The secret I'm hiding under my oversized fashion style

Summary: Arooj Aftab, 22, is an influencer who is known for her baggy fashion style. But what her 7,500 Instagram followers don't know is there's a big reason she chooses to wear oversized clothes - which she has kept secret until now.

Scroll through my Instagram and it's full of pictures of me in different outfits. The one thing you'll notice is my style is oversized baggy fits. I've always loved the look - it's something that's quite sporty but also smart. I'm lucky enough to work in fashion - I look after social media for a modelling agency in Manchester. But this industry is all about the way you look and sometimes I feel like I can't always wear what I want. You'd never catch me wearing something that is tight or figure-hugging. Instead I end up wearing lots of layers because I am hiding something. My secret revealed I have a genetic condition called neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) - which causes tumours to grow along my nerves. When I was born I had a birth mark on my left side and as I grew so did the mark. I feel like I have one normal side of my body but then on the other side, on my hip, there are tumours. Some of them feel heavy and the lump feels like it's heated. Some of the tumours are rock hard but then some are really soft. They're not cancerous but sometimes they cause me pain on my joints and my back and the left side of my body throbs. I wear baggy oversized clothes to hide my tumours - people think that's just my style but that's not entirely true. Social media is full of pictures of people looking perfect. Do I really want to be the person to highlight that I'm not? My tumours have held me back The modelling industry is all about looking good and working in this industry you do want to dress well. But it takes me longer to pick out clothes I want to wear because I'm worried my tumours will show. Summer is probably the hardest season for me to shop or dress up in because I usually wear layers. I want to slowly learn to accept my NF and maybe wear fitted clothing and not be ashamed about what I have. When it comes to dating, my tumours have held me back. All my friends are in relationships, I try not to think about it but it would be nice to meet someone some day. I worry though. How do you tell someone you're dating that you have a genetic condition? When is the right time? It's not a small thing, it's a big deal and it's going to be with me for the rest of my life. Meeting Adam Apart from my mum and little sister, I don't know anyone else who has NF. For the Newsbeat documentary My Tumour Made Me Trendy, I got to meet Adam Pearson - who also has the condition. He's an actor and presenter and appeared in the 2014 film Under the Skin with Scarlett Johansson. Adam's tumours are mostly on his face, it also affects his vision and he can't see out of his left eye. He told me that he hated school because he was bullied and called names like "Elephant Man", "freak" and "Quasimodo". Meeting him really put things into perspective for me - he can't hide his NF under baggy clothes like I can. He's so inspiring, I mean he's been in a film with Scarlett Johannsson, which is so cool. I was blown away by how confident he was and it really inspired me. The big reveal I decided that I should embrace my NF and share the fact I had the condition in an Instagram story. I was absolutely terrified revealing something I'd kept secret for so long. It was a big deal for me because I've never shared my body, let alone my condition, with my followers. But I received so many messages of support and loads of people shared my story. I also had a mum contact me to say their daughter has the same condition and I was an inspiration to them. Afterwards, I felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders because it's something I've been so insecure about. Although I've revealed my condition to my followers I don't know if I'm at the stage where I want to constantly show it with fitted clothes. But I do feel like people understand why I wear baggy clothes now and I feel like much more of a real person online. Arooj was speaking to Newsbeat's Gurvinder Gill. Follow Newsbeat on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Listen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.

22 वर्षीय अरूज आफताब एक प्रभावशाली व्यक्ति हैं जो अपनी बैगी फैशन शैली के लिए जानी जाती हैं। लेकिन उनके 7,500 इंस्टाग्राम फॉलोअर्स को यह नहीं पता कि उनके बड़े कपड़े पहनने का एक बड़ा कारण है-जिसे उन्होंने अब तक गुप्त रखा है।


The Oxford University college fighting elitism

Summary: Oxbridge has long faced criticism for accepting too many students from privileged backgrounds. But one Oxford college, Mansfield, stands apart from the rest, with nine in 10 of the students it admitted this year coming from state schools. How has it achieved this?

By Joe NimmoBBC News In a recent report, David Lammy launched a scathing attack after data he obtained showed the number of students accepted at Oxford and Cambridge universities heavily skewed towards those from the Home Counties and from well-off families - with the numbers edging upwards. The MP criticised the universities' colleges for being "fiefdoms of entrenched privilege". Across Oxford the number of state school-educated, UK-domiciled students is about 60% - the independent sector accounts for 6.5% of all pupils nationally - but at Mansfield College that figure has jumped to above 90%. The college's website prominently describes it as "open, friendly, welcoming", and both staff and students are proud of its reputation for diversity. Opened in Oxford in 1886, the college's original purpose was to provide further education for nonconformist ministers, and that anti-establishment streak has carried on down the generations. The college's JCR Committee president and third-year history student Joe Inwood said some Oxford colleges were set up specifically to be exclusive and elitist, and that might be reflected in their make-up today. But Mansfield "has the opposite legacy, because it was created so people who were excluded by everyone else could come, and that has followed down the years". One beneficiary is first-year maths student Codie Wood, who went to school in a working-class area of Salford and initially didn't think Oxford would be for her. "Oxford always seemed something kind of unattainable," she said. "It was something that posher people from private schools went for, and not something I would have considered. "Mansfield goes out of its way to attract state school students... my school didn't send many people to Oxford. But they came in and talked to us and made it seem more human." Staff put Mansfield's success down to an access and outreach programme that involves about a third of its students. College representatives make almost 200 visits every year to schools across the UK, dispelling myths and offering advice to students who might never have thought Oxford was a realistic goal. Senior tutor and and tutor for admissions Lucinda Rumsey said the college had regularly achieved the university's largest proportion of state school students over the past 17 years. "How we got where we are is partly that we started a long time ago," she said. "We decided nearly 20 years ago to run a project to encourage students from further education colleges to apply to Oxford. "We formed a consortium with several other Oxford colleges and extended the outreach project to sixth form colleges." Within a couple of years the university as a whole was receiving more applicants from that sector - with many applying to Mansfield. But Ms Rumsey added that hundreds of people work across the whole university to make its intake more representative, and Mansfield also benefits from their help. Mansfield College - a brief history Since 2001 the percentage of state school students admitted to Mansfield has risen from 67.1% to regularly in excess of 80%, hitting a high of 91.4% for its most recent intake. The college is also proud that 25% of its students are non-white and 25% are from the north of England. (It doesn't have data regarding the occupations of students' parents, as it says it isn't allowed to collect this). Mansfield's success shows "that the talent is there if Oxbridge colleges make it a priority to go out to hard-to-reach areas and find it", Mr Lammy told the BBC. He added that the college's recent results, which are the best in its history, showed that widening access does not lower standards. He said: "My fear is that the Oxbridge collegiate system means that real change will not be forthcoming. What we are seeing is a concerted effort by some colleges being undermined by the majority. "What we really need is systemic change and that can only come at a university-wide level or from the government." Oxford University said addressing inequality "requires a huge, joined-up effort across society", and the House of Commons Education Select Committee is planning to look into the issue. Access and admissions officer Helen Brooks said Mansfield runs events with schools every year, some of which might never have sent a student to Oxbridge before. She said: "Part of our work does involve dispelling myths and misconceptions about Oxford in particular, but we also support schools in providing advice and guidance about higher education more generally. "Some students are very apprehensive about various aspects of the admissions process, so we put a lot of effort into making them feel more comfortable and confident about what to expect." She added that Mansfield and other colleges use "a robust system of contextual data" which includes information both about the candidate's school or college and also about the area in which they live. "This makes it easier for tutors to identify students who have performed extremely well, perhaps in spite of their background, and who show real potential to excel on the course." Aondoyima Ioratim-Uba, Mansfield's Junior Common Room access officer, said the college's success in attracting students from state schools had helped to breed further success. "We are kind of in this ideal situation, where we have lots of access already going on, so when people come here they get involved in that too," he said. Ms Rumsey said she hoped the college would continue to widen access and increase its diversity, but warned that any future plans were dependent on money. "We are the poorest college by some way and we have the smallest resources," she said, although she added that Mansfield would continue visiting schools to spread the message that Oxford is not just for the well off. She said the college would like to find the funds to meet the travel costs of prospective students visiting Oxford, "as many can't afford the train fare". And so clearly there is still work to be done, even for a college that admits a higher percentage of state-educated students than any other. Mansfield College's simple goal is spelled out by Helen Brooks. "Our ultimate aim is that everyone should feel like Oxford is an option for them, regardless of where they come from."

ऑक्सब्रिज को लंबे समय से विशेषाधिकार प्राप्त पृष्ठभूमि से बहुत अधिक छात्रों को स्वीकार करने के लिए आलोचना का सामना करना पड़ा है। लेकिन एक ऑक्सफोर्ड कॉलेज, मैन्सफील्ड, बाकी से अलग है, जिसमें इस साल प्रवेश लेने वाले 10 में से नौ छात्र सरकारी स्कूलों से हैं। इसने यह कैसे हासिल किया है?


Kidnapped by North Korea - and forced to make films

Summary: It sounds more far-fetched than anything a film-maker could invent - the story of how a director and a leading actress were kidnapped by North Korea and forced to make films for the state's movie-mad leader, Kim Jong-il.

By Stephen EvansBBC News, Seoul It seemed like a simple solution - North Korea needed skills. Other countries had those skills - so why not just just kidnap the skilled workers? In some cases, very skilled workers. In 1977, a top South Korean pianist was hired by a mysterious patron to give a private performance in an isolated villa outside Zagreb. But he'd grown suspicious, spotting a North Korean aircraft at the airport and then hearing North Korean accents as he approached the house. He fled and escaped. But South Korea's most celebrated film director and his film-star wife were not so lucky. Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee were both snatched in Hong Kong. A similar ruse was used to that tried with the pianist - the lure of meeting in a remote house. The couple spent eight years in North Korea making films there before finally escaping. The kidnap plot was hatched by Kim Jong-il who, before he succeeded his father as the country's leader, was in charge of its film industry. He was a great film buff, an avid watcher of Hollywood movies - in particular, the first Rambo movie, anything with Elizabeth Taylor and the James Bond films which may have fed his appetite for covert operations. North Korean diplomats in Western countries were instructed to secure copies of blockbusters for him to watch in Pyongyang. But Kim Jong-il wanted something more. He was desperate for the North Korean movie industry to compete on the international stage. He wanted to be the producer of films that won trophies at the world's great cinema festivals. The answer was obvious - at least to him: kidnap South Korea's most famous film-making couple and compel them to create movies to wow the world. It was a modus operandi straight out of the 007 manual from the Bond movies that Kim Jong-il loved. The actress Choi Eun-hee was snatched first. In 1977, her career in decline, she was approached by someone posing as a Hong Kong businessman with a proposal to form a film-making company which would revive her fortunes - monetary if not on-screen. The kind of money movie people dream of would be available and she would be reborn as an actress-turned-director. According to a new book, A Kim Jong-il Production, she was persuaded to go to Hong Kong and then on to a meeting on one of the islands. On the way, the car stopped on Repulse Bay and she and the accompanying agent of the North Korean state (for so it proved to be) got out. There was a group of men near a motor boat and Choi Eun-hee was grabbed and sedated. As the book puts it: "She drifted in and out of darkness. She remembered feeling someone carrying her up a gangway, someone giving her an injection, then oblivion swallowed her back up. When she finally woke, she was aboard a freighter in the captain's cabin. A large ceremonial portrait of Kim Il-sung smiled down at her." Eight days later she was in Pyongyang in a luxurious villa that was constantly guarded. Despite being divorced, Shin Sang-ok and his ex-wife had remained close and he went to Hong Kong to look for her. He too was abducted. "Someone suddenly pulled a sack over my head and I couldn't see anything or breathe properly," he said later. At times the two were held separately and Shin Sang-ok spent four years in prison when he resisted pressure to co-operate. The two were reunited when he finally relented. Later, some argued that their stories didn't add up and that they had defected when their careers in the south declined. But Paul Fischer, the author of A Kim Jong-il Production, says he is convinced they resisted and then, once broken, became reluctant collaborators with the regime in Pyongyang. "It took five years in North Korea to get them to the point where they started working and by that time film-making was a lifeline for them. They both found Kim Jong-il to be a fairly knowledgeable film producer. Shin Sang-ok, the South Korean film-maker, when he sat down and had production meetings with him would find someone who was able to talk to him about a variety of films," he says. They worked together and produced a series of films for North Korea. Perhaps the most notable was one that became something of a cult classic - a socialist monster movie, Pulgasari, in which the monster sides with peasants against a feudal landlord. Kim Jong-il on movies After eight years the couple tricked Kim Jong-il. They won his trust and were allowed to travel to Vienna where they fled. They sought sanctuary in the United States embassy and were debriefed by the CIA. He died in 2006 and she still lives in Seoul. Though they asserted that they were captives, they still used to apologise to Kim Jong-il for having deceived him - perhaps a type of Stockholm Syndrome where the captive identifies with the captor. North Korea denied the two were abducted saying they had sought sanctuary there. They had one important piece of evidence in their favour though - a recording they made secretly of Kim Jong-il. And North Korea has admitted abducting some Japanese citizens - Tokyo and Pyongyang held talks over the matter last year. North Korea acknowledged that it kidnapped 13 people in the 70s and 80s. Five of them were returned to Japan in 2002 but Pyongyang says the other eight died, though Japan doesn't believe this. Prof Andre Lankov of Kookmin University in South Korea reckons that nearly 500 South Koreans have been abducted. "The vast majority of them are fishermen who were imprudent to come too close to the North Korean coast but this figure also includes a number of known victims of covert operations," he says. "A good example is the case of the five South Korean high-school students who disappeared from beaches in 1977 and 1978. They were believed dead for two decades but in the late 1990s it was discovered that they were working in North Korea as instructors, teaching the basics of the South Korean lifestyle to would-be undercover Northern operatives." He says abductees, who were often teenagers, were used as language teachers and even trained spies. "Simple approach: you have problems with teaching foreign languages, you kidnap a native speaker. You have problems with movies, you kidnap a producer and director." A simple approach - if you like the show, steal the show-maker. More from the Magazine North Korea's leaders are often thought of as ruthless, secretive autocrats but rarely as popular children's authors. However, between issuing instructions about prison camps and the development of nuclear weapons, Kim Jong-un's father and grandfather apparently found time to write stories for the young. North Korea's story-telling autocrats (February 2014) Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

यह एक फिल्म निर्माता द्वारा आविष्कार की गई किसी भी चीज़ से कहीं अधिक दूर की बात लगती है-यह कहानी कि कैसे एक निर्देशक और एक प्रमुख अभिनेत्री को उत्तर कोरिया द्वारा अपहरण कर लिया गया था और राज्य के फिल्म-पागल नेता, किम जोंग-इल के लिए फिल्में बनाने के लिए मजबूर किया गया था।


The peculiar history of the Ordnance Survey

Summary: It's midway through October, so before the days get too short to make it worthwhile, why not grab your compass and hiking boots, shrug on your waterproof and take to the hills. Chances are, if you're a regular walker, you will stride out safe in the knowledge that an Ordnance Survey map secreted about your person means you'll know exactly where and when you got lost.

By Bethan BellBBC News The history of the organisation known as OS is not merely that of a group of earnest blokes with a penchant for triangulation and an ever-present soundtrack of rustling cagoules. From its roots in military strategy to its current incarnation as producer of the rambler's navigational aid, the government-owned company has been checking and rechecking all 243,241 sq km (93,916 sq miles) of Great Britain for 227 years. Here are some of the more peculiar elements in the past of the famous map-makers. Battles and bloodshed In the final years of the 18th Century, Europe was in turmoil. England was braced for invasion by the French and the government's Board of Ordnance (a body responsible for supplying equipment to the Army and Navy and generally defending the realm) needed accurate maps so it could position its troops effectively. The OS got to work - and by the end of 1794, the coast from Fairlight Head in Sussex to Portland in Dorset had been mapped. When World War One broke out, map-makers were posted overseas to replace existing French maps, which were too small in scale and imprecise. Over the course of the war the teams produced at least 25 million battlefield maps for use by British troops, and a total of 342 million for the entire war effort. Pointy sticks In the late 1940s and early 1950s, teams of tape-measure wielding men swarmed around the country with big pointy arrows. They were urban surveyors using fixed features such as the corners of buildings as markers for map-making. These markers were called "revision points", and photographs were taken - often with amused or bemused onlookers - to keep track of where these points were. Education manager at OS, Elaine Owen, has made some of the images taken in Manchester available online. She says they show "a treasure-trove of images which illustrate everyday life while surveyors were going about their daily business". "Many of the children [in the pictures] would still be alive today. We'd love people to visit the website and search the places and streets they know to see if they recognise anyone, or even themselves. That would be fantastic." You might also be interested in The household items we miss the most The man who saved Flying Scotsman The Great Pretender: England on film Stonehenge in different positions Some of the oldest photographs of Stonehenge were bound in a book in 1867 and recently unearthed from the OS archives. "Plans and Photographs of Stonehenge" shows the then-head of OS, Col Henry James, and his family having a picnic. The book was made for the agency's officers, and was therefore extremely detailed. The survey, however, is no longer accurate as the stones have since been rearranged into positions believed by experts to replicate their original ancient layout. According to English Heritage, various stones had been propped up with timber poles from the 1880s, but concern for the safety of visitors grew when an upright stone and its lintel fell in 1900. The then-owner had it made safe, which was the beginning of a campaign to restore and conserve Stonehenge. The last stones were consolidated in 1964. People lived there In keeping with its military provenance, the original office of the OS was at the Tower of London. But in 1841 fire swept through the Grand Storehouse, threatening both the Crown Jewels and the OS's records and instruments. Happily, the treasure and the mapping equipment were both saved but the fire prompted the department's move to a new headquarters in an empty former barrack building in Southampton. Slightly oddly, it wasn't just used as office accommodation - many staff lived on site. The 1871 census records more than 20 children aged under 12 living at the address. Mapping Ireland inspired a play In 1824, Parliament ordered then-director general of the OS, Maj Thomas Colby, and his staff across the Irish Sea as an accurate map of Ireland was needed for land taxation purposes. Brian Friel's play Translations is inspired by the OS survey and the difficulties the English surveyors had with Irish place names and tells the story of Owen, who returns to rural Donegal from Dublin with British army officers who are working on the six-inch-to-the-mile survey. They translate local place names into English - for example "Poll na gCaorach", meaning "hole of the sheep" in Irish, becomes "Poolkerry" in English. The character of Captain Lancey is a fictionalised version of Maj Colby. Mountaintop feasts Maj Colby was the longest-serving director general of the OS, who threw himself wholeheartedly into the job. On one occasion in 1819, he walked 586 miles (943 km) in 22 days in his pursuit of cartographic perfection. Despite being the boss, Maj Colby always travelled with his men and helped to build the camps - and at the end of each successful mission he would arrange a mountaintop party, complete with an enormous plum pudding to top the celebration off. Colby House, which was the headquarters of the OS Northern Ireland until 2014, is named in his honour. There was a special eclipse map On 29 June 1927, a total solar eclipse traversed Great Britain and Norway for the first time since 1724. There was great excitement over the event, and lots of people wanted to know the best way to experience such a thing, so a special map was produced to show the times and places where the eclipse could be seen. Sadly, most of Wales and England was cloudy that day, but at the site where the Astronomer Royal chose to set up his camera (Giggleswick in Yorkshire) the clouds did part at the right moment, just long enough to capture the 23-second totality. Waterproof maps were available as early as the 1930s If you thought maps were merely for finding the way, think again. A special waterproofing spray process meant that from the 1930s OS maps could be used as a groundsheet and a cape in the case of a sudden shower. And if you're likely to spend more time picnicking than hiking, detailed maps - including those of Snowdonia, Dartmoor and the Isle of Arran - are currently available in the form of waterproof rugs.

यह अक्टूबर के बीच में है, इसलिए इससे पहले कि दिन बहुत कम हो जाएं, इसे सार्थक बनाने के लिए अपने कम्पास और लंबी पैदल यात्रा के जूते क्यों न लें, अपने जलरोधक पर कंधा करें और पहाड़ियों पर ले जाएं। संभावना है, यदि आप एक नियमित वॉकर हैं, तो आप इस ज्ञान में सुरक्षित रूप से आगे बढ़ेंगे कि आपके व्यक्ति के बारे में गुप्त आयुध सर्वेक्षण मानचित्र का मतलब है कि आपको पता चल जाएगा कि आप कहाँ और कब खो गए हैं।


Who is running your Scottish council?

Summary: Scotland's 32 local authorities held elections on 3 May to decide the fate of more than 1,200 council seats.

Local authorities used the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system, where electors ranked candidates in order of preference. Given the proportional nature of this approach, most of Scotland's council have been left in no overall control. Many of these newly elected representatives are now looking into creating power sharing deals. Here is what we know so far.

स्कॉटलैंड के 32 स्थानीय अधिकारियों ने 1,200 से अधिक परिषद सीटों के भाग्य का फैसला करने के लिए 3 मई को चुनाव कराए।


Food giants respond to worries over packaging

Summary: When Rebecca Prince-Ruiz recalls how her eco-friendly movement Plastic Free July has progressed over the years, she can't help but smile. What began in 2011 as 40 people committing to going plastic-free one month a year has gained momentum to 326 million people pledging to adopt this practice today.

By David SilverbergTechnology of Business reporter "I've seen that uptick in interest every year," says Ms Prince-Ruiz, who is based in Perth, Australia, and author of Plastic Free: The Inspiring Story of a Global Environmental Movement and Why It Matters. "These days, people are taking a hard look at what they are doing in their lives and how they can seize an opportunity to be less wasteful," she says. Since 2000, the plastics industry has manufactured as much plastic as all the preceding years combined, a World Wildlife Fund report in 2019 found. "The production of virgin plastic has increased 200-fold since 1950, and has grown at a rate of 4% a year since 2000," the report says. This has spurred companies to replace single-use plastic with biodegradable and compostable packaging designed to dramatically reduce the toxic footprint plastics leave behind. In March, Mars Wrigley and Danimer Scientific announced a new two-year partnership to develop compostable packaging for Skittles in the US, estimated to be on shelves by early 2022. It involves a type of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) that will look and feel the same as plastic, but can be thrown into the compost where it will break down, unlike regular plastic that takes anywhere from 20 to 450 years to fully decompose. Danimer Scientific's polymer product is made from canola oil, and it acts similarly to wood, meaning it breaks down when bacteria interact with it. "PHA goes away naturally and is still a very strong material for all types of products," says Stephen Croskrey, chief executive of Danimer Scientific, based in the US state of Georgia. Alastair Child, Mars Wrigley vice-president for global sustainability, says: "Our vision is to support a circular economy where packaging never becomes waste and by 2025 we plan to reduce our virgin plastic use by 25% and for 100% of our plastic packaging to be reusable, recyclable or compostable." Hindering the widespread use of eco-friendly packaging such as PHA is the cost. It can be three to fives time as expensive to manufacture as regular plastic. But that hasn't stopped companies such as California-based Mango Materials and London-based Polymateria from dedicating their businesses to producing products that biodegrade over a shorter period of time. For example, Polymateria's Cycle+ plastic is biodegradable after three years and is still able to be recycled during its usable lifetime. Their clients range from East Africa businesses making bread bags to Extreme E, a new electric racing series that uses Polymateria products for cups and food packaging. The plastics industry should wake up to the growing trend of alternative packaging, says Niall Dunne, chief executive of Polymateria. "We've seen how consumer pressure is saying to the big guys that they have to be on board [with reducing their plastic production] and to be more transparent and authentic in this important conversation," Mr Dunne says. Meg Sobkowicz, associate professor of plastics engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, says that kind of pressure has already worked to push the plastics industry to steer away from the toxic BPA ingredient that was commonly found in reusable plastic bottles. "I think we're coming around to where public concern is pushing them to tip the scales in favour of environmentally friendly packaging, despite its costs." More Technology of Business Forward-thinking engineers plan to get even more creative with their biodegradable packaging solutions, such as a Scottish research team using waste material from shellfish to make a new type of packaging. And designer Alice Potts has blended food waste with flowers from London parks to craft a series of bioplastic face shields. "We know we can't do this alone," says Mars Wrigley's Alastair Child. "Achieving a circular economy will take industry, governments, NGOs and consumers all working together. We would love to see more and more material and design innovations from which we can all learn come to market, but the most important thing is that we see a stronger commitment to closing the loop."

जब रेबेका प्रिंस-रुइज़ याद करती हैं कि पिछले कुछ वर्षों में उनके पर्यावरण के अनुकूल आंदोलन प्लास्टिक मुक्त जुलाई ने कैसे प्रगति की है, तो वह मुस्कुराने से खुद को रोक नहीं पाती हैं। 2011 में 40 लोगों द्वारा एक महीने में प्लास्टिक मुक्त होने की प्रतिबद्धता के रूप में जो शुरू हुआ, उसने आज इस प्रथा को अपनाने का संकल्प लेने वाले 32.6 करोड़ लोगों को गति दी है।


Bloodhound Diary: Planning for the roughest of rides

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 2017.

By Andy GreenWorld Land Speed Record Holder One question that always comes up when I talk about driving the world's fastest car - and also the hardest one to answer - is "what's it really like?" The problem is that it's a bit like driving a jet fighter at low level, but faster, and also a bit like driving a racing car at high speed, but much faster. However, even if you're a race-car-driving fighter pilot, that doesn't really answer the question, as it's not quite the same as either. The late great Art Arfons, holder of the Outright World Land Speed Record three times in the 1960s, described it as "a bit like the taste of chocolate - but if you've never had chocolate, then I'm going to struggle to explain it to you". He had a point. There are two areas to consider. There is a lot to do in the cockpit to accelerate the car, to control it, to slow it down again and finally to stop it next to the recovery/turnaround crew. At the same time as I'm doing all of that, there are all the extreme physical sensations to consider. Keeping Bloodhound SSC in a straight line is going to be a challenge in itself. The faster any race car travels, the less grip (or "tyre cornering stiffness") the wheels can generate, particularly if you're running on a dry lake bed and on solid metal wheels. The car will also be affected by surface changes, cross winds, and so on - for a more in-depth look at steering, have a look at "Steering - how hard can it be to drive in a straight line". On Hakskeen Pan in South Africa, the hard surface means that the wheels will only be penetrating about 10-12mm into the surface at slow speed. This should be enough to give reasonable sideways grip from the sloping "shoulders" of the wheel profile. However, as the car accelerates through 350mph, the wheels start to "plane" on the surface, like a high-speed boat, with the penetration gradually reducing to a mere 2-3mm. This will give almost no sideways grip, so it will be like driving on ice - and at 350mph, the car is accelerating at almost 2g (about 40mph each second) and the aerodynamic stabilising forces are still very low. The cockpit activity at this point may well resemble high-speed rally driving. Less than 20 seconds later, the car will be approaching 1,000mph, with huge aerodynamic forces now dominating everything. Each front wheel will be generating its own powerful shockwaves, so the smallest turn of the wheel is likely to produce very rapid steering responses. In short, the steering will vary from easy at slow speed to ice-driving at medium speeds to super-twitchy when it's supersonic. During all of this, I still need to be feeding in the jet and rocket power at the right points, in order to hit 1,000mph just as we enter the measured mile, and then deploy airbrakes and/or parachutes at the right time, followed by wheel brakes at slow speed (below 200mph) to stop at the end of the track. Finally, I need to monitor the car's stability, and all of the warning systems, all the way through the run. If all this wasn't hard enough, I'll be subject to some significant physical loads while I'm trying to control the world's fastest jet-and-rocket car. Fortunately, the forces are not unlike those I've been trained to deal with as a fighter pilot, but they are a little more extreme. I'm going to be shaken, compressed, disorientated, deafened and heated: all in a day's work for a pilot. The most noticeable thing is likely to be the g-force, which will be produced when the car speeds up and slows down, just like an aircraft. Under g, the blood in the arteries and veins gets heavier, so pulling high g in an aircraft reduces blood pressure above the heart (and blood pressure in the legs is increased). At a certain g level, this effect is so strong that not enough blood gets to the head. This causes dimming of vision ("greyout") as the eye is starved of oxygen and, at higher g levels, loss of consciousness due to lack of oxygen in the brain ("blackout"). For cutting-edge fighter aircraft such as the Typhoon, this requires an advanced anti-g system to keep pilots conscious at up to 9g. Due to the reclined seating position in Bloodhound SSC, the g-force when the car accelerates will push me hard back into the seat. The force in this direction will also increase the blood pressure in my head, which may be a little uncomfortable, but will not carry any risk of losing consciousness. When the car slows down, at up to 3g (that's losing 60mph per second - don't try this at home), the forces act in the opposite direction. I will be thrown forwards hard into the harness, and blood will try to drain away from my head. Although 3g is not usually enough to cause greyout when flying in an aircraft, the situation in Bloodhound is slightly unusual because of the rapid g reversal that happens between acceleration and deceleration. During the acceleration phase, stretch receptors in the blood vessels of my neck will detect the increase in pressure, and activate the "baroreceptor reflex". This reflex triggers dilatation of small arteries, causing a reduction in resistance of the circulation, which reduces blood pressure. At the same time, the rate and force of my heartbeat will be reduced, also reducing blood pressure. All this is fine while the car is still accelerating, but then we get to the end of the measured mile. Throttles closed, 3g deceleration with the blood now trying to rush away from head towards my feet, and suddenly the baroceptor reflex is my enemy. Slowing down, I may have to counter this by using the "anti-g straining manoeuvre", a special muscle-tensing technique used by jet pilots to maintain blood pressure at the head. The g-force applied during acceleration and deceleration also has a strong effect on the balance organs, producing an effect called the "somatogravic illusion". When the car accelerates, the otolith organs in my inner ear will tell me that I'm tilting backwards, as if the nose of the car is rapidly pitching up. When the car slows down, I will get the opposite sensation, as if the car is pitching down. This is a very powerful illusion and can be hugely distracting: it's something I'm going to have to work hard against. The vibration from the engine and the ground will add to the distractions, making it more difficult to focus on the instruments in the cockpit. Noise is also going to be a huge problem. With one of the world's most powerful jet engines just behind my head, it's going to be very noisy in the cockpit at slow speed. Once the car is supersonic, I won't be able to hear it any more, as I'll be travelling faster than the sound it's making. That's not necessarily good news, though, as the supersonic shockwaves on top of the carbon-fibre cockpit are likely to be even louder! My bespoke hearing protection from Ultimate Ear, plus a lot of sound insulation inside the cockpit, will be essential. While I'm still pondering the control tasks and physiological loads of supersonic driving, we've been hosting a lot of budding young engineers at the Bloodhound Technical Centre over the Easter break. Have a look at this cracking bit of slow-speed rocket car video: there's no doubt who wins this race. In a few weeks we'll be launching our national schools micro:bit rocket car challenge, which will enable young engineers to instrument and monitor their rocket cars - more details next month.

एक ब्रिटिश दल एक ऐसी कार विकसित कर रहा 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 2017 में उत्तरी केप, दक्षिण अफ्रीका में हक्सकीन पैन पर चलना शुरू करना चाहिए।


Global cyber-attack: How roots can be traced to the US

Summary: The flaw in Windows behind a huge cyber-attack affecting organisations around the world, including some UK hospitals, can be traced back to the US National Security Agency (NSA) - raising questions over the US government's decision to keep such flaws a secret.

By Dave LeeNorth America technology reporter Elements of the malicious software used in Friday's attacks were part of a treasure trove of cyber-attack tools leaked by hacking group the Shadow Brokers in April. One of the tools contained in the Shadow Brokers leak, codenamed EternalBlue, proved to be "the most significant factor" in the spread of Friday's global attack, according to cyber-security firm Kaspersky Lab. The tool was said to have been created by the NSA - though, as is typical, the agency has neither confirmed nor denied this. EternalBlue was made public on 14 April, and while Microsoft had fixed the problem a month prior to its leak, it appeared many high-profile targets had not updated their systems to stay secure. Friday's attack has reignited the debate over whether or not governments should disclose vulnerabilities they have discovered or bought on the black market. "It would be deeply troubling if the NSA knew about this vulnerability but failed to disclose it to Microsoft until after it was stolen," said Patrick Toomey, a lawyer working for the American Civil Liberties Union. "These attacks underscore the fact that vulnerabilities will be exploited not just by our security agencies, but by hackers and criminals around the world. "Patching security holes immediately, not stockpiling them, is the best way to make everyone's digital life safer." Edward Snowden, who famously leaked many internal NSA files in June 2013, criticised the NSA on Friday in a series of tweets. "In light of today's attack, Congress needs to be asking [the NSA] if it knows of any other vulnerabilities in software used in our hospitals," he wrote. "If [the NSA] had privately disclosed the flaw used to attack hospitals when they found it, not when they lost it, this may not have happened." Outdated systems However, others focused the blame at institutions for being too slow in updating their systems, given that this attack happened almost two months after a (free) fix was made available by Microsoft. "Say what you want to say about the NSA or disclosure process," said Zeynep Tufeki, a professor at the University of North Carolina. "But this is one in which what's broken is the system by which we fix." For the UK's National Health Service, the problem is perhaps more acute. Security firms have continually raised alarms about the NHS's reliance on Windows XP, an operating system that is no longer supported by Microsoft.

ब्रिटेन के कुछ अस्पतालों सहित दुनिया भर के संगठनों को प्रभावित करने वाले एक बड़े साइबर हमले के पीछे विंडोज में दोष का पता अमेरिकी राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा एजेंसी (एनएसए) से लगाया जा सकता है-इस तरह की खामियों को गुप्त रखने के अमेरिकी सरकार के फैसले पर सवाल उठाते हुए।


Example announces 16-date arena tour for 2013

Summary: Example has announced details of his next tour for 2013.

The shows kick off at Bournemouth BIC on 11 February and end at Manchester's MEN arena on 1 March. The 16-date tour will follow the release of his new single Say Nothing. After this year's sell out tour, the singer also performed at 12 shows in Ibiza during the summer. Example has also been busy playing festivals including gigs at T in the Park and Radio 1's Hackney Weekend. The full 2013 tour dates are: Bournemouth at BIC - 11 February Nottingham Capital FM Arena - 12 Liverpool Echo Arena - 13 Sheffield Motorpoint Arena - 15 Newcastle Metro Radio Arena - 16 Glasgow SECC -17 Aberdeen AECC - 18 London Earls Court - 23 Cardiff Motorpoint Arena - 25 Brighton Centre - 26 Birmingham LG Arena - 28 Manchester Arena - 1 March

उदाहरण ने 2013 के लिए उनके अगले दौरे के विवरण की घोषणा की है।


Police officers and girl injured in Maidenhead crash

Summary: Two police officers and a teenage girl were injured when a car crashed into two parked vehicles.

Police said a silver Ford Focus hit a stationary marked police car and a Toyota Prius in Norden Road, Maidenhead, at about 05:30 BST on Sunday. The officers and teenage girl remain in hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. Two 24-year-old men have been arrested in connection with the crash. Three other people were treated for minor injuries, the force said.

एक कार द्वारा खड़े दो वाहनों को टक्कर मारने से दो पुलिस अधिकारी और एक किशोर लड़की घायल हो गए।


Poppy maze in world record bid

Summary: Children have helped plant poppy seeds in the shape of a 14,000 sq ft (1,300 sq m) poppy, which organisers believe will be the biggest ever created.

The poppy will form part of a maize maze in Cambridgeshire and has been planted to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of World War One. Edward Gowler from Skylark Garden Centre, Wimblington said 60,000 seedlings were planted. He has applied to Guinness World Records to recognise the achievement. Mr Gowler said: "It's a huge area to plant, bigger than an Olympic-size swimming pool. "We believe it will be the biggest poppy in the world made from poppy plants." Children from Thomas Eaton Community Primary School, Wimblington helped with the planting. Depending on the weather, the poppies should be blooming by the end of July.

बच्चों ने 14,000 वर्ग फुट (1,300 वर्ग मीटर) खसखस के आकार में खसखस के बीज लगाने में मदद की है, जो आयोजकों का मानना है कि अब तक का सबसे बड़ा होगा।


Beyond GDP: Well-being

Summary: The holidays are a good time to reflect on well-being. The ONS has done so, releasing alongside its latest GDP estimate an assessment of income that is intended to provide a more comprehensive picture of economic prosperity.

Linda YuehChief business correspondent It's a theme that I'll be exploring in the new year as I prepare for an Analysis programme on Radio 4 on this topic. Firstly, is it more informative than GDP alone? It seems so. GDP told us that the economy is growing well at 0.7% in the third quarter of 2014. But revisions to previous quarters meant that, on an annual basis, the economy is expanding more slowly than previously estimated at 2.6% instead of 3%. GDP per head told us rather more. GDP per capita grew by 0.6%, so more slowly than the economy as a whole. Whereas GDP has recovered to pre-economic downturn levels and the services sector is now 7.2% above its pre-crisis peak (though not the other sectors such as manufacturing), GDP per head is still 1.8% below what it was before the crisis. Worse, net national disposable income (that's a mouthful), or the income of UK residents, has remained flat for nearly three years and remains 5.6% below pre-crisis levels. Taken together, it's unsurprising that median incomes - that's the income of the middle person and not the average of all of the people - fell to £23,300 in 2012-13, which is the lowest in a decade. In addition, inequality has increased. The distribution of wealth has gone more to owners of capital than households. The net wealth of the UK economy grew by 4.4% last year to £7.6 trillion. However, household wealth rose by less than that, increasing by 2.6% - mainly because of increases in house prices. Meanwhile, the net wealth of financial corporations has skyrocketed by 373% to £421bn in the past year. The increase in the value of financial assets, eg shares and deposits, is not solely a British phenomenon as cheap money has propelled stock indexes in the US to multiple highs in the past year. But, it's worrying that the increased wealth exacerbates inequality and hasn't found its way into the real economy. The wealth of non-financial corporations decreased in 2013. It's no wonder that even though the economy is improving and household incomes per head (adjusted for inflation) are now slightly above their pre-recession levels, the ONS finds that households feel that their financial situation has worsened slightly over the past year. It's worth remembering that how confident households are about the future affects their consumption and saving decisions, which are crucial to how an economy grows. So, it seems that incomes rather than GDP alone reveal more about our economic well-being. And six years on from the global financial crisis, even though the economy has recovered, there is still some way to go before our well-being does.

छुट्टियाँ कल्याण पर विचार करने का एक अच्छा समय है। ओ. एन. एस. ने ऐसा किया है, अपने नवीनतम जी. डी. पी. अनुमान के साथ आय का एक आकलन जारी किया है जिसका उद्देश्य आर्थिक समृद्धि की एक अधिक व्यापक तस्वीर प्रदान करना है।


Stephen Hawking's warnings: What he predicted for the future

Summary: Stephen Hawking's fame was founded on the research he did on general relativity and black holes. But he often stepped outside his own field of research, using his recognition to highlight what he saw as the great challenges and existential threats for humanity in coming decades. His pronouncements drove headlines in the media, which sometimes proved controversial.

By Paul RinconScience editor, BBC News website Leaving Earth Hawking was clearly troubled that we were putting all our eggs in one basket - that basket being Earth. For decades, Hawking had been calling for humans to begin the process of permanently settling other planets. It made news headlines again and again. Hawking's rationale was that humankind would eventually fall victim to an extinction-level catastrophe - perhaps sooner rather than later. What worried him were so-called low-probability, high impact events - a large asteroid striking our planet is the classic example. But Hawking perceived a host of other potential threats: artificial intelligence, climate change, GM viruses and nuclear war to name a few. In 2016, he told the BBC: "Although the chance of a disaster to planet Earth in a given year may be quite low, it adds up over time, and becomes a near certainty in the next thousand or 10,000 years. He was confident that humans would spread out into the cosmos by that time (given the chance), but added: "We will not establish self-sustaining colonies in space for at least the next hundred years, so we have to be very careful in this period." Here, Hawking's views dovetailed with those of entrepreneur Elon Musk, another science superstar whose cogitations attract widespread attention. In 2013, Musk told a conference: "Either we spread Earth to other planets, or we risk going extinct. An extinction event is inevitable and we're increasingly doing ourselves in." In line with his thoughts on the matter, Hawking also attached his name to a project researching technologies for interstellar travel - the Breakthrough Starshot initiative. Rise of the machines? Hawking recognised the great opportunities that arose from advances in artificial intelligence, but also warned about the dangers. In 2014, he told the BBC that "the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race". Hawking said the primitive forms of artificial intelligence developed so far had already proved very useful; indeed, the tech he used to communicate incorporated a basic form of AI. But Hawking feared the consequences of advanced forms of machine intelligence that could match or surpass humans. Some academics thought the comments drew on outdated science fiction tropes. Others, such as Prof Bradley Love, from UCL, agreed there were risks: "Clever AI will create tremendous wealth for society, but will leave many people without jobs," he told The Conversation. But he added: "If we are going to worry about the future of humanity we should focus on the real challenges, such as climate change and weapons of mass destruction rather than fanciful killer AI robots." Tipping point The Cambridge physicist regarded global warming as one of the biggest threats to life on the planet. Hawking was particularly fearful of a so-called tipping point, where global warming would become irreversible. He also expressed concern about America's decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement. "We are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes irreversible. Trump's action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of 250 degrees, and raining sulphuric acid," he told BBC News. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) also highlights the potential risk of hitting climate tipping points as temperatures increase - though it also emphasises the gaps in our knowledge. However, Hawking was in plentiful company in regarding global warming as one of the great challenges of centuries to come. Shhhh, keep it down There's a whole field of science, known as Seti (The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) dedicated to listening for signals from intelligent beings elsewhere in the Universe. But Hawking cautioned against trying to actively hail any alien civilisations that might be out there. In 2010, he told the Discovery Channel that aliens might simply raid Earth for resources and then move on. "If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans," he said. "We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet." At the time, Seth Shostak, from the Seti Institute in California, told the Guardian: "This is an unwarranted fear. If they're interested in resources, they have ways of finding rocky planets that don't depend on whether we broadcast or not. They could have found us a billion years ago." But others saw the logic in Hawking's comments. Ian Stewart, a mathematician at Warwick University, commented: "Lots of people think that because they would be so wise and knowledgeable, they would be peaceful. I don't think you can assume that." Controversial headlines The media attention gave him an unprecedented platform. But some in the scientific community were occasionally less enthusiastic about the resulting headlines than the journalists who wrote them. Indeed, I've been asked in the past why the British media seemed to hang on Hawking's every word. Prof Sir Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, said: "He had robust common sense, and was ready to express forceful political opinions. "However, a downside of his iconic status was that that his comments attracted exaggerated attention even on topics where he had no special expertise - for instance philosophy, or the dangers from aliens or from intelligent machines." But many would also argue that, beyond individual statements or headlines, Hawking had a unique ability to connect with the public. They would say that the "hype" this sometimes generated was an inevitable by-product of his household name status. Instead, we should focus on a greater good - his ability to bring science to the attention of people who might otherwise never have given it a second thought. It's testament to his success as a communicator that the mourning for this champion of rational thinking extends far beyond the scientific community. Follow Paul on Twitter.

स्टीफन हॉकिंग की प्रसिद्धि सामान्य सापेक्षता और ब्लैक होल पर किए गए शोध पर आधारित थी। लेकिन वह अक्सर अपने स्वयं के शोध के क्षेत्र से बाहर कदम रखते थे, अपनी मान्यता का उपयोग करके आने वाले दशकों में मानवता के लिए बड़ी चुनौतियों और अस्तित्व के खतरों के रूप में देखते थे। उनकी घोषणाओं ने मीडिया में सुर्खियां बटोरी, जो कभी-कभी विवादास्पद साबित हुई।


Can Labour detoxify the anti-Semitism row?

Summary: A bitter internal row about anti-Semitism has dominated media coverage of the Labour Party throughout the summer - and the leadership is keen to ensure it doesn't drown out the party's message at its annual conference next month.

By Iain WatsonPolitical correspondent, BBC News Moves are under way to try to detoxify the issue. But can it be done in a way that satisfies everybody? As Frank Field resigned the Labour whip on Thursday, the inner core of Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) - the "officers' group"- was preparing to meet to draw up the agenda for what could be a stormy gathering of the full NEC next Tuesday. That meeting is set to become the forum for deciding the party's position on tackling anti-Semitism. In July, Labour adopted a new code of conduct for its MPs and other elected representatives. The new code incorporated the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's working definition of anti-Semitism, which has been adopted by many public bodies in the UK and around the world since it was agreed in 2016. But crucially, say critics of the Labour leadership's stance on this issue, it did not reproduce four of the 11 "contemporary examples" of anti-Semitism in public life, cited by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) as guiding its work. Labour sources maintained that most of the excluded examples were covered by the new code, but had simply been reworded to give them disciplinary force. For instance, the IHRA says that "Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis" is an example of anti-Semitism. Labour's code says members should "resist" using Hitler or Nazi metaphors and that "such language carries a strong risk of being prejudicial or grossly detrimental to the party". There was an outcry that not every example had been adopted, not just from some Jewish groups but from many Labour MPs too. The Parliamentary Labour Party - its MPs - is due to be balloted on adopting the complete IHRA document, including all the examples, on 5 September, the day after the NEC meets. While open to further amendments to the new code of conduct, there is one IHRA example of anti-Semitism in particular which Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters have been reluctant to adopt: "Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, eg, by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavour." They say this would especially restrict the free speech of Palestinians - and the ability to discuss the circumstances around the foundation of the state of Israel. But with Unite's Len McCluskey and Jon Lansman of Momentum (who are usually allies of the Labour leader) now willing to adopt the IHRA examples in full, the Left is not solidly behind the initial position taken by their party leader. It also means there is now a majority on the NEC for full adoption of the IHRA document. Opponents of Jeremy Corbyn will portray this as a setback, and question why he didn't adopt the IHRA's examples earlier. But his supporters are likely to argue that he hasn't been defeated, as at July's NEC meeting it was agreed to continue to consult on Labour's code and that the party has simply changed tack in light of the consultations. Will this detoxify the issue? Well, that may depend on what accompanies the adoption of the IHRA examples. Back in July, the pro-Palestinian MP Richard Burden suggested at a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party that it does indeed adopt the IHRA definition and examples in full - but that this, in his words, should be "IHRA plus" - the "plus" being a statement making clear that criticism of the Israeli government would still be legitimate. He suggested that the party take a similar tack to the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, which held an inquiry into anti-Semitism in 2016. It recommended the adoption of the IHRA definition and examples by all political parties, but with the following addendum: "It is not anti-Semitic to criticise the government of Israel, without additional evidence to suggest anti-Semitic intent. It is not anti-Semitic to hold the Israeli government to the same standards as other liberal democracies, or to take a particular interest in the Israeli government's policies or actions, without additional evidence to suggest anti-Semitic intent." It is possible the NEC will take this approach. But there are suggestions that more wide-ranging caveats could be added - effectively neutralising the effect of adopting the "racist endeavour" example of anti-Semitism. It is possible the IHRA examples sit alongside Labour's code of conduct rather than be formally integrated. And the NEC may make clear that the adoption of the IHRA examples would not lead to the retrospective disciplining of party members. Some Jewish groups which have been outspoken in their criticism of the Labour leadership would be far from satisfied with this outcome. Euan Philipps, from Labour Against Anti-Semitism, has got his retaliation in first. "For the Labour Party to claim that it has re-adopted the IHRA working definition of anti-Semitism then the party would need to ensure that the definition has a functional place within the organisation's disciplinary process," he said in a statement. "If it is watered down by caveats and addendums then the party cannot claim that it has been fully adopted. It is a false compromise." Conference pressure So some caveats could severely weaken the IHRA antidote to this toxic political issue. But there is another possible, if unlikely, outcome next week. Labour sources say there is a "three-month rule" at the NEC, which means the party's ruling body cannot return to exactly the same subject for further debate during this period. I'm told at least some of those who oppose adopting all the IHRA examples are considering invoking this - trying to defer the whole issue until the Labour conference in late September. That, of course, would mean that an anti-Semitism row would almost certainly overshadow that event. It's hard to believe that the leadership would welcome this. Some NEC members tell me that as anti-Semitism will now formally be on the agenda it is inconceivable that it won't be discussed. Nonetheless, there could be a procedural wrangle next week before anything of substance is debated. A demonstration is being planned by the Camden Momentum group - which takes a quite different view from Momentum's founder and NEC member Jon Lansman - outside next week's meeting, highlighting differences on the Left over this issue. It doesn't want the NEC to endorse the full IHRA document - and wants any decision to be taken by Labour's rank and file members. Last week the Camden group passed the following motion: "The members elected Jeremy Corbyn. The IHRA definition would return the party to the right which we voted down by a large majority - twice. Therefore, the members, not the NEC, nor the PLP, must decide whether or not to adopt the IHRA examples. WE DEMAND THAT THE DECISION BE PUT TO A VOTE OF ALL LABOUR PARTY MEMBERS'." Also on the NEC agenda is a discussion of Labour's long-running Democracy Review. Rule changes arising from this review - for example, a further reduction in MPs' influence in nominating future leadership contenders - will be put to next month's Labour conference. Reselection battle But what isn't in the Democracy Review document could be more controversial than what is. The review hasn't called for the mandatory reselection of MPs. But some local constituency parties have been proposing rule changes to the way MPs and parliamentary candidates are selected - and it's likely these will be debated at Labour's conference. They are calling for "open selections" - in other words sitting MPs could be challenged by other party members between each scheduled general election. And it's possible that they could get the backing of the influential left-wing Momentum group for this controversial change. Momentum's current position is to reform the existing system of selecting candidates - where MPs aren't automatically challenged. But if Momentum decides to back open selections following a meeting of its leadership on Saturday, it's more likely the Labour conference will do likewise. I'm told there is strong grassroots pressure to do so. The influential Unite union's official policy is also to support the mandatory reselection of MPs. Labour former deputy leader Lord Hattersley has already warned that this could provoke a split. And very senior and current figures in the party are privately warning that while there may not be a huge split, the party could splinter - with a handful of MPs initially sitting as independents in protest. As politicians return to Westminster next week, Jeremy Corbyn will face the twin challenges of how to hold his party together and how to reach a consensus on tackling anti-Semitism.

यहूदी-विरोध के बारे में एक कड़वा आंतरिक विवाद पूरे गर्मियों में लेबर पार्टी के मीडिया कवरेज पर हावी रहा है-और नेतृत्व यह सुनिश्चित करने के लिए उत्सुक है कि यह अगले महीने अपने वार्षिक सम्मेलन में पार्टी के संदेश को नहीं डुबोए।


Cyber-attack glossary: What are malware, patches and worms?

Summary: Ransomware called WannaCry has spread across 150 countries, earned its makers about $50,000 (£39,000) so far and in doing so, thrown some hospitals in England in to disarray as doctors could not access patient records. It was the story of the weekend and is still ongoing - but if the terms involved were new to you, read on. Malware

Short for "malicious software", this is a programme written to disrupt computers or the networks between them. WannaCry falls in to this category. Ransomware A programme that scrambles a computer's files, demanding payment before they can be opened again. WannaCry asked for $300 in a virtual currency. Ransomware is not new, but WannaCry spread to more computers than previous ransomware attacks - and, because it hit computers used in hospital trusts, had a bigger impact that previous attempts. Virus A type of malware that spreads when people do things like inserting USB sticks with viruses in them, and downloading infected files. These are the reason why we are all warned not to open attachments in unexpected emails. Worm A type of virus that can spread from computer to computer by itself. Vulnerability A flaw in software that can be exploited to disrupt computers or networks Patch A software update that fixes a vulnerability. These do not exist for operating systems that are no longer supported by their makers. Operating system The important software that makes the whole computer run, from the user interface to memory, security, and applications. This might be iOS on an iPhone, Android on other smartphones, Mac OS X, Linux or Windows. Companies release new operating systems every few years; Microsoft's latest is Windows 10, which followed Windows 8.1. Windows XP, was first released in 2001 - a long time ago in technology terms - and Microsoft stopped supporting it in 2014. That means they stopped issuing security updates for vulnerabilities. Bitcoin A digital currency, in which the WannaCry makers asked for their ransom payments. It is easy to keep offline identities private when using BitCoin. The value of the currency fluctuates considerably, making it difficult to meet a ransom payment exactly. Kill switch A way to shut down the spread of a virus or worm. A 22-year-old security specialist from England found WannaCry's kill switch accidentally while trying to track its spread. But he and others have warned that the people behind WannaCry could change it to get around the kill switch he found.

वानाक्राई नामक रैनसमवेयर 150 देशों में फैला हुआ है, इसके निर्माताओं ने अब तक लगभग 50,000 डॉलर (39,000 पाउंड) कमाए हैं और ऐसा करते हुए, इंग्लैंड के कुछ अस्पतालों को अस्त-व्यस्त कर दिया क्योंकि डॉक्टर रोगियों के रिकॉर्ड तक नहीं पहुंच सके। यह सप्ताहांत की कहानी थी और अभी भी चल रही है-लेकिन अगर इसमें शामिल शब्द आपके लिए नए थे, तो पढ़ें। मैलवेयर


His Dark Materials: Behind the scenes of the TV adaptation

Summary: Ahead of the eight-part dramatisation of the first of Philip Pullman's best-selling His Dark Materials novels, the BBC's Sian Lloyd describes her sneak-preview behind-the-scenes set visit earlier this year.

By Sian LloydCorrespondent, BBC News Huddled around braziers filled with warm coals or sitting with blankets wrapped over shoulders, close to a hundred shivering extras are trying to keep the cold at bay. They are the Gyptians, the nomadic closely-knit boat-dwelling tribe at the centre of Pullman's trilogy, who are about to get some disturbing news. In the real world, we're on the site of a former ironworks in Blaenavon in the south Wales valleys. There's snow on the ground, and temperatures are still plummeting. Cast members and crew have gathered for the opening scenes from the series, which covers the events of the novel Northern Lights, and which receives its premiere in London on Tuesday. The book has been adapted by the award-winning Jack Thorne (Shameless, Skins, The Fades) and filming has taken place almost entirely at locations across Wales. The first book in the trilogy also had the Hollywood treatment in 2007. The Golden Compass starred Daniel Craig, Nicole Kidman and Dakota Blue Richards. The fantastical story centres on a girl called Lyra whose sheltered life in a version of Oxford in an alternative universe is turned upside down by the arrival of the mesmerising but sinister Mrs Coulter. Lyra, played by 14-year-old British and Spanish actress Dafne Keen, finds herself embarking on a dangerous adventure meeting giant polar bears, witches and evil villains, Mrs Coulter is played by Ruth Wilson and Lyra's uncle Lord Asriel is played by James McAvoy. Six months later, on a warm summer's day, another main cast member, the acclaimed Lin-Manuel Miranda, strides across a studio floor in Cardiff. The production has predominantly been filmed inside a former factory, which is now home to the 250,000 sq ft, state-of-the-art Wolf Studios Wales - and that's in no small part to the unpredictable weather. Miranda, best known as the Tony award-winning creator and star of the musical Hamilton, leaps into a metal shell resting against a vast green screen. "Welcome to my hot air balloon," he grins, explaining he plays the part of aeronaut Lee Scoresby, who he describes as a "Han Solo-type figure" who helps Lyra on her journey. "When you see this on the screen, it'll be flying through the clouds," he laughs, all thanks to computer generated technology. The American actor describes himself as a huge fan of the Pullman books, which he first discovered in 2005. His Dark Materials is made up of three novels; Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. They've been translated into 40 languages and sold close to 18 million copies worldwide. Miranda says he's thrilled to be part of the landmark series and didn't need to think twice when he was approached to play the part. He describes every day's filming as "a new adventure". "Today I'm swinging in the hot air balloon, tomorrow I'm having a bar fight, tussling with stuntmen all day." And while he says it's not the same buzz as performing before an audience, he says he's equally enjoying this experience. "The energy comes from knowing we are not coming back to this, from being ever present because you know this is the day to get this done and that's the substitute to an audience for me," he says. He's also enthusiastic about his time spent in Wales, having made Cardiff his home for months at a time - and delighting locals with regular appearances at a karaoke club in the Welsh capital. This will be one of the most expensive dramas yet to be shown on the BBC. The cost, which isn't being revealed, is being shared with HBO, the US network which will distribute the drama internationally. Jane Tranter, the executive producer of His Dark Materials and co- founder of the independent production company Bad Wolf, describes it as "the most challenging piece of work she has undertaken". Tranter recognises that many of Pullman's fans have waited decades for this and says the production is staying true to the original books. "These are glorious works of literature, why would we want to mess with them?" she says. But she adds that eight, hour-long episodes devoted to each book, will allow opportunity to delve deeper and further. "Philip Pullman leaves these little threads in his work, where there is a hint at someone's back story, or a hint at what someone might be doing when something else is happening. We can pull at these threads and make a little more of them." She describes working through the complex and deeply imaginative piece of work as a "hugely ambitious" feat. In Lyra's world everyone has a daemon, a physical version of their inner self which takes the form of an animal, which can appear alongside them or about their body. Dafne Keen says the standout things for her about the story are "the main character is a young girl and that it goes very deep". "If a nine year-old watches it they will only see the adventure, an adult will see all the layers… and it is very dark," she adds. To help the actors perform, each scene is rehearsed with a 3D-puppet of the animal which has been painstaking created to replicate the CGI form that will be added in post- production. Operated by a puppeteer, it allows the actor to get a sense of the correct space. The scene is then recorded without the puppet being present. Ruth Wilson says one of the most compelling parts of the story was the daemons. "It is very unusual and different, an animal soul mate is an intriguing element for us all," she says. Lee Scoresby's daemon is an arctic hare named Hester and Manuel admits he's become quite attached to the creature made from rope and foam, welcoming him on set like an old friend. Overall, Manuel says he became engrossed in Pullman's work by its complexity and themes, adding "it takes on life and death, love and growing up and losing people". Unusually, work is already well under way on filming the second series even before the first has been shown. This, the BBC says, demonstrates its commitment to an iconic work which resonates with young and older audiences alike. His Dark Materials begins on BBC One on Sunday 3 November. Follow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

फिलिप पुलमैन के सबसे अधिक बिकने वाले उनके डार्क मैटेरियल्स उपन्यासों में से पहले के आठ-भाग के नाटकीयकरण से पहले, बीबीसी के सियान लॉयड ने इस साल की शुरुआत में पर्दे के पीछे की उनकी गुप्त-पूर्वावलोकन यात्रा का वर्णन किया है।


St Valery: Pipers pay tribute on anniversary of 'forgotten Dunkirk'

Summary: Pipers have paid tribute to the thousands of Scots who were killed or captured in the Battle of St Valery.

The French fishing port was the site of the last stand by the soldiers of the 51st Highland Division 80 years ago. The battle was immortalised in the march Heroes of St Valery, which was composed by Pipe Major Donald MacLean - one of those captured. It was performed by an estimated 500 pipers across the world to mark the anniversary of the "forgotten Dunkirk". Prince Charles took the salute from a piper at Birkhall on Friday, while wreaths were laid in Edinburgh and Aberdeen. All images are copyrighted.

पाइपर्स ने सेंट वैलेरी की लड़ाई में मारे गए या पकड़े गए हजारों स्कॉट्स को श्रद्धांजलि दी है।


Man admits Tesco store bomb hoax in Great Yarmouth

Summary: A man has pleaded guilty to a bomb hoax at a Tesco store.

A suspicious package was found after a telephone threat was made to the Pasteur Road store in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, on 6 March 2015. At Norwich Crown Court on Monday, Stewart Nightingale, aged 42, of Hazel Grove, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, admitted one count of blackmail and one of making a bomb hoax. Nightingale will be sentenced at Norwich Crown Court on 22 March.

एक व्यक्ति ने टेस्को स्टोर में बम की अफवाह फैलाने का अपराध स्वीकार कर लिया है।


Abortion: Northern Ireland surgeon talks of termination after 15 years

Summary: Abortion is a divisive issue in Northern Ireland, and in a two-part series I speak to two women who made very different decisions about their pregnancies. In part one, a County Antrim surgeon decides to go public after 15 years of keeping her abortion a secret.

By Marie-Louise ConnollyBBC News NI Health Correspondent Doctor Eunice Minford said women who choose to have an abortion should not have to be diagnosed as being mentally ill in order for a termination to take place. She said she was breaking her silence as she could no longer tolerate women who have had terminations being made to feel that they are hiding "some kind of dirty little secret". Dr Minford had an abortion in 2001. She said she hoped that by speaking up it would inspire others to do the same and "claim what is true for them". "To show we don't have to hang our heads in shame; we can walk tall and know that we make a true choice that was right for us at the time we had the abortion," she added. Dr Minford became pregnant when she was studying for her final surgical exams in England in 2001. Secret Aged 35, she said discovering she was pregnant was her worst nightmare come true. "I was hard on myself," she said. "I beat myself up. "I judged myself even more so because I am a doctor and doctors are supposed to know better - we aren't supposed to make mistakes. "There was very little compassion for myself at the time. "This became, as it did for many others, their dirty little secret that they can't feel they can tell people about. "I told my partner at the time and one other person and it was like that for years." Unlike the rest of the UK, abortion is only permitted in Northern Ireland if a woman's life is at risk or there is a permanent or serious risk to her mental or physical health. Dr Minford said it was wrong and unacceptable that women who find themselves unexpectedly pregnant have to be examined by a psychiatrist with a risk of being diagnosed with a mental health problem before they can access abortion services. "We do not have to be deemed mentally ill in order to make that decision," she said. "Again this is part of the patriarchal supremacy and the domination of a woman that we have tended to submit to." Truth She said women had to stand up and say "no, this is not acceptable - we know our own bodies, our own minds". "We are the world expert on our own life and we are capable of making that choice without needing those assessments and being deemed mentally unwell." I asked how she was able to marry her conviction that women should be allowed to choose to abort a foetus, with her role as a doctor who often saves lives. "Yes, I work in the health service helping people, but what motivates me is my love of God, of helping people and the truth," she said. Dr Minford is planning to publish a blog about her abortion experience, and she hopes it will both help and inform others. During the interview, she recalled the fear instilled in young women in Northern Ireland about becoming pregnant while unmarried. "I don't believe any young girl or woman grows up thinking: 'Oh, when I grow up I'm going to have an abortion', or that she wants to have an abortion," she said. "It is not something we desire or aspire to or plan. "I did not consider myself that sort of person who has an unplanned pregnancy." Compassion Northern Ireland's abortion debate has stepped up a gear. The recent suspended sentence given to a young woman who bought abortion pills online has thrown the issue back onto the news agenda. Dr Minford described herself as being like a closed book. But she said she was so passionate about informing the debate that she was prepared to risk her reputation. "There is very much pro-life and pro-choice," she said. "It becomes them and us and who is right and who is wrong. "But at the end of the day there is no them and us - there is only us and I feel we need to develop more understanding and compassion for women and where they are at. "We are only human." Dr Minford is keen to stress that these are her personal views and should not be related to her role in the health service. On Thursday I will hear from Gemma Bradley, who made a very different decision about her pregnancy.

उत्तरी आयरलैंड में गर्भपात एक विभाजनकारी मुद्दा है, और दो भागों की श्रृंखला में मैं दो महिलाओं से बात करती हूं जिन्होंने अपनी गर्भावस्था के बारे में बहुत अलग निर्णय लिए। भाग एक में, एक काउंटी एंट्रिम सर्जन ने अपने गर्भपात को गुप्त रखने के 15 वर्षों के बाद सार्वजनिक रूप से जाने का फैसला किया।


Plaque to mark Wainwright journey at Settle station

Summary: A Blue Plaque commemorating the start of a 200-mile walk by the author Alfred Wainwright is to be unveiled at a North Yorkshire railway station.

Wainwright, whose walking guide books became synonymous with the Lakeland fells, undertook a marathon walk of 211 miles from Settle station in 1938. Known as his "Pennine journey" Wainwright walked from the station to Hadrian's Wall and back. The plaque and an information board about the walk will be unveiled. In September 1938, Wainwright left Settle on a walk he had planned for some time. The ceremony to unveil the plaque has been timed to coincide with the 73rd anniversary of the start of Wainwright's epic walk.

लेखक अल्फ्रेड वेनराइट द्वारा 200 मील पैदल चलने की शुरुआत की याद में उत्तरी यॉर्कशायर रेलवे स्टेशन पर एक नीली पट्टिका का अनावरण किया जाना है।


Jersey shop-fitting company shuts leading to 28 job losses

Summary: Nearly 30 jobs have been lost at a Jersey shop-fitting firm which ceased trading due to the death of its owner.

Premier Contracting and Shop-fitting had been trading in Jersey for the past 23 years. In March, director Richard Brocken, who had been involved in the business since 1992, died suddenly, and his family decided to cease trading. All 28 staff would be offered professional redundancy support, the firm said. The Five Oaks company had been involved in a range of projects across the island for the past two decades.

जर्सी की एक दुकान-फिटिंग फर्म में लगभग 30 नौकरियां चली गई हैं, जिसने अपने मालिक की मृत्यु के कारण व्यापार बंद कर दिया था।


Internet troll jailed over tweets to Leanne Wood

Summary: An internet troll has been jailed for 12 weeks for offensive comments posted on Twitter to Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood.

David Begley, 47, from Gorseinon, Swansea, made references to rape in messages to Ms Wood as she appeared on a TV debate about the referendum. Begley, a music promoter and DJ, admitted sending a communication conveying an offensive message. He was sentenced at Swansea Magistrates' Court. Ms Wood represented the Remain campaign in debates during the build-up to the referendum vote. Stephen Harrett, defending, said: "He sent the message on the spur of the moment."

प्लैड साइमरू के नेता लीएन वुड पर ट्विटर पर आपत्तिजनक टिप्पणी करने के लिए एक इंटरनेट ट्रॉल को 12 सप्ताह की जेल की सजा सुनाई गई है।


Does China heed Britain's wooing?

Summary: An indispensible partnership. That is how David Cameron and his Chinese hosts have agreed to dub their new relationship - forged at what the prime minister today called "warm and successful" meetings in the Great Hall of the People.

Nick RobinsonPolitical editor Speaking to a lunch of 500 UK and China-based business leaders, he risked speaking a few words in Mandarin designed to sum up the foundations of that partnership - translated the key phrase was "in both sides' interests" This morning Mr Cameron began a day in Shanghai in a London black cab - the firm that makes them is now owned by the Chinese. He wants not just to secure more investment in Britain but to sell British products here, from building hospitals to sports cars to - unlikely as it may sound -exporting pig semen, worth an eye watering £45 million a year. Are the Chinese noticing all this wooing? Business leaders insist they are, but one nationalist newspaper said today that their visitor should acknowledge that the UK is not a big power in the eyes of the Chinese. The editorial in Global Times concluded: "It's just an old European country, apt for travel and study." The prime minister is out to prove them wrong.

एक अपरिहार्य साझेदारी। इस तरह डेविड कैमरन और उनके चीनी मेजबान अपने नए रिश्ते को डब करने के लिए सहमत हुए हैं-जिसे प्रधानमंत्री ने आज ग्रेट हॉल ऑफ द पीपल में "गर्मजोशी और सफल" बैठकें कहा है।


When will UK rural areas get fast-speed fibre internet?

Summary: In the picturesque village of St Agnes in Cornwall, you can't get a mobile telephone signal unless you jump up and down in the middle of the road but you can get super-fast broadband, offering speeds of up to 100Mbps (megabits per second).

By Jane WakefieldTechnology reporter By June 2014, the majority of the county and the neighbouring Scilly Isles will be enjoying the same, thanks to a network being laid by BT, funded in part by the European Regional Development Fund. What is much more unclear is whether that can be replicated around the rest of the country. Developments in Cornwall are being keenly watched by BDUK - Broadband Delivery UK - the group set up to oversee rural broadband rollout in the UK. It has allocated every council in the UK a pot of money to help them build similar fibre networks. Councils must choose someone to lay it and provide some cash to fund it. So far only a handful of councils have chosen a supplier - and BT has won in every case, in most cases it has been the sole bidder. BT's dominance may mean that the whole project - which requires state aid approval from the EU - could be considered anti-competitive. Even if approval is given soon and each council begins rollouts, the Cornish example suggests that the government could still fall short of its target to have universal broadband by 2015. BT began its Cornish deployment in 2010 and will not complete it until 2014. "The later the start, the harder it will be to finish by a fixed end date," said Ranulf Scarborough, BT's director of Superfast Cornwall. Wine club Those living in areas with poor or non-existent broadband are getting fed up with waiting. Rob Trethewey, chairman of Trispen village parish council knows the feeling well. Until last year, he lived in a not-spot. "Twelve months ago we'd be very lucky to get half a meg," he said. "We had dial-up and you had to sit down and wait. That was very much the norm." The lack of good broadband had been the major complaint of residents of the Cornish notspot for three or four years, he added. Now homes are enjoying speeds of up to 40Mbps. They aren't doing anything particularly earth-shattering with it. "They can work from home, shop from home. Children can do their homework," said Mr Trethewey. Normal life then, basically. For the Driftwood Spars, an inn and hotel in St Agnes, a fast internet connection means that, in an age when many pubs are closing their doors, it can diversify. It offers a conference centre for a variety of local businesses and residents, including the local wine club can which can hook up via Skype to wine-growers around the world. It keeps the pub at the centre of the community and allows both to thrive, said proprietor and chair of the St Agnes Chamber of Commerce, Lou Treseder. Nine years If St Agnes residents are pleased to have fast broadband, then Alun Morgan, founder of electrical resistor firm Arcol, is positively delighted by the speed of his connection. Just down the road from the village he is benefiting from a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) - also sometime known as Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) - connection which is beginning to offer some speeds of 330Mbps, a definite improvement on the 1.5Mbps speeds he got just six months ago. "We have 40 people working here and it meant that if one set of people were receiving emails, another set couldn't," he said. "People were going home to read emails at night." Now the picture is somewhat different. "It enables us to do all sorts of things, things that we had only dreamt of before," he said. "Cloud-based back-up takes about 10 minutes, previously it would have been about nine days so we wouldn't even have considered it." His firm has also been chosen as the hub for what BT is claiming as a world first - a 10Gbps connection which is being tested between the Truro telephone exchange and his office. It is hard to find things to fill that amount of bandwidth but early tests suggest it is working. Railway line BT admits that there will be about 10% of homes - or 20,000 people - in Cornwall which won't be reached by fibre. For them, it has been testing a new bit of technology - called the broadband regenerator - which it hopes can squeeze a fairly decent speed - up to 5Mbps - out of lines that have struggled before. Broadband regenerators will replace previously touted alternatives such as 4G and White Space, both of which have been previously trialled by BT. The remaining 1-2% will have to rely on satellite. Daniel Heery, who runs a community-based fibre network in Alston, Cumbria, believes that the figure of 10% properties that remain hard-to-reach in Cornwall will be replicated around the country when BDUK projects start to kick in. "Councils are going to be hard-pressed to negotiate for BT to really stretch the limits of where it goes it," he said. For those stuck in the final 10%, there are plenty of innovative community-based schemes popping up. He estimates there are about 50 fibre-based community projects in various stages of readiness around the UK. His project, CyberMoor, offers Fibre-to-the-Home to 40 properties in Alston, Cumbria. In Dorset a scheme known as Trailway to the Future, aims to use part of an old railway line to provide fibre to the home to five villages. Getting broadband to every nook and cranny of the UK is not going to be easy, but many feel that it is worth finding innovative ways to future proof even the remotest parts of the UK. David Cullen is a telecoms veteran and founder of NYnet which runs a fibre network in Yorkshire. "I feel that we may be heading down a technology cul-de-sac at the moment," he said. "We need to think ahead and maybe take a leap of faith with suppliers other than BT who can't access the copper network so have to think of alternatives."

कॉर्नवॉल के सेंट एग्नेस के सुरम्य गाँव में, आपको तब तक मोबाइल टेलीफोन सिग्नल नहीं मिल सकता है जब तक कि आप सड़क के बीच में ऊपर-नीचे नहीं कूदते हैं, लेकिन आप 100Mbps (मेगाबिट प्रति सेकंड) की गति की पेशकश करते हुए सुपर-फास्ट ब्रॉडबैंड प्राप्त कर सकते हैं।


M54 Shifnal skull discovery slip road shut

Summary: A motorway slip road where a man's skull and other bones were found has been sealed off as police return to search for more evidence.

The eastbound exit to junction 4 of the M54 at Shifnal, Shropshire is closed while mild weather allows forensic teams to keep working. A skull was found by maintenance workers on 20 August and police found further skeletal remains close by. Tests showed the bones had been at the scene for more than two years. Det Ch Insp Neil Jamieson, from West Mercia Police, said: "I am keen to ensure that we have done all we can to recover all of the remains and any personal property which may have belonged to this individual. "We are currently awaiting results from the forensic laboratory and are compiling a database of missing persons across the region."

एक मोटरवे स्लिप रोड जहाँ एक आदमी की खोपड़ी और अन्य हड्डियाँ मिली थीं, को सील कर दिया गया है क्योंकि पुलिस अधिक सबूतों की तलाश में लौट रही है।


Families fear being 'left with zero' if school meal scheme ends

Summary: Marcus Rashford's plea to the government to reverse its decision not to continue funding free school meals over the long summer break , has struck a chord with parents who have been relying on food vouchers to feed their families during lockdown.

By Judith BurnsEducation reporter On Monday, in response to the footballer's letter, the government confirmed that its voucher scheme in England would "not run during the summer holidays". But families have told the BBC it will prove very difficult for them when food vouchers, worth £15 per child per week, stop at the end of term. In Leicester, 15-year-old Dev says he and his 13-year-old brother would be eating poorer quality food without the vouchers. His parents would have to rely on "cheap, cheap meals - the type that make you full for about an hour", he says. "Unfortunately unhealthy food is the cheapest - food that you shouldn't really be feeding kids." Dev is a member of the Bite Back youth campaign for better nutrition for young people whose petition to extend free school meal vouchers over the summer has more than 250,000 signatures. He argues that if the UK wants to fight inequality and help his generation achieve their best for the country, all children - whether rich or poor - need access to nutritious food. In Brent, north London, Susan Bleau, is considering sending her 11-year-old daughter to stay with her ex-partner's family in Birmingham, if there are no free school meals vouchers over the summer. Her daughter's primary school has helped her access vouchers from the government scheme and the school has been delivering food parcels every Friday. Susan has just returned to her part-time job having been furloughed since March - but the knock-on effect of a 20% cut in income under furlough has left her finances stretched. If the food voucher scheme isn't extended over the summer, she says: "I would have to get some form of help". Fortunately she and her daughter get on well with their extended family, who can support them. "They're better off than me - but I need to check what their plans are for the summer," says Susan. In Pershore, Worcestershire, Jane Keen-Smith, a mother of four boys and a self-employed hairdresser has seen her livelihood collapse during the lockdown. Underlying health conditions in the family - one son is severely disabled - mean she will be unable to work even once hairdressers are allowed to return next month. She told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme that having the vouchers continue over the summer would be "a huge help". Both women struggled at first to redeem the vouchers - but the scheme is currently working well, they say. 'Left with zero' "I get the £60 a week for them... It makes a massive difference," says Jane. Unless the government changes its plans, the prospect of not being able to work and not having the vouchers throughout the summer is daunting. "I'll have no income and we'll have no free school meal vouchers so it's going to make us stuck really because we're in a position that we've never been in before," says Jane. "And so then we're left with zero, so we don't know what we're going to do." She has had some help from friends and family during lockdown but teenage boys are "bottomless hunger pits" she says - so her budget is extremely tight. "We're basically struggling with everything." "We're stuck in this position and we don't know how long it's going to be for," Jane says. The continuation of the scheme over the Easter holiday and half term was an enormous help, she says, but is worried at the prospect of being without it over the six-week summer break. "It's going to be very difficult," she says.

मार्कस रशफोर्ड की सरकार से लंबी गर्मी की छुट्टी पर मुफ्त स्कूल भोजन जारी रखने के अपने फैसले को वापस लेने की याचिका ने उन माता-पिता के साथ तालमेल बिठाया है जो लॉकडाउन के दौरान अपने परिवारों को खिलाने के लिए भोजन वाउचर पर भरोसा कर रहे हैं।