Chagos Islands dispute: UK accused of 'crimes against humanity' by Mauritius

Summary: The UK has been accused of committing "crimes against humanity" for refusing to allow people to return to their former homes on the Chagos Islands, despite a ruling earlier this year by the United Nation's highest court.

By Andrew HardingBBC News, Mauritius Describing Britain's behaviour as stubborn and shameful, the prime minister of Mauritius, Pravind Jugnauth, told the BBC that he was exploring the possibility of bringing charges of crimes against humanity against individual British officials at the International Criminal Court (ICC). "It is a violation of the basic principle of human rights. I fail to understand why Britain, this government, is being so stubborn," said Mr Jugnauth. Elderly Chagossians, living in Mauritius, have echoed that criticism and accused Britain of deliberately dragging its heels on the issue in the hope that the community will simply die out. Earlier this year, Mauritius won a major victory against Britain when the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague ruled - in an advisory opinion - that the Chagos Islands should be handed over to Mauritius in order to complete its "decolonisation." The United Nations General Assembly then voted to give Britain a six-month deadline to begin that process. Britain has steadfastly refused to comply. It is half a century since Britain took control of the Chagos Islands from its then colony, Mauritius, and evicted the entire population of more than 1,000 people in order to make way for an American military base - part of a secret deal negotiated behind Mauritius's back as it was seeking to secure independence from the UK. "Britain has been professing, for years, respect for the rule of law, respect for international law… but it is a pity the UK does not act fairly and reasonably and in accordance with international law on the issue of the Chagos archipelago," said Mr Jugnauth. Philippe Sands, a lawyer representing the Mauritian government, said: "Britain is on the edge of finding itself as a pariah state. "We now have a situation where Chagossians - a deported population, want to go back and have a right to go back. And the UK is preventing them from going back. "Question - is that a crime against humanity? My response is that, arguably, it is." Britain continues to insist that the ICJ ruling is wrong. But it has apologised for its past treatment of the Chagossians and promised to hand the islands over to Mauritius when they are no longer needed for security purposes. In a statement, Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) told the BBC: "The defence facilities on the British Indian Ocean Territory help protect people in Britain and around the world from terrorist threats and piracy. "We stand by our commitment to cede sovereignty of the territory to Mauritius when it's no longer required for defence purposes." The FCO said Britain had pledged more than £40m to improve the livelihoods of Chagossians living in Mauritius, the Seychelles and the UK. The UK has also begun to take small groups of Chagossians back to the archipelago for brief "heritage" visits. But in Mauritius, those tours have been condemned as a crude attempt to "divide and rule" the Chagos community. "I boycott those trips. The British are trying to buy our silence. That's why we say our dignity is not for sale," said Olivier Bancoult, who heads the Chagos Refugees Group. In a graveyard in the Mauritian capital, Port Louis, the graves of several Chagossians are marked with headstones mourning their failure to return to the islands. "I fear my wish will not come true before I die - to see my motherland again," reads the script beside the grave of Mr Bancoult's mother, Marie Rita Elysee Bancoult. "Every day, one by one, we're dying. I believe the British are waiting for us to die so there will be no one to claim the islands," said Liseby Elyse, 66, who was 20 when she left the archipelago. "We're like birds flying over the ocean, and we have nowhere to land. We must keep flying until we die," said 81-year-old Samynaden Rosemond.

संयुक्त राष्ट्र की सर्वोच्च अदालत द्वारा इस साल की शुरुआत में एक फैसले के बावजूद, ब्रिटेन पर लोगों को चागोस द्वीप समूह पर अपने पूर्व घरों में लौटने की अनुमति देने से इनकार करने के लिए "मानवता के खिलाफ अपराध" करने का आरोप लगाया गया है।


Seven of the most memorable maiden speeches this Parliament

Summary: The first time an MP speaks in the House of Commons is a big moment for a new politician. Traditionally maiden speeches are short and uncontroversial with some warm words about the new MP's predecessor and a favourite cause - but two of this year's new intake broke that convention in pretty spectacular fashion.

By Rajdeep SandhuPolitical reporter All of the 2015 intake have now delivered their speeches, except Sinn Fein's Mickey Brady who is not expected to as his party's members do not take their seats in the Commons. This year the House has heard 176 maiden speeches - here are seven of the most memorable. Mhairi Black, SNP, MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South As the youngest member of Parliament Mhairi Black delivered a speech that went viral. It was watched millions of times online. She joked about being the only 20-year-old the Chancellor was willing to help with housing, then went on to tell the Labour Party they had left her and her family behind. Heidi Allen, Conservative, MP for South Cambridgeshire Heidi Allen told the house she tried "bloody hard" to avoid making a maiden speech. But she chose her moment carefully, breaking from tradition and criticising her own party over cuts to tax credits. She praised the hardworking British spirit, and said that some of her constituents had "no cloth left to cut". It earned praise from Labour MPs and some Conservatives and marked her out as an MP to watch. Johnny Mercer, Conservative, MP for Plymouth Moor View Ex-soldier Johnny Mercer made no apologies for focusing his speech on the treatment of war veterans. He described his personal experience in Afghanistan. Angela Rayner, Labour, MP for Ashton-under-Lyne Rayner proudly told the House of Commons she was the first female MP in her constituency in more than 183 years. She added that she was probably also the first member of the Commons' who had been pregnant when she was 16. Nusrat Ghani, Conservative, MP for Wealden Nusrat Ghani's speech stole inspiration from her 'constituent' Winnie the Pooh - her speech was delivered well enough to get a roar of laughter from MPs in the chamber. Martin Docherty, SNP, MP for West Dunbartonshire Speaking for the first time during a debate on English Votes for English Laws Martin Docherty delivered a speech pointing out the potential threat to the Speaker's independence. Tulip Siddiq, Labour, MP for Hampstead and Kilburn Tulip Siddiq used her maiden speech to highlight the safety Britain offers refugees and asylum seekers during a debate on the European Union Referendum Bill. She spoke of her mother's ordeal - she had to flee Bangladesh as a political refugee.

पहली बार जब कोई सांसद हाउस ऑफ कॉमन्स में बोलता है तो यह एक नए राजनेता के लिए एक बड़ा क्षण होता है। पारंपरिक रूप से पहले भाषण छोटे और निर्विवाद होते हैं जिसमें नए सांसद के पूर्ववर्ती और एक पसंदीदा कारण के बारे में कुछ गर्मजोशी भरे शब्द होते हैं-लेकिन इस साल के दो नए प्रवेश ने उस परंपरा को बहुत शानदार तरीके से तोड़ दिया।


Charlie Hebdo: Attacks carry extra resonance in France

Summary: Willem Holtrop sits in the Cafe de la Liberte, nursing a small glass of white wine.

Mark MardellPresenter, The World This Weekend@BBCMarkMardellon Twitter He is one of the luckiest men in the world. He escaped the massacre at Charlie Hebdo because he doesn't like meetings. Before we switch on the recorder he warns me: "I don't talk much. I drink and draw." Willem, a Dutchman who has lived in Paris since 1968, manages, at 74, to be both cheeky and lugubrious. With long white hair and matching droopy moustache, he has been a cartoonist with Charlie Hebdo before it was even called by that name. He describes what he has drawn for this week's special edition. "High clerics from all religions, imams, the Pope and they are all - 'Je suis Charlie', with a little sticker on their breast, and the title is 'Our new friends'. "But it is much worse than that - all the extreme-right people are very happy with this. They are all hypocrites." This is, of course, pure Charlie. There is more than a whiff of the Parisian street revolutionary about its humour - a desire to chuck a paving stone at the establishment - in outrage, and, yes, in sheer devilment. But doesn't he want everybody to stand with Charlie, I ask. "No, of course not. Not all those bastards. They are nothing to do with us. They never liked Charlie, they are our victims." He has a point. Under the simple, emotive assertion of solidarity "Je suis Charlie" lies the awkward question: "Who is Charlie?" Secular society You don't have to listen too hard to discover that beneath the well-intentioned harmony there is discord, a cacophony of meaning. Being Charlie might mean freedom of speech or cultural war, enlightenment values or patriotism. But it is certain that the defiant solidarity on display in the streets of Paris has a very French accent. In Britain these massacres might have been seen as an assault on British values, in the US on freedom itself. Here it is the French Republic that is said to be under attack. And that is true because it is a republic almost defined by secularism. In France the burka is banned and blasphemy laws were abolished during the Revolution - the clash of the reactionary priest and the rational schoolmaster the stuff of many a novel. Prof Andrew Hussey, of the University of London, based in Paris, explains the concept of "laicite". "It is a kind of aggressive secularism. It was originally introduced to police the power of the Catholic Church at the end of the 19th Century. It's not about Islam, but about religious authority versus political authority. "It does attack people's identity - it does undermine them - it does make them feel alienated and angry. "But what we've found this week is that Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite is not just an empty slogan. "French people, and French Muslims I've been speaking to, have all been talking about La Republique. It is an abstract concept that plays out in everyday life here. It is your identity as a French person, whatever your creed or colour. And that's what was attacked." Lack of multiculturalism I think this is an essential point. While France may be home to many cultures, it does not celebrate multiculturalism. Andrew Hussey told me that France can't negotiate with Islamists, violent or not. "The Republic sees itself as an umbrella, above all of that. "It cannot negotiate with the politics of identity. In the Anglo-American world we have a politics of identity - you could be gay, you could be black, all of these kind of things which have a political value, but in France we are all equal, whether you like it or not, and that is where the tension comes from." The tension, the discontent, is most obvious in the banlieues. The word, which in medieval times simply meant a place a few hours' walk outside the city where a lord held sway, is often translated as suburb - but both are equally misleading. The connotation is more like "sink estate", with the suggestion of high levels of immigration, unemployment and crime. I went to Gennevilliers where the murderous Kouachi brothers lived and worshipped most recently. It doesn't seem that bad a place. There are a few derelict remnants of an older France; the rather picturesque, shuttered and shut "Cafe du bon coin" nestled among pastel-shaded, boxy flats, in the centre of town, and high-rise blocks on the outskirts. A smart, new-looking library is decorated with a slogan declaring that the inhabitants are against barbarism and for freedom of expression. No-one disagrees with that at the mosque, where they are both slightly wary and definitely weary of the media attention. Mosque President Mohammed Benali says he didn't really know the brothers but the elder was always polite, never violent, and the only trouble they had with the younger was when he argued with the imam who was encouraging people to vote. He says they do try to counter radicalism, but have to do more. Made into targets Outside I speak to three men, one in traditional dress and a big parka jacket, another in a sweatshirt and trousers, the other in a mixture of the two. One journalist who has written a sophisticated account of the area found he was greeted with sullen shrugs from the youth, but these men, I would guess in their twenties and thirties, although initially wary, are keen to put their point of view. They say the massacre makes them targets too, and has poisoned the atmosphere. "In 24 hours it changed. I'm a bus driver. People used to come on to the bus and smile, especially old Parisians. People would say what a nice beard. "Now the same beard - they look at me strangely. Now, for them, even saying hello is difficult." Another adds: "We're always being attacked from everywhere - just look around. "I'm scared for my children, and my wife. They may be attacked by skinheads, for example. But am I scared of life? Things always happen." A third says: "Even children are terrorised. After my six-year-old son's school did the minute's silence, he asked me, 'Dad, are the terrorists going to come and kill us?' "And they asked the only Arab kid, 'Why are you doing it?' And he was beaten up." At a different mosque, this one on an industrial estate north-east of Paris, in a bland, undecorated office block, I ask one of the leaders of France's Muslims why some young men turn to violence in the name of Islam. The Union of Islamic Organisations in France is an umbrella group. For 17 years Lhaj Thami Brez was its president and he is now its special envoy. "Maybe it's something to do with the injustices happening across the world - in Palestine, Iraq, Syria and Libya - not to say that any of this justifies it. "There is a connection with the suffering of young people here in France, and France too must play its part. "It's more than police mistreatment, for example - it's multidimensional: social, cultural and economic. "And we need to promulgate a better understanding of Islam - the practice, the simplicity, the recognition of the other, and capacity to live with those who are different." Far-right opportunity Many think this crisis will see a rise in the hard-right National Front (FN), and claim they are exploiting the crisis. I asked Ludovic de Danne, one of the most senior advisers to FN leader Marine Le Pen, how he would answer this. "People in France are rising against societal collapse and barbarism. This massacre is probably the result of several things that have been happening in our country, and other places, for decades. "We see there has been an educational failure because of a liberal system that couldn't integrate immigrants' children. "And of course because of the uncontrolled rise of mass immigration and the rise of communitarianism [identity politics] where the French authorities were quickly seen as an enemy, and where socialists and communists used, and were used by, immigrants. "Now we can see radical Islam, partly funded by foreign powers, taking over. "As a former colonial power the elites didn't understand that patriotism was needed to keep this country united. "And last but not least because Muslim countries have been humiliated because of the destruction of secular nationalist regimes from Syria to Libya and that has unleashed an evil force called Islamism." In the Paris Museum of the Arab World there's an intriguing installation - interlocking cogs turn steadily - machine parts made of Arabic inscription and decoration. Mounir Fatmi's "Les Temps modernes, une histoire de la machine". Past and present Talking to Prof Hussey I get a similar sense of a very complex intermeshing of France's past and present that is much more awkward than the post-traumatic determined pride of the moment. I ask him what is to me the key, and probably impossible to answer, question - why are young men radicalised? He talks of the strut and swagger, the way the killers behaved as if they were in an action film. "They are speaking to a public, to an audience, a very small minority of dangerous kids in the banlieues who see themselves as superheroes. "One of the problems the authorities here have is that they see themselves as fighting a cosmic war, fighting for God, a sort of metaphysical, theological politics. "How does post-enlightenment Paris negotiate with that? "Radicalisation is a process, like all revolutions, like the French Revolution. There are conditions that create the process, what the French call 'le passage a l'acte', how you get to the act, and often it is to do with atmosphere. "I wouldn't make the argument that social exclusion, and bad urbanism, lead to Islamic violence because that is reductive and simply not true. "But what you do have is over the years a matrix of complicated circumstances, which include social exclusion, the legacy of colonialism, the unfinished business in North Africa and 'double binds', a love-hate relationship between the Muslim population and French values, all of which create the circumstances where people who are full of hate and anger can find themselves manipulated and used for political ends by extremists." Special significance It is obviously true that these dreadful attacks could have happened in the UK or the US, but the fact they happened in France imparts a special meaning - in part because the Republic insists on its primacy over religion. But it is not only that. France's colonial history is no more blood-soaked than Britain's - but the particular history of France in North Africa encapsulates a problem. There were many opportunities to extricate the country from the unwise colonial adventure - but there were always balancing reasons not to do so until very late in the day. With each iteration the situation gets less easy to solve, the gap grows wider, the West's perceived need to intervene gets more pressing and the violence, on both sides, becomes more horrific as the shocking psychodrama plays out.

विलेम होल्ट्रॉप कैफे डे ला लिबर्ट में बैठता है, सफेद शराब का एक छोटा गिलास पालता है।


The hard-hitting soap for a country at war

Summary: A sorrowful woman's voice begins to sing - and even if you don't speak a word of Arabic you can guess that the radio soap opera Sad Northern Nights is going to dig much deeper than the usual kitchen-sink drama.

By Emma Jane KirbyBBC News "She's lamenting her lost homeland," Sami, Radio Alwan's special projects director smiles ruefully. "She's singing, "we want to come back to you, we want to be reunited, we won't wait until tomorrow until all your wounds are healed." The traffic honks impatiently beneath his window as we listen. Few people here know that in this unimposing office in a busy western suburb of Istanbul a radio drama is being broadcast to war-torn Syria. And they mustn't know, explains Sami, because not everyone likes the fact that Radio Alwan is an independent station which tempers neither its news bulletins nor its soap opera's plots in order to toe government or opposition parties' lines. They pay for that. Last month, staff in the station's Aleppo office were beaten up by masked men, who stole their equipment. Find out more Sami takes me to the tiny recording studio where the black sound-proofing foam that covers the wall is impregnated with the whiff of stale cigarette smoke seeping in from the kitchen next door. Miran, a young actor holding a script theatrically far out in front of him, nods for me to go in. As soon as the door closes he begins to shout dramatically and then suddenly making his voice go higher, he throws back his head and laughs. The engineer we can see through the tiny glass window reads a few lines of another part and once more, Miran cackles like a madman. The editor makes him do it again. Miran looks at the clock nervously, but agrees to go for one last take. As he hurries out of the studio I dash down the corridor after him asking which part he's playing and what he was doing in the scene. "I'm Sariah," he says. "And I'm crazily in love with the main character, Thuraya. She's a widow - and - well her teenage son's been stolen by IS-gunmen and - look, I'm so sorry," he says apologetically "but I have to run back to the newsroom - I've got to put the bulletin together for the next hour." Radio Alwan works on a distinctly low budget. Many members of the cast are played by the station's newsreaders and presenters and yet their drama is surprisingly polished. The studio engineers take particular pride in their sound effects. "Bombings can be taken from the internet," they explain. "But did you know that rhythmically clicking your fingers can sound like the first drops of a heavy rain shower?" They're interested in how the Archers - the BBC's long-established rural radio soap opera, broadcast in the UK - does its animal sounds. But when I reveal how that programme dramatised a stabbing recently, they say, "Oh that one's easy. They often do it in Sad Northern Nights - you just stick a steak knife in a cabbage." If the soap was about anywhere other than Syria, you might call the storylines melodramatic, but as the scriptwriter Mahmoud points out, all his plots resonate with Syrians because they're just hearing their own story. Is it really so unbelievable, he asks politely, that a disillusioned teenager whose father has been killed by the regime should prove easy pickings for IS? That a desperate widow should think of joining the migrant trail? Or that an educated lawyer and founding member of the free Syrian Army should think of nothing but revenge after his entire family is wiped out in an air strike? He winds a lock of his hair around his fingers and lets the curls spring back. "My drama doesn't try to give answers," he explains, "but it does aim to get our listeners asking themselves what they would do in such a situation." And perhaps it also gives them comfort - a 15-minute pause in their lives where they can switch on the radio and lose themselves in Dima's hopeless crush on Sariah and Sariah's desperate wooing of Thuraya. Mahmoud smiles. "Our characters need to be realistic," he says. "And Syrians are just regular people, war or no war. Even through these brutal days they love and they laugh and they live." In the newsroom, Miran is frantically editing the running order as Mais prepares to read the bulletin. Later, after work, she'll become Thuraya in Sad Northern Nights, desperate to get her son back from IS before he's brainwashed. "Does she manage I ask," as she bundles her scripts, "and does she get her man?" But Sami cuts in quickly. "Season 3," he grins ushering me away. "Coming soon." Listen to Emma Jane Kirby's report from Radio Alwan for the PM programme on BBC Radio 4: Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

एक दुखी महिला की आवाज़ गाने लगती है-और अगर आप अरबी का एक शब्द भी नहीं बोलते हैं तो भी आप अनुमान लगा सकते हैं कि रेडियो सोप ओपेरा सैड नॉर्दर्न नाइट्स सामान्य रसोई-सिंक नाटक की तुलना में बहुत गहराई से खुदाई करने वाला 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 and videos 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।


Covid in Scotland: Tighter rules will be used to decide on levels

Summary: Covid-19 restrictions in Scotland will be eased slightly when First Minister Nicola Sturgeon updates MSPs about the state of the pandemic but the overall "stay at home" order is expected to remain in place for some weeks to come.

By Christopher SleightBBC Scotland news Ms Sturgeon has previously said that on 26 April - when non-essential shops, hairdressers and gyms can open again - the levels system will become operational once more. But the new rules, outlined in the Scottish government's latest strategic framework, will make it harder than it was before for areas to drop down to lower tiers. If an area is to see restrictions lifted, the number of positive cases will need to be far lower than when the system operated last year. Under the new system, local authorities which have a case rate of more than 150 cases per 100,000 are likely to end up in level four - when only essential shops can open and hospitality must close. The previous threshold for level four was 300 cases per 100,000. Cases will also need to drop to below 50 per 100,000 in a local authority before it will be considered for level two, much lower than the previous rate of 150 per 100,000. That is the level where non-essential journeys outside the authority boundary are allowed and pubs can serve alcohol. The government says the changes have been informed by World Health Organization (WHO) guidance, which indicates that some thresholds should be tightened. The document says this "will have the effect of keeping some areas in higher levels than they would previously have been for the same level of incidence, which we see as a necessary response to increased transmission of the new variant". There will also be some changes to the positivity rate thresholds from the levels which were originally set out in October, but the threshold for level two remains 5%. The positivity rate is the percentage of all tests that come back positive and is a key measure in judging the level of community transmission within a country or local area. What are the new case rate thresholds? The rate is calculated by adding up all the cases over the previous seven days and then dividing by the population of the local authority. This number is then multiplied by 100,000. The Scottish government has decided to align its tiers with the WHO's "situational levels", which range from level nought - with no known cases in the past 28 days - up to level four, which is defined as an "uncontrolled epidemic". The strategic framework document says that the weekly case rates and percentage of positive tests will remain "core indicators" when deciding which level a local authority is placed in. What's the current rate in my local area? The number of positive cases in each local authority is published daily by Public Health Scotland. The most recent data often underestimates the number of positive tests as there are sometimes delays before results are recorded, so this chart uses figures from a few days ago. The chart has been colour-coded to reflect the new case rate thresholds outlined in the strategic framework. Currently there are no local authorities who would fall into the level four threshold, although Clackmannanshire is close. There are 15 in level three, 11 in level two and five in level one. Orkney currently has no cases. Why are the changes being made? The strategic framework document, published on 23 February, says there is a need for a "more stringent approach to the levels" when the system returns. The more cautious approach is necessary to protect against further variants of Covid-19, the Scottish government argues. "Our experience over the last few months and the changed landscape brought about by the new, more transmissible variant, in particular has shown that we cannot assume that the protective measures applied within the original levels approach will have the same effectiveness as when first implemented," the document says. "However, it is also likely that the roll-out of the vaccine programme will reduce the transmissibility of the virus for any given level of restriction. "To address this issue, we have decided to adjust our levels approach primarily by rebasing the indicators that we use to guide decisions on the allocation of levels on those recommended by the WHO in their most up-to-date interim guidance." 'Strengthening' levels The WHO's latest guidance was published in November 2020, before Covid vaccines were approved. The Scottish government's document also says that the "content of restrictions" within each level will also be kept under review. This means that changes could be made to the existing rules in the levels system around travel, retail and hospitality. A Scottish government spokesperson said: "As our Strategic Framework sets out, the more transmissible variant of the virus, which is now the dominant strain in Scotland, has made it more challenging to effectively suppress the virus and demanded changes to the protection levels system to make sure it's as effective as possible. "Data has shown that the previous levels of restrictions suppress the new variant at a slower rate than the old variants. Consequently, we have had to adapt our approach, firstly by strengthening level four and secondly by reconsidering the stringency of the levels system more generally."

जब प्रथम मंत्री निकोला स्टर्जन महामारी की स्थिति के बारे में एम. एस. पी. को अपडेट करेंगी तो स्कॉटलैंड में कोविड-19 प्रतिबंधों में थोड़ी ढील दी जाएगी, लेकिन समग्र रूप से "घर पर रहने" का आदेश आने वाले कुछ हफ्तों तक बने रहने की उम्मीद है।


New urban talent festival is launched in London

Summary: Marina and the Diamonds and recent Sound Of 2010 winner Ellie Goulding are among the acts confirmed for next month's inaugural Next Big Thing festival.

Paloma Faith, Rox, Young Guns, You Me At Six and Alex Gardner will all the play the event, held in a host of venues across London, taking place between 5-14 February. They join artists already confirmed including Little Comets, Hadouken! And Mystery Jets and tickets are on sale. It is the first foray into the festival world by music retailer HMV who are organising the event alongside live music partner MAMA.

मरीना एंड द डायमंड्स और हाल ही में साउंड ऑफ 2010 की विजेता एली गोल्डिंग अगले महीने के उद्घाटन नेक्स्ट बिग थिंग उत्सव के लिए पुष्टि किए गए कृत्यों में से हैं।


Klaudia Soltys: Man charged with woman's murder in Hull

Summary: A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a woman who was found dead at a house in Hull.

The body of Klaudia Soltys, 30, was discovered at her home on Lambert Street, in the west of the city, on Saturday morning. Amadeusz Sekula, 20, also of Lambert Street, appeared at Hull Crown Court on Tuesday. He is due to appear in court for a further hearing on 16 July, with his trial scheduled to start on 1 November. More Yorkshire stories Follow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.

हल में एक घर में मृत पाई गई महिला की हत्या के आरोप में एक व्यक्ति अदालत में पेश हुआ है।


Barnsley stabbing: Woman remanded in custody

Summary: A woman has appeared in court charged with attempted murder after a man was stabbed in Barnsley.

Ayaan Ali, aged 28, of Isleworth, west London, has also been charged with affray and possession of an offensive weapon and remanded in custody. Ms Ali was remanded in custody to appear at Sheffield Crown Court on 8 October. It follows an incident in Barnsley town centre at about 08:20 BST on Saturday when a man suffered minor injuries. Related Internet Links HM Courts & Tribunals Service

बार्नस्ले में एक व्यक्ति को चाकू मारने के बाद हत्या के प्रयास के आरोप में एक महिला अदालत में पेश हुई है।


Asian shoppers thirst for luxury

Summary: Something quite extraordinary is happening across Asia.

By Peter DayPresenter, Global Business In the big cities all across the continent, people are shopping as though their lives depended on it, day after day. In Singapore and Hong Kong, it's been the main leisure pursuit for years. But now, rather suddenly, the cult of luxury shopping is spreading - and China is emerging as what will soon be the biggest luxury market in the whole world. Eclipsed So many times in the past few decades, the insatiable appetite of the Americans for imported consumer goods has helped the world out of recession or helped to avoid it. But if China's emerging class of consumers put their mind to it - up to 800 million of them, compared with roughly 200 million in the USA - their buying power will shape the needs and demands of the rest of the world. In 2010 China became the biggest marketplace in the world for cars. It was already the largest market for mobile phones. The world's second largest economy, Japan, has been deposed - replaced (of course) by China. And the place that has hitherto been the great consuming nation - the USA - is soon going to be eclipsed. Asians seem to have an even hungrier appetite for luxuries: people who only 20 years ago hardly knew what bling was. Status symbols Retail expert Paul Husband has been based in Hong Kong for 25 years and he knows the scale of what's happening in the East. And with his Louis Vuitton bag, Cartier watch and Ferragamo shoes, he knows a thing or two about luxury too. "It began really in the very late 80s and early 90s," he says, when the first luxury brands like Dunhill began to enter China. These pioneers tended to base themselves in and around western hotels - although their customers were not always westerners. "It was opening the cult of luxury. At that time of course, you would see them in hotels and not on the street because the people with money - well, quite frankly one might have questioned where the money had come from. They had to be very discreet. Hence the luxury stores also had to be fairly invisible to the street. One didn't want to be seen going in." But thirty years later attitudes are different. China has a more relaxed attitude toward wealth and many Chinese have successfully followed Deng Xiaoping's maxim that "to be rich is glorious". Rags to riches The workshop of Chinese fashion designer Zhang Zhifeng in the posh centre of Beijing is a vivid example of the opportunities open to an entrepreneur in a China moving quickly from communist puritanism to Western-style consumerism. The ambitious but approachable designer, who heads up the label Tiger NE, is one of the people in China trying to create expensive luxury brands that speak directly to this booming market of people with newly acquired wealth. His own story is a peculiarly Chinese take on the rags to riches tale. "At the time of the cultural revolution, my dad was labelled as a capitalist and thrown into a gulag-style labour farm," says Mr Zhang. "Our family was dirt poor. My mum had to learn tailoring just to make a living, to feed the family." Mr Zhang learned the craft too, and after graduating from high school he opened his own small shop - just him and a sewing machine. "This was in 1982. This was still the early days of China's reform and opening up." When the government began to allow cross-border bartering, Mr Zhang's position on the Sino-Russian border meant he was able to take advantage of one of the first market liberalisations. "Because of the barter trade, my business started to take off," he says. "Family and friends joined in to help as more and more business came my way. Soon, in 1985, my shop hired more than 300 employees." "I was one of the first Chinese who had the opportunity to go abroad," says Mr Zhang, who visited his trading partners in the former Soviet Union, and, eventually, Europe and America. 'All we had was quantity' "The more I saw, the more I realised what the differences were between the Chinese and Western clothing industries. For example, the cost of making a shirt in China was about 20 Yuan and the shirt retailed for about 30. But in the States and Europe, a shirt can often fetch anywhere from US $30 to about $100." In the West, the brand and the design quality had all been factored into the price, he realised, "but all we had in China was quantity. That was when I decided to improve and move into the high end fashion business." NE Tiger was registered as a brand in 1992. At the time, a Chinese-owned and run luxury brand was highly unusual - and remains so today according to Zhang Zhifeng. "In Beijing and Shanghai, our shops are still mainly surrounded by Western brand shops," he says. "The only Chinese high end brand is mine. We are soon to launch a flagship store in Shanghai central shopping district where my new neighbours will be the likes of Louis Vuitton." Expanding This puts Mr Zhang is in a good position to take advantage of Asia's luxury boom, according to Paul Husbands. "There's a view that by 2014/15, China will be the largest luxury goods market in the world, meaning that consumption in China and consumption offshore by mainland Chinese would outperform Japan, America and Europe," says the retail expert. "It's the one large market in the world where we cannot see really an end to the market." The rise in demand for luxury goods is not just confined to China - it is happening across Asia. For the series Start-up Stories, I have been speaking to entrepreneurs across the continent, some of whom are looking for a slice of this expanding market. I've heard from Ho Kwon Ping, whose luxury resort chain Banyan Tree is now exporting an Asian take on luxury to the rest of the world. And I've spoken to watch retailer Jannie Tay and chocolatier Lyn Lee, whose businesses started in Singapore but now trade across Asia. There are bound to be many more of these stories to come. The arrival of a mass of Asian consumers is quite extraordinary. It's potentially much more significant for the global economy than the 30 year emergence of China as the world's great manufacturing centre. As we're about to see, when people start to become consumers, what they want is a little bit of luxury.

पूरे एशिया में कुछ बहुत ही असाधारण हो रहा है।


Butler Gabriele sentence unlikely to end Pope scandal

Summary: The 18-month prison sentence handed down by the Vatican City criminal court on Pope Benedict's former butler, Paolo Gabriele, may mark not the end but the beginning of a complex story of betrayal and discontent at the very heart of the Catholic Church.

By David WilleyBBC News, Vatican City Some of the hundreds of sensitive documents stolen from the Pope's desk over an extended period found their way into the Italian mainstream media and into a bestselling book earlier this year. Pope Benedict wanted closure on the Gabriele case and he got it, only hours before the start of the most important Vatican event of the year, which begins on Sunday. He has called a three-week long Synod of Bishops from around the world to advise him on how to spearhead what the Vatican is optimistically calling "The New Evangelisation". This is code for a high-octane effort by the Catholic Church to counter the insidious spread of secularism within countries - particularly in Europe - that once confidently proclaimed themselves Catholic, but where Sunday mass attendance is now falling yearly to ever-lower levels. The butler trial has hijacked the Vatican's planned autumn religious news agenda and has concentrated world attention on yet another episode contributing to the credibility crisis affecting the Holy See. Lucrative offers Sunday's edition of the Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano, predictably put a brief report on the butler trial at the bottom of its back page. In theory, under a treaty signed between the Vatican and Italy in 1929, people convicted of crimes carried out in Vatican territory serve their sentences in Italian jails, as there are no suitable long-term detention facilities within Vatican City State. But if Gabriele, a Vatican citizen, were to be transferred to a jail in Italy, he might be tempted by lucrative offers to reveal other details about what he learned while in the Pope's service. His lawyer has indicated that the former butler does not intend to appeal and is ready to serve his sentence by remaining under house arrest in his "grace and favour" apartment situated inside the walls of Vatican City. However, a second embarrassing trial looms. In about a month, the Vatican court is due to hear the case against Claudio Sciarpelletti, a computer technician who worked in the Vatican's Secretariat of State - the equivalent of the papal Cabinet Office. He was originally charged with aiding and abetting Mr Gabriele in his theft of documents, but the Vatican judges decided to hold his trial separately. Mr Sciarpelletti has called as one of his witnesses the first upper-level cleric - other than the Pope's personal secretary - to give evidence in the Vatileaks scandal. He's an Italian monsignor in charge of documentation in the Secretariat of State. The Vatican prosecutor is also considering further possible, and more serious, charges against both Paolo Gabriele and Claudio Sciarpelletti - including violation of state secrets and attacking state security. These would involve heavier punishments than for aggravated theft. The newly-appointed Vatican communications strategist, Greg Burke, formerly a Fox News TV correspondent, admits that the Pope has personally been very upset about the Vatileaks scandal. He told the BBC: "There are four or five people in the world who have the chance every day to talk to the Pope and get five minutes of him with no distractions. Paolo Gabriele could have done it that way. Instead, he went off and caused the scandal that it became."

पोप बेनेडिक्ट के पूर्व बटलर, पाओलो गैब्रिएल को वेटिकन सिटी की आपराधिक अदालत द्वारा दी गई 18 महीने की जेल की सजा, अंत नहीं हो सकती है, बल्कि कैथोलिक चर्च के दिल में विश्वासघात और असंतोष की एक जटिल कहानी की शुरुआत हो सकती है।


Further flag protests in Belfast

Summary: There were further protests in Belfast on Wednesday over the decision to reduce the number of days on which the union flag is flown on the city hall.

About 30 loyalists gathered outside the office of Alliance MP Naomi Long on the Newtownards Road in the east of the city. There was no traffic disruption. Protesters with union flags blocked the Albertbridge Road at its junction with Cluan Place. Protestors stopped traffic on the Ormeau Road until police moved them. A small crowd also came out onto the Shankill Road.

सिटी हॉल पर संघ का झंडा फहराने के दिनों की संख्या को कम करने के फैसले पर बुधवार को बेलफास्ट में और विरोध प्रदर्शन हुए।


'The Archers made me realise I was a victim of domestic abuse'

Summary: A high-profile domestic abuse storyline on The Archers in 2015 encouraged many other victims to seek help. One woman has told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme she only realised she had been in a controlling relationship when she listened to the BBC Radio 4 serial.

By Sarah BellVictoria Derbyshire programme "The first time I realised what was happening to Helen, I felt something fall inside - your insides turn to water, because it was so familiar, just exactly the way it is," says Helen Walmsley-Johnson. The plot on The Archers depicted the gradually unfolding abuse of Helen Titchener by her controlling husband, Rob. It was praised for its realism by domestic violence charities, who credited it with fuelling a rise in calls to the national domestic violence helpline by almost a fifth. Ms Walmsley-Johnson says she did not know how to describe what had happened to her 10 years earlier until she heard the story and realised the similarities with her own life. "The whole love thing, sweeping you off your feet and charming the socks off you, happens very quickly," she says. "The control part comes in very slowly underneath all that. So by the time that's getting a grip on you, you are completely head over heels in love. It's a distorted version of a normal relationship." 'No independent thought' Controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or family relationship became a criminal offence in England and Wales three years ago, and more recently in Scotland. It carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. Ms Walmsley-Johnson met her boyfriend Franc - not his real name - when she was a single mum living with her three children, juggling several jobs. A friend set them up on a blind date, as she knew Ms Walmsley-Johnson was going through a tough time. Very quickly they were an intense relationship, which was a welcome diversion from the everyday stresses of her life. Before long he began to tell her things like not to walk around in bare feet and make little suggestions which she says she felt she had to go along with. But it was when she moved in with him that she says his possessive jealousy started to come out. "He was controlling, even turned violent - by that time - had moved me in with him, he was controlling me all the time, I had no independent thought by then," she says. Franc would stand outside a restaurant where she was eating with friends, watching her and calling her, even though he had said she could go, she recollects. Seek help Ms Walmsley-Johnson, who has now written a book about her experience, said he did not like her friends or family and when she looked back through her diary she was struck by how many events she had cancelled. "Coercive control sucks the life out of you - the violence is very sparing - but they do now and again as they need you to know that they can if they chose to. So that threat is always hanging over you," she says. The relationship ended several years ago after he lost his job and moved abroad. She urged any women who thought they were in a similar relationship to call Refuge or Women's Aid. "It's not easy as you're being watched all the time and you will probably need to have several goes at it to be able to articulate it," she says. "The whole way it works is you're controlled into silence. And it's the shame of it. It's happened to you. It's not your fault at all. "It's very, very hard to actually say the words that I was in this kind of relationship, this is what happened to me and this is what he did to me. It's humiliating and shaming and you feel guilt." Watch the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.

2015 में द आर्चर्स पर एक हाई-प्रोफाइल घरेलू दुर्व्यवहार की कहानी ने कई अन्य पीड़ितों को मदद लेने के लिए प्रोत्साहित किया। एक महिला ने बीबीसी के विक्टोरिया डर्बीशायर कार्यक्रम को बताया है कि उसे केवल तभी एहसास हुआ जब उसने बीबीसी रेडियो 4 धारावाहिक सुना।


Colombia legalises gay marriage

Summary: Colombia's top court has legalised same-sex marriage, making the country the fourth in Latin America to do so.

Gay couples were already allowed to form civil partnerships, but Thursday's ruling extends them the same marriage rights as heterosexual couples. Earlier this month the constitutional court dismissed a judge's petition against equal marriage rights for heterosexual and homosexual couples. Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay have previously legalised same-sex marriage. Argentina was the first Latin American country to take the step in July 2010. In Mexico, gay marriage is legal in the capital and in certain states.

कोलंबिया की शीर्ष अदालत ने समलैंगिक विवाह को वैध बना दिया है, जिससे देश ऐसा करने वाला लैटिन अमेरिका में चौथा देश बन गया है।


Norwich Cathedral peregrine lays and protects second egg

Summary: A second egg has been produced by a peregrine falcon in a nest box perched high on the spire at Norwich Cathedral.

The Hawk and Owl Trust said it spotted the female with the two eggs on its CCTV camera at 17:12 GMT on Saturday. A first egg arrived on Thursday morning but the falcons were not expected to incubate any until a clutch was produced, volunteer Dave Gittens said. He said the male falcon could be seen entering the nest twice, first to see the egg and then to bring food. "He appears to be trying to get the female off the nest so he can cover the eggs but it doesn't work."Mr Gittens said.

नॉर्विच कैथेड्रल के शिखर पर एक घोंसले के डिब्बे में एक पेरेग्रीन बाज़ द्वारा दूसरा अंडा बनाया गया है।


Wiltshire driver dies after crashing into Grazeley house

Summary: A driver has died after his car crashed into a house.

The man, in his 20s, crashed his red Vauxhall Astra into the home in Mortimer Road, Grazeley - near Reading - just before 22:30 GMT on Thursday. The man, from Wiltshire, was taken to hospital but later died, Thames Valley Police said. A passenger in the car, another man in his 20s, was taken to hospital with minor injuries but has since been discharged. Thames Valley Police is appealing for witnesses and for anyone who has dashcam or CCTV footage from the area at the time. Related Internet Links Thames Valley Police

कार के एक घर से टकराने से एक चालक की मौत हो गई है।


MPs set to shrink from proposals to reform their expenses

Summary: "Anyone who went through the last election would have picked up the shocking level of hatred for the political class". And that is why one MP is predicting the Commons won't touch new proposals to reform the system for MPs expenses with a bargepole.

Mark D'ArcyParliamentary correspondent The special select committee on Members' Expenses under Conservative Adam Afriyie has laboured and brought forward proposals for a system of flat rate allowances to replace the more elaborate system operated by the hated (by MPs, anyway) expenses watchdog IPSA. Their report suggests flat-rate allowances to fund second homes and travel, arguing that even if they gave MPs more money the result would still mean savings for the taxpayer because it would avoid the expense of checking receipts and making sure the money was used in accordance with elaborate guidelines. Some will argue that the level of the allowances is now the key issue. And in an earlier era, MPs might have been minded to vote themselves a bit more dosh and take the hit from hostile tabloids, secure in the knowledge that it would all be forgotten come the next election. But in austerity Britain, with real incomes falling, pensions imploding and the prospect of more woe to come, a vote along those lines could spell electoral (or selectoral) doom. The committee makes a series of interesting points about the inner workings of the IPSA system - how supporting the work of MPs is something IPSA, merely has to "have regard to," rather than its central duty, for example. It notes that 91 per cent of MPs claim to have been deterred from claiming expenses to which they believe they were entitled, for fear of press coverage if the claim were to be rejected - or because of the sheer bureaucratic hassle involved in claiming. On the other hand the report also notes that a large proportion of rejected claims involve asking parliament to cover surcharges for late payment of bills…. My impression is that while a lot of MPs still continue to abominate IPSA and all its works, and would quite like the changes the report suggests, Mr Afriyie's motion to the House of Commons on Thursday: "That this House approves the recommendations of the First Report from the Members' Expenses Committee on the Operation of the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009," will not be passed, out of a well-developed sense of self preservation.

"पिछले चुनाव से गुजरने वाले किसी भी व्यक्ति ने राजनीतिक वर्ग के लिए घृणा के चौंकाने वाले स्तर को उठाया होगा।" और यही कारण है कि एक सांसद भविष्यवाणी कर रहा है कि कॉमन्स सांसदों के खर्चों के लिए प्रणाली में सुधार के लिए नए प्रस्तावों को नहीं छुएगा।


JLS announce debut UK arena tour

Summary: JLS have announced details of their debut UK arena tour.

Following the success of their self-titled debut album released earlier this month, the foursome will embark on a 12-date tour in December 2010 beginning in Liverpool. A statement from the band said: "It's every singer's dream to play venues like the O2, Wembley and Manchester's MEN arena to such huge audiences. It's going to be a spectacular." Tickets for the gigs go on sale at 9.30am on Saturday 5 December. The full tour dates are: Liverpool Echo Arena - 3 December 2010 Cardiff International Arena - 4 Bournemouth International Centre - 6 Birmingham LG Arena - 7 London The O2 - 9 Nottingham Trent FM Arena - 11 Glasgow SECC - 13 Aberdeen AECC - 14 Manchester MEN Arena - 16 Sheffield Arena - 17 Newcastle Metro Radio Arena - 18 London Wembley Arena - 22

जे. एल. एस. ने अपने पहले यू. के. अखाड़ा दौरे के विवरण की घोषणा की है।


Jersey Airport 'should help disabled passengers'

Summary: Jersey Airport should be responsible for making sure staff are on hand to help disabled passengers, campaigners have said.

Currently it is up to airlines to look after travellers with disabilities. Edward Trevor, from Shopmobility, said the island should follow European law and make the airport responsible for employing dedicated staff for the job. The airport said its facilities meet disability standards and the majority of passengers have no problems. Mr Trevor said in general the service for disabled travellers is good in Jersey. But he said airlines need to make sure disabled passengers travelling on the early morning flights get assistance if the airport is short staffed.

अभियानकर्ताओं ने कहा है कि जर्सी हवाई अड्डे को यह सुनिश्चित करने के लिए जिम्मेदार होना चाहिए कि विकलांग यात्रियों की मदद के लिए कर्मचारी उपलब्ध हों।


Talks on Hial air traffic controller strikes

Summary: Talks are taking place on when air traffic controllers working for Highlands and Islands Airport Limited will take strike action over pay.

Controllers who are members of the Prospect union are seeking an improved pay deal. Prospect said last week industrial action was likely to start in April and continue through the summer. Prospect leaders are local union representatives are involved in the talks. Seven of Hial's 11 airports would be affected by strike action. They are Benbecula, Dundee, Inverness, Kirkwall, Stornoway, Sumburgh and Wick John O'Groats.

हाईलैंड्स एंड आइलैंड्स एयरपोर्ट लिमिटेड के लिए काम करने वाले हवाई यातायात नियंत्रक वेतन को लेकर कब हड़ताल करेंगे, इस पर बातचीत चल रही है।


Pop star Pink announces she's pregnant on US chat show

Summary: US pop star Pink has revealed she is expecting her first child with husband Carey Hart during an interview on an American talk show.

Confirming the news Pink, real name Alecia Beth Moore, told Ellen DeGeneres she was "eating for two these days". The 31-year-old singer added she was "nervous" but added the couple had "worked for it, it was not an 'Oops'." Pink embarked on her Funhouse Summer Carnival world tour this year. The interview is to air on Wednesday 16 November in the US. The singer, who has had hits with tracks like Get The Party Started, Sober and So What over a decade-long career, has just released a greatest hits collection.

अमेरिकी पॉप स्टार पिंक ने एक अमेरिकी टॉक शो में एक साक्षात्कार के दौरान खुलासा किया है कि वह पति कैरी हार्ट के साथ अपने पहले बच्चे की उम्मीद कर रही हैं।


South East Water schemes 'to move supplies' in drought

Summary: Work is taking place on the water mains infrastructure to enable supplies to be moved more easily around the South East, a water company has said.

South East Water is installing a new main in Sussex and upgrading another mains that links two Kent reservoirs. It has already built service reservoirs at Aylesford and at Hindhead in Surrey. The firm said the schemes would help it transfer water between areas, allowing flexibility that was particularly important during a drought. Head of engineering Desmond Brown said infrastructure improvements had been carried out in 105 locations across Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. He said the company spent about £80m last year improving its network and was spending £390m between 2010 and 2015. The Environment Agency has said the drought could continue beyond Christmas.

एक जल कंपनी ने कहा है कि दक्षिण पूर्व के आसपास आपूर्ति को अधिक आसानी से स्थानांतरित करने में सक्षम बनाने के लिए जल मुख्य बुनियादी ढांचे पर काम किया जा रहा है।


Power restored to Isle of Man homes

Summary: Power has been restored to Isle of Man homes after nearly 700 houses were cut off by heavy snow.

The Manx electricity authority (MEA) said engineers worked around the clock to address the island-wide damage. A spokesman said it was "the most widespread damage to power lines since the storms of 2005". He added: "Against all the elements, we are pleased to announce that all island customers are back on supply." Supplies were lost in a number of areas including Eairystane, Ronague, Laurel Bank, the Curraghs and Cronk y Voddy.

भारी बर्फबारी से लगभग 700 घरों के कट जाने के बाद आइल ऑफ मैन के घरों में बिजली बहाल कर दी गई है।


One woman's fight against Ebola

Summary: The Ebola crisis has claimed almost 6,000 lives during the current epidemic in parts of West Africa, bringing unimaginable suffering to the communities affected. News organisations have dispatched photographers and camera crews to report, but alongside this some of those who work in the region have been using social media to record a wider story.

Phil CoomesPicture editor One of those is Katie Meyler whose pictures on Instagram show the work her organisation is doing to help combat Ebola in West Point, a township in the capital of Liberia, Monrovia. Meyler first worked in Liberia in 2006 teaching adult literacy. A few years later she created More Than Me and eventually set up an academy to provide a free education for girls in the township, hoping this will provide her pupils with a better future, and open up opportunities that would otherwise have been closed to them. Yet when Ebola struck the country the situation changed. Schools were closed, the families of those she taught were living in fear, and some were dying. Meyler wanted to help, and so concentrated on filling the gaps in the community response, bringing together government, NGOs, and local leaders to fight Ebola together. The team at More Than Me also responded to the needs of children who had been in contact with Ebola, observing them safely and ensuring, if they are free of it, that they are able to rejoin their families and get on with life. Sometimes it also means getting those who are suspected to have Ebola transferred to the treatment centres, and this is done by a 15-strong ambulance team. The programme is proving successful and is now being replicated in other parts of Monrovia. Meyler's pictures act as a record of those caught up in the crisis, and also help promote her work, bringing in donations and pledges. Here she shares some of her pictures and the stories behind them. "This woman is a neighbour of the More Than Me staff house. Her husband died and they are quarantined in this photo but so far no-one else has gotten sick and they're healthy now. But her husband was the one who brought money for the family so now they are struggling to make ends meet." "Jacob had Ebola and lived through it and now is helping where he can. He is at a neighbour's house after they died, spraying bleach to disinfect the area." "This baby was rejected from the Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) for some reason, I am not sure if he had Ebola or not. That's one of the biggest problems in this crisis. There's no rapid testing for Ebola (at least I've never seen it) and so when people get sick, they are scared to go to the treatment centre because if they don't have Ebola, they might get it. People are dying of lots of things and people rarely know what a person died from." "Esther survived Ebola but her family didn't. For days we were trying to make her smile, and here she finally did! She has my heart." "As we were looking for land for the boarding school we wanted to build, we saw kids jumping into the river and having fun. It was refreshing to see kids being kids, especially when things were so tense." "She's the eldest sibling in her family. Her mom died of Ebola. She said no-one will ever take her mom's place. She and her siblings have been living with her auntie for a while because she can better support them. More Than Me has been supporting the families with supplies." "These groups have regular meetings where they make decisions about Liberia's Ebola response. On Fridays, NGOs can attend the meetings." "This is Sarah walking into the ETU after our ambulance picked her up from her home and dropped her off here. She looked stronger than most do walking in, holding tight onto her teddy bears. I received word that she died and I couldn't believe it, I thought for sure she would make it. I thought she'd get better treatment because there were less people being treated at that time, more beds available. This photo was the last time we saw her. Her family wasn't with her when she walked in." "A 21-year-old young man who lost seven family members, including his dad and step-mother. He was afraid and he feels like the reason he survived was because he got fast transportation to, and treatment at, ETU. He's incredibly thankful to More Than Me, and came to our staff meeting to show his appreciation." "Baby Kate and Esther, her mom, send love to all those who have supported More Than Me's efforts. She says she was discouraged before, her brother died, and people in her community were dying day and night from Ebola. After More Than Me started our Ebola efforts, the sick were transported quickly to get help, awareness came, dignity came, and even the sick children who have lived now ride around the neighbourhood on bicycles. "This caption speaks for itself. Esther is one of my oldest friends in Liberia. She is the mother of Elizabeth, More Than Me's first student. Baby Katie, pictured here, is my namesake (named after me)." Katie Meyler is the Founder/CEO of More Than Me . You can see more of her pictures on Instagram.

इबोला संकट ने पश्चिम अफ्रीका के कुछ हिस्सों में वर्तमान महामारी के दौरान लगभग 6,000 लोगों की जान ले ली है, जिससे प्रभावित समुदायों को अकल्पनीय पीड़ा हुई है। समाचार संगठनों ने फोटोग्राफरों और कैमरा दल को रिपोर्ट करने के लिए भेजा है, लेकिन इसके साथ ही इस क्षेत्र में काम करने वाले कुछ लोग एक व्यापक कहानी रिकॉर्ड करने के लिए सोशल मीडिया का उपयोग कर रहे हैं।


Man arrested over fatal Newcastle hit-and-run

Summary: A man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving following a hit-and-run in Newcastle.

A 75-year-old woman died after she was knocked down on Jesmond Road, near the Punch Bowl pub shortly after 19:20 GMT on Saturday. A 79-year-old man, who was with the woman, was taken to hospital with serious injuries believed to be life-threatening. Northumbria Police said a 22-year-old man remained in police custody. Follow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk. Related Internet Links Northumbria Police

न्यूकैसल में हिट-एंड-रन के बाद खतरनाक ड्राइविंग से मौत के संदेह में एक व्यक्ति को गिरफ्तार किया गया है।


Work continues to reopen Pembrokeshire landslip road

Summary: Work is continuing to reopen a coastal road in Pembrokeshire following a landslip at the end of December.

The landslip occurred at Settlands Hill, between Broad Haven and Little Haven, and the road has been closed to vehicles ever since. Local residents have complained about a build up of traffic on the diversion. Pembrokeshire council has been in talks with the private landowner about purchasing the land and says a scheme is "ready to be built." It involves reconstructing the road inland and away from the area of the landslip. The coast path trail remains open to pedestrians in the meantime.

दिसंबर के अंत में भूस्खलन के बाद पेम्ब्रोकेशायर में एक तटीय सड़क को फिर से खोलने का काम जारी है।


Isle of Man records its wettest July in 33 years

Summary: The Isle of Man experienced its wettest July since 1987.

About 101mm of rainfall was recorded during the month - nearly 80% above the July average, Ronaldsway Met Office said. Two days each saw 20mm fall. It also proved to be the coolest July in eight years, with temperatures climbing above 20C only once. July came in stark contrast to spring, which was the driest since 1984 and the sunniest on record. Met Office spokesman Neil Young said an area of low pressure to the west of the Isle of Man was to blame for the cold and wet July. The unsettled conditions had lingered because "the jet stream isn't moving very quickly", he added. June also saw above-average rainfall, which allowed authorities to lift a month-long hosepipe ban that had been implemented after the dry spring. Mr Young said that while the Manx weather would improve by the end of the week, "we won't see the high 20s that we see in headlines from southern England". Why not follow BBC Isle of Man on Facebook and Twitter? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk

आइल ऑफ मैन ने 1987 के बाद से अपने सबसे आर्द्र जुलाई का अनुभव किया।


Taunton Deane Borough Council move put on hold

Summary: Plans by Taunton Deane Borough Council to move its headquarters have been delayed due to costs constraints and a rethink on delivering its services.

The council wanted to move to create a joint public sector "hub" with Somerset County Council. Leader of the authority John Williams said: "It became obvious that both authorities were challenged financially". Officers will explore their options during the three-month pause period. The council had planned the move as the current building was deemed to be too big and needed a substantial revamp with new electrics, heating and doors. Mr Williams said: "A lot of councils in the land are going totally digital and therefore the ease of contact with the council is online through the website and that is the sort of thing we have to evaluate during this period."

टौनटन डीन बरो काउंसिल द्वारा अपने मुख्यालय को स्थानांतरित करने की योजनाओं में लागत की बाधाओं और अपनी सेवाओं को वितरित करने पर पुनर्विचार के कारण देरी हुई है।


Laughing gas taken in Newcastle car theft

Summary: A car containing dozens of canisters of laughing gas has been stolen in Newcastle.

The nitrous oxide was being delivered to a property in the Jesmond area when the driver was threatened by two men armed with knives. They took his Peugeot 406, along with his stock of 75 canisters of the gas. Northumbria Police has appealed for information about the theft in Holly Avenue, which took place at about 04:55 BST.

न्यूकैसल में लाफिंग गैस के दर्जनों कनस्तरों वाली एक कार चोरी हो गई है।


Murder charge after Bedlington head injury death

Summary: A man has been charged with murdering a 64-year-old man who died after being attacked in Northumberland.

Andrew Saint was found with a serious head injury at an address on Pioneer Terrace in Bedlington on 23 February. Mr Saint was taken to hospital, where he died on 13 March. James Rutherford, 37, of Pioneer Terrace, appeared at Bedlington Magistrates' Court earlier and was remanded to appear at Newcastle Crown Court on Thursday. Det Ch Insp Ed Small said Mr Saint's family were "understandably devastated by what has happened" and were being supported by specially trained officers.

एक व्यक्ति पर नॉर्थम्बरलैंड में हमले के बाद मारे गए 64 वर्षीय व्यक्ति की हत्या का आरोप लगाया गया है।


Brexit: EU digs heels in over deal

Summary: So. How open does the EU seem almost a week on from parliament narrowly voting in favour of an amendment to find alternatives to the backstop guarantee to keep the Irish border open after Brexit?

Katya AdlerEurope editor@BBCkatyaadleron Twitter After all, with every passing day as we've heard , again and again and again, the clock is ticking us all towards an increased chance of a no-deal Brexit with all the costs and chaos that could involve. Well, if I were to speak in weather forecast terms, I might describe current EU attitudes as frosty with a chance of ice. If Theresa May comes to Brussels later this week, she will be received politely and listened to attentively. But if her EU ask remains centred around getting a time limit to, or allowing the UK a unilateral get-out mechanism from, the Irish border backstop or if she pushes again for pure technology as a means of avoiding a hard border on the island of Ireland, then the likelihood of her being sent home empty-handed - or as good as - is very high indeed. This is not because the EU has suddenly become cavalier about the prospect of a no-deal Brexit - far from it. The club may be over the moon about just sealing the world's largest ever bilateral deal with Japan but that's no replacement for trade and cooperation with neighbouring UK. It's just that the EU sees so many reasons not to budge over the backstop: solidarity with EU club member Ireland over "caving in" to departing member UK; defending the Good Friday Agreement and the Northern Ireland peace process; and above all (in the eyes, hearts and pockets of many EU politicians and businesses) defending the integrity of the EU's single market. So when Sajid Javid, the UK's home secretary, announced at the weekend that sorting out the backstop would just involve "a bit of good will" on behalf of the EU, I could almost hear the groans of European exasperation from my Brussels living room. This is something that those in the UK who knowingly repeat that "the EU will give in, in the end" perhaps don't fully appreciate. Choice of two evils? The EU certainly does budge at times, even when it has repeatedly ruled out such a move but it performs U-turns out of self-interest, to safeguard the bloc in some way. Take the oft-cited Greek debt crisis - the EU acted in the interest of the eurozone currency. That is ultimately why it changed its line on member country Greece. The Brussels calculation is that a no-deal Brexit would be damaging for the EU but exposing the entire EU single market to clear vulnerabilities would be the worst of two evils. The backstop guarantee for the Irish border ensures a means of sealing the long, meandering, porous border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in a way that technology alone (as many Brexiteers are suggesting) cannot. The EU worries about tariff-dodging and about non-EU standard products being smuggled into the EU's single market "through the back door" - via Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK. If technology alone could seal a border in terms of customs and regulatory checks then you would no longer see the existing infrastructure in place between close allies and neighbours non-EU Norway and EU member Sweden or between Switzerland, which has very tight relations with the European Union, and its EU neighbours. So, instead of dramatically changing or weakening the backstop, the EU is more than happy - as officials indicated today to visiting members of the UK's parliamentary Brexit Select Committee - to repeat or re-package its previous reassurances about the backstop. For example: An important aside on the transition period: there's a new proposal the EU understands is now being championed by Downing Street - The Malthouse Compromise. Brussels would likely reject this, not only because it seeks to rewrite the backstop but because it suggests paying the EU to extend the transition period even in the case of a no-deal Brexit. The EU argues (and this is included in the text of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement) that if the Brexit deal is not passed by the House of Commons, there will be no transition period. Full stop. Brinkmanship Now, the EU is not at all convinced that re-hashing assurances about the backstop will be enough to satisfy MPs who voted to change it. They believe the bar set by the DUP and hard-line Brexiteers is too high for any tweaks the EU might be willing to make. Which leaves EU leaders sceptical that Theresa May actually has the majority of MPs behind her. Just this weekend for example, the EU's deputy chief Brexit negotiator, Sabine Weyand, retweeted a UK commentator pointing out signs of splintering in the brief truce inside the Conservative Party. Which is why the EU will continue to show ice-cold resolve - at least for now. Hoping, by not giving an inch over the backstop, that the Prime Minister will be forced to look across the political divide, to the Labour Party, for another means to find parliamentary support for the Brexit Deal - such as opting for a permanent customs union with the EU. This is the EU's hope. But European diplomats see in Theresa May a politician who likes sticking to her Plan A's. From the beginning we've discussed the big possibility that with such a divided country, parliament, party and cabinet, the prime minister will simply keep playing for time, inching forward small step by small step until so close to the cliff-edge of having no Brexit deal at all that most MPs will end up backing her and her deal at the very last moment. This is high-risk brinkmanship. Dublin is deeply concerned about the consequences of a no deal Brexit - for peace above all but also about the impact on the Irish economy. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar heads to Brussels this Wednesday for high-level meetings. That same day his deputy flies to Washington to lobby for US support to safeguard the Good Friday Agreement and to ensure the Irish border stays open. Could US disapproval over UK pressure on the backstop makes things more complicated for a future UK-US trade deal? It won't make things any simpler.

तो. ब्रेक्सिट के बाद आयरिश सीमा को खुला रखने के लिए बैकस्टॉप गारंटी के विकल्प खोजने के लिए एक संशोधन के पक्ष में मतदान करने के लगभग एक सप्ताह बाद यूरोपीय संघ कितना खुला प्रतीत होता है?


FGM: What is female genital mutilation? Debunking the myths

Summary: Warning this report contains graphic descriptions of the practices involved in female genital mutilation. Female genital mutilation, or FGM, is when a girl's genitals are either partially or totally removed for non-medical reasons.

By Nicholas RotherhamNewsbeat reporter Sometimes called female circumcision, it dates back around 2,500 years. It affects 130 million girls and young women worldwide, but there's still a lot of myths and misinformation surrounding female genital mutilation. Myth 1: It doesn't happen in the UK FGM is practised in around 30 countries, largely across Africa and the Middle East. Unicef say in places like Egypt and Somalia over 90% of girls and women have been cut. But the numbers of newly identified cases in the UK is growing. A report released last summer by City University London said there are thought to be around 137,000 women living consequences of female genital mutilation in England and Wales, with another 60,000 at risk. Last week the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) revealed there'd been 558 newly identified cases of FGM reported by hospitals across England in December 2014. That's around 18 new cases a day. In reality though that number is likely to be higher, as 26 NHS trusts didn't submit figures to the HSCIC. Myth 2: It's always done for religious reasons FGM is carried out for a number of cultural, religious and social reasons. Although it's not in any religious texts, for some communities the practise has become symbolic as a demonstration of faith. In most societies though FGM is considered a cultural tradition, associated with ideals of femininity and modesty. This includes the idea that girls are "clean" and "beautiful" after removal of body parts that are considered "male" or "unclean". It's also often motivated by beliefs around what is considered "proper sexual behaviour". Many believe it reduces a woman's sex drive and therefore stops them from having sex before marriage. The covering or narrowing of the vagina's opening is also expected to further discourage "illicit" sexual intercourse by women later in life. Myth 3: It's done for health reasons According to the World Health Organisation, the NHS and many more organisations there are no health benefits to FGM. In fact it can cause both short and long-term health problems. Some of the immediate effects include: severe pain, bleeding, wound infection, open sores, inability to pass urine and damage to other organs, such as the urethra (where urine passes) and the bowel. Longer term the practise can cause abnormal periods, difficulty passing urine, kidney failure, infertility, cysts, pain during sex and the need for later surgery to open the vagina for sexual intercourse and childbirth. Myth 4: It's the same as male circumcision Male circumcision is the surgical removal of the foreskin from the penis. It's usually performed on babies and young boys and is common practice in the Jewish and Islamic faiths. Female genital mutilation is when a girl's genitals are either partially or totally removed for non-medical reasons. In most cases it's carried out on girls under 15, by traditional circumcisers or preachers. The practise is often performed using thorns, broken glass or razor blades, and without anaesthetic. There are several types of FGM. Clitoridectomy involves removing part or all of the clitoris. Excision is the removal of part or all of the clitoris and the lips that surround the vagina, with or without removal of the larger outer lips. Infibulation is the most severe form of FGM. In this instance the outer lips and clitoris are removed, then the genitals are stitched closed so that the woman either cannot have or enjoy having sex. A tiny piece of wood or reed is inserted to leave a small opening, so the girl can still go to the toilet and have her period. If she gets pregnant she'll be unstitched for the birth and then sewn back up again afterwards. Other types of FGM include pricking, piercing, incising and scraping the genital area. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube

चेतावनी देते हुए कि इस रिपोर्ट में महिला जननांग विकृति में शामिल प्रथाओं का ग्राफिक विवरण है। महिला जननांग विकृति, या एफ. जी. एम., तब होता है जब किसी लड़की के जननांगों को गैर-चिकित्सा कारणों से आंशिक रूप से या पूरी तरह से हटा दिया जाता है।


Courtney Booth missing with older man in North Yorkshire

Summary: Police are looking for a 15-year-old girl who has not been seen for five days and is thought to be in the company of a man in his 20s.

Courtney Booth, from Doncaster, was last seen in the South Yorkshire town on Saturday afternoon. Ms Booth was known to be in Harrogate on Saturday evening and is thought to have moved to the York area on Sunday. She is slim with light or ginger hair, wearing jeans and trainers. Police said they were concerned for her welfare. More news from across Yorkshire Related Internet Links North Yorkshire Police

पुलिस एक 15 वर्षीय लड़की की तलाश कर रही है जिसे पांच दिनों से नहीं देखा गया है और माना जाता है कि वह 20 साल के एक व्यक्ति के साथ है।


How illegal logging in Brazil's Amazon turns 'legal'

Summary: Deforestation in Brazil's huge Amazon region has slowed in recent years, and this week the government said it was at its lowest level since monitoring began 24 years ago. But despite tougher regulations, unscrupulous loggers are still finding ways to get timber out of the jungle and selling it as legally felled wood, locals say.

By Sue BranfordPara state, Brazil Fabio Lourenco de Souza, a young Brazilian farmer, lives in a settlement known as PDS Esperanca (Hope), in the Xingu river valley in eastern Amazonia. Although the land is rich in tropical timber, along with most of the 300 families in the settlement, he wants nothing to do with loggers. "It makes no sense at all for us to start logging the timber on our settlement," says Fabio, who stops work on the construction of a new wooden house for himself and his family to talk. "The logging companies would not pay us enough for the wood, and would destroy the forest, and we need it for the future of our children." It is better to grow crops, he says, particularly cacao, which brings in a good income. On guard For years, the inhabitants of PDS Esperanca have been worried about loggers stealing timber from their land. They say it happens routinely, and that loggers use falsified papers to make the wood look as if it had been legally felled. This illegal-to-legal transformation is known in Brazil as "heating" wood. To legally harvest wood on the land, a landowner must make an inventory of the species of timber on his or her land and apply to the government for authorisation. Provided the plan respects the legal limits for timber extraction, and contains a commitment to reforest the cleared area, it will be authorised. In cases of "heating", loggers bribe and bully landowners, big and small, to draw up the documentation, which they then buy, often under duress and for a negligible sum. The loggers then use the plans to give a legal cover story for timber they have logged illegally from a different area. The BBC approached the government about this practice, but it refused to grant an interview. A few years ago, the residents of PDS Esperanca grew so concerned that they blockaded the entrance to their settlement to stop illegal loggers from entering. After seven tense months, they persuaded the National Institute of Colonisation and Agrarian Reform (Incra) - which distributes land and manages settlements - to build a sentry-box to guard the settlement and to pay a private security firm to man it. It is still there, and helps to explain why life is relatively tranquil in PDS Esperanca, although some residents still get death threats from the loggers. There is more tension in another settlement, PDS Virola-Jatoba, where most of the 180 families are also trying to stop the loggers stealing their timber. They have a rota for guarding the settlement round the clock. At the end of September, one family discovered that loggers had secretly built a track into the back of their land so they could take out timber by barge along a tributary of the Amazon River. The following day, a small group of settlers, accompanied by three Incra officials, drove as close as they could to where the loggers were working. Then, guided by the sound of the machines, they walked about 10km (six miles) through the forest to find them. One of the settlers, who did not want to give his name, admitted that he was scared. "We didn't know what was waiting for us," he said. "We were afraid that there would be armed guards protecting the workers." As it turned out, the workers were unarmed and readily handed over the keys to the machinery. The two sides ended up sharing their dinner. Death threats Many settlers in the region want to exploit their timber, but on their own terms. A few are being trained by the Brazilian Forest Service to run their own logging operation, but they face fierce opposition from logging companies. Several locals confirmed that they had received death threats. And few communities can manage to keep the loggers out. Urara, a town of about 50,000 inhabitants on the Transamazon highway, is a typical frontier town with no running water, no sewerage and no airport - apart from small, clandestine landing strips, which some people say are used for drug trafficking. What it does have in abundance are logging companies, which drive the town's economy. As the light fades, lorries without number plates arrive at the timber yards loaded with what locals say is illegally felled tropical timber. The next morning in the bright sunshine, lorries with number plates drive out of the yards, loaded with sawn planks, each with an identification label, as required by law. This timber can now be sold on the domestic market or exported. Land conflict PDS Esperanca and PDS Virola-Jatoba were created by an American nun, Sister Dorothy Stang, as a means of countering the plundering of the forest by the loggers. They have a strong emphasis on forest conservation - while settlers can cultivate their own individual plots, they cannot sell them. The two settlements are proving successful, but - largely because they have not been endorsed wholeheartedly by the authorities - they have not spread throughout the region, as Sister Dorothy had hoped. And Sister Dorothy herself was murdered in PDS Esperanca in 2005, by gunmen sent in by landowners. The conflict over land that gave rise to her killing still simmers. In 2009, a memorial plaque was nailed to a tree close to where Sister Dorothy was murdered. It was soon riddled with bullets. The message was clear: farmers who resist logging do so at their own risk.

ब्राजील के विशाल अमेज़न क्षेत्र में वनों की कटाई हाल के वर्षों में धीमी हो गई है, और इस सप्ताह सरकार ने कहा कि 24 साल पहले निगरानी शुरू होने के बाद से यह अपने सबसे निचले स्तर पर है। लेकिन सख्त नियमों के बावजूद, बेईमान लकड़हारा अभी भी जंगल से लकड़ी निकालने और इसे कानूनी रूप से कटी हुई लकड़ी के रूप में बेचने के तरीके ढूंढ रहे हैं, स्थानीय लोगों का कहना है।


Coronavirus: Memorial gardens planned across England

Summary: The coronavirus pandemic has claimed tens thousands of lives across England - but how should those who have died best be remembered? Could part of the legacy of the virus be the creation of gardens and woodlands in which people can remember its victims?

By Emma KasprzakBBC News During lockdown temporary memorials were created at some churches while councils have begun to announce plans for green spaces to remember people who have died. Fundraisers for memorial gardens have sprung up on sites such as JustGiving and Go Fund Me, with thousands of pounds already being pledged to get local projects off the ground. Andy Langford, Cruse Bereavement Care clinical director, said: "Memorial gardens can anchor people to memories of special times they spent with someone." Memorial gardens have traditionally been created to remember the victims of conflict or terrorism attacks but their background does have relevance to the current pandemic. According to a report by Historic England, memorial parks and gardens really took off after World War One when the scale of loss and the views of returning soldiers led to memorials that took into account the needs of the living - rather than monuments that focused on the dead. David Lambert, from the Parks Agency, which produced the report, said: "War memorial parks and gardens were mainly developed after World War One, with a smaller but still significant number after World War Two. "Memorial woodlands, memorial sports fields, memorial avenues and roads likewise." He said he had not come across any memorials to the Spanish flu epidemic, which began shortly after the end of the World War One when soldiers returned home from the battlefields of Europe. Spanish flu was estimated to have killed more than 100 million people globally but has become known as the "forgotten pandemic" because of a lack of awareness of the outbreak, which occurred at a time when the world was already coming to term with the huge losses of war. "I guess the government was keen to focus on the peace (or victory as they liked to term it) rather than on a new wave of deaths," Mr Lambert said. Professor Avril Maddrell, a social and cultural geographer who has researched public bereavement traditions, said: "Outside the cemetery and the crematorium the overwhelming emphasis of civic monuments has been on national pride. "The Wellington memorial, for example, focuses on the military leader and famous victory." Prof Maddrell said these monuments tended to have a class element, celebrating male public figures rather than everyday people. "Everyday" deaths from disease were generally viewed as "par for the course", she said. "They were expected to be borne, lived with and not made a fuss about. "There are no memorials to the thousands of women who have died in childbirth as again it was viewed as an individual private loss, something that happens." Talking about the most recent global pandemic before coronavirus Prof Maddrell said: "With Spanish Flu the public reaction was in part shaped by overlapping with the end of the First World War, when the focus of attention and resources was on war graves and memorialising war dead appropriately. "There was also a national desire to focus on recovery." In Staffordshire a memorial garden for those who died during the lockdown was set up in April as a reminder the virus could affect anyone. Riverside Church in Branson set up the garden with photographs and names of people who had died displayed on crosses. Among those remembered were three members of the same family. In Solihull, in the West Midlands, the local council has said it wanted to create a memorial woodland. Councillor Ade Adeyemo said he welcomed the idea of "having somewhere for local residents to be able to grieve". In Suffolk the county council has announced plans for a "healing wood" to honour those who have died and give people access to a place for reflection. Councillor Penny Otton said it would be "essential for people that have, over the last few months, suffered from serious mental health problems". Cabinet member for environment Richard Rout said the authority intended to create a place where "generations to come can take refuge from their daily lives and reflect on this time, and remember those who have lost their lives". Memorials to the victims of disease Memorials to the victims of a disease outbreak are not widespread but they are also not new. In towns and villages around England plague crosses stand as a reminder of the victims of the Great Plague. Some of the most famous memorials are in the Derbyshire village of Eyam where 75% of the population died. More recently in Liberia a memorial graveyard to the victims of Ebola was dedicated in 2016. As many victims were cremated it has also served as a focus point for families who do not have a grave to visit. While there have been calls for an Aids memorial to be built in London it has not yet become a reality. There is, however, an Aids memorial quilt that includes quotes and images from family and friends of 384 people who died in the 1980s and 90s. Though not a memorial, there is a statue, plaque and museum dedicated to physician Edward Jenner, a pioneer of vaccination who invented the smallpox vaccine. Funeral companies have also announced plans for memorial gardens, Westerleigh, which runs crematoria and cemeteries across the UK, recently released artist's impressions of its designs for 34 memorial gardens. Roger Mclaughlan, chief executive of Westerleigh Group, said: "The gardens will be special places, where people can come to remember and reflect, and to give thanks to the wonderful way that the NHS, key workers and whole communities pulled together during this unprecedented crisis." More traditional memorials have also been planned, with South Tyneside Council and Barnsley Councils both announcing plans for public artwork to remember people who have died while also recognising key workers and volunteers. Some councils have also begun to explore funding options, with the impact of lockdown on the economy and widespread job losses leaving council budgets stretched. Portsmouth City Council recently approved plans to set up the Portsmouth Coronavirus Memorial Trust, which will consult residents on what sort of memorial they would like. James Daly, a cultural development and projects officer at the council, said: "We would expect the trust to consult widely with the public because we know that memorials are important as remembrance but also as part of the healing process - so it's important people in the city feel ownership of it." Prof Maddrell said there were a number of places and ways society chose to remember people, including online, through spontaneous memorials such as flowers and candles left at the site of death, or memorial benches. "While plans for memorial gardens are springing up, and these are to be welcomed, in terms of a legacy, the best memorial would be better preparation and organisation to mitigate the ongoing effects of the pandemic," she said. A series of memorial gardens could see more public outdoor space created, at a time when the importance of access to gardens has been recognised. Lockdown drew attention to how many people in the UK did not have access to the outdoors and also to the fact access to a balcony, garden or park had been considered a luxury when in reality it was a necessity for mental and physical health. Mr Langford said: "A traumatic death can be at the forefront of your mind, and a memorial garden can help someone remember the good and joyous times alongside what might have been a very difficult ending. "They can create a sense of peace and closeness to the person that has died, as well as a place to have a cry and remember how much you miss them. Both are healthy parts of the grieving process."

कोरोनावायरस महामारी ने पूरे इंग्लैंड में दसियों हज़ार लोगों की जान ले ली है-लेकिन जो लोग मर गए हैं उन्हें सबसे अच्छी तरह से कैसे याद किया जाना चाहिए? क्या वायरस की विरासत का हिस्सा बगीचों और जंगलों का निर्माण हो सकता है जिसमें लोग इसके पीड़ितों को याद कर सकें?


AV voting referendum: Charles Kennedy's view

Summary: A referendum will be held on 5 May on whether to keep the first-past-the-post system for electing MPs or to switch to the alternative vote (AV). The BBC is asking a variety of people to give their view.

By Charles KennedyFormer Liberal Democrat leader I was a student at Glasgow University in 1972 when Scotland first held a referendum on devolution. Despite massive public support for the change, it was almost twenty years before we were finally given the chance to have our say again. If we vote no to AV this May, who knows how long we'll have to wait for electoral reform. First-past-the-post isn't worth the paper it's written on. It's a system created for the days of two big parties in Parliament, whereas in 2010 more than a third of the UK voted for one of the smaller parties. AV isn't necessarily perfect, but it is a fair and democratically representative option that will eliminate the Westminster clichés of safe seats and jobs for life. It will maintain the one good feature of first-past-the-post - a strong MP-constituency link - whilst forcing MPs to represent the interests of every one of their constituents. Hard-won opportunity The No 2 AV campaign know all about the unfair results delivered by first-past-the-post. That is why they have to make up inaccurate facts about costs and display offensive adverts to try and gather support. They are clutching at straws to such an extent that they are now trying to turn this hard-won opportunity for real democratic reform into a judgement on Nick Clegg and the coalition government. The electorate already has an opportunity to deliver a verdict on the government - at a general election. Ever since entering into the world of politics almost thirty years ago, I have campaigned for electoral reform, becoming the President of both Dagger (Democratic Action Group for Gaining Electoral Reform) and the Liberal Democrat Group of the Electoral Reform Society. It is not hard to imagine, therefore, how delighted I was to hear that we as a nation are finally going to be able to deliver a verdict on our outdated and ineffective voting system. Regardless of your political affiliation, I urge you to help make our democracy fairer and more representative. Make sure that your MP has to work for you and for each and every other member of your constituency, rather than just the core support found in so many seats under the current system.

5 मई को एक जनमत संग्रह होगा कि क्या सांसदों के चुनाव के लिए पहले-अतीत-द-पोस्ट प्रणाली को बनाए रखा जाए या वैकल्पिक वोट (एवी) पर स्विच किया जाए। बीबीसी विभिन्न लोगों से अपने विचार देने के लिए कह रहा है।


Scotland the Brrr-ave: Fun in frozen mountains

Summary: Outdoor sports enthusiasts made the most of the weekend's freezing but calm winter weather in Scotland's mountains.

Mountain snowsports centres, including CairnGorm Mountain near Aviemore, were busy with skiers and snowboarders. Climbers and hillwalkers also headed to snow-covered peaks in Lochaber, Glen Coe, Creag Meagaidh, Torridon and Cairngorms. Images of the busy, wintry scenes were captured by Scottish Avalanche Information Service teams and photographer Peter Jolly. All images are copyrighted.

आउटडोर खेल के प्रति उत्साही लोगों ने स्कॉटलैंड के पहाड़ों में सप्ताहांत के ठंडे लेकिन शांत सर्दियों के मौसम का अधिकतम लाभ उठाया।


By-election in Aberdeen after Scott Cassie jailed

Summary: A by-election is being held in the wake of the jailing of a former Aberdeen city councillor.

Scott Cassie, 60, resigned as a councillor in April and was jailed for a year last month after admitting embezzlement. The by-election is for the Airyhall, Broomhill and Garthdee ward. The four main parties are all fielding candidates. There are two independents standing plus candidates from the Green Party and the Scottish National Front. The count will then take place on Friday.

एबरडीन शहर के एक पूर्व पार्षद को जेल भेजे जाने के बाद उपचुनाव हो रहा है।