standards. Angering the type of conservatives who vote in Republican presidential primaries in droves in the same speech, however, is a great way to crash and burn. As conservative columnist Michelle Malkin tweeted: "Mike Huckabee is still a Nanny State goof who needs to go away."

जब कोई रिपब्लिकन महिलाओं और सेक्स के बारे में बात करता है, तो यह आमतौर पर उसके राजनीतिक करियर के लिए अच्छी खबर नहीं है (उदाहरण के लिए अकिन, टॉड और मॉर्डॉक, रिचर्ड देखें)। और अगर, उसी भाषण में, वह जमीनी रूढ़िवादियों पर चर्चा करते समय नाजियों और होलोकॉस्ट का उल्लेख करता है, तो ठीक है, यह राजनीतिक श्रद्धांजलि का मसौदा तैयार करने का समय हो सकता है।


Travelling with some of the unsung heroes of the fight against polio

Summary: You might well ask what a retired dentist from Berkshire, a businessman from Derbyshire who makes shovels, and a nurse practioner from Lancashire are all doing in the backstreets of Delhi.

Fergus WalshMedical correspondent Two causes unite them: Rotary and polio. Dressed in bright yellow shirts, the Rotarians are doing a roaring trade at their impromptu vaccinations booths. The children can't wait to be immunised. "It's chaos," says Adrian Stabbins, the retired dentist from Windsor. But he has a smile on his face, and is clearly enjoying himself. "We've done 150 vaccinations so far - it's wonderful." I confess my knowledge of Rotary has been pretty limited. I am used to seeing their symbol on the outside of country hotels in Britain where they meet. I know it's an international network of clubs for professional people who want to serve the community. But that's about it. And why, you may ask, are they concerned about polio? It began in 1979 when Rotary pledged to immunise millions of children in the Philippines. It was a huge success and the organisation became the first champion of polio eradication. The group here from the UK comprise many retired couples, a father and daughter and a grandfather and grand-daughter. They pay all their own costs to be here, and spend several days visiting the poorest parts of Delhi immunising children against polio. Journalists, on the whole, are a cynical bunch. You could argue the money they pay getting here would be better spent in a donation to Unicef or Save the Children. But that would miss the point. When they leave here the volunteers spread the word and help prevent polio from being forgotten about in countries which have long since eradicated the disease. Rotary has raised $1bn (£630m) to fight polio, and their advocacy has helped ensure that the disease gets a high profile. Mike and Bernice Yates, from Rotary Club of New Mills and Marple, help organise the trips to India. He says their bright yellow shirts fascinate people and help ensure children are not missed. "The Rotarians who come on these trips really do make a difference. It is about giving something back and there can be no better objective than beating polio". I'm old enough to just remember polio in Britain. In 1961, around 80 people died from the virus in England and Wales. Ian Dury, who went to my school some years before me, contracted polio as a child and was left disabled by the condition. Even today there are still many people with post-polio syndrome, which can occur decades after initial illness. What it will take to eradicate polio from Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan - the three worst hotspots for polio - is the same level of political will and organisation seen in India. The world is now at a crossroads - it can build on the success of immunisation in India which has been polio-free for a year. If it does not, the risk is the virus will re-establish itself here and in other countries. I'll leave the final word from India to 15-year-old Priyanka Kumari. She attends Akshay Pratishthan School in Delhi, which has a mix of children, both able bodies and those with a range of disabilities. Priyanka got polio as a baby and for the first seven years could only crawl. Then she had repeated surgery and now walks with a crutch and calipers. Her class performed a dance routine and Priyanka gave a tennis demonstration. "I enjoy tennis and dancing," she said. "But I see my future as a singer. I've never suffered any discrimination having polio. But I will be delighted if no other child has to wear calipers like me."

आप अच्छी तरह से पूछ सकते हैं कि बर्कशायर का एक सेवानिवृत्त दंत चिकित्सक, डर्बीशायर का एक व्यवसायी जो फावड़ा बनाता है, और लंकाशायर का एक नर्स प्रैक्टिशनर सभी दिल्ली की पिछली सड़कों पर क्या कर रहे हैं।


Guernsey States shake-up costs 'kept to minimum'

Summary: The cost of changing to a new system of government is being "kept to a minimum", the chief executive of the States of Guernsey has promised.

The States will move from a ministerial to committee style of government next month following the 27 April general election. Areas of government responsibilities will be merged and re-named under the new system. Thousands of pounds have been spent on new signage and stationery alone. Paul Whitfield said: "We've driven down costs substantially; in fact comparable exercises elsewhere have cost well over £1m. "We managed to do all our signage and main notices for just over £40,000". How much to overhaul Guernsey's government structure? "One-off, essential costs" to set up the committee system is a maximum of £530,000 broken down as follows: Rebranding following the changes:

गुएर्नसे राज्यों के मुख्य कार्यकारी ने वादा किया है कि सरकार की एक नई प्रणाली में बदलने की लागत को "न्यूनतम रखा जा रहा है"।


Grammys 2020: Big speeches and emotional moments

Summary: Billie Eilish was the big winner at the 2020 Grammys, winning all four of the ceremony's main prizes.

By Mark SavageBBC music reporter The 18-year-old was modest in victory, declaring, "so many other songs deserved this," as she picked up song of the year for Bad Guy. Accepting the award for best new artist, Eilish also gave her fans the credit for her success. "They have not been talked about enough tonight [but] they're the only reason any of us are here," she reasoned. The star's sombre performance of the ballad When The Party's Over was one of the night's highlights, but there were several stand-out performances and speeches over the three-and-a-half-hour show. Here's a selection of the most emotional, breath-taking and funny moments. Demi Lovato's emotional return When Demi Lovato took to the stage, it was already a moment loaded with emotional significance. This was to be her first performance since 2018, when she was rushed to hospital after a suspected overdose. The moment almost got the better of her. She faltered as she began to sing, and asked her pianist to start over, a single tear running down her cheek. But the 27-year-old rallied round and delivered an astonishingly raw and powerful vocal, as she premiered her new song, Anyone. Lovato has described the ballad as a "cry for help," written days before she was hospitalised. "I feel stupid when I sing," she cried in the chorus. "Nobody's listening to me." We were listening, Demi. Welcome back, and God speed. Diddy said the Grammys were 'killing' hip-hop In one of the night's best jokes, Alicia Keys took aim at the multitudinous sobriquets of Sean "Puff Daddy / P Diddy" Combs, who was honoured with a lifetime achievement award ahead of the main show. "If I was to list all his accomplishments or just his names, we'd be here all night," said the host. But Combs, or Diddy to his friends, was one of the only artists to address the scandal enveloping the Grammys, after claims the voting process was compromised. "Truth be told, hip-hop has never been respected by the Grammys," Diddy said, accepting his prize at Saturday's pre-Grammy gala. "Every year, y'all be killing us, man." "This current situation is not a revelation - it's been going on around the world, and for years we've allowed institutions that have never had our interests at heart to judge us. And that stops right now. I'm officially starting a clock. Y'all got 365 days to get this [expletive] together." Nick Jonas got something caught in his teeth The Jonas Brothers rocked the stage near the start of the show, playing one new song (tentatively titled Five More Minutes) and their current single What A Man Gotta Do. But fans were distracted by something about Nick Jonas's appearance. "Is it me, or did someone not tell Nick Jonas he had something stuck in his tooth?" one person tweeted. "Nick Jonas with spinach in his teeth is my favourite part of the whole show" added another. But the singer took it all in his stride, tweeting after the performance: "At least you all know I eat my greens." Camila Cabello made her dad cry Señorita, Camila's duet with Shawn Mendes, was one of 2019's biggest-selling singles - but she chose to perform an album track, First Man, instead. A simple, stripped-back piano ballad, the track depicts the moment a father walks his little girl down the aisle, while she whispers: "You don't even know how much it means to me now / That you were the first man that really loved me." As she sang, the cameras cut to Alejandro Cabello in the front row, wiping away tears. By the end of the song, the father and daughter were in each other's arms, having a big old hug. I'm not crying, I'm just chopping onions for a lasagne. BTS made Grammys history Lil Nas X's cameo-studded performance of Old Town Road was pretty hard to follow; but for 45 glorious seconds, he popped into sync with 14-legged pop phenomenon BTS. The boy band are the first Korean artists to perform at the Grammys - and with a new album on the way, they could be the first K-pop band to receive a nomination next year. Map Of The Soul: 7 is due out next month. On the red carpet, the band promised fans it would blow their socks off. "Whatever you're expecting, it's going to be better and harder," said RM. "You will know when you hear the album," added J-Hope, "that liking BTS is the best decision ever". Tyler, The Creator set the stage on fire (literally) Tyler, The Creator won best rap album for Igor, a visceral, vulnerable story of a doomed love triangle. But he also gave one of the all-time greatest Grammy performances, with a medley that captured the album's mix of romantic entanglement (Earfquake, assisted by Charlie Wilson and Boyz II Men) and its devastating, messy fall-out (New Magic Wand). The latter half was incredible to watch, with Tyler screaming into a microphone, surrounded by two-dozen clones in Andy Warhol wigs and bright pink suits on a fake suburban street. When they stomped across the stage, the cameras shook and fell over, the houses caught fire and a huge crater opened up in the road. As the music ended, Tyler fell backwards into the pit, taking everyone's breath away as he left. Finneas gave hope to aspiring musicians everywhere Billie Eilish's brother, Finneas O'Connell, was named producer of the year for his work on her debut album, When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go? The 22-year-old said the record had been made exclusively in "hotel rooms and our parents' house" because "I'm the most creative where I'm most comfortable." "It's a huge honour to be given a Grammy for making, you know, home-made cookies," he added. When Eilish won best song for her smash hit Bad Guy, O'Connell held the trophy aloft and declared: "This is to all of the kids who are making music in their bedroom today. You're going to get one of these." Keith Urban had to make a swift exit The country star was there to present the first award of the night, best pop solo performance, to Lizzo. But he ducked out the back door and raced home afterwards to look after his wife, Nicole Kidman. "My wife is home with the flu," Urban told People magazine. "A lot of that going around." "She's home with our girls tonight and I'm heading home ASAP," he added, assuring reporters that Kidman was "in good hands" with nine-year-old Faith and her 11-year-old sister, Sunday. Alicia Keys repurposed Lewis Capaldi's Someone You Loved Returning for her second year as host, Alicia Keys' musicality and generosity of spirit held the sprawling show together. An early highlight was her cover of Lewis Capaldi's Someone You Loved, which she turned into a meta-commentary on the year in music and the Grammys itself. "Rosalía's hot, Beyoncé took us all on safari / We obsessed by BTS, H.E.R, and Lewis Capaldi," she sang, breaking off to ask Capaldi if he was ok with her repurposing his song. He responded with an enthusiastic thumbs-up. After suggesting Cardi B should replace President Trump in the second verse, she she issued a friendly warning to the winners. "It's the Grammys / 10,000 hours long," she observed, not incorrectly. "So keep the speeches short / And go for one more song." Capaldi's original version, a number one on both sides of the Atlantic, was up for song of the year, but lost to Billie Eilish's Bad Guy. Lizzo gave a motivational speech Lizzo won the first prize of the televised ceremony - best pop vocal solo performance for her breakout hit, Truth Hurts. The star, who'd already opened the show by paying tribute to Kobe Bryant, seemed to reference his death in her speech. "This whole week I've been lost in my problems, stressed out," she said. "And today, all of my little problems, that I thought were as big as the world, were gone and I realised there were people hurting right now." Turning to the audience, she made a powerful statement about music's healing powers. "You guys create beautiful music, you guys create connectivity. And, as I'm speaking to all of y'all in this room, we need to continue to reach out. "This is the beginning of making music that moves people again, making music that feels good, that liberates people." "If I hadn't have reached out" to other musicians, she added, "I don't know where I would be right now. "Probably sleeping in my car." But not everything was brilliant... Overall, it was a good night for the Grammys - but, good grief, parts of the show were a total shambles. Let's start with Aerosmith's much-vaunted duet with Run-DMC; which fell to pieces faster than the fake polystyrene wall they kicked down at the start of the performance. Joe Perry's guitar was excruciatingly out of tune, Steven Tyler had apparently swallowed a jackdaw, and Run-DMC seemed to be struggling to find the beat. All we can say is it must have sounded better live, judging by the enthusiastic reaction it got from Flavor Flav and Lizzo. Less abhorrent, but still oddly flat, was Usher's tribute to Prince; which featured precisely zero per cent of the late star's incendiary magnetism. To make it worse, they roped in FKA Twigs, one of pop's most intriguing and versatile performers, and reduced her to a pole dancer. So much for the Grammys' progressive attitude to women. After the ceremony, the singer tweeted: "Of course I wanted to sing at the Grammys. I wasn't asked this time but hopefully in the future. Nonetheless, what an honour. Congratulations to all winners." And finally... Sharon Osborne trying to read out the rap nominees We don't know whose decision it was to get Sharon and Ozzy to read out the nominees for best rap / sung performance, but we hope they get a bonus. The couple got a rapturous reception from fans who were delighted to see Ozzy on stage, so soon after revealing his Parkinson's diagnosis, But Sharon soon had the crowd in stitches, as she theatrically recited a list of artists she'd clearly never heard of before. As well as butchering names like Lil Baby and Young Thug, she took particular relish in lingering over song titles like "Ballin'" and "Drip Too Hard". Viewers were enthralled. We're siding with Billboard magazine's Jason Lipshutz, who insisted: "Give Sharon Osbourne an hour-long television show where she just happily reads rap song titles." Or, at the very least, book her to do the voice-over at next year's Grammys. See you then. Follow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

बिली इलिश 2020 ग्रैमी में बड़े विजेता थे, जिन्होंने समारोह के सभी चार मुख्य पुरस्कार जीते।


What's really the point of wasps?

Summary: A new citizen science survey aims to shed light on that fixture of summertime in the outdoors: the wasp. Though much maligned, these fascinating creatures perform a vital ecological role, say scientists.

By Prof Adam HartUniversity of Gloucestershire The only thing more certain to spoil an August Bank Holiday weekend BBQ than a sudden cloudburst? The arrival of wasps. At this time of the year, it can sometimes seem as if every outdoor activity is plagued by these yellow-and-black striped insects buzzing around your head and landing on your food and drink. Wasps aren't just annoying - if you are unlucky, you might end up with a sharp reminder that wasps, like their close relatives the honeybee, pack a powerful sting. That combination of nuisance and pain makes wasps many people's least favourite animals. Perhaps more than any other insect, wasps are badly in need of a change in public opinion. As well as having fascinating lives, they are extremely important in the environment and face problems similar to those of their cherished, but often no less annoying, cousins the bees. As the summer approaches its end, many will wish for it, but a world without wasps would most certainly not be a better place. Social types The insects we most commonly identify as "wasps" are the social wasps. Social wasps (called yellow-jackets in some places) live in colonies consisting of hundreds or thousands of more-or-less sterile female workers and their much larger mother, the egg-laying queen. The handful of colony-living, nest-building species is just a tiny fraction of overall wasp diversity, estimated at more than 9,000 species in the UK alone. Most wasps are solitary, some are tiny (a few species practically microscopic), none ever bother us and virtually all are overlooked. Social wasp nests are constructed from wood fibres collected and then mixed with water by industrious wasp workers to make a kind of papier maché capable of producing very strong and long-lasting structures. The nests start to develop in late spring, when queen wasps emerge from hibernation. Building a small nest of just a few paper cells, the queen must rear the first set of workers alone before the first batch of worker wasps can start to take over the work required by the developing colony. Wasp workers toil ceaselessly to raise their sister workers from eggs the queen lays, cooperating and communicating in intricate ways to build and defend the nest, collect food and look after the queen. When the colony is large enough the workers start to give some young larvae more food at a much greater rate than usual, triggering genetic switches that cause the development of a potential queen rather than a worker. Male wasps, who take no part in the social life of the colony, develop from unfertilised eggs in a form of sex determination called haplodiploidy, also found in bees and ants. These male-destined eggs are laid by the queen and rarely by workers, some of whom retain the ability to lay eggs but lack the ability to mate. Potential queens (called gynes before they head a colony) and males, sisters and brothers of the workers, are the reproductive future of the colony. Mating with males from other colonies, the gynes overwinter before starting a colony of their own the following spring. They may not make honey, but nonetheless wasps have just as fascinating social lives as the celebrated honeybee. Vital role Wasps are also just important in the environment. Social wasps are predators and as such they play a vital ecological role, controlling the numbers of potential pests like greenfly and many caterpillars. Indeed, it has been estimated that the social wasps of the UK might account for 14 million kilograms of insect prey across the summer. A world without wasps would be a world with a very much larger number of insect pests on our crops and gardens. As well as being voracious and ecologically important predators, wasps are increasingly recognised as valuable pollinators, transferring pollen as they visit flowers to drink nectar. It is actually their thirst for sweet liquids that helps to explain why they become so bothersome at this time of year. By late August, wasp nests have very large numbers of workers but they have stopped raising any larvae. All the time nests have larvae, the workers must collect protein, which accounts for all those invertebrates they hunt in our gardens. The larvae are able to convert their protein-rich diet into carbohydrates that they secrete as a sugary droplet to feed the adults. With no larvae, all those adult wasps must find other sources of sugar - hence why they are so attracted to our sugar-rich foods and drinks. When you combine that hunger for sugar with nice weather and our love of eating and drinking outside, the result is inevitable. A new study is taking advantage of wasps' love of our drinks to find out more about these fascinating and undervalued insects. Calling on members of the public to help, the Big Wasp Survey is asking people to build a simple wasp trap from a drinks bottle and a small volume of beer. Scientists from University College London (UCL) and the University of Gloucestershire want to collect and study the contents of these beer traps. The project, in conjunction with BBC's Countryfile and sponsored by the Royal Entomological Society, hopes to find out which species of wasps live where in the UK, and provide some baseline data for an annual Big Wasp Survey over the coming years. As Dr Seirian Sumner (UCL) says: "The black and yellow wasps that bother us at picnics are social wasps and we would like to find out much more about where they live and how common they are; to do that we need the public's help". Insects are generally having a hard time; changing environments, changing climate, habitat loss and the use of insecticides are all taking their toll on these vital creatures. Yet, whilst many take up the cause of the honeybee or extol the beauty of butterflies some of the most fascinating and important insects remain the most reviled. It's time we stopped asking "what is the point of wasps" and started to appreciate them for the ecological marvels that they are.

वैज्ञानिकों का कहना है कि एक नए नागरिक विज्ञान सर्वेक्षण का उद्देश्य गर्मियों में बाहर की उस स्थिति पर प्रकाश डालना हैः ततैया। हालांकि बहुत दुर्भावनापूर्ण, ये आकर्षक जीव एक महत्वपूर्ण पारिस्थितिक भूमिका निभाते हैं।


Men held over Blandford farm death released

Summary: Two men arrested on suspicion of murdering a man on a Dorset farm have been released.

The victim, aged 25, was found with serious injuries at Hanford Farm near Blandford at 20:25 BST on Friday. Dorset Police said an initial post-mortem examination had taken place which indicated the cause of death as blunt force trauma. A 25-year-old man has been released on police bail, a 27-year-old man has been released while inquiries continue. Police said all three men were known to each other. The force is appealing for anyone with information to come forward.

डोरसेट फार्म पर एक व्यक्ति की हत्या के संदेह में गिरफ्तार किए गए दो लोगों को रिहा कर दिया गया है।


Yacht needs tow to Peel harbour after overheating

Summary: A yacht has been towed back to harbour after suffering engine failure off the coast of the Isle of Man.

Peel's all-weather lifeboat Ruby Clery was called out at 15:50 BST on Tuesday, after receiving reports of an engine fire on a boat, an RNLI spokesman said. The vessel, which had earlier set off from Port Erin, was located 8 miles (13km) south of the seaside town. The boat's engine had overheated but was not on fire and the crewman was "safe and well", the spokesman said. The yacht arrived back at Peel harbour at about 18:00.

आइल ऑफ मैन के तट पर इंजन की विफलता के बाद एक नौका को वापस बंदरगाह पर ले जाया गया है।


MPs to hear call for full public inquiry into North Sea helicopter transport

Summary: MPs are to hear calls for a full public inquiry to be carried out into North Sea helicopter transport.

Aberdeen North MP Frank Doran has secured an adjournment debate on 27 November. It will be answered by a minister from the Department for Transport. The House of Commons Transport committee is holding its own inquiry into helicopter safety. It follows the Super Puma crash off Shetland in August in which four people died.

सांसदों को उत्तरी सागर हेलीकॉप्टर परिवहन की पूर्ण सार्वजनिक जांच के लिए कॉल सुनना है।


Temporary roof fitted at fire-hit Glasgow School of Art

Summary: A temporary roof is being installed on Glasgow School of Art's fire-damaged Mackintosh building in a bid to keep it wind and watertight over the winter.

The week-long operation will see a large metal frame hoisted on to the building on Tuesday before white protective panels are fitted. The Grade-A listed structure has dried out over the summer since fire crews battled to contain a blaze on 23 May. The art school hopes to raise £20m to restore the iconic building. Firefighters managed to save about 90% of the structure and 70% of its contents, although the Mackintosh library was among the most badly-damaged areas. Glasgow School of Art (GSA) is hosting two symposia to explore key questions around the rebuilding of the historically important library. One will be held in Venice on 18 October, in Querini Stampalia, during the 2014 International Venice Architecture Biennale. The other will be held in Glasgow next spring.

ग्लासगो स्कूल ऑफ आर्ट की आग से क्षतिग्रस्त मैकिनटोश इमारत पर एक अस्थायी छत स्थापित की जा रही है ताकि इसे सर्दियों में हवा और जलरोधक रखा जा सके।


Is air leaking from the Facebook bubble?

Summary: So... what happened there? On Friday, after an all-night hackathon at Facebook's Menlo Park campus, Mark Zuckerberg pressed a button to mark the start of trading in his company's shares. Because that button had been "hacked" by some of his very smart engineers, his Facebook status was updated to "listed a company on Nasdaq".

Rory Cellan-JonesTechnology correspondent@BBCRoryCJon Twitter Then after a hiatus as Nasdaq's systems struggled to cope - perhaps they need to hire some of those smart engineers - the share price began to soar from its already vertiginous $38 to $42. Then it began to sag, and by the time trading ended, it was just a fraction above the starting price, apparently only kept there by the efforts of the underwriters. Predictions of a first day "pop" had been confounded. The expectation had been that small investors, intoxicated by the excitement surrounding the IPO, would rush to get in on the action, sending the value of Facebook to even more giddy heights. Instead, it seems they were in a more sober mood, listening to people like the New York financial adviser we featured on the 10 O'Clock News on Thursday night. "We're telling our investors to hold off," Oliver Pursche told us. "We want to wait until we understand the business before we invest." Now there's a message that tends to get obscured in bubble times - putting money into a company should involve a deep understanding of what it does now and where it is heading. And if you're investing in a business at a price roughly 100 times its current earnings, all the more reason to be confident that it has a plan which will multiply those earnings many times over. And one more reason why small investors should be cautious. On Saturday, Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to "married", as he wed Priscilla Chan in a surprise ceremony at his Palo Alto home. Nothing wrong with that - the couple have been together since their student days, and the pictures posted on Facebook of the shy groom - in a suit not a hoodie - and his bride were rather sweet. But, hey Mark, why did you not do what you tell the rest of us to do, and share your plans with your Facebook friends a few months ago? If you'd made it an upcoming "event", then you and your fiancee would have seen plenty of useful adverts from cakemakers, dress designers, florists and all the other wedding businesses which now find the social network a great place to market their services. Of course he wasn't going to do that - even if the "event" had only been visible to close Facebook friends, it would have been bound to leak out. But Mr Zuckerberg's whole philosophy - and the future revenues of his business - revolves around the idea of the "frictionless sharing" of every detail of our lives. And if more of us decide, like him, that there is a downside to letting it all hang out, then the advertising cash may grow more slowly than the $104bn valuation implies. For other technology firms hoping to follow Facebook on the road to IPO riches, any sign that the bubble may burst is deeply worrying. Last week, the day before the IPO, a package was delivered to my office. It was a pinboard - yes, an old-fashioned cork board on which you stick notes. Pinned to it was a press release announcing that Japan's Rakuten had led a $100m investment round in Pinterest, the virtual pinboard social network. Pinterest is now valued at $1.5bn, though there is not much data around about its revenues. So, an imaginative PR stunt - but perhaps more evidence of the investment bubble that Facebook has helped inflate. Now Pinterest, Spotify and other hot technology firms enjoying sky-high valuations will watch anxiously to see what happens to Facebook shares in the coming days. For Mark Zuckerberg and his colleagues, there's not too much to worry about in the short-term - they've raised $16bn, whatever happens to the share price now. But perhaps we'll look back on May 2012 as the month when the air started to leak from a technology bubble.

तो... वहाँ क्या हुआ? शुक्रवार को, फेसबुक के मेनलो पार्क परिसर में एक पूरी रात की हैकाथॉन के बाद, मार्क जुकरबर्ग ने अपनी कंपनी के शेयरों में व्यापार की शुरुआत को चिह्नित करने के लिए एक बटन दबाया। क्योंकि उस बटन को उनके कुछ बहुत ही चतुर इंजीनियरों द्वारा "हैक" किया गया था, उनके फेसबुक स्टेटस को "नैस्डैक पर सूचीबद्ध एक कंपनी" में अपडेट किया गया था।


Coronavirus: The noted victims of the virus in Wuhan

Summary: A bodybuilder. An artist. A scientist. Senior doctors.

Across China, more than 1,800 people who lost their lives to Covid-19 are being mourned - the majority of them in the virus epicentre of Wuhan. Each death is devastating to their loved ones, but among the dead in Wuhan are some people who were noted figures in their field. Here are a few of them. The hospital director: Liu Zhiming Last week, a senior Chinese health official said that 1,716 health workers had been infected by the coronavirus and six had died. On Tuesday, Liu Zhiming was added to the list. Dr Liu, 51, was the director of Wuhan Wuchang Hospital - one of the first hospitals to be a designated virus centre. His death was initially reported by Chinese media late on Monday, but media outlets later did a U-turn and said doctors were trying to save him. The next morning his death was confirmed. He was the first hospital director to die from the virus, and it is not known if he had suffered from any underlying conditions to increase his risk. Not much is yet known about Dr Liu's personal life, but he has been hailed by many on Chinese social media as a hero. "Farewell to this hero, a soldier in white," said one comment on Weibo. "There are no illnesses in heaven, thank you for your sacrifice," another said. The whistle-blowing doctor: Li Wenliang Dr Li is arguably the most prominent figure to have died. In December, he had been told by police officers not to spread "fake rumours" after alerting his friends to a new emerging virus. His death, much like Dr Liu's, was confusingly reported. On 6 February, media outlets reported that he was dead, then later retracted it, saying that doctors were working to save him. They confirmed his death a day later. Millions have mourned Dr Li, and his death sparked a wave of anger, grief and overwhelming sense of mistrust towards the government. Many were furious that the government had tried to stifle his earlier warnings about the virus and accused them of also trying to cover up his death. The film director: Chang Kai Chang Kai, a director at Hubei Film Studios, died from the virus along with his father, mother and sister. A note, reportedly written by him and passed around by a friend, revealed the ordeal the 55-year-old had to go through before his death. According to the note, which was published in full by news site Caixin, his father had come down with a fever, cough and had difficulty breathing. "He was taken to many hospitals for treatment, but [was] told no beds [were] available," said the note. "[We were] extremely disappointed... [and] went home." A few days later his father died, followed afterwards by his mother, who was "physically and mentally exhausted". "The ruthless virus also devoured my wife and my body. I went to various hospitals and begged [to be admitted]. Beds were hard to find... we are nobody," he said in his note. "We missed the opportunity for healing and my breath was weak." Chang Kai and his wife were later admitted to hospital, but according to local reports, his condition had deteriorated too much. He died on 14 February, with his wife still battling the illness. He leaves behind a son, who is reportedly studying in the UK. Some of his last words in his note were: "I [was] a filial child to my father and a responsible father to my son. A beloved husband to my wife and a sincere man in [this] life. To those I love and those who love me - farewell." The painter: Liu Shouxiang Prof Liu Shouxiang was a renowned artist in Hubei, known for his watercolour paintings. According to news site Jiemian News, he died on 13 February aged 62. Mr Liu was born in Wuhan in 1958. He went on to train at the Hubei Academy of Fine Arts, where he stayed on to teach, eventually become a professor. He eventually became known for his distinct watercolour style, reported Jiemian News. His works have been displayed in some of the biggest art museums and galleries in the country. His death was mourned by many on social media site Weibo, with one saying it was the death of a great "talent". "It takes decades to train a talent and only a few days to end that life," said one comment. "How many talents have been taken away by this virus?" another asked. "The financial cost of the virus is great but can the value of these people ever be measured?" The scientist: Duan Zhengcheng The 86-year-old was a former academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a chief scientist at the National Engineering Research Centre for Digital Manufacturing. Born in 1934 in Jiangsu, he went on to graduate with a degree from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology and later stayed on to teach. According to news site The Global Times, he went on to develop the world's first whole body gamma knife in 1996 - a type of radiation therapy used to treat tumours. This earned him a national award in 2005. He was known by his students as the "medical madman" because he never gave up on anything, said the report. Prof Duan died on 15 February. The bodybuilder: Qiu Jun Qiu Jun from Wuhan was thrust into the spotlight last year when pictures showing the 72-year-old bodybuilding started to go viral. According to Phoenix News, he only began working out after his retirement, joining a gym and eventually going on to coach others and participating in bodybuilding competitions. He was known to visit the gym religiously and had plans to compete in another bodybuilding competition later this June. He started showing symptoms on 23 January and was eventually admitted to hospital after testing positive. But he died days later on 6 February. His son reportedly sent this message to friends and family, informing them of his father's death: "The father who never got sick could not escape the disaster." Ask me Share this chatbot

एक बॉडी बिल्डर. एक कलाकार. एक वैज्ञानिक. वरिष्ठ डॉक्टर।


The house changing lives in memory of Amy Winehouse

Summary: Set up in memory of the late singer Amy Winehouse, Amy's Place is the UK's only recovery house dedicated to helping young women overcome their addictions. The BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme is the first to go inside and meet the women aiming to go clean for good.

By Jean MackenzieVictoria Derbyshire programme "I'm not that long sober, but I've come so far. You forget that my life was sitting in a homeless hostel planning how to kill myself," Grace says. The 19-year-old is one of the first occupants of Amy's Place - a recovery house established by the Amy Winehouse Foundation. She is a recovering alcoholic, and has been dry for just over a year. It is a marked turnaround from the life she used to lead. "It started when I had my first drink aged eight, and by 12, I was sneaking around doing things that I shouldn't have been doing," she says. "Between 13 and 14 I went into care, and that's where [the drinking] took off and I could be more sneaky about it, as I didn't have my parents around." Grace says she drank as a coping mechanism, but it soon became a habit. The problem "rocketed" when she began living in a homeless hostel, until one incident shook her into realising the full extent of the damage being caused. "It was in November 2015, when I took 57 antidepressants on a litre of vodka and a litre of [liqueur], and nearly died. I woke up frothing at the mouth, terrified. "They were detoxing me in 'resus' [resuscitation area] in hospital and they told me, 'It's a waiting game now to see if your organs are failing or not.' "It was four days of me sitting in resus hoping and praying I wasn't dying." Find out more Watch Jean Mackenzie's full film about Amy's Place on the Victoria Derbyshire website. Grace decided to take steps to overcome her addiction but living in a homeless hostel meant it wasn't easy. "When your room was next to somebody who is selling drugs, you can never get well in a sense," she says. "You're always stuck in the conundrum of, 'Do I go back to my old habits or do I go to a [support] meeting?' "I was living a life of recovery in a using and drinking world." It is stories like Grace's that motivated Amy Winehouse's step-mother, Jane Winehouse, to set up the house - designed to help young women stay clean while taking their first steps without drugs and alcohol once they have left rehab. "We met people in treatment who were scared to death of what was going to happen when they finished treatment [in rehab]," she says. "For a lot of them, all they could think about was, 'If I have to go back to where I was before, I'm just not going to stand a chance.'" Set up in partnership with the housing provider Centra, Amy's Place is the only recovery house in the UK designed specifically to help women under 30. Winehouse died aged 27 in July 2011 from alcohol poisoning. She had previously struggled with drug addiction for many years and had spent time in rehab. In the London house each of the 16 occupants gets her own flat, paid for using housing benefit. They can stay for up to two years. There is a strict policy of no drugs, no alcohol and no overnight guests and they must agree to random drugs tests - Grace passed her latest one. Another resident, 26-year-old Judith Heryka, is also working towards a more stable future, without drugs. Her main motivation is her children, aged five and seven. The catalyst for her deciding to seek help came when she was told proceedings would begin to take them into the adoption system. She says it saved her life. Judith had become hooked on crack cocaine and says she had become "very depressed… bitterly, bitterly, bitterly, like suicidal, depressed". As part of the programme at Amy's Place, the women must take part in activities outside the house that can help them stay clean and prepare them for living by themselves. It could be re-entering education, doing voluntary work or - in Judith's case - finding a passion, such as kickboxing. "I can really zone out, do something that I love," she explains, while taking part in a local class. Judith says the house is "100%" the reason why she is managing to stay clean and the first time she has lived somewhere and felt safe. House manager Hannah Crystal says she is "really excited" to see the women progress. "I think the girls here are going to get to a point where they're ready to move on," she adds. "And we'll have new arrivals, and I think we'll keep growing from strength to strength." The road to recovery, however, is not without its difficulties. Some of the women in the house have relapsed, and Grace admits she recently came close to drinking. The house is working with Grace to help her achieve her ambitions. She hopes to become a forensic psychologist one day and at the moment she's learning woodwork with the charity the Spitalfields Crypt Trust. "Before, [the future looked] very black, without anything I was looking forward to. Now I realise I've got a very long life ahead of me," she says. For Jane Winehouse, giving the women the tools to change their lives "is the most wonderful thing". Especially, as she says, the house is "in Amy's memory".

दिवंगत गायिका एमी वाइनहाउस की याद में स्थापित, एमीज प्लेस यू. के. का एकमात्र पुनर्प्राप्ति घर है जो युवा महिलाओं को उनकी लतों को दूर करने में मदद करने के लिए समर्पित है। बी. बी. सी. का विक्टोरिया डर्बीशायर कार्यक्रम सबसे पहले अंदर जाता है और उन महिलाओं से मिलता है जो अच्छे के लिए साफ होने का लक्ष्य रखती हैं।


Bloodhound Diary: Jet engine's stamp of approval

Summary: A British team is developing a car that will be capable of reaching 1,000mph (1,610km/h). Powered by a rocket bolted to a Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine, the vehicle will first mount an assault on the world land speed record (763mph; 1,228km/h). Bloodhound should start running on Hakskeen Pan in Northern Cape, South Africa, in 2019.

By Andy GreenWorld Land Speed Record Holder Bloodhound roared into life right on cue. Several months ago, we committed to getting the car to Newquay Airport at the end of September, to start our "slow speed" (200 mph) UK runway tests. Exactly as planned, at 17:20 local on 28 September, the car's EJ200 jet engine fired up for the first time. Starting the jet engine on schedule is not the half of it, though. Here's the huge surprise. We got FULL REHEAT! You can see a clip of the car's massive power at the top of this page. Reaching full power was completely unexpected, even by the Rolls-Royce team who came down to support our engine tests. The static tie-down engine tests were designed to "characterise" the jet intake. The intake is sized to provide the jet engine with just the right amount of air - at 850 mph. When the car is stationary, or travelling very slowly (anything less than 100mph is "very slow"), there is no "ram effect" from the airflow, and the intake is too small to feed the jet engine with as much air as it would like. As a result, we were pretty certain that the jet would be power-limited, probably quite severely, at slow speeds. "Characterising" the intake was all about finding out just how much the engine would be limited. When I pushed the throttle pedal down to its first detent, trying to select "max dry" power (full engine rpm), we were all expecting the engine to struggle and stop short. I couldn't quite believe my eyes when the cockpit instruments showed full dry power. Hardly daring to hope, I pushed the throttle through the detent to select minimum reheat… and sure enough, it lit with no problem at all. Maximum reheat? Yes, that worked too. After shutting the car down, I climbed out to discuss the results with the rest of the team. We've spent years discussing the effects of the expected power limits. How would it affect our runway testing? What speed can we reach in the UK? How will it affect acceleration during record runs in South Africa? We were so concerned about the possible limitations that we even designed the air intake with the option to fit "auxiliary intakes" if necessary. If you look closely at the sides of the car, just behind the intake mouth, you'll see two large square hatches, where we can fit additional intake doors if required. These are now redundant, which is great news. One thing I can't describe to you is what full reheat sounded like outside the car, because I don't know. In the cockpit, I can see the engine instruments showing the power setting, and I can feel the car straining against its 10-tonne-rated steel tie-down cables, but I can't feel or hear the reheat at all. Outside the car it's a different matter. After the reheat runs, I asked Mark Elvin what it was like for the rest of the team. Mark is our senior mechanical designer, with a background in both F1 and aerospace, so he's worked with some pretty impressive technology in the past. Even he was struggling to find words for the shattering power of the EJ200. After collecting his thoughts for a moment, he said: "It was just astonishing. Simply astonishing." Now that we've completed the static testing, we need to do some dynamic testing of the car - wheels, brakes, steering, etc - as we prepare for our first big public runs on 26th and 28 October (there are still a few tickets left if you want to come and join us!). With this much power available, I have to confess to being both excited about the amazing performance on offer and a little nervous about controlling it. This car is going to be seriously fast and I've got to learn to drive it in a small handful of tests, before our first big (and public) runs. While we're getting the team and the car ready for our big show at the end of October, interest is growing everywhere. A couple of weeks ago I was in the Isle of Man, for a Bloodhound day with the local schools, organised by Swagelok. While the company is a huge multinational, the Isle of Man factory is very proud of its contribution to Bloodhound, as this is where some of the key components of our rocket system were designed and built. As you can imagine, the island's school kids were hugely excited to hear all about the world's fastest car. The Isle of Man post office has joined in the excitement, producing a commemorative set of Bloodhound stamps (joining other countries around the world who have celebrated the Land Speed Record with a set of stamps - did you know that Guinea-Bissau in West Africa has also produced some? No, me neither). One of the Isle of Man stamps is just a plain black silhouette of the Car, which looks a little boring until you rub it - after a few seconds, the thermochromic ink warms up and changes colour, revealing a cutaway diagram of the car. I've never seen a stamp with technology built into it - buy one and try it! It's not just youngsters in the Isle of Man that are getting excited. I was amazed to find out this month that a school in rural Zambia has been studying Bloodhound and making their own rocket cars. Our "Engineering Adventure" really is becoming a global event. Bloodhound's long-term aim is to create an "adventure" that will inspire a generation. It's a fact of life that we will only be able to measure our success after we've finished, but it's looking good so far. It's been a great few weeks getting Bloodhound ready to run. Keep watching the Bloodhound website, it won't be long before we're streaming live video and data from the most sophisticated Land Speed Record car ever made.

एक ब्रिटिश टीम एक ऐसी कार विकसित कर रही है जो 1,000 मील प्रति घंटे (1,610 किमी/घंटा) तक पहुंचने में सक्षम होगी। एक यूरोफाइटर-टाइफून जेट इंजन को बोल्ट किए गए रॉकेट द्वारा संचालित, वाहन पहले विश्व भूमि गति रिकॉर्ड (763 मील प्रति घंटे; 1,228 किमी/घंटा) पर हमला करेगा। ब्लडहाउंड को 2019 में उत्तरी केप, दक्षिण अफ्रीका में हक्सकीन पैन पर चलना शुरू करना चाहिए।


Coronavirus: Undocumented workers an 'invisible public health risk'

Summary: There are an estimated one million undocumented workers in the UK. The coronavirus pandemic has presented them with a new set of challenges and fears over how to maintain an income, remain healthy or even stay alive.

By Danny VincentBBC News On an old square television in a shared house in a suburb of London, Filipina nanny Carla watches the government coronavirus daily briefings well aware the updates are not intended for her. Carla, whose name - along with others in this article - has been changed to protect her identity, is among an estimated one million undocumented workers living in the UK. Of the 12 tenants living in the house, only one has the right to work in the country - a nurse working for the NHS on the front line of the pandemic. "We are worried for her and worried for ourselves," Carla said over an encrypted messenger app. 'I fear for my family' She was speaking over her six-month-old baby's cries and sporadically broke down in tears herself. "I fear for my family. If I get sick I won't have anywhere to self-isolate," she told the BBC. For seven years Carla has worked illegally as a domestic worker in London's grey economy, caring for the elderly and working as a nanny for various families. Before the lockdown she would send part of her salary to her relatives in the Philippines. With no access to the financial assistance announced by the UK government, Carla found herself down to her last £3. "If I get sick, I'm afraid to phone the 111 helpline. They will find out that I don't have papers," she said. As the lockdown eases across England, charities have said they fear London's undocumented workers could be among the most vulnerable in society. Despite reassurances from the government that the NHS would not carry out immigration checks in hospitals, many undocumented workers have worried about seeking medical help. "The consequences have been tragic," said Susan Cueva, from Kanlungan Filipino consortium, an alliance of Filipino nationals in the UK. "Some refuse to get help despite the fact their situation is deteriorating." Risk of starving Ms Cueva estimated there could be as many as 10,000 undocumented Filipino carers and domestic workers in the country. Charities fear they represent an invisible public health risk. Undocumented workers are at risk not only of contracting Covid-19, but also starving because of the crisis created by the pandemic. "We are also front-line workers," said Shell, an undocumented carer from the Philippines. "We know it's against the law. We do the work people don't want to do. "We try our best not to be a burden for the country. If they give us a chance to work we will pay taxes." There are no exact numbers of undocumented workers living in the UK. In 2017, Pew Research Centre claimed there may have been between 800,000 and 1.2 million unauthorised migrants living in the UK. "The government lost count a long time ago and never wanted to confront the question of numbers," said Dr Rhetta Moran from Rapar, a human rights charity. She has been campaigning for the government to provide housing and healthcare for all during the pandemic, irrespective of their status. Undocumented workers have varied back stories and experiences. Some have overstayed their visas and begun working in the illegal economy. Many travelled to the UK to seek asylum but had their applications rejected. Some have been smuggled into the country. "I was trafficked multiple times and finally boarded a ship which took me to the UK," said Mrs Zhao, a restaurant worker, who has lived in the UK for 12 years. She spoke to the BBC through the Chinese Information and Advice centre, under the condition of anonymity. During the lockdown many have been relying on communities for financial support. "I am glad that I managed to get this far," she said. "Most of the time my mind is blank but luckily my friends who are in similar situations are being very supportive and caring." Jean has been self-isolating in a west London house since the lockdown began in March. The Jamaican national has been living in the UK for more than a decade and pays rent to a family of five who sublet her a tiny room. She entered the country on a student visa and worked part time to support her studies but when she changed colleges her visa application was rejected and Jean became an undocumented worker. Via WhatsApp she tells me: "I sometimes feel like I'm British. I talk like them. "Now I feel if I could run away from here I would, but borders are closed and there are no flights. "Even if there were flights and if I went home they would treat me so badly and say 'you brought the virus into the country'." 'I don't know how to survive' As the lockdown eased Jean said she became aware of the risks of returning to work. "I think now I am becoming more vulnerable to everything," she said. Last month the domestic worker was called by her long-term employer and asked to return. She was paid one day's wages for three days of work. After complaining she was asked not to return. "I don't know what to do. I don't want to get trapped again. I don't know how to survive." She now faces a greater risk of exploitation and fears she could fall victim to modern-day slavery. With no income for the duration of the lockdown and no government support, she says she must now accept more risky work. Jean said she felt unsafe in her own home and her landlord was demanding she paid a lump sum of rent owed that she did not pay during the lockdown. "He keeps banging on my door and asking me to give him money," she said. Charities have said illegal workers faced new risks of exploitation when returning to employment. And charity groups fear undocumented migrants would now face challenges beyond the coronavirus. "As the coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold, many workers have already lost their jobs," said Matt Friedman from Mekong Club, an anti-slavery charity. Natural disasters around the world usually lead to a rise in modern-day slavery and human trafficking, Mr Friedman says. He expects to see a rise in the number of people trafficked into cities like London once borders reopen while illegal migrants face greater exploitation. Mr Friedman says: "With few options available to them, these people often become desperate. "This combination of factors significantly increases the potential for human traffickers to take advantage of this vulnerability." A Home Office spokesperson said: "Illegal migrants are not eligible for mainstream benefits. "However, we have made sure that coronavirus treatment is available on the NHS for free, regardless of someone's immigration status. "Local authorities may provide a basic safety net especially in cases involving children."

यू. के. में अनुमानित दस लाख अनिर्दिष्ट श्रमिक हैं। कोरोनावायरस महामारी ने उन्हें आय बनाए रखने, स्वस्थ रहने या यहां तक कि जीवित रहने के बारे में चुनौतियों और आशंकाओं का एक नया समूह प्रस्तुत किया है।


Euromillions: Irish and Belgian ticket holders win 94m euros each

Summary: A Euromillions ticket holder in the Republic of Ireland has won almost 94m euros (£80m), after sharing the jackpot with a player in Belgium.

Both players matched 5 numbers and two lucky stars in Tuesday night's draw, splitting the top prize of 188m euros (160m). The winning numbers were; 4, 5, 13, 27 and 35, while the lucky stars were 1 and 2. There is speculation the ticket was bought in County Kildare. To date, the biggest Euromillions winner in the Republic of Ireland was County Limerick woman, Dolores McNamara, who collected a cheque for 115m euros in August 2005.

आयरलैंड गणराज्य में एक यूरोमिलियन्स टिकट धारक ने बेल्जियम में एक खिलाड़ी के साथ जैकपॉट साझा करने के बाद लगभग 94 मिलियन यूरो (80 मिलियन पाउंड) जीते हैं।


Time up for 60 Minutes?

Summary: The New York Times' David Carr had a fairly scathing takedown of 60 Minutes on Monday. The venerable CBS News programme recently had to apologise for a poorly sourced story on the Benghazi consulate attack and faced criticism for what was considered an overly complimentary piece on the National Security Agency.

By Anthony ZurcherEditor, Echo Chambers According to Carr, it all comes down to the correspondents shying away from the sort of hard-hitting journalism on which 60 Minutes' reputation was built. "In the last few months, there have been significant lapses into credulousness, when reporters have been more 'gee whiz' than 'what gives?'" he writes. "The news that 60 Minutes is calling could be viewed as less ominous and more of an opportunity." He concludes: "60 Minutes is a calling, not an assignment, and the programme should not be the kind of outfit that leaves its scepticism at the door to get inside." This caps a week during which the news programme has become a punching bag for both the left and the right. The National Review's media editor, Elaina Johnson, highlighted another recent 60 Minutes segment, featuring a glowing portrait of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. "Over the past year, the program has made it look as if there is virtually a quid pro quo: If you let 60 Minutes in on the inner working of your affairs, the show's reporters will check their journalistic judgment at the door," she writes. Scott Shackford in Reason writes: "60 Minutes ran not one, but two full segments about the NSA's data collection and Edward Snowden scandals, told entirely from the NSA's perspective and with absolutely no critical voices." And Politico's media critic Dylan Byers: 60 Minutes is desperately in need of a news package that earns it praise rather than criticism. It needs to put up a hard-hitting investigation, fact-checked to the teeth, that doesn't come off as a promotional puff-piece. Because its reputation as the gold standard of television journalism has taken some serious hits of late. It's hard not to detect a certain amount of glee from conservatives on this topic, as they've long viewed 60 Minutes as having a left-leaning bias (of course, they feel that way about most of the mainstream media, but that's beside the point). In particular, they cite a 60 Minutes II story in 2004 on President George W Bush's Air National Guard service, in which the authenticity of a document used in the report was cast into doubt. The resulting scandal ended with the forced resignation of long-time CBS News reporter and network anchor Dan Rather (who continues to stand by the story). For the show also to have its credibility questioned from the left does not bode well. The clock is ticking for 60 Minutes to figure out how to recover.

न्यूयॉर्क टाइम्स के डेविड कैर ने सोमवार को 60 मिनट का काफी तीखा बहिष्कार किया। आदरणीय सीबीएस न्यूज कार्यक्रम को हाल ही में बेनगाज़ी वाणिज्य दूतावास हमले पर एक खराब स्रोत वाली कहानी के लिए माफी मांगनी पड़ी और राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा एजेंसी पर एक अत्यधिक मानार्थ लेख माने जाने के लिए आलोचना का सामना करना पड़ा।


InSight Diary: Mars mission ready to rumble

Summary: Prof Tom Pike from Imperial College London is part of the science team on the US-led InSight mission to Mars . His group has supplied seismometers that will enable the Nasa lander to detect "Marsquakes", which should reveal the internal structure of the Red Planet. Over the course of the coming months, Prof Pike will be updating us on InSight's progress.

By Tom PikeImperial College London "Help… we absolutely need your feedback as soon as possible." It's not the email you want to get just a few days before your sensors are due to launch to Mars. Our sensors are microseismometers, part of a Marsquake detection instrument currently sitting upside down on top of a rocket in California. The last stage, the nose cone, had been winched up to the top of the launch tower a few days before, bolted on securely and the electrical connections completed. Over the last few weeks we've been seeing the stack slowly growing up the tower at Space Launch Complex 3 of Vandenberg Air Force base, about 100 miles up the coast from Los Angeles. The nose cone contains our lander, folded up in its thermal protection that allows it to slow down at the other end of our journey, six months and some 90 million miles later. We're due to launch on Saturday, and the mists that have been swirling around the launch tower should be clear at 4am. It's an early start but we'll be heading over to be there and see the launch. Our mission, InSight, should be worth the wait. I've been working on getting a microseismometer on Mars for more than 20 years, but I'm a latecomer compared with some of my colleagues. InSight is led by Bruce Banerdt from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Bruce first encouraged me to work on developing seismic sensors back in the nineties when I was working at JPL, and now we hope to finally see them on their way. The microseismometers are only one part of the Marsquake detection instrument, and Philippe Lognonné has been working nearly as long as Bruce on developing in France a Mars equivalent of the best seismometers we use on Earth. Just between the three of us, there's nearly 100 years of collective effort. It's good we all started young! So that email was more than worrying. We'd already tested all aspects of our instrument thoroughly, and so far everything was working very well. The only part of the instrument that we could still check out on top of the rocket were two of our three microseismometers. These two sensors still worked even if the instrument itself was upside down, while our third sensor and the French seismometer would have to wait at least another six months to operate again once we reached Mars gravity. But what we were seeing from this last test before launch was unexpected, and this was the very worst time to enjoy a surprise. The two sensors were not responding to a calibration signal that we used to check they were operating properly. Instead, they were both seeing a much stronger signal. As we analysed these signals, I remembered seeing something like this before. Our sensors are put together with their electronics and tested in Oxford, and on Sundays we often saw a distinctive signature in the basement of the physics department. Oxford is famous for its spires and on Sundays the bell towers of the colleges and churches vibrate as the bells are rung. Unlike the peals of the bells these vibrations are far too low a frequency to be heard, but our microseismometers are sensitive enough to pick them up from hundreds of metres away. This time we were seeing the vibrations not of bell towers but the rocket itself as it shook our two sensors. If I displayed the signal they were hearing like a line of music, I could see a steady tone, again too low a frequency to be heard, but deafening to the sensors that were designed to detect the faintest of Marsquakes. Our sensors simply couldn't hear the calibration signal we were sending to them above the notes the rocket was singing. But the rocket sometimes more gently hummed, and then the distinct chirp of our calibration signal was clearly detected. On Saturday our sensors will be turned off as we launch. If the rocket was already too loud for them during the wait on the launch pad, they would certainly not appreciate the roar of the thrusters. The next time we turned on the sensors, they would be in the profound silence of the journey to Mars. We hope the sensors will then be able to hear our calibration signal as we check they have survived the launch. Maybe then they would be able to hear themselves think, or rather we'd see just how quiet the sensors themselves could be. The silence of deep space would be a much better test for our microseismometers than the song of the rocket that would take them there.

इंपीरियल कॉलेज लंदन के प्रोफेसर टॉम पाइक मंगल ग्रह के लिए अमेरिका के नेतृत्व वाले इनसाइट मिशन पर विज्ञान दल का हिस्सा हैं। उनके समूह ने भूकंपमापी की आपूर्ति की है जो नासा के लैंडर को "मंगल ग्रह" का पता लगाने में सक्षम बनाएगा, जो लाल ग्रह की आंतरिक संरचना को प्रकट करेगा। आने वाले महीनों के दौरान, प्रोफेसर पाइक हमें इनसाइट की प्रगति के बारे में अपडेट करेंगे।


Doncaster house death: Man charged with woman's murder

Summary: A man has been charged with murdering woman found fatally injured at a house in Doncaster.

The 26-year-old victim, who has not yet been formally identified, died from her injures after being found at a property on Dryden Road in Balby at about 23:30 BST on Friday night. Terence Papworth, 45, formerly of Dryden Road, has been charged with her murder, South Yorkshire Police said. He is due to appear at Doncaster Magistrates' Court on Monday.

डॉनकास्टर में एक घर में गंभीर रूप से घायल महिला की हत्या का आरोप एक व्यक्ति पर लगाया गया है।


Keynsham regeneration: Constructor chosen for £34m scheme

Summary: A town near Bristol is to get a new library, new streets, shops and council offices as part of a £34m regeneration.

The work in Keynsham is set to begin in August and Wilmott Dixon Construction has been chosen to carry out the design, demolition and construction. The firm is to spend the next six months drawing up designs with Bath and North East Somerset Council. The council said it would submit a planning application in the coming months. An exhibition will later be held for members of the public to comment on the proposals. Last week plans were announced for a £50m investment in the former Cadbury factory in Keynsham. Taylor Wimpey wants to build 700 homes, business units and community facilities at the site.

ब्रिस्टल के पास एक शहर को 34 मिलियन पाउंड के पुनर्जनन के हिस्से के रूप में एक नया पुस्तकालय, नई सड़कें, दुकानें और परिषद कार्यालय मिलने वाले हैं।


Andy Murray: Is it really 77 years since Wimbledon was won by a British man?

Summary: Andy Murray is the first British man to win Wimbledon for 77 years - or so all of the media coverage of his historic win says. But 77 years is a rather harsh way of measuring the drought that Andy Murray has just ended, argues the BBC's James Reynolds.

Magazine MonitorA collection of cultural artefacts Andy Murray is certainly the first British man to win a Wimbledon singles title for 77 years. But, technically, the drought that he ended was 76 years long - not 77. The difference is simple to explain - the drought clock did not start in 1936 when Fred Perry won the title. It would be rather unfair to count the entire year in which Perry was the defending champion as the first year of a drought. That drought only began in 1937 when Britain's last male contestant, Bunny Austin, lost his rather exhausting semi-final to Germany's Gottfried von Cramm 6-8, 3-6, 14-12, 1-6. (Fred Perry did not defend his title, having chosen to turn professional at the end of 1936.) If we stick to the logic of a Murray ending a 77-year drought, then Britain's next drought for a male Wimbledon champion is already several hours old. By this logic, if Murray successfully defends his title next year, he will have ended his own one-year long drought for a Wimbledon title. This is not the first time that a drought clock has started ticking early. The 1996 football anthem Three Lions by Baddiel and Skinner and The Lightning Seeds has a particularly draconian way of calculating how many years of hurt English football has suffered: "Thirty years of hurt, never stopped me dreaming." But that calculation only works if you start the hurt/drought clock from 1966 itself - the year that England last won the World Cup. It would seem a bit unfair to start the period of national hurt from the moment that Geoff Hurst scored the winning goal. From 1966 to 1970, England were reigning champions - not carriers of national hurt. A more charitable calculation might have started the clock from 1970 when England were knocked out of the World Cup by West Germany. (German players and teams apparently have a habit of sparking long English sporting droughts.) But "26 years of hurt" would have been rather less catchy to sing. By the update of the song for the 1998 World Cup, the songwriters had evidently decided to do away with precise calculations altogether when they sang: "No more years of hurt, no more need for dreaming." This optimism, however, was a bit premature. The England football hurt/drought clock continues. It's now at 47 years or 43 years, depending on how you count it. Ask Andy Murray. You can follow the Magazine on Twitter and on Facebook

एंडी मर्रे 77 वर्षों के लिए विंबलडन जीतने वाले पहले ब्रिटिश व्यक्ति हैं-या तो उनकी ऐतिहासिक जीत के सभी मीडिया कवरेज कहते हैं। लेकिन 77 वर्ष सूखे को मापने का एक कठोर तरीका है जो एंडी मर्रे ने अभी-अभी समाप्त किया है, बीबीसी के जेम्स रेनॉल्ड्स का तर्क है।


Teenager charged over Rutherglen station stabbing

Summary: A 14-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder after another teenager was stabbed at a railway station.

The incident took place at Rutherglen station in South Lanarkshire shortly after 17:00 on Monday. The British Transport Police said the victim suffered serious injuries to his chest and lower body. He continues to be treated in hospital. Two boys aged 14 and 18 were arrested following the incident. The 14-year-old, from Glasgow, has since been charged with attempted murder and is expected to appear at the city's sheriff court on Wednesday. The 18-year-old has been released without charge.

रेलवे स्टेशन पर एक अन्य किशोर को चाकू मारने के बाद एक 14 वर्षीय लड़के पर हत्या के प्रयास का आरोप लगाया गया है।


Brazilian city of Vitoria hit by police strike

Summary: Two hundred federal officers in Brazil are being deployed to the city of Vitoria, in the eastern state of Espirito Santo, where police went on strike on Saturday over pay.

There have been 51 murders in Greater Vitoria since Saturday, compared with four in January, the police union says. Schools remained closed on Monday and local football matches were also postponed due to the spike in violence. Officials said they would sit down for talks but only once the strike ended. Relatives of the striking officers have been demonstrating in front of police stations as the officers themselves are barred from protesting. They are demanding better pay for military police officers, including additional pay for night work and danger money. The officers stopped patrolling the streets of the city on Saturday morning. The commander of the force has been sacked and a new commander has been tasked with "restoring order and discipline", Espirito Santo security chief Andre Garcia said.

ब्राजील में दो सौ संघीय अधिकारियों को पूर्वी राज्य एस्पिरिटो सैंटो के विटोरिया शहर में तैनात किया जा रहा है, जहाँ पुलिस ने शनिवार को वेतन को लेकर हड़ताल की थी।