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you can have your cake and drink it too if you can stomach it with starbucks most recent sweet treat, the strawberry cheesecake frappuccino the iced beverage was unleashed on australia this week, causing a stir when several worried customers spotted a suspiciously labelled 'cheese' syrup going into their cup while the drink might come as good news to caffeine lovers who normally have to buy their cake and coffee separately, an image of the cheese syrup prompted a panic on social media about 'nacho lattes' scroll down for video starbucks australia has launched their new strawberry cheesecake frappuccino to the shock of customers 'one nacho bell grande latte, please,' said one social media user, with another quipping that the drink should be renamed a 'frappucheetos' the syrup was soon discovered to be shorthand for 'cheesecake', with a representative from the company explaining to mashable that 'the bottled syrup is a flavor ingredient infused with sweet creamy flavors' several customers who tried the drink were still unsure what to make of the cake and coffee blend 'i just cannot deal with it the smell is awful, i tried one today, the drink was fine but the cheese whip was too much,' said one user 'oh sweet lord who would drink that why is this even a thing?' asked another the iced beverage caused a stir when several worried customers spotted a suspiciously labelled 'cheese' syrup going into their cup several customers who tried the drink were unsure what to make of the cake and coffee blend considering that the venti strawberry cheesecake frappuccino will set you back between 1500 and 2000 kilojoules, depending on whether you're inclined to try a tall, grande, or venti, investing in the iced drink may end up costing more than just money first released in the asia pacific region last year, the drink joins the ranks of the coffee giant's many other flavoured beverages, including the sakura frappuccino, which is only available in japan 'inspired by one of the world's favourite (and most decadent) desserts, enjoy ice cold creaminess swirled with our signature strawberry puree and a crunchy layer of cookie crumbles,' said the description on the starbucks website 'top it off with a decadent cheesecake inspired whipped cream, swirls of strawberry sauce and a few shakes of more cookie crumbles for a tasty summer treat unlike any other' first released in the asia pacific region last year, the drink joins the ranks of the coffee giant's many other flavoured beverages, including the sakura frappuccino, which is only available in japan the dessert inspired delicacy is available only for a limited time, and is only in australia until april this year, disappointing many avid starbucks fans in the us 'a strawberry cheesecake frappuccino? looks like i need to take a trip to australia,' said one social media user however, another was not as enthusiastic about the drinkable cake and coffee combo, commenting 'i threw up in my mouth, ugh' starbucks has struggled in australia because of the nation’s well developed european inspired coffee culture the company announced heavy losses in 2008, closing 61 of its 84 stores, and recorded further losses in 2014 nick wailes, associate professor of the faculty of economics and business at the university of sydney, said that could not grab the local needs of the country 'starbucks failed to truly understand australia's cafe culture,' he wrote for food news australia the company most recently came under fire earlier when it announced the australian launch of their new 'flat white', which some customers claimed was both absurd and misleading many said that coffee was simply a regular cappuccino, and ridiculed the company's proud advertisement of the 'latte art dot' which adorned the top of the beverage, reported mashable
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the coffee chain has released the dessert inspired iced drink for summer the beverage launched in australia this week after debuting in asia it caused a stir when customers spotted 'cheese' flavoured syrup in drink social media users began panicking about 'nacho lattes' a venti sizeof the frappuccino has more than 2,000 kilojoules in it one customer said the 'cheese whip' was overwhelming us customers were far more enthusiastic about the drink starbucks came under fire recently for launching 'new' flat white
police have been forced to detonate a 'dangerous' home made bomb that was found in a 22 year old man's bedroom by his mother, who then reported the suspicious package harley turnbull is believed to have brought the object to his western sydney home in werrington county shortly before departing again with a friend 'potentially it could have been quite catastrophic, being an explosive device,' inspector michael cruickshank said of the cylindrically shaped, 15cm long device, according to nine news 'obviously they're dangerous in the wrong hands' scroll down for video the home made bomb was found in harley turnbull's bedroom by his mother on tuesday night he has been described as having the word 'faithful' tattooed above his right eye and a tear drop near his left however mr turnbull's sister told the abc that she believed her brother did not know what the device was '[it was] just a little black package about the size of a mobile phone that was taped up with wire hanging out of it,' shayleen butt said police are now searching for mr turnbull, who has been described as having the word 'faithful' tattooed above his right eye and a tear drop near his left and is yet to be found following the bomb's discovery his brother in law, neil jones, told nine news  that the 22 year old had said the device was a home made firework 'he's gone outside to an unknown car and come back inside with a package, he's dropped it off and p***ed off again,' mr jones said officers were called to the home at about 10:30pm, where they examined the object before promptly evacuating the home and detonating the bomb in a nearby field 'the bomb squad said it was the real deal, it's serious, it got a bit worrying then' officers were called to the home at about 10:30pm, where they examined the object before promptly evacuating the home they were spotted carrying a number of bags and packages out of the property during their investigation the home made explosive was then taken to an empty nearby field where it was detonated before 4am police have admitted the bomb was unlikely to have been capable to cause great damage, however they have released a public description of mr turnbull in an effort to locate and question him they have released a public description of mr turnbull in an effort to locate him and described him as having a the word 'faithful' tattooed above his right eye and a tear drop near his left eye harley turnbull is believed to have brought the object to his western sydney home in werrington county shortly before departing again with a friend 'i would like to stress to the community that this was a one off incident,' inspector cruickshank said while dismissing the idea that the incident was terrorism related 'there were no threats made and no person was put at risk' mr turnbull is described as being 180 185cm tall, of thin build, caucasian appearance and light brown hair when he was last seen, he was unshaven and had tattoos of the word 'faithful' above his right eye and a tear drop near his left eye
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the bomb was found in the bedroom of 22 year old harley turnbull his brother in law said that mr turnbull had claimed the package was a home made firework police detonated the bomb in an empty field just before 4am on tuesday they are now searching for mr turnbull who they have described as having tattoos of the word 'faithful' above his right eye and a tear drop near his left police have stressed that, while 'potentially catastrophic', the incident was a one off event that is not terrorism related
the most corrosive love hate relationship between two brothers since cain and abel had nine million tv viewers on the edge the rivalry between the holmes boys reached new intensities last sunday, as sherlock drugged his older brother mycroft to steal a laptop full of government secrets — and was ordered to go on a suicide mission as punishment if the dynamic between the siblings took a more central role than ever, then that was no accident for as steven moffat, who co produces the show, says: ‘mycroft is a very complex character somehow, he’s the key to sherlock’ key player: mark gatiss and benedict cumberbatch play battling brothers sherlock and mycroft, a relationship inspired by gatiss's own childhood how true — and in more ways than one for ‘mycroft’ read ‘mark gatiss’, the 47 year old actor who plays him here is the man who is key to understanding the whole sherlock revival for what many casual fans do not realise is that in addition to starring in the series, gatiss is also its co creator and chief scriptwriter to have created, written and starred in the most succesful bbc drama series for years would be a remarkable enough, but that is by no means gatiss’s only claim to fame indeed, last year saw him become one of the most successful actor writers of his generation in addition to sherlock, he was heavily involved in the 50th anniversary celebrations for doctor who having written for the show ever since its revival under scriptwriter russell t davies, gatiss penned an adventure in space and time — a drama about the doctor’s early days at the bbc — as well as two new episodes of the latest series he adapted and directed an m r james ghost story, which was a highlight of bbc2’s christmas day schedule, as well as writing and presenting a documentary about the author complex character: mark gatiss is not only playing mycroft holmes, he also created the show with steven moffat, produces it and writes the script steven moffat, who co produces the show, says: 'mycroft is a very complex character somehow, he's the key to sherlock' an episode of poirot’s final series similarly came from his pen oh, and all the while he has been starring in a sell out production of shakespeare’s corialanus at the donmar warehouse — the latest in a line of classical theatre roles that he has also written three novels, based around the adventures of a detective called lucifer box, is almost surplus to requirements small wonder, then, that one broadsheet newspaper this week used one of its editorial leader columns to declare gatiss ‘a national treasure’ such popular acclaim might never have come his way had it not been for a passing comment made on a train journey from cardiff to london in 2009, when gatiss was travelling with steven moffat, his long term collaborator on doctor who gatiss remarked on the coincidence that in 1881, when the first sherlock holmes story appeared, dr john watson was a war veteran who had been wounded in afghanistan nearly 130 years later, the british army was fighting in the same distant outpost: perhaps, he mused, a modern day watson was there inspiration struck both men ‘it was a lightbulb moment,’ gatiss says what followed was the most critically lauded tv show in years, and one which saw the affectionate loathing between sherlock and mycroft develop to a new intensity in one telling scene at the start of the latest series, mycroft picked up a large white teapot and announced: ‘i’ll be mother’ to which holmes retorted: ‘and there is a whole childhood in a nutshell’ such psychologically laden lines have prompted some to suspect that gatiss has commandeered one of literature’s best loved heroes for some personal family therapy for gatiss’s own childhood was marked by a complex relationship with his parents and a bitter rivalry with his own older brother, all set against a truly gothic backdrop that was to inspire his lifelong fascination with the macabre when gatiss was born in sedgefield, county durham, in 1966, his brother phillip was three years old they grew up in the village of school aycliffe, north of darlington, where their father was a mining engineer as the pits closed, his father joined his mother working at the psychiatric hospital opposite their home mark gatiss and steven moffat came up with the idea of sherlock while on a train to london after having worked on doctor who in cardiff the hospital, once known as aycliffe colony for the mentally defective, became mark’s second home he and phillip used the swimming pool there, had their haircuts done by staff, and watched films in the hospital’s cramped cinema one of gatiss’s earliest memories is of seeing chitty chitty bang bang, surrounded by people whose illness had left deep marks on their faces ‘i was almost as frightened of the people sitting around me as of the child catcher [the film’s villain],’ he recalls ‘the faces and personalities were true northern gothic’ he acknowledges that it also explains his adult obsession with monsters, demons and derelict buildings: ‘it definitely left its mark i’ve always liked the macabre ‘i was always drawn to the supernatural, anything odd i liked “stepping out of the sunshine”’ to the young gatiss, his father was a forbidding figure ‘i realise now that was mainly because he worked so hard he wasn’t unkind, but he was a presence when our mum said, “wait till your father gets home”, it definitely worked’ but it was his relationship with his brother that left the most lasting scars the boys detested each other and fought frequently though they would stick up for each other in playground scraps, at home, phillip would punch and bully his little brother ‘we only stopped hating each other recently,’ gatiss says ‘we never had anything in common he was painfully shy and found his expression in lashing out at people’ gatiss, meanwhile, found another escape: the stage during his first year of drama college, he met reece shearsmith, steve pemberton and jeremy dyson the four began writing and performing a ghoulish sketch show called the league of gentlemen it developed into a radio sitcom about the inhabitants of a morbidly gruesome village on the remote yorkshire moors, a backwater called royston vasey the motto on the village signposts promised ‘you’ll never leave’, and the population of serial killers, psychopaths, cannibals and lunatics made sure of that after the show won the perrier comedy award at the edinburgh fringe in 1997, it transferred to bbc2 tv all the actors played multiple roles, often in drag gatiss’s best characters included hilary briss, the butcher who kept cuts of human flesh for special customers; iris, the cleaner with a disgustingly lurid lovelife; and val, the obedient housewife whose husband is obsessed with bodily functions such dark humour would hardly make gatiss the natural choice to pen the revival of a children’s classic but having been obsessed by doctor who as a child, he had supplemented his wages as an actor in the early 90s by writing four doctor who novels redbeard: the young sherlock appearing in flashbacks, bullied by an adult mycroft, was played by gatiss's co creator steven moffat's son when the show was revived for tv by producers russell t davies and steven moffat, gatiss was the first writer they hired his first episode featured simon callow as charles dickens, starting a pattern that has seen gatiss cast actors that he admired in his youth as stars for his projects the credits for his christmas day dramatisation of mr james’s spine chilling story the tractate middoth read like a geek’s dream dinner party: there was eleanor bron, who starred with the beatles in help!; former doctor who assistant louise jameson; una stubbs from til death us do part, and roy barraclough, the former coronation street actor who did a famous drag double act called cissy and ada with comedian les dawson murder and mystery have been a recurring theme: midsomer murders, inspector george gently, poirot, marple, jekyll… gatiss has been involved with them all, as writer or actor his fascination with victoriana and dickensian horror spills over into real life at the islington house he shares with his civil partner, actor ian hallard, he constructed a mad scientist’s laboratory in the cellar, complete with blood red walls, yards of glass tubes with coloured liquids bubbling over bunsen burners, and a stuffed cat he met hallard, who is eight years his junior, online he claims it is the younger man’s pristine spelling and grammar that attracted him they were married in 2008 at the middle temple in the city of london gatiss says he always knew that he was gay, though he had a girlfriend as a teenager, and that he accepted his real sexuality after a single afternoon of self doubt ‘i don’t think i was ever “in” with my friends,’ he says coming out to his parents was, however, much harder it was only after leaving home that he plucked up the confidence to tell his mother the truth she begged him to say nothing to his father, and promised she would break the news herself a year later, gatiss realised they had dealt with the problem by denying it to themselves, and he had to go through the ordeal of coming out all over again that taught him, he says, never to put off difficult emotional decisions gatiss’s open homosexuality has led some to detect a gay frisson between his characterisation of holmes and watson it’s a running joke that inspector lestrade and his colleagues regard 221b baker street as a gay love nest, and in the latest series landlady mrs hudson was incredulous at watson’s protestations that he was getting engaged … ‘to a woman’ purists have balked at such liberties with conan doyle’s creation, but they are part and parcel of gatiss’s creativity homosexual undercurrents, vicious sibling rivalry, gothic shadows: these are the ingredients of his adolescence which today underpin his adult success his next role — as a banker called tycho nestoris in the us drama game of thrones — has helped heal the rivalry with his brother after decades of animosity, the two are back in contact and gatiss says phillip, now a postman, was ‘so excited’ to hear mark has a part in the show that he loves it is a remarkable rapprochement but then, as fans of sherlock will know, even mycroft has moments when his little brother makes him proud
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millions of genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in the florida keys if british researchers win approval to use the bugs against two extremely painful viral diseases but the move, if it goes ahead, would be unprecedented as modified dna insects have never been so close to being set loose in a residential us neighborhood before 'this is essentially using a mosquito as a drug to cure disease,' said michael doyle, executive director of the florida keys mosquito control district, which is waiting to hear if the food and drug administration will allow the experiment brittany mariscal, an entomological technician with the florida keys mosquito control district, sorts and counts dead captured mosquitoes under a microscope in key west, florida dengue and chikungunya are growing threats in the us, but some people are more frightened at the thought of being bitten by a genetically modified organism more than 130,000 signed a changeorg petition against the experiment even potential boosters say those responsible must do more to show that benefits outweigh the risks 'i think the science is fine, they definitely can kill mosquitoes, but the gmo issue still sticks as something of a thorny issue for the general public,' said phil lounibos, who studies mosquito control at the florida medical entomology laboratory 'it's not even so much about the science — you can't go ahead with something like this if public opinion is negative' mosquito controllers say they're running out of options that can kill aedes aegypti, a tiger striped invader whose biting females spread these viruses climate change and globalization are spreading tropical diseases farther from the equator, and key west, the southernmost us city, is particularly vulnerable 'an arriving person would be infectious for several days, and could infect many of the local mosquitoes,' doyle said 'within a few weeks you'd likely end up with several infected mosquitoes for each infected visitor' there are no vaccines or cures for dengue, known as 'break bone fever,' or chikungunya, which causes painful contortions us cases remain rare for now, but dengue sickens 50 million people annually worldwide and kills 25 percent of the half million who get severe cases, according to the world health organization chikungunya has already overwhelmed hospitals and harmed economies across the caribbean after infecting a million people in the region last year jason garcia, a field inspector with the florida keys mosquito control district, tests a sprayer that could be used in the future to spray pesticides to control mosquitos in key west an aedes aegypti mosquito feeds on the arm of emilio posada, the upper keys supervisor for the florida keys mosquito control district, in key largo, florida, they could soon be used to test and treat disease carrie atwood, an entomological technician with the florida keys mosquito control district, sorts and counts dead captured mosquitoes millions of genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in the florida keys insecticides are sprayed year round from helicopters and door to door in charming and crowded neighborhoods throughout the keys but because aedes aegypti don't travel much and are repeatedly doused with the same chemicals, they have evolved to resist four of the six insecticides used to kill them enter oxitec, a british biotech firm launched by oxford university researchers they patented a method of breeding aedes aegypti with fragments of proteins from the herpes simplex virus and e coli bacteria as well as genes from coral and cabbage this synthetic dna has been used in thousands of experiments without harming lab animals, but it is fatal to the bugs, killing mosquito larvae before they can fly or bite oxitec's lab workers manually remove modified females, aiming to release only males, which feed on nectar and don't bite for blood like females do the modified males then mate with wild females whose offspring die, reducing the population oxitec has built a breeding lab in marathon and hopes to release its mosquitoes this spring in key haven, a neighborhood of 444 homes closely clustered on a relatively isolated peninsula at the north end of key west fda spokeswoman theresa eisenman said no field tests will be allowed until the agency has 'thoroughly reviewed all the necessary information' company spokeswoman chris creese said the test will be similar in size to oxitec's 2012 experiment in the cayman islands, where 33 million modified mosquitoes were released over six months, suppressing 96 percent of the targeted bugs this undated photo made available by oxitec shows a genetically modified aedes aegypti mosquito in their uk lab oxitec says a later test in brazil also was successful, and both countries now want larger scale projects but critics accused oxitec of failing to obtain informed consent in the caymans, saying residents weren't told they could be bitten by a few stray females overlooked in the lab instead, oxitec said only non biting males would be released, and that even if humans were somehow bitten, no genetically modified dna would enter their bloodstream neither claim is entirely true, outside observers say 'what oxitec is trying to spin is that it's highly improbable that there will be negative consequences of this foreign dna entering someone that's bitten by an oxitec mosquito,' said lounibos 'i'm on their side, in that consequences are highly unlikely but to say that there's no genetically modified dna that might get into a human, that's kind of a gray matter' asked about these points, creese says oxitec has now released 70 million of its mosquitoes in several countries and received no reports of human impacts caused by bites or from the synthetic dna, despite regulatory oversight that encourages people to report any problems 'we are confident of the safety of our mosquito, as there's no mechanism for any adverse effect on human health the proteins are non toxic and non allergenic,' she said oxitec should still do more to show that the synthetic dna causes no harm when transferred into humans by its mosquitoes, said guy reeves, a molecular geneticist at germany's max planck institute to build trust in any cutting edge science, a range of independent experts — not just the company that stands to gain or the regulatory agency involved — should have enough access to data published in peer reviewed journals to be able to explain the specific benefits and risks, he said 'failing to do this almost inevitably means a potential for controversy to be sustained and amplified,' said reeves, adding that mosquito borne diseases need more solutions 'we should not be closing down productive avenues, and genetically modified mosquitoes might be one of them' with the fda watching, doyle and oxitec's product development manager, derric nimmo, checked their frustration at public meetings in november and december, repeatedly fielding the same questions from the same critics their selling points: this experiment is self limiting, using insects engineered to kill their progeny, not make them stronger it is contained, since oxitec's mosquitoes won't breed with other species killing off aedes aegypti can protect human health while eliminating an invasive species and most key haven residents responded positively to a district survey about the planned field test using gmos also could save money: the district spends 10 percent of its budget on aedes aegypti, which represents less than 1 percent of the 45 mosquito species buzzing around the keys key haven resident marilyn smith still wasn't persuaded the keys haven't experienced a dengue outbreak in years, and no chikungunya cases have been reported here, she said 'if i knew that this was a real risk and lives could be saved, that would make sense,' smith said 'but there are no problems why are we trying to fix it? why are we being used as the experiment, the guinea pigs, just to see what happens?' if the fda decides against the test, or the modified mosquitoes fail to work as promised, doyle will still need to kill the bugs 'i'm convinced the only way to fight this is using the mosquitoes to fight each other,' he said
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poised to be the first time gmo insects are released in us residential area diseases dengue and chikungunya are growing threats in the us more than 130,000 signed a changeorg petition against the experiment
respected: deborah penny, 47, the first transgender soldier in battle, has won the respect of her comrades at camp bastion after her sex change battling the taliban on the dusty battlefields of afghanistan is one of the most difficult challenges a soldier can face but warrant officer class 2 deborah penny has shown huge bravery in another way – by becoming the first sex change soldier to serve in a warzone in british army history the 47 year old was born a man but is serving on the helmand frontline as a woman military chiefs say the bomb disposal expert, who has served in the army for 30 years, has won the respect of her comrades for her courage the royal logistic corps warrior, a former rugby player who used to be called david, dramatically changed her life in the macho military world by becoming the first transgender soldier in battle a high ranking army source said: ‘squaddies used to point her out at camp bastion as a novelty — but she has become accepted ‘she wears the uniform like all the blokes and girls and has a feminine bob haircut ‘debbie is working in a male orientated world and has shown courage in deciding to change her life in such a dramatic manner and still pursue her career in a macho world’ explosives expert wo2 penny, who used to serve in the royal green jackets, now works alongside uk bomb disposal teams as an ammunition technician, she makes sure soldiers do not accidentally bring explosives home from the warzone women can serve in any army unit, including as apache helicopter pilots targeting the taliban, except those whose primary role is to ‘close with and kill’ engage in hand to hand combat with the enemy but armed female soldiers do go out on patrol with combat units while serving as medics, intelligence specialists, artillery spotters, logisticians or signallers women have served with distinction, and been decorated, in iraq and afghanistan, and several have been killed in battle around 9,000 women serve in the army – making up around 10 per cent of its total strength wo2 penny, of colchester, essex, has been living as a woman since 2007 until 2000, gay personnel were banned from the military the previous year, 298 people were discharged from the army for their sexuality but a legal victory for three gay men and a lesbian who had been kicked out of the royal navy and raf brought a change in 2008 jan hamilton, formerly parachute regiment captain ian hamilton, was the first uk officer to complete gender reassignment from male to female in battle: explosives expert wo2 penny in serving on the frontline in helmand (pictured) as a woman another military sex change: bradley manning, us army whistleblower, is now chelsea manning us army whistleblower bradley manning, jailed for leaking classified documents to wikileaks, is also changing sex earlier this year, the british army was named on gay campaign group stonewall’s top 100 employers 2014 list, which names britain’s most gay friendly workplaces the ministry of defence said the armed forces did not tolerate any form of harassment, victimisation or discrimination of transgender service personnel a source said: ‘our policy is that it is the right of each and every member of the armed forces to work in an environment which is free from intimidation and bullying and to expect to be treated with dignity and respect’ an army spokesman said: ‘the armed forces want to represent the breadth of the society we serve and we support all of our personnel, including those considering gender reassignment, by offering them the appropriate level of care and advice’ the armed forces have a chequered history on equal rights but have improved in recent years: 1696: navy hires women as nurses and laundresses 1800: roles abolished 1884 1918: women allowed as nurses in navy, army and raf 1955 57: homosexuality made an offence in all three services 1967: being gay decriminalised, but not in military 1989 90: women can pilot raf combat aircraft and serve on warships 1994: mod says gay personnel can no longer be court martialled but can be discharged 2000: policy barring gays from serving is axed 2004: military recognises civil partnerships 2011: women allowed to serve on submarines 2012: commander sarah west becomes first female skipper of major warship 2014: women still barred from army combat roles
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deborah penny, 47, was born a man but serves as a woman in helmand bomb disposal expert, in the army for 30 years, has won comrades' respect former rugby player called david is now first transgender soldier in battle
they are esteemed badges of honour to commemorate a building where important people throughout history lived and worked and the london blue plaques scheme – administered by english heritage since 1986 – has been running for nearly 150 years and is thought to be the oldest of its kind in the world but english heritage has come under fire for choosing a blue plaques panel of celebrity ‘white men off the telly’, prompting a slew of resignations from the existing panel involved: the new panel now boasts the likes of arts council chair sir peter bazalgette (left), who brought big brother to the uk, and fa chairman greg dyke (right) famed: the panel, which is responsible for selecting the historical figures to be honoured with the famous plaques, also features broadcaster and art dealer philip mould (left), and scientist and tv presenter professor lord (robert) winston (right) the new panel, which is responsible for selecting the historical figures to be honoured with the famous plaques, now boasts the likes of arts council chair sir peter bazalgette, who brought big brother to the uk; fa chairman greg dyke; broadcaster and art dealer philip mould; scientist and tv presenter professor lord (robert) winston; tv host and physicist professor brian cox and banker rupert hambro these appointments saw two existing members of the panel, david edgerton, professor of the history of science and technology at king’s college, london, and architectural journalist gillian darley, quit three weeks ago professor edgerton slammed the new appointments and told the observer: ‘instead of a blue plaques panel, english heritage are creating a white men off the telly panel, with a banker added ‘it is hardly expert, especially in history, and is not representative such a panel may wish to fund its own plaque scheme, but it should not call itself the blue plaques panel, nor should a scheme advised by such a panel be in receipt of public money ‘people are not so dumb that they want their blue plaques decided on by people they might have seen on television’ appointments: tv host and physicist professor brian cox (left) and banker rupert hambro (right) are also on the new panel famous: what was once the home of author a a milne, at 13 mallord st, in chelsea, south west london professor edgerton had been a member of the panel for six years – yet only discovered the new appointments when reading the addressees of the agenda to the next meeting he said he feared the appointments had been made purely to encourage donations, adding: ‘english heritage is the custodian of the blue plaques panel, not its owner ‘proposers, supporters and the public will rightly expect the blue plaques panel to be expert, particularly in history ‘they will also expect it to be representative so that plaques are awarded to people distinguished in all fields, including those currently under represented’ the new blue plaque panel appointments have also been condemned for being entirely male ms darley said she was appalled by the lack of females on the panel and said: ‘the appointments are all male and, with the exception of brian cox, they are all over 60 ‘and the other point is that they are all busy people i doubt they will find time to scrutinise these decisions ‘bonnie greer was appointed to the panel last year and they make a lot of that but, well, let’s just say her attendance record hasn’t been very good i’ve met her once’ professor edgerton and ms darley were asked whether they wished to assist in the appointment of their replacements, but declined in a letter to professor ronald hutton, chairman of the panel, professor edgerton said: ‘i don’t feel able to recommend anyone, nor indeed to recommend that anyone accept an invitation to serve ‘i am sorry to be blunt, but english heritage have clearly made up their mind what panel they want, and have got it’ example: the master of suspense, sir alfred hitchcock, was honoured in 1999 with an english heritage blue plaque being unveiled by his daughter patricia at 153 cromwell road, london, where he lived for 13 years author: an english heritage blue plaque marking a former home of writer pg wodehouse in mayfair, london last year the funding for the blue plaque panel was suspended after government cash was slashed, and its support staff was reduced by 30 per cent 'instead of a blue plaques panel, english heritage are creating a white men off the telly panel, with a banker added' professor david edgerton, king's college a spokesman for english heritage said further appointments were being made, including that of professor martin daunton, master of trinity hall, cambridge he told the observer: ‘we were disappointed to receive the resignations of two blue plaque panel members ‘we are confident that, once complete, the panel will represent the full range of in depth knowledge and expertise required to consider all the different blue plaque nominations’
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a french algerian homosexual man is planning to open a 'mosque for gays' in france and hopes to eventually conduct same sex muslim marriages mohammed ludovic lütfi zahed, an algerian muslim living in paris who is married to his gay partner, hopes to open the doors by the end of the month, according to the jerusalem post mr zahed says the mosque, situated in a buddhist chapel in paris, will also break another islamic taboo by refusing to segregate women and men mohammed ludovic lütfi zahed (right), an algerian muslim living in france who is married to his gay partner qiyam al din (left), hopes to open a mosque for homosexuals he said: 'in normal mosques, women have to sit in the back seats and wear a headscarf and gay men are afraid of both verbal and physical aggression 'after performing the hajj, i realized that a mosque for gays was a must for gay muslims who want to perform their prayers' zahed is married to qiyam al din, a south african man the pair wed in south africa, where same sex marriage is legal, and their marriage was approved by an imam in france, but was not recognised by the previous government gay marriage has bitterly divided france discord: police officers spray tear gas to push back people taking part in a demonstration in support with the same sex marriage in toulouse earlier this month protests: there were bitter clashes between demonstrators after france's socialist government adopted a draft law to authorise gay marriage and adoption french president francois hollande said he would enact his ‘marriage for everyone plan’ within a year of coming to power in may, but vocal opposition from religious leaders, some politicians and parts of rural france has sparked protests with an estimated 70,000 marchers riot police have been forced to use tear gas to break up violence between those who support and oppose the change in law as well as opposition from those against gay marriage, the couple will likely face persecution from the french muslim community homosexuality is a religious, political and cultural flashpoint among much of the arab and islamic world islam: homosexuality is an incendiary subject across the muslim world mr zahed told al arabiya news: 'being married in front of my family, was like a new start of life for me 'i could have never imagined such a day would come, seeing the joy in my parents’ eyes after they had battled with my sexuality and tried with all their might to change the course of my sexual orientation' zahed was diagnosed with aids at 19, sparking his spiritual awakening he says he regularly receives hate mail from muslims globally, but added he is 'comfortable' in his own skin he added that if his marriage is not recognised in france he will return to south africa
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isis has released a video claiming to show a young boy executing two russian spies in the islamic state the footage shows a boy and an isis soldier standing behind the two kneeling 'spies', after which the boy allegedly shoots the grey clad men in the back of their heads however, lack of visible injuries on the men and evidence of blood after the killings suggest the executions may be staged for the cameras horror: isis released the footage which claims to show a young boy executing two kazakh men for 'spying' the seven and a half minute video starts with interviews with the two men where they admit to spying on isis on behalf of russia the men tell an interviewer off camera their names are mamayev jambulat yesenajovich and ashimov sergey nikolayavich, that they are kazakh and were recruited by 'russian intelligence' the 'execution scene' sees the isis soldier dressed in a camouflage uniform with the young boy standing next to him holding a handgun the soldier speaks to the camera, saying that 'allah has gifted the islamic state with these two spies' 'execution': the two men are seen kneeling on the ground and before the boy walks up behind them, appearing to be shooting them both in the back of the head the real deal? lack of evidence of injuries shown in the video suggests the execution may be staged brainwashed: the young boy is interviewed after the executions, declaring that we will become a 'mujahid' 'by allah's grace, they are now in the custory of the lion cubs of the khilafah,' he adds the boy walks up behind the 'spies' and appears to be shooting them both in the back of the head, before raising the gun and cheering after the supposed executions, the young boys is asked who he will be 'in the future' 'i will be the one who slaughters you, o kuffar (non muslim),' the smiling boy responds 'i will be a mujahid, insha'allah (god willing)' mailonline has not been able to verify the authenticity of the video, which was uploaded to an anonymous vidme account linked to a twitter user no longer in use
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video released by isis allegedly shows young boy executing two men the men are said to have been caught spying on islamic state for russia lack of evidence of injuries on the men suggests execution may be staged
a trio of teenage boys have been caught snapping photos of themselves dangling their legs over the side of an 18 storey high rise building office workers in auckland called police after spotting the teenagers daringly sitting on the roof of the 70 metre tall west plaza building on monday afternoon the group posed for photos before wandering to other areas of the roof for 15 to 20 minutes before police arrived, the new zealand herald reports scroll down for video office workers in auckland called police after spotting three teenagers daringly sitting on the roof of the 70 metre tall west plaza building on monday afternoon 'normally you see people going up there doing maintenance and that sort of thing, but it was pretty clear that these guys weren't legit,' jayne ihaka, who works in a nearby building, told the newspaper 'they were probably just having a laugh, but it was a bit scary because anything can go wrong when you're dangling your feet over the edge' police went to the roof and made the group of teenagers come down, but no arrests have been made so far the group posed for photos before wandering to other areas of the roof for 15 to 20 minutes before police arrived police went to the roof and made the group of teenagers come down, but no arrests have been made so far senior sergeant chris money said inquiries into the incident were ongoing senior sergeant chris money said inquiries into the incident were ongoing the building is more than 70 metres tall 'i'm pretty sure it's straight down (from where they were) they probably thought it was hilarious but it wouldn't be funny if a body goes splat 'maybe their friends on facebook will be impressed, but no one in our office was' the west plaza building in auckland is more than 70 metres tall
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three teenagers caught sitting on roof of auckland's west plaza building office workers called police after spotting trio on monday afternoon group posed for photos before wandering around for 15 to 20 minutes police escorted the teenagers down but no charges have been laid
a british woman was allegedly sexually assaulted in a lift by a worker at dubai airport the 24 year old woman from glasgow, scotland, had arrived at the airport and asked a worker for directions, before being instructed to use an elevator the worker, a 24 year old man of pakistani origin, followed the woman into the elevator and touched her inappropriately once inside, she claims a 24 year old woman from glasgow was sexually assaulted by a dubai airport worker in a lift near terminal 3 emirates 24/7 news reports that the man asked her if she was married and tried touching her indecently the national report that the man tried to touch the woman's breast once the elevator had come to a stop, the woman ran out and went straight to police to lodge a complaint the man was later picked out at an identity parade after the man 'touched her breast' the woman ran to the police at the airport and lodged a complaint the incident occurred at the transit zone at terminal 3 at around 1030pm on november 2 last year the man was charged, and the dubai public prosecution has transferred the accused to criminal court on charges of indecent assault under duress the case continues, with a verdict expected on february 1
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the 24 year old woman from glasgow was sexually assaulted after asking pakistani worker for directions, he followed her into elevator following assault, woman ran to police and man was later identified
if you cry with happiness at weddings you are responding to a happy experience with a negative reaction, researchers claim and they believe the unusual reaction may help restore emotional equilibrium in us and keep intense emotions under control experts say that their work helps to shed light on how people express and control their emotions, which could help advance their understanding of people’s mental health scroll down for video people who cry at weddings (illustrated with a stock image) are responding to a happy experience with a negative reaction, and this response may help restore emotional equilibrium in us, scientists claim oriana aragon, the yale psychologist who led the study, set out to explore the phrase ‘tears of joy,’ which she said never made sense to her but after conducting a series of studies into seemingly incongruous expressions, she now understands better why people cry when they are happy ‘people may be restoring emotional equilibrium with these expressions,’ she explained ‘they seem to take place when people are overwhelmed with strong positive emotions and people who do this seem to recover better from those strong emotions’ the report, which is published in the journal psychological science, cites various examples of responding to a positive experience with a negative emotion, such as: a crying spouse being reunited with a soldier returning from war and teenage girls scream at a justin bieber concert the study cites various examples of responding to a positive experience with a negative emotion, such as a crying spouse being reunited with a soldier returning from war, and when people can't help pinching babies' cheeks (stock image) who they consider cute the study found that responding to a happy experience with a negative reaction, may help restore a person’s emotional equilibrium in this way it helps people manage extremely emotional, overwhelming, moments people who cry with happiness are able to moderate intense emotions more quickly examples also include a baseball player who hits a home run, only to be slapped on the back by teammates and when people can't help pinching babies’ cheeks who they consider cute dr aragon and her colleagues ran study participants through some of these scenarios and measured their responses to cute babies or happy reunions they discovered that individuals who express negative reactions to positive news were able to moderate intense emotions more quickly they found that people who are most likely to cry at their child’s graduation are most likely to want to pinch a cute baby’s cheeks there is also some evidence that strong negative feelings may provoke positive expressions the study revealed that individuals who express negative reactions to positive news shown here by a happy woman crying after voting in the first election since former president mohamed morsi was ousted in egypt were able to moderate intense emotions more quickly for example, nervous laughter often occurs when people are confronted with a difficult or frightening situations, and psychologists have seen people smiling during times of extreme sadness these new discoveries begin to explain common things that many people do but don’t even understand themselves, dr aragon said ‘these insights advance our understanding of how people express and control their emotions, which is importantly related to mental and physical health, the quality of relationships with others, and even how well people work together,’ she said
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we reveal how to get the enviable physiques of the stars this week: rene russo's legs rene russo's slender legs stole the show when she turned up with director husband dan gilroy at an awards ceremony in new york recently the 60 year old actress says: 'i work out every day, but just 20 minutes on that damn bike, do some light weights, and that's it and i've gotta move on' rene russo's slender legs stole the show when she turned up at an awards ceremony she focuses on 'one body part a day' and walks a lot to stay flexible, she does feldenkrais floor work, a type of stretching, and pilates moves what to try: knee crossover tucks lie face down as if doing press ups raise yourself up using your arms, maintaining a stable, straight torso slowly lift one foot off the floor and raise the leg, bringing the knee across and into your chest stop when you feel your lower back bending and slowly lower to the starting position repeat for the other side do it 12 15 times on each side she focuses on 'one body part a day' and walks a lot try knee crossover tucks to get her legs
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a motorcyclist in thailand has been given the shock of his life after he hit a car that sent him flying over the top of it and doing a flip a dash camera captured the action while uploader dashfoundnation was travelling down a street in the south east asian country the video posted on liveleak runs for 45 seconds but the crucial moments start at 23 seconds a dash camera captured the action while uploader dashfoundnation was travelling down a street in the south east asian country the video posted on liveleak runs for 45 seconds but the crucial moments start at 23 seconds in the footage, a silver honda sedan is seen cutting off the uploader's car while trying to enter a driveway while dashfoundnation stops his vehicle, a motorcyclist comes into view from the left side of the screen the bike has no time to stop as the sedan continues driving and does not seem to pause when the motorcyclist hits the back of the car on the point of impact, the bike rider does a flip over the car before landing on the ground a silver honda sedan is seen cutting off the uploader's car while trying to enter a driveway in thailand while dashfoundnation stops his vehicle, a motorcyclist comes into view from the left side of the screen the bike has no time to stop as the sedan continues driving and does not seem to pause when the motorcyclist hits the back of the car obviously shaken, the motorcyclist momentarily remains still the bike rider appears to be uninjured as he picks himself off the ground it seems wearing a red protective helmet and a leather jacket helped him escape serious injury on the point of impact, the bike rider does a flip over the car before landing on the ground and appears uninjured
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video was uploaded on liveleak and was filmed via a dashcam in thailand a silver honda sedan is seen cutting off another car while driving on street as the sedan turns into a driveway, a motorcyclist comes out of nowhere he hits the side of the car and then back flips over the top of the vehicle bike rider lands on the ground and then picks himself back up uninjured
tens of thousands of people treated to horrible train and bus rides into metlife stadium were forced to make that same journey out of the super bowl only this time it was somehow worse massive crowds appeared bottle necked as they waited for new jersey transit trains to arrive at platforms the wait was so long officials pleaded with fans to stay in the stadium and opened the tony chase club for people to take refuge the nearly 28,000 people who took mass transit to the game were stuck on lines brought to a standstill by temporarily installed airport style security machines that failed to keep up with the volume of passengers taking transit to the super bowl as authorities had instructed the previous record train ridership to the meadowlands had been 22,000 for a 2009 u2 concert, authorities said sunday's ridership doubled officials' estimates scroll down for video back to square one: passengers were ferried back into secaucus junction, the site of hour long waits that led to people passing out before the game buses were the better option: fans who rode buses into the game were whisked out of new jersey and back to manhattan within minutes despite record ridership causing massive inbound delays prior to the game, nj transit officials had only one train platform open when the game let out a second platform was eventually opened, but the damage had been done 50 additional buses had to be brought in to move people out of the parking lot, and it took more than two hours to get them to the port authority bus terminal on the edge of manhattan's times square stadium officials reopened the chase club inside, normally reserved only for vip ticket holders, but were still charging full price for food and drinks, according to the star ledger a new jersey transit official said that 25,000 people had been moved only to secaucus junction by midnight, two hours after confetti started raining down on the field, and called the operation a 'tremendous success' it is not known how long it took to clear the transit hub of passengers 'this is a joke,' said seattle native jeff chapman, an engineer 'we're not even from here and we could've told you this would've happened' 'what do you expect when you don't give people any other option to get home,' added friend willie whitmore, a project manager 'it's ridiculous' scoreboard announcements inside the stadium begged people to stay inside the gates to ease congestion and the new jersey state police bizarrely advised fans via twitter to 'enjoy the stadium atmosphere until congestion dissipates' this is terrible,'said dan steidl, of green bay 'i'm ready to get out of here but i don't know when that'll happen' it appears that neither did officials, despite having hours to react to the disaster that was the ride in jame packed: football fans make their way to trains at secaucus station in new jersey where several people collapsed long lines have come to a standstill in front of airport style security machines that apparently cannot handle the crowd volume people were squeezed together in an enclosed stairwell brrr: the temperature for tonight's game is expected to be about 35 to 40 degrees fahrenheit threat: authorities say that sometimes a sniper can be more effective than an agent on the ground a sniper is pictured at the 2012 super bowl in indianapolis k 9: in addition to the snipers, law enforcement officials will be using bomb sniffing dogs to seek out any potential security threat 'absolutely pathetic, the nfl had 40,000 people coming on buses, they knew there was going to be 45,000 people coming out,' tammy ritchie, from vancouver, canada, told the star ledger 'we stood in line sweating, it’s absolute horse crap as more trains arrived, police tried to thin the sweating, jostling crowd by spreading people across the platform initial fan calls of 'seahawks' and 'broncos' gave way to angry shouts of 'new jersey, your super bowl sucks!' law enforcement officials in new york and new jersey have ramped up security in anticipation of super bowl xlviii in east rutherford on sunday, utilizing just about everything in their arsenals including sharp shooting snipers to protect those in attendance from any possible terrorist attack 'we were stuck in the tunnel for 30 minutes, it was probably 120 degrees,' said jeff dunbar, from seattle ‘people had to take their shirts off, it was not good people were chanting ‘jersey sucks’ and blaming christie' adding to the confusion was the lack of communication between authorities and passengers 'nobody is telling anybody what’s going onpeople are getting sick, they’re feeling claustrophobic, there’s no air in there, there’s no water,' said bob dowling, of new providence, new jersey 'the wait is incredible, we were back there a good one hour and fifteen minutes' the super bowl is what national security officials consider a 'level one national security event' and may be a target for terrorists because of the level of attention paid to the game the added security proved to be too much for many in the crowd to handle 'it was 120 degrees in there with no air conditioning, everybody is drenched,' said dave mannon, of dallas, texas 'they even had to send in medics because a few people passed out i don’t think it’s working, i think governor christie’s at it again' choked: fans are packed in tightly as they make their way down the stairs at nj transit's secaucus junction mass of humanity: people stood in lines of almost an hour to transfer from buses and trains to rides to metlife stadium there is usually no wait even prior to giants and jets games locked down: police officers view football fans as they traverse the crowds the added security measures also include high altitude snipers working with security agents on the ground to make sure everyone is safe if you have an active shooter or you have anyone who may have a bomb snipers have a better angle then anyone who is on the ground to actually hit that target it’s an entire team that communicates you have individuals who are at high altitudes inside the arena and then you have individuals that are on the ground moving in and around the crowd,' former fbi agent jonathan gilliam tells fox news additionally, security officials are reviewing recent terrorist attacks in other countries to determine how to prevent them from happening in the us 'certainly, we're keeping an eye on activities around the world, but as of this time, there are no threats directed against this event that we're aware of,' new york city police commissioner william bratton said a security briefing in manhattan because this year's super bowl has the distinction of relying on mass transit to take up to 30,000 fans to the game, the deadly bombings in the southern russian city of volograd have raised worries here, said col rick fuentes, head of the new jersey state police the suicide attacks on a trolleybus and a train station that killed more than 30 people within weeks of the winter olympics also prompted a series of meetings among the planners for super bowl security, he said everyone waits everywhere: football fans who finally made their way through security checkpoints were then forced to endure waits to get on train to the game local officials are counting on the fbi and the department of homeland security 'to keep an eye on and brief us on those events,' fuentes said 'there is a concern with mass transit and we've prepared ourselves for it' trains, buses and cars taking fans from new york and parts of new jersey to the stadium and back again 'are going to be scanned, they're going to be checked, they're going to be swept,' he said in manhattan, the nypd is drawing on its experience securing the annual new year's eve celebration in times square, the new york city marathon, the un general assembly and other high profile events to secure 'super bowl boulevard,' a 13 block street fair on broadway the department has deployed hundreds of extra uniformed and plainclothes police officers to the area it's also relying on bomb sniffing dogs, portable radiation detectors and a vast network of surveillance cameras to detect trouble in the weeks leading up to the super bowl, the nypd rehearsed its response to a variety of potential threats, including 'the backpack left unsecured scenario,' bratton said 'we are very, very well prepared' capacity: people already are filing into metlife stadium for super bowl xlviii in east rutherford, new jersey target: the super bowl is considered by security officials to be a 'level one national security event' the state police plan to assign up to 700 troopers at the stadium on sunday, fuentes said a security center has been set up in a hollowed out building across a highway from the stadium that's slated to become a mammoth retail and entertainment complex a 24 hour fbi command center will monitor the latest counterterrorism intelligence, said aaron ford, head of the fbi's newark office measures have been taken to protect power grids and to make sure there's plenty of backup energy in case of another blackout like the one last year at the game in new orleans, said jeffrey miller, the nfl's head of security 'this year we're going to try to go blackout free,' miller said 'one thing that i've learned is that you don't want to be overconfident you want to prepare and be ready you just don't know what you might face on game day' randy killikevc, a tourist from tennessee who attended a super bowl party in byrant park on wednesday, said possible threats against the super bowl weren't on his mind 'if terrorists were going to strike new york why not do it on new year's eve? there's lots more people here (then),' he said
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isabelle 'barbara' fiske calhoun, a new york cartoonist who moved to vermont just after world war two to co found what is now described as vermont's 'oldest alternative and artist's retreat,' died at age 94 calhoun's daughter, isabella fiske mcfarlin, said her mother died on monday in white river junction she did not give a cause of death she said calhoun then isabella fiske and her husband, irving fiske, bohemian intellectuals from new york, used wedding money in 1946 to buy a 140 acre hill farm in rochester that later became a 'hippie commune' known as the quarry hill creative center 'commune founder': this undated photo provided by jim drougas shows isabelle calhoun, who co founded what is now described as vermont's 'oldest alternative and artist's retreat' younger years: isabelle calhoun, who bought the vermont farm in 1946 with her husband at the time, irving fiske, is seen here commune: this undated photo shows people relaxing at the commune, which became popular in the 1960s it was initially intended to be a summer home, but they stayed in 1984 irving fiske told the associated press, 'we're free and easy we're not very authoritative we have no doctrine, no dogma it is a community of mostly people who are interested in the arts, literature, photography, music' in the 1960s, young people moved to quarry hill lured by the land and began to build houses and have children quarry hill soon had its own school, and by the 1990s about 90 people lived on the 140 acres full time 'they opened it to who ever wanted to come,' mcfarlin said 'there were two rules, no hitting the kids and no hunting or fishing' now there are about 25, mcfarlin said 'they finally make it': this undated photo shows commune residents carrying goods on the grounds free love? 'hippies' can be seen at the quarry hill creative center in this undated photograph the arrival of the fiskes in the 1940s belies the popular conception that it wasn't until the 1960s that the state became a magnet for what became known as the counterculture that over time helped transform vermont, said university of vermont history professor dona brown, who has written about the back to the land movement 'it sounds to me very much like the story of a lot of movement, mostly from new york city's kind of bohemian arty scene in the '30s and '40s and buying up old farms,' brown said 'often (they came) with a kind of common political or common cultural expectation that this would be a place where they could be free and where they wouldn't be subjected to a lot of pressure,' brown said 'and also where they could live cheaply for artists that's always been a really big selling point for vermont, is that you could spread out and live in relative comfort' calhoun was born in tucson, ariz, on sept 9, 1919 she attended art school in los angeles and moved to new york around 1940 during the war, when male cartoonists were away on military duty, she drew 'girl commandoes' and other strips for harvey comics an obituary provided by her family said she had to draw under the name 'b hall' as cartooning was 'a man's profession' at the time irving fiske was a freelance writer who won acclaim in the 1940s for a modern translation of shakespeare's 'hamlet' he died in 1990 at age 82
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isabelle fiske calhoun died on monday at age 94 calhoun, then named isballa fiske, bought a 140 acre farm in 1946 with husband irving fiske that later became a 'hippie commune' in 1960s commune was known as quarry hill creative center and still operates
spain manager vicente del bosque said that retired midfielder xavi was even more important to the national team than him xavi called an end to his glittering international career on tuesday having won one world cup and two european championships with spain speaking to the official rfef website, del bosque said xavi was 'a key part of the team's style of play' and 'he was more important to us than even the manager' end of an era: barcelona midfielder xavi announced his retirement from international football regular: xavi played 133 times for spain during a glittering 14 year international career happy days: manager vicente del bosque and xavi lift the world cup in south africa in 2010 the 34 year old barcelona midfielder players 133 times for his country during a 14 year international career and dem bosque described him as 'one of the rocks we've had in our dressing room these past six years' the spain boss added: 'i would like to express my appreciation for a fantastic player we have lost a unique footballer, and one who will be difficult to replace 'we will miss him both on and off the pitch he is a player who we hold in great esteem both personally and as a player 'he is and always will be a person and a player who is greatly valued by the federation, the coaching staff and by myself'
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xavi retired from international football on tuesday barcelona midfielder played for spain 133 times during his 14 year career xavi helped spain to win euro 2008, world cup 2010 and euro 2012 del bosque describes xavi as 'a key part of the team's style of play'
a multi millionaire businessman who owns a 'chunk' of laura ashley and his estranged wife have resumed a high court battle over money months after a judge urged them to try to find a resolution in july, mr justice bodey called on khoo kay peng, 75, and pauline chai, who is in her 60s, to find a solution without doing more damage to themselves after hearing that they had run up legal bills of more than £2million but lawyers today returned to court for the latest stage of the divorce cash fight khoo kay peng (right) and pauline chai (left) disagree over where their divorce cash fight should be staged the couple disagree over where their fight should be staged dr khoo, who is based in malaysia, says litigation should take place there mrs chai, who lives in england, says it should take place there mr justice bodey is expected to make decisions about where litigation should be staged after hearing legal argument from both sides judges have heard that dr khoo and mrs chai, a former beauty queen, have five grown up children and were married for more than 40 years pauline chai, pictured as a former miss malaysia in 1969 she now lives in the uk they have been told that the issue at the centre of the case is how big a payment dr khoo will make to mrs chai for the part she played in their 42 year 'matrimonial partnership' mrs chai says her husband is worth more than £400 million and says the amount she should get should run into hundreds of millions of pounds in july, mr justice bodey said: 'i urge the parties to use their best endeavours with the help of their legal teams to resolve these extremely expensive proceedings without doing more damage to themselves' earlier this year, another judge described the amounts spent on preliminary legal 'skirmishes' as 'eye watering' mr justice holman said dr khoo owned a 'chunk' of laura ashley and had properties in england and malaysia worth more than £50million and he said that, on any 'feasible' view, mrs chai would get tens of millions of pounds sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article
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khoo kay peng and estranged wife resume high court battle over money in july, a judge urged the couple to find resolution after hearing legal bills topped £2m but lawyers have returned to court for latest stage of the divorce cash fight mr justice bodey expected to make decisions about where litigation should be staged
jimmy savile was implicated in the haut de la garenne children's home scandal, according to the former head of the jersey child abuse investigation lenny harper said he now has 'no reason to doubt' that savile indecently assaulted girls at the jersey children's home which came under intense scrutiny in 2008 his comments came on the day that the bbc's director general, george entwistle, ordered a belated inquiry into the abuse scandal and offered an apology to savile's victims jersey's former deputy chief officer lenny harper outside the former haut de la garenne children's home where sir jimmy savile is alleged to have indecently assaulted a girl harper, the states of jersey police detective who led a three year child abuse probe, told the guardian that savile's name came up in the initial police inquiry four years ago however, he added that there were no specific allegations of abuse against the bbc presenter at the time mr harper, who has since retired from the force, added: 'there definitely wasn't enough even to question him at the time, but in light of all the evidence that has come out then i'm not surprised because it fits perfectly the profile of what was going on' the institution was subject to a huge police investigation after allegations of historic child abuse at the home a solicitor who acted for victims also told the guardian that some former haut de la garenne residents, both women and men, now claim they were assaulted by savile in the 1970s alan collins, a solicitor for several haut de la garenne victims, said 'a handful' of former residents have now made abuse allegations about savile he said savile's name was mentioned several times during the police investigation of 2008 but  the evidence did not seem to stack up at the time implicated: sir jimmy savile relaxing at his flat in leeds since his death he has been linked to the notorious children's home scandal in jersey the late dj and television presenter surrounded by girls at a radio 1 event near his home in leeds in 2000 the late presenter on his programme jim'll fix it lenny harper says he has 'no reason to doubt' he was involved in indecent assault police on the island confirmed last week that savile was investigated as part of the 2008 inquiry into abuse at the children's home it followed claims from a former haut de la garenne resident that savile was involved in an indecent assault in the 1970s the bbc entertainer, who died last october aged 84, was never charged with any abuse offences mr entwistle yesterday admitted knowing about the newsnight investigation into savile when he ploughed ahead with eulogies showering tributes on the presenter he expressed ‘deep regret’ over ‘these awful allegations’ as he announced his u turn on radio 4, having previously insisted that no bbc inquiry was necessary newsnight's film was shelved, and instead viewers and listeners were treated to a series of programmes lavishing praise on savile after his death apology: bbc director general george entwistle expressed 'deep regret' over 'these awful allegations' as he announced his u turn on radio 4, having previously insisted that no bbc inquiry was necessary investigations: detectives are to probe whether sir jimmy savile ran a wider sex ring at the bbc after two women named a former corporation employee as being his accomplice nationwide inquiry: staff at the bbc have been urged to come forward with information about jimmy savile's alleged reign of abuse as police forces across the country receive more allegations at least seven police forces are now examining claims he raped and molested schoolgirls during four decades as a radio and tv presenter detectives will also probe whether savile ran a wider sex ring at the bbc after two women named a former corporation employee as being his accomplice both women have reported their claims to police a week ago, the corporation insisted it had ‘no evidence' of any abuse, but yesterday mr entwistle told radio 4 he wanted to apologise to women victims ‘on behalf of the organisation …for what they've had to endure here' presenter evan davies asked him why the bbc ran a eulogy on savile after evidence of abuse surfaced during the newsnight inquiry mr entwistle, who was the bbc's head of vision at the time, said: ‘i didn't know what had become of that investigation, i didn't know what discoveries, if any, that they had' last week it was announced that savile could be posthumously stripped of his knighthood in a virtually unprecedented move, if the extraordinary claims that he sexually abused young girls are found to be true the tv host was knighted in the queen’s birthday honours list in 1990 an award which followed the obe he was given for services to charity and broadcasting in 1971 but a cabinet office source said that a knighthood could be removed after an individual’s death if they are officially censured by a professional body or convicted of a criminal offence the calls for him to be stripped of his knighthood were backed by a 65 year old woman, who claimed she became pregnant after the presenter raped her when she was a virgin aged 16
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lenny harper's comments came as the bbc ordered a belated inquiry mr harper said: 'it fits perfectly the profile of what was going on'
a revamped 1960s tower block, a home in the ruins of a 12th century castle and a chapel for nuns are in the running for a top architecture prize they feature on the shortlist of six for the royal institute of british architects' stirling prize which celebrates the year's most exceptional buildings and for the first time in the 18 year history of the uk's best known architecture prize, half of the practices have women at the helm, it was revealed scroll down for video colourful: park hill phase 1 by hawkins/brown with studio egret west in sheffield, which has been shortlisted for the 2013 riba stirling prize for best new building interior: park hill is a once despised tower block complex in sheffield which has had a contemporary refit it had long been an eyesore until it was given an overhaul unique: the giant's causeway visitor's centre by heneghan peng architects in northern ireland has also been shortlisted for the stirling prize for best new building modern: the giant's causeway visitor's centre in northern ireland features on the shortlist of six for the royal institute of british architects' 2013 stirling prize contemporary: a housing project on the shortlist is newhall be in harlow, essex, a group of 84 new homes which 'raises the bar for suburban housing developments' interior: the winner of the contenders including newhall be in harlow will be announced on september 26 at central saint martins, king's cross also competing for the 2013 award are a new visitor centre at the giant's causeway, an estate of new homes in essex and a new medical school building bookmaker william hill has installed bishop edward king chapel in cuddesdon, oxfordshire, as the favourite to win the prize the £2million building, finished earlier this year, was built for ripon college and an order of nuns, the community of st john the baptist, and it features a series of high windows which flood it with natural light judges said that it ‘fulfils its complex brief with a lyrical grace’ also on the list is the once despised park hill tower block complex in sheffield which has been given a contemporary refit the half century old ‘brutalist’ concrete estate was given grade ii listing in 1997 but for many in the city it had long been an unloved eyesore until it was given an overhaul this included preserving a notable piece of graffiti in neon lights, reading ‘i love you will u marry me’ ancient: astley castle in warwickshire is a landmark trust holiday home which has been created in the ruined walls of a 12th century manor inside: the university of limerick (left) by grafton architects and astley castle (right) by witherford watson mann architects in warwickshire in the running: bookmaker william hill has installed bishop edward king chapel in cuddesdon, oxfordshire, as the favourite to win the prize high windows: bishop edward king chapel was finished earlier this year built for ripon college and an order of nuns, the community of st john the baptist a more contemporary housing project on the shortlist is newhall be in harlow, essex, a £12million group of 84 new homes which judges believe ‘raises the bar for suburban housing developments’ others in the running are the university of limerick medical school, the giant's causeway visitor centre in northern ireland and astley castle in warwickshire a landmark trust holiday home which has been created in the ruined walls of a 12th century manor the shortlist includes five architecture firms which have never previously figured in the list angela brady, riba's president, said: ‘the riba stirling prize is awarded to the building that has made the biggest contribution to the evolution of architecture, and nowhere is the need for fresh thinking needed more than in housing ‘the uk is blighted with unimaginative, poor quality houses that people don't want to live in but have little other choice, so i am delighted to see two amazing and highly original housing projects on this year's shortlist ‘these projects show how when talented architects and clients work together and focus on quality, affordable and desirable new homes can be created they shine a light on what the future of uk housing can be ‘all six shortlisted projects are ground breaking in their own way buildings that deliver more than could ever have been expected 'some of them, such as park hill and the giant's causeway visitor centre, are genuinely courageous in laying out a new visionary approach this riba stirling prize shortlist is sending out the clear message that creative vision improves our lives’ the winner will be announced on september 26 at central saint martins in king's cross, central london
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shortlist of six buildings for royal institute of british architects' stirling prize for top buildings for the first time in the award's 18 year history, half of the practices have women at the helm in running are giant's causeway visitor centre in northern ireland and newhall be in harlow also on the list are park hill phase 1 in sheffield and university of limerick medical school astley castle in warwickshire and bishop edward king chapel in oxfordshire are other two
winger manu vatuvei scored two tries as new zealand beat defending champions australia 22 18 on saturday in the final of rugby league's four nations championship the kiwis ended the tournament unbeaten after defeating australia, england and samoa in round robin play to claim their first four nations title since 2010 their victory on saturday, after their 30 12 win over the kangaroos in the opening match of the tournament, gave them consecutive test victories over australia for the first time since 1953 new zealand players celebrate after manu vatuvei scores a try during the four nations final the new zealand team celebrate with the trophy after winning the four nations for the first time since 2010 the kiwis recorded back to back wins against australia for the first time since 1953 vatuvei scored a try in each half to become new zealand's leading tryscorer in tests with 20 jason nightingale opened the kiwis' scoring with his fifth try of the tournament and five eighths shaun johnson scored a try and kicked three goals australia opened the scoring with a try to winger michael jennings which capped a dominant first 10 minutes but new zealand then took charge and outplayed the world champions, scoring tries through wingers nightingale and vatuvei and adding a penalty to johnson to take a 14 6 lead to half time shaun johnson (centre) celebrates at the final whistle as new zealand are crowned four nations champions man of the match johnson (right) of new zealand beats the defence of cooper cronk new zealand: hiku, nightingale, kenny dowall, whare, vatuvei, foran, johnson, bromwich, luke, blair, mannering (captain), proctor, taumalolo replacements: brown, eastwood, taupau, harris tries: vatuvei 2, nightingale, johnson goals: johnson 3 australia: inglis, mansour, jennings, walker, mata'utia, cherry evans, cronk, woods, smith (captain), papalii, thaiday, bird, parker replacements: cordner, hunt, jackson, klemmer tries: jennings, mata'utia, hunt goals: smith 3 nightingale finished in the right corner after a long break by shaun kenny dowall and vatuvei scored in the left, grazing the corner flag, from a long pass by johnson who converted both tries australia missed 19 tackles in the first spell and wasn't able to match new zealand's 88 percent completion rate but the kangaroos came out strongly in the second half and scored after only two minutes through sione mata'utia, who became australia's youngest test player at 18 when he debuted earlier in the tournament that cut the lead to 14 12 but new zealand responded with tries to johnson and vatuvei in the 58th and 62nd minutes to open a decisive 10 point lead johnson made an outstanding solo break for a try which clinched the man of the match award and vatuvei scored his record breaking 20th test try off a johnson pass kiwis' defence catch australia's centre dylan walker (centre) during the final of the four nations australia's prop aaron woods (centre) is stopped in his tracks by the kiwi defence australia still weren't finished and scored in the 76th through ben hunt to cut the lead to four points, giving themselves a faint chance of vicotry they attacked through the final minutes of the match but a forward pass with seconds remaining allowed the kiwis to hold on 'our boys put everything they could into this tournament and it paid dividends tonight,' new zealand captain simon mannering said 'the aussies had a great tournament, showed their real still steel after a tough first game and showed what a quality team they are tonight'
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new zealand ended four nations championship unbeaten kiwis beat australia, england and samoa in round robin play new zealand recorded back to back wins against australia for first time since 1953
hmrc chief executive lin homer refused to rule out using controversial snooping powers against future whistleblowers britain's tax boss last night refused to rule out using anti terrorist powers again to target whistleblowers three years ago, hm revenue & customs sparked fury by invoking the controversial regulation of investigatory powers act (ripa) against an employee who revealed its sweetheart deal with goldman sachs internal investigators snooped on his emails, internet records and phone calls to find out whether he had leaked the story to a newspaper margaret hodge, chairman of the powerful commons public accounts committee, said the actions had shocked her ‘to the bone’ and had left the whistleblower a ‘broken man’ but when questioned by mps yesterday, hmrc chief executive lin homer refused to rule out using ripa against future whistleblowers the mps also heard from one nhs whistleblower whose mental health problems were used against her when she tried to expose a cover up at the care quality commission watchdog committee member richard bacon said: ‘this is the sort of thing that used to happen in the soviet union’ mrs hodge said there was a ‘culture of fear’ across the public sector that stopped workers speaking out to report abuses a department of health official admitted that a survey had found barely half of nhs staff said they would feel confident doing so mps grilled mrs homer about the case of osita mba, an hmrc employee who exposed the deal which allowed goldman sachs to escape paying £10million in interest on unpaid tax the story appeared in the guardian and it emerged soon after that hmrc had used ripa powers to snoop on mr mba’s emails and phone to try to prove he had leaked the story the powers are supposed to be used to combat terrorism and large scale criminal tax frauds mr mba, who worked in the personal tax litigation team, was suspended by hmrc he was also due to appear in front of the committee, but pulled out mrs hodge told mrs homer: ‘the thing which shocked me most was that you made a request under ripa, which in effect is there to deal with terrorism margaret hodge said there was a 'culture of fear' across the public sector that stopped workers speaking out to report abuses what i want to hear from you is that you’ll never do that again when you’ve got a whistleblower ‘it shocked me to my bone that these very very, very extreme powers were being used and that he was hounded to the extent that you’ve broken him the department has broken him and it’s awful’ mrs homer refused to say it would never happen again, because hmrc had a duty of care to both its staff and taxpayers’ expectation that their affairs would be confidential although the committee invited whistleblowers from the worlds of health, education, police, local government and hmrc, only one – from health – felt brave enough to appear kay sheldon worked at the cqc but was denigrated and told she had a mental health problem when she tried to expose a cover up
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supposed to be used to combat terrorism and large scale tax frauds comes three years after hmrc used powers on employee who exposed 'sweetheart' deal with goldman sacs margaret hodge, chairman commons public accounts committee, said  actions shocked her ‘to bone’ and had left whistleblower a ‘broken man’ but lin homer refused to rule out using ripa against future whistleblowers
guilty: nurse roger dean, 37, admitted killing 11 elderly residents of the nursing home where he worked, and is serving a life sentence, but it has now been revealed that dean had covered up the fact that he had been sacked for turning up at a previous job with slurred speech and frothing at the mouth from drug use the nurse convicted of murdering 11 elderly people after starting a fire inside a nursing home had been suspending from his previous job because he was frothing at the mouth on drugs an inquest into the deaths of 14 people after a 2011 fire at the quakers hill nursing home in 2011 also heard roger dean had previously vandalised a former boss's car dean has been jailed for life for 11 counts of murder and eight counts of causing reckless bodily harm after he started the fire in the early hours of november 18 after being caught stealing drugs police had questioned dean, then aged  35, about stealing prescription drugs just hours before he lit the blaze which gutted the nursing home in the far western sydney suburb of quakers hill in the early hours of november 18, 2011 the inquest heard that the nursing home had failed to check dean's work references and did not make him undergo a mental health check eleven residents aged between 73 and 90 died immediately and there were three further deaths due to injuries a coronial inqiury into the tragedy, which has opened in a sydney court on monday, has heard that the nursing home had employed dean on the basis of out of date resume he was also the head nurse on the night of the blaze dean had made no mention of the fact that he had been suspended from a previous job because of his drug use dean was drug affected while working at the st john of god hospital, a private psychiatric care facility in the inner western sydney suburb of burwood, in 2011 a patient complained dean couldn't administer her medication properly, had white froth around his mouth and struggled to speak terrible memories: ella vikay (pictured, leaving glebe coroners court on monday) was among the relatives of the 14 victims who died as a result of the quakers hill nursing home fire who packed the public gallery for the first day of the coronial inquiry into the tragedy ms vikay lost her mother in the fire which tore through the home in november, 2011, after it was deliberately lit by nurse roger dean, killing men and women aged between 73 and 96 years old sick history: roger dean is questioned by police about the fire he lit at quakers hill nursing home an inquest has now revealed that dean, who lit the fire hours after he was caught stealing drugs, had previously been suspended for arriving at work 'frothing at the mouth' from drugs, and had vandalised the car of another previous boss with nails and paint no way out: an inquest into the november 2011 fire at quakers hill nursing home (pictured) in western sydney which resulted in 14 deaths, has heard that the beds of residents couldn't be evacuated because of a narrow and illegally built ramp casualties: the november 2011 fire caused the deaths of 14 people, 11 in the immediate fire and three later from injuries a staff member later noticed he looked sedated, the inquest heard, and that dean blamed the medication he was taking for a bipolar disorder for his quakers hill interview, dean only listed recent employment was at a cheesecake shop where his flatmate had worked the inquest was told dean had also poured paint over a previous employer's car and put nails in the tyres the five day inquiry opened with relatives of the victims packing the public gallery of glebe coroner's court deputy state coroner hugh dillon described the fire as a 'rare and devastating' event the inquest heard the ramp which led from the quakers hill nursing home was too narrow to take beds, hampering evacuation of patients among the patients residing in the home at the time of the fire were blind people, others confined to their beds and some with dementia and alzheimer's disease, the inquest was told 'nightmare': many of the home's 88 elderly residents struggled to get themselves out through thick smoke evacuation hampered: a ramp which was too narrow for bedridden patients to be wheeled out hampered the rescue operation by firefighters after 80 people were trapped in the nursing home following the fire sentencing: roger dean is serving life in prison after admitting to the murders which happened after he deliberately lit the nursing home fire to cover up his drug theft one woman resident had an amputated leg and was confined to a wheelchair, abc news reported mr dillon said the inquest was not investigating dean's criminal actions he said the inquest would try to determine what lessons could be learned from the fire 'the community is behind you,' he told the victims' families in the gallery 'our concerns are your concerns' counsel assisting the coroner, kristina stern, said a ramp at the home made it difficult for staff to manoeuvre beds when they were trying to evacuate more than 80 residents the ramp's problems may not have been properly addressed during fire safety training for staff, and the ramp was constructed without council planning permission roger dean was on night duty on november 16, 2011 when he set the fire cctv captured dean entering the treatment room, where medication is kept, 36 times a later audit of the room found 237 tablets of endone, a strong opiate based pain medication, missing police questioned him at the home hours before the blaze over allegations of stealing the drugs, to which he later pleaded guilty a nursing home staff member remarked she was scared to leave her staff alone with dean, the inquest heard ms stern said dean used a staff member's cigarette lighter to set a sheet on a bed on fire in two rooms in the nursing home he later appeared on television describing his efforts to rescue trapped people in the nursing home after the fire, dean told journalists he had braved the smoke to rescue those trapped inside as the home's 88 residents were evacuated he said: 'i just quickly did what i could to get everyone out' following the tragedy, nsw fire commissioner greg mullins described the blaze as 'a firefighter's worst nightmare' he said: 'turning up to a nursing home with elderly people who can't get themselves out of harm's way 'firefighters could not see their hands in front of their faces in the thick smoke so you can imagine what it was like for the elderly trying to escape' he said that firefighters had crawled into the building through the thick smoke, reaching up to feel into beds to establish if there was anyone there who they could rescue the fire was sydney's worst nursing home disaster since 16 elderly residents died in a blaze in suburban sylvania heights in 1981
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an inquest into the fatal 2011 quakers hill nursing home fire has opened the fire resulted in the deaths of 14 elderly people former nurse roger dean, 37, is serving a life sentence for the deaths dean lit the fire after police questioned him about stealing drugs he hid his work record of being sacked for drugs use at a previous job coroner hugh dillon is looking for 'lessons' to be learnt from the fire an illegally built ramp to the home was too narrow for bedridden patients
chelsea manager jose mourinho has opened up about his management style, using the analogy of making a suit to measure to describe his role, whilst also suggesting being a coach in england is ‘paradise’ the blues boss, since returning to chelsea in the summer of 2013, has assembled a star studded squad which is perched at the top of the premier league and in the last 16 of the champions league mourinho, who has won league titles in portugal, spain and italy, insists you need to treat each player differently to harness their potential chelsea manager jose mourinho talks to sports illustrated about his reign at stamford bridge ‘to manage a player is like to make a suit by measure, because all of them are different i cannot go to a shop and buy some 38, some 40, some 42, some 44 and arrive in the dressing room no it has to be by measure, it has to be perfect,’ mourinho told sports illustrated ‘so the personal relationship with the players is something very very important obviously there is also the collective leadership and i have to try and adapt my collective leadership to the profile of group i have,’ added the blues boss ‘but i think the suit by measure is the perfect way to explain what i think is fundamental – every man is a man, i read them and the better i can interact with them the better the team can be’ mourinho watches on as his new recruit juan cuadrado (centre) control the ball at stamford bridge mourinho told grant wahl chelsea have been a success in the transfer market because they don't panic chelsea had a strong summer in the transfer market with the acquisitions of diego costa, cesc fabregas and nemanja matic proving excellent additions and have propelled the blues to the top of the premier league the 52 year old puts his transfer success down to composure and research: ‘first of all we didn’t panic i came here in the first season (2013 14) and we decided not to buy just because we want to win desperately,’ added mourinho ‘if we have to wait one year ok, to be more sure about the profile of the type of player we want to bring we had to be very sure of what we wanted to do ‘after that it’s a lot easier not to make mistakes, analyse everything, try everything, know the players deeply, know if the players have the potential to improve or not under your guidance chelsea's midfielder cesc fabregas, a £30m summer signing, has been in fine form so far this season ‘so when the summer market arrived we were in a great condition to make the right decisions to improve our team mourinho is clearly relishing life back in london despite disputes with officials and an apparent ‘campaign’ against his chelsea side ‘firstly it’s paradise for the social life, in europe the power of football made our lives complicated and in england people look at you in a normal way you can walk in the street, shop with your family, go to a restaurant,’ said the portuguese ‘the social life is much more relaxed there is an expression in england that the passion for the game lasts 90 minutes a week and after that everything is calm’ the 52 year old returned to the 'paradise' of coaching in  west london in the summer of 2013
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it was once the preserve of old men chortling and bantering their way through each test run in between rounds of fruit cake but now women are making serious inroads into test match special, with the appointment of 29 year old isa guha as the first ever female expert summariser on the radio 4 longwave cricket programme in what is a major innovation since the programme was broadcast in 1957, british indian miss guha is test match special’s first regular female summariser a role usually undertaken by the likes of old boys geoffrey boycott and jonathan “aggers” agnew scroll down for video british asian isa guha, 29, has been appointed as the first ever female expert summariser on the radio 4 longwave cricket programme miss guha was part of the england team that won the women’s ashes and world cup, and was the first asian woman to represent england in cricket as summariser, miss guha will make expert comment after an over has been bowled, while her only other female colleague alison mitchell provides ball by ball commentary during the over miss guha was part of the england team that won the women’s ashes and world cup, and was the first asian woman to represent england in cricket she told the radio times that she was aware of the age, ethnicity and gender differences between her and the other test mach special presenters, and added: ‘the generation gap makes the broadcast different miss guha is test match special’s first regular female summariser a role usually undertaken by the likes of old boys geoffrey boycott (left) and jonathan “aggers” agnew (right) ‘you still have blowers [henry blofeld], aggers [jonathan agnew] and boycott, but then you have graeme swann and michael vaughan and the likes of myself ‘i’ve always been an england fan 'i was born and bred here 'thirty per cent of cricketers in this country are from an asian background but there are huge amounts of players from asian backgrounds who perhaps don’t feel there is a pathway for them to the england team ‘it’s about changing the mindset of asian communities that it’s ok to play for england’
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isa guha, 29, is first ever female expert summariser on radio 4 cricket she was part of england team that won women’s ashes and world cup ms guha will make expert comment after an over has been bowled she was the first asian woman to represent england in cricket
this heart wrenching photo shows how a navy seal’s dog refused to leave his master’s side during an emotional funeral petty officer jon tumilson, 35, killed in the major us helicopter crash in afghanistan this month, was remembered by around 1,500 mourners but it was his labrador retriever hawkeye that really captured the public’s emotions in the photo taken by mr tumilson’s cousin, lisa pembleton scroll down for video sadness: navy seal jon tumilson's labrador retriever hawkeye was loyal to the end, as he refused to leave his master's side during an emotional funeral man's best friend: mr tumilson's family members followed hawkeye into the service before he lay down mr tumilson, of san diego, california, was one of 38 killed on august 6 when a rocket propelled grenade took out a us chinook helicopter nikki virgilio, a friend of mr tumilson (known as jt) who was at the funeral, said hawkeye was a personal pet rather than a military dog 'i can happily report to you that hawkeye was willed to one of jt's good friends, the same one that took care of him whenever jt was deployed overseas,' she wrote on facebook this close friend was revealed by the des moines register to be scott nichols his funeral was held on friday in his hometown of rockford, iowa, at the rudd rockford marble rock community school ms pembleton said: ‘i felt compelled to take one photo to share with family members that couldn't make it or couldn't see what i could from the aisle 'to say that he was an amazing man doesn't do him justice the loss of jon to his family, military family and friends is immeasurable' hawkeye's new owner was revealed by the des moines register to be mr tumilson's close friend scott nichols, who said at the funeral that the fallen seal was more scared of his parents dying than being killed himself big funeral: petty officer jon tumilson, 35, killed in the afghanistan helicopter crash this month, was remembered by around 1,500 mourners pride: mr tumilson's mother and father were told they helped raise an 'outstanding man a hero' mr tumilson's friend nikki virgilio wrote on facebook that hawkeye's new owner had previously taken care of the dog while his owner was delployed abroad ‘i felt compelled to take one photo to share with family members that couldn't make it or couldn't see what i could from the aisle' lisa pembleton, cousin during the service, us navy lieutenant robert bradshaw told mr tumilson's parents that they helped raise an ‘outstanding man a hero’ family, friends and servicemen, along with iowa governor terry branstad and us senator charles grassley, packed the school's gymnasium mr tumilson, who joined the navy in 1995, was known to friends as jt ‘jt was going to be a navy seal come hell or high water,’ friend scott nichols said ‘he wasn't afraid of dying’ packed: his funeral was held in his hometown of rockford, iowa, at the rudd rockford marble rock community school downed: mr tumilson, of san diego, california, was one of 38 killed on august 6 when a rocket propelled grenade took out their chinook helicopter ‘if jt had known he was going to be shot down when going to the aid of others, he would have went anyway,’ friend and soldier boe nankivel said ‘if jt had known he was going to be shot down when going to the aid of others, he would have went anyway' boe nankivel, friend and fellow soldier mr tumilson's sister, kristie pohlman, said he always dreamed of joining the military's elite special forces unit ‘your dreams were big and seemed impossible to nearly everyone on the outside,’ she said ‘i always knew you'd somehow do what you wanted’ family members followed hawkeye into the service mr tumilson is survived by two sisters and his parents, george and kathleen see video here
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petty officer jon tumilson killed in afghanistan crash navy seal was one of 38 shot down in helicopter labrador retriever hawkeye was at emotional service a fund was set up in the seal's honour donations can be sent to 'frogman 238 memorial fund' at: first security bank and trust, 201 west main ave, rockford, iowa, 50468
what is it about lacy lingerie that lures celebrities into thinking they can become fashion experts overnight? from rosie huntington whiteley for marks & spencer, to kelly brook for new look, scores of famous faces are adding ‘lingerie designer’ to their cvs — despite little or no prior knowledge of the rag trade but are their designs any good? we asked fabric expert mairwen jones, who has worked as a technologist for m&s and model lauren mcavoy, who wears size 10 knickers and a 34c bra, to blind test some celeb smalls scroll down for video britney spears triangle bra, £32, and briefs, £19, asoscom mairwen says: not bad simply made, well finished and the fabric feels soft this would be impractical for anyone over a size b cup as it would provide little support 6/10 lauren says: i love how chic and elegant it looks i would never guess this was britney’s design — surely it should be luminous pink? 8/10 14/20 kelly brook 15/20 kelly brook long line bra, £1699, and brazilian briefs, £799, newlookcom mairwen says: a well put together set the bra has wide mesh side panelling with extra boning for support the fabric ends appear to have been cut by hand, which is preferable as there’s less material that could scratch 8/10 lauren says: the bottoms are ill fitting and creased, but the bra is better well structured, it felt like scaffolding for my chest! the cup padding is generous, which larger busts may not like 7/10 15/20 sadie frost floozie by frost french t shirt bra, £1650, and briefs, £650, debenhamscom mairwen says: the underwire was a little rigid, so this might be uncomfortable there was also a horribly messy join in the stitching on the briefs 5/10 lauren says: i can’t imagine anyone over 20 wearing this set, the frills on the knickers would annoy me and show through tight clothing it fits well, though, and the cups were the perfect size and shape 7/10 12/20 dita von teese bra, £42, and briefs, £25, figleavescom mairwen says: good attention to detail labels are the same colour as the fabric, and there’s a well fastened, antique style cameo between the cups a few messy threads and the lace looks a bit fragile minor details, though 7/10 lauren says: turquoise and brown is unusual, but it feels sexy and wearable it fits perfectly and gives the perfect amount of cleavage 9/10 16/20 helena christensen dusky glow bra, £75, and briefs, £50, triumphcom mairwen says: the thick band on the knickers is insubstantial after a few washes, it would sag on the shoulder strap, they’ve used similar elastic, but reinforced it why did they forget about the briefs? 5/10 lauren says: elastic on the bra, rather than underwire, held firm, as did the knicker elastic for the time being the oversized briefs feel like a nappy and the giant bows would show through clothes 6/10 11/20 elle macpherson elle macpherson intimates contour bra, £38, and briefs, £23, figleavescom mairwen says: this looks cheap the bow ends on bra and briefs were uneven (by 05 and 15cm respectively); the underwire felt stiff; the lace was scratchy, the label at the back wasn’t attached tidily black labels in light coloured sets also shows little care for design 4/10 lauren says: eek! the bra cups were too small, meaning i spilt ungracefully over the top the back strap dug in and the knickers felt scratchy not my favourite set 4/10 8/20 rosie huntington whiteley rosie for autograph plunge bra, £25, and knickers, £1250, marksandspencercom mairwen says: clearly the best of the lot, the fabric and finish is exceptional no loose ends, beautifully soft, stretchy lace the fabric has been treated to keep it supple, and flat locked stitching on the knickers stops threads sticking out or rubbing someone knows what they are doing 10/10 lauren says: i liked the romantic, neutral colour, and the bra had subtle seams and pleats that wouldn’t be visible underneath a t shirt but the pants were baggy and wrinkled unflatteringly — i’d have to go down a size 8/10
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lacy lingerie lures celebrities into thinking they can become fashion experts rosie huntington whiteley has designed for marks & spencer kelly brook has a new look range but are their designs any good? expert mairwen jones and model lauren mcavoy blind test celeb smalls
families are being advised to double bag their chicken and store it away from other food in the fridge as poisonous bacteria has been found on the outside of packaging campylobacter, a common group of dangerous bacteria found on raw chicken, is present on the external packaging of thousands of british chickens sold in the uk, according to a food standards agency (fsa) report to be published this week it will warn that chicken, even if it is packaged, will now need to be kept away from children and in a separate bag in the fridge scroll down for video families have been told to double bag their chicken and store it away from other food in the fridge (stock) ‘the biggest risk is in food preparation, as this is when campylobacter is most likely to spread to surfaces or hands,’ a spokesman told the daily telegraph ‘but you could put raw poultry in a separate bag as well, as there is always a small risk that the bacteria is also on the packaging’ earlier this year, the fsa named campylobacter as the biggest cause of food poisoning, ahead of clostridium perfringens and the norovirus, which is commonly associated with shellfish a preliminary study by the fsa in august found that the potentially lethal bacteria was on the outside of chicken packaging in 4 per cent of cases agency officials were so concerned about campylobacter contamination of chicken that it launched a survey of the meat on sale in supermarkets with the intention of regularly publishing a ‘name and shame’ list, and said: ‘poultry meat was the food linked to the most cases of food poisoning, with an estimated 244,000 cases every year’ campylobacter, a common group of dangerous bacteria found on raw chicken, is present on the external packaging of thousands of british chickens sold in the uk, according to a food standards agency the british retail consortium said it supported the fsa’s objective to reduce campylobacter and added that ‘retailers… are investing in their supply chains working with farmers and processors to identify controls ‘measures implemented include introducing leak proof packaging on all whole birds to control the spread of any contamination and provision of on pack labelling which advises consumers on how to handle and prepare poultry’ when the fsa announced the studies in august, it said that the main objective was to shame traders, forcing them to take more action to protect their customers the packaging warning comes just days after the mail reported that public health england suggested consumers could help protect themselves against food poisoning by freezing chicken after buying it fresh and defrosting it before cooking six in every ten chickens sold by supermarkets contain potentially lethal bugs that infect half a million people a year, and around 100 of the victims die
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families are being advised to double bag their chicken in the fridge campylobacter, a dangerous bacteria found on raw chicken, is present on the external packaging of thousands of british chickens sold in the uk this was according to food standards agency report published this week
ministers attempting to crack down on civil servants’ perks have hit an unexpected barrier – the queen cabinet office minister francis maude wanted to cut the two and a half ‘privilege’ days that staff get on top of their 30 days’ annual leave and bank holidays but the mail on sunday has been told the plan was altered after it was discovered one of the days had been personally granted to the civil service by the queen on her coronation 60 years ago decisive: a whitehall source said plans to cut the holiday allowance were quashed when the palace reportedly indicated it would be very difficult crackdown: cabinet office minister francis maude wanted to get rid of the privilege days awarded to his staff a whitehall source said the reform had been defeated by a combination of constitutional law and the threat of compensation claims from the civil service he added: ‘soundings from the palace were that this would be very difficult and might involve a royal charter’ the cabinet office said: ‘civil servants are currently entitled to two and a half privilege days it was decided that it was appropriate to make changes to one and a half days, and leave the queen’s birthday as it is’ senior civil servants agreed to forgo the one and a half days but it has now emerged that this time has been added to their annual leave austere times: tory mp bernard jenkin, chairman of the commons public administration committee said privilege days were not acceptable in the current economic climate holiday maker: the queen granted the civil service and extra day off each year on her coronation 60 years ago one whitehall source described the move as ‘cooking the books’ to disguise the fact that staff will be keeping their extra holidays tory mp bernard jenkin, chairman of the commons public administration committee, said: ‘things like privilege days are at complete variance with the urgency and pace that we require from the civil service, particularly in the present economic times’ a palace spokesman said that the decision to keep the queen’s birthday privilege day was ‘entirely’ that of the cabinet office he declined to discuss any talks between officials about the proposal
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a photographer has captured a series of haunting images showing some of the world’s most breath taking roads andy lee has shot routes running through areas such as the snaelfellsnes peninsula in iceland, the lake district in england and the hebrides in scotland one image also features the dark hedges – a tree lined road in northern ireland that was famously used as a filming location in the hit drama series, game of thrones scroll down for video the dark hedges, a tree lined road in northern ireland, was famously used as a filming location in the hit drama series, game of thrones photographer andy lee has captured a series of haunting images showing some of the world’s most breath taking roads, including the snaelfellsnes peninsula in iceland the avenue of beech trees, which was used as the location for the king's road in the hbo series, was planted by the stuart family in the eighteenth century it was intended as a compelling landscape feature to impress visitors as they approached the entrance to their georgian mansion, gracehill house two centuries later, the trees have become one of the most photographed natural phenomena in northern ireland andy lee photographed a series of routes across iceland this haunting black and white image is simply titled: road to the south, iceland welsh born mr lee works as a film maker, photographer and painter his latest series of work includes an image of isle of skye in scotland the 100km long snaefellsnes peninsula features fjords, volcanic peaks and dramatic sea cliffs the area is crowned by the glistening ice cap snæfellsjökull, and was immortalised in jules verne’s fantasy tale, journey to the centre of the earth welsh born mr lee works as a film maker, photographer and painter his latest series of work, which also includes images of pembrokeshire in wales and the isle of skye in scotland, is simply titled: ‘roads’ talking about the inspiration for his work, lee says: ‘getting lost is half the fun’ this shot was captured in west iceland photographer andy lee started taking pictures seriously around ten years ago when he was filming a documentary for a charity in ethiopia talking about the inspiration for his work, lee says: ‘getting lost is half the fun’ he continues by quoting a line from jack kerouac’s famous novel, on the road, saying: ‘there was nowhere to go but everywhere' he adds: ‘i've been taking pictures most of my life, but started it a little more obsessively about ten years ago when i was filming a documentary for a charity in ethiopia mr lee's images are accompanied by a quote from jack kerouac’s famous novel, on the road: ‘there was nowhere to go but everywhere' ‘i had an old hasselblad film camera with me and between scenes i started to photograph everything around me ‘from that moment on i was hooked the joy i still get from seeing an image projected onto ground glass, or the smell of developer is enough to keep me shooting with a smile on my face ‘i love portraiture, though more recently i have started to enjoy photographing landscape combining the two is something i hope to develop even more’
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an elderly man tried to carry out a suicide bombing on a bus in eastern china because he was upset with the driver wang shichao, 77, threw a grenade at the driver of a bus in wucheng, zhejiang, because he kept stopping a few yards beyond his stop fortunately, mr wang used an antique stick grenade which failed to detonate properly, local media reported attack: wang shichao became furious when the bus driver stopped a few meters away from his bus stop and used an antique hand grenade to get revenge cctv footage showed mr wang approaching the drivers seat and throwing the grenade, which due to its old age only caused a small explosion and puffs of white smoke mr wang had kept the antique grenade in his basement for years and it fell apart when thrown on the floor of the bus, south china morning post reported the grenade failed to cause any damage or injuries and the elderly would be suicide bomber was quickly subdued by his fellow passengers during his trial, mr wang said he was 'angry with the driver because he had not stopped precisely at the bus stop on a previous occasion' mr wang said he attempted the suicide bombing because he was angry with the driver who kept driving past the bus stop, and pulling over a few yards down the road fortunately, mr wang used an antique stick grenade and only caused a small explosion and some smoke the elderly would be suicide bomber was quickly subdued by fellow passengers after throwing the grenade mr wang said he had gone home and located the grenade in his basement before carrying it onto the bus last october he told the court he had wanted to die along with the bus driver and plead guilty mr wang's legal representative asked the court for leniency due to his age and poor health the sentence will be delivered at the wucheng district people’s court at a later date
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wang shichao, 77, threw a grenade at the driver of a bus in east china he was angry because the driver pulled in a few yards beyond his stop fortunately the grenade was an antique and failed to detonate properly the elderly man said he wanted to die along with the bus driver
an uzi submachine gun, an assault rifle and more than $20 million worth of drugs has been seized by police during a house raid detectives raided a property at edensor park in sydney's west last thursday and found a number of firearms as they investigated signs of drug manufacturing they found chemicals and equipment from a clandestine drug laboratory inside a car and box trailer parked outside the saxonvale crescent property scroll down for video detectives raided a property at edensor park in sydney's west last thursday and found a number of firearms as they investigated signs of drug manufacturing inside the trailer was more than 50kg of drugs with an estimated street value of $208 million police found 147kg of heroin, 62kg of amphetamines tablets, 12kg of methylamphetamine, 5 litres of methylamphetamine oil and 30kg of ephedrine a number of firearms were also located including an uzi machine gun, assault rifle and silencer, four handguns and two shortened shotguns assorted ammunition was also seized inside the trailer was more than 50kg of drugs with an estimated street value of $208 million a number of firearms were also located including an uzi machine gun, assault rifle and silencer, four handguns and two shortened shotguns a 27 year old man was charged with supplying a large commercial quantity of a prohibited drug and a number of other drug related offences police say one of the handguns was a glock pistol and has since been identified as one of many that were illegally imported into australia from germany several years back a 27 year old man was charged with supplying a large commercial quantity of a prohibited drug and a number of other drug related offences he will face campbelltown local court of wednesday police found 147kg of heroin, 62kg of amphetamines tablets, 12kg of methylamphetamine, 5 litres of methylamphetamine oil and 30kg of ephedrine sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article
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detectives seized 50kg of drugs at edensor park property in sydney's west drugs were found inside a trailer parked at the property on thursday police also found a number of firearms including a machine gun, assault rifle, four handguns and two shortened shotguns a 27 year old man was charged with supplying drugs following the raid
a missing nashville infant has been found in alabama and her babysitter charged with kidnapping her four month old jalayia gonzalez and her babysitter javeele thomas disappeared from the child's family home in antioch last thursday the tennessee bureau of investigation issued an alert over the child and the pair were found several hours later in lineville over 280 miles south of nashville the alert was cancelled on sunday javeele thomas, left, has been charged with kidnapping four month old jalayia gonzalez who she was babysitting; thomas had told her boyfriend that she had been pregnant and that the child was his police said that thomas was pulled over in a car driven by a man gonzalez was found inside and was said to be safe and well cared for the male driver was under the impression thomas was the child's mother,  wkrncom reports lineville police department chief monty giddens said that thomas had told her boyfriend in may or june last year that she was pregnant and that he was the father giddens said thomas lost the baby around october and stopped talking to the father in november, before re establishing contact with him and informing him she had given birth the pair were subject to an endangered child, missing persons, alert by police; gonzalez was found in the back of a car being driven by thomas' boyfriend on sunday thomas then 'made arrangements' to babysit gonzalez and meet her boyfriend, gidden said and upon doing so presented the child 'to him as their child' the couple were on their way to lineville to see the man's family when they were stopped thomas has been charged with second degree kidnapping, but has been released on a $20,000 bond
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javeele thomas told her boyfriend she was pregnant but lost her child she then arranged to babysit four month old jalayia gonzalez thomas then 'kidnapped' the child and told her boyfriend he was the father the pair then drove to meet thomas' boyfriend's family in lineville
this frightening photo shows how a young man's leg swelled to nearly four times its normal size in a life threatening medical episode he believes was triggered by a game of limbo dylan skilton, 19, from the central coast of new south wales, is learning to walk again after an alarming medical scare where blood in his leg became clotted in late october doctors twice told his family he was going to die during the episode caused by the factor v leiden blood disorder, a condition that rarely causes clots in fit young people at one point during the months long ordeal, doctors were removing 9l of fluid from his leg each day dylan believes he first began experiencing symptoms after playing the popular party game in mid october scroll down for video 'they were taking 9 litres of fluid, a day, out of my leg': doctors sliced open dylan skilton's leg after it swelled up dramatically after a game of limbo his leg swelled because of clotting caused by his factor v leiden disorder dylan skilton was a very fit, healthy young man (left), telling daily mail australia he did 80 push ups every night but the disorder left him hospitalised for weeks (right) and doctors twice told his family he was going to die cleaved open: doctors had to slice open dylan's leg to clear the clots and reduce his leg swelling 'they called my parents and told them to come in straight away', dylan told daily mail australia as he continues on his path to recovery 'i had a sore back at the start, a couple of weeks before it all happened i thought i did that doing limbo, of all things,' he told daily mail australia 'i went to the doctors and got a ct scan and all that and he said, 'you've probably just pulled muscles' and then i started to get a swollen leg' within a couple of weeks his leg had become more sore made even worse when he fell off his bike he was hospitalised on october 28 after finding himself completely immobilised by his engorged leg blood clotted from below his kidneys to his heel and blood had pooled behind his stomach he was immediately admitted to gosford hospital for emergency surgery, with doctors slicing him open 'they called my parents and told them to come in straight away,' dylan told daily mail australia, recounting the hours after he was taken into hospital in late october 'that night they took me down and it was only going to be a three hour operation (i) said goodbye to mum, said 'mum i love you' 'that was about 10pm at night i didn't come out until 5 in the morning 'they went to my mum and dad saying, 'we've done all we can we don't think he's going to make the day' 'i wasn't awake or anything but i can imagine how bad it would have been' hospitalised: dylan skilton, pictured, has spent two months in hospital on account of his reaction dylan, pictured here with his nephew, was fit and healthy prior to the incident after six days in an induced coma, dylan woke but within ten days all of his clots returned, plus an additional one in his pulmonary artery, because of an allergic reaction to blood medication he was whisked to st vincent's hospital in sydney's inner east on november 8 where for a second time doctors told the family he was likely going to die during an operation to remove the clots 'i was awake this time, so i was a bit shocked i was like, 'this is a little crazy',' dylan said doctors managed to save both his life and his leg, although he is now unable to lift his toes or his ankle haematologist dr trevor forster, from the queensland university of technology, told daily mail australia a clotting episode could have been triggered by a trauma such as limbo 'it is entirely possible he constricted a vessel or damaged a vessel doing an activity, and because of his factor v leiden the clotting process just went on uncontrolled,' dr forster said dr forster said clotting episodes could be a 'life changing' event after 15 operations, dylan has stabilised and is currently in gosford rehabilitation hospital, learning to walk again and taking blood thinning medication 'i'm hobbling around i can walk not well but i can limp,' he told daily mail australia 'i walk like a duck without my crutches i'm pretty stable with them' 'everything's coming out alright now, i'm feeling a bit better' supporters can keep track of dylan's journey on his facebook page
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this young man's leg swelled to 'three or four times' its normal size doctors told dylan skilton's family he was likely going to die twice the 19yo has an underlying factor v leiden blood disorder he believes blood clotting episode was triggered by limbo game 'it's entirely possible he constricted a vessel or damaged a vessel doing an activity,' haemotologist says dylan is now learning to walk again at a rehabilitation hospital
boasting high ceilings and opulent interiors, the central london flat that was once home to heiress and fashion icon daphne guinness offers an elegant blend of original features and modern luxury the three bedroom property, which was designed to the multi millionairess' specifications, also comes complete with a number of bespoke wardrobes giving plenty of storage space for even the most extensive clothes collection and now the 2,900 sq ft property, which is just a stone's throw from many of the city's most desirable shops and restaurants, could be yours for just £7million scroll down for video retreat: the master suite of the £7million property sprawls across the entire top floor and offers a spacious private living room, pictured above elegant: the interior, which was designed to daphne guinness' specifications, boasts a subtle blend of modern touches and original features tranquil: this large outdoor terrace could be the perfect peaceful hideaway or the perfect place to host parties when the nights grow longer ms guinness, 47, sold the penthouse, which overlooks covent garden, a couple of years ago and it is now back on the market for £695million two years ago the heiress to the guinness brewing empire sold another property, her apartment on fifth avenue, new york, for $14million just over £9million visitors to the london flat are greeted with a generous reception room and open plan kitchen dining room making it perfect for entertaining there are also two generous en suite bedrooms for guests to enjoy upstairs, the breathtaking master suite spans the entire floor and has been carefully designed to incorporate a number of bespoke fitted wardrobes and an adjoining living room which can be closed off from the living space by two large sliding screens exposed, high beam ceilings and fitted bookshelves add a warm and welcoming touch to the bright and airy space the master bathroom has been created with black marble and luxurious bath and sink top with art deco style mirrored finishes the unique shower room includes an integrated music system and fibre optic lighting, allowing residents to control the ambiance of the room in addition, the rear of the property features a large terrace that offers views of the bt tower and the rooftops of central london giving the owner plenty of space to host parties when the nights grow longer airy: the open plan kitchen dining room on the bottom level, pictured above, offers a bright and versatile living space for the new owners vibrant: looking out over the bustle of covent garden, the penthouse is just a few minutes' walk from london's most popular attractions luxury: the flat, which is just a short walk from the river thames, offers substantial outdoor space a rarity for central london properties former owner: the three bedroom home used to belong to heiress and fashion icon daphne guinness, pictured left and right in 2011 becky fatemi, managing director of estate agents rokstone said: 'this exceptional penthouse has been designed for fashion icon, daphne guinness, meaning that the buyer of this apartment will not only own a home in a desirable part of london but also live in exceptionally beautiful surroundings, both internally and externally 'covent garden is a vibrant place to live, with an array of high quality shops and restaurants a short stroll away the current owners are from asia, a nationality which is becoming increasingly interested in property in wc2 for both investment and a place to live, due to its proximity to cultural delights such as the opera house and to be close to the river 'we have also received a surge of enquiries from middle easterners looking to move into the area the property also comes with a separate parking space by negotiation, further adding to its appeal' the exterior façade is completed with red brick and portland stone and dates back to 1877 and was designed by henry clutton the building was originally occupied by a linen draper by the name of boyd burnet and company king street has been home to a range of notable residents over the centuries the adjoining building, no 43 king street is the former home of admiral edward russell, grandson of the fourth earl of bedford edward russell played an important leading part in bringing william of orange to england and was treasurer of the navy and fleet in the french war in 1689 97 popular: the penthouse's new owners will be able to enjoy the markets and street performers that covent garden has to offer prestigious: just a stone's throw from some of the capital's most high end shops, the property (right) would be the perfect city escape historic: the exterior façade is completed with red brick and portland stone and dates back to 1877 above, covent garden in central london
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spacious two floor flat boasts three bedrooms and large outdoor terrace with views over central london rooftops opulent interior of the 2,900 sq ft property was designed by heir to beer empire and fashion icon, daphne guinness property also offers high ceilings and master suite that incorporates bathroom with integrated music system
scientists in austria have found 19 living descendants of a prehistoric iceman whose 5,300 year old body was found frozen in the alps researchers from the institute of legal medicine at innsbruck medical university took dna samples from blood donors in tyrol in the west of the country they managed to match a particular genetic mutation with that of ötzi, whose body was discovered back in 1991 descendants: scientists have found 19 living relatives of ötzi the iceman who was found frozen in the alps only a very small number of select individuals from history have had their genetic codes sequenced before, and none with richard iii's noble pedigree they include otzi the iceman, pictured, whose mummified 3,000 year old remains were found in the italian alps in 1991 experts now believe that the same mutation might also be found in the nearby rgions of engadine in switzerland and the south tyrol region of italy according to the bbc, walther parson from the university, said: 'we have already found swiss and italian partners so that we can pursue our research' dna from around 3,700 blood donors were analysed and the men were also asked to provide information on their ancestry none of the donors have been informed that they are distantly related to ötzi since the body was found frozen under the alps two decades ago, scientists have conducted experiments to learn how he came to be buried between the austrian and italian borders more than 5,300 years ago preserved: ötzi is kept in a specially built museum in bolzano, italy visitors view the mummy through portholes into a specially refrigerated room a hole in his collarbone suggested he was killed by an arrow, then a brain scan concluded he died from a fall but research earlier this year, from the european academy of bolzano/bozen (eurac) in germany, discovered he suffered brain damage likely caused by a blow to the head in 2001, scientists from austria's innsbruck university scanned ötzi using a cat scan they found dark spots at the back of the iceman mummy's cerebrum and concluded he may have died from a head injury it was suggested that falling, after being hit by the arrow, or while climbing, may have caused this head injury history: the mummy was found in september 1991 in the ötztal alps, hence the name ötzi, near the similaun mountain and hauslabjoch on the border between austria and italy the mummy was found in september 1991 in the ötztal alps, hence the name ötzi, near the similaun mountain and hauslabjoch on the border between austria and italy scientists estimate he was aged around 45, was 5ft 5' tall and weighed about 79st when he died ötzi is kept in a specially built museum in bolzano, italy visitors view the mummy through portholes into a specially refrigerated room the hunter was frozen with all his possessions including a bow, a quiver of arrows and a copper axe he was wearing warm clothing including a cloak made of woven grass, a coat and leggings made from goatskin and a bearskin cap with a leather chin strap dna analysis has revealed details of the iceman's life the 5,300 year old 'ice mummy' known as ötzi suffered from the world's first known case of lyme disease, a bacterial parasite spread by ticks, according to new dna analysis ötzi, who was 46 at the time of his death and measured 5ft2, also had brown eyes, had relatives in sardinia, and was lactose intolerant ötzi was also predisposed to heart disease the new research focused on the dna in the nuclei of ötzi's cells, and could yield further insights into the famous 'ice mummy's life he was unearthed in september 1991 by a couple of german tourists trekking through the oetz valley, after which he was named he was about 46 years old when he met his death the iceman has been crucial to our understanding of how prehistoric people lived, what they wore and even what they ate researchers examining the contents of his stomach worked out that his final meal consisted of venison and ibex meat archaeologists believe otzi, who was carrying a bow, a quiver of arrows and a copper axe, may have been a hunter or warrior killed in a skirmish with a rival tribe researchers say he was about 159cm tall (5ft 25in), 46 years old, arthritic and infested with whipworm, an intestinal parasite his perfectly preserved body is stored in his own specially designed cold storage chamber at the south tyrol museum of archaeology in italy at a constant temperature of 6°c visitors can view the mummy through a small window alongside his remains is a new otzi model created using 3d images of the corpse and forensic technology by two dutch artists – alfons and adrie kennis
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the tv actress who disappeared from her new york city apartment has been found safe four days after she went missing no other information was immediately available on where mabel pantaleon was found late thursday, though she appeared to be unharmed she was last seen at 9am on sunday at her apartment in manhattan her mother said she was on medication but suspected she may have stopped taking it after she was acting strangely right before her disappearance budding fame: actress mabel pantaleon, 31, disappeared from her manhattan home on sunday and has not been heard from since mystery disappearance: miss pantaleon came runner up in the miss latina new york usa pageant in 2003 on thursday night, the new york daily news quoted police sources as saying miss pantaleon had been 'found safe' sylvia pantaleon told abc news: 'she was staying with me she saw something on the internet and got very upset, and she started saying a lot of weird things 'she said, 'i'm leaving from here, all of you are terrorists, you're not my mother i knew it wasn't her'' miss pantaleon, who left a nursing program at new york city college of technology to pursue acting, has had roles on shows including dexter and mystery er she moved to california to further her career but came back to new york and moved in her her mother for a year before finding her own place last sighting: the actress, who has had small tv roles, has been missing for four days from her home on w157th st in manhattan, police reported budding career: mabel pantaleon had won a role in tv series dexter starring michael c hall but she had recently lost her apartment and had to move back in with her family again, her mother said she also said that her daughter did not have a boyfriend at the time she disappeared: 'that was one of her problems she doesn't have friends, she doesn't have boyfriends' she has also starred in two films choose connor in 2007 and the gleam a year earlier dexter, starring michael c hall, is the story of a miami police forensics expert who moonlights as a serial killer who hunts down criminals miss pantaleon, who was born in new york, also came runner up in the miss latina new york usa pageant in 2003, according to her imdb profile she was last seen on west 157th st in upper manhattan and may have been driving a silver 2004 toyota camry, according to the new york daily news she was wearing a shirt with 'drake' emblazoned across the front and is described by police as 5 feet 7, 165 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair
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mabel pantaleon starred in tv shows dexter and mystery er said to have a mental illness mother believes she stopped taking her medication former beauty pageant contestant had given up nursing career to pursue acting in new york
hero: sergeant johnson beharry is showing off his newborn son ayden in an interview with hello! magazine military hero johnson beharry, who became the first recipient of the victoria cross for more than two decades in 2005, has had tiny replicas of his medals made for his newborn son sergeant beharry, 34, showed off his son ayden for the first time in an interview with hello! magazine and said that he never imagined he would become a father he was the first serviceman honoured with the vc in 23 years after risking his life to save his colleagues in iraq, suffering horrific injuries in the process sergeant beharry told the magazine: 'before iraq i never imagined being a dad i lived on the edge and thought it was inevitable that i would die 'i wonder how i survived everyone tells me i must be here for a reason maybe it is my work with my charity but it's also for ayden' beharry, who still bears the scars of his ordeal, including a titanium plate in his skull, married second wife mallissa in march, just five months after they met he said of his son: 'i love him so much that i don't want to go to bed, i just want to be with him 'i hold him and watch him as he sleeps, then stay awake until dawn my job is being on guard in the army, so it comes naturally to me' beharry who has appeared on itv's dancing on ice series said he had the mini replica medals done for his son as a tribute to him his wife said he was a hands on father adding: 'he loves being with him whenever he speaks, ayden opens his eyes and tries to find him johnson wants to be involved with everything' honour: beharry became the first person to be awarded the victoria cross since the falklands war serviceman: he was awarded the honour after he risked his own life and suffered horrendous injuries saving the lives of some of his colleagues in iraq the couple tied the knot at london's old marylebone hotel in march in front of family and friends, before moving on to a later blessing delight: sergeant beharry spoke of his joy at the birth of his son in an interview with hello! magazine they announced soon after that they were expecting their first child the grenada born soldier said at the time: ‘it's a little sooner than planned, but we are over the moon ‘mallissa and i felt strongly that it was important to marry before our baby arrives 'i didn't grow up with a mum and dad who were together and all my life i've said i don't want my child to say the same and that i want them to know they've got that solid foundation’ beharry received his vc for two acts of bravery in the first he led a patrol to safety after being ambushed and under heavy fire, and in the other he saved the lives of several colleagues despite suffering brain and facial injuries from a grenade he split from first wife lynthia in 2005 as a result of the traumatic experiences he endured beharry became the first recipient in 2005 of the victoria cross since the falklands war of 1982 he is one of only six living recipients of the vc johnson beharry was born one of eight children on the caribbean island of grenada in 1979 he moved to britain in 1999, joining the princess of wales's royal regiment in 2001, serving first in kosovo then northern ireland
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sergeant beharry, 34, spoke of his delight at ayden's birth in hello! magazine he was awarded the vc after saving his colleagues' lives in iraq grenada born beharry married wife mallissa in march five months after they met the full interview is in the latest edition of hello! magazine which is out now
part of the house of lords has been searched by police investigating historic child sex abuse claims against a labour peer up to eight officers from leicestershire police swooped on the office of greville janner as part of an ongoing inquiry linked to children’s homes in the county officers took the highly unusual step of entering parliament to raid his office and seize computer equipment just weeks before submitting a dossier on the peer to the crown prosecution service the offices of lord janner were raided by officers from leicestershire police in march, it has emerged the move came after police spent several days searching the 85 year old politician’s home in golders green, north west london, in december the widowed father of three, a labour mp in leicester from 1970 to 1997, has not been arrested in connection with the allegations and police have yet to send a full file of evidence to the cps but preliminary papers have been served to prosecutors who are advising detectives on the progress of the investigation which started last year after a man came forward claiming he was abused as a teenager in the 1970s by lord janner the probe has been linked to pervert frank beck, who was found guilty of abusing more than 100 children in the 1970s and 1980s beck, who ran three children’s homes in leicestershire, was given five life sentences and died behind bars two hundred children complained they had been abused by him over 13 years to 1986 in beck’s 1991 trial, a 30 year old man said he had been abused by lord janner, who was still an mp at the time, while he was in care aged 13 lord janner was not prosecuted and received cross party support in the commons when he said there was ‘not a shred of truth’ in the claims police rarely enter the houses of parliament because of the age old principle of parliamentary privilege intended to guarantee politicians’ freedom of speech it is highly unusual for police to enter the house of parliament to carry out searches, because mps and peers are usually protected by parliamentary privilege in the past decade, searches of members’ offices have been carried out only a handful of times the commons office of former deputy speaker nigel evans was raided last year by police investigating allegations of rape and sexual assault he was later acquitted in 2008 the metropolitan police searched the office of tory immigration spokesman damian green over allegations he had leaked information from the home office mr green denied this and in 2009 the cps said it would not be bringing charges against him to obtain permission to search a member’s office, police have to go through a lengthy process which involves getting a search warrant sanctioned by a judge before alerting the clerk of the parliaments and black rod, a senior officer in the lords responsible for security yesterday leicestershire police refused to confirm what was seized during the raid which took place in march but was only made public yesterday but a spokesman said the search was monitored by senior house of lords officials, adding: ‘no arrests or charges have been made and enquiries continue’ two men aged 69 and 63 from corby, northamptonshire, have been quizzed in connection with the allegations but not arrested lord janner, who was appointed a qc in 1971, is a prominent campaigner for jewish rights and a former president of the board of deputies of british jews his legal team has confirmed he is helping with inquiries, but lord janner was unavailable for comment yesterday
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it would be the biggest airport in the world jutting out into the thames estuary, it would serve 150million passengers a year – more than twice as many as heathrow – and operate 24 hours a day this is thames hub, the astonishing £50billion vision to solve london’s aviation crisis proposal: the estuary airport would be a transport hub with trains able to speed passengers all over europe and britain after they land yesterday, plans were unveiled for the four runway airport on a sparse strip of land on the isle of grain, in kent designed by architect lord norman foster – who created the new wembley stadium – the airport would be a modern day feat of british engineering built on reclaimed marshland it would include the uk’s busiest railway station, handling 300,000 passengers a day icon: norman foster designed the new wembley stadium, and he is looking to create something similarly distinctive at the thames hub planes would fly in from the north east, primarily over water, greatly reducing the number of homes that would be affected by aircraft noise with the government having admitted in august that london’s main airports will reach bursting point in 2030 – and a third runway at heathrow  having been ruled out – backers of thames hub insist it offers a splendid solution but they have yet to convince everyone, especially people living in the area councillor rodney chambers, leader of medway council in kent, said: ‘the isle of grain is home to one of the world’s largest liquefied natural gas terminals, with a fifth of the uk’s gas supply offloaded by container ships and stored there ‘we have looked at lord foster’s plan and he appears to want to place his fantasy isle of grain airport on top of the lng plant and a power station it beggars belief’ lord foster said: ‘we need to recapture the foresight and political courage of our 19th century forebears if we are to establish a modern transport and energy infrastructure in britain for this century and beyond we can do it here’ the airport’s backers claim that if the government supports the scheme, sovereign wealth funds and wealthy foreign investors will stump up the cash to make it a reality the mayor of london, boris johnson, yesterday declared his support for the plans, despite them rivalling his own vision for a ‘floating’ airport in the thames estuary a spokesman said: ‘he is delighted that a distinguished figure like lord foster agrees that the answer to britain’s aviation needs lie in the [thames] estuary’ huge: foster and partners artist impression of the thames hub, a four runway thames estuary airport capable of handling 150 million passengers a year danger: medway council say mixing the liquefied natural gas import facility on the isle of grain, pictured, with a new airport would be a recipe for disaster lethal: the liquid gas for the area comes via the container port at the isle of grain, which protesters also say makes the area the wrong choice for an airport
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rival to mayor's 'boris island' plan, it would run 24 hours a day and be more than twice as busy as heathrow a railway station to be built under the new airport would be the uk's busiest, handling 300,000 arrivals and departures a day critics say nearby gas storage and container port mean it is the 'daftest ever' airport plan for the area as results of a crash would be explosive medway council accuse lord foster of never having visited
passengers on a luxury cruise liner were terrified when a fire plunged it into darkness the boudicca was sailing off the coast of morocco at 4am on sunday when the engine room caught alight fred olsen cruise lines tweeted this photo of sunbathing passengers about ten hours after the emergency the boudicca, carrying more than 1,000 passengers and crew, became stranded off casablanca (file photo) fred olsen cruise lines said the cruise ship began to list after a fire broke out inside an engine room as the ship lost power and drifted in the darkness, the 784 passengers, including many britons, contacted their loved ones back home dave tonkin, a father of two from burnham on sea who had relatives on board, wrote on twitter: ‘boudicca listing hard and engineless off coast of africa after engine fire ship left in pitch black worrying texts from family on board’ lucy birch, from sheffield, wrote on twitter how she had received ‘a panicked phone call of love from relatives who fear for their life’ other britons used the social media site to contact the cruise liner’s owner to report the distraught phone calls they had received from family members in the night however, the crew managed to bring the fire under control fred olsen cruise lines, which manages the boudicca, yesterday said: ‘the fire was in the engine room, but [was] extinguished, and no guests or crew have been injured ‘following the loss of propulsion system, boudicca listed for a short period, but is now fully stable guests’ services have now been restored, and guests have been kept informed of the situation at all times it said: 'the ship’s master has confirmed that at no point were guests asked to don their lifejackets and gather at the muster stations, as the situation was contained within the engine room by our crew members services are operating normally, and guests are enjoying the usual activities on board, both inside and out on deck' boudicca, which boasts 356 crew members, three pools, two jacuzzis, seven restaurants, a jewellery store and a casino, departed from southampton on january 20 for a cruise around cape verde and the canaries, and was scheduled to arrive in lanzarote this morning after leaving cadiz, spain, on saturday passengers had shelled out between £1,199 and £2,049 for the 18 night experience the cruise itinerary included stop offs at madeira and tenerife and promised ‘lush mountain ranges and deserted beaches to volcanic landscapes and vibrant towns’ a fred olsen spokesman said it was trying to get their itinerary back on schedule fred olsen cruise lines said services were up and running and there was 'a good atmosphere' on board the boudicca, carrying 784 guests and 356 crew members, departed cadiz, spain yesterday the ship is on an 18 night cape verde and the canaries cruise, which departed southampton on 20 january some cabins and public areas were still without power nearly 12 hours after the fire was reported gavin poole, who has family members on board the boudicca, said he received 'worrying' text messages britons who have family members on board the ship expressed their relief after learning no one was injured dave tonkin, whose father is on board, said the fire left the boudicca ‘listing’ and ‘in pitch black’ boudicca was built in 1972 and is one of four ships owned by ipswich based fred olsen cruise lines fred olsen cruise lines said the boudicca is fully stable and there is no danger to guests or crew (file photo) despite the disruption, fred olsen said the ship is still aiming to arrive in lanzarote tomorrow (file photo) cruise ships have suffered a series of misfortunes recently last month three people died when a fire broke out aboard the oceania insignia luxury liner off the caribbean island of st lucia all 656 passengers and 400 crew members were evacuated and in november, the ms marco polo cruise liner carrying 750 tourists ran aground in norway – just nine months after british pensioner james swinstead, 85, from colchester, essex, was killed and several other passengers injured when waves crashed through its windows when violent storms hit the english channel in july, the shipwrecked costa concordia was finally removed from rocks two and a half years after the liner sank with the loss of 32 lives off the coast of the italian holiday island of giglio
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a survey that asked 2,500 americans aimed at determining how boastful they are in facebook, twitter, instagram and other social media posts to determine which state is tops in residents trying to turn all their friends green with envy and the winner is: the golden state californians, according to the survey from heylets, is the most narcissistic state when it comes to social media say cheese californians! you're the most boastful state on social media according to a survey of each state's facebook, twitter and instagram posting habits according to the survey, residents there more than anywhere are likely to use so called status updates as opportunities for 'brag ommendations'that is, pics of the fantastic things you've seen and done of the californians surveyed, 77 percent said they frequently engage in social media self promotion by sharing pictures of trips and special locations, memorable events, and work related good news not far behind were two other western states, washington and nevada with all the opportunities for well lit selfies, it's no surprise that nevada home to fabulous las vegas ranked as one of the top 3 most boastful states on social media social media users in the evergreen state take to social media to do their boasting about 76 percent of the time slightly lower on the list, the silver state reported about a 72 percent rate of social media boastfulness on the flip side, the study found, were the humblest of states, the most modest of which was utah, where just 22 percent of residents admit to frequently bragging through social shares oregon, though bordering on boastful washington, showed just a 26 percent rate of social media narcissism in at third most humble was south carolina, with 33 percent where do you stand? the 20 most and least boastful us states source: heyletscom
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frightening footage has emerged of a car striking over a 60 year old woman after doing burnouts in western sydney the clip shows a white honda hatchback spinning towards a footpath and crashing into the woman, who collapses onto the pavement the driver, an 18 year old man, fled the scene, but later turned himself in to police about midday on tuesday, reports nine news frightening footage has emerged of a car striking over a 60 year old woman after doing burnouts the woman suffered a fractured pelvis in the incident, and was rushed to liverpool hospital for treatment the woman suffered a fractured pelvis in the incident, and was rushed to liverpool hospital for treatment she was returning to the carpark on the corner of barbra and kenyon streets in fairfield when the collision took place the driver reportedly checked on the woman before asking 'what have i done?' and fleeing the scene a witness said the driver was in a state of panic as the woman 'was just screaming on the floor in pain' the driver, an 18 year old man, fled the scene, but later turned himself in to police about midday on tuesday the incident happened during wild celebrations for iraq's win in jordan in the asian cup on monday 'after we checked on the old lady we left, and that's when we heard he'd chucked a runner,' said the witness onlookers were attending to the injured woman's aid before paramedics arrived to the scene the incident happened during wild celebrations for iraq's win in jordan in the asian cup on monday
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the clip shows a honda hatchback crashing into a 60 year old woman the woman suffered a fractured pelvis and was taken to liverpool hospital the driver, an 18 year old man, fled the scene before turning himself in
the new and unreleased charlie hebdo magazine featuring the prophet muhammad on its front cover is already fetching huge sums of money on ebay with 15 hours remaining until the item expires, bidding for one copy has already surpassed £500 it soared from its original price of 99p to the £511 it currently stands at, in just over six hours the seller from gloucester says in the item's description: 'i have a small supply of the charlie hebdo magazines available that i can post out friday 16th january from the uk 'these are the special edition with mohammad depicted, that has been released due to the recent tragic events' scroll down for video expensive: bidding for one copy has already surpassed £500 with more than 15 hours until the item expires demand: another copy of the new edition, featuring the prophet muhammad on the front cover, reached £409 response: three million copies of the first charlie hebdo magazine (pictured) since the gruesome attack on their office will be printed the price of another copy has reached £409 after 24 bids, as online shoppers scramble to reserve one of the 2,000 copies being shipped to the uk even though they will not reach british shops until friday that item's seller, located in spilsby, confirms to his bidders that copies will arrive in the uk on january 16 magazine wholesalers, smith news and menzies distribution, confirmed they will be supplying the new edition to british readers a spokesman at menzies distribution ltd said: 'we don't expect to face particular security issues, but we will take whatever precautions our security team believe are sensible to ensure the safety of our employees' the french bookshop in south kensington, west london, has warned customers that it will not receive copies until friday morning the edition is being printed in french, italian and turkish and digital versions will also be available in english, spanish and arabic surviving members of the magazine will print three million copies of its first edition since the gruesome attacks on its offices last week six of the publication's journalists, including its editor stephane charbonnier, were gunned down by islamist gunmen, said and cherif kouachi the new front cover features the headline 'all is forgiven' over a cartoon of the prophet muhammad weeping as he holds a placard reading 'je suis charlie' advert: a sign in the window of mrs aghera's shop she said the attack had happened over a 'silly cartoon' it was drawn by charlie hebdo cartoonist, renald 'luz' luzier, who survived the killings because he was late for work that day a village shopkeeper in the uk says she will stock more than 100 copies of the new issue to show her support for free speech ila aghera said she was 'nervous' about selling the french satirical magazine in the wake of last week's terrorist atrocity in paris but the 54 year old, whose shop is in an upmarket village, has already received 80 orders for the magazine from across the uk, for the cover price is £350 she said: 'it is important for future generations for them to see this, to know what happened 'i am nervous i'm shaking now, i'm only a little village shop but i don't care because what i am doing is right we will be selling it from friday i think i'm the first one to do it i might be old fashioned but i'm not going to be scared i'm selling it as a one off' the mother of two added: 'all age groups should know what happened what happened in france is very upsetting, it was very wrong – for a silly cartoon that was a joke to make people laugh i've ordered over 100 copies i'm just doing my job and providing a service if people want to read it they should be able to'
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bidding for one copy reaches £511, with over 12 hours until item expires online shoppers scrambling to get one of 2,000 copies shipped to uk they will not reach british shores until friday, another seller confirms first edition since terror attack in paris, features prophet muhammad three million copies have been printed, eclipsing usual run of 60,000
rainbow loom bands have assumed a universal appeal far beyond the wildest dreams of the craze’s creator, malaysia born cheong choon ng, 45 four years ago ng was trying to make rubber band bracelets with his daughters teresa, now 16, and michelle, 13, when he realized his fingers were too big to manipulate the bands so, the automotive crash test engineer set about creating a tool that would help him do the job he made a small loom with pins stuck in a piece of wood so he could play along, too scroll down for video celebrities including kate middleton, the duchess of cambridge, left, and pope francis, right, have been photographed wearing the rubber band bracelets in public and have helped the craze to grow the travel size finger loom, which comes out on wednesday, is a new product which ng hopes will sustain his business' incredible growth inspired by his ad hoc creation, ng, an engineer, developed a plastic version and patented it, spending $10,000 of the family’s savings to get it made cheaply in china by summer 2011, he was selling kits for $15 (£10) under the name of rainbow loom each comprised a small plastic loom measuring 2in by 8in a crochet hook and 600 multi colored mini rubber bands but many toy shops were unwilling to stock them ng didn’t find his first customer until the summer of 2012 when an american franchise called learning express toys ordered 24 looms they sold out within two days and his business took off headquartered in an industrial park in wixom, michigan, ng's company, called choon's design, has since sold over 8 million units worldwide and 40 million packs of rubber bands ng’s company is now worth more than $130 million rainbow loom bands have assumed a universal appeal far beyond the wildest dreams of the craze’s creator, malaysia born cheong choon ng, 45 when the duchess of cambridge was pictured in april wearing a red and pink bracelet given to her by a young girl during the royal tour of australia, sales soared by 300 per cent prince william even accessorized his smart navy suit with a turquoise and black version in june other famous people photographed wearing the bands include david beckham, one direction's harry styles, miley cyrus and even the pope but ng is aware the toy business is fickle and that the popularity of the rainbow loom could fade that's why he's introducing new products, such as the travel size finger loom, which comes out on wednesday he's also fine tuning the original and trying to drum up interest overseas with plans for expansion in germany and japan in addition to jewelry, loom bands can be used to create various accessories and toys, including key rings, phone cases and even shoes anna protherough, senior buyer for children at hobbycraft said: 'the loom bands are an absolute phenomenon 'we began stocking the kits since they originally launched last year and since the duchess of cambridge was seen wearing one, they have been flying off our shelves' however, in light of the craze, medical professionals have raised concerns about the safety of the bands it comes after a number of children were harmed playing with genuine loom bands, including one boy who nearly lost two fingers after the bands wrapped tightly around them and another who was left blinded when one hit him in the eye headquartered in an industrial park in wixom, michigan, ng's company, called choon's design, has sold over 8 million units worldwide and 40 million packs of rubber bands while genuine loom bands contain acceptable levels of phthalates – which is 01 per cent by weight in the uk and us – several counterfeit products, predominantly charms to attach to the bands, have emerged with far higher levels of the chemicals tests by the assay office in birmingham found some batches of charms heading for british shelves contained as much as 50 per cent of phthalates the rise of counterfeits has even prompted rainbow looms to issue a warning about fake products the firm which started the craze said: tthere are many fake/counterfeit rainbow loom products available online and at stores 'some fake products possess the same name as genuine rainbow loom products but these counterfeit products are unsafe for children and have not been tested in accordance with us toy safety standards (may contain lead and other dangerous substances)' it also warned that products could be of inferior in quality
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while fans flocked to berlin on tuesday to great their german world cup heroes, nico rosberg will show his support in a different way the mercedes driver, and sportsmail columnist, has revealed a new race helmet fit with the jules rimet and four stars rosberg will sport the design at this weekend's german grand prix at hockenheim, looking to build on his world championship lead 'this will be my hockenheim world cup special edition helmet with the fifa trophy how do you like it???' focus: nico rosberg will be looking to build on his world championship lead at hockenheim this weekend video rosberg signs mercedes extension rosberg tweeted: 'this will be my hockenheim world cup special edition helmet with the fifa trophy how do you like it???' he has strong bond with the monaco circuit, but will hope to have the support of his home fans as he looks to fend off the challenge of lewis hamilton the talented duo have built up quite a rivalry this season despite their team allegiances, and won't be caught at the top but rosberg will hope he can cap a fine sporting month for germany with a race win on sunday the 29 year old recently got married to long term girlfriend vivian sibold in monaco 'we are over the moon,' rosberg said 'it was very special to share our wedding day with our closest friends and family' battle: mercedes team mate lewis hamilton is his main rival this year sealed with a kiss: nico rosberg and long term girlfriend vivian sibold tied the knot in monaco
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with their luxurious interiors and powerful engines they are the cars of choice for the rich and famous but now range rover owners in london may not be able to insure their cars after high end motor insurers have refused to insure expensive vehicles following a series of thefts across the capital now, underwriters are understood to be refusing to insure range rovers unless owners have underground or secure parking scroll down for video spree: underwriters are understood to be refusing to insure range rovers unless owners have underground or secure parking pictured, a range rover evoque in the past three months, insurers and insurance brokers have asked to meet jaguar land rover to discuss the issue the cars are being targeted because of their ‘keyless ignition’ systems thieves have now found hand held electronic devices available on ebay which can bypass the security feature thatcham research, the motor insurers’ automotive research centre, said that between january and july this year, 294 range rover evoque and sport vehicles were stolen in london during the same period, 63 bmw x5s, a rival to the range rover, were taken between january and july this year, 63 bmw x5s, a rival to the range rover, were taken in the capital among those refused cover was keith dowley, a commercial property adviser from south west london, who bought a range rover this month after his previous one was stolen he said range rover told him it was his matter to resolve ‘i had to tell them, ‘no, this is your problem, i have just bought a £100,000 car from you, if i can’t get insurance, i can’t drive it, and if i can’t drive it, i don’t want it’,’ mr dowley said he eventually secured cover from another provider a spokesman for jaguar land rover said: ‘our line up continues to meet the insurance industry requirements as tested and agreed with relevant insurance bodies ‘nevertheless we are taking this issue very seriously’
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pensioners and middle class workers are being hit by taxes that discourage them from earning more, according to the government’s champion for older workers ros altmann, the former director general of saga, branded the inheritance tax, 40p tax rate and increased stamp duty ‘draconian and penal’ because they were stinging those who did not consider themselves ‘remotely wealthy’ ‘after all that we’ve been through it would be wise from a social perspective to recognise that people deserve a break,’ she said ‘ hard times: pensioners and middle class workers are being hit by taxes that discourage them from earning more, according to the government's champion for older workers 'the ordinary people who work hard and try to get on and live a good life deserve to get something back these taxes are hitting people and their families who are not in any way even close to being rich,' miss altmann said ‘i would like to see a proper overhaul of the tax system and a detailed study of how we can make it fairer,’ she told the daily telegraph savings: one in ten people will pay inheritance tax by 2018, compared with one in 20 this year economist and consumer champion mrs altmann was appointed business champion for older workers by the government last month the number of britons paying inheritance tax is expected to rise by more than a third this year and double over the next five years critics say this is unfair because it taxes assets such as homes which are typically bought with income that has already been taxed mrs altmann urged the government to give pensioners a break and reward them for working hard she said inheritance tax ‘was supposed to be a tax on the very rich, but it is now hitting anyone in the south east who has a house’ she added: ‘it is a disincentive to build up savings or assets in later life if you worry you are going to lose nearly half of it in tax anybody who has a house is likely to risk losing 40 per cent of its value to the taxman’ one in ten people will pay inheritance tax by 2018, compared with one in 20 this year
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government champion for older workers calls taxes 'draconian and penal' ros altmann demands elderly are given break from inheritance tax, 40p tax rate and increased stamp duty number of britons paying inheritance tax expected to rise by third this year
do you find yourself checking your phone every few seconds, waiting for the ping of an email or the beep of a text? if so, chances are that you’re an addict and as with all addictions, the best thing to do is seek treatment luckily, the first digital device detox centre to rehabilitate phone and internet addicts has sprung up in the welsh countryside unplugged weekend is designed as a digital detox for people stressed out with lives attached to their phones, and includes activities such as life drawing, hiking and yoga aptly called ‘unplugged weekend’, it is nestled in the heart of the brecon beacons and runs festival style weekends to help phone obsessives reconnect with real life the camp style set up, which is imported from the us where it has taken off, is designed to help wean addicts off their devices and discover nature but deliverance from your digital demons doesn’t come cheap a weekend at the retreat in the brecon beacons will set you back £199 however, for many parents with teenagers who are constantly glued to their phones, it may be the best option, given worrying statistics on phone use last week, communications watchdog ofcom revealed that we spend nearly nine hours a day using our smartphones, laptops, tablets and other devices other stats show that we check our phones an average of 150 times a day, according to a nokia survey the rehab begins on a friday with everyone dropping their smartphones into a black trunk which is passed around the group set in the brecon beacons in wales, the retreat begins with everyone handing over their phones which are kept in a locked black box until they leave again days at the retreat begin with yoga and meditation at 7am, followed by a ‘group sharing experience’ in which everyone talks about their addiction life drawing, rambling walks through the beacons and laughter therapy are just a few of the activities on offer to help distract visitors from their phones describing the weekend, the website says: ‘unplugged weekend is a digital detox set in the countryside, so we’ll all be locking away our phones for a couple of days while we get on with having a good time ‘we will do a group phone surrendering ceremony on the friday evening to mark the start of the weekend and you will be reunited with your devices on sunday when you leave this is a tech free weekend’ the rehab centre was set up by lucy pearson, 26, and vikki bates, 28, from london, after they met on a retreat in the sahara desert earlier this year unable to use their phones due to lack of signal, the advertising workers realised how liberating it was and quit their jobs to start the retreat ‘being in the middle of the dunes, we didn't have any phone signal for a week it was great that's when we realised the benefits of having a break from being constantly tuned in,’ they said research shows that on average people now spend more time per day on digital devices than they do on sleep ‘so when we got back to london we put our heads together and unplugged was born’ ‘we realised that the differentiating thing about our experience [in the sahara] was that we didn’t have our phones and nobody was chasing us for anything,’ miss bates told the times ‘you’re so caught up in the stress of life and you’re thinking all the time but not about the important stuff like whether you’re happy’ one visitor to the centre, tilly, who has just finished her first year at cambridge university, told the times: ‘you realise how much of a social barrier having a phone is ‘any time i’m anxious in a social situation i get my phone out and pretend to play a game or reply to all these text messages i’m supposed to have got, but because you can’t do that here you actually talk to people’ another visitor, tracey, said: ‘the first thing i do in the morning is check facebook in bed, then i get distracted and i can be on it for hours without realising'
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guests at unplugged weekend lock their mobiles in a box at start of retreat they then take part in calming activities such as yoga, hiking and art classes project was brainchild of londoners lucy pearson, 26, and vikki bates, 28 pair came up with idea after holiday in sahara without phone signal
ebola panic is swarming new york city as it emerged infected doctor craig spencer rode the subway, visited a crowded bowling hot spot and took an uber cab just one day before he was rushed to the hospital with a 103f fever the doctors without borders physician tested positive for the deadly virus seven days after returning from guinea where he was treating ebola patients but instead of steering clear of crowds, the 33 year old last night took the subway from harlem to williamsburg, where he visited the gutter, before taking an uber cab home earlier yesterday, he went on a three mile jog and took the subway to the high line garden a popular tourist destination before eating out at a restaurant brooklyn panic: ebola patient dr craig spencer took the subway to the gutter (pictured), a trendy brooklyn bowling alley, then got an uber cab home one day before he was rushed to the hospital with a 103f fever ebola in nyc: dr spencer flew to guinea on september 18 to treat patients with doctors without borders the terrifying details mean that residents in at least two dense new york city neighborhoods could have been exposed: williamsburg and harlem, where spencer lives new yorkers have flooded twitter in panic revealing their fears after visiting the bowling alley and taking the subway at the same time one exclaimed: 'he took the subway from harlem to brooklyn?!?! you literally have to go through the entire city subway system to do that' another said: 'now that ebola is here, i aint takin the subway no more' and one wrote: 'son ebola found it's way to ny? i'm sick' health officials confirmed dr spencer visited the gutter, which cancelled its scheduled thursday night gigs and closed its doors a panel briefing reporters on dr spencer's case said he rode the subway on thursday night from north west manhattan to brooklyn he took the a train from 147th street between broadway and amsterdam avenue down the west side of manhattan he then switched to the l train, which travels in a straight horizontal line across the island and under the east river into brooklyn major route: he took the a train to 14th st 8th ave, manhattan, then took the l train to bedford avenue, brooklyn gutter shuttered: the gutter did not open on thursday night and a band showcase was canceled this is the route dr spencer took last night during the day he also took the 1 train to the high line and ate out it's confirmed that the ebola patient rode the a train and l line last night earlier in the day he took the 1 train to the high line spencer left his home at 147th street between broadway and amsterdam avenue spencer took the a at 145 he then got on the l train at 14th street he probably got off at bedford avenue then walked to the gutter alighting at bedford avenue station, he then walked to the gutter bowling alley earlier in the day he also went on a three mile run, rode the 1 train, went to the high line, and dined out his fiancee and two friends are now under observation, and health officials will continue to interview dr spencer to determine if he came into contact with anyone else who may need to be monitored for signs of ebola although police taped off his apartment block on 147th st in harlem, and barred anybody from going inside, officials insist residents are not at risk of contracting the disease dr thomas frieden, president of the cdc, told the panel: 'our concern now is with healthcare workers who are caring for him 'by coincidence, we already have a team on the ground at bellevue that has been reviewing the preparations and observing the hospital working 'we have another team on the way now 'i also wish to reiterate the case of mr duncan in dallas even his household contacts who were with him for several days after he got sick did not get the disease it is a scary disease but it does not spread easily' owners of the outlet will now be working to determine what dr spencer did at the bowling alley whether he rented shoes, for instance, or shared a drink ebola can be contracted from contact with the bodily fluids including sweat of an infected person only when victims are symptomatic, with the infectiousness increasing as the victim's condition worsens the gutter did not open its doors on thursday and canceled a scheduled band showcase but staff made no mention of ebola taking it down: two police officers in face masks were seen removing tape from dr spencer's block of flats casual: the do not cross signs were then casually tipped into a harlem bin as officers say the building is safe september 16: dr craig spencer flew to guinea to treat ebola patients as a member of the french organization doctors without borders (medecins sans frontiers) october 16: dr spencer left guinea, flew to brussels in belgium and was screened for ebola at jfk october 22: the doctor goes on a three mile run around harlem close to the home he shares with his girlfriend morgan dixon on 147th street october 22 afternoon: he took the 1 subway train to the high line garden bridge on the west side of manhattan he had lunch at the meatball shop at 64 greenwich avenue and coffee at the blue bottle coffee stand october 22 evening: he took the a train from his home to 14th st 8 ave subway station and changed to the l train to bedford avenue october 22 late: doctor went to the gutter bowling alley with his girlfriend then takes an uber cab home october 23, 10am 11am: the doctor contacts the health department to report that he has a fever admitted to bellevue hospital in midtown manhattan and tested october 23, 830pm: dr spencer's test comes back positive for ebola the closure was blamed on 'unforeseen circumstances' as reporters began to flock to the establishment into thursday night reporters had flocked to the shuttered doors of the gutter by thursday evening, but no one in hazmats suits had yet to appear dr spencer flew to africa on september 18 to treat patients in guinea with non profit organization doctors without borders flying out, dr spencer tweeted a picture of himself wearing a full yellow hazmat suit and face mask with the message: 'off to guinea with doctors without borders (msf) 'please support organizations that are sending support or personnel to west africa, and help combat one of the worst public health and humanitarian disasters in recent history' on october 16, he checked in at a hotel in brussels, belgium, on his return journey from guinea to the us he arrived at jfk on october 17 where he was screened for the disease health officials tonight insisted dr spencer felt no symptoms aside from fatigue until he awoke with a fever at around 10am on thursday he then contacted the health department and was taken in to bellevue for testing the nyc department of health and mental hygiene said on thursday: 'ems haz tac units transported a patient to bellevue hospital who presented a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms 'the patient is a health care worker who returned to the us within the past 21 days from one of the three countries currently facing the outbreak of this virus' new york city mayor bill de blasio and governor andrew cuomo assembled at bellevue hospital following the the positive test results 'today testing confirmed that a patient here in new york city has tested positive or ebola,' began mayor de blasio the mayor said that being near someone in places like a subway car does not put someone at risk because 'ebola is an extremely difficult disease to get' conference: the city's health commissioner mary bassett (left) and mayor bill de blasio (right) addressed the concerns of the public at a conference tonight and insisted new yorkers do not have to fear the disease 'every hospital in the city is prepared in the event other patients come forward,' said de blasio governor cuomo hit on many of the same points, but admitted this case did not come as a surprise [we were] hoping that it didn't happen but also realistic,' cuomo said 'we can't say this is unexpected' governor cuomo revealed that four people were considered potentially exposed to dr spencer 'during the relevant period' 'we're already in contact with the four people,' the governor said
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the consumer version of the much anticipated oculus rift virtual reality headset is just months away, the company has revealed ceo brendan iribe told the audience at web summit 2014 in dublin, that a consumer version of the company's vr headset is 'close' he admitted the latest prototype, codenamed crescent bay, is 'largely finalized for a consumer product' scroll down for video ceo brendan iribe told the audience at web summit 2014 in dublin, that a consumer version of the company's rift vr headset is 'close' 'we're all hungry for it to happen,' he told the audience 'we're getting very close it's months, not years away, but many months' he also revealed one area holding back the product was the lack of a controller he said keyboards, mice and gamepads aren't up to the job and neither is gesture control 'you want to feel it when you touch a button,' he said oculus acquired carbon design, the designers of the xbox 360 controller in march iribe also revealed that although the technology is currently similar to ski goggles, future versions will look like sunglasses iribe also revealed the company has changed significantly since it was acquired by facebook in march operating as an independent subsidiary, oculus has grown from 75 people to over 200 employees and now operates a separate r&d division asked about the threat of rival vr products, iribe said his main concern is shoddy implementation in recent months dozens of firms have revealed low cost headsets using a movbile phone as the display 'we're a little worried about bigger companies putting out products that aren't ready 'disorientation and motion sickness is the elephant in the room 'we're encouraging big companies not to put out a product before it's ready 'we want to get it right, we don't want it to be four or five years we're eager for this to happen' earlier this year the facebook owned firm has unveiled its crescent bay model of the virtual reality technology that is lighter than its predecessor, and now features 360 degree tracking reports claimed the consumer version of the device will launch in 2015 and could cost as little as $200 (£122) iribe says it is too early to say what the 'killer app' is but said it could even be face to face talking 'one that resonates with us internally is that this will have a big aspect of gaming, where you feel like you're in the game or movie 'but when we can have face to face conversations, that's a big change'if in the future you can throw in a pair on sunglasses and have the same conversation we are having, that's really transformative' the crescent bay virtual reality headset (pictured) was unveiled at the oculus connect conference in hollywood at the weekend it is lighter than its predecessor and features 360 degree tracking, but oculus vr is yet to release the full list of specifications for the device mailonline has been using the latest version of the headset, the $350 (£215) dk2 version aimed at developers wanting to write vr apps at first we were skeptical the headset looks bulky, although it is surprisingly light when attached via straps however, once you are immersed in a virtual world, doubts were quickly forgotten the technology, still just a developer's version, is breathtakingly good while the resolution still doesn't give the feeling of quite being in the real world, it does make you think you are actually in a virtual world the number of demos and games is already growing by the day, and feature everything from virtual rollercoaster rides to being lost in space, all made more immersive with head tracking meaning the images moved perfectly as your head moves it's not quite ready for primetime yet, but is almost there and the oculus rift headset finally delivers on the long awaited promise of virtual reality the 360 degree tracking means the headset will be able to more accurately monitor a wearer's head movements, which in turn will make games more immersive and true to life elsewhere, the headset has a higher resolution, per eye, than the current second generation development kit – dk2 and these displays are powered by samsung devices a teardown of the dk2 revealed that the headset uses samsung galaxy note 3 displays, and experts claim the latest generation device will feature screens from the flagship note 4 by comparison, the dk2 has a resolution of 960 x 1080 per eye, and the note 4 screens would give the latest model 1280 x 1440 resolution aside from these specifications, oculus vr is yet to release the rest of crescent bay's features 'there are plenty of technical challenges left to solve for the consumer rift, but crescent bay is truly the best virtual reality headset we've ever built,' said mr iribe the price of the oculus rift consumer model, which does not have a release date yet, was revealed by oculus vr co founder nate mitchell speaking with eurogamer, mr mitchell said the price could go up to $400 (£240), but that the price range was an estimate he also cautioned that nothing is set in stone 'that could slide in either direction depending on scale, pre orders, the components we end up using, [or] business negotiations,' he said previously, oculus vr said it was aiming to launch the consumer model for around $300 (£185) developers can currently buy protoype versions of the headset for $350 (£215) crescent bay (pictured) has a higher resolution, per eye, than the current second generation development kit – dk2 and these displays are powered by the samsung devices a consumer model of the headset is expected to launch next year with price estimates ranging from $200 (£122) up to $400 (£240) the firm also revealed earlier this month it has been working with samsung on a mobile version of the headset, which will go on sale this year, but will not feature the advanced head tracking or high resolution display the oculus version is expected to have facebook purchased the company earlier this year when its $2bn (£12bn) deal to buy vr headset firm oculus was approved it will first be used for immersive games, but facebook ceo mark zuckerberg promised the headset will 'change the way we work, play and communicate' although virtual worlds could include advertising admitted zuckerberg a commercial version is rumoured to launch in 2015 the purchase of oculus put facebook in a battle with sony, which has already unveiled its own version of a vr headset, destined for the ps4 next year
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british football fans will still be able to watch steven gerrard and frank lampard when they head to america after sky sports won the exclusive rights to broadcast live major league soccer from the start of this season sky have signed a four year deal to show exclusively live games from the mls from march when the season kicks off former england internationals gerrard and lampard join the league in july once they have finished playing in the premier league robbie keane lifts the mls trophy for la galaxy after beating new england revolution in the final to give you an idea of when the mls clashes take place, here are kick off times for the opening round of fixtures in the 2015 season all times are uk saturday march 7 la galaxy vs chicago fire 3am dc united vs montreal impact 8pm philadelphia union vs colorado rapids 9pm whitecaps fc vs toronto fc 11pm sunday march 8 fc dallas vs sj earthquakes 130am houston dynamo vs columbus crew 130am portland timbers vs real salt lake 330am orlando city vs new york city 9pm sporting kc vs new york red bulls 11pm monday march 9 sounders fc vs ne revolution 130am gerrard will link up with former liverpool team mate robbie keane at defending mls champions la galaxy and lampard will team up with david villa at new york city for their inaugural season in the league david beckham, who played for la galaxy, welcomed the news, saying: ‘this is another important moment that shows the continued growth of mls ‘i have seen first hand how popular soccer has become in america having fantastic partners such as sky sports on board will not only add to the coverage of the game, it will also broaden its appeal outside of the us’ while sky sports pundit and former new york red bulls striker thierry henry said: ‘i will never forget my time playing in mls it gave me some great memories and i was proud to play a role in growing the game ‘i saw the passion of the fans in the us they have always had it for other sports but they also have it for football now and it’s going to be huge in years to come sky sports is the best place for the game, to bring it closer to fans in the uk and build mls even more’ frank lampard will join new new york city in their debut season in mls bradley wright phillips was the top scorer in mls last season for new york red bulls sky sports managing director barney francis said: ‘football in the us and canada has enormous potential for growth and we can’t wait to bring this competition to our viewers for the first time thierry henry has joined us, he created fantastic memories in mls, and we look forward to seeing more of those great stories from across the atlantic’ sky recently paid £42billion for the right to broadcast 126 live premier league matches per season from 2016 on a three year deal kaka orlando city sc the brazilian won the ballon d’or back in 2007, so it is understandable that a lot is expected of him with new mls franchise orlando city he may not be the player he was back in 2007 but he still has the ability to dribble past players and pick a pass frank lampard – new york city fc one of two high profile signings made by new york city on their introduction to the league lampard won more than 100 caps for england and 11 major trophies with chelsea in 13 years he is due in new york in the summer once he has finished playing with manchester city steven gerrard – la galaxy the liverpool midfielder will become the second former england captain to join la galaxy following the successful period of david beckham like lampard, gerrard will not join galaxy until the summer once the premier league has finished he will link up with former reds team mate robbie keane david villa new york city fc villa became new york city’s first marquee signing when he joined after helping atletico madrid win la liga last season he has spent time on loan at melbourne city in the australian a league and he will be expected to score the bulk of new york’s goals in their debut season bradley wright phillips new york red bulls overshadowed by brother shaun in england but since moving to mls he has been the star man for the red bulls he won the golden boot last season with 27 goals in 32 games with the departure of thierry henry and tim cahill he could struggle to score as many this term
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thousands: in an announcement at the liberian capitol of monrovia, maj gen gary volesky said thousands of soldiers were arriving as he spoke though the ebola virus has reached the united states, thousands of americans are taking the fight overseas to africa in a mission called 'operation united assistance' the mission to combat the deadly virus is stationed in liberia where other agencies are currently battling the outbreak this ebola unit is mainly made up of us troops but also includes doctors, nurses, scientists, aviators, engineers, mechanics, and technicians, most of whom are volunteers from the us public health service, the washington post reports many have left their families behind to be a part of the now global effort to fight the outbreak which has claimed the lives of almost 5,000 in eight affected or previously affected countries including the united states, according to a who report updated saturday more than 10,000 confirmed, probable, and suspected cases of the virus have been reported in the eight countries in an announcement made saturday from liberia's capitol of monrovia, maj gen gary volesky said soldiers were arriving as he spoke 'thousands of my soldiers are arriving right now,' volesky said, 'and they are as excited as i am, and ready to join this great team that you all have built so together we can stamp out ebola' the overall mission is the effort of the us department of defense, the us agency for international development, the white house office of science and technology policy, and the centers for disease control and prevention scroll down for video operation united assistance: thousands of us soldiers and civilians are headed to africa to fight ebola in 'operation united assistance,' the us's latest effort to combat the virus when the mission was initially announced in early september, the usdod officials described the mission's main goals: set up a joint force command headquarters in libreria to support military activities and help coordinate aid from other agencies, appoint a general officer in monrovia, provide engineers to build ebola treatment units, and establish a training site for health care providers to direct care to ebola patients the post reports that health official's plan for the mission include building 17 ebola treatment units (etus) in liberia staffed by health care workers, each with 100 beds this is to remove ebola victims from their home, where they can easily spread the virus, and treat them at the etus where the risk of spread is limited and the patients can get the appropriate care the etus will reportedly not be completed until december the first is expected to be built within weeks who: the graphic above, from the world health organization, illustrates the growing number of cases of the ebola virus in west african countries usaid: the us agency for international development is allowing health care workers to sign up to volunteer to be a part of the mission on it's website pentagon officials have reportedly stressed that us military personnel will not directly treat ebola patients or come in contact with them the 17 etus will in turn provide 1,700 beds to ebola patients, but a report in the infectious diseases section of the lancet medical journal, says that's not enough the report stated that the number of beds needed to effectively control the outbreak in montserrado countywhere monrovia is locatedsubstantially exceeds the number global officials intend to have in the etus the journal based its findings on a  mathematical analysis of the outbreak and the report states that the 'findings highlight the rapidly closing window of opportunity for controlling the outbreak and averting a catastrophic toll of evd cases and deaths' ebola: the ebola virus (shown above) has claimed the lives of a total of almost 5,000 in seven affected or previously affected west african countries and the united states nations: though this mission has the us military deploying primarily to liberia, other american civilian operations are taking place in guinea, sierra leone and other west african nations despite the journal's criticism, the mission is in full swing the usaid is allowing health care workers to sign up to volunteer to be a part of the mission on its website the post reports that more than 3,000 people have volunteered online to serve in west africa however, those who signed up to volunteer have to undergo and make it through a screening process volunteers have been offered top flight medical treatment in case they get sick, according to the post, and a field hospital near monrovia's airport is expected to open in the beginning of november the looming risk of contracting the virus is not the only difficulty presented by the mission also at hand is the area's harsh roads as well as mosquitos and malaria also the potential new york, new jersey, and illinois 21 day quarantine for travelers from west africa who have dealt with ebola patients may be an impediment to potential volunteers though this mission has the us military deploying primarily to liberia, other american civilian operations are taking place in guinea, sierra leone and other west african nations hundreds of american civilians have been in west africa for months fighting the deadly virus
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thousands of us soldiers and civilians are headed to west africa to fight ebola in 'operation united assistance,' the us's latest effort to combat the virus the mission will include 17 ebola treatment units for those infected, but critics say that won't be enough the us agency for international development is recruiting health care workers from around the world more than 10,000 confirmed, probable, and suspected cases of the virus have been reported in eight countries as of saturday
more witnesses in the death of trayvon martin have changed their stories about what happened on the night he was shot dead by george zimmerman in a gated community in florida at least four key witnesses have changed their story and more may come forward as the case moves closer to trial, according to the orlando sentinel a report from the paper comes after state prosecutors released about half the evidence they have in their second degree murder case against zimmerman, 28 final picture: as part of the ongoing court preparations, george zimmerman's team submitted photos last week of trayvon caught on the convenience store's camera in his favor: public opinion has shifted so that now 40 per cent of americans believe george zimmerman acted in self defense, which is up from only 15 per cent who believe such in march the witnesses who are only identified by numbers first made statements to the sanford police on or close to the night of february 26 later, around mid march, they had to repeat their statements to the florida department of law enforcement and state prosecutors three of the witnesses altered what they thought had happened one changed her story completely witness two a young woman who lives in the retreat at twin lakes community, where trayvon was shot was interviewed three times and each time her account was different she did not have her contact lenses in at the time but said she saw two men running and then a fist fight the second time she said she saw two men standing ten feet apart when she was interviewed the final time, by an fdle agent, she said she saw just one person running away and could not tell if it was a man or woman, black or white witness six a man who lived at a home a few feet away from where trayvon was shot first told police he saw the teen on top of zimmerman and said he was raining punches down on him 'mixed martial arts style' he also said zimmerman was yelling for help weeks later however, he said, he was not sure who was yelling for help or if tryavon was punching him or simply pinning him to the ground the only thing he was sure of was that the teenager was on top witness 12 a young mother from the same community told police she saw two figures on the ground but was not sure who was on top but at the end of march she said she was sure it was zimmerman on top as she recognized his shape and build from seeing him on the tv witness 13 another man who lived close by did not see the altercation between the pair but gave an account of zimmerman's demeanor when he spoke to him after he heard the gun shot fire he said he came out to see the neighborhood watchman with blood on the back of his head and a body next to him the 28 year old said trayvon had been 'beating up on me, so i had to shoot him' then he asked him to call his wife to let her know weeks later he described zimmernman's tone as being 'no big deal' 'it wasn't like, 'i can't believe i shot someone', but just, 'tell my wife', like it was nothing,' the witness said all the witnesses will likely be interviewed again before the trial starts surrounding area: in the weeks and months following the february 26 altercation, many neighbors have given their stories as witnesses difficult to tell: some witnesses said that the dark night made it difficult to tell who was straddling whom their changes reflect a softening view of trayvon martin, likely due to the massive media attention the case has received, and the fact they have become aware of the circumstances around what they saw at the time of the attack the changing opinions of both the public and the key witnesses in the case confirm that the trial of the teen's killer will be constantly evolving a new poll says that public opinion is shifting as 40 per cent americans believe that the unarmed 17 year old was killed in self defense that number shows a significant jump up from only 15 per cent of people siding with zimmerman's version of events when asked in march when the attack sparked a national firestorm according to the rasmussen report released yesterday, only 24 per cent say the fatal incident was murder, denoting a decrease since the last poll when 33 per cent believed that to be the case in march regardless, zimmerman was been charged with second degree murder and his trial will unfold in the coming months as he waived his right to a speedy trial in an effort to guarantee that his legal team can be fully prepared when it does go to court preparations: both sides are submitting evidence in the coming days as zimmerman is in hiding while zimmerman's lawyers entered in their extensive list of witnesses and evidence last week, the specifics of the witness changes came as a preview of the evidence due to be used by the prosecution special prosecutor angela corey turned a eight page document to the seminole county clerk on monday which spelled out the changed testimony
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new poll says 40 per cent of americans think zimmerman acted in self defense, up from only 15 per cent two months ago comes as four witnesses have changed their story or added details that support trayvon martin's side of the story
professor christian dustmann co authored a study which claimed that eu immigration has boosted public finances by £20billion the academic who predicted that only 13,000 eastern europeans would arrive in britain each year was under fresh fire last night for his latest study which claimed that eu immigration has boosted public finances by £20billion ministers said the new report co written by professor christian dustmann had taken a ‘very narrow focus’ which ignored the physical pressure migrants place on schools, hospitals and roads yesterday, the mail reported how professor dustmann and dr tommaso frattini, of university college london, had produced a report heralding the ‘positive economic impact’ of new arrivals from the eu between 2001 and 2011 the academics put particular emphasis on the fact that eastern european workers had contributed £5billion more in taxes than they had consumed in public services and state handouts but, amid criticism of the fact the report did not include the potential future costs associated with the eu migrants growing older and using more state services, critics pointed to professor dustmann’s past history sir andrew green, chairman of migrationwatch, said: ‘it is possible that professor dustmann’s enthusiasm is not entirely unrelated to the fact that he was a lead researcher on the 2003 home office paper which calculated that immigration from eastern europe would be between 5,000 and 13,000 a year’ in the event, more than one million workers from eastern europe arrived between 2004 and the end of 2009 – an average of around 200,000 a year the study carried out by the academic for the home office has been widely ridiculed by politicians as ‘spectacularly wrong’ and ‘laughable’ in the new report, eu migrants were said to have contributed a net £20billion to the public finances – including £15billion from the so called old eu, which includes france and germany immigration minister james brokenshire said the report had taken ‘a very narrow focus’ he told the mail: ‘this is a complex topic and when it comes to eu migration this report does not take proper account of the pressures uncontrolled, mass immigration – the kind we saw under the last government – places on public services and communities ‘it ignores issues that matter to hardworking people, the impact on schools, on hospitals, on roads, on housing it tells us nothing about how uncontrolled, mass immigration can make it harder to maintain social cohesionthe report takes no account of the future costs associated with those who stay, grow old and make greater demands on our public services’ ukip’s migration spokesman steven woolfe mep said the study covers ‘only a narrow part of the uk migration policy debate’ professor dustmann has defended his 2003 report predicting up to 13,000 arrivals a year from eastern europe as he made clear immigration would be much higher if, as happened, other countries decided to curb access he added: ‘what it doesn’t do is to show what wealth our own people could have generated if they weren’t subjected to wage reducing, employment displacing mass immigration from the eu sir andrew green said: ‘if you take all eu migration, including those who arrived before 2001, you find by the end of the period they are making a negative contribution and increasingly so ‘and the reason is that if you take a group of people while they’re young fit and healthy they’re not going to be very expensive, but if you take them over a longer period they will be’ while the ucl focussed on new arrivals from within the eu, buried inside the 51 page report was a calculation showing that, if the time period 1995 2001 is considered, non european migrants living in britain took out more than they put in for 17 consecutive years the total cost to the public finances was almost £118billion professor dustmann has defended his 2003 report predicting up to 13,000 arrivals a year from eastern europe he said it made clear immigration would be much higher if, as happened, germany and other countries decided to curb access to their labour markets analysis: true picture his figures do not reveal european immigrants who have arrived in the uk since 2000 contributed more than £20billion to the uk public finances between 2001 and 2008 what does the report claim? the headline finding of professor christian dustmann and dr tommaso frattini, of ucl’s centre for research and analysis of migration, is that european immigrants who have arrived in the uk since 2000 contributed more than £20billion to the uk public finances between 2001 and 20011 the pair are particularly keen to emphasise the fact that eastern european workers put in 12 per cent more in taxes than they received in state services and handouts were eastern europeans the major eu contributors to the exchequer? no they provided only a quarter of the positive contributions – despite more than one million people coming from the former eastern bloc since our borders were opened in 2004 some £15billion of the total came from the 15 members of the so called old eu it includes the vast sums contributed by bankers, engineers and it experts from countries such as france, germany and holland in practical terms, what does it all mean? migrationwatch says the £20billion figure is the equivalent of a positive contribution of less than £1 a week per head of the total british population for eastern european workers, this figure falls to around 20p a week the crucial question is: is this a price worth paying for the fact that, since 2000, more than a million eu migrants have been added to the population – placing significant strain on the country’s social fabric does report assess impact of migration from outside the eu? yes – and it makes for far less positive reading between 1995 and 2011, non european migrants living in the uk cost the public finances almost £118billion – taking out more in services and benefits than they paid in taxes for 17 consecutive years during the same period, eu migrants made a net contribution of £4425billion british natives were a net drain on the nation’s finances of £541billion – reflecting the fact the country has been running a significant deficit in recent years why such a gap between eu and non eu migrant contributions? many of the non european migrants arrived during previous waves of immigration they now have families and are making significant demands on schools, hospitals and the welfare state the eastern european migrants, by contrast, are typically young and single eu migrants also have far higher employment rates for example, 812 per cent of poles are in work compared to 46 per cent of those from pakistan does the report measure the financial cost of the strain on britain’s public services? calculations have been made to establish how much migrants cost in terms of government funds, such as medical expenses, schooling their children and the welfare state the total was then deducted from their overall contribution to the public purse, including income tax, national insurance, vat, council tax and business rates so what are the key omissions? first, the scope of the report is too narrow – focussing on the cost of using public services but not the physical pressure put on roads, schools and hospitals by having to cope with so many new arrivals also, the report only looks backwards it examines the taxes paid by the influx of eastern europeans when they are young, single and healthy but does not estimate the financial impact of them growing older and having families, putting a greater strain on the nhs and possibly claiming a state pension is there any acknowledgement of this fact in the report? tucked away on p37, there is a paragraph which states that ‘ageing of the immigrant population that arrived since 2000 may lead in the longer run to an increase in benefit receipt’ however, the authors assert this will be offset by the fact some migrants will return home, while others are yet to achieve their full economic potential what about the impact of mass immigration on british workers? the study makes no attempt to measure this the independent migration advisory committee warned earlier this year that cheap foreign labour has forced down the wages of some british workers one study of pay in london had found the 20 per cent lowest paid had seen wages fall by 15 per cent on average driving down the wage of natives pushes up the overall welfare bill since they are likely to be paid more in tax credits and other handouts to compensate and the effect on british school leavers? the report makes great play of the fact that immigrants have ‘endowed the uk labour market with human capital that would have cost about £49billion if it were produced through the uk education system’ however, as david green of the civitas think tank points out, the arrival of well educated young migrants coincided with a slump in apprenticeships for uk teenagers – at great social cost in 2012, the mac estimated that, for every four migrant workers who come to the country from outside the eu, one british job is lost, again increasing the welfare bill
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report claims eu immigration has boosted public finances by £20bn same academic also predicted 13,000 eastern eu migrants a year professor christian dustmann accused of 'taking a narrow view' minister say report ignored the physical pressure on public services
a tabby cat which made his local tesco store his second home has become so popular his fans and admirers have set him up with his own facebook page mango has become a huge hit with tesco customers in tiverton, devon after setting up house in the store's foyer four years ago tabby mango spends much of his time sleeping in the foyer or curled up on the store's entrance mat, although he's not averse to taking a stroll in the other departments scroll down for video mango the tabby cat (pictured in a trolley's baby seat)  has made his local tesco store his second home and has become so popular his admirers have set him up with his own facebook fan page which has 2,515 'likes' mango cuts a lone figure in the devon store he has been visiting the shop regularly for the last four years but he's so well loved he has his own dedicated facebook page set up by an unknown customer to give his fans an outlet to share their love and it already has more than 2500 'likes' citing their reasons for creating the facebook page the anonymous account holder wrote: 'our children love this cat so much that my husband suggested we make a page for him?' mango has his own dedicated facebook page set up by an unknown customer where people post his pictures despite mango's near constant presence at the store he has an owner and home a stone's throw away the majority of the pictures of mango show him snoozing in various locations within the store but mango does occasionally venture out for some ear scratching and affection from customers in the store 'what a good idea 'so here it is 'to put a smile on people's faces 'thank you for your support for this lovely moggy' at one time the tabby was a regular sight within the store but nowadays doesn't often stray further than the front of the store one of mango's fans maureen saunders said: 'he's a dear little thing' despite mango's near constant presence at the store he has an owner and a home of his own just a stone's throw away at one time mango was a regular sight within the store but nowadays doesn't often stray further than the front mango even has his own 'house' in the store where he can have a snooze in peace mango appears to be searching in vain for some cat treats that may have rolled underneath the pet food aisle mango is also a master at finding excellent hiding places, for times when he gets tired of being adored mango enjoys some sun in what would appear to be the gardening section as he lays in a basket full of seeds the tesco store in tiverton, devon, where mango likes to spend his days snoozing and exploring
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mango set up a second home in the supermarket's foyer four years ago fans and admirers have created a facebook page dedicated to the tabby locals regularly post pictures of mango to his 2,515 followers although he has home of his own he likes to spend his days snoozing and exploring the store as well as occasionally posing for picture with his fans
newcastle united midfielder moussa sissoko has again spoken of his arsenal ‘dream’ but it would take an offer of more than £20million to trigger any deal before monday night’s deadline the magpies have made it known that they would only entertain a ‘ridiculous’ approach for their star player, with arsenal, psg and liverpool all interested but in making that stance public, supporters fear they are courting such a sum moussa sissoko joined newcastle united from ligue 1 side toulouse in 2013 but could leave for a big fee sissoko (right) chases down hull city full back andrew robertson during newcastle's 3 0 win on saturday newcastle caretaker manager john carver will be keeping his fingers crossed sissoko does not leave head coach john carver joked that it would take a bid of £50m to land sissoko, but a figure of less than half that amount is more realistic for a player who only cost £15m when he signed from toulouse two years ago it is more likely, however, that sissoko will leave tyneside in the summer and the 25 year old has again spoken of his admiration for arsenal the france international is reportedly attracting interest from paris saint germain ‘arsenal made me dream when i was a youngster patrick vieira was my idol i saw myself in him,’ he said ‘for now, i'm a newcastle player and i am happy at the club i want to play in major competitions and i want to do it with this team' newcastle left back davide santon is set to return to inter milan on loan for the remainder of the season, with a view to a permanent move, while the club look set to have missed out on the signature of milton keynes dons youngster dele alli who is at tottenham hotspur for a medical davide santon (centre) will return to former club inter milan on a six month loan deal tottenham hotspur look to have won the race to sign mk dons wonderkid dele alli ahead of newcastle
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moussa sissoko could leave newcastle united for a fee above £20million french midfielder has once again spoken of his arsenal 'dream' arsenal and paris saint germain could launch a big bid for the midfielder davide santon will leave st james' park to return to inter milan on loan tottenham hotspur look to have beaten magpies to dele alli signature click here for all the latest transfer news with our live updates
a family of eleven who spent almost £7,000 on a four star holiday turned up at the airport with their suitcases to find that they had been conned by their travel agent who never booked the trip maureen kay and her family were told that their tickets to turkey bought from the turkish riviera travel agency in hull were forgeries when they arrived at the departure hall at manchester airport despite paying £6,800 for flights and accommodation at the titanic beach lara hotel near antalaya, travel agency owner ellen harrison, 49, spent the money and failed to make the booking stranded: maureen kay, left, and ten members of her family arrived at manchester airport in october last year having paid almost £7,000 for a trip to turkey, only to find that travel agent ellen harrison, right, hadn't made their booking she had tried to put the kays off travelling the day before by telling them that the hotel had cancelled the booking and that there was trouble in turkey, but her text messages didn't arrive until the party had reached the airport when confronted by the family, harrison then tried to blame flightline for losing the booking in october last year the family then spent a further £8,700 at the airport to rearrange their holiday harrison, who pleaded guilty to a single count of fraud, was given a suspended prison sentence and sentenced to 150 hours community service at hull crown court the court heard that mrs kay had booked holidays through the turkish riviera travel agency before without any problems but the company had run into financial trouble and while harrison hoped funds would come in to pay for the kays holiday, she had spent the money covering other party's trips spared jail: harrison's travel agency had run into financial difficulties and she had spent the kay's money covering other party's trips although mrs kay, her three children and their partners, and two grandchildren, were given flight tickets and an accommodation voucher by harrison the court heard that harrison text the family with a guilty conscience the day before they were due to travel, claiming that a bomb had gone off in turkey and that a terror alert made it unsafe to travel harrison, whose brochures boasted that the firm provided ' exceptional levels of customer enjoying clients to enjoy a stress free holiday in turkey', also claimed that the hotel had cancelled the flights after re booking a holiday to a separate hotel with thomas cook at the airport, the family travelled to turkey using some of mrs kay's life savings when they returned, they confronted harrison who blamed the flightline booking service and promised the family a full refund but her cheque bounced and the family only received £720 before harrison's business collapsed defence barrister stephen robinson said: 'she was having financial difficulties in 2012 and she didn’t book the holiday 'she thought she may be able to pay for it in the future she admits she strung them along and caused them unnecessary distress by them arriving at the airport 'she knew the kays, and didn’t pick them out, it was just they had booked a long way in advance 'she is now working as an nhs cook and is hoping to pay some money back' recorder anthony hawks told harrison: 'this was a mean and unpleasant offence the fact is this family, including two children turned up at the airport only to find out they were not going desired destination: the family had been due to stay at the four star titanic beach lara hotel in turkey 'it must be every holidaymaker’s worst nightmare you should be ashamed of yourself 'even the day before you were telling them a bomb had gone off and there was some terror alert 'you have brought disgrace on yourself and lost your business i have thought about sending you to prison 'i cannot see how sending you to prison for a short time would be of any assistance to anyone, particularly the kays' he ordered she should be given an eight month suspended prison sentence, complete 150 hours unpaid work and pay £1,000 compensation to the kays duped: the family only realised that their tickets were forgeries when they arrived at manchester airport, pictured, with their tickets he added: 'i would like to be able to order you to repay all the money to the kay family i cannot do that because you don’t have the money to do so' mrs kay, 67, a care worker from hull said after the sentencing: 'ellen harrison ruined my holiday and has not expressed any remorse she is a woman i knew and she betrayed me 'she thinks she has got away with it i want her naming and shaming i also don’t think i will see the money again 'she is supposed to pay me £40 a month, but she will find a way out of that 'you cannot imagine the feeling we had when we arrived at manchester airport to find our tickets were forgeries suspended sentence: a judge at hull crown court, pictured, decided not to send harrison to jail 'the airport staff said that it had never happened before in their memory i could not talk 'she literally text us as we walked into the departure hall the text said: “it’s cancelled she you tonight” 'it was so cruel it was not the money, it is what she did to me and my family it was to be our first holiday away together and i had sold my house to pay for it 'it took some thinking, but i decided there was no way we were not going on holiday it cost me £8,000 from my life savings, but i did not want to let the children down 'we booked a holiday with thomas cook, but i didn’t enjoy it the kids said they did, but i think they are just saying that' her daughter debbie kay, 45, said: 'can you imagine being stood with nine adults and two babies and then finding out your holiday has not been booked? it was totally devastating for all of us'
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maureen kay and family were due to fly to turkey from manchester airport when they arrived at check in, they were told that their booking didn't exist mrs kay had booked with the turkish riviera travel agency in hull but the travel agency had run into financial difficulties shortly afterwards agency owner ellen harrison had spent the money covering other trips
at the miss michigan pageant friday, a bevy of home grown beauties charmed the audience with their grace and poise, but it was a special 14 year old boy who stole everyone's heart drew foster was wheeled onto the stage at the frauenthal center for the performing arts in muskegon to be honored by 2008 miss michigan ashlee baracy 'he is mr michigan,' baracy, who was acting as mistress of ceremonies, said of the teen guest of honor: drew foster, 14, acknowledges the crowd while sitting next to mistress of ceremony ashlee baracy during the children's miracle network presentation at the second night of the miss michigan friday ladies' man: miss michigan mc ashlee baracy (left) posed for a photo with drew and 2013 miss michigan haley williams (right) bevy of beaities: tori juenemann (left) showed off her swimwear, while mallory rivard (right) paraded in an evening gown during the second night of the miss michigan scholarship pageant in muskegon friday all smiles: emily smith, (face showing) miss greater kalamazoo is congratulated by 2013 miss michigan haley williams after winning the talent category during the opening night of the miss michigan scholarship pageant competition june 12 drew was born with two rare medical conditions: osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as brittle bones disease, and neurocutaneous hypermelanosis a central nervous system disorder that causes birthmarks all over a patient's body, mlivecom reported during the second night of the contest friday night, julie stephens, a coordinator at the miss michigan pageant, performed the rascal flatts song 'my wish' in drew's honor with her daughters ashlee baracy later shared a photo on her facebook page of her posing with a smiling drew along with 2013 miss michigan haley william drew, pictured left with an elk he has killed, suffers from osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as brittle bones disease, and neurocutaneous hypermelanosis a disorder that causes birthmarks all over a patient's body; despite his ailments, the 14 year old is an avid outdoorsman and hunter drew's plight has inspired the creation of the non profit drew foundation which stands for 'discovering recreation and enjoying wildlife' drew, a sweet, bespectacled boy with a mop of dirty blonde hair, has become a favorite on the local pageant circuit in 2011, foster, then aged 11, was brought on stage at the miss america contest in las vegas and recognized as a special person who touched many lives in the summer of 2010, the child, who lives with his parents, chad and angela in flint, michigan, was also named honorary mr bay county drew foster has been treated at the hurley medical center in flint, which is part of children's miracle network hospital one of the partners of the miss michigan beauty contest drew's plight has inspired the creation of the drew foundation, which stands for ‘discovering recreation and enjoying wildlife’ hot wheels: drew has been gifted an action trackchair allowing to move around with greater ease the non profit organization’s website explains that when drew was born, his parents were told that he would not live past the age of three, but he has beaten those odds over the past 13 years, he has broken over 50 bones in his body, but drew stills enjoys the great outdoors and hunting, which he does with a crossbow since he cannot hold a rifle in his fragile hands the winner of the 2014 miss michigan will be selected from 34 contestants saturday night, receiving a $10,000 scholarship and a ticket to the miss america pageant, which will be held in september in atlantic city
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drew foster suffers from brittle bones disease and a central nervous system disorder that causes birthmarks all over his body the wheelchair bound teen was brought on stage during second night of miss michigan pageant in muskegon drew was also guest of honor at miss america pageant in las vegas in 2011
they were the 18th century equivalent of a glitzy night out at the chiltern firehouse, beloved by the great, the good and the royal but while today's society parties are fuelled by nothing more than alcohol, georgian 'pleasure gardens' were decidedly risqué to say the least now the georgian love of public fancy dress promenades is the focus of a display at the museum of london, with beautiful colour plates revealing a glamorous and seedy side of 18th century life entertaining: the jubilee ball  of 1759 was held in front of the house and rotunda at ranelagh gardens pleasure gardens were large areas of land made for lavish entertainment, which first became popular following the restoration in 1660 and remained so until well into the 19th century fringed by elaborate colonnades, the elaborate public spaces, most of which were in london, were a place to see and be seen and the location for everything from balls to public breakfasts, fireworks displays and, most infamous of all, masquerade balls 'the popularity of fancy dress seems to coincide with periods when the structures of society are very rigid, to provide a relief from strict hierarchies,' explains curator beatrice behlen 'but masquerades are also popular in times when society is in flux or our notions of gender are changing illicit: walks like those seen in this 1750 depiction of ranelagh gardens were seen as hotbeds of illicit romance risque: the costumes worn by revellers, in particularly the female ones, tended to be revealing fan: as prince of wales, the future george iv adored attending masked balls and masquerades 'the latter was probably the case in the second half of the eighteenth century, with the rise of the middle classes and their different perception of the role of men and women' at the balls, revellers, among them the future george iv, would dress up in a variety of revealing outfits and dance the night away often going home with partners who weren't their spouses unsurprisingly, the antics of pleasure garden revellers led to outrage in some quarters, with many commentators pointing to disguise as a means of indulging in all kinds of debauchery without being recognised and they weren't entirely wrong one of the most scandalous events of the 18th century took place at the ranelagh may ball of 1749 elizabeth chudleigh (later the duchess of kingston), appeared as the tragic iphigenia of ancient greek mythology, undressed for sacrifice, in a costume so transparent she appeared almost naked chudleigh certainly wasn't the only one according to behlen, women often used masquerade balls as a means of dispensing with the restrictive fashions of the day, replacing them with ensembles that were both more comfortable and less concealing as a result, milkmaid styles with their shorter skirts and low bodices became hugely popular as did sweeping turkish styles, including harem pants 'masquerades allowed trying out different roles but also, on a more prosaic level, gave licence for wearing more revealing clothes,' explains behlen 'popular ‘characters’ were shepherdesses and milkmaids which allowed wearing shorter skirts, revealing some leg 'costumes inspired by turkish dress, involving the use of trousers, were also popular and apparently some women event went as far as dressing as men' worse still, in the moralist's eyes, were the many dark nooks within the gardens, all of which whether mazes or shaded walks lent themselves to secret romances and extracurricular liaisons particularly notorious was vauxhall gardens’ dark walk 'the most experienced mothers have often lost themselves in looking for their daughters,' noted society commentator tom brown of the walkway in 1700’ elaborate: although in theory open to all classes, balls were very much the preserve of the upper classes striking: an entrance ticket for the vauxhall jubliee festivities of 1786 (left) and a scene inside the gardens the gardens were known to be rife with prostitution, while samuel pepys mentions in his diaries ‘young gallants misbehaving and insulting the ladies’ drunken nights fuelled gossip and excitement that was widely reported in newspapers and periodicals 'the pleasure gardens were said to be swarming with prostitutes and while in 1766 'pickpockets, sharpers, and common prostitutes' were indeed caught executing 'the respective branches of their trades', sometimes one wonders whether the talk of loose woman was a marketing ploy by the owner of vauxhall,' says behlen but while the many prostitutes fuelled scandal, what was even worse in society's eyes was the idea of different classes mixing 'the owners of the pleasure gardens were aware of the confusion that masquerade outfits could bring and usually were strict in not allowing any actual masks to be worn,' explains belen 'what was most feared was a mingling of the different strata of society and on one occasion one journalist remarked that 'several of the music', had mixed with the rest of the company a sign of 'rudeness 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an archaeological site excavated by lawrence of arabia more than 100 years ago is set to open as a tourist attraction despite being metres from isis territory the site of biblical carchemish was once fought over by the likes of the babylonians and the egyptians, but now it is the battleground of isis, the assad regime and the free syrian army the city was lost for centuries but was rediscovered by british scholars in the 19th century and excavated by lawrence of arabia shortly before the first world war now, just metres from the front line, the historic town on the turkish syrian border is set to open to the public battleground: the isis flag flies above a building which overlooks the biblical site of carchemish, excavated by lawrence of arabia and now set to become a tourist attraction lawrence of arabia was among the first dig team to excavate the historic site after it was uncovered in the 19th century now, one hundred years after te lawrence left carchemis, the site is being excavated by a group of italian archaelogists the archaeological site lies on syrian turkish border and is in an area under the control of militant group isis the archaeological site lies just 20 metres away from the border, with a 13ft high blast wall to be built to block the view, and the line of fire, to and from syria carchemish, which lies between the modern towns of karkamis and jarablus, straddles the border between turkey and syria the syrian side has been excavated since 2011 but the turkish side is cut off because of its dangerous location the old tel, or hill, in the middle of the town is a turkish army look out point and has been a military outpost for 5,000 years professor nicolo marchetti, the leader of the dig team from bologna university, told the telegraph: 'to be frank it's been a front line over the border 20 metres away we see normal life and we also see these people [isis] coming and going 'we hear the shooting at the front in the distance and in september it was quite close to us perhaps two kilometres away but it's still very different from what's going on in kobane 'still, we have had no problem at all we work in a military area it is very well protected' professor nicolo marchetti is leading the dig at the site, which lies just 20 metres from the border with syria prof marchetti said he hoped the area could be opened up for tourists by next spring despite it neighbouring isis territory turkish authorities allowed researchers to access the site in 2011 for the first time in more than 90 years almost a century ago, lawrence of arabia spent time excavating the historically important site in turkey now his house on the site is being excavated itself turkish authorities say tourists will not be put in danger by visiting the site, despite the fact isis are just metres away and the border is guarded by 500 turkish soldiers and heavy artillery the town, on the border between the two nations, has been fought over by isis, assad's syrian regime and the free syrian army in recent years nearby town jarablus has been a battleground for the last few years, firstly when it was seized by the free syrian army since then it has been bombed by the syrian air force and overrun by isis, who have beheaded people with links to rebel forces the area is guarded by 500 turkish soldiers and is covered by artillery despite the soon to be tourist attraction's nearby dangers, turkish authorities say visitors have nothing to fear district governor yusuf osman diktas said he did not expect any danger 'for now' british george smith recognised the small town in 1876, but died shortly afterwards decades later te lawrence, then 23, and an excavation team were given permission to dig among the artifacts uncovered at the site is this roman statue which now lies at the archaeology museum in gaziantep, turkey despite the danger posed by the isis fanatics just a few metres away, archaeologists continued their work excavated: among the artifacts recovered from the site is this bath tub and a pair of ancient jugs the area around the ancient city had been off limits to archaeologists for more than 90 years until 2011 the syrian side has been excavated since 2011 but the turkish side is cut off because of its dangerous location intricate basalt reliefs showing ancient deities were found, some of which are now on display at the british museum, before the team left after the outbreak of wwi lawrence's house on the site is now being excavated and is thought be where he learned arabic and began his obsession with the middle east underneath the floorboards, the dig team found hundreds of stone inscriptions and small statues, which, fortunately, had not been damaged by soldiers who used the house after lawrence left lawrence's house, once restored, will be the focal point of the site when tourists begin to visit the site in spring next year a letter from the british army officer to his mother is one of the relics that will be put on display prof marchetti said: 'when you reflect on the contemporary history here, you see this site is also a powerful symbol'
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archaeological site 20m from isis territory set to become tourist attraction site of biblical town of carchemish was excavated by lawrence of arabia lawrence was part of team which uncovered site more than 100 years ago now his house on the site is part being excavated by italian archaeologists isis black flag flies not far from town now guarded by 500 turkish soldiers assad regime, free syrian army rebels and isis have fought nearby the attraction is set to open in spring next year despite the nearby dangers
if you can hold your breath all the way to the bottom here, you are in a very small minority this is y 40 the deep joy and with a staggering depth of 40 metres it is the world's deepest pool the incredible swim centre, designed by renowned architect emanuele boaretto, is located within the four star hotel terme millepini in montegrotto terme, italy operating since june, the pool has a diving height of a 12 storey building, or nine double decker buses placed on top of each other wet suits aren't required here as swimmers can enjoy a regular temperature of between 32 34°c scroll down for video record breaker: y 40 the deep joy is the world's deepest pool with a staggering depth of 40 metres there are several platforms, ranging from 13m, to 12m the pool at the surface is 21m by 18m but it becomes a narrow well like hole as the depths plummet straight down visitors are able to use the facilities for free diving and scuba diving, with underwater caves for cave diving beginners there is also a unique suspended underwater tunnel which is entirely transparent, so non swimmers can experience the pool without getting wet there is a sunbathing deck with loungers on the roof, where swimmers can recover from their deep diving experience dry dock: the underwater tunnel runs right through the middle of the pool plunging: one of the first divers to use the pool is filmed from the depths of the y 40 overtaken: the y 40 surpassed the nemo33 in brussels, belgium, which had a maximum depth of 345 metres afraid of depths? the pool features several depth platforms before narrowing into a deep descent activities: as well as free diving, the pool offers opportunities for scuba divers to practice cave diving notable figures from italian water sports helped to launch the facility this year, including italian free diver umberto pelizzari, and enzo maiorca, the ‘father’ of freediving in italy freediver ilaria molinari even donned a mermaid tail to dive down to 40 metres to wow spectators 'y 40 is unique in its field thanks to the spa water, which cannot be outsourced,' says architect emanuele boaretto 'we want to open up new medium and long term work prospects to try and guarantee prosperity, not only for my company but also for the surrounding land and society' other worldly: free diver ilaria molinari dresses as a mermaid to swim through the artificial cave diving area launch: molinari dove the depths of the pool at its opening with the help of a mermaid's tail the pool is situated in a regional natural park of the euganean hills in italy mr boaretto is planning to cover the pool with lawn to b;lend the structure into its environment y 40 is open all year round and offers the equivalent of diving the height of a 12 storey building activities at the pool include scuba diving, free diving, aqua fitness, watsu, hydro kinesi therapy and special activities for pregnant women the four star hotel within the region of villa duodo boasts 100 air conditioned rooms spectator sport: a 13 metre transparent tunnel allows non swimmers to experience the pool temperate: 4,300 cubic metres of thermal water are kept at a temperature of 32 34 degrees celcius nemo 33 in brussels, belgium, was the deepest indoor swimming pool in the world before y 40 was completed its maximum depth is 345 metres (113 ft) and it contains 2,500,000 litres of non chlorinated, highly filtered spring water maintained at 30c the pool also holds several simulated underwater caves at the 10 metres depth level due to the warm temperature in the pool, divers can dive for extended periods without a wet suit it was designed by a belgian diving expert, john beernaerts, and is used for recreation, scuba diving practice and instruction and by film makers and scientists architectural marvel: the pool is designed by renowned architect emanuele boaretto the world’s largest swimming pool, completed in 2006, is located at the san alfonso del mar resort in algarrobo, chile it is estimated to have cost more than £613million to construct and covers nearly 20 acres swimming a length in this would mean stroke after stroke for more than three fifths of a mile that's 20 olympic size swimming pools the enormous man made lagoon is set halfway up the country's pacific coast and is filled with 66 million gallons of crystal clear seawater it uses a computer controlled suction and filtration system to suck water in from the ocean at one end and pump it out at the other, while the sun warms it to 26c nine degrees higher than the sea tourist attraction: y 40 the deep joy is housed within the four star hotel terme millepini
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it's the scene of some of the most crucial developments in british history, where raf commanders masterminded the defeat of the nazis during the battle of britain the bunker was home to the division of fighter command responsible for striking down the enemy between july and september, 1940, after hitler launched his campaign for superiority over the british air forces known as the battle of britain bunker, the base in uxbridge, west london, is now open to the public, offering visitors a rare glimpse into the britain's wartime past with its restored operations room and accompanying museum the flight operations room at raf uxbridge fought off more than two thirds of enemy aircraft during the battle of britain in 1940 the operations room has been restored to depict what life was like for members of the no 11 group who worked from the bunker in west london equipment in the flight operations room which has been restored to offer visitors a rare glimpse into how british forces defeated the nazis the commanders of no 11 group, who destroyed more than two thirds of the 1,733 nazi aircraft brought down by british forced during the battle planned their strategy from within the bunker the operations room has been fully restored to offer visitors an insight into british wartime history while original features like the ventilation system still work the base, which saw most action because of its location in the south east of england, was the inspiration for winston churchill's famous wartime speech which began: 'never in the field of human conflict was so much owed, by so many, to so few' the battle of britain began after german forces successfully invaded france in may 1940, and was hitler's attempt to gain superiority over the raf it was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces and was the largest and most sustained series of aerial bombings at the time germany's failure to destroy british air defences is considered its first major defeat, and a crucial turning point in wwii the battle was fought in four stages, the first being a series of running fights over the english channel followed by a string of raids on raf bases which was given the name 'adlerangriff' or 'eagle attack' on august 24 the luftwaffe targeted british airfields but the raf prevailed after german air forces bombed various british towns and cities, hitler conceded inferiority to british air defences and postponed operation sealion, his planned invasion the bunker was the centre for no 11 group who fought off more than two thirds of the luftwaffe during the battle which spanned almost three months steel pipes and wires run through the restored bunker in uxbridge which will reopen next year after closing at the end of the month a display in the flight operations room shows the weather states at various raf bases the back entrance to the bunker from which no 11 group of fighter command operated during the crucial months in british history the original ventilation system still works in the bunker which will be open to the public on weekends until the end of august though he announced his plan  in 'spring 1941', it never took place the restored operations room and museum allows visitors an insight into one of the most crucial stages in british history curator daniel stirland said: 'we have had about 100 people on average each weekend day, to add to those who visit by appointment during the week 'they come from all over the uk and abroad the trial has gone very well and we are almost certainly going to do it again next year as well' following a visit to the raf uxbridge bunker on august 16, 1940, winston churchill uttered the famous words: 'never was so much owed, by so many, to so few' days later they set the tone for one of his most distinctive wartime speeches at the house of commons winston churchill delivered the famous speech on august 20, 1940 after a visit to raf uxbridge bunker 'the whole island bristles against invaders, from the sea or from the air …the stronger our army at home, the larger must the invading expedition be, and the larger the invading expedition, the less difficult will be the task of the navy in detecting its assembly and in intercepting and destroying it in passage; and the greater also would be the difficulty of feeding and supplying the invaders if ever they landed' 'why do i say all this? not, assuredly, to boast; not, assuredly, to give the slightest countenance to complacency the dangers we face are still enormous, but so are our advantages and resources i recount them because the people have a right to know that there are solid grounds for the confidence which we feel, and that we have good reason to believe ourselves capable, as i said in a very dark hour two months ago, of continuing the war 'if necessary alone, if necessary for years'' 'the gratitude of every home in our island, in our empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the british airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the world war by their prowess and by their devotion 'never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few all hearts go out to the fighter pilots, whose brilliant actions we see with our own eyes day after day, but we must never forget that all the time, night after night, month after month, our bomber squadrons travel far into germany, find their targets in the darkness by the highest navigational skill, aim their attacks, often under the heaviest fire, often with serious loss,with deliberate, careful discrimination, and inflict shattering blows upon the whole of the technical and war making structure of the nazi power'
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bunker at raf uxbridge was base of no 11 group who fought off two thirds of nazi aircraft during three month long battle restored operation room and accompanying museum are open to the public on weekends until end of month raf base inspired one of winston churchill's most famous wartime speeches
louis van gaal and his manchester united players were in high spirits during the first training session of their us tour, as the dutchman laughed and joked with wayne rooney while new signings luke shaw and ander herrera got to know their new team mates the united party travelled to the stubhub center on saturday for their first run out, with the players getting a chance to acclimatise themselves ahead of wednesday's friendly against la galaxy van gaal and rooney appeared to be getting on particularly well, as the england striker was spotted laughing and grinning next to his new boss video scroll down to watch united in the us and hilarious cartoon of van gaal and rooney getting along: van gaal smiles as he looks across at wayne rooney during their pre season preparations good vibrations: the united camp looked a happy place on saturday in los angeles ahead of the new season put through his paces: new £30m signing luke shaw, left, sidesteps round a cone during a united drill shaw thing: former saints star waits his turn as united players take part in some weight training agility: ander herrera, right, gets a chance to show his fitness in front of his new coach and team mates matadors: herrera and mata stretch out while holding weighted balls focused: ashley young looks straight ahead before a training drill in los angeles young blood: reece james is one of the academy players who has been called up for the us tour clean slate: van gaal's arrival has made it important for all of the united squad to impress early on instructions: van gaal gestures to his squad during their first session at the stubhub centre dutch methods: wayne rooney holds out some weights as united train at la galaxy's ground deep in thought: wilfried zaha, who has been linked with a move away, looked distracted during training pals: rooney and mata pose for a photograph in front of the beverly hills sign during pre season tour fans: mata and rooney get their photograph taken with supporters by the beverly hills sign duties: rooney fulfills his media commitments for the club as part of the pre season tour on friday, van gaal's squad took a stroll along santa monica beach wearing their club suits after arriving in the us for their pre season tour united play la galaxy on wednesday before heading to denver, washington dc and detroit during their pre season tour youth team products sam johnstone, tyler blackett, michael keane, reece james, jesse lingard and will keane are part of the touring party, but there was no room for james wilson and tom lawrence, who made their first term debuts at the end of last season cheeky grin: wayne rooney looks happy as manchester united make their way to training in los angeles spanish armada + darren fletcher: ander herrera and juan mata walk to training with the scottish midfielder in charge: louis van gaal (left) and assistant coach ryan giggs leave united's plush hotel in los angeles on tour: united will play four matches in the us before returning ahead of the start of the premier league united had announced earlier this month that stars such as wayne rooney, david de gea and mata would travel to the us along with new signings luke shaw and ander herrera robin van persie, javier hernandez, marouane fellaini and adnan januzaj are still on holiday after the world cup out for a stroll: jonny evans and anders lindegaard lead the way as united head for training touching down: manchester united's players step off the plane in lax airport beach boys: manchester united's players took a stroll on santa monica beach in los angeles sights and sounds: david de gea and juan mata take in the picturesque scenery as they stroll michael carrick is a notable absentee after undergoing ankle surgery on thursday morning that could rule him out for the first two months of the season in his first press conference on thursday, van gaal said he would spend the next three or four weeks assessing the players he has at his disposal before deciding on potential new signings and departures the red devils will play four matches in the us beginning with david beckham's former club chevrolet cup la galaxy in los angeles,  23rd july international champions cup as roma in denver, 26 july inter milan in washington dc, 29 july real madrid in ann arbor, 2 august settling in: luke shaw looks at ease with his new united team mates after moving from southampton future plans: wilfried zaha, whose future at united is uncertain, looks to have a lot on his mind relaxed: manchester united's players are in los angeles ahead of their pre season tour of america
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united trained at the stubhub centre on saturday ahead of their match against la galaxy on wednesday van gaal named a 25 man squad for the pre season tour, with united players involved in world cup knockout stages allowed extended leave the former holland coach laughed and joked with forward rooney new signings ander herrera and luke shaw were put through their paces as they got to know their united team mates michael carrick missed the trip after undergoing ankle surgery
piri weepu may be a world cup winning all black with an international pedigree but arguably his greatest achievement is simply being alive to tell the tale in february, the 71 times capped scrum half, 31, who will make his aviva premiership debut on sunday for london welsh against exeter, was taking part in a routine recovery session in the swimming pool for his former super rugby side the blues when disaster struck ‘me, charles piutau and peter saili were in the water doing lengths for recovery, stretching and whatnot,’ said weepu, speaking for the first time about the stroke which almost cost him his life death defying: world cup winning new zealander piri weepu reveals to sportsmail how he survived a stroke all black back: weepu, 31, makes his debut for london welsh on sunday as club returns to the premiership ‘i went to explain something to them and found myself talking like a kid, a baby really i couldn’t say any words nothing ‘i got frustrated i felt like an idiot i got out of the pool and went to get dressed but i couldn’t hear anything all i could concentrate on was what was happening directly in front of me a few of the boys were trying to chat away to me but i couldn’t understand what they were saying confused:  auckland's weepu thought he was suffering from the effects of a concussion during the stroke but it was a hole in his heart, doctors found ‘i had a bit of blurred vision and scarily i actually drove home it was probably only a kilometre and a half so i drove as slowly as possible i stopped if i needed to i kept checking my eyes to see if it was something i had done in the pool ‘i remember texting the team doctor to ask for help but i didn’t know what i was doing or even how to use my phone properly to send the text i got home and decided to wait it out a bit and see what happened before ringing the doc to work out what to do i chilled out for about half an hour and started packing my bag before ringing the doctor to find out what was going on it was a pretty scary not knowing what it was’ initially weepu put the symptoms down to a concussion suffered in a previous game but tests revealed he had suffered a stroke after blood was prevented from reaching his brain by a previously undiagnosed heart condition ‘i had a hole in my heart and they’re putting the stroke down to that,’ he said ‘at the time i thought it may have been a delayed concussion type of injury but once i’d had all the scans we realised it was to do with the heart’ weepu required surgery to block the hole and now, seven months later, he says he is ready to resurrect his career after becoming one of the premiership’s few high profile summer signings but surely such a dramatic health scare called him to question his chosen profession? highlight: weepu (right) poses with the world cup's webb ellis cup with all blacks team mate ma'a nonu ‘not at all,’ he said ‘i would have done anything possible to get back on a rugby field the only i way i would have hung up the boots would have been if i’d broken my leg again i’d probably stay out on the field even if i was crawling i tell my coaches all the time, “don’t take me off unless i’m out on a stretcher” ‘all i wanted to know after the stroke was what the procedures were and what i needed to do to get back out on the pitch i don’t really know the background that caused me to have it i’ve just been trying to make the most of life in general it’s not easy to bounce back it’s in the back of your head that something like that could happen again ‘i’ve seen it [the stroke] as another opportunity at life and trying to make the most of it that’s the whole reason i came to the uk this opportunity may not have come around this year or the year after i’ve been playing super rugby for the last 11 seasons so it will be good to see what the premiership is all about’ on sunday he will find out, partnering former england three quarter olly barkley at half back, as justin burnell’s hastily assembled squad attempt to give the exiles the perfect start to the season against rob baxter’s chiefs weepu, who kicked the all blacks to the world cup final in 2011, will do so convinced he is ready to resume his career he is content and ready for the next step in a rugby career that almost ended in that auckland pool ‘it’s early days but i’m enjoying life here,’ he said ‘it’s good to be able to walk down the street and not be yelled at and expected to react like we are back home i don’t mind it but if you want to get my attention then just approach me rather than try to yell for my attention ‘i’ve got no dramas with that i might be a world cup winner but people should just say ‘hello’ i’m not going to bite them’ he is more concerned with taking a second bite at life partnership: weepu will partner former england three quarter olly barkley in the dragons halves
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piri weepu makes his premiership debut for london welsh on sunday weepu, 31, suffered a stroke that almost cost the scrum half his life doctors found the stroke was caused by a hole in his heart the 2011 world cup winner had surgery seven months ago to block the hole the 71 time capped all black said he's ready to get back on the pitch weepu will start as the exiles return to the aviva premiership
all the best school science experiments carry at least a hint of danger but when 13 year old jamie edwards informed his stunned headmaster of his plan to build a nuclear reactor in a classroom, the obvious question was: ‘will it blow the school up?’ fortunately, in a victory for the spirit of amateur scientific discovery over the health and safety culture, jamie’s promise that it was perfectly safe was believed 13 year old jamie edwards has become the youngest in the world to build a nuclear fusion reactor and yesterday he became the youngest person in the world to achieve nuclear fusion from scratch at his lancashire secondary school, using high energy to smash two hydrogen atoms together to make helium ‘it is quite an achievement it’s magnificent really,’ jamie said afterwards ‘i can’t quite believe it – even though all my friends think i am mad’ jamie, who attends penwortham priory academy near preston, has been fascinated with radiation for years, on one occasion even buying a geiger counter with his christmas money his fusion ambition was sparked by reading about a 14 year old us schoolboy, taylor wilson, who had become the youngest to produce a small fusion reactor in nevada in 2008 ‘i looked at it, thought “that looks cool” and decided to have a go,’ jamie added head teacher jim hourigan congratulates jamie as a geiger counter registers the fusion reaction jamie edwards (pictured) built the reactor from scratch in a bid to be younger than american taylor wilson who completed a reactor aged 14 in 2008 jamie's first step was to enlist help from nuclear laboratories and university departments, but ‘they didn’t seem to take me seriously’ nuclear fusion is one of the most promising options for generating large amounts of carbon free energy in the future to get energy from fusion, gas from a combination of types of hydrogen – deuterium and tritium – is heated to very high temperatures (100 million °c) one way to achieve these conditions is a method called ‘magnetic confinement' – controlling the hot gas with strong magnets jamie edwards was inspired by taylor wilson's technique which used something known as 'inertial electrostatic confinement' this method uses electric fields to do the work on charged particles either ions or electrons allowing them to be heated to fusion conditions so that left the laboratories at his school, and the task of convincing headmaster jim hourigan fortunately the head agreed, coming up with the necessary £3,000 funding ‘i was a bit stunned and i have to say a little nervous when jamie suggested this but he reassured me he wouldn’t blow the school up,’ mr hourigan said yesterday after months of work, the reactor was finally completed just ahead of his 14th birthday this weekend and yesterday, in a ‘radiation controlled area’ in a classroom, before an audience of experts, he flicked a switch and stared intently at his geiger counter until it registered that fusion had indeed taken place – or created ‘a star in a jar’, as jamie refers to it nuclear fusion, the reaction that powers the sun, is very different from nuclear fission, or the splitting of the atom, that occurs in nuclear power stations and is the stuff of atom bombs however, both release vast amounts of energy jamie started building the reactor in october at the science laboratory at priory academy, lancashire, and finally finished the task this morning in an incredible eureka moment head teacher jim hourigan can be seen pointing to the experiment as a geiger counter registers jamie's fusion reaction has taken place the landmark experiment took place at school in penwortham, near preston scientists around the world are replicating jamie’s experiment, but on a much bigger scale, in the hope of using it on a large scale to fuel cheap, environmentally friendly power stations jamie said: ‘i heard the geiger counter rapidly go up and i was “what is that?”,’ he said in the afterglow of success ‘then i looked over and the neutron counter was right up off the scale nearly, and i thought “we must have done it”’ the experiment was assisted by electronics experts who tested the apparatus for safety, while jamie, his friend george barker and the teachers involved had all attended a risk assessment course at a nuclear fuel company for his next project, jamie – who wants to be a nuclear engineer or work in theoretical physics – has his sights set on building a miniature hadron collider trying to rise the funds wasn't easy jamie said: 'i went to various nuclear laboratories and universities and they didn't seem to take me seriously' jamie said: 'it is quite an achievement it's magnificent really i can't quite believe it'
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jamie edwards' reactor was able to smash two hydrogen atoms together this made him youngest person to create helium through nuclear fusion fusion took place in a controlled environment at his school in lancashire head teacher jim hourigan said: ‘i was a little nervous when jamie suggested this but he reassured me he wouldn’t blow the school up'
the bestselling author of self help book the dark side of the light chasers has died in san diego debbie ford was 57 a family spokeswoman says ford died sunday in her home after a long battle with cancer the dark side of the light chasers spawned a self help enterprise for ford, who went on to write nine books in total in her lifetime self help author debbie ford has died aged 57 at her home in san diego after a battle with cancer the 1998 book was a new york times bestseller the 1998 book, which was a new york times bestseller, aimed to help readers overcome their darker side in the book, which includes practical exercises, ford claimed that by denying our dark side, we reject these aspects of our true natures rather than giving ourselves the freedom to live authentically she explained that it is possible to acknowledge and accept our weaknesses because these qualities may be important, hidden strengths for example, perhaps some 'selfishness' can save us from exhaustion and resentment her sister, arielle, said in a statement that the author wanted to help people break free from their emotional baggage and fear ford wrote eight more books, led workshops and hosted tv and radio shows related to that topic she often shared her battle with drug addiction, divorce and other personal struggles in her work she is also survived by her mother, son and brother
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debbie ford, 57, author of the dark side of the light chasers, died from cancer she wrote nine self help books in her lifetime and spoke on tv and radio shows
the pageantry and pomp of britain's biggest ceremonial events could be diluted because of cuts to the armed forces, a senior officer has warned garrison sergeant major bill mott, who has overseen occasions including the royal wedding, baroness thatcher's funeral and trooping the colour, said massive redundancies meant he was struggling to 'produce the same spectacle' the events, which showcase the magnificent sight of britain's military personnel, are renowned across the world garrison sergeant major bill mott said massive redundancies meant he was struggling create the same military pomp to occasions such as the royal wedding (pictured) but gsm mott, who has been in post for 12 years, fears the traditions could be undermined as the coalition reduces the size of the army from 102,000 to 82,000 his comments are likely to prove especially sensitive as prince harry is now a staff officer in the same district as gsm mott after completing his attachment co piloting apache attack helicopters with the army air corps gsm mott told defence focus, an internal ministry of defence magazine, that soldiers are 'gritting their teeth and getting on with it' in the face of the cuts he said: 'as we condense we have to conform to various restraints, and it becomes more and more difficult to still produce the same spectacle' gsm mott, one of the last remaining falklands veterans still serving, led the pallbearers who carried baroness thatcher on her final journey to st paul's cathedral he and his brother major nick mott, who also carried the coffin, were aboard the sir galahad on june 8, 1982, when it came under fire from argentine warplanes gsm mott mott has been in the role for 12 years and oversaw baroness thatcher's funeral last year (pictured) the attack cost the lives of 48 personnel, including 32 from the welsh guards, and left 150 welsh guardsmen injured, including simon weston gsm mott took up the post in 2002, and is one of the most senior non–commissioned officers in the british army in his role, he is responsible for all ceremonial events in london, from providing guards of honour to orchestrating major occasions such as state visits, the state opening of parliament and the queen's birthday parade a ministry of defence spokesman said ceremonial duties remained an 'important part' of the armed forces but the 'priority' was ensuring britain had an 'effective fighting force'
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garrison sergeant major bill mott overseen events such as royal wedding redundancies meant he is no longer able to produce same kind of event his showcases of britain's military personnel are globally renowned comes as prince harry becomes staff officer in same district as gsm mott
demands: prosecutors want captain coward francesco schettino jailed for a total of 2,697 years as they made a request to have him sent back to jail prosecutors want 'captain coward' francesco schettino jailed for a total of 2,697 years as they made a request to have him sent back to jail, it emerged today schettino, 52, is currently under house arrest while investigators consider charges of multiple manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship following the costa concordia liner disaster last month seventeen lost their lives and at least 17 are still missing after the skipper recklessly changed course and crashed the 114,000 ton liner onto rocks just so that he could carry out a 'sail by' salute and impress crew and friends prosecutors say that the spineless captain then abandoned ship, leaving hundreds of people still onboard, while he reached the safety of dry land on the nearby island of giglio in a lifeboat last month an investigating judge granted schettino house arrest and he is currently serving that at his home in meta di sorrento near naples, which he shares with his wife fabiola and teenage daughter today, in a three hour closed door hearing in florence before an appeal court judge, prosecutors argued he be sent back to jail as they fear he may well interfere with evidence and the fact that he fled his ship also raises the possibility he may try and avoid justice lead investigator francesco verusio is looking for schettino to be given 15 years for multiple manslaughter, ten years for causing a disaster and eight years for every passenger that was abandoned and the same sentence for those that died, with all terms running consecutively that makes a grand total of 2,697 years, as 34 people are believed to have been killed and 300 passengers were abandoned by schettino the night of the disaster on january 13 prosecutors outlined their demands in a 12 page document handed to judges as they presented their request to have him sent back to jail, while his lawyers argued he should be released listing: the costa concordia is almost entirely on its side, as it continues to slip from its rocky resting place devastation: the ship continues to lie in the water his legal team pointed to the fact that schettino had been suspended from his post by the concordia's owners costa cruises following the disaster and they added that the incident was 'unique and unrepeatable' proof they said he would not flee justice and tamper with evidence however, mr verusio said schettino's reaction when he was originally informed he was being placed under investigation and taken to jail underlined the fact he could try and escape he said: 'when first told he was going to jail, schettino asked if he could go to a hotel first and then for something to eat he also has the possibility of escaping to various places across the world' the hearing adjourned its decision until friday dropping in: italian firefighters were lowered from a helicopter onto the ship last month as they desperately looked for bodies wreck: divers ended their search of the ship as it became too dangerous for them to look for bodies meanwhile newspaper adverts were also published today inviting 4,200 passengers and crew who were on the concordia to attend a preliminary hearing in grosseto on march 3 twenty three british holidaymakers were on the concordia but they are not under any legal obligation to attend the hearing which will take place in the town's theatre as the court building is too small costa have already offered compensation of £9,000 to each holidaymaker affected but many have said they will not accept and instead pursue court action for a higher payout bad weather around giglio has led to the search for victims to be suspended and it had also delayed the removal of 500,000 gallons of heavy duty diesel from the concordia's tanks delay: salvage workers had to halt operations on the removal of fuel from the tanks of the half sunken costa concordia cruise ship due to bad weather and rough seas earlier this month scene from a disaster movie: passengers from the costa concordia were taken to safety by lifeboats launched into the night seas last month
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prosecutors want schettino handed 15 years for multiple manslaughter also call for 10 years in prison for causing a disaster and they demand 8 years for each passenger that was abandoned and another 8 years each for those that died
nathan hughes may be wrestling with a three way quandary over national allegiance but there is no doubting his commitment to wasps, as his wife would confirm on the night of his wedding to ella, back home in lautoka, fiji, the 23 year old no 8 wound up in a pub watching his team mates in action — thousands of miles and many time zones away it may not have made sense to his bride but hughes was determined to watch the club that had ignited his career claim their place in the inaugural european champions cup he had been given special dispensation to miss the tie against stade francais in paris last may because of his need to be on the far side of the world ‘before the fixtures came out, we had planned the date for the wedding,’ said hughes nathan hughes proved his dedication to the club by spending his wedding night watching wasps play ‘when dai (young, wasps’ director of rugby) said we had a game on may 24, i was a bit nervous about going to ask him if i could miss it ‘i delayed the flight to fiji so i could play in the first game, then i went out after that i watched the second game on tv, after the wedding it was about 3am in fiji, so i put my missus to bed and said, “i’m going to the pub to watch the boys play” she asked why i didn’t just watch the replay but i said, “i can’t, i have to see it now” it was the game which decided whether we made it into europe (champions cup) or not, so i had to watch it and i was so pleased we won’ the new elite continental tournament will be a fitting arena for hughes to demonstrate his explosive talent and enhance a soaring reputation he is already making waves in the aviva premiership, having come to wasps from auckland as a relative unknown the 23 year old scored a try for wasps during the season opening defeat to saracens at twickenham young signed the raw lock cum flanker on a hunch, switched him to no 8 and soon found he had a barnstorming replacement for billy vunipola, who had moved to saracens hughes has been a potent threat to opposition defences with his ball carrying, off loading, try scoring routine, as he demonstrated last saturday by touching down during a sensational performance at twickenham yet hockey was his childhood sport and, remarkably, he did not play in a rugby match until six years ago when he gave it a go, the results were immediate ‘i started playing hockey aged five and switched to rugby when i was 17,’ said hughes ‘at my school in fiji, we were doing hockey training one day and the rugby coach asked if i wanted to play against a team coming from new zealand because he didn’t have any locks the fijian born no 8 impressed during his debut season in the aviva premiership for wasps last year ‘i said i didn’t know any rules and all he said was, “catch the ball, run it straight and if you see an opposition player with the ball, tackle him” the week after, we played against the school from new zealand — kelston kelston sent some scouts out and they were impressed with the way i played ‘that was my first ever game of rugby after the game, our coach called me over and the guy (scout) from new zealand gave me an envelope when i went home, i opened the envelope and it said, “2010 scholarship for kelston boy’s school” i told my dad and he just said, “you don’t even play rugby” but i showed him all the papers they gave me and he was so surprised’ one game had brought one big breakthrough and hughes continued to make rapid progress, from the kelston 1st xv into the auckland academy and on into the senior squad to play in the domestic itm cup he was also called up for the new zealand sevens squad but held off from accepting while he awaited a super 15 contract that next step up eluded him, so despite being eligible to chase all blacks selection after three years’ residency, he explored options abroad and wasps took a chance on him his impact has been so eye catching that there is now a tussle for his test services fiji and samoa see him as a potential asset at next year’s world cup and england are monitoring his development hughes is eligible to play for fiji, samoa and could turn out for england in two years time hughes will qualify to wear the red rose in 2016 and while he is non committal for now, it seems he is leaning towards that target ‘people have been saying, “i think fiji want you, i think samoa want you”,’ he said ‘but they haven’t approached me face to face the fiji coach did call to ask if i wanted to play in the summer but i said i couldn’t because i was getting married ‘my mum is samoan chinese and my dad is part samoan, part fijian, so i am majority samoan but i was born in fiji and grew up there i love both countries but it’s about taking my time to make the right decision ‘i don’t want to make a decision and then regret it later there are two options and once i qualify (for england) on residency, there will be three i haven’t heard from england but, if they want me, i have to keep working on my game’ on sunday afternoon at adams park, hughes has a prime opportunity to highlight his test credentials when wasps face champions northampton and their outstanding no 8, samu manoa the american is from a tongan family, with body art depicting their journey to san francisco hughes is also proud of his polynesian heritage and wears the ink to prove it, along with a wedding tattoo ‘the one on the right arm, which goes to my back, is a map of fiji, to show where i come from,’ he said ‘on my left arm, the turtle symbolises myself and where i’m from the tulip is the dutch flower, so it symbolises my wife — who was born in new zealand, but her family are dutch the design on the left represents the wedding most people have a wedding ring but i’ve got a wedding tattoo instead’
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23 year old wasps number 8 signed for the londoners in 2013 nathan hughes could represent fiji, samoa or even england in two years the former auckland no 8's first rugby match was six years ago
letters exchanged between hewitt, then general secretary of the national council for civil liberties, and keith hose, the chairman of pie were discovered further evidence of the link between a civil liberties organisation and a child sex lobbying group emerged last night, as letters between patricia hewitt and the paedophile information exchange were discovered the letters between former cabinet health minister hewitt, then general secretary of the national council for civil liberties, and keith hose, the chairman of pie were discovered in an archive at hull university in december 1975, hose wrote to hewitt asking her to consider pie's views in its policy on the age of consent, which included decriminalising sex with children as young as four his letter was written on pie notepaper and the letterhead featured a logo of two barelegged children sitting on a rock the letter from the pie chairman said: 'as a member of the nccl gay rights sub committee it has come to my notice that the next meeting of the nccl executive committee is to consider nccl policy in relation to 'ages of consent' for sexual activity 'paedophile information exchange has produced some evidence for the criminal law revision committee on this subject and i have enclosed two copies with this letter in the hope that the ideas contained in our evidence might help the nccl executive committee reach a decision' hewitt responded to mr hose, in a typed letter on yellow paper seen by the guardian: 'thank you for your letter of 16th december my apologies for the delay in acknowledging 'we have found your evidence most helpful and i think it has certainly been taken into account by the people preparing our evidence' the autumn 1982 edition of rights, the in house magazine of the nccl self confessed paedophile mike morten's letter was published on page 9 (pictured centre) letter exchange: patricia hewitt seen in 1975 on the bbc while she was working for the national council for civil liberties the archive includes a nccl briefing note that argues that child pornography should not be outlawed in the 1978 child protection bill, the guardian reported it also records how labour's deputy leader harriet harman, who started at nccl in 1978, personally urged changes to the bill that year telling mps 'images of children should only be considered pornographic if it could be proven the subject suffered' miss harman she said the paedophile group 'had been pushed to the margin' before she began working there the exchange of letters comes after the mail can reveal that in 1979, an edition of magpie, pie’s official journal, carried the nccl appeal for new members in an appalling ‘year of the child’ edition the mail can also reveal that former health minister and nccl general secretary patricia hewitt shared a conference platform with pie leader tom o’carroll in 1977 ms harman and her mp husband jack dromey say pie was banished before she became the nccl’s legal officer in 1978 but disturbing new evidence contradicts this claim – and reveals further embarrassingly close ties between the nccl and the paedophile group campaigning to legalise sex with children miss harman she said the paedophile group ‘had been pushed to the margin’ before she began working there yet, during the year after she took up her post, the nccl advert appeared in pie’s april journalit ran inside a shocking 24 page special edition of the magazine – the cover of which shows a picture of a young boy wearing only a small pair of shorts as he plays tennis it invites magpie readers to ‘join the nccl’ and boasts that the organisation is ‘working to protect and extend human rights in the uk’ the appeal for new members and donations was published after a feature titled: child porn, a heterosexual viewpoint earlier this week miss harman  belatedly expressed ‘regret’ – but refused to apologise – for pie being allowed to forge links with the nccl details of the new links came as o’carroll claimed the two women ‘didn’t even try’ to remove the paedophile group from the nccl in case it harmed their careers the three senior labour figures all held key roles in the council – which astonishingly granted ‘affiliate’ status to the group of predatory paedophiles that was calling for the age of consent to be cut to just four
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letters exchanged between patricia hewitt, then general secretary of the national council for civil liberties, and keith hose, pie's chairman hose wrote to hewitt asking her to consider pie's view on the age of consent, in december 1975 hewitt responded to mr hose, writing: 'we have found your evidence most helpful and i think it has certainly been taken into account'
'glasses free' 3d has taken another step towards the mainstream, as toshiba announces a price and release date for the first large set to hit the home on december 10, toshiba's regza 553x is also capable of '4k' resolutions four times current hi def sets sadly, the price should ensure the 'naked eye' 3d set doesn't hit the mainstream straight away it will be £7,400, and only available in japan it will launch in the uk early next year, price to be confirmed it could mark a revolution in 3d televisions consumers are still lukewarm about the technology, and most surveys indicate that the problem is that people aren't comfortable wearing glasses toshiba's 'naked eye' 3d set will be 55 inches, and capable of '4k' resolutions a super hi def format four times the resolutions of current hd sets the only way to watch avatar without glasses? toshiba's 3d sets use hi tech 'face tracking' technology to aim left eye and right eye images at each viewer, using a screen composed of tiny 'lenslets' unlike previous 'glasses free' technologies, toshiba's uses a 'face tracking' system so that each person sees 'perfect' 3d earlier 'glasses free' sets, such as ones pioneered by philips, required you to be sat precisely in front of them to see 3d rather than a weird blur and even then the effect was jarring and artificial toshiba's technology uses high powered computers in the 'back' of the television to 'aim' separate beams of parallax 3d at each viewer 'the glasses free 3d technology is based on the stereoscopic principle of simultaneously delivering a picture for the left eye, and another one with a small offset (parallax), for the right eye to achieve the 3d effect,' says the company 'to deliver a glasses free 3d image and experience, a range of lenticular lenslets guide the dedicated images to each viewerthe zl2 is able to provide 3d images for up to nine different viewing positions, enabling multiple people to enjoy simultaneous 3d viewing, with no glasses required' the 'lenslets' are tiny lenses that 'focus' the image towards each viewers, using 'face tracking' to ensure each person sees a correct left eye and right eye image early tech demos have been highly impressive and toshiba is well ahead of rival tv companies in 'naked eye' 3d most sets from rivals such as lg are around 25 inches 'in addition, to tailor the viewing experience to the viewers’ actual positions in front of the tv, the 55zl2 features face tracking technology at the touch of a button, it is able to detect the viewers’ position and to adjust the viewing zones accordingly by moving the lenslets as required' companies such as sony are already shooting films in 4k a super high def resolution touted as the 'next generation' of high definition toshiba's set is the first consumer tv with the technology although there are no video players on the market capable of showing anything in 4k, or even any discs stored in the format the tv can also 'upscale' any 2d content into 3d although it remains to be seen how convincing this function is other televisions' attempts to 'upscale' into 3d have looked unconvincing
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array of tiny lenses 'aims' left eye and right eye images at each viewer face tracking technology inside set 'sees' where viewers are sitting screen has a resolution of 4000x3000 pixels first consumer tv with '4k' resolution even though there is no way to watch a film in 4k so far peter jackson is to film the hobbit in '4k'
with their flat caps and jackets, the crooks in these old mugshots might remind you of the artful dodger, the lovable rogue from oliver twist but the victorian boys and men, pictured in photos from a police archive, did much worse than pick a pocket or two harry fowler, ernest bayles, stephen mchickie and thomas gilbert, pictured, were members of the notorious 'peaky blinders' gang which terrorised birmingham around the turn of the 20th century and now their exploits will be shown in a new bbc drama scroll down for video left to right, peaky blinders harry fowler, ernest bayles, stephen mchickie and thomas gilbert are revealed in archived police photos the peaky blinders' charge sheets were dug up from the archives of the west midlands police museum the shots were brought out of the archives today by west midlands police ahead of the six part series, which will be shown on bbc2 from tomorrow the gang earned its chilling nickname through the practice of sewing razor blades into the peaks of their flat caps, so that they could blind rival gangsters by headbutting them they ruled the industrialised areas of bordesley and small heath from the 1880s through to the early 1900s, when the city was one of the world's most important manufacturing hubs but their gritty story will receive a hollywood sparkle with the broadcast of the new series simply named peaky blinders which will feature inception and batman star cillian murphy in the leading role the records of the gang members were part of a roll of old charge sheets from the west midlands police museum to coincide with the release of the series, west midlands police dug up the original charge sheets for some of the gang members, which are now more than 100 years old the fading sheets show that, despite the reputation of the gang for terrible crimes, these men and boys had been hauled up on relatively trivial offences fowler and bayles, aged just 19 in the photographs, were charged with 'bike theft' after stealing the unattended item and attempting to sell it on stephen mchickie, 25 when pictured, was charged with breaking into a drapers shop which was just 11 doors from his own home gang members could start out as young as 13, like david taylor, left, and often had run ins with birmingham's police the peaky blinders ran their crime ring in the backstreets of birmingham (pictured) thomas gilbert, much older than the others at 38, was arrested for the crime of 'false pretences' all four gangsters are shown wearing the traditional peak blinders outfit, of donkey jackets, silk scarfs, bell bottom trousers, steel capped boots and a distinctive flat cap court reports from the time refer to the gang members as 'foul mouthed young men who stalk the streets in drunken groups, insulting and mugging passers by' west midlands police museum worker david cross, 69, who works at the west midlands police museum, explained the method behind the gangsters' signature weapon the city was a vital centre of industry during the period the peaky blinders were active a collection of young gang members are pictured in birmingham's clyde street the summer lane area of birmingham, pictured, was plagued by crime he said: 'it was quite a strange weapon they used to rob people, although makes sense when you think about it 'when they would hit someone on the nose with their cap, it would bring tears to their victim's eyes and cause temporary blindness that's when they'd thump you and rob you 'it is a very quick manoeuvre that is how they worked they would target anybody who looked vulnerable, the gentleman on his way to work who didn't look strong or fit, ladies, teenage girls, anyone they would take anything they could convert into money' police records show that baby faced harry fowler was actually 19 when his mugshot, right, was committed to police records basic information about the youth, who was born in 1885, is recorded a note was made that his hair is light brown, his eyes grey and that he has a 'pale' composition it lists a round scar on his left cheek as a distinctive feature he gave his occupation as 'barman', but police had caught up with him thanks to his membership of the peaky blinders the charge, which dates from october 5 1904 sheet says fowler had been taken in for stealing a bicycle it also notes that he was given one month in prison for the offence ernest bayles, right, is listed as a co prisoner taken in for the same crime of stealing a bicycle, which was left unattended outside a factory for just four minutes when the larcenous pair laid their hands on it they were spotted almost immediately afterwards trying to make easy money selling it on the street the sheets show that bayles, born in 1885, was also 19 his is also said to have had light brown hair and grey eyes, but, unlike his companion, he had a 'fresh' complexion it notes a mole on his right cheek, near the nose he received two months in prison for the theft stephen mchickie, right, is listed next his year of birth is given as 1879, making him 24 in the picture the record notes his black hair and brown eyes, and says he has a 'sallow' complexion it lists his distinctive features as tattoos of a woman on both his left and right arms, one of whom was labelled 'louisa' mchickie said he was a metal roller by occupation, but was recorded on october 24 1904 as having broken into a shop reportedly a drapers just a few doors down the road from his own home for his crime, the record states, he received eight months behind bars thomas gilbert was the final entrant in the row of entries his year of birth, listed 1866, makes him 38 significantly older than the other peaky blinders listed on the record the bald man is listed as having brown eyes and also brown hair presumably deduced from his full moustache the record says gilbert, who said he was a fishmonger, had missing fingers and a distinctive mark on his right knee he was charged on 18 october 1904, and his crime is listed as 'false pretences' perhaps suggesting that he not involved with the more physical crimes like younger gang members but theft and muggings was by no means the only illegal activity of the peaky blinders, who built a criminal empire on illegal betting, protection rackets and birmingham's black market the were known to fight with rival gangs, and at times would even turn on the police their previously unheard story is set to be told in the new bbc 2 six part drama which was written by birmingham born steven knight, who claims members of his family were in the gang two generations ago irish actor cillian murphy plays tommy shelby, the leader of the peaky blinders, along with sam neill and helen mccrory cillian murphy will play tommy shelby, leader of the peaky blinders, in a new bbc series the upcoming series will show the full extent of the peaky blinders' violent crimes cillian murphy (left) said playing tommy shelby was the toughest role of his career the central rivalry of the series will be between tommy selby, left, played by cillian murphy, and chief inspector campbell, right, played by sam neill in a recent interview, mr murphy, who had leading roles in hollywood blockbusters inception and batman begins, described the his character tommy shelby as 'by far the toughest i have ever portrayed' because of his physicality and the volume of fight scenes in the programme the plot focuses on the peaky blinders era of the early 20th century, highlighting the gang members who returned to the poor and crime ridden streets of birmingham after the first world war mr knight first had the idea for the drama 17 years ago based on stories he had been told by his parents, who grew up in small heath, birmingham peaky blinder women were easy to spot because of their fine clothes, as shown here by helen mccrory (right) as aunt polly gray, and annabelle wallis, left, as grace burgess, who will be tommy shelby's principal love interest in the series the proceeds of crime also allowed the peaky blinders to enjoy the trappings of wealth in the series aunt polly gray, left, has been running the gang for years while the men were at war, and struggles with returning power to freddie thorne, right, played by iddo goldbery the peaky blinders often came to blows with the police as shown here between paul anderson, left, as arthur shelby, and sam neill, right, as chief inspector campbell the series shows policemen even taking to horseback to deal with the dangerous gang writer steven knight said the inspiration from the new series came from stories his father told him the series, featuring iddo goldberg, left, as freddie thorne, and sophie rundle, right, as ada shelby, will bring the backstreets of birmingham to life in a previous interview he said: 'my mum was a bookie’s runner when she was ten the police used to look out for people making illegal bets, so they used kids 'and my dad told me about his uncles, who he said were part of the peaky blinders gang 'when he was a kid he was told to take a message to them he remembers running into a house and finding a table covered in money, and immaculately dressed men sitting around drinking beer out of jam jars'
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violent 'peaky blinders' oversaw a crime wave in victorian birmingham they sewed razor blades into the peaks of their caps to headbutt rivals new bbc2 drama will bring the gangsters to life, starring cillian murphy peaky blinders will begin on bbc2 on thursday september 12 at 9pm
scotland could break away from the rest of britain 'by mistake', gordon brown warned today as he criticised the tory government for patronising voters north of the border the former prime minister warned the spectacle of minister from london issuing dire warnings about losing jobs, currency and even fish and chips created the impression that the independence debate is 'scotland versus britain' speaking at a press gallery lunch in westminster, mr brown also urged david cameron to take part in a televised debate with alex salmond, to the irritation of downing street former prime minister gordon brown accused alex salmond of making scotland seem small on the world stage mr brown has said he returning to the political frontline to protect scotland for his children, and his children’s children he spoke at an event in parliament today, after almost deserting the westminster bear pit since leaving number 10 in 2010 the former labour leader said the success of the nhs, welfare, pensions and defence showed the strength of pooling resources between scots, english, welsh or northern irish 'this is an unparalleled achievement of the 21st century, the pooling and sharing of resources across the united kingdom for defence, for security for economic opportunity and for welfare 'and we are very stupid if allow this not to be talked to be talked about as one of the important cements together 'now, countries can be lost by mistake' he took aim at the coalition government in westminster for its attacks on independence ministers faced ridicule for a web stunt, claiming scots will be able to buy fish and chips every day for 10 weeks with the money they save by voting 'no' to independence the uk government was accused of 'patronising' scots with a campaign website using lego and the promise of fish and chips to persuade people to vote no gordon brown has ramped up pressure on david cameron by suggesting he should agree to a debate on scottish independence with alex salmond the former prime minister said it would be a 'good idea if mr cameron took on the snp leader in the run up to september's referendum mr brown also repeated his warning that pro union politicians were allowing nationalists to portray the vote as 'england against scotland' speaking to journalists at a westminster lunch, the mp dismissed arguments that mr cameron should stand back from the battle because he was toxic to scottish voters 'the prime minister has got to be part of this debate,' he said asked whether he thought that meant mr cameron should agree to the scottish first minister's demands for a debate, mr brown replied: 'people have to decide what the best way forward is 'i think it would be a good idea if david cameron did debate alex salmond, but i'm not involved in the negotiations' but downing street rejected the idea mr brown said: 'if people come up to scotland, and say britain says no to scotland having a share in the currency britain says you are not going to have defence jobs or britain says you have got to go bankrupt, or last week, britain says vote independence you will lose your fish and chips, pies and you’ll lose your holidays in torremolinos in a patronising way that ought to be withdrawn immediately 'then it’s obvious the issue will become scotland versus britain 'and people will say the debate is do you stand up for britain or are you for scotland' he also turned his fire on fist minister alex salmond, accusing him of making scotland look 'small’ on the world stage after smuggling a scottish flag into centre court in the handbag of his wife, moira as the crowd stood to applaud andy murray’s win in straight sets last year, he pulled the saltire out and waved it around directly behind mr cameron’s head the move was seen as a crass attempt to politicise one of the crown jewels in the sporting calendar in an interview yesterday said: ‘i didn’t like it when he [salmond] got the scottish flag up at wimbledon’ today he was backed by mr brown, who told sky news: ‘that was a terrible mistake take politics out of this i personally felt very embarrassed ‘the reason i felt embarrassed was it made scotland look small we're not a country in the end that goes for these gestures ‘we're not a country in the end that wants to dwell on grievance or gripes, or scoring a cheap point against england or against britain i think that was a very bad mistake’ scottish nationalist leader alex salmond waved the scottish flag after andy murray won the 2013 wimbledon men's singles final murray has revealed he 'didn't like it' but was nervous about expressing a view on scottish independence treasury chief secretary danny alexander claims there would be a 'uk dividend' worth £1,400 for every scot by staying in the union the scotland office released a bizarre list of 12 things that scots will be able to buy with the cash each illustrated using lego characters and published online according to the government, scots will be able to 'scoff 280 hotdogs' at the edinburgh festival, drink more than 600 coffees or get a hair cut every month for three and a half years mr brown condemned the tactics he said: ‘last week when the scottish office and the uk government put out that statement that scotland would be £1,400 better off without independence and they gave the example of fish and chips you could buy, or holidays in torremolinos i thought that was patronising ‘so people can make mistakes and i think mr salmond ought to recognise that that made scotland because these pictures were shown all over the world and i would never have done that ‘i think it made scotland seem small, when i actually think scotland should be big’
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in the cambodian capital of phnom penh, there exists a commodity that is worth more than gold virginity wealthy men will pay thousands to have sex with an innocent girl and, as a result, 'virgin trafficking' has become big business but not every girl is trafficked many others sell their virginity because they are desperate for money and then often fall into a life of prostitution scroll down for video victim: sukhon, 23, was forced to sell her virginity in order to pay for an operation that saved her father's life ordeal: sukhon recalls her terrible experience to the former glamour model in her latest documentary even though many of them do it to financially support their families, many are ostracised by their relatives and by the local community now the shocking story of cambodia's virgin prostitutes is to feature in a new jodie marsh documentary which meets some of the victims although her own career was built on selling sex as a glamour model, the 35 year old says she is grateful she never had to do more than sell pictures of her body 'girls like sukhon are forced to sell themselves for money time and time again,' she said 'i have the choice to abstain from sex and i have realised what a huge privilege that is' 23 year old sukhon lives in cambodian capital phnom penh and now works as a prostitute after being forced to sell her virginity to pay for an operation that saved her ailing father's life shocking statistics: jodie travelled to camodia where she learnt there are 50 70,000 sex workers 40 percent of them are under age 'i received the news that my father was ill back home,' she reveals 'i had nowhere to go so i decided to sell my virginity it was three years ago when i was 20 and i was paid $3,000 (£1,877) by a chinese man 'i was taken to a restaurant first and then a hotel i was told to undress and take a shower afterwards i was told to keep my clothes off so i was covered only by a towel 'i was shivering and didn't know what to do because i had already agreed to have sex' tragically, as a result of what happened, sukhon says she is no longer close to her family even though she did it for them 'i'm in pain because my family keeps their distance it hurts me but i understand because they didn't ask me to sell my virginity, they didn't want me to do that' while sukhon's father, who also appears in the documentary, says he is grateful that his daughter's sacrifice saved his life, he wishes there had been another way he said after learning his daughter had sold her virginity, he felt 'anger, sadness and sorry as a parent but there was nothing i could do because it had already happened' 'i love my daughter just like when she was born,' he added 'i blame the mamasan [female pimp] and the situation that we are in' mamasans, or female pimps, are a common sight in cambodia and care little about the women they exploit one, who appeared on camera but asked not to be named, revealed that there is nothing that cannot be arranged for paying clients 'if a client wants to have sex, we'll arrange the girl for them,' she said 'also if the client has a special request and they want to sleep with a virgin i will find the girl for them 'i get a commission from client and girl sometimes the girl is very grateful for my hard work so gives me extra money' desperate situation: jodie said more needs to be done to help vulnerable women like sukhon she admits that her career does make her feel 'bad' but she does it for the money 'sometimes i don't feel good about selling a virgin but i just think about the money,' she explained 'sometimes as a mamasan i am hit or tortured by the client if i don't find them a girl i do have morals and sometimes i feel bad for the girl 'when i see the client walk away with the girl i think that i have become a very bad person' sadly, sex trafficking and prostitution is booming in cambodia, where an estimated 50,000 to 70,000 sex workers 40 per cent of whom are under age ply their trade one charity which is trying to do something to help the underage victims of sex trafficking is childsafe, which operates safe houses in phnom penh 'lots of young girls gather here from kampot province and they don't know what the city is like,' explains sunni, an aid worker at the charity 'they are an easy target for criminals you can spot vulnerable people simply by their facial expressions they might look naive or sad with problems' but sunni said working for the charity can be fraught with danger 'i had a situation with a pimp when i tried to stop him taking a girl,' he recalled 'the pimp was very angry and he threatened to shoot me 'i was very fortunate as there was a lot of people from the charity here' but while sunni is safe, for cambodia's thousands of virgin prostitutes, their ordeal goes on
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it’s the vegetable that kids the length and breadth of the country do their best to avoid on christmas day, so they’re bound to approve of sprouts being served up as an alternative power source for tree lights instead of being served up on their dinner plates one thousand of the raw vegetables have been used by scientists from the big bang uk young scientists and engineers fair to create the unusual battery for the decorations it is the world’s first christmas tree to be powered by these vegetables and it’s been placed on london’s southbank area – a sight that’ll give sprout haters everywhere a warm glow way to glow: the eight foot christmas tree is on display on the southbank in london with the lights powered by 1,000 brussels sprouts the grand unveiling ceremony took place on tuesday morning, with pupils from the city of london academy flicking the switch the battery for the eight foot tree was created using five power cells, each holding 200 sprouts, producing 63 volts from the 1,000 brussels sprouts this comes into the 'extra low voltage' category – like a telephone – and is safe to touch switched on kids: pupils from city of london academy turned on the lights green energy: the battery was created using five power cells, each holding 200 sprouts essentially the battery works like electrolysis copper and zinc electrodes are placed in each brussels sprout to create a chemical reaction between the electrodes using the acid in the sprout generating a current which can be stored and used to power the leds on the tree the battery was created using five power cells, each holding 200 sprouts these in turn produce 63 volts from the 1,000 brussels sprouts the power is stored in a capacitor and released through 100 high efficiency leds the big bang scientists are able to monitor the voltage on a separate display, which shows how much energy is being produced by the sprouts the battery will last for as long as the sprouts stay fresh copper and zinc electrodes are placed in each brussels sprout to create a chemical reaction between the electrodes, generating a current which can be stored and used to power the leds on the tree the power is stored in a capacitor and released through 100 high efficiency leds the big bang scientists are able to monitor the voltage on a separate display, which shows how much energy is being produced by the sprouts sean miles, director of prototyping at windsor based designworks, which made the installation, explained that how long the battery lasts depends on how long the sprouts stay fresh he said: 'they will keep generating a current for as long as the vegetables stay fresh, and not decomposed as long as they're fresh they will keep providing the electrolytes for the chemical reaction that generates the current' the sprouts powering this tree should last a month, but more can always be added if it runs out of juice in theory, he explained, any fruit or vegetable could be used to power the lights, but sprouts are actually the least efficient he added: 'sprouts are probably the worst vegetables to use, which makes the feat even more amazing the more moist and fluid, the better they are at conducting electricity' paul jackson, the ceo of engineering uk, which runs the big bang uk young scientists & engineers fair, said: ‘we want young people to think about stem subjects in an interesting way and are always looking for different ways to do that 'it being the festive time of year – and kids’ dislike of sprouts being well documented – using them to create a battery seemed like a unique way to achieve that aim ‘every year thousands of pupils and teachers attend the fair, which exists to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers 'we want to extend the buzz of the fair further and wider, so that even those who can’t attend are encouraged to consider careers in science, technology, engineering and maths’
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the eight foot tree is on southbank in london and was lit up on tuesday the battery that powers its lights is made from 1,000 brussels sprouts the invention was cooked up by scientists from the uk's big bang fair the big bang fair takes place at the nec, birmingham, on 13 16 march 2014 to register or for more information visit wwwthebigbangfaircouk
it was touch and go situation for a 16 year old boy from washington state on monday night after he spent five hours stuck in a bog the unidentified teenager was at a skate park in puyallup when he decided to wander into a restricted section of woodland around 1pm with a friend on attempting to cross a shallow stream he ended up sinking thigh high into muddy ground team effort: it was touch and go situation for a 16 year old boy from washington state on monday night after he spent five hours stuck in a bog emotional: here the unidentified teenager is seen being pulled from the mud in the dark and giving a firefighter a big hug as he wobbles on two legs explaining the situation, central pierce fire and rescue spokesman ed hrivnak told kiro tv: 'he was trying to cross, and looking from above, you’d look like you’d sink to your foot 'but it was very deceiving, and when he stepped he sunk all the way to his thigh' knowing they were in an area they shouldn't be, the teen's friend resisted calling for help he spent several hours attempting the rescue mission himself but eventually ended up walking to a local fire department for assistance crews managed to free the trapped boy around 6pm they used ladders to stabilize the area around him and used air and water pressure to free his legs lucky escape: according to authorities, the boy was cold and muddy but otherwise uninjured lesson learned: after getting the all clear from paramedics he was taken home by his mother the emotional rescue was caught on camera footage shows the boy being pulled from the mud in the dark and giving a firefighter a big hug as he wobbles on two legs according to authorities the boy was cold and muddy but otherwise uninjured after getting the all clear from paramedics he was taken home by his mother
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adam moore, pictured leaving court, had failed to complete the divorce from his first wife before he tied the knot with second wife lyndsay a bigamist who married his second wife without divorcing his first has been warned he could face jail it was only when lyndsay haywood began divorce proceedings against her husband adam moore that she had discovered he was still married the 33 year old, who has 'a complex' love life has now admitted a charge of bigamy he was later seen holding hands with a mystery blonde woman as he left court adam moore had tied the knot with lyndsay moore in bovey tracey, devon, in late 2008 before his first marriage was fully dissolved the court heard the marriage to lyndsay, 37, had been a 'relatively short relationship' and despite the 'usual hopes and expectations it broke down' prosecutor chris bittlestone said the second wife made the 'usual arrangements in december last year to unravel their contacts with each other' but she discovered that moore had never been granted the final absolute decree only the decree nisi which he said was 'only half way there' only part of the divorce had been completed but not the 'coup de grace' and the police were alerted mr bittlestone added: 'mr moore expressed himself to be single (but) lyndsay moore never was a wife in the eyes of the law' moore's solicitor katrina byrne told south and west devon magistrates court in torquay: 'mr moore back then had a complex life and he has a complex life now' mr bittlestone said bigamy was a rare crime in the uk, and it was only the third time he had prosecuted it in 27 years as a lawyer 'it is a serious matter marriage is an estate not entered into lightly,' he added it was only when lyndsay haywood (pictured) began divorce proceedings against her husband adam moore that she had discovered he was still married adam moore had tied the knot with lyndsay moore in bovey tracey, devon, in late 2008 before his first marriage was fully dissolved he said that miss byrne's view was that this was not 'an outright deception' miss byrne said some cases of bigamy were more serious than others but this was not a case of a fraud or financial loss or someone with multiple families she said: 'it does edge into the custody threshold but it is a complex set of circumstances' a pre sentence report was ordered and moore, who was previously in the british army, was bailed until next month when he will learn his fate he left court holding hands with a blonde haired woman who had not sat in court to hear his case moore who had 'a complex' love life, was later seen holding hands with a mystery blonde woman as he left court (pictured)
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adam moore had not completed his divorce when he wed his second wife moore claimed he believed he was single when he wed lyndsay in 2008 it came to light after lyndsay started divorce proceedings against moore the 33 year old admitted bigamy and was warned he could be facing jail
bradley cooper transformed himself to take on his latest role as the deadliest shot in us military history in 'american sniper' he ate 5,000 calories a day to pack on 40 pounds from 185 to 225 to play real life hero chris kyle, who was credited with 160 kills while fighting in iraq the handsome actor is almost unrecognizable from his previous role as a party boy in 'the hangover' or dashing red carpet style as he sports a bushy beard and a thick texan drawl to add to the dramatic change but before he could slip into the role of the one man killing machine in clint eastwood's film, cooper had to learn how to shoot a sniper rifle and for that expertise he turned to one of kyle's close friends, former navy seal sniper kevin lacz who served two tours of duty despite having never fired a rifle before, cooper proved a natural, lacz tells daily mail online 'the first time i saw bradley i hardly recognized him,' said lacz who left the seals to train as a physician's assistant 'i knew what he looked like from the hangover and silver linings playbook, but he just took my breath away 'when he was kitted out in the full combat gear he could easily have passed for chris 'it was just amazing to watch him transform into the character within days of lying on his belly behind a telescopic sight, he was able to hit a ten inch target from a distance of close to 600 yards he was also able to do dead lifts of 415 pounds, five sets of eight reps each scroll down for video ten hut! bradley cooper rocks some very short shorts while filming a navy seals training scene for 'american sniper' in los angeles  real life navy seal kevin lacz trained cooper and starred in the film quick study: cooper learned his lessons well from lacz, who was a navy seal teammate of chris kyle, lacz was hired to play the role of himself after originally coming on as the technical advisor for the film cooper has to gain about 40 pounds from 185 to 225 to be convincing as the american sniper chris kyle lacz said cooper was so good at shooting that he could easily train as a sniper with the military 'i was surprised at just how good bradley was with a sniper rifle and live rounds,' said lacz 'we went out to a shooting range and bradley just took to it straight away 'he quickly picked up that you have to use your whole body when looking down a sniper's scope every muscle has to be relaxed, except the trigger finger 'so much of what snipers do is in the mindyou have to have the right mind set as you are looking directly at the person you are going to kill it's not like you are in a plane firing a missile but looking at the person who is going to die bradley got that' lacz,, 33, said 40 year old cooper was hungry to learn about the techniques of being a deadly shot which led to the man he plays in the film being known by his seal comrades as 'the legend' 'bradley soon became very accurate and comfortable handling the weapon,' said lasz 'he also wanted to learn about other combat techniques, how to clear a house and close armed combat he continually sent me questions to find out as much as he could about iraq 'he immersed himself in the role so much i was so impressed' during filming in morocco which doubled for the city of fallujah during the 2006 insurgency in iraq cooper lay on a rooftop and took aim at a figure in the distance around him were burnt out buildings, spent bullet casings and the sound of grenades exploding after pulling the trigger on a replica gun, a stuntman in the distance fell down as veteran director eastwood captured the scene 'bradley was looking down the scope, pulled the trigger and saw the body fall 'afterwards he just said 'wow' he understood then the power of the sniper and what they can do 'until then he had been shooting on a range,but now it was driven home to him the sort of work that chris and i did in iraq' 'when bradley was kitted out in the full combat gear,' says lacz,  he could easily have passed for chris it was just amazing to watch him transform into the character' lacz trained cooper on how to hold and shoot the various weapons that kyle utilized cooper never equaled the shot from 2,100 yards kyle once made in iraq, but he was able to hit targets from 600 yards lacz responded the way navy seals often respond to superb performance: he said nothing kevin says when he saw bradley kitted out in the full combat gear he could easily have passed for chris 'it was just amazing to watch him transform into the character' besides being the film's technical director, kevin, who joined the seals in response to the terror attack on 9/11, was also asked to appear as himself 'while i was teaching bradley how to handle the weapons he suggested to clint eastwood that i should play myself,' he said 'i was a bit surprised, but bradley said why should they get an actor when i could play the part myself' kevin made a short audition tape and it was approved by eastwood the dad of two spent three weeks filming in morrocco and later in california being around the sights and sounds of battle brought back the memories of his deployment to iraq with seal team 3, one of the elite units that make up the us military special forces 'it did bring back certain memories, not all of them pleasant war is a terrible and seeing how the set designers had recreated some of the places made me think' kevin was born and raised in middlebury, connecticut he had planned to become a doctor but after a friend's dad was killed in the 9/11 terror attack he enrolled in the military after leaving the navy he trained as a physician assistant and now lives on florida's gulf coast kyle had already served two tours in iraq when he met lasz such was kyle's skill as a sniper he was credited by us military chiefs with 160 confirmed kills one of his most spectacular shots was killing a man armed with a rocket launcher from a distance of 2,100 yards he became known as the 'devil of ramadi' by insurgents who put a bounty on his head because he was causing so many casualties while kyle was a one man killing machine in 2006, his first ever sniper kill was a woman who was carrying a bomb in nasiriya in 2003 as she approached a platoon of marines the majority of those he killed were insurgents fighting the us forces in the years after the 2003 iraq invasion in his best selling autobiography, on which the film is based, kyle claims to have killed a further 100 insurgents in combat he would take up a position overlooking a town that was being searched for insurgents and pick them off with his high powered 338 lapua magnum rifle during his four tours of duty he also suffered multiple injuries from grenade shrapnel and being blown up by roadside bombs while kyle reveled in being a navy seal the film also explores his troubled home life with wife taya, played by sienna miller 'while i was teaching bradley how to handle the weapons he suggested to clint eastwood that i should play myself,' kevin said he  made a short audition tape and it was approved by eastwood 'so much of what snipers do is in the mind,' says kevin' you have to have the right mind set as you are looking directly at the person you are going to kill bradley got that' unlike many hollywood films 'american sniper' does not have a happy ending almost two years ago kyle was murdered on a shooting range by a former marine who was said to be suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome kyle,33,had taken eddie ray routh shooting in a bid to help the 26 year old adjust to civilian life when he arrived at the range near chalk mountain, routh grabbed a gun and shot kyle and his friend chad littlefield dead routh, who goes on trial next month, will claim through his lawyers that he was suffering from ptsd and mentally unstable when he killed kyle so many people wanted to attend kyle's funeral to pay their tribute to a war hero it was held inside the dallas cowboy's stadium to accommodate the mourners lasc said kyle's death came just a day after the script for the film was completed cooper and eastwood later traveled to texas to meet kyle's father wayne to talk him about the film they both vowed to honor the memory of his son and promised the family would not be disappointed with the finished result cooper went on a 5,000 a day diet to bulk up his weight so he was the same size as kyle he never met kyle in person but spoke to him on the phone 'i know bradley wanted to do the kyle family proud and he has certainly done that, says lacz 'chris was a special person with a big heart who loved his family and loved his country' kyle's widow taya also gave her approval to the film she flew to london before production began to meet with 84 year old eastwood, cooper and miller who plays her in the film like kyle's family she was worried the film would somehow dishonor her husband's memory but after seeing 'american sniper' she was thrilled with the result and said cooper kept a promise to her that he would not do anything to ruin the honor of husband or her marriage 'i left feeling like a weight had been lifted they really pulled it off it's an authentic, genuine look at two people who love each other and what our veterans go through and what they carry,' she said 'so many of chris's friends who have seen the movie have said they didn't feel like they were even watching an actor it's been that way without fail 'everyone who knows him and loves him has said that'
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chris kyle's close friend, former navy seal sniper kevin lacz, was chosen to train bradley cooper and ended up in the film with the star within days, cooper, lying on his belly behind a telescopic sight, was able to hit a ten inch target from a distance of 600 yards lacz, 33, trained cooper on how to hold and shoot the various weapons cooper never equaled the shot from 2,100 yards kyle once made in iraq, but he was able to hit targets from 600 yards the actor bulked up from 185 to 225 pounds eating 5,000 calories a day he was able to do dead lifts of 415 pounds, five sets of eight reps each
injured rugby league star alex mckinnon has expressed his frustration after video was leaked of the tender moment he stood up for the first time after a devastating spinal injury moving footage was broadcast on wednesday of mckinnon standing for the first time and celebrating with a grin and a fist pump 'i'm very grateful for the support,' mckinnon tweeted on thursday 'yet it (sic) is disappointing a personal video was leaked and aired without our permission' the former newcastle knights forward was diagnosed as a quadriplegic after a catastrophic tackle during round three of the 2014 nrl season last march but he refused to accept the bad news and vowed to walk his fiancee teigan power down the aisle scroll down for video back on his feet: alex mckinnon's supportive fiancee teigan power has constantly been by his side since his accident, so it was only fitting that she was the one to share in his joy as he stood for the first time grateful, but disappointed: mckinnon this morning expressed his frustration that a personal video was aired without his permission newcastle knights player alex mckinnon, pictured right with his fiancee teigan power, continues to inspire as he has stood up on his own for the first time ms power has constantly been by his side since his accident and the pair shared an affectionate moment in the video daily mail australia has approached the newcastle knights for further comment on the leak the identity of the leaker is unclear the future is bright for mckinnon, whose positivity and perseverance has been an inspiration for so many australians, inspiring the #riseforalex movement which pledges to offer ongoing and emotional and financial support through his struggles he is set to commence a new role with the knights on january 27, allowing him to be involved with rugby league again and rejoin his mates at the newcastle club mckinnon commented on his amazing progress through a statement from the newcastle knights on wednesday 'i remain on the gold coast, where i have been for approximately three months as i continue rehabilitation at making strides,' mckinnon said 'i am in the final stages of my current rehabilitation program on the gold coast 'when aided to stand up out of my chair, i am now able to stand for a short amount of time with assistance 'i am set to return to newcastle in the coming weeks to commence my new role with the knights 'thank you as always, for the well wishes and encouragement' the 22 year old beams with happiness in the video as he stands steadily, his arms around his fiancée's neck for support he fist pumps, grins and strokes his fiancee's hair gently newcastle knights coach rick stone earlier revealed mckinnon's impressive achievement 'he's just finished in his rehab and he actually stood up unabated the other day he stood up on his own which is a terrific sort of step for alex,' stone said stone later clarified his statement, explaining that mckinnon can stand with assistance mckinnon has been determined from the very beginning to make a full recovery and last july the nrl's rise for alex round raised ove $14 million towards that goal stone said spoke about mckinnon's new position with the club, explaining that his promising career with the nrl will also involve spending one day a week in the commercial area 'that's going to be a great opportunity for alex to get his teeth into something he really loves, footy,' he told sky sports radio 'he's inspiring young men and everyone in the club will be really happy to see him back' ever the optimist, mckinnon proposed to teagan just days after getting the devastating news that he will never play his beloved game of football ever again mckinnon proudly announced the engagement on instagram at the time 'this girl is my soldier, i am truly overwhelmed with the support and wishes from everybody in the rugby league society and the community at large your ongoing support will never be forgotten,' he wrote 'ps when life throws you struggles respond with a smile so happy to announce teigan and my engagement#throughthickandthin #iwillwalkherdowntheisle' mckinnon will take on an active role in recruitment at the newcastle knights club this year the horrendous news rocked the entire nrl community but no one more than former knights coach wayne bennett the normally stoic man, who is now the brisbane broncos coach, revealed he lost interest in football in the weeks after one of his players alex mckinnon suffered a devastating spinal injury that ended his career 'i was very confused with myself, very confused i didn't feel as emotional as i thought i should and then it dawned on me that i was living a lie and not letting my emotions come through because i couldn't afford to 'but i've shed a lot of tears since about himand i suppose i'll shed some more 'it's good to get it off my chest' bennett said what he wanted for mckinnon now was for him to be happy 'i saw a bit of myself [in him] when i was younger,' he said 'i like his style and how he carried himself and i'm really proud of him' former knights coach wayne bennett shed a lot of tears following mckinnon's tragic accident speaking at the launch of the nrl's 'rise for alex' round in july last year, it's not entirely surprising that mckinnon has achieved the impossible when all he could think about was focusing on walking again his goal is to resume a normal life as soon as possible adding that although his recovery was going to be a slow and long process he was prepared to give it his best shot 'as much as i would love to get home and get back to my family and get back to newcastle and get on with my life, i want to walk again,' he said 'you see a lot of stories about people who get on with their lives and don't walk again my focus is to get as much back of my movement as i can and i am slowly improving 'for example, when i first got diagnosed i was a c4 all that is shoulder movement nothing else no fingers, no movement in your legs, or anything like that 'i am slowly progressing with the movement, i am a c7 now' mckinnon proposed to teagan just days after getting the news he will never play football again
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rugby star alex mckinnon broke his neck and was diagnosed as a quadriplegic after being tackled in an nrl match in march 2014 newcastle knights forward was told he would never walk again despite the odds, 22 year old vows to walk down aisle with his bride to be after 10 months of rehabilitation, alex stood up on his own for the first time on thursday, he said he was 'disappointed' video was released
an ugly scene erupted tuesday at a queens banquet hall where nypd cops had convened to discuss ongoing tensions with city hall the patrolmen's benevolent association chief patrick lynch, who so vocally demanded that mayor bill de blasio apologize to the nypd after showing what they called police bias following the eric garner decision, bore the brunt of the ire 'i don't care about an apology,' one union rep yelled at lynch as the meeting devolved into chaos 'i want to know what you're going to do to protect us' it was toward the end of the tense 2 hour session when the yelling began, the new york daily news reports shouted down: the patrolmen's benevolent association chief patrick lynch, who so vocally demanded that mayor bill de blasio apologize to the nypd after showing what they called police bias following the eric garner decision, bore the brunt of the ire when a uni9on meeting devolved into chaos tuesday 'my members want: they want more cars, better vests, more manpower,' shouted a cop, according to nydn sources 'they don't want an apology' as other cops jumped in to back up lynch, it was cop against cop and shouting and shoving continued for at least the next ten minutes the officers also demanded that lynch tell them what was discussed in a closed door meeting he had with de blasio december 30 lynch refused to divulge details 'he didn't want to talk about it,' a source told nydn 'he said, 'everything we say gets back to the media' he was just refusing to answer he said, 'it is what it is'' before the meeting could erupt into fisticuffs, lynch adjourned and slipped out some even claimed afterwards that the chaos was all staged by union reps eager to run against lynch in the next union election new statistics show that new york police department officers are starting to make more arrests after a suspected work slowdown at the start of the year that further exposed tensions between the rank and file and mayor bill de blasio, officials said monday scene: antun's banquet hall in queens village devolved into chaos tuesday as union reps shouted down their leader patrick lynch, saying demands for apologies from mayor de blasio aren't enough at a news conference, police commissioner william bratton said the 4,690 arrests made last week across the city were still down significantly 37 percent compared with the same period last year but it was an improvement compared with the 2,401 arrests in the week ending january 4, which had represented about a 60 percent drop 'with each passing day, with each passing week, those numbers are going back up to what we would describe as normal the cops are beginning to do what's expected of them,' bratton said ticketing for traffic and parking violations and other low level infractions, which had virtually ground to a halt, also were starting to edge upward, officials said and despite the apparent slowdown, reports of homicides and other serious crimes also were down in the first two weeks of 2015, they added union officials, who met behind closed doors with bratton last week, have denied the dramatic decline in enforcement reflected a sanctioned work stoppage but the numbers were seen as evidence of growing rancor between police officers and de blasio in the aftermath of the slayings of two patrolmen, and prompted bratton to put commanders on notice that they needed to step up enforcement activity the two officers were killed dec 20 in a brazen daytime ambush by a mentally unstable man who vowed online to kill two 'pigs' in retaliation for the deaths of black men and boys at the hands of police around the country police unions have accused de blasio of contributing to anti police sentiment by supporting protests over the police killings cops at the tuesday meeting demanded to know what the union planned to do to 'protect them' here, some new york city police officers turn away from a large screen displaying new york city mayor bill de blasio as he speaks during the funeral of officer wenjian liu the shooting deaths of officers wenjian liu (right) and (left) rafael ramos have served as a counter argument as the police unions fight off criticism of nypd brutality earlier monday, de blasio said he was confident that police officials were taking the proper steps to ensure public safety and to reverse the downward trend in arrests 'by definition, every public servant needs to do their job,' the mayor said 'but i think, in the interest of moving us forward, they have taken the right approach, and we're seeing good results' patrick lynch, president of the powerful patrolmen's benevolent association and one of the mayor's harshest critics, declined to comment through a spokesman continued concerns over the rift come as department also is taking precautions in response to the terrorist attack in paris and reports of a renewed threat from the islamic state group police officials said that in the wake of the paris killings, someone using an islamic state twitter account posted a propaganda video calling for the killing of 'intelligence officers, police officers, soldiers, and civilians' in the united states a message that mirrored one in september the threat prompted the nypd to send out a new safety alert advising officers working in pairs on fixed posts in patrol cars to make sure one stands outside of the car to keep an eye out for threats against them, and to beef up security at several sensitive locations despite the precautions, the nypd had 'no information about any specific, credible threat to new york city driven by these events,' john miller, the department's top counterterrorism official, said monday unarmed new yorker eric garner was choked to death by a police officer last year, sparking major criticism of the nypd the eric garner case sparked widespread protests but as citizens demanded police be held accountable in such situations, the unions have spoken out on the need for police to be protected
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patrolmen's benevolent association head patrick lynch was caught in the cross hairs of angry cops tuesday some cried that they had no use for apologies and demanded to know how they'd be protected others barked back in support of the union chief and the queens banquet hall turned into an ugly scene of cops shoving cops as lynch slipped out
the prison population could swell by 15 per cent by 2020 as jails struggle to cope with a surge in violent and sexual offenders the ministry of justice today predicted the number of prisoners in england and wales will rise every year until the end of the decade, despite predicting a fall just 12 months ago labour branded the u turn a sign of 'utter incompetence' but tory minister chris grayling said it was proof that on his watch 'criminals are more likely to go prison and go there for longer' scroll down for video new forecasts from the ministry of justice show they now expect the number of prisoners in england and wales will rise every year until the end of the decade, despite predicting a fall in the 2013 forecast new projections of the prison population show that on the 'central scenario' of what is most likely to happen, the numbers behind bars will rise from 85,925 now to 90,200 in june 2020 however, under 'scenario 2' which includes the possibility of more criminals being jailed and judges handing down longer sentences, the prison population could hit 98,900 by 2020 a 15 per cent increase when the same forecasts were published last year, the ministry of justice expected the prison population to fall from 83,400 to 81,000 by 2019 it means thousands more prison places will be needed, because the current capacity is only 88,015 labour's shadow justice secretary sadiq khan said: 'today's data exposes the utter incompetence of david cameron's government 'it is embarrassing that they are having to throw in the bin previous projections due to a prisons crisis of their own making it is humiliating for the government but will be costly to taxpayers 'what this latest revelation shows is that chris grayling has lost control of the prison system not only are prisons more overcrowded and violent, with less rehabilitation taking place, but they are storing up monumental problems at huge expense for the future because of their incompetence' officials say the sharp change in direction comes after a rise in recent months in the number of people being handed custodial sentences 'despite the fact that overall crime is falling there has been an increase in recorded crime for certain offence types,' the moj said in particular, in the wake of high profile cases of sex abuse including jimmy savile, prosecutions for sexual offences are the highest in the decade the number of cases increased by 19 per cent in the 12 months ending june 2014 among celebrities jailed in recent months are broadcaster stuart hall, who is serving a total of five years in prison for sex offences, and entertainer rolf harris, who was handed a sentence of five years and nine months in july this year tory justice secretary chris grayling said the rising forecasts were proof that on his watch 'criminals are more likely to go prison and go there for longer' celebrities serving prison sentences for sex offences include stuart hall (left) and rolf harris (right) sex offenders are also being jailed for longer, with average sentences increasing by 24 months to almost six years when compared to 2013 cases of violence against the person have also risen, leading to more attackers being imprisoned justice secretary chris grayling said: 'some people aren't in favour of sending offenders to prison i'm not one of them, and i think the public will be reassured by the fact that under this government criminals are more likely to go prison and go there for longer 'we will always have enough places for those sent to us by the courts by 2015 this government will have increased the adult male prison capacity we will have many more places than we inherited from the previous government 'i remain committed to modernising the prison estate so that it delivers best value for hardworking taxpayers' the projections published today do not take into account any new laws which might be passed by future governments after the next election, which means they 'become less certain over time'
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britain and germany are on a collision course as the row over the future of the eurozone and the uk's eu membership intensified chancellor george osborne has given the biggest hint yet there may be a referendum, and to her clear anger, david cameron told angela merkel last night britain will not join her proposed european superstate during yesterday's berlin crisis talks the prime minister openly rejected the german chancellor's plan to save the eurozone from oblivion by forming a single euro country, calling the idea 'nonsense' but in return mr cameron was publicly mocked by mrs merkel for being 'impatient' and telling her to put german cash behind an ‘immediate’ rescue plan for the euro or start planning for the break up of the single currency row: david cameron and angela merkel have got involved in a war of words over the future of the eurozone as they met in berlin yesterday in a clear snub to the pm she said last night: 'it is human to think the euro crisis could be solved in one fell swoop but i don't think this would work 'the euro crisis developed over ten years and it is going to take several years before we can repair the system and make it viable again with everybody getting so impatient here it is a good job that i am one of the people staying patient' mr cameron has repeatedly clashed with the german chancellor on the future of europe as she outlined plans for what she called ‘more europe’ a euro superstate in all but name they were discussing the crisis that has left spanish banks teetering on the edge of collapse and greece bankrupt, but it appears the two powers are still far apart on a solution britain is backing european commission plans for a common ‘banking union’ across the eurozone but mr cameron has demanded ‘safeguards’ for britain and pledged that no british money would be spent on propping up these institutions warm greeting: david cameron met his german counterpart angela merkel with a warm kiss but their talks appear to have left them far apart sit down: mrs merkel wants a european superstate but mr cameron has called the idea 'nonsense' making the point: the pair have clear views and although they both want to save the eurozone both appear to be suspicious of their own country's plans he even threatened to use the veto to ensure no uk taxpayers' money is used to foot the bill ‘i can sense why some eurozone countries want to look at elements of banking union but because we are not in the single currency, we won’t take part in profound elements of that banking union,' he said ‘i wouldn’t ask british taxpayers to stand behind the greek or spanish deposits it’s not our currency, so it would be inappropriate to do that ‘i will make sure that britain’s interests, particularly in the single market and the operation of fairness in the single market, are protected that is the key for britain’ however, mrs merkel has demanded full ‘political union’ in the eurozone and said germany would not be stopped by countries such as britain dragging their feet stage managed stroll: the trio of norwegian pm jens stoltenberg, angela merkel and david cameron come over all reservoir dogs on the roof of the kanzeleramt yesterday posing for the cameras: the trio look awkward ahead of crucial talks ‘we need more europe, a budget union and we need a political union first and foremost,’ she said ‘we must, step by step, cede responsibilities to europe we must not remain immobile because one country or another does not want to follow yet’ before their talks, mr cameron and mrs merkel answered questions from students at a town hall event at the federal chancellery in berlin mr cameron once again voiced his strong opposition to a europe wide financial transactions tax, which he said would simply drive jobs and growth away from the continent britain's financial services industry was already 'making a proper contribution' to helping get the national deficit under control, through taxes such as the banking levy, the prime minister said but he recognised that the mistakes made by banks in the run up to the crash of 2008/09 had fuelled the anger seen in the movement to occupy areas of the city of london with tent cities 'i think a lot of the anger was with irresponsibility in the banking industry and the financial industry and i think people were right to be angry because banks had made bad decisions and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer, and many of the taxpayers were earning much, much less than the people who made the bad decisions in the banks,' he added 'people were angry about that but anger is not a policy 'we need to work out what do we do, how do we regulate these organisations properly 'we think we have responded properly to the anger' meanwhile george osborne yesterday gave the government’s strongest hint yet that a referendum is likely on britain’s place in europe – but stopped short of promising one poll: george osborne is the first cabinet member to hint at an eu referendum but would not promise one the chancellor became the first senior member of the cabinet to suggest that a nationwide vote would be necessary to redraw the uk’s relationship with brussels if the euro crisis leads to greater integration between eurozone nations mr osborne pointedly referred to the government’s new law that would trigger a referendum if powers are passed to the eu as ‘one of the most significant things this government has done’ crucially, he suggested that the new europe likely to emerge from the wreckage of the single currency will indeed mean powers passing to brussels so far ministers from david cameron down have stressed that a referendum is not necessary because changes that affect only the eurozone do not involve powers being ceded to brussels from the uk but mr osborne suggested the fundamental change in the nature of the eu, with eurozone countries effectively merging their fiscal policies and potentially their bank deposits, is such a fundamental change that the british public should have their say ‘a reshaped relationship with europe would imply, would involve, a transfer of  sovereignty or powers to brussels,’ he said ‘we have a very clear safeguard in the system now, thanks to this government, which is, if there is any transfer of power from this country    transfer of competence or transfer of sovereignty from this country to the european union    then there will be a referendum’ and calls for a straight in out poll are growing from the right and now the left former labour foreign secretary has said britain has the perfect opportunity to break from the 'shackles' imposed by brussels as members like germany close ranks to form a 'single country called europe' the electorate must be asked two simple questions, would the uk be better off leaving the eu, or staying and joining the euro, he said 'a referendum on the future of europe is inevitable at some point between 2013 and 2016 at the latest,' he wrote in the times britain's foreign secretary from 1977 79 said the uk would be better off cutting links with brussels to join a wider single market to include non eu members like turkey and iceland, which he calls the 'european community' 'this has to happen because britain's vision for an eu of no further integration and germany's wish for near complete integration are incompatible'
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merkel mocks pm by calling him 'impatient' for wanting a quick resolution to the eurozone crisis the pair held talks yesterday but appear miles apart after fresh war of words last night meanwhile george osborne says there could be a referendum if britain's links to brussels are changed in any way
these are the intimate pictures that show john edwards and his mistress rielle hunter are still very much involved the pair was spotted playing happy families at a beach house on figure eight island, north carolina over the weekend which no doubt came as a welcome break following edwards's corruption trial and ahead of the release of hunter's lurid tell all book the disgraced former presidential candidate and his mistress were seen relaxing with glasses of wine on the balcony of their $4,000 a week beach house and laughing with their four year old daughter quinn and looked the happiest they have been in months happy families: john edwards, his mistress rielle hunter and their four year old daughter quinn are pictured enjoying a weekend away at a beach house in north carolina they appeared oblivious to the storm hunter's memoir has created after it gave explicit details of their affair and made a savage attack on his late wife elizabeth the trio shared jokes as they paddled in the sea and relaxed on the beach house balcony hunter, 48, looked at ease in a white tankini as she held her daughter's hand and strolled down to the waves for a swim edwards, 59, wearing light blue shorts and a navy polo shirt, looked a world away from the broken man at his corruption trial as he laughed with the daughter he referred to as 'precious' in his speech following his acquittal with daughter quinn, they looked very much a family, despite hunter's own admission she is uncertain of the future of her relationship with edwards 'i really have no idea what will happen with us,' she wrote in her memoir 'the jury is still out but i can honestly say that the ending is of no concern to me anymore the love is here and as sappy as it may sound, i love living in love' but the images show hunter can be certain of one thing: edwards's devotion to his youngest daughter photos of the father and daughter laughing and playing on the beach come in stark contrast with edwards's one time claims that the girl was not his taking it easy: the trio also headed to the beach, where hunter and edwards took it in turns to watch over quinn welcome break: the couple laughed together on the holiday, which came following edwards's corruption trial right, hunter holds quinn outside the beach house picture of normality: hunter, who carried out an affair with edwards as he was married to his cancer stricken wife, joins quinn and edwards on the balcony getting some rest: as edwards and quinn giggled on the balcony of their $4,000 a week beach house, rielle took a short nap but after edwards, who was hauled to court on charges he had used campaign funds to cover up his affair with rielle, was found not guilty on one count of corruption, he spoke about his love for all of his children, including the four year old love child despite having publicly denied for two years that he was her father, he said: 'my precious quinn, who i love more than any of you can ever imagine, who i am so close to, so, so grateful for' the father and daughter were seen playing on the sand on sunday close to where they were staying later they held hands when they went to pick up groceries with her mother rielle, who was also at the house the disgraced senator has only ever been pictured with quinn once before when she was a baby in 2008 the photos, published in the national enquirer, broke the news of the scandalous affair which edwards had been keeping secret from his wife elizabeth who was dying of cancer edwards had four other children with elizabeth wade, who died in 1996, cate, emma claire and jack the trip also comes as excerpts from hunter's tell all memoir, due out june 26, are slowly being leaked to the public one chapter describes the first time she slept with john edwards as the 'most extraordinary night of her life' 'loved up': pictures, showing edwards kissing rielle on the cheek as they leave the beach, indicate the pair are still very much involved all smiles: the couple appeared at ease as they spent the weekend at figure eight island with their four year old daughter quinn daddy's girl: quinn was seen out with her dad john edwards, whose affair with rielle hunter ruined his political career helping hand: rielle, who first met john edwards in february 2006, joins him and quinn as they leave the beach household chores: hunter struggles with blankets as the trio arrives at the beach house on figure eight island, north carolina the couple met in february 2006 at the regency hotel in new york city hours after hunter approached the former north carolina senator, he called her up to his hotel room for a night of 'surrender' and 'zero sleep' 'the connection i felt when i walked in the door had only grown and the amount of energy between us was huge and unstoppable,' hunter writes in the book, according to an excerpt obtained by radar online 'then a moment came while we were talking when something in my heart clicked and i surrendered i took off my teacher hat, let go of all my resistance to him and let him lead and lead he did he led me toward the most extraordinary night of my life there was a lot of talk, a lot of laughter and zero sleep' but hunter says she didn't give in easily to sleeping with a married man it took edwards telling her a story about having three other mistresses to get her into bed that first night they met 'he told me that he had an entire hidden life that had gone on for decades and that he was currently involved with three different women one lived in los angeles, one in florida, and one in chicago,' hunter writes, according to radar online 'clearly, this behavior of his was not going to change overnight i also told him that if i was going to help him, he couldn't lie to me he needed to have one person in his life that was safe for him he said that wasn't a problem, and when he said that, i felt a wave of total relief roll off of him the body that ruined a political career: rielle, 48, looks svelte in a white tankini as she walks with quinn along the beach baring all: in her memoir, out next week, hunter says the first time she slept with edwards was the 'most extraordinary night of her life' forgetting their troubles: hunter watched over her daughter as she played in the sand near their rented beach house the trio left the beach together, clearly relaxed with one another rielle donned casual crocs shoes while edwards' t shirt revealed a slight paunch 'he needed this safe place somewhere in the midst of our talk, long after i realized how far off the rails his marriage was, and for how long it had been that way, something happened between us' she soon joined his campaign, and despite a lack of film making experience, the politician arranged a $250,000 contract for her to make a series of behind the scenes documentaries from the campaign trail hunter also attacks edwards's wife elizabeth, who died in december 2010 of breast cancer, calling her 'crazy,' 'venomous' and a 'witch on wheels' she says her abusive behavior toward john edwards drove him into the arms of other women edwards seemed relaxed and right at home on the weekend getaway with his youngest child as he sipped a drink in the ocean breeze the trio arrived at the beach house together along with quinn, who was bedecked in hearts young quinn beamed up at her father as he unloaded the trunk, including a bottle of white wine even though it appeared the family weekend included a trip to a toy shop for some new stuffed animals, little quinn looked less than happy on one trip from the house other accounts of the 2008 presidential campaign, including 'game change' by journalists john heilemann and mark halperin back up hunter's portrait of elizabeth edwards as controlling and potentially abusive when hunter fell pregnant, edwards had a trusted aide, andrew young, claim paternity of quinn in an effort to stave off political disaster n her book, hunter lambasts young for his role in covering up the affair she says it was young's idea for edwards and hunter and lie and say hunter's baby belonged to him and not the presidential candidate, a bizarre fiction she later bitterly regretted hunter repeated the lie in an interview with the national enquirer and edwards, famously, told abc news during an august 2008 broadcast that the baby was not his fatherly love: after his acquittal last month, edwards called his daughter 'precious' even though he publicly denied she was his for two years love child: quinn is edwards's fifth child he had four with his ex wife elizabeth, who died from cancer in december 2010 day out: edwards, who asked his aide to pretend to be quinn's father, is seen walking from the beach after the day out as the arrangement became farcical hunter actually lived with the youngs and their small children as she pretended to play happy families with them edwards didn't publicly acknowledge his love child until 2010, when she was nearly two the memoir is not the first time this year that details of the affair have been told to the public intimate details were revealed during edwards's trial, which culminated with his acquittal on one count of accepting illegal campaign contributions on may 31 the judge declared a mistrial on five other felony counts federal prosecutors said earlier this month that they would not retry edwards, and the charges against him were dropped prosecutors had accused edwards of masterminding a scheme to use about $1 million in secret payments from two wealthy political donors to hide his pregnant mistress as he sought the white house in 2008 mother and daughter shopping trip: quinn joined her mother to stock up at the grocery store near to where the trio were staying
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disgraced former senator enjoys weekend beach break with mistress rielle hunter and their daughter quinn relaxed couple seem oblivious to storm created by hunter's tell all memoir about affair book claims the first night she slept with edwards was 'the most extraordinary night of my life' first time father and daughter are pictured together since 2008 when news of his affair broke trip comes three weeks after edwards was acquitted of corruption charge edwards at ease on trip as he kisses hunter and plays on beach with quinn
three panhandlers were arrested wednesday for stabbing a woman to death on hollywood's star lined 'walk of fame' tuesday night christine calderon, 23, took pictures of the homeless men before she was stabbed once in the torso, according to ktla police found calderon bleeding in front of the american eagle outfitters around 830pm witnesses said bystanders tried to stop the bleeding attacked by strangers: christine darlene calderon, pictured with her nephew mahlik, was stabbed to death after taking a photo of panhandlers in hollywood tragic loss: miss calderon was walking home from work with a male friend when she was fatally stabbed investigation: police arrested three suspects in the fatal stabbing of calderon who was murdered on hollywood's 'walk of fame' police said christine calderon died in front of an american eagle outfitters near hollywood boulevard and highland avenue in los angeles 'the girl was just laying on the ground with blood everywhere,' monta cobbin, an employee of the american eagle store, told nbc 'everyone was trying to help her stop the blood' 'she was wearing jeans and i think it was a white tank top and it was covered in blood,' said a street vendor who did not want to be identified calderon, of lynwood, california, was rushed to cedars sinai medical center but died during surgery around 1140pm homicide detectives said calderon was walking along hollywood boulevard with a male co worker when she stopped to take a picture of a cardboard sign one of the men was holding, according to the los angeles times she had been amused by the rude words and smiley face on the sign distraught: yolonde tassin, miss calderon's mother, said she feared for the worst when her daughter stopped texting her back young life cut short: the 23 year old was hoping to become an engineer, her devastated mother said today search: police found the suspects, believed to be homeless transients, near where the stabbing occurred the men wanted calderon to pay $1 for the picture, but she refused, igniting a dispute that ended in miss calderon's life one of the men jumped on calderon, pushing her to the ground, as her co worker was pinned against a wall, according to the times miss calderon was bleeding as she ran away the suspects were identified at the scene around midnight using photographs calderon and her friend took the men, who are believed to be homeless, were found near the scene by homicide detectives police say the men are all white and in their late twenties and early thirties miss calderon's mother yolonde tassin told the times she became worried about her daughter when she stopped texting her back on tuesday night she knew calderon was dead when detectives showed up at her home the next day 'i said, 'my daughter's dead isn't she?'' ms tassin said 'and he gave me a slight nod' the grief stricken mother said that in the last few years, her daughter had been working to make her life better, had given up alcohol and drugs and was studying to become an engineer she told the times: 'she didn't want to waste years she wanted to get in there and do it right' stars: roughly 10 million visitors from around the world come to see hollywood's 'walk of fame' every year police cautioned others to be careful when approaching anyone on the street 'just be aware of your surroundings and be careful generally, in my experience as a law enforcement officer, people, transients don’t like their pictures being taken,' lapd officer cleon joseph said 'i'm not saying that’s a cause or reason for anything, but you just at the end of the day need to be careful,' joseph added the area where calderon was killed is usually packed with tourists, attracting beggars and costumed street performers hoping to cash in on their ignorance and demanding money for posed pictures calderon's family told the times she hung out in the area with her friends police patrols along the street were beefed up after the fatal incident witnesses reported seeing armed officers on rooftops on wednesday night
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like christine and anthony clark, dealing with children's petty squabbles, tantrums and bad sleeping patterns is a daily battle familiar to most young parents but mr and mrs clark are not young parents they are in their 60s an age where most of their friends are enjoying their retirement, and their 'boys' are actually fully grown men, each with families of their own brothers michael,42, and matthew clark, 39, from hull, have been diagnosed with leukodystrophy — a rare genetic disorder that causes a progressive loss of speech and movement an extraordinary documentary tells the story of tony and christine clark and their two sons matthew (39) and michael (42) as they live and cope with a condition which has made them regress to childhood the brothers from hull, had lived normal lives until their late thirties they were totally unaware their brains were carrying a deadly neurological time bomb a rare and little known condition called leukodystrophy in the case of michael and matthew, it has also made them slowly regress into a childlike state where they were once men, they are now young boys, trapped in adult bodies the mail online first reported the curious case of the clark brothers earlier this year but now their condition is deteriorating to the point where mrs clark fears they will no longer be able to walk or feed themselves, like babies the family will feature on a channel four documentary tonight which follows them on their fascinating and traumatic journey over the last few months as they struggle with their day to day life matthew, 39, and his wife had a daughter, lydia, now 19 she has had a baby, making him a grandfather their plight has led to them being likened to the character played by brad pitt in the film the curious case of benjamin button, an old man who gradually becomes younger but mrs clark said she finds the analogy upsetting she told the independent:  'for one thing, they're not getting smaller – there's no return to them being cute little boys, they're big strong men – and that presents a quite different set of problems' she said she first realised something 'was not right' when she and mr clark took them on a family holiday the men acted childish throughout, shouting and cheering 'yippee' as the plane took off and squabbling like young children they were both in their thirties at the time the men had both been academically bright, with matthew  offered places both in the royal navy and at agricultural college, and michael joining the raf at the age of 20 both men were married and all had seemed to be going well for them matthew and his wife had a daughter, lydia – now 19 – and michael also had stepchildren mr and mrs clark decided to take early retirement and then, seven years ago, they sold their home in gloucestershire and moved to a village near benidorm, hoping their sons would visit when they could but the couple became concerned when michael and matthew stopped returning calls 'and then, one day, lydia phoned to say a worker from a hostel had called to say her dad was living there, and there were some problems he needed to discuss,' mrs clark said it seems the couple's departure coincided with their sons' downward spiral, and the men, by now both divorced, had become gradually unable to look after themselves, and ended up on benefits and sharing a squalid flat mrs clark said michael (pictured) is the most child like and moody, and he can't be left on his own the brothers share memories of happier times the men are getting mentally younger by the day mr and mrs clark say when they returned to find their sons had been arguing like toddlers and no longer able to live together michael had moved out of the flat and into a hostel, where workers arranged for him to have medical checks when doctors realised he had a brother with similar problems, they ran a series of genetic tests, which revealed both brothers were found to have terminal leukodystrophy it means the mens' brains were being destroyed both intellectually and emotionally, they were returning to their babyhood the couple were left with no other option than to leave their dream retirement and return home to care for their sons, who are now getting younger by the day mrs clark said michael is the most child like and moody, and he can't be left on his own, whereas matthew talks all the time, saying 'whatever comes into his head' she said: 'they can be very affectionate, particularly with one another – they'll often put their arms around one another, and michael will say, 'he's my little brother' just like small children, they wake up a lot during the night – i was up seven times with them last night – and, also like children, they'll deny and deny that they're tired, even when you can see their eyelids drooping' mrs clark said matthew talks all the time, saying 'whatever comes into his head' leukodystrophy is a neurological disease which affects the brain, nervous system and the spinal cord the condition usually only affects newborns, and is so rare there are only 100 people affected in the whole of the uk leukodystrophies are mostly inherited disorders, meaning that it is passed on from parent to child the myelin project funds research into the disease ceo of myelin's british arm, lynda carthy, said: 'there is an estimated one in three billion chance of two people who carry the gene deficiency meeting and becoming partners 'the chances of the children developing the condition are dependant on what type of leukodystrophy the parents have if both have the recessive gene then there is a one in four chance of the children having the disease 'if only the mother has the gene every boy born would have a form of leukodystrophy of course it's important to say there are 37 known types of the disease at the moment but doctors are diagnosing new forms which simply have not been catalogued yet and named' the word leukodystrophy comes from the greek words leuko (meaning white), trophy (meaning growth), and dys (meaning ill) the words put together, form leukodystrophy a set of diseases that affect the growth or maintenance of the white matter (myelin) all leukodystrophies are a result of problems with the growth or maintenance of the myelin sheath so far about forty different types of leukodystrophy have been identified
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a healthy adult should be consuming something in the region of 2,000 calories a day, according to the department of health but a new photo series by the new york times has revealed just what 2,000 calories looks like at some of the uk's favourite fast food chains and it's often a lot smaller than you might think at burger king you can fill half of you daily quota just by ordering a double whopper with cheese, while adding a side of onion rings and a vanilla milkshake takes you to 2,030 calories scroll down for video burger king: a double whopper with cheese gets you halfway there at 1,070 calories onion rings (410 calories) and a vanilla milkshake (550 calories) bring the total to 2,030 starbucks: to consume 2,000 calories, one would need to order a java chip frappucino (460 calories), latte (190 calories), orange mango smoothie (270 calories), cheese toastie (580 calories), popcorn (125 calories) and a sausage croissant (410 calories) mcdonald's: you'd need to order a crispy chicken sandwich with bacon (750 calories), fries (340 calories), coke (200 calories) and a mcflurry with oreos (690 calories) to hit that 2,000 mark at mcdonald's a modest sized lunch of a crispy chicken sandwich with bacon (750 calories), fries (340 calories), coke (200 calories) and a mcflurry with oreos (690 calories) will see you over the 2,000 a day limit the same applies to pizza hut, where a meat lover’s stuffed crust pizza is 880 calories add a soft drink at 440 calories, baked chicken wings with dip (340 calories), and two cookies (360 calories) and you've met your daily quota chipotle may not have been on uk shores for long, but it is also deceptively easy to hit your daily quota here, largely thanks to the carnitas burrito which has 945 calories all by itself add in some nacho chips and guacamole (770 calories) and a coke (276 calories) and you're there another new addition to the uk food scene, shake shack, has a similar problem, with the signature double shackburger providing 770 calories adding in fries (470 calories) and a black and white milkshake (760 calories) is enough to top the limit subway: a ham and turkey sub (375 calories), chips (230 calories), chicken noodle soup with croutons (155 calories), cookie (220 calories), buffalo chicken salad (360 calories), coke (200 calories), egg and cheese flatbread (370 calories) and juice (100 calories) equates to 2,000 calories pizza hut:  a meat lover’s stuffed crust pizza is 880 calories add a soft drink at 440 calories, baked chicken wings with cheese dip (340 calories), and two cookies (360 calories) and you've met your daily quota at chipotle you could hit 2,000 calories by ordering a carnitas burrito (945 calories, left), nacho chips and guacamole (770 calories) and a coke (276 calories) at shake shack, the same could be achieved with a double shackburger (770 calories), fries (470 calories) and a black and white milkshake (760 calories) it is slightly trickier to over do it at starbucks, but combining a java chip frappucino (460 calories), latte (190 calories), orange mango smoothie (270 calories), cheese toastie (580 calories), popcorn (125 calories) and a sausage croissant (410 calories) will get you there as many sandwiches and salads at subway clock in at under 400 calories, it is the additional items you need to watch out for here, 2,000 calories consists of a ham and turkey sub (375 calories), crisps (230 calories), chicken noodle soup with croutons (155 calories), a cookie (220 calories), buffalo chicken salad (360 calories), coke (200 calories), an egg and cheese flatbread (370 calories) and juice (100 calories) some of the dishes listed above are only available in the us, but most have their uk equivalents and here's what 2,000 calories looks like in america while over indulging at uk food chains may give you your daily calories in one meal, in america it is easily possible to hit 2,000 calories by eating just one dish at the cheesecake factory, for instance, the louisiana chicken pasta clocks in at 2,370 calories no drinks or sides required at sonic, all one needs is a peanut butter caramel pie shake to consume 2,090 calories in one swift sitting, while a slice of zuccotto cake at maggiano's little italy is 1,790 calories all by itself (a cappuccino on the side would be an additional 220 calories) cheesecake factory: the louisiana chicken pasta clocks in at 2,370 calories without sides or a drink sonic: the chain's peanut butter caramel pie shake contains a whopping 2,090 calories ihop: a classic skillet, with sausage contains 1,880 calories (the pancakes are included and served alongside the main dish) a glass of orange juice contains 110 calories pf chang's: a 2,000 calorie feast might include orange beef (565 calories), pad thai (580 calories), spinach (120 calories), dumplings (195 calories), caramel cake (430 calories) and wine (125 calories) and while ihop's classic skillet with sausage might appear to feed two (or even three), it is actually intended as a 1,880 calorie dish for one a glass of orange juice at 110 calories brings it closer to a 2,000 total one would really need to order a lot at subway to hit 2,000 caloriestwo thousand calories also equates to a hearty feast at pf chang's, including orange beef (565 calories), pad thai (580 calories), spinach (120 calories), dumplings (195 calories), caramel cake (430 calories) and wine (125 calories) at olive garden, it doesn't take much effort to consume 2,000 calories in fact, just a standard meal of a salad (150 calories), breadstick (140 calories), tour of italy sampler (1,500 calories) and a quartino of wine (230 calories) will do it at ruth's chris steakhouse, you could achieve the same result simply by ordering the cowboy ribeye steak (1,690 calories) and a martini (230 calories) olive garden: a salad (150 calories), breadstick (140 calories), tour of italy sampler (1,500 calories) and a quartino of wine (230 calories) contains a total of 2,020 calories maggiano's little italy: don't order a main, don't even order a starter this slice of zuccotto cake is 1,790 calories all by itself a cappuccino on the side would be an additional 220 calories ruth's chris steakhouse: meet your daily calorie intake simply by ordering the cowboy ribeye steak (1,690 calories) and a martini (230 calories)
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once a fit and sporty schoolgirl with a talent for dancing, loredana verta’s weight plummeted to less than four stone as she was gripped by anorexia after battling the eating disorder for more than three years, her vital organs began to shut down eventually she contracted liver disease and died from a heart attack aged 19 during her tragic descent the aspiring make up artist kept a diary which  lays bare her self loathing and weight obsession in page after page of  harrowing entries scroll down for video loredana verta, pictured left and right, died at the age of 19 after a three year battle with anorexia at the height of her illness the teenager's weight plummeted to four stone five years after loredana's death from a sudden heart attack in 2009, her mother anna, 55, finally built up the courage to open her daughter's diaries this year now she is releasing them to help others loredana, right, with her siblings gabriella and vittorio, at the height of her illness when her weight plummeted to four stone now, five years after loredana’s death, her mother anna, a teacher, is releasing the diaries she could only bring herself to read for the first time this year, with the aim of raising awareness of how deadly anorexia can be mrs verta said yesterday: ‘at the time i couldn’t understand how she’d lost control of her own body – why she couldn’t get better, despite all our worries and fears for her ‘but now, looking through lorry’s eyes, i finally understand her battle i want other sufferers to read her diary and recognise themselves in it, and know just how deadly anorexia really is’ one entry in the diary reads: ‘lord, i’ve said it i need help i’m scared i really am i don’t even have the strength to cry i hate me and my life nothing is going right for me i just wish it would' loredana (right) at the start of 2007 when she weighed just under 8st loredana had two sisters – natalina, 28, and gabriella, 23, as well as a brother vittorio, 19 her battle against illness began when she was 16, shortly after she joined a dance school according to her mother, ballet was loredana’s passion but mrs verta, 55, of hendon, north west london, said: ‘one day she came home extremely anxious she said the other girls in class were so much thinner than her ‘she was already slim and pretty she loved living and enjoyed meals with the family, and there was nothing wrong with the way she looked ‘i insisted she was beautiful the way  she was, but she just shook her head all girls have confidence issues at some point, but i hoped lorry would see sense eventually’ loredana began eating tiny portions at mealtimes and tried to conceal the fact her weight was dropping dangerously low 'i hate me and my life,' loredana wrote in her diary, revealing her constant battle as anorexia consumed her every thought loredana's innermost thoughts show pleas to be thin, and heart breaking insights into her mind, ravaged by the illness 'i can't do this anymore, i hate my body,' the teenager wrote consumed and tormented by anorexia 'mum is so lovely i love her she is trying so hard with me, but i’m pushing her away because i don’t want to gain weight i need to lose weight not gain it i just want to be thin' 'i don’t know how to eat i don’t know anything all i want is to be and look boney thin help me' 'i can’t do this anymore i hate my life i hate my body' 'i don't feel good, i feel so fat i get so angry when i think back to when i lost all the weight i felt so good' 'i feel so fat, please let me be thin i hate my lifei don't want to be fat, please let me be thin' 'why do i have to be fat?' 'i feel crap and i really hate my life, i want to be thin' 'there is hardly anyone here, the day is dragging i look so fat, i've gained so much i can feel it and i look it i want to die' 'plz lord i've said it, i need help, i'm scared i really am i don't even have the strength to cryi hate me and my life i just want to be happy and thin nothing is going right for me, i just wish it would' mrs verta said: ‘we’d always been close, but we started arguing every day ‘i tried my best to make her eat by watching her carefully and trying to get her to finish her meals, but nothing we did or said worked’ loredana wrote in the diary: ‘mum is so lovely i love her she is trying so hard with me, but i’m pushing her away because i don’t want to gain weight i need to lose weight – not gain it i just want to be thin’ in 2005, loredana was admitted to a specialist treatment centre, weighing less than  four stone mrs verta said: ‘even though she was so frail, she was terrified of going into hospital because she thought she  would ‘‘get fat’’’ after a six month stay, her weight crept up to eight stone but the diaries she kept during that time reveal a young woman facing daily consultations, medical tests and regulated mealtimes who was all the while tormented by deep anxiety over food and body image one entry reads: ‘i don’t know how to eat i don’t know anything all i want is to be and look bony thin’ another reads: ‘i can’t do this any more i hate my life i hate my body’ five months after being discharged from the treatment centre, she contracted a mild chest infection, resulting in her losing a small amount of weight – but it was enough to trigger a relapse  into anorexia for the next three years she visited various clinics, but the anorexia persisted until her death in 2009 mrs verta said: ‘loredana had given me so much to live for, and she was gone forever it wasn’t fair ms verta said she was inspired to release loredana's private diaries in the hope reading accounts of her daughter's battle with the illness, will help other sufferers after intensive treatment, loredana, pictured with her mother, did recover her weight to around eight stone, but a chest infection, which caused her to lose weight, sparked a relapse ‘i struggled to comprehend why her desire to be thin had taken over her life in such a cruel way i cried every day’ it was only this year that  mrs verta found the courage to open the diary as a way of  gaining understanding about loredana’s illness ‘anorexia occupied her every thought – her entire being,’ mrs verta said ‘i was devastated to read how she felt as if she hated her life and her body ‘lorry thought she could live with the condition – that as long as she was thin, she would be ok she didn’t realise that anorexia is a deadly disease it is a killer ‘if her diaries can help other sufferers to understand that, then they would have done some good’ the charity beat works to help people living with eating disorders to find out more visit their website ms verta, backed by her children, natalina, 28, gabriella, 23 and vittorio, 19, said: 'anorexia occupied her every thought her entire being only by reading her innermost thoughts did i gain that understanding she didn't realise that anorexia is a deadly disease it is a killer if her diaries can help other sufferers to understand that, then they would have done some good'
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michael wilson, 31, (pictured outside court) took his 75 year old grandmother maureen's debit card and stole £9,537 during a number of cash withdrawals a man who stole nearly £10,000 from his disabled grandmother to fund his cocaine habit has walked free from court despite his relative insisting he 'deserved to go to prison' michael wilson, 31, took his 75 year old grandmother maureen's debit card after moving into her home in nelson, lancashire, when her husband arnold, 74, was admitted to a care home the former aircraft engineer made a string of withdrawals from various cashpoints after correctly guessing her pin number and blew her savings on his £1,000 a week cocaine habit the money had been put aside to pay for arnold's £110 a week care home fees burnley crown court heard how mrs wilson only found out about her grandson's habits after she tried to use her debit card while out shopping and was told it had been refused because she was overdrawn she said it then emerged he had lost his job but had continued to pretend to go to work he admitted theft at court on friday and was handed an eight month prison sentence, suspended for a year he was also ordered to carry out 240 hours worth of unpaid work, take part in a six month drugs programme and comply with an 8pm to 7am curfew however, mrs wilson said she was disappointed with the sentence imposed by the judge and said he should've gone to prison she said: 'i would like to have seen him gone to prison, i think he deserves it 'he could be so nice and used to dote on me it's frightening enough when it's a stranger who robs you but when it's your own relation 'he has ruined his life he was a really good looking lad and always very smart he has been silly, stupid i have lost a lot of money 'i haven't seen him since he has definitely brought shame on the family but i think they are more annoyed than ashamed annoyed that he could do something like that 'how did he think i was going to manage in the future if i go into a home, the house is going to have to go and everything else he just didn't think about me at all he was interested in getting the money for drugs 'it's a disaster he may say he has remorse but i don't believe him i can't ever forgive him there's no chance' wilson had been living with his grandmother for around 12 months after she was left debilitated by a stroke and unable to care for her husband of 53 years who worked as a rolls royce engineer mrs wilson added: 'i needed someone to look after me and he looked after me well 'he was a kind lad and he was really good, he cooked tea and he would stay but unbeknown to me he was taking my card and putting it back in my handbag after using it at the bank 'i was none the wiser and the possibility my own grandson could steal from me was the last thing on my mind' mrs wilson said she believed the missing money from her account was a mistake at first, before contacting the bank after realising her debit card had disappeared wilson was spared jail after admitting theft at burnley crown court (pictured) despite his grandmother saying he should go to prison because he 'deserves to' he was handed a suspended sentence and a daily curfew inquiries revealed £9,537 was taken from her account in total in court, prosecutor emma kehoe said: 'it became apparent that the defendant, might have had something to do with what happened 'mrs wilson contacted the building society and got a mini statement it became apparent there had been a lot of transactions, totalling £9,537, which she just couldn't account for 'the defendant immediately accepted it was completely and utterly down to him and the family decided the police had to become involved because of the amount that had been taken' in mitigation for wilson, who has served two months behind bars while on remand, defence counsel robert elias said: 'i have to acknowledge the sense of betrayal of a family member going behind your back and emptying your bank account 'she probably would have given him money if he had had the courage to ask' mr elias said at the time, wilson was living 'something of a walter mitty existence' and added: 'he was leaving the house, pretending to go to work and kidding himself, as he couldn't accept or come to terms with his position 'that bubble of self deception, as well as deceiving others, can't go on for very long he has had a wake up call 'there's really no useful interest in incarcerating him any further he has been punished by the wake up call of incarceration for his own welfare' passing sentence, the judge, mr recorder barrie searle, said: 'this was a serious breach of trust it was a betrayal it was unpleasant 'clearly, you did not have permission to use that bank card in the way that you did 'a lady of these years is probably not used to this sort of treatment when she goes into a shop and i can imagine the worry she must have suffered at that age 'although i have not seen a victim impact statement, i am using my common sense as to how she must have felt 'i don't know whether the money will be recovered by her and whether that will put her mind at rest, but the fact is the damage has been done 'there are many who say, to use a cliché, that the clang of the prison gates would have a real effect on somebody like you it has been a very chastening experience and it has been a wake up call 'i take the view that you have had your punishment because you went to custody for the first time in your life and it has had an impact upon you'
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michael wilson stole from 75 year old grandmother to fund cocaine habit 31 year old regularly withdrew from her account after stealing debit card he admitted theft at burnley court after she realised £9,537 was missing spared jail but mrs wilson said he 'deserves to go to prison' for the crime
carina saunders, 19, was dumped in a duffel bag second man arrested in connection with murder a teenager was tortured and cut up in front of another woman so she would be frightened into cooperating with a human trafficking ring, police said jimmy lee massey, 33, was arrested over the first degree murder of carina saunders, 19, whose dismembered body was found stuffed in a duffel bag the young woman had been beheaded and dumped on october 13 behind a grocery store a 20 year old woman came forward as a witness to say she had been kidnapped by massey and forced to watch miss saunders painful death in bethany, oklahoma her identity has not been released because of concerns for her safety scroll down for video tortured: carina saunders, 19, was known to have run with a rough crowd who used drugs but the choice to kill her was 'random', said police brutal: jimmy lee massey (left) and francisco gomez have been arrested over the torture and dismemberment of 19 year old carina saunders in bethany, oklahoma miss saunders was known to use drugs but not thought to be involved in criminal activity the choice of her was 'random', according to police massey was already being held in the oklahoma county jail on drug charges and he remains held without bond court documents do not list an attorney for him, police chief phil cole said a second man, 31 year old francisco gomez was also arrested in connection with miss saunders' murder along with charges of drug trafficking and failure to pay child support as he was lead into the police station in handcuffs last night, he told reporters: 'i've got nothing to with no drugs, no murder, no nothing' in pain: carina saunders was tortured in front of another woman as a warning for her not to cross a trafficking gang markings: the corpse of carina saunders was quickly identified because of her distinctive tattoos in tribute: a memorial to carina saunders sits near a parking lot behind a grocery store in bethany, oklahoma deputy us marshall callen stephens told news 9: 'bethany pd announced that francisco gomez was a person of interest in the bethany homicide 'we surrounded a possible address for mr gomez and he surrendered peacefully he was booked on a trafficking charge' massey has told investigators he kidnapped the 20 year old woman and forced her to watch others kill saunders he also provided details of saunders' torture, killing and dismemberment and disposal of the body whole life ahead of her: miss saunders had been reported missing by her family when a duffel bag containing parts of her body was found behind a grocery store picked out: carina saunders was said to have known jimmy lee massey but was chosen at random to be killed chief cole said there was no evidence the witness knew miss saunders but both women knew massey separately police said the kidnapping and brutal killing were meant to send a message that the witness and her friends faced the same fate unless they cooperated with a human trafficking and drug ring gruesome: bethany police chief phil cole speaks about the murder of carina saunders the police chief said: 'evidence in our investigation has led us to believe that she had been expected to provide certain things to this trafficking group and that she had not been performing to their satisfaction 'we believe there were other people there and they're now the focus of our investigation' oklahoma county assistant district attorney scott rowland said a decision on charges would be made in january rowland declined to discuss whether the drug charges that massey was being held on were related to the killing 'we're at a delicate point in the case and i want to be really careful about what i say,' he told a news conference chief cole said there was no evidence that miss saunders was involved in criminal activity he said: 'our information right now leads us to believe she was a random choice, as sad as that is 'she had relationships within these loosely associated people, and i think that she was a victim of opportunity' he said investigators met with the young woman's family at the weekend he added: 'they are encouraged by this they're hoping this is just one of many more that will be held to answer for their daughter's murder' cuffed: gomez, 31, was brought in by police in bethany but told reporters he hadn't done anything wrong grim discovery: police officers surround the spot where miss saunders dismembered body was found in a duffel bag in october miss saunders, who graduated from mustang high school last year, was known to use methamphetamine, marijuana and ecstasy police have been unable to determine whether she had a job or where she was living at the time of her death
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carina saunders, 19, was dumped in a duffel bag second man arrested in connection with murder
warning: dr michael mosley appeared on itv's this morning to dispel common fitness myths we're constantly being told that exercise is the panacea to many of life's ills not only will it make us fitter, it will help us lose weight and boost our mental health but it seems this may have been wrong all along exercise can actually cause us to gain weight and there's no such thing as an 'endoprhin rush', one expert claims dr michael mosley, the brains behind the popular 5:2 diet, says countless myths surrounding physical activity are hampering our health and morale 'a lot of people think that when you exercise, you can eat what you want and that the gym will make you happy,' he told itv's this morning 'but this is wrong' during the programme, he discussed the common myths that could do more harm than good here, mailonline outlines his key points going to the gym can make you fat the key problem is that we reward ourselves with 'treats' after exercise or have the 'i've been to the gym, so i can eat what i want mentality', says dr mosley 'exercise is a good way to keep weight off but it's not a good way to lose it 'going to the gym will burn calories but way less than we think '1lb of fat is 3,500 calories and fat is more energy dense than dynamite' so to burn 1lb of fat you'd need to run about 38 miles' he cites the example of a muffin and latte which many of us underestimate the calorie content of 'if you run one mile, you burn roughly 100 calories,' he told presenters ruth langsford and eamonn holmes 'a muffin contains around 500 calories so you would have to run for five miles or walk for 10 miles to burn it off' and when it comes to a latte which has around 150 calories it would be 15 miles of running or a three mile (hour long) walk 'that is why people never lose weight going to the gym in the long run' bad reward: 'a muffin contains around 500 calories so you would have to run for five miles or walk for 10 to burn it off,' says dr mosley  a typical latte contains around 150 calories and would take 15 miles of running or a three mile (hour long) walk to shift not everyone gets fitter with exercise 'there was an experiment which followed 100 people exercising for 30 minutes, five days a week,' dr mosley told viewers over time, their metabolic fitness the strength of their heart and lungs was measured 'while 20 per cent became significantly fitter, most didn't change that much and 20 per cent saw no change at all they just didn't have the right genes,' he said 'it is true some people have a genetic make up that means they just can't lose weight 'it can very demoralising and these people feel like a failure' he added that gym bunnies tend to be the 20 per cent of people who see significant improvements in their fitness myth: while exercise can relieve symptoms of depression, this is more to do with being out in the fresh air rather than the release of 'feel good' endorphins, dr mosley claims exercise doesn't release 'feel good' endorphins we're always being told this, but again, there is no scientific evidence for it, dr mosely told ruth langsford 'the endorphin molecules are simply too big to cross the blood brain barrier 'i personally find exercise doesn't boost my mood at all' and while studies have shown exercise can relieve symptoms of depression, this is more to do with being out in the fresh air, he says 'it's about getting out, clearing your head whether that's walking the dog, playing golf, whatever,' he said forget slogging it out for an hour you can make a difference in minutes in fact, evidence is increasingly showing that short bursts of high intensity exercise are much more beneficial, he said indeed, research published last week showed just two one minute sessions a week for six weeks dramatically improved the health and physical fitness of men and women over 65 blood pressure dropped and everyday tasks such as getting out of a chair or carrying shopping became easier although they began by doing six six second sprints, by end of the study, they were able to do ten per session – adding up to 60 seconds of activity after just six weeks, blood pressure fell by 9 per cent and day to day activities were easier, the journal of the american geriatrics society reports 'despite fears that high intensity exercise could be dangerous for elderly people or those with existing heart conditions, it actually has a protective effect,' dr mosley said today half of people are unaware that lack of exercise can increase the risk of cancer – with as many wrongly blaming stress a survey shows most people do not know that just 30 minutes of physical activity a day could reduce the risk of bowel, breast and womb cancer but the yougov poll commissioned by world cancer research fund uk (wcrf) found 46 per cent of people believed stress increases the risk of cancer – despite the lack of scientific evidence the survey showed 56 per cent of the 2,535 people questioned are in the dark about the link between too little physical activity and a greater risk of cancer professor martin wiseman, medical and scientific adviser at the wcrf, said: ‘for many people, stress makes them aware of problems that they had formerly ignored, or is a reason for seeking advice ‘stress might prompt them to become acutely conscious of an irritation or pain that they had previously tolerated ‘it’s this stress that often pushes them to seek their doctor’s advice, and many automatically link the outcome to the recent stress and believe it to be the cause ‘however, there is no sound scientific evidence that stress causes cancer’ professor wiseman said as well as cutting weight gain, research shows activity has a direct role in preventing some cancers possibly by maintaining healthy hormone levels
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dr michael mosley told itv's this morning the myths harm health and morale says our 'reward culture' after the gym means we're likely to gain weight there is 'no evidence' that endorphins can travel through the brain barrier and only 20% of us see a big difference in our fitness from regular exercise
at least 18 people died and nearly 50 were injured in a stampede in india's financial capital of mumbai early on saturday as thousands of mourners gathered following the death of the 102 year old leader of a muslim sect the stampede took place outside the home of syedna mohammed burhanuddin, the spiritual leader of the dawoodi bohra muslim community, in malabar hill, a wealthy part of the city, police said he died on friday and his body had been placed in his home to allow followers to pay their respects scroll down for video stampede: indian bohra muslims take part in the funeral procession of their spiritual leader syedna mohammed burhanuddin in mumbai where 18 people were killed an indian muslim woman cries near the body of a victim killed in a stampede in mumbai, india tens of thousands of people gathered to mourn the death of the leader syedna mohammed burhanuddin gestures as he speaks to community members on his 99th birthday in mumbai prayer: the dawoodi bohra community participate in the funeral procession in malabar hill, a wealthy part of the city of mumbai witnesses said a large crowd of mourners was pressed against the gates of the house at the time of the stampede 'there were a lot of people pouring in, and there was not much attention given by the government and the police, who should have been here and who should have managed things,' said one man wearing traditional white flowing bohra muslim attire mumbai police commissioner satyapal singh said neither police nor organisers had expected such a large number of mourners several of the injured were released after treatment at nearby hospitals, said a city official who declined to be named as he was not authorised to speak to the media syedna mohammed burhanuddin died on friday and his body had been placed in his home to allow followers to pay their respects but thousands turned up unexpected: mumbai police commissioner satyapal singh said neither police nor organisers had expected such a large number of mourners at the funeral of the leader indian muslims stretch out their hands towards the body of the head of the dawoodi bohra muslim community syedna mohammed burhanuddin during his funeral indian muslims stand together during the funeral procession of the syedna mohammed burhanuddin where there was a stampede killing 18 people died and injured 50 muslims line up along a street as they wait for the funeral procession of their spiritual leader syedna mohammed burhanuddin in mumbai later on saturday, tens of thousands of people lined narrow streets along the route of the funeral procession as it headed towards a mausoleum in south mumbai where the leader will be buried alongside his father 'people have come from outside india, and more will keep coming everyone was very fond of him,' said 62 year old mumbai resident juzer lokhandwala, who attended with his family to pay their last respects the origins of the shia muslim sect can be traced to yemen in india, some of the largest bohra muslim communities live in the western state of gujarat, where many are merchants the community, widely seen as mostly prosperous and philanthropic, runs a large speciality hospital in mumbai stampedes frequently happen at religious sites in india but they are rare in large cities, such as mumbai, where there is a greater police presence to monitor the flow of people last october, about 115 people were killed in a stampede at a hindu temple in the central state of madhya pradesh indian bohra muslim women watch the funeral procession as a large crowd gathered to pay their last respects later on saturday, tens of thousands of people lined narrow streets along the route of the funeral procession as it headed towards a mausoleum in south mumbai where the leader will be buried stampedes frequently happen at religious sites in india but they are rare in large cities, such as mumbai, where there is a greater police presence businesses of the members of bohri community are seen closed in saddar after the death of their spiritual leader dr syedna muhammad burhanuddin
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stampede outside home of syedna mohammed burhanuddin, spiritual leader of dawoodi bohra muslim community he died on friday and his body had been placed in his home to allow followers to pay their respects the 102 year old leader of a muslim sect lived in malabar hill, a wealthy part of the city
his staggering bravery during the heat of battle not only won him the ultimate military accolade for valour but also a heartfelt tribute from a young winston churchill lieutenant colonel thomas watson was shot in the thigh, arm and his hand while trying to clear a village in british india of murderous warriors but despite the appalling injuries which he would modestly said were no more than 'grazes' and debilitating blood loss, lt col watson insisted on heading back through the hail of bullets and back into the fray heroic: lt col thomas watson won the victoria cross, left, after shrugging off three bullet wounds and continued fighting enemy tribesmen wreaking havoc in a village in british india he only stopped battling after fainting from blood loss churchill who was fighting in the north west frontier region of british india under the command of general jeffery and was part of the relief force that arrived the following day later wrote of lt col watson's heroics: 'the man will go on, unshaken and unflinching after he has received a severe and painful wound' it was also noted that the officer had 'in all probability saved the whole force from being wiped out' by the pashtun enemy who had massively outnumbered the british during the siege of malakan in 1897 lt col watson was awarded the vc for his bravery he went on to serve in world war one but died from illness in 1917 the details of his gallantry have come to light again as his family prepare to auction the victoria cross he won during that astonishing display of bravery recognition: winston churchill, pictured in 1899, wrote of lt col thomas watson's astonishing bravery historic: a 'record of services' belonging to the watson family is part of a collection of items which are expected to fetch £160,000 when auctioned battlefield: the village of bilot, scene of lt col thomas watson's vc winning exploits the medal, the highest military decoration for gallantry, has been passed down through the watson family but is now expected to fetch £160,000 at sale david erskine hill, of london auctioneers dix noonan and webb, said: 'the north west frontier was so oft the scene of savage fighting and heavy casualties in days of the empire 'and the story behind thomas watson's vc epitomises the very nature of that fighting a small hillside village, surrounded by overwhelming numbers of hostile tribesmen, and a remarkable band of british and indian troops who held on against all the odds, until relieved 'watson led two hair raising charges at the cost of multiple wounds, including a shattered hand and ruptured artery lt col watson's victoria cross group of six medals stand testament to his staggering bravery and service 'no wonder winston churchill, who arrived with the relief force the following morning, was later moved to describe watson's courage as 'sublime' 'but in common with many fellow vcs, watson remained extremely modest about his accomplishments, his charming letter to his wife, written in haste soon after those momentous events, merely referring to one or two 'grazes'' lt col watson, from louth, lincs, and was commissioned in to the royal engineers in 1888 tribute: lt col watson's wife edith, pictured, was also a decorated for nursing british soldiers in india he married his wife edith welchman, who herself had previously been awarded the royal red cross for her efforts in the nursing of british soldiers in india in september 1897 an army of 10,000 pashtun tribesmen lay siege to the british garrison in malakand on the night of september 16 at the village of bilot that was being held by the enemy, lt col watson rounded up 'a few' men of the east kent regiment and of the bengal sappers he led them in a charge of the remove the tribesmen who retaliated with heavy fire in his 1898 book, the story of the malakand field force, churchill wrote of how the burning village was a 'shambles' when the relief party arrived the next day the future prime minister wrote: 'all round lay corpses of men and mules the bodies of five or six native soliders were being buried in a hurriedly dug grave 'eighteen wounded men lay side by side in a roofless hut, their faces drawn by pain and anxiety looked ghastly in the pale light of the early morning' churchill's account of the action the night before stated: 'the village was too large for so small a party to clear 'the tribesmen killed and wounded several of the soldiers and a bullet smashed lieutenant watson's hand he however continued his efforts and did not cease untilo again shot, this time so severely as to be unable to stand 'his men carried him from the village' horours: among the collection of military awards won by is the extremely rare royal red cross group of three given to sister e welchman, who later married lt col thomas watson four days later, while recovering from his wounds, lt col watson wrote the letter to 'my own darling' wife he wrote his getting injured: 'i got touched on the right leg, only a grazei went back to get some sappersi hurried backand was pointing out where the devils were sneaking up when i got a slight flesh wound in the inside of the right arm niothing of consequence but unfortunately almost immediately afterwards i got hit badly on the left hand' the brave officer went on to fight in the first world war and was the commanding engineer of the 12th inidian division in mesopotamia (iraq) against the ottoman empire he contracted an illness from which he died in london in june 1917 aged 50 his vc along with other medals and letters home is being sold on june 19
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lt col thomas watson shrugged off injuries during a battle in 1897 he only stopped fighting after fainting from blood loss his actions almost single highhandedly 'saved the whole force from being wiped out' details come to light as his family prepare to auction his victoria cross
this is the body that sank john edwards' political career rielle hunter, 48, looked svelte in a simple white tankini as she strutted in the southern sun on figure eight island in north carolina this weekend the beach vacation came just in time for her to celebrate father's day with the man who spent two years publicly denying their daughter quinn, 4, was his the candid photos come as hunter reveals lurid details about her sex life with edwards and the passion that drove him so mad he cheated on his cancer stricken wife and sabotaged his presidential campaign in 2008 hunter says the first time she slept with edwards was the 'most extraordinary night of her life' the body that drove john mad: even at 48, rielle hunter looks fetching in a simple white tankini as she and quinn hit the beach in north carolina on sunday holiday: hunter, john edwards and little quinn celebrated father's day at figure eight island, off north carolina's southern coast hunter managed to show off her figure, even though she covered up with a cowboy hat and sunglasses status unknown: hunter remains coy about the status of her relationship with edwards, claiming she doesn't even know the couple met in february 2006 at the regency hotel in new york city hours after hunter approached the former north carolina senator, he called her up to his hotel room for a night of 'surrender' and 'zero sleep' hunter claims she wrote the book, 'what really happened: john edwards, our daughter and me,' to publicly explanation the six year romance to the couple's love child, frances quinn hunter however, the former campaign videographer seems to leave little to the imagination about her sex life family? edward, rielle and quinn are pictured together at their rented beach house last weekend the book is due out june 26 an extensive interview with abc news will air friday on '20/20' hunter says she caught edwards' eye at the hotel when she followed him out of a reception and said, 'you are so hot' hours later, she got a call from him inviting her to his room she claims she went only because she thought she could give edwards advice for his presidential campaign but that all changed the moment she was alone behind closed doors with 'her johnny' 'the connection i felt when i walked in the door had only grown and the amount of energy between us was huge and unstoppable,' hunter writes, according to an excerpt obtained by radar online 'and then a moment came while we were talking when something in my heart clicked and i surrendered 'i took off my teacher hat, let go of all my resistance to him and let him lead and lead he did he led me toward the most extraordinary night of my life there was a lot of talk, a lot of laughter and zero sleep' but hunter says she didn't give in easily to sleeping with a married man it took edwards telling her a story about having three other mistresses to get her into bed that first night they met 'he told me that he had an entire hidden life that had gone on for decades and that he was currently involved with three different women one lived in los angeles, one in florida, and one in chicago,' hunter writes, according to radar online 'clearly, this behavior of his was not going to change overnight i also told him that if i was going to help him, he couldn't lie to me he needed to have one person in his life that was safe for him 'he said that wasn't a problem, and when he said that, i felt a wave of total relief roll off of him he needed this safe place somewhere in the midst of our talk, long after i realized how far off the rails his marriage was, and for how long it had been that way, something happened between us' but edwards did lie to hunter he lied that night about the three other mistressesand used the lie to manipulate her for five years he didn't come clean about his love life until 2011, she says edwards had two other mistresses, he said, but both those affairs ended before his 2004 bid to become vice president hunter, 48, says she spent most of her 20s snorting cocaine as she pursued an acting career in new york but she got past drug abuse before she turned 30 and replaced it, she claims, with a quest for 'spiritual growth' the book contains a full throated defense of her lovereven as she is coy about the status of their relationship sex obsessed: hunter claims she and edwards had a magnetic attraction that clicked as soon as she walked into his hotel room in february 2006 life in the spotlight: hunter was an aspiring actress for most of her young adult life and appeared in several movies, including ricochet she also appeared in several stage plays watchful mother: little quinn stuck close to hunter as she sunned herself on the white sandy beach paid the price: edwards lost his political career, and his shot at national office, because he could not resist hunter, a leggy blonde who has stayed svelte even six years after her relationship with the two time presidential candidate began hunter attacks edwards' wife elizabeth, who died in december 2010 of breast cancer, calling her 'crazy,' 'venomous' and a 'witch on wheels' she says her abusive behavior toward john edwards drove him into the arms of other women other accounts of the 2008 presidential campaign, including 'game change' by journalists john heilemann and mark halperin back up hunter's portrait of elizabeth edwards as controlling and potentially abusive he also blasts andrew young, john edwards top aide, who helped hide the affair for several years she says it was young's idea for edwards and hunter and lie and say hunter's baby, quinn, belonged to him and not the presidential candidate playing in the surf: hunter and quinn frolicked in the warm water with other beach goers on sunday afternoon father's day: the family were staying at a rented beach house in north carolina edwards was seen at the house three days earlier, clutching his swimming shorts and a bottle of wine in a plastic bag loyal: hunter makes excuses for edwards' bad behavior in her book, while fiercely attacking his wife, elizabeth, who died of cancer of 2010 she says elizabeth edwards controlling, abusive behavior is what drove 'her johnny' into her arms hunter repeated the lie in an interview with the national enquirer and edwards, famously, told abc news during an august 2008 broadcast that the baby was not his he didn't publicly acknowledge his love child until 2010, when she was nearly two hunter's book is a window into the life of a political mistress major new york publishers had said they were not interested in hunter's book, citing her negative image, so it is instead being released through a dallas based boutique publisher, benbella books she describes waiting for hours at hotel bars for her lover to swoop in off the campaign trail seeking publicity: hunter has thrust herself into the spotlight with the new book she will appear in an interview with abc news on friday adorable: quinn, four, looked like she was having plenty of fun playing on the beach with her mother where's john? edwards did not company his lover and his daughter to the beach, he likely stayed back at their rented house the horse murders: this isn't the first time hunter has been at the center of a national scandal her father was accused of paying a man to electrocute her prize winning show horse so he could collect the $150,000 insurance money they often shared hurried dinners over take out before short, passionate romps then, edwards had to leave and return to his cancer stricken wife and his life in the public eye when edwards faced the prospect of an indictment that could put him behind bars, he calmly told hunter he would probably wind up in a low security prison in virginia more like a country club than a jail she quickly responded that she and their daughter would move there to be near him if that happened federal prosecutors spent a year prosecuting edwards, culminating in a six week trial that ended last month jurors acquitted edwards on one count of accepting illegal campaign contributions and deadlocked on five other felony counts turned over a new leaf: hunter says she spent most of her 20s snorting cocaine, but gave up drugs to pursue 'spiritual growth' come on: hunter says she got edwards' attention the first night they met by chasing after him and telling him 'you're so hot' presence: edwards claimed hunter had a physical and sexual confidence that made her irresistible the judge declared a mistrial federal prosecutors then said in a court order earlier this month that they wouldn't retry edwards, and the charges against him were dropped neither edwards nor hunter testified prosecutors had accused edwards, 59, of masterminding a scheme to use about $1 million in secret payments from two wealthy political donors to hide his pregnant mistress as he sought the white house in 2008 the trial publicized intimate details about edwards' affair with hunter as his wife, elizabeth, was dying of cancer around town: quinn held her mother's hand as she walked to the beach in the clear: edwards will not face prosecution again on charges he concealed campaign contributions to hide hunter he was acquitted on one count by a jury on may 31
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new book claims hunter went to bed with edwards hours after first meeting him in february 2006 edwards convinced her sleep with him, even though he was married, by claiming he had three other mistresses the tale of edwards' other lovers was a lie he continue to tell her for five years hunter's book, 'what really happened,' is due out june 26
police in quebec, canada, were following the scent of something sweet millions of dollars' worth of maple syrup missing from a large warehouse stocking over $30million worth of the amber nectar the theft puts a cavity sized dent in quebec's syrup stock, considered to be a global strategic reserve of the sweet stuff that is often used to replenish markets during disappointing seasons quebec produces up to 80 per cent of the world's maple syrup quebec provincial sgt claude denis said on friday that it was too soon to determine the exact quantity or value of the maple syrup stolen from the st louis de blandford facility where over 10 million pounds is stored, but it is likely that millions of dollars worth of the product were taken scroll down for video sweet heist: millions of dollars' worth of maple syrup was swiped from the st louis de blandford warehouse in quebec stocking over 10 million pounds of the sticky stuff the federation of quebec maple syrup producers said it discovered the missing syrup last week during a routine inventory where empty barrels were found at the site at st louis de blandford, quebec, meaning that the sticky liquid was somehow transferred to other containers by the perpetrators the federation is the industry association for the province's 7,500 syrup producers, and administers a bulk sale system with quotas on individual operations, according to cbc news if every drop of syrup was stolen from the warehouse, it would represent more than a tenth of quebec's harvest for this year, and more than a quarter of the federation's inventory officials initially kept the news quiet, hoping it would help police solve the crime anne marie granger godbout, the executive director of the federation, said that while it is not unusual for individual maple syrup producers to have stock stolen, having millions worth of syrup stolen is ‘unusual’ ‘it's the first time something like this has happened,’ she said ‘we've never seen a robbery of this magnitude’ she said the disappearance of the stock was not obvious at first in the huge warehouse the facility alone houses nearly the equivalent of half the entire us production of maple syrup in a year, she said sticky situation: if the stolen syrup makes its way onto the market, it could hurt some 10,000 quebec producers ‘the us market is the main market for maple syrup, about 75 per cent of canadian maple syrup is directly exported to the us,’ she said she noted the theft was particularly ill timed after a disappointing 2012 season for us producers, triggering more demand for canadian syrup she said auditors would require a few more days to determine how many of the 45 gallon barrels have been emptied theft of stock at the individual producer level prompted the industry in quebec to group inventory in locations such as this, granger godbout said while the federation is insured for the loss, if the stolen syrup makes its way onto the market, it could hurt the group's 10,000 members, cnn reported video: the industry is now worred that a maple syrup black market will emerge
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syrup was stolen from the st louis de blandford site where over 10million pounds of the sweet stuff is stored thieves emptied the syrup from barrels and somehow transferred it into other containers if entire contents of the facility was stolen, it would represent more than tenth of quebec's 2012 syrup harvest
the final straw in john edwards' doomed marriage with his wife elizabeth was when he asked to see his love child quinn, the disgraced politician's mistress has revealed in her tell all memoir rielle hunter, who met edwards in february 2006 and had his daughter two years into their affair, wrote that he promised his wife he would not speak to hunter again after admitting the child was his but in december 2009, more than a year after he finally admitted to being quinn's father, he told his wife he needed to see the child before she underwent sedation for dental surgery revelations: in her tell all memoir, john edwards's mistress rielle hunter tells of his love towards his daughter quinn the father and daughter are pictured at the beach in north carolina this weekend love child: edwards denied he was the father of quinn, pictured left with her mother hunter, for two years in her lurid memoir, hunter reveals her shock at his public denials 'elizabeth screamed at him, 'if you go to be with her at the hospital, we are done!'' hunter writes in her memoir, what really happened: john edwards, our daughter and me 'he said, 'she is my daughter, and i am going',' hunter added, to which elizabeth responded: 'i am going to divorce you!' after 32 years of marriage, the couple signed a separation agreement and edwards moved out of the home only to return to following year before elizabeth lost her battle with cancer in the memoir, due out next week and excerpted in people magazine, hunter provides an unwavering defense of edwards and documents his love for quinn, now four 'venomous': hunter claims john edwards' late wife elizabeth, pictured in 2004, was controlling and abusive elizabeth died of cancer in december 2010 the father and daughter were pictured together for the first time since 2008 this weekend images show edwards at ease with quinn, as he laughs and plays with her on the beach in north carolina 'johnny was so sweet with our daughter,' hunter writes about the first time he met his daughter 'she looked right at him with a look of love that she still gives him i have never seen her look at anyone the way she looks at her dad' the love he showed for his daughter came at odds with his public denials of his paternity for two years, he denied the child was his and asked his aide, andrew young, to pretend to be her father when the national enquirer broke the story that quinn was in fact edwards' daughter, hunter said she was stunned to hear him continue to deny it 'nothing nothing prepared me for that,' she writes 'i watched the man that i loved deny our child how could he do that?' daddy's girl: hunter reveals that, after her birth, quinn gave her father a look of love that she still gives him fatherly love: after his acquittal last month, edwards called his daughter 'precious' even though he publicly denied she was his for two years after the interview with the national enquirer, she told him how much his words had hurt her, she wrote he simply responded: 'sorry, but it didn't mean anything' last month, when edwards was hauled before a judge on charges that he had used campaign funds to cover up his affair with hunter, he publicly acknowledge his love for his 'precious' daughter after he was acquitted of one count of corruption and a mistrial was declared on five other counts, edwards emerged from the court house saying he was grateful to all his children he said: 'my precious quinn, who i love more than any of you can ever imagine, who i am so close to, so, so grateful for' in her memoir, hunter also gives insight into her pregnancy, which she claims had been unplanned 'i couldn't imagine i was, given i was 43 and had never been pregnant,' she writes 'johnny and i never used birth control but i was mindful of my cycle and i was certain that i had never been ovulating during any of my visits with johnny' normal family: hunter has said that she does not know what the future holds between her and edwards day at the beach: the trio were pictured together at a beach house on figure eight island, north carolina this weekend, in a sign that hunter and edwards are still very much involved when she told edwards of the pregnancy, he paused and said kindly: 'i want to be clear that whatever you decide, this is your decision, and i support you' the excerpts, published in people magazine, provide the latest revelations from the book, which is due out on june 26 she claims she wrote the juicy book for quinn and is part of her 'duty' edwards' three other children, cate, emma claire and jack, that he had with elizabeth it offers lurid details about the couple's sex life, especially the 'extraordinary' sleepless night she 'surrendered' to edwards just hours after meeting him at a reception in a new york city hotel the memoir also provides a scathing attack on edwards's wife, who lost her battle with cancer in december 2010 she was battling the disease when her husband's affair became public out with mum: four year old quinn walks with her mother during shopping trips on their holiday despite these horrific circumstances, hunter shows only scorn for elizabeth she says she was controlling and abusive toward her husband, which drove him into the arms of other women hunter calls her lover's late wife 'venomous' and a 'witch on wheels' 'many people invested their hearts, their time and their energy into the image of john and elizabeth edwards,' she writes 'while this image wasn't exactly true, i did play a role in destroying this myth, and many supporters ended up feeling hurt, betrayed, and disillusioned' the excerpts also describe elizabeth's tortured reaction to learning that her husband was having an affair with hunter, his campaign videographer 'elizabeth requested all the tapes (i’d made of the campaign) she locked herself in a room to watch,' hunter writes at ease: the trio are finally pictured together after years of edwards denying he was quinn's father loved up: the couple appeared at ease on the beach break, which came after edwards' corruption trial 'on one tape she saw johnny walking into a room and his reaction to seeing me she apparently told him that he never once looked at her the way he looked at me so she took that bit and put it on her computer as a screen saver in order to watch it over and over again' hunter added she is still in love with edwards and that they're still together as a couple, even though he lives 140 miles away and sometimes only visits once every two weeks the mistress likened their relationship to that of kurt russell and goldie hawn the a list hollywood couple who have been together for nearly 30 years but never married she added: 'marriage? i have no idea i'm not a big fan of the institution, but never say never'
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hunter claims in her memoir that cancer stricken elizabeth demanded a divorce when edwards asked to visit quinn details edwards' love for quinn despite public denials he was her father was stunned to discover she was pregnant despite not using birth control father and daughter pictured together for first time since 2008 this weekend relaxed weekend away with hunter came after his corruption trial
a stunning collection of photographs of world war one battlefields as they are today are to go on show in britain for the first time a hundred years on, with no one alive to remember the 'war to end all wars', only the landscape bears witness to the events that killed 21 million men women and children the somme, passchendaele, ypres and verdun and so many other battlefields may be just names in history books today, but the sites along the western front have recovered their former tranquility and peace memory of war: the champagne battlefield burial site memorial left intact on the western front with the soldier's equipment left on the grave, along with a plaque placed there by his father in 1919 craters: an aerial view of the newfoundland memorial park in beaumont hamel, northern france, with its shell craters and trenches battlefield: a major allied offensive took place in 1916 at messines ridge on the southern end of the ypres salient with over 8,000 metres of tunnels dug and 21 mines containing almost 600 tonnes of explosives laid under the german lines a father's tribute to his dead son is illustrated by the young man's helmet and equipment adorning his graveside with a plaque at the champagne battle site fifteen haunting images taken by world press photo award winning photographer mike st maur shiel go on show next month between november 5 and 14th in a street gallery exhibition fields of battle lands of peace 14 – 18 at westminster hall after being given permission by the black rod the freestanding photographs, each measuring 12 metres (4ft) by 18 metres (5ft 10in), are the result of a six year project and reveal the transformation of the battlefields of the 1914 18 war into the landscape of modern europe in august 2014, the exhibition opens in london with 60 images in central london before touring across the uk and ireland's major cities during the centenary until 2018 based on a timeline of world war one events st maur sheil said: 'this collection represents a legacy which i hope will create a gateway to the battlefields themselves, encouraging people to visit these historic landscapes during the centennial period and so create awareness and understanding of the events' peaceful: a view today from cavernes des dragons southwards over la vallee foulon towards french positions traquil masurian lakes on the eastern front: the german 8th army tried to encircle the russian 1st army there in 1914 st maur sheil who won his award in 2002 for his work on child trafficking in west africa, began taking the battle field pictures after visiting dunkirk with his father who served there in 1940 with the london irish rifles 'oddly enough he featured in what has become one of the iconic images of that battle but what came as a complete surprise to me was the extraordinary memory he had for what appeared to me to be feature less fields, ' he said 'we visited ypres and i watched him as he stood erect at the menin gate, fighting back his tears: it was an emotion i had never been exposed to before 'the men of 1914 18 largely saw the land torn apart and stripped of its covering mantle of grass and trees, it's bones literally laid bare as they sought shelter within its protective skin' conflict: the landing at cape helles was part of the amphibious invasion of the gallipoli peninsular by british and french forces in april 1915 street exhibition: an artist's impression imagines visitors gazing at the images taken by photographer mike st maur shiel of the battlefields and the relics left by the great war history lesson: another artist's impression shows schoolchildren visiting the exhibition and learn about the 'war to end all wars' between 1914 18 his images of the former battle fields extend over 600 kilometres from the coast of the english channel, across belgium and northern and eastern france as far as the swiss border the exhibition, conceived jointly with historian, the late sir richard holmes and chris bridge of street gallery pioneers, wecommunic8, includes fascinating archive imagery, historical information and educational content chris bridge of street gallery pioneers wecommunic8 said:  'fields of battle' will engage with all social groups, whilst creating a high level intellectual and emotional connection with audiences' carnage: british infantrymen occupying a shallow trench in a ruined landscape before an advance during the battle of the somme
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many will be deeply moved by the sight of a toddler beating her chest with tiny fists while a 300lb gorilla lounges alongside her, eating a kiwi fruit they will laugh as the two toss straw over their heads and gasp when one of the world’s largest primates leans forward to give the little girl a tender peck on the cheek others, however, will be horrified more than once, the gorilla gathers the girl in her arms, carrying her off as she would one of her young the bond between the playmates is unmistakable despite the the grainy vhs footage being more than 20 years old dressed in navy jumper and light blue trousers, 18 month old tansy aspinall romps in the sunshine, one minute swaying on a rope swing, the next tumbling down the slide, tummy first, her not so little friend behind her not so little being the operative phrase for tansy’s playground is, in fact, an animal pen at howletts wild animal park in kent and her chums are western lowland gorillas scroll down to see the video of tansy aspinall and the gorilla for yourself controversial parenting? a photo taken in 1990, before the video was filmed, shows tansy aspinall in the arms of an adult gorilla at howletts wild animal park in kent her father, damian, has now decided to release the family film via the mail on sunday and is making it available on youtube it is a controversial decision and damian, 52, is prepared for criticism but remains unrepentant ‘this is a family video,’ he says ‘before i wouldn’t have released it but now, with the internet it is different i don’t care if i get a bit of stick because i think the gorillas get a good deal out of it there’s an upside for them that there wasn’t before if we can show millions of people how gentle and noble and wonderful these animals are, then i think we’re doing the gorillas a service i’m happy to take the stick for that’ tansy, now 23, agrees she says: ‘i obviously understand that people might find it quite shocking seeing a baby going in with the gorillas because that’s how they have been brought up – to see gorillas in that king kong kind of way but really gorillas are such wonderful, gentle animals and they’re so human like so i hope it’s a way of people understanding how gentle and kind gorillas really are’ she was too young to remember the video taken at howletts, the palladian mansion that her grandfather, the gambler john aspinall, bought after a particularly good night at the tables laughing or crying? video clip of 18 month old tansy aspinall playing alone with one of dad's gorillas no fear: the toddler was filmed 19 years ago by damian and has been kept secret because of some fears that it might have provoked a backlash from childcare experts because of the risk gorilla hug: the young girl is smothered by the 300lb powerful adult aspinall filled the house and grounds with animals, including tigers, wolves and gorillas he also brought the pets he had kept in his previous home in london’s eaton square including  a leopard, a himalayan bear and a capuchin monkey in time, the animals were moved outdoors and howletts became a wildlife park on john’s death in 2000, damian took control and set up the aspinall foundation, a conservation initiative to return captive bred animals into the wild his foundation has now bred more captive animals – and reintroduced them into the wild – than any other organisation in europe there have been 139 gorilla births, 33 black rhinos and 20 african elephants the animals are released into reserves in gabon and the democratic republic of congo, where the foundation has approximately a million acres of guarded land contrary to popular belief, this is no rich man’s hobby true, damian is wealthy thanks to the chain of casinos he set up with media mogul kerry packer’s son james – but it is all self made money his father refused to help him financially, and at the time of his death, howletts was running at a loss of millions gorilla loving father damian aspinall, 52, with his daughter tansy aspinall (now 23) john aspinall was the owner of howletts and grandfather to tansy aspinall damian has not only ensured its survival but turned it into a truly groundbreaking conservation project tansy also wants to play a part in the foundation’s work – mainly, she says, because of her childhood experiences ‘i don’t really remember that specific moment with the gorillas but i do remember playing with them,’ says tansy, who has just completed a degree in politics at bristol university and is ‘on the job hunt’ ‘i don’t have any of the fear of gorillas that people normally have i just feel love and warmth of all the  animals, gorillas are my favourite and that’s because they were always something i went in with as a child i remember them being so gentle –  they almost treated me as if i was one of their own little babies’ ambam the gorilla shows how he can walk like a human at howletts of course, there are dangers during his adolescence robin birley, lady annabel goldsmith’s society club owning son, was mauled by a tiger at howletts in 1980, a tigress called zeya was shot after killing two keepers, and in 1994 the park’s head keeper was killed when a two year old siberian tiger pounced on him and in 1989 a two year old boy had his arm ripped off by a chimp after he reached into a cage to stroke it at another aspinall park in kent, port lympne there is no record of a gorilla ever killing a human damian says: ‘i wouldn’t put my children or daughters in with an adult tiger or a lion regardless of the relationship – but gorillas are different’ even so, times have changed, something damian accepts tansy and her younger sister, clary, 20, are damian’s daughters with his first wife, louise sebag montefiore the couple divorced in 1997 both girls were allowed to play with the gorillas but freya, his eight year old daughter by his former partner, donna air, was not he says: ‘i gave an interview when freya was young and they said, “would you take freya in with the gorillas?” i said, “yes, sure” there was uproar the police called and said if you do this we’re going to have to come and interview you and social services called and said, “we might take your child if you do this” the usual absolute nonsense’ still, he’s teaching her tiger speak and gorilla gurgles he’s serious ‘i can speak wild boar,’ he says ‘when you wake up in the morning, open the bedroom door and two tigers jump in your bed, you’re in serious trouble if you don’t know good morning in tiger speak’ damian’s earliest memory is of playing roly poly on the lawn with wolves and rolling over a wasps’ nest ‘i was about eight and was with my sister,’ he recalls ‘the swarm came out and they chased us and the wolves, biting and stinging us everywhere even the wolves screamed ‘one of the animal people grabbed me, my sister and the wolves and shoved us underwater at a trough i remember opening my eyes under the water and a wolf and i just looked at each other terrified my fear was never of the animals – but i’ve been wary of wasps ever since’ howletts is also home to big cats such as these tigers see the video of tansy aspinall and the gorilla for yourself below damian aspinall has put the film on the internet to show the amazing bond that can be formed between gorillas and humans he said: ‘it’s a thing of great beauty in my life it’s priceless it’s a very deep connection and when you know that and see that, you will know what i mean ‘that’s why i released the video if seeing tansy does a little bit more to reinforce the belief that there is a place for gorillas on this planet, then people can say whatever they like’
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18 month old tansy aspinall  played with the gorillas in their pen at howletts wild animal park in kent father thinks he is doing gorillas 'a service' by posting the video online and revealing their gentle nature gambling grandfather bought howletts after a big win on the tables filled it with many other animals including tigers and wolves the aspinall foundation needs help with the enormous cost of  sending gorillas back to the wild please donate by visiting aspinallfoundationorg/backtothe wild donations of £3 can be made by texting back to 70300 always get the bill payer’s permission standard message rates apply
a cafe claims to be cooking the biggest breakfasts in britain by serving customers seven pound fry ups consisting of four times the daily calorie intake mark winder's 'the hibernator' weigh in at seven pounds each and diners have to sign a legal disclaimer before attempting to eat one as it adds up to 8,000 calories four times the recommended daily intake the meal, named 'the hibernator', consists of eight rashers of bacon, eight sausages, four hash browns, four fried eggs, a four egg cheese omelette, four waffles, four pieces of toast, four pieces of fried bread, four black pudding, two ladles of beans, two ladles of tomatoes, mushrooms, a portion of large chips, and a two pint milkshake to wash it all down scroll down for video the hibernator weighs the same as the average newborn baby and no customer has yet been able to finish it the ingredients used in the dish which includes eight rashers of bacon, two ladles of beans and eight eggs pictured left, cafe owner mark winder with the meal which is served on a turkey platter right, the disclaimer customers must sign to acknowledge the health risks before attempting to eat it the man vs food inspired challenge, sold for £1995, has only been attempted by 20 people since it was first added to the menu and no one has since completed it at around 14 times more calorific than a regular fry up, the big breakfast takes around 30 minutes to cook and a disclaimer must be signed before challengers can dig in mr winder, 39, who runs the bear grills cafe in congleton, cheshire said: 'i reckon with these ingredients you could feed a family for a week 'the breakfast alone is around 6,000 calories and the 2,000 calorie milkshake just tops it off we weighed all the cooked food and it came to a whopping seven pounds 'that's the weight of a baby it's called the hibernator because if anyone completes it they'll have to sleep for a year 'we have a disclaimer which says that no one under the age of 18 can take part and that they know about the very high calorific content and high fat content we ask people to understand that they know what they are getting themselves into they have to tick a box to say whether they have any underlying health conditions' the bear grills cafe in cheshire, from where mark winder serves his huge full english breakfast the breakfast is brought out on a 4ft turkey platter because mr winder couldn't find any plates big enough challengers have an hour to eat the entire breakfast, including the milkshake those who do eat the whole breakfast win £100, get their name on the wall of fame, have the breakfast named after them and also get to add another ingredient to the challenge he added: 'we used to set the time limit as half an hour but we realised that no one was ever going to finish it although we did have one guy called james who nearly did it in half an hour but couldn't make it to the end' the hibernator was named in honour of the congleton bear, a historical tale of the town's attempts to buy a new fiercer bear for bear baiting in the 1620s mr winder said: 'i came up with the breakfast to get youngsters to come in and get involved 'most of my customers are in the 60s and 70s and the reason i came up with the hibernator was to inject some youth into the place and i think it has 'younger guys come in, and it is all men who have tried the challenge, and they look at the ingredients up on the board and say: 'i am going to smash that' 'but then they see it come out on the big platter all heaped high and start to cry on the phone to their friends they give up after about twenty minutes' the cafe even has a 'green bucket' which is brought out when a challenger fails to clean up the carnage left on the plate
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cheshire cafe's man vs food inspired breakfast contains 8,000 calories 'the hibernator' includes eggs, bacon, waffles, milkshake, chips and beans the meal is so unhealthy customers must sign a disclaimer before eating it cafe boss mark winder claims no one has yet been able to finish it
zlatan ibrahimovic's career has taken him all over europe, playing some of the world's best teams and with many legends of the game so it is no surprise that when the swede told paris saint germain's television channel his dream team, made up of the best 11 players he's even played with, it should have a formidable look about it but, also unsurprisingly, the array of talent on offer was not so great that the psg striker failed to find room for himself here are the 10 superstars that ibrahimovic picked to play alongside him video scroll down to watch who makes it into zlatan ibrahimovic's dream team? zlatan ibrahimovic was always likely to pick himself in any greatest xi, but who else did he see fit to include in his line up? goalkeeper gianluigi buffon italy no 1 buffon played with ibrahimovic during the striker's two seasons at juventus with seven serie a titles, a world cup, and a one time runner up for the ballon d'or (which hasn't been won by a goalkeeper since 1963), buffon is one of europe's most decorated keepers ever juventus and italy goalkeeper gianluigi buffon is one of the most successful stoppers in the history of the game right back lilian thuram another member of the juventus team that ibrahimovic spearheaded in the mid 2000s, thuram is zlatan's pick on the right side of his illustrious back four the french defender won the world cup in 1998, at which he was given the bronze ball as the third best player at the tournament behind ronaldo, davor suker, and ahead of team mate and final goal hero zinedine zidane lilian thuram is best remembered for his two goals during the world cup 98 semi final against croatia despite his illustrious career for club and country, thuram is best remembered for his only two international goals, both of which came during the same game, the 2 1 win over croatia in the world cup semi final centre back thiago silva when picking your finest 10 team mates, it's always sensible to include one or two of your current colleagues and ibrahimovic has put his club captain thiago silva in at the heart of the defence brazil defender thiago silva (right), ibrahimovic's captain at psg, is a crucial part of the french champions' line up to understand his importance, one need look no further than the appalling defensive display in brazil's 7 1 world cup final defeat by germany, or psg's slow start to the season this year, both in his absence, to understand his importance victor valdes carles puyol  alessandro nesta   javier zanetti                   gianluca zambrotta andrea pirlo luis figo           yaya toure    wesley sniejder thierry henry  alessandro del piero centre back fabio cannavaro another world cup winner and a defender who has won the ballon d'or, it's hard to argue with the selection of cannavaro in any team the former italy captain played with ibrahimovic at juventus, before moving to real madrid where he continued his legacy as one of europe's great central defenders left back maxwell perhaps the least heralded member of this team, maxwell might be in zlatan's dream team as something of a friendly face the pair have played together for a large part of their careers, representing ajax, inter, barcelona and now psg maxwell is an accomplished full back, and as with most players who play with zlatan has picked up a lot of silverware fabio cannavaro celebrates scoring against liverpool in the champions league with ibrahimovic during their time together at juve maxwell and ibrahimovic, who have played together at four different clubs throughout their careers, celebrate a psg goal right midfield andres iniesta world cup winning goalscorer, three time champions league winner, and one of the greatest talents to come out of barcelona's famous la masia academy alongside xavi, iniesta has become almost synonymous with barca's mesmerising tiki taka of the late 2000s a central midfielder most of the time, he has been used on the flanks enough to let zlatan get away with playing him out wide here ibrahimovic described his mis use at barcelona as 'like buying a ferrari, but you drive it like a fiat', but he still picked iniesta in his team central midfield patrick vieira arsenal's captain of the invincibles, now manchester city's reserve team manager, vieira was one of the most complete midfielders of the late 1990s and early 2000s patrick vieira and ibrahimovic block lazio forward igli tare during a serie a game in 2005 tough tackling, powerful with the ball, and with an often overlooked ability to pick a pass, vieira was the whole package he joined zlatan at juventus in 2005, and the pair moved to inter a year later following juventus' corruption scandal, where they won three consecutive serie a titles together central midfield xavi the metronome at the heart of one of the best teams club football has ever seen, xavi at his peak would get into almost any xi you care to mention xavi looks on as ibrahimovic strikes a free kick during their single season together at barcelona in 2009 the sixth member of this team to have won a world cup, xavi will retire from football one of the most respected, and decorated players in the history of barcelona left midfield pavel nedved the talented czech playmaker was a hugely influential member of the juventus team that featured ibrahimovic between 2004 and 2006, pulling the strings from midfield while zlatan banged in the goals pavel nedved, a juventus legend, celebrates with ibrahimovic in after winning the serie a title (which was later stripped from juve) it is often forgotten that nedved was actually awarded the ballon d'or in 2003, as well as helping his national team to the final of euro 96 years before that during a long career, he was consistently superb forward lionel messi ibrahimovic's time at barcelona is not always remembered particularly fondly, as the sweden star was often shunted out wide to make room for the supremely talented messi 'you bought a ferrari, but you drive it like a fiat,' zlatan complained as he failed to get the prominence he felt he deserved, and he even was less than complimentary about the trio of barcelona stars in this team: ‘messi, xavi and iniesta always obeyed without protest they were like schoolboys’ but, even ibrahimovic has to concede, with this line up, that when you have la liga and the champions league's all time leading scorer, you have to play them in the centre ibrahimovic and lionel messi did not always gel perfectly together during their time at barcelona, but both are supremely talented forward zlatan ibrahimovic the man himself only right that someone who so famously refers to himself in the third person should pick himself to play up front for his own personal dream team between 2004 and 2011 the big striker won eight domestic titles in a row, coming as close to being a guarantee of success as any player in history so his inclusion is probably fair zlatan's team in full, complete with himself and messi as a strike partnership, is formidable, but would it beat the alternative xi?
paris swedish milan juventus barcelona ajax zlatan ibrahimovic inter between 2004 and 2011
paris saint germain striker selects the best xi of all his team mates zlatan ibrahimovic has played for ajax, juventus, inter, barcelona and milan as well as in paris the swedish star won eight domestic league titles in a row between 2004 and 2011
predecessor? homo erectus, widely considered to be a direct ancestor to humans, never co existed with modern man, researchers believe scientists have thrown doubt on a key theory of human evolution after discovering an ancestor of modern man may have become extinct earlier than previously thought homo erectus was widely considered to be a direct ancestor of our own species homo sapiens the two were believed to have once co existed alongside each other until now homo erectus migrated out of africa around 18million years ago by around 500,000 years ago it had vanished from africa and much of asia and was, until now, thought to have survived in indonesia until as recently as 35,000 years ago early modern humans reached the region about 40,000 years ago, and so were believed to have co existed with their ancestors the new research suggests this assumption was wrong and homo erectus disappeared long before the arrival of homo sapiens in asia new excavations and dating analysis indicate that homo erectus was extinct by at least 143,000 years ago, and perhaps more than 550,000 years ago if this is the case, it challenges the widely accepted 'out of africa' hypothesis which holds that modern humans became fully evolved in africa before emigrating to other parts of the world the model predicts an overlap between homo sapiens and older species they replaced outside africa the late survival of homo erectus in indonesia had previously been held up as evidence supporting the theory dr etty indriati, from gadjah mada university in indonesia, who co led the investigations at two sites on indonesia's solo river, said: 'homo erectus probably did not share habitats with modern humans' an alternative 'multi regional' hypothesis proposes that modern humans evolved from ancestor species in africa, asia and europe the research is published in the online journal public library of science one
5,000 years asia
homo erectus was thought to have co existed alongside homo sapiens in asia for 5,000 years but scientists now believe it disappeared from asia at least 100,000 years before arrival of homo sapiens new evidence supports 'multi regional' hypothesis