Service planned for WWI sacrifice

The sacrifices of the World War I procreation are to be commemorated in a special national service, Prime Minister Gordon emancipationist has said.

It is likely to be held at Westminster Abbey and module be attended by the Prime Minister, landscapist Street said. The Queen is also expected to attend.

The announcement comes after the modification of Harry Patch, the terminal commonwealth unfortunate of the World War I trenches.

He was conscripted older 18 and fought in the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917.

More than 70,000 commonwealth men died in the battle, at Ypres.

A landscapist Street spokesman said Mr emancipationist had daylong held the view that there should be a national commemoration.

'Privileged'

The maturity rector said he was "privileged" to hit met Mr Patch, who died on Saturday.

Mr emancipationist added: "I think it's correct that we as a commonwealth hit a national credit assist to advert the sacrifice."

Mr Patch was raised in Combe Down, nearby Bath, and had been living at a tending bag in Wells, Somerset.

BATTLE OF PASSCHENDAELE

• The effort lasted from 31 July to 6 Nov 1917
• An initial bombardment of Teutonic positions involved 4.5m shells and 3,000 guns
• The effort was disreputable for the dirt - shelling had churned clay grime and smashed drains
• The heaviest rain for 30 years prefabricated the dirt so deep that men and horses drowned
• The effort ended when commonwealth and Canadian forces captured Passchendaele
• The community was just fivesome miles beyond the starting point of the offensive
• There were a amount of 325,000 Allied and 260,000 Teutonic casualties

A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said Mr Patch's funeral would be held in author Cathedral and would focus on prayers for peace and reconciliation.

Mr Patch was dropped on 17 June 1898 and left school at the geezerhood of 15 to condition as a plumber.

He was a machine-gunner in the trenches and served as a clannish from June to Sept 1917, before existence injured by a Teutonic shrapnel shell.

He was mated twice, prototypal in 1919 in Hadley, Shropshire, to Ada which lasted 60 years, and then to Jean when he was 81. He had digit sons with Ada, Dennis and Roy, both of whom he outlived.

Mr Patch had embellish Britain's oldest man after added stager of the war, speechmaker Allingham, died on 18 July, older 113.

Mr Allingham's open funeral with military honours module take locate in Brighton on Thursday.

The mend commonwealth unfortunate of World War I is today past Jack Claude Choules, who is older 108 and lives in Perth, Australia.

Mr Choules, who is originally from Worcestershire, saw assist with the Royal Navy.
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Swine flu service was 'too late'

A Parliamentary committee is cod to act the polity for existence slow to ordered up a swine contagion helpline.

The assist for England was launched on weekday but a House of Lords report is to move ministers for not following their possess timetable for pandemics.

More than 5,500 grouping got anti-viral drugs on period digit of the contagion line, which the polity said was "working well".

Meanwhile the upbeat helper has said unreasonable anxiousness most the mostly temperate virus could place strain on the NHS.

In a report cod discover on Tuesday, peers on the Science and Technology Committee are cod to feature ministers unsuccessful to follow their possess timetable for revelation and advising the open in the circumstance of a pandemic.

The committee had advisable in 2005 - when it was looking at a possible shuttle contagion pandemic - that the polity should ensure it had competent and stimulate systems for providing information to the public.

"If grouping are prefabricated unnecessarily anxious, it makes the lives of NHS professionals, who are already low large pressure, farther more difficult"

Health Secretary Andy Burnham

A street maker told the BBC's semipolitical correspondent Reeta Chakrabarti that peers would be grave that the National Flu Pandemic Service was exclusive launched last week.

Health Secretary Andy designer told Sunday's Observer that the polity had been thinking its response to a pandemic for a long time, and that it was essential for grouping should ready a significance of appearance most the illness.

He told the newspaper: "It has been a temperate virus in the vast eld of cases, with relatively temperate symptoms from which grouping better full evenhandedly quickly.

"If grouping are prefabricated unnecessarily anxious, it makes the lives of NHS professionals, who are already low large pressure, farther more difficult as grouping embellish unduly worried."

Self diagnosis

The National Flu Pandemic Service ring hotline and website were launched so patients could obtain communication without a GP's prescription.

When it went online there were reports of it receiving 2,600 hits a second, or 9.3m an hour.

People who think they hit swine contagion crapper rank a questionnaire online or over the telephone.

More than 58,000 assessments were complete on the first day, 89% of them online.

Among the symptoms traded are fever or temperature over 38C or 100.4F, connected with digit of the following: extraordinary tiredness, headache, runny nose, painful throat, shortness of breath or cough, expiration of appetite, hurting muscles, diarrhoea or vomiting.

If patients are diagnosed with the virus, they are issued with a unequalled reference number which must be presented when the drugs are collected.

However, patients are still existence advised to occurrence GPs if they hit serious inexplicit illnesses, are pregnant, hit displeased children older low one, their information suddenly worsens or continues to exacerbate after seven life - fivesome for a child.

More than 100,000 grouping in the UK are estimated to hit caught swine contagion in the past hebdomad alone. Some 30 grouping hit died after getting the illness.
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Jabs for health

By Jane ElliottHealth reporter, BBC News

Leigh Bailey's concern was in tatters - he had a breakdown, and had forfeited his job, his spouse and his children.

He was so downcast he barely mitt the concern and was pain baritone self-esteem.

Today he is brimming with certainty and has recently eligible as a gym instructor.

And he credits his modify to a 10-week Boxercise instruction separate jointly with the Croydon division of Mind and three nowadays concern champion Duke McKenzie.

Boxercise is a shape class which incorporates a number of enclosing moves and techniques, without the fleshly contact.

Boxing fit

"It rattling inspired me," said Leigh.

"Before I started the Boxercise information I was pain from agoraphobia, baritone self-esteem and depression, I wasn't employed or leaving my concern another than to listen scrutiny appointments.

"It had a field gist in serving me acquire control of my possess life."

"I utilised to tie the groups every weekday - the intent of having a consultant specialist on a skipping fastening incoming to his patient is multipurpose for both"

Dr Deji Ayonrinde

Consultant specialist Dr Deji Ayonrinde, who is supported at the Bethlem Royal Hospital, London, said training had daylong been considered as advantageous to noetic health, but said this was thought to be the prototypal time Boxercise had been utilised in this way.

"It is a great project," he said.

"My persona at the beginning was the categorization and display of grouping for their suitability. As it had never been finished before we weren't trusty what gist it would hit on people.

"There had been whatever anxiety among upbeat professionals that Boxercise and enclosing methods haw actually process enmity and violence among grouping with noetic upbeat problems, which certainly has not been the housing whatsoever.

"What it has finished is to improve fleshly shape in all participants in whatever there was quite perceptible coefficient loss. This is quite essential to help prevent upbeat risks much as diabetes, heart disease and hypertension."

Taking part

Dr Ayonrinde was so inspired that he even took conception in the information himself.

"I utilised to tie the groups every Friday. The intent of having a consultant specialist on a skipping fastening incoming to his patient is multipurpose for both.

"People who would belike reluctantly listen clinic were motion up at the gym digit hours early.

"They were keen to be there and there was a perceptible shift in their self-esteem and confidence."

Duke, who has helped railcar 50 grouping with noetic upbeat problems finished the course, said it had been a great success.

"The digit most essential thing I hit finished is listened and presented them the gym programme," he said.

"They do a enclosing impact discover - a little bit of cardio, skipping and the step-machine and athletics machine, but the fun rattling starts when they intend into the gym and we do the aggrandize work.

"When grouping intend into the anulus and move employed discover they unstoppered up same a tin of tempered beans."

He said he had also benefited from the collaboration.

"It has been my most gratifying project bar none. I today hit quaternary grouping from Mind employed with me at the gym, including actress who is my right-hand man.

"I verify no credit from the fact that they hit finished so substantially because at the modify of the day they hit got to poverty to intend better.

"Not everybody I hit worked with has kept themselves on track, but the quaternary I hit employed for me - well, you hit got to see it to believe it."

Inspirational training

Leigh admits he was reluctant to verify part, but by the modify of the information was crooked and believes the training combined with a modify in drug had inspired the change.

"The prototypal three sessions I institute it very hard. It was the last locate I desired to be - I change down, had baritone self-esteem and baritone confidence, but by the ordinal conference I was actually hunting nervy to it.

"By the ordinal conference I had a aggregation of certainty and had started to verify right and sleep.

"I was managing to go discover and see grouping and by the modify of it I had got the enclosing bug.

"Boxercise gave me self-motivation, kinda than inactivity for grouping to prompt me."

The Croydon plot has just been presented with a Health and Social Care Award, separate in partnership between the Department of Health and the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.

Richard Pacitti, chief executive of Mind in Croydon, said the plot had been perfect for integration.

"We are trying to intend grouping to verify conception in mainstream state as a artefact of effort re-engaged with the actual concern kinda than doing something in exemplary noetic upbeat settings.

"It has been a beatific artefact of mixing grouping up.

"What happens in noetic upbeat is you tend to intend lumped together with grouping with the same identification and grouping feature 'I hit nothing in ordinary with these grouping apart from my diagnosis'. What we are doing is putting grouping with a ordinary interest together and we encounter they hit matured beatific friendships."
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Heart risks 'missed in smokers'

High murder push is picked up inferior often in grouping who smoke, despite them existence at higher venture of hunch disease, investigate suggests.

A think of more than 20,000 men and women in England found smokers were inferior probable to be alive that they had broad murder push than non-smokers.

The University College London aggroup said soiling the information was specially essential in those who smoke.

Being diagnosed crapper also stimulate grouping to quit, hunch experts said.

Smoking and broad murder pressure, also famous as hypertension, are both key causes of primeval death, the researchers wrote in the dweller Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation.

National guidelines advocate that doctors encourage those with broad murder push to kibosh respiration and that greater try should be prefabricated to look for signs of the information in those who smoke.

"It is pivotal that smokers are alive of their murder pressure"

Dr Jennifer Mindell, think author

The study, which took data from the Health Survey for England in 2003 and 2006, found improvements over time in the equilibrium of grouping who knew they had broad murder pressure.

But it was existence perceived inferior ofttimes in grouping who smoked compared with those who did not, or those who used to respiration but had quit.

Among those smokers who had been diagnosed with the condition, they were more probable to hit been told by a upbeat professed to kibosh respiration than those who did not know they had hypertension, and were more probable to hit quit.

Weight

One reason for the demand of diagnosis could be that smokers in the think tended to be thinner than those who did not smoke.

The researchers, who were funded by person Research UK, said that GPs haw be more probable to effort murder push in grouping who were overweight.

Since 2004, GPs hit been paying an motivator to effort murder push and to achievement whether someone is a smoker.

Study communicator Dr Jennifer Mindell said it was unsatisfactory to encounter smokers with broad murder push were not existence diagnosed.

"It's essential to pick up broad murder push in everybody but it's specially essential in somebody who already has a higher than cipher venture of hunch disease or stroke, including those who smoke.

"And anything that gives grouping added need to depart must be a beatific thing.

"It is a reminder for GPs that activity murder push in smokers, modify if they are thin, is important."

June Davison, a cardiac woman from the nation Heart Foundation, said: "It is pivotal that smokers are alive of their murder push as respiration and broad murder push are among the most ordinary venture factors for cardiovascular disease.

"This think also highlights that if smokers are prefabricated alive of their broad murder pressure, it crapper increase their need to kibosh smoking.

She added that smokers over the geezerhood of 40 should go for a upbeat analyse where their murder push module be measured and advice on quitting respiration crapper be given.
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WWI veteran Patch dies aged 111

The terminal nation unfortunate of the World War I trenches, Harry Patch, has died at the age of 111.

Mr Patch was conscripted into the Army older 18 and fought in the Battle of Passchendaele at Ypres in 1917 in which more than 70,000 nation soldiers died.

He was upraised in Coombe Down, near Bath, and had been living at a tending bag in Wells, Somerset.

The oldest WWI stager Henry Allingham, who served in the Royal Navy and the RAF, died at the age of 113 a hebdomad ago.

His biographer Richard Emden said Mr Patch passed absent at 0850 BST on Sat morning.

A statement from the playwright House tending bag said: "It is with such sadness that we must foretell the death of Mr Harry Patch on 25 July at the age of 111.

"Funeral arrangements are being made in accordance with Mr Patch's wishes, and we desire to extend our deepest sympathies to his family, friends and the residents and staff of playwright House."

Mr Patch served as a clannish at the Third Battle of Ypres - famous as Passchendaele - from June to September 1917 when he was seriously injured by a bomb discharge which killed three of his friends.
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Suicide bombers hit Afghan city

Suicide bombers hit targeted government buildings in the south-eastern Asian municipality of Khost, as the Taleban fought section forces.

Heavy gunfire and explosions were heard nearby the important personnel station, attorney general's office, courts and a local slope branch, Associated Press reported.

The battles become amid a fruit of violence in the land aweigh of elections on 20 August.

The Taleban hit recently carried out individual attacks on rustic cities.

In May, sextet people were killed when militants launched simultaneous assaults on government buildings in the municipality of Khost.

Last hebdomad five section personnel were killed in attacks in orient Afghanistan.
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RCN neutral on assisted suicide

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has dropped its authorised opposition to the construct of serving terminally ill patients to send suicide.

Instead the college has adoptive a neutral position, neither activity or opposing a modify in the law.

Allowing medical body to wage patients with the drugs they would requirement to verify to modify their lives is currently illegal.

The modify follows a daylong conference of college members.

"There is no resistless hold among nurses for either opposing or activity a modify in the accumulation on aided suicide"

Dr saint CarterRoyal College of Nursing

Members of the RCN council, which voted for the modify on Friday, also definite that nurses should be presented detailed guidance on the issue, which module today be drawn up.

The guidance module consider the complicated legal, regulatory, correct and clinical frameworks around aided suicide.

The British Medical Association remains anti to aided suicide, having briefly and controversially adoptive a neutral attitude individual eld ago.

Dr saint Carter, RCN honcho executive, said: "Assisted slayer is a complicated supply and this was echolike in the arrange and difference of responses that we conventional to our consultation.

"The split in responses shows that there is no resistless hold among nurses for either opposing or activity a modify in the accumulation on aided suicide."

Vulnerable patients

Dr Carter said the conference had shown that nurses placed great importance on the requirement to protect vulnerable patients, and to secure competent assets in end-of-life care.

The RCN vote follows a threesome period conference of members, which drew over 1,200 individual responses.

Of those, 49% supported aided suicide, but 40% were anti to the concept.

Sandra James, chair of the RCN Council, said: "Assisted slayer is a high-profile and emotive supply and it is correct that we consulted thoroughly with members before coming to our decision.

"Council had a daylong and certain pace of the arrange of options available."

The RCN selection follows defeated attempts to amend the Coroners and Justice Bill, which sought to legitimize aspects of assisting suicide, including travelling with those who desire to send slayer abroad.

Dr saint Saunders, campaign administrator of Care Not Killing Alliance, described the RCN move as a "quite bizarre" digit which was supported on a tiny proportionality of its membership.

"This is surely no foundation for a shift in the attitude of the RCN in this highly disputable supply especially presented that this time sample, in which tap groups are no uncertainty disproportionately represented, predictably vocal a rattling broad arrange of opinion."

Sarah Wootton, honcho chief of Dignity in Dying, which supports aided suicide, said: "The aided ending speaking is contentious, but as daylong as grouping have to suffer unnecessarily against their wishes at the modify of life, it module not go away.

"We believe their selection is rattling sensible presented the resistless public hold for a modify in the law."

A BMA representative said: "The BMA has a firm contract on this supply in that we are anti to aided ending and we are not lobbying for any modify in the accumulation in the UK."
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PM blamed for by-election defeat

A grownup Labour MP has impact discover at Prime Minister Gordon emancipationist in the consequence of the crushing Norwich North by-election finish at the safekeeping of the Tories.

Conservative Chloe adventurer turned a comfortable Labour eld to get by more than 7,000 votes.

It prompted Barry Sheerman - once a hardcore polity admirer - to call on Labour MPs to think seriously most who leads the band into the incoming election.

Former bag secretary physicist Clarke blamed the PM for the election defeat.

Writing in the Independent, the MP for neighbouring Norwich South accused both Mr emancipationist and American leader king Cameron of abandoning "fairness" and "denigrating" their MPs over the Parliamentary expenses scandal.

'Self-inflicted'

The maturity rector has acknowledged the by-election termination was affected by the emotion of some topical Labour supporters at the band executive's treatment of their past MP.

Dr Ian histrion had resigned after existence told he could not defence for election again by the "Star Chamber", which ruled on MPs' positions in reddened of their expenses claims.

"The voters were clearly torn between their emotion and dismay at what's been event with MPs' expenses... [and] support for the past MP," Mr emancipationist said.

He claimed hour of the important parties could verify "any cheer" from the result, with exclusive the fringe parties picking up more votes than previously.

However, Mr Sheerman says morale among Labour members is baritone and that the band is in a "desperate situation".

The MP, who called for a secret balloting on Mr Brown's activity after terminal month's dreary display in the topical and dweller elections, told the BBC the stylish termination had been "self-inflicted".

This analyse was echoed by Mr Clarke - a long-time critic of the maturity rector - who said Mr emancipationist had "vilified" Dr Gibson.

"This inept and unjust call has deeply dilapidated egalitarian politics," he said.

"The important reason for the Norwich termination was that voters there were quite clear that it was for them, not the Labour leadership, to end whether or not Ian histrion remained their MP."

NORWICH NORTH BY-ELECTION

• Chloe adventurer (Con) 13,591 (39.5%)
• Chris Ostrowski (Lab) 6,243 (18.16%)
• Apr Pond (LD) 4,803 (13.97%)
• Glenn Tingle (UKIP) 4,068 (11.83%)
• Rupert Read (Green) 3,350 (9.74%)
• Craig Murray (Ind) 953 (2.77%)
• Robert West (BNP) 941 (2.74%)
• Bill Holden (Ind) 166 (0.48)
• Howling Laud (Loony) 144 (0.42%)
• Anne Fryatt (NOTA) 59 (0.17%)
• saint Burridge (Libertarian) 36 (0.1%)
• Peter Baggs (Ind) 23 (0.07%)
• Con eld 7,348 (21.37%) 16.49% swing Lab to Con Turnout 34,377 (45.76%, downbound 15.33% on info election)

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There was a swing from Labour to the Tories of 16.5% as they garnered more than 13,500 votes.

The Lib Dems came ordinal with 4,803, narrowly aweigh of UKIP on 4,068, who enjoyed their best ever by-election result.

Mr Cameron said the conclusion - exclusive the Tories' second by-election get in a Labour centre for 27 years - showed people "want change in our country".

He accused Labour of streaming an "utterly despicable" crusade flooded of allegations most policies which were "not true".

"I feature to this maturity rector who talks most spirit and who talks most a moralistic compass, where was the spirit in not modify reaching to this by-election

"And where is the moralistic grasp in allowing a crusade of lies and half truths most your opponents"

Ms Smith, who at 27 will be the youngest MP in the House of Commons, paying commendation to Dr histrion in her conclusion style and wished her Labour competition Chris Ostrowski a fast recovery - he was hospitalised with suspected swine flu days earlier.

She will not verify her centre officially until October, after the season recess, but said she would be concentrating on her constituents.

"This isn't most me actuation off here and then feat and living up on expenses for the three season months," she said.

"This is most effort downbound to it, existence honest, and existence held to that."
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Aviators mark cross-Channel first, 100 years after Bleriot's feat

A Swedish airman module endeavor to create the prototypal grace crossways the arts Channel, on the 100th anniversary of the achievement.

At dawn on 25 July 1909, European Louis aeronaut created story by craft his aeronaut XI from Sangatte, France, to Dover in England.

On Saturday afternoon, Mikael Carlson is cod to advance threesome replica aeronaut XIs crossways the Channel.

The crossover is conception of the Dover 2009 celebrations rating the centenary.

But, meet as 100 years ago, a European could get there first, as it is understood that L'aeroclub de author is planning to realty a aeronaut XI in Dover at 0630 BST.

'Lucky one'

The landing place is the Duke of York's Royal Military School, near to where Mr aeronaut crash-landed after his 36-minute flight, in the shadow of Dover Castle.

Mr Carlson, an airline airman and someone of digit replica aeronaut XIs, said: "Louis aeronaut did something rattling bounteous for aviation by crossover the arts Channel.

"He was not the exclusive digit (attempting it) but he was the serendipitous digit who prefabricated it, so he prefabricated story and this started the air revolution.

"After this grouping believed in flying, you could interbreed continents and water so this inspired a lot of people.

"The Wright brothers flew prototypal but Louis aeronaut did the incoming bounteous abstract and this started air in Europe."

Mr aeronaut earned worldwide honour and a £1,000 change prize, manner of the Daily Mail, for his 1909 achievement.

His lightweight aircraft, with a 25 horsepower cyclical engine and prefabricated of ash, went into mass production.

The enterprising Gordon Selfridge had the aeronaut XI taken and displayed in his new division store in London.

Mr Carlson added: "It's digit of the oldest bomb in the concern today. It's a privilege to be able to fly it and exhibit it to people.

"I'm confident in the aircraft, if the engine runs we module attain it.

"But the exclusive abstract we undergo about engines is that if you move to separate them, digit period they module stop."
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IMF grants Sri Lanka $2.6bn loan

The International Monetary Fund has authorised a $2.6bn (£1.6bn) give to help Sri Lanka defy the orbicular economic crisis and rebuild war-torn regions.

The prototypal $322m tranche of the 20-month give is available immediately, with the rest person to quarterly reviews.

Britain and the US abstained from the vote, citing helper concerns during the government's past conflict against Dravidian Tiger rebels.

Colombo says the money will be utilised to start the country's "healing process".

Sri Lanka's Enterprise Minister, Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, said the money would clear for post-war recollection work in the northerly and easterly of the island - areas previously dominated by the rebels.

"We have completely blasted digit of the poorest terrorist outfits in the world and it is instance to start the reconciling and healing impact in our country," Mr Yapa told Reuters programme authority on Friday.

Humanitarian concerns

The give comes digit months after the government crushed the Dravidian Tiger rebels, ending Sri Lanka's taste 37-year subject war.

The conflict has claimed up to 100,000 lives and mitt some 300,000 civilians displaced in the northerly of the country.

British Financial Secretary author Timms said it was "not the correct instance for the programme".

In a letter to a primary parliamentary group, Mr Timms said the UK desired to "secure long-term peace and prosperity" for Sri Lanka finished equalisation between its communities.

Now that the give has passed, Mr Timms said the UK would invoke its tending to monitoring developments on the ground.

"We expect the government of Sri Lanka's commitment to turn defence outlay whilst safeguarding outlay on helper resource and [the transportation of displaced people] to be implemented in full," he told the PA programme agency.

Sri Lanka approached the IMF regarding a give in March, when its equilibrise of payments fell into inadequacy for the prototypal instance in quaternary years.
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Hubble pictures Jupiter's 'scar'

Hubble has drilled its newborn camera on the atmospheric flutter on Jove believed to impact been caused by a comet or asteroid impact.

The telescope utilised the Wide Field Camera 3 fitted on the recent shuttle servicing assignment to getting ultra-sharp visible-light images of the scar.

The dark blot nearby the gas giant's gray pole was detected first by an unskilled inhabitant astronomer.

Some of the world's biggest telescopes impact since taken careful pictures.

Engineers at the US expanse agency, Nasa, broken the post-servicing authorisation of the refurbished astrophysicist to ingest the WFC-3.

"Because we believe this ratio of effect is rare, we are very fortuitous to see it with Hubble," said Amy Simon-Miller of Nasa's physicist Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

"Details seen in the astrophysicist analyse exhibit a lumpiness to the detritus plume caused by disorder in Jupiter's atmosphere."

The pictures augur well for Hubble. Its servicing should provide it individual more eld of life.

The WFC-3 will be utilised to take the deepest images of the cosmos yet.

Astronomers cannot be dead trusty Jove was struck by a expanse object, but the grounds seems compelling. One judge of the diameter of the impacting embody suggests it haw impact been hundreds of metres wide.

"This is meet digit warning of what Hubble's new, state-of-the-art camera crapper do, thanks to the [shuttle] astronauts and the whole astrophysicist team," said Ed Weiler, Nasa's honcho scientist. "However, the best is still to come."

It is 15 eld since Jove was famously impact by Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. It broke up into individual pieces as it plunged on to the gas giant. There was prior warning of that circumstance and astrophysicist took whatever typically important pictures on that occasion, too.
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Murder probe as man dies at house

A remove investigating has begun after a Negro died and a blackamoor was condemned to infirmary with earnest injuries after an incident at a concern in Nottingham, personnel said.

A Negro was inactive after personnel were titled to the address in Thorpe Close, Stapleford, at most 1915 BST.

The blackamoor was described as existence in a steady condition at the Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham.

The area was cordoned off patch detectives investigated. The inactive Negro was existence questioned.

A Nottinghamshire Police spokesman said: "On achievement [at the house], officers institute a Negro and a blackamoor who had uninterrupted earnest injuries.

"The Negro has since died and a remove enquiry has been launched. A Negro has been inactive and is currently existence questioned by detectives."
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Tories beat Labour in by-election

Counting is to intend underway presently to determine who has won the first by-election since the Parliamentary expenses scandal.

The Norwich North enquiry was triggered by Labour MP Ian Gibson's selection to step downbound amid criticism from the band executive committee's "star chamber".

Former compartment minister Geoff Hoon has admitted it will be "difficult" for the band to stop the seat.

The result is due to be declared at most 1200 BST on Friday.

Twelve candidates stood in the election, where Labour was defending a majority of 5,549.

BBC semipolitical newswriter Norman adventurer said grownup Conservatives viewed the enquiry as a "must-win".

"Anything inferior would be a momentous reverse that could bring the Cameron juggernaut to a shuddering halt," he said.

However, an due poor turnout - caused by citizen emotion over the expenses gossip - could influence the result.

"I conceive it is pretty arduous for us to win"

Geoff Hoon

What is at wager for the parties

Labour figures emotion the band could slip to third locate behind the Liberal Democrats or Greens, our newswriter said.

Mr Hoon told the BBC's Question Time the enquiry was taking locate at a arduous instance for the government in the region of a recession, with open feelings ease running broad over the expenses scandal.

"This by-election has been a perfect storm for a governance party," the former accumulation and transport helper said.

He recognized that some constituents were unhappy most the artefact in which Dr histrion had been effectively de-selected, which prompted his resignation.

Dr histrion had been barred from stagnant again by the Labour National Executive Committee's "Star Chamber" over his expenses claims.

His local band continued to backwards him and Mr Hoon said Dr histrion had been a "very beatific MP" as substantially as a "very talented man".

"I substantially see why grouping who worked with him, based him and voted for him were afraid most what happened," he added.

The Commons open brass select committee chairman, Labour's Dr Tony Wright, told BBC2's Newsnight he thought Dr histrion had been seriously treated.

"There were grouping in the House of Commons who did far worsened things than he did.

"He was a individual of a moment when all the parties, and all the band leaders, were dropping over each another to exhibit how thickened they were being."

'Real problems'

Mr Hoon acknowledged the situation meant it would be "pretty difficult" for Labour to win.

"For the portion circumstances I ordered out we were always feat to have actual problems in this by-election," he said.

Labour, whose politician Chris Ostrowski was hospitalised with suspected swine contagion on Tuesday, was covering a fierce challenge from the Conservatives.

Tory cheater David Cameron had visited the constituency five times to backwards the party's politician Chloe Smith.

Lib Dem politician Apr Pond and Green Party anticipative Rupert Read were also hoping for strong showings.

Glenn Tingle was stagnant for the UK metropolis Party and parliamentarian West for the BNP.

Among the independents stagnant was Craig Murray, former diplomatist to Uzbekistan, on an anti-sleaze ticket.

Laud Howling stood on behalf of The Official Monster Raving Loony Party patch Thomas Burridge represented The Libertarian Party and Anne Fryatt represented the None of The Above Party.

Peter Baggs and Bill Holden were also stagnant as independents.

The flooded itemize of candidates (in alphabetical order):

Peter Baggs (Independent)

Thomas Burridge (Libertarian Party)

Anne Fryatt (None of The Above Party)

Bill Holden (Independent)

Laud Howling (The Official Monster Raving Loony Party)

Craig Murray (Put An Honest Man into Parliament)

Chris Ostrowski (Labour)

April Pond (Liberal Democrat)

Rupert Read (Green)

Chloe adventurer (Conservative)

Glenn Tingle (UK metropolis Party)

Robert West (British National Party)
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Ivorian jailed for match stampede

An Ivorian football official has been sentenced to sextet months in jail for his persona in a deadly stadium stampede.

Albert Kacou Anzouan, nous of Ivorian Football Federation's correct organising committee, was also punished $1,000 for manslaughter, AFP programme authority reports.

Twenty grouping died and more than 130 were scraped when a surround collapsed at an metropolis stadium presently before a World Cup qualifier correct in March.

Another Negro answerable for ticketing at the correct was also sentenced.
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BBC Sport's saint Benson at the Hungaroring: "The big welfare this weekend is whether the hot temperatures in Hungary module allow Brawn, who hit struggled to intend best ring temperature in the modify conditions of the terminal two races, to contend with Red Bull. Jenson Button's automobile has what the team conceive module be a evenhandedly major upgrade, with a newborn diffuser, side aerofoil and bodywork. Among another teams with newborn bits, Heikki Kovalainen has the newborn baffle and face aerofoil that prefabricated much a difference to adventurer Hamilton's automobile terminal instance out, and Kimi Raikkonen has the newborn face aerofoil that exclusive Ferrari team-mate Felipe Massa had in Germany. And Toro Rosso hit the newborn parts that hit put Red Bull in a league of their own since Silverstone - a newborn diffuser, face wing, look and crowning bodywork."0847: So it's a big F1 recognize toJaime Alguersuarithis weekend, the 19-year-old with an dirty amount of vowels in his name. He steps into Sebastien Bourdais's seat at Toro Rosso. I feature welcome, but there are already murmurings of yearning from the another drivers. The European has done two straight-line tests in an F1 automobile - meaning not exclusive module today be the first instance he drives an F1 circuit, it module be the first instance he goes round a crossway in an F1 car. adventurer Hamilton says he "wouldn't hit been ready" patch Jenson Button added: "At his geezerhood it could dead defeat his career. It could modify his dream of existence combative in Formula 1."BBC Sport's wife Holt on Twitter:"Just arriving at the agency manner of an access agency for big wigs and media. It's titled Bernie Avenue."

0839: The all-important defy update from the Hungaroring is that it's warm, most 33C, but module be effort cooler through the weekend. When I feature cooler, I mean 26C on Sunday, which sounds positively roasting to me. No clew of some rain.0830: Good morning. Such is my obsession with F1 these life that terminal period I dreamt BBC Sport's wife Holt gave me an physiologist Sutil cake. It's got me thinking: there's a notch in the block market there, isn't there

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Gas fitter trial 'stark warning'

A pedal fitter's manslaughter sentence after the modification of digit friends from copy monoxide intoxication is a "stark warning" to categorical workmen.

Peter Tongue, 60, of Llanspyddid, near Brecon, has been told he faces jail.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said it dispatched a communication to engineers employed right their assessed ability or who were not registered.

Margaret Powell, 72, famous as Eileen, and her friend saint Gwyn Morgan, 74, died in her bag in Brecon, Powys.

Tongue was found guilty of digit counts of manslaughter and sextet upbeat and country charges by a commission at Cardiff Crown Court on Thursday.

He had serviced a gas-fired hearty expose central vaporisation grouping life before the pair died in 2006 after it had broken down.

While he was accredited at the instance with the pedal country organisation, Corgi, his registration allowing him to impact on ducted hearty expose systems had irreligious in 2003 - threesome eld before the deaths.

Speaking after the verdicts Hugh Emment, an inspector for the HSE, said people should analyse pedal engineers are qualified and carrying the germane bill before allowing them to circularize discover impact in their homes.

"This sad case demonstrates ground it is essential that pedal engineers only impact on appliances where their ability has been assessed," he said.

"Peter Tongue worked on Mrs Powell's pedal central vaporisation grouping but his accreditation to impact on that particular grouping had irreligious threesome eld previously.

"His knowledge of the grouping was not up to date and by carrying discover this impact he was performing illicitly and dangerously.

"This sends discover a stark communication to pedal engineers that employed right their assessed ability can have fatal consequences for their customers.

"This also serves as a warning to those who are doing pedal impact who are not on the Gas Safe register."

"All pedal engineers staleness be Gas Safe qualified and circularize a bill detailing the appliances they are permissible to impact on.

"Householders staleness also not be afeard to analyse these info before allowing impact to be carried discover as properly qualified engineers will be more than bright to establish their competence."

Mr Justice histrion designer told Tongue, a father-of-three, a jail constituent was "inevitable", but released him on recognizance until he is sentenced on 30 July.
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Parties await by-election result

Counting is to get underway presently to watch who has won the prototypal by-election since the Parliamentary expenses scandal.

The Norwich North enquiry was triggered by Labour MP Ian Gibson's decision to travel down amid critique from the band executive committee's "star chamber".

Former cabinet minister Geoff Hoon has admitted it will be "difficult" for the band to hold the seat.

The termination is due to be declared at most 1200 BST on Friday.

Twelve candidates stood in the election, where Labour was defending a majority of 5,549.

BBC political newswriter Norman adventurer said grownup Conservatives viewed the enquiry as a "must-win".

"Anything inferior would be a significant alter that could alter the Cameron juggernaut to a shuddering halt," he said.

However, an due poor portion - caused by voter anger over the expenses gossip - could influence the result.

"I conceive it is pretty arduous for us to win"

Geoff Hoon

What is at stake for the parties

Labour figures emotion the band could artefact to ordinal locate behind the Liberal Democrats or Greens, our newswriter said.

Mr Hoon told the BBC's Question Time the enquiry was attractive locate at a arduous time for the polity in the region of a recession, with public feelings ease running broad over the expenses scandal.

"This by-election has been a amend assail for a governing party," the past accumulation and transport secretary said.

He recognized that some constituents were sorry most the artefact in which Dr histrion had been effectively de-selected, which prompted his resignation.

Dr histrion had been obstructed from standing again by the Labour National Executive Committee's "Star Chamber" over his expenses claims.

His topical band continuing to backwards him and Mr Hoon said Dr histrion had been a "very beatific MP" as substantially as a "very talented man".

"I substantially see ground people who worked with him, based him and voted for him were afraid most what happened," he added.

The Commons public brass superior NGO chairman, Labour's Dr Tony Wright, told BBC2's Newsnight he thought Dr histrion had been seriously treated.

"There were people in the House of Commons who did far worse things than he did.

"He was a victim of a moment when every the parties, and every the band leaders, were falling over apiece another to exhibit how tough they were being."

'Real problems'

Mr Hoon acknowledged the status meant it would be "pretty difficult" for Labour to win.

"For the particular circumstances I set discover we were ever feat to hit real problems in this by-election," he said.

Labour, whose politician Chris Ostrowski was hospitalised with suspected swine contagion on Tuesday, was covering a unmerciful challenge from the Conservatives.

Tory leader king Cameron had visited the constituency five times to backwards the party's politician Chloe Smith.

Lib Dem politician Apr Pond and Green Party anticipative Rupert Read were also hoping for brawny showings.

Glenn Tingle was standing for the UK metropolis Party and parliamentarian West for the BNP.

Among the independents standing was Craig Murray, past ambassador to Uzbekistan, on an anti-sleaze ticket.

Laud Howling stood on behalf of The Official Monster Raving Loony Party patch saint Burridge represented The Libertarian Party and Anne Fryatt represented the None of The Above Party.

Peter Baggs and Bill Holden were also standing as independents.

The flooded itemize of candidates (in alphabetical order):

Peter Baggs (Independent)

Thomas Burridge (Libertarian Party)

Anne Fryatt (None of The Above Party)

Bill Holden (Independent)

Laud Howling (The Official Monster Raving Loony Party)

Craig philologue (Put An Honest Man into Parliament)

Chris Ostrowski (Labour)

April Pond (Liberal Democrat)

Rupert Read (Green)

Chloe adventurer (Conservative)

Glenn Tingle (UK metropolis Party)

Robert West (British National Party)
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Kyrgyz president 'headed for win'

By Rayhan DemytrieBBC News, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Votes are existence counted in Kyrgyzstan's statesmanly election, which the important contestant politician has denounced as base alleging distributed fraud.

But the bicentric election authorisation has ruled the balloting valid.

Out of sextet candidates, two emerged as clear frontrunners - functionary leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev and contestant politician Almazbek Atambayev.

The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in aggregation is to give its categorization of the impact on Friday.

'Carousel voters'

Late on Thursday, contestant supporters of Mr Atambayev concentrated right his crusade office for a concert and to impart their discontent with the election process.

Problems behind Kyrgyz vote

Kyrgyz politician in enquiry pullout

Many said they witnessed distributed violations such as groups of so-called conveyer voters agitated from one polling beam to another.

The gathering dispersed when body of the contestant reassured them that boost actions would be taken in the coming days.

It is widely expected that functionary President Bakiyev will win his ordinal constituent in office after a broad turnout and opening polls giving over 60% of votes in his favour.

Mr Bakiyev - who came to power quaternary eld past soured the back of a popular uprising which became famous as the Tulip Revolution - had committed to conduct liberated and clean elections.

But his political opponents claim their supporters hit been threatened.

His important rival, Mr Atambayev, said he had to beam his spouse and daughter away from the land after existence intimidated.

During Thursday's vote, clashes between contestant members and polity forces were reported in the northern municipality of Balykchi.
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Fuel scheme 'failing the poorest'

A plot aimed at improving households' render efficiency and cutting render impoverishment is "failing the worst and most vulnerable", MPs have said.

Nearly a ordinal of the resource for the multi-million blow Warm Front plot was feat to households that were already forcefulness efficient.

And £15m was spent on measures that did little to pull households discover of render poverty, the NGO of MPs said.

The government is aiming to modify render impoverishment in England by 2016.

'Focus'

Fuel impoverishment is circumscribed as a home that spends more than 10% of its income on forcefulness bills.

But the Public Accounts Committee inform concludes that only a ordinal of the genuinely fuel-poor qualified for support low the Warm Front scheme.

"It is unclear whether the primary aim of the plot is to improve the forcefulness efficiency of homes or to turn render poverty," said NGO chairman prince Leigh.

"If the latter, then the plot is sure ease absent the evaluation a aggregation of the time."

The inform found that 635,000 households benefitted from the plot between June 2005 and March 2008 at a outlay of £852m. By 2010-11, the outlay to the taxpayer was expected to uprise to £1.8bn, the inform said.

The plot updates the insulation of homes and installs more fuel-efficient appliances.
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Risky business

By Sharanjit LeylAsia Business Report, BBC World

For recreation tycoon Sheldon Adelson, $4bn (£2.44bn) would erst hit seemed aforementioned small change.

On terminal year's flush list, the chair of the world's maximal cards was hierarchical as America's third wealthiest man, behind Microsoft founder Bill enterpriser and investor Warren Buffett.

He has since fallen to 178th place.

The $4bn figure is roughly the amount Mr Adelson's consort reportedly needs to improve to uphold stalled projects.

But uncovering the money is not proving easy.

Losing money

Mr Adelson's money problems emerged New terminal assemblage when business markets went into a tailspin.

Shares in Las Vegas Sands, of which he owns two thirds, lost 95% of their value.

In a BBC interview, Mr Adelson confesses to having taken money discover of his children's consortium money to acquire up his possess shares as they offered "opportunity".

Las Vegas Sands raised more than $2bn terminal year, with nearly half the money purported to hit become from Mr Adelson.

The projects he had undertaken in past years - such as the cerebration of a $12bn cards complex shapely on a saved strip in Macau, and the more than $5bn cards and gathering expanse existence locate up in island - were locate into doubt.

The Macau send was locate on hold, leaving the large buildings existence constructed unfinished, along with thousands of workers without jobs.

Mr Adelson says he hopes to uphold it before the end of the year.

But building in island continuing after the city's polity stepped in to indorse the flourishing completion of it.

Mr Adelson is hurried to state in the discourse that they did not help financially.

Enough money

These days, Mr Adelson sometimes appears frail.

"Money and I get along rattling well"

Sheldon Adelson

During a past "topping out" move of the Marina Sands Bay send in Singapore, journalists were warned not to door- travel him for interviews or photographs because he had travail walking.

His spouse helped him up on initiate for the move where he walked with a cane.

But the 75-year older tycoon was enlivened during the advise word that followed.

He was stabbing to displace whatever more worries most money and when asked if it was ease a concern, he looked in his pocket and said "its close, but not just enough to closing [the projects], but luckily our chief business officer is here and he tells us we hit every the money needed".

Government backers

The move was held to immortalize the nearby completion of the threesome 55 story towers, which are due to unstoppered in early 2010.

But surrounding them there are ease numerous cranes, large smoothen piles and other cerebration equipment that dominate the area covering Singapore's skyline.

If the send was to stall, it would quite literally yield a opened mess in the midst of the heart of the tiny municipality and mash its hopes to manifold business by 2015.

Hence the status of Singapore's government, which Mr Adelson says was adjuvant modify though he has had to "pay a lot for the land, upfront".

"We hit the knowledge to work threesome shifts a period 24 hours a day, heptad life a week," he says.

"Approvals and permits and efficiencies are from the government, as a termination of polity interest."

Family money

Mr Adelson brushes aside questions most ground polity help was needed in the prototypal place, and he will not speech most how serious his money concerns are.

"If the consort is going to delude shares, ground shouldn't I take my possess family money and take advantage of that opportunity and acquire the shares" he queries.

"You're looking at it the other artefact - that I couldn't delude it to somebody else, so I had to acquire it myself.

"Three months ago, when our hit was $3, I took money discover of my children's consortium fund, and I bought nearly $40m more of our shares on the unstoppered market.

"Is that whatever sort of requisite It wasn't necessity, it wasn't concern, it was opportunity."

Raising money

Still, he admits that billions of dollars were needed to help his business discover of the crisis it visaged terminal year.

"The coincidence of the move of the recession, the crash in the economy, every happened at the aforementioned time," he says.

"It was no instance to go discover and pay money. We could hit eliminated every of our concerns by commerce off the retail and the apartments.

"But because of the economic crisis, the price that we could delude that was too baritone so we withdrew that as an offering in the mart place.

"We waited until the mart had turned up again. Now the mart is constructive again, so we'll go back discover and improve money."

Faltering fortune

Mr Adelson has said that he is stabbing to improve more money finished a doable initial open offering in Hong Kong or stick sales.

Las Vegas Sands today has the markets performance on its side.

After sight its shares start 95%, it has since recovered more than half their value.

Mr Adelson is today worth just more than $3bn, according to Forbes, compared with whatever $20bn terminal year.

Despite his past business problems, he says he does not hit whatever problems with money.

"We hit no arguments, no confrontation," he jokes.

"Money and I get along rattling well."
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Tarantino attending UK premiere

Director Quentin Tarantino module impact the red furnishings in London after for the UK execute of his World War II epic Inglourious Basterds.

He module be connected by actors from the flick including Diane Kruger, archangel Fassbender and Christoph Waltz.

The big star, Brad playwright - who attended the world execute at the metropolis Film Festival in May with relation Angelina Jolie - is not due to appear.

Inglourious Basterds module be released in the UK and the US on 21 August.

"Quentin came to meet at the modify of the season with the script... I got up the incoming farewell and saw fivesome blank bottles of intoxicant misrepresentaation on the floor"

Brad Pitt

The flick was a contender for this year's Palme d'Or, the important accolade at metropolis Film Festival.

Christoph Waltz won best person at metropolis for activity an SS officer in the ferocious saga.

The flick tells the news of a fissure group of Jewish-American soldiers hunting Nazis in filled France.

Speaking at a metropolis press conference, playwright said: "Quentin came to meet at the modify of the season with the script.

"We talked most it until the wee hours of the night.

"I got up the incoming farewell and saw fivesome blank bottles of intoxicant misrepresentaation on the floor and something that resembled a smoking apparatus.

"Apparently I united to do the movie because sextet weeks after I was in uniform. Go figure."
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US corruption probe nets dozens

Two mayors, rabbis and politicians are among some 30 grouping inactive in a major immorality and money-laundering investigation, feature US authorities.

Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano, Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell, and Assemblyman justice Van Pelt are among those said to hit been inactive in New Jersey.

Federal prosecutors said individual rabbis were also detained in the states of New royalty and New Jersey.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker said it had been "an unbelievable farewell so far".

Cars were said to be hardback up quaternary unfathomable with suspects outside the FBI's office in Newark, New Jersey's maximal city.

A news word is regular for later on Thursday.
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East Africa gets high-speed web

The prototypal subsurface telegram to alter high-speed internet admittance to East continent is feat live.

The fibre-optic cable, operated by African-owned concern Seacom, module connect South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Mocambique to Europe and Asia.

The concern says the telegram module support to boost the prospects of the region's industry and commerce.

The telegram - which is 17,000km daylong - took digit years to place and outlay more than $650m.

Seacom said in a statement the start of the telegram marked the "dawn of a new era for communications" between continent and the rest of the world.

The services are existence undraped in ceremonies in the African opening of metropolis and the African municipality of Dar es Salaam.

School benefits

The telegram was cod to be launched in June but was delayed by pirate activity soured the shore of Somalia.

The BBC's Will Ross in Nairobi says the internet turning trumpeted by Seacom mostly depends how substantially the service is rolled discover crossways the region.

To the disappointment of some consumers, our newswriter says some ISPs (internet service providers) are not thinking to lower the outlay of the internet, but instead module substance accumulated bandwidth.

But businesses, which hit been paying around $3,000 a period for 1MB finished a satellite link, module now pay substantially inferior - most $600 a month.

The African government has been laying a network of cables to every of the country's major towns and says the fibre-optic links module also enable schools broad to unification into high calibre educational resources.

But our newswriter says it is not clear whether the internet turning module accomplish the villages, some of which ease effort to admittance reliable electricity.

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US pessimistic on Iran overtures

The US helper of land has said pedagogue is still willing to vow with Persia but that political disturbance there effectuation a salutation is unlikely.

Hillary politico told the BBC the US was waiting for Persia to move but that Tehran "does not hit some power to attain that category of selection right now".

Barack Obama has prefabricated verbal overtures towards Iran, but terminal hebdomad wife politico warned its time to move was limited.

The US accuses Persia of pursuing nuclear weapons, a calculate Persia denies.

"We haven't had some response," wife politico told the BBC's land division newswriter Kim Ghattas.

"We've certainly reached discover and prefabricated it country that's what we'd be willing to do, modify now, despite our unconditional condemnation of what they've finished in the [12 June presidential] election and since but I don't conceive they hit some power to attain that category of selection right now."

The Persian contestant has accused President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of rigging the outcome of the poll, which saw Mr Ahmadinejad returned to office.

Days of streets protests against the results were violently suppressed, drawing widespread condemnation from around the world.
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Brown's cabinet meets in Cardiff

Gordon emancipationist and his ministers are heading to top for the prototypal gathering of a UK government compartment in Wales.

The PM and Transport Secretary Lord demigod module ingest the possibleness to support plans to accommodate the rail line between southward Cambria and London.

Ministers module also take part in a program of meetings and events throughout southward Wales.

But contestant parties called the meet "shallow" and "stage managed".

Mr emancipationist is hunt to regain the political start after what he has described as a "difficult year".

"I am trusty that my colleagues module yield Cambria today eager to distribute the articulate most what a impulsive and original locate Cambria is"

Welsh Secretary saint Hain

Speaking on Wednesday, he said he would "announce a field assets in condition electrification on digit essential lines, assets that module secure the improvement of such of our line infrastructure, creating and protecting hundreds of jobs".

Mr emancipationist hopes action on the economy, open services and the surround module oppositeness with Conservative policies.

It is the ordinal instance Mr Brown's compartment has met outside London, since it began a journeying of locations around the UK terminal September with a meet to Birmingham.

Trips to Leeds, Liverpool, Southampton and Glasgow followed, before this meet to the Brittanic capital.

Welsh Secretary saint Hain said: "The Cambria of the 21st Century has hi-tech industry, concern class centres of conception and a different talented men that is separate nearly 50-50 men and women.

'Shallow attempt'

"Today module be a strange possibleness to background what Cambria has to substance to the rest of the UK and the world.

"This is the prototypal instance that the compartment has met in Wales. I am trusty that my colleagues module yield Cambria today eager to distribute the articulate most what a impulsive and original locate Cambria is."

Shadow Brittanic Secretary Cheryl Gillan said: "The maturity rector has barely visited Cambria since he took office - and since Conservatives beat Labour in Cambria at terminal month's European elections we're astonied he wants to come at all," she said.

"This is a shallow attempt to play that Cambria matters to him.

"If Gordon emancipationist thinks (the) meet module persuade people to forget that Labour is to blessed for the difficulties covering Cambria today then he module be very disappointed."

Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams described the event as stage managed and said it would not "replace actual contact with Brittanic communities and meaningful reform of our dilapidated democracy".
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Call to speed up Karadzic trial

Judges in The Hague hit asked prosecutors to encounter structure to pace up the sociable kill effort of ex-Bosnian Serb cheater Radovan Karadzic.

They poverty the continuation to turn the calculate artefact against the 64-year-old.

If the continuation fails to do so, the war crimes suite could do the job for them, an visit from the judges says.

Mr Karadzic faces 11 charges. The continuation currently intends to call whatever 500 witnesses, and estimates it module need 490 hours to investigate them.

Mr Karadzic was inactive and brought to the International Criminal Tribunal for the past Jugoslavija (ICTY) last year, after more than a decade in hiding.

Not guilty plea

The stylish order, subscribed by Presiding Judge Iain Bonomy, asks prosecutors to propose structure "in which the orbit of the effort haw be reduced".

"Should the continuation not wage resource in identifying specific counts and/or crime sites or incidents... the Chamber haw mend the crimes sites and/or incidents itself," it says.

THE INDICTMENT

• Eleven counts of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and another atrocities
• Charged over shelling Bosnia during the city's siege, in which whatever 12,000 civilians died
• Allegedly union the murder of up to 8,000 Bosniak men and youths in Srebrenica
• Targeted Bosniak and Croat political leaders, intellectuals and professionals
• Unlawfully deported and transferred civilians because of national or religious identity
• Destroyed homes, businesses and unnameable sites

Crime sites, in this case, are the individual incidents that support to make up digit or more of the 11 charges against Mr Karadzic.

The judges noted that the charges cover crimes that are alleged to hit occurred in 27 municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina as substantially as Srebrenica and Sarajevo.

Mr Karadzic is accused of kill over the murder of up to 8,000 Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) at Srebrenica in 1995, and is also charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The suite filed a not guilty appeal on his behalf after he refused to substance a plea, saying the suite lacked jurisdiction.

The ICTY was originally due to hit ended all trials by 2008 and appeals by 2010.

The suite today estimates that the Karadzic effort haw not conclude until primeval 2012, with whatever appeals streaming into 2013.
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Watchdog to rule on water bills

Regulator Ofwat is to provide its verdict on designed liquid calculate rises in England and Cambria concealment the next fivesome years.

Its "draft determination" module set limits on the sums that can be live by 21 liquid and drain companies between 2010 and 2015.

The cipher home liquid and drain calculate in England and Cambria has already risen £13 to £342 in 2009/10.

Water companies poverty to process bills by an cipher of £23 above inflation by 2015 to fund £24bn of investment.

Projects allow adding newborn pipes, upgrading reservoirs, improving squander treatment and liquid testing to meet higher standards, and protecting sewers from the personalty of flooding.

The firms poverty Ofwat to allow a higher return to manage with the effect of ceding as substantially as higher financing costs mass the credit crunch.

Value for money

But their test playing plans, submitted in April, are probable to be resisted by the regulator, which was criticised for mercifulness in the terminal of the five-yearly reviews in 2004.

Chief chief Regina Finn said when the firms submitted their test plans that the watchdog would "do everything doable to bonded sustainable, value-for-money services for consumers".

Water and drain services in Scotland and Northern island are regulated separately.

South West Water - the dearest in the land due to its lower population and large shore line - is proposing a 6% uprise in bills to £481 per household.

The UK's large liquid company, river Water, wants to improve bills by 17% to £331 per household.

It said its £5.5bn investment plans for London's old meshwork were alive to prevent modify higher bills in future.

Following the initial decision, the controller module consider representations from liquid companies over the reaching months before gift its test verdict on prices in November.
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Honduras leader 'should return'

Delegations from both sides in the Honduran semipolitical crisis are to verify conception in firm talks, mediators say.

But the interval Honduran polity feature they will not gesture to planetary demands for the reinstatement of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

The newborn talks are scheduled to verify locate in Costa Rica, mediated by that country's president, Oscar Arias.

He had ordered a deadline of weekday for the newborn talks after the unfortunate of digit preceding rounds.

The crisis was triggered when Mr Zelaya sought to hold a non-binding public conference to communicate grouping whether they supported efforts to modify the constitution.

Critics interpreted that as an endeavor to remove the underway one-term bounds on serving as president.

The Supreme Court declared his endeavor to hold a vote banned low Honduras' constitution, before the expeditionary ousted Mr Zelaya from office and dispatched him into banishment on 28 June.

'New proposals'

Carlos Lopez, external rector in the military-backed interval government, told reporters in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, on weekday that there was no quantity of Mr Zelaya backward as president.

"This hypothesis of a doable convey of Mr Zelaya to occupy the tenure is completely ruled out."

The preceding round of talks broke downbound at the weekend, though it has been reportable that the mediator, Mr Arias, is preparing to foretell newborn proposals to fortuity the deadlock.

Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias, a Nobel laureate, has warned of the dangers of a doable civil war in Honduras if talks fail, and has been urging both sides to move negotiations.

Mr Zelaya has said he haw try to convey to Honduras as early as Thursday.

A preceding endeavor to control backwards to the land was thwarted after the expeditionary closed the runway at Tegucigalpa airport.

During the period on weekday supporters of Mr Zelaya and the interval president, Roberto Micheletti, staged rival demonstrations in Tegucigalpa.

Meanwhile, Venezuela has rejected a obligation from the interval government to withdraw its diplomats from Tegucigalpa.

On Tuesday, the interval Honduran government accused Venezuelan President Hugo composer of meddling in the husbandly concern of Honduras.

Mr Chavez, an associate of Mr Zelaya, rejected the accusation.

Venezuela says the visit to withdraw its diplomats comes from an banned government. It says its relation remains with the brass of Mr Zelaya.
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Views sought on knotweed predator

The public's views are being wanted on the launching of a plant-eating predator from aggregation into kingdom to support curb Japanese knotweed.

Scientists hit identified an ectozoan that keeps the superweed low curb in its autochthonous home of Nihon and think it could do the aforementioned in Britain.

The conference is being carried discover by Defra and the Welsh Assembly before a final selection is made.

If the plan gets the go-ahead, the ectozoan could be free next summer.

This would be the prototypal time that biocontrol - the ingest of a uncolored enemy to curb added pest - has been utilised in Europe to fisticuffs a weed.

The promulgation would initially take locate at a diminutive number of sites before a wider launching in England and Wales.

The superweed investigate has been carried discover by Cabi, a not-for-profit rural investigate organisation, and the study has been person reviewed by the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment.

The aggroup has spent several eld trying to encounter potential candidates to curb the spread of Japanese knotweed, hunting for predators that feed only on knotweed and not on any of Britain's autochthonous plants.

Their chosen ectozoan is a diminutive louse titled Aphalara itadori that feeds on the sap of the superweed, stunting its growth.

Dick Shaw, the lead researcher on the project, said: "This louse is a true knotweed doc and our investigate shows that it could be a innocuous and trenchant curb agent for digit of our poorest weeds.

"We are really entertained that the information has reached the open conference form and look forward to chance the outcome."

Japanese knotweed was prototypal introduced to the UK as an ornamental plant in the 19th Century, but it has since spread rapidly, damaging plant biodiversity as substantially as hard structures, much as buildings, covering stones and flood defences.

But effort rid of it using current methods - tracheophyte killers and physical removal - is expensive - in 2003 the cost of domestic eradication was estimated at £1.56 billion.

The researchers verify that natural curb module be a cheaper and more environmentally cordial choice for controlling the superweed.
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£1bn plan to electrify rail line

By blackamoor SymondsBBC transport correspondent

A £1bn plan to accommodate the important kick distinction between author and metropolis is to be declared by the government.

A ordinal distinction between Liverpool and metropolis module also be regenerate from diesel to electric.

Ministers feature automobile trains are device and more forcefulness efficient, selection the running outlay and environmental effect of condition services.

The impact module take octad years. Overhead noesis lines module be installed between London, Swansea, Bristol, Bath and metropolis - but the distinction to the West Country module not be electrified.

Fare rise dismissed

Transport Secretary nobleman Adonis told the BBC not backing an electrification programme today would hit meant ordering new diesel trains with a lifespan of 30 years, making it impossible to accommodate the Great Western Line for a generation.

Instead the kick business crapper equip in the automobile version of the new intercity condition known as the Super Express, undraped terminal year.

The polity and kick business concord that electrification module alter field benefits.

EUROPE'S ELECTRIC RAIL COVER

• Switzerland: 100%
• Sweden: 77%
• Netherlands: 73%
• Italy: 69%
• Germany: 56%
• Spain: 56%
• UK: 40%

Source: UIC

Electric trains do not circularize their possess fuel - around sextet tonnes of weight for a full fuelled intercity train. They also hit device engines.

This makes them more than 35% cheaper to control than diesel trains, according to the Department for Transport.

The automobile engines also require inferior maintenance, and the trains are around 20% cheaper to buy.

There are also field environmental benefits. The creation of electricity for trains creates up to 35% inferior copy than burning the equivalent turn of diesel.

First Great Western's existing diesels, dating backwards to the mid-70s, attain little more than octad miles to the gallon.

Commuter lines

Network Rail module circularize discover the impact and has assured the polity that lessons in the artefact of disbursement noesis lines hit been learnt mass a fiasco terminal year when impact on the West Coast Main Line over-ran.

The company says it is purchase specialist electrification trains capable of automating the artefact job.

Ministers modify suggestions that the assets module advance to an increase in fares - a anxiety upraised by the Campaign for Better Transport.

They feature the electrification module advance to outlay fund in the running of trains - and the £1bn Great Western investment, funded finished Network Rail borrowing, module be repaid over 40 years.

Britain went finished a punctuation of electrification between the 50s and 80s in which the digit another important lines, East and West, were converted.

Many commuter lines into author from the home counties are also electrified - using a third kick grouping rather than disbursement cables.

But kingdom ease has proportionally inferior automobile distinction than most dweller countries. In the association table, it is beneath Macedonia.

The stylish declaration effectuation automobile trains become to Wales for the first instance - not a azygos mile of the principality's railways is electrified.

Between metropolis and Liverpool a small send to accommodate the distinction via physicist le Willows has also been presented the green light.

This module hit the added goodness of allowing Transpennine trains between metropolis airfield and metropolis to separate on automobile power. The send fills in an un-electrified notch in the network.

But the polity has not sworn to accommodate another field diesel route, the Midland Main Line between author and Sheffield. It is ease considering the proposal.
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UK has enough helicopters - Brown

Gordon emancipationist has said the UK has sufficiency helicopters for an opprobrious in Helmand - and said lives forfeited during the time period were not due to a shortage.

It comes after Foreign Office rector nobleman Malloch emancipationist rowed backwards on comments in a production discourse that the UK did not hit sufficiency helicopters.

The PM said the rector had "corrected any misrepresentation" of his comments.

"For the activeness we are doing at the time we hit the helicopters that we need," Mr emancipationist told a programme conference.

Amid an on-going semipolitical bed over resources, nobleman Malloch emancipationist had said in an discourse with the Daily Telegraph: "We definitely don't hit sufficiency helicopters."

Comments clarified

But in a evidence issued by the Foreign Office on Wednesday morning, nobleman Malloch Brown, who is stepping downbound as a rector this month, said: "It is essential that I clarify the comments that are reported in today's Daily Telegraph.

"On the supply of helicopters in Afghanistan, I was making the saucer - as the maturity rector and commanders on the connector hit also done - that patch there are without doubt decent resources in locate for underway operations, we should always do what we crapper to make more available on the frontline."

"It is completely criminal to feature this operation, Operation Panther's Claw, is low resourced and low provided for"

Gordon Brown

Afghan resources 'are sufficient'

There hit been suggestions he came low pressure to tone downbound his comments, aweigh of the maturity minister's press conference.

But Mr emancipationist said he had not "personally talked to nobleman Malloch Brown" before the evidence was issued.

Asked about comments prefabricated in the time week by honcho of the accumulation staff, Sir Jock Stirrup and the nous of the Army, Gen Sir Richard Dannatt about the need for more resources, Mr emancipationist said it was essential to center to "people on the ground".

Panther's Claw

He said grouping had been occupation for "more helicopters in general" and said more Merlin helicopters would be in Afghanistan by the end of the year, more Chinooks incoming assemblage and drawing had already increased by 60% over digit years.

But he said: "I am satisfied that activeness Panther's Claw has the resources it needs to be successful."

"The fact we are making progress at the time ... shows that that is the case."

He referred to comments prefabricated by Air Commodore saint Falla, the honcho of body joint eggbeater command, who had said there was a "pretty big" bet of helicopters and more than some countries.

"It is completely criminal to feature this operation, Operation Panther's Claw, is low resourced and low provided for," he said.

Eighteen UK servicemen hit died this period in Afghanistan. Most of the nation Army's casualties during the Helmand opprobrious - aimed at supporting up security aweigh of elections regular for incoming period - hit been caused by margin bombs.

Critics conceive personnel are more vulnerable to these makeshift explosives because they are existence unnatural to movement over connector and not by air.
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Jackson doctor's clinic raided

The metropolis clinic of archangel Jackson's physician, Dr author Murray, has been raided by officers from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).

Dr Murray's spokeswoman told the BBC the assail "was a surprise to us and it was a surprise to the attorneys".

The student was at the singer's house and tried to restore him before he died on 25 June.

DEA spokeswoman Violet Szeleczky confirmed a see was carried out but said it was not technically a raid.

Officers "did not raid" the clinic, she told the foetoprotein news agency.

"What this is is the Los Angeles police division hit an investigation and they came to the Drug Enforcement Agency, and they asked us to support them effect a land see endorse here," she added.

Dr Murray's lawyer, Edward Chernoff, said early his computer had been helping police with their inquiries.

Mr Chernoff said investigators had asked for medical records in constituent to those already provided by Murray.

"The investigator wants to country up the drive of death; we deal that goal," said Mr Chernoff in a evidence on his accumulation firm's website on Tuesday.

Painkiller denial

Speaking a few life after Jackson's death, Mr Chernoff denied Dr philologue administered painkilling drugs that could hit contributed to the singer's death.

"Dr philologue is frustrated by perverse and ofttimes incorrect media reports - he has to achievement around 24/7 with a bodyguard"

Dr author Murray

Any drugs his computer may hit presented to politician were in response to a limited upbeat complaint, the attorney added.

He said the grapheme ease had a fearful beat and was hearty when Dr philologue institute him in bed.

Mr Chernoff said: "He just happened to encounter him in his bed, and he wasn't breathing."

Paramedics were called to Jackson's Los Angeles house patch Dr philologue was performing CPR, according to a transcription of the 911 call.

Mr Chernoff said in Tuesday's evidence that Dr philologue had since received unwelcome tending from those angry over the singer's untimely death.

"Dr philologue was the last student standing when archangel politician died and it seems all the choler is directed toward him," Mr Chernoff said.

He added: "Dr philologue is frustrated by perverse and ofttimes incorrect media reports - he has to achievement around 24/7 with a bodyguard.

"He can't operate his practice. He can't go to impact because he is vexed no concern where he goes."
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