4.5% council tax rise on Anglesey for 2015/16 budget

Summary: Residents living on Anglesey will face a rise in council tax after the budget was agreed by councillors.

They will pay 4.5% more in 2015/16, half-a-percent less than what was originally proposed. Anglesey council said it had listened to feedback from residents, town and community councillors. The authority said it will continue to modernise key services while trying to avoid closing facilities and amenities most valued by the public.

पार्षदों द्वारा बजट पर सहमति जताने के बाद एंग्लेसी में रहने वाले निवासियों को परिषद कर में वृद्धि का सामना करना पड़ेगा।


Britain's oldest rollercoaster Scenic Railway reopens

Summary: The clickety-clack of the Scenic Railway climbing its wooden, rollercoaster slopes has not been heard in Margate for nearly 10 years - but the 1920s theme park ride is now operating again and generations of fans have been waiting for this moment. What is its enduring appeal?

By Tanya GuptaBBC News The Scenic Railway is considered to be the heart of Dreamland - an unchanging icon that has stayed the same through decades of change. It fell into disrepair after the attraction closed in 2005 and was badly damaged by an arson attack in 2008. And when a revamped Dreamland opened in June some rides were operational but the Scenic Railway was still undergoing restoration. Visitors left operators in no doubt that it was very much wanted. But what lies behind its attraction? Part of the answer is the significance of the ride through generations of families. Grandmothers phoned the theme park this summer to tell staff they wanted to bring their granddaughters on the ride they themselves had enjoyed as children. And couples who went on first dates on the rollercoaster wanted to relive the moment - but now as parents of four children. 'Great fish and chips' Dreamland's chief executive Eddie Kemsley said the huge amount of feedback on social media revealed "amazing stories". But she believes another key feature of the heritage amusement park and its historic Grade II* listed rollercoaster is its nostalgia. "What we have achieved is quite simple," she said. "It's authentic, with great fish and chips. We've got a few rides, entertainment, Punch and Judy, and it appeals to different generations. "It's not about technology and it's not hugely sophisticated. It's wholesome, British and traditional. It's a fun day out." Dreamland's boss said life now was "so hi-tech", but the theme park was still about people. "Entertainments like Punch and Judy - there's a reason they lasted hundreds of years," she said. "They're fun, they work and they're never going to change. "This takes us back to a simpler time." Work to restore Britain's oldest rollercoaster began in 2014. The wooden structure was completely replaced by a Kent-based firm, and the track and trains came from a company in the north of England that started off building trains for coal mines. The restored Scenic Railway is almost the same as when it was originally designed by Sir John Henry Iles who bought the site in 1919 and set out to create an American-style amusement park. To a lay person it will appear identical, but connoisseurs will see changes and modifications made for operational and safety reasons to make sure the ride is robust. Those who remember the whole structure shaking when the train went over it will be disappointed. There is still the clatter of the wheels of the train carriages, but the wooden rollercoaster stands strong. For anyone used to 21st Century rollercoasters and worried about trying a vintage ride for the first time, safety measures are in place. A panel of experts has made sure it's as safe as possible. Rigorous inspection processes are in place - and because it's made of wood, a carpenter walks the track every day. The theme park is hoping for another boost to visitor numbers now the Scenic Railway is operational. Bed occupancy in Thanet was up by 50% this summer and the nearby Turner Contemporary saw a 25% increase in visitor tickets, Ms Kemsley said. Dreamland is also aware that a third of its visitors have come from London and have chosen Margate over any number of other tourist destinations. Ms Kemsley said Margate had witnessed a resurgence in its seaside attraction status, but Dreamland still needed support. Its 1950s ballroom will open next week, Halloween and Christmas offers have been planned, and work is under way on the Hall by the Sea - a venue to hold 1,600 people. Ms Kemsley put it simply: "We have got more to come." Scenic Railway facts

सीनिक रेलवे की लकड़ी की, रोलरकोस्टर ढलानों पर चढ़ाई लगभग 10 वर्षों से मार्गेट में नहीं सुनी गई है-लेकिन 1920 के दशक की थीम पार्क की सवारी अब फिर से चल रही है और प्रशंसकों की पीढ़ियां इस क्षण का इंतजार कर रही हैं। इसकी स्थायी अपील क्या है?


New Ferry blast: Man charged with causing an explosion

Summary: A man has been charged with causing an explosion following a blast in Wirral last year that left more than 30 people injured.

Pascal Blasio, 56, of Gillingham, Kent, is charged with causing an explosion likely to endanger life. Two people were seriously hurt, 31 injured and many buildings destroyed in the blast in New Ferry on 25 March. Mr Blasio, the owner of Homes in Style furniture shop on the explosion site, will appear in court in April. He has been released on conditional bail, police said. Contract Natural Gas Limited, an independent gas supplier for business customers, has also been charged with an offence under the Health and Safety at Work Act. The charge is for failing to discharge general health/safety duty to a person other than an employee.

एक व्यक्ति पर पिछले साल विर्रल में हुए विस्फोट के बाद विस्फोट करने का आरोप लगाया गया है जिसमें 30 से अधिक लोग घायल हो गए थे।


Egyptians losing fear of confrontation with regime

Summary: "Go, go, Mubarak go" and "the people need to end this regime" shouted the angry crowds around al-Istiqamma mosque in Cairo's Giza Square, as they shook their fists at the lines of helmeted riot police after Friday prayers.

By Yolande KnellBBC News, Cairo Within minutes, water cannon showered the demonstrators and there were loud thuds as tear gas canisters were fired. People ran into the side streets of this poor neighbourhood, on the edge of the capital, with their eyes streaming. "Let the world see what is happening in this country," yelled one elderly man. "We will never stop until this... government goes." Ordinary Egyptians appear to be losing their fear of direct confrontation with the security forces. There have been bloody and drawn out clashes all over Cairo and in some of Egypt's main cities. They have a long list of grievances and the demands are an explicit challenge to their rulers. 'This ends here' "We want a real democratic system. This regime of Hosni Mubarak has been in power for 30 years," declared Ahmed, a man in his 20s. "I was unemployed for five years. I had to move to the United Arab Emirates. This is what I was dragged into. My son will not suffer what I have suffered. This ends here." When you talk to people, they tell you economic reforms have not eased the poverty of Egypt's masses, education and social services are inadequate, and they complain of high levels of corruption and political stagnation. "We are so furious. We must have change, better chances to work, to buy a flat and have just the life's basics," said a bank clerk clutching an Egyptian flag. "What happened in Tunisia has changed things a bit. It knocked some sense into people." 'Excessive force' Opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei - who joined worshippers in Giza - was swiftly moved inside the gates of the mosque as clashes began. "One, two, ElBaradei where are you?" was the cry that then went up outside. Some expressed disappointment that the Nobel Laureate - who set up the National Association for Change opposition coalition when he returned home to Egypt a year ago - had not taken a more prominent role in protests. He has put up supportive messages on his Twitter account but was absent, in Vienna, for the first "Day of Rage" on Tuesday. He returned to Cairo on Thursday night. "I support ElBaradei, my father wants (Arab League Secretary General) Amr Musa," one man said. "We could have ElBaradei or anyone else," added Amgad, who had brought his young children along to witness the protest. "We need change, not any specific person." The main opposition movement, the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, subtly changed its message ahead of the latest protests. Despite the reported arrest of some senior figures, deputy leader Mahmoud Izzat spoke encouragingly of the protests. "People are demanding freedom, the dissolution of this invalid parliament. From the beginning this is what the young people have been shouting and we are with them," Mr Izzat told the al-Jazeera news channel. And he went on to criticise "the excessive force" of the security services. Curfew announced With multiple flashpoints across Egypt, many thousands of uniformed police, plain-clothed officers and paid thugs have been deployed. They line the bridges and main routes into central Cairo. While they remain strong and well-resourced, there have been unprecedented sights. In one case, a group of protesters tried to push an armoured vehicle into the River Nile. Attempts to close down mobile phone communications and access to Facebook, Twitter and Blackberrry messenger appear to have been ineffective in preventing the co-ordination of opposition activities. Demonstrators in the capital have simply regrouped in traditional gathering places downtown - such as Ramses Square and Tahrir Square. With Egyptians tuned into Arab satellite stations to watch dramatic scenes unfold, a curfew in Egypt's main cities was announced. However, as sirens blared on the darkening streets it was unclear how effective this will be.

"जाओ, जाओ, मुबारक जाओ" और "लोगों को इस शासन को समाप्त करने की आवश्यकता है" काहिरा के गीज़ा स्क्वायर में अल-इस्तिकम्मा मस्जिद के आसपास गुस्से में भीड़ ने चिल्लाया, क्योंकि उन्होंने शुक्रवार की नमाज के बाद हेलमेट पहने दंगा पुलिस की लाइनों पर अपनी मुट्ठी हिला दी।


Isle of Man roadworks to cause traffic disruption

Summary: Drivers in the Isle of Man are being warned of major roadworks which could cause traffic disruption and delays in the east of the island.

The scheme begins in Onchan on 23 July and aims to improve the roads, pavements and traffic lights. It is due to start on the 23 July and finish around the middle of December. A spokesman said the work would be carried out in four phases, the first of which will close Avondale Road between Stoney Road and the main road. He added: "During this period access to and from businesses will be maintained, as will pedestrian access to all properties." Related Internet Links IOM Infrastructure

आइल ऑफ मैन में चालकों को प्रमुख सड़क कार्यों के बारे में चेतावनी दी जा रही है जो द्वीप के पूर्व में यातायात में व्यवधान और देरी का कारण बन सकते हैं।


Canada's two Trump towers facing troubles

Summary: In Vancouver, the developer of a new Trump Tower has been under pressure for months to drop the Republican presidential candidate's name from the project. Meanwhile, the Trump Tower in Toronto is the subject of a lawsuit after facing years of controversy.

By Jessica MurphyBBC News, Toronto Donald Trump's controversial run for US president is having an impact on his businesses in Canada and knock-on effects for those who have partnered with his brand. The opening date for the Vancouver hotel has been delayed until 2017, well after November's US election. A contest offering a chance to meet with the Trump family for the grand opening caused a stir. Across the country, the Toronto building, which opened in 2012, has been the target of a lawsuit by small investors who claim they were misled into buying into the project. Its developer, Talon Development Inc, has tried to remove the Trump name from the troubled hotel and condominium complex. The story is similar in other countries. In Dubai, a firm building a golf complex with Mr Trump removed his name and image from the property. In Turkey, the developers of Trump Towers Istanbul have tried to distance themselves from the Republican hopeful. And there have been protests outside Trump buildings in the US. An Angus Reid Institute poll released in December indicated that 56% of Canadians supported having the Trump brand dumped from the two Canadian towers. Brent Toderian, a Vancouver-based city planner, was the first to openly oppose Trump branding on the 63-storey Canadian tower, designed by famed architect Arthur Erickson to have a distinctive 45-degree twist as it rose into the sky. "We've taken a building that is the second-tallest in the skyline, carefully planned at least in part by one of our most revered Canadian architects - a very elegant piece of architecture for our skyline - and retroactively duct-taped Trump's name to it," he said in an interview. The luxury hotel and condominium tower in downtown Vancouver is owned by the Holborn Group, a private real-estate developer which partnered with the Trump brand in 2013. Mr Trump attended the announcement, accompanied by his children, Eric, Ivanka, and Donald Jr. "I believe it's going to be a fantastic success. I love Vancouver," said Mr Trump at the time. The project is licensed to use the Trump name and brand - including for Canada's first Mar-a-Lago Spa by Ivanka Trump - and will be managed by the real estate magnate's company, which is also overseeing the building's interior design. In December, Mr Toderian renewed his call for the Holborn Group to distance themselves from the Trump name. He was joined by Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, who said the brand had no place on the city's skyline. "Donald Trump's hateful positions and commentary remind us all of much darker times in our world's past - and it is incumbent upon all of us to forcefully challenge hatred in all of the ways that it confronts us," he wrote in a letter to the developer. The Holborn Group did not respond to requests for comment but in previous statements has noted that the still-unfinished building will create some 300 new jobs. "Holborn, a company that has contributed immensely to the growth of Vancouver, is not in any way involved in US politics. As such, we would not comment further on Mr Trump's personal or political agenda, nor any political issues, local or foreign," CEO Joo Kim Tiah said in December. Despite the fuss, nearly 10,000 people have applied to work at the Vancouver Trump Tower, according to the hotel's general manager, and Holborn says it has sold all the luxury condos in the building. In Toronto, project developer Talon was close to a deal to sell the troubled 65-storey hotel and condominium complex at the heart of the city's financial district earlier this year. However, Toronto's Trump Tower is currently off the market. Talon chairman Alex Shnaider was also trying to have the Trump name removed from the building, at one point seeking to do so through arbitration. Those efforts also appear to have stalled. A lawyer for Talon refused to comment other than to note there is currently no lawsuit between the owners of the hotel and Mr Trump. Mr Trump first announced his involvement in an early version of the project in 2001 and it was brought under the Trump brand umbrella in 2004. The businessman attended the official groundbreaking in 2007. The Trump Organization does not have an ownership stake in the building but it operates and manages the hotel and licenses the Trump name to the complex for a fee. The building is the subject of a lawsuit by disgruntled buyers who lost money after investing in the property, in one instance almost 1m Canadian dollars ($750,000; £613,000). In a recent decision, an Ontario court ruled in favour of two investors, saying one could be discharged from his obligations and another could be awarded damages. Talon is considering appealing against the decision.

वैंकूवर में, एक नए ट्रम्प टॉवर के डेवलपर पर महीनों से परियोजना से रिपब्लिकन राष्ट्रपति पद के उम्मीदवार का नाम हटाने का दबाव है। इस बीच, टोरंटो में ट्रम्प टॉवर वर्षों के विवाद का सामना करने के बाद मुकदमे का विषय है।


The bright red work of art (and 40 others) now protected

Summary: They were designed to bring public spaces back to life after World War Two - it was art for everyone. Now dozens of post-war sculptures are being given listed status.

By Paul KerleyBBC News Magazine The bright red, welded steel structure above - at Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire - appears to defy gravity and the rules of balance. It was created in 1970 by Bernard Schottlander. He fled Nazi Germany in 1939 for Leeds, where he worked in a factory as a welder while attending evening classes in sculpture. Working with Historic England, the government has now given his sculpture added protection. Scroll down and see the 40 other artworks granted Grade II or Grade II* status across England. Knife Edge Two Piece by Henry Moore, 1967 Westminster, London This piece is typical of the monumental abstract bronze sculptures that characterised the late career of Moore - one of England's most important avant-garde artists. Untitled [Listening] by Antony Gormley, 1983-84 Maygrove Peace Park, north-west London This is one of Gormley's first public sculpture commissions and his first to be listed - as it is now over 30 years old. It shows a human figure cupping its ear to listen. Rooted to a huge granite boulder, it embodies the relationship between the interior world of the human body and its surroundings. Revolving Torsion by Naum Gabo, 1975 St Thomas' Hospital, central London In the garden of St Thomas' Hospital, across the river from the Houses of Parliament, these abstract curved steel plates form a fountain and used to revolve. South of the River by Bernard Schottlander, 1975-76 Lambeth, south London These sweeping curves of stainless steel - south of Waterloo Station - are said to be based on a pair of large, twisted bronze earrings worn by Fulani women in Africa as part of their marriage rituals. Father Courage by FE McWilliam, 1960 University of Kent in Canterbury 3B Series No 1 by Bernard Schottlander, 1968 University of Warwick FE McWilliam's totemic Father Courage embodies themes explored by several sculptors in this period of political and social change. Its name refers to the play Mother Courage by Berthold Brecht, which denounced the horrors of war. Schottlander's 3B Series No 1 is a large scale abstract collection of bright red geometric shapes. The university's architects Yorke, Rosenberg and Mardall commissioned art to complement their buildings. Rosenberg felt his "white tile buildings needed colour and visual stimulus". Declaration by Phillip King, 1961 Beaumanor Hall, Leicestershire Phillip King spent a year as an assistant to Henry Moore in the late 1950s. He came to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the group of young British sculptors known as the New Generation. Winston Churchill Statue by David McFall, 1958-59 Woodford, east London This bronze sculpture - depicting the UK's wartime prime minister in his later years - can be found in the old Woodford constituency which Churchill served as MP from 1945 until 1964. Churchill attended the unveiling and reportedly liked McFall's creation. Relief of Boys Playing Football by Peter Laszlo Peri, 1951-52 Following the Leader by Peter Laszlo Peri, 1949 Relief of Mother and Children Playing by Peter Laszlo Peri, 1951-52 Vauxhall, south London Hungarian Peri was largely ignored by the 20th Century British art establishment, which some have attributed to his communist leanings. These three works were commissioned in the austerity years after WW2 on a social housing estate, with Following the Leader created as a poignant dedication to children who lost their lives in the Blitz. The Miner by Arthur Fleischmann, 1964 St Helens, Merseyside Construction in Aluminium by Kenneth Martin, 1967 University of Cambridge Fleischmann's miner incorporates a cutting drum - a genuine piece of mining machinery - and celebrates the technical advances in mining and the strength of man. Originally commissioned by the National Coal Board for its north-west headquarters, it now stands near to the closed Ravenhead Colliery. On the right, Martin's creation is the monumental culmination of his Oscillation series, inspired by the physics of pendulums combined with jazz and other music rhythms. This particular piece is the visual representation of the mathematical formula of jet propulsion, and was made in the workshop of the University of Cambridge's engineering department. A Celebration of Engineering Sciences by Allen Johnson, 1963 University of Leeds The crowning glory of the Mechanical Engineering Building at the University of Leeds, the dynamic shapes symbolise the struggle between man and machine. It is made from lightweight glass fibre-reinforced polyester (GFRP) shaped from handmade clay moulds. The Story of Wool by William Mitchell, 1968 Ilkley, West Yorkshire Made from glass-reinforced plastic, this is a stylised flock of sheep complete with careful detailing of their curled horns, cloven hooves and thick fleeces. It was commissioned for the new Technical Centre of the International Wool Secretariat, an organisation established to promote the use and trade of wool in response to the increased use of synthetic fibres in the mid 20th Century. The Symbol of Discovery by John Skelton, 1963 Chichester, West Sussex A pair of large, rough-hewn hands emerge from cobbled ground clasping a precious golden stone. The piece was designed as part of a restoration project that transformed nearby redundant buildings into a museum. The Leaning Woman by Karel Vogel, 1959 Hammersmith, west London The Preacher by Peter Laszlo Peri, 1961 Forest Gate, east London Both these examples appear gravity-defying. Vogel's Leaning Woman is tilted and twisted into an intriguing arrangement of parts, so it can be viewed from several sides. Peri's Preacher - a striking, long-limbed figure grasping a prayer book - is made up of a dark, textured mix of concrete, resin and metallic powders developed by Peri and dubbed Pericrete. Lesson by Franta Belsky, 1956-57 Bethnal Green, east London Gorilla by David Wynne, 1962 Crystal Palace Park, south London Family groups were a popular theme for public space artworks in post-war Britain, and it was a sketch of his friend teaching her adventurous baby son to walk that inspired Czech-born artist Belsky. Wynne's hulking marble sculpture depicts Guy the Gorilla, a popular resident at London Zoo and something of a national treasure from the 1950s through to his death in 1978. Rosewall (Curved Reclining Form) by Barbara Hepworth, 1960-62 Chesterfield, Derbyshire This was named after a hill in Cornwall which is surrounded by ancient stones worn by the weather. "The stone is myself," Hepworth said, "looking out to the Atlantic with the sound and smell of the sea." Winged Figure by Barbara Hepworth, 1963 Oxford Street, central London Single Form (Memorial) by Barbara Hepworth, 1961-62 Battersea Park, south London Hepworth's Winged Figure is an Oxford Street landmark. Unusually, it is in the same position and context for which it was originally intended as a commission - for the John Lewis department store. Single Form was Hepworth's personal response to the death of her friend, the UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold - who was killed in a plane crash while on a peace mission. It was the model for a much larger version outside the United Nations Secretariat building in New York. Zemran by William Pye, 1971 South Bank, central London London Pride by Frank Dobson, 1951 South Bank, central London Zemran is part of Pye's series of geometric sculptures made in tubular stainless steel. Dobson's London Pride - two serene, voluptuous female figures - was commissioned for the Festival of Britain in 1951. Originally made of plaster and finished in gun metal - which reflected post-war austerity - it was recast in 1986 in bronze at the behest of Dobson's widow. Horse and Rider by Elisabeth Frink, 1975 Piccadilly, central London Figurative sculptures of animals dominated Frink's work, and this man and horse is now found surrounded by coffee shop tables, opposite The Ritz. Donkey by Willi Soukop, 1955 Harlow, Essex This little donkey stands at the heart of a housing scheme in Harlow - one of the post-war new towns. It was created to encourage children to explore art through play - the donkey's back has been worn to a shine. Help! by FE McWilliam, 1976 Portrait of Elisabeth Frink by FE McWilliam, 1956 Wild Boar by Elisabeth Frink, 1970 Harlow, Essex The left-side image depicts two women caught in a bomb blast, holding a banner with the word "HELP". McWilliam was Northern Irish and he created Help! in response to the Troubles there - with particular reference to the bombing of a Belfast tea room in March 1972. When Elisabeth Frink was asked why FE McWilliam's life-size bronze portrait of her carried no inscription, she remarked "one can't be labelled until one is dead". Frink's own Wild Boar sculpture was one of her first major public commissions for the pioneering Harlow Art Trust. Sigmund Freud Statue by Oscar Nemon, 1970 Hampstead, north London Statue of Artist Augustus John by Ivor Robert-Jones, 1964-67 Fordingbridge, Hampshire Created by Croatian-born artist Oscar Nemon, the bronze sculpture of the founder of psychoanalysis is a public memorial to him and his residence in this part of north London. On the right, the portrayal of the eminent artist Augustus John sits on the banks of the River Avon in Fordingbridge - where he lived for the latter part of his life. Ritual by Antanas Brazdys, 1968-69 City of London Ventilation Shaft Cover by Eduardo Paolozzi, 1982 Pimlico, central London Brazdys' seemingly gravity-defying set of weighty, stainless steel forms appear effortlessly balanced on top of each other. It was one of the first abstract works of public sculpture in the City of London. Paolozzi's interest in machines and technology influenced his work, and this cast metal sculpture covers a London Underground ventilation shaft. The Spirit of Electricity by Geoffrey Clarke, 1961 Westminster, central London This sharp, dynamic sculpture cast in bronze originally lit up. Commissioned by Thorn Electrical Industries for their headquarters in London, it is said Clarke came up with the design after studying old light bulb filaments. Witch of Agnesi by FE McWilliam, 1959 University of Greenwich, south-east London St Thomas a Becket by Edward Bainbridge Copnall, 1973 St Paul's Cathedral , City of London Witch of Agnesi hovers like an apparition above a still pool of water, where its varied forms are reflected and distorted. The title refers to a mathematical curve defined by Maria Agnesi, an 18th Century Italian Mathematician. Bainbridge Copnall's work depicts Thomas Becket at the moment of his murder inside Canterbury Cathedral. It was created to mark the 800th anniversary of his martyrdom. Pan Statue by Jacob Epstein, 1958-59 Knightsbridge, London Also known as Rush of Green, this work depicts a family and their dog rushing eagerly towards Hyde Park. They are urged on by Pan - the Greek god of the wild, shepherds and flocks. Eagle Squadrons Memorial by Elisabeth Frink, 1985 Mayfair, central London Atop an obelisk in Grosvenor Square Gardens sits an American Eagle. It commemorates 244 US citizens - plus 16 British fighter pilots and other personnel - who served in three RAF Eagle Squadrons prior to the participation of the US in WW2. Prisoner of War Memorial by Fred Kormis, 1967-69 Dollis Hill, north London Kormis explored the themes of freedom and captivity. Here, he created five male prisoners, each in a different stage of emotional turmoil. German-born Kormis was himself a prisoner-of-war during World War One. He and his wife fled to the UK when Hitler came to power in the 1930s, All images subject to copyright.

उन्हें द्वितीय विश्व युद्ध के बाद सार्वजनिक स्थानों को फिर से जीवंत करने के लिए डिज़ाइन किया गया था-यह सभी के लिए कला थी। अब युद्ध के बाद की दर्जनों मूर्तियों को सूचीबद्ध दर्जा दिया जा रहा है।


Barry Bennell: A cruel and arrogant paedophile

Summary: Barry Bennell, who has been convicted of 43 counts of historical child sex offences, was interviewed dozens of times by police. Those who questioned him say he is a "cruel" and "selfish" man who failed to show "one iota" of remorse.

By John HarrisonBBC News "The only person that matters to Barry Bennell is Barry Bennell," says Detective Inspector Sarah Oliver, who sat through 30 interviews with the convicted paedophile. She is one of 25 detectives who worked on the investigation into Bennell's abuse - which is one of the biggest and most complicated cases in the history of Cheshire Constabulary. Bennell was a "predatory paedophile" who preyed upon the dreams of young footballers he was supposed to be coaching, his trial at Liverpool Crown Court heard. He was a child molester on an "industrial scale". 'Child Catcher' In his house in the Peak District, he had arcade machines, a pool table, and big TVs. At various times he owned a monkey and a wild cat. It was a "a kids' paradise", Bennell once boasted to police. During the trial, prosecutors compared him to the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Yet throughout his numerous interviews, Bennell remained "completely indifferent" to the suffering he caused, DI Oliver says. He is a "cruel" and "selfish" man, she adds. When police raided a small bungalow at the top of a quiet cul-de-sac in Milton Keynes in November 2016, the crimes Bennell had committed came as a complete surprise to his neighbours. Bennell had lived in the council-owned bungalow under the name Richard Jones for more than four years, they said, running a small computer repair business. He made extra money by selling items online and at car boot sales, according to one neighbour. He had dogs, all named after Hebridean islands. Bennell's golden retriever Skye was taken by police when they raided his home. Residents had run-ins with him - mainly about people collecting items from his house late at night and taking up parking on the road. He was "arrogant" and "thought he was untouchable," one added. Bungalow in Devon His Facebook profile - in the name of Richard Barry - includes photographs of Bennell's visits to theme parks, including Thorpe Park and Alton Towers, to north Wales and a safari park; holidays to Gran Canaria and Derbyshire. Another photo from his past shows him coaching young footballers in the US - a country in which he spent three years in prison for abusing a boy at a holiday camp. Bennell's neighbours knew he was unwell. He was being fed through a tube in his stomach and he lived with a woman, who he claimed was a female carer. When he suddenly vanished for a year in 2015, most assumed he had died. The woman told one neighbour he was staying at a bungalow in Devon. But Bennell was not in Devon. He was in prison for a third time - his second time behind bars in the UK for child sex offences. "Then one day I saw him out there," a neighbour said pointing towards the street. "I rang my friend and said 'you'll never guess who has just come back from the dead.'" Within another year, Bennell had been named by a string of ex-footballers as a serial paedophile and child rapist. He was re-arrested in November 2016 and remanded in prison, where he has been ever since. Before his trial began Bennell admitted seven charges of indecent assault on three boys. His bungalow was boarded up for months after a window was smashed. A family now lives there. 'He was angry' Officers had to complete a 300-mile roundtrip from Cheshire to HMP Woodhill, in Milton Keynes, to interview Bennell. "There was initially a sense from him that he was angry and he didn't really see why he should have to account for what happened all those years ago," DI Oliver says. "He was quite indignant actually." In one interview, Bennell said he remembered one complainant as "a good looking lad", but denied he had abused him. "I remember him because I remember thinking that you know, he was the one, the one who got away..." he told police. One victim's description of Bennell was put to him - a stocky man with blond permed hair who "loved himself". "I always thought I was brilliant," Bennell told officers, adding: "And it wasn't permed, it was natural." 'Too young' In another police interview, Bennell denied abusing a boy, suggesting he was too young for his taste. He couldn't have done it, he argued, because he "aimed" for 13 year olds. "That was puberty age and they were becoming a bit more strong-willed and not tied to the apron strings," he told police. Throughout questioning, Bennell has been "utterly indifferent to the fact he has traumatised these boys", says DI Oliver. "Not once has he shown one iota of empathy to his victims and what he has put them through." During the trial, at Liverpool Crown Court, Prosecutor Nicholas Johnson QC made a point of reminding the jury that Bennell had married the sister of one of his victims. Andy Woodward, who waived his right to anonymity to speak about being repeatedly abused by Bennell as a young boy, at one stage had to describe his abuser as his brother-in-law. "Just imagine," Mr Johnson urged the jury. "What does that tell you about his attitude to other people and their expendability to him?" 'Little boys again' Bennell did not attend the five-week trial. In his absence, his defence team accused his victims of making allegations in order to get compensation. But those victims, DI Oliver says, were just "little boys who wanted to play football". "When you hear them give their evidence in court they are little boys again and they are waiting for him to say sorry." They are still waiting.

बैरी बेनेल, जिसे ऐतिहासिक बाल यौन अपराधों के 43 मामलों में दोषी ठहराया गया है, पुलिस द्वारा दर्जनों बार साक्षात्कार लिया गया था। जिन लोगों ने उससे पूछताछ की, उनका कहना है कि वह एक "क्रूर" और "स्वार्थी" व्यक्ति है जो "थोड़ा" पछतावा दिखाने में विफल रहा।


Angels in America: 8 reasons why it feels like heaven

Summary: Plays don't come much more epic than Angels in America.

By Tim MastersEntertainment correspondent Set amid the Aids crisis in 1980s America, Tony Kushner's "gay fantasia" lasts roughly the same duration as a flight from London to New York. Over eight hours, it packs in angelic visitations, burning books and surreal trips to icy continents and, of course, heaven. And let's not forget a stellar cast that includes Andrew Garfield, Denise Gough, Nathan Lane and Russell Tovey. After weeks of previews, the play officially opened at the National Theatre in London on Thursday. Spider-Man star Garfield told us after the show: "You don't often get to work on a character like this or on a story that has so much humanity in it. "It's the whole human experience in one seven and a half hour play. No one would turn that opportunity down." The critics seem to love it, with four and five star reviews appearing on Friday morning. Here are eight reasons why Angels in America is such a heavenly show. It may be long, but it flies by On Thursday, both parts of the play played back to back - and lasted seven hours and 32 minutes. Part one - titled Millennium Approaches - kicked off at 13:00, but it wasn't until after 23:00 that the second part - Perestroika - had reached its emotional climax. But it never dragged. Much of the interval chat was about how quickly it seemed to go. The cast may disagree. Speaking after the show, Russell Tovey admitted: "On a two-show day, it's insane. It's like a 12-hour Zumba class!" It's like binge-watching a box-set The way the play is broken up gives it an episodic feel. Each part has two 15-minute intervals. That makes watching the play feel a bit like you are working your way through a TV box-set. With plenty of loo and coffee breaks. Andrew Garfield's searing performance The ex-Spider-Man is unforgettable as Prior Walter, a man who discovers he has Aids and is then abandoned by his boyfriend Louis Ironside (James McArdle). We see him early on as an elegant drag queen, later he's a spectral hooded figure dressed top to toe in black. In the harrowing hospital scenes, he can switch from rage to despair in the course of a single line. Back in January, Garfield found out about his Oscar nomination for Hacksaw Ridge while he was starting rehearsals for Angels in America. It would be astonishing if he's not nominated for more awards for this performance. The rest of the cast are pretty amazing too Nathan Lane plays foul-mouth lawyer Roy Cohn who is in denial about his sexuality. Told by his doctor that he has Aids, he storms: "No. Aids is what homosexuals have. I have liver cancer." Tovey plays Joe Pitt, a closeted gay Mormon Republican whose Valium-addicted wife Harper is played with gusto by the Olivier-winning Denise Gough. McArdle is excellent as Prior's tormented lover, as is Nathan Stewart-Jarrett as hospital nurse Belize. With more than 30 characters in this play, all of the main cast play multiple parts and it's fun to try and spot them under the costume changes. The director knows how to make a hit Marianne Elliott is the award-winning talent behind the National Theatre's West End hits War Horse and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Enough said. Angels is spectacular, yet intimate The story begins quite modestly, with a simple revolving set showing us how the lives of the main characters connect. Later it all goes much larger scale and a lot more surreal. We get a fantasy Antarctica - complete with falling snow - and a neon ladder that ascends to a heaven filled with angels. Yet many of the most memorable scenes are the intimate ones where Prior Walter and lawyer Roy Cohn are sick in their hospital beds and visited by both the living and the dead. It tackles a serious subject with a lot of humour Angels in America had its British premiere at the National Theatre in 1992 (with a cast that included James Bond actor Daniel Craig). The play is set in New York in the mid-1980s when Ronald Reagan was starting his second term as president and the world was in the grip of the Aids crisis. While there is much that is upsetting, Kushner's script is packed with zinging comedy lines. "It's very funny," said Garfield after the show. "You need to laugh to keep from crying in a situation as devastating as these characters are going through. "It was amazing putting it in front of an audience for the first time because we were all surprised how funny it was. "On the first preview it was shocking how many times we had to stop for the audience laughing." The angel really takes flight You won't forget Amanda Lawrence's Angel in a hurry. She crashes dramatically through Prior's apartment ceiling on massive wings that are operated - War Horse style - by six people. She flies, she swoops and she even has sex with Prior. Little wonder he later introduces himself to Harper Pitt as "an angel-ologist". Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is at the Lyttelton Theatre until 19 August. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

अमेरिका में एन्जिल्स की तुलना में नाटक अधिक महाकाव्य नहीं होते हैं।


What happens in a working-class town when work is taken away?

Summary: In some of the poorest parts of the UK the number of people with a full-time job has fallen, research for the Victoria Derbyshire programme has found. What happens in a working-class town when the main source of work is taken away?

By Sean ClareBBC Victoria Derbyshire programme "We used to make the finest steel in the world," says ex-steel worker and amateur boxer Frankie Wales. "Now, we make lattes and lovely sandwiches." For 170 years, men at Redcar's steelworks - which made the Sydney Harbour bridge - could expect a job for life. When it closed in 2015, almost 3,000 people lost their jobs. "You've got a group of people now who are so marginalised, which are the over-50, predominantly white, working-class man who'll never ever work again," says Frankie. "They used to be something. It's like the heart has been ripped out of them." Talk to people around the Teesside coastal town and you hear the same concerns - frustration at a lack of investment or action from those in Westminster and positions of power, and an acceptance that those well-paid steel jobs are never coming back. "We went from being one of the highest wage economies in the Tees Valley to one of the lowest wage economies," says Sue Jeffrey, the Labour leader of Redcar and Cleveland Council. Pressing concern This is part of the country that hasn't benefited from record levels of employment in recent years - what the previous prime minister, David Cameron, described as a "jobs miracle". According to the Resolution Foundation, an independent think tank, while there has been an explosion in the number of jobs in London, the picture is bleak in other bits of the country. In parts of the north of England, Wales and Scotland, there has actually been a reduction in full-time work, with Redcar seeing an 8% drop in the past decade. And it's a particular issue for men in the area, among whom there has been a 13% fall in full-time employment. "The rise of zero-hours contracts and the gig economy has attracted many headlines, but for many people the decline in full-time jobs in parts of Britain's former industrial heartlands is a much more pressing concern," says Stephen Clarke, an economist from the Resolution Foundation. Frankie now runs a charity, the Redcar Development Trust, which provides a boxing gym for hundreds of youngsters. It also puts on bingo, entertainment and exercise days for older people, where former steelworkers who would rather be working now volunteer. One of them, Martin Mcardle, said he had thought the steelworks had still had 15 years of production in it. "I thought, 'Well that's me, I'll be retiring then, I can see my future there, see my house paid for'… now that's gone. Everything's up in the air for me now," he says. Mark Houchen, who had to give up work when he was diagnosed with cancer, says: "It's very difficult. I went from £30,000 a year one week to benefits the next." Mark says he feels "absolutely ignored". "The emotional aspect of things is not taken into consideration," he says. "Politicians don't live in the real world, they're in a bubble and I don't care who says 'oh yeah, they [the politicians] understand'. "No they don't. They don't go home on a night and think 'can I put the heating on, have I got enough electricity, have I got enough gas, what are kids going eat?'." The government, for its part, says that more people are in work than ever before, with rising employment in every region since 2010. "In the coming months we will be working with regions to develop Local Industrial Strategies that boost the productivity and earning power of every area," a spokesman said. Protest vote The loss of steel production and those good well-paid jobs was a key driver in the 66% vote in favour of Brexit in the area. Terry Frank, a former steelworker in his 50s who has not worked since the steelworks closed, says the bell was tolling for the end of steel, but they thought the government might intervene like in other countries. "[But] 'Hands are tied, it's EU legislation'. That's all [the explanation] you got," he says. Council leader Sue Jeffrey says it was a protest vote. "We want people to be aware that it's not all all right here," she says. "We need investment, we need people, we need jobs, we need the opportunities that we see happening elsewhere." A £50m taskforce set up in response to the steel plant closure brought together government, unions and local politicians. Its aim was to provide support to those affected. An official report published last month found that that while many had moved on to new jobs over the past two years, "few have been able to match their former earnings or maintain the same lifestyle". The legacy report puts it starkly: "For some this has had a devastating impact on their general well-being, health and relationships." However, the taskforce points to the creation of 1,800 new jobs and funding to support more than 300 new businesses. And Ms Jeffrey is keen to sound a positive note, insisting that while the move to a low-wage economy is "a real issue", the success of the taskforce shows that people are "putting their money into new businesses, doing things for themselves". The government said "official figures show there are more people in work than ever before in the UK with employment rising in every region since 2010 - more than half of this growth is outside London and the South East". Simon Clarke, the Conservative MP for neighbouring Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, is similarly optimistic, highlighting a regeneration scheme that takes in some of the former steel site, which he says will bring thousands of new jobs. "There's lots of good stuff being developed", he says. "But there's a generation trapped in the middle - their parents had all the certainty of the boom years of heavy industry and their children will have a brighter future, but if you're stuck in the middle it can be really difficult." But Frankie Wales is more blunt: "You can have this force and that taskforce, but you're never going to replace what we had." Watch the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.

विक्टोरिया डर्बीशायर कार्यक्रम के लिए किए गए शोध में पाया गया है कि ब्रिटेन के कुछ सबसे गरीब हिस्सों में पूर्णकालिक नौकरी करने वाले लोगों की संख्या में गिरावट आई है। एक मजदूर वर्ग के शहर में क्या होता है जब काम का मुख्य स्रोत छीन लिया जाता है?


Pompeii skeletons reveal secrets of Roman family life

Summary: The remains of the Roman town of Pompeii destroyed by a volcanic eruption in AD79 continue to provide intriguing and unexpected insights into Roman life - from diet and health care to the gap between rich and poor.

Professor Mary BeardUniversity of Cambridge The basement storeroom under a large agricultural depot in the little suburb of Oplontis was full of pomegranates. To many of the Pompeiians trying to find shelter from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, it must have seemed strong and safe. About 50 people took cover there. We know they did because archaeologists in the 1980s found their skeletons, well preserved. They were overwhelmed by the volcanic debris and burning gases in the very place where they hoped they would be saved. We know how these poor people died and we know what killed them. But these skeletons can also tell us fascinating things about how the people in Pompeii actually lived. There are some very simple surprises. Syphilis For a start, we often imagine that the Romans, or anyone in the past for that matter, were all much shorter than we are. Well, not so these people. In fact, on average, they are taller than the population of modern Naples. We also imagine that the Romans would have died young. Again, this is another myth - as these skeletons show. There are plenty of middle-aged to elderly people among them. The truth is that childhood was the really dangerous time. All kinds of illnesses that we now vaccinate against or can easily cure with antibiotics were devastating killers. Only half the population would have made it to the age of 10. But if you got that far, you could look forward to a reasonable life expectancy in our terms. Interestingly, infectious diseases leave tell-tale marks and lines in the enamel of children's teeth. Many of the skeletons in the cellar show these - a visual history of the illnesses these people had survived. There are some more curious - and startling - discoveries too. The skeletons of a pair of twins show what were almost certainly the signs of congenital syphilis. If that is correct, then it puts paid to the usual idea that the disease was brought back to Europe from the New World by Christopher Columbus and his sailors in the 15th Century. Strong family That is interesting in itself - we are going to have to stop blaming Columbus, or the Americans, for syphilis. But the discovery tells us even more about ancient Roman society and Roman families than you might think as Fabian Kanz, the anthropologist from Vienna who examined the bones, points out. A pair of children with congenital syphilis would need a lot of care and a lot of nursing, he explains. The simple fact that they survived shows something about the support networks of the Roman world. There were families who were willing and able to devote time, attention and skill to looking after a pair of very sick offspring. But these 54 skeletons reveal other sides of Roman society too. As soon as they were unearthed, archaeologists realised that they were in two groups. One lot, on one side of the room, were found with nothing - they were just bodies, with no possessions found with them at all. The others, on the other side of the room, died with cash, gold and jewels and all kinds of precious objects. One of these skeletons was discovered with almost the largest amount of money found in one place anywhere in Pompeii. Not a vast fortune in terms of the richest plutocrats from the capital city of Rome itself - Pompeii was a small town remember - but it was someone's very substantial life-savings. So how do we explain these two groups? Well, archaeology is not an exact science. It could be that those found without anything were those that had just panicked and ran, and those with the riches had made a more planned getaway. Or, maybe, that group were criminals, who had done some looting on their way out of Pompeii to Oplontis. We cannot know for certain. But the likelihood is that we are dealing with a group of the poor with no possessions and of the rich who had jewels and cash. 'Marvellous' diet It is interesting to see if we can spot differences in the skeletons. Is one group obviously less well nourished? Is one group shorter? The answer is no. Exploring the archaeology of the town of Pompeii and the surrounding area gives us an idea what life was like for rich and poor. One conclusion, if you exclude the destitute who had no support networks at all, is that both rich and poor in Pompeii had a decent diet. True, the rich may have had more elaborate dining rooms, but the poor ate decently too. How do we know? The contents of a cesspit which collected the waste from the lavatories of a block of modest flats in Herculaneum - the next-door town to Pompeii - show that the ordinary people in this block were eating a marvellous diet, from sea urchins to nuts and figs, eggs and chicken. And, as Andrew Wallace-Hadrill - who excavated this cesspit - agrees, you do not get closer to the Roman world than in its excrement. Pompeii: Life and Death in a Roman Town will be broadcast on BBC Two at 2100 GMT on Tuesday 14 December, or afterwards on BBC iPlayer.

79 ईस्वी में ज्वालामुखी विस्फोट से नष्ट हुए रोमन शहर पोम्पेई के अवशेष रोमन जीवन में दिलचस्प और अप्रत्याशित अंतर्दृष्टि प्रदान करते हैं-आहार और स्वास्थ्य देखभाल से लेकर अमीर और गरीब के बीच की खाई तक।


Songs of Praise win for Llangennech junior school choir

Summary: Pupils in Carmarthenshire have taken one of the top prizes in this year's BBC Songs of Praise School Choir of the Year contest.

Ysgol Iau Llangennech won the junior school choir category after fighting off stiff competition. Others schools in the running for the prize were Queen's Young Voices in Chester and Lindley Junior School Choir in Huddersfield. Conductor Lewis Richards said everyone was "thrilled" with the choir's win. He said: "The children give so much time and energy during rehearsals. "I'm over the moon that they have something to show for their efforts and perseverance." Dave Stanford, executive producer of Songs of Praise, offered his congratulations to the school and said: "Ysgol Iau Llangennech were faultless."

कार्मार्थेनशायर के छात्रों ने इस साल की बीबीसी सॉन्ग्स ऑफ़ प्रेज़ स्कूल कॉयर ऑफ़ द ईयर प्रतियोगिता में शीर्ष पुरस्कारों में से एक जीता है।


Liverpool's Welsh Streets: 'Living in limbo' near Ringo Starr's birthplace

Summary: Plans to redevelop Liverpool's rundown Welsh Streets area have been put on hold after Communities Secretary Eric Pickles called for a public inquiry. But what is life there like for the people waiting to find out if their homes will be revamped or bulldozed?

By Helen CarterBBC News, Liverpool The tinned-up houses in Wynnstay Street, Liverpool, are leaning precariously as the chimneys, roofs and brickwork list towards the ground. Green shoots sprout out of the brickwork. The street is eerily quiet aside from the odd passing taxi en-route to 9 Madryn Street, four roads down, the birthplace of Ringo Starr, scarred with graffiti. A yellow Magical Mystery Tour bus drives by the end of the street. Behind the metal sheets, the hall walls have crumbled, exposing the wooden frame like a skeleton. The staircase has gone and there are pigeon feathers and faeces carpeting the floor. Paint is peeling away and there are cobwebs and discarded bits of metal pipe. A once-elegant tiled porch is green with moss in the grouting. The facades of the abandoned terraces in Powis Street are painted black after posing as Birmingham's slums for the filming of the BBC series Peaky Blinders. Welcome to Welsh Streets. On Tuesday, many residents were dismayed when the £15m revamp plan for the streets was called in by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles for a public inquiry. It is the latest stage in more than a decade of trying to find a solution for the near-abandoned streets that have an enviable view of the city's Anglican cathedral. The proposals by social housing provider Plus Dane Group would see 150 new homes built, 280 demolished and 37 properties, including Ringo Starr's birthplace, renovated. 'So desolate' Veronica Griffiths, who has lived in Gwydir Street for a decade, said: "We can't do anything like decorating as you don't know whether to bother or if you're going to be demolished. We are just left in the middle. "I've seen rats running down the streets and it's not pleasant walking through all the empty streets as it's so desolate. "I want to move into a new home but now we can't because of Eric Pickles. "We're living in limbo and it's lonely. "Everyone keeps going on about Ringo Starr's house. Well he hardly lived in the bloody house and what's he ever done for Liverpool? He doesn't even like the place." Clearly house-proud, her terrace house has a hanging basket by the front door. Some residents have placed "Demolish" posters in their windows making their views clear in a single word. The homes were part of nine areas identified as "Pathfinders", which intended to replace terraced houses with modern homes with gardens. However, the scheme was criticised by the National Audit Office and was eventually wound up in 2010 by Housing Minister Grant Shapps, leaving many residents in limbo. In Liverpool, the £15m planning application was approved by the city council but stalled by the government when it announced a public inquiry earlier this week. Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson said the residents had been "badly let down" by the decision. It was, he said, hugely frustrating and disappointing for the local community. The properties are nicknamed the "Welsh Streets" as they were built by Welsh workers in the late 19th Century and named after Welsh towns, villages and valleys. 'Disappointment after disappointment' Louise Davies, project director at the Plus Dane housing group, said they had "factored in" the decision being called in and were monitoring the situation closely. She said they had 70 residents who had suffered "disappointment after disappointment" while waiting to be re-housed into new-build properties. Campaign group Save Britain's Heritage bought a house in Madryn Street and has spent £3,000 renovating it with Perspex windows. A couple now live there. Jonathan Brown, from the group, said a decade ago the houses were in better condition and people were "happy to stay". "But since 2003 there has been a process of buying up and boarding up," he said. "We wouldn't be fighting for these houses if they were beyond salvation." He said engineers and estate agents had examined the houses and found they were "entirely viable". Mary Huxham, 75, lived in Powis Street for 68 years but moved to a new home in 2007. She said she was glad to leave the "fungus on the walls, ice on the inside of the windows". "I felt nothing but relief when I moved," she added. "They say memories are in bricks and mortar, but they're not. they're in your heart." Ms Huxham said the "worst thing is the old people who were waiting to move but passed away". "There was one woman who was looking forward to buying a pink three piece suite - but she never did get it," she added. Mr Brown said she welcomed the public inquiry as an opportunity to expose the "managed decline of the area" at an independent forum. The Department for Communities and Local Government maintains that "in this instance that the proposal may conflict with national policy and has greater than local importance". Mr Pickles has said arrangements for a public inquiry would be made shortly and details advertised. Planning Minister Nick Boles said the application had attracted national controversy and had broader implications for the historic environment. But for some living there, accepting those plans is the only option. Resident Nina Edge, who had previously opposed demolishing the homes, said she accepted the planning application because it was a "nightmare for all the residents who have lived with 10 years of constant worry". "I can't express what that does to your family and health."

लिवरपूल के खाली पड़े वेल्श स्ट्रीट क्षेत्र के पुनर्विकास की योजना को तब रोक दिया गया जब समुदाय सचिव एरिक पिकल्स ने एक सार्वजनिक जांच का आह्वान किया। लेकिन यह पता लगाने के लिए इंतजार कर रहे लोगों के लिए वहाँ जीवन कैसा है कि उनके घरों को नया रूप दिया जाएगा या बुलडोज़ किया जाएगा?


Landlords in Nigeria can demand $20,000 rent upfront

Summary: Finding a decent, affordable place to live is a common problem facing young people in many places. But in Nigeria's booming commercial hub, Lagos, it is almost impossible as landlords demand a year's rent in advance.

By Ijeoma Ndukwe Lagos, Nigeria For two-bedroom apartments with electricity, close to the city's main business district on Victoria Island, I was asked for between $11,000 (£8,600) and $22,000 upfront. In general, middle-to-high-income housing can cost anywhere between $5,000 and $40,000 a year. These are amounts of money that few people have available. One explanation for the expensive rent is that the cost of both land and construction is high in Lagos. Also, there is a shortage of the type of small properties that people starting off in the rental market tend to prefer. A new way of renting The system of upfront payments suits landlords, but some innovations could start to help renters. Bankole Oluwafemi, a young technology entrepreneur, has managed to secure a loft-style apartment on a serene residential street in Lekki - a fairly affluent neighbourhood. It is a step up from a house he shared with other young professionals. Some people use informal lending networks to get the money - from parents, or saving while staying with relatives, and some firms offer their employees loans. But Mr Oluwafemi managed to afford the place with the help of a digital rental site called Fibre. The online platform allows users to rent properties with just a few clicks. Tenants are given the option of paying monthly or quarterly, which may not seem extraordinary in many parts of the world, but is a potential market-changer here. After Mr Oluwafemi finished his university degree, he moved to Lagos in 2011, but he was unable to come up with the two years' rent in advance that landlords at that time were allowed to demand. Unable to find an affordable apartment in a habitable condition, he slept on the floor of a room with 10 other people. When he later co-founded a technology company, he decided to sleep in his office to avoid renting a home and the associated costs. 'We take nothing for granted' "Living in Lagos requires you to not just be a tenant, but in many respects you're your own local government providing your own infrastructure," Mr Oluwafemi explains, laughing. He is referring to the fact that in addition to the cost of rent, many tenants are also expected to pay for their water and electricity, which can be difficult to organise and costly because of the fuel needed for generators. "Fibre didn't just come with the ability to pay monthly and the flexibility, these apartments come with a minimum standard of quality. "People take these things for granted anywhere else in the world, but we live in Nigeria." Although the Nigerian government introduced legislation in 2011 limiting landlords' rights to demand or receive more than one year's rent from prospective tenants, it has proven difficult to enforce. According to real estate analyst Dolapo Omidire, Lagos is largely a landlord's market. "They have the authority to dictate what they want from tenants," he says. "They can say: 'These are my terms. If you don't like it go somewhere else.'" Long waiting list Demi Ademuson and Obinna Okwodu co-founded Fibre three years ago and partner with landlords and developers to offer good-quality housing. Driven by the desire to introduce some ease and flexibility to renting for tenants, the platform challenges a system they say that is inhospitable to young people. "It provides a really high barrier for people just to access housing," Mr Okwodu says. "If you think about how fundamental housing is, it doesn't make sense that for something so fundamental you have to jump through so many hoops." With 200 clients renting properties and 5,000 people on its waiting list, Fibre's work represents a tiny fraction of the market, but it does offer an alternative way forward. They also recognise that they started off at the high end of the market, but are beginning to broaden their prospective customer base. The concept is working, but Mr Okwodu says it was initially a challenge to persuade landlords to accept monthly payments. The company takes full financial responsibility if tenants default on payments - a vital element of the service that has helped to win clients' trust. Landlords like lump sum payments However, many landlords have no interest in receiving payments in monthly instalments. Deborah Nicol-Omeruah, a real estate developer in Lagos, can see how receiving monthly payments could work for property owners with mortgages, but she prefers the current system. "A lump sum allows you to use the money for major expenses. For example, if you have school fees to pay or you have a big holiday that you want to pay for." Importantly, Ms Nicol-Omeruah says, 12 months' rent in advance reduces the risk of default. "When you have a client paying each month, there's the hassle of chasing them for payments. If they're a tenant with a high risk of default you might be chasing them monthly. "With the current system there's only one point each year that you have to chase your tenant for payment." You might also be interested in: Fibre's success has inspired other entrepreneurs to launch similar platforms, but they are still too small to make a major impact on the rental market. Many people have no option but to share a room, or stay with relatives. 'Eight-hour commute' Television presenter Uche Okoronkwo stayed with an uncle in a suburb on the mainland when she first moved to Lagos. However, her eight-hour daily commute from home to and from her job on the island - where many companies are based - was punishing. "Commuting between the mainland and island is hell. I woke up at four in the morning to get on an okada [motorbike taxi] to line up for a bus by 04:30 to arrive at work at eight. "Then I would get home at 10 or 11 at night because if you don't leave the island before four you're stuck in traffic. It made no sense to continue doing that. There was no quality of life." Ms Okoronkwo decided to move to the island, but because of a lack of affordable property she rented a space known as a "boys' quarters" or "BQ" - a small building within a compound containing a room and bathroom, which is traditionally used as a place for domestic staff. "It was small and terrible," she says. "The plumbing wasn't good. There was no source of water. I had to buy a [water] tank and have it filled every month and then you relied on a generator for electricity." The real estate sector lacks quality control, according to industry analyst Mr Omidire, who has noted only a few developers are willing to invest the amount required to ensure a high standard of construction is met. Despite this, he is excited to see a growing number of developers constructing one and two-bedroom apartments for young professionals. He says this will address the imbalance between what consumers are demanding and the supply on the market. Moreover, as more companies similar to Fibre launch in Nigeria, they are gradually breaking down the barriers to rent. These online platforms are currently operating on a small scale, but as they grow they have the potential to disrupt the rental market, providing a smoother path to accessing property.

रहने के लिए एक सभ्य, किफायती जगह खोजना कई जगहों पर युवाओं के सामने एक आम समस्या है। लेकिन नाइजीरिया के तेजी से बढ़ते वाणिज्यिक केंद्र, लागोस में, यह लगभग असंभव है क्योंकि मकान मालिक एक साल का किराया पहले से मांगते हैं।


Guernsey sea bass catch down 40% in a year

Summary: Fewer sea bass are being caught by Guernsey fishermen, according to new figures from Sea Fisheries.

In 2011, 74 tonnes were fished but in 2012 figures showed that number reduced to 44 tonnes. Amy Critchlow, Guernsey's deputy sea fisheries officer, said the precise reason was unclear. "They're targeted quite intensively by pair trawlers - UK, Dutch and French - so that could affect the inshore stock of bass," she said. Figures for most species were stable in 2012. The number of lobsters caught matched the previous year's record total of 150,000.

सी फिशरीज के नए आंकड़ों के अनुसार, ग्वेर्नसे के मछुआरों द्वारा कम समुद्री बास पकड़े जा रहे हैं।


Nailsea and Backwell railway station gets makeover

Summary: A North Somerset railway station has been given a makeover aimed at making it safer and more welcoming.

The work at Nailsea and Backwell railway station included painting shelters and repairing the platform surface. A spokesman from North Somerset Council said much of the work was carried out by offenders under the Probation Service's Community Payback scheme. New posters at the station feature artwork by local schoolchildren. The repairs were organised by the Severnside Community Rail Partnership, First Great Western and North Somerset Council.

एक उत्तरी समरसेट रेलवे स्टेशन को एक नया रूप दिया गया है जिसका उद्देश्य इसे सुरक्षित और अधिक स्वागत योग्य बनाना है।


Brexit: What will happen to pet passports after transition ends?

Summary: When the UK was a European Union (EU) member you were able to take your dog or cat from the UK to the EU and back again without them having to go into quarantine, provided that certain conditions - such as having a pet passport and getting them microchipped - were met.

That will continue to be the case for the rest of 2020 while the UK is in a transition period with the EU. From 1 January 2021, however, pet passports will no longer be valid for Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales). Will I be able to take my pet to the EU next year? You will still be able to take your pet from England, Scotland and Wales to the EU, but you will need to follow a different procedure. The EU has agreed that Great Britain should be given "part two listed" status, allowing pets to travel within its borders providing the owners obtain an animal health certificate (AHC). This decision is separate to the wider negotiations between the EU and the UK on trade and their future relationship. So, regardless of whether they reach a deal or not, you will be still be able to travel to the EU with an AHC for your pet. The AHC confirms that your pet is microchipped and vaccinated against rabies. You will need to get a new certificate each time you travel with your pet and you must obtain it 10 days before you travel. The document is valid for four months, for a single trip into the EU, onward travel within the EU and for re-entry to Great Britain. The certificate will be issued by your vet and this process will begin on 22 December. The rules apply to guide dogs as well. On 6 December, Environment Secretary George Eustice told the BBC's Andrew Marr that being a "part two" listed country wouldn't be "as easy" as having the pet passport. What about Northern Ireland? The EU's "part two listed" status applies to England, Scotland and Wales only. We asked the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: They told us that further guidance on Northern Ireland-related pet travel will be published "in due course". UK citizens living in the EU If you live in the EU and have a pet passport issued by an EU member state, you will be able to use it to bring your pet to the UK after 2020. You will be able to return to the EU with the EU-issued pet passport as well. What do you want BBC Reality Check to investigate? Get in touch Read more from Reality Check Follow us on Twitter

जब यू. के. यूरोपीय संघ (ई. यू.) का सदस्य था तो आप अपने कुत्ते या बिल्ली को यू. के. से ई. यू. ले जाने में सक्षम थे और उन्हें संगरोध में जाने के बिना फिर से वापस ले जा सकते थे, बशर्ते कि कुछ शर्तें-जैसे कि पालतू जानवर का पासपोर्ट होना और उन्हें माइक्रोचिप कराना-पूरी की गई हों।


Adam Lambert to perform with Queen at Sonisphere

Summary: Adam Lambert is set to perform with Queen at the 2012 Sonisphere festival.

Lambert, who came second in the 2009 series of American Idol, will headline the Saturday evening with guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor. Evanescence, Marilyn Manson, Cypress Hill, The Blackout and Faith No More have also been added to the line-up. Kiss will headline the Friday evening at the festival, which takes place at Knebworth Park, Stevenage on 6-8 July. Lambert last performed with Queen at the MTV Europe Music Awards in November. Fans and critics reacted positively to the collaboration, which sparked rumours of more joint projects in the future. Queen's former lead singer Freddie Mercury died in 1991. 'Worthy challenge' Brian May said: "Judging by my incoming mail, this decision will make a lot of people very happy. It's a worthy challenge for us, and I'm sure Adam would meet with Freddie's approval." Lambert added: "I'm completely in awe of the Queen phenomenon. The thought of sharing the stage for a full set is so beautifully surreal. "I'm honoured to be able to pay my respects to Freddie's memory. He's a personal hero of mine and I am deeply grateful for the chance to sing such powerful music for fans of this legendary band." Queen's final concert with Mercury was in Knebworth in 1986. Other acts added to the Sonisphere line-up include The Darkness, Incubus, Refused, Ghost, Flogging Molly and musical comedian Tim Minchin. Tickets for Sonisphere are available from Thursday 23 February.

एडम लैम्बर्ट 2012 के सोनीस्फियर उत्सव में क्वीन के साथ प्रदर्शन करने के लिए तैयार हैं।


Titanic cast announced for ITV1 mini-series

Summary: Linus Roache and Celia Imrie are among the actors lined up to star in ITV1's Titanic mini-series, to be written by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes.

Geraldine Somerville and Toby Jones, who have both featured in the Harry Potter films, will also have roles in the series. The four-part drama will be aired next year to coincide with the centenary of the 1912 sinking of the luxury liner. According to ITV1, filming will begin in Hungary later this month. Producer Nigel Stafford Clark said the drama would "tell the story in a way that is bold, fresh and gripping, with all the human detail that television does so well". "We hope it will be a fitting tribute to the events of that night." Roache, the son of Coronation Street veteran William, appeared alongside his father in the ITV1 soap last year. Somerville, meanwhile, was seen in 2001 film Gosford Park, which earned Fellowes an Oscar for his original screenplay.

लिनस रोच और सेलिया इमरी उन अभिनेताओं में से हैं जो आई. टी. वी. 1 की टाइटैनिक मिनी-सीरीज़ में अभिनय करने के लिए कतार में हैं, जिसे डाउनटन एबे के निर्माता जूलियन फेलो द्वारा लिखा जाएगा।


Battle for western Mosul will be toughest fight yet

Summary: Iraq's campaign to take back the western section of its second-largest city, Mosul, from so-called Islamic State (IS) will be Baghdad's last major showdown with the group, which, at its height, had controlled a third of the country's territory.

By Renad MansourAcademy Fellow, Chatham House This will also be the toughest fight yet, as losing its most cherished prize will present IS with an existential challenge incomparable to any other loss it has suffered over the past two years. Four months ago, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the official start of comprehensive operations to retake all of Mosul - east and west. The timing of the announcement of the latest phase of the campaign has more to do with rallying the morale of his beleaguered forces than any significant changes in military strategy. Maintaining motivation The fight for the east proved more difficult and time consuming than the Iraqi government had predicted. The initial hope from the Barack Obama administration had been that Mosul would be liberated before the handover of power in Washington. It is becoming clear that liberating all of Mosul will take several more months. In taking the east of Mosul, the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) suffered considerable losses. According to Pentagon insiders, the casualty rates for certain forces on the front line was as high as 50%. While this figure is denied by Iraqi military personnel in Baghdad, the government is concerned with attrition rates. In battle, a winning side could be expected to suffer a much lower casualty rate. Incurring considerably more losses would heighten the risk of combat ineffectiveness. For Prime Minister Abadi, just as important as weapons and funding is ensuring that his fighters on the frontline maintain battlefield morale and so far they have done so. Time, however, is not on his side, as a prolonged campaign could erode troop resolve. 'War of the streets' Mosul is the IS heartland. It was here, in the west, that the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, made his first and only public appearance, at al-Nuri mosque. What has become clear from the battle thus far is that IS fighters will not retreat as easily from Mosul as they did in Falluja and Ramadi. To them, losing the city means losing a capital. Even before the group declared its caliphate, it was an underground organisation with a strong presence in western Mosul. Residents recall that its fighters began performing public executions in the old market long before June 2014, without any punitive action from the provincial council. Another challenge for the ISF will be the risk of civilian casualties. As many as 800,000 residents could be trapped in the densely populated and narrow streets. They are staying put as the battle rages. Rather than fighting in the outskirt villages, IS is looking to draw the ISF to the urban centres of the west. For the ISF, this means having to go door-to-door to flush out IS fighters, who are hiding among the population. The battle is already being dubbed the "war of the streets". IS fighters are also relying on car bombs, which drive towards ISF troops and checkpoints. The jihadists would send up to 10 suicide bombers per day in the east. Striking out To divert attention away from looming defeat, the IS leadership is looking to make a show of strength elsewhere. When the ISF began operations in western Mosul, IS fighters launched attacks in the east, which Iraqi forces liberated over a month ago. By doing this, IS looks to discredit ISF victories, and challenge the idea that Iraqi government forces are truly in control there. Beyond Mosul, IS has also increased its attacks in other Iraqi cities. This includes recently liberated cities such as Falluja, but also, the capital, Baghdad. The July 2016 bombing in Karada district, for instance, left more than 300 dead - becoming one of the largest attacks since 2003. Since the beginning of this year, IS has killed almost 100 people in bombings in Baghdad alone. Winning the peace Although challenging, short-term military successes are the easy part. The key to a sustainable victory is the political settlement. Unlike most battles raging in the Middle East, in Mosul everyone bar IS is on the same side, albeit as uneasy bedfellows in some cases. This includes Shia and Sunni Muslims and Kurds, as well as Iranians, Americans and others. Despite that, each party is looking to gain the most out of a victory. This contest for power may squander successes. IS emerged not only because of its military prowess, but also because a considerable portion of Iraq's Sunni Arabs felt disenfranchised by the Shia-led government in Baghdad, as well as their own Sunni leaders. Although many of these original supporters have since grown wary of the harsh IS rule, they will cautiously re-engage with their liberators, in hope of a better settlement. Political infighting is the fuel that IS needs to survive, as military power alone will not do it for them. At the moment, though, there are no clear signs of this settlement, as Prime Minister Abadi will have to juggle powerful competing forces all vying for influence in a post-IS Iraq. Renad Mansour is an Academy Fellow at the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Iraq Institute for Strategic Studies, and lectures on the Middle East at the London School of Economics (LSE).

तथाकथित इस्लामिक स्टेट (आईएस) से अपने दूसरे सबसे बड़े शहर मोसुल के पश्चिमी हिस्से को वापस लेने का इराक का अभियान बगदाद का उस समूह के साथ अंतिम बड़ा टकराव होगा, जिसने अपने चरम पर देश के एक तिहाई क्षेत्र को नियंत्रित किया था।


Meet the songwriters who told pop stars: 'Don't steal from us'

Summary: In 1974, Dolly Parton was on a hot streak.

By Mark SavageBBC music reporter She had just scored two consecutive number ones on the US country chart with Jolene and I Will Always Love You, and was beginning to make inroads with the mainstream pop audience. Then Elvis Presley called - he'd heard I Will Always Love You and wanted to record a cover. "You cannot imagine how excited I am about this," she told him. "This is the greatest thing that's ever happened to me as a songwriter." So why have we never heard Presley's version of the song? Because the night before the recording session, his notoriously hard-nosed manager, Colonel Tom Parker, called Parton and told her Elvis wouldn't record the song unless she handed over half of the publishing rights. "I said, 'Well, that throws a new light on this. Because I can't give you half the publishing. I'm gonna leave that to my family,'" the singer told Reba McEntire's podcast in 2020. "And he said, 'Well, then we can't do it.' And I cried all night." But Parton had the last laugh. When Whitney Houston recorded her blockbuster version of I Will Always Love You for The Bodyguard soundtrack in 1992, the country star still owned the rights, and earned "enough money to buy Graceland". Parton wasn't the only writer to clash heads with Colonel Parker. Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who wrote dozens of Elvis's hits, from Hound Dog to Jailhouse Rock, originally agreed to share a percentage of their publishing with the star - on the understanding that they'd make more money from 50% of an Elvis song than 100% of a track that didn't feature his smooth vocals. But their patience wore thin in the 1960s when, after agreeing to write songs for an upcoming film, Colonel Parker sent them a contract that consisted of a blank page with two lines at the bottom for their signatures. Thinking there'd been a mistake, the duo called the Colonel's office, only to be told the document was genuine. Their response? Well, it's unprintable here, but let's just say they never worked with Elvis again. Stories like these have become part of music industry folklore. But the practices that Colonel Parker initiated still persist. Bullying tactics In fact, the pressure on writers to surrender their songs has become so pervasive that a group of the world's biggest hitmakers recently broke cover to bring the practice to light. Calling themselves The Pact, they signed an open letter last month, in which they vowed to stop giving away publishing or songwriting credit to anyone who did not contribute to the music, unless they received "equivalent [or] meaningful" compensation. You might not recognise the signatories names, but you have definitely heard their music. Collectively, their clients include people like Justin Bieber, Harry Styles, Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Michael Bublé, Lorde and Sam Smith (although the letter was not directed at any specific artists). The campaign was organised by US writer Emily Warren, after she became tired of writers being "bullied" into giving up a share of their royalties. "That's what really pushed me to start this," she says. "I was like, 'I can't be spoken to this way by someone I'm giving songs to. It's painful and it's not right. I don't want to accept being spoken to that way.'" Warren, who recently received a Grammy nomination for her work on Dua Lipa's Don't Start Now, says that demands for co-writing credit start with a 1% share, rising as high as 20%, with an average of about 15%. Writers who object are told their song won't be used, or it will be relegated to an album track, harming their chances of making money. "You've been conditioned to think that if you walk away, someone else will take your place," says Tayla Parx, another Pact member, whose credits include Ariana Grande's Thank U Next and High Hopes by Panic! At The Disco. She says that, in recent years, artists have started demanding a share of the publishing "ninety-nine per cent of the time". "The crazy thing is, it used to be rare. People would say, 'OK, if a legendary artist is recording the song, then maybe I'd be open to it.' But now you have even newer artists coming in and demanding it." No bargaining power Justin Tranter, a co-writer on hits for Selena Gomez, Britney Spears, the Jonas Brothers and Lady Gaga, says the demands frequently defy belief. He recalls a song from the start of his career, where he and a co-writer dreamt up the chorus and the key lyric - only to be sidelined when it came to the credits. "I was like, I wrote this lyric alone in my bedroom in a house where I live with six people, because I'm broke - and then me and this brilliant woman wrote the melody and the chorus together, and we were offered the smallest piece out of everybody. "We fought for a tiny bit more, but we still ended up with the smallest piece - the people who wrote the most important part of the song." Tranter says its easy for songwriters to be squeezed out because they hold very little bargaining power. "It's a logistical thing: Without the artist, the song's never going to come out. Without the producer, the files aren't going to be handed over to the record label. So the songwriters are the only one who actually, logistically, can be dismissed. Which is hysterical, because without us, there's no song." Tranter and others stress that many major artists genuinely do contribute to the writing of songs. Even if they don't, the idea of sharing credit isn't necessarily objectionable. "I don't care that much if an artist needs to have their name on there," says Warren, recognising that a singer can bolster their credibility if they can "go to an interview and say they wrote the song". Instead, The Pact is calling for a "meaningful exchange" in return for a share of the publishing. "Some people might negotiate a writing fee or an upstreaming bonus - which is where if a song reaches a certain milestone, like 10 million streams, the writer gets a bonus," explains Warren. Another option is to give writers a share of the master, meaning they would get royalties when a song is sold or downloaded. "There's a few different ways to cut it," says Warren. "It's up to each person to negotiate what they think." 'Wake-up call' Since The Pact launched two weeks ago, more than 1,000 people have signed the open letter; and Parx says there has been an "incredible response" from artists and their managers. Among them is Sam Harris, of the US rock band X Ambassadors, who called the campaign a "wake-up call". "I've been in situations where I have asked for publishing on songs that I didn't write," he said in an Instagram video. "And didn't at the time think, 'OK, what is this doing to these people who actually wrote the song? How are they feeling about this?' And that's not fair. "This is a cut-throat business sometimes and if we don't look out for each other and hold each other accountable, it's just going to keep going." Warren was impressed by his candour. "That's such a cool and amazing response, which is what we're looking for." Pact's strategy of not naming-and-shaming artists is deliberately designed to elicit solidarity. In any case, says Parx, singers often aren't aware that they're taking money away from their collaborators. "Most artists don't understand the business of the music business," says Parx. "So when their manager or their label tells them, 'This is what you're going to do', that's what they do. "And I don't even hold it against [managers] when they try to get the best deal. They're doing their job. But you have to also understand there's the right way to do that, and there's a middle ground to be found." 'Baby steps of self-respect' Certainly, that's a more palatable approach than going to court. Recent years have seen writers and performers racking up millions of dollars in legal fees as they fight to prove ownership of a song. The two highest-profile cases concerned Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven (the estate of Spirit guitarist Randy California unsuccessfully claimed the band had stolen the riff from him) and Katy Perry's Dark Horse (the case, which is still ongoing, centres around a four-note motif that appeared in an earlier song by the rapper Flame). Lauryn Hill was also accused of stealing songs for her Grammy-winning solo album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. That case was settled out of court for a reported $5m (£3.6m). Meanwhile, a trial involving Ed Sheeran is set to take place in the US over alleged similarities between his song Thinking Out Loud and Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On. Cases like these illustrate how hard it is to establish who wrote what in the studio - and the writers behind The Pact acknowledge that negotiating such deals can be a murky business. Their goal, therefore, is to unite against bad practices and force the music industry to recognise the value of its songwriters. "For us to have been put in a place where I'm so unimportant that I'm not even going to fight back when someone's stealing from me, is so twisted," says Warren. "This is the first baby step of self-respect." "This isn't just songwriters against everybody," adds Parx. "It's everybody against the old way of doing business. And that benefits everybody at the end of the day." That said, Warren isn't afraid to get tough if the industry refuses to play ball. "If this goes on, we'll probably give one warning and then we're not going to be afraid to post correspondences and stuff like that," she warns. "But luckily, I've found that [we're making] a pretty bullet-proof point. It's hard to argue the other side and not sound like you're stealing - so that's been pretty cool." Tranter stresses that the campaign isn't about making more money for himself. "My life is great," he acknowledges. "With lots of luck and a shocking amount of hard work, I got through the exploitation and still found ways to have a life that I dreamed of. "So this is not about me at all. I want to make sure that the next generation of songwriters, who have maybe only had one hit, or a couple of album cuts, can pay their rent." If it works, says Warren, it could fundamentally change the way music is made. "Right now, when you get songwriters in the room, they're trying to write a radio hit, because that's the only way you make money. "If we create an environment where songwriters are not worried about this, if they're not freaking out about paying their rent, and they're just able to focus on being creative, there will be a musical renaissance. "It will change everything." Follow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

1974 में, डॉली पार्टन एक हॉट स्ट्रीक पर थी।


Joe Biden, the touchy-feely politician

Summary: Former Vice President Joe Biden is what used to be described as "touchy feely." He is physical, with everyone. He is also known as one of the more empathetic politicians around - the guy who calls when you have a problem and just listens.

Katty KayPresenter, BBC World News@KattyKayBBCon Twitter But now two women say the touchy was a problem and the feely inappropriate. This needs some professional context. Physical contact with supporters has been a necessary part of political campaigning for decades. The candidate who tries to run for office and refuses all physical contact with voters would soon be dismissed as cold and aloof. In Biden's defence, several women have come forward to say that he has hugged and touched them too and it never felt inappropriate, only affectionate. So clearly there's a line politicians have to walk. Physical, but not in the wrong way. I'd posit that most women know exactly which side of the line any particular physical contact falls on - whether it is indeed appropriate or inappropriate. We just feel it. Women of my generation put up with too much inappropriate contact for years, assuming it was simply one of the costs of having a job in a largely male environment. Younger women are less tolerant. Thank God. They have much less time for men behaving badly. So in many ways this is a story of generational differences. Biden is 76, he came of age at a time when touching wasn't automatically taboo - maybe it should have been, but it wasn't. Social movements are not black and white, they need to mature enough to deal with shades of grey. And Joe Biden's case is on the spectrum of greyness. The case raises questions the #MeToo movement still needs to answer. Is there an exemption for people of a different generation who behaved in a way that was culturally acceptable for their time? Is there a statute of limitations on past transgressions? Who gets to play judge and jury in accusations like these? And, in politics, is there a different standard for Democrats and Republicans? Two allegations It's almost too easy to contrast Biden with Donald Trump, who, on video, relished his ability to grab women's genitals and is now President of the United States. But the Democratic Party, in this era, has set itself up as the party of moral purity, on gender as well as race. It is the zero tolerance party so its politicians will inevitably be held to a different standard. Joe Biden hasn't announced whether he is going to run yet. These allegations may mean he fights harder and announces soon, but they may also mean he never does. His supporters would say that's a travesty of justice and Democrats would be shooting themselves in the foot, losing a candidate with as good a chance as any of unseating Mr Trump. But Biden would be running in 2019 not 1999 and today there is a big difference in perceptions of what is appropriate behaviour. In this moment, after all the traumas and stories and successes of #MeToo, Mr Biden's touchy-feely style may just be unacceptable. So these accusations have perhaps raised questions about Joe Biden's suitability that have more to do with age than gender. Who will take on Trump in 2020? Mr Biden has yet to jump into the race, but plenty have. So who else has a shot at becoming the next president?

पूर्व उपराष्ट्रपति जो बाइडन के बारे में कहा जाता है कि वे "संवेदनशील" थे। वे सभी के साथ शारीरिक रूप से अच्छे हैं। उन्हें आसपास के अधिक सहानुभूतिपूर्ण राजनेताओं में से एक के रूप में भी जाना जाता है-वह व्यक्ति जो आपको कोई समस्या होने पर फोन करता है और बस सुनता है।


Birmingham driver uses car with no tyre to go to shops

Summary: A motorist went out to buy milk and water in a car with no tyre on one of the front wheels.

Police officers spotted the 23-year-old driving the car in Bankes Road, Small Heath, Birmingham, on Wednesday. It was also found he had been driving without insurance. The driver was reported to the DVLA for having no insurance and a defective tyre. West Midlands Police tweeted about the car, asking "are tyres optional?" The Ford Ka was impounded. Follow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, and sign up for local news updates direct to your phone.

एक मोटर चालक एक कार में दूध और पानी खरीदने के लिए निकला, जिसके आगे के पहियों में से एक पर कोई टायर नहीं था।