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2e5837f2f9e440d0b4bd6268f874dd17 | BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Six gay men were shot dead by members of their tribe in two separate incidents in the past 10 days, an official with Iraq's Interior ministry said. In the most recent attack, two men were killed Thursday in Sadr City area of Baghdad after they were disowned by relatives, the official said. The shootings came after a tribal meeting was held and the members decided to go after the victims. On March 26, four additional men were fatally shot in the same city, the official said, adding that the victims had also been disowned by their relatives. The official declined to be identified because he is not authorized to speak to the media. Witnesses told CNN that a Sadr City cafe, which was a popular gathering spot for gays, was also set on fire. | Six gay men were shot dead by members of their tribe in Iraq. The shootings occurred after a tribal meeting was held and members decided to go after the victims. Four additional men were shot in the same city after being disowned by relatives. |
d790135b9a7545428cd79ae79a186d5f | If you had £140,000 to splurge, would you splash out on an Aston Martin DB9 Volante or maybe even a three-bedroom detached house in Nottingham?
Or, would you rather shell your hard-earned savings on a pink handbag?
That is exactly what retailer Vestiaire Collective is hoping for, as they put a Hermes bag on sale for a cool £140,000 on their site.
Is this Britain's most expensive handbag? A sade-to-measure pink croc Hermes Birkin bag embellished with rubies has gone on sale for £140,000.
So what do you get for your money? The made-to-measure pink croc Hermes Birkin bag comes embellished with rubies.
The rare tote is so exclusive that it can't even be brought in store and experts say it's an extremely good investment.
Fanny Moizant, Vestiaire Collective's Brand Communications Director and Head of UK, said: 'Hermes Birkin bags have come to symbolise the epitome of quality, the materials and the impeccable French craftsmanship are second to none.
'The brand has a strong heritage with a controlled supply, which makes it highly desirable for stylish women. This aspirational identity has developed into a strong social status symbol. The limited supply and production of rare colours and skin have made these bags must-have collectors items resulting in an increased value over time, unlike cars, which are known to depreciate in value after leaving the showroom.'
With the same amount of money that the handbag costs, you could splash out on an Aston Martin DB9 Volante.
Whilst they don't own the exact same bag, Kim Kardashian, left, and Heidi Klum, right, are both the proud owners of pink Hermes Birkin bags.
Hermes is one of the most coveted handbags of all time, but with a price tag of around £8,000 the Hermés Birkin bag isn't quite within every fashionista's price range (unless you're Victoria Beckham whose collection is worth a reported £1.5m).
Prestigious luggage and accessories firm Hermés, who count many of the world's wealthiest women as fans, is known for luxury leather accessories.
Renowned for its immaculate finish and top quality materials, Hermès claims never to use any assembly lines with one craftsperson making a single handbag at a time, hand-stitching individual pieces to create the finished product.
The brand is rich in history, and some of its bestselling bags have intriguing stories behind them.
The iconic Kelly bag, one of Hermes most popular styles, was originally known as the Sac à dépêches when it was developed by Hermes in 1935.
In 1956, a photo of Grace Kelly, who had become the new Princess of Monaco, was pictured carrying the Sac à dépêches to hide her pregnancy.
Photographs were sent all over the world and put on the cover of Life magazine. As a result, the bag became known as the Kelly and has been hugely popular ever since.
Victoria Beckham and Kim Kardashian are big fans of Hermes ... handbag Victoria reportedly owns a collection worth £1.5m.
The Birkin has similarly romantic roots, conceived as it was in honour of French star Jane Birkin.
The Birkin was allegedly created after the company's CEO Jean Louis Dumas sat next to the actress on a Paris to London flight.
Birkin had been discussing her difficulty in finding a leather weekend bag, explaining her ideal.
Shortly after, in 1984, the bag she described arrived at her flat with a note from Dumas. Although nowadays the bag can be made to order, the design is still one of the most recognised in the fashion industry.
And Victoria Beckham isn't the only celebrity Birkin fan.
British-born author Barbara Taylor Bradford owns an impressive 24 and heiress Tamara Ecclestone has specially built cupboards to house her £100,000 collection.
Katie Holmes, Julia Roberts, Hilary Duff and Kelly Brook are also fans while Jane Birkin, the inspiration behind the roomy leather must-have has said she covers her 'b***** heavy' Birkin with stickers to disguise the fact she's carrying a 'snobbish' bag. | Hermes is a brand known for high quality, high prices and extreme collectability. Their clients are mostly the ultra-wealthy, but experts say the bags are actually a good investment, as they continue to gain value after being sold. The brands newest bag is priced at £140,000. |
d790135b9a7545428cd79ae79a186d5f | If you had £140,000 to splurge, would you splash out on an Aston Martin DB9 Volante or maybe even a three-bedroom detached house in Nottingham?
Or, would you rather shell your hard-earned savings on a pink handbag?
That is exactly what retailer Vestiaire Collective is hoping for, as they put a Hermes bag on sale for a cool £140,000 on their site.
Is this Britain's most expensive handbag? A sade-to-measure pink croc Hermes Birkin bag embellished with rubies has gone on sale for £140,000.
So what do you get for your money? The made-to-measure pink croc Hermes Birkin bag comes embellished with rubies.
The rare tote is so exclusive that it can't even be brought in store and experts say it's an extremely good investment.
Fanny Moizant, Vestiaire Collective's Brand Communications Director and Head of UK, said: 'Hermes Birkin bags have come to symbolise the epitome of quality, the materials and the impeccable French craftsmanship are second to none.
'The brand has a strong heritage with a controlled supply, which makes it highly desirable for stylish women. This aspirational identity has developed into a strong social status symbol. The limited supply and production of rare colours and skin have made these bags must-have collectors items resulting in an increased value over time, unlike cars, which are known to depreciate in value after leaving the showroom.'
With the same amount of money that the handbag costs, you could splash out on an Aston Martin DB9 Volante.
Whilst they don't own the exact same bag, Kim Kardashian, left, and Heidi Klum, right, are both the proud owners of pink Hermes Birkin bags.
Hermes is one of the most coveted handbags of all time, but with a price tag of around £8,000 the Hermés Birkin bag isn't quite within every fashionista's price range (unless you're Victoria Beckham whose collection is worth a reported £1.5m).
Prestigious luggage and accessories firm Hermés, who count many of the world's wealthiest women as fans, is known for luxury leather accessories.
Renowned for its immaculate finish and top quality materials, Hermès claims never to use any assembly lines with one craftsperson making a single handbag at a time, hand-stitching individual pieces to create the finished product.
The brand is rich in history, and some of its bestselling bags have intriguing stories behind them.
The iconic Kelly bag, one of Hermes most popular styles, was originally known as the Sac à dépêches when it was developed by Hermes in 1935.
In 1956, a photo of Grace Kelly, who had become the new Princess of Monaco, was pictured carrying the Sac à dépêches to hide her pregnancy.
Photographs were sent all over the world and put on the cover of Life magazine. As a result, the bag became known as the Kelly and has been hugely popular ever since.
Victoria Beckham and Kim Kardashian are big fans of Hermes ... handbag Victoria reportedly owns a collection worth £1.5m.
The Birkin has similarly romantic roots, conceived as it was in honour of French star Jane Birkin.
The Birkin was allegedly created after the company's CEO Jean Louis Dumas sat next to the actress on a Paris to London flight.
Birkin had been discussing her difficulty in finding a leather weekend bag, explaining her ideal.
Shortly after, in 1984, the bag she described arrived at her flat with a note from Dumas. Although nowadays the bag can be made to order, the design is still one of the most recognised in the fashion industry.
And Victoria Beckham isn't the only celebrity Birkin fan.
British-born author Barbara Taylor Bradford owns an impressive 24 and heiress Tamara Ecclestone has specially built cupboards to house her £100,000 collection.
Katie Holmes, Julia Roberts, Hilary Duff and Kelly Brook are also fans while Jane Birkin, the inspiration behind the roomy leather must-have has said she covers her 'b***** heavy' Birkin with stickers to disguise the fact she's carrying a 'snobbish' bag. | Retailer, Vestiarie Collective put a Hermes Bag on sale for 140,000 pounds. It is a rare pink croc Hermes Birkin bag, embellished with rubies. Although many celebrities own a Hermes Birkin bag, only a few have one of these rare totes. For comparison, this Hermes Birkin is as expensive as an Aston Martin DB9 Volante. |
d790135b9a7545428cd79ae79a186d5f | If you had £140,000 to splurge, would you splash out on an Aston Martin DB9 Volante or maybe even a three-bedroom detached house in Nottingham?
Or, would you rather shell your hard-earned savings on a pink handbag?
That is exactly what retailer Vestiaire Collective is hoping for, as they put a Hermes bag on sale for a cool £140,000 on their site.
Is this Britain's most expensive handbag? A sade-to-measure pink croc Hermes Birkin bag embellished with rubies has gone on sale for £140,000.
So what do you get for your money? The made-to-measure pink croc Hermes Birkin bag comes embellished with rubies.
The rare tote is so exclusive that it can't even be brought in store and experts say it's an extremely good investment.
Fanny Moizant, Vestiaire Collective's Brand Communications Director and Head of UK, said: 'Hermes Birkin bags have come to symbolise the epitome of quality, the materials and the impeccable French craftsmanship are second to none.
'The brand has a strong heritage with a controlled supply, which makes it highly desirable for stylish women. This aspirational identity has developed into a strong social status symbol. The limited supply and production of rare colours and skin have made these bags must-have collectors items resulting in an increased value over time, unlike cars, which are known to depreciate in value after leaving the showroom.'
With the same amount of money that the handbag costs, you could splash out on an Aston Martin DB9 Volante.
Whilst they don't own the exact same bag, Kim Kardashian, left, and Heidi Klum, right, are both the proud owners of pink Hermes Birkin bags.
Hermes is one of the most coveted handbags of all time, but with a price tag of around £8,000 the Hermés Birkin bag isn't quite within every fashionista's price range (unless you're Victoria Beckham whose collection is worth a reported £1.5m).
Prestigious luggage and accessories firm Hermés, who count many of the world's wealthiest women as fans, is known for luxury leather accessories.
Renowned for its immaculate finish and top quality materials, Hermès claims never to use any assembly lines with one craftsperson making a single handbag at a time, hand-stitching individual pieces to create the finished product.
The brand is rich in history, and some of its bestselling bags have intriguing stories behind them.
The iconic Kelly bag, one of Hermes most popular styles, was originally known as the Sac à dépêches when it was developed by Hermes in 1935.
In 1956, a photo of Grace Kelly, who had become the new Princess of Monaco, was pictured carrying the Sac à dépêches to hide her pregnancy.
Photographs were sent all over the world and put on the cover of Life magazine. As a result, the bag became known as the Kelly and has been hugely popular ever since.
Victoria Beckham and Kim Kardashian are big fans of Hermes ... handbag Victoria reportedly owns a collection worth £1.5m.
The Birkin has similarly romantic roots, conceived as it was in honour of French star Jane Birkin.
The Birkin was allegedly created after the company's CEO Jean Louis Dumas sat next to the actress on a Paris to London flight.
Birkin had been discussing her difficulty in finding a leather weekend bag, explaining her ideal.
Shortly after, in 1984, the bag she described arrived at her flat with a note from Dumas. Although nowadays the bag can be made to order, the design is still one of the most recognised in the fashion industry.
And Victoria Beckham isn't the only celebrity Birkin fan.
British-born author Barbara Taylor Bradford owns an impressive 24 and heiress Tamara Ecclestone has specially built cupboards to house her £100,000 collection.
Katie Holmes, Julia Roberts, Hilary Duff and Kelly Brook are also fans while Jane Birkin, the inspiration behind the roomy leather must-have has said she covers her 'b***** heavy' Birkin with stickers to disguise the fact she's carrying a 'snobbish' bag. | Hermes is a brand rich in history and value, so much so that experts are saying their new £140,000 handbag is an extremely good investment. The bag, studded in rubies, is only the latest in Hermes Birkin's long line of highly expensive handbags for highly stylish women, which include celebrities and royalty. |
c346a0a6d6074573bcbe3a1c0bab1354 | Miami (CNN)World heavyweight boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko has an important title defense coming up, but his thoughts continue to be dominated by the ongoing fight for democracy in Ukraine.
Speaking to CNN from his Miami training base ahead of the April 25 showdown with American challenger Bryant Jennings in New York, Klitschko said the crisis in his homeland has left him shocked and upset.
"My country is unfortunately suffering in the war with Russia -- not that Ukraine tried to give any aggression to any other nation, in this particular case Russia, unfortunately it's the other way around," Klitschko told CNN.
"I never thought that our brother folk is going to have war with us, so that Ukrainians and Russians are going to be divided with blood," he added.
"Unfortunately, we don't know how far it's going to go and how worse it's going to get. The aggression, in the military presence of (Russian) soldiers and military equipment in my country, Ukraine, is upsetting."
Klitschko is the reigning IBF, WBA, WBO and IBO champion and has, alongside older brother Vitali, dominated the heavyweight division in the 21st century.
Vitali, who retired from boxing in 2013, is a prominent figure in Ukrainian politics. The 43-year-old has led the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform since 2010 and was elected mayor of Kiev in May last year.
Tensions in the former Soviet state remain high despite a ceasefire agreed in February as Europe, led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President of France Francois Hollande, tries to broker a peace deal between the two sides.
The crisis in Ukraine began in November 2013 when former President Victor Yanukovych scuttled a trade deal with the European Union in favor of forging closer economic ties with Russia.
The move triggered a wave of anti-government protests which came to a head Kiev's Maidan Square in February 2014 when clashes between protesters and government security forces left around 100 dead.
The following month, Russian troops entered Ukraine's Crimean peninsula before Russian President Vladimir Putin completed the annexation of Crimea -- a move denounced by most of the world as illegitimate -- after citizens of the region had voted in favor of leaving Ukraine in a referendum.
More than 5,000 people have been killed in the conflict to date.
"People are dying in Ukraine every single day," Klitschko said. "I do not want to see it, nobody wants to see it ... it's hard to believe these days something like that in Europe -- and Ukraine is Europe -- can happen."
But with the backing of the international community, Klitschko is confident Ukraine can forge a democratic future rather than slide back towards a Soviet-era style dictatorship.
"I really wish and want this conflict to be solved and it can only be solved with Western help," he said.
"Ukraine is looking forward to becoming a democratic country and live under Western democracy. This is our decision and this is our will to get what we want.
"If somebody wants to try to put (us) back to the Soviet times and be part of the former Soviet Union, we disagree with that. We want to be in freedom.
"We have achieved many things in moving forward and showed to the world that we do not want to live under a dictatorship."
Klitschko, whose comments were made as part of a wide-ranging interview for CNN's Human to Hero series, is routinely kept abreast of developments in Ukraine by brother Vitali but also returns home whenever he can.
"As much time as I can spend, I am there in the Ukraine. It's not like I am getting the news from mass media and making my own adjustments and judgments on what's going on. It's an actual presence and understanding from the inside ... It obviously affects my life, it affects the life of my family."
The 39-year-old and his fiancée Hayden Panettiere celebrated happier times last December when the American actress gave birth to a baby daughter, Kaya.
"I need to get used to it that I'm a father, which is really exciting. I hope I'm going to have a big family with multiple kids," he said.
Klitschko isn't sure when he'll finally hang up his gloves. "I don't know how long I can last ... motivation and health have to be there to continue."
But after leaving almost all his boxing opponents battered and bruised -- the Ukrainian is seeking an impressive 18th consecutive title defense against Jennings -- Klitschko is keen to carry on fighting his own and his country's corner in the opposite way outside the ring.
"I just really want that we'll have less violence in the world ... I hope in peace we can do anything, but if we have war then it's definitely going to leave us dull and numb."
Watch Wladimir Klitschko's Human to Hero interview on CNN's World Sport program on Wednesday April 8 at 1130, 1245, 1445, 2130, 2245 and 2345 and Thursday April 9 at 0445 (All times GMT) and here online. | Heavyweight boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko has more than just his upcoming title defense on his mind, as he spoke out about his distress over the continuing conflict in his homeland of Ukraine. Klitschko is kept informed about the ongoing war by his older brother Vitali, a prominent figure in Ukrainian politics. |
c346a0a6d6074573bcbe3a1c0bab1354 | Miami (CNN)World heavyweight boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko has an important title defense coming up, but his thoughts continue to be dominated by the ongoing fight for democracy in Ukraine.
Speaking to CNN from his Miami training base ahead of the April 25 showdown with American challenger Bryant Jennings in New York, Klitschko said the crisis in his homeland has left him shocked and upset.
"My country is unfortunately suffering in the war with Russia -- not that Ukraine tried to give any aggression to any other nation, in this particular case Russia, unfortunately it's the other way around," Klitschko told CNN.
"I never thought that our brother folk is going to have war with us, so that Ukrainians and Russians are going to be divided with blood," he added.
"Unfortunately, we don't know how far it's going to go and how worse it's going to get. The aggression, in the military presence of (Russian) soldiers and military equipment in my country, Ukraine, is upsetting."
Klitschko is the reigning IBF, WBA, WBO and IBO champion and has, alongside older brother Vitali, dominated the heavyweight division in the 21st century.
Vitali, who retired from boxing in 2013, is a prominent figure in Ukrainian politics. The 43-year-old has led the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform since 2010 and was elected mayor of Kiev in May last year.
Tensions in the former Soviet state remain high despite a ceasefire agreed in February as Europe, led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President of France Francois Hollande, tries to broker a peace deal between the two sides.
The crisis in Ukraine began in November 2013 when former President Victor Yanukovych scuttled a trade deal with the European Union in favor of forging closer economic ties with Russia.
The move triggered a wave of anti-government protests which came to a head Kiev's Maidan Square in February 2014 when clashes between protesters and government security forces left around 100 dead.
The following month, Russian troops entered Ukraine's Crimean peninsula before Russian President Vladimir Putin completed the annexation of Crimea -- a move denounced by most of the world as illegitimate -- after citizens of the region had voted in favor of leaving Ukraine in a referendum.
More than 5,000 people have been killed in the conflict to date.
"People are dying in Ukraine every single day," Klitschko said. "I do not want to see it, nobody wants to see it ... it's hard to believe these days something like that in Europe -- and Ukraine is Europe -- can happen."
But with the backing of the international community, Klitschko is confident Ukraine can forge a democratic future rather than slide back towards a Soviet-era style dictatorship.
"I really wish and want this conflict to be solved and it can only be solved with Western help," he said.
"Ukraine is looking forward to becoming a democratic country and live under Western democracy. This is our decision and this is our will to get what we want.
"If somebody wants to try to put (us) back to the Soviet times and be part of the former Soviet Union, we disagree with that. We want to be in freedom.
"We have achieved many things in moving forward and showed to the world that we do not want to live under a dictatorship."
Klitschko, whose comments were made as part of a wide-ranging interview for CNN's Human to Hero series, is routinely kept abreast of developments in Ukraine by brother Vitali but also returns home whenever he can.
"As much time as I can spend, I am there in the Ukraine. It's not like I am getting the news from mass media and making my own adjustments and judgments on what's going on. It's an actual presence and understanding from the inside ... It obviously affects my life, it affects the life of my family."
The 39-year-old and his fiancée Hayden Panettiere celebrated happier times last December when the American actress gave birth to a baby daughter, Kaya.
"I need to get used to it that I'm a father, which is really exciting. I hope I'm going to have a big family with multiple kids," he said.
Klitschko isn't sure when he'll finally hang up his gloves. "I don't know how long I can last ... motivation and health have to be there to continue."
But after leaving almost all his boxing opponents battered and bruised -- the Ukrainian is seeking an impressive 18th consecutive title defense against Jennings -- Klitschko is keen to carry on fighting his own and his country's corner in the opposite way outside the ring.
"I just really want that we'll have less violence in the world ... I hope in peace we can do anything, but if we have war then it's definitely going to leave us dull and numb."
Watch Wladimir Klitschko's Human to Hero interview on CNN's World Sport program on Wednesday April 8 at 1130, 1245, 1445, 2130, 2245 and 2345 and Thursday April 9 at 0445 (All times GMT) and here online. | World heavyweight champion, Wladimir Klitschko has an important title defense match coming up, but his thoughts are dominated by the war between Russia and his home country, Ukraine. Although he is shocked and upset with everything that is happening, he is trying to keep focus and maintain his world boxing title against American Bryant Jennings. |
c346a0a6d6074573bcbe3a1c0bab1354 | Miami (CNN)World heavyweight boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko has an important title defense coming up, but his thoughts continue to be dominated by the ongoing fight for democracy in Ukraine.
Speaking to CNN from his Miami training base ahead of the April 25 showdown with American challenger Bryant Jennings in New York, Klitschko said the crisis in his homeland has left him shocked and upset.
"My country is unfortunately suffering in the war with Russia -- not that Ukraine tried to give any aggression to any other nation, in this particular case Russia, unfortunately it's the other way around," Klitschko told CNN.
"I never thought that our brother folk is going to have war with us, so that Ukrainians and Russians are going to be divided with blood," he added.
"Unfortunately, we don't know how far it's going to go and how worse it's going to get. The aggression, in the military presence of (Russian) soldiers and military equipment in my country, Ukraine, is upsetting."
Klitschko is the reigning IBF, WBA, WBO and IBO champion and has, alongside older brother Vitali, dominated the heavyweight division in the 21st century.
Vitali, who retired from boxing in 2013, is a prominent figure in Ukrainian politics. The 43-year-old has led the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform since 2010 and was elected mayor of Kiev in May last year.
Tensions in the former Soviet state remain high despite a ceasefire agreed in February as Europe, led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President of France Francois Hollande, tries to broker a peace deal between the two sides.
The crisis in Ukraine began in November 2013 when former President Victor Yanukovych scuttled a trade deal with the European Union in favor of forging closer economic ties with Russia.
The move triggered a wave of anti-government protests which came to a head Kiev's Maidan Square in February 2014 when clashes between protesters and government security forces left around 100 dead.
The following month, Russian troops entered Ukraine's Crimean peninsula before Russian President Vladimir Putin completed the annexation of Crimea -- a move denounced by most of the world as illegitimate -- after citizens of the region had voted in favor of leaving Ukraine in a referendum.
More than 5,000 people have been killed in the conflict to date.
"People are dying in Ukraine every single day," Klitschko said. "I do not want to see it, nobody wants to see it ... it's hard to believe these days something like that in Europe -- and Ukraine is Europe -- can happen."
But with the backing of the international community, Klitschko is confident Ukraine can forge a democratic future rather than slide back towards a Soviet-era style dictatorship.
"I really wish and want this conflict to be solved and it can only be solved with Western help," he said.
"Ukraine is looking forward to becoming a democratic country and live under Western democracy. This is our decision and this is our will to get what we want.
"If somebody wants to try to put (us) back to the Soviet times and be part of the former Soviet Union, we disagree with that. We want to be in freedom.
"We have achieved many things in moving forward and showed to the world that we do not want to live under a dictatorship."
Klitschko, whose comments were made as part of a wide-ranging interview for CNN's Human to Hero series, is routinely kept abreast of developments in Ukraine by brother Vitali but also returns home whenever he can.
"As much time as I can spend, I am there in the Ukraine. It's not like I am getting the news from mass media and making my own adjustments and judgments on what's going on. It's an actual presence and understanding from the inside ... It obviously affects my life, it affects the life of my family."
The 39-year-old and his fiancée Hayden Panettiere celebrated happier times last December when the American actress gave birth to a baby daughter, Kaya.
"I need to get used to it that I'm a father, which is really exciting. I hope I'm going to have a big family with multiple kids," he said.
Klitschko isn't sure when he'll finally hang up his gloves. "I don't know how long I can last ... motivation and health have to be there to continue."
But after leaving almost all his boxing opponents battered and bruised -- the Ukrainian is seeking an impressive 18th consecutive title defense against Jennings -- Klitschko is keen to carry on fighting his own and his country's corner in the opposite way outside the ring.
"I just really want that we'll have less violence in the world ... I hope in peace we can do anything, but if we have war then it's definitely going to leave us dull and numb."
Watch Wladimir Klitschko's Human to Hero interview on CNN's World Sport program on Wednesday April 8 at 1130, 1245, 1445, 2130, 2245 and 2345 and Thursday April 9 at 0445 (All times GMT) and here online. | World champion boxer Wladimir Klitschko is featured on CNNs Human to Hero program, where he discusses the war occurring in his home country of Ukraine, his upcoming title defense match, and becoming a father. He believes the outcome of the war will be Ukraine emerging as a democratic nation. |
169944a66b0847a78c21f2264b4c5ab6 | As a sequel of sorts to the Diane Sawyer 20/20 special, TV viewers will be able to follow Bruce Jenner's journey as he transitions into a woman in his forthcoming eight-episode docu-series on E! starting July 27.
But it is allegedly his sons Burt, Brandon and Brody Jenner and stepdaughter Kim Kardashian who are hesitant to hear and watch just how much their 65-year-old patriarch will reveal about gender change.
'They are warning him to slow down on revealing too much of his journey on reality TV,' a source told TMZ in a Monday report.
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Follow-up: Bruce Jenner will chronicle his journey as he transitions into a woman in his forthcoming eight-episode docu-series on E!, a project that worries his kids according to TMZ on Monday.
There is no denying that Bruce's six biological children and four stepkids are 'proud' of the father figure as some called him their 'hero' on Twitter shortly after the ABC interview aired on Friday.
And as the former Olympic gold medalist moves forward with his long-awaited physical transformation, the spotlight and attention on him will be brighter than ever.
'Kim and the boys think Bruce was spectacular on the Diane Sawyer special and in won over millions of people in the process. His kids have gone to their dad to express their concern,' the insider told the gossip site.
'They say they're worried Bruce's upcoming docu-series might "de-class" what he's accomplished. They also urged Bruce not to do other interviews, and finish the process in private.'
The only Kardashian: 'Kim and the boys think Bruce was spectacular on the Diane Sawyer special and in won over millions of people in the process,' added a source.
Jenner sons: 'They are warning him to slow down on revealing too much of his journey on reality TV,' it was also shared.
Brandon and his brothers: 'They urged Bruce not to do other interviews, and finish the process in private,' it was noted.
Adding: 'Bruce believes the docu-series will educate people and create empathy, so he's committed.'
On Monday, never-before-seen footage from the tell-all interview aired on Good Morning America that showed the Jenner brothers and Bruce's eldest daughter Casey talking about their childhoods in which Bruce was not around for.
'We have a very complex relationship,' Casey admitted. 'He's disappeared out of our lives, especially out of my life, so I'm looking forward to this next chapter.'
Brandon spoke of Bruce during the years in the early '80s: 'Us missing a time of our lives is still the probably the hardest thing for us to deal with, we're trying not to look back, just looking forward.'
Sticking together: Brandon and Brody share the same mother (second wife Linda Thompson) while eldest child Burt is from first marriage to Chrystie Jenner (pictured in May 2012)
Older kids: Burt, Brody, daughter Casey and Brandon were the only children who appeared in the 20/20 interview.
Struggle: '[Bruce] disappeared out of our lives, especially out of my life, so I'm looking forward to this next chapter'
Bruce admitted he was not around for his children when they need him the most telling Diane: 'The big formative years for them I was really struggling with these issues. I talked to all the boys about this after the fact that, yeah, I didn't do a good job. And I apologized to my kids for that.'
Those times appear to be a thing of the past as the Jenner siblings have now stated that 'all is forgiven.'
While the Keeping Up With The Kardashians cast did not appear on the 20/20 interview - viewed by a staggering 16.9 million people - many speculate that ex-wife Kris Jenner and her children Kim, Kourtney, Khloe, Rob and Kylie and Kendall will be featured on the upcoming docu-series because it will be broadcasted on the E! network.
However, TMZ's sources cited that 'Bruce's kids won't appear on his show.'
Love no matter what: During the interview, Bruce stated that Kim was 'by far the most accepting' of his transgender journey.
Growing up without their father: 'Us missing a time of our lives is still the probably the hardest thing for us to deal with, we're trying not to look back, just looking forward'
With the hope that his reality show will be both informational and educational, Bruce has signed a contract with E! to air one hour episodes starting July 27 that will be consulted by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) organization.
Jeff Olde, Executive Vice President of Programming and Development at E!, said of Bruce's decision to share his journey with the world: 'Bruce is incredibly courageous and an inspiration, and we are proud to be entrusted with this deeply personal and important story.
'This series will present an unfiltered look as Bruce boldly steps into uncharted territory and is true to himself for the first time.'
Bruce's representative told MailOnline: 'Can't put a series on hold that has yet to be confirmed as even happening in the first place.'
Champion: 'Bruce believes the docu-series will educate people and create empathy, so he's committed'
His pride and joy: The former Olympic athlete told Diane that his kids are 'the only one's he's concerned with'
On Sunday, eldest child Burt doubted some of his dad's newfound supporters when he took to Twitter writing: 'Having a hard time not putting a few people on blast who were not supporters before hand, but want to act like they were all along.'
Meanwhile that same day Brandon and Brody - whom Bruce fathered with second wife Linda Thompson - shared photos of themselves with their famous parent.
'You won another gold tonight. I stand with you on this journey. I love you Dad,' the former Hills star commented on Saturday.
'Proud son,' the father-to-be - who was the first to be told by Bruce about the transition - wrote before the ABC interview aired on Friday.
Kim spoke to Today Show's Matt Lauer on Monday revealing that Bruce has 'found inner peace' after speaking his truth.
The other side of Bruce's family: Biological daughters Kendall and Kylie and stepdaughters Kourtney and Khloe were pictured on Thursday with mother Kris Jenner.
Spotlight: E!'s Keeping Up With The Kardashians has been featured as a hit reality show for ten seasons now.
During the 20/20 special, the thrice married star and host Diane shared that it would be the last interview would doing as Bruce and that he is ready to embrace the woman he calls 'Her.'
The star expressed that he 'is a girl stuck in a guy's body' and that 'his brain is much more female than it is male.
'Yes I am a woman, my heart and my soul and everything I do in life,' he said. 'That female side is who I am.'
When asked by Diane to fill in the blank 'When you think of me...' Bruce gave a heartfelt response saying: 'Please be open minded, have an open mind and open heart. I'm not this bad person I'm just doing what I've got to do.'
'If he's happy, we're happy': Kendall and Kylie were the only offspring to give an official statement for the ABC special. | Former Olympic champion Bruce Jenner is publicly sharing his transition from a man to a woman on reality tv. Some of Jenner's kids are supportive of a public transition while others urge him to transition in private. Only Kendall and Kylie gave public statements of support. |
169944a66b0847a78c21f2264b4c5ab6 | As a sequel of sorts to the Diane Sawyer 20/20 special, TV viewers will be able to follow Bruce Jenner's journey as he transitions into a woman in his forthcoming eight-episode docu-series on E! starting July 27.
But it is allegedly his sons Burt, Brandon and Brody Jenner and stepdaughter Kim Kardashian who are hesitant to hear and watch just how much their 65-year-old patriarch will reveal about gender change.
'They are warning him to slow down on revealing too much of his journey on reality TV,' a source told TMZ in a Monday report.
Scroll down for video.
Follow-up: Bruce Jenner will chronicle his journey as he transitions into a woman in his forthcoming eight-episode docu-series on E!, a project that worries his kids according to TMZ on Monday.
There is no denying that Bruce's six biological children and four stepkids are 'proud' of the father figure as some called him their 'hero' on Twitter shortly after the ABC interview aired on Friday.
And as the former Olympic gold medalist moves forward with his long-awaited physical transformation, the spotlight and attention on him will be brighter than ever.
'Kim and the boys think Bruce was spectacular on the Diane Sawyer special and in won over millions of people in the process. His kids have gone to their dad to express their concern,' the insider told the gossip site.
'They say they're worried Bruce's upcoming docu-series might "de-class" what he's accomplished. They also urged Bruce not to do other interviews, and finish the process in private.'
The only Kardashian: 'Kim and the boys think Bruce was spectacular on the Diane Sawyer special and in won over millions of people in the process,' added a source.
Jenner sons: 'They are warning him to slow down on revealing too much of his journey on reality TV,' it was also shared.
Brandon and his brothers: 'They urged Bruce not to do other interviews, and finish the process in private,' it was noted.
Adding: 'Bruce believes the docu-series will educate people and create empathy, so he's committed.'
On Monday, never-before-seen footage from the tell-all interview aired on Good Morning America that showed the Jenner brothers and Bruce's eldest daughter Casey talking about their childhoods in which Bruce was not around for.
'We have a very complex relationship,' Casey admitted. 'He's disappeared out of our lives, especially out of my life, so I'm looking forward to this next chapter.'
Brandon spoke of Bruce during the years in the early '80s: 'Us missing a time of our lives is still the probably the hardest thing for us to deal with, we're trying not to look back, just looking forward.'
Sticking together: Brandon and Brody share the same mother (second wife Linda Thompson) while eldest child Burt is from first marriage to Chrystie Jenner (pictured in May 2012)
Older kids: Burt, Brody, daughter Casey and Brandon were the only children who appeared in the 20/20 interview.
Struggle: '[Bruce] disappeared out of our lives, especially out of my life, so I'm looking forward to this next chapter'
Bruce admitted he was not around for his children when they need him the most telling Diane: 'The big formative years for them I was really struggling with these issues. I talked to all the boys about this after the fact that, yeah, I didn't do a good job. And I apologized to my kids for that.'
Those times appear to be a thing of the past as the Jenner siblings have now stated that 'all is forgiven.'
While the Keeping Up With The Kardashians cast did not appear on the 20/20 interview - viewed by a staggering 16.9 million people - many speculate that ex-wife Kris Jenner and her children Kim, Kourtney, Khloe, Rob and Kylie and Kendall will be featured on the upcoming docu-series because it will be broadcasted on the E! network.
However, TMZ's sources cited that 'Bruce's kids won't appear on his show.'
Love no matter what: During the interview, Bruce stated that Kim was 'by far the most accepting' of his transgender journey.
Growing up without their father: 'Us missing a time of our lives is still the probably the hardest thing for us to deal with, we're trying not to look back, just looking forward'
With the hope that his reality show will be both informational and educational, Bruce has signed a contract with E! to air one hour episodes starting July 27 that will be consulted by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) organization.
Jeff Olde, Executive Vice President of Programming and Development at E!, said of Bruce's decision to share his journey with the world: 'Bruce is incredibly courageous and an inspiration, and we are proud to be entrusted with this deeply personal and important story.
'This series will present an unfiltered look as Bruce boldly steps into uncharted territory and is true to himself for the first time.'
Bruce's representative told MailOnline: 'Can't put a series on hold that has yet to be confirmed as even happening in the first place.'
Champion: 'Bruce believes the docu-series will educate people and create empathy, so he's committed'
His pride and joy: The former Olympic athlete told Diane that his kids are 'the only one's he's concerned with'
On Sunday, eldest child Burt doubted some of his dad's newfound supporters when he took to Twitter writing: 'Having a hard time not putting a few people on blast who were not supporters before hand, but want to act like they were all along.'
Meanwhile that same day Brandon and Brody - whom Bruce fathered with second wife Linda Thompson - shared photos of themselves with their famous parent.
'You won another gold tonight. I stand with you on this journey. I love you Dad,' the former Hills star commented on Saturday.
'Proud son,' the father-to-be - who was the first to be told by Bruce about the transition - wrote before the ABC interview aired on Friday.
Kim spoke to Today Show's Matt Lauer on Monday revealing that Bruce has 'found inner peace' after speaking his truth.
The other side of Bruce's family: Biological daughters Kendall and Kylie and stepdaughters Kourtney and Khloe were pictured on Thursday with mother Kris Jenner.
Spotlight: E!'s Keeping Up With The Kardashians has been featured as a hit reality show for ten seasons now.
During the 20/20 special, the thrice married star and host Diane shared that it would be the last interview would doing as Bruce and that he is ready to embrace the woman he calls 'Her.'
The star expressed that he 'is a girl stuck in a guy's body' and that 'his brain is much more female than it is male.
'Yes I am a woman, my heart and my soul and everything I do in life,' he said. 'That female side is who I am.'
When asked by Diane to fill in the blank 'When you think of me...' Bruce gave a heartfelt response saying: 'Please be open minded, have an open mind and open heart. I'm not this bad person I'm just doing what I've got to do.'
'If he's happy, we're happy': Kendall and Kylie were the only offspring to give an official statement for the ABC special. | Bruce Jenner's children have expressed concern over new his upcoming docu-series. Premiering on July 27th on E!, the eight episode series will focus on Jenner's transition from male to female. While his children have expressed support for Jenner in the past, they are concerned that this new series may reveal too much. |
169944a66b0847a78c21f2264b4c5ab6 | As a sequel of sorts to the Diane Sawyer 20/20 special, TV viewers will be able to follow Bruce Jenner's journey as he transitions into a woman in his forthcoming eight-episode docu-series on E! starting July 27.
But it is allegedly his sons Burt, Brandon and Brody Jenner and stepdaughter Kim Kardashian who are hesitant to hear and watch just how much their 65-year-old patriarch will reveal about gender change.
'They are warning him to slow down on revealing too much of his journey on reality TV,' a source told TMZ in a Monday report.
Scroll down for video.
Follow-up: Bruce Jenner will chronicle his journey as he transitions into a woman in his forthcoming eight-episode docu-series on E!, a project that worries his kids according to TMZ on Monday.
There is no denying that Bruce's six biological children and four stepkids are 'proud' of the father figure as some called him their 'hero' on Twitter shortly after the ABC interview aired on Friday.
And as the former Olympic gold medalist moves forward with his long-awaited physical transformation, the spotlight and attention on him will be brighter than ever.
'Kim and the boys think Bruce was spectacular on the Diane Sawyer special and in won over millions of people in the process. His kids have gone to their dad to express their concern,' the insider told the gossip site.
'They say they're worried Bruce's upcoming docu-series might "de-class" what he's accomplished. They also urged Bruce not to do other interviews, and finish the process in private.'
The only Kardashian: 'Kim and the boys think Bruce was spectacular on the Diane Sawyer special and in won over millions of people in the process,' added a source.
Jenner sons: 'They are warning him to slow down on revealing too much of his journey on reality TV,' it was also shared.
Brandon and his brothers: 'They urged Bruce not to do other interviews, and finish the process in private,' it was noted.
Adding: 'Bruce believes the docu-series will educate people and create empathy, so he's committed.'
On Monday, never-before-seen footage from the tell-all interview aired on Good Morning America that showed the Jenner brothers and Bruce's eldest daughter Casey talking about their childhoods in which Bruce was not around for.
'We have a very complex relationship,' Casey admitted. 'He's disappeared out of our lives, especially out of my life, so I'm looking forward to this next chapter.'
Brandon spoke of Bruce during the years in the early '80s: 'Us missing a time of our lives is still the probably the hardest thing for us to deal with, we're trying not to look back, just looking forward.'
Sticking together: Brandon and Brody share the same mother (second wife Linda Thompson) while eldest child Burt is from first marriage to Chrystie Jenner (pictured in May 2012)
Older kids: Burt, Brody, daughter Casey and Brandon were the only children who appeared in the 20/20 interview.
Struggle: '[Bruce] disappeared out of our lives, especially out of my life, so I'm looking forward to this next chapter'
Bruce admitted he was not around for his children when they need him the most telling Diane: 'The big formative years for them I was really struggling with these issues. I talked to all the boys about this after the fact that, yeah, I didn't do a good job. And I apologized to my kids for that.'
Those times appear to be a thing of the past as the Jenner siblings have now stated that 'all is forgiven.'
While the Keeping Up With The Kardashians cast did not appear on the 20/20 interview - viewed by a staggering 16.9 million people - many speculate that ex-wife Kris Jenner and her children Kim, Kourtney, Khloe, Rob and Kylie and Kendall will be featured on the upcoming docu-series because it will be broadcasted on the E! network.
However, TMZ's sources cited that 'Bruce's kids won't appear on his show.'
Love no matter what: During the interview, Bruce stated that Kim was 'by far the most accepting' of his transgender journey.
Growing up without their father: 'Us missing a time of our lives is still the probably the hardest thing for us to deal with, we're trying not to look back, just looking forward'
With the hope that his reality show will be both informational and educational, Bruce has signed a contract with E! to air one hour episodes starting July 27 that will be consulted by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) organization.
Jeff Olde, Executive Vice President of Programming and Development at E!, said of Bruce's decision to share his journey with the world: 'Bruce is incredibly courageous and an inspiration, and we are proud to be entrusted with this deeply personal and important story.
'This series will present an unfiltered look as Bruce boldly steps into uncharted territory and is true to himself for the first time.'
Bruce's representative told MailOnline: 'Can't put a series on hold that has yet to be confirmed as even happening in the first place.'
Champion: 'Bruce believes the docu-series will educate people and create empathy, so he's committed'
His pride and joy: The former Olympic athlete told Diane that his kids are 'the only one's he's concerned with'
On Sunday, eldest child Burt doubted some of his dad's newfound supporters when he took to Twitter writing: 'Having a hard time not putting a few people on blast who were not supporters before hand, but want to act like they were all along.'
Meanwhile that same day Brandon and Brody - whom Bruce fathered with second wife Linda Thompson - shared photos of themselves with their famous parent.
'You won another gold tonight. I stand with you on this journey. I love you Dad,' the former Hills star commented on Saturday.
'Proud son,' the father-to-be - who was the first to be told by Bruce about the transition - wrote before the ABC interview aired on Friday.
Kim spoke to Today Show's Matt Lauer on Monday revealing that Bruce has 'found inner peace' after speaking his truth.
The other side of Bruce's family: Biological daughters Kendall and Kylie and stepdaughters Kourtney and Khloe were pictured on Thursday with mother Kris Jenner.
Spotlight: E!'s Keeping Up With The Kardashians has been featured as a hit reality show for ten seasons now.
During the 20/20 special, the thrice married star and host Diane shared that it would be the last interview would doing as Bruce and that he is ready to embrace the woman he calls 'Her.'
The star expressed that he 'is a girl stuck in a guy's body' and that 'his brain is much more female than it is male.
'Yes I am a woman, my heart and my soul and everything I do in life,' he said. 'That female side is who I am.'
When asked by Diane to fill in the blank 'When you think of me...' Bruce gave a heartfelt response saying: 'Please be open minded, have an open mind and open heart. I'm not this bad person I'm just doing what I've got to do.'
'If he's happy, we're happy': Kendall and Kylie were the only offspring to give an official statement for the ABC special. | Former Olympic athlete, Bruce Jenner, will document his journey of transitioning into a woman in an eight-episode docu-series created by E!. Despite the full support of Bruce's transition, his children urge him to not expose too much to reality TV and finish the process in private. |
3b82559a2edb48c7bffca655c43fe34d | It's every interviewer's worst nightmare. Ask the wrong question and you find your interviewee walking out on you mid sentence.
Which is exactly what happened when Channel 4 news presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy tried to ask the actor Robert Downey Jr about his drug-taking past.
After questioning the 50-year-old actor as to whether he had managed to fight his demons the actor said: 'I'm sorry, I really don't... what are we doing?' before walking out of the interview.
Channel 4 presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy looks bemused as Robert Downey Junior walks out on an interview with him after the journalist asked him about his personal life.
In the footage of the short-lived chat Krishnan is then seen looking dumbfounded as Robert goes to head out of the room.
The American star is in London to promote his new film Avengers: Age of Ultron but became aggravated when the chat took a turn for the personal.
Seemingly amused with the reaction, Guru-Murthy is then seen smiling and gesticulating as a production team-member tried to remove Robert's clip-on microphone.
At that point he turns and says: 'It's all getting a bit Diane Sawyer [a U.S. journalist known for her investigative interviewing].'
The horror was clear to see on Robert's face as he questioned Krishnan about where he was trying to take their chat.
But Robert isn't the first celebrity to lose his cool in the face of an awkward line of questioning.
Naomi Campbell, Robert Pattinson and Peter Andre have all cut their chat time short - especially when, like with Mr Downey Jr, the conversation has turned to their private lives.
Justin Bieber was once angered by a radio show host asked him about his friendship with One Direction and compared him to Justin Timberlake.
And Rihanna became annoyed in Australia and cut off a chat about her film Battleship when questions began to focus on her love life.
Here are the celebrities who couldn't stand the heat so they got out of the interview:.
The model Naomi Campbell is known for her firey temper and stormed out of an interview - breaking a camera in her wake - after being asked about a blood diamond she had apparently been given.
NAOMI CAMPBELL.
In April 2010 Naomi Campbell, who is known for her fiery temper, stormed out of an interview with ABC news kicking their camera over on the way.
The reporter had asked the supermodel about whether she had received a blood diamond from the deposed Liberian despot Charles Taylor.
Naomi said: 'I didn't receive a blood diamond and I'm not going to speak about that.'
The interviewer continued to push the 44-year-old until she ended the chat curtly saying: 'Thank you very much,' and walking off.
In court Naomi later admitted that she had been given, 'a few dirty rocks,' by Taylor when she testified against him.
Robert Pattinson became incredibly awkward whilst, when promoting Twilight: New Moon, he was asked about his relationship with Kristen Stewart.
ROBERT PATTINSON.
When Robert Pattinson was promoting the Twilight film New Moon in 2009 he had an awkward run-in with Ryan Seacrest.
Ryan starts the interview by asking Rob about how he is finding fame but the conversation quickly turned to his then relationship with his co-star Kristen Stewart.
Ryan quizzed the actor on what he tells fans when they ask about their relationship at which point his PR swiftly interjects and reprimands the Radio host.
Rob becomes visibly awkward and is ushered out of the interview as a stunned Seacrest reveals that it's the first time he's ever been cut off.
As Rob leaves he jokes that he would tell his fans to watch this film but it doesn't do anything to ease the awkward tension.
Justin Bieber might be close friends with One Direction but he didn't like it when a radio host asked about whether Harry Styles would flirt with his mum.
JUSTIN BIEBER.
In 2012 pop singer Justin Bieber did an incredibly awkward interview with the online American radio show, MOJO In The Morning.
The host describes how the interview went 'horribly wrong,' saying that Justin initially got offended when he compared him to Justin Timberlake.
Justin says: 'That's crazy 'cos our voices sound nothing alike... saying I sound like someone is not really a compliment.'
He then got upset when the interviewer started asking him about One Direction, in particular Harry Styles.
The presenter questions him: 'Do you worry about Harry around your mum as he seems to like older women?' to which Justin retorts, 'I think you should worry about me round your mum, so...'
The radio host then informs Justin that his mum is dead and the pop star hangs up on him. An awkward chat with Justin's 'people' ensued in which MOJO are told the singer won't be calling back.
Peter Andre tried to keep his cool when he was interviewed by Kay Burley in 2010 but when the conversation turned to his children the TV presenter managed to reduce him to tears.
PETER ANDRE.
In 2010 Peter Andre joined Kay Burley on the coach for Sky News and she proceeded to prod him on his ex-wife Katie Price's recent marriage to Alex Reid.
In particular the TV presenter was keen to know whether Peter and Katie's children were aware that their mother had re-married.
Which lead them on to the subject of the model's first son Harvey. Harvey was the child of Price and footballer Dwight Yorke - although he was largely bought up by Andre, who still plays a role in his life to this day.
During the segment Kay played Peter a clip of Dwight insinuating that the singer should never have said that he wanted to adopt the boy with whom the footballer has very little contact.
An understandably defensive Peter went on to question whether Yorke had seen his son and to question why he Dwight would find Peter disrespectful when all he did was love his son.
Kay then asked Peter how he would feel is Alex Reid wanted to adopt his two children Junior and Princess at which point the singer became upset asking for the interview to be terminated.
Rihanna cut an interview with Australian show Sunrise short when the interviewer asked her about her love life.
RIHANNA.
Rihanna was in Australia to promote her film Battleship in April 2012 when she became angry with a reporter from the show Sunrise.
During an interview reporter Natalie Barr asked the star how frustrating it was to be linked to Hollywood names even if she wasn't dating them.
To which Rihanna replied: 'Very frustrating. Almost as frustrating as being asked about it.'
She went on to say: 'People are interested in a lot of things that don't matter or shouldn't.' Before ending the interview.
It wasn't exactly S Club 7 themselves who decided to walk out on Claudia Winkleman who had an interview cut short with the band by their PR.
S CLUB 7.
In one of the most bizarre celebrity walk-outs of all time S Club 7 were forced to leave an interview with Claudia Winkleman by their screaming PR.
It was 2003 and the band were discussing their imminent split with the TV presenter when she began to ask them about money.
It had been rumoured at the time that, despite their manager Simon Fuller being worth around £90million, the band hadn't been making enough money.
Claudia asked them: 'There are rumours, I don't know how true they are, that you guys are grumpy that you haven't made a mint..'
The bands PR then storms in saying: 'I'm not having this! I've had to come on here to get you to stop. Can you get up? We're going.'
The Bee Gees had one of the most famous walk outs ever when they cut an interview with Clive Anderson short.
BEE GEES.
It's one of the most famous walk outs of all time when in 1997 Clive Anderson managed to annoy not one, not two but all three of the Bee Gees.
Clive tries to joke with the band but after calling Barry Gibb a 't*****' he said: 'We're getting on like a storm, aren't we Clive? In fact I might just leave.'
Robin and Maurice then followed at which point Clive revealed that he'd never had someone walk off before. | Robert Downey Junior is the latest in a long line of celebrities who have walked out on interviews. Interviewers often discuss sensitive topics such as relationships, children, and drug use, but these sensitive topics can prove to be too personal and cause the interviewee to walk out. |
3b82559a2edb48c7bffca655c43fe34d | It's every interviewer's worst nightmare. Ask the wrong question and you find your interviewee walking out on you mid sentence.
Which is exactly what happened when Channel 4 news presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy tried to ask the actor Robert Downey Jr about his drug-taking past.
After questioning the 50-year-old actor as to whether he had managed to fight his demons the actor said: 'I'm sorry, I really don't... what are we doing?' before walking out of the interview.
Channel 4 presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy looks bemused as Robert Downey Junior walks out on an interview with him after the journalist asked him about his personal life.
In the footage of the short-lived chat Krishnan is then seen looking dumbfounded as Robert goes to head out of the room.
The American star is in London to promote his new film Avengers: Age of Ultron but became aggravated when the chat took a turn for the personal.
Seemingly amused with the reaction, Guru-Murthy is then seen smiling and gesticulating as a production team-member tried to remove Robert's clip-on microphone.
At that point he turns and says: 'It's all getting a bit Diane Sawyer [a U.S. journalist known for her investigative interviewing].'
The horror was clear to see on Robert's face as he questioned Krishnan about where he was trying to take their chat.
But Robert isn't the first celebrity to lose his cool in the face of an awkward line of questioning.
Naomi Campbell, Robert Pattinson and Peter Andre have all cut their chat time short - especially when, like with Mr Downey Jr, the conversation has turned to their private lives.
Justin Bieber was once angered by a radio show host asked him about his friendship with One Direction and compared him to Justin Timberlake.
And Rihanna became annoyed in Australia and cut off a chat about her film Battleship when questions began to focus on her love life.
Here are the celebrities who couldn't stand the heat so they got out of the interview:.
The model Naomi Campbell is known for her firey temper and stormed out of an interview - breaking a camera in her wake - after being asked about a blood diamond she had apparently been given.
NAOMI CAMPBELL.
In April 2010 Naomi Campbell, who is known for her fiery temper, stormed out of an interview with ABC news kicking their camera over on the way.
The reporter had asked the supermodel about whether she had received a blood diamond from the deposed Liberian despot Charles Taylor.
Naomi said: 'I didn't receive a blood diamond and I'm not going to speak about that.'
The interviewer continued to push the 44-year-old until she ended the chat curtly saying: 'Thank you very much,' and walking off.
In court Naomi later admitted that she had been given, 'a few dirty rocks,' by Taylor when she testified against him.
Robert Pattinson became incredibly awkward whilst, when promoting Twilight: New Moon, he was asked about his relationship with Kristen Stewart.
ROBERT PATTINSON.
When Robert Pattinson was promoting the Twilight film New Moon in 2009 he had an awkward run-in with Ryan Seacrest.
Ryan starts the interview by asking Rob about how he is finding fame but the conversation quickly turned to his then relationship with his co-star Kristen Stewart.
Ryan quizzed the actor on what he tells fans when they ask about their relationship at which point his PR swiftly interjects and reprimands the Radio host.
Rob becomes visibly awkward and is ushered out of the interview as a stunned Seacrest reveals that it's the first time he's ever been cut off.
As Rob leaves he jokes that he would tell his fans to watch this film but it doesn't do anything to ease the awkward tension.
Justin Bieber might be close friends with One Direction but he didn't like it when a radio host asked about whether Harry Styles would flirt with his mum.
JUSTIN BIEBER.
In 2012 pop singer Justin Bieber did an incredibly awkward interview with the online American radio show, MOJO In The Morning.
The host describes how the interview went 'horribly wrong,' saying that Justin initially got offended when he compared him to Justin Timberlake.
Justin says: 'That's crazy 'cos our voices sound nothing alike... saying I sound like someone is not really a compliment.'
He then got upset when the interviewer started asking him about One Direction, in particular Harry Styles.
The presenter questions him: 'Do you worry about Harry around your mum as he seems to like older women?' to which Justin retorts, 'I think you should worry about me round your mum, so...'
The radio host then informs Justin that his mum is dead and the pop star hangs up on him. An awkward chat with Justin's 'people' ensued in which MOJO are told the singer won't be calling back.
Peter Andre tried to keep his cool when he was interviewed by Kay Burley in 2010 but when the conversation turned to his children the TV presenter managed to reduce him to tears.
PETER ANDRE.
In 2010 Peter Andre joined Kay Burley on the coach for Sky News and she proceeded to prod him on his ex-wife Katie Price's recent marriage to Alex Reid.
In particular the TV presenter was keen to know whether Peter and Katie's children were aware that their mother had re-married.
Which lead them on to the subject of the model's first son Harvey. Harvey was the child of Price and footballer Dwight Yorke - although he was largely bought up by Andre, who still plays a role in his life to this day.
During the segment Kay played Peter a clip of Dwight insinuating that the singer should never have said that he wanted to adopt the boy with whom the footballer has very little contact.
An understandably defensive Peter went on to question whether Yorke had seen his son and to question why he Dwight would find Peter disrespectful when all he did was love his son.
Kay then asked Peter how he would feel is Alex Reid wanted to adopt his two children Junior and Princess at which point the singer became upset asking for the interview to be terminated.
Rihanna cut an interview with Australian show Sunrise short when the interviewer asked her about her love life.
RIHANNA.
Rihanna was in Australia to promote her film Battleship in April 2012 when she became angry with a reporter from the show Sunrise.
During an interview reporter Natalie Barr asked the star how frustrating it was to be linked to Hollywood names even if she wasn't dating them.
To which Rihanna replied: 'Very frustrating. Almost as frustrating as being asked about it.'
She went on to say: 'People are interested in a lot of things that don't matter or shouldn't.' Before ending the interview.
It wasn't exactly S Club 7 themselves who decided to walk out on Claudia Winkleman who had an interview cut short with the band by their PR.
S CLUB 7.
In one of the most bizarre celebrity walk-outs of all time S Club 7 were forced to leave an interview with Claudia Winkleman by their screaming PR.
It was 2003 and the band were discussing their imminent split with the TV presenter when she began to ask them about money.
It had been rumoured at the time that, despite their manager Simon Fuller being worth around £90million, the band hadn't been making enough money.
Claudia asked them: 'There are rumours, I don't know how true they are, that you guys are grumpy that you haven't made a mint..'
The bands PR then storms in saying: 'I'm not having this! I've had to come on here to get you to stop. Can you get up? We're going.'
The Bee Gees had one of the most famous walk outs ever when they cut an interview with Clive Anderson short.
BEE GEES.
It's one of the most famous walk outs of all time when in 1997 Clive Anderson managed to annoy not one, not two but all three of the Bee Gees.
Clive tries to joke with the band but after calling Barry Gibb a 't*****' he said: 'We're getting on like a storm, aren't we Clive? In fact I might just leave.'
Robin and Maurice then followed at which point Clive revealed that he'd never had someone walk off before. | Robert Downey Junior walked out of an interview with Channel 4 news presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy after he was questioned about his past drug use. Downey, who is in London promoting his new film Avengers: Age of Ultron, appeared horrified and aggravated when Guru-Murthy attempted to take the interview down a personal route- so he left. |
1ea22520bd7b4fe288c62159e02f803d | A young Syrian boy has revealed how he saw depraved Islamic State militants playing football with a severed head inside the besieged Yarmouk refugee camp.
Amjad Yaaqub, 16, said he stumbled on the barbaric scene shortly after the terrorists beat him unconscious when they burst into his family home at the camp in the Syrian capital Damascus.
The schoolboy said the ISIS fighters were looking for his brother, who is a member of the Palestinian rebel group who ran and defended the camp for several years before ISIS carried out a bloody assault that has left more than 200 people dead in just seven days.
His story was revealed as refugees in Yarmouk spoke of the daily atrocities they have witnessed since ISIS seized control of 90 per cent of the camp, including innocent children being slaughtered in front of their anguished parents.
Scroll down for video.
Scene of death: A destroyed graveyard is photographed in Yarmouk camp following the intense fighting.
Innocent: Palestinians, who fled the Yarmouk refugee camp, sit on mattresses inside a school in Damascus.
After enduring two years of famine and fighting, Ibrahim Abdel Fatah said he saw heads cut off by ISIS in the Palestinian camp of Yarmouk. That was it. He fled and hasn't looked back.
Unshaven, pale and gaunt, he has found refuge with his wife and seven children at the Zeinab al-Haliyeh school in Tadamun, a southeastern district of the Syrian capital held by the army.
'I saw severed heads. They killed children in front of their parents. We were terrorised,' he said.
'We had heard of their cruelty from the television, but when we saw it ourselves... I can tell you, their reputation is well-deserved,' the 55-year-old said.
The school is currently home to 98 displaced people, among them 40 children, who have been put up in three classrooms.
The usual occupants, schoolchildren, have been evacuated temporarily from rooms where mattresses and bedding now blanket the floor.
'I left my house which was the only thing I had. My family lived on rations supplied by UNRWA,' the United Nations agency that looks after Palestinian refugees, the former caretaker said.
Destroyed: In late December 2012, Yarmouk - just four miles from central Damascus - became a battlefield between pro- and anti-government forces before a merciless siege began.
A man stands on a staircase inside a demolished building inside the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp.
Anwar Abdel Hadi, a Palestine Liberation Organisation official in Damascus, said 500 families, or about 2,500 people, fled Yarmouk before IS fighters attacked the camp last Wednesday.
Before the assault, there were around 18,000 people in Yarmouk in a southern neighbourhood of the Syrian capital.
Yarmouk was once a thriving district housing 160,000 Palestinian refugees and Syrians. But that was before it too was caught up in the widespread civil unrest which erupted in 2011.
In late December 2012, Yarmouk - just four miles from central Damascus - became a battlefield between pro- and anti-government forces before a merciless siege began.
The camp has been encircled for more than a year, but is now reported to be almost completely under the control of ISIS and Al Qaeda's local affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra.
Residents who fled the advancing jihadists last week have been put up in regime-held areas nearby.
According to Britain-based monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, nearly 200 people had died in Yarmouk from malnutrition and lack of medicines before last Wednesday's assault.
Carnage: Before the Islamic State assault, there were around 18,000 people in Yarmouk in a southern neighbourhood of the Syrian capital Damascus.
Keeping the faith: A Palestinian man who fled the Yarmouk refugee camp prays inside a school in Damascus.
Speaking of the moment he stumbled on the ISIS militants, 16-year-old Amjad said: 'In Palestine Street, I saw two members of Daesh playing with a severed head as if it was a football.
Wearing a baseball cap sideways, rapper-style, the youth has a swollen eye and chin.
'Daesh came to my home looking for my brother who's in the Palestinian Popular Committees. They beat me until I passed out and left me for dead,' he added, referring to the group by an Arabic acronym.
At the entrance to the school, Umm Usama chatted with fellow refugees who had got out.
'I left the camp despite myself,' said the 40-year-old woman who had lived in Yarmouk for 17 years.
'I'd stayed on despite the bombings and famine. It was terrible, we ate grass, but at least I was at home.
'Daesh's arrival meant destruction and massacre. Their behaviour's not human and their religion is not ours,' added the thin woman with sunken eyes.
Rubble: Destruction in Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus earlier this week.
Palestinians demanding the protection of refugees in Yarmouk stage a demonstration in Gaza city on Monday.
Men lie around on mattresses as women gather in small groups, smoking cigarettes and drinking fruit juice as children run around the room.
'Everything changed when IS arrived. Before that we didn't fear death, because if there was fighting, the rebels made sure the civilians got to shelters,' said Abir, a 47-year-old woman who was born and raised in Yarmouk.
There are no suitcases to be seen in the classrooms -- the families had to leave so quickly there was no time to pack anything.
'I left without bringing any belongings. My husband wasn't able to join me. I walked out hugging the walls so snipers couldn't see me,' said 19-year-old Nadia, nursing her two-month-old baby.
Yesterday ISIS launched English-language radio news bulletins on its al-Bayan radio network.
The militant group's English bulletin, promoted via Twitter, accompanies Arabic and Russian bulletins already airing on the network.
The first bulletin, which provided an overview of their activities in Iraq, Syria and Libya, discussed a range of topics including the alleged death of an ISIS commander in Yarmouk, a suicide bombing in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk and mortar attacks on militias in Sirte, Libya.
ISIS holds territory in a third of Iraq and Syria and is becoming increasingly active in Libya.
The group already publishes a monthly online English-language magazine, Dabiq, with religious lessons, plus news about its activities. | The terrorist group ISIS operates in Iraq, Syria, and Libya. Yarmouk, a city in Syria, once had over 160,000 residents, but nearly everyone fled due to terrorists taking over. Survivors are now in temporary converted shelters, and share the horrors they experienced including beheadings and violent 'not human' behavior. |
1ea22520bd7b4fe288c62159e02f803d | A young Syrian boy has revealed how he saw depraved Islamic State militants playing football with a severed head inside the besieged Yarmouk refugee camp.
Amjad Yaaqub, 16, said he stumbled on the barbaric scene shortly after the terrorists beat him unconscious when they burst into his family home at the camp in the Syrian capital Damascus.
The schoolboy said the ISIS fighters were looking for his brother, who is a member of the Palestinian rebel group who ran and defended the camp for several years before ISIS carried out a bloody assault that has left more than 200 people dead in just seven days.
His story was revealed as refugees in Yarmouk spoke of the daily atrocities they have witnessed since ISIS seized control of 90 per cent of the camp, including innocent children being slaughtered in front of their anguished parents.
Scroll down for video.
Scene of death: A destroyed graveyard is photographed in Yarmouk camp following the intense fighting.
Innocent: Palestinians, who fled the Yarmouk refugee camp, sit on mattresses inside a school in Damascus.
After enduring two years of famine and fighting, Ibrahim Abdel Fatah said he saw heads cut off by ISIS in the Palestinian camp of Yarmouk. That was it. He fled and hasn't looked back.
Unshaven, pale and gaunt, he has found refuge with his wife and seven children at the Zeinab al-Haliyeh school in Tadamun, a southeastern district of the Syrian capital held by the army.
'I saw severed heads. They killed children in front of their parents. We were terrorised,' he said.
'We had heard of their cruelty from the television, but when we saw it ourselves... I can tell you, their reputation is well-deserved,' the 55-year-old said.
The school is currently home to 98 displaced people, among them 40 children, who have been put up in three classrooms.
The usual occupants, schoolchildren, have been evacuated temporarily from rooms where mattresses and bedding now blanket the floor.
'I left my house which was the only thing I had. My family lived on rations supplied by UNRWA,' the United Nations agency that looks after Palestinian refugees, the former caretaker said.
Destroyed: In late December 2012, Yarmouk - just four miles from central Damascus - became a battlefield between pro- and anti-government forces before a merciless siege began.
A man stands on a staircase inside a demolished building inside the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp.
Anwar Abdel Hadi, a Palestine Liberation Organisation official in Damascus, said 500 families, or about 2,500 people, fled Yarmouk before IS fighters attacked the camp last Wednesday.
Before the assault, there were around 18,000 people in Yarmouk in a southern neighbourhood of the Syrian capital.
Yarmouk was once a thriving district housing 160,000 Palestinian refugees and Syrians. But that was before it too was caught up in the widespread civil unrest which erupted in 2011.
In late December 2012, Yarmouk - just four miles from central Damascus - became a battlefield between pro- and anti-government forces before a merciless siege began.
The camp has been encircled for more than a year, but is now reported to be almost completely under the control of ISIS and Al Qaeda's local affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra.
Residents who fled the advancing jihadists last week have been put up in regime-held areas nearby.
According to Britain-based monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, nearly 200 people had died in Yarmouk from malnutrition and lack of medicines before last Wednesday's assault.
Carnage: Before the Islamic State assault, there were around 18,000 people in Yarmouk in a southern neighbourhood of the Syrian capital Damascus.
Keeping the faith: A Palestinian man who fled the Yarmouk refugee camp prays inside a school in Damascus.
Speaking of the moment he stumbled on the ISIS militants, 16-year-old Amjad said: 'In Palestine Street, I saw two members of Daesh playing with a severed head as if it was a football.
Wearing a baseball cap sideways, rapper-style, the youth has a swollen eye and chin.
'Daesh came to my home looking for my brother who's in the Palestinian Popular Committees. They beat me until I passed out and left me for dead,' he added, referring to the group by an Arabic acronym.
At the entrance to the school, Umm Usama chatted with fellow refugees who had got out.
'I left the camp despite myself,' said the 40-year-old woman who had lived in Yarmouk for 17 years.
'I'd stayed on despite the bombings and famine. It was terrible, we ate grass, but at least I was at home.
'Daesh's arrival meant destruction and massacre. Their behaviour's not human and their religion is not ours,' added the thin woman with sunken eyes.
Rubble: Destruction in Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus earlier this week.
Palestinians demanding the protection of refugees in Yarmouk stage a demonstration in Gaza city on Monday.
Men lie around on mattresses as women gather in small groups, smoking cigarettes and drinking fruit juice as children run around the room.
'Everything changed when IS arrived. Before that we didn't fear death, because if there was fighting, the rebels made sure the civilians got to shelters,' said Abir, a 47-year-old woman who was born and raised in Yarmouk.
There are no suitcases to be seen in the classrooms -- the families had to leave so quickly there was no time to pack anything.
'I left without bringing any belongings. My husband wasn't able to join me. I walked out hugging the walls so snipers couldn't see me,' said 19-year-old Nadia, nursing her two-month-old baby.
Yesterday ISIS launched English-language radio news bulletins on its al-Bayan radio network.
The militant group's English bulletin, promoted via Twitter, accompanies Arabic and Russian bulletins already airing on the network.
The first bulletin, which provided an overview of their activities in Iraq, Syria and Libya, discussed a range of topics including the alleged death of an ISIS commander in Yarmouk, a suicide bombing in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk and mortar attacks on militias in Sirte, Libya.
ISIS holds territory in a third of Iraq and Syria and is becoming increasingly active in Libya.
The group already publishes a monthly online English-language magazine, Dabiq, with religious lessons, plus news about its activities. | The Yarmouk Refugee camp was once the thriving home of 160,000 people. Now, horrific stories are the norm. 16-year-old Amjad Yaaqub has come forward and revealed that he witnessed Islamic State militants playing football with a severed head, which is only one story shared since ISIS seized control of 90% of the camp. |
1ea22520bd7b4fe288c62159e02f803d | A young Syrian boy has revealed how he saw depraved Islamic State militants playing football with a severed head inside the besieged Yarmouk refugee camp.
Amjad Yaaqub, 16, said he stumbled on the barbaric scene shortly after the terrorists beat him unconscious when they burst into his family home at the camp in the Syrian capital Damascus.
The schoolboy said the ISIS fighters were looking for his brother, who is a member of the Palestinian rebel group who ran and defended the camp for several years before ISIS carried out a bloody assault that has left more than 200 people dead in just seven days.
His story was revealed as refugees in Yarmouk spoke of the daily atrocities they have witnessed since ISIS seized control of 90 per cent of the camp, including innocent children being slaughtered in front of their anguished parents.
Scroll down for video.
Scene of death: A destroyed graveyard is photographed in Yarmouk camp following the intense fighting.
Innocent: Palestinians, who fled the Yarmouk refugee camp, sit on mattresses inside a school in Damascus.
After enduring two years of famine and fighting, Ibrahim Abdel Fatah said he saw heads cut off by ISIS in the Palestinian camp of Yarmouk. That was it. He fled and hasn't looked back.
Unshaven, pale and gaunt, he has found refuge with his wife and seven children at the Zeinab al-Haliyeh school in Tadamun, a southeastern district of the Syrian capital held by the army.
'I saw severed heads. They killed children in front of their parents. We were terrorised,' he said.
'We had heard of their cruelty from the television, but when we saw it ourselves... I can tell you, their reputation is well-deserved,' the 55-year-old said.
The school is currently home to 98 displaced people, among them 40 children, who have been put up in three classrooms.
The usual occupants, schoolchildren, have been evacuated temporarily from rooms where mattresses and bedding now blanket the floor.
'I left my house which was the only thing I had. My family lived on rations supplied by UNRWA,' the United Nations agency that looks after Palestinian refugees, the former caretaker said.
Destroyed: In late December 2012, Yarmouk - just four miles from central Damascus - became a battlefield between pro- and anti-government forces before a merciless siege began.
A man stands on a staircase inside a demolished building inside the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp.
Anwar Abdel Hadi, a Palestine Liberation Organisation official in Damascus, said 500 families, or about 2,500 people, fled Yarmouk before IS fighters attacked the camp last Wednesday.
Before the assault, there were around 18,000 people in Yarmouk in a southern neighbourhood of the Syrian capital.
Yarmouk was once a thriving district housing 160,000 Palestinian refugees and Syrians. But that was before it too was caught up in the widespread civil unrest which erupted in 2011.
In late December 2012, Yarmouk - just four miles from central Damascus - became a battlefield between pro- and anti-government forces before a merciless siege began.
The camp has been encircled for more than a year, but is now reported to be almost completely under the control of ISIS and Al Qaeda's local affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra.
Residents who fled the advancing jihadists last week have been put up in regime-held areas nearby.
According to Britain-based monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, nearly 200 people had died in Yarmouk from malnutrition and lack of medicines before last Wednesday's assault.
Carnage: Before the Islamic State assault, there were around 18,000 people in Yarmouk in a southern neighbourhood of the Syrian capital Damascus.
Keeping the faith: A Palestinian man who fled the Yarmouk refugee camp prays inside a school in Damascus.
Speaking of the moment he stumbled on the ISIS militants, 16-year-old Amjad said: 'In Palestine Street, I saw two members of Daesh playing with a severed head as if it was a football.
Wearing a baseball cap sideways, rapper-style, the youth has a swollen eye and chin.
'Daesh came to my home looking for my brother who's in the Palestinian Popular Committees. They beat me until I passed out and left me for dead,' he added, referring to the group by an Arabic acronym.
At the entrance to the school, Umm Usama chatted with fellow refugees who had got out.
'I left the camp despite myself,' said the 40-year-old woman who had lived in Yarmouk for 17 years.
'I'd stayed on despite the bombings and famine. It was terrible, we ate grass, but at least I was at home.
'Daesh's arrival meant destruction and massacre. Their behaviour's not human and their religion is not ours,' added the thin woman with sunken eyes.
Rubble: Destruction in Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus earlier this week.
Palestinians demanding the protection of refugees in Yarmouk stage a demonstration in Gaza city on Monday.
Men lie around on mattresses as women gather in small groups, smoking cigarettes and drinking fruit juice as children run around the room.
'Everything changed when IS arrived. Before that we didn't fear death, because if there was fighting, the rebels made sure the civilians got to shelters,' said Abir, a 47-year-old woman who was born and raised in Yarmouk.
There are no suitcases to be seen in the classrooms -- the families had to leave so quickly there was no time to pack anything.
'I left without bringing any belongings. My husband wasn't able to join me. I walked out hugging the walls so snipers couldn't see me,' said 19-year-old Nadia, nursing her two-month-old baby.
Yesterday ISIS launched English-language radio news bulletins on its al-Bayan radio network.
The militant group's English bulletin, promoted via Twitter, accompanies Arabic and Russian bulletins already airing on the network.
The first bulletin, which provided an overview of their activities in Iraq, Syria and Libya, discussed a range of topics including the alleged death of an ISIS commander in Yarmouk, a suicide bombing in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk and mortar attacks on militias in Sirte, Libya.
ISIS holds territory in a third of Iraq and Syria and is becoming increasingly active in Libya.
The group already publishes a monthly online English-language magazine, Dabiq, with religious lessons, plus news about its activities. | A refugee camp in Syria has been almost completely taken over by ISIS and its local affiliate. People in the camp report atrocities such as children being killed in front of their parents, and football being played with severed heads. Many in the camps have fled to other locations. |
909f8362981a44eeae5060ea05eb31e6 | Arcade Fire brought a party atmosphere to Glastonbury on Friday, hours after an electric storm stopped the festival.
Aided by dancers, confetti cannons and a man in a mirrored suit, the Canadian band revived revellers' spirits with a series of arms-aloft anthems.
"In a lifetime of pretty much impossible things that have happened to our band, this is the highlight," said frontman Win Butler.
Earlier, every stage at the event was closed after lightning struck ground.
Dance act Rudimental were escorted off the main stage mid-set, and had to abandon their planned encore - Feel The Love, with guest vocalist John Newman.
"We're quite upset," musician Amir Amor told the BBC, "but we had a great time anyway".
Metallica's Lars Ulrich was flying into the site by helicopter as the storm descended.
"It was kind of frightening," he said.
"When we landed, all the people picking us up were going, 'we didn't expect you were going to fly in this weather'.
"But the pilot didn't say anything about that. We saw the lightning up there. I thought it was pyrotechnics for Arcade Fire."
The thunderstorm heralded a brief but torrential downpour, and the power cut took BBC coverage off the air.
Music resumed on the main stage at 19:00 BST with Lily Allen, who dedicated an expletive-laden song to FIFA president Sepp Blatter.
Other performers on Friday included Blondie, who proved so popular it became impossible to enter or leave The Other Stage at lunchtime, and Paolo Nutini, whose soulful ballads were a fitting soundtrack as dusk fell over Somerset.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor sneaked some disco into her set at the largely-acoustic Avalon Stage, while the pulsing synthpop of Glaswegian band Chvrches made for a steamy atmosphere in the John Peel tent as fans danced off the downpour.
Arcade Fire took to the stage shortly after 22:00 BST, their arrival heralded by a man dressed from head-to-toe in a mirrored suit.
Bravely, considering the weather conditions, the 12-piece band were largely dressed in white, but if they were worried about laundry bills, it didn't show.
They threw themselves around the stage, thrashing and spinning as though plagued by a swarm of invisible bees, each member switching instruments between - and often during - songs.
As well as guitars, they played steel drums, xylophones and even a hurdy gurdy.
Frontman Win Butler made frequent excursions into the audience and, during the song Flashbulb Eyes, plucked a camera from a press photographer and carried it on stage to capture the band's performance.
The set list was evenly spread across their four albums, with highlights including No Cars Go, Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) and Rebellion (Lies).
The group's recurring subject matter of suburban despair and alienation might have seemed like an odd fit for Glastonbury's peace and love ethos, but there is an optimism and belief in humanity at the core of their music.
Plus, they have really catchy choruses.
The band's willingness to embrace all walks of life was displayed on Friday night during the song We Exist - about a teenager whose father struggles to accept his sexuality.
As the opening chords rang out, a troupe of transgender and cross-dressing dancers joined the band onstage.
"Every one of us is born special and unique," said Butler. "However you are and however you were born, you're perfect."
The feel-good atmosphere continued throughout the two-hour set - ending with a mass singalong to the band's signature song, Wake Up.
Speaking to the BBC earlier in the day, the band's guitarist Richard Reed-Parry said they had enjoyed soaking up the Glastonbury atmosphere on Friday.
"There's a great feeling coming in," he said.
"It's a nice vibe. There's lots of families.
"It's not just about massive headlining acts. And it's not going to be a swamp of corporate beer-swilling drunkards.
"There's rain and there's mud but it's new and it doesn't smell bad yet. It's like, 'oh, this mud smells like grass! It's spring!'"
The music continues on Saturday with Jake Bugg, Pixies, Clean Bandit and Manic Street Preachers on the bill.
Among those watching the action will be Hollywood star Bradley Cooper, who told the BBC: "I'm excited to see Metallica and I want to see Jack White and Lana Del Rey."
Asked if he was put off by the weather, the Hangover star replied: "I love it. I do! But I'm a dumb American - you expect it."
Glastonbury 2014 | The music festival at Glastonbury was temporarily canceled due to an electric storm. Lightning struck the ground which caused bands to be escorted off stage for their protection. Performances resumed a few hours later and finished with the Canadian band, Arcade Fire, which included a man dressed in a mirrored suit. |
909f8362981a44eeae5060ea05eb31e6 | Arcade Fire brought a party atmosphere to Glastonbury on Friday, hours after an electric storm stopped the festival.
Aided by dancers, confetti cannons and a man in a mirrored suit, the Canadian band revived revellers' spirits with a series of arms-aloft anthems.
"In a lifetime of pretty much impossible things that have happened to our band, this is the highlight," said frontman Win Butler.
Earlier, every stage at the event was closed after lightning struck ground.
Dance act Rudimental were escorted off the main stage mid-set, and had to abandon their planned encore - Feel The Love, with guest vocalist John Newman.
"We're quite upset," musician Amir Amor told the BBC, "but we had a great time anyway".
Metallica's Lars Ulrich was flying into the site by helicopter as the storm descended.
"It was kind of frightening," he said.
"When we landed, all the people picking us up were going, 'we didn't expect you were going to fly in this weather'.
"But the pilot didn't say anything about that. We saw the lightning up there. I thought it was pyrotechnics for Arcade Fire."
The thunderstorm heralded a brief but torrential downpour, and the power cut took BBC coverage off the air.
Music resumed on the main stage at 19:00 BST with Lily Allen, who dedicated an expletive-laden song to FIFA president Sepp Blatter.
Other performers on Friday included Blondie, who proved so popular it became impossible to enter or leave The Other Stage at lunchtime, and Paolo Nutini, whose soulful ballads were a fitting soundtrack as dusk fell over Somerset.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor sneaked some disco into her set at the largely-acoustic Avalon Stage, while the pulsing synthpop of Glaswegian band Chvrches made for a steamy atmosphere in the John Peel tent as fans danced off the downpour.
Arcade Fire took to the stage shortly after 22:00 BST, their arrival heralded by a man dressed from head-to-toe in a mirrored suit.
Bravely, considering the weather conditions, the 12-piece band were largely dressed in white, but if they were worried about laundry bills, it didn't show.
They threw themselves around the stage, thrashing and spinning as though plagued by a swarm of invisible bees, each member switching instruments between - and often during - songs.
As well as guitars, they played steel drums, xylophones and even a hurdy gurdy.
Frontman Win Butler made frequent excursions into the audience and, during the song Flashbulb Eyes, plucked a camera from a press photographer and carried it on stage to capture the band's performance.
The set list was evenly spread across their four albums, with highlights including No Cars Go, Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) and Rebellion (Lies).
The group's recurring subject matter of suburban despair and alienation might have seemed like an odd fit for Glastonbury's peace and love ethos, but there is an optimism and belief in humanity at the core of their music.
Plus, they have really catchy choruses.
The band's willingness to embrace all walks of life was displayed on Friday night during the song We Exist - about a teenager whose father struggles to accept his sexuality.
As the opening chords rang out, a troupe of transgender and cross-dressing dancers joined the band onstage.
"Every one of us is born special and unique," said Butler. "However you are and however you were born, you're perfect."
The feel-good atmosphere continued throughout the two-hour set - ending with a mass singalong to the band's signature song, Wake Up.
Speaking to the BBC earlier in the day, the band's guitarist Richard Reed-Parry said they had enjoyed soaking up the Glastonbury atmosphere on Friday.
"There's a great feeling coming in," he said.
"It's a nice vibe. There's lots of families.
"It's not just about massive headlining acts. And it's not going to be a swamp of corporate beer-swilling drunkards.
"There's rain and there's mud but it's new and it doesn't smell bad yet. It's like, 'oh, this mud smells like grass! It's spring!'"
The music continues on Saturday with Jake Bugg, Pixies, Clean Bandit and Manic Street Preachers on the bill.
Among those watching the action will be Hollywood star Bradley Cooper, who told the BBC: "I'm excited to see Metallica and I want to see Jack White and Lana Del Rey."
Asked if he was put off by the weather, the Hangover star replied: "I love it. I do! But I'm a dumb American - you expect it."
Glastonbury 2014 | The band Arcade Fire brought the music back in a big way after lightning closed down the music festival earlier in the evening. Some of the songs the band played were accompanied by dancers and pyrotechnics. The band members themselves danced wildly as well, changing instruments mid-song. |
909f8362981a44eeae5060ea05eb31e6 | Arcade Fire brought a party atmosphere to Glastonbury on Friday, hours after an electric storm stopped the festival.
Aided by dancers, confetti cannons and a man in a mirrored suit, the Canadian band revived revellers' spirits with a series of arms-aloft anthems.
"In a lifetime of pretty much impossible things that have happened to our band, this is the highlight," said frontman Win Butler.
Earlier, every stage at the event was closed after lightning struck ground.
Dance act Rudimental were escorted off the main stage mid-set, and had to abandon their planned encore - Feel The Love, with guest vocalist John Newman.
"We're quite upset," musician Amir Amor told the BBC, "but we had a great time anyway".
Metallica's Lars Ulrich was flying into the site by helicopter as the storm descended.
"It was kind of frightening," he said.
"When we landed, all the people picking us up were going, 'we didn't expect you were going to fly in this weather'.
"But the pilot didn't say anything about that. We saw the lightning up there. I thought it was pyrotechnics for Arcade Fire."
The thunderstorm heralded a brief but torrential downpour, and the power cut took BBC coverage off the air.
Music resumed on the main stage at 19:00 BST with Lily Allen, who dedicated an expletive-laden song to FIFA president Sepp Blatter.
Other performers on Friday included Blondie, who proved so popular it became impossible to enter or leave The Other Stage at lunchtime, and Paolo Nutini, whose soulful ballads were a fitting soundtrack as dusk fell over Somerset.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor sneaked some disco into her set at the largely-acoustic Avalon Stage, while the pulsing synthpop of Glaswegian band Chvrches made for a steamy atmosphere in the John Peel tent as fans danced off the downpour.
Arcade Fire took to the stage shortly after 22:00 BST, their arrival heralded by a man dressed from head-to-toe in a mirrored suit.
Bravely, considering the weather conditions, the 12-piece band were largely dressed in white, but if they were worried about laundry bills, it didn't show.
They threw themselves around the stage, thrashing and spinning as though plagued by a swarm of invisible bees, each member switching instruments between - and often during - songs.
As well as guitars, they played steel drums, xylophones and even a hurdy gurdy.
Frontman Win Butler made frequent excursions into the audience and, during the song Flashbulb Eyes, plucked a camera from a press photographer and carried it on stage to capture the band's performance.
The set list was evenly spread across their four albums, with highlights including No Cars Go, Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) and Rebellion (Lies).
The group's recurring subject matter of suburban despair and alienation might have seemed like an odd fit for Glastonbury's peace and love ethos, but there is an optimism and belief in humanity at the core of their music.
Plus, they have really catchy choruses.
The band's willingness to embrace all walks of life was displayed on Friday night during the song We Exist - about a teenager whose father struggles to accept his sexuality.
As the opening chords rang out, a troupe of transgender and cross-dressing dancers joined the band onstage.
"Every one of us is born special and unique," said Butler. "However you are and however you were born, you're perfect."
The feel-good atmosphere continued throughout the two-hour set - ending with a mass singalong to the band's signature song, Wake Up.
Speaking to the BBC earlier in the day, the band's guitarist Richard Reed-Parry said they had enjoyed soaking up the Glastonbury atmosphere on Friday.
"There's a great feeling coming in," he said.
"It's a nice vibe. There's lots of families.
"It's not just about massive headlining acts. And it's not going to be a swamp of corporate beer-swilling drunkards.
"There's rain and there's mud but it's new and it doesn't smell bad yet. It's like, 'oh, this mud smells like grass! It's spring!'"
The music continues on Saturday with Jake Bugg, Pixies, Clean Bandit and Manic Street Preachers on the bill.
Among those watching the action will be Hollywood star Bradley Cooper, who told the BBC: "I'm excited to see Metallica and I want to see Jack White and Lana Del Rey."
Asked if he was put off by the weather, the Hangover star replied: "I love it. I do! But I'm a dumb American - you expect it."
Glastonbury 2014 | Weather and a lightning strike temporarily shut down the music festival in Glastonbury, but the performers and audience were not deterred, and the atmosphere remained positive when the music restarted. In a highly impressive lineup of performers, Canadian band Arcade Fire restarted the festivities with a unique, energetic performance. |
f1e71c7354f74bd19bd9006c888ddb0a | If Wigan Athletic are to be relegated from the Sky Bet Championship, then their new manager Gary Caldwell would want to see them go down kicking and screaming.
Martyn Waghorn took that a little too literally against Millwall, his red card for a senseless kick at Dan Harding punished by a Lions side determined to avoid a similar fate.
When Waghorn, who played for Millwall on loan from Leicester in 2013, lashed out after failing to win a corner on the hour, it was set up for the hosts to claim three precious points.
And they were duly delivered when Jimmy Abdou headed home Harding’s cross with 15 minutes remaining, sending a febrile Den into raptures.
Millwall team-mates rush to congratulate substitute Magaye Gueye after he scored their second goal.
Lions No 1 David Forde celebrates after Jimmy Abdou came on to break the deadlock with a rare strike.
Martyn Waghorn was one of three players sent off - two for Wigan and one for Millwall in the fiesty clash.
Millwall: Forde (c); Cummings, Nelson, Beevers, Harding; Upson, Abdou, Williams (Bailey 42), Martin (Gueye 68); O’Brien (Woolford 84), Gregory.
Substitutes not used: Archer (GK); Cowan-Hall, Fuller, Taylor-Fletcher.
Scorers: Abdou 75; Gueye 90+3.
Booked: Gregory, Martin, Bailey, Beevers.
Sent off: Upson.
Wigan Athletic: Carson; Boyce, Maguire, Pearce, Bong; Pennant (Chow 81), Perch (c), Kvist (Ojo 90+1), Kim Bo-Kyung, McLean; Fortune (Waghorn 53)
Substitutes not used: Al Habsi (GK); McCann, Barnett, Murphy.
Booked: Bong, Bo-Kyung.
Sent off: Waghorn, Pearson.
Referee: Stephen Martin (Staffordshire)
In his six seasons at the club, that was only Abdou’s seventh goal. What a time for it. The official Millwall Twitter account reassured followers it wasn’t a misprint.
There was more drama to follow. Jason Pearce followed Waghorn down the tunnel for a dreadful tackle on Aiden O’Brien as tempers flared in the closing stages, with Millwall’s Ed Upson also dismissed for his reaction.
The game had threatened to erupt all night. There were two confrontations in the first-half, with Caldwell and his Millwall counterpart Neil Harris on the edge of their technical areas appealing for calm.
And a second goal from Magaye Gueye in the third minute of stoppage time made absolutely sure, the substitute leading a breakaway on his own before finishing calmly past Carson.
Millwall’s win keeps the Championship relegation battle very much alive and throws the pressure onto Rotherham United, who face Fulham on Wednesday night.
The plot could also thicken further if Rotherham are docked three points for fielding an ineligible player in their win over Brighton earlier this month. Hope is still very much alive in south London after this, the gap closed to just four points.
Harris had described this match as a ‘Cup Final’ and his players responded. Snapping into every challenge, first to every ball, they wanted it more than Caldwell’s men.
Wigan's former Arsenal and Liverpool winger Jermaine Pennant (left) takes on Dan Harding of Millwall.
Millwall's Aiden O'Brien (left) competes with Emmerson Boyce of Wigan during the relegation six-pointer.
The Lions manager proudly declared afterwards: ‘That was a Millwall performance, that’s what this club is all about. If the players haven’t learned anything from me before tonight, they certainly have now.
‘I don’t necessarily condone challenges and melees but if you need a spark at The Den, then you have to take care of your own.’
And he couldn’t resist a joke at the expense of Abdou’s scoring record after his first goal in two years.
‘Jimmy Abdou is a great fellow, a great servant to Millwall FC,’ he said. ‘If anyone deserved that goal for his performances since I took over. He has the ability to do that and I’ve been telling him for seven years he can do that.
‘He’s got the ability in the legs, I think his last goal was in training about three and a half years ago!’
With Wigan seven points from safety, Millwall’s approach left manager Gary Caldwell irritated. He said: ‘There was one team out there trying to play football and another trying to rough us up.
‘The game got out of hand second-half, we needed a strong ref in a stadium like this.’
Wigan’s James McClean rattled the outside of the post with a cross-cum-shot that almost caught goalkeeper David Forde out after five minutes, while at the other end, Scott Carson had to race off his line to thwart Aiden O’Brien when he broke clear.
But overall the first-half was a poor spectacle, enlivened only by the handbags that engaged the crowd.
Wigan's James Perch (right) goes up for a header with Millwall midfielder Shaun Williams.
Wigan manager Gary Caldwell looks on nervously as his hopes of survival are dented.
Within the first five minutes of the second-half, Millwall created more than their sum total in the first. Former England stopper Carson had to be at his athletic best to turn away an O’Brien shot that seemed destined for the top corner.
And when thew red mist descended on Waghorn, there was only one winner. It coincided with Millwall’s best spell in the game and they capitalised when Abdou produced his potentially season-defining header.
After Gueye made sure at the end, chants of ‘Super Neil Harris’ echoed around the ground. Is another heroic act from this club legend on the cards? | Milwall FC defeated Wigan Athletic in a chippy match that saw three red cards handed out, 2 to Wigan and one the Milwall. Jimmy Abdou scored the go-ahead goal to the roar of the crowd, his first in seven seasons. The win grants Millwall three crucial points. |
f1e71c7354f74bd19bd9006c888ddb0a | If Wigan Athletic are to be relegated from the Sky Bet Championship, then their new manager Gary Caldwell would want to see them go down kicking and screaming.
Martyn Waghorn took that a little too literally against Millwall, his red card for a senseless kick at Dan Harding punished by a Lions side determined to avoid a similar fate.
When Waghorn, who played for Millwall on loan from Leicester in 2013, lashed out after failing to win a corner on the hour, it was set up for the hosts to claim three precious points.
And they were duly delivered when Jimmy Abdou headed home Harding’s cross with 15 minutes remaining, sending a febrile Den into raptures.
Millwall team-mates rush to congratulate substitute Magaye Gueye after he scored their second goal.
Lions No 1 David Forde celebrates after Jimmy Abdou came on to break the deadlock with a rare strike.
Martyn Waghorn was one of three players sent off - two for Wigan and one for Millwall in the fiesty clash.
Millwall: Forde (c); Cummings, Nelson, Beevers, Harding; Upson, Abdou, Williams (Bailey 42), Martin (Gueye 68); O’Brien (Woolford 84), Gregory.
Substitutes not used: Archer (GK); Cowan-Hall, Fuller, Taylor-Fletcher.
Scorers: Abdou 75; Gueye 90+3.
Booked: Gregory, Martin, Bailey, Beevers.
Sent off: Upson.
Wigan Athletic: Carson; Boyce, Maguire, Pearce, Bong; Pennant (Chow 81), Perch (c), Kvist (Ojo 90+1), Kim Bo-Kyung, McLean; Fortune (Waghorn 53)
Substitutes not used: Al Habsi (GK); McCann, Barnett, Murphy.
Booked: Bong, Bo-Kyung.
Sent off: Waghorn, Pearson.
Referee: Stephen Martin (Staffordshire)
In his six seasons at the club, that was only Abdou’s seventh goal. What a time for it. The official Millwall Twitter account reassured followers it wasn’t a misprint.
There was more drama to follow. Jason Pearce followed Waghorn down the tunnel for a dreadful tackle on Aiden O’Brien as tempers flared in the closing stages, with Millwall’s Ed Upson also dismissed for his reaction.
The game had threatened to erupt all night. There were two confrontations in the first-half, with Caldwell and his Millwall counterpart Neil Harris on the edge of their technical areas appealing for calm.
And a second goal from Magaye Gueye in the third minute of stoppage time made absolutely sure, the substitute leading a breakaway on his own before finishing calmly past Carson.
Millwall’s win keeps the Championship relegation battle very much alive and throws the pressure onto Rotherham United, who face Fulham on Wednesday night.
The plot could also thicken further if Rotherham are docked three points for fielding an ineligible player in their win over Brighton earlier this month. Hope is still very much alive in south London after this, the gap closed to just four points.
Harris had described this match as a ‘Cup Final’ and his players responded. Snapping into every challenge, first to every ball, they wanted it more than Caldwell’s men.
Wigan's former Arsenal and Liverpool winger Jermaine Pennant (left) takes on Dan Harding of Millwall.
Millwall's Aiden O'Brien (left) competes with Emmerson Boyce of Wigan during the relegation six-pointer.
The Lions manager proudly declared afterwards: ‘That was a Millwall performance, that’s what this club is all about. If the players haven’t learned anything from me before tonight, they certainly have now.
‘I don’t necessarily condone challenges and melees but if you need a spark at The Den, then you have to take care of your own.’
And he couldn’t resist a joke at the expense of Abdou’s scoring record after his first goal in two years.
‘Jimmy Abdou is a great fellow, a great servant to Millwall FC,’ he said. ‘If anyone deserved that goal for his performances since I took over. He has the ability to do that and I’ve been telling him for seven years he can do that.
‘He’s got the ability in the legs, I think his last goal was in training about three and a half years ago!’
With Wigan seven points from safety, Millwall’s approach left manager Gary Caldwell irritated. He said: ‘There was one team out there trying to play football and another trying to rough us up.
‘The game got out of hand second-half, we needed a strong ref in a stadium like this.’
Wigan’s James McClean rattled the outside of the post with a cross-cum-shot that almost caught goalkeeper David Forde out after five minutes, while at the other end, Scott Carson had to race off his line to thwart Aiden O’Brien when he broke clear.
But overall the first-half was a poor spectacle, enlivened only by the handbags that engaged the crowd.
Wigan's James Perch (right) goes up for a header with Millwall midfielder Shaun Williams.
Wigan manager Gary Caldwell looks on nervously as his hopes of survival are dented.
Within the first five minutes of the second-half, Millwall created more than their sum total in the first. Former England stopper Carson had to be at his athletic best to turn away an O’Brien shot that seemed destined for the top corner.
And when thew red mist descended on Waghorn, there was only one winner. It coincided with Millwall’s best spell in the game and they capitalised when Abdou produced his potentially season-defining header.
After Gueye made sure at the end, chants of ‘Super Neil Harris’ echoed around the ground. Is another heroic act from this club legend on the cards? | During the Sky Bet Championship, Wigan and Millwall teams engaged in a heated clash. Two confrontations erupted in the first half, and eventually, three players were sent off from the game. Millwall's coaching staff noted that lacking a strong referee led to the game getting even more out of it than in the second half. |
f1e71c7354f74bd19bd9006c888ddb0a | If Wigan Athletic are to be relegated from the Sky Bet Championship, then their new manager Gary Caldwell would want to see them go down kicking and screaming.
Martyn Waghorn took that a little too literally against Millwall, his red card for a senseless kick at Dan Harding punished by a Lions side determined to avoid a similar fate.
When Waghorn, who played for Millwall on loan from Leicester in 2013, lashed out after failing to win a corner on the hour, it was set up for the hosts to claim three precious points.
And they were duly delivered when Jimmy Abdou headed home Harding’s cross with 15 minutes remaining, sending a febrile Den into raptures.
Millwall team-mates rush to congratulate substitute Magaye Gueye after he scored their second goal.
Lions No 1 David Forde celebrates after Jimmy Abdou came on to break the deadlock with a rare strike.
Martyn Waghorn was one of three players sent off - two for Wigan and one for Millwall in the fiesty clash.
Millwall: Forde (c); Cummings, Nelson, Beevers, Harding; Upson, Abdou, Williams (Bailey 42), Martin (Gueye 68); O’Brien (Woolford 84), Gregory.
Substitutes not used: Archer (GK); Cowan-Hall, Fuller, Taylor-Fletcher.
Scorers: Abdou 75; Gueye 90+3.
Booked: Gregory, Martin, Bailey, Beevers.
Sent off: Upson.
Wigan Athletic: Carson; Boyce, Maguire, Pearce, Bong; Pennant (Chow 81), Perch (c), Kvist (Ojo 90+1), Kim Bo-Kyung, McLean; Fortune (Waghorn 53)
Substitutes not used: Al Habsi (GK); McCann, Barnett, Murphy.
Booked: Bong, Bo-Kyung.
Sent off: Waghorn, Pearson.
Referee: Stephen Martin (Staffordshire)
In his six seasons at the club, that was only Abdou’s seventh goal. What a time for it. The official Millwall Twitter account reassured followers it wasn’t a misprint.
There was more drama to follow. Jason Pearce followed Waghorn down the tunnel for a dreadful tackle on Aiden O’Brien as tempers flared in the closing stages, with Millwall’s Ed Upson also dismissed for his reaction.
The game had threatened to erupt all night. There were two confrontations in the first-half, with Caldwell and his Millwall counterpart Neil Harris on the edge of their technical areas appealing for calm.
And a second goal from Magaye Gueye in the third minute of stoppage time made absolutely sure, the substitute leading a breakaway on his own before finishing calmly past Carson.
Millwall’s win keeps the Championship relegation battle very much alive and throws the pressure onto Rotherham United, who face Fulham on Wednesday night.
The plot could also thicken further if Rotherham are docked three points for fielding an ineligible player in their win over Brighton earlier this month. Hope is still very much alive in south London after this, the gap closed to just four points.
Harris had described this match as a ‘Cup Final’ and his players responded. Snapping into every challenge, first to every ball, they wanted it more than Caldwell’s men.
Wigan's former Arsenal and Liverpool winger Jermaine Pennant (left) takes on Dan Harding of Millwall.
Millwall's Aiden O'Brien (left) competes with Emmerson Boyce of Wigan during the relegation six-pointer.
The Lions manager proudly declared afterwards: ‘That was a Millwall performance, that’s what this club is all about. If the players haven’t learned anything from me before tonight, they certainly have now.
‘I don’t necessarily condone challenges and melees but if you need a spark at The Den, then you have to take care of your own.’
And he couldn’t resist a joke at the expense of Abdou’s scoring record after his first goal in two years.
‘Jimmy Abdou is a great fellow, a great servant to Millwall FC,’ he said. ‘If anyone deserved that goal for his performances since I took over. He has the ability to do that and I’ve been telling him for seven years he can do that.
‘He’s got the ability in the legs, I think his last goal was in training about three and a half years ago!’
With Wigan seven points from safety, Millwall’s approach left manager Gary Caldwell irritated. He said: ‘There was one team out there trying to play football and another trying to rough us up.
‘The game got out of hand second-half, we needed a strong ref in a stadium like this.’
Wigan’s James McClean rattled the outside of the post with a cross-cum-shot that almost caught goalkeeper David Forde out after five minutes, while at the other end, Scott Carson had to race off his line to thwart Aiden O’Brien when he broke clear.
But overall the first-half was a poor spectacle, enlivened only by the handbags that engaged the crowd.
Wigan's James Perch (right) goes up for a header with Millwall midfielder Shaun Williams.
Wigan manager Gary Caldwell looks on nervously as his hopes of survival are dented.
Within the first five minutes of the second-half, Millwall created more than their sum total in the first. Former England stopper Carson had to be at his athletic best to turn away an O’Brien shot that seemed destined for the top corner.
And when thew red mist descended on Waghorn, there was only one winner. It coincided with Millwall’s best spell in the game and they capitalised when Abdou produced his potentially season-defining header.
After Gueye made sure at the end, chants of ‘Super Neil Harris’ echoed around the ground. Is another heroic act from this club legend on the cards? | After a rough, violent game described as 'out of control', Millwall won against Wigan. The Wigan manager Gary Caldwell was frustrated with the rough approach, but Millwall manager seemed to stand behind the actions of the team. |
fa6aef87d0da4352885dd68996ff2c98 | The cost of a daily lunchtime takeaway can be crippling and yet instead of making lunches at home the majority of British workers still pop to the high street to grab their midday meal.
The 'meal deal' (which is not always a meal, or a deal) has seen us stave off the hunger pangs with soggy sandwiches, slimy salads and salty soups, spending an average of £1,840 a year.
But we could save up to £1,300 a year if we just prepared our lunch at home.
Cheese, crackers and charcuterie is a simple and delicious lunch which can be easily assembled in the office.
Food website Food52's 'Not Sad Desk Lunch' series demonstrates just how simple it can be to bring healthy, cost-effective, and delicious lunches to work.
These incredibly detailed ideas and recipes show how to make everything from easy-to-assemble options such cheese and crackers, to more complicated steamed Chinese buns, and Vietnamese banh mi sandwiches.
Each recipe on Food52 is contributed by a member of the team who promises to keep your midday meals 'both interesting and pretty.'
If you're after something simple, cheese, crackers and charcuterie will do the job.
Simply choose your favourites, assemble and eat; and If you're vegetarian, swap meat for pickled vegetables and you're good to go.
Make something complicated like stuffed dumplings (left) or keep it simple with a toast tartine (right)
Hannah Petertil has some inspired combinations which include Cheddar, apple, and bacon jam; mozzarella and prosciuotto or manchego and dried apricots.
Keeping with the theme, you could also use the handy cracker to spread a variety of toppings.
Make a Greek salad cracker with cucumber, olive tapenade and feta; a hummus cracker with roasted red pepper on top; pesto crackers with thinly sliced prosciutto; or smashed avocado crackers.
Don't feel like spreading? Dip instead; simply decant your spreads into containers and away you go.
Workers could save up to £1,300 a year if they prepared their lunch at home instead of buying pre-packed sandwiches and snacks from shops, research by vouchercloud.com revealed.
More than 60 per cent of Britons who buy their lunches out spend an average of £1,840 a year, based on 46 working weeks, the research reveals.
In comparison, those who prepare food at home spend just £552 over the same period - a saving of a whopping £1,288.
The startling difference came to light following a poll of adults across the UK, which found that a fifth of Britons choose to purchase their work-time lunches as opposed to making them at home.
Pita bread is also another wonderful lunchtime option and can be stuffed with any number of fillings, from hard boiled eggs, smoked meat and charred vegetables.
Experiment with flavour combinations; stay Mediterranean with aubergine with chickpeas and coriander or keep it British with thinly sliced roast chicken, crisp lettuce and sweet baby tomatoes.
Remember, anything you can put into a sandwich can be stuffed into a pita.
Still sound too complicated? Try turning toast into a tartine.
Spread with butter or mayonnaise and top with thinly sliced vegetables (radish and chicory, dressed lightly in lemon juice and olive oil work really well against crisp, hot toast) or layer slices of ham, chopped up dates and a salty cheese to make something a bit more glamorous.
The site also has more complicated options for those who have time on their hands and want to experiment.
Steamed pork buns, which are traditionally eaten as a breakfast food in China are self-contained dough parcels which can be filled (bao) or unfilled (mantou).
Jenny Xu from Food52 writes: 'Your first option is to go with the basic, unfilled mantou dough, then customise it to your heart's content.'
Steamed Chinese buns (bao) are usually stuffed with meats such as roast pork and stir-fried mushrooms.
You can stuff your bun with anything you like including pork, vegetables and even mushrooms, before you steam them.
Freeze after steaming to keep them fresh and warm them in the office microwave.
Looking for something even more exotic?
Author of The Banh Mi Handbook Andrea Nguyen has a brilliant Vietnamese sandwich recipe which should satisfy the fussiest of lunchtime eaters.
Banh mi rolls are the Vietnamese take on the baguette and typically contain Asian fillings such as pickled vegetables, chillies and coriander as well as roast meats.
The bread is usually scooped out so that it resembles a cradle which your fillings can be placed in.
To make sure your sandwich doesn't go soggy, pack your vegetables separately and assemble when you get to the office.
Buns or banh mi not doing it for you? Stuff some dumplings instead.
'The best part about dumplings is that you can use anything to make fillings. I tend to lean towards two of my favorites: pork and chives for my meat option, and chives, egg, and vermicelli for my vegetarian option -- but these are only two out of numerous recipes out there,' Betty Liu of Food52 writes.
Greek salad cracker with cucumber, olive tapenade and feta (left). Pita bread with eggs and vegetables (right)
Feta, vegetable and rice bake.
Ingredients.
400g Easy Cook Rice: 89p per kg.
One courgette: 89p per 500g.
One pepper: 49p each.
200g cherry tomatoes: 65p per 300g.
45g Solesta pitted black olives: 45p per 230g.
200g pack Feta Cheese: 89p per 200g.
Store cupboard essentials: Red onion,eggs, dried basil, olive oil and salt and black pepper.
Total: £4.89.
Method: Pre-heat the oven to Gas Mark 5. Cook the rice as per instructions on the pack and allow to cool a little. Peel the red onion and chop into medium size chunks. Chop the courgette and the pepper to the same size as the onions and courgette. Halve the cherry tomatoes. Chop the feta into chunks the same size as the vegetables. Mix all the above along with the olives in a bowl with the olive oil and the basil. Beat the eggs, add the grated Parmesan cheese and mix with the rice. Grease the dish with some olive oil, spread the rice mixture over the base and up the sides of the dish. Pour the vegetable mix in the centre. Bake in the oven for 40 minutes. Cut into slices or quarters and serve.
Crispy mash hash.
Ingredients.
150g frozen chopped onions: £1.50.
Four teaspoons frozen chopped garlic: £1.25.
Two tablespoons frozen parsley: £1.25.
700g frozen mashed potato: £1.
Store cupboard essential: Olive oil.
Total cost: £5.
Method: Heat the oil in a large non-stick frying pan, add the onions and garlic, and cook over a low heat for three minutes. Turn the heat up a little, add the mashed potato and cook for 10 minutes, turning occasionally until crisped up around the edges. Season with black pepper, scatter over the parsley and serve.
Pea and ham frittata.
Ingredients.
Frozen peas, 1 kilo bag: £0.98.
Onion: £0.11.
Courgette: £0.41.
70g pack wafer thin ham: £0.75.
Six eggs: £0.89.
Smart Price salad bag: £0.44.
Bag of four jacket potatoes: £0.98.
Store cupboard essential: Sunflower oil.
Total cost: £4.06.
Method: Cook the peas on a pan. Heat the oil in a non-stick pan and cook the onion and courgette for about five minutes, stirring often. Add the peas and ham and stir. Lightly beat the eggs, season and pour into the pan. Cook over a low heat for 20 minutes or until the egg is almost set. Finish your dish under the grill to set the egg, then cut into wedges. Serve with salad and jacket potatoes.
Spring chicken casserole.
Ingredients.
Chicken thighs: £2.50 for 1lb.
Loose brown onions: £0.16.
Loose courgettes: £0.30.
400g can butter beans: £0.55.
400g can chopped tomatoes: £0.34.
Total cost: £3.85.
Store cupboard essentials: Olive oil and one clove garlic.
Method: Heat the oven to Gas Mark 5. Heat the oil in a large roasting tray on the hob. Season the chicken thighs and add to the tin. Fry for three to tive minutes, until browned all over. Remove and set aside. Add the onion, garlic and courgette to the tray and cook for three to four minutes.Stir in the tomatoes, tomato purée and rosemary and simmer for one minute. Season, then return the chicken to the tray and add the butterbeans.Transfer to the oven and roast for 25 minutes until the chicken is completely cooked. | Food52 is a website dedicated to guiding British workers through packing their own lunches, from simple to exotic, to help significantly reduce the annual cost of lunches. The website includes various meal ideas, recipes, specific cost and caloric breakdowns, as well as easy swaps for vegetarians. |
fa6aef87d0da4352885dd68996ff2c98 | The cost of a daily lunchtime takeaway can be crippling and yet instead of making lunches at home the majority of British workers still pop to the high street to grab their midday meal.
The 'meal deal' (which is not always a meal, or a deal) has seen us stave off the hunger pangs with soggy sandwiches, slimy salads and salty soups, spending an average of £1,840 a year.
But we could save up to £1,300 a year if we just prepared our lunch at home.
Cheese, crackers and charcuterie is a simple and delicious lunch which can be easily assembled in the office.
Food website Food52's 'Not Sad Desk Lunch' series demonstrates just how simple it can be to bring healthy, cost-effective, and delicious lunches to work.
These incredibly detailed ideas and recipes show how to make everything from easy-to-assemble options such cheese and crackers, to more complicated steamed Chinese buns, and Vietnamese banh mi sandwiches.
Each recipe on Food52 is contributed by a member of the team who promises to keep your midday meals 'both interesting and pretty.'
If you're after something simple, cheese, crackers and charcuterie will do the job.
Simply choose your favourites, assemble and eat; and If you're vegetarian, swap meat for pickled vegetables and you're good to go.
Make something complicated like stuffed dumplings (left) or keep it simple with a toast tartine (right)
Hannah Petertil has some inspired combinations which include Cheddar, apple, and bacon jam; mozzarella and prosciuotto or manchego and dried apricots.
Keeping with the theme, you could also use the handy cracker to spread a variety of toppings.
Make a Greek salad cracker with cucumber, olive tapenade and feta; a hummus cracker with roasted red pepper on top; pesto crackers with thinly sliced prosciutto; or smashed avocado crackers.
Don't feel like spreading? Dip instead; simply decant your spreads into containers and away you go.
Workers could save up to £1,300 a year if they prepared their lunch at home instead of buying pre-packed sandwiches and snacks from shops, research by vouchercloud.com revealed.
More than 60 per cent of Britons who buy their lunches out spend an average of £1,840 a year, based on 46 working weeks, the research reveals.
In comparison, those who prepare food at home spend just £552 over the same period - a saving of a whopping £1,288.
The startling difference came to light following a poll of adults across the UK, which found that a fifth of Britons choose to purchase their work-time lunches as opposed to making them at home.
Pita bread is also another wonderful lunchtime option and can be stuffed with any number of fillings, from hard boiled eggs, smoked meat and charred vegetables.
Experiment with flavour combinations; stay Mediterranean with aubergine with chickpeas and coriander or keep it British with thinly sliced roast chicken, crisp lettuce and sweet baby tomatoes.
Remember, anything you can put into a sandwich can be stuffed into a pita.
Still sound too complicated? Try turning toast into a tartine.
Spread with butter or mayonnaise and top with thinly sliced vegetables (radish and chicory, dressed lightly in lemon juice and olive oil work really well against crisp, hot toast) or layer slices of ham, chopped up dates and a salty cheese to make something a bit more glamorous.
The site also has more complicated options for those who have time on their hands and want to experiment.
Steamed pork buns, which are traditionally eaten as a breakfast food in China are self-contained dough parcels which can be filled (bao) or unfilled (mantou).
Jenny Xu from Food52 writes: 'Your first option is to go with the basic, unfilled mantou dough, then customise it to your heart's content.'
Steamed Chinese buns (bao) are usually stuffed with meats such as roast pork and stir-fried mushrooms.
You can stuff your bun with anything you like including pork, vegetables and even mushrooms, before you steam them.
Freeze after steaming to keep them fresh and warm them in the office microwave.
Looking for something even more exotic?
Author of The Banh Mi Handbook Andrea Nguyen has a brilliant Vietnamese sandwich recipe which should satisfy the fussiest of lunchtime eaters.
Banh mi rolls are the Vietnamese take on the baguette and typically contain Asian fillings such as pickled vegetables, chillies and coriander as well as roast meats.
The bread is usually scooped out so that it resembles a cradle which your fillings can be placed in.
To make sure your sandwich doesn't go soggy, pack your vegetables separately and assemble when you get to the office.
Buns or banh mi not doing it for you? Stuff some dumplings instead.
'The best part about dumplings is that you can use anything to make fillings. I tend to lean towards two of my favorites: pork and chives for my meat option, and chives, egg, and vermicelli for my vegetarian option -- but these are only two out of numerous recipes out there,' Betty Liu of Food52 writes.
Greek salad cracker with cucumber, olive tapenade and feta (left). Pita bread with eggs and vegetables (right)
Feta, vegetable and rice bake.
Ingredients.
400g Easy Cook Rice: 89p per kg.
One courgette: 89p per 500g.
One pepper: 49p each.
200g cherry tomatoes: 65p per 300g.
45g Solesta pitted black olives: 45p per 230g.
200g pack Feta Cheese: 89p per 200g.
Store cupboard essentials: Red onion,eggs, dried basil, olive oil and salt and black pepper.
Total: £4.89.
Method: Pre-heat the oven to Gas Mark 5. Cook the rice as per instructions on the pack and allow to cool a little. Peel the red onion and chop into medium size chunks. Chop the courgette and the pepper to the same size as the onions and courgette. Halve the cherry tomatoes. Chop the feta into chunks the same size as the vegetables. Mix all the above along with the olives in a bowl with the olive oil and the basil. Beat the eggs, add the grated Parmesan cheese and mix with the rice. Grease the dish with some olive oil, spread the rice mixture over the base and up the sides of the dish. Pour the vegetable mix in the centre. Bake in the oven for 40 minutes. Cut into slices or quarters and serve.
Crispy mash hash.
Ingredients.
150g frozen chopped onions: £1.50.
Four teaspoons frozen chopped garlic: £1.25.
Two tablespoons frozen parsley: £1.25.
700g frozen mashed potato: £1.
Store cupboard essential: Olive oil.
Total cost: £5.
Method: Heat the oil in a large non-stick frying pan, add the onions and garlic, and cook over a low heat for three minutes. Turn the heat up a little, add the mashed potato and cook for 10 minutes, turning occasionally until crisped up around the edges. Season with black pepper, scatter over the parsley and serve.
Pea and ham frittata.
Ingredients.
Frozen peas, 1 kilo bag: £0.98.
Onion: £0.11.
Courgette: £0.41.
70g pack wafer thin ham: £0.75.
Six eggs: £0.89.
Smart Price salad bag: £0.44.
Bag of four jacket potatoes: £0.98.
Store cupboard essential: Sunflower oil.
Total cost: £4.06.
Method: Cook the peas on a pan. Heat the oil in a non-stick pan and cook the onion and courgette for about five minutes, stirring often. Add the peas and ham and stir. Lightly beat the eggs, season and pour into the pan. Cook over a low heat for 20 minutes or until the egg is almost set. Finish your dish under the grill to set the egg, then cut into wedges. Serve with salad and jacket potatoes.
Spring chicken casserole.
Ingredients.
Chicken thighs: £2.50 for 1lb.
Loose brown onions: £0.16.
Loose courgettes: £0.30.
400g can butter beans: £0.55.
400g can chopped tomatoes: £0.34.
Total cost: £3.85.
Store cupboard essentials: Olive oil and one clove garlic.
Method: Heat the oven to Gas Mark 5. Heat the oil in a large roasting tray on the hob. Season the chicken thighs and add to the tin. Fry for three to tive minutes, until browned all over. Remove and set aside. Add the onion, garlic and courgette to the tray and cook for three to four minutes.Stir in the tomatoes, tomato purée and rosemary and simmer for one minute. Season, then return the chicken to the tray and add the butterbeans.Transfer to the oven and roast for 25 minutes until the chicken is completely cooked. | Workers could save up to 1,300 pounds a year by preparing meals at home instead of buying lunchtime takeaways. The food website Food52's 'Not Sad Desk Lunch' series teaches readers how easy it can be to make cost-effective and appetizing meals to bring to work. |
fa6aef87d0da4352885dd68996ff2c98 | The cost of a daily lunchtime takeaway can be crippling and yet instead of making lunches at home the majority of British workers still pop to the high street to grab their midday meal.
The 'meal deal' (which is not always a meal, or a deal) has seen us stave off the hunger pangs with soggy sandwiches, slimy salads and salty soups, spending an average of £1,840 a year.
But we could save up to £1,300 a year if we just prepared our lunch at home.
Cheese, crackers and charcuterie is a simple and delicious lunch which can be easily assembled in the office.
Food website Food52's 'Not Sad Desk Lunch' series demonstrates just how simple it can be to bring healthy, cost-effective, and delicious lunches to work.
These incredibly detailed ideas and recipes show how to make everything from easy-to-assemble options such cheese and crackers, to more complicated steamed Chinese buns, and Vietnamese banh mi sandwiches.
Each recipe on Food52 is contributed by a member of the team who promises to keep your midday meals 'both interesting and pretty.'
If you're after something simple, cheese, crackers and charcuterie will do the job.
Simply choose your favourites, assemble and eat; and If you're vegetarian, swap meat for pickled vegetables and you're good to go.
Make something complicated like stuffed dumplings (left) or keep it simple with a toast tartine (right)
Hannah Petertil has some inspired combinations which include Cheddar, apple, and bacon jam; mozzarella and prosciuotto or manchego and dried apricots.
Keeping with the theme, you could also use the handy cracker to spread a variety of toppings.
Make a Greek salad cracker with cucumber, olive tapenade and feta; a hummus cracker with roasted red pepper on top; pesto crackers with thinly sliced prosciutto; or smashed avocado crackers.
Don't feel like spreading? Dip instead; simply decant your spreads into containers and away you go.
Workers could save up to £1,300 a year if they prepared their lunch at home instead of buying pre-packed sandwiches and snacks from shops, research by vouchercloud.com revealed.
More than 60 per cent of Britons who buy their lunches out spend an average of £1,840 a year, based on 46 working weeks, the research reveals.
In comparison, those who prepare food at home spend just £552 over the same period - a saving of a whopping £1,288.
The startling difference came to light following a poll of adults across the UK, which found that a fifth of Britons choose to purchase their work-time lunches as opposed to making them at home.
Pita bread is also another wonderful lunchtime option and can be stuffed with any number of fillings, from hard boiled eggs, smoked meat and charred vegetables.
Experiment with flavour combinations; stay Mediterranean with aubergine with chickpeas and coriander or keep it British with thinly sliced roast chicken, crisp lettuce and sweet baby tomatoes.
Remember, anything you can put into a sandwich can be stuffed into a pita.
Still sound too complicated? Try turning toast into a tartine.
Spread with butter or mayonnaise and top with thinly sliced vegetables (radish and chicory, dressed lightly in lemon juice and olive oil work really well against crisp, hot toast) or layer slices of ham, chopped up dates and a salty cheese to make something a bit more glamorous.
The site also has more complicated options for those who have time on their hands and want to experiment.
Steamed pork buns, which are traditionally eaten as a breakfast food in China are self-contained dough parcels which can be filled (bao) or unfilled (mantou).
Jenny Xu from Food52 writes: 'Your first option is to go with the basic, unfilled mantou dough, then customise it to your heart's content.'
Steamed Chinese buns (bao) are usually stuffed with meats such as roast pork and stir-fried mushrooms.
You can stuff your bun with anything you like including pork, vegetables and even mushrooms, before you steam them.
Freeze after steaming to keep them fresh and warm them in the office microwave.
Looking for something even more exotic?
Author of The Banh Mi Handbook Andrea Nguyen has a brilliant Vietnamese sandwich recipe which should satisfy the fussiest of lunchtime eaters.
Banh mi rolls are the Vietnamese take on the baguette and typically contain Asian fillings such as pickled vegetables, chillies and coriander as well as roast meats.
The bread is usually scooped out so that it resembles a cradle which your fillings can be placed in.
To make sure your sandwich doesn't go soggy, pack your vegetables separately and assemble when you get to the office.
Buns or banh mi not doing it for you? Stuff some dumplings instead.
'The best part about dumplings is that you can use anything to make fillings. I tend to lean towards two of my favorites: pork and chives for my meat option, and chives, egg, and vermicelli for my vegetarian option -- but these are only two out of numerous recipes out there,' Betty Liu of Food52 writes.
Greek salad cracker with cucumber, olive tapenade and feta (left). Pita bread with eggs and vegetables (right)
Feta, vegetable and rice bake.
Ingredients.
400g Easy Cook Rice: 89p per kg.
One courgette: 89p per 500g.
One pepper: 49p each.
200g cherry tomatoes: 65p per 300g.
45g Solesta pitted black olives: 45p per 230g.
200g pack Feta Cheese: 89p per 200g.
Store cupboard essentials: Red onion,eggs, dried basil, olive oil and salt and black pepper.
Total: £4.89.
Method: Pre-heat the oven to Gas Mark 5. Cook the rice as per instructions on the pack and allow to cool a little. Peel the red onion and chop into medium size chunks. Chop the courgette and the pepper to the same size as the onions and courgette. Halve the cherry tomatoes. Chop the feta into chunks the same size as the vegetables. Mix all the above along with the olives in a bowl with the olive oil and the basil. Beat the eggs, add the grated Parmesan cheese and mix with the rice. Grease the dish with some olive oil, spread the rice mixture over the base and up the sides of the dish. Pour the vegetable mix in the centre. Bake in the oven for 40 minutes. Cut into slices or quarters and serve.
Crispy mash hash.
Ingredients.
150g frozen chopped onions: £1.50.
Four teaspoons frozen chopped garlic: £1.25.
Two tablespoons frozen parsley: £1.25.
700g frozen mashed potato: £1.
Store cupboard essential: Olive oil.
Total cost: £5.
Method: Heat the oil in a large non-stick frying pan, add the onions and garlic, and cook over a low heat for three minutes. Turn the heat up a little, add the mashed potato and cook for 10 minutes, turning occasionally until crisped up around the edges. Season with black pepper, scatter over the parsley and serve.
Pea and ham frittata.
Ingredients.
Frozen peas, 1 kilo bag: £0.98.
Onion: £0.11.
Courgette: £0.41.
70g pack wafer thin ham: £0.75.
Six eggs: £0.89.
Smart Price salad bag: £0.44.
Bag of four jacket potatoes: £0.98.
Store cupboard essential: Sunflower oil.
Total cost: £4.06.
Method: Cook the peas on a pan. Heat the oil in a non-stick pan and cook the onion and courgette for about five minutes, stirring often. Add the peas and ham and stir. Lightly beat the eggs, season and pour into the pan. Cook over a low heat for 20 minutes or until the egg is almost set. Finish your dish under the grill to set the egg, then cut into wedges. Serve with salad and jacket potatoes.
Spring chicken casserole.
Ingredients.
Chicken thighs: £2.50 for 1lb.
Loose brown onions: £0.16.
Loose courgettes: £0.30.
400g can butter beans: £0.55.
400g can chopped tomatoes: £0.34.
Total cost: £3.85.
Store cupboard essentials: Olive oil and one clove garlic.
Method: Heat the oven to Gas Mark 5. Heat the oil in a large roasting tray on the hob. Season the chicken thighs and add to the tin. Fry for three to tive minutes, until browned all over. Remove and set aside. Add the onion, garlic and courgette to the tray and cook for three to four minutes.Stir in the tomatoes, tomato purée and rosemary and simmer for one minute. Season, then return the chicken to the tray and add the butterbeans.Transfer to the oven and roast for 25 minutes until the chicken is completely cooked. | Nearly 60 percent of Britons buy takeaway lunches instead of making lunch at home, which costs roughly 1,900 pounds per year. Those who choose to make lunch at home save a whopping 1,300 pounds per year according to a survey. There are many options for home-cooked lunches. |
ef808d6c26924d8ca7f9ab88c54b12bd | Long relegated to the dusty corners of history, mead - the drink of kings and Vikings - is making a comeback in the US.
But what's brewing in this new crop of commercial meaderies - as they are known - is lot more refined from the drink that once decorated tables across medieval Europe.
"Do we have any mead makers or home brewers in the group?" asks Ben Alexander, eying a crowd of a dozen or so people who have come to his Maine Meade Works, in Portland, on a rainy Friday for a tour.
When no-one raises their hand, Mr Alexander launches into the full spiel.
"If you guys want to come around, I'll show you how this thing works," he says, gesturing to two ceiling-high columns of stainless steel filled with something resembling a mushy golden porridge.
"We mix up honey and water over there and we pump it through a hot water bath at 160 degrees [71C] in a stainless steel coil here. Each one produces about 50 to 75 gallons [227-340 litres] of mead a day," explains Mr Alexander.
It's fair to say he is obsessed with mead.
"It's the quintessential local beverage - you can go anywhere in the world and find honey to make mead, and I think that's unique among alcoholic beverages," he gushes.
After being introduced to the drink by a home brewer, Mr Alexander thought there were profits to be had in a commercial meadery. He founded Maine Mead Works in 2008, pouring his savings and money from friends and family into the business.
His business has since grown, along with the popularity of mead in the US.
It's now a seven-person operation that manufactures more than 7,500 cases a year, shipping them as far away as China.
Mr Alexander is not the only one to have caught on to the commercial potential of mead.
Vicky Rowe, the owner of mead information website GotMead, says interest in the product in the US has exploded in the past decade.
"We went from 30-40 meaderies making mead to somewhere in the vicinity of 250 in the last 10 years," she says.
"I like to say that everything old is new again - people come back to what was good once."
Even visitors to Mr Alexander's meadery agree.
Tour participant Dirk Heseman admitted that while Maine Mead Works was the first meadery he'd actually visited, he has noticed that mead "is becoming more and more available - similar to cider".
Just this year, commercial meaderies in the US have banded together to form an industry group, the American Mead Makers Association, to better share information and encourage growth in the industry.
But there's a lot of work that needs to be done to improve the image of a drink long associated with Renaissance fairs and medieval re-enactments.
"I think our number one challenge as an industry is awareness of what mead is," says Mr Alexander.
"You ask 10 people in a room if they've ever heard of mead, and two of them might say, 'yes', and only one of them has had a very positive experience."
The mead of the past was often sweet, and didn't appeal to many drinkers who were just looking for something good to pair with food. But mead has since changed.
"People don't realise that just because it has honey in it, [mead] doesn't need to be sweet," says Ms Rowe, citing the proliferation of not only dry meads but also meads flavoured with fruits, herbs, and spicy peppers.
Yet hampering efforts towards building mead awareness is also the name mead itself.
Technically, mead is classified as wine by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, which regulates alcohol sales and labelling in the US.
This means that mead has to be labelled as "honey wine", which doesn't help combat people's perception of the drink as being as cloyingly sweet.
"How do people recognise it as mead if you can't say the word?" says Ms Rowe.
Ironically, the alcoholic beverage that most credit with the resurgence of the mead business is beer.
The craft brewing movement, which was recently singled out in a report by the Atlanta Federal Reserve as a source of job growth, inspired many home brewers to expand their repertoire.
"I was a home brewer, and at first I liked mead because I had never had it," says Brad Dahlhofer of B Nektar meadery in Detroit, Michigan.
"Every home brewer has the same dream of, 'Hey what if I could sell this? Wouldn't that be great?'" he says.
After he spent months making batch after batch of mead, perfecting his recipe, he realised that mead was "kind of an untouched category", and that no-one, at least back in 2008, was really doing it commercially.
So when he and his wife, Kerri, were both laid off of their jobs in Detroit's car industry during the recession, they decided to take the plunge.
Now, B Nektar is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, US meadery, shipping 1,100 cases a week across the country.
But for Mr Dahlhofer and his fellow mead enthusiasts, that's just the beginning.
"If you look at craft beer 25 years ago, they had 1% of the total beer market, and now they have 8%," says Maine Mead's Mr Alexander.
"So we've got a long way to go, but I feel like it's got the opportunity because of the diversity of the beverage.
"You've got a canvas with very few limits." | Mead is making a comeback in the US. Brewers are revamping old recipes in order to make the drink less sweet. Mead brewers are also battling an image problem where mead is classified as a sweet wine or something only Vikings drink. |
ef808d6c26924d8ca7f9ab88c54b12bd | Long relegated to the dusty corners of history, mead - the drink of kings and Vikings - is making a comeback in the US.
But what's brewing in this new crop of commercial meaderies - as they are known - is lot more refined from the drink that once decorated tables across medieval Europe.
"Do we have any mead makers or home brewers in the group?" asks Ben Alexander, eying a crowd of a dozen or so people who have come to his Maine Meade Works, in Portland, on a rainy Friday for a tour.
When no-one raises their hand, Mr Alexander launches into the full spiel.
"If you guys want to come around, I'll show you how this thing works," he says, gesturing to two ceiling-high columns of stainless steel filled with something resembling a mushy golden porridge.
"We mix up honey and water over there and we pump it through a hot water bath at 160 degrees [71C] in a stainless steel coil here. Each one produces about 50 to 75 gallons [227-340 litres] of mead a day," explains Mr Alexander.
It's fair to say he is obsessed with mead.
"It's the quintessential local beverage - you can go anywhere in the world and find honey to make mead, and I think that's unique among alcoholic beverages," he gushes.
After being introduced to the drink by a home brewer, Mr Alexander thought there were profits to be had in a commercial meadery. He founded Maine Mead Works in 2008, pouring his savings and money from friends and family into the business.
His business has since grown, along with the popularity of mead in the US.
It's now a seven-person operation that manufactures more than 7,500 cases a year, shipping them as far away as China.
Mr Alexander is not the only one to have caught on to the commercial potential of mead.
Vicky Rowe, the owner of mead information website GotMead, says interest in the product in the US has exploded in the past decade.
"We went from 30-40 meaderies making mead to somewhere in the vicinity of 250 in the last 10 years," she says.
"I like to say that everything old is new again - people come back to what was good once."
Even visitors to Mr Alexander's meadery agree.
Tour participant Dirk Heseman admitted that while Maine Mead Works was the first meadery he'd actually visited, he has noticed that mead "is becoming more and more available - similar to cider".
Just this year, commercial meaderies in the US have banded together to form an industry group, the American Mead Makers Association, to better share information and encourage growth in the industry.
But there's a lot of work that needs to be done to improve the image of a drink long associated with Renaissance fairs and medieval re-enactments.
"I think our number one challenge as an industry is awareness of what mead is," says Mr Alexander.
"You ask 10 people in a room if they've ever heard of mead, and two of them might say, 'yes', and only one of them has had a very positive experience."
The mead of the past was often sweet, and didn't appeal to many drinkers who were just looking for something good to pair with food. But mead has since changed.
"People don't realise that just because it has honey in it, [mead] doesn't need to be sweet," says Ms Rowe, citing the proliferation of not only dry meads but also meads flavoured with fruits, herbs, and spicy peppers.
Yet hampering efforts towards building mead awareness is also the name mead itself.
Technically, mead is classified as wine by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, which regulates alcohol sales and labelling in the US.
This means that mead has to be labelled as "honey wine", which doesn't help combat people's perception of the drink as being as cloyingly sweet.
"How do people recognise it as mead if you can't say the word?" says Ms Rowe.
Ironically, the alcoholic beverage that most credit with the resurgence of the mead business is beer.
The craft brewing movement, which was recently singled out in a report by the Atlanta Federal Reserve as a source of job growth, inspired many home brewers to expand their repertoire.
"I was a home brewer, and at first I liked mead because I had never had it," says Brad Dahlhofer of B Nektar meadery in Detroit, Michigan.
"Every home brewer has the same dream of, 'Hey what if I could sell this? Wouldn't that be great?'" he says.
After he spent months making batch after batch of mead, perfecting his recipe, he realised that mead was "kind of an untouched category", and that no-one, at least back in 2008, was really doing it commercially.
So when he and his wife, Kerri, were both laid off of their jobs in Detroit's car industry during the recession, they decided to take the plunge.
Now, B Nektar is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, US meadery, shipping 1,100 cases a week across the country.
But for Mr Dahlhofer and his fellow mead enthusiasts, that's just the beginning.
"If you look at craft beer 25 years ago, they had 1% of the total beer market, and now they have 8%," says Maine Mead's Mr Alexander.
"So we've got a long way to go, but I feel like it's got the opportunity because of the diversity of the beverage.
"You've got a canvas with very few limits." | Mead, once considered the choice of Kings and Vikings, is making a comeback in the US. In the past, mead was often considered sweet, causing many drinkers not to consider it their first choice when pairing it with food. However, that has changed. The drink is experiencing a resurgence in interest. |
ef808d6c26924d8ca7f9ab88c54b12bd | Long relegated to the dusty corners of history, mead - the drink of kings and Vikings - is making a comeback in the US.
But what's brewing in this new crop of commercial meaderies - as they are known - is lot more refined from the drink that once decorated tables across medieval Europe.
"Do we have any mead makers or home brewers in the group?" asks Ben Alexander, eying a crowd of a dozen or so people who have come to his Maine Meade Works, in Portland, on a rainy Friday for a tour.
When no-one raises their hand, Mr Alexander launches into the full spiel.
"If you guys want to come around, I'll show you how this thing works," he says, gesturing to two ceiling-high columns of stainless steel filled with something resembling a mushy golden porridge.
"We mix up honey and water over there and we pump it through a hot water bath at 160 degrees [71C] in a stainless steel coil here. Each one produces about 50 to 75 gallons [227-340 litres] of mead a day," explains Mr Alexander.
It's fair to say he is obsessed with mead.
"It's the quintessential local beverage - you can go anywhere in the world and find honey to make mead, and I think that's unique among alcoholic beverages," he gushes.
After being introduced to the drink by a home brewer, Mr Alexander thought there were profits to be had in a commercial meadery. He founded Maine Mead Works in 2008, pouring his savings and money from friends and family into the business.
His business has since grown, along with the popularity of mead in the US.
It's now a seven-person operation that manufactures more than 7,500 cases a year, shipping them as far away as China.
Mr Alexander is not the only one to have caught on to the commercial potential of mead.
Vicky Rowe, the owner of mead information website GotMead, says interest in the product in the US has exploded in the past decade.
"We went from 30-40 meaderies making mead to somewhere in the vicinity of 250 in the last 10 years," she says.
"I like to say that everything old is new again - people come back to what was good once."
Even visitors to Mr Alexander's meadery agree.
Tour participant Dirk Heseman admitted that while Maine Mead Works was the first meadery he'd actually visited, he has noticed that mead "is becoming more and more available - similar to cider".
Just this year, commercial meaderies in the US have banded together to form an industry group, the American Mead Makers Association, to better share information and encourage growth in the industry.
But there's a lot of work that needs to be done to improve the image of a drink long associated with Renaissance fairs and medieval re-enactments.
"I think our number one challenge as an industry is awareness of what mead is," says Mr Alexander.
"You ask 10 people in a room if they've ever heard of mead, and two of them might say, 'yes', and only one of them has had a very positive experience."
The mead of the past was often sweet, and didn't appeal to many drinkers who were just looking for something good to pair with food. But mead has since changed.
"People don't realise that just because it has honey in it, [mead] doesn't need to be sweet," says Ms Rowe, citing the proliferation of not only dry meads but also meads flavoured with fruits, herbs, and spicy peppers.
Yet hampering efforts towards building mead awareness is also the name mead itself.
Technically, mead is classified as wine by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, which regulates alcohol sales and labelling in the US.
This means that mead has to be labelled as "honey wine", which doesn't help combat people's perception of the drink as being as cloyingly sweet.
"How do people recognise it as mead if you can't say the word?" says Ms Rowe.
Ironically, the alcoholic beverage that most credit with the resurgence of the mead business is beer.
The craft brewing movement, which was recently singled out in a report by the Atlanta Federal Reserve as a source of job growth, inspired many home brewers to expand their repertoire.
"I was a home brewer, and at first I liked mead because I had never had it," says Brad Dahlhofer of B Nektar meadery in Detroit, Michigan.
"Every home brewer has the same dream of, 'Hey what if I could sell this? Wouldn't that be great?'" he says.
After he spent months making batch after batch of mead, perfecting his recipe, he realised that mead was "kind of an untouched category", and that no-one, at least back in 2008, was really doing it commercially.
So when he and his wife, Kerri, were both laid off of their jobs in Detroit's car industry during the recession, they decided to take the plunge.
Now, B Nektar is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, US meadery, shipping 1,100 cases a week across the country.
But for Mr Dahlhofer and his fellow mead enthusiasts, that's just the beginning.
"If you look at craft beer 25 years ago, they had 1% of the total beer market, and now they have 8%," says Maine Mead's Mr Alexander.
"So we've got a long way to go, but I feel like it's got the opportunity because of the diversity of the beverage.
"You've got a canvas with very few limits." | Mead, an alcoholic beverage made from honey is gaining popularity in the United States. The drink is classified as wine by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. Mead labels define it as "honey wine", giving the consumer the impression that every mead is sweet, but it can also be flavored with fruits, herbs, and spicy peppers. |
eaf927e02e984ee18ef7cf147a40245e | Holidaying with the lair of a tiger as your closest neighbour might not sound like the cleverest idea in the world but it is certainly a once-in-a-lifetime experience that won't be forgotten.
For £3,500, tourists are being invited to book a trip to Russia and sleep in the natural habitat of the Siberian tiger, one of the world's most endangered animals.
Bespoke tour operators Natural World Safaris is offering the rare trip which also gives guests a unique opportunity to view the big cat.
A safari stay in Russia offers tourists the chance to spot, and sleep near, one of the world's most endangered animals- the Siberian tiger.
Bespoke holiday providers Natural World Safaris is offering the rare trip which gives guests a unique opportunity to view the big cat.
The trip to Durminskoye Reserve in Khabarovsk lasts seven days in total with guests spending time in the wild environs inhabited by the last remaining Siberian tigers, and setting camera traps with the experts in the hope of catching an insight into the lives of these endangered predators.
They will walk in the footsteps of the world’s biggest cats and spend time with Alexander Batalov, a frontline Russian conservationist who has spent the last 20 years of his life trying to protect the rare Siberian tiger.
The facilities are described as 'basic' and guests are provided with a translator throughout the stay.
The daily activity is to explore the Reserve in the hope of picking up tracks of the Siberian tigers that reside in this area.
This shot was captured at night as a Siberian Tiger walked down a narrow road in the Durminskoye Reserve, where guests can stay.
Huntsman’s hut in the forest – sustainable hunting is still allowed in the forest and the hut is also used as a base of operations.
The safari does not actively track them as this risks guests coming face-to-face with the animals themselves, which is why still and video cameras are set up.
The images and footage from these actively assist Alexander and his team as they work to save the tigers of the region from extinction.
Managing Director of Natural World Safaris and expert in wildlife encounters, Will Bolsover, told MailOnline Travel: ‘The trip is one of the rarest wildlife travel opportunities remaining today.
Alexander Batalov, a frontline Russian conservationist, has spent the last 20 years of his life trying to protect the rare Siberian tiger.
Inside Balatov's hut, dedicated to the natural world as you might expect with a range of feathers and animal bones.
'Spending time with Alexander Batalov in the home of the some of the last remaining Siberian tigers in Russia’s Far East, setting camera traps, tracking tiger footprints and collecting vital conservation data is a superb opportunity.’
It is estimated the current wild population of Siberian tigers under 400, making the species officially endangered.
Siberian tigers were once found throughout the Russian Far East, northern China, and the Korean peninsula but by the 1940s, hunting had driven the species, also known as the Amur tiger, to the brink of extinction with no more than 40 individuals remaining in the wild.
While the population has now stabilised somewhat, sightings in the wild are extremely rare as the tigers have the largest home range of any tiger subspecies and a limited density of prey means they have to search over large areas to find food.
Guests will stay in a wooden cabin on the Natural World Safari trip to see the Siberian tiger.
'Guests will be staying directly in the heart of the tigers' habitat, but with the cats being extremely elusive, it obviously isn’t guaranteed that they will even come face to face with a tiger at all,' Bolsover said.
'While they are out setting camera traps and observing scent trails, footprints, scratch marks on trees, they will be exactly where the tigers tread.
'While they are out in the forest or in the camp, a tiger could be 20m away, 200m away, or as far as two miles away- it’s difficult to put a numerical value on it.'
Click here for more information regarding the safari trip. | Natural World Safaris is offering a once-in-a-lifetime experience to sleep in the natural habitat of the Siberian tiger. Guests will book a trip to the Durminskoye Reserve in Khabarovsk, Russia, where they will spend seven days observing footprints and scratch marks on trees left by the tigers. |
eaf927e02e984ee18ef7cf147a40245e | Holidaying with the lair of a tiger as your closest neighbour might not sound like the cleverest idea in the world but it is certainly a once-in-a-lifetime experience that won't be forgotten.
For £3,500, tourists are being invited to book a trip to Russia and sleep in the natural habitat of the Siberian tiger, one of the world's most endangered animals.
Bespoke tour operators Natural World Safaris is offering the rare trip which also gives guests a unique opportunity to view the big cat.
A safari stay in Russia offers tourists the chance to spot, and sleep near, one of the world's most endangered animals- the Siberian tiger.
Bespoke holiday providers Natural World Safaris is offering the rare trip which gives guests a unique opportunity to view the big cat.
The trip to Durminskoye Reserve in Khabarovsk lasts seven days in total with guests spending time in the wild environs inhabited by the last remaining Siberian tigers, and setting camera traps with the experts in the hope of catching an insight into the lives of these endangered predators.
They will walk in the footsteps of the world’s biggest cats and spend time with Alexander Batalov, a frontline Russian conservationist who has spent the last 20 years of his life trying to protect the rare Siberian tiger.
The facilities are described as 'basic' and guests are provided with a translator throughout the stay.
The daily activity is to explore the Reserve in the hope of picking up tracks of the Siberian tigers that reside in this area.
This shot was captured at night as a Siberian Tiger walked down a narrow road in the Durminskoye Reserve, where guests can stay.
Huntsman’s hut in the forest – sustainable hunting is still allowed in the forest and the hut is also used as a base of operations.
The safari does not actively track them as this risks guests coming face-to-face with the animals themselves, which is why still and video cameras are set up.
The images and footage from these actively assist Alexander and his team as they work to save the tigers of the region from extinction.
Managing Director of Natural World Safaris and expert in wildlife encounters, Will Bolsover, told MailOnline Travel: ‘The trip is one of the rarest wildlife travel opportunities remaining today.
Alexander Batalov, a frontline Russian conservationist, has spent the last 20 years of his life trying to protect the rare Siberian tiger.
Inside Balatov's hut, dedicated to the natural world as you might expect with a range of feathers and animal bones.
'Spending time with Alexander Batalov in the home of the some of the last remaining Siberian tigers in Russia’s Far East, setting camera traps, tracking tiger footprints and collecting vital conservation data is a superb opportunity.’
It is estimated the current wild population of Siberian tigers under 400, making the species officially endangered.
Siberian tigers were once found throughout the Russian Far East, northern China, and the Korean peninsula but by the 1940s, hunting had driven the species, also known as the Amur tiger, to the brink of extinction with no more than 40 individuals remaining in the wild.
While the population has now stabilised somewhat, sightings in the wild are extremely rare as the tigers have the largest home range of any tiger subspecies and a limited density of prey means they have to search over large areas to find food.
Guests will stay in a wooden cabin on the Natural World Safari trip to see the Siberian tiger.
'Guests will be staying directly in the heart of the tigers' habitat, but with the cats being extremely elusive, it obviously isn’t guaranteed that they will even come face to face with a tiger at all,' Bolsover said.
'While they are out setting camera traps and observing scent trails, footprints, scratch marks on trees, they will be exactly where the tigers tread.
'While they are out in the forest or in the camp, a tiger could be 20m away, 200m away, or as far as two miles away- it’s difficult to put a numerical value on it.'
Click here for more information regarding the safari trip. | National World Safaris is offering guests an opportunity to spend time with one of the world's rarest animals, the Siberian tiger. Guests can spend 7 days exploring the Durminskoye Reserve in Khabarovsk in hopes of seeing one of the 400 Siberian tigers left in the world.
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eaf927e02e984ee18ef7cf147a40245e | Holidaying with the lair of a tiger as your closest neighbour might not sound like the cleverest idea in the world but it is certainly a once-in-a-lifetime experience that won't be forgotten.
For £3,500, tourists are being invited to book a trip to Russia and sleep in the natural habitat of the Siberian tiger, one of the world's most endangered animals.
Bespoke tour operators Natural World Safaris is offering the rare trip which also gives guests a unique opportunity to view the big cat.
A safari stay in Russia offers tourists the chance to spot, and sleep near, one of the world's most endangered animals- the Siberian tiger.
Bespoke holiday providers Natural World Safaris is offering the rare trip which gives guests a unique opportunity to view the big cat.
The trip to Durminskoye Reserve in Khabarovsk lasts seven days in total with guests spending time in the wild environs inhabited by the last remaining Siberian tigers, and setting camera traps with the experts in the hope of catching an insight into the lives of these endangered predators.
They will walk in the footsteps of the world’s biggest cats and spend time with Alexander Batalov, a frontline Russian conservationist who has spent the last 20 years of his life trying to protect the rare Siberian tiger.
The facilities are described as 'basic' and guests are provided with a translator throughout the stay.
The daily activity is to explore the Reserve in the hope of picking up tracks of the Siberian tigers that reside in this area.
This shot was captured at night as a Siberian Tiger walked down a narrow road in the Durminskoye Reserve, where guests can stay.
Huntsman’s hut in the forest – sustainable hunting is still allowed in the forest and the hut is also used as a base of operations.
The safari does not actively track them as this risks guests coming face-to-face with the animals themselves, which is why still and video cameras are set up.
The images and footage from these actively assist Alexander and his team as they work to save the tigers of the region from extinction.
Managing Director of Natural World Safaris and expert in wildlife encounters, Will Bolsover, told MailOnline Travel: ‘The trip is one of the rarest wildlife travel opportunities remaining today.
Alexander Batalov, a frontline Russian conservationist, has spent the last 20 years of his life trying to protect the rare Siberian tiger.
Inside Balatov's hut, dedicated to the natural world as you might expect with a range of feathers and animal bones.
'Spending time with Alexander Batalov in the home of the some of the last remaining Siberian tigers in Russia’s Far East, setting camera traps, tracking tiger footprints and collecting vital conservation data is a superb opportunity.’
It is estimated the current wild population of Siberian tigers under 400, making the species officially endangered.
Siberian tigers were once found throughout the Russian Far East, northern China, and the Korean peninsula but by the 1940s, hunting had driven the species, also known as the Amur tiger, to the brink of extinction with no more than 40 individuals remaining in the wild.
While the population has now stabilised somewhat, sightings in the wild are extremely rare as the tigers have the largest home range of any tiger subspecies and a limited density of prey means they have to search over large areas to find food.
Guests will stay in a wooden cabin on the Natural World Safari trip to see the Siberian tiger.
'Guests will be staying directly in the heart of the tigers' habitat, but with the cats being extremely elusive, it obviously isn’t guaranteed that they will even come face to face with a tiger at all,' Bolsover said.
'While they are out setting camera traps and observing scent trails, footprints, scratch marks on trees, they will be exactly where the tigers tread.
'While they are out in the forest or in the camp, a tiger could be 20m away, 200m away, or as far as two miles away- it’s difficult to put a numerical value on it.'
Click here for more information regarding the safari trip. | A Russian tour company is offering tourists a chance to sleep in close proximity to the highly endangered Siberian tiger. Guests will stay in the heart of the animals' territory in the hopes of coming face-to-face with the large cat. The guides also set up cameras to track the tigers. |
82b69aa5acc04079a6d99ec7523f9af4 | A heavily armed Algerian jihadi who was preparing to attack churches in Paris on the orders is in custody this morning after being implicated in the murder of a young woman.
The 24-year-old, named locally as Sid Ahmed Ghlam, had shot himself in the leg before his arrest by anti-terrorist officers in the 13th arrondissement in southern Paris on Sunday.
This afternoon the Paris prosecutor said police found Arabic documents mentioning ISIS and Al Qaeda at the IT student's home, as well as evidence on his computer that he was in contact with a man in Syria 'who clearly asked him to target a church.'
Sunday's arrest came just hours after the murder of Aurelie Chatelain, a 33-year-old mother and fitness instructor, who was riddled with bullets as she sat in her car in a car park in the Paris suburb of Villejuif. Investigators reportedly claim DNA evidence links Ghlam to her murder.
Scroll down for video.
Sid Ahmed Ghlam (pictured) had shot himself in the leg before his arrest by anti-terrorist officers.
Killed: DNA evidence also reportedly links Ghlam to the murder of Aurelie Chatelain (pictured left and right), a 33-year-old mother and fitness instructor who shot dead in her car in a Paris suburb on Sunday morning.
Gathered: This is the student residence where Sid Ahmed Ghlam - a 24-year-old computer science student suspected of plotting imminent attacks on churches in France - had reportedly been living.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve today said: 'A terrorist attack was foiled on Sunday morning.'
'The police discovered an arsenal containing weapons of war, and a suspect was immediately taken into custody.'
Victim: DNA tests reportedly link the arrested man to the murder of Ms Chatelain (pictured) on Sunday.
Mr Cazeneuve said the suspect was found on a street in the 13th arrondissement of Paris with a bullet in his leg, and bleeding heavily.
He originally claimed to be the victim of an attack by criminals, but officers followed the trail of blood to his car, where they found a Kalashnikov assaultrifle, and a Sig-Sauer automatic pistol.
There were also stolen police armbands which would enable him to pose as a plain clothes officer.
In Ghlam's student accommodation, detectives later found three automatic rifles, handguns, and bulletproof vests.
There were also Jihadi flags and literature, false passports, and plans for attacks on 'one or two' churches in the Paris area.
DNA analysis reportedly linked the arrested man to the murder of Ms Chatelain, who was originally from Caudry, in northern France.
The arrested man was an Algerian national studying computer science in Paris, and was known to the intelligence services.
The man had been considered a likely candidate to travel to Syria to fight with the Islamic State terrorist organisation, said Mr Cazeneuve, and was officially under surveillance.
Tragic: Ghalm's arrest came just hours after the murder of Aurelie Chatelain (pictured), a 33-year-old mother and fitness instructor, who was riddled with bullets as she sat in her car in the Paris suburb of Villejuif.
Statement: French Prime Minister Manuel Vall, left, and interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve, speaking to the assembled media about the thwarted attack after a cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris today.
Location: The 24-year-old, named locally as Sid Ahmed Ghlam, had shot himself in the leg before his arrest by anti-terrorist officers in the 13th arrondissement in southern Paris (pictured) on Sunday morning.
The arrested man had moved to France in 2009, and was supported by his sister, who lives in the Paris area. Her home has since been raided by police too.
It follows the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks in January, when three Islamist terrorists slaughtered 17 people in the city.
They included cartoonists and journalists working for the notoriously anti-Muslim magazine, as well as police and four Jews who were targeted in a kosher supermarket.
Two of the attackers, Saif and Cherif Kouachi, were both from Algerian backgrounds, while the third, Amedy Coulibaly, was from a Malian immigrant background.
All were shot dead by police commandos following sieges. | 24-year-old Sid Ahmed Ghlam is in French custody after being arrested on Sunday morning. The Algerian has been connected via DNA to the murder of Aurelie Chatelain, a 33-year-old mother who was shot while sitting in her car. The arrest foiled a future plot by Ghlam, who was preparing to attack churches in Paris. |
82b69aa5acc04079a6d99ec7523f9af4 | A heavily armed Algerian jihadi who was preparing to attack churches in Paris on the orders is in custody this morning after being implicated in the murder of a young woman.
The 24-year-old, named locally as Sid Ahmed Ghlam, had shot himself in the leg before his arrest by anti-terrorist officers in the 13th arrondissement in southern Paris on Sunday.
This afternoon the Paris prosecutor said police found Arabic documents mentioning ISIS and Al Qaeda at the IT student's home, as well as evidence on his computer that he was in contact with a man in Syria 'who clearly asked him to target a church.'
Sunday's arrest came just hours after the murder of Aurelie Chatelain, a 33-year-old mother and fitness instructor, who was riddled with bullets as she sat in her car in a car park in the Paris suburb of Villejuif. Investigators reportedly claim DNA evidence links Ghlam to her murder.
Scroll down for video.
Sid Ahmed Ghlam (pictured) had shot himself in the leg before his arrest by anti-terrorist officers.
Killed: DNA evidence also reportedly links Ghlam to the murder of Aurelie Chatelain (pictured left and right), a 33-year-old mother and fitness instructor who shot dead in her car in a Paris suburb on Sunday morning.
Gathered: This is the student residence where Sid Ahmed Ghlam - a 24-year-old computer science student suspected of plotting imminent attacks on churches in France - had reportedly been living.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve today said: 'A terrorist attack was foiled on Sunday morning.'
'The police discovered an arsenal containing weapons of war, and a suspect was immediately taken into custody.'
Victim: DNA tests reportedly link the arrested man to the murder of Ms Chatelain (pictured) on Sunday.
Mr Cazeneuve said the suspect was found on a street in the 13th arrondissement of Paris with a bullet in his leg, and bleeding heavily.
He originally claimed to be the victim of an attack by criminals, but officers followed the trail of blood to his car, where they found a Kalashnikov assaultrifle, and a Sig-Sauer automatic pistol.
There were also stolen police armbands which would enable him to pose as a plain clothes officer.
In Ghlam's student accommodation, detectives later found three automatic rifles, handguns, and bulletproof vests.
There were also Jihadi flags and literature, false passports, and plans for attacks on 'one or two' churches in the Paris area.
DNA analysis reportedly linked the arrested man to the murder of Ms Chatelain, who was originally from Caudry, in northern France.
The arrested man was an Algerian national studying computer science in Paris, and was known to the intelligence services.
The man had been considered a likely candidate to travel to Syria to fight with the Islamic State terrorist organisation, said Mr Cazeneuve, and was officially under surveillance.
Tragic: Ghalm's arrest came just hours after the murder of Aurelie Chatelain (pictured), a 33-year-old mother and fitness instructor, who was riddled with bullets as she sat in her car in the Paris suburb of Villejuif.
Statement: French Prime Minister Manuel Vall, left, and interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve, speaking to the assembled media about the thwarted attack after a cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris today.
Location: The 24-year-old, named locally as Sid Ahmed Ghlam, had shot himself in the leg before his arrest by anti-terrorist officers in the 13th arrondissement in southern Paris (pictured) on Sunday morning.
The arrested man had moved to France in 2009, and was supported by his sister, who lives in the Paris area. Her home has since been raided by police too.
It follows the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks in January, when three Islamist terrorists slaughtered 17 people in the city.
They included cartoonists and journalists working for the notoriously anti-Muslim magazine, as well as police and four Jews who were targeted in a kosher supermarket.
Two of the attackers, Saif and Cherif Kouachi, were both from Algerian backgrounds, while the third, Amedy Coulibaly, was from a Malian immigrant background.
All were shot dead by police commandos following sieges. | Investigators found DNA evidence that links 24-year-old student, Ahmed Ghlam to the murder of Aurelie Chatelain, who is a resident in the same building Ghlam lives. Heavily armed, Ahmed Ghlam was planning to attack churches in Paris based on documents mentioning ISIS and Al Qaeda. But before the attacks were carried out, Ghlam was arrested. |
82b69aa5acc04079a6d99ec7523f9af4 | A heavily armed Algerian jihadi who was preparing to attack churches in Paris on the orders is in custody this morning after being implicated in the murder of a young woman.
The 24-year-old, named locally as Sid Ahmed Ghlam, had shot himself in the leg before his arrest by anti-terrorist officers in the 13th arrondissement in southern Paris on Sunday.
This afternoon the Paris prosecutor said police found Arabic documents mentioning ISIS and Al Qaeda at the IT student's home, as well as evidence on his computer that he was in contact with a man in Syria 'who clearly asked him to target a church.'
Sunday's arrest came just hours after the murder of Aurelie Chatelain, a 33-year-old mother and fitness instructor, who was riddled with bullets as she sat in her car in a car park in the Paris suburb of Villejuif. Investigators reportedly claim DNA evidence links Ghlam to her murder.
Scroll down for video.
Sid Ahmed Ghlam (pictured) had shot himself in the leg before his arrest by anti-terrorist officers.
Killed: DNA evidence also reportedly links Ghlam to the murder of Aurelie Chatelain (pictured left and right), a 33-year-old mother and fitness instructor who shot dead in her car in a Paris suburb on Sunday morning.
Gathered: This is the student residence where Sid Ahmed Ghlam - a 24-year-old computer science student suspected of plotting imminent attacks on churches in France - had reportedly been living.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve today said: 'A terrorist attack was foiled on Sunday morning.'
'The police discovered an arsenal containing weapons of war, and a suspect was immediately taken into custody.'
Victim: DNA tests reportedly link the arrested man to the murder of Ms Chatelain (pictured) on Sunday.
Mr Cazeneuve said the suspect was found on a street in the 13th arrondissement of Paris with a bullet in his leg, and bleeding heavily.
He originally claimed to be the victim of an attack by criminals, but officers followed the trail of blood to his car, where they found a Kalashnikov assaultrifle, and a Sig-Sauer automatic pistol.
There were also stolen police armbands which would enable him to pose as a plain clothes officer.
In Ghlam's student accommodation, detectives later found three automatic rifles, handguns, and bulletproof vests.
There were also Jihadi flags and literature, false passports, and plans for attacks on 'one or two' churches in the Paris area.
DNA analysis reportedly linked the arrested man to the murder of Ms Chatelain, who was originally from Caudry, in northern France.
The arrested man was an Algerian national studying computer science in Paris, and was known to the intelligence services.
The man had been considered a likely candidate to travel to Syria to fight with the Islamic State terrorist organisation, said Mr Cazeneuve, and was officially under surveillance.
Tragic: Ghalm's arrest came just hours after the murder of Aurelie Chatelain (pictured), a 33-year-old mother and fitness instructor, who was riddled with bullets as she sat in her car in the Paris suburb of Villejuif.
Statement: French Prime Minister Manuel Vall, left, and interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve, speaking to the assembled media about the thwarted attack after a cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris today.
Location: The 24-year-old, named locally as Sid Ahmed Ghlam, had shot himself in the leg before his arrest by anti-terrorist officers in the 13th arrondissement in southern Paris (pictured) on Sunday morning.
The arrested man had moved to France in 2009, and was supported by his sister, who lives in the Paris area. Her home has since been raided by police too.
It follows the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks in January, when three Islamist terrorists slaughtered 17 people in the city.
They included cartoonists and journalists working for the notoriously anti-Muslim magazine, as well as police and four Jews who were targeted in a kosher supermarket.
Two of the attackers, Saif and Cherif Kouachi, were both from Algerian backgrounds, while the third, Amedy Coulibaly, was from a Malian immigrant background.
All were shot dead by police commandos following sieges. | An Algerian terrorist was arrested in Paris for the murder of a local woman. The arrest thwarted his planned attack on a church. He was a known risk, being watched by the Government, and weapons, passports, attack plans, and terrorist documents were found in his apartment. |
08c88b7d81f148ce95c37ac8a2b0c921 | Researchers have completed the first comprehensive study of the microbes living on and in and uncontacted tribe from the Amazon.
They say the results show just how modern lifestyles and diets have changed us - and that the bacteria they found could be potentially beneficial to modern society.
Researchers sequenced the microbiomes of Yanomami people living in a remote Amazon village in Venezuela who had not had previous contact with non-Yanomami.
There are about 26,000 Yanomami living in Brazil and 15,000 in Venezuela, mostly in federally protected reserves near rivers and in remote mountains.
The Yanomami are an indigenous ethnic group in the Amazonian region of South America.
There are about 26,000 Yanomami living in Brazil and 15,000 in Venezuela, mostly in federally protected reserves near rivers and in remote mountains.
The Yanomami are hunter-gatherers.
They gather wild bananas, seasonal fruits, palm hearts and cassava.
They hunt birds, small mammals, crabs, frogs, small fish and the occasional peccary, monkey or tapir.
The group doesn't grow food or domesticate livestock.
The researchers found that Yanomami people harbor microbiomes with the highest diversity of bacteria and genetic functions ever reported in a human group.
'That tells us that Western diets and lifestyles have a great impact on our microbiomes', experts at University of San Diego said.
'Studying the microbiomes of people in remote areas may hold the key to understanding microbes we have lost through antibiotics, sealed buildings and lack of exposure to the outdoors,' said study co-author Rob Knight.
In the new study published April 17 by Science Advances, researchers sequenced the microbiomes of Yanomami people living in a remote Amazon village in Venezuela who had not had previous contact with non-Yanomami.
This information revealed, for the first time, the species of bacteria that co-exist with people who have never been exposed to industrialized society, including Western food and antibiotics.
'Our findings emphasize the need for extensive characterization of the function of the microbiome and resistome in remote nonwesternized populations before globalization of modern practices affects potentially beneficial bacteria harbored in the human body,' the researchers wrote.
Many Yanomami now regularly interact with Western civilization through trade, but some villages have never had contact with non-Yanomami people.
One such unmapped village was first spotted by an army helicopter passing overhead in 2008. In 2009, a medical mission landed there.
As part of their 2009 visit to this previously uncontacted Yanomami village, medical professionals collected samples from the skin, mouths and fecal matter of 34 of the 54 villagers before vaccines or antibiotics were administered.
The samples were frozen until DNA extraction and bacterial culturing could be performed for the purposes of this study.
Yanomami indigenous leader Davi Yanomami claims Americans' 'robbed blood' for the tests.
Thousands of blood samples have been returned to the Yanomami tribe in Brazil, after they were taken by American scientists in the 1960s and held in U.S. academic institutions without the tribe's consent, according to Survival international.
The Yanomami have been fighting for their return for over a decade.
The Yanomami buried the 2,693 samples during a special funerary ceremony presided over by shamans in the Yanomami community where many of the samples were collected.
Only 15 Yanomami whose blood was taken in the late 1960s were able to attend the ritual. Shamans performed funerary rites for those who gave blood and have since died.
Keen to collect blood samples from a very isolated community, U.S. scientists collected thousands of samples from the Indians in Brazil and Venezuela without obtaining their informed consent.
The Yanomami only discovered years later that their blood was being stored in research institutes – in violation of their beliefs and funerary customs of cremating those who have passed away and destroying their possessions.
Without obtaining the Yanomami's consent, some institutions extracted DNA from the blood for genetic tests in the 1990s.
Yanomami spokesman Davi Kopenawa said, 'These Americans robbed our blood.
'They did not say anything in our language about the tests they were going to do. Nobody knew that they were going to use our blood to do research.'
Back in labs in the U.S. (at Mount Sinai, New York University, University of Colorado, Boulder and others), researchers sequenced DNA isolated from the Yanomami samples.
From this, they were able to identify all of the bacterial species that make up the skin, mouth and gut microbiomes of people who had never been exposed to Western diets, antibiotics or other environmental factors that make up life in industrialized societies.
The researchers then compared these non-Westernized microbiomes to the microbiomes of people living in Western society and people living in villages in the midst of transition from isolation to urban lifestyles.
Bacteria isolated from Yanomami microbiomes carried genes that confer resistance to man-made antibiotics, despite the fact that they were never previously exposed to antibiotics.
This finding suggests that many bacterial species contain antibiotic resistance genes naturally, even without the selective pressure of antibiotic use.
What happens in Western cultures, the researchers hypothesize, is antibiotic use simply gives naturally resistant bacteria a survival advantage over non-resistant bacteria.
The researchers say the study could help develop new medical treatments.
'First of all, this study gives us a glimpse of what our microbiomes might have looked like before our modern habits began to impact the beneficial bacteria that call us home.
'Studies like this one help us better understand what factors can alter a microbiome and the effect those changes can have on a person's health — information researchers need to guide efforts to manipulate the microbiome to treat disease and restore health.' | Researchers have completed a microbiome study on the Yanomami tribe, and the results show how modern lifestyles and diets have changed western civilization. New information shows that the species of bacteria co-exist with people who were never exposed to western food and antibiotics, helping us understand what factors affect the impact on one's health. |
08c88b7d81f148ce95c37ac8a2b0c921 | Researchers have completed the first comprehensive study of the microbes living on and in and uncontacted tribe from the Amazon.
They say the results show just how modern lifestyles and diets have changed us - and that the bacteria they found could be potentially beneficial to modern society.
Researchers sequenced the microbiomes of Yanomami people living in a remote Amazon village in Venezuela who had not had previous contact with non-Yanomami.
There are about 26,000 Yanomami living in Brazil and 15,000 in Venezuela, mostly in federally protected reserves near rivers and in remote mountains.
The Yanomami are an indigenous ethnic group in the Amazonian region of South America.
There are about 26,000 Yanomami living in Brazil and 15,000 in Venezuela, mostly in federally protected reserves near rivers and in remote mountains.
The Yanomami are hunter-gatherers.
They gather wild bananas, seasonal fruits, palm hearts and cassava.
They hunt birds, small mammals, crabs, frogs, small fish and the occasional peccary, monkey or tapir.
The group doesn't grow food or domesticate livestock.
The researchers found that Yanomami people harbor microbiomes with the highest diversity of bacteria and genetic functions ever reported in a human group.
'That tells us that Western diets and lifestyles have a great impact on our microbiomes', experts at University of San Diego said.
'Studying the microbiomes of people in remote areas may hold the key to understanding microbes we have lost through antibiotics, sealed buildings and lack of exposure to the outdoors,' said study co-author Rob Knight.
In the new study published April 17 by Science Advances, researchers sequenced the microbiomes of Yanomami people living in a remote Amazon village in Venezuela who had not had previous contact with non-Yanomami.
This information revealed, for the first time, the species of bacteria that co-exist with people who have never been exposed to industrialized society, including Western food and antibiotics.
'Our findings emphasize the need for extensive characterization of the function of the microbiome and resistome in remote nonwesternized populations before globalization of modern practices affects potentially beneficial bacteria harbored in the human body,' the researchers wrote.
Many Yanomami now regularly interact with Western civilization through trade, but some villages have never had contact with non-Yanomami people.
One such unmapped village was first spotted by an army helicopter passing overhead in 2008. In 2009, a medical mission landed there.
As part of their 2009 visit to this previously uncontacted Yanomami village, medical professionals collected samples from the skin, mouths and fecal matter of 34 of the 54 villagers before vaccines or antibiotics were administered.
The samples were frozen until DNA extraction and bacterial culturing could be performed for the purposes of this study.
Yanomami indigenous leader Davi Yanomami claims Americans' 'robbed blood' for the tests.
Thousands of blood samples have been returned to the Yanomami tribe in Brazil, after they were taken by American scientists in the 1960s and held in U.S. academic institutions without the tribe's consent, according to Survival international.
The Yanomami have been fighting for their return for over a decade.
The Yanomami buried the 2,693 samples during a special funerary ceremony presided over by shamans in the Yanomami community where many of the samples were collected.
Only 15 Yanomami whose blood was taken in the late 1960s were able to attend the ritual. Shamans performed funerary rites for those who gave blood and have since died.
Keen to collect blood samples from a very isolated community, U.S. scientists collected thousands of samples from the Indians in Brazil and Venezuela without obtaining their informed consent.
The Yanomami only discovered years later that their blood was being stored in research institutes – in violation of their beliefs and funerary customs of cremating those who have passed away and destroying their possessions.
Without obtaining the Yanomami's consent, some institutions extracted DNA from the blood for genetic tests in the 1990s.
Yanomami spokesman Davi Kopenawa said, 'These Americans robbed our blood.
'They did not say anything in our language about the tests they were going to do. Nobody knew that they were going to use our blood to do research.'
Back in labs in the U.S. (at Mount Sinai, New York University, University of Colorado, Boulder and others), researchers sequenced DNA isolated from the Yanomami samples.
From this, they were able to identify all of the bacterial species that make up the skin, mouth and gut microbiomes of people who had never been exposed to Western diets, antibiotics or other environmental factors that make up life in industrialized societies.
The researchers then compared these non-Westernized microbiomes to the microbiomes of people living in Western society and people living in villages in the midst of transition from isolation to urban lifestyles.
Bacteria isolated from Yanomami microbiomes carried genes that confer resistance to man-made antibiotics, despite the fact that they were never previously exposed to antibiotics.
This finding suggests that many bacterial species contain antibiotic resistance genes naturally, even without the selective pressure of antibiotic use.
What happens in Western cultures, the researchers hypothesize, is antibiotic use simply gives naturally resistant bacteria a survival advantage over non-resistant bacteria.
The researchers say the study could help develop new medical treatments.
'First of all, this study gives us a glimpse of what our microbiomes might have looked like before our modern habits began to impact the beneficial bacteria that call us home.
'Studies like this one help us better understand what factors can alter a microbiome and the effect those changes can have on a person's health — information researchers need to guide efforts to manipulate the microbiome to treat disease and restore health.' | An indigenous tribe living in the Amazon has been fighting for the return of medical samples for over a decade. A representative for the tribe claimed that the blood was stolen by researchers and demands the samples be returned to the tribe. |
08c88b7d81f148ce95c37ac8a2b0c921 | Researchers have completed the first comprehensive study of the microbes living on and in and uncontacted tribe from the Amazon.
They say the results show just how modern lifestyles and diets have changed us - and that the bacteria they found could be potentially beneficial to modern society.
Researchers sequenced the microbiomes of Yanomami people living in a remote Amazon village in Venezuela who had not had previous contact with non-Yanomami.
There are about 26,000 Yanomami living in Brazil and 15,000 in Venezuela, mostly in federally protected reserves near rivers and in remote mountains.
The Yanomami are an indigenous ethnic group in the Amazonian region of South America.
There are about 26,000 Yanomami living in Brazil and 15,000 in Venezuela, mostly in federally protected reserves near rivers and in remote mountains.
The Yanomami are hunter-gatherers.
They gather wild bananas, seasonal fruits, palm hearts and cassava.
They hunt birds, small mammals, crabs, frogs, small fish and the occasional peccary, monkey or tapir.
The group doesn't grow food or domesticate livestock.
The researchers found that Yanomami people harbor microbiomes with the highest diversity of bacteria and genetic functions ever reported in a human group.
'That tells us that Western diets and lifestyles have a great impact on our microbiomes', experts at University of San Diego said.
'Studying the microbiomes of people in remote areas may hold the key to understanding microbes we have lost through antibiotics, sealed buildings and lack of exposure to the outdoors,' said study co-author Rob Knight.
In the new study published April 17 by Science Advances, researchers sequenced the microbiomes of Yanomami people living in a remote Amazon village in Venezuela who had not had previous contact with non-Yanomami.
This information revealed, for the first time, the species of bacteria that co-exist with people who have never been exposed to industrialized society, including Western food and antibiotics.
'Our findings emphasize the need for extensive characterization of the function of the microbiome and resistome in remote nonwesternized populations before globalization of modern practices affects potentially beneficial bacteria harbored in the human body,' the researchers wrote.
Many Yanomami now regularly interact with Western civilization through trade, but some villages have never had contact with non-Yanomami people.
One such unmapped village was first spotted by an army helicopter passing overhead in 2008. In 2009, a medical mission landed there.
As part of their 2009 visit to this previously uncontacted Yanomami village, medical professionals collected samples from the skin, mouths and fecal matter of 34 of the 54 villagers before vaccines or antibiotics were administered.
The samples were frozen until DNA extraction and bacterial culturing could be performed for the purposes of this study.
Yanomami indigenous leader Davi Yanomami claims Americans' 'robbed blood' for the tests.
Thousands of blood samples have been returned to the Yanomami tribe in Brazil, after they were taken by American scientists in the 1960s and held in U.S. academic institutions without the tribe's consent, according to Survival international.
The Yanomami have been fighting for their return for over a decade.
The Yanomami buried the 2,693 samples during a special funerary ceremony presided over by shamans in the Yanomami community where many of the samples were collected.
Only 15 Yanomami whose blood was taken in the late 1960s were able to attend the ritual. Shamans performed funerary rites for those who gave blood and have since died.
Keen to collect blood samples from a very isolated community, U.S. scientists collected thousands of samples from the Indians in Brazil and Venezuela without obtaining their informed consent.
The Yanomami only discovered years later that their blood was being stored in research institutes – in violation of their beliefs and funerary customs of cremating those who have passed away and destroying their possessions.
Without obtaining the Yanomami's consent, some institutions extracted DNA from the blood for genetic tests in the 1990s.
Yanomami spokesman Davi Kopenawa said, 'These Americans robbed our blood.
'They did not say anything in our language about the tests they were going to do. Nobody knew that they were going to use our blood to do research.'
Back in labs in the U.S. (at Mount Sinai, New York University, University of Colorado, Boulder and others), researchers sequenced DNA isolated from the Yanomami samples.
From this, they were able to identify all of the bacterial species that make up the skin, mouth and gut microbiomes of people who had never been exposed to Western diets, antibiotics or other environmental factors that make up life in industrialized societies.
The researchers then compared these non-Westernized microbiomes to the microbiomes of people living in Western society and people living in villages in the midst of transition from isolation to urban lifestyles.
Bacteria isolated from Yanomami microbiomes carried genes that confer resistance to man-made antibiotics, despite the fact that they were never previously exposed to antibiotics.
This finding suggests that many bacterial species contain antibiotic resistance genes naturally, even without the selective pressure of antibiotic use.
What happens in Western cultures, the researchers hypothesize, is antibiotic use simply gives naturally resistant bacteria a survival advantage over non-resistant bacteria.
The researchers say the study could help develop new medical treatments.
'First of all, this study gives us a glimpse of what our microbiomes might have looked like before our modern habits began to impact the beneficial bacteria that call us home.
'Studies like this one help us better understand what factors can alter a microbiome and the effect those changes can have on a person's health — information researchers need to guide efforts to manipulate the microbiome to treat disease and restore health.' | Researchers have completed a study of the microbiome of the Yanomami people of Venezuela. It is the first large-scale study that maps the microbiome of people who were never exposed to Western diets. The last major study done in the 1960s caused a fight, as the researchers never disclosed that they were taking blood samples from the Yanomami. The samples have since been returned from many academic centers. |
448cb2d5d0d6490083ae1b751f0b2e7b | Lady Gaga is leading the pitch invasion at Sunday's Super Bowl, where she'll perform the all-important half-time show.
With a television audience of 110 million, it's one of the biggest platforms in the world - and Gaga has been putting in the hours to ensure her set is suitably spectacular.
"We were [rehearsing] in the tent for about a week and a half, then we had to move to bigger studios in Hollywood where we are working on the rest of the show," she told Houston radio station Mix 96.5.
"And then we will send that equipment to Houston where we will finish rehearsals. Fans can expect a performance that spans my career so far."
She has a high standard to live up to - notably Prince's show in 2007, which took place in the middle of a Miami thunderstorm and is widely accepted as the greatest performance in the event's history, if not Prince's career.
Here are some of the other most memorable - and surprising - moments from the last 30 years.
Super Bowl performers get a very strict 12-minute time limit, so most performers cram their set with as much music as possible.
Not Michael Jackson.
After shooting onto the stage at the Pasadena Rose Bowl, he stood completely still, staring at the world for a full 90 seconds. Ninety.
It was a master class in ratcheting expectation to a fever pitch. And the screams when he launched into Jam (not one of his best songs) proved he knew what he was doing.
Brilliantly, Jackson staged this entire performance while wearing a jacket it looked like he'd borrowed from Muammar Gaddafi.
Beat that, Gaga.
Baby, he was born to run... and slide on his knees... and crotch slam a TV camera.
In his autobiography, The Boss explains the incident like this: "Too much adrenalin, a late drop, too much speed, here I come, Mike… BOOM!
"And I'm onto his camera, the lens implanted into my chest with one leg off the stage. I use his camera to push myself back up and… BLAM! BORN TO RUN!"
It led to the memorable headline: "America Attacked by Bruce Springsteen's crotch" - but it didn't stop the star delivering one of the most powerful and energetic Super Bowl shows in recent history. Even if they were fined for over-running by 40 seconds.
Coldplay were the headline act at last year's Super Bowl in Santa Clara - but someone forgot to tell Beyonce.
She only performed one song, Formation, underscoring its message of black pride and power with back-up dancers dressed in leather body suits and black berets reminiscent of the Black Panthers movement.
Some of her dancers were even pictured holding up a sign declaring "Justice 4 Mario Woods" - a 26-year-old black man who was shot dead by armed police in San Francisco two months earlier.
The performance heralded the arrival of her unapologetically political album, Lemonade, later in the year.
You can't out-diva Diana, something she was determined to prove when she strode onto the pitch in Tempe, Arizona, for Super Bowl XXX.
She raced through 10 songs and four costume changes in 12 minutes, then jumped into a helicopter and fled the stadium. Which is one way to beat the post-game traffic.
For the first few decades, the Super Bowl half-time performance featured marching bands, drill teams and Disney's mouseketeers.
1987's show was altogether more bizarre.
A magician named "Elvis Presto" burst out of a jukebox, before performing a series of conjuring tricks, aided by 2,000 part-time dancers, 102 custom Harley Davidson motorcycles and some of rock's biggest classics.
At the culmination of the show, the "Prince of Prestidigitation" performed an interactive magic trick ("pick a card, concentrate real hard") while viewers at home watched through 3D glasses.
It was cheesier than a wheel of brie - and prompted the NFL to adopt a more modern approach.
She arrived on a mechanical tiger, and departed on a shooting star - but Katy Perry couldn't compete with the infamous "left shark".
He was one of two foam-suited dancers flanking Katy while she performed Teenage Dream. While the one on the right was forgettable, the left shark flailed around in a desperate attempt to remember his dance moves.
It quickly became a viral sensation, spawning a whole range of merchandise from the ever-savvy pop star.
And when the half-time show was nominated for an Emmy, Katy made sure to thank her faithful friend.
Poor old Janet Jackson. She was at the end of a triumphant, hit-laden medley when Justin Timberlake ripped the front off her bodice, revealing a heavily-bejewelled superboob.
Few ever believed that the "wardrobe malfunction" was indeed a malfunction - but if you look at the photographs taken immediately after the event, Jackson appears mortified (notably, these were not the pictures printed by the press).
Nonetheless, America went apoplectic. The Federal Complaints Commission reportedly got more than 200,000 complaints, while Janet was blacklisted by MTV and radio. Her career never fully recovered.
But there is a bright side to this story. A PayPal employee called Jawed Karim missed the half-time show and grew frustrated that he couldn't watch the incident online.
In response, he and his friends Steve Chen and Chad Hurley began coding a website where people could upload their own content. That site would end up being YouTube.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | The Superbowl half time show is arguably the largest entertainment platform in the world. Its history began with marching bands and has since hosted some of the biggest and most famous performances. Lady Gaga is the next headliner, and she has been working hard to ensure a great performance. |
448cb2d5d0d6490083ae1b751f0b2e7b | Lady Gaga is leading the pitch invasion at Sunday's Super Bowl, where she'll perform the all-important half-time show.
With a television audience of 110 million, it's one of the biggest platforms in the world - and Gaga has been putting in the hours to ensure her set is suitably spectacular.
"We were [rehearsing] in the tent for about a week and a half, then we had to move to bigger studios in Hollywood where we are working on the rest of the show," she told Houston radio station Mix 96.5.
"And then we will send that equipment to Houston where we will finish rehearsals. Fans can expect a performance that spans my career so far."
She has a high standard to live up to - notably Prince's show in 2007, which took place in the middle of a Miami thunderstorm and is widely accepted as the greatest performance in the event's history, if not Prince's career.
Here are some of the other most memorable - and surprising - moments from the last 30 years.
Super Bowl performers get a very strict 12-minute time limit, so most performers cram their set with as much music as possible.
Not Michael Jackson.
After shooting onto the stage at the Pasadena Rose Bowl, he stood completely still, staring at the world for a full 90 seconds. Ninety.
It was a master class in ratcheting expectation to a fever pitch. And the screams when he launched into Jam (not one of his best songs) proved he knew what he was doing.
Brilliantly, Jackson staged this entire performance while wearing a jacket it looked like he'd borrowed from Muammar Gaddafi.
Beat that, Gaga.
Baby, he was born to run... and slide on his knees... and crotch slam a TV camera.
In his autobiography, The Boss explains the incident like this: "Too much adrenalin, a late drop, too much speed, here I come, Mike… BOOM!
"And I'm onto his camera, the lens implanted into my chest with one leg off the stage. I use his camera to push myself back up and… BLAM! BORN TO RUN!"
It led to the memorable headline: "America Attacked by Bruce Springsteen's crotch" - but it didn't stop the star delivering one of the most powerful and energetic Super Bowl shows in recent history. Even if they were fined for over-running by 40 seconds.
Coldplay were the headline act at last year's Super Bowl in Santa Clara - but someone forgot to tell Beyonce.
She only performed one song, Formation, underscoring its message of black pride and power with back-up dancers dressed in leather body suits and black berets reminiscent of the Black Panthers movement.
Some of her dancers were even pictured holding up a sign declaring "Justice 4 Mario Woods" - a 26-year-old black man who was shot dead by armed police in San Francisco two months earlier.
The performance heralded the arrival of her unapologetically political album, Lemonade, later in the year.
You can't out-diva Diana, something she was determined to prove when she strode onto the pitch in Tempe, Arizona, for Super Bowl XXX.
She raced through 10 songs and four costume changes in 12 minutes, then jumped into a helicopter and fled the stadium. Which is one way to beat the post-game traffic.
For the first few decades, the Super Bowl half-time performance featured marching bands, drill teams and Disney's mouseketeers.
1987's show was altogether more bizarre.
A magician named "Elvis Presto" burst out of a jukebox, before performing a series of conjuring tricks, aided by 2,000 part-time dancers, 102 custom Harley Davidson motorcycles and some of rock's biggest classics.
At the culmination of the show, the "Prince of Prestidigitation" performed an interactive magic trick ("pick a card, concentrate real hard") while viewers at home watched through 3D glasses.
It was cheesier than a wheel of brie - and prompted the NFL to adopt a more modern approach.
She arrived on a mechanical tiger, and departed on a shooting star - but Katy Perry couldn't compete with the infamous "left shark".
He was one of two foam-suited dancers flanking Katy while she performed Teenage Dream. While the one on the right was forgettable, the left shark flailed around in a desperate attempt to remember his dance moves.
It quickly became a viral sensation, spawning a whole range of merchandise from the ever-savvy pop star.
And when the half-time show was nominated for an Emmy, Katy made sure to thank her faithful friend.
Poor old Janet Jackson. She was at the end of a triumphant, hit-laden medley when Justin Timberlake ripped the front off her bodice, revealing a heavily-bejewelled superboob.
Few ever believed that the "wardrobe malfunction" was indeed a malfunction - but if you look at the photographs taken immediately after the event, Jackson appears mortified (notably, these were not the pictures printed by the press).
Nonetheless, America went apoplectic. The Federal Complaints Commission reportedly got more than 200,000 complaints, while Janet was blacklisted by MTV and radio. Her career never fully recovered.
But there is a bright side to this story. A PayPal employee called Jawed Karim missed the half-time show and grew frustrated that he couldn't watch the incident online.
In response, he and his friends Steve Chen and Chad Hurley began coding a website where people could upload their own content. That site would end up being YouTube.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Lady Gaga is leading the Superbowl halftime show this year. She has a lot of competition from previous headliners such as Bruce Springsteen, Beyonce, Janet Jackson, and Michael Jackson. We will see what she packs into her 12-minute segment. |
448cb2d5d0d6490083ae1b751f0b2e7b | Lady Gaga is leading the pitch invasion at Sunday's Super Bowl, where she'll perform the all-important half-time show.
With a television audience of 110 million, it's one of the biggest platforms in the world - and Gaga has been putting in the hours to ensure her set is suitably spectacular.
"We were [rehearsing] in the tent for about a week and a half, then we had to move to bigger studios in Hollywood where we are working on the rest of the show," she told Houston radio station Mix 96.5.
"And then we will send that equipment to Houston where we will finish rehearsals. Fans can expect a performance that spans my career so far."
She has a high standard to live up to - notably Prince's show in 2007, which took place in the middle of a Miami thunderstorm and is widely accepted as the greatest performance in the event's history, if not Prince's career.
Here are some of the other most memorable - and surprising - moments from the last 30 years.
Super Bowl performers get a very strict 12-minute time limit, so most performers cram their set with as much music as possible.
Not Michael Jackson.
After shooting onto the stage at the Pasadena Rose Bowl, he stood completely still, staring at the world for a full 90 seconds. Ninety.
It was a master class in ratcheting expectation to a fever pitch. And the screams when he launched into Jam (not one of his best songs) proved he knew what he was doing.
Brilliantly, Jackson staged this entire performance while wearing a jacket it looked like he'd borrowed from Muammar Gaddafi.
Beat that, Gaga.
Baby, he was born to run... and slide on his knees... and crotch slam a TV camera.
In his autobiography, The Boss explains the incident like this: "Too much adrenalin, a late drop, too much speed, here I come, Mike… BOOM!
"And I'm onto his camera, the lens implanted into my chest with one leg off the stage. I use his camera to push myself back up and… BLAM! BORN TO RUN!"
It led to the memorable headline: "America Attacked by Bruce Springsteen's crotch" - but it didn't stop the star delivering one of the most powerful and energetic Super Bowl shows in recent history. Even if they were fined for over-running by 40 seconds.
Coldplay were the headline act at last year's Super Bowl in Santa Clara - but someone forgot to tell Beyonce.
She only performed one song, Formation, underscoring its message of black pride and power with back-up dancers dressed in leather body suits and black berets reminiscent of the Black Panthers movement.
Some of her dancers were even pictured holding up a sign declaring "Justice 4 Mario Woods" - a 26-year-old black man who was shot dead by armed police in San Francisco two months earlier.
The performance heralded the arrival of her unapologetically political album, Lemonade, later in the year.
You can't out-diva Diana, something she was determined to prove when she strode onto the pitch in Tempe, Arizona, for Super Bowl XXX.
She raced through 10 songs and four costume changes in 12 minutes, then jumped into a helicopter and fled the stadium. Which is one way to beat the post-game traffic.
For the first few decades, the Super Bowl half-time performance featured marching bands, drill teams and Disney's mouseketeers.
1987's show was altogether more bizarre.
A magician named "Elvis Presto" burst out of a jukebox, before performing a series of conjuring tricks, aided by 2,000 part-time dancers, 102 custom Harley Davidson motorcycles and some of rock's biggest classics.
At the culmination of the show, the "Prince of Prestidigitation" performed an interactive magic trick ("pick a card, concentrate real hard") while viewers at home watched through 3D glasses.
It was cheesier than a wheel of brie - and prompted the NFL to adopt a more modern approach.
She arrived on a mechanical tiger, and departed on a shooting star - but Katy Perry couldn't compete with the infamous "left shark".
He was one of two foam-suited dancers flanking Katy while she performed Teenage Dream. While the one on the right was forgettable, the left shark flailed around in a desperate attempt to remember his dance moves.
It quickly became a viral sensation, spawning a whole range of merchandise from the ever-savvy pop star.
And when the half-time show was nominated for an Emmy, Katy made sure to thank her faithful friend.
Poor old Janet Jackson. She was at the end of a triumphant, hit-laden medley when Justin Timberlake ripped the front off her bodice, revealing a heavily-bejewelled superboob.
Few ever believed that the "wardrobe malfunction" was indeed a malfunction - but if you look at the photographs taken immediately after the event, Jackson appears mortified (notably, these were not the pictures printed by the press).
Nonetheless, America went apoplectic. The Federal Complaints Commission reportedly got more than 200,000 complaints, while Janet was blacklisted by MTV and radio. Her career never fully recovered.
But there is a bright side to this story. A PayPal employee called Jawed Karim missed the half-time show and grew frustrated that he couldn't watch the incident online.
In response, he and his friends Steve Chen and Chad Hurley began coding a website where people could upload their own content. That site would end up being YouTube.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Lady Gaga is performing at this year's Super Bowl Halftime Show, which is arguably one of the defining moments of any performer's career. While Gaga is putting in ample effort to wow the crowds, it may be hard to compete against the likes of Prince, Michael Jackson, and the infamous Janet. |
448cb2d5d0d6490083ae1b751f0b2e7b | Lady Gaga is leading the pitch invasion at Sunday's Super Bowl, where she'll perform the all-important half-time show.
With a television audience of 110 million, it's one of the biggest platforms in the world - and Gaga has been putting in the hours to ensure her set is suitably spectacular.
"We were [rehearsing] in the tent for about a week and a half, then we had to move to bigger studios in Hollywood where we are working on the rest of the show," she told Houston radio station Mix 96.5.
"And then we will send that equipment to Houston where we will finish rehearsals. Fans can expect a performance that spans my career so far."
She has a high standard to live up to - notably Prince's show in 2007, which took place in the middle of a Miami thunderstorm and is widely accepted as the greatest performance in the event's history, if not Prince's career.
Here are some of the other most memorable - and surprising - moments from the last 30 years.
Super Bowl performers get a very strict 12-minute time limit, so most performers cram their set with as much music as possible.
Not Michael Jackson.
After shooting onto the stage at the Pasadena Rose Bowl, he stood completely still, staring at the world for a full 90 seconds. Ninety.
It was a master class in ratcheting expectation to a fever pitch. And the screams when he launched into Jam (not one of his best songs) proved he knew what he was doing.
Brilliantly, Jackson staged this entire performance while wearing a jacket it looked like he'd borrowed from Muammar Gaddafi.
Beat that, Gaga.
Baby, he was born to run... and slide on his knees... and crotch slam a TV camera.
In his autobiography, The Boss explains the incident like this: "Too much adrenalin, a late drop, too much speed, here I come, Mike… BOOM!
"And I'm onto his camera, the lens implanted into my chest with one leg off the stage. I use his camera to push myself back up and… BLAM! BORN TO RUN!"
It led to the memorable headline: "America Attacked by Bruce Springsteen's crotch" - but it didn't stop the star delivering one of the most powerful and energetic Super Bowl shows in recent history. Even if they were fined for over-running by 40 seconds.
Coldplay were the headline act at last year's Super Bowl in Santa Clara - but someone forgot to tell Beyonce.
She only performed one song, Formation, underscoring its message of black pride and power with back-up dancers dressed in leather body suits and black berets reminiscent of the Black Panthers movement.
Some of her dancers were even pictured holding up a sign declaring "Justice 4 Mario Woods" - a 26-year-old black man who was shot dead by armed police in San Francisco two months earlier.
The performance heralded the arrival of her unapologetically political album, Lemonade, later in the year.
You can't out-diva Diana, something she was determined to prove when she strode onto the pitch in Tempe, Arizona, for Super Bowl XXX.
She raced through 10 songs and four costume changes in 12 minutes, then jumped into a helicopter and fled the stadium. Which is one way to beat the post-game traffic.
For the first few decades, the Super Bowl half-time performance featured marching bands, drill teams and Disney's mouseketeers.
1987's show was altogether more bizarre.
A magician named "Elvis Presto" burst out of a jukebox, before performing a series of conjuring tricks, aided by 2,000 part-time dancers, 102 custom Harley Davidson motorcycles and some of rock's biggest classics.
At the culmination of the show, the "Prince of Prestidigitation" performed an interactive magic trick ("pick a card, concentrate real hard") while viewers at home watched through 3D glasses.
It was cheesier than a wheel of brie - and prompted the NFL to adopt a more modern approach.
She arrived on a mechanical tiger, and departed on a shooting star - but Katy Perry couldn't compete with the infamous "left shark".
He was one of two foam-suited dancers flanking Katy while she performed Teenage Dream. While the one on the right was forgettable, the left shark flailed around in a desperate attempt to remember his dance moves.
It quickly became a viral sensation, spawning a whole range of merchandise from the ever-savvy pop star.
And when the half-time show was nominated for an Emmy, Katy made sure to thank her faithful friend.
Poor old Janet Jackson. She was at the end of a triumphant, hit-laden medley when Justin Timberlake ripped the front off her bodice, revealing a heavily-bejewelled superboob.
Few ever believed that the "wardrobe malfunction" was indeed a malfunction - but if you look at the photographs taken immediately after the event, Jackson appears mortified (notably, these were not the pictures printed by the press).
Nonetheless, America went apoplectic. The Federal Complaints Commission reportedly got more than 200,000 complaints, while Janet was blacklisted by MTV and radio. Her career never fully recovered.
But there is a bright side to this story. A PayPal employee called Jawed Karim missed the half-time show and grew frustrated that he couldn't watch the incident online.
In response, he and his friends Steve Chen and Chad Hurley began coding a website where people could upload their own content. That site would end up being YouTube.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Lady Gaga is leading the Sunday’s Super Bowl stage. She has a high standard to follow, including notable performances by Prince in 2007, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, and the empowering Beyonce. Also Katy Perry and Janet Jackson performed with troubles during their show. |
464dc2729a8648848f8435dba9d337a3 | Excrement thrown at the statue of British colonialist Cecil John Rhodes has triggered a wave of protests across South Africa against 'racist' historical figures.
Memorials to South Africa's colonial past were defaced by mainly young black protesters as statues of British monarchs Queen Victoria and King George V were splashed with paint in the cities of Port Elizabeth and Durban respectively.
Vandals poured paint over Scottish-South African missionary Andrew Murray's statue in the Western Cape.
War memorials were also defaced. A bronze rider marking the Anglo-Boer War from 1899 to 1902, was toppled from his horse.
Object of anger: This statue of Queen Victoria outside the Port Elizabeth city library in South Africa is among a number of memorials to British colonials that have been vandalised during protests against 'racist' figures.
A statue of a British soldier lays on the ground after being broken off its base in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
The defaced statue of British mining magnate and politician, Cecil John Rhodes, is lifted by a crane, from its position at the University of Cape Town (left), while (right) a chair marks the spot on the plinth where the decades old bronze statue stood before it was vandalised.
In the latest demonstration, vandals smeared paint the figure of a young Mohandas Gandhi.
Standing in the square in downtown Johannesburg named for Mahatma Gandhi, the memorial marks the Indian anti-colonial leader's time in South Africa, where he formulated the principle of passive resistance.
The protester, who smudged white paint on Gandhi's cloak, accused him of being racist during his time in the country.
Founding fathers of Afrikaner nationalism were also targeted.
In Pretoria, the memorial of 19th century Afrikaner leader Paul Kruger was twice daubed with bright green paint, while the statue of Marthinus Pretorius, who founded the capital city, was splashed with reddish brown paint, according to local media reports.
The statue of Louis Botha, the president of the South African Union in the early 1900s, was smeared with red and blue paint outside parliament in Cape Town on the same day that the Rhodes sculpture was removed from its perch overlooking the University of Cape Town after weeks of student protest.
In the Free State province, a statue of Boer General Jan Fick was splashed with red paint in the town named after him in 1883, Ficksburg.
Another statue is cleaned down after being splashed with green paint on Pretoria's Church Square.
Security guards (left) walk past a statue of former South African statesman and Afrikaner leader Louis Botha, which has been defaced with red paint outside the South African parliament building in Cape Town.
Several people have been arrested and local authorities have spent thousands of dollars cleaning up the statues.
The opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters, has come out in support of its members who have claimed responsibility for these acts of vandalism.
It comes days after white solidarity groups held protests over the removal of a statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes from the University of Cape Town after it was daubed with excrement.
Members of the university council ordered that the bronze sculpture be removed after hearing its presence made black students feel uncomfortable and was seen a symbol of historical white oppression.
The defaced statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes is tied by straps to a crane before its removal at the University of Cape Town. It follows weeks of protests at the university over the symbolism of the statue.
The monument has been vandalised in recent weeks. It has not yet been decided where it will be moved.
The government backed the move, with Sandile Memela, the spokesman for the arts and culture ministry, saying they are working to see if the country can take an 'official position' on statues and other colonial symbols.
'It marks a significant... shift where the country deals with its ugly past in a positive and constructive way', he said to press agency AFP, adding the government did not encourage the violent removal of statues.
But the decision to move the monument of Rhodes – a 19th century imperialist who critics say helped pave the way for apartheid – has sparked protests in itself.
The youth wing of white Afrikaner solidarity group AfriForum handed a memorandum to parliament in Cape Town to 'demand protection' for their heritage.
The same statue was covered in plastic bags after protests by students and staff at the university in March.
The university's council heard that black students felt uncomfortable because of the bronze monument.
Politician and businessman Cecil Rhodes is called a 'racist' by his opponents.
Born in 1853, he made his fortune in diamond mines, and entered into politics as an outspoken supporter of colonialism. He later founded Rhodesia - modern-day Zimbabwe - which was named after him.
He believed England was the 'master race', and wanted to draw a 'red line' railway from Cairo to Cape Town for the British Empire - spanning the entire continent of Africa.
While his supporters say he brought political and physical infrastructure to South Africa, others say his actions laid the groundwork for apartheid by restricting the rights of black Africans to work.
While they are not recognised as supporters of Rhodes, statues of their heroes have been attacked during the university protests.
A monument of former president Paul Kruger was splattered with paint, and Afrikaner men, some of them in quasi-military outfits, demonstrated next to it on Wednesday.
'The Afrikaner is -- from a historical perspective -- increasingly being portrayed as criminals and land thieves,' solidary group Afriforum said in a statement.
'If the heritage of the Afrikaner is not important to Government, our youth members will preserve our own heritage.'
It has not been decided where the statue of Rhodes will end up, although it will likely be held in a museum.
But as tension grow on campuses about the statues of historical South African figures, Jonathan Jansen – the first black vice-chancellor of the University of the Free State – denied that there was a race war coming.
He wrote in South African newspaper The Times on Thursday: 'The reason is simple: the overwhelming majority of South Africans, black and white, believe in a middle path somewhere between reconciliation and social justice.'
Cecil Rhodes, pictured on the right, in 1896 in Rhodesia with an unknown companion and a black manservant.
People look the defaced statue of former South African president Paul Kruger in Church Square, Pretoria. | Excrement thrown at the statue of Cecil John Rhodes started a rash of similar vandalism of British and Afrikan statues across South Africa. The vandals cited racism and a history of white colonialism as motives for defacing the statues. |
464dc2729a8648848f8435dba9d337a3 | Excrement thrown at the statue of British colonialist Cecil John Rhodes has triggered a wave of protests across South Africa against 'racist' historical figures.
Memorials to South Africa's colonial past were defaced by mainly young black protesters as statues of British monarchs Queen Victoria and King George V were splashed with paint in the cities of Port Elizabeth and Durban respectively.
Vandals poured paint over Scottish-South African missionary Andrew Murray's statue in the Western Cape.
War memorials were also defaced. A bronze rider marking the Anglo-Boer War from 1899 to 1902, was toppled from his horse.
Object of anger: This statue of Queen Victoria outside the Port Elizabeth city library in South Africa is among a number of memorials to British colonials that have been vandalised during protests against 'racist' figures.
A statue of a British soldier lays on the ground after being broken off its base in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
The defaced statue of British mining magnate and politician, Cecil John Rhodes, is lifted by a crane, from its position at the University of Cape Town (left), while (right) a chair marks the spot on the plinth where the decades old bronze statue stood before it was vandalised.
In the latest demonstration, vandals smeared paint the figure of a young Mohandas Gandhi.
Standing in the square in downtown Johannesburg named for Mahatma Gandhi, the memorial marks the Indian anti-colonial leader's time in South Africa, where he formulated the principle of passive resistance.
The protester, who smudged white paint on Gandhi's cloak, accused him of being racist during his time in the country.
Founding fathers of Afrikaner nationalism were also targeted.
In Pretoria, the memorial of 19th century Afrikaner leader Paul Kruger was twice daubed with bright green paint, while the statue of Marthinus Pretorius, who founded the capital city, was splashed with reddish brown paint, according to local media reports.
The statue of Louis Botha, the president of the South African Union in the early 1900s, was smeared with red and blue paint outside parliament in Cape Town on the same day that the Rhodes sculpture was removed from its perch overlooking the University of Cape Town after weeks of student protest.
In the Free State province, a statue of Boer General Jan Fick was splashed with red paint in the town named after him in 1883, Ficksburg.
Another statue is cleaned down after being splashed with green paint on Pretoria's Church Square.
Security guards (left) walk past a statue of former South African statesman and Afrikaner leader Louis Botha, which has been defaced with red paint outside the South African parliament building in Cape Town.
Several people have been arrested and local authorities have spent thousands of dollars cleaning up the statues.
The opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters, has come out in support of its members who have claimed responsibility for these acts of vandalism.
It comes days after white solidarity groups held protests over the removal of a statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes from the University of Cape Town after it was daubed with excrement.
Members of the university council ordered that the bronze sculpture be removed after hearing its presence made black students feel uncomfortable and was seen a symbol of historical white oppression.
The defaced statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes is tied by straps to a crane before its removal at the University of Cape Town. It follows weeks of protests at the university over the symbolism of the statue.
The monument has been vandalised in recent weeks. It has not yet been decided where it will be moved.
The government backed the move, with Sandile Memela, the spokesman for the arts and culture ministry, saying they are working to see if the country can take an 'official position' on statues and other colonial symbols.
'It marks a significant... shift where the country deals with its ugly past in a positive and constructive way', he said to press agency AFP, adding the government did not encourage the violent removal of statues.
But the decision to move the monument of Rhodes – a 19th century imperialist who critics say helped pave the way for apartheid – has sparked protests in itself.
The youth wing of white Afrikaner solidarity group AfriForum handed a memorandum to parliament in Cape Town to 'demand protection' for their heritage.
The same statue was covered in plastic bags after protests by students and staff at the university in March.
The university's council heard that black students felt uncomfortable because of the bronze monument.
Politician and businessman Cecil Rhodes is called a 'racist' by his opponents.
Born in 1853, he made his fortune in diamond mines, and entered into politics as an outspoken supporter of colonialism. He later founded Rhodesia - modern-day Zimbabwe - which was named after him.
He believed England was the 'master race', and wanted to draw a 'red line' railway from Cairo to Cape Town for the British Empire - spanning the entire continent of Africa.
While his supporters say he brought political and physical infrastructure to South Africa, others say his actions laid the groundwork for apartheid by restricting the rights of black Africans to work.
While they are not recognised as supporters of Rhodes, statues of their heroes have been attacked during the university protests.
A monument of former president Paul Kruger was splattered with paint, and Afrikaner men, some of them in quasi-military outfits, demonstrated next to it on Wednesday.
'The Afrikaner is -- from a historical perspective -- increasingly being portrayed as criminals and land thieves,' solidary group Afriforum said in a statement.
'If the heritage of the Afrikaner is not important to Government, our youth members will preserve our own heritage.'
It has not been decided where the statue of Rhodes will end up, although it will likely be held in a museum.
But as tension grow on campuses about the statues of historical South African figures, Jonathan Jansen – the first black vice-chancellor of the University of the Free State – denied that there was a race war coming.
He wrote in South African newspaper The Times on Thursday: 'The reason is simple: the overwhelming majority of South Africans, black and white, believe in a middle path somewhere between reconciliation and social justice.'
Cecil Rhodes, pictured on the right, in 1896 in Rhodesia with an unknown companion and a black manservant.
People look the defaced statue of former South African president Paul Kruger in Church Square, Pretoria. | The throwing of excrement at a statue in South Africa has triggered protests aimed at "racist historical figures". Several individuals have been reported to have been arrested as the government doles out money to clean up the defacings. |
464dc2729a8648848f8435dba9d337a3 | Excrement thrown at the statue of British colonialist Cecil John Rhodes has triggered a wave of protests across South Africa against 'racist' historical figures.
Memorials to South Africa's colonial past were defaced by mainly young black protesters as statues of British monarchs Queen Victoria and King George V were splashed with paint in the cities of Port Elizabeth and Durban respectively.
Vandals poured paint over Scottish-South African missionary Andrew Murray's statue in the Western Cape.
War memorials were also defaced. A bronze rider marking the Anglo-Boer War from 1899 to 1902, was toppled from his horse.
Object of anger: This statue of Queen Victoria outside the Port Elizabeth city library in South Africa is among a number of memorials to British colonials that have been vandalised during protests against 'racist' figures.
A statue of a British soldier lays on the ground after being broken off its base in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
The defaced statue of British mining magnate and politician, Cecil John Rhodes, is lifted by a crane, from its position at the University of Cape Town (left), while (right) a chair marks the spot on the plinth where the decades old bronze statue stood before it was vandalised.
In the latest demonstration, vandals smeared paint the figure of a young Mohandas Gandhi.
Standing in the square in downtown Johannesburg named for Mahatma Gandhi, the memorial marks the Indian anti-colonial leader's time in South Africa, where he formulated the principle of passive resistance.
The protester, who smudged white paint on Gandhi's cloak, accused him of being racist during his time in the country.
Founding fathers of Afrikaner nationalism were also targeted.
In Pretoria, the memorial of 19th century Afrikaner leader Paul Kruger was twice daubed with bright green paint, while the statue of Marthinus Pretorius, who founded the capital city, was splashed with reddish brown paint, according to local media reports.
The statue of Louis Botha, the president of the South African Union in the early 1900s, was smeared with red and blue paint outside parliament in Cape Town on the same day that the Rhodes sculpture was removed from its perch overlooking the University of Cape Town after weeks of student protest.
In the Free State province, a statue of Boer General Jan Fick was splashed with red paint in the town named after him in 1883, Ficksburg.
Another statue is cleaned down after being splashed with green paint on Pretoria's Church Square.
Security guards (left) walk past a statue of former South African statesman and Afrikaner leader Louis Botha, which has been defaced with red paint outside the South African parliament building in Cape Town.
Several people have been arrested and local authorities have spent thousands of dollars cleaning up the statues.
The opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters, has come out in support of its members who have claimed responsibility for these acts of vandalism.
It comes days after white solidarity groups held protests over the removal of a statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes from the University of Cape Town after it was daubed with excrement.
Members of the university council ordered that the bronze sculpture be removed after hearing its presence made black students feel uncomfortable and was seen a symbol of historical white oppression.
The defaced statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes is tied by straps to a crane before its removal at the University of Cape Town. It follows weeks of protests at the university over the symbolism of the statue.
The monument has been vandalised in recent weeks. It has not yet been decided where it will be moved.
The government backed the move, with Sandile Memela, the spokesman for the arts and culture ministry, saying they are working to see if the country can take an 'official position' on statues and other colonial symbols.
'It marks a significant... shift where the country deals with its ugly past in a positive and constructive way', he said to press agency AFP, adding the government did not encourage the violent removal of statues.
But the decision to move the monument of Rhodes – a 19th century imperialist who critics say helped pave the way for apartheid – has sparked protests in itself.
The youth wing of white Afrikaner solidarity group AfriForum handed a memorandum to parliament in Cape Town to 'demand protection' for their heritage.
The same statue was covered in plastic bags after protests by students and staff at the university in March.
The university's council heard that black students felt uncomfortable because of the bronze monument.
Politician and businessman Cecil Rhodes is called a 'racist' by his opponents.
Born in 1853, he made his fortune in diamond mines, and entered into politics as an outspoken supporter of colonialism. He later founded Rhodesia - modern-day Zimbabwe - which was named after him.
He believed England was the 'master race', and wanted to draw a 'red line' railway from Cairo to Cape Town for the British Empire - spanning the entire continent of Africa.
While his supporters say he brought political and physical infrastructure to South Africa, others say his actions laid the groundwork for apartheid by restricting the rights of black Africans to work.
While they are not recognised as supporters of Rhodes, statues of their heroes have been attacked during the university protests.
A monument of former president Paul Kruger was splattered with paint, and Afrikaner men, some of them in quasi-military outfits, demonstrated next to it on Wednesday.
'The Afrikaner is -- from a historical perspective -- increasingly being portrayed as criminals and land thieves,' solidary group Afriforum said in a statement.
'If the heritage of the Afrikaner is not important to Government, our youth members will preserve our own heritage.'
It has not been decided where the statue of Rhodes will end up, although it will likely be held in a museum.
But as tension grow on campuses about the statues of historical South African figures, Jonathan Jansen – the first black vice-chancellor of the University of the Free State – denied that there was a race war coming.
He wrote in South African newspaper The Times on Thursday: 'The reason is simple: the overwhelming majority of South Africans, black and white, believe in a middle path somewhere between reconciliation and social justice.'
Cecil Rhodes, pictured on the right, in 1896 in Rhodesia with an unknown companion and a black manservant.
People look the defaced statue of former South African president Paul Kruger in Church Square, Pretoria. | Young black protesters triggered a wave of protests across South Africa against “racist” historical figures. The protests started when excrement was thrown at the Cecil John Rhodes Statue, which led to the vandalizing of more historical figures. Several people have been arrested, and thousands of dollars were spent to clean the statues. |
e5e348d19bb54ebca971720d11e3490d | David Cameron became "distracted" after the 2011 intervention in Libya, US President Barack Obama has said.
Speaking to the Atlantic magazine, he said the operation went as well as he had hoped, but Libya was now "a mess".
The article also said he had warned the PM the UK would have to pay its "fair share" and spend 2% of GDP on defence.
In response, Number 10 said there were "many difficult challenges" in Libya, while the White House said it deeply valued the UK's contributions.
Downing Street did not comment on President Obama's remark to the PM about defence spending, reportedly made before Chancellor George Osborne said the government would fulfil a Nato pledge to spend 2% of national income on defence last year.
In response to the interview, a spokesman for the US National Security Council said Mr Cameron had been "as close a partner as the president has had" adding that "we deeply value the UK's contributions on our shared national security and foreign policy objectives".
BBC North America editor Jon Sopel said the unsolicited statement put out by the White House suggested Downing Street had reacted angrily to the article.
"It's like we've seen a curtain drawn back on the unspun thoughts of President Obama, complete with frustration as well, and what we've seen tonight is the White House trying to close the curtain as quickly as it can," he added.
The toppling of the Gaddafi regime in Libya - following UN-backed air strikes designed to protect civilians - led to a power vacuum and instability, with no authority in full control.
The intervention was led by the UK and France - and in his interview, Mr Obama reflects on "what went wrong", saying: "There's room for criticism, because I had more faith in the Europeans, given Libya's proximity, being invested in the follow-up."
Mr Cameron, he said, became "distracted by a range of other things". He also criticised former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, saying he had tried to claim the spotlight.
The former French president, he said, "wanted to trumpet the flights he was taking in the air campaign, despite the fact that we had wiped out all the air defences and essentially set up the entire infrastructure" for the intervention.
President Obama said the intervention "averted large-scale civilian casualties (and) prevented what almost surely would have been a prolonged and bloody civil conflict". But he added: "And despite all that, Libya is a mess."
He also criticised what he called "free riders" in the interview, saying European and Gulf countries were calling for action against Gaddafi, adding: "But what has been a habit over the last several decades in these circumstances is people pushing us to act but then showing an unwillingness to put any skin in the game."
Despite efforts to support Libya's National Transitional Council, and the first elections in the country for decades, it rapidly descended into violence, with two rival governments and the formation of hundreds of militias, some allied to so-called Islamic State.
In January, Mr Cameron told MPs the "Libyan people were given the opportunity" to build a stable democracy - and it was a matter of "huge regret" they had not taken it.
He stressed that - unlike in Iraq - the post-conflict planning was locally driven.
"Gaddafi was bearing down on people in Benghazi and threatening to shoot his own people like rats," he said. "An international coalition came together to protect those people and to help the Libyan people, who then got rid of Gaddafi.
"And they had an opportunity to build what they said they wanted."
Responding to President Obama's interview, Downing Street said "coming to the aid of innocent civilians who were being tortured and killed by their leader was the right thing to do".
The government has tried to support stability in Libya and is "working hard to support the UN-led process to establish a stable and inclusive government that will allow them to build a peaceful future", a spokesman said.
"But ultimately a positive outcome for Libya is not just up to the international community - this process needs to be led by the Libyan people," he added.
The US National Security Council spokesman added: "With respect to Libya, the president has long said that all of us - including the United States - could have done more in the aftermath of the Libyan intervention."
He said the UK had "stepped up on a range of issues" including meeting the 2% commitment and pressing other Nato members to do the same.
Former Conservative Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind said it was "a bit rich" for the US president to single out the UK and France, as they had carried out more air operations in the Libya campaign than any other country.
15 February 2011 - Protests against Colonel Gaddafi's regime erupt in Libya
20 February - Anti-Gaddafi rebels seize control of Libya's second city Benghazi
21 February - David Cameron, on a tour of the Middle East, condemns violence by the Gaddafi regime. Over the next few days he faces criticism over the government's handling of the evacuation of Britons from Libya
28 February: Mr Cameron asks the Ministry of Defence to "work with our allies on plans for a military no-fly zone" over Libya
2 March: Mr Cameron is forced to defend the no-fly zone plan after US Defence Secretary Robert Gates dismisses the idea as "loose talk"
14 March: Mr Cameron insists it is "perfectly deliverable" - and denies he is having trouble convincing other EU leaders, with the exception of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, of the need for one
17 March: The UN Security Council votes to impose a no-fly zone over Libya
19 March: The RAF begins bombing raids alongside French and US jets, with logistical support from several Arab nations
21 March: MPs vote to authorise UK military action, which is backed by then Labour leader Ed Miliband
21 August: Rebel fighters enter Tripoli. Mr Cameron cuts short his summer holiday in Cornwall to hold a meeting of the National Security Council and makes a statement outside Downing Street saying: "Gaddafi must stop fighting - without conditions - and clearly show that he has given up any claim to control Libya."
1 September: Libya's interim rulers meet world leaders in Paris to discuss reshaping Libya, as Gaddafi urges his supporters to fight on
15 September: Speaking in Benghazi's Tahrir square, Mr Cameron praises the way Libya's interim authority has taken charge but warns the "hardest part" is still to come
20 October: Gaddafi is captured and killed by rebel fighters in the city of Sirte | US President Barack Obama criticizes the UK and France on their lack of continuing support in Libya after joint effort military support overturned Colonel Gaddafi regime and left a power vacuum. Many feel this is unfair, and it's not clear who is to blame, only that Libya was left a mess after Gaddafi's capture. |
e5e348d19bb54ebca971720d11e3490d | David Cameron became "distracted" after the 2011 intervention in Libya, US President Barack Obama has said.
Speaking to the Atlantic magazine, he said the operation went as well as he had hoped, but Libya was now "a mess".
The article also said he had warned the PM the UK would have to pay its "fair share" and spend 2% of GDP on defence.
In response, Number 10 said there were "many difficult challenges" in Libya, while the White House said it deeply valued the UK's contributions.
Downing Street did not comment on President Obama's remark to the PM about defence spending, reportedly made before Chancellor George Osborne said the government would fulfil a Nato pledge to spend 2% of national income on defence last year.
In response to the interview, a spokesman for the US National Security Council said Mr Cameron had been "as close a partner as the president has had" adding that "we deeply value the UK's contributions on our shared national security and foreign policy objectives".
BBC North America editor Jon Sopel said the unsolicited statement put out by the White House suggested Downing Street had reacted angrily to the article.
"It's like we've seen a curtain drawn back on the unspun thoughts of President Obama, complete with frustration as well, and what we've seen tonight is the White House trying to close the curtain as quickly as it can," he added.
The toppling of the Gaddafi regime in Libya - following UN-backed air strikes designed to protect civilians - led to a power vacuum and instability, with no authority in full control.
The intervention was led by the UK and France - and in his interview, Mr Obama reflects on "what went wrong", saying: "There's room for criticism, because I had more faith in the Europeans, given Libya's proximity, being invested in the follow-up."
Mr Cameron, he said, became "distracted by a range of other things". He also criticised former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, saying he had tried to claim the spotlight.
The former French president, he said, "wanted to trumpet the flights he was taking in the air campaign, despite the fact that we had wiped out all the air defences and essentially set up the entire infrastructure" for the intervention.
President Obama said the intervention "averted large-scale civilian casualties (and) prevented what almost surely would have been a prolonged and bloody civil conflict". But he added: "And despite all that, Libya is a mess."
He also criticised what he called "free riders" in the interview, saying European and Gulf countries were calling for action against Gaddafi, adding: "But what has been a habit over the last several decades in these circumstances is people pushing us to act but then showing an unwillingness to put any skin in the game."
Despite efforts to support Libya's National Transitional Council, and the first elections in the country for decades, it rapidly descended into violence, with two rival governments and the formation of hundreds of militias, some allied to so-called Islamic State.
In January, Mr Cameron told MPs the "Libyan people were given the opportunity" to build a stable democracy - and it was a matter of "huge regret" they had not taken it.
He stressed that - unlike in Iraq - the post-conflict planning was locally driven.
"Gaddafi was bearing down on people in Benghazi and threatening to shoot his own people like rats," he said. "An international coalition came together to protect those people and to help the Libyan people, who then got rid of Gaddafi.
"And they had an opportunity to build what they said they wanted."
Responding to President Obama's interview, Downing Street said "coming to the aid of innocent civilians who were being tortured and killed by their leader was the right thing to do".
The government has tried to support stability in Libya and is "working hard to support the UN-led process to establish a stable and inclusive government that will allow them to build a peaceful future", a spokesman said.
"But ultimately a positive outcome for Libya is not just up to the international community - this process needs to be led by the Libyan people," he added.
The US National Security Council spokesman added: "With respect to Libya, the president has long said that all of us - including the United States - could have done more in the aftermath of the Libyan intervention."
He said the UK had "stepped up on a range of issues" including meeting the 2% commitment and pressing other Nato members to do the same.
Former Conservative Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind said it was "a bit rich" for the US president to single out the UK and France, as they had carried out more air operations in the Libya campaign than any other country.
15 February 2011 - Protests against Colonel Gaddafi's regime erupt in Libya
20 February - Anti-Gaddafi rebels seize control of Libya's second city Benghazi
21 February - David Cameron, on a tour of the Middle East, condemns violence by the Gaddafi regime. Over the next few days he faces criticism over the government's handling of the evacuation of Britons from Libya
28 February: Mr Cameron asks the Ministry of Defence to "work with our allies on plans for a military no-fly zone" over Libya
2 March: Mr Cameron is forced to defend the no-fly zone plan after US Defence Secretary Robert Gates dismisses the idea as "loose talk"
14 March: Mr Cameron insists it is "perfectly deliverable" - and denies he is having trouble convincing other EU leaders, with the exception of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, of the need for one
17 March: The UN Security Council votes to impose a no-fly zone over Libya
19 March: The RAF begins bombing raids alongside French and US jets, with logistical support from several Arab nations
21 March: MPs vote to authorise UK military action, which is backed by then Labour leader Ed Miliband
21 August: Rebel fighters enter Tripoli. Mr Cameron cuts short his summer holiday in Cornwall to hold a meeting of the National Security Council and makes a statement outside Downing Street saying: "Gaddafi must stop fighting - without conditions - and clearly show that he has given up any claim to control Libya."
1 September: Libya's interim rulers meet world leaders in Paris to discuss reshaping Libya, as Gaddafi urges his supporters to fight on
15 September: Speaking in Benghazi's Tahrir square, Mr Cameron praises the way Libya's interim authority has taken charge but warns the "hardest part" is still to come
20 October: Gaddafi is captured and killed by rebel fighters in the city of Sirte | President Obama criticizes UK prime minister David Cameron for not paying his fair share in defense spending, and for not doing more to ensure the Libia operation went smoothly. Obama admits that the process to oust Ghaddafi went as well as expected, it was the follow-up that needed work. |
e5e348d19bb54ebca971720d11e3490d | David Cameron became "distracted" after the 2011 intervention in Libya, US President Barack Obama has said.
Speaking to the Atlantic magazine, he said the operation went as well as he had hoped, but Libya was now "a mess".
The article also said he had warned the PM the UK would have to pay its "fair share" and spend 2% of GDP on defence.
In response, Number 10 said there were "many difficult challenges" in Libya, while the White House said it deeply valued the UK's contributions.
Downing Street did not comment on President Obama's remark to the PM about defence spending, reportedly made before Chancellor George Osborne said the government would fulfil a Nato pledge to spend 2% of national income on defence last year.
In response to the interview, a spokesman for the US National Security Council said Mr Cameron had been "as close a partner as the president has had" adding that "we deeply value the UK's contributions on our shared national security and foreign policy objectives".
BBC North America editor Jon Sopel said the unsolicited statement put out by the White House suggested Downing Street had reacted angrily to the article.
"It's like we've seen a curtain drawn back on the unspun thoughts of President Obama, complete with frustration as well, and what we've seen tonight is the White House trying to close the curtain as quickly as it can," he added.
The toppling of the Gaddafi regime in Libya - following UN-backed air strikes designed to protect civilians - led to a power vacuum and instability, with no authority in full control.
The intervention was led by the UK and France - and in his interview, Mr Obama reflects on "what went wrong", saying: "There's room for criticism, because I had more faith in the Europeans, given Libya's proximity, being invested in the follow-up."
Mr Cameron, he said, became "distracted by a range of other things". He also criticised former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, saying he had tried to claim the spotlight.
The former French president, he said, "wanted to trumpet the flights he was taking in the air campaign, despite the fact that we had wiped out all the air defences and essentially set up the entire infrastructure" for the intervention.
President Obama said the intervention "averted large-scale civilian casualties (and) prevented what almost surely would have been a prolonged and bloody civil conflict". But he added: "And despite all that, Libya is a mess."
He also criticised what he called "free riders" in the interview, saying European and Gulf countries were calling for action against Gaddafi, adding: "But what has been a habit over the last several decades in these circumstances is people pushing us to act but then showing an unwillingness to put any skin in the game."
Despite efforts to support Libya's National Transitional Council, and the first elections in the country for decades, it rapidly descended into violence, with two rival governments and the formation of hundreds of militias, some allied to so-called Islamic State.
In January, Mr Cameron told MPs the "Libyan people were given the opportunity" to build a stable democracy - and it was a matter of "huge regret" they had not taken it.
He stressed that - unlike in Iraq - the post-conflict planning was locally driven.
"Gaddafi was bearing down on people in Benghazi and threatening to shoot his own people like rats," he said. "An international coalition came together to protect those people and to help the Libyan people, who then got rid of Gaddafi.
"And they had an opportunity to build what they said they wanted."
Responding to President Obama's interview, Downing Street said "coming to the aid of innocent civilians who were being tortured and killed by their leader was the right thing to do".
The government has tried to support stability in Libya and is "working hard to support the UN-led process to establish a stable and inclusive government that will allow them to build a peaceful future", a spokesman said.
"But ultimately a positive outcome for Libya is not just up to the international community - this process needs to be led by the Libyan people," he added.
The US National Security Council spokesman added: "With respect to Libya, the president has long said that all of us - including the United States - could have done more in the aftermath of the Libyan intervention."
He said the UK had "stepped up on a range of issues" including meeting the 2% commitment and pressing other Nato members to do the same.
Former Conservative Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind said it was "a bit rich" for the US president to single out the UK and France, as they had carried out more air operations in the Libya campaign than any other country.
15 February 2011 - Protests against Colonel Gaddafi's regime erupt in Libya
20 February - Anti-Gaddafi rebels seize control of Libya's second city Benghazi
21 February - David Cameron, on a tour of the Middle East, condemns violence by the Gaddafi regime. Over the next few days he faces criticism over the government's handling of the evacuation of Britons from Libya
28 February: Mr Cameron asks the Ministry of Defence to "work with our allies on plans for a military no-fly zone" over Libya
2 March: Mr Cameron is forced to defend the no-fly zone plan after US Defence Secretary Robert Gates dismisses the idea as "loose talk"
14 March: Mr Cameron insists it is "perfectly deliverable" - and denies he is having trouble convincing other EU leaders, with the exception of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, of the need for one
17 March: The UN Security Council votes to impose a no-fly zone over Libya
19 March: The RAF begins bombing raids alongside French and US jets, with logistical support from several Arab nations
21 March: MPs vote to authorise UK military action, which is backed by then Labour leader Ed Miliband
21 August: Rebel fighters enter Tripoli. Mr Cameron cuts short his summer holiday in Cornwall to hold a meeting of the National Security Council and makes a statement outside Downing Street saying: "Gaddafi must stop fighting - without conditions - and clearly show that he has given up any claim to control Libya."
1 September: Libya's interim rulers meet world leaders in Paris to discuss reshaping Libya, as Gaddafi urges his supporters to fight on
15 September: Speaking in Benghazi's Tahrir square, Mr Cameron praises the way Libya's interim authority has taken charge but warns the "hardest part" is still to come
20 October: Gaddafi is captured and killed by rebel fighters in the city of Sirte | US President Barack Obama has unveiled his innermost thoughts about British Prime Minister David Cameron's assistance regarding intervention in Libya. While the US National Security counsel was quick to release a statement lauding Cameron and the UK as valued partners, Obama stated previously that he felt Cameron was "distracted" and reluctant to participate. |
e5e348d19bb54ebca971720d11e3490d | David Cameron became "distracted" after the 2011 intervention in Libya, US President Barack Obama has said.
Speaking to the Atlantic magazine, he said the operation went as well as he had hoped, but Libya was now "a mess".
The article also said he had warned the PM the UK would have to pay its "fair share" and spend 2% of GDP on defence.
In response, Number 10 said there were "many difficult challenges" in Libya, while the White House said it deeply valued the UK's contributions.
Downing Street did not comment on President Obama's remark to the PM about defence spending, reportedly made before Chancellor George Osborne said the government would fulfil a Nato pledge to spend 2% of national income on defence last year.
In response to the interview, a spokesman for the US National Security Council said Mr Cameron had been "as close a partner as the president has had" adding that "we deeply value the UK's contributions on our shared national security and foreign policy objectives".
BBC North America editor Jon Sopel said the unsolicited statement put out by the White House suggested Downing Street had reacted angrily to the article.
"It's like we've seen a curtain drawn back on the unspun thoughts of President Obama, complete with frustration as well, and what we've seen tonight is the White House trying to close the curtain as quickly as it can," he added.
The toppling of the Gaddafi regime in Libya - following UN-backed air strikes designed to protect civilians - led to a power vacuum and instability, with no authority in full control.
The intervention was led by the UK and France - and in his interview, Mr Obama reflects on "what went wrong", saying: "There's room for criticism, because I had more faith in the Europeans, given Libya's proximity, being invested in the follow-up."
Mr Cameron, he said, became "distracted by a range of other things". He also criticised former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, saying he had tried to claim the spotlight.
The former French president, he said, "wanted to trumpet the flights he was taking in the air campaign, despite the fact that we had wiped out all the air defences and essentially set up the entire infrastructure" for the intervention.
President Obama said the intervention "averted large-scale civilian casualties (and) prevented what almost surely would have been a prolonged and bloody civil conflict". But he added: "And despite all that, Libya is a mess."
He also criticised what he called "free riders" in the interview, saying European and Gulf countries were calling for action against Gaddafi, adding: "But what has been a habit over the last several decades in these circumstances is people pushing us to act but then showing an unwillingness to put any skin in the game."
Despite efforts to support Libya's National Transitional Council, and the first elections in the country for decades, it rapidly descended into violence, with two rival governments and the formation of hundreds of militias, some allied to so-called Islamic State.
In January, Mr Cameron told MPs the "Libyan people were given the opportunity" to build a stable democracy - and it was a matter of "huge regret" they had not taken it.
He stressed that - unlike in Iraq - the post-conflict planning was locally driven.
"Gaddafi was bearing down on people in Benghazi and threatening to shoot his own people like rats," he said. "An international coalition came together to protect those people and to help the Libyan people, who then got rid of Gaddafi.
"And they had an opportunity to build what they said they wanted."
Responding to President Obama's interview, Downing Street said "coming to the aid of innocent civilians who were being tortured and killed by their leader was the right thing to do".
The government has tried to support stability in Libya and is "working hard to support the UN-led process to establish a stable and inclusive government that will allow them to build a peaceful future", a spokesman said.
"But ultimately a positive outcome for Libya is not just up to the international community - this process needs to be led by the Libyan people," he added.
The US National Security Council spokesman added: "With respect to Libya, the president has long said that all of us - including the United States - could have done more in the aftermath of the Libyan intervention."
He said the UK had "stepped up on a range of issues" including meeting the 2% commitment and pressing other Nato members to do the same.
Former Conservative Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind said it was "a bit rich" for the US president to single out the UK and France, as they had carried out more air operations in the Libya campaign than any other country.
15 February 2011 - Protests against Colonel Gaddafi's regime erupt in Libya
20 February - Anti-Gaddafi rebels seize control of Libya's second city Benghazi
21 February - David Cameron, on a tour of the Middle East, condemns violence by the Gaddafi regime. Over the next few days he faces criticism over the government's handling of the evacuation of Britons from Libya
28 February: Mr Cameron asks the Ministry of Defence to "work with our allies on plans for a military no-fly zone" over Libya
2 March: Mr Cameron is forced to defend the no-fly zone plan after US Defence Secretary Robert Gates dismisses the idea as "loose talk"
14 March: Mr Cameron insists it is "perfectly deliverable" - and denies he is having trouble convincing other EU leaders, with the exception of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, of the need for one
17 March: The UN Security Council votes to impose a no-fly zone over Libya
19 March: The RAF begins bombing raids alongside French and US jets, with logistical support from several Arab nations
21 March: MPs vote to authorise UK military action, which is backed by then Labour leader Ed Miliband
21 August: Rebel fighters enter Tripoli. Mr Cameron cuts short his summer holiday in Cornwall to hold a meeting of the National Security Council and makes a statement outside Downing Street saying: "Gaddafi must stop fighting - without conditions - and clearly show that he has given up any claim to control Libya."
1 September: Libya's interim rulers meet world leaders in Paris to discuss reshaping Libya, as Gaddafi urges his supporters to fight on
15 September: Speaking in Benghazi's Tahrir square, Mr Cameron praises the way Libya's interim authority has taken charge but warns the "hardest part" is still to come
20 October: Gaddafi is captured and killed by rebel fighters in the city of Sirte | David Cameron became distracted after 2011 challenges in Libya due to statements put out b the White House, though the UK and France lead the intervention. Cameron had distractions when making efforts to support Libya and regretted the range of issues carried out after the air campaign. |
9ff67e17a61f4b98ba99f986aea9b37c | League One play-off chasing Millwall missed the chance to make significant ground on the top six as they were held to a goalless draw by Walsall.
The hosts had the better chances as Lee Gregory volleyed over and Steve Morison headed Shane Ferguson's cross wide.
Walsall's best chance saw Florent Cuvelier long-range strike held by Millwall goalkeeper Jordan Archer.
Substitute Aiden O'Brien fired over from long range as Millwall closed the gap on the play-offs to four points.
Match ends, Millwall 0, Walsall 0.
Second Half ends, Millwall 0, Walsall 0.
Delay in match Jason McCarthy (Walsall) because of an injury.
Foul by Steve Morison (Millwall).
Eoghan O'Connell (Walsall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Shaun Cummings (Millwall).
Simeon Jackson (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Shaun Cummings.
Foul by Aiden O'Brien (Millwall).
Joe Edwards (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Kieron Morris (Walsall) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Substitution, Walsall. Will Randall-Hurren replaces Erhun Oztumer.
Attempt missed. Aiden O'Brien (Millwall) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Foul by Ben Thompson (Millwall).
Joe Edwards (Walsall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Shaun Williams (Millwall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Simeon Jackson (Walsall).
Substitution, Walsall. Kieron Morris replaces Florent Cuvelier.
Attempt missed. Joe Edwards (Walsall) header from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Joe Edwards (Walsall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Fred Onyedinma (Millwall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Joe Edwards (Walsall).
Attempt blocked. Aiden O'Brien (Millwall) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Walsall. Simeon Jackson replaces Amadou Bakayoko.
Substitution, Millwall. Fred Onyedinma replaces Jed Wallace.
Substitution, Millwall. Aiden O'Brien replaces Shane Ferguson.
Steve Morison (Millwall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Eoghan O'Connell (Walsall).
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Eoghan O'Connell.
Attempt blocked. Ben Thompson (Millwall) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Eoghan O'Connell.
Attempt missed. Joe Edwards (Walsall) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Ben Thompson (Millwall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Florent Cuvelier (Walsall).
Foul by Steve Morison (Millwall).
Isaiah Osbourne (Walsall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Lee Gregory (Millwall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Eoghan O'Connell (Walsall).
Second Half begins Millwall 0, Walsall 0.
First Half ends, Millwall 0, Walsall 0. | Intense League One Match between Millwall and Walsall included a player injury, and maximum effort from both sides, but ends in a draw with neither team scoring any points. |
9ff67e17a61f4b98ba99f986aea9b37c | League One play-off chasing Millwall missed the chance to make significant ground on the top six as they were held to a goalless draw by Walsall.
The hosts had the better chances as Lee Gregory volleyed over and Steve Morison headed Shane Ferguson's cross wide.
Walsall's best chance saw Florent Cuvelier long-range strike held by Millwall goalkeeper Jordan Archer.
Substitute Aiden O'Brien fired over from long range as Millwall closed the gap on the play-offs to four points.
Match ends, Millwall 0, Walsall 0.
Second Half ends, Millwall 0, Walsall 0.
Delay in match Jason McCarthy (Walsall) because of an injury.
Foul by Steve Morison (Millwall).
Eoghan O'Connell (Walsall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Shaun Cummings (Millwall).
Simeon Jackson (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Shaun Cummings.
Foul by Aiden O'Brien (Millwall).
Joe Edwards (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Kieron Morris (Walsall) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Substitution, Walsall. Will Randall-Hurren replaces Erhun Oztumer.
Attempt missed. Aiden O'Brien (Millwall) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Foul by Ben Thompson (Millwall).
Joe Edwards (Walsall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Shaun Williams (Millwall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Simeon Jackson (Walsall).
Substitution, Walsall. Kieron Morris replaces Florent Cuvelier.
Attempt missed. Joe Edwards (Walsall) header from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Joe Edwards (Walsall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Fred Onyedinma (Millwall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Joe Edwards (Walsall).
Attempt blocked. Aiden O'Brien (Millwall) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Walsall. Simeon Jackson replaces Amadou Bakayoko.
Substitution, Millwall. Fred Onyedinma replaces Jed Wallace.
Substitution, Millwall. Aiden O'Brien replaces Shane Ferguson.
Steve Morison (Millwall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Eoghan O'Connell (Walsall).
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Eoghan O'Connell.
Attempt blocked. Ben Thompson (Millwall) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Eoghan O'Connell.
Attempt missed. Joe Edwards (Walsall) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Ben Thompson (Millwall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Florent Cuvelier (Walsall).
Foul by Steve Morison (Millwall).
Isaiah Osbourne (Walsall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Lee Gregory (Millwall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Eoghan O'Connell (Walsall).
Second Half begins Millwall 0, Walsall 0.
First Half ends, Millwall 0, Walsall 0. | Play-by-play of the League One tournament between Millwall and Walsall. Neither party retained a score during the first half. They began the second half with zero points for both teams. |
9ff67e17a61f4b98ba99f986aea9b37c | League One play-off chasing Millwall missed the chance to make significant ground on the top six as they were held to a goalless draw by Walsall.
The hosts had the better chances as Lee Gregory volleyed over and Steve Morison headed Shane Ferguson's cross wide.
Walsall's best chance saw Florent Cuvelier long-range strike held by Millwall goalkeeper Jordan Archer.
Substitute Aiden O'Brien fired over from long range as Millwall closed the gap on the play-offs to four points.
Match ends, Millwall 0, Walsall 0.
Second Half ends, Millwall 0, Walsall 0.
Delay in match Jason McCarthy (Walsall) because of an injury.
Foul by Steve Morison (Millwall).
Eoghan O'Connell (Walsall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Shaun Cummings (Millwall).
Simeon Jackson (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Shaun Cummings.
Foul by Aiden O'Brien (Millwall).
Joe Edwards (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Kieron Morris (Walsall) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Substitution, Walsall. Will Randall-Hurren replaces Erhun Oztumer.
Attempt missed. Aiden O'Brien (Millwall) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Foul by Ben Thompson (Millwall).
Joe Edwards (Walsall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Shaun Williams (Millwall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Simeon Jackson (Walsall).
Substitution, Walsall. Kieron Morris replaces Florent Cuvelier.
Attempt missed. Joe Edwards (Walsall) header from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Joe Edwards (Walsall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Fred Onyedinma (Millwall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Joe Edwards (Walsall).
Attempt blocked. Aiden O'Brien (Millwall) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Walsall. Simeon Jackson replaces Amadou Bakayoko.
Substitution, Millwall. Fred Onyedinma replaces Jed Wallace.
Substitution, Millwall. Aiden O'Brien replaces Shane Ferguson.
Steve Morison (Millwall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Eoghan O'Connell (Walsall).
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Eoghan O'Connell.
Attempt blocked. Ben Thompson (Millwall) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Eoghan O'Connell.
Attempt missed. Joe Edwards (Walsall) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Ben Thompson (Millwall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Florent Cuvelier (Walsall).
Foul by Steve Morison (Millwall).
Isaiah Osbourne (Walsall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Lee Gregory (Millwall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Eoghan O'Connell (Walsall).
Second Half begins Millwall 0, Walsall 0.
First Half ends, Millwall 0, Walsall 0. | Millwall FC was held to a goalless draw by Walsall FC. Millwall had a chance to close in on the top 6 of the table with a victory, but that opportunity is now squandered. Millwall had better scoring chances than Walsall but neither side could convert. |
bd977d12913d4d0d94fd3f270fa5f560 | Dawn Purvis is to step down as programme director of Northern Ireland's Marie Stopes clinic.
It is the first private clinic to offer early medical abortions to women in Northern Ireland under strict legal controls.
A former leader of the Progressive Unionist Party, Ms Purvis has been director of the clinic since it was launched in 2012.
Ms Purvis, who will step down on 24 April, said it was "time to move on".
She will take on a new role on the clinic's Northern Ireland advisory board.
Last November, anti-abortion protester Bernadette Smyth, who leads the Precious Life group, was convicted of harassing Ms Purvis at the Marie Stopes office in Belfast city centre.
Ms Purvis told the BBC that had had no influence on her decision to step down.
"I think the clinic's well established here now, we're providing services more and more every year and I'm delighted to be remaining on the advisory board for the clinic.
"But I feel it's time to move on and I think it's time for Marie Stopes to get someone else in to manage the clinic and take it to new places," she said.
"At times it was difficult, particularly last year with the court case and the harassment, but I put that behind me and have concentrated on delivering services for women in Ireland both north and south.
"I think I've achieved a significant historical change in the perception of abortion in Northern Ireland from where the usual narrative was that abortion was illegal in Northern Ireland to now one where people understand that abortion is legal under certain circumstances.
"I think we've challenged the myths and stereotypes that are presented by those who are opposed to a woman's right to chose."
Genevieve Edwards, director of policy for Marie Stopes UK, said: "We were so lucky to have Dawn and wish her every success in whatever she chooses to do.
"The support for the clinic since it opened in very challenging circumstances has been heartening and a source of great comfort and pride for our staff and volunteers.
"We are now actively recruiting for Dawn's successor to lead us into the next phase of the clinic's journey." | The program director for Northern Irelands first abortion clinic has stepped down. Dawn Purvis, who has served as program director during the transition from abortion being completely illegal to legal under strict guidelines, claims public backlash and criticism have not affected her decision, she is just ready to move on. |
bd977d12913d4d0d94fd3f270fa5f560 | Dawn Purvis is to step down as programme director of Northern Ireland's Marie Stopes clinic.
It is the first private clinic to offer early medical abortions to women in Northern Ireland under strict legal controls.
A former leader of the Progressive Unionist Party, Ms Purvis has been director of the clinic since it was launched in 2012.
Ms Purvis, who will step down on 24 April, said it was "time to move on".
She will take on a new role on the clinic's Northern Ireland advisory board.
Last November, anti-abortion protester Bernadette Smyth, who leads the Precious Life group, was convicted of harassing Ms Purvis at the Marie Stopes office in Belfast city centre.
Ms Purvis told the BBC that had had no influence on her decision to step down.
"I think the clinic's well established here now, we're providing services more and more every year and I'm delighted to be remaining on the advisory board for the clinic.
"But I feel it's time to move on and I think it's time for Marie Stopes to get someone else in to manage the clinic and take it to new places," she said.
"At times it was difficult, particularly last year with the court case and the harassment, but I put that behind me and have concentrated on delivering services for women in Ireland both north and south.
"I think I've achieved a significant historical change in the perception of abortion in Northern Ireland from where the usual narrative was that abortion was illegal in Northern Ireland to now one where people understand that abortion is legal under certain circumstances.
"I think we've challenged the myths and stereotypes that are presented by those who are opposed to a woman's right to chose."
Genevieve Edwards, director of policy for Marie Stopes UK, said: "We were so lucky to have Dawn and wish her every success in whatever she chooses to do.
"The support for the clinic since it opened in very challenging circumstances has been heartening and a source of great comfort and pride for our staff and volunteers.
"We are now actively recruiting for Dawn's successor to lead us into the next phase of the clinic's journey." | Dawn Purvis is stepping down from her position as program director at Northern Ireland's Marie Stopes clinic. The clinic provides early medical abortion access to women in Ireland under strict legal controls. Purvis states that it's time for her to move on from her position as the director but will be working on the clinic's advisory board and is delighted to do so. |
bd977d12913d4d0d94fd3f270fa5f560 | Dawn Purvis is to step down as programme director of Northern Ireland's Marie Stopes clinic.
It is the first private clinic to offer early medical abortions to women in Northern Ireland under strict legal controls.
A former leader of the Progressive Unionist Party, Ms Purvis has been director of the clinic since it was launched in 2012.
Ms Purvis, who will step down on 24 April, said it was "time to move on".
She will take on a new role on the clinic's Northern Ireland advisory board.
Last November, anti-abortion protester Bernadette Smyth, who leads the Precious Life group, was convicted of harassing Ms Purvis at the Marie Stopes office in Belfast city centre.
Ms Purvis told the BBC that had had no influence on her decision to step down.
"I think the clinic's well established here now, we're providing services more and more every year and I'm delighted to be remaining on the advisory board for the clinic.
"But I feel it's time to move on and I think it's time for Marie Stopes to get someone else in to manage the clinic and take it to new places," she said.
"At times it was difficult, particularly last year with the court case and the harassment, but I put that behind me and have concentrated on delivering services for women in Ireland both north and south.
"I think I've achieved a significant historical change in the perception of abortion in Northern Ireland from where the usual narrative was that abortion was illegal in Northern Ireland to now one where people understand that abortion is legal under certain circumstances.
"I think we've challenged the myths and stereotypes that are presented by those who are opposed to a woman's right to chose."
Genevieve Edwards, director of policy for Marie Stopes UK, said: "We were so lucky to have Dawn and wish her every success in whatever she chooses to do.
"The support for the clinic since it opened in very challenging circumstances has been heartening and a source of great comfort and pride for our staff and volunteers.
"We are now actively recruiting for Dawn's successor to lead us into the next phase of the clinic's journey." | Dawn Purvis is stepping down as head of the Marie Stope clinic. The facility is the only place in Northern Ireland where Women can get abortions. Dawn believes that "it's time to move on". The clinic is actively recruiting for a replacement. |
b1ef36b906cc46f2901d438f650f4672 | Ten-man Inverness Caledonian Thistle fell four points adrift at the foot of the Scottish Premiership with defeat by St Johnstone.
Steven Maclean bundled home the opener five minutes before half-time.
The hosts, slacker after the break, had beleaguered striker Larnell Cole sent-off after he confronted the referee.
Liam Craig sealed the win from the penalty spot with two minutes to play, before Graham Cummins finished a sumptuous stoppage-time move.
And things got worse still for Caley Thistle after the match, with captain Gary Warren shown a red card in the tunnel.
Saints remain five points clear of Hearts in fourth place, and closed the gap on third-placed Rangers, who play Aberdeen on Sunday, to three points.
With game after game ticking past, Inverness' position looks increasingly perilous. Next weekend's trip to Motherwell, second-bottom on goal difference, is now seismic.
This contest turned nightmarish for the hosts after a bright opening, but the truth is, given their predicament, Caley Thistle did not threaten St Johnstone's goal enough.
Billy Mckay sent a shot over from close range. Alex Fisher nodded a diving header wide. Carl Tremarco miscued a volley.
Greg Tansey did draw a save from Alan Mannus when he rasped in an effort from outside the box, but Richie Foran's side never looked likely to find the net.
Their best opportunity came immediately after the Saints went ahead, when Tansey fed Cole, who seemed to panic in a terrific position and shot straight at Mannus.
Cole's dismissal ended the contest when he appeared to be cautioned twice for challenging referee Stephen Finnie's decision not to award a foul.
St Johnstone were merciless and could have had more.
With just one win from their last 21 league games, Inverness look deep in trouble.
Tommy Wright's side deserve so much credit. Saints were tactically brilliant, so strong defensively and ruthlessly capitalised on their man advantage.
They took one of their few first-half chances when Michael Coulson broke down the left and sent a dangerous ball across the six-yard box.
Owain Fon Williams could only parry into the danger area, Cummins' shot was blocked but Maclean followed up to force it home.
They should have had another when Craig's superb curling corner flew all the way to the back post where Cummins slid in and somehow knocked it over from two yards.
Craig, in his 300th appearance for the club, coolly converted a spot-kick after Cummins was tripped to seal the points.
Cummins then slammed home after Miller danced around the area to tee him up, before Craig cracked the bar amid the late flurry.
With a tendency to finish the season strongly, and just a three-point gap to Rangers, the Perth side look capable of something special this term.
Inverness CT manager Richie Foran: "It is a tough time of the season to be sitting bottom, and I need real men to stand up to that, but not enough of them did that today.
"It is pure luck we are still in it and it is only four points. I sound like a broken record but one win changes it - that is the truth. But I need braver players with more passion and desire. We controlled aspects of the game without having that ruthless edge to it. I don't think we believed today.
"The main person who is not good enough is me. I am obviously not doing my job right and big apologies to the supporters. I believe we let them down today.
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"It is not good enough. I pick the team, I pick the shape, I will take 90% of the blame for that but the players need to stand up as well."
St Johnstone manager Tommy Wright: "We went in 1-0 at half-time without playing particularly well but looked a threat. We looked comfortable enough and then after the sending-off, we were ruthless. We scored two and maybe could have scored two or three more.
"The attitude to go and kick on and make sure we got that second goal, to make sure we weren't having any problems in the last few minutes, was excellent.
"It's been a week that didn't start so well that's ended absolutely magnificently for us. We enjoy defending. We don't panic when we're under pressure. We're a good side that can do both sides of the game.
"There's a better chance tonight (of finishing third) but we're not going to get carried away. We'll just keep working away. It keeps us five ahead of Hearts. It was an important result."
Match ends, Inverness CT 0, St. Johnstone 3.
Second Half ends, Inverness CT 0, St. Johnstone 3.
Attempt missed. Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Liam Craig (St. Johnstone) hits the bar with a left footed shot from outside the box.
Goal! Inverness CT 0, St. Johnstone 3. Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Chris Millar.
Goal! Inverness CT 0, St. Johnstone 2. Liam Craig (St. Johnstone) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty conceded by Carl Tremarco (Inverness CT) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty St. Johnstone. Graham Cummins draws a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt blocked. Chris Millar (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right following a fast break.
Substitution, Inverness CT. Scott Boden replaces Jamie McCart.
Substitution, St. Johnstone. Craig Thomson replaces Blair Alston.
Second yellow card to Larnell Cole (Inverness CT).
Larnell Cole (Inverness CT) is shown the yellow card.
Hand ball by Liam Polworth (Inverness CT).
Substitution, St. Johnstone. Chris Millar replaces Steven MacLean.
Attempt saved. Carl Tremarco (Inverness CT) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Gary Warren (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone).
Attempt missed. Billy King (Inverness CT) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Larnell Cole (Inverness CT) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by Liam Polworth (Inverness CT).
Tam Scobbie (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gary Warren (Inverness CT).
Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, St. Johnstone. David Wotherspoon replaces Michael Coulson.
Attempt missed. Michael Coulson (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Jamie McCart (Inverness CT).
Steven MacLean (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Greg Tansey (Inverness CT) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Blair Alston (St. Johnstone) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Liam Polworth (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Blair Alston (St. Johnstone).
Larnell Cole (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Michael Coulson (St. Johnstone).
Attempt missed. Billy King (Inverness CT) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Billy McKay (Inverness CT) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Louis Laing (Inverness CT).
Michael Coulson (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Liam Polworth (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the attacking half. | Inverness has lost 0 to 3 to St Johnstone at the Scottish Premiership. With only one win in their last 21 games, Inverness manager Richi Foran takes much of the blame, and says that everyone needs to do better, starting with him as the leader. |
b1ef36b906cc46f2901d438f650f4672 | Ten-man Inverness Caledonian Thistle fell four points adrift at the foot of the Scottish Premiership with defeat by St Johnstone.
Steven Maclean bundled home the opener five minutes before half-time.
The hosts, slacker after the break, had beleaguered striker Larnell Cole sent-off after he confronted the referee.
Liam Craig sealed the win from the penalty spot with two minutes to play, before Graham Cummins finished a sumptuous stoppage-time move.
And things got worse still for Caley Thistle after the match, with captain Gary Warren shown a red card in the tunnel.
Saints remain five points clear of Hearts in fourth place, and closed the gap on third-placed Rangers, who play Aberdeen on Sunday, to three points.
With game after game ticking past, Inverness' position looks increasingly perilous. Next weekend's trip to Motherwell, second-bottom on goal difference, is now seismic.
This contest turned nightmarish for the hosts after a bright opening, but the truth is, given their predicament, Caley Thistle did not threaten St Johnstone's goal enough.
Billy Mckay sent a shot over from close range. Alex Fisher nodded a diving header wide. Carl Tremarco miscued a volley.
Greg Tansey did draw a save from Alan Mannus when he rasped in an effort from outside the box, but Richie Foran's side never looked likely to find the net.
Their best opportunity came immediately after the Saints went ahead, when Tansey fed Cole, who seemed to panic in a terrific position and shot straight at Mannus.
Cole's dismissal ended the contest when he appeared to be cautioned twice for challenging referee Stephen Finnie's decision not to award a foul.
St Johnstone were merciless and could have had more.
With just one win from their last 21 league games, Inverness look deep in trouble.
Tommy Wright's side deserve so much credit. Saints were tactically brilliant, so strong defensively and ruthlessly capitalised on their man advantage.
They took one of their few first-half chances when Michael Coulson broke down the left and sent a dangerous ball across the six-yard box.
Owain Fon Williams could only parry into the danger area, Cummins' shot was blocked but Maclean followed up to force it home.
They should have had another when Craig's superb curling corner flew all the way to the back post where Cummins slid in and somehow knocked it over from two yards.
Craig, in his 300th appearance for the club, coolly converted a spot-kick after Cummins was tripped to seal the points.
Cummins then slammed home after Miller danced around the area to tee him up, before Craig cracked the bar amid the late flurry.
With a tendency to finish the season strongly, and just a three-point gap to Rangers, the Perth side look capable of something special this term.
Inverness CT manager Richie Foran: "It is a tough time of the season to be sitting bottom, and I need real men to stand up to that, but not enough of them did that today.
"It is pure luck we are still in it and it is only four points. I sound like a broken record but one win changes it - that is the truth. But I need braver players with more passion and desire. We controlled aspects of the game without having that ruthless edge to it. I don't think we believed today.
"The main person who is not good enough is me. I am obviously not doing my job right and big apologies to the supporters. I believe we let them down today.
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"It is not good enough. I pick the team, I pick the shape, I will take 90% of the blame for that but the players need to stand up as well."
St Johnstone manager Tommy Wright: "We went in 1-0 at half-time without playing particularly well but looked a threat. We looked comfortable enough and then after the sending-off, we were ruthless. We scored two and maybe could have scored two or three more.
"The attitude to go and kick on and make sure we got that second goal, to make sure we weren't having any problems in the last few minutes, was excellent.
"It's been a week that didn't start so well that's ended absolutely magnificently for us. We enjoy defending. We don't panic when we're under pressure. We're a good side that can do both sides of the game.
"There's a better chance tonight (of finishing third) but we're not going to get carried away. We'll just keep working away. It keeps us five ahead of Hearts. It was an important result."
Match ends, Inverness CT 0, St. Johnstone 3.
Second Half ends, Inverness CT 0, St. Johnstone 3.
Attempt missed. Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Liam Craig (St. Johnstone) hits the bar with a left footed shot from outside the box.
Goal! Inverness CT 0, St. Johnstone 3. Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Chris Millar.
Goal! Inverness CT 0, St. Johnstone 2. Liam Craig (St. Johnstone) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty conceded by Carl Tremarco (Inverness CT) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty St. Johnstone. Graham Cummins draws a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt blocked. Chris Millar (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right following a fast break.
Substitution, Inverness CT. Scott Boden replaces Jamie McCart.
Substitution, St. Johnstone. Craig Thomson replaces Blair Alston.
Second yellow card to Larnell Cole (Inverness CT).
Larnell Cole (Inverness CT) is shown the yellow card.
Hand ball by Liam Polworth (Inverness CT).
Substitution, St. Johnstone. Chris Millar replaces Steven MacLean.
Attempt saved. Carl Tremarco (Inverness CT) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Gary Warren (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone).
Attempt missed. Billy King (Inverness CT) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Larnell Cole (Inverness CT) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by Liam Polworth (Inverness CT).
Tam Scobbie (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gary Warren (Inverness CT).
Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, St. Johnstone. David Wotherspoon replaces Michael Coulson.
Attempt missed. Michael Coulson (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Jamie McCart (Inverness CT).
Steven MacLean (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Greg Tansey (Inverness CT) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Blair Alston (St. Johnstone) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Liam Polworth (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Blair Alston (St. Johnstone).
Larnell Cole (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Michael Coulson (St. Johnstone).
Attempt missed. Billy King (Inverness CT) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Billy McKay (Inverness CT) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Louis Laing (Inverness CT).
Michael Coulson (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Liam Polworth (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the attacking half. | Inverness Caledonian Thistle lost by three goals to St. Johnstone. Inverness sits near the bottom of the standings and appears to be in trouble with only one win in 21 games. St. Johnstone sits comfortably in fourth place with this win. Inverness' next game against Motherwell is crucial. |
5a5d2bbfb7a74067abfb31a5f4888c71 | An obese mother who enjoyed takeaways and boozy nights out has lost more than seven stone after a child on a bus pointed at her and asked whether she was pregnant.
Lizzi Crawford, 32, tipped the scales at 20 stone when she overheard the young bus passenger ask his mum: 'Has she got a baby in her belly?'
The embarrassing remark left the mother-of-six, from Stoke-on-Trent, mortified but inspired her to ditch her unhealthy lifestyle and shed the pounds, slimming down to a healthier 12.5st.
Lizzi Crawford dropped over 7st after a stranger mistook her for being pregnant.
Lizzi had reached a size 24 dress after living on a diet of burgers, pizzas and kebabs. But she also devoured liquid calories in the form of wine and spirits.
However Lizzi never realised how big she had got until she heard the pregnancy remark on the bus.
She said: 'It started when I was taking my kids to school and we were sitting on the bus. A kid then looked at me and said: "Has she got a baby in her belly?"'
Lizzi now admits that she was living an extremely unhealthy lifestyle.
She continued: 'It was terrible. I was being a slob to be honest.
Lizzi piled on the pounds thanks to a boozy lifestyle and diet of takeaways, pizzas and kebabs.
As well as her battle to lose weight Lizzi also won her battle against cervical cancer.
'I was eating burgers, takeaways, pizzas, kebabs and drinking - mainly wine and spirits mixed with Dr Pepper.
'I knew I had to do something about my weight for the sake of my children.'
In a serious bid to slim down Lizzi began cooking healthier meals and joining fitness and self-defense classes which saw her lose over 7st.
Incredibly, she achieved her goal despite suffering the set-back of being diagnosed with cervical cancer in October 2012.
As well as winning her fight against the disease following a hysterectomy and cancer treatment she has now won her battle against the bulge.
Lizzi, who works a cleaner, kept fit by attending self-defense classes at T6 Fight Club in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.
She also discovered Hourglass training - a fitness programme designed to keep a woman's curves while she gets healthy.
Lizzi says that having support from other women at her gym helped her to achieve her goal.
Lizzi joined the gym and began hourglass training and says that she is now addicted to fitness.
'I began to build relationships with the people at the gym. The girls were egging me on to eat well - they all cheer each other on.
'I've got some of the best friends I've ever made there. They don't look down their noses at you and you're always made to feel welcome.'
The slimmer says she is now 'addicted' to her fitness classes and goes five times every week.
She added that losing the weight has helped her mental being as well as her physical being.
'I can do a lot more things now. I can walk more places and do more with the kids - I can even do simple tasks like getting up and down the stairs easier now.
'It's helped me mentally because it was depressing when I was heavy, but since I started Hourglass, that has just gone.
'The weight loss has helped me in the workplace too. I find I can get around much quicker and finish earlier - it used to take me ages.
'Now I can spend more time with the kids.'
Lizzi's mum, Mary Crawford, 57, said her daughter's slimming efforts had been 'amazing'.
She added: 'She's found out about cooking the right way, she's been going to the gym and riding bikes.
'She's stuck at it and I think it's amazing what she's done. I'm really pleased, and I believe she will keep it off as she's found a routine that suits her.
'She's like the old Lizzi I used to know as a little girl.' | After a child mistook her overweight appearance for being pregnant, Lizzi Crawford has gone from weighing 20 stone to 12.5 stone. During Crawford's weight loss journey, the 32-year-old mother-of-six was diagnosed with cervical cancer. Through a hysterectomy, cancer treatment, healthier cooking, and regular exercise, Lizzi was able to win the battle with cancer and her weight. |
5a5d2bbfb7a74067abfb31a5f4888c71 | An obese mother who enjoyed takeaways and boozy nights out has lost more than seven stone after a child on a bus pointed at her and asked whether she was pregnant.
Lizzi Crawford, 32, tipped the scales at 20 stone when she overheard the young bus passenger ask his mum: 'Has she got a baby in her belly?'
The embarrassing remark left the mother-of-six, from Stoke-on-Trent, mortified but inspired her to ditch her unhealthy lifestyle and shed the pounds, slimming down to a healthier 12.5st.
Lizzi Crawford dropped over 7st after a stranger mistook her for being pregnant.
Lizzi had reached a size 24 dress after living on a diet of burgers, pizzas and kebabs. But she also devoured liquid calories in the form of wine and spirits.
However Lizzi never realised how big she had got until she heard the pregnancy remark on the bus.
She said: 'It started when I was taking my kids to school and we were sitting on the bus. A kid then looked at me and said: "Has she got a baby in her belly?"'
Lizzi now admits that she was living an extremely unhealthy lifestyle.
She continued: 'It was terrible. I was being a slob to be honest.
Lizzi piled on the pounds thanks to a boozy lifestyle and diet of takeaways, pizzas and kebabs.
As well as her battle to lose weight Lizzi also won her battle against cervical cancer.
'I was eating burgers, takeaways, pizzas, kebabs and drinking - mainly wine and spirits mixed with Dr Pepper.
'I knew I had to do something about my weight for the sake of my children.'
In a serious bid to slim down Lizzi began cooking healthier meals and joining fitness and self-defense classes which saw her lose over 7st.
Incredibly, she achieved her goal despite suffering the set-back of being diagnosed with cervical cancer in October 2012.
As well as winning her fight against the disease following a hysterectomy and cancer treatment she has now won her battle against the bulge.
Lizzi, who works a cleaner, kept fit by attending self-defense classes at T6 Fight Club in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.
She also discovered Hourglass training - a fitness programme designed to keep a woman's curves while she gets healthy.
Lizzi says that having support from other women at her gym helped her to achieve her goal.
Lizzi joined the gym and began hourglass training and says that she is now addicted to fitness.
'I began to build relationships with the people at the gym. The girls were egging me on to eat well - they all cheer each other on.
'I've got some of the best friends I've ever made there. They don't look down their noses at you and you're always made to feel welcome.'
The slimmer says she is now 'addicted' to her fitness classes and goes five times every week.
She added that losing the weight has helped her mental being as well as her physical being.
'I can do a lot more things now. I can walk more places and do more with the kids - I can even do simple tasks like getting up and down the stairs easier now.
'It's helped me mentally because it was depressing when I was heavy, but since I started Hourglass, that has just gone.
'The weight loss has helped me in the workplace too. I find I can get around much quicker and finish earlier - it used to take me ages.
'Now I can spend more time with the kids.'
Lizzi's mum, Mary Crawford, 57, said her daughter's slimming efforts had been 'amazing'.
She added: 'She's found out about cooking the right way, she's been going to the gym and riding bikes.
'She's stuck at it and I think it's amazing what she's done. I'm really pleased, and I believe she will keep it off as she's found a routine that suits her.
'She's like the old Lizzi I used to know as a little girl.' | Lizzi Crawford shed an immense amount of weight after a child on the bus asked his mother if she was pregnant. The Mother of six proceeded to ditch her unhealthy lifestyle and join a self-defense class. The weight loss has helped her mental and physical health immensely. |
5a5d2bbfb7a74067abfb31a5f4888c71 | An obese mother who enjoyed takeaways and boozy nights out has lost more than seven stone after a child on a bus pointed at her and asked whether she was pregnant.
Lizzi Crawford, 32, tipped the scales at 20 stone when she overheard the young bus passenger ask his mum: 'Has she got a baby in her belly?'
The embarrassing remark left the mother-of-six, from Stoke-on-Trent, mortified but inspired her to ditch her unhealthy lifestyle and shed the pounds, slimming down to a healthier 12.5st.
Lizzi Crawford dropped over 7st after a stranger mistook her for being pregnant.
Lizzi had reached a size 24 dress after living on a diet of burgers, pizzas and kebabs. But she also devoured liquid calories in the form of wine and spirits.
However Lizzi never realised how big she had got until she heard the pregnancy remark on the bus.
She said: 'It started when I was taking my kids to school and we were sitting on the bus. A kid then looked at me and said: "Has she got a baby in her belly?"'
Lizzi now admits that she was living an extremely unhealthy lifestyle.
She continued: 'It was terrible. I was being a slob to be honest.
Lizzi piled on the pounds thanks to a boozy lifestyle and diet of takeaways, pizzas and kebabs.
As well as her battle to lose weight Lizzi also won her battle against cervical cancer.
'I was eating burgers, takeaways, pizzas, kebabs and drinking - mainly wine and spirits mixed with Dr Pepper.
'I knew I had to do something about my weight for the sake of my children.'
In a serious bid to slim down Lizzi began cooking healthier meals and joining fitness and self-defense classes which saw her lose over 7st.
Incredibly, she achieved her goal despite suffering the set-back of being diagnosed with cervical cancer in October 2012.
As well as winning her fight against the disease following a hysterectomy and cancer treatment she has now won her battle against the bulge.
Lizzi, who works a cleaner, kept fit by attending self-defense classes at T6 Fight Club in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.
She also discovered Hourglass training - a fitness programme designed to keep a woman's curves while she gets healthy.
Lizzi says that having support from other women at her gym helped her to achieve her goal.
Lizzi joined the gym and began hourglass training and says that she is now addicted to fitness.
'I began to build relationships with the people at the gym. The girls were egging me on to eat well - they all cheer each other on.
'I've got some of the best friends I've ever made there. They don't look down their noses at you and you're always made to feel welcome.'
The slimmer says she is now 'addicted' to her fitness classes and goes five times every week.
She added that losing the weight has helped her mental being as well as her physical being.
'I can do a lot more things now. I can walk more places and do more with the kids - I can even do simple tasks like getting up and down the stairs easier now.
'It's helped me mentally because it was depressing when I was heavy, but since I started Hourglass, that has just gone.
'The weight loss has helped me in the workplace too. I find I can get around much quicker and finish earlier - it used to take me ages.
'Now I can spend more time with the kids.'
Lizzi's mum, Mary Crawford, 57, said her daughter's slimming efforts had been 'amazing'.
She added: 'She's found out about cooking the right way, she's been going to the gym and riding bikes.
'She's stuck at it and I think it's amazing what she's done. I'm really pleased, and I believe she will keep it off as she's found a routine that suits her.
'She's like the old Lizzi I used to know as a little girl.' | Lizzi, an obese mother of six, wouldn't have realized how big she got until a kid on the bus mistook her for being pregnant. She lived on a junk food booze diet, but after hearing that comment, Lizzi was inspired to lose weight. Since then, both her physical and mental health has significantly improved. |
19d435def4df4a8e91b14463e9644529 | The deputy first minister is due to make a statement on the Scottish government's Named Person scheme later.
John Swinney will address MSPs over a legal challenge to information sharing proposals within the Act.
The system would appoint a named person - usually a teacher or health visitor - to ensure the wellbeing of every child.
But judges at the UK's highest court ruled against the scheme in July 2016, citing concerns over information sharing.
The Supreme Court judges said some proposals breached rights to privacy and a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights.
However, the court said the aim of the Act, which is intended to promote and safeguard the rights and wellbeing of children and young people, was legitimate.
Speaking ahead of his statement to the Scottish Parliament, Mr Swinney said the Scottish government remained "absolutely committed" to the Named Person service as a way to support children and their families.
"Last year the Supreme Court ruled definitively that the intention of providing a Named Person for every child to promote and safeguard their wellbeing was 'unquestionably legitimate and benign'," he said.
"Their judgement did, however, require us to change the provisions relating to information sharing.
"Since the judgement, we have undertaken an intensive period of engagement with children, young people, parents, carers, practitioners and professionals.
"I will now update parliament on the next steps in this vital means of supporting, safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of our children and young people."
The judges said in July that specific proposals about information-sharing were "not within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament".
And they said the legislation made it "perfectly possible" that confidential information about a young person could be disclosed to a "wide range of public authorities without either the child or young person or her parents being aware".
The appeal was brought by the No to Named Persons (NO2NP) coalition, which includes the Christian Institute, Care (Christian Action Research and Education), Tyme Trust and the Family Education Trust.
The Scottish government has said previously it would not commence the legislation until the problems were fixed. | The Scottish government is considering enacting a Named Person scheme, in an effort to protect the well-being of children and families. Critics of the legislation raise concerns over privacy sharing. |
19d435def4df4a8e91b14463e9644529 | The deputy first minister is due to make a statement on the Scottish government's Named Person scheme later.
John Swinney will address MSPs over a legal challenge to information sharing proposals within the Act.
The system would appoint a named person - usually a teacher or health visitor - to ensure the wellbeing of every child.
But judges at the UK's highest court ruled against the scheme in July 2016, citing concerns over information sharing.
The Supreme Court judges said some proposals breached rights to privacy and a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights.
However, the court said the aim of the Act, which is intended to promote and safeguard the rights and wellbeing of children and young people, was legitimate.
Speaking ahead of his statement to the Scottish Parliament, Mr Swinney said the Scottish government remained "absolutely committed" to the Named Person service as a way to support children and their families.
"Last year the Supreme Court ruled definitively that the intention of providing a Named Person for every child to promote and safeguard their wellbeing was 'unquestionably legitimate and benign'," he said.
"Their judgement did, however, require us to change the provisions relating to information sharing.
"Since the judgement, we have undertaken an intensive period of engagement with children, young people, parents, carers, practitioners and professionals.
"I will now update parliament on the next steps in this vital means of supporting, safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of our children and young people."
The judges said in July that specific proposals about information-sharing were "not within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament".
And they said the legislation made it "perfectly possible" that confidential information about a young person could be disclosed to a "wide range of public authorities without either the child or young person or her parents being aware".
The appeal was brought by the No to Named Persons (NO2NP) coalition, which includes the Christian Institute, Care (Christian Action Research and Education), Tyme Trust and the Family Education Trust.
The Scottish government has said previously it would not commence the legislation until the problems were fixed. | The information-sharing clause of the new Named Person act is facing a legal challenge, as it is seen as a massive breach of privacy by many. The act is aimed at helping children and their families. The legislation will not go forward until the issues are fixed. |
19d435def4df4a8e91b14463e9644529 | The deputy first minister is due to make a statement on the Scottish government's Named Person scheme later.
John Swinney will address MSPs over a legal challenge to information sharing proposals within the Act.
The system would appoint a named person - usually a teacher or health visitor - to ensure the wellbeing of every child.
But judges at the UK's highest court ruled against the scheme in July 2016, citing concerns over information sharing.
The Supreme Court judges said some proposals breached rights to privacy and a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights.
However, the court said the aim of the Act, which is intended to promote and safeguard the rights and wellbeing of children and young people, was legitimate.
Speaking ahead of his statement to the Scottish Parliament, Mr Swinney said the Scottish government remained "absolutely committed" to the Named Person service as a way to support children and their families.
"Last year the Supreme Court ruled definitively that the intention of providing a Named Person for every child to promote and safeguard their wellbeing was 'unquestionably legitimate and benign'," he said.
"Their judgement did, however, require us to change the provisions relating to information sharing.
"Since the judgement, we have undertaken an intensive period of engagement with children, young people, parents, carers, practitioners and professionals.
"I will now update parliament on the next steps in this vital means of supporting, safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of our children and young people."
The judges said in July that specific proposals about information-sharing were "not within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament".
And they said the legislation made it "perfectly possible" that confidential information about a young person could be disclosed to a "wide range of public authorities without either the child or young person or her parents being aware".
The appeal was brought by the No to Named Persons (NO2NP) coalition, which includes the Christian Institute, Care (Christian Action Research and Education), Tyme Trust and the Family Education Trust.
The Scottish government has said previously it would not commence the legislation until the problems were fixed. | In Scotland, controversy continues around the Named Persons act. The supporters claim the act will ensure the health and wellbeing of every child, while opponents claim the bill is intrusive and could lead to significant private information being shared. |
d79e6b14714a41c6abb7abce8ff816fd | Prosecutor Nafir Afzal said hundreds of British teenagers see ISIS as 'pop idols' like One Direction and Justin Bieber.
Hundreds of British teenagers see ISIS as 'pop idols' like One Direction and Justin Bieber, putting children in danger of being radicalised, the country's most senior Muslim prosecutor has said.
Nafir Afzal said teenagers are at risk of 'jihadimania' and warned that 'another 7/7' could happen unless Britain makes sweeping changes to the way it tackles terrorism.
Mr Afzal, former head of the Crown Prosecution Service in the north-west, said children are 'manipulated' by Islamists and that Britain needs a new approach in the way it deals with radicalisation.
He told the Guardian's Nigel Bunyan: 'The boys want to be like them and the girls want to be with them. That's what they used to say about the Beatles and more recently One Direction and Justin Bieber. The propaganda the terrorists put out is akin to marketing, and too many of our teenagers are falling for the image.
'They see their own lives as poor by comparison, and don't realise they are being used. The extremists treat them in a similar way to sexual groomers – they manipulate them, distance them from their friends and families, and then take them.'
Mr Afzal added that a community-led approach to dealing with teenagers who have been corrupted by terrorists would be more successful than the 'stale' strategy used by the police and security services.
The prosecutor warned that unless the next government recruited young Muslim role models to help mentor those who are being radicalised, the country could face 'another 7/7' terror attack.
He believes that young people are far more likely to listen to people who have gone through their experiences than authority figures.
'At the moment, even the language is wrong. People talk about Isis as if they have some kind of religious basis or political dimension – a kind of glossy, glorious campaign,' he said.
Mr Afzal said teenagers are 'manipulated' by ISIS (file picture) and that Britain needs a new approach in the way it deals with radicalisation.
The prosecutor said some Muslim teenagers see Islamists as 'pop idols' like Justin Bieber (left) and One Direction (Harry Styles, right)
'The reality is that they're no more than narcissistic, murderous cowboys. We need to stand up and say that very, very clearly, rather than allow kids to be drawn to them like the equivalent of pop idols.'
Hundreds of young Muslims are thought to have travelled to Syria to join ISIS, but Mr Afzal believes there are far more 'ticking time bombs' still in Britain.
His comments came as it emerged that the Labour councillor's son caught trying to cross from Turkey to Syria with his family may be part of an extremist group.
Waheed Ahmed, 21 – the son of councillor Shakil Ahmed – is said to be a member of the extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, which advocates a global Muslim caliphate, similar to the one established by ISIS.
Ahmed, a politics student at Manchester University, was arrested by Turkish police at the border town of Reyhanli last week. He was one of a group of nine detained, all from Rochdale, including four children aged from one to 11.
They could be flown back to the UK today.
Nafir Afzal last month quit the CPS despite being cleared of allegations suggesting he texted a defendant in a case.
In the four-line email, Mr Afzal said there was 'no secret reason' why he was leaving after 25 years with the CPS.
Mr Afzal proved himself to be an outspoken advocate of bringing to justice those accused of the most heinous and sometimes sensitive offences.
This included a move to overturn an earlier decision on an Asian Rochdale sex grooming ring that led to a series of convictions.
He said that an over-sensitivity to political correctness and 'fear of appearing racist' by 'white professionals' may have stalled justice.
More recently he was responsible for the successful conviction of disgraced former BBC presenter Stuart Hall.
He also led the prosecutions of Coronation Street actors Bill Roache, who was cleared of rape, and Michael Le Vell, who was also acquitted of child sex abuse.
The prosecutor last year claimed that there would be a fresh wave of Operation Yewtree arrests concerning the abuse of children by celebrities.
He said: 'This is a growing industry. There are more arrests scheduled over the next few weeks. Some are very high-profile figures.'
Mr Afzal began his CPS career in central London and went on to be awarded an OBE in the Queen's New Years Honours List in 2005 for his public service and involvement with the local community.
Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article. | Mr. Nafir Afzal is a prosecutor involved in preventing child abuse. He warns that terrorists often market themselves to teenagers online as being celebrities, similar to pop stars. The terrorists groom their teen victims and coerce then to move from Britain to Islamic countries where they will be under the control of the organization. |
d79e6b14714a41c6abb7abce8ff816fd | Prosecutor Nafir Afzal said hundreds of British teenagers see ISIS as 'pop idols' like One Direction and Justin Bieber.
Hundreds of British teenagers see ISIS as 'pop idols' like One Direction and Justin Bieber, putting children in danger of being radicalised, the country's most senior Muslim prosecutor has said.
Nafir Afzal said teenagers are at risk of 'jihadimania' and warned that 'another 7/7' could happen unless Britain makes sweeping changes to the way it tackles terrorism.
Mr Afzal, former head of the Crown Prosecution Service in the north-west, said children are 'manipulated' by Islamists and that Britain needs a new approach in the way it deals with radicalisation.
He told the Guardian's Nigel Bunyan: 'The boys want to be like them and the girls want to be with them. That's what they used to say about the Beatles and more recently One Direction and Justin Bieber. The propaganda the terrorists put out is akin to marketing, and too many of our teenagers are falling for the image.
'They see their own lives as poor by comparison, and don't realise they are being used. The extremists treat them in a similar way to sexual groomers – they manipulate them, distance them from their friends and families, and then take them.'
Mr Afzal added that a community-led approach to dealing with teenagers who have been corrupted by terrorists would be more successful than the 'stale' strategy used by the police and security services.
The prosecutor warned that unless the next government recruited young Muslim role models to help mentor those who are being radicalised, the country could face 'another 7/7' terror attack.
He believes that young people are far more likely to listen to people who have gone through their experiences than authority figures.
'At the moment, even the language is wrong. People talk about Isis as if they have some kind of religious basis or political dimension – a kind of glossy, glorious campaign,' he said.
Mr Afzal said teenagers are 'manipulated' by ISIS (file picture) and that Britain needs a new approach in the way it deals with radicalisation.
The prosecutor said some Muslim teenagers see Islamists as 'pop idols' like Justin Bieber (left) and One Direction (Harry Styles, right)
'The reality is that they're no more than narcissistic, murderous cowboys. We need to stand up and say that very, very clearly, rather than allow kids to be drawn to them like the equivalent of pop idols.'
Hundreds of young Muslims are thought to have travelled to Syria to join ISIS, but Mr Afzal believes there are far more 'ticking time bombs' still in Britain.
His comments came as it emerged that the Labour councillor's son caught trying to cross from Turkey to Syria with his family may be part of an extremist group.
Waheed Ahmed, 21 – the son of councillor Shakil Ahmed – is said to be a member of the extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, which advocates a global Muslim caliphate, similar to the one established by ISIS.
Ahmed, a politics student at Manchester University, was arrested by Turkish police at the border town of Reyhanli last week. He was one of a group of nine detained, all from Rochdale, including four children aged from one to 11.
They could be flown back to the UK today.
Nafir Afzal last month quit the CPS despite being cleared of allegations suggesting he texted a defendant in a case.
In the four-line email, Mr Afzal said there was 'no secret reason' why he was leaving after 25 years with the CPS.
Mr Afzal proved himself to be an outspoken advocate of bringing to justice those accused of the most heinous and sometimes sensitive offences.
This included a move to overturn an earlier decision on an Asian Rochdale sex grooming ring that led to a series of convictions.
He said that an over-sensitivity to political correctness and 'fear of appearing racist' by 'white professionals' may have stalled justice.
More recently he was responsible for the successful conviction of disgraced former BBC presenter Stuart Hall.
He also led the prosecutions of Coronation Street actors Bill Roache, who was cleared of rape, and Michael Le Vell, who was also acquitted of child sex abuse.
The prosecutor last year claimed that there would be a fresh wave of Operation Yewtree arrests concerning the abuse of children by celebrities.
He said: 'This is a growing industry. There are more arrests scheduled over the next few weeks. Some are very high-profile figures.'
Mr Afzal began his CPS career in central London and went on to be awarded an OBE in the Queen's New Years Honours List in 2005 for his public service and involvement with the local community.
Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article. | Prosecutor Nafir Afzal says British teens see ISIS as 'pop idols' similar to Justin Bieber. Afzal warns that a new community approach is needed to deradicalize youth to prevent another 7/7 terrorist attack. White people being called racist is an impediment to justice according to Afzal. |
d79e6b14714a41c6abb7abce8ff816fd | Prosecutor Nafir Afzal said hundreds of British teenagers see ISIS as 'pop idols' like One Direction and Justin Bieber.
Hundreds of British teenagers see ISIS as 'pop idols' like One Direction and Justin Bieber, putting children in danger of being radicalised, the country's most senior Muslim prosecutor has said.
Nafir Afzal said teenagers are at risk of 'jihadimania' and warned that 'another 7/7' could happen unless Britain makes sweeping changes to the way it tackles terrorism.
Mr Afzal, former head of the Crown Prosecution Service in the north-west, said children are 'manipulated' by Islamists and that Britain needs a new approach in the way it deals with radicalisation.
He told the Guardian's Nigel Bunyan: 'The boys want to be like them and the girls want to be with them. That's what they used to say about the Beatles and more recently One Direction and Justin Bieber. The propaganda the terrorists put out is akin to marketing, and too many of our teenagers are falling for the image.
'They see their own lives as poor by comparison, and don't realise they are being used. The extremists treat them in a similar way to sexual groomers – they manipulate them, distance them from their friends and families, and then take them.'
Mr Afzal added that a community-led approach to dealing with teenagers who have been corrupted by terrorists would be more successful than the 'stale' strategy used by the police and security services.
The prosecutor warned that unless the next government recruited young Muslim role models to help mentor those who are being radicalised, the country could face 'another 7/7' terror attack.
He believes that young people are far more likely to listen to people who have gone through their experiences than authority figures.
'At the moment, even the language is wrong. People talk about Isis as if they have some kind of religious basis or political dimension – a kind of glossy, glorious campaign,' he said.
Mr Afzal said teenagers are 'manipulated' by ISIS (file picture) and that Britain needs a new approach in the way it deals with radicalisation.
The prosecutor said some Muslim teenagers see Islamists as 'pop idols' like Justin Bieber (left) and One Direction (Harry Styles, right)
'The reality is that they're no more than narcissistic, murderous cowboys. We need to stand up and say that very, very clearly, rather than allow kids to be drawn to them like the equivalent of pop idols.'
Hundreds of young Muslims are thought to have travelled to Syria to join ISIS, but Mr Afzal believes there are far more 'ticking time bombs' still in Britain.
His comments came as it emerged that the Labour councillor's son caught trying to cross from Turkey to Syria with his family may be part of an extremist group.
Waheed Ahmed, 21 – the son of councillor Shakil Ahmed – is said to be a member of the extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, which advocates a global Muslim caliphate, similar to the one established by ISIS.
Ahmed, a politics student at Manchester University, was arrested by Turkish police at the border town of Reyhanli last week. He was one of a group of nine detained, all from Rochdale, including four children aged from one to 11.
They could be flown back to the UK today.
Nafir Afzal last month quit the CPS despite being cleared of allegations suggesting he texted a defendant in a case.
In the four-line email, Mr Afzal said there was 'no secret reason' why he was leaving after 25 years with the CPS.
Mr Afzal proved himself to be an outspoken advocate of bringing to justice those accused of the most heinous and sometimes sensitive offences.
This included a move to overturn an earlier decision on an Asian Rochdale sex grooming ring that led to a series of convictions.
He said that an over-sensitivity to political correctness and 'fear of appearing racist' by 'white professionals' may have stalled justice.
More recently he was responsible for the successful conviction of disgraced former BBC presenter Stuart Hall.
He also led the prosecutions of Coronation Street actors Bill Roache, who was cleared of rape, and Michael Le Vell, who was also acquitted of child sex abuse.
The prosecutor last year claimed that there would be a fresh wave of Operation Yewtree arrests concerning the abuse of children by celebrities.
He said: 'This is a growing industry. There are more arrests scheduled over the next few weeks. Some are very high-profile figures.'
Mr Afzal began his CPS career in central London and went on to be awarded an OBE in the Queen's New Years Honours List in 2005 for his public service and involvement with the local community.
Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article. | Instead of seeing ISIS as terrorists, British teenagers see them as celebrities due to manipulation and the way the country deals with radicalism. Former head of the Crown Prosecution Service, Nafir Afzal says that Britain needs to change the ways they tackle terrorism if they want to prevent another 7/7 from happening. |
0100558a5f714c8fbcf7f7dfe5b1b15b | Convention never stood much chance of standing between Neil Lennon and Hibernian.
His previous jobs were at Celtic and Bolton, but moving to the second tier of Scottish football was no hindrance to him returning to work at Easter Road.
Lennon saw the vacancy as an opportunity, and that was enough to encourage Hibs that a figure of his profile and experience would accept a role in the Championship.
Even though his last job in Scotland involved leading a team on Champions League duty, Lennon's mind has not been swayed by haughtiness.
The appointment of the former Celtic manager as successor to Alan Stubbs suits both parties, because it is mutually beneficial.
Success is alluring, and Hibs offer Lennon the chance to accumulate more achievements. He was immediately engaged in crisis management at his previous club Bolton, but will find stability, potential and accomplishment at Easter Road.
The demand will be to deliver promotion, but that will not seem daunting when the majority of the squad that pushed Rangers for a while last season then won the Scottish Cup is still in place. Lennon's task is to refine and bolster the team, when new managers are often faced with a period of overhaul.
Stubbs left the club on an emotional high after delivering their first Scottish Cup in 114 years, but before the final against Rangers there was a tangible sense of exasperation that promotion had been missed.
Hibs were entitled to feel that it was an unnecessary failure given their circumstances.
The club is about to embark on a third season in the Championship, but by most other measures they can be considered a top-flight outfit.
The budget will be significantly more than the rest of the teams in the division, the training ground at East Mains and facilities are first-class, the football side of the business is stable and well-run by George Craig, the club's head of football operations, the squad is full of talent.
Lennon can rely on consistently assured performances from the likes of David Gray, Darren McGregor, Paul Hanlon, Lewis Stevenson, John McGinn, Fraser Fyvie, Dylan McGeouch, James Keatings and Jason Cummings.
Some minor issues remain, such as who will fill the goal next season, but the challenge is more on adding depth and strength of will to the squad and man-management.
McGinn, one of the most reliably effective players in the Championship last season, has already insisted that he remains committed to Hibs despite the failure to achieve promotion. The 21-year-old midfielder provides the kind of industry and spirit that a team can be built around.
There may be critical decisions to make, though, since Cummings is entering the final year of his contract and so represents a sellable asset. He is a regular goalscorer, though, and Stubbs had to sign Anthony Stokes on loan last January to provide some support up front.
These are tweaks compared to the amount of work Stubbs had to carry out when he was appointed two years ago.
Hibs are ready to be guided forward, not waiting to be rescued.
When Lennon left Celtic two years ago, it was to pursue a career in England. The sense was that the manager and the club were ready for a change in direction, but his next choice was misjudged.
Bolton were heavily in debt when he joined the club in October 2014 and although relegation was avoided in his first season, the following campaign was more fraught. Once Bolton entered administration, Lennon was engaged in fire-fighting.
The upheaval at the club would have contributed to the team's failures, but Lennon will feel that he needs to re-establish his standing. Managers can be quickly marginalised when they are out of work, which would have figured in Lennon's thinking.
Most prominently, though, he would have assessed the chance to build on the sense of progress and optimism at Easter Road and pursue success in the leagues and the cups as the ideal tonic for his career.
For Hibs, Lennon represents substance and profile. He is a proven manager, at least in terms of building a first-team and motivating them to success.
Hibs are a contemporary club in their approach to recruitment, sports science and analysis, which might have suited other candidates better, but Lennon knows what it is to thrive and deliver under pressure.
Supporters will respond to his presence, which is significant when the level of season ticket sales will determine the level of budget that is available. The club had planned for two years in the Championship, so a third campaign requires resourcefulness.
Lennon is a captivating figure. Fans will welcome his wholeheartedness, while his standing in the media will keep attention focused on events at Easter Road. Players have a tendency to perform under his guidance, and it would not be surprising if one or two figures considered marginal by new Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers find a welcome home in Leith.
Hibs have made a bold appointment, with a focus on achieving their short-term aim of return to the top-flight. Lennon is likely to fulfil their ambitions, and at the same time rejuvenate his own. | Neil Lennon will be the new skipper for the Scottish club Hibernian. After a fraught tenure at the English club Bolton, Lennon is looking to move Hibernian into the top tier of Scottish football. The pieces are in place, Lennon just has to get them working. |
0100558a5f714c8fbcf7f7dfe5b1b15b | Convention never stood much chance of standing between Neil Lennon and Hibernian.
His previous jobs were at Celtic and Bolton, but moving to the second tier of Scottish football was no hindrance to him returning to work at Easter Road.
Lennon saw the vacancy as an opportunity, and that was enough to encourage Hibs that a figure of his profile and experience would accept a role in the Championship.
Even though his last job in Scotland involved leading a team on Champions League duty, Lennon's mind has not been swayed by haughtiness.
The appointment of the former Celtic manager as successor to Alan Stubbs suits both parties, because it is mutually beneficial.
Success is alluring, and Hibs offer Lennon the chance to accumulate more achievements. He was immediately engaged in crisis management at his previous club Bolton, but will find stability, potential and accomplishment at Easter Road.
The demand will be to deliver promotion, but that will not seem daunting when the majority of the squad that pushed Rangers for a while last season then won the Scottish Cup is still in place. Lennon's task is to refine and bolster the team, when new managers are often faced with a period of overhaul.
Stubbs left the club on an emotional high after delivering their first Scottish Cup in 114 years, but before the final against Rangers there was a tangible sense of exasperation that promotion had been missed.
Hibs were entitled to feel that it was an unnecessary failure given their circumstances.
The club is about to embark on a third season in the Championship, but by most other measures they can be considered a top-flight outfit.
The budget will be significantly more than the rest of the teams in the division, the training ground at East Mains and facilities are first-class, the football side of the business is stable and well-run by George Craig, the club's head of football operations, the squad is full of talent.
Lennon can rely on consistently assured performances from the likes of David Gray, Darren McGregor, Paul Hanlon, Lewis Stevenson, John McGinn, Fraser Fyvie, Dylan McGeouch, James Keatings and Jason Cummings.
Some minor issues remain, such as who will fill the goal next season, but the challenge is more on adding depth and strength of will to the squad and man-management.
McGinn, one of the most reliably effective players in the Championship last season, has already insisted that he remains committed to Hibs despite the failure to achieve promotion. The 21-year-old midfielder provides the kind of industry and spirit that a team can be built around.
There may be critical decisions to make, though, since Cummings is entering the final year of his contract and so represents a sellable asset. He is a regular goalscorer, though, and Stubbs had to sign Anthony Stokes on loan last January to provide some support up front.
These are tweaks compared to the amount of work Stubbs had to carry out when he was appointed two years ago.
Hibs are ready to be guided forward, not waiting to be rescued.
When Lennon left Celtic two years ago, it was to pursue a career in England. The sense was that the manager and the club were ready for a change in direction, but his next choice was misjudged.
Bolton were heavily in debt when he joined the club in October 2014 and although relegation was avoided in his first season, the following campaign was more fraught. Once Bolton entered administration, Lennon was engaged in fire-fighting.
The upheaval at the club would have contributed to the team's failures, but Lennon will feel that he needs to re-establish his standing. Managers can be quickly marginalised when they are out of work, which would have figured in Lennon's thinking.
Most prominently, though, he would have assessed the chance to build on the sense of progress and optimism at Easter Road and pursue success in the leagues and the cups as the ideal tonic for his career.
For Hibs, Lennon represents substance and profile. He is a proven manager, at least in terms of building a first-team and motivating them to success.
Hibs are a contemporary club in their approach to recruitment, sports science and analysis, which might have suited other candidates better, but Lennon knows what it is to thrive and deliver under pressure.
Supporters will respond to his presence, which is significant when the level of season ticket sales will determine the level of budget that is available. The club had planned for two years in the Championship, so a third campaign requires resourcefulness.
Lennon is a captivating figure. Fans will welcome his wholeheartedness, while his standing in the media will keep attention focused on events at Easter Road. Players have a tendency to perform under his guidance, and it would not be surprising if one or two figures considered marginal by new Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers find a welcome home in Leith.
Hibs have made a bold appointment, with a focus on achieving their short-term aim of return to the top-flight. Lennon is likely to fulfil their ambitions, and at the same time rejuvenate his own. | Neil Lennon is succeeding Alan Stubbs at Hibernian. The former Celtic manager is looking to add to his list of achievements, as well as find stability amidst an ever-changing game. The move was said to be mutually beneficial, as players have a tendency to perform well under his guidance. |
0100558a5f714c8fbcf7f7dfe5b1b15b | Convention never stood much chance of standing between Neil Lennon and Hibernian.
His previous jobs were at Celtic and Bolton, but moving to the second tier of Scottish football was no hindrance to him returning to work at Easter Road.
Lennon saw the vacancy as an opportunity, and that was enough to encourage Hibs that a figure of his profile and experience would accept a role in the Championship.
Even though his last job in Scotland involved leading a team on Champions League duty, Lennon's mind has not been swayed by haughtiness.
The appointment of the former Celtic manager as successor to Alan Stubbs suits both parties, because it is mutually beneficial.
Success is alluring, and Hibs offer Lennon the chance to accumulate more achievements. He was immediately engaged in crisis management at his previous club Bolton, but will find stability, potential and accomplishment at Easter Road.
The demand will be to deliver promotion, but that will not seem daunting when the majority of the squad that pushed Rangers for a while last season then won the Scottish Cup is still in place. Lennon's task is to refine and bolster the team, when new managers are often faced with a period of overhaul.
Stubbs left the club on an emotional high after delivering their first Scottish Cup in 114 years, but before the final against Rangers there was a tangible sense of exasperation that promotion had been missed.
Hibs were entitled to feel that it was an unnecessary failure given their circumstances.
The club is about to embark on a third season in the Championship, but by most other measures they can be considered a top-flight outfit.
The budget will be significantly more than the rest of the teams in the division, the training ground at East Mains and facilities are first-class, the football side of the business is stable and well-run by George Craig, the club's head of football operations, the squad is full of talent.
Lennon can rely on consistently assured performances from the likes of David Gray, Darren McGregor, Paul Hanlon, Lewis Stevenson, John McGinn, Fraser Fyvie, Dylan McGeouch, James Keatings and Jason Cummings.
Some minor issues remain, such as who will fill the goal next season, but the challenge is more on adding depth and strength of will to the squad and man-management.
McGinn, one of the most reliably effective players in the Championship last season, has already insisted that he remains committed to Hibs despite the failure to achieve promotion. The 21-year-old midfielder provides the kind of industry and spirit that a team can be built around.
There may be critical decisions to make, though, since Cummings is entering the final year of his contract and so represents a sellable asset. He is a regular goalscorer, though, and Stubbs had to sign Anthony Stokes on loan last January to provide some support up front.
These are tweaks compared to the amount of work Stubbs had to carry out when he was appointed two years ago.
Hibs are ready to be guided forward, not waiting to be rescued.
When Lennon left Celtic two years ago, it was to pursue a career in England. The sense was that the manager and the club were ready for a change in direction, but his next choice was misjudged.
Bolton were heavily in debt when he joined the club in October 2014 and although relegation was avoided in his first season, the following campaign was more fraught. Once Bolton entered administration, Lennon was engaged in fire-fighting.
The upheaval at the club would have contributed to the team's failures, but Lennon will feel that he needs to re-establish his standing. Managers can be quickly marginalised when they are out of work, which would have figured in Lennon's thinking.
Most prominently, though, he would have assessed the chance to build on the sense of progress and optimism at Easter Road and pursue success in the leagues and the cups as the ideal tonic for his career.
For Hibs, Lennon represents substance and profile. He is a proven manager, at least in terms of building a first-team and motivating them to success.
Hibs are a contemporary club in their approach to recruitment, sports science and analysis, which might have suited other candidates better, but Lennon knows what it is to thrive and deliver under pressure.
Supporters will respond to his presence, which is significant when the level of season ticket sales will determine the level of budget that is available. The club had planned for two years in the Championship, so a third campaign requires resourcefulness.
Lennon is a captivating figure. Fans will welcome his wholeheartedness, while his standing in the media will keep attention focused on events at Easter Road. Players have a tendency to perform under his guidance, and it would not be surprising if one or two figures considered marginal by new Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers find a welcome home in Leith.
Hibs have made a bold appointment, with a focus on achieving their short-term aim of return to the top-flight. Lennon is likely to fulfil their ambitions, and at the same time rejuvenate his own. | Neil Lennon moved to the second tier of Scottish football "Hibs" at Easter Road when there was a vacancy. Lennon's previous jobs were at Celtic and Bolton. Hibs made a bold appointment when they hired him because they believed he could build the team and motivate them to succeed.
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0100558a5f714c8fbcf7f7dfe5b1b15b | Convention never stood much chance of standing between Neil Lennon and Hibernian.
His previous jobs were at Celtic and Bolton, but moving to the second tier of Scottish football was no hindrance to him returning to work at Easter Road.
Lennon saw the vacancy as an opportunity, and that was enough to encourage Hibs that a figure of his profile and experience would accept a role in the Championship.
Even though his last job in Scotland involved leading a team on Champions League duty, Lennon's mind has not been swayed by haughtiness.
The appointment of the former Celtic manager as successor to Alan Stubbs suits both parties, because it is mutually beneficial.
Success is alluring, and Hibs offer Lennon the chance to accumulate more achievements. He was immediately engaged in crisis management at his previous club Bolton, but will find stability, potential and accomplishment at Easter Road.
The demand will be to deliver promotion, but that will not seem daunting when the majority of the squad that pushed Rangers for a while last season then won the Scottish Cup is still in place. Lennon's task is to refine and bolster the team, when new managers are often faced with a period of overhaul.
Stubbs left the club on an emotional high after delivering their first Scottish Cup in 114 years, but before the final against Rangers there was a tangible sense of exasperation that promotion had been missed.
Hibs were entitled to feel that it was an unnecessary failure given their circumstances.
The club is about to embark on a third season in the Championship, but by most other measures they can be considered a top-flight outfit.
The budget will be significantly more than the rest of the teams in the division, the training ground at East Mains and facilities are first-class, the football side of the business is stable and well-run by George Craig, the club's head of football operations, the squad is full of talent.
Lennon can rely on consistently assured performances from the likes of David Gray, Darren McGregor, Paul Hanlon, Lewis Stevenson, John McGinn, Fraser Fyvie, Dylan McGeouch, James Keatings and Jason Cummings.
Some minor issues remain, such as who will fill the goal next season, but the challenge is more on adding depth and strength of will to the squad and man-management.
McGinn, one of the most reliably effective players in the Championship last season, has already insisted that he remains committed to Hibs despite the failure to achieve promotion. The 21-year-old midfielder provides the kind of industry and spirit that a team can be built around.
There may be critical decisions to make, though, since Cummings is entering the final year of his contract and so represents a sellable asset. He is a regular goalscorer, though, and Stubbs had to sign Anthony Stokes on loan last January to provide some support up front.
These are tweaks compared to the amount of work Stubbs had to carry out when he was appointed two years ago.
Hibs are ready to be guided forward, not waiting to be rescued.
When Lennon left Celtic two years ago, it was to pursue a career in England. The sense was that the manager and the club were ready for a change in direction, but his next choice was misjudged.
Bolton were heavily in debt when he joined the club in October 2014 and although relegation was avoided in his first season, the following campaign was more fraught. Once Bolton entered administration, Lennon was engaged in fire-fighting.
The upheaval at the club would have contributed to the team's failures, but Lennon will feel that he needs to re-establish his standing. Managers can be quickly marginalised when they are out of work, which would have figured in Lennon's thinking.
Most prominently, though, he would have assessed the chance to build on the sense of progress and optimism at Easter Road and pursue success in the leagues and the cups as the ideal tonic for his career.
For Hibs, Lennon represents substance and profile. He is a proven manager, at least in terms of building a first-team and motivating them to success.
Hibs are a contemporary club in their approach to recruitment, sports science and analysis, which might have suited other candidates better, but Lennon knows what it is to thrive and deliver under pressure.
Supporters will respond to his presence, which is significant when the level of season ticket sales will determine the level of budget that is available. The club had planned for two years in the Championship, so a third campaign requires resourcefulness.
Lennon is a captivating figure. Fans will welcome his wholeheartedness, while his standing in the media will keep attention focused on events at Easter Road. Players have a tendency to perform under his guidance, and it would not be surprising if one or two figures considered marginal by new Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers find a welcome home in Leith.
Hibs have made a bold appointment, with a focus on achieving their short-term aim of return to the top-flight. Lennon is likely to fulfil their ambitions, and at the same time rejuvenate his own. | Neil Lennon has been hired as the new manager for Hibernian. He has a strong background, and the team is considered to be in a strong position after two Championships. He is expected to have an easier transition than the previous manager, and step into the role of leader without complications. |
14f71296e6404651bfdcfd300ddebcf8 | UK manufacturing activity contracted in April for the first time in three years, a survey has indicated, adding to fears over the economy's strength.
The Markit/CIPS manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index fell to 49.2 from 50.7 in March. A reading below 50 indicates falling output.
It is the first time that activity in the sector has fallen since March 2013.
Firms blamed soft domestic demand, a fall in new business from overseas and uncertainty ahead of the EU referendum.
A slowdown in the oil and gas industry, a major customer for UK companies, is also hitting production.
The index for new orders fell to 50.4 in April, from 51.9 the month before, matching February's three-year low.
Rob Dobson, senior economist at Markit, said: "On this evidence manufacturing production is now falling at a quarterly pace of around 1%, and will likely act as a drag on the economy again during the second quarter and putting greater pressure on the service sector to sustain GDP growth.
"The manufacturing labour market is also being impacted, with the data signalling close to 20,000 job losses over the past three months."
Last week, official figures showed UK economic growth slowed to 0.4% in the first quarter of the year from 0.6% in late 2015, propped up by the services sector.
David Noble, group chief executive at the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS), said: "Recent fears over a stall in the UK's manufacturing sector have now become a reality.
"An atmosphere of deep unease is building throughout the manufacturing supply chain, eating away at new orders, reducing British exports and putting more jobs at risk.
"A sense of apprehension across the sector is being caused by enduring volatility in the oil and gas industry, falling retailer confidence and the uncertainty created by the EU referendum."
The Markit/CIPS survey found new export orders contracted for the fourth straight month in April as the global economy continued to slow. A measure of employment in the manufacturing sector was also below the 50 mark for its fourth straight month.
Lee Hopley, chief economist at the manufacturers' organisation, EEF, said: "The sharp drop to a three-year low and another month of reported job cuts could be the clearest sign yet that referendum uncertainty is starting to weigh on the real economy.
"However, this is just another straw on the back of a sector already grappling with the struggling oil and gas sector, softening domestic demand and weak order outlook from other parts of the world, all of which are failing to provide any counterbalance to the political uncertainty at home." | In April, the UK manufacturing activity was contracted for the first time in three years. This is the first time that activity in the sector has fallen since March 2013. Firms blamed soft domestic demand, uncertainty ahead of the EU referendum, and a fall in new business from overseas.
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14f71296e6404651bfdcfd300ddebcf8 | UK manufacturing activity contracted in April for the first time in three years, a survey has indicated, adding to fears over the economy's strength.
The Markit/CIPS manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index fell to 49.2 from 50.7 in March. A reading below 50 indicates falling output.
It is the first time that activity in the sector has fallen since March 2013.
Firms blamed soft domestic demand, a fall in new business from overseas and uncertainty ahead of the EU referendum.
A slowdown in the oil and gas industry, a major customer for UK companies, is also hitting production.
The index for new orders fell to 50.4 in April, from 51.9 the month before, matching February's three-year low.
Rob Dobson, senior economist at Markit, said: "On this evidence manufacturing production is now falling at a quarterly pace of around 1%, and will likely act as a drag on the economy again during the second quarter and putting greater pressure on the service sector to sustain GDP growth.
"The manufacturing labour market is also being impacted, with the data signalling close to 20,000 job losses over the past three months."
Last week, official figures showed UK economic growth slowed to 0.4% in the first quarter of the year from 0.6% in late 2015, propped up by the services sector.
David Noble, group chief executive at the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS), said: "Recent fears over a stall in the UK's manufacturing sector have now become a reality.
"An atmosphere of deep unease is building throughout the manufacturing supply chain, eating away at new orders, reducing British exports and putting more jobs at risk.
"A sense of apprehension across the sector is being caused by enduring volatility in the oil and gas industry, falling retailer confidence and the uncertainty created by the EU referendum."
The Markit/CIPS survey found new export orders contracted for the fourth straight month in April as the global economy continued to slow. A measure of employment in the manufacturing sector was also below the 50 mark for its fourth straight month.
Lee Hopley, chief economist at the manufacturers' organisation, EEF, said: "The sharp drop to a three-year low and another month of reported job cuts could be the clearest sign yet that referendum uncertainty is starting to weigh on the real economy.
"However, this is just another straw on the back of a sector already grappling with the struggling oil and gas sector, softening domestic demand and weak order outlook from other parts of the world, all of which are failing to provide any counterbalance to the political uncertainty at home." | The UK manufacturing sector is faced with declining economic activity, which is happening in line with an overall decline in the UK economic growth, and a slowing global economy. Experts believe this is due to several factors, but the leading problem is concern about the EU referendum. |
14f71296e6404651bfdcfd300ddebcf8 | UK manufacturing activity contracted in April for the first time in three years, a survey has indicated, adding to fears over the economy's strength.
The Markit/CIPS manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index fell to 49.2 from 50.7 in March. A reading below 50 indicates falling output.
It is the first time that activity in the sector has fallen since March 2013.
Firms blamed soft domestic demand, a fall in new business from overseas and uncertainty ahead of the EU referendum.
A slowdown in the oil and gas industry, a major customer for UK companies, is also hitting production.
The index for new orders fell to 50.4 in April, from 51.9 the month before, matching February's three-year low.
Rob Dobson, senior economist at Markit, said: "On this evidence manufacturing production is now falling at a quarterly pace of around 1%, and will likely act as a drag on the economy again during the second quarter and putting greater pressure on the service sector to sustain GDP growth.
"The manufacturing labour market is also being impacted, with the data signalling close to 20,000 job losses over the past three months."
Last week, official figures showed UK economic growth slowed to 0.4% in the first quarter of the year from 0.6% in late 2015, propped up by the services sector.
David Noble, group chief executive at the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS), said: "Recent fears over a stall in the UK's manufacturing sector have now become a reality.
"An atmosphere of deep unease is building throughout the manufacturing supply chain, eating away at new orders, reducing British exports and putting more jobs at risk.
"A sense of apprehension across the sector is being caused by enduring volatility in the oil and gas industry, falling retailer confidence and the uncertainty created by the EU referendum."
The Markit/CIPS survey found new export orders contracted for the fourth straight month in April as the global economy continued to slow. A measure of employment in the manufacturing sector was also below the 50 mark for its fourth straight month.
Lee Hopley, chief economist at the manufacturers' organisation, EEF, said: "The sharp drop to a three-year low and another month of reported job cuts could be the clearest sign yet that referendum uncertainty is starting to weigh on the real economy.
"However, this is just another straw on the back of a sector already grappling with the struggling oil and gas sector, softening domestic demand and weak order outlook from other parts of the world, all of which are failing to provide any counterbalance to the political uncertainty at home." | UK manufacturing has contracted for the first time in three years. Soft domestic demand, a slowing domestic energy market, and political uncertainty have all been cited as potential causes. The manufacturing sector has shed 20,000 jobs and is falling at a rate of 1% per quarter. |
14f71296e6404651bfdcfd300ddebcf8 | UK manufacturing activity contracted in April for the first time in three years, a survey has indicated, adding to fears over the economy's strength.
The Markit/CIPS manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index fell to 49.2 from 50.7 in March. A reading below 50 indicates falling output.
It is the first time that activity in the sector has fallen since March 2013.
Firms blamed soft domestic demand, a fall in new business from overseas and uncertainty ahead of the EU referendum.
A slowdown in the oil and gas industry, a major customer for UK companies, is also hitting production.
The index for new orders fell to 50.4 in April, from 51.9 the month before, matching February's three-year low.
Rob Dobson, senior economist at Markit, said: "On this evidence manufacturing production is now falling at a quarterly pace of around 1%, and will likely act as a drag on the economy again during the second quarter and putting greater pressure on the service sector to sustain GDP growth.
"The manufacturing labour market is also being impacted, with the data signalling close to 20,000 job losses over the past three months."
Last week, official figures showed UK economic growth slowed to 0.4% in the first quarter of the year from 0.6% in late 2015, propped up by the services sector.
David Noble, group chief executive at the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS), said: "Recent fears over a stall in the UK's manufacturing sector have now become a reality.
"An atmosphere of deep unease is building throughout the manufacturing supply chain, eating away at new orders, reducing British exports and putting more jobs at risk.
"A sense of apprehension across the sector is being caused by enduring volatility in the oil and gas industry, falling retailer confidence and the uncertainty created by the EU referendum."
The Markit/CIPS survey found new export orders contracted for the fourth straight month in April as the global economy continued to slow. A measure of employment in the manufacturing sector was also below the 50 mark for its fourth straight month.
Lee Hopley, chief economist at the manufacturers' organisation, EEF, said: "The sharp drop to a three-year low and another month of reported job cuts could be the clearest sign yet that referendum uncertainty is starting to weigh on the real economy.
"However, this is just another straw on the back of a sector already grappling with the struggling oil and gas sector, softening domestic demand and weak order outlook from other parts of the world, all of which are failing to provide any counterbalance to the political uncertainty at home." | Concerns over UK manufacturing activity have become more tangible, with activity falling in April for the first time since March of 2013. The culprits of this economic woe are noted to be soft domestic demand, a fall in new international business, and also uncertainty ahead of the EU referendum. |
12e2247575bb460284ecaa276965b73f | English cricket’s new bosses flexed their muscles when Paul Downton paid the price for a humiliating World Cup by being sacked as managing director.
Downton was fired by new ECB chief executive Tom Harrison, in conjunction with chairman-elect Colin Graves, after a ring-round to each of the 14 members of the governing body’s management board ahead of their spring meeting today.
The decision to sack a man who has endured a traumatic 14 months since succeeding Hugh Morris after England’s Ashes whitewash was unanimous, with one board member saying Downton was just ‘too accident prone’.
Paul Downton has left his role as managing director of England and Wales Cricket Board.
Downton leaves his role as ECB managing director following England's shameful performance at World Cup.
It was Downton who took the huge call to sack Kevin Pietersen and then re-appointed Peter Moores, calling him ‘the outstanding coach of his generation’. He also oversaw the sacking of Alastair Cook as one-day captain.
Former England captain Michael Vaughan immediately said he would like to speak to the ECB about the newly created job of director of England cricket and Andrew Strauss is another possible candidate.
Ultimately it was England’s failure to negotiate the first round of the World Cup after an embarrassing defeat by Bangladesh and crushing reverses against Australia and New Zealand, coupled with disenchantment at their management style from many supporters, that did for former England and Middlesex wicketkeeper-batsman Downton.
‘The England Cricket Department needs to deliver performance at the highest level and our structure needs to be accountable for reaching the standards we aspire to,’ said Harrison in an ECB statement. ‘The new role we are putting in place will deliver an environment where world-class performance is at the heart of everything we do.’
Michael Vaughan (left) immediately threw his hat in the ring to replace the departed Downton.
Vaughan's successor as England captain, Andrew Strauss (centre), is also thought to be a contender.
That new role will be director of England cricket, a subtle but crucial change of title which will take the business aspect of the role away from the new man and effectively make him a supremo and, possibly, head selector.
That makes James Whitaker, now the national selector, extremely vulnerable even though England won the last three Tests they played last summer and he could leave as soon as today’s board meeting at Lord’s.
Yet Harrison played down any suggestion that this makes Moores, still with much to prove in his second coming as England coach, more vulnerable and that the door could now be nudged further ajar for the return of Pietersen, who has rejoined Surrey after being apparently encouraged by Graves.
‘This doesn’t impact on Peter Moores’ position at all,’ Harrison said later on Sky. ‘This is with respect to delivering an environment for the future.’
Downton's job description has been abolished as a result following England's dismal World Cup showing.
England selector James Whitaker (left) and former managing director Downton during a nets session.
Moores (from left to right), Downton and England captain Alastair Cook during the press conference.
OCTOBER 2013.
Downton, a former England wicketkeeper, is appointed managing sirector of England and Wales Cricket Board, with his position taking effect from February 1, 2014.
FEBRUARY 2014.
After the Ashes whitewash, Kevin Pietersen and head coach Andy Flower are sacked. After days of silence, the official line on Pietersen’s dismissal is that the ECB wanted to ‘create a culture’ in which captain Alastair Cook had ‘the full support of all players’.
MARCH 2014.
England suffer a humiliating 45-run defeat to Holland in the World T20. Ravi Bopara top-scored for England with just 18.
APRIL 2014.
Downton appoints Peter Moores, who had spent the previous four seasons as head coach at Lancashire, for a second spell as England head coach.
MAY 2014.
Downton and the ECB issue an apology to Pietersen for claiming he appeared ‘disinterested’ and ‘distracted’ during the fifth Ashes Test in Sydney.
JUNE 2014.
England lose a Test series at home to Sri Lanka. The south Asian side had previously won on English soil in 1998 — in a one-off Test match.
JULY-AUG 2014.
England lose the second Test against India, but come back to win the home series 3-1. In the fifth Test, England inflict upon India their third heaviest defeat in history.
DECEMBER 2014.
Cook is sacked as one-day captain and replaced by Eoin Morgan, marking the end of a sorry year for England in which they won just 18 of their 48 matches across all formats.
FEBRUARY-MARCH 2015.
England endure a dreadful World Cup campaign, failing to advance from the group stage and finishing behind Bangladesh, who sealed their exit with a 15-run victory.
APRIL 2015.
Downton departs as ECB managing director. The ECB are to create a new role of ‘director of England Cricket’ ahead of the Ashes series. | After less than 2 years as Managing Director of England and Wales Cricket Board, Paul Downton has been fired, and his position was abolished. A new position will be created without the business responsibilities. This decision follows a series of losses and embarrassing World Cup display. |
12e2247575bb460284ecaa276965b73f | English cricket’s new bosses flexed their muscles when Paul Downton paid the price for a humiliating World Cup by being sacked as managing director.
Downton was fired by new ECB chief executive Tom Harrison, in conjunction with chairman-elect Colin Graves, after a ring-round to each of the 14 members of the governing body’s management board ahead of their spring meeting today.
The decision to sack a man who has endured a traumatic 14 months since succeeding Hugh Morris after England’s Ashes whitewash was unanimous, with one board member saying Downton was just ‘too accident prone’.
Paul Downton has left his role as managing director of England and Wales Cricket Board.
Downton leaves his role as ECB managing director following England's shameful performance at World Cup.
It was Downton who took the huge call to sack Kevin Pietersen and then re-appointed Peter Moores, calling him ‘the outstanding coach of his generation’. He also oversaw the sacking of Alastair Cook as one-day captain.
Former England captain Michael Vaughan immediately said he would like to speak to the ECB about the newly created job of director of England cricket and Andrew Strauss is another possible candidate.
Ultimately it was England’s failure to negotiate the first round of the World Cup after an embarrassing defeat by Bangladesh and crushing reverses against Australia and New Zealand, coupled with disenchantment at their management style from many supporters, that did for former England and Middlesex wicketkeeper-batsman Downton.
‘The England Cricket Department needs to deliver performance at the highest level and our structure needs to be accountable for reaching the standards we aspire to,’ said Harrison in an ECB statement. ‘The new role we are putting in place will deliver an environment where world-class performance is at the heart of everything we do.’
Michael Vaughan (left) immediately threw his hat in the ring to replace the departed Downton.
Vaughan's successor as England captain, Andrew Strauss (centre), is also thought to be a contender.
That new role will be director of England cricket, a subtle but crucial change of title which will take the business aspect of the role away from the new man and effectively make him a supremo and, possibly, head selector.
That makes James Whitaker, now the national selector, extremely vulnerable even though England won the last three Tests they played last summer and he could leave as soon as today’s board meeting at Lord’s.
Yet Harrison played down any suggestion that this makes Moores, still with much to prove in his second coming as England coach, more vulnerable and that the door could now be nudged further ajar for the return of Pietersen, who has rejoined Surrey after being apparently encouraged by Graves.
‘This doesn’t impact on Peter Moores’ position at all,’ Harrison said later on Sky. ‘This is with respect to delivering an environment for the future.’
Downton's job description has been abolished as a result following England's dismal World Cup showing.
England selector James Whitaker (left) and former managing director Downton during a nets session.
Moores (from left to right), Downton and England captain Alastair Cook during the press conference.
OCTOBER 2013.
Downton, a former England wicketkeeper, is appointed managing sirector of England and Wales Cricket Board, with his position taking effect from February 1, 2014.
FEBRUARY 2014.
After the Ashes whitewash, Kevin Pietersen and head coach Andy Flower are sacked. After days of silence, the official line on Pietersen’s dismissal is that the ECB wanted to ‘create a culture’ in which captain Alastair Cook had ‘the full support of all players’.
MARCH 2014.
England suffer a humiliating 45-run defeat to Holland in the World T20. Ravi Bopara top-scored for England with just 18.
APRIL 2014.
Downton appoints Peter Moores, who had spent the previous four seasons as head coach at Lancashire, for a second spell as England head coach.
MAY 2014.
Downton and the ECB issue an apology to Pietersen for claiming he appeared ‘disinterested’ and ‘distracted’ during the fifth Ashes Test in Sydney.
JUNE 2014.
England lose a Test series at home to Sri Lanka. The south Asian side had previously won on English soil in 1998 — in a one-off Test match.
JULY-AUG 2014.
England lose the second Test against India, but come back to win the home series 3-1. In the fifth Test, England inflict upon India their third heaviest defeat in history.
DECEMBER 2014.
Cook is sacked as one-day captain and replaced by Eoin Morgan, marking the end of a sorry year for England in which they won just 18 of their 48 matches across all formats.
FEBRUARY-MARCH 2015.
England endure a dreadful World Cup campaign, failing to advance from the group stage and finishing behind Bangladesh, who sealed their exit with a 15-run victory.
APRIL 2015.
Downton departs as ECB managing director. The ECB are to create a new role of ‘director of England Cricket’ ahead of the Ashes series. | Paul Downton has officially left his role as the managing director of the England and Wales Cricket Board. Downtown was relieved of his duties after England's embarrassing performance at the World Cup, in which they were defeated by Bangladesh and suffered crushing reverses against Australia and New Zealand. |
302c800172da420f9e2e80474a9cf5ec | With the new Avengers: Age of Ultron movie released this week, James Haskell showed off his inner Iron Man in a serious-looking Instagram post.
The highly-anticipated movie premiered at Westfield London shopping centre on Tuesday evening with fans queuing up to see the A-list cast which includes Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth and Scarlett Johansson.
And the London Wasps captain joined in on the hype as he posted the photo dressed as Downey Jr.'s character Iron Man.
England flanker James Haskell dressed in Iron Man costume and posted it on his Instagram page.
The London Wasps captain (middle) returned to the club where he started his career for the 2012 season.
Haskell posted the image on Thursday along with the message: 'Avengers movie is out so thought i would release the inner Iron Man. @UnderArmourUK #TransformYourself #IWILL #AvengersAgeOfUltron.'
The flanker returned to Wasps for the 2012 season after spells with Stade Francais, Ricoh Black Rams and Highlanders in New Zealand.
Windsor-born Haskell first joined Wasps in 2002, playing eight seasons for the club and winning his first England cap five years later.
But in 2009, he moved to Stade Francais in France and spent two seasons in the French capital before he made the move to Tokyo with the Ricoh Black Rams following the unsuccessful 2011 World Cup.
Four months in Japan with the Rams and Haskell was on the move again when he switched to New Zealand to join the Highlanders. However, he made only 12 appearances and returned to England in 2012.
Since returning to Wasps, Haskell has surpassed the 100 appearances mark for the club and has become a big part of the England squad with 57 caps to-date.
Haskell has played his rugby in France, Japan and New Zealand after leaving the Wasps in 2009.
Since his return to England, Haskell has enjoyed his rugby and surpassed the 100 appearance mark for Wasps. | London Wasps Captain, James Haskell dressed up as Iron Man and posted it on his Instagram during the release of "Avengers: Age of Ultron" at Westfield Shopping Centre in London. Haskell started his career in England but left in 2009. Now he is back, he has surpassed over 100 appearances for the Wasps. |
302c800172da420f9e2e80474a9cf5ec | With the new Avengers: Age of Ultron movie released this week, James Haskell showed off his inner Iron Man in a serious-looking Instagram post.
The highly-anticipated movie premiered at Westfield London shopping centre on Tuesday evening with fans queuing up to see the A-list cast which includes Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth and Scarlett Johansson.
And the London Wasps captain joined in on the hype as he posted the photo dressed as Downey Jr.'s character Iron Man.
England flanker James Haskell dressed in Iron Man costume and posted it on his Instagram page.
The London Wasps captain (middle) returned to the club where he started his career for the 2012 season.
Haskell posted the image on Thursday along with the message: 'Avengers movie is out so thought i would release the inner Iron Man. @UnderArmourUK #TransformYourself #IWILL #AvengersAgeOfUltron.'
The flanker returned to Wasps for the 2012 season after spells with Stade Francais, Ricoh Black Rams and Highlanders in New Zealand.
Windsor-born Haskell first joined Wasps in 2002, playing eight seasons for the club and winning his first England cap five years later.
But in 2009, he moved to Stade Francais in France and spent two seasons in the French capital before he made the move to Tokyo with the Ricoh Black Rams following the unsuccessful 2011 World Cup.
Four months in Japan with the Rams and Haskell was on the move again when he switched to New Zealand to join the Highlanders. However, he made only 12 appearances and returned to England in 2012.
Since returning to Wasps, Haskell has surpassed the 100 appearances mark for the club and has become a big part of the England squad with 57 caps to-date.
Haskell has played his rugby in France, Japan and New Zealand after leaving the Wasps in 2009.
Since his return to England, Haskell has enjoyed his rugby and surpassed the 100 appearance mark for Wasps. | James Haskell is a rugby player for the London Wasps. He has an extensive career with playing for other teams in France, Japan, and New Zealand. To celebrate the release of the new Avengers: Age of Ultron movie, Haskell posts an Instagram picture of him dress up as Iron Man. |
302c800172da420f9e2e80474a9cf5ec | With the new Avengers: Age of Ultron movie released this week, James Haskell showed off his inner Iron Man in a serious-looking Instagram post.
The highly-anticipated movie premiered at Westfield London shopping centre on Tuesday evening with fans queuing up to see the A-list cast which includes Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth and Scarlett Johansson.
And the London Wasps captain joined in on the hype as he posted the photo dressed as Downey Jr.'s character Iron Man.
England flanker James Haskell dressed in Iron Man costume and posted it on his Instagram page.
The London Wasps captain (middle) returned to the club where he started his career for the 2012 season.
Haskell posted the image on Thursday along with the message: 'Avengers movie is out so thought i would release the inner Iron Man. @UnderArmourUK #TransformYourself #IWILL #AvengersAgeOfUltron.'
The flanker returned to Wasps for the 2012 season after spells with Stade Francais, Ricoh Black Rams and Highlanders in New Zealand.
Windsor-born Haskell first joined Wasps in 2002, playing eight seasons for the club and winning his first England cap five years later.
But in 2009, he moved to Stade Francais in France and spent two seasons in the French capital before he made the move to Tokyo with the Ricoh Black Rams following the unsuccessful 2011 World Cup.
Four months in Japan with the Rams and Haskell was on the move again when he switched to New Zealand to join the Highlanders. However, he made only 12 appearances and returned to England in 2012.
Since returning to Wasps, Haskell has surpassed the 100 appearances mark for the club and has become a big part of the England squad with 57 caps to-date.
Haskell has played his rugby in France, Japan and New Zealand after leaving the Wasps in 2009.
Since his return to England, Haskell has enjoyed his rugby and surpassed the 100 appearance mark for Wasps. | London Wasps Captain James Haskell dressed up as Ironman and posted it to his Instagram account in a celebration of the new Avengers movie. Haskell returned to the Wasps in 2012 after short stints in Japan and New Zealand. He has since passed 100 appearances with the club. |
bd35a4e31c6a4123bc4f94e0cbf78981 | The PSNI has launched a murder inquiry into the death of a prison officer who died 11 days after being injured in a dissident republican bomb attack.
Adrian Ismay, 52, was seriously hurt after a booby-trap device exploded under his van in Belfast on 4 March.
The police said that a post-mortem examination showed he died as a "direct result of the injuries" of the bomb.
A dissident republican group, widely referred to as the new IRA, said it carried out the attack.
The organisation said Mr Ismay was targeted for training officers at Maghaberry Prison near Lisburn, County Antrim.
Sue McAllister, director general of the Northern Ireland Prison Service, spent time with the Ismay family on Wednesday.
She said they were "devastated and beyond shock at what's happened".
"Like all of us, they thought that he was on the mend and was doing really well," said Mrs McAllister.
"We thought he would make a full recovery, we expected him to come back to work in due course, so we're all shocked, but particularly Sharon and her daughters."
Mrs McAllister condemned the behaviour of some paramilitary inmates at Maghaberry Prison, who reportedly cheered, smoked cigars and mocked wardens at the high-security jail when news of Mr Ismay's death filtered through.
"This was just unacceptable behaviour by a very small number of prisoners," said Mrs McAllister.
"My colleagues in Maghaberry dealt with it professionally, with great fortitude and with the courage they display on a daily basis."
She admitted she and her colleagues in the Prison Service felt "very angry" on hearing the reports of the celebrations in the exercise yard of the prison.
"We encounter challenging behaviour by a small number of prisoners every day, and we deal with it with great professionalism and we do not stoop to behaving that way in response," she added.
A man appeared in court on Saturday charged in connection with the bomb attack on Mr Ismay.
Det Ch Insp Richard Campbell said it was "yet another difficult day for the Ismay family, his friends and colleagues as they struggle to come to terms with the events of the past 12 days".
He added: "We have spoken to the family this morning and advised them of this development.
"We are also liaising with the Public Prosecution Service in relation to the individual who is currently charged with attempted murder and causing an explosion with intent to endanger life."
The PSNI have also repeated an appeal for information on two cars that police believe may have been used by the bombers - a red Citroen C3 and a silver Skoda Fabia. | Adrian Ismay, a prison officer, died 11 days after a bomb exploded under his van. The attack was carried out by a republican group called the New IRA. According to the organization, Ismay was targeted for training officers in Maghaberry Prison. The autopsy shows that Ismay's death was directly caused by the bomb injuries. |
bd35a4e31c6a4123bc4f94e0cbf78981 | The PSNI has launched a murder inquiry into the death of a prison officer who died 11 days after being injured in a dissident republican bomb attack.
Adrian Ismay, 52, was seriously hurt after a booby-trap device exploded under his van in Belfast on 4 March.
The police said that a post-mortem examination showed he died as a "direct result of the injuries" of the bomb.
A dissident republican group, widely referred to as the new IRA, said it carried out the attack.
The organisation said Mr Ismay was targeted for training officers at Maghaberry Prison near Lisburn, County Antrim.
Sue McAllister, director general of the Northern Ireland Prison Service, spent time with the Ismay family on Wednesday.
She said they were "devastated and beyond shock at what's happened".
"Like all of us, they thought that he was on the mend and was doing really well," said Mrs McAllister.
"We thought he would make a full recovery, we expected him to come back to work in due course, so we're all shocked, but particularly Sharon and her daughters."
Mrs McAllister condemned the behaviour of some paramilitary inmates at Maghaberry Prison, who reportedly cheered, smoked cigars and mocked wardens at the high-security jail when news of Mr Ismay's death filtered through.
"This was just unacceptable behaviour by a very small number of prisoners," said Mrs McAllister.
"My colleagues in Maghaberry dealt with it professionally, with great fortitude and with the courage they display on a daily basis."
She admitted she and her colleagues in the Prison Service felt "very angry" on hearing the reports of the celebrations in the exercise yard of the prison.
"We encounter challenging behaviour by a small number of prisoners every day, and we deal with it with great professionalism and we do not stoop to behaving that way in response," she added.
A man appeared in court on Saturday charged in connection with the bomb attack on Mr Ismay.
Det Ch Insp Richard Campbell said it was "yet another difficult day for the Ismay family, his friends and colleagues as they struggle to come to terms with the events of the past 12 days".
He added: "We have spoken to the family this morning and advised them of this development.
"We are also liaising with the Public Prosecution Service in relation to the individual who is currently charged with attempted murder and causing an explosion with intent to endanger life."
The PSNI have also repeated an appeal for information on two cars that police believe may have been used by the bombers - a red Citroen C3 and a silver Skoda Fabia. | A murder investigation has been launched into the recent death of a prison officer injured in a bomb attack. Reports indicate that the individual died as a direct result of his injuries. A dissident republican party is claiming to have conducted the attack. |
bd35a4e31c6a4123bc4f94e0cbf78981 | The PSNI has launched a murder inquiry into the death of a prison officer who died 11 days after being injured in a dissident republican bomb attack.
Adrian Ismay, 52, was seriously hurt after a booby-trap device exploded under his van in Belfast on 4 March.
The police said that a post-mortem examination showed he died as a "direct result of the injuries" of the bomb.
A dissident republican group, widely referred to as the new IRA, said it carried out the attack.
The organisation said Mr Ismay was targeted for training officers at Maghaberry Prison near Lisburn, County Antrim.
Sue McAllister, director general of the Northern Ireland Prison Service, spent time with the Ismay family on Wednesday.
She said they were "devastated and beyond shock at what's happened".
"Like all of us, they thought that he was on the mend and was doing really well," said Mrs McAllister.
"We thought he would make a full recovery, we expected him to come back to work in due course, so we're all shocked, but particularly Sharon and her daughters."
Mrs McAllister condemned the behaviour of some paramilitary inmates at Maghaberry Prison, who reportedly cheered, smoked cigars and mocked wardens at the high-security jail when news of Mr Ismay's death filtered through.
"This was just unacceptable behaviour by a very small number of prisoners," said Mrs McAllister.
"My colleagues in Maghaberry dealt with it professionally, with great fortitude and with the courage they display on a daily basis."
She admitted she and her colleagues in the Prison Service felt "very angry" on hearing the reports of the celebrations in the exercise yard of the prison.
"We encounter challenging behaviour by a small number of prisoners every day, and we deal with it with great professionalism and we do not stoop to behaving that way in response," she added.
A man appeared in court on Saturday charged in connection with the bomb attack on Mr Ismay.
Det Ch Insp Richard Campbell said it was "yet another difficult day for the Ismay family, his friends and colleagues as they struggle to come to terms with the events of the past 12 days".
He added: "We have spoken to the family this morning and advised them of this development.
"We are also liaising with the Public Prosecution Service in relation to the individual who is currently charged with attempted murder and causing an explosion with intent to endanger life."
The PSNI have also repeated an appeal for information on two cars that police believe may have been used by the bombers - a red Citroen C3 and a silver Skoda Fabia. | Adrian Ismay was seriously injured and later died as a direct result of those injuries after a bomb exploded beneath his van. The new IRA claimed responsibility for the attack. Several inmates celebrated the death of Ismay who worked as a prison guard. Authorities are still looking for the cars used by the bombers. |
c4a977ddeb9f42b38b5fad9d418a3637 | Prime Minister David Cameron has said he wants to put tackling corruption at the "top of the international agenda" ahead of a London summit on the issue.
The international anti-corruption summit - the first of its kind - is aimed at exposing, punishing and drive out global corruption.
Political leaders, businesses, sporting organisations, and charities will meet at Lancaster House on Thursday.
Mr Cameron says corruption is "the root of so many of the world's problems".
He also described it as "an enemy of progress".
"It destroys jobs and holds back economic growth, traps the poorest in desperate poverty, and undermines our security by pushing people towards extremist groups," he added.
"The battle against corruption will not be won overnight. It will take time, courage and determination to deliver the reforms that are necessary. But we cannot hope to solve the major global challenges we face without tackling the exploitation, fraud and dishonesty at their heart.
"For too long there has been a taboo about tackling this issue head-on. The summit will change that. Together we will push the fight against corruption to the top of the international agenda where it belongs."
Among the world leaders attending the summit are presidents Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan, Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia and Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria, and Norwegian prime minister Erna Solberg.
Russia is to be represented by deputy foreign minister Oleg Syromolotov.
Panellists are expected to include World Bank president Jim Yong Kim and International Monetary Fund's managing director Christine Lagarde.
Under the prime minister's plans, leaders at the summit would pledge to expose corruption and pursue and punish those who perpetrate, facilitate or are complicit in it.
Campaigners have also called for a crackdown on tax havens linked to the United Kingdom. The recent Panama Papers leak showed how some wealthy people use offshore firms to evade tax and avoid sanctions.
A Downing Street spokesman said: "We are in discussions with the Overseas Territories and Crown dependencies with major financial centres about their attendance, and expect a number to join the summit."
Robert Barrington, of anti-corruption campaigners Transparency International, said: "The prime minister is creating a platform for governments that are serious about fighting corruption to make really significant changes and set the agenda for a generation to come.
"What is key now is that other governments are persuaded to sign up to ambitious targets and that the UK government does not give in to the usual last minute attempts by less committed countries to water down the summit's ambitions". | David Cameron organized the first international anti-corruption summit to fight corruption and tax havens. Political leaders, members of sporting organizations, and charities will all be present at the conference. Cameron believes anti-corruption efforts should be at the top of the international agenda. |
c4a977ddeb9f42b38b5fad9d418a3637 | Prime Minister David Cameron has said he wants to put tackling corruption at the "top of the international agenda" ahead of a London summit on the issue.
The international anti-corruption summit - the first of its kind - is aimed at exposing, punishing and drive out global corruption.
Political leaders, businesses, sporting organisations, and charities will meet at Lancaster House on Thursday.
Mr Cameron says corruption is "the root of so many of the world's problems".
He also described it as "an enemy of progress".
"It destroys jobs and holds back economic growth, traps the poorest in desperate poverty, and undermines our security by pushing people towards extremist groups," he added.
"The battle against corruption will not be won overnight. It will take time, courage and determination to deliver the reforms that are necessary. But we cannot hope to solve the major global challenges we face without tackling the exploitation, fraud and dishonesty at their heart.
"For too long there has been a taboo about tackling this issue head-on. The summit will change that. Together we will push the fight against corruption to the top of the international agenda where it belongs."
Among the world leaders attending the summit are presidents Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan, Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia and Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria, and Norwegian prime minister Erna Solberg.
Russia is to be represented by deputy foreign minister Oleg Syromolotov.
Panellists are expected to include World Bank president Jim Yong Kim and International Monetary Fund's managing director Christine Lagarde.
Under the prime minister's plans, leaders at the summit would pledge to expose corruption and pursue and punish those who perpetrate, facilitate or are complicit in it.
Campaigners have also called for a crackdown on tax havens linked to the United Kingdom. The recent Panama Papers leak showed how some wealthy people use offshore firms to evade tax and avoid sanctions.
A Downing Street spokesman said: "We are in discussions with the Overseas Territories and Crown dependencies with major financial centres about their attendance, and expect a number to join the summit."
Robert Barrington, of anti-corruption campaigners Transparency International, said: "The prime minister is creating a platform for governments that are serious about fighting corruption to make really significant changes and set the agenda for a generation to come.
"What is key now is that other governments are persuaded to sign up to ambitious targets and that the UK government does not give in to the usual last minute attempts by less committed countries to water down the summit's ambitions". | Ahead of an upcoming London Summit, Prime Minister Cameron states he wants to place the topic of tackling corruption at the top of the agenda. Cameron believes that corruption is the root of much of the world's problems. Cameron went on to remark that corruption is also an enemy of progress. |
75aac08a2e784973badd5fb5b4a41397 | Some doctors in England are being offered thousands of pounds to cut the number of patients being sent to hospital, an investigation has found.
GP practices are being paid to help local NHS groups limit the number of patient referrals and cut costs, the doctors' magazine Pulse found.
Appointments affected include scans and consultations with specialists - including those for cancer patients.
The British Medical Association said such incentives were "misguided".
At least nine clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) were offering GP practices payments for hitting targets, according to Pulse's investigation.
In one case, Birmingham South Central CCG was offering practices more than £11,000 to reduce new outpatient attendances, follow-ups, A&E attendances and emergency admissions by 1%, compared with 2014/15.
It said the schemes, which exclude cancer referrals, were designed to "incentivise best quality practice" and "drive improvements in the quality of primary medical care".
"Our priority is to ensure that patients have access to services that they need, when they need them," said a spokesperson for Birmingham South Central CCG.
Another CCG told Pulse it had considered the "full impact" of the incentive scheme and was "confident that there is no conflict of interest".
Pulse said that one scheme had already been looked at by the General Medical Council, the body which regulates medical standards in the UK, after local GP leaders expressed their concern.
The magazine pointed out that initial hospital referrals for cancer patients should happen within two weeks of a GP first suspecting the condition.
Dr Chand Nagpaul, chairman of the GPs committee of the doctors' trade union the British Medical Association, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that such schemes were a "financial contaminant" to patient-doctor trust.
He said: "It's short-sighted and misguided of CCGs to introduce such mechanisms, because they do lead to the potential for patients questioning the motives of GP referrals.
"We believe it is far more appropriate for CCGs to introduce clinical pathways that ensure patients are referred appropriately rather than these crude, salesman-like bonuses which pay GPs simply to make reduction to referrals in numerical terms."
Dr Peter Melton is local GP and clinical chief officer for North East Lincolnshire CCG, which offers the equivalent of more than £6,000 to practices that reduce outpatient referrals to the same level as the 25% with the lowest referral rates (which include two-week urgent cancer referrals) in 2014/15.
He said the CCG was already among the best in England for referring suspected cancer patients to a consultant within two weeks and the scheme was not about avoiding sending people to hospital.
"It is not focussing on referral reduction per se but on better clinical and quality standards for the patient," he explained.
"The expectation is practices will be encouraged to investigate more locally and monitor the patient in the first instance rather than automatically refer in to a secondary care service."
Analysis by the BBC's Helen Briggs
The NHS is under pressure to make savings, with a target of carving out £22bn of efficiency savings by 2020.
NHS leaders want to cut patient referrals that are deemed inappropriate, particularly when patients could be cared for locally.
Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are groups of GPs that work together to plan and design local health services.
There are more than 200 CCGs across England and, according to Pulse, at least nine are offering payments for keeping within targets for outpatient referrals and follow ups. It is not clear how extensive the practice is elsewhere.
Some have questioned the wisdom of the move, saying patients could miss out on vital care. But CCGs have defended their stance, saying it is about good practice, not about keeping people who need treatment out of hospital.
In November the NHS advisory board said GPs in England should nearly double the number of patients referred to hospital for cancer tests.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence said delays in spotting symptoms could be costing thousands of lives each year.
NHS England said: "We explicitly want to increase not deter appropriate referrals for cancer checks."
Dr Rosie Loftus of the charity Macmillan Cancer Support described the findings outlined in Pulse as "very worrying".
"This is yet another sign of an NHS which is seriously over stretched and not giving GPs the resources and support they need," she said.
NHS Lambeth Clinical Commissioning Group, which offers payments for practices moving towards the average referral rate, said, like all CCGs, it wanted to reduce the number of patients being sent to hospitals unnecessarily.
"The part of the payment relating to the rate of referrals is a small part of the funding and is not designed to stop GPs referring patients who have a clinical need for hospital treatment such as cancer patients," said a spokesperson. | Controversy has arisen surrounding clinical commissioning groups offering monetary incentives to GP's not to refer patients to hospitals. The groups have defended their decision as only trying to increase the treatment and follow up care provided by GP's, but critics and the NHS call it inappropriate and believe it could cost lives. |
75aac08a2e784973badd5fb5b4a41397 | Some doctors in England are being offered thousands of pounds to cut the number of patients being sent to hospital, an investigation has found.
GP practices are being paid to help local NHS groups limit the number of patient referrals and cut costs, the doctors' magazine Pulse found.
Appointments affected include scans and consultations with specialists - including those for cancer patients.
The British Medical Association said such incentives were "misguided".
At least nine clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) were offering GP practices payments for hitting targets, according to Pulse's investigation.
In one case, Birmingham South Central CCG was offering practices more than £11,000 to reduce new outpatient attendances, follow-ups, A&E attendances and emergency admissions by 1%, compared with 2014/15.
It said the schemes, which exclude cancer referrals, were designed to "incentivise best quality practice" and "drive improvements in the quality of primary medical care".
"Our priority is to ensure that patients have access to services that they need, when they need them," said a spokesperson for Birmingham South Central CCG.
Another CCG told Pulse it had considered the "full impact" of the incentive scheme and was "confident that there is no conflict of interest".
Pulse said that one scheme had already been looked at by the General Medical Council, the body which regulates medical standards in the UK, after local GP leaders expressed their concern.
The magazine pointed out that initial hospital referrals for cancer patients should happen within two weeks of a GP first suspecting the condition.
Dr Chand Nagpaul, chairman of the GPs committee of the doctors' trade union the British Medical Association, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that such schemes were a "financial contaminant" to patient-doctor trust.
He said: "It's short-sighted and misguided of CCGs to introduce such mechanisms, because they do lead to the potential for patients questioning the motives of GP referrals.
"We believe it is far more appropriate for CCGs to introduce clinical pathways that ensure patients are referred appropriately rather than these crude, salesman-like bonuses which pay GPs simply to make reduction to referrals in numerical terms."
Dr Peter Melton is local GP and clinical chief officer for North East Lincolnshire CCG, which offers the equivalent of more than £6,000 to practices that reduce outpatient referrals to the same level as the 25% with the lowest referral rates (which include two-week urgent cancer referrals) in 2014/15.
He said the CCG was already among the best in England for referring suspected cancer patients to a consultant within two weeks and the scheme was not about avoiding sending people to hospital.
"It is not focussing on referral reduction per se but on better clinical and quality standards for the patient," he explained.
"The expectation is practices will be encouraged to investigate more locally and monitor the patient in the first instance rather than automatically refer in to a secondary care service."
Analysis by the BBC's Helen Briggs
The NHS is under pressure to make savings, with a target of carving out £22bn of efficiency savings by 2020.
NHS leaders want to cut patient referrals that are deemed inappropriate, particularly when patients could be cared for locally.
Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are groups of GPs that work together to plan and design local health services.
There are more than 200 CCGs across England and, according to Pulse, at least nine are offering payments for keeping within targets for outpatient referrals and follow ups. It is not clear how extensive the practice is elsewhere.
Some have questioned the wisdom of the move, saying patients could miss out on vital care. But CCGs have defended their stance, saying it is about good practice, not about keeping people who need treatment out of hospital.
In November the NHS advisory board said GPs in England should nearly double the number of patients referred to hospital for cancer tests.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence said delays in spotting symptoms could be costing thousands of lives each year.
NHS England said: "We explicitly want to increase not deter appropriate referrals for cancer checks."
Dr Rosie Loftus of the charity Macmillan Cancer Support described the findings outlined in Pulse as "very worrying".
"This is yet another sign of an NHS which is seriously over stretched and not giving GPs the resources and support they need," she said.
NHS Lambeth Clinical Commissioning Group, which offers payments for practices moving towards the average referral rate, said, like all CCGs, it wanted to reduce the number of patients being sent to hospitals unnecessarily.
"The part of the payment relating to the rate of referrals is a small part of the funding and is not designed to stop GPs referring patients who have a clinical need for hospital treatment such as cancer patients," said a spokesperson. | To cut costs, doctors in England are being paid by the NHS to limit the number of patients admitted to the hospital. Cost-cutting measures include scans for cancer patients. Many physicians in the UK find the practice appalling, preferring a system that prioritizes people over profits. |
94cc70c2c23d4be4b93990116be9ecee | A report about a woman who said she had repeated plastic surgery after her husband divorced her because she had a "fat face" has sparked outrage among China's online community.
Though the unverified story was short on details, and did not have the husband's side of the story, "divorced because of fat face" quickly became a top trend on microblogging network Weibo.
State media picked up the story on Thursday, which was first reported in a local evening paper earlier this week.
Liaoshen Wanbao reported the 49-year-old woman in Shenyang city had claimed her husband had divorced her 10 years ago because he disliked the shape of her face, said to be "large and square" with "fat cheeks".
She said it spurred her to undergo facial surgery three times at a local hospital to shave her jawbones and reshape her face into a slimmer shape.
During the third surgery the doctors discovered that if they proceeded further her nerves may be damaged, and halted the procedure.
The woman, identified only by her surname Wang, later sued the hospital for 1.7 million yuan ($260,900; £183,900) in damages.
She alleged the surgery had left her with soreness in her chin, and she could only eat and drink through a straw as "when she exerted force on her lower jaw, she had the sensation that it would break".
The hospital, however, argued that the surgeries were conducted according to regulations, and pointed out that they encouraged her to seek psychiatric help instead of a third operation, which she refused.
After mediation the woman agreed to accept 20,000 yuan ($3,100, £2,200) as compensation, said the report.
On Weibo, some condemned the woman's husband, but others also chastised the woman.
One top-voted comment read: "It's purely an excuse, if her face was large then why did he decide to marry her in the first place? If he stopped loving her then he should have just said so."
It continued: "This woman is also very silly to have believed that her face shape was the real reason for the divorce, she is lying to herself."
Said another Weibo user: "Even if you had gone for facial surgery and made your face smaller, he would still have found other reasons to divorce you."
One person noted the sharp difference in the compensation amount and voiced suspicions: "1.7 million was dropped to 20,000, it makes me wonder if she really did have a problem with her jaw."
Still others took the opportunity to crack jokes.
"What an odd reason for divorce! I wonder how square was this woman's square-shaped face? Like a television set? Microwave oven?"
Plastic surgery has long been a hot topic on Weibo. In December, users similarly expressed outrage when a Chinese man took out a newspaper advertisement pleading for his wife to go for plastic surgery.
More than seven million cosmetic surgeries were performed in China in 2014.
The industry's value, pegged at around 400bn yuan, is expected to double by 2019, according to the China Association of Plastics and Aesthetics. | A Chinese woman has undergone three facial plastic surgeries in an attempt to make her face thinner, reportedly after her husband divorced her because of her square jaw. Although reports are incomplete and the public remains skeptical in this case, cosmetic surgeries are hugely popular and rising in popularity. |
94cc70c2c23d4be4b93990116be9ecee | A report about a woman who said she had repeated plastic surgery after her husband divorced her because she had a "fat face" has sparked outrage among China's online community.
Though the unverified story was short on details, and did not have the husband's side of the story, "divorced because of fat face" quickly became a top trend on microblogging network Weibo.
State media picked up the story on Thursday, which was first reported in a local evening paper earlier this week.
Liaoshen Wanbao reported the 49-year-old woman in Shenyang city had claimed her husband had divorced her 10 years ago because he disliked the shape of her face, said to be "large and square" with "fat cheeks".
She said it spurred her to undergo facial surgery three times at a local hospital to shave her jawbones and reshape her face into a slimmer shape.
During the third surgery the doctors discovered that if they proceeded further her nerves may be damaged, and halted the procedure.
The woman, identified only by her surname Wang, later sued the hospital for 1.7 million yuan ($260,900; £183,900) in damages.
She alleged the surgery had left her with soreness in her chin, and she could only eat and drink through a straw as "when she exerted force on her lower jaw, she had the sensation that it would break".
The hospital, however, argued that the surgeries were conducted according to regulations, and pointed out that they encouraged her to seek psychiatric help instead of a third operation, which she refused.
After mediation the woman agreed to accept 20,000 yuan ($3,100, £2,200) as compensation, said the report.
On Weibo, some condemned the woman's husband, but others also chastised the woman.
One top-voted comment read: "It's purely an excuse, if her face was large then why did he decide to marry her in the first place? If he stopped loving her then he should have just said so."
It continued: "This woman is also very silly to have believed that her face shape was the real reason for the divorce, she is lying to herself."
Said another Weibo user: "Even if you had gone for facial surgery and made your face smaller, he would still have found other reasons to divorce you."
One person noted the sharp difference in the compensation amount and voiced suspicions: "1.7 million was dropped to 20,000, it makes me wonder if she really did have a problem with her jaw."
Still others took the opportunity to crack jokes.
"What an odd reason for divorce! I wonder how square was this woman's square-shaped face? Like a television set? Microwave oven?"
Plastic surgery has long been a hot topic on Weibo. In December, users similarly expressed outrage when a Chinese man took out a newspaper advertisement pleading for his wife to go for plastic surgery.
More than seven million cosmetic surgeries were performed in China in 2014.
The industry's value, pegged at around 400bn yuan, is expected to double by 2019, according to the China Association of Plastics and Aesthetics. | A story about a woman known as Wang in Shenyang city became a trend on the Weibo network. She had facial surgery due to “divorced because of fat face.” She had three surgeries at a local hospital, and later sued for damages for 1/7 million yuan. The comments on Weibo both supported and chastised. |
94cc70c2c23d4be4b93990116be9ecee | A report about a woman who said she had repeated plastic surgery after her husband divorced her because she had a "fat face" has sparked outrage among China's online community.
Though the unverified story was short on details, and did not have the husband's side of the story, "divorced because of fat face" quickly became a top trend on microblogging network Weibo.
State media picked up the story on Thursday, which was first reported in a local evening paper earlier this week.
Liaoshen Wanbao reported the 49-year-old woman in Shenyang city had claimed her husband had divorced her 10 years ago because he disliked the shape of her face, said to be "large and square" with "fat cheeks".
She said it spurred her to undergo facial surgery three times at a local hospital to shave her jawbones and reshape her face into a slimmer shape.
During the third surgery the doctors discovered that if they proceeded further her nerves may be damaged, and halted the procedure.
The woman, identified only by her surname Wang, later sued the hospital for 1.7 million yuan ($260,900; £183,900) in damages.
She alleged the surgery had left her with soreness in her chin, and she could only eat and drink through a straw as "when she exerted force on her lower jaw, she had the sensation that it would break".
The hospital, however, argued that the surgeries were conducted according to regulations, and pointed out that they encouraged her to seek psychiatric help instead of a third operation, which she refused.
After mediation the woman agreed to accept 20,000 yuan ($3,100, £2,200) as compensation, said the report.
On Weibo, some condemned the woman's husband, but others also chastised the woman.
One top-voted comment read: "It's purely an excuse, if her face was large then why did he decide to marry her in the first place? If he stopped loving her then he should have just said so."
It continued: "This woman is also very silly to have believed that her face shape was the real reason for the divorce, she is lying to herself."
Said another Weibo user: "Even if you had gone for facial surgery and made your face smaller, he would still have found other reasons to divorce you."
One person noted the sharp difference in the compensation amount and voiced suspicions: "1.7 million was dropped to 20,000, it makes me wonder if she really did have a problem with her jaw."
Still others took the opportunity to crack jokes.
"What an odd reason for divorce! I wonder how square was this woman's square-shaped face? Like a television set? Microwave oven?"
Plastic surgery has long been a hot topic on Weibo. In December, users similarly expressed outrage when a Chinese man took out a newspaper advertisement pleading for his wife to go for plastic surgery.
More than seven million cosmetic surgeries were performed in China in 2014.
The industry's value, pegged at around 400bn yuan, is expected to double by 2019, according to the China Association of Plastics and Aesthetics. | China's online community is in a heated debate after news surfaced of a woman receiving multiple plastic surgeries on her face following a divorce that was due to her facial shape. In total, the woman identified as Wang underwent three procedures, the last of which resulted in nerve damage. |
94cc70c2c23d4be4b93990116be9ecee | A report about a woman who said she had repeated plastic surgery after her husband divorced her because she had a "fat face" has sparked outrage among China's online community.
Though the unverified story was short on details, and did not have the husband's side of the story, "divorced because of fat face" quickly became a top trend on microblogging network Weibo.
State media picked up the story on Thursday, which was first reported in a local evening paper earlier this week.
Liaoshen Wanbao reported the 49-year-old woman in Shenyang city had claimed her husband had divorced her 10 years ago because he disliked the shape of her face, said to be "large and square" with "fat cheeks".
She said it spurred her to undergo facial surgery three times at a local hospital to shave her jawbones and reshape her face into a slimmer shape.
During the third surgery the doctors discovered that if they proceeded further her nerves may be damaged, and halted the procedure.
The woman, identified only by her surname Wang, later sued the hospital for 1.7 million yuan ($260,900; £183,900) in damages.
She alleged the surgery had left her with soreness in her chin, and she could only eat and drink through a straw as "when she exerted force on her lower jaw, she had the sensation that it would break".
The hospital, however, argued that the surgeries were conducted according to regulations, and pointed out that they encouraged her to seek psychiatric help instead of a third operation, which she refused.
After mediation the woman agreed to accept 20,000 yuan ($3,100, £2,200) as compensation, said the report.
On Weibo, some condemned the woman's husband, but others also chastised the woman.
One top-voted comment read: "It's purely an excuse, if her face was large then why did he decide to marry her in the first place? If he stopped loving her then he should have just said so."
It continued: "This woman is also very silly to have believed that her face shape was the real reason for the divorce, she is lying to herself."
Said another Weibo user: "Even if you had gone for facial surgery and made your face smaller, he would still have found other reasons to divorce you."
One person noted the sharp difference in the compensation amount and voiced suspicions: "1.7 million was dropped to 20,000, it makes me wonder if she really did have a problem with her jaw."
Still others took the opportunity to crack jokes.
"What an odd reason for divorce! I wonder how square was this woman's square-shaped face? Like a television set? Microwave oven?"
Plastic surgery has long been a hot topic on Weibo. In December, users similarly expressed outrage when a Chinese man took out a newspaper advertisement pleading for his wife to go for plastic surgery.
More than seven million cosmetic surgeries were performed in China in 2014.
The industry's value, pegged at around 400bn yuan, is expected to double by 2019, according to the China Association of Plastics and Aesthetics. | A woman claiming to have undergone repeated plastic surgery after her husband divorced her for having a "fat face" has gone viral on Weibo. The woman surnamed Wang, underwent three rounds of face-slimming surgery before doctors halted the fourth round citing fears of permanent nerve damage. |
58b81f0f9fa34aeea9f49e9c97241063 | Celebrities are putting their first face forward by snapping just one selfie and sharing it unfiltered on social media in aid of a new campaign dubbed #SelfieEsteem.
Female stars including Nancy Dell'Olio, Josie Gibson, Jamelia and Susanna Reid have all stepped up to the plate for Good Morning Britain's initiative, which launched today, as well as male contenders including Piers Morgan and Richard Madeley.
According to a survey conducted by the ITV breakfast show, women take an average of six selfies before posting one online and men take four, such is the pressure to look their very best on social media.
Scroll down for video.
Good Morning Britain presenter Susanna Reid, 44, shared her first unfiltered selfie (pictured) in aid of the #SelfieEsteem, which celebrates women as they are.
Speaking on the show earlier this morning, former Big Brother star Ms Gibson, 30, said: 'I take about 100 [selfies] before I get the right one. Yeah about 100, and then I’ve started adding filters these days.'
She continued: 'I don’t think I’m the only person in the country who has suffered from low self-esteem.
'I know that some of the most beautiful women have got no self-esteem at all and when you’ve got low self-esteem it doesn’t just ruin relationships, it also affects your life.
'I’ve not gone for so many opportunities because I have had such low self-esteem at the time. I’ve been invited to amazing events and I’ve not gone because I’ve couldn’t find anything to wear.
Nancy Dell'Olio, 53, puckered up for her close-range selfie.
Ex-Big Brother star Josie Gibson, 30, (pictured) uploaded her selfie in aid of the campaign and admitted, 'I’ve not gone for so many opportunities because I have had such low self-esteem at the time'
Singer Jamelia, 34, flashed her best smile as she invited others to follow her example.
Former TOWIE star Lydia Rose Bright, 25, looked radiant in her unfiltered snap.
Ms Gibson added: 'I’ve got such low-self esteem and you compare yourself to all these people are in their nice little bodycons [dresses], looking great and you think "oh I don’t belong there."'
GMB presenter Susanna Reid, 44, who also shared her first unfiltered selfie in support of the campaign, said: 'It makes me so upset to hear someone beautiful and fabulous and wonderful saying that.
'No-one should be saying I don’t want to go out because I’m so worried about how I look.'
Ms Reid captioned her photo: 'We're encouraging you to post the first unfiltered selfie for @gmb #SelfieEsteem campaign (hair & make-up allowed)."'
MailOnline's US Editor-at-Large Piers Morgan grinned his way through his submission.
TV personality Michelle Heaton, 35, threw a matching pose with her daughter Faith.
Former Westlife hunk Nicky Byrne, 36, looked more than happy to partake.
Other stars to suspend their vanity for the sake of the campaign have included ITV presenter Ben Shephard, 40, former Westlife crooner Nicky Byrne, 36, TV personality Michelle Heaton, 35, who posed with her daughter Faith, and Olympic gymnast Beth Tweddle, 30.
Singer Rebecca Ferguson, 28, was heavily made up in her selfie, and flashed her ample cleavage, while it was hard to believe Vogue Williams' snap hadn't been doctored, judging by the perfection of her skin.
According to GMB's survey - conducted on 2,000 men and 2,000 women - four out of ten women and three out of ten men avoid looking in the mirror due to low self-esteem.
Singer Rebecca Ferguson, 28, was heavily made up in her selfie, and flashed her ample cleavage.
it was hard to believe Vogue Williams' snap hadn't been doctored, judging by the perfection of her skin, but perhaps it was simply good lighting at play.
GMB host Kate Garraway, 47, also posed for a quick snap.
Ben Shephard, 40, shared a similar speedy selfie.
Nearly half of women and almost a third of men are unhappy with the way they look, according to the poll, and their weight was the number one thing both sexes would like to change.
The survey also questioned 1,000 children aged eight to 17 on their self-esteem and found that 79 per cent were happy with the way they looked, and over half took selfies.
Despite this, a third of women worried they were passing on body confidence issues to their children and 41 per cent of children did not think their mother was happy with the way she looked.
Worryingly, it was also found that 15 per cent of women and a fifth of men had cropped, filtered, or retouched pictures of their children.
Founder of the SelfEsteem Team, Natasha Devon (pictured), was delighted with the response from her campaign.
Submissions also poured in from viewers, including Leyla Carter (left) Chloe Jervis (right)
Charlotte Hobbs (left) admits she usually takes ten selfies before settling on the best one, while Jackie Brown (right) was also stepping out of her comfort zone. | Many celebrities and public figures are sharing snaps for a cause, #selfieesteem. Founded by Natasha Devon, the trend encourages sharing unfiltered photos to help fight low self-esteem partially driven by retouched social media photos. Studies indicate alarmingly high percentage of people are unhappy with their appearance and regularly edit selfies. |
58b81f0f9fa34aeea9f49e9c97241063 | Celebrities are putting their first face forward by snapping just one selfie and sharing it unfiltered on social media in aid of a new campaign dubbed #SelfieEsteem.
Female stars including Nancy Dell'Olio, Josie Gibson, Jamelia and Susanna Reid have all stepped up to the plate for Good Morning Britain's initiative, which launched today, as well as male contenders including Piers Morgan and Richard Madeley.
According to a survey conducted by the ITV breakfast show, women take an average of six selfies before posting one online and men take four, such is the pressure to look their very best on social media.
Scroll down for video.
Good Morning Britain presenter Susanna Reid, 44, shared her first unfiltered selfie (pictured) in aid of the #SelfieEsteem, which celebrates women as they are.
Speaking on the show earlier this morning, former Big Brother star Ms Gibson, 30, said: 'I take about 100 [selfies] before I get the right one. Yeah about 100, and then I’ve started adding filters these days.'
She continued: 'I don’t think I’m the only person in the country who has suffered from low self-esteem.
'I know that some of the most beautiful women have got no self-esteem at all and when you’ve got low self-esteem it doesn’t just ruin relationships, it also affects your life.
'I’ve not gone for so many opportunities because I have had such low self-esteem at the time. I’ve been invited to amazing events and I’ve not gone because I’ve couldn’t find anything to wear.
Nancy Dell'Olio, 53, puckered up for her close-range selfie.
Ex-Big Brother star Josie Gibson, 30, (pictured) uploaded her selfie in aid of the campaign and admitted, 'I’ve not gone for so many opportunities because I have had such low self-esteem at the time'
Singer Jamelia, 34, flashed her best smile as she invited others to follow her example.
Former TOWIE star Lydia Rose Bright, 25, looked radiant in her unfiltered snap.
Ms Gibson added: 'I’ve got such low-self esteem and you compare yourself to all these people are in their nice little bodycons [dresses], looking great and you think "oh I don’t belong there."'
GMB presenter Susanna Reid, 44, who also shared her first unfiltered selfie in support of the campaign, said: 'It makes me so upset to hear someone beautiful and fabulous and wonderful saying that.
'No-one should be saying I don’t want to go out because I’m so worried about how I look.'
Ms Reid captioned her photo: 'We're encouraging you to post the first unfiltered selfie for @gmb #SelfieEsteem campaign (hair & make-up allowed)."'
MailOnline's US Editor-at-Large Piers Morgan grinned his way through his submission.
TV personality Michelle Heaton, 35, threw a matching pose with her daughter Faith.
Former Westlife hunk Nicky Byrne, 36, looked more than happy to partake.
Other stars to suspend their vanity for the sake of the campaign have included ITV presenter Ben Shephard, 40, former Westlife crooner Nicky Byrne, 36, TV personality Michelle Heaton, 35, who posed with her daughter Faith, and Olympic gymnast Beth Tweddle, 30.
Singer Rebecca Ferguson, 28, was heavily made up in her selfie, and flashed her ample cleavage, while it was hard to believe Vogue Williams' snap hadn't been doctored, judging by the perfection of her skin.
According to GMB's survey - conducted on 2,000 men and 2,000 women - four out of ten women and three out of ten men avoid looking in the mirror due to low self-esteem.
Singer Rebecca Ferguson, 28, was heavily made up in her selfie, and flashed her ample cleavage.
it was hard to believe Vogue Williams' snap hadn't been doctored, judging by the perfection of her skin, but perhaps it was simply good lighting at play.
GMB host Kate Garraway, 47, also posed for a quick snap.
Ben Shephard, 40, shared a similar speedy selfie.
Nearly half of women and almost a third of men are unhappy with the way they look, according to the poll, and their weight was the number one thing both sexes would like to change.
The survey also questioned 1,000 children aged eight to 17 on their self-esteem and found that 79 per cent were happy with the way they looked, and over half took selfies.
Despite this, a third of women worried they were passing on body confidence issues to their children and 41 per cent of children did not think their mother was happy with the way she looked.
Worryingly, it was also found that 15 per cent of women and a fifth of men had cropped, filtered, or retouched pictures of their children.
Founder of the SelfEsteem Team, Natasha Devon (pictured), was delighted with the response from her campaign.
Submissions also poured in from viewers, including Leyla Carter (left) Chloe Jervis (right)
Charlotte Hobbs (left) admits she usually takes ten selfies before settling on the best one, while Jackie Brown (right) was also stepping out of her comfort zone. | Celebrities are snapping selfies of themselves without makeup in an effort to raise awareness about the lack of self-esteem among youth. Nearly half of women and a third of men are unhappy with the way they look according to recent polls. Nearly 20% of kids 8-17 are unhappy with their appearance. |
58b81f0f9fa34aeea9f49e9c97241063 | Celebrities are putting their first face forward by snapping just one selfie and sharing it unfiltered on social media in aid of a new campaign dubbed #SelfieEsteem.
Female stars including Nancy Dell'Olio, Josie Gibson, Jamelia and Susanna Reid have all stepped up to the plate for Good Morning Britain's initiative, which launched today, as well as male contenders including Piers Morgan and Richard Madeley.
According to a survey conducted by the ITV breakfast show, women take an average of six selfies before posting one online and men take four, such is the pressure to look their very best on social media.
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Good Morning Britain presenter Susanna Reid, 44, shared her first unfiltered selfie (pictured) in aid of the #SelfieEsteem, which celebrates women as they are.
Speaking on the show earlier this morning, former Big Brother star Ms Gibson, 30, said: 'I take about 100 [selfies] before I get the right one. Yeah about 100, and then I’ve started adding filters these days.'
She continued: 'I don’t think I’m the only person in the country who has suffered from low self-esteem.
'I know that some of the most beautiful women have got no self-esteem at all and when you’ve got low self-esteem it doesn’t just ruin relationships, it also affects your life.
'I’ve not gone for so many opportunities because I have had such low self-esteem at the time. I’ve been invited to amazing events and I’ve not gone because I’ve couldn’t find anything to wear.
Nancy Dell'Olio, 53, puckered up for her close-range selfie.
Ex-Big Brother star Josie Gibson, 30, (pictured) uploaded her selfie in aid of the campaign and admitted, 'I’ve not gone for so many opportunities because I have had such low self-esteem at the time'
Singer Jamelia, 34, flashed her best smile as she invited others to follow her example.
Former TOWIE star Lydia Rose Bright, 25, looked radiant in her unfiltered snap.
Ms Gibson added: 'I’ve got such low-self esteem and you compare yourself to all these people are in their nice little bodycons [dresses], looking great and you think "oh I don’t belong there."'
GMB presenter Susanna Reid, 44, who also shared her first unfiltered selfie in support of the campaign, said: 'It makes me so upset to hear someone beautiful and fabulous and wonderful saying that.
'No-one should be saying I don’t want to go out because I’m so worried about how I look.'
Ms Reid captioned her photo: 'We're encouraging you to post the first unfiltered selfie for @gmb #SelfieEsteem campaign (hair & make-up allowed)."'
MailOnline's US Editor-at-Large Piers Morgan grinned his way through his submission.
TV personality Michelle Heaton, 35, threw a matching pose with her daughter Faith.
Former Westlife hunk Nicky Byrne, 36, looked more than happy to partake.
Other stars to suspend their vanity for the sake of the campaign have included ITV presenter Ben Shephard, 40, former Westlife crooner Nicky Byrne, 36, TV personality Michelle Heaton, 35, who posed with her daughter Faith, and Olympic gymnast Beth Tweddle, 30.
Singer Rebecca Ferguson, 28, was heavily made up in her selfie, and flashed her ample cleavage, while it was hard to believe Vogue Williams' snap hadn't been doctored, judging by the perfection of her skin.
According to GMB's survey - conducted on 2,000 men and 2,000 women - four out of ten women and three out of ten men avoid looking in the mirror due to low self-esteem.
Singer Rebecca Ferguson, 28, was heavily made up in her selfie, and flashed her ample cleavage.
it was hard to believe Vogue Williams' snap hadn't been doctored, judging by the perfection of her skin, but perhaps it was simply good lighting at play.
GMB host Kate Garraway, 47, also posed for a quick snap.
Ben Shephard, 40, shared a similar speedy selfie.
Nearly half of women and almost a third of men are unhappy with the way they look, according to the poll, and their weight was the number one thing both sexes would like to change.
The survey also questioned 1,000 children aged eight to 17 on their self-esteem and found that 79 per cent were happy with the way they looked, and over half took selfies.
Despite this, a third of women worried they were passing on body confidence issues to their children and 41 per cent of children did not think their mother was happy with the way she looked.
Worryingly, it was also found that 15 per cent of women and a fifth of men had cropped, filtered, or retouched pictures of their children.
Founder of the SelfEsteem Team, Natasha Devon (pictured), was delighted with the response from her campaign.
Submissions also poured in from viewers, including Leyla Carter (left) Chloe Jervis (right)
Charlotte Hobbs (left) admits she usually takes ten selfies before settling on the best one, while Jackie Brown (right) was also stepping out of her comfort zone. | Surveys conducted by GMB found that low self-esteem is a prevalent issue that negatively impacts both genders. In an effort to combat low self-esteem, GMB started the #SelfieEsteem campaign on social media. In it, they encouraged celebrities and viewers to post unedited pictures of themselves. |
2c80f9196b654048b01397ebd52d3518 | A Hertfordshire council is buying in water from a local landscaping company so that a town fountain can be switched on for Jubilee celebrations.
The Coronation Fountain, a landmark in Welwyn Garden City, had to be turned off due to the hosepipe ban.
However, the council is now paying £450 to fill it up again, so that the town looks its best for key 2012 events.
It will be working on the 4 and 5 June and when the Olympic torch relay passes through the borough on 8 July.
The fountain on Parkway in the town was built to celebrate the Queen's accession to the throne in 1952.
It is supplied by an underground tank, but had to be switched off after the water level dropped and could not be refilled.
The council is buying water from a landscaping firm which already supplies water from a natural lake source, to maintain the borough's open spaces.
It cannot be drunk so is permitted under the hosepipe ban regulations.
Council chief executive, Michel Saminaden, said: "They have told us that there is an abundance of water in this lake so we are probably doing them a favour by taking it."
Mr Saminaden added that the council decided against asking the Veolia water company for a special dispensation.
"I thought that wasn't the right thing to do because we would be using precious water," he said.
"What we are doing now is using water that is surplus and we have been told categorically that there is no problem in using it. This is a better all round sustainable solution.
"I am extremely pleased that we have been able to find a solution which will enable everybody to see the fountain in all its glory on the occasion of these two great celebrations." | The Coronation Fountain in Welwyn Garden City was turned off because of a hosepipe ban due to a water level drop. However, the council found a sustainable solution to fill it up again and restore its former glory by paying a landscape firm to get the water from an abundant natural lake source. |
2c80f9196b654048b01397ebd52d3518 | A Hertfordshire council is buying in water from a local landscaping company so that a town fountain can be switched on for Jubilee celebrations.
The Coronation Fountain, a landmark in Welwyn Garden City, had to be turned off due to the hosepipe ban.
However, the council is now paying £450 to fill it up again, so that the town looks its best for key 2012 events.
It will be working on the 4 and 5 June and when the Olympic torch relay passes through the borough on 8 July.
The fountain on Parkway in the town was built to celebrate the Queen's accession to the throne in 1952.
It is supplied by an underground tank, but had to be switched off after the water level dropped and could not be refilled.
The council is buying water from a landscaping firm which already supplies water from a natural lake source, to maintain the borough's open spaces.
It cannot be drunk so is permitted under the hosepipe ban regulations.
Council chief executive, Michel Saminaden, said: "They have told us that there is an abundance of water in this lake so we are probably doing them a favour by taking it."
Mr Saminaden added that the council decided against asking the Veolia water company for a special dispensation.
"I thought that wasn't the right thing to do because we would be using precious water," he said.
"What we are doing now is using water that is surplus and we have been told categorically that there is no problem in using it. This is a better all round sustainable solution.
"I am extremely pleased that we have been able to find a solution which will enable everybody to see the fountain in all its glory on the occasion of these two great celebrations." | A Hertfordshire council is buying water from a local landscaping firm to turn on the town's Coronation fountain. The fountain will be running on June 4th and 5th when the Olympic torch runs through the city. The water comes from a surplus that is nonpotable. |
2c80f9196b654048b01397ebd52d3518 | A Hertfordshire council is buying in water from a local landscaping company so that a town fountain can be switched on for Jubilee celebrations.
The Coronation Fountain, a landmark in Welwyn Garden City, had to be turned off due to the hosepipe ban.
However, the council is now paying £450 to fill it up again, so that the town looks its best for key 2012 events.
It will be working on the 4 and 5 June and when the Olympic torch relay passes through the borough on 8 July.
The fountain on Parkway in the town was built to celebrate the Queen's accession to the throne in 1952.
It is supplied by an underground tank, but had to be switched off after the water level dropped and could not be refilled.
The council is buying water from a landscaping firm which already supplies water from a natural lake source, to maintain the borough's open spaces.
It cannot be drunk so is permitted under the hosepipe ban regulations.
Council chief executive, Michel Saminaden, said: "They have told us that there is an abundance of water in this lake so we are probably doing them a favour by taking it."
Mr Saminaden added that the council decided against asking the Veolia water company for a special dispensation.
"I thought that wasn't the right thing to do because we would be using precious water," he said.
"What we are doing now is using water that is surplus and we have been told categorically that there is no problem in using it. This is a better all round sustainable solution.
"I am extremely pleased that we have been able to find a solution which will enable everybody to see the fountain in all its glory on the occasion of these two great celebrations." | To ensure that the town's fountain is switched on in time for the Jubilee, the Hertfordshire council will purchase water. The town is paying £425 for the water to fill the fountain back up to its proper operating levels. |
fd3b3290114f481388e56dd43b873253 | It's one of the best loved books in American literature, but To Kill a Mockingbird was also a one-hit wonder.
Harper Lee's classic was published 50 years ago this summer and it remains the only novel she ever wrote.
Lee, 84, has never explained why she stopped writing.
She doesn't give interviews - "Hell, no" was her response to a request several decades ago - and that silence has only added to the intrigue.
But her close friend Thomas Lane Butts, a retired minister in her hometown, Monroeville, Alabama, says she once told him the reason.
Sitting on a pew in the Methodist church which the Lee family still attends, he described to me how she suddenly brought the subject up one night over dinner in New York.
"She asked me, 'You ever wonder why I didn't write anything else?' And I said, 'Along with several million other people, yes, I had wondered about that.' And she said, 'Well, what do you think?'"
Speaking in his slow southern drawl, the Rev Butts, who just turned 80, suggested to her that she had already written a great book and therefore didn't need to compete with herself.
"And when I got through she said, 'You're all wrong.' I said, 'Alright, smart Alec. You tell me.' She said, 'I would not go through all the deprivation of privacy through which I went for this book again for any amount of money.'
"And she said, 'I did not need to write another book. I said what I wanted to say in that book.'"
Harper Lee called it a simple tale about the "conflict of the human soul" and Monroeville, Alabama, is where she drew her inspiration.
The story depicts the segregated South of her childhood, during the Depression. It was published at the height of the civil rights struggle.
The Rev Butts grew up 10 miles outside Monroeville. By the late 1950s, he says, he was a "fuzzy-cheeked young preacher" campaigning for an end to segregation.
He had met Martin Luther King Jr and signed a petition to boycott buses. The Ku Klux Klan had left a burning cross on his front lawn.
He says To Kill a Mockingbird was not well received in Monroeville when it was published.
"The people who were hard racist did not like it because of the implication of the book," the Rev Butts told me.
"The book revealed racism and that always frightens a racist - when you pull the cover off them.
"Those of us who stood up for civil rights were much encouraged by the book because in a very skilful and subtle way it addressed itself for justice."
But these days, the Rev Butts says, there is enormous civic pride in Monroeville.
The old courthouse, which Hollywood re-created for the film, now houses a museum to Harper Lee and the town's other literary icon, Truman Capote.
Capote was a childhood friend of hers and is thought to be the inspiration for the Dill character in To Kill a Mockingbird.
The town's residents often try to protect Lee, allowing her to live a normal life instead of being hounded by fans or bothered with prying questions.
"Being famous I'm sure is a lot of fun for a year or two. But after a while it gets old," the Rev Butts says. "She is not a recluse but she does hide from publicity." | Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird was a one-hit wonder and remains the only book she ever published. She is not a recluse but never gives interviews and hides from publicity. The author has never said why she stopped writing after the best-loved book was published. |
fd3b3290114f481388e56dd43b873253 | It's one of the best loved books in American literature, but To Kill a Mockingbird was also a one-hit wonder.
Harper Lee's classic was published 50 years ago this summer and it remains the only novel she ever wrote.
Lee, 84, has never explained why she stopped writing.
She doesn't give interviews - "Hell, no" was her response to a request several decades ago - and that silence has only added to the intrigue.
But her close friend Thomas Lane Butts, a retired minister in her hometown, Monroeville, Alabama, says she once told him the reason.
Sitting on a pew in the Methodist church which the Lee family still attends, he described to me how she suddenly brought the subject up one night over dinner in New York.
"She asked me, 'You ever wonder why I didn't write anything else?' And I said, 'Along with several million other people, yes, I had wondered about that.' And she said, 'Well, what do you think?'"
Speaking in his slow southern drawl, the Rev Butts, who just turned 80, suggested to her that she had already written a great book and therefore didn't need to compete with herself.
"And when I got through she said, 'You're all wrong.' I said, 'Alright, smart Alec. You tell me.' She said, 'I would not go through all the deprivation of privacy through which I went for this book again for any amount of money.'
"And she said, 'I did not need to write another book. I said what I wanted to say in that book.'"
Harper Lee called it a simple tale about the "conflict of the human soul" and Monroeville, Alabama, is where she drew her inspiration.
The story depicts the segregated South of her childhood, during the Depression. It was published at the height of the civil rights struggle.
The Rev Butts grew up 10 miles outside Monroeville. By the late 1950s, he says, he was a "fuzzy-cheeked young preacher" campaigning for an end to segregation.
He had met Martin Luther King Jr and signed a petition to boycott buses. The Ku Klux Klan had left a burning cross on his front lawn.
He says To Kill a Mockingbird was not well received in Monroeville when it was published.
"The people who were hard racist did not like it because of the implication of the book," the Rev Butts told me.
"The book revealed racism and that always frightens a racist - when you pull the cover off them.
"Those of us who stood up for civil rights were much encouraged by the book because in a very skilful and subtle way it addressed itself for justice."
But these days, the Rev Butts says, there is enormous civic pride in Monroeville.
The old courthouse, which Hollywood re-created for the film, now houses a museum to Harper Lee and the town's other literary icon, Truman Capote.
Capote was a childhood friend of hers and is thought to be the inspiration for the Dill character in To Kill a Mockingbird.
The town's residents often try to protect Lee, allowing her to live a normal life instead of being hounded by fans or bothered with prying questions.
"Being famous I'm sure is a lot of fun for a year or two. But after a while it gets old," the Rev Butts says. "She is not a recluse but she does hide from publicity." | Author of the classic book To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee describes why she never wrote another book. Lee, 84, cited a lack of privacy and saying everything she needed to say in her one book as the reasons. Her book was disliked in her hometown. |
98feb1c98a6c4dd7940b1efb2c222579 | Imran Uddin used a keyboard spying device to hack into university computers and up his exam marks.
A student who tried to cheat his way to a better degree by hacking into the university computers and changing his marks has been jailed.
Imran Uddin, 25, who was studying science, bought keyboard spying equipment on the internet which he then connected to a number of university computers.
Through the software, which recorded key strokes, he was able to find out the passwords that staff were typing in to log in to the computers. He then used those passwords to log on to their accounts himself.
After hacking into the university computer system, Uddin changed the marks that he had been given for previous assessments.
On one paper, he upped his mark from 57 per cent, a lower second grade, to 73 per cent, a first.
He carried out his plot using keyboard ‘shadowing’ devices which look like a USB stick and can be bought for as little as £49 on the internet.
He plugged these into the back of a number of staff computers at the University of Birmingham where he was studying.
The device records everything which is typed into the keyboard and saves the data. Uddin, from Birmingham, was in his final year of a bio-science course.
At the time of the hacking he was expected to achieve a 2:2 degree.
He was jailed for four months at Birmingham Crown Court on Thursday after admitting six charges which were in breach of the Computer Misuse Act.
Sentencing him, Judge James Burbridge said it was unclear why Uddin had tried to change his grades.
Judge Burbridge said: ‘For reasons not entirely clear to me, whether it was monetary, or pride, or a desire to outperform others, you decided to cheat and you formed a settled intention to do that. I consider your actions were planned and persistent.’
He warned that Uddin’s behaviour could have undermined public confidence in the degree system. The judge added that he felt compelled to put Uddin behind bars as a ‘deterrence’ to others.
Judge Burbridge said: ‘This kind of conduct undermines, or has the potential to undermine, public confidence in the degree system, set up by this university. I have decided I cannot pass a suspended sentence because there needs to be an element of deterrence.’
Uddin was found out after staff discovered the devices when several computers were upgraded on October 7 last year.
When they removed the protective casing from the computers in the bio-science building, the spying devices were discovered.
Staff then began checking other university computer equipment and a further three spying devices were found.
Madhu Rai, prosecuting, said: ‘It is effectively a case where the defendant has hacked into a number of computers at the university where he was studying for a degree in bio-science.’
Miss Rai said one tracker had been attached to a computer in a ‘staff only’ area to obtain the password of employee Christine Chapman, who had access to exam grade software.
Uddin (police mugshot, left, and outside court, right), who is married, was yesterday jailed for four months after admitting six breaches to the Computer Misuse Act.
Birmingham Crown Court (pictured) heard how Uddin attached a 'shadowing' keyboard device at the back of a number of university computers in order to steal staff passwords.
An investigation by university staff revealed that Uddin had changed the marks on five pieces of his coursework. His home was searched by police and analysis of his computer revealed that he had carried out searches for keyboard cheating devices on the online marketplace eBay.
Balbir Singh, defending, said Uddin had felt pressure because he was the first person in his family to have gone to university.
As a result of the need he felt to succeed, ‘he could not see clearly’, Mr Singh said.
He added: ‘It is very unlikely that any other university will touch him after this. This is not a case where he was hopelessly failing and was not going to be able to succeed.’ | Imran Uddin has been jailed for four months after staff at Birmingham University discovered keyboard spying devices attached to their computers. Uddin purchased the devices from eBay and attached them to staff computers in order to change his grades. |
98feb1c98a6c4dd7940b1efb2c222579 | Imran Uddin used a keyboard spying device to hack into university computers and up his exam marks.
A student who tried to cheat his way to a better degree by hacking into the university computers and changing his marks has been jailed.
Imran Uddin, 25, who was studying science, bought keyboard spying equipment on the internet which he then connected to a number of university computers.
Through the software, which recorded key strokes, he was able to find out the passwords that staff were typing in to log in to the computers. He then used those passwords to log on to their accounts himself.
After hacking into the university computer system, Uddin changed the marks that he had been given for previous assessments.
On one paper, he upped his mark from 57 per cent, a lower second grade, to 73 per cent, a first.
He carried out his plot using keyboard ‘shadowing’ devices which look like a USB stick and can be bought for as little as £49 on the internet.
He plugged these into the back of a number of staff computers at the University of Birmingham where he was studying.
The device records everything which is typed into the keyboard and saves the data. Uddin, from Birmingham, was in his final year of a bio-science course.
At the time of the hacking he was expected to achieve a 2:2 degree.
He was jailed for four months at Birmingham Crown Court on Thursday after admitting six charges which were in breach of the Computer Misuse Act.
Sentencing him, Judge James Burbridge said it was unclear why Uddin had tried to change his grades.
Judge Burbridge said: ‘For reasons not entirely clear to me, whether it was monetary, or pride, or a desire to outperform others, you decided to cheat and you formed a settled intention to do that. I consider your actions were planned and persistent.’
He warned that Uddin’s behaviour could have undermined public confidence in the degree system. The judge added that he felt compelled to put Uddin behind bars as a ‘deterrence’ to others.
Judge Burbridge said: ‘This kind of conduct undermines, or has the potential to undermine, public confidence in the degree system, set up by this university. I have decided I cannot pass a suspended sentence because there needs to be an element of deterrence.’
Uddin was found out after staff discovered the devices when several computers were upgraded on October 7 last year.
When they removed the protective casing from the computers in the bio-science building, the spying devices were discovered.
Staff then began checking other university computer equipment and a further three spying devices were found.
Madhu Rai, prosecuting, said: ‘It is effectively a case where the defendant has hacked into a number of computers at the university where he was studying for a degree in bio-science.’
Miss Rai said one tracker had been attached to a computer in a ‘staff only’ area to obtain the password of employee Christine Chapman, who had access to exam grade software.
Uddin (police mugshot, left, and outside court, right), who is married, was yesterday jailed for four months after admitting six breaches to the Computer Misuse Act.
Birmingham Crown Court (pictured) heard how Uddin attached a 'shadowing' keyboard device at the back of a number of university computers in order to steal staff passwords.
An investigation by university staff revealed that Uddin had changed the marks on five pieces of his coursework. His home was searched by police and analysis of his computer revealed that he had carried out searches for keyboard cheating devices on the online marketplace eBay.
Balbir Singh, defending, said Uddin had felt pressure because he was the first person in his family to have gone to university.
As a result of the need he felt to succeed, ‘he could not see clearly’, Mr Singh said.
He added: ‘It is very unlikely that any other university will touch him after this. This is not a case where he was hopelessly failing and was not going to be able to succeed.’ | A 25-year-old science student was charged with using shadowing devices purchased on the internet to change his grades. The devices were discovered after the university performed a routine update. |
98feb1c98a6c4dd7940b1efb2c222579 | Imran Uddin used a keyboard spying device to hack into university computers and up his exam marks.
A student who tried to cheat his way to a better degree by hacking into the university computers and changing his marks has been jailed.
Imran Uddin, 25, who was studying science, bought keyboard spying equipment on the internet which he then connected to a number of university computers.
Through the software, which recorded key strokes, he was able to find out the passwords that staff were typing in to log in to the computers. He then used those passwords to log on to their accounts himself.
After hacking into the university computer system, Uddin changed the marks that he had been given for previous assessments.
On one paper, he upped his mark from 57 per cent, a lower second grade, to 73 per cent, a first.
He carried out his plot using keyboard ‘shadowing’ devices which look like a USB stick and can be bought for as little as £49 on the internet.
He plugged these into the back of a number of staff computers at the University of Birmingham where he was studying.
The device records everything which is typed into the keyboard and saves the data. Uddin, from Birmingham, was in his final year of a bio-science course.
At the time of the hacking he was expected to achieve a 2:2 degree.
He was jailed for four months at Birmingham Crown Court on Thursday after admitting six charges which were in breach of the Computer Misuse Act.
Sentencing him, Judge James Burbridge said it was unclear why Uddin had tried to change his grades.
Judge Burbridge said: ‘For reasons not entirely clear to me, whether it was monetary, or pride, or a desire to outperform others, you decided to cheat and you formed a settled intention to do that. I consider your actions were planned and persistent.’
He warned that Uddin’s behaviour could have undermined public confidence in the degree system. The judge added that he felt compelled to put Uddin behind bars as a ‘deterrence’ to others.
Judge Burbridge said: ‘This kind of conduct undermines, or has the potential to undermine, public confidence in the degree system, set up by this university. I have decided I cannot pass a suspended sentence because there needs to be an element of deterrence.’
Uddin was found out after staff discovered the devices when several computers were upgraded on October 7 last year.
When they removed the protective casing from the computers in the bio-science building, the spying devices were discovered.
Staff then began checking other university computer equipment and a further three spying devices were found.
Madhu Rai, prosecuting, said: ‘It is effectively a case where the defendant has hacked into a number of computers at the university where he was studying for a degree in bio-science.’
Miss Rai said one tracker had been attached to a computer in a ‘staff only’ area to obtain the password of employee Christine Chapman, who had access to exam grade software.
Uddin (police mugshot, left, and outside court, right), who is married, was yesterday jailed for four months after admitting six breaches to the Computer Misuse Act.
Birmingham Crown Court (pictured) heard how Uddin attached a 'shadowing' keyboard device at the back of a number of university computers in order to steal staff passwords.
An investigation by university staff revealed that Uddin had changed the marks on five pieces of his coursework. His home was searched by police and analysis of his computer revealed that he had carried out searches for keyboard cheating devices on the online marketplace eBay.
Balbir Singh, defending, said Uddin had felt pressure because he was the first person in his family to have gone to university.
As a result of the need he felt to succeed, ‘he could not see clearly’, Mr Singh said.
He added: ‘It is very unlikely that any other university will touch him after this. This is not a case where he was hopelessly failing and was not going to be able to succeed.’ | Imran Uddin, a 25-year-old student at the University of Birmingham, was sentenced to 4 months in prison for hacking into university computers and changing his grades. He bought keyboard spying devices, connected them to several computers to get the passwords, and logged into the accounts himself. Later he was found out after several computer upgrades. |
b6c205d481654a9887690b363229dba7 | Britain's Adam Peaty defended his 50m breaststroke title with another stunning display to complete a World Aquatics Championships double-double.
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Peaty, 22, who also retained his 100m title on Monday, finished in 25.99 seconds - just short of the world record 25.95 he set in the semi-final.
Brazil's Joao Gomes Junior took silver and South African Cameron van der Burgh was third.
"I'm feeling very good. I'm so, so happy with my displays," Peaty said.
He was speaking to the BBC after taking part in the 4x100m mixed medley relay final, in which defending champions Britain finished fifth. USA won in a world record time of three minutes 38.56 seconds. Australia took silver, with China and Canada in joint third.
It was a different story in his individual race, earlier. Peaty was level with his rivals in the first few strokes before he pulled away after 30 metres. The City of Derby swimmer appeared set to break the world record for a third time in two days, but narrowly fell short.
The Briton suggested "equilibrium" was key to his successes.
"I'm a massive believer that all areas of your life need to be equal for you to perform at your best," he added. "Lifestyle, family and friendships. If one is out then you are not going to be at that level."
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Van der Burgh, the 2009 and 2013 world champion in the 50m breaststroke, paid tribute to Peaty's powerful performances.
"I think I have to retire and give it a few years and come back when he's older," joked the 29-year-old.
"It's really impressive. It's not even breaststroke anymore, he's swimming like a new kind of stroke, like a metamorphosis between [butter]fly and breast.
Former British swimmer Mark Foster told BBC Sport that Peaty's display was "immense".
"There not enough words to describe how good he is," he said.
"Under 26 seconds for the second time - only four hundredths of a second off his best time. It was, again, an immense swim."
Karen Pickering, British 2001 world 4x200m freestyle gold medallist
We all know how strong Peaty is.
In his semi-final he was a little bit lower in the water as he set his world record. Because he's not quite as high as he is in the 100m, he has a quicker turnover. He can keep that up for 50m, but not for a 100m - that's why he went to 25.95 seconds.
You couldn't do that in the 100m because of the build-up of lactic acid. But because it's Adam Peaty, he might be able to manage that in a year.
Watch the full interview on BBC Radio 5 live's page
Rebecca Adlington, double Olympic champion at Beijing 2008
He is the poster boy for swimming across the world, not just in Britain
Adam gets the biggest cheer from the crowd for a non-Hungarian for the whole meet.
Everyone wants to see him do well because he's such a likeable character.
No-one is even close to him, so you ask yourself how much more can he improve.
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Welsh swimmer Georgia Davies booked her place in Thursday's 50m backstroke final with a British record time of 27.49 seconds.
"I've not done a PB in this since the Glasgow Commonwealths in 2014," she told BBC Sport. "The depth here is incredible. You can't leave anything behind."
Brazil's Etien Medeiros was the fastest qualifier, winning the second semi-final in 27.18.
Duncan Scott reached the 100m freestyle final after finishing third in his semi-final in a time of 48.10 seconds.
The 20-year-old finished behind winner Frenchman Mehdy Metella, who touched home in 47.65. United States swimmer Caleb Dressel won the other semi-final in 47.66.
Team-mate Max Litchfield reached the 200 individual medley (IM) final after finishing second in his semi-final in a time of 1:56.70. He is third fastest overall, with Japan's Kosuke Hagino, who won 400m IM gold in Rio, leading the pack after recording 1:56.04.
"We're always in the mix - it'll be a tough race," Litchfield told BBC Sport. "It'll be nice to get a little bit of revenge after finishing fourth in the 400m IM at Rio 2016."
South Africa's Chad le Clos stormed to victory in the 200m butterfly final in one minute 53.33 seconds. Home favourite Laszlo Cseh closed the gap to the London 2012 champion in the final few metres, but had to settle for silver.
Le Clos was in tears during the medal ceremony. His father Bert, who became a celebrity because of his interviews during London 2012, and mother Geraldine were present in the Budapest arena. The pair had been receiving treatment for cancer.
"Last year, my family's health is more important than gold medals," said the 25-year-old swimmer, who finished fourth in the event at Rio 2016.
The biggest shock of the evening came in the 200m freestyle final where United States' Katie Ledecky lost for the first time in 13 finals when she was beaten to gold by Italy's Federica Pellegrini. | The results are in for the World Aquatics Championships. Most notable is Adam Peaty from Britain who successfully defended multiple titles and maintained the support of his peers. Overall, the swimmers felt that competition was strong but there was lots of support and encouragement. |