Branagh: From Shakespeare to Cinderella

Summary: If you know the films of Sir Kenneth Branagh there is something familiar about Cinderella's ballroom dance scene, when the Prince swirls her round in a glow of colour and light, all captured in bold, sweeping camera movements.

By Samira AhmedPresenter, Front Row Branagh used a similar visual style in his big-budget 1994 film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, in which he also starred as the overambitious scientist. That film performed poorly at the US box office and marked a period in the relative wilderness for the hitherto golden boy of British theatre and film. The experience may also explain Branagh's return to form as a first-league Hollywood director 21 years later, with his live-action Cinderella now a major box office hit. He was always on sure ground with critically acclaimed cinematic treatments of classic Shakespeare and more recently opera such as The Magic Flute (2006). Transferring that depth to mass-market family entertainment has been key to his breakthrough, starting with Thor in 2011. Branagh went out to LA to pitch to direct Thor, the Marvel film that transformed the fortunes of the comic-book-based studio. Not an obvious choice, he convinced them to let him inject Shakespearean grandeur and acting into Thor's Norse mythological world. Like an Elizabethan actor-manager he draws on an evolving "company" of great and diverse stage actors (Anthony Hopkins as Odin in Thor, Derek Jacobi as the ageing King and Nonso Alozie in Cinderella) prepared to put in deep preparation. Branagh's awards Twenty-nine wins and 56 nominations, including: Richard Madden, who plays Prince Charming, said he was made to read Machiavelli's Renaissance text on statecraft, The Prince. Perhaps most importantly, Branagh emphasises brilliant, damaged villains who win legions of adoring fans. Hungry for success He has compared Tom Hiddleston's Loki in the Thor films with Cate Blanchett's femme-fatale stepmother. Branagh is clearly a master, not the slave, of the computer-generated imagery (CGI) effects demanded of both superheroes and Cinderella's impressive transformations. It is a lesson learnt perhaps from the CGI-mad disaster of Wild, Wild West (1999), in which he played the scenery-chewing villain. Crucially, Branagh is hungry for mainstream success, making a straight action film Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) to prove it. As he told The Scotsman recently: "I wanted the chance to do something in a form where more people would see it." Cinderella, shot on real film stock, looks sumptuous, but Branagh has had to defend it against accusations from some critics that the movie is too old-fashioned and does not do enough to challenge the passive endurance of abuse in the traditional story. Dark disagreements At the Berlin Festival premiere of the film he said Cinderella has "a strength of character that is sort of a form of non-violent resistance". Disagreement with Disney over the darker version conceived by the original signed director Mark Romanek is reported to be the reason the American left the project in 2013. Disney's Maleficent (2014), a live-action retelling of the 1959 Sleeping Beauty from the wicked fairy's point of view, suggested a desire to play with darkness, though many critics felt it fell short of its promise. However, Maleficent did well with audiences and, in the light of Cinderella's similar success, Branagh's upbeat approach appears to be the template for the live-action remake projects ahead. Cinderella on the big screen The Jungle Book, starring Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson and Idris Elba, is scheduled for release in 2016. Like Lily James in Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast will star another Downton Abbey alumnus, Dan Stevens (Matthew Crawley) as the Beast alongside Emma Watson as Belle. Remaking classics By strange coincidence, there is a Frankenstein connection for its director, Bill Condon, who made his Hollywood directorial debut with his own screenplay of Gods and Monsters about the celebrated 1931 Frankenstein horror film. Tim Burton, best known for his own love of the Gothic, is back with Disney for Dumbo after Alice In Wonderland (2010), which - even more than Maleficient - defied poor reviews to be a huge box-office hit. Disney now owns both Marvel and the Star Wars franchises and appears to be committed to a major strategy of remaking its back catalogue of animated classics for a modern family audience, and building on the worldwide success of its new animated princesses in Frozen. Rival Universal studios is thought to be going back to its own classic catalogue for remakes. It has had mixed success with dark fairytale reboots. Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) fared much better than Hansel and Gretel: Witchhunters (2013) or Jack The Giant Slayer (2013). Universal turns out to have been ahead of the game though, with its remake of The Mummy (1999). Now it is thought that Dracula and Frankenstein may well be brought back to life. In a way, it is all thanks to Branagh, who has proved that with courage as a superpower and a little Disney magic anyone can be transformed into Hollywood royalty.

यदि आप सर केनेथ ब्रानघ की फिल्मों को जानते हैं तो सिंड्रेला के बॉलरूम नृत्य दृश्य के बारे में कुछ परिचित है, जब राजकुमार रंग और प्रकाश की चमक में उसके चारों ओर घूमता है, जो सभी बोल्ड, स्वीपिंग कैमरा मूवमेंट्स में कैद होते हैं।


Death of man in 'shorts and socks' in Packmoor investigated

Summary: A man has died after being seen covered in blood, in just a pair of shorts and socks, trying to get into people's cars, police say.

Staffordshire Police, which was called to the Packmoor area of Stoke-on-Trent at 13:35 BST on Monday, said witnesses reported the 26-year-old was also acting aggressively towards people. The force said he was detained outside a pub before being taken to hospital, going into cardiac arrest on the way. He was pronounced dead at about 18:20. Police wish to speak to anyone who saw him in the hours before he was found. The ambulance service alerted police after reports of a man in distress on Turnhurst Road. The dead man's family has been informed, say police, who describe him as local.

पुलिस का कहना है कि खून से लथपथ एक व्यक्ति की मौत हो गई है, जो सिर्फ एक जोड़ी शॉर्ट्स और मोजे में लोगों की कारों में चढ़ने की कोशिश कर रहा था।


Four murder arrests follow death of woman in Birstall

Summary: Two men, a woman and a teenager have been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a woman in West Yorkshire.

The 19-year-old was found unresponsive at a flat off Raikes Lane, Birstall, shortly after midnight. Despite medical attention from paramedics she died at the scene, West Yorkshire Police said. The men, aged 20 and 19, and two females, aged 23 and 17, remain in custody for questioning. Police investigations are ongoing and anyone with information is urged to get in touch.

वेस्ट यॉर्कशायर में एक महिला की मौत के बाद हत्या के संदेह में दो पुरुषों, एक महिला और एक किशोर को गिरफ्तार किया गया है।


'There is no word for Down’s syndrome in my language'

Summary: When Elly Kitaly gave birth to her son she found out he had Down's syndrome. She realised that the condition was so ignored in her country, Tanzania, that there was not even an adequate word in her language, Swahili.

This is Elly's account of her journey to find out why. Waiting for an internal flight at Dar es Salaam's airport, a young accountant started making conversation with me. "Why are you flying to Arusha?" he asked. I told him I was going to meet a friend I had made on Instagram. She is a mother, like me. Her son is four, like mine, and just like my son Chadron, he has Down's syndrome. "What's Down's syndrome?" he asked. This is a question I get often in Tanzania. It doesn't matter how educated you are, no-one seems to know what it is. I geared myself up to give my well-practised explanation. I wanted to switch into our language, Swahili, but I knew I had to keep to English because there isn't a good-enough word for Down's syndrome in Swahili. From dwarf to zombie: the problematic terms used in Swahili to describe Down's syndrome Mlimbuko dalili dumazi - this term is used in the Swahili dictionary for disabled people but I never hear anyone use it in real life. Doctors aren't even aware of it. "Dumazi" translates as dwarf and I have a suspicion that is because that is a translation of the word down - as in down low or short. This is a mistranslation because, while one of the symptoms can be stunted growth, Down's syndrome actually gets its name from the doctor who first observed all its characteristics together - John Langdon Down. Taahira - this is the term I hear used most often. Its English equivalent is retard. Just like retard it is a highly offensive insult. But unlike in English, it hasn't been replaced by a term like "learning disability". Other insults with a similar meaning are "mazazeta" and "zuzu". Mtindio wa ubongo - this is the most socially acceptable term and you'll hear officials use it, but it isn't accurate as it means cerebral palsy. Ndondocha - this slang loosely means zombie, as in someone who has been possessed. It refers to the belief that witch doctors can cast spells to make people mentally disabled. It can also be used to mean someone who has been cursed by their ancestors. My language is a reflection of my country - it can sometime feel like Down's syndrome (DS) doesn't exist in Tanzania. Take my fellow passenger at the airport. I explained to him that there are some common physical signs of DS, like slanted eyes and a flat nose. He looked blank. So I showed him pictures and he said he hadn't seen people like this before. We boarded our flight and the conversation came to an end but it got me thinking. Looking back, I realised that growing up, I'd never seen a person with DS either. Not at school, not in the market, and not at church. I was barely aware of the condition until I gave birth to my own son. I remember frantically Googling it in my hospital bed. Find out more Listen to Don't Hide My Son, on The Documentary, on the BBC World Service, on 4 June Click here for transmission times, or to listen online I learnt that the most common form of Down's syndrome is trisomy 21, trisomy meaning third chromosome. You can think of chromosomes as the instruction manuals for how to build your body. It's typical to have 23 instruction manuals, each in duplicate, but people with trisomy 21 have an extra, third, copy of manual 21. Crucially, I learnt that this extra chromosome comes about as a result of random events during the development of the embryo, egg or sperm cells. If it's random, it can occur just as much in Tanzania as any other country. Given that, why hadn't I, or my new accountant friend, seen anyone with DS in public? With this question in mind, I arrived in Arusha and met my Instagram friend, Magreth Paschal, for the first time in real life. As we sat at her home admiring her plants from her floristry business, she told me the first she had heard of the condition was when her son was diagnosed. Like me, she hadn't seen people with DS at all when she was growing up. She suspected that this was because parents had been shamed into hiding their children. The reason she held this suspicion was because of something that happened to her when her son Jotham was a baby. A customer of hers had made a shocking accusation in a text message. She'd kept the message and read it out loud to me: "Shame on you for going to the witch doctor and sacrificing your son just so that you can get rich." I had heard of this idea before because I had been told that people had said similar things about me. It's a complicated belief to get your head around. Some people in Tanzania think that people have DS because their parents have gone to the witch doctor to cast a spell to make themselves rich and have given their own child's mental capabilities as a sacrifice. More on Tanzania and witchcraft: Magreth was incredibly sad that someone would make such an accusation about her. "After I received the text, I couldn't even continue to feed the baby. I just cried and cried. It was the worst experience of my life." When she went out to the park with her son she started noticing people staring at her. "Back then I was not comfortable to go out in public with my son because some people looked at me as if I'm a sinful person," she told me. She felt people judging her most when she was driving with Jotham in the car - in a town where many people couldn't ever dream of owning a car in their lifetime. "That's when you give them the answer that you have used your son for the money ritual." Sitting across from Magreth, I was filled with anger. I found myself shouting: "I want the world to know that we did not go to the witchdoctor. "That isn't how we ended up with children with Down's syndrome." While the accusations made against parents are outrageous, if those parents do give in to the shame and hide their children, the consequences are heartbreaking. By locking their children away, these parents are denying them the opportunity to socialise and learn. What is Down's syndrome? Source: Global Down Syndrome Foundation Tanzanian organisations working with people with DS include: The Pearl of People with Down Syndrome foundation and Chadron's Hope Foundation. The condition can lead to smaller stature and a learning disability. But our children with DS do learn, it just takes a bit longer. Magreth and I have a shared love for videos on social media that prove this. There was one that blew my mind and I couldn't wait to to tell her about - US actor and campaigner with DS, Frank Stephens' speech at congress had gone viral. I had never seen someone with DS speak as eloquently as him before. I got in touch with Frank to ask him what circumstances had led him to be such an accomplished public speaker. He was clear - it was a result of his parents involving him in everything when he was growing up. Locking up children isn't just restricting their opportunities. It can actually create more disabilities. One physiotherapist, Godfrey Kimathy, told me when he was working in Magreth's region he found a seven-year-old girl who couldn't walk or talk or go to the toilet, not because she had DS but because she had been locked up her whole life. Her parents had locked their daughter up because their neighbours believed they had made her that way in order to become rich. But Godfrey said he couldn't even see the wealth that the neighbours were talking about. Magreth went down a different route - she became defiant against this stigma. She now takes Jotham everywhere and by doing so she hopes to change her world. And I want to change my world too by proposing the introduction of a new Swahili term - "Traisomi ishirini na moja" it's a direct translation of trisomy 21 - that extra chromosome.

जब एली किटाली ने अपने बेटे को जन्म दिया तो उसे पता चला कि उसे डाउन सिंड्रोम है। उसे एहसास हुआ कि उसके देश तंजानिया में इस स्थिति की इतनी अनदेखी की गई थी कि उसकी भाषा में स्वाहिली शब्द भी पर्याप्त नहीं था।


Heavy rain on the Isle of Man causes landslide and floods

Summary: Heavy rain has caused a landslide and flooded a number of roads on the Isle of Man, police have said.

The driver of a bus had a narrow escape when a bridge collapsed in Old Laxey and the Mountain Road was closed after a landslide at about 16:30 GMT. Police said some roads have become "impassable", adding other affected areas include Cooil Road in Douglas, Laxey, Richmond Hill and Glen Helen. The Civil Defence helped motorists who were left stranded. A police spokesman said: "We will respond to calls on a priority basis, dealing with the vulnerable first."

पुलिस ने कहा है कि भारी बारिश के कारण भूस्खलन हुआ है और आइल ऑफ मैन पर कई सड़कों पर पानी भर गया है।


#BBCtrending: The beauty queens campaigning for peace in Venezuela

Summary: Recent violence in Venezuela has claimed the lives of two former beauty queens, and now a host of pageant contestants - past and present - have called for an end to the turmoil that has disrupted the country.

BBC Trending What's popular and why In January, Monica Spear was killed during a roadside robbery, just before protests broke out in the country. And in February, Genesis Carmona was shot and killed during anti-government protests. Venezuela's murder rate is the fifth highest in the world, and was one of the reasons behind the current wave of demonstrations. In response to the violence, another former beauty queen has started a Twitter trend by calling for peace talks - and encouraging her fellow models to do the same. "We always talk about world peace, it's a typical cliché," says Angelika Hernandez - Miss Trujillo 2005 - who started the #Misses4Peace campaign, "but why not use this image to raise awareness about what is actually happening?" She says the campaign is it is avowedly apolitical, and it has seen contributions from beauty queens who are both pro- and anti-government. Her primary aim is to draw attention to what is happening in the country. "I live in Switzerland now and was seeing headlines about Ukraine, but nothing about Venezuela," she says. The hashtag has been used more than 34,000 times since February - spurred on by new photographs of beauty queens eager to help spread the message. Competitive beauty contests are a pervasive feature of Venezuelan culture. With a population of just 30 million people, the country holds 13 Miss World and Miss Universe titles - more than any other. "It's a big business here," says Hernandez, who now plans to found a charity on the back of the campaign's success, to raise funds and distribute them to those affected by the violence. Have you subscribed the BBC Trending podcast? You can do so here via iTunes or here All our stories are at BBC.com/trending

वेनेजुएला में हाल की हिंसा ने दो पूर्व सौंदर्य रानियों की जान ले ली है, और अब कई प्रतियोगिता प्रतियोगियों-अतीत और वर्तमान-ने देश को बाधित करने वाली उथल-पुथल को समाप्त करने का आह्वान किया है।


Mount Agung: Bali volcano eruption photos explained

Summary: Some of the images coming out of Mt Agung, the volcano in Bali which could be on the brink of a major eruption, have been spectacular. But the pictures also tell the story of what is going on inside, as volcanologist Janine Krippner explains.

Over the last two months Mt Agung has seen increased seismicity. This is the increased fracturing of rocks inside the volcano as magma, a volatile mixture of molten rocks, fluids and gases, moves from deep within the earth right up to the top. In the past week we have seen thick plumes of steam and ash being belched out, as well as lava glowing at the surface of the crater, and flowing rivers of cold mud down river valleys. Steam rising up In most of the first pictures of the mountain two months ago, you wouldn't have been able to tell there was an eruption brewing. That information came to us from the data within the mountain that detected its increased seismicity - and from tremors that began shaking the area. The most you would have seen is steam rising up, which was simply the water inside the volcano heating up and coming out of its surface. The mix of volcanic ash and lava that make up the mountain is like a sponge - and in rainy Indonesia the water soaks onto it and is held there until it gets heated up. Since then it has been relatively quiet and this is typical for a volcano. These fluctuations in activity are what makes it so hard to predict. Dense plumes of ash The volcano first began belching thick ash and steam last Tuesday, its first eruption in more than 50 years. This was a phreatomagmatic eruption - the expulsion of pressurised steam and rock from hot magma interacting with water inside the volcano. This can lead to a rapid expansion of water into steam causing a huge amount of pressure, which causes an explosion blasting magma, rock, and bits of the crater into tiny pieces of ash. The magma has been moving up from inside and it's breaking rock as it goes along. As the magma moves up, water inside the volcano heats up, steam builds up pressure and it gets to a point where the rock just can't hold it back any more. This is greatly enhanced by magma physically interacting with the water and that is what we are seeing now. So the magma has moved so high up the volcano there was not enough rock to hold it back, so it is being blasted into tiny pieces of ash and being spread about. Rocks, glass and crystal are flying out of the volcano. If the eruption columns or plumes of ash are going straight up regardless of wind, it means the velocity is very high. The speed at which it comes out and the amount of ash determines how high a plume can get. In the 1963 eruption of Mt Agung, eruptions reached as high as 26km (16 miles) above sea level. At volcanoes like Agung, the magma can travel 5-15km to the surface from deep within the earth leading to an eruption. The orange glow of the crater At night, the orange glow at the surface of the crater is simply incandescence because it is just so hot. The magma is at the surface, and as it reaches the surface it becomes known as lava. One of the reason the authorities increased the alert level to four is because the magma is getting higher and higher - and these images show exactly how high it is now. The volcano at sunrise But the magma is not responsible for the spectacular images of pink and orange hues in the gas at dawn. That is simply the sunrise being reflected by the ash plume - the sun's rays hitting the volcanic ash. Different shades of ash You can also learn a lot from the different shades of ash that rise up from the surface of a volcano. It's possible that pictures showing two distinct ash colours could point to two vents in the crater - one that is producing more ash and another that is producing more steam. In the 1963 eruption of Mt Agung some researchers thought that it was possible there were two vents. Dangerous rivers of mud and debris The very latest images out of Bali point to a new development, which are volcanic mud flows - or lahars. The ash and rock depositing around the volcano when combined with rain can create dangerous fast-flowing rivers with the consistency of water up to wet concrete, and that can move and raise the river level very quickly. It is not just water, they can carry debris such as boulders and trees and at the moment are something authorities are moving swiftly to warn residents about. Janine Krippner is a volcanologist in Pittsburgh, USA.

बाली के ज्वालामुखी माउंट अगुंग से निकलने वाली कुछ छवियां, जो एक बड़े विस्फोट के कगार पर हो सकती हैं, शानदार रही हैं। लेकिन ये तस्वीरें इस बात की कहानी भी बताती हैं कि अंदर क्या हो रहा है, जैसा कि ज्वालामुखी विज्ञानी जेनिन क्रिपनर बताते हैं।


Unilever and Tesco at loggerheads

Summary: It was bound to happen sooner or later.

Simon JackBusiness editor Both the boss of Unilever and the boss of Tesco have previously warned that the fall in the value of the pound since Brexit could see the price of some products rise. They are not seeing eye to eye now. A Unilever demand for a 10% rise in the wholesale price of many well-known brands has seen the UK's biggest retailer dig in its heels. Tesco boss Dave Lewis was a senior executive at Unilever, so is in a good position to read the Anglo-Dutch company's hand in this game of grocery poker. Industry sources have told the BBC that while retailers recognise the fall in the pound has put upward price pressure on some imported goods, they feel Unilever's demand for across-the-board price increases is unreasonable - not least because many of the products are produced in the UK. Retailers also feel that manufacturers are in a better position to absorb the shock of the currency move as their margins on the branded goods are between 20% and 30%, while the supermarkets generally operate on margins of between 2% and 3%. Rows between suppliers and retailers are common, but a dispute which sees supplies of much-loved brands choked off is not. Other grocers have been hit by the same demands and are still considering their options. While secretly cheering Tesco's stand, it's not clear they are rushing to join them. According to one competitor I spoke to, watching the market leader unable to sell some of customers' favourite products is not entirely without its benefits in a cut-throat retail world. Tesco said it hopes to resolve the dispute soon, but until then, Tesco shoppers may find some items on their list are not in stock.

यह जल्द या बाद में होना तय था।


Man in court accused of murdering Dundee DJ Ryan Barrie

Summary: A 33-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a Dundee DJ in the west end of the city.

Steven Robbins is accused of killing 39-year-old Ryan Barrie, who was nicknamed Mini, in Benvie Gardens on Sunday. He made no plea or declaration during a hearing in private at Dundee Sheriff Court. Mr Robbins was remanded in custody and the case was continued for further examination.

शहर के पश्चिमी छोर पर डंडी डीजे की हत्या के आरोप में एक 33 वर्षीय व्यक्ति अदालत में पेश हुआ है।


Yuan hits record level against the dollar

Summary: China's currency has risen to a record high against the dollar, in a sign that Beijing intends to use the currency to fight inflation.

There were official reports that China should let its currency appreciate more quickly to head off inflationary pressures from soaring oil prices. Oil prices are close to two-year highs and Beijing is concerned that energy-hungry China is importing inflation. This has led to complaints among the population about rising prices. On Tuesday, the yuan traded in a range from 6.5552 - a record high - to 6.5596. The currency ended at 6.5561 versus the dollar. The currency has now risen about 4.1% since June 2010 and 0.2% so far this week.

डॉलर के मुकाबले चीन की मुद्रा रिकॉर्ड ऊंचाई पर पहुंच गई है, जो इस बात का संकेत है कि बीजिंग मुद्रास्फीति से लड़ने के लिए मुद्रा का उपयोग करने का इरादा रखता है।


Covid: Being alone in pregnancy due to hospital rules

Summary: Pregnancy can be hard enough without a pandemic to complicate things. But when Covid rules meant some expectant mothers faced appointments, scans or delivery alone, the experience could be traumatic. What follows are the accounts of two women, including one who was on her own when she was given the worst news.

By Emma ThomasBBC Midlands Today When the old normal was replaced by the new normal, a range of rules were introduced for the population to follow. The NHS - facing the brunt of Covid-19, of course - was no exception. And the bid to uphold safety and limit transmission impacted on all aspects of hospital life, including maternity care. From the first England lockdown in March, individual hospitals across the nation set their own rules on how mothers were accompanied, meaning some - but not all - went through the process alone. By December, though, the NHS had issued guidance saying pregnant women should be allowed to have one person alongside them during scans, appointments and birth. It added the chosen individual, whether partner, family member or friend, should be viewed by hospitals as "an integral part" of the woman's care, rather than a mere visitor. The guidelines advise that all trusts should facilitate this, while keeping the risk of Covid transmissions as low as possible. But they remain only guidelines. So, what of those who have faced key steps of their pregnancy alone? How do they feel several months later, when the NHS steer might have meant a different experience? 'You need support' Abi Higgins, 32, was about five weeks pregnant with her second child when she went into hospital for a scan in May. She knew something was wrong, having previously suffered a miscarriage. She said: "The first time round I had my partner with me so that was a really big support, but obviously this time round he wasn't allowed to be with me, so he had to sit in the car with our son and wait for the news." The news was awful. "It was one of the hardest things I've had to do. I feel emotional thinking about it - you shouldn't have to be told you've lost your baby on your own." Ms Higgins, from Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, is now expecting a baby boy in April, but the memory of last year stays with her. "It's just not very fair because you need support. When I was in the scan, I did get really upset. "The lady put her hand on my knee and said 'this is a horrible situation' but she said 'don't ever give up'; she said 'you can get through this'." 'Your mind plays tricks' Loren Pashby, 20, from Staffordshire, is expecting her first child later this year but has faced emergency scans alone. She said: "You're in a cubicle which is closed off, you can't see anyone, you can't talk to anyone and your mind plays tricks on you. You sit there and you think the worst." After previously suffering an early pregnancy loss, she said her 12-week scan was "really nerve-wracking". "I've got no one in there to sit with me while I wait and it does trigger the anxiety a lot." What do dads say? Ms Pashby's partner, Pedro Fontan, 26, said: "There's been a few times I've been in the car park or at home, just waiting for any updates, or waiting to hear anything, and not being able to hold Loren's hand and tell her it's going to be ok in person, just having to text or call - it's nerve-wracking really. "We've had a few scares and it's just the not knowing, or the not knowing straight away, and having to wait for a phone call. It's devastating really, because you don't know what's going on and you think about the worst." What do hospitals say? While new guidance was issued in December, it is still up to individual trusts as to how much of it is implemented, so experiences for women and partners can differ across England. Around the West Midlands, where the women above were patients, there remains a mixed picture of protocol between the many trusts. Some allow women to take a partner to all appointments, some to only one scan, and some to no appointments at all. Michelle Rhodes, chief nurse at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, which provided care to Ms Pashby, said: "We have reinstated visiting to some areas which also included the reintroduction of partners attending certain scans as part of their maternity care." She said the trust was looking into safely implementing rapid testing for support partners. Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, which provided Ms Higgins's care, has been approached for comment. For information and support on issues in this article, visit BBC Action Line. Follow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk Related Internet Links Pregnancy and coronavirus - NHS

गर्भावस्था बिना किसी महामारी के चीजों को जटिल बनाने के लिए काफी कठिन हो सकती है। लेकिन जब कोविड नियमों का मतलब था कि कुछ गर्भवती माताओं को केवल मुलाकात, स्कैन या प्रसव का सामना करना पड़ा, तो अनुभव दर्दनाक हो सकता है। निम्नलिखित दो महिलाओं के विवरण हैं, जिनमें एक महिला भी शामिल है जो अकेले थी जब उसे सबसे बुरी खबर दी गई थी।


Why do we risk embarrassing encounters with firefighters?

Summary: Last year, a man living in County Durham needed a curtain ring removing from his private parts. Fortunately, his local fire and rescue service was there to help. Mostly it is adults - not children - facing the bolt cutters with a red face, but why do we put ourselves in such embarrassing situations?

By Francesca WilliamsBBC News The curtain ring incident is just one of several bizarre stories unearthed from the incident logs of north-east England's fire and rescue services by a Freedom of Information request. Others include a student being liberated from a water cooler cup dispenser by Tyne and Wear firefighters and someone being extracted from a newspaper stand they had tried to hide in. In Northumberland, a child was released from a rolled-up carpet, an adult's hand was freed from a pram and someone unpinned from beneath a cooker. There have been many rings stuck on fingers, people trapped in lifts, children shut in cars and people stranded on roofs. Cleveland Fire Brigade's data suggests about 80% of "persons trapped" call-outs are to adults. How the north-east of England got itself stuck - 2009 to 2014 Lifts top the list. Laura Marshall was leaving for a night out when the lift in the 15-floor tower block in Cruddas Park, Newcastle, "jolted to a standstill". "We all laughed thinking it'd start again any second," she says. "An hour later, all feeling very cramped and sweaty, the panic of being trapped had certainly set in. "All I remember after getting out is the fresh air and the need for a drink." There are odder incidents but, no matter how ridiculous, Cleveland Fire Brigade district manager Steve McCarten says they "treat everything with the utmost urgency". Whether someone is trapped in a lift or handcuffs it can be stressful, he says. "We have had some strange ones. We would never turn round and say it was stupid [but] we might give them advice on how not to repeat it." So why do people do things that are bound to end in embarrassment, or worse? Dr Joan Harvey, a chartered psychologist at Newcastle University, believes it is because we are not very reliable when it comes to judging risk. "What a lot of people perceive is that they are less likely to have things happen to them," she says. "We don't estimate risk at all sensibly. "We're not going to get a horrible smoking related illness - that's what other people get, not us. It's other people who fall off roofs - not us. It's other people who get stuck in swings - not us." Window cleaner John Kirk, from South Shields, was rescued after getting trapped on his roof while trying to mend a leak last year. "I got up OK, just walked on the tiles," he said at the time. "But coming back down was a different matter." He shouted for help but neighbours could not stop the ladder shaking. "In the end they phoned the fire brigade out," he said. "Which was a Godsend - I could have been up there all night." It should be said, often people get stuck - and seriously - through no fault of their own. But there is variety to how and where we get ourselves into trouble. So much so, that fire and rescue services log call-outs in a number of categories, including "removal of people from objects" and the rather more wince-inducing "removal of objects from people". Some incidents raise questions, though. How do you trap a knee behind a radiator or fall into a dishwasher so awkwardly you cannot get out? In 2011 Danielle Morgan, a University of Derby student, was "mucking about" when she fell off a bed and ended up tangled in a clothes horse. Her friends, who filmed her and took photos while she was trapped, "just thought it was hilarious", she said. The lack of an "exit strategy", a plan for reversing the process themselves, is another reason people end up stuck, Dr Harvey believes. Sometimes over-confidence comes from being "spurred on" by other people and showing off. "I'm not entirely convinced that these adults would go in that swing if there was nobody else around," Dr Harvey added. Have you been stuck and rescued? Please let us know at neandcumbria@bbc.co.uk Cleveland and Northumberland occasionally charge for "non-emergency special services". A building's owner might get a bill for a stuck lift, for example, if none of the occupants is in distress. County Durham and Darlington says it never charges but does ask those needing rings removed from fingers to come to the station. Special care and sensitivity are required for what the fire service terms "bariatric" lifts - moving chronically obese people. From 2009 until 2014, the four North East fire services helped health professionals move 198 people who had become stuck in chairs, slipped off sofas and beds or simply needed to go from one place to another. "Sometimes we take windows out," said Mr McCarten. "We've had walls taken out before. "If there's no way you can get them out the house because the opening's not big enough, then we have to make the opening big enough."

पिछले साल, काउंटी डरहम में रहने वाले एक व्यक्ति को अपने गुप्तांगों से पर्दा हटाने के लिए एक अंगूठी की आवश्यकता थी। सौभाग्य से, उसकी स्थानीय अग्निशमन और बचाव सेवा मदद करने के लिए थी। ज्यादातर वयस्क-बच्चे नहीं-लाल चेहरे वाले बोल्ट कटर का सामना कर रहे हैं, लेकिन हम खुद को ऐसी शर्मनाक स्थितियों में क्यों डालते हैं?


Flag poles at Donald Trump's Scottish golf course hit planning hitch

Summary: Donald Trump's Aberdeenshire golf course has been forced to apply for retrospective planning permission for two large flag poles.

It comes after the 24m (80ft) poles appeared close to the MacLeod House hotel and near the clubhouse at Mr Trump's Menie site. There have been concerns the poles are too large and bids for planning permission have now been submitted. The US presidential candidate's resort has been a focus for local protest. Mr Trump has called the links course one of the finest in the world. A legal challenge by the tycoon over plans for an offshore wind farm on the Aberdeenshire coast was rejected by the UK's Supreme Court.

डोनाल्ड ट्रम्प के एबरडीनशायर गोल्फ कोर्स को दो बड़े ध्वज स्तंभों के लिए पूर्वव्यापी योजना अनुमति के लिए आवेदन करने के लिए मजबूर किया गया है।


Puerto Rico's population swap: The middle class for millionaires

Summary: Puerto Rico's struggling economy has led to an exodus of young people moving to the US mainland - while wealthy Americans are starting to call San Juan home. As a result, the economy and identity of both places are changing in surprising ways.

By Franz StrasserBBC News, Washington While the US economy is steadily improving, Puerto Rico's unemployment rate has remained at over 13%, twice the US national average, for the last decade. The island is facing a fiscal crisis with $72bn (£47.5bn) in debt. So the government is looking elsewhere for relief. It has started to lure America's super wealthy from the US East Coast. Two acts passed in 2012 guarantee no capital gains taxes and a mere 4% tax rate on their business to those who make Puerto Rico their primary residence. More than 500 eligible individuals have answered the call. "There has been some concern that we're not contributing enough on the island and not everybody is happy about that," says Robb Rill, who moved his business down in 2013. He says the island is benefitting. "There's probably been almost a billion dollars invested on the island since these acts have passed, and that's a billion dollars that would not have been invested on the island had there not been the proper incentives. So the everyman on the street doesn't necessarily see the direct benefit, but I can tell you that there is an immeasurable benefit not just on the real estate but through direct investment which is making a difference." What do they get? 'Perfect storm' This influx of mainland monied comes as tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans leave every year. They head in search of more opportunity on the US mainland, where they have the right to work as US citizens. "What's going on in Puerto Rico right now it's the perfect storm," says Valerie Rodriguez, a young lawyer in San Juan and member of the New Progressive Party. "You have a population in Puerto Rico where the productive sector is shrinking and the young professionals are leaving. Then you have an elderly population that's increasing in size, and obviously that population is going to depend more and more on government." Funding those government services is a contentious issue. "I am the worker, I am the one who is paying the taxes," says Orlando Rivera, a store manager in the city of Ponce. "I have to sustain my family, pay a 400-dollar electrical bill and my daughters' tuition fees. And in the meantime [the millionaires] aren't bringing any solutions to the problem." Little opportunity For those who aren't wealthy, staying in Puerto Rico is not always an option. "Young people here that go to university and prepare themselves, they really want to stay on the island and it's not something they can do." says Ms Rodriguez. The changing demographics are altering Puerto Rico's relationship with the mainland. "Students that have decided to leave the island for job opportunities are important for Puerto Rico because they create other opportunities," says Uroyoan Walker, the President of the University of Puerto Rico. "It's very important that the university and the people of Puerto Rico stay connected with that diaspora so that we can become a stronger and bigger country." The big migration As citizens of a US territory, Puerto Ricans have the same right to work as any American born in the 50 states. More than 300,000 of them have left the island and headed for the US mainland in the last decade. Traditionally they have moved to New York, but more recently a third of them have moved to Florida. In Central Florida alone, 100 new families arrive every single week. Doubling sales This increased migration has presented an opportunity for entrepreneurs. Titan Products of Puerto Rico opened a distribution centre in Central Florida last spring. Over 40,000 square feet of Puerto Rican products are being moved here and shipped across the Southern US. "People used to travel there and bring back in their luggage, the cookies, the beans, or the rice," says Rafael Julia, the sales director for Titan. Alternatively, they would get products sent through the post or brought back by friends or family, she adds. "We receive probably one to two containers a week, they come from Puerto Rico, we consolidate all the cargo down there. We have over 176 clients from small bodegas, family-owned, to big supermarkets." They say their business is booming. "We can double our sales next year. We are currently talking to big players like Publix and Wal-Mart to have our products there." Popular products Florida, Florida, Florida And where there's people and money the politicians won't be too far behind. Puerto Ricans residing on the mainland have the same voting rights and could be the kingmakers in one of the most important Presidential swing states in 2016. "I don't think any presidential candidate who is looking to secure Florida will be able to do that without counting on the support of the Puerto Rican communities," says Jose Luis Marantes a political activist with Mi Familia in Orlando. "It's not enough just to be able to say a couple of words in Spanish to be able to say that you're in solidarity with the Latino community and with the Puerto Rican community. You need to speak about jobs, about health care, about education, and about opportunities for folks to come in."

प्यूर्टो रिको की संघर्षरत अर्थव्यवस्था ने युवाओं को अमेरिका की मुख्य भूमि की ओर पलायन करने के लिए प्रेरित किया है-जबकि अमीर अमेरिकी सैन जुआन को अपना घर कहना शुरू कर रहे हैं। इसके परिणामस्वरूप, दोनों स्थानों की अर्थव्यवस्था और पहचान आश्चर्यजनक रूप से बदल रही है।


Woman in hospital after being injured by herd of cows

Summary: A woman has been airlifted to hospital after after being injured by a herd of cows.

The Welsh Ambulance Service said it was called to the incident in Capel Curig, Conwy, just after 12:00 BST. The air ambulance from Caernarfon was deployed to the scene and the Ogwen Valley Rescue team assisted. The woman was taken by helicopter to the Royal Stoke Hospital. The severity of her injuries and her condition is not known.

गायों के झुंड से घायल होने के बाद एक महिला को हवाई मार्ग से अस्पताल ले जाया गया है।


Alexander McQueen: Revolutionary and friend

Summary: As Savage Beauty, the new V&A exhibition about Alexander McQueen, opens 20 years after the London show that got him noticed, two close friends and his biographer share their memories of the talented, revolutionary fashion designer.

By Vincent Dowd Arts correspondent, BBC World Service Radio Until his death at 40, McQueen remained a controversial talent projecting a highly marketable streetwise image. Former boyfriend Andrew Groves, who worked on the 1995 show, saw him hit the big time and observed the pressures. For two years from 1994 Groves was in a relationship with McQueen. "Or as the fashion world would have it, for four seasons," he says. Like most of the designer's friends, Groves, who now lectures on fashion in London, refers to McQueen by his first name, Lee. "I was in a bar in Soho with a friend and he said: 'Look, Lee McQueen's there.' So I said: 'Let's go and meet him.' Probably I was a bit drunk, but if you're a fashion animal you want to know what everyone's up to. "This was before Lee became really famous, but he'd already created a stir with his runway shows. He'd been written up as being outrageous, but in my eyes he was no more out there than lots of people you'd meet in a gay bar in the mid-'90s. "The first thing that drew me to him was his sense of humour: he had the most dirty laugh! I think he was wearing jeans and a T-shirt and maybe an MA1 jacket. All the time I knew Lee, I don't think he wore anything worth more than £30, ever." At the end of the evening, Groves headed back to where McQueen lived in east London. "He told me he had to get back to Chadwell Heath and I thought I've never been there, sounds fun. So we got to Liverpool Street station where we jumped the barriers and then the train ride went on for ever in the dark. At the other end there was a huge long walk to somewhere near Dagenham. "I was starting to regret the whole thing, but Lee was just about to start on his next collection and he realised that I could sew and pattern cut. So he decided it might be good to have me around. "It was an interesting time in British fashion. London Fashion Week had almost no one decent showing in it. Someone like Lee could put on a show for virtually no money and people would come." 'Anarchic element' Some fashion journalists disliked the Highland Rape collection in March 1995, thinking it trashy and sensationalist. McQueen later claimed the title referred to England's rape of Scotland, but by then the show had won him the publicity he had been seeking. McQueen had grown up in Stratford in east London, long before its Olympics makeover. He left school at 16 with a single O-level in art. Two things changed him. First came an apprenticeship in Savile Row, the London home of traditional men's tailoring. He found it dull, but realised he might have talent as a cutter. Then he spent time in Milan with designer Romeo Gigli. From McQueen's mid-20s, his rise was extraordinary. The film-maker John Maybury is known for biopics of Dylan Thomas and Francis Bacon. He can't remember exactly where he first met McQueen, "but it must have been a nightclub scenario or some other scenester hangout. It's what we all did," says Maybury, who went on to work with him on videos for catwalk shows. "Lee was enormously funny and he had a real anarchic element. To succeed in fashion you need self-possession and real drive. "For all the apparent frivolity it's a tough world and at the upper levels there are huge amounts of money involved: there are parallels to making a career in film. Lee coped with all that but you can't ignore the effect pressure has in the long term. "He had enormous creativity and was rich in ideas. People have said Lee's energy had to do with escaping working-class origins, where creativity wasn't valued. 'Fanatical worker' "But I've worked as a film-maker in fashion and it's an industry where no one's very bothered where you come from. What matters is coming up with the goods - meaning new collections. Innovation and creativity are complex and I thought Lee saw his class status as a badge of honour. "Once Lee became designer in chief in Paris for Givenchy [in 1996] he might be doing four collections a year. That's asking an awful lot of any person, whatever the salary. And you can go out of fashion overnight." Some thought McQueen's streetwise image sat oddly with a chic and established firm like Givenchy. But by the 1990s the economics of fashion were changing. McQueen succeeded British designer John Galliano in Paris. Both men were usefully high-profile in an industry whose income depended now less on haute couture than on using well-known brands to market perfumes and accessories. Maybury says when he worked on the videos for McQueen's Irere collection in 2003, it was clear the pressure on him was non-stop. "He was a fanatical worker. There were drugs around, but from what I saw I think that's been overstated as part of Lee's life. "He was always interested in the film-making process and in the visual generally: I think Lee McQueen's eye went beyond fashion in a narrow sense. "Anyone who knew him will tell you he had an innate sense for shape and colour. If he'd lived, I think maybe he would have moved into different artistic areas." McQueen's recent biographer, Andrew Wilson, became fascinated with him when he went to the show Voss in 2001. 'Powerful and dark' "It was half-way to performance art: People call it the Asylum show. You had models like Kate Moss wrapped in bandages as if they were in some awful institution. "At the end there's a box and the sides come down and there's an overweight naked woman with a gas mask and moths flying around her. It was an incredibly powerful and dark experience. McQueen didn't censor his imagination. "But at the same time he was a master cutter: He tailored superbly and the silhouettes he created will be classic a hundred years from now." McQueen killed himself at his London home in February 2010, a few days after the death of his beloved mother Joyce. Has Wilson come to a conclusion about why he took his own life? "Of course there was grief at his mother's death. But I think there were other reasons too. "He loved the fashion world but he also hated it. I think by the time he was 40 he wanted to leave fashion behind. "But by then there were so many people around the world whose jobs depended on him and on his talent. He told a friend he'd made a gilded prison for himself. "But in a couple of decades he'd achieved so much with his fearlessness. Coming from his background so many people would have thought I'm not even going to try - what's the point if you're not going to succeed? But he wanted to make the best of his life." Groves' relationship with McQueen was long over by 2010. Yet he says news of the suicide was hugely distressing. "But it wasn't wholly a surprise. This was someone who didn't want to be quite good: he wanted to be the best talent in fashion ever. Better than Dior, better than Chanel. "If you're judging yourself by those standards, that's going to take a toll." Biographer Wilson sums up McQueen's character in a way many friends would echo. "Perhaps he felt his life was going to be an intense one but a shortened one. He went through life with this great intensity, as if he was trying to squeeze everything out of every single moment." Savage Beauty opens on 14 March and runs until 2 August at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

जैसा कि सैवेज ब्यूटी, अलेक्जेंडर मैकक्वीन के बारे में नई वी एंड ए प्रदर्शनी, लंदन शो के 20 साल बाद खुलती है, जिसने उन्हें नोटिस किया, दो करीबी दोस्त और उनके जीवनी लेखक प्रतिभाशाली, क्रांतिकारी फैशन डिजाइनर की अपनी यादें साझा करते हैं।


In pictures: Westminster car crash

Summary: Armed police, ambulances and firefighters responded to an incident in central London, which happened shortly after 07:30 BST.

Officers were seen surrounding the silver car, which had crashed into a barrier outside Parliament, before a man was arrested. Streets around Millbank and Parliament Square were cordoned off for several hours after the crash. A vehicle swerved into cyclists and pedestrians, injuring three people. Armed police were seen on Victoria Embankment in Westminster. One women is being treated in hospital for serious but non life-threatening injuries. Scotland Yard have said they are treating the crash as a terrorist incident. Forensic officers examined the vehicle at the scene. .

सशस्त्र पुलिस, एम्बुलेंस और अग्निशामकों ने मध्य लंदन में एक घटना का जवाब दिया, जो 07:30 BST के तुरंत बाद हुई।


Coronavirus: Swindon Royal Mail depot closes after positive test

Summary: A Royal Mail depot has been temporarily closed for a deep clean after a worker tested positive for coronavirus.

The delivery office in Dorcan, Swindon, had been closed as a "precautionary measure". Public health officials were made aware of the positive Covid-19 test on Tuesday afternoon. Royal Mail said it "takes the health and safety of its colleagues, customers and the local communities in which we operate very seriously". A spokesman added: "We are working to keep disruption to mail deliveries to a minimum as we address the concerns of our colleagues." Public Health England has been contacted for comment.

एक कर्मचारी के कोरोनावायरस के लिए सकारात्मक परीक्षण के बाद एक रॉयल मेल डिपो को गहरी सफाई के लिए अस्थायी रूप से बंद कर दिया गया है।


Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire 2013 date confirmed

Summary: The release date for the second Hunger Games movie has been confirmed.

By Emma BrantNewsbeat reporter Catching Fire will open worldwide on Friday 22 November 2013. The Hunger Games is based on a series of science-fiction books by American author Suzanne Collins. The storyline sees 24 children sent to fight to the death at a yearly televised event in the future nation of Panem. The main character, Katniss Everdeen, played by Jennifer Lawrence becomes an unlikely heroine. The first film, also starring Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth, broke box office records after its release earlier this year. According to film-maker Lionsgate, Hunger Games achieved the highest-grossing opening weekend ever for any non-sequel film since it opened on 23 March 2012. It has already made $373 million (£240m) at the North American box office, ranking in the top 20 films of all time, and it recently crossed the $600 million (£387m) mark at the worldwide box office. Francis Lawrence, who also directed I Am Legend - a futuristic thriller which starred Will Smith - has been named as director for Catching Fire. Lionsgate confirmed there will be a third film in the sequel but there are no filming dates as yet.

दूसरी हंगर गेम्स फिल्म की रिलीज की तारीख की पुष्टि कर दी गई है।


Sexual harassment in the world of video gaming

Summary: The world of video gaming has a problem with sexual harassment. The number of women gamers is growing fast - in the US they now make up 42% of the total - but it remains a macho environment, where women are often exposed to abusive language.

By James FletcherBBC World Service (The language in this report reflects that reality.) "Get back in the kitchen and take your goddamn hands off a video game controller." The male voices are aggressive, even angry. Their put-downs are laced with strong swearing and sexual insults. "Stupid bitch," says one. "Fat whore," adds another. "I hope your boyfriend beats you. Nah, you can't get a boyfriend." The tirade of abuse ends and Jenny Haniver laughs. "Get back in the kitchen?" she says. "I'm not in the kitchen because I'm here kicking your ass on video games, that's what I'm good at." We're sitting in her living room in Wisconsin, listening to audio recordings she makes when she goes online to play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. It's a combat-based video game, where players can talk to each other via headsets. The recordings end up on Haniver's website, Not in the Kitchen Any More. She plays in the evening after college and says most nights she'll have to deal with harassment of some kind. Some of it just puerile, but some is graphic and threatening. "This enemy player backed out of the middle of the match and sent me a voice message," Haniver says, remembering her worst experience. He said he hoped she would be raped and she and her family killed. Amazingly, this is not uncommon. Another website, Fat, Ugly or Slutty, posts examples of harassment from all games - mostly pictures of in-game messages that women receive from other gamers. "[There's] a plethora of stupidity when it comes to what women receive in online games," says Grace, one of the site's co-founders. "There are some people who can't even look at Fat, Ugly or Slutty because it reminds them too much of their lives, it upsets them too much," she says. "A lot of people have just walked away from online play entirely." Several high profile incidents this year have intensified the focus on how women are treated. In February, video game writer Jennifer Hepler was quoted in a post on the online forum Reddit, suggesting that games would be better if gamers had the option to skip the combat sections. This attracted vicious attacks in online forums and on Twitter, many of them focused on her gender. Around the same time, a gaming competition called Cross Assault gained widespread notoriety after a male player called Aris Bakhtanians made offensive comments about fellow player Miranda Pakozdi, including guessing her bra size, talking about her body parts, and sniffing her. All this happened face-to-face at the competition, but was broadcast on an internet video stream. The stream included a discussion in which Bakhtanians claimed that "sexual harassment is part of the culture" of their gaming community, known as the fighting game community. Bakhtanians also defended the casual use of the word "rape" and phrases like "rape that bitch" as expressions for defeating another character. "There's nothing unacceptable about that," he claimed. "We're in America, man. This isn't North Korea, we can say what we want." Pakozdi eventually quit the competition, and a video of excerpts from the internet stream went viral, quickly gaining 200,000 hits on YouTube. Bakhtanians released a statement saying he'd made a mistake and apologising to Pakozdi. The Cross Assault incident sparked an intense debate. "Just watching it happen made me a little angry, it was hard for me to watch," says Emily Chow, a member of the fighting game community in Toronto, Canada. After Cross Assault she blogged about her own experiences of harassment. "I feel like I should start taking a stronger stand against people who do act this way," she says. Vince Hui, another Toronto player, says harassment is "a little bit of an epidemic" within the video game community. "In a lot of ways we need to learn to grow up a little bit," he says. But not everyone felt that Cross Assault was cause for change. Jonathan Quamina, an avid gamer, expressed his support for Bakhtanians, telling him not to apologise. "As a female you can't get upset if something is said that is obscene if you're hanging out in a room full of guys," he says. "It's like going to a strip club as a female and getting upset that the chicks are all naked. For me it goes back to freedom of speech. We're a harmless bunch of people. This is just guys being stupid guys." There's also been pressure this year for gaming companies to do more to combat harassment. Recently, an online video series called Extra Credits launched a campaign targeting Microsoft's Xbox Live online gaming platform, describing it as "the service most often referenced when harassment in our community comes up". On the Fat, Ugly or Slutty website, the majority of submissions also come from Xbox Live. Grace from the site says that although gamers can report harassment, there's a widespread perception this achieves nothing. "I feel a little sad," she says. "For some of the ones that I feel are really blatantly harassing it seems to me that maybe there should be something harsher for it, but maybe not everybody agrees and maybe not even Microsoft agrees." Looking through the Xbox-related posts on Fat, Ugly or Slutty, it's not hard to find examples that confirm Grace's concerns. "You are a dumb slut, you stupid whore, I would rape you..." was one example reported to Microsoft - and was sent from an account that is still active. I found several other similar messages, confirmed that they had been reported, and sent them to Microsoft, requesting an interview to ask why these accounts were still active and what action had been taken. Microsoft turned the request down. But Extra Credits appears to have had some success. In mid-May, the campaigners were invited to a meeting with Microsoft. In a statement provided after the meeting, Microsoft said that "bullying and harassment are not welcome on Xbox LIVE" but admitted that "more can be done to create a safe and supportive play environment". Microsoft says it is working on "near and long-term improvements to Xbox Live" and "our commitment to solving this problem is strong". James Portnow, from Extra Credits, says: "It looks like they're really making some attempts to move forward with better enforcement. Of course in this industry I don't believe anything until it's out in front of the consumer." For gamers like Jenny Haniver, any improvements will be welcome. "I have met so many cool people through Xbox Live, the vast majority of the community is kind and welcoming. It's the absolute minority of people who are jerks, they're just a really loud minority." Assignment: Guns, Girls and Games by James Fletcher was broadcast on the BBC World Service. Listen back via iPlayer or browse the documentary podcast archive.

वीडियो गेम की दुनिया में यौन उत्पीड़न की समस्या है। महिला गेमर्स की संख्या तेजी से बढ़ रही है-अमेरिका में अब वे कुल का 42 प्रतिशत हैं-लेकिन यह एक मर्दाना वातावरण बना हुआ है, जहां महिलाओं को अक्सर अपमानजनक भाषा का सामना करना पड़ता है।


Maldives treason charges add to political turbulence

Summary: In Maldives politics, fortunes can change very quickly.

By Olivia LangBBC News Only three months ago, Ahmed Adeeb became the youngest vice-president in the country's democratic history. The 33-year-old successfully pursued a constitutional amendment to lower the minimum age in order to assume the position. He was regarded as one of President Abdulla Yameen's most-trusted aides. But on Saturday, stepping off a plane from Singapore, Mr Adeeb was arrested on charges of "high treason", for allegedly conspiring to cause an explosion on the presidential yacht last month. President Yameen managed to escape unharmed in the blast, but the first lady and two presidential aides were injured. The alleged attack was the latest incident to unnerve the island nation, which in recent years has faced a protracted political crisis and an alarming rise of Islamic extremism. While initially the government said the blast may have been a result of mechanical failure, it later announced that it was an assassination attempt on the president and was opening a criminal investigation. Some media focused on a possible attack by Islamic State sympathisers, only a month after a video had been released showing armed Maldivian militants threatening to target the president and carry out attacks on home ground. But rumours then emerged implicating Mr Adeeb, eventually forcing him to deny them on live TV. Speaking on Dhi TV, he complained that he was always being unfairly blamed for such events - in his words, "a hen ready for slaughter". And he accused his predecessor, Mohamed Jameel Ahmed, of being the source of the speculation. Mr Jameel himself had faced treason charges, and was subsequently impeached, paving the way for Mr Adeeb's ascendancy. Impeached Under the Maldivian constitution, if Mr Yameen dies or is incapacitated, his vice-president would assume the presidency. And Mr Adeeb has a questionable past, having been implicated in a $6m (£3.9m) corruption scandal, as well as having alleged links to gangs. So his involvement in any alleged plot is not implausible. But is there any proof? "It's so murky that we have no idea what's going on," says Zaheena Rasheed, the editor of the Maldives Independent, who has spoken to sources involved in the investigation. "What's clear is that there is not enough evidence. From what we can see they have nothing on him. "When so little is known, his arrest appears based on the fact that he would have the biggest motive." The arrest reflects the extent of the political infighting that has characterised Mr Yameen's two years in office. Since the blast, the defence minister and police commissioner have both found themselves dismissed from their posts. And earlier this year, the former defence minister, Colonel Mohamed Nazim, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for weapons offences. It has become apparent that President Yameen has not been afraid to remove or sideline supposed allies in the same way as he has sought to quieten the opposition. His main political opponent, former President Mohamed Nasheed, was imprisoned in March under terrorism laws, for ordering the arrest of a judge while in office in 2012. Mr Nasheed won the first democratic polls in 2008, ousting Mr Yameen's half-brother, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, after three decades of autocratic rule. Despite international condemnation and calls for Mr Nasheed's release, President Yameen has remained steadfast. What critics fear is that his most recent move is another step towards consolidating power, and ultimately leading the country back to its undemocratic past. Who's who in the Maldives

मालदीव की राजनीति में भाग्य बहुत जल्दी बदल सकता है।


Hidden Heroines statue: 'Making female success ordinary'

Summary: Cardiff's first statue of a named woman forgotten to history is to be decided by a public vote. Five women have been shortlisted for the artwork which will be placed outside BBC Wales' new headquarters at Central Square. The women, none of whom are still living, are Cranogwen, Lady Rhondda, Elizabeth Andrews, Elaine Morgan and Betty Campbell. The public can vote online until 21:30 GMT on Wednesday. Here journalist and broadcaster Carolyn Hitt, who is producing a documentary on the Hidden Heroines Project, explains why she believes it is so important to celebrate our female historical role models.

By Carolyn HittJournalist & broadcaster There is a phrase: "You can't be what you can't see." For generations, girls have grown up in Wales without any visible sign of the female role models who have helped shape our nation. Evidence of male achievement, meanwhile, is all around us. It is built into the very fabric of our communities. Statues of industrialists, soldiers, statesmen, musicians and sporting icons loom in towns and cities across Wales. But you would struggle to know Wales is the Land of Our Mothers as well as Our Fathers because we have not celebrated the achievement of our remarkable historical women in the same way. Half the battle is letting people know who these amazing women are in the first place because "history" is usually just that - "his" rather than "her" story. The contenders: Wales' desperate ignorance of notable women has twice been illustrated by polls of the Welsh public. In 2004 we had 100 Welsh Heroes - a vote operated by Culturenet Cymru, a Welsh Assembly-funded body. At the time the results were announced, the organisers claimed it was the largest online poll ever conducted in Wales - more than 80,000 votes were cast. So how many women made it into our 100 Welsh Heroes? NINE. And, by the time I'd stopped ranting that of those nine only Catherine Zeta Jones made it into the top 20, they did it again. In 2008 the National Assembly for Wales launched a vote asking the Welsh public to shortlist the top ten Welsh idols. Only one woman made the cut - Katherine Jenkins. But why couldn't they think of any other significant Welsh women? Granted it was a celebrity-tinged list but Hywel Dda was on there and it's not as if he had ever been on telly. Voters were knowledgeable enough to vote for a chap whose celebrity rests on ruling Deheubarth, minting his own coinage and developing the Welsh legal system in the 10th Century, but they could only come up with one famous female from the past 2,000 years. Yet can we blame them when our female history is so invisible? Take a stroll around our capital city, however, and our male heritage is everywhere. Cardiff is populated by men on plinths including Aneurin Bevan, Ivor Novello, Lloyd George, Sir Gareth Edwards, Sir Tasker Watkins, Fred Keenor and John Batchelor. But there is not a single figurine of a female who actually lived - as opposed to a generic statue of womanhood - apart from Boudicca in City Hall. And it's a scenario that is replicated across Wales, Britain and indeed the world. In 2016, Caroline Criado-Perez - the writer and campaigner who fought to get Jane Austen on a bank note - analysed the gender make-up of the statues listed in the UK national database of the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association. She discovered that of the 925 statues recorded, only 158 of those were women who merited a statue that stands on its own. Of these 158, almost half were allegorical figures, 14 were of the Virgin Mary and 46 were of royalty. That left only 25 statues of historical, non-royal women in the UK. In Australia, only 3% of public statues honour real-life, non-royal women, while in America a 2011 survey of monuments listed fewer than 400 of its 5,000 historical statues as female, a situation referred to there as the "marble ceiling". In response to this dearth of female statues, campaigns have sprung up across the world, challenging the underrepresentation of historical women in art in the public realm. In Scotland, the National Wallace Monument's Hall of Heroes - home to 16 busts of Scottish legends such as John Knox - will welcome its first two busts of women next Spring, chosen by a public vote. A statue of Emmeline Pankhurst was unveiled in December in her home city of Manchester, where the only other female monument among 17 male statues is of Queen Victoria. New York's Central Park - home to 22 bronze men - will add its first ever statue of a real woman in 2020. And now Wales is finally following suit. Two years ago, I wrote an article in the Western Mail expressing my incredulity that there wasn't a single statue of a Welsh woman who had actually lived in any outdoor space in Wales. Helen Molyneux - then chair of the Institute of Welsh Affairs - read it and couldn't believe it either. So she decided to do something about it. "I started to look into it and was completely shocked, not just that there weren't any statues, but that actually it was difficult to find the stories of women who had 'achieved'," Helen recalls. "I was also shocked by the casual acceptance of people that I spoke to about it that there were no women worth celebrating. "They couldn't think of anyone worthy of a statue - and therefore they didn't exist. In reality of course, it's because they didn't get recognised that we no longer know anything about them. Their history was simply not recorded. It started me thinking about why this was and what we should do about it." She added: "I am a great believer in 'you can't be what you can't see'. And we certainly know that girls in particular will emulate what they see. Just look at the reaction they have to pictures in magazines, online - not always for the good. Advertisers call the vloggers and instagrammers that our daughters follow 'influencers' because they see it and they want to be it. "But where are the everyday images of the women who have achieved so much in Wales over the centuries? We have statues of plenty of men - some of whom actually deserve them. But none of women. How can we normalise female success and achievement if we don't get the same every day recognition as our male counterparts. "So the statue project is an extraordinary way of making female success 'ordinary' - something not to be commented on as a rare and precious thing. To give our girls - and our boys - images of successful, inspiring women that they see as part of the fabric of where they live, because eventually to be a successful women is nothing noteworthy." To make the statue a reality, Helen put a task force of women together, identified a prime location which had already been earmarked for public art in Cardiff's new Central Square development and persuaded Cardiff City Council that any statue built on that site should be of a Welsh historical woman. With the help of the Welsh Women's Equality Network, Helen's task force of historians and women drawn from business, science, law, the arts and media, drew up an initial longlist of 50 historical Welsh women. An expert panel whittled that roll call down to the shortlist of the five Welsh women - Elizabeth Andrews, Betty Campbell, Cranogwen, Elaine Morgan and Lady Rhondda - who are being put to the public vote in the Hidden Heroines project. The hope is this first statue is just the start. "We chose women from various disciplines and walks of life who we feel represent the best of Welsh womanhood," said Helen. "The choice is enormously difficult and it is vital that people understand that the statue will hopefully be the first of many across Wales and so is not intended to be 'the best' Welsh woman but a symbol of what Welsh women have achieved over the centuries - as well as being worthy in her own right of having her story remembered and celebrated. "And very importantly we want it to be an amazing statue - a piece of art that people will come to Cardiff just to see. It will be the place that visitors to the capital head to for their first selfie. An iconic landmark." Once the people of Wales have chosen their Hidden Heroine, three world-renowned sculptors will compete for the privilege of creating the statue. The artwork will be unveiled in 2020 and as thousands of visitors and locals alike step out of Cardiff Central station, a remarkable woman from Welsh history will be the first statue they see. For future generations of our girls, it might just be who they want to be too.

इतिहास में भुलाई गई एक नामित महिला की कार्डिफ की पहली प्रतिमा का फैसला एक सार्वजनिक वोट द्वारा किया जाना है। कलाकृति के लिए पांच महिलाओं को चुना गया है जो सेंट्रल स्क्वायर में बीबीसी वेल्स के नए मुख्यालय के बाहर रखी जाएगी। महिलाएं, जिनमें से कोई भी अभी भी जीवित नहीं है, क्रैनोगवेन, लेडी रोंडा, एलिजाबेथ एंड्रयूज, एलेन मॉर्गन और बेट्टी कैंपबेल हैं। जनता बुधवार को 21:30 GMT तक ऑनलाइन मतदान कर सकती है। यहां पत्रकार और प्रसारक कैरोलिन हिट, जो हिडन हीरोइन प्रोजेक्ट पर एक वृत्तचित्र का निर्माण कर रही हैं, बताती हैं कि वह क्यों मानती हैं कि हमारी महिला ऐतिहासिक रोल मॉडल का जश्न मनाना इतना महत्वपूर्ण है।


Super Bowl XLVIII : Seven things you may have missed

Summary: Sunday saw Super Bowl XLVIII take place in New Jersey.

It was the first time America's biggest sporting event was staged outdoors in a cold weather state. There were pre-match fears of an 82,500-strong crowd having to endure sub-zero conditions but they proved groundless with the temperature at the roofless MetLife Stadium just outside New York hovering around 9C (49F). It's a well known fact that a lot goes on off the pitch at the Super Bowl. Here are seven things you may have missed. Foo Fighters played in a car park the day before the game Dave Grohl and co kicked off Super Bowl weekend by playing a concert in a New York "parking lot". The band were playing at a specially constructed tented arena in the car park of the Bud Light Hotel Amphitheatre in Manhattan. Beyonce and Jay Z performed together again The couple, who recently opened the Grammy Awards (above), were also part of the weekend's entertainment. It means the former Destiny's Child singer has now performed at two Super Bowl weekends in a row, having played the half-time show last year in New Orleans. Bruno Mars opened his half-time show with a drum solo The Hawaiian singer joined the likes of Michael Jackson, Madonna and U2 on the list of Super Bowl half-time performers. He performed a medley of hits including Locked Out Of Heaven, Treasure and Runaway Baby and Just The Way You Are. He became a Red Hot Chili Peppers fan boy The half-time show also included Red Hot Chili Peppers joining the stage for a rendition of Give It Away. Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith and Josh Klinghoffer were backed by Bruno's band of sequin-coated musicians and got more applause than the main act, according to reports from inside the stadium. Bob Dylan also made an appearance in the ad break More than 100m people were expected to watch the American football final, inflating the prices for each commercial to a reported $4m (£2.4m) per 30-second spot. Paying so much for air time means companies go all out to make their adverts stand out form the crowd. Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, 72, appeared in two adverts while David Beckham, Kermit the Frog and Arnold Schwarzenegger playing table tennis in a wig were also among the stars in the ad breaks. New Transformers and 24 trailers were aired as well. Oh yeah, there was a game The Seattle Seahawks dominated Super Bowl XLVIII, thrashing a badly misfiring Denver Broncos 43-8. Legend of the sport and Denver quarterback Peyton Manning made his third appearance on the sport's biggest stage but was overshadowed by his opposite number, second-year quarterback Russell Wilson (pictured). Things happened like they do in the movies Despite being the underdogs, the Seahawks earned the equal third biggest win in Super Bowl history. And in a true sporting cliche, their head coach Pete Carroll had energy drink dumped on him in celebration near the end of the fourth quarter. Seattle-based rappers Macklemore and Ryan Lewis sang at a celebration event on Sunday night and will have a parade through Seattle on Wednesday. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter

रविवार को सुपर बाउल XLVIII का आयोजन न्यू जर्सी में हुआ।


Teenager charged with male rape in Newcastle

Summary: A teenager has been charged with the rape of a man on Tyneside.

A 24-year-old man was attacked in a grassed area near Skinnerburn Road, directly under the Redheugh Bridge, in Newcastle early on 30 June. Northumbria Police described it as a "horrific ordeal" for the victim. Officers have charged a 16-year-old boy with rape and robbery and he will appear before North Tyneside Magistrates Court on Tuesday.

एक किशोरी पर टाइनसाइड पर एक व्यक्ति के साथ बलात्कार का आरोप लगाया गया है।


Body Cameras: Surveillance for surveillance's sake?

Summary: Body cameras are becoming widely used by police across the UK but now the technology is being adopted by local councils. The authorities claim they are vital for traffic wardens and environmental officers but critics claim body cams are "surveillance for surveillance's sake" and are being used as a money making tool.

Sgt John Bloore is one of the first of 1,100 police officers to be issued with the cameras in Staffordshire at a cost of more than £350,000. Staffordshire Police says it will see all frontline officers, PCSOs and specials issued with them and claims it is the biggest investment in the technology by any police force in Europe. Sgt Bloore has filmed footage at domestic violence incidents, road traffic accidents and fights outside pubs and nightclubs which has been used to prosecute people. "Writing a report doesn't have the same impact as the pictures because the camera doesn't lie," he said. "It basically sees what we see but instead of having to remember we can rewind it to see it over and over again." The footage is held on a database for a minimum of 28 days and can be submitted to court as evidence. 'Abuse and threats' Sgt Bloore said it often does not get to that stage. "When people know there's footage of whatever has taken place we get a straightforward guilty plea because they can see themselves on the camera. "I think ultimately if this is fully rolled out you will see a reduction in not guilty pleas across the country because people know they can't get away with it." The cameras are now being used in Stoke-on-Trent city centre by environmental officers to catch people dropping litter, fly tipping and if their dogs foul the pavement. The council said the cameras would also protect its officers who had been threatened while issuing fixed penalty notices. It was for a similar reason that both Swansea and Worcester City Council recently gave body cameras to their traffic wardens. "We were getting quite high levels of abuse and threats which officers had taken on the chin as part of their job, which is unacceptable" said Andy Chinn from Worcester City Council. The authority said two people were fined £200 each by Worcester magistrates earlier this year for abusing its wardens. Mr Chinn said: "The cameras also make a massive difference to people's behaviour, whether it's an aggressive person or a man in a suit, everybody acts differently when they know they're being filmed. That gives our officers a degree of reassurance." But civil liberties group Big Brother Watch believes that councils are using the cameras as a way of raising money. "The law says there needs to be a pressing legitimate need to impede on people's privacy. That exists for a police officer but is unlikely to be there for a parking warden or litter enforcement officer, it's surveillance for surveillance sake," said Nick Pickles from the group. "The primary objective of those officers should be cleaning the streets or getting traffic moving but that becomes secondary to how many penalty notices can they issue?" 'Improves accountability' Mr Pickles said the group welcomed body cameras for the police. He said: "If an officer is policing a full protest in riot gear with shield and a baton, wearing a body camera in that situation protects that officer against any allegations but also improves accountability of how the police use their powers. "Just look at the Ian Tomlinson case and how radically different that whole situation would've been if the officer involved had been wearing a camera." Not all police forces are so keen on the new technology. Greater Manchester's Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy has called for a public consultation on the use of the cameras. He said forces should not rush to introduce them in the wake of incidents such as the "Plebgate" row. Insp Mark Barlow from Staffordshire Police said he could understand his view but that cameras had become "valuable tools" for protecting officers. He said: "Incidents can be subject to interpretation whereas with the cameras we've got that real view of what actually did happen. We can then tell if complaints against officers are valid or fictitious."

पूरे ब्रिटेन में पुलिस द्वारा बॉडी कैमरों का व्यापक रूप से उपयोग किया जा रहा है, लेकिन अब स्थानीय परिषदों द्वारा तकनीक को अपनाया जा रहा है। अधिकारियों का दावा है कि वे यातायात वार्डन और पर्यावरण अधिकारियों के लिए महत्वपूर्ण हैं, लेकिन आलोचकों का दावा है कि बॉडी कैम "निगरानी के लिए निगरानी" हैं और इनका उपयोग पैसे बनाने के उपकरण के रूप में किया जा रहा है।


BBC Sound of 2020: Band formed 'on a whim in the pub' are the runners-up

Summary: Hard to describe, but easy to love, Leicester's Easy Life have been named runners-up in the BBC's Sound of 2020.

By Mark SavageBBC music reporter The genre-hopping quintet formed "on a whim" in a pub two years ago, after earning their stripes in an assortment of swing and reggae bands around the city. Fronted by singer/trumpeter Murray Matravers, they've "bodged together" (their words) an incongruous mix of wonky hip-hop beats, gossamer jazz guitar, afro-beat optimism, wavy pop melodies, psychedelic electronica and witty lyrics, all filtered through the lens of "rainy middle England". "We've been in lots of projects before and this was very much for ourselves," says Matravers. "Very self-indulgent, going down rabbit holes with the sound. "I thought no-one would care, that they would be like, 'What are you doing? Write some pop music'. But that wasn't the way it was, and I'm very grateful for that." The band's music is inspired "almost exclusively by personal experience" with Matravers' discussing everything from anxiety-induced insomnia (Nightmares) and money problems (Pockets) to environmental catastrophe (Earth). "The song isn't all 'save the whales', it just sort of alludes to it - but I felt like loads of my mates were talking about it, so why not put it in a song?" says the singer. Easy Life's early songs have already earned the band support from BBC Radio 1 and a headline slot on the BBC Introducing Stage at Glastonbury. Coming second on the BBC Sound of 2020 puts them alongside previous years' runners-up, including Frank Ocean, James Blake, Franz Ferdinand and Rag 'N' Bone Man. "It feels good to be with those lot," says Matravers as he settles down to chat about the band's origins and his penchant for performing in his underwear. "There's some amazing talent in there." Easy Life were chosen for the BBC Sound of 2020 list by a panel of 170 music critics, broadcasters, festival bookers and previous nominees - including Lewis Capaldi, Chvrches and Billie Eilish. The top five were: 1.Celeste 2.Easy Life 3.Yungblud 4.Joy Crookes 5.Inhaler Your official biography says you got together "on a whim," which makes it sound almost accidental. The story of how we met is quite long and boring, I'm afraid. A couple of us went to school together and the rest of us met in Leicester through music. We were were touring as a little four-piece, playing gigs in pubs to our mates, and then one night we were out and saw Jordan Birtles, the keyboard extraordinaire, in the smoking area of a club. He used to be in another band called By The Rivers, which was quite a successful reggae band - they supported The Specials and The Wailers - so we stumbled over to him and went, 'You've got to join our band, bro', And he was like, 'Oh, go on then'. And that was it: He was in Easy Life and six months later, we got signed! The first single you put out was Pockets and it picked up a huge amount of buzz straight away. We were so lucky. I'd basically written this EP but, at the time, I was kind of done with the music industry. Then Chess Club records got in touch and saying, 'Look, we want to put Pockets out as a single.' That was a massive deal for us, because we were just five dudes from Leicester rehearsing on an industrial estate. Why were you disillusioned with the music industry? Since I left school when I was 18, this is all I've done - and I'm 24 now. I've been working terrible jobs, horrific work all over the place, just to try and pay the rent while I pursue music. It's not a very original story but I felt I'd been chewed up and spat out. What made Easy Life different? It's strange because we did this very much for ourselves. Pockets is four-and-a-half minutes long and it's not very commercial, but ironically it was that song that got a moderate commercial seal of approval. What was the worst job you had to do in those early years? Do you know what? I said it was awful but I had the best time at work. I worked on a jacket potato van on a market for three years and my boss was incredible. He gave me so much support. I love him to bits, I really do. What was your most popular filling? Beans and cheese. Classic. We called that "the classic," in fact! But then we did beef chilli, and bolognese and garlic butter. I still make homemade garlic butter now. I've got some in my fridge. It's pretty good. The other lads had funny jobs, too. Jordan was a music teacher in this school for troubled kids. He used to come into rehearsal after having to restrain kids who'd tried to beat him up. Sam [Hewitt - bass] did clinical trials, where he'd be given the flu for a week for £1,000 and he'd come back like completely ragged. And Cass [Oliver Cassidy - drums] was an electrician, so he took a bit of a pay cut to be in a band! At least you've got someone to rig the stage. Honestly, he's amazing. He wired our whole studio. And when my grandma needed some lights doing six months ago, he came through on it. He's great. One thing I hear repeatedly in your lyrics is that life can be a struggle - but there's optimism and beauty in the small moments. Absolutely. The overarching thing is the idea that life can get a bit crap, but everything's going to be OK. It's quite a British outlook to grit your teeth and smile - but I can't help it, that's my general outlook. Bad stuff does happen to me and I feel sad and all the rest of it, but I always have to smile at the end of the song and think, 'You know what? I've got running water'. There's also a thread of escaping reality by getting into altered states... I don't want to go too deep into that. I'm pretty clean now. I've quit smoking and I'm pretty tee-total. But I write from experience - so I think back to when I was really trying to push the boundaries. The world looked different through a different lens. But that's not to say I would recommend that myself, or even get involved with that any more, really. I was actually hit by a van once when I was on acid. I was in hospital, broke my collar bone, both my hands. That's not good for a trumpeter. No, no… I was ok after a while but it knocked me back into reality. On a completely different tangent, Earth is a song that deals with climate change. Why was it important to make that statement? WelI, I was brought up on an organic farm, and we've had to change the way we farm completely in the last 10 years because of the weather. We can't plant certain crops at the same time we used to because it rains, or it's too hot or it's too cold. And this is England - we have a moderate climate. If you're already facing an extreme climate, and then you add global warming and climate change on top of it, it becomes almost impossible to farm. So my parents were pumping me with environmental ethics from quite a young age and it just felt like a good time to sing about it. In an interesting way it unites people - because if we don't sort it, we're doomed. This really is our problem to solve. Was it eye-opening to film the video in a junk yard? So that was in Morocco, literally in the middle of the desert. You drive out of Marrakech for maybe 20 or 30 minutes and there's this recycling centre in the middle of nowhere and they had acres and acres of plastic. Most of the rubbish didn't have Arabic writing on it, it's mostly been imported from England. You realise we're shunting our problem to someone else; and this beautiful environment was completely destroyed by plastic. It really hit the message home. Is that the biggest problem - that we can choose to ignore it? It's easy to ignore it. When you put something in the bin, it's done. You never see that piece of rubbish again. But realistically, someone comes along, picks it up and drives it off to a landfill, where it lives for decades or centuries. It's out of sight, out of mind. Your new EP has a song called Dead Celebrities. What inspired that? We played Coachella last April, and that was my first time in LA. Mate, honestly it's amazing, for so many reasons but they're completely obsessed with death and celebrities. There's the museum of celebrity death, the dearly departed museum, and even a hotel we were staying in which was supposed to be haunted by Marilyn Monroe. So that inspired the song. We shot the video in LA, too, and it's very very funny. We got lots of celebrity look-a-likes and they chased me down Hollywood Boulevard. There's one moment where I'm holding Paris Hilton and my mum over a cliff; and I'm not sure which one to drop. It's really out there. And should we expect an album this year, too? Yeah. I've just started work on the album; and I've been lucky to work with some incredible producers. Some heroes of mine, actually. Can you name them? Not really, sorry! But it'll all come out in the wash. When you say 'I've started work on the album,' does that mean you're the chief writer? Sometimes it's all of us together but I write a lot of the music on my own. I'd say 80% of it. I'm a recluse, really. I don't like to get out much. When we do the gigs, it's all very extroverted and a big show, but for me that takes quite a lot of doing. I need the rest of the week to sit and read or listen to music. That surprises me... You've got a reputation for stripping down to your underwear on stage! Being fully-clothed on stage is difficult when you play for an hour and a half! We might be under those lights for a long time and it's nice to get naked, man, it feels liberating. Clothes are, you know... we become institutionalised. A million years ago we would all be running around naked eating berries. Things were simpler back then. Follow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

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Analysis: Conflict at heart of abuse inquiry panel

Summary: Home Secretary Theresa May has faced calls for an inquiry into historical child abuse, which has been beset by problems, to be "re-started". The inquiry, set up six months ago, remains without a leader, and there have been disagreements within the expert panel over its workings and its future.

By Tom SymondsHome affairs correspondent, BBC News Behind the scenes, there is now a bruising confrontation between the child abuse inquiry panel and one of its members, the children's charity founder Sharon Evans, who was herself abused as a child. She is furious that the government plans to disband the panel, and redesign the structure of the entire inquiry. Home Secretary Theresa May made clear the future of the inquiry will be announced within weeks. Last month, the BBC was passed a leaked letter from Ms Evans to the home secretary in which Ms Evans said the panel had been assured it would continue for the duration of the inquiry. She said that halting its work at this point "would send a very negative message to so many people we have already met and who we have promised they can have confidence in us to do the right thing". She also claimed that at one of the panel's "listening" sessions with people who have been abused, allegations were made against an MP. Ms Evans then gave an interview to Channel Four News discussing her concerns about the future of the inquiry. Sources with knowledge of the dispute within the panel have told the BBC this resulted in the counsel to the inquiry, Ben Emmerson QC, ordering her not to speak publicly about its work, without agreement from other panel members. On Tuesday, Ms Evans told MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee she felt "bullied and intimidated" by Mr Emmerson, adding, "I felt he was overstepping his mark." She insists the panel should be defending itself against criticism, which in recent months has included allegations from survivors against at least two panel members. She told the MPs that panellists had been "silenced" and, as a result, a myth had grown up among survivors that it was not working properly. Ms Evans said: "We need to be able to speak openly. We haven't been able to answer the questions and allegations about individual panel members." On Tuesday night, members of the panel released a statement: "The panel has full confidence in the integrity, advice and impartiality of counsel to the inquiry. We... do not accept any statements about bullying. We reject any suggestion that the panel has been intimidated." The home office said it had investigated Ms Evans' bullying claims and found there to be nothing to substantiate them. And Mr Emmerson said in a statement: "Sharon Evans has repeatedly disclosed confidential information in public and has made a number of public statements that are factually misleading. These were serious violations of her duties as a panel member and undermine the integrity of the inquiry and the confidence of victims and survivors." 'Wrong decisions' A well-placed abuse inquiry source has told the BBC the other panel members feel they can no longer work with Ms Evans and would rather the government disband the panel now. In the meantime, they have suspended meetings with abuse survivors. It is a row primarily about independence. The panel's members see their independence as collective. Ms Evans believes she should have the right to speak publicly, and personally if it is in the public interest - demonstrating, in effect, her independence from the panel itself. The inquiry source also criticised the home office's handling of the inquiry saying that: "Every time there was a choice between the right decision and the wrong decision, home office officials picked the wrong one." A key concern among abuse survivors has been the government's failure to consult on who should be on the panel, or to be transparent about the process used for picking its members. The home secretary told the Commons on Thursday "due diligence" work was already under way on an individual presumably earmarked for the job of chairman. All the existing panel members are expected to be told they will have to re-apply for their jobs. The question is how many will sit on the new panel. Those who do could be in the job for some time. The panel source who spoke to the BBC believes the abuse inquiry will take at least five years.

गृह सचिव थेरेसा मे को ऐतिहासिक बाल शोषण, जो समस्याओं से घिरा हुआ है, की जांच "फिर से शुरू" करने की मांग का सामना करना पड़ा है। छह महीने पहले स्थापित जांच, एक नेता के बिना बनी हुई है, और इसके कामकाज और इसके भविष्य को लेकर विशेषज्ञ पैनल के भीतर असहमति रही है।


Castell Henllys Iron Age Village seeking volunteers

Summary: Volunteers are being sought to help look after a heritage site in Pembrokeshire.

Castell Henllys Iron Age Village, near Crymych, needs people to support the prehistoric site, which is owned and run by the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority. It would involve practical tasks such as maintaining the herb garden and supporting events. An open afternoon for those interested was held on Saturday afternoon.

पेम्ब्रोकेशायर में एक विरासत स्थल की देखभाल में मदद के लिए स्वयंसेवकों की तलाश की जा रही है।