Viewpoint: What's it like to be a disabled dad?

Summary: Laurence Clark is a stand-up comedian who has cerebral palsy. He lives with his wife Adele and his two sons Tom, seven, and Jamie, nine months. Here he describes both the challenges and the attitudes people have towards families like his.

I guess my family does not fit with the typical image of 2.4 children. But wouldn't it be boring if all families were identical? One bizarre reaction I often get is people thinking that I'm somehow depriving my children of physical activity because their dad is a wheelchair user. I typically get comments like: "Isn't it a shame the boys will never get to play football with their dad?" But there are lots of other different types of play which are accessible that I can do with the boys, such as reading, jigsaws or going to the cinema, and if they desperately wanted to play football then they have a footie-obsessed granddad who is more than happy to oblige. And we do live in Liverpool after all. Over the years I've also found there seems to be this general misunderstanding that disabled people have kids in order to provide them with a free source of "care" or support. Whenever issues around disabled parents make it into the media, it's typically around the lack of support for young carers. Indeed sometimes I can't help but feel that society seems more comfortable with the notion of my children looking after me - rather than supporting me to look after my children. Of course, no child should be put in a position where they are being relied upon by their parents for basic day-to-day support. One thing about my family which surprises people is that we manage our own support and don't expect our kids to "look after" us. We have a personal budget from our local authority which we use to employ personal assistants to support us with day-to-day living, including our roles as parents. This can involve helping us do tasks like getting our kids to nursery or school in the mornings, washing their clothes and preparing meals. However more and more government cuts to local authority funding are, in turn, having a huge effect on local social care provision for people like us. Only this week Chancellor George Osborne announced in the Budget a further £10bn cut in welfare spending in 2016-17 from the forecast bill. To me, giving disabled parents adequate support makes good sense, as the knock-on effect is fewer children being placed in the position of having to provide support for their parents. Instead disabled parents would be able to fulfil their roles as parents, thus freeing their children to get on with simply being kids. There's also a misconception that disabled people with my degree of impairment are incapable of being parents at all. When we'd tell people we were expecting we'd get one of two reactions. They either assumed we must have had IVF because we couldn't possibly have done it the old-fashioned way. Or they would shake my hand firmly and say "Congratulations" while I could see them thinking: "How the hell did he manage that then?" It is often said that a defining point in any child's development is the moment when they realise they are better than their parents at doing a particular thing. To the best of my knowledge, this moment arrived for my older son Tom on his fifth birthday when he asked me to help him play a game on his new games console. It was then I discovered that most video games are not really designed for the co-ordination skills of someone with cerebral palsy. Of course, another common reaction I get when I tell people that I'm a dad is that I'm apparently "inspirational". These sorts of reactions really get on my nerves as they assume that I'm some sort of special case, when in fact there are thousands upon thousands of disabled people who choose to take the parenting plunge. That said, as a child I can't remember ever seeing any adults with cerebral palsy who had become parents. This in turn had a knock-on effect on expectations for my later life, since if you are not used to seeing people like yourself taking on responsibility and living full lives then it becomes harder to envisage yourself doing these sorts of things in the future. It was only as an adult that I finally met some disabled parents and realised this was not some impossible dream. I guess Adele and I didn't decide to have children to have them "look after" us or to prove a point, but for probably the exact same reasons as everyone else who decides to start a family. My kids are used to having a dad who uses a wheelchair because they've never known any different. It's only when other people comment or make an issue of it that it ever becomes a problem for us.

लॉरेंस क्लार्क एक स्टैंड-अप कॉमेडियन है जिसे सेरेब्रल पाल्सी है। वह अपनी पत्नी एडेले और अपने दो बेटों टॉम, सात और जेमी, नौ महीने के साथ रहता है। यहाँ वह अपने जैसे परिवारों के प्रति लोगों की चुनौतियों और दृष्टिकोण दोनों का वर्णन करता है।


Aerial images: Destruction at Lac-Megantic

Summary: Canadian investigators have begun searching the cause of the runaway oil train that derailed in Quebec on Saturday morning.

The carriages of the train exploded in the centre of the small town of Lac-Megantic, destroying at around 30 buildings and killing at least 15 people. Scattered oil tank wagon wheelsets Wrecked oil tank wagons Burnt-out cars Houses destroyed Shops burnt to the ground Satellite images captured by US space agency Nasa two days apart show the scale of the inferno in comparison to major urban centres close to Lac-Megantic.

कनाडाई जांचकर्ताओं ने शनिवार सुबह क्यूबेक में पटरी से उतरने वाली तेल ट्रेन के कारण की खोज शुरू कर दी है।


Art in 2017: A look ahead

Summary: 2017 is going to be a Hull of a year. Really. Humble old Hull - a city once voted among the worst to live in Britain - has had a multi-million pound facelift, cleaned up its act, and is playing open house to the world as UK City of Culture 2017 .

By Will GompertzArts editor Do go. It's a fabulous place. And not a bit like some other cities one could mention, where a stranger saying "hello" either means you've been set-upon by a chugger or a performance artist. They're a friendly lot over on the blowy east coast of Yorkshire, and have put together a decent and diverse 12-month programme. The year starts with the city's buildings being used as vast canvasses on to which images are projected telling the story of Hull, and ends with the Turner Prize exhibition and award. In between, like the sandwiches at Kingston's Deli on Savile Street, they have packed multiple delights. David Hockney's beloved Bridlington is just up the road. Maybe he'll pop in when he's on his way down to Tate Britain for the opening dinner celebrating his retrospective show at the Pimlico gallery in February. If so, he might pass fellow artist Tony Cragg on the M1, as he makes his way to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park for his March show. Can't wait. I like Cragg. And love Richard Long, another senior British artist exhibiting in 2017. He's on at Houghton Hall, once Robert Walpole's showy country pad in Norfolk, now home to a smattering of contemporary exhibits and the Cholmondeley family. If only our inaugural Prime Minister had had the financial acumen to match his impeccable taste in art, we could also have seen the masterpieces he collected by Velazquez, Van Dyke, Rubens and Rembrandt, but he didn't and Catherine the Great snaffled the lot in a fire sale in 1779. The Russians will be back in 2017, and in some style. This time at the Royal Academy in London, with an exhibition marking the centenary of the Russian Revolution. That's its spring show; in the autumn it will present a sure-fire hit with a major Jasper Johns retrospective (his work will also be present in the British Museum's The American Dream). Don't expect the retiring 86-year old artist to appear on Graham Norton's couch (or anybody else's), but do expect a classic to match Tate Modern's current monographic of Johns' old mate Robert Rauschenberg. The Bankside behemoth will be pulling in more punters in February with its Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition, an artist who rarely disappoints. If I had to pick out the odds-on blockbuster of 2017, it would be Cezanne Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery in October. My advice: book early. If you fancy clocking up a few air miles, the art world has laid on a feast of entertainments. There's the Venice Biennale running from May till September, with the wonderful sculptor Phyllida Barlow setting up shop in the British Pavilion. Documenta, the cognoscenti's favourite once-every-five-years international art event, is back. This time it's a bi-nation affair: part one takes place in Athens from April, part two kicks off in June at its regular home in Kassel, Germany. We're living in an age where museums have joined temples and churches as places to congregate and contemplate. Vast sums of money are being poured into the creation of ever bigger and better art shrines by wealthy folk looking for eternal fame, and city bureaucrats intent on setting a tourist trap. There are far too many to mention opening in 2017, but highlights include Louvre Abu Dhabi (probably December), and Zeitz MOCAA Cape Town (September). And finally, for the truly intrepid, 2017 offers a novelty not to be missed: the first ever Antarctic Bienniale. Wrap up warm, put a line through your diary for twelve days (27 March to 6 April), and submerge yourself in art. Happy New Year. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

2017 एक साल का हल होने जा रहा है। वास्तव में। विनम्र पुराना हल-एक शहर जिसे कभी ब्रिटेन में रहने के लिए सबसे खराब लोगों में से एक माना जाता था-ने कई मिलियन पाउंड का नया रूप दिया है, अपने कार्य को साफ किया है, और दुनिया के लिए यूके सिटी ऑफ कल्चर 2017 के रूप में खुला घर खेल रहा है।


Coronavirus: The NHS workers wearing bin bags as protection

Summary: As the death toll from coronavirus continues to climb, hospitals across the UK are working flat out to create more intensive care beds for those who are critically ill. Speaking to the BBC, one intensive care doctor describes the crippling reality of a lack of support and equipment faced by some health-care workers in England.

By Claire PressBBC News Several healthcare workers in England have told the BBC of a lack of equipment in their hospitals. Warned against speaking to the media, they were unwilling to talk publicly. However, one intensive care doctor from the Midlands wanted to go on record. The BBC agreed to change her name in order to protect her identity. Dr Roberts describes a hospital on the brink. Intensive care is already full of coronavirus (Covid-19) patients. All operations deemed non-urgent, even the cancer clinics, have been cancelled. There is a lack of staff, a lack of critical care beds, a shortage of basic antibiotics and ventilators. All this, combined with the looming uncertainty of what will be the expected peak, estimated to hit the UK around 14-15 April, means hospital staff are already feeling the strain. However, nothing Dr Roberts describes is quite as alarming as the fact that these medical professionals, who continue to care for critically ill patients for 13 hours every day, are having to resort to fashioning personal protective equipment (PPE) out of clinical waste bags, plastic aprons and borrowed skiing goggles. While the public attempts to keep to a social distance of two metres, many NHS staff are being asked to examine patients suspected of coronavirus at a distance of 20cm - without the proper protection. With potentially fatal implications, Dr Roberts says several departments within her hospital are now so fearful of what's coming next, they have begun to hoard PPE for themselves. "It's about being pragmatic. The nurses on ITU (Intensive Treatment Unit) need it now. They are doing procedures which risk aerosol spread of the virus. But they've been told to wear normal theatre hats, which have holes in them and don't provide any protection. "It's wrong. And that's why we're having to put bin bags and aprons on our heads." The government has acknowledged distribution problems, but says a national supply team, supported by the armed forces, is now "working around the clock" to deliver equipment. NHS England also said more than one million respiratory face masks were delivered on 1 April, but with no mention of much-needed head protection and long-sleeved gowns. Dr Roberts says her hospital has not received anything from the government, and what they do have is causing concern. "The respiratory protection face masks we're using at the moment, they've all been relabelled with new best-before end dates. Yesterday I found one with three stickers on. The first said, expiry 2009. The second sticker, expiry 2013. And the third sticker on the very top said 2021." Public Health England has said all stockpiled pieces of PPE [personal protective equipment] labelled with new expiry dates have "passed stringent tests" and are "safe for use by NHS staff". But Dr Roberts says she is not convinced. The Department of Health and Social Care also said it was "working closely with industry, the NHS, social care providers and the Army… If staff need to order more PPE there is a hotline in place". It said its new guidance on PPE was in line with World Health Organization advice to "make sure all clinicians are aware of what they should be wearing". Currently ventilated and under Dr Roberts' care are three of her colleagues, all of whom have tested positive for coronavirus. One is an intensive care doctor working on a Covid ward, who, like Dr Roberts, only had access to inadequate protection. The other two were both working on non-Covid wards and therefore were wearing no PPE. However, given their symptoms, Dr Roberts believes both of them contracted the virus while at work. Although colleagues continue to visit, as with all other patients, no relatives are allowed anywhere within the hospital. "The hardest thing at the moment is having to tell families you are withdrawing care, over the phone. Telling them their relatives are dying or have died but we can't let you come and see them," says Dr Roberts. "Normally you can say to their relative who's at the bedside, 'We're going to do everything we can', but I haven't felt able to say that, because at the moment, I can't. "I can't necessarily give them the best care on a ventilator, I can't guarantee the best nursing care, because the best nurses are being stretched four ways. We're running out of antibiotics, and I can't guarantee all the treatments that I know would help them." NHS England says it has no record of how many medical professionals have been admitted to hospital after contracting coronavirus at work. However, the two hardest-hit countries in Europe are counting. Spain's emergency health minister announced on 27 March that more than 9,400 health-care workers had tested positive, and in Italy, as of 30 March, more than 6,414 medical professionals were reported to have been infected. In the UK, several health workers are known to have died from coronavirus, including Areema Nasreen, a staff nurse in the West Midlands, Thomas Harvey, a health-care assistant in east London, Prof Mohamed Sami Shousha in central London, Dr Alfa Saadu in north London, Dr Habib Zaidi in Southend, Dr Adil El Tayar in west London and Dr Amged El-Hawrani in Leicester. Breaking point Based on projections from Italy and Spain, Dr Roberts says health-care workers are bracing for the peak to hit in less than two weeks. "If cases rise as quickly as they did in Spain and Italy, then quite frankly, we are screwed. All of our overspill areas will soon be full. "The anaesthetic machines we have, which are designed to work for two to three hours at most, have been running for four to five days straight. We're already getting leaks and failures." Extra intensive care beds, set up in several operating theatres and wards, have nearly doubled the hospital's capacity to support critically ill patients, particularly those who can't breathe for themselves and need to be put on a ventilator. However, by expanding intensive care, Dr Roberts says it's the nursing staff who are disproportionately affected. "Intensive care nurses are highly trained and normally deliver care one-to-one to those critically ill. Their patients may be asleep, but they have such a close relationship, they can describe every hair on a patient's head. "But now, with these extra beds, nurses are under pressure to look after up to four patients, while delivering the same level of critical care. They are in tears and really struggling. They are the most important part of the system, but that's where it's going to fall down". Stay at home Outside in the hospital car park, Dr Roberts describes how a new temporary building has appeared in the ambulance bay with just one purpose - to vet all patients for symptoms of coronavirus before they are admitted. It is run by a clinician, who, Dr Roberts points out, could otherwise be looking after patients. She describes the unit as a "lie detector". "It's really common for people to lie about their symptoms just to get seen. People who should have stayed at home, but they come to A&E. "So now every single patient gets vetted in the car park, to make sure those with Covid symptoms go to the right part of the hospital and don't infect everyone else, like those who've come in with a broken arm." But for Dr Roberts, it's not just about those turning up at A&E, it's everyone. "Most hospital staff, we are isolating ourselves when we are not at work, so as not to put other people at risk. "But the most frustrating thing for us is to see the parks full, or Tescos even busier than usual. Please stay at home." Illustrations by Charlie Newland

जैसे-जैसे कोरोना वायरस से मरने वालों की संख्या बढ़ती जा रही है, पूरे ब्रिटेन के अस्पताल गंभीर रूप से बीमार लोगों के लिए अधिक गहन देखभाल बिस्तर बनाने के लिए काम कर रहे हैं। बीबीसी से बात करते हुए, एक गहन देखभाल चिकित्सक इंग्लैंड में कुछ स्वास्थ्य देखभाल कर्मचारियों द्वारा सामना किए जाने वाले समर्थन और उपकरणों की कमी की अपंग वास्तविकता का वर्णन करता है।


Brexit: How would a second EU referendum be held?

Summary: A former Conservative cabinet minister has called for a second Brexit referendum . Writing in the Times, Justine Greening, who used to be education secretary, argued that another vote would be "the only way to end deadlock".

By Tom EdgingtonBBC Reality Check But how, in practice, could a second vote happen? Parliamentary approval The government has ruled out a new Brexit referendum and the Labour party says it's unlikely - although its Shadow Brexit Secretary, Sir Keir Starmer, says it is sensible to keep "all our options on the table" - in the event of Parliament voting down a Brexit deal or in the case of a "no deal" scenario. Downing Street said, in response to Ms Greening, that a referendum will not happen "in any circumstances". So unless there is a dramatic change in party policy, it's highly unlikely a referendum would be called in the first place. That's because a referendum requires an Act of Parliament, which needs to be voted through by the majority of MPs. And while there are vocal supporters on all sides, currently there are not enough MPs who support the idea of a second referendum. Timing Even if MPs and peers agreed in principle to hold a second referendum, the legislative process can be drawn out. Parliament would need to pass detailed rules for the conduct of the poll and the regulation of campaigners. It took seven months before Parliament signed off the previous referendum legislation in 2015. Further time was also needed to pass secondary legislation on areas such as voting registration. In theory, Parliament could copy over some of the legislation from the 2015 Act in order to try to speed the process up. But according to David Jeffery, a politics lecturer at Liverpool University, this might not save a lot of time because issues would still need to be debated and scrutinised by MPs and Lords. Aside from the time to pass the legislation, there's also the length of the campaign to consider. Last time around there was a four-month period between the then Prime Minister David Cameron announcing the referendum in February 2016, and the vote taking place on 23 June. Furthermore, the Electoral Commission has recommended that in future there should be at least a six-month gap between legislation being passed and a referendum being held. That's to allow enough time to register campaigns, put counting officers in place and give people information on how to vote. So combining the time to pass the legislation and allowing for a campaign, it might not be possible to hold a second referendum before the UK is scheduled to leave the EU in March 2019 (i.e. when the Article 50 process is due to expire). And holding a referendum after the Article 50 process could cause a number of practical problems. For one, what if the country voted to remain in the EU, but had already left by the time the vote was held? This could be avoided if the EU agreed to extend the Article 50 deadline - but this would need to be unanimously agreed by all EU member states. The question There's also the referendum question itself and the options on the ballot paper to consider. These need to be presented "clearly, simply and neutrally", according to the Electoral Commission. Justine Greening argues for three options: accept a negotiated Brexit deal, stay in the EU, or leave with no deal. David Jeffery says having more than a yes/no option could complicate the process: "With three options you could have a situation where just 34% decide the winning option. "And that leads to questions about the type of voting system you want - like choosing the options by preference order," he says. "But then you need to ask 'do the public understand the system and how might it work in such a short period of time?'" In the end it would be up to the Electoral Commission to assess that question. What do you want BBC Reality Check to investigate? Get in touch Read more from Reality Check Follow us on Twitter

एक पूर्व रूढ़िवादी कैबिनेट मंत्री ने दूसरे ब्रेक्सिट जनमत संग्रह का आह्वान किया है। टाइम्स में लिखते हुए, जस्टिन ग्रीनिंग, जो शिक्षा सचिव हुआ करते थे, ने तर्क दिया कि एक और वोट "गतिरोध को समाप्त करने का एकमात्र तरीका" होगा।


Jersey minister wants compulsory bike helmets for children

Summary: Cycle helmets could be made compulsory for anyone under the age of 14, if Jersey's politicians agree.

Transport Minister, Deputy Kevin Lewis, has proposed a legal move that would require children to wear them while cycling on roads. In 2010, politicians agreed to support a move to "ensure cyclists were required to wear suitable safety helmets whilst cycling". States members will debate the proposals on 29 April.

अगर जर्सी के राजनेता सहमत हों तो 14 साल से कम उम्र के किसी भी व्यक्ति के लिए साइकिल हेलमेट अनिवार्य किया जा सकता है।


Zanzibar halts fishing as storm Jobo approaches Tanzania

Summary: Zanzibar's authorities have halted all sea activities, including fishing and transport, until further notice as a tropical storm approaches the Tanzanian islands.

Jobo has been downgraded from a cyclone to a depression but is still forecast to bring heavy rain and strong winds. It is due to hit the coast of Tanzania, including the biggest city, Dar es Salaam, on Sunday. Residents of coastal areas have been warned to avoid all travel. People in low-lying areas have been asked to move to higher ground. Zanzibar, a popular tourist destination, is a semi-autonomous archipelago in the Indian Ocean, about 80 km (50 miles) north-east of Dar es Salaam. It is normally reached by ferry. The cyclone hit the Seychelle Islands on Thursday, moving at a speed of 130km/h (80mph). Some buildings were damaged but there were no reports of casualties.

ज़ांज़ीबार के अधिकारियों ने मछली पकड़ने और परिवहन सहित सभी समुद्री गतिविधियों को अगली सूचना तक रोक दिया है, क्योंकि एक उष्णकटिबंधीय तूफान तंजानिया के द्वीपों के पास आ रहा है।


Woman arrested over Gwithian cliff death body

Summary: A 73-year-old woman has been arrested after a body was found at the bottom of the cliffs in Cornwall.

Officers were called by a member of the public who had spotted a woman's body near Gwithian on Friday afternoon. The dead woman was believed to be a 74-year-old from Wiltshire, officers said. Her next-of-kin have been informed. Devon and Cornwall Police said the arrested woman, from Westbury, Wiltshire, was held on suspicion of aiding or abetting a suicide. She was later released while inquiries continue. Police said the death was not being treated as suspicious and a file was being prepared for the coroner.

कॉर्नवाल में चट्टानों के नीचे एक शव मिलने के बाद एक 73 वर्षीय महिला को गिरफ्तार किया गया है।


Ellie Goulding on sad songs and moving on

Summary: After winning the BBC's Sound of 2010, Ellie Goulding delivered a UK number one album and turned Royal Wedding singer. Now she's back with an "experimental break-up album" and an unexpected US chart hit.

By Sarah Jane GriffithsEntertainment reporter, BBC News Dressed all in black on a rare sweltering summer's day in London, the singer is feeling reassured about the release of her second album, Halcyon, in October. New single Anything Could Happen got what she calls "a good reaction" after its first play on Radio 1 - the 25-year-old's name trended worldwide on Twitter. "I was nervous, understandably, because it's been such a long time here since anyone's heard anything original," she explains. Goulding has just jetted in from the US where she's been spending "a lot" of time. "Pretty much on and off for a year and a half," she says. "People think I've moved there!" It seems her home from home is pretty keen too, with the title track from her 2010 debut Lights currently at number two in the US Billboard chart. "It's going really well out there. Nobody expected Lights to be anywhere near number one. It's really old, I wrote it way before my first album came out in a hotel in Brighton. It's been on a really crazy journey." Released as the album's sixth single here, it failed to reach the top 40, peaking at number 49 last March. but it has been rising up the US charts for several months. "Maybe there's something to do with the lyrics or the melody that has appealed more to an American audience?" suggests Goulding. "It didn't do anything here. If I had made it and thought 'this is quite a strong song, it might do well in some commercial capacity'... but I didn't. "I mean I love it, obviously, I wrote it. You've got to love your own songs otherwise it defeats the object, but I can't explain it." A support slot on Katy Perry's tour and the 'Royal Wedding effect' - she sang her cover of Elton John's Your Song for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's first dance - have no doubt helped boost her US profile. But now she must focus on her new album. Goulding swapped the Bromley bedroom where she recorded her debut for the English countryside and the home studio of producer Jim Elliot, who has previously worked with Kylie and Ladyhawke. She reckons the more experimental and "darker record" is a big risk, but it seems there is no getting away from a certain subject. "I was determined to make it not about love, because the last one was so much about that," she explains. "But when I did start writing it, I went through a break up and it was really difficult, and so the record ended up being about that. "I couldn't help it. Every time I went to the studio I ended up writing quite sad songs. But even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do," says Goulding. After splitting from Radio 1 DJ Greg James, she is now dating US dubstep producer Skrillex - a "good person" who was himself tipped in this year's Sound of 2012. Clearly he has also had an influence on the record's glitching, electronic sounds (the couple also happen to have cute matching haircuts). "Yeah, it's something that I can't explain very well," admits Goulding. "But I guess Anything Could Happen is about that, because I didn't know what was around the corner". Goulding says Anything Could Happen is probably the happiest song she has ever written in her life. "I think being close to someone who is also a musician, and one I really respect and I'm a big fan of, all it does is motivate me and makes me want to work harder and be better," she says. Despite being championed by the BBC and the Brits before even releasing an album, Goulding still feels she has done things "the hard way". "It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist," she reveals. "I think around the time I played Glastonbury was a turning point. Then I started getting quite a lot of respect as a musician as opposed to just someone who'd had lots of hype and won things." Goulding has made no secret of her initial struggles with fame and success, which caused her to suffer panic attacks that felt "like having a heart attack". "It's a really scary, solitary, lonely thing. So I just want other people in that to know they're not alone," she says. But Goulding agrees she is not exactly the "no personal questions" type of artist. "I just don't like going, 'I don't want to answer that'. I think I'm just too nice," she explains. "I find it hard not to be honest. I can't imagine making a record and people not knowing the back story. "Maybe one day I'll make a record that's really mysterious and no one knows where it came from or what I wrote it about. But thus far, I've just wanted to explain everything properly." With the back story to Halcyon explained, Goulding's now preparing for what her manager tells her will be "the busiest couple of years of my life". But unlike last time, she is ready. "I used to make my manager Jamie not tell me where I was going to be the next day, because I was so afraid of flying and of anything," she says. "But now I love flying, I love working hard, I love being around the world. So much has changed, I think it's going to make a big difference." However, she is glad to be stationed back in London before touring starts in December. "Rehearsals are the most important thing in my world at the moment. The live show is going to be bigger, crazier, so we've got a lot of work to do. "I'm just thinking about it now and suddenly I'm really stressed out!" It is just as well she has put her old training regime, running and working out for two hours a day, on the back burner. "It's not as crazy. I used to train a lot, really hard," she admits, before an injury forced her to slow down. "I feel like maybe I went too hard too soon and now I need to chill out a bit? "But I was on the treadmill watching the Olympics the other night and it couldn't be a bigger motivation for me. I saw Bolt win and just suddenly upped my speed!" Anything Can Happen is out on 30 September. Halcyon follows on 8 October.

2010 का बी. बी. सी. का साउंड जीतने के बाद, एली गोल्डिंग ने यू. के. का नंबर एक एल्बम दिया और रॉयल वेडिंग गायिका बन गईं। अब वह एक "प्रयोगात्मक ब्रेक-अप एल्बम" और एक अप्रत्याशित यू. एस. चार्ट हिट के साथ वापस आ गई हैं।


Fire alarm 'saved' Flimby fire family

Summary: A family of four rescued from their smoke-filled house in Cumbria was saved by a fire alarm.

A neighbour called the fire brigade after hearing the alarm go off at the house in Brook Street, Flimby, in the early hours of Tuesday. Firefighters said they had to force their way into the house using breathing apparatus to wake the two adults and two children. Cumbria Fire Service said the blaze was caused by a grill pan being left on. Cumbria fire station manager Kevin Bethwaite said: "Another five or 10 minutes and the family could have been in real trouble. The alarm saved their lives."

कंब्रिया में अपने धुएँ से भरे घर से बचाए गए चार लोगों के परिवार को आग के अलार्म से बचाया गया।


US judge approves $5.7bn Visa and Mastercard settlement

Summary: A US judge has approved a $5.7bn (£3.5bn) class action settlement against credit card firms Visa and MasterCard.

The two firms were accused of fixing the credit card fees charged to merchants each time a credit or debit card was used. It is believed to be the largest settlement of an antitrust class action suit ever. Some retailers objected, claiming the terms weren't satisfactory. Merchants first sued Visa and MasterCard in 2005. An initial settlement of $7.2bn was agreed on, but the amount was lowered after around 8000 retailers, including Amazon and Target, opted out of the agreement. Many of those retailers have subsequently filed their own lawsuits.

एक अमेरिकी न्यायाधीश ने क्रेडिट कार्ड फर्मों वीजा और मास्टरकार्ड के खिलाफ $5.7bn (£ 3.5bn) वर्ग कार्रवाई समझौते को मंजूरी दी है।


What Japan's military shift means

Summary: The administration of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced a major new interpretation of the security provisions of the country's 1947 constitution, permitting its Self Defence Forces (SDF) to participate for the first time in collective self-defence related activities.

By Dr John Swenson-WrightChatham House In future, the SDF will, in principle, be able to assist the forces of a foreign country in situations where either the survival and security of Japan or that of its citizens is at risk. The new interpretation is highly controversial since it represents a sharp departure from the post-war political consensus, codified in Article 9 of the Japanese constitution, that explicitly limits Japan's use of military force exclusively to the defence of its sovereign territory and its people. Such has been the strength of post-war Japanese pacifist sentiment, and notwithstanding the long-term alliance with the United States, that Japan's defence forces have been unable to extend their military collaboration with their US allies beyond this narrowly circumscribed role. Under the new provisions, there are now a range of scenarios in which this type of joint defence activity might be expanded. Examples include providing defensive support to US forces under attack in the vicinity of Japan, co-operating militarily with US forces to safeguard Japanese citizens at risk overseas, participating in minesweeping activities during a time of war, or deploying Japanese forces to protect access to energy supplies or critically important sea-lanes of communication vital to Japan's survival. Indeed, in theory, the new interpretation will allow Japan to co-operate with any foreign country with which it has "close ties", thereby substantially expanding the scope for military co-operation with different countries and beyond the narrow remit of the defence of Japanese territory. Carte blanche? Opinion in Japan is divided on the merits of this change, with 50%, according to a recent Nikkei poll, opposing the new interpretation and 34% supporting it. The motives for opposition are mixed, in part reflecting the unresolved debate about Japan's post-war political identity, but also prompted by uncertainty regarding the long-term security objectives of the Abe administration. Progressive thinkers argue that the changes overturn the pacifist legal and interpretative conventions, established in the aftermath of World War Two, guaranteeing that Japan will never again become embroiled in foreign conflicts. Given the sensitivity and importance of these political norms, critics argue they should only be changed via constitutional amendment. While the Abe administration dominates both houses of the Japanese parliament, it is uncertain of its ability to revise the constitution rapidly and critics view the new interpretation as one of dubious political legitimacy. There is also some fear, both within Japan and amongst its closest neighbours, most notably China and South Korea, that the new interpretation is intended to allow the government to deploy troops freely in a wide-range of conflict situations. However, the Abe administration has explicitly ruled out such options and has been careful to distinguish between collective self-defence (intended to safeguard Japanese national interests and assets) and collective security - where states co-operate to protect their mutual interests in the face of foreign aggression. Mr Abe himself has made it clear that Japan's forces will not "participate in combat in wars such as the Gulf War and the Iraq War". Strategic risk Mr Abe appears to have a number of motives for introducing the new interpretation. It will provide Japan with much greater latitude to strengthen its military co-operation with the United States - something that Washington is keen to encourage as part of the current revision of the Joint US-Japan Defence Guidelines, unchanged since 1997. It will also open the door potentially to more active defence co-operation with other countries in the Asia-Pacific region, such as Australia and the Philippines - both of which have welcomed these changes, as they look anxiously at China's increasingly assertive maritime posture in the South and East China seas. More generally, the new interpretation is likely to strengthen the perception that Japan has become a more "normal" state, in terms of its ability constructively to contribute to global and regional security. The political and diplomatic dividends from such a change in attitudes are likely to be considerable, potentially strengthening Japan's long-standing bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council and adding weight to Mr Abe's recently articulated strategy of making a "proactive contribution to peace". The new approach is not without risk. While Japan's mainstream political parties remain weak and divided, citizen activism in opposition to these changes may be energised, particularly at the level of local politics. Prefectural, city, town and village-based criticism of the government's approach has been vocal and may cost the government support in the spring elections of 2015. Abroad, the new measures look set to further undermine an already frayed relationship with South Korea and to heighten territorial and political tensions with China. Finally, the intentional ambiguity surrounding the details of the new interpretation provides the government with useful flexibility in deploying its forces overseas, but it also magnifies the potential for increased tactical and strategic risk at a time when regional security tensions are intensifying. For a Japanese government that has limited experience of the high-pressure challenge of national security decision-making and crisis management, this may not be an entirely positive development. John Swenson-Wright is head of the Asia Programme at Chatham House.

जापानी प्रधान मंत्री शिंजो आबे के प्रशासन ने देश के 1947 के संविधान के सुरक्षा प्रावधानों की एक बड़ी नई व्याख्या की घोषणा की है, जिससे इसके आत्मरक्षा बलों (एस. डी. एफ.) को पहली बार सामूहिक आत्मरक्षा संबंधी गतिविधियों में भाग लेने की अनुमति मिली है।


Six plead not guilty to Jaskaran Kang murder

Summary: Five men and a boy have denied the murder and manslaughter of a 24-year-old who was fatally stabbed.

The body of Jaskaran Kang, from Handsworth, Birmingham, was discovered at a property in Stourbridge Road, Dudley, on 6 January. The accused appeared at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Monday and are set to face trial on 14 January. All six faced an additional charge of conspiracy to commit robbery - four men denied it. Two others who cannot be named - an 18-year-old who was 17 when arrested, and a 17 year old boy - admitted the charge. The accused are:

पाँच पुरुषों और एक लड़के ने एक 24 वर्षीय युवक की हत्या और हत्या से इनकार किया है, जिसे घातक रूप से चाकू मार दिया गया था।


St Helier lifeboat called to help fisherman

Summary: The St Helier Lifeboat crew had to rescue eight people from a fishing boat off Jersey on Sunday after the vessel became caught in discarded fishing nets.

The lifeboat was launched just after 04:30 GMT to help the 33ft boat. The charter vessel was several miles south-west of Corbiere lighthouse when it ran into problems. Andy Hibbs, St Helier RNLI Coxswain, said it was just one of those things that happened a lot. He said: "He was on his way back to Jersey, he got both propellers tangled up with a load of trawl netting. "There is nothing you can do but get somebody to give you a hand, unfortunately there was nobody around so he had to call us."

सेंट हेलियर लाइफबोट के चालक दल को रविवार को जर्सी के पास एक मछली पकड़ने वाली नाव से आठ लोगों को बचाना पड़ा, जब जहाज मछली पकड़ने के फेंके गए जाल में फंस गया।


Drone racing - sport of the future?

Summary: At Wembley last night I experienced what could be the sport of the future. Tiny drones raced out of the players' tunnel and did three laps of the stadium, weaving their way through a slalom course.

Rory Cellan-JonesTechnology correspondent@BBCRoryCJon Twitter The races were hard fought and - according to the commentators - full of thrills and spills. The stadium was empty, apart from a box full of journalists protected by a net, but perhaps in a few years' time huge crowds will gather to watch drone racing. We've heard today how ESPN plans to turn drone racing into a major TV sport - but before it's ready for live spectators, a few issues will need to be sorted out. Such as how can you actually see what is going on. As the tiny drones whizzed past me last night it was almost impossible to spot them, let along work out who was winning. But the organisers of the event, the mobile network EE, the chip maker Qualcomm and this new sport's organising body the European Rotor Sports Association believe that together they can create an absorbing live experience. We were shown two other views of the races. First, via the FPV (first person view) headsets the racers themselves wear to guide their drones with amazing skill around the course. Then on tablets showing the view from an EE action camera mounted on the front of each drone, all streamed live over the 4G network. To wear the FPV headset - where the signal often breaks up and the screen blurs - is to realise the immense skill of the pilots and the speed of their reactions. But it was the tablets which gave the best view of the action. Perhaps in the future, crowds will sit in a stadium gazing down at their tablets or smartphones at a chosen racer's progress and then up at the real thing whizzing past. But that will need a huge amount of bandwidth and may have to wait until 5G networks come along. In the meantime, though, plenty of people are coming into the sport. A racing drone isn't that expensive, and many of the racers build their own for a few hundred pounds. Already stars are emerging, including 15-year-old Luke Bannister who was racing at Wembley last night. In March he won the biggest contest so far, the World Drone Prix in Dubai, and a prize of $250,000 (£177,000). Luke didn't win last night, but seems a very confident young man, focused on getting better at a sport he obviously loves. Who knows, maybe he or someone like him will be battling Formula 1 champions and football stars to be the Sports Personality of 2026.

वेम्बली में कल रात मैंने अनुभव किया कि भविष्य का खेल क्या हो सकता है। छोटे ड्रोन खिलाड़ियों की सुरंग से बाहर निकले और एक स्लैलम कोर्स के माध्यम से अपना रास्ता बनाते हुए स्टेडियम के तीन चक्कर लगाए।


Tour de Yorkshire Sportive crash: Killed cyclist identified

Summary: A cyclist who died six days after colliding with a coach while taking part in the Tour De Yorkshire Sportive has been identified.

David Worthington, 51, from Pontefract, West Yorkshire, was badly injured in the crash near Wortley on 30 April and died on 6 May. South Yorkshire Police said Mr Worthington had been taking part in the amateur cycling event when the collision happened in Finkle Street Lane. The force has appealed for witnesses to come forward. More stories from across Yorkshire Related Internet Links South Yorkshire Police

टूर डी यॉर्कशायर स्पोर्टिव में भाग लेने के दौरान एक कोच से टकराने के छह दिन बाद मरने वाले एक साइकिल चालक की पहचान की गई है।


A wedding bomb, a letter and an unlikely suspect

Summary: After a massive search, police in India have arrested a college teacher in connection with a "wedding bomb" that killed a newly-married man and injured his wife. Soutik Biswas reports on how the investigation into a killing which shocked India took an unexpected turn.

The letter arrived in a stamped envelope on a hot summer morning in early April. The sender had printed "Important Letter" on a piece of paper and addressed it to the police chief of Balangir, a rural district in Orissa state studded with temples and farms. It was an anonymous and rather strangely-written letter containing 130 words printed in English on white foolscap. And it related to the recent wedding gift bomb murder in the district. Soumya Sekhar Sahu, a 26-year-old software engineer, had been killed and his 22-year-old wife Reema seriously injured when he opened a parcel addressed to him, five days after their marriage in February. Sahu's 85-year-old great aunt was also killed in the explosion at the family home in the sleepy town of Patnagarh. Police said the parcel had been sent by someone called SK Sharma from Raipur, some 230km (142 miles) away in neighbouring Chhattisgarh state. Both the name and address were found to be fake, police say. The letter they say was sent to the Balangir police chief began with the disclaimer that a "special messenger" had been sent by the writer to "drop this letter". And then, it came to the point quickly. The parcel with the bomb had been sent in the name of SK Sinha, not RK Sharma, it said. Three men, it said, had "undertaken the project" and they "were far away now where police cannot reach". The reasons for the blast, the sender wrote with an awkward flourish, were the groom's "betrayal" and money. The first reason possibly alluded to a scorned lover, and the second to a property dispute. "Even the killing of the whole family cannot compensate our loss," the sender wrote. In the end, the tone turned forceful. The police, wrote the sender, should "remain silent" and "not harass innocent people, doubting and asking them unnecessary questions". For more than a month, two dozen investigators questioned more than 100 people - friends and relatives of the couple mainly - in four cities in connection with the killing. They had scoured thousands of mobile phone records, and scanned laptops and phones belonging to the couple. Investigators had looked into a threatening call the victim received last year after his engagement, and found out it was from a young man known to his then fiancée who had blamed her for "ditching him and getting engaged to a richer boy". Encouraged by the lead, they had picked up the man and questioned him. They let him go after they found nothing amiss beyond a "silly threat" on the phone. Detectives had also drawn up a list of more than a dozen possible suspects, but had no firm leads on any of them. The case was going cold. As public and media pressure grew, the government handed the case over to the elite crime branch. More than 300km (186 miles) away in the state capital, Bhubaneshwar, crime branch chief Arun Bothra received a scan of the letter on WhatsApp. Mr Bothra, a 50-year-old journalist-turned-policeman, was taking over the investigation. "I read the letter the whole day and night. I must have read it a hundred times. It revealed a lot of things," he told me. "It was clear that the sender knew more about the crime than we did. By writing that it was being sent by a messenger, he wanted to tell us that the crime was not the work of a local man. He wanted to tell us that the plot was executed by three people. He wanted to be taken seriously, so he was kind of blowing his fake cover by pointing out a mistake we had made," Mr Bothra said. Mr Bothra sought records of the case. He found that the police had bungled while deciphering the parcel booking receipt - the untidy and hurried scrawl of the sender's name did not appear to resemble SK Sharma. "If you observe the writing closely, the name is more akin to SK Sinha or SK Singh - look at the loop in the end. And the police, the media, the survivors all kept repeating the sender was SK Sharma. And since we knew he had used a fake name, we did not bother about it." "I kind of instantly sensed the killer had himself sent the letter. How did he know that SK Sinha had sent the parcel? He had made a big mistake. The letter was the turning point in our investigation." Forensic scientists say they found a number of faint, unhelpful fingerprints on the letter. They sent the envelope to extract a genetic profile from the saliva the sender may have used on the glue seam, but none was found. Investigators sent a copy of the letter to the parents of the victim. They were asked whether they suspected anyone. The victim's mother, a teacher in a local college, went over the letter again and again. "It was then the mother said this letter could have been written by a colleague of hers who taught English at the college. She said he had a similar writing style and choice of words. Then she said something interesting. She said the teacher would often use the phrase 'completing the project'," said Mr Bothra. Workplace rivalry Punji Lal Meher, 49, had been called in for questioning a week after the fatal blast. The victim's mother had told police that he harassed her after she replaced him as principal of the college last year. The two had reportedly humiliated each other in public, but in the end Mr Meher appeared to have swallowed his pride. "We had really found nothing to pursue Mr Meher. There was never a lead really. We thought it was a case of usual workplace politics," one investigator told me. In his Facebook posts, Mr Meher is usually dressed in formal suits and blazers, a mark of an upwardly mobile man. He wears a gold-coloured watch, a prominent gold ring, and shiny ties, belts and shoes. In one picture, he sits astride a motorcycle, wearing an orange shirt and sunglasses. In other pictures, he is giving away medals at college functions, addressing an Aids awareness meeting, attending a yoga conference. His personal information details say he joined the college in 1996, became the principal in 2014. He's less prolific on Twitter. "There should be only one religion - the religion of humanity," he tweeted in February 2016. It was time to rethink the case and bring in Mr Meher for questioning, Mr Bothra told investigators. So they did. Mr Meher is alleged to have told police that he was out on his evening walk, when a man stopped him, gave him a letter and threatened to harm him if he didn't travel to Balangir town and deliver the letter. "It was the most incredible story that we've heard from a suspect," says Mr Bothra. According to police, Mr Meher said he began buying and hoarding firecrackers in October, when India celebrated Diwali, the festival of lights. He is alleged to have hoarded gunpowder from the crackers, from which they say he made the bomb. In a couple of months, it was ready, police say. They believe he then put it in a cardboard box and gift-wrapped it. On a balmy morning in February, he was ready to send the bomb to its destination, investigators say. He attended college in the morning, took a class, returned home, picked up the gift-wrapped parcel and went to the nearest railway station on his bike, leaving his Datsun sedan at home, it is alleged. He kept his phone at home in what police believe was an attempt to create an alibi that he never left his house. He then took the two-and-half-hour train journey to Raipur without a ticket to avoid being captured by CCTV cameras at the station ticket counter, police say. The police theory is that in Raipur, he took a cycle rickshaw and then a tuk-tuk to visit two courier services before deciding on one located in a basement. According to reports, at the first shop a woman employee asked the rickshaw puller about the contents of the parcel. Mr Meher is alleged to have panicked, walked into the shop and took back the parcel. (The police are seeking to retrieve CCTV footage from the shop.) After booking in the lethal parcel - with the contents given as "gift articles, sweets" - police say Mr Meher told them he took the evening train back and was in bed at home by midnight. In less than a week the parcel then made a 650km journey on three buses and passed through four pairs of hands before reaching Patnagarh on 20 February. Three days later, the bomb exploded in the Sahu house. Mr Meher attended the marriage - and funeral of the victim. "I was consumed by rage and hatred. I could not swallow the humiliation," Mr Meher is alleged to have told the police last week. Mr Meher is currently in police custody while the investigation continues, and is yet to enter a plea.

एक बड़े पैमाने पर खोज के बाद, भारत में पुलिस ने एक "शादी के बम" के संबंध में एक कॉलेज शिक्षक को गिरफ्तार किया है, जिसमें एक नवविवाहित व्यक्ति की मौत हो गई और उसकी पत्नी घायल हो गई। सौतिक बिस्वास ने बताया कि कैसे एक हत्या की जांच ने एक अप्रत्याशित मोड़ ले लिया जिसने भारत को चौंका दिया।


Jamie and his Lion: The adults who take their soft toys to work

Summary: Most of us have a favourite soft toy from childhood. A silent ally who over time becomes sidelined and left on a shelf. But for some adults they remain an essential presence never leaving the side of their owner.

By Beth RoseBBC News "Most people know me as Jamie + Lion. It's really not a big deal," says Jamie Knight, a 27-year-old developer for the BBC who lives in London with Lion, a 4ft-long soft toy - sometimes known as a plushie - which never leaves his side. "I'm autistic, which is a posh way of saying I have a different way of thinking and perceiving the world. For me the typical environment is pretty chaotic. A sudden loud announcement in a supermarket is pretty similar in effect to a flash-bang grenade used to confuse people during wars. "My brain needs more structure than most. The more predictable the world is, the better chance I have of being able to process it." Jamie's coping strategies include eating the same meal every night - filled pasta with sauce - and having Lion at his side, no matter where he goes. "He is a toy, I'm not deluded into thinking he is alive," he says. Carrying an object around brings some structure and consistency to his environment. The toy lion has a familiar texture and smell which helps in those moments when he feels "overloaded". What is autism? Source: The National Autistic Society "Another way he helps is with deep pressure. My sense of shape is sometimes a bit floaty. I can lose the edge of my body and feel as though I am floating apart. Hugging Lion - I pull him into my chest - provides the input my body needs to stop the floating feeling." Prof Bruce Hood from the University of Bristol says the common childhood trait of needing a soft toy for comfort may be carried into adulthood, as Jamie has suggested, by those particularly attracted to routine. "The reason children develop these relationships is still uncertain, but could arise from self-soothing or habitual routine formation with familiar objects. For example they have been shown to be useful to reduce the stress of attending the dentist." Most people "grow out of strong attachment" but "individuals with autism generally prefer structure and routines which may explain it," he says. Lion wasn't always so visible. In the past Jamie tried to conform to some kind of "normal". This wasn't so successful so, instead of attempting to "defeat" his autism, he decided to work with it. Lion mostly remained at home while Jamie was at secondary school but as he got older and demands changed, he needed more consistency. "During my college years he was always with me," he says. "He was pretty popular." Jamie's autism means at times he is non-verbal - unable to talk - although he can communicate using messaging services and apps which is how he spoke to me, with Lion sitting on his lap. He also knows enough sign language to "get by" which his friends have also learned so they can communicate together. It means he will generally work from home, but when he does go out he says reaction to Lion is "minimal to nothing". "I think to everyone else it's a much bigger deal than it is to me. In fact Lion has been really cool for my career rather accidentally. He's really memorable, and that has helped people remember me." Pigs and the Asylum Listen to the latest Ouch podcast with comedian and performer Tilley Milburn and her pig Del and the artist James Leadbitter also known as The Vacuum Cleaner. They talk about their latest works and the different experiences they had of staying in residential care facilities and experiencing face-down restraint. Follow BBC Ouch on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to the weekly podcast. Lion also acts as a prop in situations Jamie finds uncomfortable, such as giving someone a hug, Lion can step in and hug them instead. He says the toy has become part of his identity and that he'd lose something valuable if it weren't there. For actress and comedian Tilley Milburn her "lady pig" Del is someone she can rely on. Diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome at the age of 20 she was living in a residential care home when she spotted the patchwork pig in a shop. It would become her best friend and collaborator, a character with its own voice who even pipes up in business meetings. "Del is a soft toy, but she's more than that to me. I've had toys that have come and gone. Del is the first soft toy that I've really given a personality and voice to." Growing up she had no more attachment to soft toys than most, but moving to a residential care home as a young adult left her isolated. "I was quite withdrawn at the time, I was living in a care home and I was struggling to adjust in that environment, mainly because I just couldn't go about freely - go for a walk. "Del started off being a source of comfort and a way of communicating at times with the carers and even my mum. "My mum always says that Del's more reasonable than me, so she'll ask to talk to Del." The duo work together visiting community groups, performing comedy shows, singing and collaborating on a comic strip, but Del doesn't always talk. "It's not an addiction. I wouldn't say it's an obsession. Sometimes we can go through a whole meeting where Dell will hardly get a word in edgeways." Tilley says she has always felt slightly different to others and is aware of stares when she's out, but sometimes having Del on her side helps her gain control of the situation. "I'm a bit naughty because I complain about people staring at me and I get fed up with people pointing at me, sniggering. I think sometimes, 'I'm going to give them something to look at,' and get Del out." Using a soft toy as a proxy can be a way to navigate the sometimes alien world, but like their owners the toys' personalities may develop or alter. For Jamie, having Lion by his side is not necessarily a long-term fixture, but it works for now. "Lion is changing over time, as am I. Maybe one day he might be with me less, maybe one day he won't."

हम में से अधिकांश के पास बचपन से ही एक पसंदीदा नरम खिलौना है। एक मूक सहयोगी जो समय के साथ किनारे हो जाता है और एक शेल्फ पर छोड़ दिया जाता है। लेकिन कुछ वयस्कों के लिए वे एक आवश्यक उपस्थिति बने रहते हैं जो कभी भी अपने मालिक का पक्ष नहीं छोड़ते हैं।


Derailed train at Barry disrupts south Wales services

Summary: Train services across south east Wales have been disrupted after a train left the tracks at Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan.

The incident involved a freight train at about 02:30 BST on Thursday morning. Arriva Trains Wales said trains are unable to run in either direction and replacement bus services are in place between Barry and Bridgend. Severe delays are also expected on services between Cardiff, Pontypridd and Rhymney, and from Merthyr Tydfil. A Network Rail spokesman said the back two wagons of the train had derailed bringing it to a standstill at Porthkerry and causing damage to the track. Delays are expected to last all day as the line remains blocked.

ग्लैमॉर्गन की घाटी में बैरी में एक ट्रेन के पटरियों को छोड़ने के बाद दक्षिण पूर्व वेल्स में ट्रेन सेवाएं बाधित हो गई हैं।


Richard Thaler and the economics of how we live

Summary: How do you get people to eat more healthily?

Kamal AhmedEconomics editor@bbckamalon Twitter You could construct some powerful arguments about how an obesity epidemic is leading to more diseases such as Type II diabetes and coronary heart conditions. You could put large red traffic light signs on unhealthy foods and engage in expensive public information campaigns warning that overeating products high in salt, sugar and fat can reduce life expectancy. Or you could just change where you put the salad boxes on the supermarket shelves. The last option is an example of nudge theory at work, a theory popularised and developed by Richard Thaler, the University of Chicago economist who was today announced as this year's recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics. Prof Thaler's central insight is that we are not the rational beings beloved of more traditional economic theory. Given two options, we are likely to pick the wrong one even if that means making ourselves less well off. Lack of thinking time, habit and poor decision making mean that even when presented with a factual analysis (for example on healthy eating) we are still likely to pick burger and chips. We're hungry, we're in a hurry and burger and chips is what we always buy. Nudge theory takes account of this, based as it is on the simple premise that people will often choose what is easiest over what is wisest. Tests have shown that putting healthier foods on a higher shelf increases sales. The food is more likely to be in someone's eye line and therefore "nudge" that person towards the purchase - whether they had any idea about the obesity argument or not. Such theories, which sit in a big bucket of academic study called "behavioural economics", are what Prof Thaler is famous for. So famous that the government now has its own Behavioural Insights Team, otherwise known as the "nudge unit". It helps formulate policies, for example on pensions, to try and make us behave "more rationally" and push us towards better outcomes. One of its projects revealed that charitable giving via your pay packet - called payroll giving - increased dramatically if people were told who else in their peer group (maybe Facebook friends) were also giving via that method. Attaching a picture of "mates giving money" also improved the level of charitable donations. We tend to like doing what our friends like doing - called the peer group norm. Prof Thaler also gave us the concept of "mental accounting" - that we will tend to divide our expenditure into separate blocks even though they come from the same source. For example, we will spend more on a credit or debit card in a food shop compared with cash even though all the money ultimately comes from our earnings. Then there is his work on the "planner-doer" syndrome - that we lack self-control, will act in our own short-term self-interest and need extra incentives to plan long term than simply being told that, rationally, it is good idea. How many times do we let that gym membership lapse, despite our best intentions? Having just received news of the award, Prof Thaler told me that his job was to "add human beings" to economic theory. And today he has been rewarded, both via the recognition of the Nobel Prize and by the not inconsiderable sum of £845,000 in prize money. Asked how he would spend the money Prof Thaler gave a succinct answer. "Irrationally."

आप लोगों को अधिक स्वस्थ खाने के लिए कैसे प्रेरित करते हैं?


Mother's Italian mystery death case 'smells bad'

Summary: When a British woman was found dead near her house in Italy with 10 knife wounds to her neck, her death was put down to suicide. However, her parents believe she was murdered. Now they hope government backing will persuade police to reopen the investigation.

Claire Martin had moved to Italy with her partner Diego. She was living near Naples with his family and her parents Pat and Ray, from Sutton-in-Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, said she was happy in her new life. But one morning in 2012, a telephone call shattered the dream. "It had just gone three o'clock in the morning when I got the telephone call from Diego to say 'come quick, come quick, Claire is dead'," Mr Martin said. Events were as confused as they were gruesome. Ms Martin had left her one-year-old with Diego's mother and used an external staircase to climb down to her car. Shortly afterwards screams were heard and Ms Martin staggered back up to an outside balcony, bleeding from several wounds to her neck. The 30-year-old collapsed but apparently gasped "it was a man" to her mother-in-law and gestured to land at the back of the house. Within minutes she had bled to death. Her car keys were on the ground outside, while nearby was a bloodstained kitchen knife - which had not come from the house. Post-mortem examinations showed 10 wounds to her neck - but none elsewhere. Italian police initially investigated the death as a murder but closed the case 15 months later, saying Ms Martin suffered from post-natal depression and much of the evidence pointed to suicide. They pointed to a lack of defensive injuries on her hands or any obvious motive. The 'neat' parallel nature of some of the cuts, a possible delay of about 10 minutes in her seeking help and anxiety over a prospective move to Germany were also cause for doubt. However, experts have now rejected this hypothesis. Criminology lecturer and retired senior police officer, Tony Blockley, has reviewed the case, though not all of the files have been translated. Various elements of the original investigation, such as how the scene was examined and the loss of potential DNA, have been criticised. Unanswered questions Source: Tony Blockley, criminologist "If we're not careful we just accept what's happened without questioning it and where do families like this go?," he said. His scepticism is shared by Dr Stuart Hamilton, a Home Office pathologist who has studied evidence from the post-mortem examination of Ms Martin. "If I was briefing a senior investigating officer at this autopsy, I would be suggesting that you need to go and find the murderer," he said. He said while it was "physically possible" for someone to inflict such injuries on themselves, big doubts remained. "The simple fact is that stabbing oneself in the neck is a very, very rare form of suicide," he added. "There are no obvious defensive injuries on the hands or forearms where someone warded off or grasped at another assailant - but if you are taken by surprise or overcome from behind then you wouldn't necessary expect to see them." His intervention has helped persuade the Foreign Office to push for a meeting between British officials, the family and the Italian authorities. Foreign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan has said the case deserves to be looked at again. "This just looks wrong and there's a smell about it which is not nice," he said. "Just to close the case and say 'Oh it was suicide' is clearly not true and therefore I think we have to do all in our power to challenge that verdict," he added. The Foreign Office has now told Ms Martin's parents that a meeting with the acting chief prosecutor concerned with the case could take place in April. A previous attempt to reopen the case in 2014 was rejected by the Italian authorities, but the family are now hopeful of progress. The BBC contacted the Italian Embassy in the UK but it did not respond to a request to comment on the case. "I feel as though we are going to the next step on a very large staircase," Mrs Martin said. "It has caused us such lasting effects that I don't know whether we'll ever get over everything. "Five years on... it just wants starting from the very beginning and working right through."

जब एक ब्रिटिश महिला इटली में अपने घर के पास मृत पाई गई थी और उसकी गर्दन पर चाकू के 10 घाव थे, तो उसकी मौत को आत्महत्या के लिए रखा गया था। हालाँकि, उसके माता-पिता का मानना है कि उसकी हत्या कर दी गई थी। अब उन्हें उम्मीद है कि सरकार का समर्थन पुलिस को जांच को फिर से खोलने के लिए राजी करेगा।


The secret lives of the Mafia hunters

Summary: The Mafia has been part of Sicilian life for generations, and so has the battle by police to arrest its leaders. The elite unit that goes after them is called the Catturandi - from the word meaning "to catch" - one of its officers told Max Paradiso about the shadowy world in which he works, and how he kept his job hidden from his girlfriend until she recognised his bottom on TV.

The only time you are likely to see a member of the Catturandi is when they arrest a mafioso. They are the men "without a name and without a face" - when they carry out operations they wear balaclavas to ensure they can't be identified. "We prefer to be called 'The Band of Lions' because that's what we are: wild, free, and ready to attack at any given time in this jungle," says IMD. There are fewer than 20 of them, and there is an obvious reason why they keep a low profile. "Back in the day, you would receive death threats from the bad guys, goat heads sent directly to your house - it wasn't pleasant," he says. In the 90s he also received photographs of his car number plate, marked with a red cross. The threats drove some of his colleagues to leave the Catturandi but not IMD - and over the years the risk of assassination has reduced. He and his fellow officers find they often develop strangely intimate relationships with the criminals they track. They can wiretap and tail them for decades before making an arrest. "It's like living with these people. You hear them conceiving their children, you listen to their family issues, you see their kids growing up and their emotions become yours," says IMD. One of the men they bugged was a doctor in Palermo, who is now in jail. "He was really knowledgeable, we all learned Italian literature by constantly listening to him. We would take notes, get books he mentioned in his never-ending lectures to his kids. It was like listening to a radio programme and we were all fascinated by his manners, his way of thinking and his creativity. It was hard to believe he was a mobster." The weeks after an arrest can be unsettling. "You don't see them any more - it's psychologically hard to cope with and, as they were part of your daily life, you start missing them," says IMD. In his two decades with the police, IMD has helped to arrest nearly 300 mafiosi, including Giovanni Brusca, notorious for kidnapping and torturing the 11-year-old son of another mafioso who had betrayed him. Brusca had the boy killed and the body dissolved in acid - as a result, the child's family couldn't bury him. At the moment of arrest, when the Catturandi storm a mobster's house, IMD says he can have mixed feelings. "You want to ask them a lot of questions: Why do you kill? Why do you do that to another human being?" But the opportunities for conversation are limited, and any exchanges tend to be unsatisfying. "When we got Brusca, 'The Pig', he started weeping like a child. Provenzano, the boss of bosses, on the other hand, remained silent and whispered to me, 'You don't know what you're doing.' But we got them, and that's what matters." Brusca was a key player in the crime that inspired IMD to join the police. On 23 May 1992, the Mafia placed half a tonne of explosives under the road to Palermo's international airport, killing the leading anti-Mafia judge, Giovanni Falcone. Brusca was later identified as the man who pressed the button setting off the bombs. "I was at my girlfriend's 18th birthday party," says IMD, who was a biology student at the time. "Her father was the head of the Palermo police response team and when the bomb blasted, the pagers of all the police officers at the party went off at the same time and everybody left in tears. That was this girl's debut into society." IMD immediately wanted to find out what was going on but when he realised the road to the airport was sealed off, he decided to drive his motorcycle to the centre of Palermo instead to see how people were reacting. "Right there," IMD recalls, pointing at a little piazza, "I saw a bunch of guys laughing and cheering while eating their panini. I went up to them and I told them Judge Falcone got killed. They stared back at me and said, 'What the hell do we care?' "I knew what I wanted to do. The following day I joined the police force to catch as many bad guys as I could." At that time, few young Sicilians wanted to join the Catturandi - partly because the job was too dangerous - so IMD's application was accepted readily. "Most people you knew would stop talking to you or they would spit in your face because being a cop was considered an unspeakable betrayal," he says. He dropped his studies and while his old university friends were "chasing girls in nightclubs", as he puts it, IMD was tailing Giovanni Brusca and other Mafia bosses such as Salvatore "Toto" Riina, who ordered the Falcone murder. While following Brusca, IMD and one of his colleagues ended up in Cinisi, a small town near Palermo. "There was this group of girls so we approached them. The idea was to get introduced to people in Cinisi without raising suspicions. Of course it worked out… we got the fugitive but I had to marry her afterwards," he laughs. Their dates were unusual. His girlfriend - unaware of what was going on - provided useful cover. "Instead of taking my girlfriend, now my wife, to nice beaches to kiss under the stars, I would take her to horrible places, dead-end roads paved with garbage, just because I was following the fugitive's lover. We would start embracing and she would ask: 'Why here of all places?' "After dropping her off at her house, I would go back to the office and report." He used to tell his loved ones that he worked at the passport office. But when he and his fellow Catturandi caught Brusca, "everybody was in front of their TV screens, videotaping the arrest", he says. "When my wife [then girlfriend] saw those men wearing the balaclavas she noticed a familiar rear end and she called me. I couldn't hide the truth any more. I told her, 'Please don't say anything to Grandma otherwise the whole world will know.' Luckily, she was able to keep the secret." Italy's most wanted mafioso today is Matteo Messina Denaro, also known as Diabolik - a nickname he took from an uncatchable thief in a comic book. The head of the Sicilian Mafia, he has been in hiding since 1993 - police believe he is living abroad, possibly in South America. He once boasted that he could "fill a cemetery" with his victims, and last year it emerged that he had been communicating with fellow criminals using a code that referred to sheep. Messages between them included "The sheep need shearing" and "The shears need sharpening". Eleven men were arrested in Sicily - IMD was there - but Denaro himself is as elusive as ever. While the Sicilian Mafia is not as powerful as it was 20 years ago, it is still a problem for the island. "They know they can't kill people as they used to, so now the whole system has evolved into an intricate web of interests that entangles politics, finance and the very structure of Sicilian society," says IMD. For some, especially teenagers and tourists, the Mafia still holds a romantic aura. On Palermo's street corners stallholders loudly advertise Godfather T-shirts, gun-shaped cigarette lighters and statuettes of men with moustaches and shotguns with one hand placed over their mouths. Muto sugno, Mum's the word, it reads on the base of the miniatures. One of these stalls stands just a block away from Via D'Amelio, a dead-end residential road where, on 19 July 1992, a Mafia bomb killed another judge, Paolo Borsellino. He was known as the "the good man of Palermo" for his stand against organised crime. "These street stands are a paradox, just like this town," says IMD. "We would like to be as civilised as the rest of the world, but we never let go this perverse fascination with the criminal underworld." Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

माफिया कई पीढ़ियों से सिसिलियन जीवन का हिस्सा रहा है, और इसी तरह पुलिस द्वारा अपने नेताओं को गिरफ्तार करने की लड़ाई भी। उनके पीछे जाने वाली कुलीन इकाई को कट्टुरांडी कहा जाता है-शब्द से जिसका अर्थ है "पकड़ना"-इसके एक अधिकारी ने मैक्स पैराडिसो को उस छायादार दुनिया के बारे में बताया जिसमें वह काम करता है, और कैसे उसने अपनी नौकरी को अपनी प्रेमिका से तब तक छिपा कर रखा जब तक कि वह टीवी पर उसका निचला हिस्सा नहीं पहचान लेती।


Great Storm: The healing power of nature

Summary: After wreaking havoc throughout the night of Thursday 15 October 1987, it was at first light the following morning that the damage caused by hurricane-force winds across southern and south-eastern parts of the UK could be truly assessed.

By Mark KinverEnvironment reporter, BBC News And when the extent of the devastation was finally tallied, 18 people had lost their lives and the storm was listed as the most expensive weather-related event in the history of the British insurance industry. Also, landscapes familiar for generations had changed forever. An estimated 15 million trees were uprooted, countless more were damaged in the few hours that the Great Storm, with winds recorded at speeds in excess of 160 km/h (100mph; 86 knots) wreaked havoc across woodlands and plantations. At Toys Hill, the highest point in Kent, about 98% of the woodland - including many veteran beech trees that had adorned the hillside for centuries - was lost. Copperas Wood nature reserve in Essex lost almost three-quarters of its ancient woodland, which primarily consisted of coppiced sweet chestnut and hornbeam. Although the immediate aftermath left people in a sense of shock of how the landscape had changed beyond recognition overnight, Keith Kirby - who at the time worked for English Nature (which later became Natural England) - said it could later be seen as a blessing in disguise for woodland ecology. "The immediate reaction was that everyone thought that it was a great disaster but I think, with hindsight - on the whole - it was beneficial in many respects," he told BBC News. "Until then, we had not fully appreciated just how uniform our woods were becoming." Dr Kirby, who co-edited a 1993 report on the storm's ecological impact on woodlands, explained that, at the time, many of the woods' canopies were closing over as the trees entered the young, mature stage of their lifecycle. The previous time wood was in such high demand and vast numbers of trees were felled was during the Second World War, he explained. "The last remnants of active coppicing were also dying out, so the woods were getting into a fairly dark and shady state." The lack of light meant that much of the low-level flora and fauna that favoured woodland conditions were struggling. "With the storm coming along when it did, it helped break up those canopies in some places and create some gaps that otherwise would not have occurred," Dr Kirby, now a visiting researcher at Oxford University's Department of Plant Science, observed. He recalled how one long-term monitoring project, which ran from 1971 to 2001, looked at 100 woodland plots across the UK, shedding some light on one of the possible silver linings to an otherwise devastating weather event. "One of things that we found was that, on the whole, the flora had become thinned out and there was a lower species richness - except in about 10 of the woods. "When we looked at where [the 10 plots] were, they were all in south-east England and they were all within the storm track." The abrupt opening of the woodlands' thick canopies offered a lifeline to plants and butterflies that had once thrived in these habitats. Dr Kirby observed: "It is more the commoner woodland species - such as primrose and bluebells - that can survive under shade, but if the shade continues for long periods then their density does thin out. "It was the regular opening of the canopies through the coppice regimes in the past that meant a lot of our woodlands had these great displays of spring flowers. "Woodland butterflies, fritillaries in particular, are associated with gaps or temporary hotspots within the woods." He added that there was no evidence to confirm that they did benefit from the storm, but "what we do know is that their trend has been in general decline through most of Britain and this has been associated with increased shade". "The storm might have given them a temporary respite but, unfortunately, it was only temporary and the decline is now continuing." Changing composition The other co-editor of the 1993 report, Peter Buckley, said another ecological benefit of the storm was that it changed the composition of woodlands from, in many cases, almost monocultures. "For example, a lot of the beech on the Downs were felled (in the storm) and were succeeded by birch and other pioneer species," he explained. So there has been a break-up of some of the monoculture and clonal vegetation patches underneath the trees." Dr Buckley said that the impact of the storm also offered an insight into how woodlands were vulnerable to extreme weather. "It did show that plantations did not stand up particularly well to these types of storms because you have lots of trees crammed together, with small root systems and they grow tall," he told BBC News. "Whereas in the old traditional approach of coppicing, you could argue that the trees are kept short so they do not offer so much wind resistance. "In fact, the big standard trees in the old coppicing-with-standards system grew up more or less exposed, so developed wind firmness over time. "What the storm showed was that trees which had probably reached their full height but were still young and not securely anchored blew over very easily. "Those that had been in situ for a very long time had had time to spread their roots, or trees on the edge of plantations that did not have so much competition on the outside of the stand, these stood up and did pretty well." Dr Buckley estimated that about half of the trees lost during the 1987 Great Storm were young plantation trees. The National Trust, one of the UK's largest landowners, lost hundreds of thousands of trees on its properties in the storm. While fallen trees caused an acute problem for the Trust in formal landscapes, the loss of so many trees did allow its experts to review how to manage its woodlands. "One of the legacies we have learned from the Great Storm is that woodlands look after themselves pretty well," explained head of forestry Ray Hawes. "Just after the storm, one of my colleagues went over a lot of our parks and gardens and took a lot of aerial shots in order to get an idea of tree and woodland damage. "For the 20th anniversary of the storm, we redid it. Some of the areas that had not been replanted were basically back to woodlands - they regenerated naturally. "Whereas if you try planting trees into these systems at an early stage, then you end up with a huge maintenance job to look after the trees you planted, because they are being swamped by the natural regeneration trees, which tend to be more vigorous. "This is because they come out of the ground straight from seed; they have not had the shock of being taken from a nursery and planted in the ground. "So now, we would leave a lot of woodlands to see what happens naturally," Mr Hawes told BBC News.

गुरुवार 15 अक्टूबर 1987 की रात भर तबाही मचाने के बाद, यह अगली सुबह पहली रोशनी में था कि ब्रिटेन के दक्षिणी और दक्षिण-पूर्वी हिस्सों में तूफान-बल हवाओं से हुए नुकसान का सही मायने में आकलन किया जा सकता था।


Guernsey States approves energy strategy

Summary: The States of Guernsey has approved the revised Energy Resource Plan despite a number of deputies raising criticism about it showing a lack of direction.

Deputy Barry Brehaut said it "lacked detail and substance" on what had been done to reduce energy consumption and what it would do in the future. Deputy Carla McNulty Bauer, who heads the Energy Policy Group, said the plan aimed to provide strategic direction. Members agreed with her and voted it through by 38-4 votes. It means departments will have to take the plan's objectives "into account" when preparing policies.

ग्वेर्नसे के राज्यों ने संशोधित ऊर्जा संसाधन योजना को मंजूरी दे दी है, इसके बावजूद कि कई प्रतिनिधियों ने दिशा की कमी को दर्शाते हुए इसकी आलोचना की है।


Newry: Shots fired in same street as recent stabbing

Summary: Police are investigating a gun attack in Newry, County Down, during which a number of shots were fired.

It happened at Stream Street in the city at around 21:00 GMT on Thursday. Two men were in the property at the time of the attack but were not injured. It took place in the same street where a man was stabbed several times in the face last week. It is not yet known if there is any link between the two incidents.

पुलिस न्यूरी, काउंटी डाउन में एक बंदूक हमले की जांच कर रही है, जिसके दौरान कई गोलियां चलाई गईं।


Coronavirus: Running a campaign from home in lockdown

Summary: With people stuck at home, you might think the traditional notion of a protest is impossible. But campaigners and supporters are still eager to further their causes and fight for what they believe in during lockdown.

By Charley AdamsBBC News 'Starting a campaign from my bedroom' During lockdown we have had time to "fight for our rights", said Sioned Freer, who started a student rent strike from her bedroom. The campaign, against students having to pay full rent if they left their accommodation in Plymouth, began as a 20-member Facebook page and has amassed 750 supporters. Despite the campaign being "frustrating at times", the masters student said: "I've had so much time to dedicate to the campaign that I wouldn't have had otherwise - and other people have had more time to interact with it. "Now that people aren't exhausted from working all day we have the time to actually get involved with these causes. "Sometimes it's difficult to gauge how much difference we're making from my bedroom - despite that, I think it's been a mainly positive experience." The students have worked with unions and local organisations, met national rent strikers from other universities to discuss tactics and campaign strategies, and contacted MPs for support. "We have activists, legal students, media students and people who've never been involved in a campaign like this before all working together to make this thing work," added the 26-year-old. As a result of the campaign, university-owned halls have cancelled rent, along with a few of the purpose-built student accommodation blocks. "Sometimes when I have a bad day engaging with the campaign, I think about the 750 people who are behind me on this and it's really empowering." 'This wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for lockdown' "Lockdown has enabled us to take the project even further," said Dan Webb from Everyday Plastic, who has been running Zoom project workshops to highlight the plastic problem. Before the coronavirus pandemic, he had been taking the project into schools and organisations in Kent, but since lockdown his project has reached a worldwide following. Members collect all the plastic they use in a week, categorise and record it and then Dan calculates their plastic footprint, and the lockdown version has seen double the number of people participating. "This wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for lockdown - we would never have thought to do it with 100 people at once," he said. "The coronavirus [pandemic] has helped develop it as a new model as well, I've done a lot of work to adapt it for this situation so it's easy for people to do. "I want to ensure the plastic problem remains on the agenda during the lockdown period and beyond it." Andy Roberts and his family, including six-year-old daughter Ava, said the experience of getting involved in the project had been an "eye-opener". "I think the lockdown presented an opportunity for Dan as a way that we could all be online together - it probably wouldn't have happened if everyone hadn't been at home." Decorating streets 'sparks imagination' Extinction Rebellion supporters have been getting involved in a Paint the Streets campaign during lockdown by adorning pavements, roads, houses and their gardens. Decorating the streets "is an easy, accessible and beautiful way" to spread messages and "spark imagination", said activist Lucia Whittaker. The climate campaigner from Derby decorated her garden with colourful origami boats to mark the anniversary of Extinction Rebellion's protest in April 2019, when rebels parked a pink boat in Oxford Circus. You might also be interested in: Photographing the neighbours during lockdown Private gardens open virtually amid lockdown How have independent shopkeepers been faring? She also chalked a thought-provoking quote by Richard Powers outside her local park which she hoped made "people look at the trees a little differently on their daily walk". Edward Pickering-Symes, from Extinction Rebellion Derby, said: "The protest is a loving and uplifting way of showing another world is possible and for people to call out this message visually to their neighbours." Mair Perkins, who painted bees and vines along her fence, said the campaign was "all about creativity, community spirit and envisaging a better, more nature-filled future all while staying within the social distancing guidelines". She plans to paint more of her fence as the flowers in her garden grow and document the re-wilding process. Similarly, fellow Extinction Rebellion volunteers are making wind turbines and wind spinners and hanging them outside their homes as part of the Winds of Change campaign. Community activist Shelley Castle said she hoped the activity "will bring an uplifting message of hope for positive changes post Covid-19". 'A sense of cohesion even though we are cut off' "Although we are all separated from each other at this time, we really wanted to come together to do something positive in the crisis," said London City Voices director Richard Swan. The community choir got together online to sing You've Got a Friend by Carole King to support survivors of domestic abuse and raise funds for Women's Aid. The 276 members of the London-based choir recorded the performance and raised more than £70,000 for the charity's live chat service, which has seen a 41% increase in demand since lockdown began. Choir member Dinah Tobias said: "It has given the choir a sense of cohesion even though we are so cut off physically, to know that we are doing something to help others whilst being so proud of the sound we make as a virtual choir." Women's Aid also created a video showing the empty streets in lockdown and how dangerous home can be for some people. Beating the plastic polluters Surfers Against Sewage has been exposing plastic polluters with their #ReturnToOffender campaign during lockdown. Activists have been taking pictures of plastic litter during their daily exercise and sharing it on social media to challenge companies on what they are doing to combat their waste. "We can't meet up with all of our volunteers, but we can empower our volunteers in other ways," said the charity's chief executive Hugo Tagholm. "People at home might be disconnected, but this is an optimistic way to bring people together to campaign." He emphasised the importance of digital activism in modern protesting and said sharing the campaign on social media had been "very effective". The marine conservation charity has also been finding ways for children to get involved during lockdown such as the #WavesOfOptimism campaign. Children have been drawing waves and filling them with colours and marine wildlife, explained education manager Emily Van De Geer, and she hopes the launch of their online lessons will help young people "discover the power of their voice". 'A symbol of resilience and hope' On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, on 22 April, green hearts appeared in windows across the country. The Climate Coalition asked supporters to make a green heart to show that they believe in a cleaner, greener future. "The heart is a symbol of resilience and hope that we can build back better," said campaigns executive Leila Bousbaa. The organisation dedicated to action against climate change has also been running a "Vitamin N" campaign to help people get their daily dose of nature during lockdown. Activities have included building a bug hotel on the doorstep, bird-watching and learning nature-themed yoga.

घर में फंसे लोगों के साथ, आप सोच सकते हैं कि विरोध की पारंपरिक धारणा असंभव है। लेकिन प्रचारक और समर्थक अभी भी अपने उद्देश्यों को आगे बढ़ाने और लॉकडाउन के दौरान जिस पर वे विश्वास करते हैं, उसके लिए लड़ने के लिए उत्सुक हैं।


India temperature rise concerns

Summary: Rising temperatures caused by climate change are expected to "adversely impact" water supply, farm output and forests in India by 2030, a new study released by the government says.

By Vaishnavi SeetharamanBBC Tamil It has projected a temperature rise of between 1.7C and 2C in India over the next 20 years. The study says India faces increased precipitation and storms and a continuing sea level rise. It also warned of food shortages because of a decline in farm output. "Climate change scenarios for 2030 indicate an overall warming over the Indian sub-continent associated with increasing greenhouse gas concentrations," said the report by the Indian Network for Climate Change Assessment (INCCA). There is expected to be a "significant dip" in the production of rice, maize and sorghum, the report said. Production of apples in the Himalayan region could also be affected. "No country in the world is as vulnerable, on so many dimensions, to climate change as India," said federal environmental minister Jairam Ramesh, while releasing the report.

सरकार द्वारा जारी एक नए अध्ययन में कहा गया है कि जलवायु परिवर्तन के कारण बढ़ते तापमान से 2030 तक भारत में जल आपूर्ति, कृषि उत्पादन और जंगलों पर प्रतिकूल प्रभाव पड़ने की उम्मीद है।


Tall ship Glenlee moves to new Riverside Museum berth

Summary: One of the world's last remaining Clyde-built tall ships has been moved to a new berth outside the Riverside Museum in Glasgow.

The Glenlee was towed from Yorkhill Quay to Pointhouse Quay on Thursday morning. The ship and new museum will open to the public on 21 June. The Glenlee was built in Port Glasgow and first took to the water in 1896. The Riverside Museum, on the banks of the River Clyde, will house the city's valuable transport collection. The Glenlee was purchased in 1992 by The Clyde Maritime Trust, which is engaged in an ongoing programme of restoration. During its sea-going life, the cargo ship circumnavigated the globe four times and tackled Cape Horn on 15 occasions. The operation to tow the ship to its new berth, several hundred yards down the river, took about 30 minutes.

दुनिया के अंतिम शेष क्लाइड-निर्मित लंबे जहाजों में से एक को ग्लासगो में रिवरसाइड संग्रहालय के बाहर एक नए बर्थ में स्थानांतरित कर दिया गया है।


Man in court after Glenrothes supermarket 'axe' incident

Summary: A man has appeared in court after an incident alleged to have involved an axe at a Fife supermarket.

Police Scotland said a patrol car was damaged and two officers received minor injuries at Asda in Glenrothes. Richard Flynn, 40, faces four charges of assault to injury, one of assault and breach of the peace, and two of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner. At Falkirk Sheriff Court, he made no plea and was remanded in custody.

फाइफ सुपरमार्केट में कुल्हाड़ी से कथित रूप से जुड़ी एक घटना के बाद एक व्यक्ति अदालत में पेश हुआ है।


Euro Disney reports higher losses

Summary: Losses have grown 22% at Euro Disney due to higher wages and the cost of refurbishments made ahead of its 20th anniversary this year.

It lost 120.9m euros (£97.4m; $157.4m) in the first half of its financial year compared with a net loss of 99.5m euros in the same period a year earlier. Visitors to Disneyland Paris also fell, but those who went spent more on average, helping revenues rise 1%. The firm said the "challenging economic environment" had affected attendance. There was a particular drop in the number of people from the UK and Italy who stayed overnight at its hotels. But Euro Disney pointed out that its 20th year celebrations, which began on 1 April, presented an important growth opportunity. The second half of the year is also usually more important for revenue as it includes the high season.

यूरो डिज्नी में उच्च मजदूरी और इस वर्ष अपनी 20वीं वर्षगांठ से पहले किए गए नवीनीकरण की लागत के कारण नुकसान में 22 प्रतिशत की वृद्धि हुई है।


Lil Wayne confirms new LP details

Summary: Lil Wayne has confirmed details for the release of his new album.

Tha Carter IV, the follow up to his 2008 breakthrough album Tha Carter III, will be available on 15 December. The New Orleans rapper, real name Dwayne Michael Carter Jr, also plans to release his much talked about rap-rock album Rebirth before the end of 2009. Birdman, CEO of Wayne's label Cash Money Records told MTV: "Both will be out before 2010. We're looking to take over the game completely, flood the market. The Grammys are ours next year." Tha Carter III sold more than one million copies in the first week it was released in the US last year. He debuted tracks from Rebirth at a series of gigs in London in early October.

लिल वेन ने अपने नए एल्बम के रिलीज़ के विवरण की पुष्टि की है।