Top 50 Things to do in Suffolk: The search begins

Summary: "Suffolk? What's so good about Suffolk?"

By Richard HaughBBC News It sits out on a limb to the far east of the UK, has no Premier League football team, no cities, no motorways and a recent tourism campaign labelled it "curious". But to many, all of the above add to Suffolk's charm. Residents and holiday makers will wax lyrical about the many hidden gems, beaches and tourist attractions which make the county what it is. Yet this isn't enough for BBC Radio Suffolk presenter Mark Murphy and the East Anglian Daily Times, who have set out on a quest to compile the definitive list of 50 Things to do in Suffolk. "I'm always amazed when we have visitors come and stay with us just how much there is to show them right here in Suffolk," said Murphy. Suggestions can be emailed to suffolk50@bbc.co.uk and the final list will be announced next month. Here are some hotspots to get you started. Bury St Edmunds is as good a place to start as any. It includes gems such as the restored Theatre Royal, the Abbey Gardens and St Edmundsbury Cathedral. A guided tour of the town could help connect you with the town's past, from the origins of the Magna Carta to the mysterious death of King Edmund - who some believe should replace St George as England's patron saint. But Bury St Edmunds has successfully managed to merge the old with the new - perhaps your suggestion for 50 Things to do in Suffolk could be shopping at the new arc shopping centre or seeing a gig at the Apex. If you've been to the Seychelles, Thailand or California, the beaches of Suffolk might not be what you'd expect. You might scoff and ask a local why the water is brown and what is that big golf ball in the distance. True, Suffolk's beaches are different to what you'd find abroad, or even on the other side of the country in Cornwall. But for many, nothing can beat the feeling of a windy walk alongside Felixstowe golf club or a visit to see Maggi Hambling's scallop sculpture in Aldeburgh, followed by a trip to one of the town's infamous fish and chip shops. A few miles up the coast is Southwold. Perhaps enjoying a pint of Adnams fresh from the brewery, taking a closer look at the town's colourful beach huts or enjoying a game on the Under the Pier Show is your highlight. Latitude Festival has to be one of the Top 50 Things to do in Suffolk! Ok, perhaps I shouldn't offer a personal opinion, but I'll be joined by thousands of others who are thankful to the festival for bringing world class talent to a county which often struggles to attract the big names. Those with a more classically-trained ear would point at Snape Maltings Concert Hall. Or, perhaps seeing the big acts isn't what turns you on - perhaps standing alongside a handful of others and watching gigs at the Steamboat in Ipswich is your highlight. Suffolk is a good place for children. The numerous woodlands, reserves and aforementioned coastland offer the perfect setting to appreciate nature or to just run around. Likewise, Sutton Hoo offers something for a wide range of people and is bound to be included in the top 50. It is highly valued by historians following the discovery of the Anglo Saxon treasures in 1939, and loved by children who enjoy dressing up in chain mail or as an olden day peasant. Castles in Framlingham and Orford have a similar appeal. It may be more than 10 years since Ipswich Town were last in the top flight, but a regular attendance of 20,000 people shows that a visit to Portman Road is deemed a top thing to do in Suffolk. To the west of the county, equally fervent support can be found at Newmarket Racecourse - home to "super stud" Frankel, aka the best racehorse in history. But for some, professional football and horseracing is all a bit mainstream. For these people, some of the alternative offerings of Suffolk's sporting calendar could well be among the top 50 Things to do in Suffolk. We're talking barrel rolling in Westleton, dwile flonking, crabbing in Walberswick, the British Jigsaw Championship or, if a national competition doesn't cut it for you, the World Thumb Wrestling Championships in Lowestoft. So I guess there is a lot to do in Suffolk. Can you help compile the top 50? Email suffolk50@bbc.co.uk with your favourite Thing to do in Suffolk.

"सफ़ोक? सफ़ोक में इतना अच्छा क्या है?"


Uganda - where security forces may be more deadly than coronavirus

Summary: In Uganda, at least 12 people have allegedly been killed by security officers enforcing measures to restrict the spread of coronavirus, while the country has only just confirmed its first death from Covid-19. Patience Atuhaire has been meeting some of those affected by the violence.

Joyce Namugalu Mutasiga speaks to me as she fries small pancakes, known as kabalagala, over a woodfire, her words coming out in short, crisp sentences punctuated with long silences. "Somebody is moving away from you and then you shoot him? At least they would have said sorry, because his life will never be back, and now I am going to struggle with the children," she says, straining to bottle up her emotions. The 65-year-old is now the main bread-winner for a family of eight. Two of her grandchildren, aged three and five, too young to grasp the full scale of what has befallen them, run across the yard pointing to a car in the yard: "Take a photo of daddy's car!" In June, nearly three weeks after he was reportedly shot in the leg by a Ugandan policeman, Eric Mutasiga died from his wounds. His last moments were in an operating theatre in the country's Mulago Hospital, according to his mother. The 30-year-old headteacher was one of those allegedly killed by security forces enforcing a coronavirus lockdown. The killings are believed to have been at the hands of policemen, soldiers and members of an armed civilian force called the Local Defence Unit (LDU). Since March, they have been jointly manning roadblocks to ensure that people stick to the control measures, including a ban on motorcycle taxis (known locally as boda bodas) and a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Many Ugandans are wary as they approach these roadblocks not knowing what might happen, but on 13 May trouble came to Mr Mutasiga's home. As well as running the Merrytime Primary school, the father of three had a small shop next to his home on the edge of Mukono, about an hour's drive east of the capital, Kampala. On that Wednesday, policemen and members of the LDU were arresting people found breaking the lockdown rules by working after 19:00. 'You didn't train me' Mr Mutasiga's employee, a young man working at the chapati stall outside the shop, had just been detained. "I begged [the policemen] to forgive him. The two officers debated amongst themselves whether to let him go," the headteacher later explained to local journalists. Then, as people gathered round, things got heated. "One of the policemen started to say I wasn't the one who trained him. He said he could even shoot me. "As I turned to leave, [one policeman] shot in the air. I turned to see what happened, and saw him aim directly at me. "The bullet went right into my left leg and I fell. They got on their motorcycle really quickly and rode away." He made those comments as he was being wheeled into hospital - the police have not verified his account. His family had hoped that he would make a full recovery. "We stayed in hospital awaiting surgery, but every time we asked, the health workers told us that the wound was bad, they couldn't operate," his mother says. Mr Mutasiga was eventually taken to the operating theatre on 8 June where he died, she adds. The death certificate shows that he died directly from gunshot wounds. Mrs Mutasiga stares at the ground, taking a moment to compose herself. She feels let down by the entire government system, saying: "Some family members have suggested we go to court. But the police have not revealed the shooter's identify, so who would I sue?" Farida Nanyonjo is angry. Her brother, Robert Senyonga, died after being beaten. Around midday on 7 July, she received a call from his employer. She was told that she had to get to the eastern city of Jinja fast, as Mr Senyonga had been repeatedly struck by the butt of a gun wielded by someone believed to be from the LDU for riding a motorcycle. You may also be interested in: The beating left the 20-year-old, who worked as a farm manager with multiple fractures to the skull. Ms Nanyonjo got to him late at night and then returned with him to the capital, where he was referred to hospital. "We made it to Mulago at about 2am, and spent the rest of the night on the ward floor. I approached a medical worker for help, but was asked for money. He was finally given a bed in the morning," she says. It took a lot of haggling, and a couple of days, before Mr Senyonga could be scheduled for surgery. And by then, it was too late. 'Died in my arms' "I am extremely angry. They beat him, but even the top hospital in the country could not give him proper medical care," Ms Nanyonjo says. "My brother died in my arms." For this family, the void left by their departed will be impossible to fill. The LDU earned notoriety in the early 2000s when it was first created. Its personnel were accused of carrying out extrajudicial killings or of turning into gunmen for hire. In the end it was demobilised. Ugandans were therefore apprehensive when it was revived in 2018. Critics say the force puts guns in the hands of young, poorly trained people who are unable to reduce the tension in a confrontation. The army has now withdrawn all LDU personnel from deployment, for retraining. President Yoweri Museveni and other senior officials have condemned the reported attacks but when the BBC contacted the various security agencies implicated, none of them wished to give us a statement in response to the allegations. Rights groups argue that the problem is systemic. "We've found that security forces have been using Covid-19 and the measures put in place to prevent its spread as an excuse to violate human rights," says Oryem Nyeko, a researcher for Human Rights Watch. But these problems have been known for many years, he says, and "we need to explore reforming a system that emboldens people to commit abuses". Families say the judicial process is often too convoluted to navigate, but there have been successful prosecutions in two cases in the last five months. One involving a soldier and the other a member of the LDU. The soldier who killed Allen Musiimenta's husband was jailed by a military court for 35 years after being found guilty of murder four days after the incident. But she is not satisfied. "The soldier got his punishment, but I won't get my husband back," Ms Musiimenta says. Benon Nsimenta, who was due to be ordained as a reverend in November, was gunned down on a highway in the western town of Kasese on 24 June. He and his wife had set off for their village home on a motorbike. They had a document from a local councillor indicating that the vehicle was theirs and not a motorcycle taxi. "The soldiers who stopped us didn't even take a minute to ask questions. One of them crossed the road, raised his gun and shot my husband in the neck," Ms Musiimenta says. "We did our family projects together, talked through everything. We made plans for our children's future. How I am supposed to pay for their education by working our small farm?" she trails off, overcome with emotion. Football coach Nelly Julius Kalema survived his alleged brush with the security forces - but only just. On 8 July he was rushing a friend's sick girlfriend, Esther, to a clinic on a motorcycle. It was already curfew time. You may also want to watch: They were allowed through a roadblock, but then some people on a motorcycle, who he says were policemen, waved them down. Mr Kalema says he asked if he could find a safer place to stop just ahead. He says one man took out a baton and hit Esther hard on the neck. She screamed, and fell. "I lost balance and rammed into a concrete slab, on which I hit my head," he says, lying in a hospital bed. The accident left him with a deep cut on the head, the scalp hanging by a few inches, that had to be stitched back. Esther survived with a broken leg and had to undergo surgery. The police declined to comment on his allegations. When we met, Mr Kalema had been in hospital for nearly a week, his head constantly throbbing. "I have been lying here thinking I shouldn't have to feel lucky, because I had no fault in the accident. How many of us must die or be maimed before the security forces change their methods?" he wonders.

युगांडा में, कोरोनावायरस के प्रसार को रोकने के उपायों को लागू करने वाले सुरक्षा अधिकारियों द्वारा कम से कम 12 लोगों की कथित रूप से हत्या कर दी गई है, जबकि देश ने अभी-अभी कोविड-19 से अपनी पहली मौत की पुष्टि की है। धैर्य अतूहायर हिंसा से प्रभावित कुछ लोगों से मिल रहा है।


Woman punched in face in Carrington robbery

Summary: A man has been arrested on suspicion of robbing a woman he allegedly punched in the face, and pushing his way into a house to demand food.

Police said the robbery was "very distressing" for the victim, who was approached in a Nottingham street by a man carrying a bottle of vodka. Her phone was stolen, police said, while cash was demanded from the woman, who was pushed and hit. It happened in Sherbrooke Road, Carrington at 16:40 GMT on Saturday. The incident in which someone demanded food happened in nearby Ravensmore Road at 17:15 GMT. Police arrested a 25-year-old man on suspicion of robbery and burglary. Follow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.

एक आदमी को एक महिला को लूटने के संदेह में गिरफ्तार किया गया है, जिसे उसने कथित तौर पर चेहरे पर घूंसा मारा था, और भोजन की मांग करने के लिए एक घर में घुस गया था।


What Biden's foreign policy 'reset' really means

Summary: US President Joe Biden has delivered his first foreign policy speech since taking office. He framed it as a reset after four years of Donald Trump's America First agenda, pledging to reinvest in alliances and diplomacy, and emphasising democratic values.

By Barbara Plett UsherBBC State Department correspondent Here are some takeaways: Standing up to Russia Shortly after Biden started his speech, he delivered a quote designed to make a headline: "I made it clear to President [Vladimir] Putin, in a manner very different from my predecessor, that the days of the United States rolling over in the face of Russia's aggressive actions… are over." It was the starkest of contrasts with Trump, who seemed to go out of his way to avoid criticising the Russian president. Biden nodded to the value of engaging with Moscow on areas of mutual interests, such as preventing nuclear war - the two leaders have just agreed to extend their last remaining arms control treaty. But he pledged to hold Vladimir Putin to account on cyberattacks and election interference, and called for the release of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. This White House is ready to use the bully pulpit against the Kremlin. But any actions it takes will be building on those of the Trump administration, which continued to penalise Russia on everything from cyberattacks to poison attacks despite Trump's reticence. Iran is no longer the root of all evil Biden's speech was notable for what he didn't say: he made no mention of Iran. The silence was almost jarring, given how relentlessly Trump's Secretary of State Mike Pompeo railed against Tehran as the root of all evil in the Middle East. That's not to say the Biden administration doesn't see Iran as a matter of "great urgency". It calculates that the Islamic Republic has come much closer to the "break out" point of being able to make a nuclear bomb since Trump pulled out of the deal restricting Iran's nuclear programme - a deal which Biden has said he's willing to resurrect. His administration is still figuring out how to do that. But in the meantime, he's not looking at the region through the prism of Iran. Most notably, he announced an end to support for Saudi Arabia's military offensive in Yemen. Pompeo emphasised that Yemen's Houthi rebels, against which Riyadh is fighting, were backed by Iran. Biden emphasises that the war has created the world's worst humanitarian catastrophe. A different 'America First' Biden may disagree with Trump about America's place in the world, but he still puts Americans first. He and his officials talk about a foreign policy that benefits US workers, that protects their jobs and wages. "There's no longer a bright line between foreign and domestic policy," Biden said. "Every action we take in our conduct abroad, we must take with American working families in mind." That will influence his trade policies. He also returned to a vision of the United States as an immigrant nation, pledging to accept more refugees: he said he would increase the number to 125,000 a year after Trump whittled it down to 15,000. And he acknowledged that conduct at home had an impact on the promotion of what he sees as American democratic values, to which he is committed. But he put a positive spin on recent violence over election fraud alleged by his predecessor, saying Americans are better equipped to unite the world in fighting to defend democracy "because we have fought for it ourselves". Foreign policy man Trump's first visit to a government organisation was the CIA, and he only got to the state department more than a year after he took office. So Biden's decision to start with the state department was a signal of support to foreign service officers who Trump regarded as part of the "Deep State" out to undermine him. And to the world, that America was "back", ready to resume its engagement with allies to tackle mutual problems in multilateral settings, which has become a bit of a mantra with the Biden team. But the visit was also an expression of who Biden is, a former senator and vice president steeped in decades of foreign policy experience. "I've just been trying to keep up," said his Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who's worked with him for some 20 years. The president will be consumed with pressing domestic issues, but he has an abiding interest in foreign affairs and he went out of his way to underline his commitment to diplomacy.

अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति जो बाइडन ने पदभार संभालने के बाद अपना पहला विदेश नीति भाषण दिया है। उन्होंने इसे डोनाल्ड ट्रम्प के अमेरिका फर्स्ट एजेंडे के चार साल बाद एक रीसेट के रूप में तैयार किया, जिसमें गठबंधनों और कूटनीति में फिर से निवेश करने और लोकतांत्रिक मूल्यों पर जोर देने का संकल्प लिया गया।


Police tweet for missing animals on golf course prompts jokes

Summary: People have been joking about arks after Cheshire Police tweeted an appeal to find a horse, two donkeys and a goat.

The animals strayed onto a golf course in Alderley Edge on Thursday morning at about 06:50 BST. Responses to the tweet included: "Due to the floods Give Noah a call" and "I saw his ark passing through on Tuesday". A spokesman said officers were unable to find the animals following a search. The force said if they received any more calls about the animals, officers would return to the area.

चेशायर पुलिस द्वारा एक घोड़ा, दो गधे और एक बकरी खोजने की अपील किए जाने के बाद लोग जहाज़ों के बारे में मजाक कर रहे हैं।


Woman's snap of suspect in her stolen car prompts response

Summary: The release of a photo of a man snapped by the owner of a stolen car as he sat in it has prompted "several responses" from the public, police say.

The silver Ford Fiesta was stolen following a night-time house burglary in Lowther Road, Bournemouth. The owner, aged in her 20s, confronted two men as they were parked in nearby Portchester Road the day after and took a snap of one before they ran off. Dorset Police said they were investigating new information. A spokesman added no arrests had yet been made. The woman had left her car key at a friend's house and her car parked outside, on 1 September, while they were on a night out. The key and car were stolen, along with an iPad and iPhone, during the break-in, said police, who released the image and an appeal to trace the suspect on Tuesday. You may also be interested in:

पुलिस का कहना है कि एक चोरी की कार के मालिक द्वारा ली गई एक व्यक्ति की तस्वीर के जारी होने से जनता की ओर से "कई प्रतिक्रियाएं" आई हैं।


Iran web abuzz at Oscar winning film

Summary: Iranians are not used to seeing their nation portrayed in a positive light. So when the Iranian film, A Separation, was nominated for two Oscars at the 2012 Academy Awards, social media users were quick to leap on the "feel-good factor".

By Arash AhmadiBBC Monitoring Iranians are acutely aware of the picture of the country abroad, especially in the West. They know that Iran conjures up an image of angry, bearded men storming embassies, human rights abuses and, of course, nuclear proliferation and possible war. So any recognition internationally, be it in the arts, sciences or sports, creates a sense of excitement and national pride. Deprived of "good news stories", ordinary Iranians are keen to see that their country's image is not always negative - life and culture go on, despite the economic and political woes. Success story The phenomenal success of A Separation, directed by Asghar Farhadi and starring Peyman Moaadi and Leila Hatami, has also offered the opportunity to tweak the tail of the establishment. The drama is a story of a middle-class couple, Nader and Simin, who live in the capital Tehran and are faced with a dilemma. Simin wants the family to emigrate for the sake of their young daughter. But Nader refuses his wife's wishes because he is looking after his dying father. And so Simin seeks a divorce, which is refused by a clerical judge. The story resonates with many young and educated Iranians, both at home and among the extensive Iranian diaspora. A Separation, made with a budget of just $500,000, had already won the Golden Bear for best film at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival, and this year's Golden Globes Award for the best foreign language film. It also won the BBC Four World Cinema Award in November. It continued its triumphal progress in 2012, winning best foreign language film at the Cesar Awards in France earlier in February, although it missed out at the Baftas (British Academy of Film and Television Arts). But it was the nominations for best foreign language film as well as original screen play in the 2012 Academy Awards that attracted increased social media attention. A Separation was up against, among others, the Israeli film, Footnote by Joseph Cedar, which did not go unnoticed in the Iranian blogosphere. Withdrawal fears The sense of national pride was captured by a number of tweets in Persian. "I hope Nader and Simin wins the Bafta, Cesar and Oscar," wrote Rezasaar82. Another tweeter did not see the Israeli entry, Footnote, as a serious rival to A Separation. A couple of bloggers took the opportunity to make a dig at the conservative establishment in Iran. "The Israeli film Footnote has also been nominated, so I hope we won't pull out [of the Oscars] for the sake of the oppressed people of Palestine," said Half Blood Prince. Iranian athletes traditionally withdraw from international competitions if they are drawn against Israeli sportsmen, sometimes forfeiting medals. Melody took up the theme: "I say, imagine that there are some who expect director Asghar Farhadi to give up in this competition, just as athletes are forced to do when facing Israelis." 'Pro-American' But it was not plain sailing for the film. Pro-establishment figures condemned the film as pro-American. Iranian film maker Jamal Shurjeh, who is well-known for his movies about the Iran-Iraq war, told the conservative Fars news agency that A Separation had been successful because it "was in line with the policies of US policymakers". One blogger went as far as saying that the film was made in order to prepare the ground for a US military action against Iran. "A Separation has been showered with prizes because the foreigners think it will kill hope, the hope of Shia, the hope of those who are loyal to Islam," wrote Hamidreza Alaqehband, ahead of the Oscar. "All of this is grist to the mill of anti-Iranian propaganda in order to prepare the ground for a US military attack." BBC Monitoringselects and translates news from radio, television, press, news agencies and the internet from 150 countries in more than 70 languages. It is based in Caversham, UK, and has several bureaux abroad.

ईरानी लोग अपने देश को सकारात्मक रूप से चित्रित होते देखने के आदी नहीं हैं। इसलिए जब ईरानी फिल्म, ए सेपरेशन, को 2012 के अकादमी पुरस्कारों में दो ऑस्कर के लिए नामांकित किया गया था, तो सोशल मीडिया उपयोगकर्ता "फील-गुड फैक्टर" पर तेजी से कूद पड़े।


Are we changing our minds about banks and bankers?

Summary: When he spoke in Parliament in 2011, former Barclays boss Bob Diamond claimed the time for apologising and remorse from lenders was over. He may have thought he had misjudged the mood when he was forced out of his bank a year later , under pressure from regulators.

By Howard MustoeBusiness reporter But as Chancellor George Osborne presses for change at the City's watchdog after sacking its chief, Martin Wheatley, cuts back a key tax on banks, and starts selling the government's stake in Royal Bank of Scotland, are things now finally looking up for our financial institutions? In spite of recent misdemeanours - not least this week's conviction of the trader Tom Hayes for rigging Libor rates - are we ready to forgive them? "It looks like we may be approaching a tipping point," says Antony Elliott, director of Fairbanking Foundation, which campaigns to encourage banks to take more of an interest in their clients' financial well-being. Banks have made inroads into mending dodgy sales practices and are better at helping their customers avoid fraud, he said. There is a lot more to do, though, he says. "The capacity to backslide is probably still great." "A lot of people do need to improve their savings" and other aspects of their finances, which means a return to trust in lending institutions is needed, says Mr Elliott. 'Emerging from introspection' Mr Wheatley is to leave the Financial Conduct Authority after two years, amid what Mr Osborne called a need for "different leadership". Mr Osborne said in his last budget earlier in July that the bank levy would be cut from its current 0.21% to 0.1% in 2021, by which time it would apply to banks' UK balance sheets only. This was seen as a boon particularly to Asia-focused HSBC. Much of the change in tone from the authorities is pragmatic, says Thomas Moore, a fund manager who oversees more than £1bn of assets at pension firm Standard Life. "We are emerging from a period of introspection," he said. Banks have been forced to squirrel away more capital in recent years to reduce the risk of them needing a public bailout again. But now those capital numbers - an indicator of how hard a surprise financial knock a bank can take without going bust - look a lot healthier. With this capital strength at a safer level, banks may be coaxed into making riskier loans, like to seedling enterprises, he says. Stiff regulation from Mr Wheatley - who once said he would "shoot first" when it came to dealing with financial wrongdoing - may now be traded in for a desire for banks to lend more and help with Mr Osborne's growth targets for the economy. "I think George Osborne spotted two or three years ago that the regulators' involvement in bank balance sheets and capital could have a detrimental impact on the UK's economic growth," says Mr Moore. He thinks banks will now have an active part in helping shape the rules. 'Man in a hurry' And Mr Osborne has reasons to want more lending. While mortgage lending is rising, lending to so-called non-financial businesses - the real economy - fell by £5.5bn in June, the sharpest decline in at least four years, according to the Bank of England. Last month the chancellor said he was giving the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee the job of pushing the importance of banks lending for productive investment. "George Osborne has the power to make appointments and dismissals," says Standard Life's Mr Moore. "I think you can read into it that he's a man in a hurry and he wants to balance economic growth with a stable regulatory landscape." So perhaps Mr Osborne is on the road to making peace with the banks. What about the rest of us? "It will take time for public perception of banks to change and it will take time for trust to be rebuilt," says Leon Kamhi, a director at Hermes EOS, an advisor to large investors such as pension funds. "Talking to people in the street, there's still a lot of anger and mistrust." 'Reforms in place' A constant dribble of fines and scandals demanding they repay ill-gotten revenues doesn't help. UK lenders have set aside more than £26bn for payment protection insurance, a figure that is still growing. In July, Royal Bank of Scotland put by another £459m, mainly for litigation costs. A day earlier, Barclays had said it reserved £250m to repay customers to whom they shouldn't have sold packaged bank accounts, a brand new mis-selling scandal. Another awkward factor is this week's conviction of the first UK bank worker in relation to rigging markets. Former City trader Tom Hayes was found guilty at a London court of rigging global Libor interest rates, earning him 14 years in prison for conspiracy to defraud. But behind the scenes, banks now have better governance in the form of boards with more experienced members and they are reforming how much and how often they pay their managers, says Mr Kamhi. There is another way of thinking about the change of tune from government, though, says Prof Charles Goodhart from the London School of Economics. Prof Goodhart says that Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has indicated he thinks that "the vast majority of the reforms necessary have been put in place, and we need to move into a period of implementation, rather than future reform; the reforms do what is necessary - we need to implement them. "The pressure of one regulatory reform after another has come to an end." 'Always problems' So, perhaps things seem calmer because the phase of new plans for the banks, such as the forthcoming separation of high street banks from investment operations, has come to an end. Regulators are merely getting down to it. But there will inevitably need to be some tinkering, he adds. "You can't look at anything and say it's fixed, there will always be problems. The regulatory environment is a dynamic one, in which regulators make new regulations and the banking system adjusts to it in ways that are almost impossible to foresee in advance. "That leads to new problems and they lead to new difficulties which leads to new regulation… it won't end here," says Prof Goodhart. As for forgiveness from the banking public? "I think that's an impossible question to answer. If things go right it's a decade away," says Mr Kamhi.

जब उन्होंने 2011 में संसद में बात की, तो बार्कलेज के पूर्व प्रमुख बॉब डायमंड ने दावा किया कि ऋणदाताओं से माफी मांगने और पश्चाताप करने का समय समाप्त हो गया था। उन्होंने सोचा होगा कि नियामकों के दबाव में एक साल बाद जब उन्हें अपने बैंक से बाहर निकाला गया तो उन्होंने मनोदशा का गलत आकलन किया था।


Tomorrow's Buildings: Radical solutions to housing crisis

Summary: For many, a smart home is not one that has a thermostat that responds to their temperature needs, a door lock that knows they are coming up the drive, or even a fridge that knows when they have run out of milk.

By Jane WakefieldTechnology reporter Instead it is one that is comfortable, affordable and in the right location. Unfortunately for many that remains a distant dream, begging the question - can technology play a role in making housing more affordable and better suited to our needs? Alastair Parvin certainly thinks so. He is the brains behind the WikiHouse, an open source building system which aims to give people the digital tools to create cheap homes. Mr Parvin believes that digital technology could transform the way we design and build our homes and hopes that his project can do for buildings what Uber and AirBnB have done for the taxi and hotel industries respectively. "There is something fundamentally wrong with our housing economy - our dependence on a few large development companies to buy the land, beat their way through local community resistance and build rows of poor quality, unsustainable mass housing that fewer and fewer of us can afford," said Mr Parvin. "Every major urban economy now faces a huge housing challenge. It's not just about building enough homes but also about breaking our dependence on fossil fuels and debt." To draw up plans for their new home, users will visit the WikiHouse website (still under construction) and input some basic measurements such as the width and height, which algorithms will interpret and use to predict how much the project will cost and even how many screws it will need. The components for the house will not be manufactured in centralised factories but by a distributed network of small businesses and community spaces where people get together to create things (maker-spaces). "These micro-factories will be collectively one big factory rather like AirBnB is a huge hotel," said Mr Parvin. Possible kits include studios (with an estimated build price of £12,000), micro houses (£45,000) and town houses (£150,000). Much of the material is deliberately low-tech - timber frames that can be put together, said Mr Parvin "using tools you can buy in B&Q". Tomorrow's Buildings Of course what WikiHouse does not provide is the land to build on, but that too could be changing as cities increasingly run out of space. DemoDev - a project set up specifically to find space for affordable housing - recently conducted a study using open data from the UK's second biggest city Birmingham. It found that the local authority had 14 hectares of land distributed around the urban centre, albeit in tiny little plots. The UK government seems to be acknowledging that self-build projects are an important part of the housing future and has committed to doubling the size of the self and custom-built housing sector which currently accounts for under 10% of the housing supply. WikiHouse, Mr Parvin is keen to point out, is still a research project although it is beginning to see its first pilots in New Zealand, Europe and South Yorkshire. Tiny home Others are thinking, not about designing new homes but making the most out of the ones we have - which in urban areas, often means tiny apartments. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Changing Places lab they have come up with a technological solution known as CityHome. The home in a box that is controlled by waving your hand at it looks, at first glance, like something Ikea would come up with if it was based at MIT's Media Lab. The 200ft space has at its centre a box which contains a bed, dining room table, kitchen surface, cooker and storage. Users can summon different elements of this through gesture, touch and voice control. The whole unit can be moved a few feet each way to extend a room - so when you want the bedroom space, you effectively do away with the kitchen. "Once you have shrunk an apartment, the only way to make it functional and liveable is to have space dynamically convert from one function to another," Prof Kent Larson, who leads the research, told the BBC. "It is about giving people, especially young people, the chance to live in a part of the city which they are normally priced out of," he added. After the video of CityHome went on YouTube, the team were inundated with enquiries from developers and, six months ago, created a start-up to build the furniture commercially. Its designs are currently being piloted in existing apartments in Boston and feedback has been "largely positive", said Mr Larson. The start-up is also in talks with around 20 developers about building such apartments from scratch. Prof Larson believes that the concept can be extended to create smarter homes. "We need to think of technology-enabled furniture as a platform for integrating other technology because in a small apartment it is not practical to put in conventional systems," he said. As well as digital displays on walls, the platform could include lighting systems that change colour to help users sleep or wake, wireless sensors that monitor the occupant's health and teleconferencing capabilities. "I don't believe in smart homes, I believe in dumb homes that you put smart things into. If smartness is embedded in the walls then your home becomes obsolete in five years time," said Prof Larson. Car crisis However, not everyone believes that the solution to the urban housing crisis lies with technology. In 2001, Brazilian designer Alexandre Lafer Frankel grew so exasperated with the traffic in Sao Paulo that he abandoned his car and started to think about how to solve the mobility crisis in his city. "People spend three hours a day in their cars. There is no public transport in Sao Paulo and I wanted to created a better lifestyle in the city," he told the BBC. The answer he came up with was to build tiny apartments (130 square feet in some cases) in the centre of the city, close to where people worked. "People like to live and work in the same area and they are prepared to trade off a large apartment far away from the city for a small one in it," he said. To compensate for the lack of space internally, each apartment has shared areas - cafes, gyms, storage for deliveries and rooms where users can borrow tools and other pieces of equipment they can't store in their homes. The apartments - which have a starting price of only £15,000 - even offer spare rooms for when relatives or friends come to visit. They also have shared bike, car and motorcycle schemes running so, like Mr Frankel, residents can also give up their cars. In the last six years, Vitacon, the construction firm he founded, has built and sold 10,000 apartments, suggesting that his gamble has paid off. Now he is leading a campaign to extend the idea of small apartments that eliminate the need to own a car to other cities around the world.

कई लोगों के लिए, एक स्मार्ट होम वह नहीं है जिसमें एक थर्मोस्टैट हो जो उनकी तापमान आवश्यकताओं का जवाब देता हो, एक दरवाजा ताला जो जानता हो कि वे ड्राइव पर आ रहे हैं, या यहां तक कि एक फ्रिज जो जानता है कि उनका दूध कब खत्म हो गया है।


Inside Mexico's feared Sinaloa drugs cartel

Summary: Some of Mexico's leading drugs traffickers have been killed or captured in recent months, including the head of the powerful Sinaloa cartel. But inside the secretive world of this feared criminal organisation it's clear that it remains as active as ever.

By Paul WoodBBC News, Sinaloa, Mexico Hector is not what you might expect a drugs smuggler for the Sinaloa cartel to look like. There is no flashy truck and chrome-plated Kalashnikov. Instead, the spry 68-year-old drives a tiny Honda and runs a small convenience store. But he is the real thing. I had asked a Mexican contact with knowledge of the cartel to introduce me to someone on the inside. For years, Hector has been his guide to the secret workings of the oldest and richest drugs mafia in Mexico. The Sinaloa cartel - its tide of dirty cash and its pitiless violence - reaches into the police, business, and politics. The arrest in February of the cartel leader, El Chapo "Shorty" Guzman, made little difference to the organisation - there is too much money to be made. "This place is sick with the narco culture," says my contact. "They have been living with it in Sinaloa for 100 years." Hector has been a narcotrafficante for 50 years. "I am a pioneer," he tells me proudly, wearing a white cowboy hat, and swirling the ice around in a glass of whisky. His father had been a poor farmer, planting corn and beans. In his teens, Hector grew marijuana, then began smuggling his crop to the US, where it fetched a much higher price. He survived all this time by being smart, he told me. The shop, for instance, is his alibi. "When I was young, I wanted to make lots of money. And for a time I did," he says. "But I live better now because I don't have to hide." He has many regrets, including the loss of his son, killed while trafficking. "Truly, the business has changed," he says. "The people have changed. There is no respect. The nobility is gone. There is no friendship. There is no promise. Before, if you owed money, your word was good. Now you will be killed tomorrow if you don't pay today." The blood flowed when, several years ago, the trafficking of crystal meth began to overtake that of the "noble" drugs marijuana and cocaine, he says. A pound of white, crystalline methamphetamine is bought from a lab in Mexico for $2,000. It is sold in the US for $10,000 - after smuggling costs you can clear $5,000 a pound. The obscene profits and the drug itself were corrupting, he explains. "The person who uses crystal meth can hang his mother. The change to synthetic drugs changed the mentality," he says. "When the meth boom started, the war started, the jealousy started. The different cartels started to recruit people who had never seen a Kalashnikov. "They give them a rifle, they give them drugs and those people turn crazy, they don't think about tomorrow. People are sick - the ones who kill and the ones who send them to kill." The drugs war is conducted by the sicarios or "blades" - cartel hitmen. They guard the shipments and the money, protect the cartel's turf from rivals, and kill to order. We are taken to a safe house used as a base by one group of sicarios. The smell of marijuana is heavy in the air as we walk in. A dozen young men lounge on sofas watching TV. They are well armed - many have AK-47s, known affectionately as "goats' horns" by the traffickers because of the curved clip for the bullets. One or two have M-16s with grenade launchers, weapons not even the police have. I speak to Raphael, a dead-eyed 18-year-old with a Kalashnikov, a black combat vest stuffed with ammunition clips, and a pearl-handled revolver. "A friend a mine told me about this business," he says. "He was part of this team. So I joined too. I was 14 years old. I was not good at school. I like this. How to explain? I don't like fighting but I do like the weapons." He was 15 when he first killed. He saw an informer on the street and phoned for orders. "Kill him," he was told. So he did, there and then, shooting the man. "I felt nothing," he tells me. "Just adrenalin." He has lost count of the number of lives he has taken since. No-one in the safe house has an exact number. At a guess, most think they have each killed a dozen people in the past year or 18 months. The most recent "hit" was two weeks ago - someone from their own group accused of passing information to rival traffickers. The boss of the safe house, an innocuous looking 26-year-old in a striped polo shirt, garrotted him from behind with electrical cable. The head of security for this branch of the cartel, a man in his 40s called Jose, says almost anyone can be a target. "A traitor, a whistleblower, a thief, someone who doesn't pay the cartel. They send us to collect the money or to kill him." But he also claims that the cartel protects the people of Sinaloa. That is not as strange as it sounds. The Sinaloa mafia has, by and large, not carried out the kidnapping and extortion seen elsewhere in Mexico. That would be bad for business, and the trafficking is far more lucrative than anything else they could do. The cartel has even killed and put on display the bodies of criminals accused of kidnapping for ransom. "So the people protect us," says Jose. "Most people do business with the cartel or join it. It's almost an obligation here because if you don't you're on your own. You are against everyone else. There is no protection." The firepower has not been produced for our camera, they assure us. They wait like this, ready to go to war at a moment's notice - there has been some trouble recently with rival cartels trying to edge into their territory. Some in Mexico talk of a "narco-insurgency", a well-armed challenge to the state. In Sinaloa, that is not the case, it seems. "We work with the police," says Jose, "local, state and federal." When his drugs are moved, it is with a police escort, he tells me. Officers keep an eye out for gunmen from rival cartels. "The police are co-operating to take care of the [smuggling] corridors. They are 'vigilantes' for us." The state police chief Commandante Jesus Aguilar emphatically denies this. His men, in their blue combat uniforms, also bristle with weapons - M4-A4 assault rifles, 50-calibre sniper rifles, heavy machine guns mounted on the back of huge, gleaming new pick-up trucks. Improved equipment and higher wages have helped them arrest many traffickers, Aguilar says - including, only a week ago, 10 Sinaloa gunmen. "We have arrested people from all sides," he says, in an office decorated with certificates, including one from the US Drug Enforcement Administration. "They are all criminals. We don't favour some and not the others. Here, everyone engaged in criminal activity can expect to be arrested by the authorities." The commandante has had his own troubles with the authorities. In 2006, a warrant was issued for his arrest, after he was accused of using his men to protect one of the most senior members of the Sinaloa cartel. He went on the run for five years and had a five million peso bounty on his head (the equivalent of $500,000). "It was a very small bounty," he says, laughing, and adding that the case against him was "political". The warrant was withdrawn in 2009 and a couple of years later he was re-appointed to head the police. The state governor explained that sometimes a "black dove" was needed to take on organised crime. A former governor of Sinaloa once said that 62% of the state's economy was connected to drugs money, but few in Sinaloa are prepared to speak publicly about the links that everyone assumes the cartel has with the authorities. At the Sinaloa Commission for the Defence of Human Rights in the state capital, Culiacan, I meet a small group of women whose relatives have disappeared. They all accuse the police of failing to investigate the abductions properly because of links to the criminal groups. One woman, Annabel, goes further, accusing the police of having a hand in abducting her son. He was drinking on the street with a few friends when four patrol cars drew up. They arrested her son and two of his friends. At the local police station, the chief denied all knowledge of the arrest. Hours later, she got a call from a gang of kidnappers: "We have your son." They briefly put her son on the phone. "I'll be OK if you pay," he pleaded. The ransom was $10,000 and the family car, which was to be left, with the money, in a square in town. She did as she was told. The car and the money were taken. Her son was not returned. She never saw him again. The police told her that "fake cops" were involved. She doesn't believe it. There were too many police cars. "I begged the police - tell me where my son is and who has him," she recalls tearfully. There are other stories. People are too terrified to show their faces on camera. No-one believed the authorities would really help them. The traffickers have co-opted parts of the state. For Mexicans, that is the really frightening thing about living with the drugs business… You never know who you're dealing with, who to trust. Several names, and other identifying details, have been changed in this piece. Follow @BBCNewsMagazine on Twitter and on Facebook

हाल के महीनों में मेक्सिको के कुछ प्रमुख मादक पदार्थों के तस्करों को मार दिया गया है या पकड़ लिया गया है, जिसमें शक्तिशाली सिनालोआ गुट का प्रमुख भी शामिल है। लेकिन इस भयभीत आपराधिक संगठन की गुप्त दुनिया में यह स्पष्ट है कि यह हमेशा की तरह सक्रिय है।


At first look, full post-Brexit text goes beyond a 'Canada-style' deal

Summary: BBC News has obtained a full copy of the post-Brexit trade deal agreed by the UK and the EU, setting out the shape of their relationship for years to come. Parliament will vote on the plan next week, but so far Downing Street has published only a short summary, rather than the full document. Our economics editor, Faisal Islam, has been looking at the details.

Faisal IslamEconomics editor@faisalislamon Twitter Late into Christmas Eve, UK government and European lawyers were hard at work completing the process of updating the text of the post-Brexit trade deal into formal language, a process known as legally scrubbing. Because whatever the general relief over the broad outline of this deal, there are nearly 1,300 pages of legal text that will determine every aspect of the hundreds of billions in trade between the UK and EU. Some of the thorniest negotiation points have made it into the final text. Innocuous and arcane sounding articles and annexes could have a huge impact on industry and government policy. For example, the restrictions compensation for unfair subsidies to companies "do not apply" in situations such as natural disasters, exempting the EU's huge current pandemic support package for aviation, aerospace, climate change and electric cars. A late compromise On electric cars, an annexe reveals a late compromise. The EU had sought to offer tariff-free access only to those British cars that are made mostly with European parts. That will now be phased in over six years, but is less generous than the UK ask. This should be just about enough for Japanese owners of massive UK plants Nissan and Toyota's current production, but raises questions about future rounds of investment. There is a clear commitment not to lower standards on the environment, workers' rights and climate change from those that exist now and mechanisms to enforce it. But there is also a mutual right to "rebalance" the agreement if there are "significant divergences" in future that is capable of "impacting trade". These go way beyond standard free-trade agreements such as those between the EU and Canada or Japan, reflecting the UK's history in the single market. The text reads like these mechanisms are designed to be used, and created to ensure that both sides remain close to each other's regulatory orbit. Follow Faisal on Twitter.

बीबीसी न्यूज़ ने ब्रिटेन और यूरोपीय संघ द्वारा सहमत ब्रेक्सिट के बाद के व्यापार सौदे की पूरी प्रति प्राप्त की है, जो आने वाले वर्षों के लिए उनके संबंधों के आकार को निर्धारित करती है। संसद अगले सप्ताह योजना पर मतदान करेगी, लेकिन अब तक डाउनिंग स्ट्रीट ने पूरे दस्तावेज़ के बजाय केवल एक संक्षिप्त सारांश प्रकाशित किया है। हमारे अर्थशास्त्र संपादक, फैसल इस्लाम, विवरण देख रहे हैं।


Covid: Karen Campbell is chronicling the response to the virus

Summary: Scots author Karen Campbell has written a number of novels.

By Giancarlo RinaldiSouth Scotland reporter, BBC Scotland news website She started out in crime fiction but her latest work - The Sound of the Hours - is set mainly in a small Tuscan town during World War 2. Recently, however, she has turned her attentions to a slightly different project. She is working with staff at Dumfries and Galloway Council to capture how they responded to the coronavirus pandemic in the region. 'Beyond the call of duty' "The project of writer in residence at the council is part of a wider regionwide arts project called Atlas Pandemica being done by the Stove (an artist-led community group) in Dumfries," she explained. "The Stove invited local artists to bid for commissions about trying to document and make some sort of artistic response to what has been happening with the pandemic in Dumfries and Galloway." The Galloway-based writer already had some knowledge of the subject having volunteered with the council's communications unit at the start of the crisis. She submitted her idea - which was accepted - to record how staff were going "above and beyond the call of duty". Anthology aim "Basically what I am doing is reaching out to council staff, as many different types of jobs as possible, asking them to tell me their experiences and then I am going to fictionalise these," she said. "No-one will recognise themselves in a story it will just be me trying to give a flavour of the sorts of jobs and the sorts of ways people were coping over the initial three months. "I am hoping to produce an anthology, ideally a hard cover paperback anthology that you can hold but at the very least something that is online." It will sit alongside a bigger artwork planned by Atlas Pandemica near the end of the project in December. 'Slice of humanity' "I have had a range of stuff from people working in refuse collection to people administering grants for businesses to teachers trying to create their classes online," said Ms Campbell. "I really want to get that cross-section of everybody that had to step up to the mark." She said she believed the stories would be relevant to people outside the local authority. "We are all in this together and everyone that works for the council is still a mum trying to teach her kids at home or a person worried about their elderly relative who is shielding," she said. "It is a slice of humanity really that I am trying to gather." 'Piece of history' Ms Campbell said the process had been "a lot different and a lot quicker" than writing a novel. "This is giving staff a wee moment to stop and think - we did do something differently there," she said. "It is almost like a piece of history I want to pin down. "I want to do this job well - not be sycophantic and not say everything was great - but just to give individual wee moments and individual voices the chance to be heard." 'Bad press' Ms Campbell said it might also be a chance to address the "bad press" local authorities sometimes get. "I don't know if there is always that appreciation of the huge amount of care that there is within councils," she said. "Folk in there really care about what they are doing." Through her final work - whatever format it ultimately takes - she hopes to shine a "wee spotlight" on the good work they do. Extract from the short story Winter is Coming You realise all the time that this will happen, with or without you, that communities will grow and protect and shelter and provide. Hunched in the alienation of your spare room and your virtual screens, you realise it is their turn to matter, and it is your job to hold hands and steer and shepherd, to gather and steward and open up the box, to burst the bubbles and unlock doors and let folk soar, if they want to. Suddenly, you understand. Why we call them services, and what it is to serve. Courtesy of Karen Campbell

स्कॉट्स लेखिका करेन कैम्पबेल ने कई उपन्यास लिखे हैं।


First 3D scan of St Kilda's Village Bay ruins released

Summary: A team from Historic Scotland and Glasgow School of Art has released its first 3D image in a project to digitally laser scan ruins on St Kilda.

The remote archipelago lies 41 miles (66km) west of the Western Isles. The image of ruins in Village Bay on St Kilda's main island of Hirta was taken for a project called the Scottish Ten. The project's team are recording all five of Scotland's Unesco World Heritage sites and five others around the world. It is hoped the 3D scans will aid the conservation and management of the sites. In a separate project, survey work in a five-year project to produce the most complete mapping record of human occupation of St Kilda is nearing completion. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) and National Trust for Scotland (NTS) have been working on the maps.

ऐतिहासिक स्कॉटलैंड और ग्लासगो स्कूल ऑफ आर्ट की एक टीम ने सेंट किल्डा पर खंडहरों को डिजिटल रूप से लेजर स्कैन करने की परियोजना में अपनी पहली 3डी छवि जारी की है।


The Indian activist jailed for being gay

Summary: In a historic ruling, India's Supreme Court struck down parts of a colonial-era law that criminalised homosexuality. Jayshree Bajoria spoke to Arif Jafar, an LGBT activist who was arrested under section 377 and spent 47 days in prison.

"It was very traumatic," recalls Arif Jafar, 47, outside the Supreme Court, where Thursday's landmark ruling was delivered. A short, bespectacled man, he wears a shiny pink button on his shirt supporting the cause dearest to his heart. "Being denied drinking water... being beaten up every day just because of my sexual orientation was a really horrible experience. It took me almost 17 years to even talk about it," he said. Mr Jafar is one of a clutch of petitioners who approached the top court, asking them to reconsider a 2013 ruling which upheld the colonial-era law, under which homosexuality was a crime. The law, a relic of British colonial rule, was rarely enforced. But it had long been used to discriminate against LGBT people and as a means for the police and others to harass, extort and blackmail them, members of the community say. But for Mr Jafar, who identifies as gay and is an LGBT activist based in Lucknow, the law went far beyond being a mere tool for persecution. Along with four of his colleagues at the Bharosa Trust, a community-based organisation providing information, counselling, outreach and peer support for homosexual and transgender people, Mr Jafar was arrested under section 377 on 8 July 2001. Before they were formally arrested, officers beat the men up in public. 'A homosexual conspiracy' Police also raided their offices and seized literature on gender, sexuality and safe sex, and stacks of condoms, as well as a few sex toys used for demonstration purposes. All these were exhibited as evidence of their "perversion". "By evening, the [Indian television news channels] were splashing bulletins of a 'gay sex racket' and discussing theories of how I had taken funding from Pakistan to make all Indian men homosexual," Mr Jafar wrote in February 2018 when he finally broke his long silence about his 47 days in jail. Police told the court that Mr Jafar and his colleagues were part of a conspiracy to promote homosexuality. The men's repeated pleas for bail were rejected. Mr Jafar alleges that he and his colleagues were singled out for torture and humiliation by some police officers because of their revulsion for homosexuality. In April 2017, two months after he finally spoke out about his ordeal, Mr Jafar filed his petition before the Supreme Court. The latest hearings followed a long struggle for the decriminalisation of same-sex relationships in India. In 2013, the Supreme Court had set aside a 2009 Delhi High Court decision that section 377 would no longer apply to consensual sexual activity among adults. In reversing that decision, the Supreme Court had noted that there was insufficient evidence to prove that sexual minorities were being subjected to discriminatory treatment from the state or society. "So I wanted to bring out my story of how I and my colleagues were affected by the law and how we are still affected 17 years later," he said. The case against Mr Jafar and his colleagues has still not been resolved. But with Thursday's ruling, Mr Jafar says he has finally found some solace. Justice Indu Malhotra, one of the five judges who delivered the unanimous ruling, wrote: "History owes an apology to the members of this community and their families, for the delay in providing redressal for the ignominy and ostracism that they have suffered through the centuries. The members of this community were compelled to live a life full of fear of reprisal and persecution." Mr Jafar was emotional as he recited those words to me outside the Supreme Court. "Those words really mean a lot to us. All this journey of 30 years was worth it. Today's judgment has made it worth it." Jayshree Bajoria is a research consultant for Human Rights Watch. You can follow her on twitter @jayshreebajoria.

एक ऐतिहासिक फैसले में, भारत के सर्वोच्च न्यायालय ने औपनिवेशिक युग के कानून के कुछ हिस्सों को खारिज कर दिया जो समलैंगिकता को अपराध मानता था। जयश्री बाजोरिया ने एक एलजीबीटी कार्यकर्ता आरिफ जाफर से बात की, जिन्हें धारा 377 के तहत गिरफ्तार किया गया था और 47 दिन जेल में बिताए थे।


How much do we care about those who need care?

By Douglas FraserBusiness and economy editor, Scotland A lot, according to the parties fighting the Holyrood election. The plight of people living and dying in care homes, needing home care and those who provide it have focused attention on the sector. And demographic pressures are growing. One of the answers in party manifestos is the promise of a National Care Service. What does that mean, what would it look like, what would it cost, and what are the downsides? What is the need? One in 24 Scots relied on some form of social care support and services at the start of 2018. Some 68,000 required care support at home, apart from informal, unpaid care, often by family members. Care homes housed 34,000 people. However, they were the ones lucky enough to get the services. The criteria for qualifying has been toughened in recent years. Scottish government modelling looked at the number getting care support in 2010, and the number that could be expected to be requiring it nine years later. It suggests 36,000 Scots were not getting the care support that would benefit them. That's a measure of how much tight funding, with inconsistent application of rules across councils, have squeezed people out of the system. How much more need will there be with the growth in the number of older people requiring care through demographic change and longer lives? A calculation for England is of 3.7% growth per year to 2040, from £8.5bn to £18.7bn. The Alzheimer's Society reckons numbers afflicted will nearly double by 2040 to 1.6m, taking overall costs to £94bn, and the cost for UK social care nearly tripling to £45bn. Isn't there already free personal care for elderly people? One of the oft-cited achievements of the early years of the Scottish Parliament was that it defied warnings and resistance from London, and introduced free personal care, as well as nursing care, for those assessed to need it. The Scottish government funds councils to pay out a maximum fee per week. That is currently no more than £280.50. It falls short of the actual cost of the service people need. Although it was raised by more than inflation this year, that follows several years of a squeeze below inflation. SIGN UP FOR SCOTLAND ALERTS: Get extra updates on BBC election coverage What's wrong with the current system? A report for Scottish ministers by former civil servant Derek Feeley reflected views that legislation is good but implementation is not. Councils should be working jointly with health boards, but Audit Scotland has judged the process harshly. Weaknesses were further exposed by Covid. Health Minister Jeane Freeman sought to blame the high number of deaths on private residential care homes. She since conceded that deaths had more to do with discharges from hospitals, ordered by ministers. Analysis of the data available, points to no difference between Covid mortality from council, private or third sector care homes. Some, including trade unions and ministers, proposed nationalisation of care homes. Derek Feeley concluded there was no evidence that nationalisation would improve quality, as well as being unaffordable and time-consuming. Are care workers under-valued? Applauded by the public in the past year, those working in care are generally on low pay. The Feeley report identified the problem of "casualisation", often because workers pick up odd hours. The review found people who were proud of the work they do, and committed to it. But the workforce lacks career progression, staff turnover is around 30% per year, and it is 83% female. The report's author observes: "Were it 83% male, it simply would not be marginalised and under-valued as it is". For residential care homes, the National Care Contract, negotiated each year, is calculated by local authorities on the basis that private and third sector care home operators will pay their staff close to minimum wage. Council-run homes pay union-negotiated rates, with more generous conditions, staffing levels and pensions than the same councils are willing to pay private contractors. That helps explain several decades of the public sector pushing more of its social care obligations into the private sector. It's cheaper, because the staffing is cheaper, and councils negotiate to keep it that way. SCOTLAND'S ELECTION: THE BASICS What's happening? On 6 May, people across Scotland will vote to elect 129 Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). The party that wins the most seats will form the government. Find out more here. What powers do they have? MSPs pass laws on aspects of life in Scotland such as health, education and transport - and have some powers over tax and welfare benefits. What would a National Care Service look like? The concept sounds attractive in a country where the National Health Service has been described as a sort of national religion. According to the Feeley report: "We need a National Care Service to achieve the consistency that people deserve, to drive national improvements where they are required, to ensure strategic integration with the National Health Service, to set national standards, terms and conditions, and to bring national oversight and accountability to a vital part of Scotland's social fabric. "The National Care Service will bring together everyone with a role to play in planning and providing social care support to achieve a common purpose." The national elements would include collective pay settlements for care workers, efforts to share best practice across the country, and central support for those with specialist needs. Budgets would be set by the Scottish government, and not by local authorities or health boards. Care home operators would be required to meet national standards, and could be told to reinvest excess profits. That vision has some politicians - including a lot of local councillors - concerned at the implied centralisation, stripping power out of councils. Anticipating a fudged compromise with councils, 25 organisations involved in social care are writing an open letter this weekend urging candidates to stick to a national plan and standards. But what about choice? In the NHS, you see the medic you're allocated at the clinic you're told to attend. What if residential care was allocated in the same way? No-one is suggesting that, yet. What would it cost? The implied copying of the NHS model would suggest that a new National Care Service would be delivered free at the point of need. That is unlikely to extend to the cost of accommodation, where people have the assets to pay towards bills. Representing private sector care homes in the Care Scotland organisation, chief executive Donald MacAskill welcomes the prospect of more transparency to pricing. He says councils will be shown up for the £1,300 to £1,400 per week they pay their own care homes for looking after residents, while paying private companies £760. With actual costs of £900 to £1,000 per week, state-funded people are subsidised by self-funders. The Feeley review calculated a further £660m per year would be required to pay for its plan, at current prices. That sounds a game-changer, but Donald MacAskill says it would not match the need, pay residential costs, invest in innovation, or catch up on maintenance backlogs. Would people going into care homes have to sell their homes to pay for that? This is an emotive issue. There was a misconception with the 2002 legislation on Free Personal Care that people would no longer have to sell their homes to pay for residential care. It was never that simple. In Scotland, those with assets, including a home, have to keep paying until the asset total falls below £28,750. Being more generous would be a subsidy to middle-class offspring of those in care homes, argued Prof June Andrews, retired Stirling University professor of dementia studies. She observes the direction of travel at Holyrood is to remove means testing for this and other provision when other countries are doing the opposite and when universal provision looks unaffordable. And she predicts the affluent offspring of those in need of care may have to pay, when parental funds have run out. The Feeley review suggests a range of new tax sources could help pay for the higher bills, but doesn't address the question of how much individuals should contribute. Among possible solutions is social insurance. This would add to working people's tax bills, and pay for those who go beyond the average 20 months spent in a care home at a cost of between £35,000 and £50,000 per year. Whitehall has been facing the same challenge, though with a more fragmented care system across English local authority areas. Boris Johnson promised a "once and for all" solution, but progress appears to have stalled. The issue featured in the 2017 election campaign. Tory leader Theresa May wanted to reduce liability for those with assets, proposing that the state would pay any bills above around £100,000. Its presentation was cack-handed, it got mangled in the electoral melee, and it was shelved. Looking at care differently Derek Feeley's review reflected the views of many in the care sector who think we talk about it the wrong way round. Instead of social care being described as a burden on society, he says it should be seen as an investment. Instead of "managing need", he favours "enabling rights and capabilities". Instead of designing care to be available in a crisis, it should be "preventative and anticipatory". And instead of shaping the system through transactions, we should talk about relationships. What are the parties offering?

हम उन लोगों की कितनी परवाह करते हैं जिन्हें देखभाल की आवश्यकता है?


Southampton man denies making explosive device

Summary: A man has denied making an explosive device that prompted a bomb disposal unit to be sent to his home.

Police were called to the property on Bond Road in Southampton on 19 June. Pascal Knorr-Gulde, 48, pleaded not guilty at Southampton Crown Court to two counts of possessing explosives and one of attempting to make explosives. He also denied possessing a prohibited weapon and attempting to manufacture a firearm. His trial will begin on 14 December.

एक व्यक्ति ने एक विस्फोटक उपकरण बनाने से इनकार किया है जिसने एक बम निरोधक इकाई को उसके घर भेजने के लिए प्रेरित किया।


Lunar New Year in pictures

Summary: Hundreds of millions of people around the world have been celebrating the Lunar New Year.

In China, a huge fireworks display in Beijing marked the first day of the Year of the Monkey, one of the twelve animals in the Chinese zodiac. Celebrations include feasting, visiting temples, and spending time with family and friends.

दुनिया भर में लाखों लोग चंद्र नव वर्ष मना रहे हैं।


Iran nuclear deal: Dead or just dying?

Summary: In invoking the dispute mechanism for the Iran nuclear agreement or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) - in other words, in deciding to hold Tehran to account for its breaches of the deal - the UK, France and Germany insist that they are still firmly behind the deal.

Jonathan MarcusDiplomatic correspondent@Diplo1on Twitter "Our hope is to bring Iran back into full compliance with its commitments under the JCPOA," their joint statement reads. Treaties and agreements usually have dispute mechanisms to allow one party to challenge another if they think the terms of the deal are being broken. But the situation with the Iran nuclear agreement is a little different. The dispute mechanism is there, but the moment for invoking it may be long past. One major party - the US - has already abandoned it. President Donald Trump pulled out of the agreement in May 2018 and reimposed crippling economic sanctions against Tehran. Then after a year or so's delay, Tehran took a series of steps to breach the deal's constraints, the most recent earlier this month. So the JCPOA exists, but in a kind of limbo - abandoned or largely abandoned by its two most important signatories. So what are the Europeans seeking to do ? UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson sought to sketch out a way forward. Speaking on the BBC on Tuesday morning, he said the UK and other signatories would stick with the agreement until it was changed. He understood why the Trump administration was opposed to the deal. But he emphasised that the goal remained "to stop Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. If we are going to get rid of it, we need a replacement," he said. And in an optimistic appeal to the Americans (and perhaps the president's vanity), he said: "Let's replace it with the Trump deal." But is his optimism misplaced? President Trump says he wants a more restrictive agreement with Tehran, but one of his recent tweets suggests that actually he is not much interested in negotiating with the Iranians at all. The whole context within which this nuclear dispute is unfolding has changed dramatically since US drones killed Iranian Quds Force commander Gen Qasem Soleimani, and the Iranians' modest retaliation, and then the tragic downing of a passenger airliner by Iran's air defences that followed. The scenes of protest on the streets of the Iranian capital may well have bolstered the Trump view that pressure on the Iranian regime is working. It is very hard to imagine Mr Trump lifting the sanctions now. It is equally hard to see Iran accepting a more restrictive agreement, especially one that might have extended time limits, restrictions on its missile programmes and efforts to constrain its regional activities. This is a dangerous moment. The Europeans are under huge pressure from the US to abandon the agreement, which they are doing their best to resist. But their efforts to find ways of relieving the economic pressure on Tehran have largely failed, and now Iran's own behaviour is making the fate of the agreement ever more precarious. All this matters. It is easy to forget that the reason this JCPOA agreement was reached in the first place was to avert the risk of war. There were very real fears that either Israel, or the US and Israel in tandem, would attack Iran's nuclear facilities. The deal was intended to constrain Iran's nuclear effort for a period of time. It was far from perfect. It did not address wider issues. But there was an underlying hope that the regime would perhaps become less disruptive in the region as it received the economic benefits of engagement. Now in invoking the dispute mechanism, the Europeans are taking the first formal step towards writing the JCPOA's obituary. They insist that they will stand by it for as long as it exists and that they want a better deal - one that the US can support. For months, analysts have been arguing that the JCPOA was ailing or on life support. It now may be slowly slipping away.

ईरान परमाणु समझौते या संयुक्त व्यापक कार्य योजना (जे. सी. पी. ओ. ए.) के लिए विवाद तंत्र का आह्वान करते हुए-दूसरे शब्दों में, समझौते के उल्लंघन के लिए तेहरान को जवाबदेह ठहराने का निर्णय लेते हुए-ब्रिटेन, फ्रांस और जर्मनी इस बात पर जोर देते हैं कि वे अभी भी समझौते के पीछे दृढ़ता से हैं।


Birmingham Six 'were in the wrong place at the wrong time'

Summary: Twenty years ago the Birmingham Six were freed after their convictions for the murders of 21 people in two pub bombings were quashed. They had served nearly 17 years behind bars in one of the worst miscarriages of justice seen in Britain.

By Clare LissamanBBC News Paddy Hill, Gerry Hunter, Johnny Walker, Hugh Callaghan, Richard McIlkenny and Billy Power strode from London's Old Bailey on 14 March 1991, their innocence finally proved. Alongside the men as they left court greeted by cheering crowds and beeping car horns was Chris Mullin, a journalist and MP who had been working towards their freedom since the late 1970s. Mr Mullin, now 63, first became interested in the case when his journalist friend Peter Chippindale, who attended the men's trial and that of the Guildford Four, told him "he thought they'd got the wrong men in both cases". Later, Mr Mullin, a law graduate, came across a pamphlet by two Irish priests which presented the six men's version of events. Shortly afterwards Paddy Hill wrote to Mr Mullin from prison detailing his innocence. It was one of hundreds of letters Mr Hill penned to people he thought could help him. 'Wrong pubs' The six men were from Northern Ireland and had lived in Birmingham since the 1960s. Five of them had left Birmingham New Street train station for Belfast on 21 November 1974, the night the Tavern in the Town and Mulberry Bush pubs were bombed. They were travelling to Belfast to attend the funeral of James McDade, an IRA member who had blown himself up planting a bomb in Coventry. The men, some who had been childhood friends with McDade, were arrested in Heysham, Lancashire, as they waited for the ferry to Northern Ireland. Mr Mullin's involvement in the case deepened with his passion to prove the men's innocence. "I was convinced that here were six civilians who were in the wrong place at the wrong time," he said. "They drank in the wrong pubs and clubs - while two of them worked with a man who was a genuine member of the IRA." Mr Mullin became a researcher for ITV's World in Action in 1985 and aimed to "see if we could unearth new evidence" in the case. The investigative current affairs programme, made by Granada TV, dedicated several editions to discrediting the evidence on which the six men had been convicted. Mr Mullin said the main planks of evidence were "confessions" by four of the men and forensic evidence which their trial had heard was "99% accurate" in showing two had handled explosives. Test doubts Expert witness Frank Skuse said Mr Hill and Mr Power had tested positive for nitroglycerine in Greiss tests - chemical analysis looking for the presence of organic nitrate compounds. Other scientists had argued the test was unreliable because a positive result could be gained from nitrocellulose in a range of innocent products. In the autumn of 1985, World in Action demonstrated how shuffling an old pack of playing cards containing the substance produced a positive Greiss test. The accused men had played cards on their train journey. Mr Mullin said a breakthrough came when an ex-police constable got in touch and "confirmed many of the violent tactics" the six claimed were used by the now defunct West Midlands Serious Crime Squad to secure confessions. Mr Mullin said the alleged tactics included bringing dogs and shot guns into the cells and "conducting mock executions". The ex-officer was interviewed on World in Action in 1986. In the same year, Mr Mullin published a book, Error of Judgement: The Truth about the Birmingham bombings, in which he claimed to have traced and met some of those actually responsible for the bombings. As demands for the case to be re-examined grew in Britain and Ireland, it was referred back to the Court of Appeal by the then home secretary Douglas Hurd. But the convictions were upheld in 1988. It took three more years of articles, books and documentaries by a growing number of campaigners before the men's convictions were again re-considered. Mr Mullin said the day the men were released was among the best of his life. "It was a very exciting moment," he said. "It came a bit quicker than we anticipated. The Crown had abandoned the forensic evidence and confessions and was trying to upgrade the circumstantial evidence. "And we had expected Michael Mansfield [defence lawyer] to continue his submissions but he said it was all 'nonsense' and sat down. At which point the judge quashed the convictions and the men were propelled outside to cheering crowds, cameras and helicopters flying overhead." Mr Mullin was with the men as they were driven in a convoy of cars to a party put on by the Catholic Chaplaincy in Hampstead. Mr Mullin, who was the Labour MP for Sunderland South for 23 years, said he had received a lot of criticism for backing the case and still has the Sun's front page declaring "Loony MP Backs Bomb Gang" on his office wall. "So it was very good to be publicly vindicated so spectacularly," he said. The men's release was a day of celebration for some but for many of those involved in the Birmingham bombings and the aftermath the scars will always remain. The families and friends of the 21 people killed, and the many who were terribly injured, have never seen justice done. The IRA is believed to have carried out the bombings but no-one has ever admitted responsibility. 'Public outcry' West Midlands Police said there were no plans to reopen the inquiry into the pub bombings but "it would look at any fresh information that came to light". Mr Mullin said a miscarriage of justice such as the Birmingham Six case was "not likely" to happen now. Interviews in police custody have to be recorded, a result of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. And the Royal Commission, set up after the Birmingham case, established the Criminal Cases Review Commission. One of the Birmingham Six, Richard McIlkenny, died in 2006, aged 72. In 2010, Mr Hill, who co-founded the Miscarriages of Justice Organisation (Mojo), won his fight to get trauma counselling on the NHS. He told the BBC's Hardtalk programme last month he still found it very difficult that none of the police officers he alleges played a part in his imprisonment has been prosecuted. He said he told those looking for justice it would come from the most unexpected sources. Mr Hill added: "The one thing about the British public - when they see an injustice they are not afraid to stand up and scream about it - and thank God. "We were put into prison just to satisfy and to quell the public outcry and in the end it was the public outcry that got us back out again."

बीस साल पहले बर्मिंघम सिक्स को दो पब बम विस्फोटों में 21 लोगों की हत्या के लिए उनकी दोषसिद्धि को रद्द करने के बाद रिहा कर दिया गया था। उन्होंने ब्रिटेन में देखे गए न्याय के सबसे खराब गर्भपात में से एक में लगभग 17 साल जेल में बिताए थे।


Police assess Pentrefoelas man's 'assisted dying' death

Summary: Police are looking into the circumstances surrounding the death of a man in an apparent case of assisted dying.

The man, 93, from Pentrefoelas, Conwy county, who had Parkinson's disease, died in Switzerland on 25 October 2017. BBC Wales understands his daughter told the nursing home where he was living she was taking him on holiday. Det Ch Insp Neil Harrison, of North Wales Police, said no arrests had been made.

पुलिस सहायता प्राप्त मृत्यु के एक स्पष्ट मामले में एक व्यक्ति की मृत्यु के आसपास की परिस्थितियों की जांच कर रही है।


Blenheim Palace activity sparks Bond film set rumours

Summary: The appearance of huge cranes and fast cars at Blenheim Palace have fuelled rumours on social media it is being used as a location for the new James Bond movie, Spectre.

Daniel Craig will play 007 for the fourth time in the film, due to be released in the UK on 23 October. Several Twitter users have posted pictures, but the palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, has declined to comment. Sony Pictures has not yet responded to a BBC request for comment. Samantha McGregor posted a picture of the cranes and asked: "Where is James?" Jonny Dyer tweeted: "Lots of very expensive cars and film unit gear at Blenheim Palace today. Staff cagey but seems to be new #bond #007." Matt Lawley added a photo of a "007 crew minibus" sign, while Finnish 007 location bloggers Pirita and Mika also claimed the site had been used for filming. The palace has previously featured in several films, including Gulliver's Travels and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

ब्लेनहेम पैलेस में विशाल क्रेन और तेज कारों की उपस्थिति ने सोशल मीडिया पर अफवाहों को हवा दी है कि इसका उपयोग नई जेम्स बॉन्ड फिल्म, स्पेक्टर के लिए एक स्थान के रूप में किया जा रहा है।


Could 'front running' be the next banking scandal?

Summary: Banking regulators are looking at the way important financial benchmarks have been calculated, amid allegations that they have been manipulated by traders. Could the practice of "front running" swamp the UK banking industry in a new scandal?

By David LewisFile on 4, BBC Radio 4 Front running is a form of market manipulation, which on the currency markets, involves traders using insider information to play the markets and profit from institutional customers such as pension funds. It is alleged those pension funds could be losing millions of pounds as a result, which would have an impact on members of the schemes. A civil lawsuit lodged in the New York courts has been commenced against some US and UK banks including Barclays, HSBC and RBS. They declined to comment on the specific allegations raised in the US case. However, there have been questions over many banks' practices on the foreign exchange markets ever since the Libor scandal emerged at the end of 2007, And financial experts who have analysed trading on the foreign exchange market say they have identified numerous patterns which could be the result of front running. Some $5.3 trillion (£3.24tn) is traded every day on the currency markets where the alleged malpractice is said to have happened. Currency prices fluctuate so global businesses tend to take the exchange rate at 4pm London time each day. The so-called "London fix", also known as the "4pm fix", is a key financial benchmark. Many big financial institutions ask their banks to transact their currency trades at the London fix. The lawsuit in the US district court in New York alleges currency traders at eight global banks used inside information to try to manipulate the London fix. Knowing a big order to buy a certain currency was due to be executed, dealers allegedly colluded to push up the price of that currency. The traders boosted their profits by buying currency more cheaply, before the 4pm fix had been set, while still charging their customer the higher rate fixed at 4pm. Just a small movement in the exchange rate on a $1bn (£610m) deal could result in the customer losing $1m (£610,000). Alberto Thomas is a partner at London-based Fideres, a consultancy that tries to identify suspicious movements in the markets. He has provided expert analysis for the US lawsuit. Over a 10-year period from 2003, he found signs of "anomalous behaviour" around the time of the 4pm fix on between 10% and 20% of occasions. Mr Thomas says: "By knowing in which direction the customers will have to trade, the dealer can effectively extract a profit out of that information. "The market in foreign exchange - as in other financial markets - is very concentrated in the hands of 10 or 15 institutions." He says traders communicate through chat rooms and instant messaging, giving them the potential to rig the market. "Through these channels, the traders can share information and they know overall in which way customers are going to fix at the trade. And by sharing this information, they can effectively affect the market by all trading in the same direction." In a separate move, regulators in the UK, other parts of Europe and the US are looking at whether the currency exchange markets have been rigged. They are remaining tight-lipped about the course of their enquiries so far. But Martin Wheatley, chief executive of the UK's Financial Conduct Authority, says: "Front running isn't acceptable. It's not acceptable in other markets and it never has been. "We are doing an investigation into aspects of the foreign exchange market and we have not completed that yet. I don't think I can pre-empt the conclusions of that investigation now." HSBC refused to comment. Barclays said it was reviewing foreign exchange trading covering several years leading up to 2013 - and is co-operating with the authorities. RBS said it too was conducting its own investigation into the way it operated in the foreign exchange markets and was looking at emails and chat room transcriptions and was also doing that in conjunction with regulators. Find out more by listening to File on 4 at 20:00 BST on Tuesday, 23 September on BBC Radio 4.

बैंकिंग नियामक इस बात पर विचार कर रहे हैं कि किस तरह से महत्वपूर्ण वित्तीय मानदंडों की गणना की गई है, इन आरोपों के बीच कि उन्हें व्यापारियों द्वारा हेरफेर किया गया है। क्या "फ्रंट रनिंग" की प्रथा ब्रिटेन के बैंकिंग उद्योग को एक नए घोटाले में डाल सकती है?


W&S Recycling fire in Poole investigation under way

Summary: An investigation has begun into a fire involving 300 tonnes of waste material at a Dorset recycling firm.

More than 30 firefighters were sent to W&S Recycling, on the Nuffield Industrial Estate in Poole, at about 15:45 BST on Saturday. The fire service warned residents nearby to keep doors and windows closed because of plumes of black smoke. Crews left the scene at about 19:30 BST. There were no reports of any injuries.

डोरसेट रीसाइक्लिंग फर्म में 300 टन अपशिष्ट सामग्री से जुड़ी आग की जांच शुरू हो गई है।


Kurt Cobain: One heck of a life

Summary: Twenty-one years after Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain took his life in April 1994, the first authorised documentary about the rock hero is being released. Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, by Oscar-nominated film-maker Brett Morgen, was made with Cobain's daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, acting as executive producer.

By Emma JonesEntertainment reporter According to Morgen, the project started eight years ago in 2007, when the singer's widow, Courtney Love, approached him about making a film. "She liked what I'd done with a documentary I'd made called The Kid Stays in the Picture, about Hollywood producer Robert Evans. She asked if I'd be interested in doing something on Kurt. When I said yes, she brought me crates and boxes containing all of Kurt's stuff and just told me to go ahead, there were no restrictions placed on me whatsoever. She didn't see anything until I showed her my edit." That archive contained around 4,000 pages of the singer's journals, as well as home videos, audio tracks, and also audio diaries Cobain recorded from a young age. Morgen says his intention is "to introduce you to Kurt Cobain for the very first time - the man, not the legend." Cobain's body was found at his Seattle home on April 8, 1994. A post mortem concluded he'd committed suicide three days earlier. He was 27-years old and, as Morgen puts it, "the global icon of the time, Nirvana had produced a Camelot for grunge music, and Kurt was its King." The years have not diminished Nirvana's appeal - by 2014, the band had sold 75 million albums around the world, and Morgen accepts that fans will scrutinise the documentary, named after a mixtape the young singer made in 1988. "As a fan, there is something cathartic watching the movie - it's like meeting a friend and we get to be with him, " he says. "It's a very joyful film as it's a celebration of Kurt's creativity but the pathos comes when you realise the film's over and that's it. You were just getting to know him, and there's no more, and there will never be any more. "But it's a funny film, you know - people didn't realise how very funny Kurt Cobain was, or how romantic he was, or what a doting father he was. Ultimately the mythology of the man is that he was in pursuit of fame, and then he didn't want fame anymore. I hope this film shatters that illusion. I think Kurt, the child of a divorce, was in pursuit of family his whole life, and when that became defiled that's what ultimately led him to take his own life. "But I didn't make this film for fans. I made it for Frances." According to Morgen, Frances Bean, 22, introduced herself to him saying: "Hello, I'm Frances, and I know you better than I know my father." He continues, "She hasn't been given a good hand. It's got to be completely bizarre for your father to have left you when you were two years old and for people to be coming up to you daily and saying, 'oh, your dad was so amazing.' "I think she's been wary of getting to know him, so she hadn't seen any of the material in this film, and when I showed her the first edit, I think it lifted a huge burden from her. Most kids blame themselves when their parents leave in one way or another, and it's clear from this film that Kurt Cobain's problems pre-dated her and Courtney, and pre-dated Nirvana. "There is one very-hard-to-watch scene where Kurt is giving Frances her first hair cut, and he is totally out of it. You can see the battle that is going on with him to stay with her, but it was a battle he was losing. But it's obvious to see how very much he loved her. So I think for Frances she was liberated in knowing that her dad loved her and that his suicide was nothing to do with her. "At the end of the film, she turned to me and said, 'thank you, you've given me two hours with my dad that I've never had'. She never asked for a single change to be made. "Similarly for Courtney, it means a lot. She watched it with me, and then she watched it at two premieres. I said to her, 'do you really want to see this again?' And she replied, 'Yes, it's as close as I've got to Kurt in 20 years, and this way I get to spend time with him again.' I can speak for both of them when I say how thrilled we all are to be showing this to the world." There was never an intention, according to Morgen, for Courtney Love to serve as producer as well as her daughter. It was Frances Bean, he says, who introduced him to Kurt's family, who all give interviews for the first time in the film. Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic also contributes, as does Courtney Love, while an interview with drummer Dave Grohl was too late to make the edit for the world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, where the documentary gained rave reviews. Rolling Stone magazine says that it "stuns … by the time you get to the final shot .. you don't just feel that you've gotten to know the man better, you're left completely emotionally spent." Morgen was Oscar-nominated for boxing film On the Ropes in 1999, and also made Crossfire Hurricane, about the Rolling Stones. "This is by far the biggest project I've ever worked on. Kurt had a major impact on my generation and we're almost the same age - I'm 46 now," he says. "I never knew him in life, but because I read all his journals and saw his art, and he was so expressive and personal, that I felt he was my friend - I really, really liked him. "Finishing this movie was one of the saddest days of my life as a film-maker, because I knew I couldn't be with him anymore. I spent eight years with Kurt Cobain and I felt I got closer to him than anyone outside my own family." Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck is released in the UK on 10 April.

निर्वाण के अग्रदूत कर्ट कोबेन के अप्रैल 1994 में अपनी जान लेने के 21 साल बाद, रॉक नायक के बारे में पहला अधिकृत वृत्तचित्र जारी किया जा रहा है। ऑस्कर नामांकित फिल्म निर्माता ब्रेट मोर्गन द्वारा कर्ट कोबेनः मोंटेज ऑफ हेक, कोबेन की बेटी फ्रांसेस बीन कोबेन के साथ कार्यकारी निर्माता के रूप में बनाया गया था।


Death crash accused blamed bus driver, trial hears

Summary: A man accused of causing the deaths of three of his car passengers in a crash involving a bus in Aberdeenshire told police he believed the bus driver was to blame, a court has heard.

Marin Rachev, 35, denies driving dangerously while attempting to cross the A90 from the unclassified road to Drumlithie on 12 March last year. The High Court in Aberdeen heard he was asked who caused the crash. He told police: "The bus driver, because he killed them." He added: "He was driving, he didn't slow down." The jury was hearing excerpts of a police interview. Dimitar Georgiev, 32, Zaharina Hristova, 37, and Silyan Stefanov, 42, all from Bulgaria, and who were in the rear of the vehicle, died following the crash. Two were thrown from the vehicle and struck by another car. None of the three were wearing seatbelts. The trial continues.

एबरडीनशायर में एक बस की दुर्घटना में अपनी कार के तीन यात्रियों की मौत के आरोपी एक व्यक्ति ने पुलिस को बताया कि उसका मानना है कि बस चालक दोषी था, एक अदालत ने सुना है।


Last footbridge of Borders Railway installed at Newton Village

Summary: The last bridge over the Borders Railway has been installed as part of the construction of the new 30 mile route.

A total of 95 bridges have been refurbished and 42 new bridges constructed on the railway between Edinburgh and the Tweedbank. This footbridge at Harelaw provides a connection from Newton Village to the new station at Shawfair, south-east of Edinburgh. The line is due to open in September.

सीमा रेलवे पर अंतिम पुल को नए 30 मील के मार्ग के निर्माण के हिस्से के रूप में स्थापित किया गया है।