Grenfell Tower inquiry: Four possible reasons for the fire

Summary: Recently, the Grenfell Tower Inquiry had to be briefly suspended as protesters outside loudly demanded to know why 72 people lost their lives that night in June 2017, and why they hadn't received justice.

By Tom SymondsHome Affairs correspondent The final judgement will be for the inquiry, and possibly the courts. But at the end of weeks of hearings which have examined the refurbishment of the tower and its role in the disaster, it is now possible to piece together an account, from the evidence presented, of what could have gone wrong. A lack of expertise The plan for Grenfell was to add insulation and cladding panels to the outside walls, creating a warmer, drier place to live. This was a strategy used on buildings all over the UK. But during these hearings it became very clear those involved with Grenfell didn't appear to quite have a grip on how to do it safely. This was one of the reasons highly flammable cladding and insulation were used, creating a huge fire risk. Studio E, the architects, saw cladding a building as "quite straightforward". Yet the firm's staff had to admit they lacked the experience to tackle a critical question - how to prove their design adhered to the fire safety building regulations. There was a specialist fire consultant on the job, Exova, an international company. In 2012, early in the project, Exova visited Grenfell Tower and attended a meeting at which the plans for cladding were discussed. The consultants produced a series of draft fire safety reports - later disclosed to the inquiry - which failed to mention cladding. They concluded the proposals would have "no adverse effect" when it came to spreading fire. But the reports also said the advice was based on what Exova knew at the time. Since the fire it has insisted it was kept out of the loop and was removed entirely from the project as it progressed. Rydon, a big construction firm, was signed up to build but also design the new-look tower, despite having no design team. Its business model involved contracting out the specialist work to companies like the architects Studio E and Exova. Except that by the time Rydon and its partners decided to change the cladding to a more flammable version, the fire consultants, Exova, were no longer on the job. What about Harley Facades, which had the contract to supply and fit the panels? After all, 70% of its refurbishment projects used the same type of panel which went up in flames at Grenfell. Harley sold itself as a specialist in cladding, but the inquiry heard that was based on experience and during the Grenfell construction it had no-one fully qualified in facade engineering. A technical manager, Daniel Anketell-Jones, was studying the subject at university and attended a "comprehensive presentation" on cladding fires in October 2014. He told the inquiry he didn't see it as part of his job, and "might not have been concentrating". These companies often appeared to assume the council's inspector would do final safety checks. Unfortunately, the inspector in question, John Hoban, from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea's Building Control department, had never worked on a high rise cladding project, didn't know anything about the highly-combustible plastic within the panels, and didn't know a fire retardant version could have been used instead. Large construction projects are always carried out by a complex network of "specialists" and shared responsibilities are completely normal. But at the start of this phase of the inquiry, victims' lawyers predicted it would be a "merry-go-round of blame". That is exactly what happened. Cost was more important than safety The budget for the work was £9.2m and pressure was on from the start to stick to it. Rydon had badly wanted the contract. Its bid was too high, but according to internal emails at the time it had already been tipped off it would win the work, "subject to a small amount of value engineering". Value engineering means finding ways of doing the same job more cheaply. There was already pressure on Rydon to cut costs. It had accidentally entered a bid which was £212,000 higher than it intended. Part of the answer was to use cheaper cladding, the now notorious Reynobond PE made from aluminium composite material (ACM). The council and the tenant management organisation, which managed the tower, were happy with that. It would save £293,368. Harley Facades, the cladding firm, preferred the aluminium cladding too. Reynobond was "tried and tested", the company emailed the architects. "We are confident in the cost base." In fact, Harley said, using it would save more than £400,000. Rydon kept the difference for itself, without telling the council, according to the evidence of Rydon contracts manager Simon Lawrence. The focus on cost meant that by the time the work started, a cladding panel which drips molten plastic when exposed to flames had been chosen for a 24-floor building with only one staircase as an escape route in a fire. No-one realised how dangerous the materials were The Grenfell Tower inquiry has already concluded that the cladding panels were mostly to blame for spreading the fire. Many of those involved believed the panels did not pose a fire risk because they had a "class zero" rating, or "class O", as it's universally known in the construction world. Ray Bailey of Harley Facades said if you take the flame away "it won't continue to burn". His colleague, Daniel Anketell-Jones, said: "I just understood that class O meant it wouldn't catch fire." The problem was obvious the morning after the fire. A class zero panel clearly could burn, and horrifyingly quickly. Reynobond PE had a plastic middle section, the cheese in a cheese sandwich. And like cheese, it melts rapidly and burns when heated. The manufacturer of the cladding, Alcoa, now known as Arconic, had commissioned its own, more rigorous European tests. They had not gone well. As the BBC revealed in 2018, the panels were given worse - and in some cases much worse - classifications than previously made public. Arconic didn't publish these results in the UK and didn't tell the board responsible for issuing the product certificate relied on by the building industry. This was despite the company's sales manager, Deborah French, emailing a Grenfell Tower supplier that Arconic, "working closely" with its customers, "was able to follow what type of project is being designed/developed" and then offer the right specification. Arconic says it was for architects, building firms and cladding companies to ensure their designs were tested and safe. But it wasn't just the cladding. Celotex, which made the thick insulation boards used, said their product, when used with cement boards, would be "class zero throughout". Neil Crawford, associate at the architects Studio E, said in hindsight it was "masquerading horsemeat as beef lasagne". Why the manufacturers said what they did about their products is the subject of the next module in this inquiry. Corners were cut Months of evidence suggested that, during the refurbishment, emails were not followed up, records weren't kept, product specifications were skimmed over, questions raised were not answered, designs were rubber stamped without scrutiny, and the construction work wasn't closely checked. The companies involved each defended their own work, but also insisted they relied on the other partners in the project to do their jobs properly. The general level of workmanship at the tower has been strongly criticised. A key issue was that many of the barriers designed to prevent fire spreading were wrongly fitted. Seemingly most under pressure was the building inspector, John Hoban. His department had been cut and was facing competition from commercial inspectors. He said he was failing to cope with a workload of up to 130 projects. Despite being regarded as the final pair of eyes checking standards were kept, neither he nor his council department spotted the many fire safety risks at Grenfell Tower. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has admitted its failings and apologised. Another example stands out. In November 2014 Claire Williams from the Grenfell Tower management organisation sent an email to the construction company Rydon asking how fire retardant the cladding was. She described it as her "Lakanal moment", referring to the 2009 fire in which six people died, partly as a result of fire spreading through ACM cladding. The inquiry has no firm evidence the question was answered, though one witness suggested Rydon's response, at a meeting, was that cladding "would not burn at all". It was a question central to the safety of the Grenfell Tower project. If it had been carefully considered, perhaps the coming tragedy might have been prevented.

हाल ही में, ग्रेनफेल टॉवर जांच को कुछ समय के लिए निलंबित करना पड़ा क्योंकि बाहर प्रदर्शनकारियों ने जोर से यह जानने की मांग की कि जून 2017 में उस रात 72 लोगों ने अपनी जान क्यों गंवाई, और उन्हें न्याय क्यों नहीं मिला।


Russian spy: Inside UK lab that identified nerve agent

Summary: The UK's military research base at Porton Down has been at the heart of the investigation into what happened to Russian former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. The BBC has been granted exclusive access to the Wiltshire lab.

By Gordon CoreraSecurity correspondent The headquarters of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down is a sprawling campus. Stern warning signs and red flags make clear it is a sensitive facility as you approach. And beyond the security perimeter, there are buildings old and new, some with open-plan offices, others with labs. An urgent call came in here in the early hours of Monday 5 March. DSTL is used to being contacted in response to major incidents in the UK such as terrorist attacks. But this was different. This time the incident was only a few miles down the road in Salisbury. A man and a woman had been found on a park bench the previous day and it had become clear they were not suffering from an ordinary illness. A few hours after the call, one of the Specialist Response Teams, ready 24/7 for such calls, was deployed. Military grade The initial symptoms from the patients seemed consistent with a nerve agent. The team collected samples which were then analysed at the labs in Porton Down. We were shown one lab where one type of test can be undertaken on such samples, but officials will not go into details about the exact chemistry involved with the tests after Salisbury. However, the tests did confirm that a military-grade nerve agent had been deployed on the streets of Britain. A combination of this scientific analysis and other information would in turn lead to the government's conclusion that it was highly likely Russia was behind the attack. DSTL officials say that its role has been to use its scientific expertise to support the police investigation, including the need to keep material forensically secure so there is a proper evidential trail, as well as assist the medical teams involved in treatment and help with broader public health concerns. It has been helping check the police and emergency workers who have been to various locations to make sure that they have not been contaminated. This has all led to a far higher profile for the site than it has been used to. 'No way' chemicals escaped We were invited into the site but there were strict limits about what we were able to see. Armed police and dogs patrol the perimeter. Not all the attention has been welcome. Russian officials have made pointed reference to the proximity of Porton Down to Salisbury with the suggestion the nerve agent might even have come from here. That is something the chief executive of DSTL is firm in denying. "We've got the highest levels of controls of security around the work that we do here," Gary Aitkenhead told me. "We would not be allowed to operate if we had lack of control that could result in anything leaving the four walls of our facility here. "There's no way that agent would have left. We have complete confidence that nothing could have come from here out into the wider world." Asked if it was frustrating to hear such accusations, he said: "It is coincidence that it is down the road [and] that this has happened. It is frustrating to hear that and it is just not true. " Officials are keen to emphasise that the work here is defensive only. In one building, the size and shape of a bungalow, we are shown a sealed metal chamber. Inside a robot called "Porton Man" wears a military protection suit as live agents are pumped in. The aim is to see what defence the suit offers over time as the robot moves. Huge effort needs to then go into cleaning the chamber and disposing of the agents. The work here is also much broader then just dealing with chemical and biological weapons but also covers ballistics, explosives and cyber security amongst other fields. Officials say the defensive remit has increasingly moved to supporting homeland security as well as the military in recent years. A large building is being constructed in one corner of the campus. There have been claims from Russia that it might be some kind of chemical weapons factory. "That's just nonsense. This is a defensive organisation," Sir David Pepper, the chairman of DSTL, told the BBC, in response to those claims. Officials at DSTL say the planning application has long been available at the local council, explaining that it going to be a new facility for forensic analysis of explosives. DSTL has been involved in recent investigations including the attack at the Manchester Arena last year. New money to upgrade facilities was recently announced. International inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons have arrived in the UK. They have been to the location in Salisbury and have also been given permission, following approval by a judge, to take a sample of the Skripals' blood. They are also present at Porton Down itself. The DSTL is an OPCW certified lab and the inspectors will be carrying out their own work here and at other labs around the world to independently verify the work done by DSTL.

पोर्टन डाउन में ब्रिटेन का सैन्य अनुसंधान केंद्र रूसी पूर्व जासूस सर्गेई स्क्रिपल और उनकी बेटी यूलिया के साथ क्या हुआ, इसकी जांच के केंद्र में रहा है। बीबीसी को विल्टशायर प्रयोगशाला तक विशेष पहुंच प्रदान की गई है।


G4S Medway unit: Serious case review launched

Summary: A serious case review is to be conducted into a young offenders centre in Kent that was at the centre of a BBC Panorama investigation.

The undercover investigation at the G4S-run Medway Secure Training Centre in Rochester resulted in allegations of abuse and mistreatment of youngsters. Several people were charged after the behind-the-scenes footage was aired. Medway Safeguarding Children Board said its review would look at how agencies linked to the centre worked together. It said the aim would be to identify where lessons could be learned. The training centre was being run by G4S at the time of the programme but is now run by the government's National Offender Management Service.

केंट में एक युवा अपराधी केंद्र में एक गंभीर मामले की समीक्षा की जानी है जो बीबीसी पैनोरमा जांच के केंद्र में था।


Asma Jahangir: Who will succeed the woman who fought for Pakistan’s soul?

Summary: Last month one of modern Pakistan's most extraordinary women died. Tributes described Asma Jahangir as a champion of human rights and a defender of the oppressed. But it's hard to see who will now take on her fights, as the BBC's M Ilyas Khan reports.

It has been said that no combination of the tributes paid to Asma Jahangir can adequately define her, but perhaps the one that best encapsulates what it was like to come up against her was "street fighter". Pakistan in 2018 is a place which still faces many of the problems she spent decades fighting. It is a deeply divided society, where invisible forces battle over the direction of the country, where people suddenly disappear, and where, rights groups say, abuses are still routine. She took on oppressive military regimes and fought relentlessly against abuses, she set up legal aid firms and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP). She worked for the rich and the poor. But she was hated by those powerful interest groups who promulgate a conservative vision of religion and patriotism, thought to be backed by elements in the military. They would not tolerate her vision of Pakistan. But Ms Jahangir understood this polarised Pakistan and through it blazed a path that she believed could help the nation make the right choices. 'We can't live in her shadow forever' In the wake of her death, many have said that there are no fighters quite like her left. There is the HRCP she set up, legal firms manned by some strong characters, but without her towering personality that commanded global authority, activists have felt a vacuum. At her funeral, mourners wailed that with Ms Jahangir gone they were now orphans. But Ismat Shahjahan, a left-wing activist who's been on the scene since the 1980s, had this to say: "It may be true, but it reflects our own weakness. Whenever a challenge to our way of thinking arose, Asma was there to respond to it, and we didn't have to try much harder. "But now she's gone, and we have to realise that we can't live in her shadow forever; we have to pull our act together and start tackling those challenges ourselves. Mourning her death won't work, but emulating her life will." The essence of her success, friends have said, was her unique courage. She never minced her words. In one television interview, she called army generals "duffers", saying they only "play golf, have parties, grab plots of land," and are in the "habit of using our children as their human shields". "Sit in the barracks. You have your plots. Eat, drink, have a party, but leave us alone," she advised. She was equally harsh on religious lobbies. She said she was "against all religious extremism. I'm in fact a secular person. I consider all religions equal, and I don't have a religion of my own". This was a daring - some would say rash - admission to make in a country with harsh Islamic laws implemented not only by courts by also vigilante groups carrying out street justice. And there were consequences. In 2005, during a riot in Lahore, the police tried to disrobe her in public, reportedly on orders from the government which was headed by military ruler Pervez Musharraf. They were restrained by her supporters, but they did succeed in tearing off her shirt, baring her back. What was she doing at that point? She had been trying to hold a mixed gender marathon to highlight violence against women. A combative spirit In 2013, a leaked American intelligence report revealed that elements within Pakistan's security establishment had plotted to assassinate her, after she embarked on a legal campaign to recover missing political activists in the restive province of Balochistan, where the military had gone in to suppress an armed insurgency. Despite attempts on her life, she never left the country or even went into "hibernation", as advised by friends. Instead, she retaliated with a combative spirit. Perhaps she was protected by her global reputation. That same leaked US report warned of an "international and domestic backlash" should anything happen to her. This is a luxury afforded to few in Pakistan where there are many faceless campaigners who work just as hard but suffer for it too. But even her childhood and family was steeped in Pakistan's political division, quite literally. Pakistan's first general election held in 1970 was won by the Awami League, a party based in what was then called East Pakistan. West Pakistan, which dominated the country and controlled East Pakistan's resources, failed to transfer power in time, sparking a rebellion in East Pakistan which ended in it seceding from West Pakistan and emerging as an independent country, Bangladesh, after military intervention by Pakistan's arch rival India. Asma Jahangir's father Ghulam Jillani was involved with the Awami League and was jailed when he criticised military action against Awami League supporters in East Pakistan. The anger and frustration felt in Pakistan made people like Mr Jillani targets, painted as traitors, Hindus and agents of India. One of Asma Jahangir's acquaintances shared a story. One evening in 1973 she was at a neighbourhood party where some girls began telling others to beware as there was a traitor in the house. When she heard this, the young Jahangir commandeered the microphone and let them all have a piece of her mind. Then in frustration she stepped out onto the lawn alone and broke into tears. That's when Tahir Jahangir, the son of a businessman and a neighbour, came up from behind and comforted her. They were married in 1974. Setting a precedent Another example of triumphing over adversity proved to be historic and came on the legal front, long before she became a lawyer. When her father was arrested on charge of treason he sent the family a message asking them to file a petition for his release. Asma went to a lawyer who, believing she was a minor, asked her where her mother was. "My mother had at that time gotten very depressed and upset, and had taken sleeping pills and gone to sleep. "So I told him that you write down the petition and I'll drive home and get it signed by her. Then he looked at me and asked, 'how old are you?' I said 18. He said you need not (take it to your mother). You can just sign it yourself," she recounted in an interview once. This case, titled Asma Jillani versus the Federation of Pakistan, is one of the most widely quoted precedents in case law, and is the only case in Pakistan's history in which a military dictator was declared a usurper. Ismat Shahjahan is now putting together a women's democratic front, a reincarnation of the socialist campaigners that burst onto the scene in 1968 as a military dictatorship was about to be ousted and before the secession of East Pakistan. Perhaps her successor will be found among them.

पिछले महीने आधुनिक पाकिस्तान की सबसे असाधारण महिलाओं में से एक की मृत्यु हो गई। श्रद्धांजलि ने आसमा जहांगीर को मानवाधिकारों की हिमायती और उत्पीड़ितों की रक्षक के रूप में वर्णित किया। लेकिन यह देखना मुश्किल है कि अब उनकी लड़ाई का सामना कौन करेगा, जैसा कि बीबीसी के एम इलियास खान ने बताया है।


UK heatwave: Where can you keep cool in Wales?

Summary: Are you feelin' hot, hot, hot?

The UK has had its hottest July day on record, with temperatures reaching 38.1C (100.6F) in Cambridge. It reached 30C (86F) in several places around Wales, with the heat causing some travel disruption. The Welsh record was set on 2 August 1990 at Hawarden Bridge, Flintshire, when it reached 35.2C (95.3F). With the summer holidays upon us, how can you get out of the house but keep cool as Wales basks in the summer sun? #hottestdayoftheyear is trending on Twitter, mainly with people sharing gifs and memes of how to stay cool. The temperature reached 30C in Cardiff, Bala, Bodelwyddan, Hawarden, Newbridge -on-Wye and Usk and peaked at 31C in Gogerddan, according to BBC weather forecaster Derek Brockway. So if you fancy taking in a bit of history and culture without having to break out the factor 50, castles and cathedrals, with their high ceilings and often stone buildings, are ideal. Llandaff Cathedral, St Asaph Cathedral or Brecon Cathedral to name but a few would be great places to cool off. In keeping with history and culture, the National Trust has a wealth of places to explore, including Colby Woodland Garden which has an industrial past and a secret garden. A country house with its thick walls, marble floors and servants quarters below stairs mean these places are several degrees cooler than the temperature outside, Penrhyn Castle or a shady underground tour of Dolaucothi Gold Mines might also suit. While the sheltered parkland of Erddig could provide you with a much-needed break from the sun. At Folly Farm in Kilgetty, Pembrokeshire, they keep the animals cool with iced treats and a good old-fashioned hosing down. Or how about making the most of Wales' slate caverns? Rob Owen, owner of Llanfair Slate Caverns near Harlech, said plenty of people are visiting the caverns as a place to keep cool. "It's been steady in the morning and then everyone heads down to the beach in the afternoon. "You do feel a difference, it's 10 degrees (50F) constant all year round." We are gifted with a number of glorious national parks in Wales and they can offer some areas of shade while still enjoying the great outdoors. Who can forget the waterfalls at Brecon Beacons National Park? One part of the park, at the head of the Vale of Neath, has so many it is called Waterfall Country. Many of these cascades are easily accessible on foot, but make sure you are safe and don't go into open water. But on days like these, spare a thought for the people working in this heat. Mike Woods, owner of Just Love Food Company, in Blackwood, Caerphilly county, said: "On a day-to-day basis it can be really tricky trying to work in the heat. "That's not just when it's hot, it can get really hot anyway in the factory. I make sure that my staff all get regular breaks and are drinking plenty of water. "We also have big electric fans throughout the workplace which really make a difference." Staying safe in the sun Police have warned of the risks of cooling off in open water - if you do feel you want to take a dip, have a read on how to stay safe. Britain is not used to such extreme temperatures, which means some people could be vulnerable to heat exhaustion. The NHS recommends keeping all babies under six months out of direct sunlight, and older infants should be kept out of the sun as much as possible, particularly between 11:00 and 15:00. They should be kept in the shade or under a sunshade if they're in a buggy or pushchair. Sun cream with a high sun protection factor should be applied regularly - particularly if children are in water.

क्या आप गर्म, गर्म, गर्म महसूस कर रहे हैं?


Can 'beauty banks' help fight hygiene poverty?

Summary: Most of us give barely a thought to the cost of shampoo, soap and sanitary towels when stocking up on everyday essentials in the toiletry aisle. But for those living in poverty - whether on the streets or in homes on a shoestring budget - basic hygiene has become a backseat luxury.

By Lauren PottsBBC News Many thousands of people across the UK rely on a network of food banks for their day-to-day survival. It's easy to understand that when food is in scarce supply hygiene isn't always the top priority. But according to research conducted by the Trussell Trust, which has a 428-strong network of food banks nationwide, more than half of people using its services cannot afford toiletries. "If you don't have enough money to cover the cost of food, it's likely you'll be unable to afford other essentials too," said Samantha Stapley, its head of operations for England. "No-one should be left struggling to wash their hair, brush their teeth or afford tampons because they've been hit by something unexpected like redundancy, sickness or a delayed benefit payment. "This is a dignity issue." When faced with the choice of being able to afford food or face wipes the answer is obvious, says journalist Sali Hughes, who has joined forces with beauty director Jo Jones and the Trussell Trust to launch Beauty Banks. "Some people don't have enough money to survive, so what's going to go? The thing that you don't need to stay alive. "But I don't think having clean teeth is a luxury. Having clean hair isn't being spoiled - in 2018, in Britain, it's a right." The pair is pooling their collective industry resources by teaming up with brands, retailers and the wider community to gather as many toothbrushes, razors and tampons as possible to help those unable to afford the basics. The non-profit aims to funnel unwanted toiletries for both men and women to five locations across the UK - a women's refuge and a food bank in Staines in Surrey, a homeless shelter in Cardiff, a food bank in Milton Keynes, and another in Ladbroke Grove, not far from Grenfell Tower. "People really need these things and not being clean and being dirty is the difference between having a bad or good day, of feeling employable and feeling good about themselves," said Ms Hughes. "These are things we take for granted. We often don't think twice about buying shower gel, but [for some] that can make the difference between being clean and not being able to eat." Ms Hughes, who has written in the past about her own experience of homelessness, was in part inspired to launch the scheme after taking part in a recent Sleep Out event run by youth homelessness charity Centrepoint. She and others, including fellow writer Caitlin Moran, spent the night on the street and raised more than £40,000. On Instagram, she described how "brutal" the experience of sleeping rough was - "freezing cold, turfed out and moved on at 6:30am, nowhere to clean my teeth or wash my face". In another, she posted a picture of face wipes and tampons, adding: "These are the basics I need for sleeping rough tonight and I am lucky enough to be able to just go out and buy them. People on the streets can't." According to recent government figures, there were 4,751 people counted or estimated to be bedding down outside in autumn 2017 - a 15% rise on the year before and more than double the figure recorded five years ago. In July, the In Kind Direct charity also warned of a rise in "hygiene poverty" - in which families across the UK were reporting a crisis in being unable to afford essential toiletries. Coupled with increasing reports of period poverty - in which girls across the country are routinely skipping school because they cannot afford sanitary protection - Ms Hughes and Mrs Jones started to talk about how they could help. "The thought of not being able to buy something you absolutely need to protect yourself during your period, it's such a stark reality most of us don't consider," said Ms Hughes. "As women, we know we need tampons, so we chuck them in the trolley in supermarkets and that's the most you think about it. The idea you can't afford to keep clean, it's such a big part of how we feel about ourselves. "When you feel dirty and your hair's dirty, you're constantly thinking 'do people think I'm grotty, do I smell?' People are living like this. It's monstrous, it's really shocking." Mrs Jones said she came up with the idea of donating unwanted and surplus toiletries to food banks about six months ago after realising there was a huge demand for non-food items. She and Ms Hughes had also often talked about how much product was being wasted in the beauty industry. "We started talking about marrying the gap between the waste in our industry and getting it into the hands of people who really need it. "Beauty directors and writers get sent products all the time and people in our industry are really kind and generous, but they don't know what to with [surplus goods] or how to channel it to the right places." You might also be interested in Four stories of rough sleeping in England 'I couldn't mourn my gran because of my period' Second chance careers that paid off Mrs Jones said the turning point came when she got the company she works for, Communications Store, involved. "It's all well and good sending a lot of products to a food bank but that's only part of the solution. Who's going to sort it out and pack it up? So that's when I went to my agency and said, 'can we support this', and my boss said 'yes'. "Our staff are packing the stuff up and we're covering the cost of sending it out, so that when it arrives [at the food banks], it's already sorted. We want to make it as easy as possible to distribute." Donations will be parcelled up and sent to each of the five locations supported by the Trust. Though starting small, Ms Hughes hopes to roll the Beauty Banks project out to further locations and is encouraging people to get involved. "We don't want people to donate money. But we would love members of the public to send their spare toiletries that they have lying around. "We're looking for really essential toiletries like deodorant, we want shaving gel, razors, tampons, sanitary towels. We need shampoo, soap, baby wipes, flannels and toothbrushes. "We would like people to throw a box of tampons in their basket and then throw in another to donate, or to donate the soap their aunts gave them two Christmases ago. "Provided they're unused - they will find a good home."

हम में से ज्यादातर लोग शौचालय के गलियारे में रोजमर्रा की आवश्यक वस्तुओं का भंडारण करते समय शैम्पू, साबुन और सैनिटरी तौलिए की लागत के बारे में मुश्किल से सोचते हैं। लेकिन गरीबी में रहने वालों के लिए-चाहे वे सड़कों पर हों या कम बजट वाले घरों में-बुनियादी स्वच्छता एक पिछड़ी हुई विलासिता बन गई है।


Facebook defends Mark Zuckerberg's exposed emails

Summary: Facebook's staff feel like they are under siege.

By Leo KelionTechnology desk editor Every few days there seems to be a fresh accusation or leak that paints the social network in the worst possible light and calls into question whether it poses a threat to its members, wider society and even democracy itself. The latest barrage came in the form of a tranche of "confidential" internal emails published online by MPs, who have been smarting that chief executive Mark Zuckerberg refused to testify before them. As Damian Collins, the chair of the Parliamentary committee responsible, put it, if they could not get "straight answers" from Mr Zuckerberg then at least the emails could reveal how his firm treats users' data and protects its "dominant position". Mr Collins claimed the documents prove that the social network continued giving some favoured apps access to users' friends' data after a cut-off point that was supposed to protect its members' privacy. He added that the emails showed the firm had also sought to make it difficult for users to know about privacy changes, and had surreptitiously studied smartphone users' habits to identify and tackle rival apps. Overnight on Wednesday, Facebook has published a blow-by-blow response to these and other allegations. The main thrust of its defence is that the emails had been "cherry-picked" to paint a "false" picture of what really happened. But does its counter-attack stand up? White lists One of the key apparent gotchas from the documents was Facebook's repeated references to "whitelisting" - the process under which it grants special access to users and their friends' data to some third parties but not others. The context for this was that in April 2014, Facebook announced that it planned to restrict developers from being able to tap into information about users' friends as part of a policy referred to as "putting people first". Until that point, any developer could build products that made use of Facebook users' friends' birthdates, photos, genders, status updates, likes and location check-ins. While such access was to be cut off, Facebook said it would still allow apps to see who was on a user's friends list and their relevant profile pictures. However, if developers wanted this to include friends who were not using the same app, they now needed to make a request and pass a review. New apps needed to apply immediately, and existing ones were given a year's grace. But Mr Collins said the emails demonstrated that some firms "maintained full access to friends' data" after the 2015 deadline. The documents certainly show several apps sought extended rights - although it is not always clear what the final outcome was. But Facebook says it only gave "short-term" extensions to the wide range of information about friends and did so in cases when apps needed more time to adapt. "It's common to help partners transition their apps during platform changes to prevent their apps from crashing or causing disruptive experiences for users," it explained. In fact, Facebook already gave Congress a list in July of about 60 organisations to whom it granted this privilege, and said at the time that in most cases it was limited to an extra six months, The names excluded some of the bigger brands referenced in the emails, including Netflix, Airbnb and Lyft. The inference is that if they were indeed granted special long-term rights, it was only to access complete lists of friends' names and profile images. But since Facebook does not disclose which developers have these extra rights, it is impossible to know how widely they are offered. Value of friends' data Facebook has long maintained that it has "never sold people's data". Rather it said the bulk of its profits come from asking advertisers what kinds of audience they want to target, and then directing their promotions at users who match. But Mr Collins said the emails also demonstrated that Facebook had repeatedly discussed ways to make money from providing access to friends' data. Mark Zuckerberg himself wrote the following in 2012: "I'm getting more on board with locking down some parts of platform, including friends' data... Without limiting distribution or access to friends who use this app, I don't think we have any way to get developers to pay us at all besides offering payments and ad networks." Facebook's retort is that it explored many ways to build its business, but ultimately what counts is that it never charged developers for this kind of service. "We ultimately settled on a model where developers did not need to purchase advertising... and we continued to provide the developer platform for free," it said. But another email from Mr Zuckerberg in the haul makes it clear that his reasoning for doing so was a belief that the more apps that developers built, the more information people would share about themselves, which in turn would help Facebook make money. And some users may be worried that it was this profit motive rather than concerns for their privacy that determined the outcome. Android permissions Another standout discovery was the fact that Facebook's team had no illusions that an update to its Android app - which gave Facebook access to users' call and text message records - risked a media backlash. "This is a pretty high-risk thing to do from a PR perspective," wrote one executive, adding that it could lead to articles saying "Facebook uses new Android update to pry into your private life in ever more terrifying ways". In the conversation that followed, staff discussed testing a method that would require users to click a button to share the data but avoid them being shown an "Android permissions dialogue at all". Mr Collins claims the result was that the firm made it as "hard as possible" for users to be aware of the privacy change. Facebook's defence is that the change was still "opt in" rather than done by default, and that users benefited from better suggestions about who they could call via its apps. "This was a discussion about how our decision to launch this opt-in feature would interact with the Android operating system's own permission screens," added the firm. "This was not a discussion about avoiding asking people for permission." It previously defended its conduct in March after users had spotted saved call logs in archives of their Facebook activity and did not recall giving the social network permission to gather them. Whether you accept its explanation or not, it does not look good that executives were clearly worried that journalists might "dig into" what the update was doing in the first place. The risk is that this adds to the impression that while Facebook wants its members to trust it with their information, the firm has an aversion to having its own behaviour scrutinised. Surveying rivals Part of the way through the hundreds of text-heavy pages is a selection of graphs. They show how Facebook tracked the fortunes of social media rivals including WhatsApp - which it went on to buy - and Twitter's viral video service Vine - which it decided to block from accessing some data. This tracking was done via Onavo, an Israeli analytics company that Facebook acquired in 2013 - which provided a free virtual private network app. VPNs are typically installed by users wanting an extra layer of privacy. Mr Collins accused Facebook of carrying out its surveys without customers' knowledge. Its reply was that the app contained a screen that stated that it collected "information about app usage" and detailed how it would be used. It is true that the app's privacy policy stated that it might share information with "affiliates" including Facebook. But it is questionable how many of its millions of users bothered to read beyond the top-billed promise to "keep you and your data safe". In any case, if Facebook is not hiding anything it is curious that, even now, on Google Play the app continues to list its developer as being Onavo rather than its parent company, and only mentions Facebook's role if users click on a "read more" link. It is also noteworthy that Apple banned the app earlier this year from its App Store for being too intrusive. Targeting competitors You do not get to be one of the world's biggest companies just by playing nice. So, Mr Collins' accusation that Facebook had taken "aggressive positions" against rivals is probably unsurprising. Even so, it is interesting the degree to which Mr Zuckerberg is involved. "We maintain a small list of strategic competitors that Mark personally reviewed," disclosed one memo. "Apps produced by the companies on this list are subject to a number of restrictions... any usage beyond that specified is not permitted without Mark-level sign-off." As the case of Vine demonstrated, he is willing to take a tough line. When asked if Facebook should cut off Vine's access to friends' data on the day of its launch in 2013 - ahead of the later wider crackdown - his reply was brief. "Yup, go for it." Facebook suggests such behaviour is normal. "At that time we made the decision to restrict apps built on top of our platform that replicated our core functionality," it said in its response. "These kind of restrictions are common across the tech industry with different platforms having their own variant including YouTube, Twitter, Snap and Apple." But it added that it now believes the policy is "out-of-date" so is removing it. Too late for Vine, which shut in January 2017. And Facebook's problem is that politicians now have another reason for new regulations to limit anti-competitive behaviour by the tech giants. Digital rights campaigners also have new reasons to gripe. "Time and again, Facebook proves itself untrustworthy and incapable of building the world it claims it wants to see," Dr Gus Hosein, from Privacy International, told the BBC. "They show a pattern, fostered by market dominance, of deceptive and exploitative behaviour, which must be stopped."

फेसबुक के कर्मचारियों को लगता है कि वे घेराबंदी में हैं।


William and Kate's Sweden visit could 'sweeten relations'

Summary: William and Catherine in Scandinavia: a royal tour and, as ever, the consequential tension between style and substance and the need, greater than ever in this age of social media, to separate verified fact from utter tosh.

By Nicholas WitchellRoyal correspondent This is not to say that "style" in the context of a royal visit is unimportant. To take the most obvious example, the outfits worn by the Duchess of Cambridge, there are a good many people to whom it does matter what she wears. And for sure their curiosity is well served by elements of the media whose news editors expect reports on every detail of the hat, coat, shoes, handbag, earrings etc, etc, that's she's chosen for a particular engagement. For the fashion label that is chosen, it can mean an immediate sales bonanza. Readers are interested, just as they are in snippets of overheard royal conversation: so on this visit we've learnt that the Cambridges have some IKEA furniture and that William was delighted with a new device to clean his dog's paws. The small stuff helps to maintain interest and project the impression of a down-to-earth couple whose lives, for all their privileged position, nevertheless has recognisable aspects to it. But there is more to a royal visit than that. William and Catherine are visiting Sweden and Norway at the request of the British Foreign Office. It is the latest instalment in the deployment of the royal family to sweeten relations with those all-important European friends and allies. It's a role to which the royals are suited. For one thing, capital P Politics are firmly disallowed: but the arrival of senior members of the British royal family unfailingly forces both nations, the host and the visitor, to reflect on what makes the relationship between the two countries special. Historical ties are recalled: contemporary links celebrated. It won't transform difficult political negotiations but it can sometimes, say diplomats with experience of these things, soften some of the tougher edges. Finally then to the need to root the reporting of royal tours in fact rather than in fantasy. According to a tweet from one news outlet William and Kate have been welcomed by "huge crowds" in Stockholm. Just one problem. They haven't. What's more the news organisation which published this tweet does not have anyone in Sweden covering the visit. The crowds have been decent but no more. On the main public walk out in Stockholm, in the square outside the Nobel Museum, there were perhaps 1,000 people. The facts are sturdy enough to speak for themselves: it's one thing to fall back on light-hearted colour in the reporting of royal visits (we've all done it); it's quite another to distort reality.

स्कैंडिनेविया में विलियम और कैथरीनः एक शाही दौरा और, हमेशा की तरह, शैली और सार और आवश्यकता के बीच परिणामी तनाव, सोशल मीडिया के इस युग में पहले से कहीं अधिक, सत्यापित तथ्य को पूर्ण रूप से टॉश से अलग करने के लिए।


Isle of Man whale sighting is 'once in a lifetime'

Summary: A close encounter with a minke whale near the south coast of the Isle of Man has been described by a marine expert as a "once in a lifetime" experience.

Eleanor Stone from the Manx Wildlife Trust recorded four separate sightings near the Calf of Man on Monday. Minke whales, which can weigh up to 10 tonnes, are sometimes spotted off the Manx coast in late summer. Ms Stone said: "We were amazed when the whale circled the boat, it really was a once in a lifetime experience". She added: "No-one on the boat had ever seen a minke whale so close before, they normally don't pay much attention to boats and so we were amazed when it swam right under us." The whale was spotted in a routine survey of the coastline by the Manx Whale and Dolphin Watch in association with the Manx Wildlife Trust. Minke whales prefer cooler regions to tropical areas and can also be found in the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic Oceans.

आइल ऑफ मैन के दक्षिणी तट के पास एक मिंक व्हेल के साथ एक करीबी मुठभेड़ को एक समुद्री विशेषज्ञ द्वारा "जीवन में एक बार" अनुभव के रूप में वर्णित किया गया है।


Man in 'unknown condition' after falling from height at building site

Summary: A man in his 30s has been taken to hospital after falling from a platform on a construction site.

States of Jersey Police were called to Ann Street in St Helier at about 13:30 GMT on Tuesday to reports of a man having fallen from height. The individual was treated by paramedics at the scene, and taken to Jersey's General Hospital for assessment. His condition is unknown. Police said no arrests have been made and an investigation was underway. Related Internet Links States of Jersey Police

30 वर्षीय एक व्यक्ति को एक निर्माण स्थल पर एक मंच से गिरने के बाद अस्पताल ले जाया गया है।


Tesco airlifts supplies to restock Shetland shelves

Summary: A retailer has airlifted supplies of food to Shetland because the usual ferries and freight boats have been disrupted by the weather.

There have been no sailings to or from the islands for two days due to strong winds and high seas. Operator Serco Northlink said it was unlikely anything would now move until Christmas Eve at the earliest. Tesco said islanders had stripped shelves bare of produce. The firm chartered the plane to help restock. The Hercules transporter flew from Norway to Edinburgh. It was packed with food overnight and it then flew to Shetland on Saturday afternoon. Department for Transport restrictions were lifted to allow the flight to take off from Edinburgh Airport at short notice, due to the nature of the situation on Shetland. A further Hercules delivery of supplies was due to take place on Saturday evening.

एक खुदरा विक्रेता ने शेटलैंड को भोजन की आपूर्ति हवाई मार्ग से की है क्योंकि मौसम के कारण सामान्य नौका और मालवाहक नौकाएं बाधित हुई हैं।


US Niger ambush: How raft of failures ended in death

Summary: The deaths of four special forces soldiers in a small corner of Niger known as Tongo Tongo was the largest loss of American military life in Africa since the "Black Hawk Down" killings in Somalia 25 years ago.

By Alastair LeitheadBBC News, Africa correspondent Now an investigation into their killing last October, has found "individual, organisational and institutional failures and deficiencies" contributed to their deaths. In America, the first response to the attack was to ask what US troops were doing in this lesser-known part of Africa, and if it was a supporting mission, why were they in danger? The issue was inflated when one of the widows claimed President Donald Trump's call of condolence was insensitive. And when various explanations of how they were killed didn't seem to add up, there were calls for an inquiry. The investigation by the US defence department runs to thousands of pages and involved interviews with 143 witnesses. But it may still fall short in the eyes of relatives, as much of the findings remain classified. Although identifying problems the eight-page executive summary found that "no single failure or deficiency was the sole reason" for what happened. It said the four soldiers, Sergeant First Class Jeremiah Johnson, Staff Sergeant Bryan Black, Staff Sergeant Dustin Wright and Sergeant LaDavid Johnson, "died with honour while actively engaging the enemy". There had been reports that one of the men had been captured, but the Department of Defense said all died almost immediately from their injuries. Militant manhunt Their mission had begun on 3 October 2017 when the US special operations forces team from Camp Ouallam joined Nigerien troops in the search for a senior member of the extremist group Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (IS-GS). But the American troops had not trained together before arriving in Niger, and, according to the defence department's investigation, they had not rehearsed for an operation which had not been approved at a senior level. Eventually information that IS-GS leader Doundoun Cheffou may have been located was passed up the chain of command, and an airborne raid with another team was planned. But bad weather scuppered the mission. Although unprepared, the soldiers known as "Team Ouallam" went ahead with the mission anyway. They launched an early morning raid but their target had gone. The convoy was heading back to base and stopped at the village of Tongo Tongo so Nigerien troops could get water. After delays meeting the elders they left just before noon and were ambushed a few hundred metres from the edge of the village. The jihadists responsible for the ambush released helmet camera footage from one of the dead soldiers and the New York Times pieced together what happened from the video. 'Significantly outnumbered' The defence department created an animation with its interpretation of events. The key finding was that the troops were "significantly outnumbered by a well-trained force". They didn't have armoured vehicles, and were attacked by dozens of militants with motorbikes and heavy weapons. Despite first fighting back and then attempting to retreat, four Americans and five Nigeriens were shot dead. Although it's just a basic graphic depicting cars as rectangles and troops as small circles, the animation shows a poignant moment. A circle representing Staff Sergeant Wright is shown moving away from the advancing militants. But then he stopped, turned around to help his injured colleague, and opened fire before both men were killed. "Individual members of the team performed numerous acts of bravery while under fire," the report said, "and their actions should be reviewed for appropriate recognition". Other troops were badly injured. The whole unit had taken up a "last stand" position when French fighter jets flew low overhead scattering the militants. French helicopters then rescued the survivors. "French and Nigerien partner forces saved American lives," the report states, while listing some of the recommendations and actions to be taken to prevent something like this happening again. Militarised desert There are around 800 American boots on the ground in Niger - and nearly twice that many deployed across the Sahel - the long southern edge of the Sahara Desert. Their commanders say much of the work is training and mentoring Nigerien troops to counter Boko Haram, al-Qaeda affiliated groups and IS-GS. But the investigation made it clear that soldiers were also "conducting operations". The rise of violent extremist groups in the Sahel is leading to a militarisation of the desert. French and American special forces are on a counter-terrorism mission while a 14,000 strong UN force in neighbouring Mali has become the most dangerous UN peacekeeping mission in the world. Human traffickers working the migrant routes to the Mediterranean are providing cover and funding for the terror groups who pay poor, unemployed young men to fight. A potent mix of historical ethnic tensions, population growth, climate change and absent government is allowing Islamists to recruit, radicalise and spread across the Sahara.

नाइजर के एक छोटे से कोने में चार विशेष बलों के सैनिकों की मौत, जिसे टोंगो टोंगो के नाम से जाना जाता है, 25 साल पहले सोमालिया में "ब्लैक हॉक डाउन" हत्याओं के बाद से अफ्रीका में अमेरिकी सैन्य जीवन का सबसे बड़ा नुकसान था।


Lorry driver dies in multi-vehicle Bracknell crash

Summary: A lorry driver has died in a multi-vehicle crash.

The collision, involving a heavy goods vehicle (HGV), four cars and a lorry tractor unit, happened in Crowthorne Road, Bracknell, Berkshire at about 08:00 BST on Monday. A 56-year-old man, from Thatcham, died at the scene. No-one else was seriously hurt. Thames Valley Police has appealed for witnesses and dashcam footage of the crash. Related Internet Links Thames Valley Police

एक बहु-वाहन दुर्घटना में एक लॉरी चालक की मौत हो गई है।


Landslip cancels trains between Liverpool and Manchester

Summary: Cancellations and delays are affecting train services between Manchester and Liverpool after a line was closed due to a landslip.

Part of an embankment appears to have been washed away underneath the tracks at Glazebrook, near Warrington, after wet weather, Network Rail said. Some trains have been diverted to an alternative line linking the two cities, via Newton-le-Willows. Northern Rail and Transpennine Express trains are affected. A Network Rail spokesman said: "Engineers are on site to investigate the problem, find out what caused it and put it right so we can get trains running again as soon as possible."

भूस्खलन के कारण एक लाइन बंद होने के बाद मैनचेस्टर और लिवरपूल के बीच ट्रेन सेवाओं को रद्द और देरी से प्रभावित किया जा रहा है।


Care: The problem no-one can fix

Summary: Gathering dust on a shelf in the Department of Health's London headquarters is a plan for reform of the care system for the over-65s in England. It is the much heralded cap on care costs, which was a key part of the 2015 Tory manifesto .

Nick TriggleHealth correspondent@nicktriggleon Twitter It was meant to have launched in April. But last summer ministers announced it was to be postponed until 2020 amid concerns it would not work given the pressures in the system. Officially it still remains policy, but many doubt it will ever see the light of day - even former Care Minister Norman Lamb, one of the architects of the plan, is in this camp. Instead, they believe it is destined to go down on the long list of failed changes to the system. Find out the cost of care in your area Home care What is home care? You stay in your own home while getting help with everyday tasks such as washing, dressing and eating. How your council helps with care EXPLAINER TITLE average amount of care provided per week, by your council average paid per hour by your council, 2014-15 average paid per hour in your region if you pay for your own care, 2016 Residential care What is residential care? You live in a care home that provides round-the-clock support with everyday tasks. How your council helps with care Average contribution per week Paying for yourself TBC pay for their own care Nursing home care What is nursing home care? You live in a care home which provides round-the-clock support for everyday tasks and nursing care. Depending on your medical needs, the NHS may contribute to your costs. How your council helps with care Average contribution per week Paying for yourself TBC pay for their own care Who gets help? How is your contribution decided? Your home Savings, investments and income are assessed, along with the value of your home - unless you or a close relative live there. Will I have anything left? Want to know more? Around the UK The future of care Useful links The care system has remained more or less unchanged since it was created, along with the NHS, after World War Two, when life expectancy was nearly 10 years shorter than it is now. But people are not only living longer, they are surviving with more complex conditions that require care and support. So just at the time when you would expect the amount of support provided by the government to be rising, it is falling. Councils complain they do not have enough money - the Local Government Association estimates the gap between what they need and what they get will be about £4bn by the end of the decade. That would leave them about a third short of what they need So what can be done? Over the years a variety of suggestions have been put forward. Increases in tax or national insurance contributions could be used to put more money in - and in a way this has already been done, as councils have been given the power to raise council tax to fund care. But already it looks like that will not be enough. Other options include diverting existing spending on pensioner benefits (the winter fuel allowance for example) to go on care. But ministers seem reluctant to tackle that. In the dying days of the Labour government, a plan was drawn up to create a universal care system - giving everyone a minimum entitlement to care. But the Tories leapt on that, suggesting it would be paid for by a "death tax". And it was soon consigned to the bin. There has also been talk of merging the system with the NHS - the budget for which is 10 times more than what councils spend on care. But following Andrew Lansley's changes to the health service, there is little appetite in the corridors of power for more structural upheaval. Instead, the NHS is being encouraged to, in the words of one social care director I spoke to, tinker around the edges by setting up shared budgets under a scheme called the Better Care Fund, currently worth £5bn a year. The result is that councils are left to limp on. Each year, they cut the amount of care they can provide. It leaves people to pay for themselves, rely on family and friends or, increasingly, go without care. Elsewhere in the UK, the devolved governments have tried to offer more generous access to help in the home - it is capped in Wales and provided largely free in Scotland and Northern Ireland. The hope is that it will keep people well - and their costs down. But people still complain they are struggling to get the help they really need. It means those with money are increasingly having to subsidise the government-funded system - people who pay for their own places in care homes pay nearly 50% more on average than the fees councils pay homes. Meanwhile, those without have to rely on family and friends or simply go without. As always, there will be calls for reform. The problem is no-one seems to have a plan. Read more from Nick Follow Nick on Twitter

स्वास्थ्य विभाग के लंदन मुख्यालय में एक ताक पर धूल इकट्ठा करना इंग्लैंड में 65 वर्ष से अधिक उम्र के लोगों के लिए देखभाल प्रणाली में सुधार की एक योजना है। यह देखभाल लागत पर बहुत अधिक घोषित सीमा है, जो 2015 के टोरी घोषणापत्र का एक प्रमुख हिस्सा था।


Surrey potholes 'being repaired every 10 minutes'

Summary: Potholes across Surrey have been repaired at a rate of about one every 10 minutes since the new year, the county council has revealed.

It said highway crews had dealt with 3,500 potholes following damage caused by severe winter weather. Surrey County Council said crews were sent out as soon as the weather abated to inspect roads and identify which areas were most in need of repair. Twenty-six highway crews were out filling potholes each day, it added. Councillor Ian Lake said: "We can't repair all the potholes immediately but we are working as hard as we can to make sure we fix them as quickly as possible." He urged residents to report any potholes they came across to help speed up the repair process.

काउंटी परिषद ने खुलासा किया है कि नए साल से सरे में गड्ढों की मरम्मत हर 10 मिनट में लगभग एक की दर से की गई है।


Oxfordshire's Big Picture

Summary: Each week we feature pictures shared with us from across Oxfordshire.

Find out how you can join in and submit your images below. If you have a great image of the county send it to us by email to oxfordshire@bbc.co.uk

हर हफ्ते हम ऑक्सफोर्डशायर से हमारे साथ साझा की गई तस्वीरों को प्रदर्शित करते हैं।


Canada leaders' debate may spice up campaign

Summary: The leaders of Canada's four main political parties will take part in the first of two televised debates on Tuesday evening, with opposition leaders likely to focus on new allegations of spending mismanagement aimed at the incumbent Conservatives.

By Lee CarterBBC News, Toronto The issue has injected a spark of interest into a campaign many observers say has been lacklustre, as Canadian voters prepare to head wearily to the polls on 2 May for the fourth time in seven years. The election was triggered by a non-confidence vote in Canada's parliament, which came after Prime Minister Stephen Harper's minority government was criticised for failing to provide details about several controversial areas of spending, including the budget for new fighter jets. Spending questions seemed to dog Mr Harper's Conservatives again this week. A leaked auditor general's draft report on last summer's G8/G20 summit in Canada alleged the government spent millions of dollars on dubious projects and that parliament was "misled" about the spending. The Conservatives have dismissed the allegations, insisting that the final report will be less damning, and Auditor General Sheila Fraser has said she will not release the final report until after the new parliament is seated. Nevertheless, the controversy has put Mr Harper's campaign on the defensive heading into the debate. The leader of the main opposition Liberal Party, Michael Ignatieff, will almost certainly seize on the allegations to cast the Harper government as untrustworthy. Questions of honesty But Mr Ignatieff also has a lot to prove in the debates, as the only one of the four leaders fighting an election for the first time. And Conservative advertisements attacking the patriotism of the Liberal leader, who spent much of his career away from Canada, appear to have had some success. Despite an energetic campaign, the author and former political commentator has made little headway in opinion polls, with his party trailing the Conservatives by 8.5 points in a Nanos Research poll released on Tuesday. Allan Bonner, a Toronto-based political consultant, said Mr Ignatieff had to seize the opportunity in the debates to demonstrate that he has leadership qualities and to use the auditor general's report as a "springboard" to raise questions in voters' minds about the Conservatives' honesty and spending. "He needs to show a broader performance, a deeper knowledge of the issues, maybe deliver some soaring rhetoric," Mr Bonner said. Buoyed by what Mr Bonner calls "the power of incumbency", the technocratic Mr Harper has run a cautious, tightly controlled campaign, promising to give a boost to retirement savings accounts and to eliminate the country's budget deficit by 2014. "He's selling himself as a good and diligent but rather dour manager," Mr Bonner said. "We have seen the range of emotions from Stephen Harper running all the way through from L to M in the alphabet and that's probably what we're going to see in the debate." Jockeying for position New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jack Layton and Gilles Duceppe, who heads the Quebec nationalist party Bloc Quebecois, will also be jockeying for position at the debates. Controversially, the Green Party, led by popular leader Elizabeth May, has been excluded from the forum. Mr Layton, who has recently recovered from a hip operation and a brush with cancer, has conducted a feisty and passionate campaign, promising among other things to secure long-term funding for the country's public healthcare system by increasing corporate taxes. But the latest polling by Nanos Research shows NDP support falling to 16.8% from a high of 19.9% on 15 March. National Post political columnist John Ivison said the Liberals were trying to take advantage of the crowded and divided opposition to attract leftist New Democrat voters. "Their platform is becoming virtually identical to the NDP's," he said. "There's a lot of promises of money for childcare, family care and post-secondary education - all the things NDP voters care about." Toronto swing Mr Ivison also said Canada's largest metropolitan area was a key battleground in the Conservatives' much-vaunted quest to form a majority, after heading a minority government since 2006. Toronto is the country's commercial and financial capital, with a diverse population of more than 5.1 million in the metropolitan area. The city has long been a stronghold for the federal Liberals, who traditionally have been supported by immigrant and ethnic groups. But with the election of a populist right-leaning mayor and shifting voter allegiances, Mr Ivison says the Liberals can no longer take ethnic and immigrant voters for granted. In particular, backing for the Conservatives' supportive Israel policy by the large Jewish communities in York Centre and Eglinton-Lawrence on the northern edge of Toronto could swing the vote, Mr Ivison says. Hockey schedule In addition, Canada's large Chinese community in Toronto and in Vancouver in the west is similarly impressed by Mr Harper's pro-business stance and his government's 2006 apology for a discriminatory head tax imposed on Chinese immigrants to Canada between 1885 and 1923, Mr Ivison says. But for all the political parties, voter apathy will be a major problem unless an event like the leaders' debate can breathe life into a listless campaign. Rex Murphy, one of Canada's best known TV and radio political commentators, said the election had been fought over trivial matters rather than substantive issues - the format of the debate and Mr Ignatieff's political style, for example, rather than the global economy, Japan, Libya and energy policy. And as if to illustrate the lack of voter interest, the French-language debate was rescheduled to Wednesday from Thursday to avoid conflicting with the start of the National Hockey League play-offs, a game between the Montreal Canadiens and the Boston Bruins. "All the things of substance and count are evacuated from this campaign," Mr Murphy said. "It's a battle of shadows."

कनाडा के चार मुख्य राजनीतिक दलों के नेता मंगलवार शाम को दो टेलीविजन बहसों में से पहली में भाग लेंगे, जिसमें विपक्षी नेताओं के मौजूदा रूढ़िवादियों के उद्देश्य से खर्च के कुप्रबंधन के नए आरोपों पर ध्यान केंद्रित करने की संभावना है।


Bloodhound Diary: 'Great' British engineering

Summary: A British team is developing a car that will be capable of reaching 1,000mph (1,610km/h). Powered by a rocket bolted to a Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine, the vehicle will mount an assault on the world land speed record. Bloodhound will be run on Hakskeen Pan in Northern Cape, South Africa, in 2015 and 2016. Wing Commander Andy Green, world land-speed record holder, is writing a diary for the BBC News website about his experiences working on the Bloodhound project and the team's efforts to inspire national interest in science and engineering.

By Andy GreenWorld Land Speed Record Holder Global interest in Project Bloodhound continues to grow. I've spent a fair bit of the last month overseas, promoting the world's first 1,000mph car, together with Bloodhound's science and technology education programme. Of course, that involves promoting the world class engineering behind this British race car, too. I spent five chaotic days in Brazil, in support of the "GREAT Britain" Campaign. Presentations and press events covered Bloodhound SSC, the UK technology behind it, and our aim to inspire the next generation with the magic of science. I also visited a number of schools and colleges to talk about The Project and our Education Programme. Brazil is keen to reproduce this, as they need engineers just as much as we do. With some 5,500 schools and colleges signed up in the UK, it's already working well over here. If your school isn't taking part already, then sign up to Bloodhound Education here. It's free and it makes science lessons fun - what's not to like? The highlight in Brazil was the Formula 1 Grand Prix weekend, with the GREAT Britain Campaign well-represented. First up was a symposium on F1 in Road Safety. How does that relate to Bloodhound? More easily than you'd think. At some level, all of the presenters, from F1 to DHL to Bloodhound, have the same basic aim: we're all about "speed and safety". I was amazed at just how popular Bloodhound is in Brazil, not only with the schools and technical colleges, but also with the Brazilian TV and press, the F1 circus and even the drivers. Emerson Fittipaldi, who was also speaking at the Road Safety event, wanted an autograph for his kids! Bloodhound really has become a global Engineering Adventure. At the track, I was lucky enough to get a lap in a Porsche 911, and sneaked in a quick bit of "ambush marketing" for the GREAT Campaign. As part of the Campaign, the British Consulate invited a number of visitors to see UK engineering expertise at work, which is exactly what F1 really is. Of the 11 teams racing in the series, no less than eight of them are based in the UK, because, quite simply, we've got the world's best racing engineers. Even a great German technology brand like Mercedes makes its F1 race cars, and its F1 engines, in the UK. Combine that with one of the world's best aerospace industries and you finish up with the world's best Land Speed Record vehicles as well. Bloodhound SSC is just the latest in a long line of world-beaters. I recently had a chance to help promote the UK's aerospace expertise when I was invited to the Dubai Air Show, by Eurofighter and Eurojet. Dubai is an important air show for them, and they wanted something exciting as the focus of their air show reception, so naturally they asked Bloodhound. We're using perhaps the world's best military jet engine, the Eurojet EJ200, so it gave me the perfect chance to thank them in public, in front of an international audience. The choice of engine is not just about how much power it produces. Size and weight are also important, and we also need to think about the amount of fuel it will use (not much for the EJ200 - more of which later). The other big thing for me (given that I'm going to strap myself to it) is its safety record. Bloodhound SSC is aiming for over 1,000mph, which is faster than any jet fighter has ever been at ground level, so we're taking the engine outside its design envelope. A big concern for us is "engine surge", which is a breakdown in the airflow through the engine. This can cause the airflow through the engine to reverse, with the high-pressure gas in the centre of the engine being violently forced out through the engine intake. In simple terms, the engine sneezes. The huge extra pressure of an engine surge can damage the engine intake. Bloodhound's intake is being stressed to survive a surge, but multiple surges could do a lot of harm. If the intake fails, the pressure of the surge will probably explode the car's bodywork as well. That's when it becomes a real problem, as we have no idea what would happen after that. The simple solution is to pick an engine that never surges, whatever you do to it - and that's the EJ200. Back in 2011, while I was deployed with the RAF to support the air campaign over Libya, I saw the RAF's Typhoons fly over 3,000 combat hours, without a single engine problem. That's simply astonishing. I'm very happy that I'll be strapping myself to a jet engine with that kind of reputation. Even when the jet is working normally, Bloodhound's engine intake has to work hard. At 1,000mph, the pressure in the jet intake is around 1.7 Bar (25 psi). The pressure tries to force the two halves of the intake apart with a load of some 29 tonnes. It's also feeding the engine with 75kg of air each second (about 65 cu m/sec). If you want to picture 65 cu m, then compare it with the volume of the average UK house, which is about 200 cubic metres. Bloodhound's jet engine would suck all the air out of the house in three seconds. The intake components are manufactured with a small amount of extra carbon fibre material, so that they are slightly over-sized. This is the only way to guarantee a perfect fit: make them slightly too big and then trim them. The challenge with the intake is trimming the "B" surface (the inside of the intake "tube" is moulded, while the "B" surface is the rough surface on the outside of the tube, hidden inside the bodywork). This "B" surface has to plug into the moulded inner section of the monocoque, above and behind the cockpit. The only way to check the fit is to climb and do it from the inside. We haven't seen much of our expert fabricator, Tufty, recently as he's spent a lot of hours in this small dark space, trimming the world's fastest jet engine intake. URT continues to produce top-class carbon bits for the car, with the mould for the jet engine's fuel tank now completed. It's an odd shape, designed to make full use of the available space underneath the front of the engine. Despite Bloodhound being 13m long, we are using just about every millimetre inside it. The main jet fuel tank holds around 400 litres, which doesn't look much. However, it's enough for a five-minute engine warm-up, a full-power run to supersonic speeds, and then 2-3 minutes cooling down before shut-off. We'll also have two auxiliary tanks further back in the car, just in case, as the performance figures could be a few percent out. After all, no-one has ever done this before and the engine has never been this fast at ground level. The front suspension sub-assembly is well under way at Boeing AMRC in Sheffield. I love the fact that they are using one of the fastest aluminium cutting machines on the planet (spindle speeds of 30,000rpm) to make major parts for the fastest car in the world. We've also had more components arriving for the rear suspension. Bloodhound SSC needs over 3,500 bespoke parts and a steady supply of these from the 250+ companies supporting the project means we can crack on with the assembly. As Chief Mechanic, Chris Dee recently said of our summer 2015 target date to run in South Africa: "Keep the parts coming and we'll beat that!". Go to it guys; the world's waiting to see the finished result. All of the car's 2D titanium skins have now been completed, for the sides of the rear upper chassis. "2D" means they are only curved in one direction, like the surface of a cylinder. The much more difficult bit is right at the back on the Car, where the curves are "3D", like the surface of a large ball. These panels are still made by hand and, for the 3D shapes, are hand-formed to fit a "buck". The buck is made from a series of aluminium sheets, which can be assembled either right or left-handed, so we can use the same buck for both sides. This will - hopefully - make it easier to produce symmetrical panels for both sides. The Hexagon metrology laser will reveal all when we assemble the panels over the next few of months. Meanwhile, this is the last time we will ever see the car's "skeleton" fully assembled. The next time we put it all back together, it will have the skin panels glued and riveted in position, and we'll be getting ready to run it for the first time. Can't wait. The rainy season in the Northern Cape of South Africa has started now, with plenty of rainfall in recent days. This is good news, as every wet season helps to smooth the repair work and track preparations on Hakskeen Pan, in advance of our first runs in 2015. The Northern Cape team probably has around two months of tidying up work left to do next year, moving the piles of stones already cleared from our track and filling the last of the holes left behind. The fastest track on Earth is nearly ready for us. 2013 has been a really good year for Bloodhound. The car is rapidly coming together, and each time I see it there are new parts fitted and more work completed. We've also just signed a couple of major new deals, so 2014 is going to be just as exciting, as we announce some new partnerships and reveal some more technical developments. One, you just heard about - our decision to use a Nammo hybrid rocket system in the car. I'll write more about that next month. I hope you are all looking forward to the New Year as much as we are. In the meantime, have a supersonic Christmas!

एक ब्रिटिश टीम एक ऐसी कार विकसित कर रही है जो 1,000 मील प्रति घंटे (1,610 किमी/घंटा) तक पहुंचने में सक्षम होगी। एक यूरोफाइटर-टाइफून जेट इंजन को बोल्ट किए गए रॉकेट द्वारा संचालित, वाहन विश्व भूमि गति रिकॉर्ड पर हमला करेगा। ब्लडहाउंड 2015 और 2016 में उत्तरी केप, दक्षिण अफ्रीका में हक्सकीन पैन पर चलाया जाएगा। विंग कमांडर एंडी ग्रीन, विश्व भूमि-गति रिकॉर्ड धारक, ब्लडहाउंड परियोजना पर काम करने के अपने अनुभवों और विज्ञान और इंजीनियरिंग में राष्ट्रीय रुचि को प्रेरित करने के लिए टीम के प्रयासों के बारे में बीबीसी न्यूज वेबसाइट के लिए एक डायरी लिख रहे हैं।


Coronavirus: How exposed is your job?

Summary: Millions of workers are doing their day jobs from makeshift set-ups in their living rooms and kitchens, while those in England who can't work from home are now encouraged to go back in if they can do so safely.

But how exposed to coronavirus might you be in your job? And how does that compare to others? Data from the UK's Office for National Statistics, based on a US survey, puts into context the risk of exposure to disease, as well as the amount of close human contact workers had before social distancing and other safety measures were introduced. See how your job ranks by using the search below. A modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. How exposed is your job? Enter your job below Can't find your job? Browse full list Rather search by typing? Back to job search Exposure to disease Closeness to other people While most jobs require people to work relatively closely to others - somewhere in the range between arm's length and a shared office environment - there are very few that typically involve exposure to disease more than once a year. It's important to note that the data on both exposure to disease at work and how close people are to others is based on interviews that took place with US workers before the pandemic broke out and social distancing recommendations were introduced. Some jobs may find it easier to adjust than others and there may be slightly different working practices and conditions in the US for certain occupations. The results can be expected to be broadly the same in most developed countries. Almost all the jobs that have a high exposure to both disease and other people are healthcare professions, while those who scored low on both measures include artists, lawyers and those in more typical office jobs like marketing, HR and financial advisers. Cleaners, prison officers and undertakers are among those who have relatively high exposure to disease without so much close interaction with other people. But the people who might be most at risk to a new infectious disease like Covid-19, are those who have lots of close contact with people, but aren't used to being exposed to disease. Bar staff, hairdressers and actors fall into this category, as well as taxi drivers and bricklayers. What do I need to know about the coronavirus? Other figures released by the ONS this week showed that deaths in the healthcare sector in the UK are no higher on average than those in the wider community, although social care workers were dying at higher rates. Given that these healthcare occupations are so exposed to both disease and other people, why have there not been more deaths? This could be because workers in these jobs are more likely to be using personal protective equipment (PPE) like masks and gloves, says Ben Humberstone, deputy director for health analysis at the ONS. They also follow regular hygiene measures like washing hands. One of the jobs which had many more coronavirus deaths than the average was taxi drivers. That's a job which scores highly in terms of closeness to other people, particularly among those jobs which are still actually possible to do at the moment. Bar staff, hairdressers and fitness instructors all score higher, but with bars, gyms and hair salons shut, most of these people will be isolating. As taxi drivers are less exposed to disease in normal times, there may not be an existing culture of regular hand-washing and wearing PPE. Some firms are trialling partition screens and distributing gloves and masks to protect their drivers and customers. Methodology The data in the look-up comes from this release by the ONS. The figures on proximity to others and exposure to disease come from a survey carried out by the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) in which they asked respondents in the US to place themselves on a 1-5 scale for the following two questions. 1. How physically close to other people are you when you perform your current job? 2. How often does your current job require you to be exposed to diseases or infection? For exposure to disease, a score of one means they are never exposed, while a score of five means they are exposed daily. It's referring to any disease, not coronavirus specifically. For the physical closeness question, one means the respondent works more than 100ft away from the nearest other person, while five means they need to touch or be near to touching other people at work. The survey was carried out before social distancing measures were introduced and workers in certain jobs will of course find it easier to adjust than others. The responses for people in the same jobs were averaged together and extrapolated to form a score of 100. We've looked at these scores out of of 100 and given each job a ranking. If any two jobs had the same score we've given them a tied ranking. By Daniel Dunford, Sean Willmott, Marcos Gurgel and Katie Hassell.

लाखों कर्मचारी अपने रहने वाले कमरों और रसोई में अस्थायी व्यवस्था से अपने दिन का काम कर रहे हैं, जबकि इंग्लैंड में जो लोग घर से काम नहीं कर सकते हैं, उन्हें अब वापस जाने के लिए प्रोत्साहित किया जाता है यदि वे सुरक्षित रूप से ऐसा कर सकते हैं।


'Rape culture' investigation shocks Virginia university

Summary: The allegations made in the latest issue of Rolling Stone are shocking. An 18-year-old University of Virginia freshman attends a party at one of the school's oldest fraternities in the fall of 2012. "Jackie", as she is called in the article, is invited upstairs by her date, where she says she is gang raped by seven fraternity brothers.

By Anthony ZurcherEditor, Echo Chambers Jackie didn't go to a hospital after the alleged incident, as her friends decided it would adversely affect her- and their - reputations at the school. In 2013, the story continues, Jackie reported her rape to the head of the school's misconduct board, Nicole Eramo. Jackie was presented with the choice of going to the police, beginning a formal complaint or having a mediated session where she could confront her alleged attackers. "Setting aside for a moment the absurdity of a school offering to handle the investigation and adjudication of a felony sex crime - something Title IX requires, but which no university on Earth is equipped to do - the sheer menu of choices, paired with the reassurance that any choice is the right one, often has the end result of coddling the victim into doing nothing," the article's author, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, writes. Jackie decided she couldn't go forward. "She badly wants to muster the courage to file criminal charges or even a civil case," Erdley says. "But she's paralysed." The Rolling Stone story expands beyond the one allegation and its subsequent fallout and looks at how the university has handled suspected rape cases over the past decades - including multiple allegations of gang rapes at the fraternity in question, Phi Kappa Psi. Last year, the school discloses, there were 38 reports of sexual assault. Nine became formal complaints, and four resulted in misconduct board hearings. "The other 29 students evaporated," Erdely writes. She adds that 14 students have been found guilty of "sexual misconduct" in the school's history, but none has been expelled. According to Erdely, the most recent student, found to have been responsible for multiple assaults, was suspended for one year. When Erdely asked university president Teresa Sullivan why the university keeps its rape disciplinary proceedings private, she said it would discourage women from coming forward. Jackie tells Rolling Stone she was told by the dean that it's "because nobody wants to send their daughter to the rape school". "At UVA, rapes are kept quiet, both by students - who brush off sexual assaults as regrettable but inevitable casualties of their cherished party culture - and by an administration that critics say is less concerned with protecting students than it is with protecting its own reputation from scandal," Erdely writes. The University of Virginia is one of 86 schools currently under investigation by the Obama administration's Department of Education for their handling of sexual-assault-related complaints. It's also one of 12 schools undergoing a more thorough "compliance review" of its policies for dealing with sexual assault on campus. Fallout from the Rolling Stone article has been swift. Initially, the school placed Phi Kappa Psi "under investigation". The federal judge originally named to head the inquest was later withdrawn after word spread that he was a member of the fraternity in question. As outrage mounted, the fraternity voluntarily suspended itself during the proceedings. In a letter to the Virginia student paper, the fraternity said it had "no specific knowledge" of the magazine's claims, but it would co-operate with authorities. "Make no mistake, the acts depicted in the article are beyond unacceptable - they are vile and intolerable in our brotherhood, our university community and our society," the letter states. On Saturday Sullivan announced that she was suspending all fraternity and sorority activities - involving about 3,500 students - until 9 January and calling on the Charlottesville, Virginia, police to investigate Jackie's allegations. "The wrongs described in Rolling Stone are appalling and have caused all of us to re-examine our responsibility to this community," Ms Sullivan writes in a letter to students. "Rape is an abhorrent crime that has no place in the world, let alone on the campuses and grounds of our nation's colleges and universities." Hundreds marched in protest on Thursday. On Friday morning, the Z Society - one of the university's six secret societies - left a letter and flowers for students at the university's amphitheatre, where students would later gather. "We share in our anger and in our concern, but - what's more - we share in the belief that our community can and must evolve," the letter says. Over the weekend, the Phi Kappa Psi house was vandalised, with windows broken and "UVa Center for Rape Studies" and "Suspend Us" written on the building's wall. An anonymous letter from individuals claiming responsibility for the attack said the incidents will escalate until the university takes more decisive action - including mandatory expulsion for students found guilty of sexual assault and Eramo's resignation. "Rape is not a political issue to be negotiated and discussed with an eye towards gradual improvement," they write. "It is a criminal act of violence that cannot be tolerated." Rolling Stone published a follow-up article on Friday containing excerpts from reader letters to the magazine, including many women who agreed with the assessment that the school fosters a "culture of sexual assault, along with a disdain for those who attempt to report it". The articles - and the ensuing controversy - has led many to once again question the way US universities deal with sexual assault, and the role the Greek system of fraternities and sororities play on campus and college culture in general. "The Rolling Stone story reveals a campus culture in which fraternity houses are widely known as places where girls, especially freshman girls (who are too young to get into bars) are invited inside, gotten drunk, and bedded," writes Rod Dreher for the American Conservative. He compares the university's reaction to that of the Catholic Church after allegations of sexual molestation by priests first began to surface. "The deeper you read into the story, the more clear it is that the University of Virginia's administration has been absolutely and disgustingly derelict for decades, protecting the reputation of the institution at all costs," he writes. He concludes that he would never want his children, male or female, from getting involved in the Greek system: "I do not want my kids, as college students, to be subject to rape, to participate in rape, or to be in a position in which they are pressured to prove their loyalty to their fraternity, their friends, and their university by staying silent about rape." The university isn't the only one at blame, write the editors of the Roanoke, Virginia, News Leader. "The seven fraternity brothers who allegedly perpetrated the 2012 rape were almost certainly raised in educated families of economic means," they write. "Their sense of entitlement was likely high. Did any parent or teacher ever spell out to them the immorality and unacceptability of rape?" The editors of the Roanoke, Virginia, Times call for Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe to order a state police investigation, rather than relying on a local investigation. "Cynics could just say the local police have an interest in preserving the reputation of the city's biggest economic driver," they write. "But people would be more inclined to believe state police. Err on the side of trust." Ms Sullivan's initial reaction to the Rolling Stone article was not nearly strong enough, write the editors of the Charlottesville, VA, Daily Progress. "For 48 hours, when the community first needed heartfelt reassurance from the university, that engagement was lacking," they write. "In fact, the word that comes to mind throughout this nightmare is 'disconnect.'" Virginia student Dani Bernstein, writing in the university's student newspaper, says that while Erdely's article exposes the school's deference to fraternities, it paints all Virginia students too broadly. "We cannot deny there is some pervasive culture here that allows abuses to occur," she writes. "But we have undeniably excellent student groups aimed at addressing this very issue." The University of Virginia, founded by President Thomas Jefferson, is often called a "public Ivy" - one of the most prestigious schools in the nation, with a tuition price that's considered a bargain compared to similarly respected private institutions. Now, however, Virginia's reputation - always on the minds of the college's administrators, according to Rolling Stone's report - may be permanently stained. "This UVa campus rape story is just sickening & should make people question going there," tweets Yahoo News editor Garance Franke-Ruta.

रोलिंग स्टोन के नवीनतम अंक में लगाए गए आरोप चौंकाने वाले हैं। वर्जीनिया विश्वविद्यालय की एक 18 वर्षीय नई छात्रा 2012 के अंत में स्कूल की सबसे पुरानी बिरादरी में से एक में एक पार्टी में भाग लेती है। "जैकी", जैसा कि उसे लेख में कहा गया है, को उसकी तारीख तक ऊपर आमंत्रित किया जाता है, जहां वह कहती है कि सात बिरादरी भाइयों द्वारा उसका सामूहिक बलात्कार किया जाता है।


Man arrested after suspicious item find in Devizes

Summary: A man has been arrested over an incident which led to homes being evacuated and the Army bomb squad being called.

Wiltshire Police said a suspicious item was found at an address in Anzio Road, Devizes, on Wednesday afternoon. A local man in his 20s was arrested on suspicion of possessing an explosive substance. A cordon that was in place was lifted late on Wednesday evening and people were allowed back into their homes.

एक व्यक्ति को एक घटना के लिए गिरफ्तार किया गया है जिसके कारण घरों को खाली कराया गया और सेना के बम दस्ते को बुलाया गया।


Guernsey's west and east coasts hit by flooding

Summary: High tides and gale-force winds have caused flooding along Guernsey's west coast.

Police have closed parts of the coastal roads at Cobo, Perelle and Rocquaine and drivers have been warned to avoid the areas. Bus services along the west coast have been cancelled because of the conditions. Flooding has also been reported along parts of the east coast, but there are no reports of any major incidents.

उच्च ज्वार-भाटा और तूफानी हवाओं के कारण ग्वेर्नसे के पश्चिमी तट पर बाढ़ आ गई है।


Made in Leeds TV channel launches on Freeview and cable

Summary: Leeds's local TV channel has been launched on Freeview and cable on Thursday.

Made in Leeds is being screened on Freeview and on a local cable network. The channel launched at 20:00 BST and follows the introduction of Sheffield Live in September. Ofcom initially received 57 bids to run channels in the UK and a total of 19 licences were awarded. The first station began broadcasting in Grimsby last November.

लीड्स का स्थानीय टीवी चैनल गुरुवार को फ्रीव्यू और केबल पर शुरू किया गया है।