BA passengers face seven days of strikes

By David Millward, Transport Editor 1113AM GMT twelve Mar 2010

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Unite pronounced the first, lasting 3 days, will take place on Mar twenty and the second, lasting four, on Mar 27. Further stoppages will follow from Apr 14, unless a understanding can be reached.

Peace talks collapsed progressing this week when the airline deserted the union"s own cost-cutting proposals, that enclosed a 2.6 per cent compensate cut, observant it fell "significantly short" of the �62.5 million assets it was seeking for.

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Despite this there were gloomy hopes that an agreement could be reached when Unite pronounced it was ready to put a counter-offer by BA to the members to the membership.

But they were dashed by Willie Walsh, the airline"s arch executive, who pronounced that this suggest had been withdrawn.

It was a move that dumbfounded kinship officials who believed that cabin organisation competence have supposed the proposals, despite reluctantly.

The ultimate walkouts follow strenuous await for a set upon in a rerun list called by Unite after the High Court outlawed a 12-day blocking that was due to take place over Christmas.

BA, that carries about 75,000 passengers a day in March, says it has strait plans in place to keep most of the report in place.

The airline has lerned around 1,000 volunteers who will step in to the boots of the distinguished cabin crew. BA has additionally leased a series of aircraft and organisation to accelerate the swift should industrial movement take place. In further 1,300 staff formed at Gatwick are not concerned in the dispute.

This, BA said, will capacitate it to run a estimable piece of both the prolonged and short-haul operations from Heathrow.

At Gatwick the airline will run all the prolonged area flights and half to closer destinations. BA"s operation at London City Airport, together with the New York services, will go on as normal.

The severity in between both sides showed small pointer of reducing with the airline and kinship blaming each alternative for the impasse.

Len McCluskey, Unite"s partner ubiquitous secretary, launched a sour conflict on BA.

"Instead of British Airways government channelling all their money and appetite in to perplexing to mangle a strike, they would have finished improved to channel this in to assembly the concerns."

Defending cabin organisation he combined "These are not foolish militants, these are people who dearly love British Airways."

But Willie Walsh in spin dull on Unite. "There is positively no fact for the movement Unite has taken. The changes we have introduced are satisfactory and reasonable. This is about securing the destiny of this good business. We are not going to let Unite fall short this company."

British Airways is right away additionally confronting the hazard of a second industrial dispute, this time involving belligerent staff.

It has indicted BA of perplexing to levy new operative practices on 4,000 belligerent staff the same indictment that triggered the cabin organisation dispute.

Unite is melancholy to list the belligerent staff together with container handlers and workers who hope for the aircraft prior to it flies unless the airline withdraws a minute it sent to employees becoming different their operative practices.

A full-blown brawl with belligerent staff is a little weeks away, but if agreement cannot be reached, the airline could be set upon by a second set upon in May.

Virender Sehwag signs for Northamptonshire

832AM GMT twelve March 2010

Destructive Virender Sehwag is now the No 1 Test batsman Photo REUTERS

The Steelbacks have voiced the signing theme to capitulation from the Board of Control for Cricket in India.

Northamptonshire, 2009 Twenty20 Cup semi-finalists, are anticipating the 31-year-old"s mortal strokeplay can assistance them go even serve this time round.

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Sehwag, tip of the International Cricket Council rankings for Test batsmen, has so far played in 76 Tests and 220 one-day internationals in a inclusive career.

The opener, whose usually prior experience of county cricket came with Northamptonshire"s neighbours Leicestershire, pronounced of his new understanding "I am seeking brazen to the T20 debate and I am gay to have assimilated the county."

Northamptonshire arch Executive Mark Tagg combined "This is positively illusory headlines for the bar and shows everybody that we wish to go on the year-on-year improvement.

"We goal this shows the fans we are critical in the ambitions to turn the most appropriate county cricket bar in the country."

Manchester Citys Robinho wants to stay at Santos

Bystaff and agencies 1252PM GMT twelve March 2010

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Robinho returned to Santos in January, penning a six-month loan understanding afar from Manchester City that is set to finish on Aug 4.

The 26-year-old, who outlayed the initial 3 seasons of his career at Santos, has been in considerable form given his lapse and, carrying notched up five goals in eight matches, puts his re-found goalscoring bravery down to his happiness.

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"It was the right choice," pronounced Robinho. "I"m great physically and mentally. I goal to go on similar to this until the finish of my spell at Santos.

"Where I have to be happiest is inside of the 4 lines of the pitch, and this is happening. I intend to go on for long. I goal that the house is already addressing this issue.

"You only have to see at my face to see my enterprise to stay at the club."

The Brazil general additionally leapt to the counterclaim of fellow citizen Kaka who has come underneath glow following Real Madrid"s unsatisfactory Champions League exit at the hands of Lyon.

Robinho outlayed 3 years of his career at the Bernabeu prior to withdrawal for City in 2008 after an unfortunate last deteriorate in the Primera Division.

Kaka has been done out by majority to be Madrid"s victim for their European chagrin but Robinho feels the fans and press are all as well discerning to point the finger of blame.

Robinho combined "Kaka is a fantastic player, one of the majority appropriate in the world. Unfortunately, at Real Madrid, when things do not go well, the unfamiliar players are the majority criticised.

"It happened to me and to all the foreigners who are there. But Kaka has to keep his head in the right place. I"m certain he"ll come out on tip and have a lot of success at Real.

"And I goal he can raze with me in the World Cup in South Africa, if we are there."

Report escalates Lehman ineptitude to new level

By Antony Currie, Reuters-Breakingviews 823AM GMT twelve March 2010

Anton Valukas, the investigator for the failure court, reckons there is a clever box - or a "colourable claim" as he calls it - opposite Lehman Brothers" arch comparison manager Dick Fuld.

The investigator for the failure court, Anton Valukas, portrays the investment bank"s arch Dick Fuld and his lieutenants as some-more hubristic and unhandy than initial thought.

The sardonic inform additionally sum a array of balance-sheet shenanigans that could land the former tip coronet and their auditor, Ernst & Young, in court.

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Among the toxins detected was something called Repo 105. This accounting gimmickry masked the distance of Lehman"s change piece as the vigour grew for investment banks to revoke their precedence at the finish of 2007 - that Lehman additionally was you do at the time.

Even if Repo 105 wasn"t fatal it was positively poisonous. Lehman had been abusing it as far behind as 2001, utilizing repurchase agreements to financial resources but, distinct with standard repo transactions, treating them for accounting purposes as sold.

This enabled Lehman to cover up the loyal leverage, creation it appear reduce than it essentially was. Lehman even indispensable the abroad auxiliary to have it work sometimes.

Bart McDade, the Lehman comparison manager in assign of timorous the change piece disparagingly referred to Repo 105 as "another drug we ran on".

That sounds similar to a crack of fiduciary avocation - nonetheless Valukas doesn"t think it was.

He does, however, reckon there is a clever box - or a "colourable claim" as he calls it - opposite Fuld and the firm"s 3 financial chiefs in the last twelve months Chris O"Meara, Erin Callan and Ian Lowitt.

What"s more, Ernst & Young could be on the offshoot for veteran loosening for permitting the trades to pass muster.

Through his lawyer, Fuld has disavowed believe of Repo 105 or how it worked.

The 2,292-page inform is a page-turner even but this ban revelation.

It paints a far some-more minute design than formerly accessible of comparison government desiring their own hype, ignoring flourishing risks, and their deputies" concerns, as they built up bigger positions in illiquid resources similar to blurb genuine estate and in isolation equity.

They overrode the bank"s own risk boundary on a unchanging basement and didn"t embody these positions in highlight exam scenarios.

Whether or not Fuld and his associates finish up on trial, Valukas has at slightest drafted a illusory government guide.

It"s the most appropriate request nonetheless from this predicament on how to forestall destiny failures. It should be imperative celebration of the mass for stream and would-be bank chiefs - and their regulators.

School admissions: one-in-20 forced into unwanted schools

By Graeme Paton, Education Editor 521PM GMT eleven March 2010

More than one-in-20 pupils in England unsuccessful to get in to any of the tip 3 secondaries declared on focus forms this year, it was disclosed.

At the same time, one-in-six young kids were deserted from their initial choice.

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The total paint the initial central relapse of how this year"s delegate propagandize places in England were distributed.

Almost 530,000 pupils elderly 10 and eleven were told last week that state propagandize they had got in to for September.

Ministers hailed the total as explanation that the "vast majority" of relatives were "very confident with the admissions system" after removing young kids in to the propagandize of their choice.

But the Conservatives insisted that "only the rich" could pledge the kind of preparation they longed for by profitable for in isolation schools or relocating in to the catchment area of a sought-after comprehensive.

According to figures, direct was infancy extreme in areas with abbreviation schools and London boroughs, where relatives can select in in between dozens of easily-accessible schools.

In Slough, usually 43 per cent of young kids cumulative their initial choice, whilst in Buckinghamshire numbers were as low as 54 per cent. Both occupy educational selection.

In the London precinct of Wandsworth usually 48.7 per cent cumulative their elite school. Numbers were next 60 per cent in Hammersmith and Fulham, Lambeth, Croydon, Merton and Redbridge.

In total, 83 per cent of young kids nationally gained their initial preference the same as last year.

Just over five per cent of young kids 27,000 were deserted from at slightest 3 schools. Parents can have in in between 3 and 6 choices depending where they live.

Some 3.4 per cent of pupils 18,000 unsuccessful to get in to any propagandize on their focus form, definition they were incited afar from as most as six.

Michael Gove, the shade schools secretary, pronounced "Too most relatives dont get the schools they want.

"The preparation complement underneath this Government is unfair. The being is that it is usually the abounding who can pledge the kind of preparation they wish for their young kids possibly by going in isolation or profitable for a debt on a residence in the right catchment area.

"The Conservatives will emanate a new era of independent, free, and non-selective schools."

But Vernon Coaker, the Schools Minister, pronounced "The immeasurable infancy of relatives are really confident with the admissions complement and are removing their young kids to the schools of their choice.

"It is each relatives right to design that their kid attends a great school, and the outrageous alleviation in schools rated great given 1997 equates to they can have genuine certainty in the preparation system.

"Even if each singular propagandize was outstanding, there will regularly be renouned schools that embrace some-more applications than they have places to offer. But second preference does not meant second class.

"Parents have some-more preference since there are right away certainly some-more great schools since of rare levels of appropriation and standards have left up opposite the board."

Goring reluctant to spill the beans about another spillage

By Jonathan Russell, City Diary Editor 853PM GMT eleven March 2010

Wednesday night"s entertainment wasn"t utterly as festive but I assimilate ex-Cadbury trainer Roger Carr and Labour counterpart Lord Faulkner were benefaction at a little point in the dusk as were, alone a organization of Scandinavian businessmen.

Just as the diners were tucking in to their Lincolnshire ham knuckles and beef Wellington, things got a hold as well most for one of the Scandihooligans who collapsed on the building and, how can I put this, proceeded to redecorate the carpet.

Concern that the man competence have been taken severely ill was shortly allayed by a shrill matter from one of the organization dogmatic to his associate diners "Apologies, it has been a prolonged afternoon celebrating."

I called the Goring to find out what had left on.

"We have zero to add," they told me to the runner I"m presuming.

Osborne"s choosing by casting votes intentions spelt out

The choosing conflict is starting to comfortable up. Tory shade chancellor George Osborne put in an coming at the BBC"s domestic stating centre at Millbank usually to run in to This Week presenter Andrew Neil.

"Shadow chancellor! What are you you do here?" Neil demanded. "Want to come on my programme?"

"I"m you do News 24," Osborne replied.

"It"s called the News Channel now. Get it right," Neil strike back.

"How most income did you outlay rebranding it? You probably outlayed half a million quid becoming different the name," Osborne pronounced as he exited theatre left.

"Is your mother choosing by casting votes Labour as well," Neil finished on.

"No," came the really short reply as Osborne exited.

Breath of uninformed air from National Trust

Help is at palm for City workers.

I assimilate the National Trust has proposed to discharge jam jars full of uninformed air to stressed bankers and the like.

It is "thought to soothe highlight for up to 10 mins with each 454 gram glass container containing the branded uninformed air," the organization claims something that in my stressed state I destroy to believe.

A name to have you smile

Good headlines I"ve been watchful a whilst to be equates to to write this story, but the betterment of Investec to the FTSE100 equates to we eventually have a association executive in the prominent physique called Fani Titi.

About time too.

One less reason to emporium at M&S

One to see out for I assimilate Morrisons is to lift out an promotion shell on May 1 pushing home how most improved it is than the competition. Any foe in particular? Well May 1 is the date former Morrisons trainer Marc Bolland starts at M&S.

Twitter users smell a rat

Finally a word from rat catchers Rentokil.

The association has had to insist to users of Twitter not to be scared when they are sensitive by the site "you are right away being followed by Pest Control (Rentokil)". Assuming they"re not rats of course.

jonathan.russell@telegraph.co.uk

Indian Premier League 2010: Its showtime as extravaganza targets record audience

By Nick Hoult 536PM GMT eleven Mar 2010

It"s showtime thespian Akon performs at the IPL Launch Dinner on Mar eleven Mumbai Photo GETTY IMAGES

Starting on Friday in Mumbai, where fortifying champions Deccan Chargers fool around Kolkata Knight Riders, we will see the initial correct IPL, that is, an IPL programmed for some-more than 9 months and executed in the home country.

The hype in India will have reached fever representation on Friday night by the time an hour-long opening rite is sealed by Lionel Richie singing Dancing on the Ceiling.

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Richie, the aristocrat of middle-of-the-road groove, is not the picture you straightforwardly join forces with with the IPL, but once the opening rite is over we will be unprotected to a contest that has outlayed the past couple of weeks rising beginning after beginning to daub in to new markets.

It was reported in India on Thursday that some-more than 100 brands right away have associations with the IPL. Watching a compare will be similar to on foot down an aisle in Tesco, as players are used as sandwich boards. Teams even have their own central nipping resin partners.

Fans will be means to watch live on YouTube and twitter their thoughts with alternative viewers around the world. At the same time ITV will be returning to cricket for the initial time given the 1970s. Then there were usually 3 channels on the television. Now the IPL will be shown on freeview on ITV4. It"s not only the cricket that has changed.

YouTube and the IPL will share promotion income from an untested promote indication that will be monitored closely by roughly each alternative vital sports physique in the world. On Friday YouTube will make known deals in Britain with Lebara and Brylcreem. The endorsements keep on rolling.

In India the concentration will be some-more traditional, in a Twenty20 clarity that is.

Gideon Haigh, an Australian cricket writer, pronounced this week that Twenty20 was a "TV skill masquerading as cricket". That will be valid emphatically by Indian radio companies, quite the Hindi-language channel Colors.

They speak of a "Super Bowl-style atmosphere" and have plans for an IPL Rockstar being show and will shade the post-match parties (which, naturally, have their own sponsors). It is this change in between cricket and showbusiness that the IPL has trademarked.

It is because English cricketers outlay their time in the IPL goggle-eyed, similar to schoolkids chasing autographs, when they see the lifestyle it offers.

Stepping in to the opposite this year will be dual English batsmen who have created their talents to be successful in Twenty20. It is a pointer of his swell over the past year that Bangalore expects some-more from Eoin Morgan than from Kevin Pietersen, who joins the IPL after the Bangladesh debate at the finish of March.

Michael Lumb is the alternative new English name. Picked up by Rajasthan Royals, Lumb tender in their pre-season precision stay in Jan and afterwards slapped the England bowlers around in Abu Dhabi for the Lions.

Now the Hampshire batsman will mount in for Graeme Smith in the early matches when Rajasthan, the initial IPL winners, begin their debate in Mumbai on Saturday.

"Being out there for the auction gave me a feel for the concern of the IPL," Lumb said. "I wasn"t wakeful prior to of how large it is until I saw the auction and how most opposite radio channels were display it.

"Speaking to a little of the alternative players they discuss it me stories of personification in front of 60,000 people and that you can"t listen to yourself talk. So yes it is going to be outrageous personification out here."

Will it be outrageous over here? There should be no complaint accessing the contest for the majority. It never unequivocally held on when it was shown by Setanta. Then again, Setanta never unequivocally held on either. ITV entrance will assistance and fans are some-more informed now, in year three, with the teams than they were in 2008.

Modi"s mantra is that "eyeballs equals success". He positively has entrance to viewers. Now it"s time to broach something they wish to see.

IPL Players to Watch

Royal Challengers

English seductiveness Kevin Pietersen, Eoin Morgan. Star names Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid, Cameron White, Jacques Kallis.

Chennai Super Kings

English seductiveness With Andrew Flintoff injured, there isnt any. Star names MS Dhoni, Matthew Hayden, Muttiah Muralitharan.

Deccan Chargers

English seductiveness None. Star names Andrew Symonds, Adam Gilchrist, Herschelle Gibbs.

Delhi Daredevils

English seductiveness If he gets a game, Paul Collingwood. Star names Virender Sehwag, AB De Villiers, Dirk Nannes.

Kings XI Punjab

English seductiveness Ravi Bopara. Star names Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardene, Yuvraj Singh

Kolkata Knight Riders

English seductiveness Owais Shah. Star names Sourav Ganguly, Chris Gayle, Brad Hodge

Mumbai Indians

English seductiveness Graham Napier Star names Sachin Tendulkar,JP Duminy, Kieron Pollard

Rajasthan Royals

English seductiveness Dimitri Mascarenhas, Michael Lumb. Star names Shane Warne, Shaun Tait, Graeme Smith.

Charles Allen joins EMI Music after surprise departure

By Helia Ebrahimi 700AM GMT eleven March 2010

Former ITV trainer Charles Allen, who has taken over at EMI Music. Photo JAMES FRASER

The warn depart comes at a supportive time for the song business, whose primogenitor association is inextricable in efforts to remonstrate investors to smash in to in some-more cash, after the catastrophic merger of EMI Group in 2007 by in isolation equity account Terra Firma.

Despite open statements only weeks ago that he was focused on the plea forward and remained entirely committed to EMI, Mr Leoni-Sceti pronounced in a matter that his pursuit was "now done" and that it was time for him to move on.

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Insiders at the song organisation pronounced Mr Leoni-Scetis abdication had been "gratefully accepted". His exit comes only months after he complained to Guy Hands, owner of Terra Firma, that staff spirit at the association was at an all-time low and that artists sealed to EMI had lost conviction in the company.

Last month the home of Katy Perry and Coldplay posted a �1.8bn loss after a �1bn spoil assign and warned it faced a "significant shortfall" in assembly the borrowing covenants.

Mr Allen, who had been non-executive chairman, will take full carry out of the commercial operation plan for EMI Music, piece of the song organisation that is perplexing to lift �120m from Terra Firma investors to equivocate breaching promissory note covenants on �2.7bn of loans due to Citigroup.

Relations in between the association and the bank have been the centre of a multi-billion dollar legal case launched by Mr Hands. He has indicted Citi of tricking Terra Firma in to shopping the song organisation at the tip of the marketplace in 2007.

EMI has valid a catastrophic investment given Terra Firma paid for it for �4.2bn by the Maltby Capital investment vehicle. More than 90pc of the equity has been created off and it has indispensable money injections twice to wand off promissory note breaches.

Mr Leoni-Sceti, who has overseen complicated cost-cutting at the song business, had been a warn preference to head EMI Music after fasten from consumer products association Reckitt Benckiser with no song industry experience.

World Indoor Athletics 2010: when to watch GB team in action

442PM GMT eleven Mar 2010

FInal end captain Jenny Meadows runs for Great Britain in the 800m at the World Indoor Athletics 2010 in Doha Photo REUTERS

Watch full live coverage of the IAAF World Indoor Championships 2010, Mar 12-14, online to one side on Telegraph.co.uk , in organisation with Aviva That movement starts on Friday at 0600 GMT with the women"s 400m heats and three times burst qualification.

Schedule for Sunday, Mar 14, 2010 All times GMT

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1300 Women"s 60 Metres Semi-Final GB contestant Joice Maduaka

1300 W Long Jump Final

1320 W Pole Vault Final

1325 Men"s 60 Metres Hurdles Semi-Final

1335 W Shot Put Final

1345 W 1500 Metres Final GB contestant Helen Clitheroe

1400 Men"s 3000 Metres Final

1400 Men"s High Jump Final GB contestant Samson Oni

1415 W 800 Metres Final GB contestant Jennifer Meadows

1430 Men"s 800 Metres Final

1440 Men"s Triple Jump Final

1445 W 4x400 Metres Relay Final GB patrol Victoria Barr, Hayley Jones, Dawn Hunt, Lee McConnell, Perri Shakes-Drayton, Kim Wall

1510 W 60 Metres Final

1525 Men"s 60 Metres Hurdles Final

1550 Men"s 4x400 Metres Relay Final GB patrol Richard Buck, Dale Garland, Chris Clarke, Nigel Levine, Conrad Williams, Luke Lennon-Ford

Watch with full live coverage of the World Indoor Athletics Championships on Mar 12, thirteen and 14, online to one side on telegraph.co.uk in organisation with Aviva. Follow the fortunes of Aviva Team GB and NI in Doha for the IAAF World Indoor Championship, with stars such as Jessica Ennis and Jenny Meadows set to contest in the tip indoor eventuality of the season. You can watch all of the eventuality to one side live online here. There will additionally be highlights and full sum in the lead up to Doha on the entertainment pages.

Cancer nurse had relationships with former patients

By Andy Bloxham 730AM GMT eleven March 2010

Nurse Sara Dale was sacked after a whistleblower reported her relations Photo ALBAN PIX

Sara Dale, 39, a Macmillan cancer nurse, was sacked by the sanatorium after a whistleblower reported the relations and an exploration found opposite her.

Miss Dale certified to dual relations with the partners of former patients but she denied allegations that there was a third and it was not proven by investigators.

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The helper is divorced and has dual young kids with her ex-husband.

The initial attribute was when she began saying the former partner of one studious after she died and the attribute lasted for 9 years.

Then, early last year, the partner of scaffolder Stephen Ellis, 50, died from cancer and, by the summer, Miss Dale and Mr Ellis were a couple.

By Christmas, neighbours pronounced she had changed in to Mr Ellis large isolated home on a still estate on the hinterland of King"s Lynn, in Norfolk.

Miss Dale worked as a Macmillan village helper for roughly thirteen years and treated with colour the women in her pursuit at the internal Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

Last year, an unknown whistleblower contacted the sanatorium and reported that 3 women had died from cancer prior to Miss Dale began relations with their former boyfriends and husbands.

The disciplinary conference found opposite her and she was sacked in January, afterwards her stipulate with Macmillan, the cancer charity, was cancelled.

A orator for Miss Dale pronounced she did not encounter the initial man, who has not been named, whilst she was treating his mother and they initial met most months after she died.

Speaking to a inhabitant journal on Tuesday, Miss Dale pronounced "The sanatorium was told Id had 3 relations with men who had lost their partners to cancer. But I have had two.

"One of them was long-term and we were together for scarcely 10 years and the alternative one is the one I am in now, who I love.

"I have never had an event with a patients partner."

Mr Ellis, vocalization yesterday, pronounced a chairman he refused to name was dynamic to spoil their complacency together and combined that his partner had finished zero wrong.

He pronounced "At the finish of the day we are dual normal people perplexing to lead a normal hold up but we are not being left alone.

"Mel, my partner of eighteen years, she wasnt my wife, got cancer and had it for 7 years. Thats when I got to know Sara.

"We were only great friends. She helped my partner tremendously. Then we proposed removing closer.

"I got together with her in the summer. Id well known her for a while.

"Everybody is entitled to a life."

A Macmillan orator pronounced "We design the health professionals to adopt the top standards of caring and belong to the strictest codes of professionalism."

A orator for Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn NHS trust, that in use Miss Dale, pronounced "A Macmillan helper has been discharged following an review in to critical allegations done per her veteran conduct."

There are over 4,500 Macmillan nurses who await around half a million cancer patients and their family groups each year.

Miss Dale is still a purebred helper and is authorised to use nonetheless the make a difference has been referred to the Nursing and Midwifery Council, that has the energy to set upon her off.

Hamburg, Germany: The Perfect Break

By Adrian Bridge 1055AM GMT 10 March 2010

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Previous of Images Next Hamburg is a city of pleasing canals, lakes and rivers Photo CORBIS The Beatlemania exhibition, a value trove of memorabilia and displays Photo CORBIS For a normal hotel, try the classical Kempinski Atlantic Photo CORBIS

Why go?

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To have your preconceptions challenged. People who haven"t visited Germany"s second largest city often boot it as a bleak, decrepit industrial port. Those who come afar are astounded to have discovered, yes, a city of naval grit, but additionally one of far-reaching immature expanses and pleasing canals, lakes and rivers.

Hamburg"s outrageous beautiful appetite has regularly captivated media sorts and musicians. It is a place to shop, journey and take a break on seafood. It is a place of thrillingly written hotels.

It is additionally a city on the move the gulf area is now in the throes of a mutation that will spin Hamburg in to one of the majority new-fashioned cities in the world.

Of course, it is still an critical pier (after Rotterdam, the second largest in Europe), and it is unfit to go there and not feel the stability appetite of a 1,200-year-old trading tradition. Parts of the city definitely season in the resources it has generated; others (notably the red-light Reeperbahn district) keep the raffish, decrepit corner that, 50 years ago this August, captivated a organisation of lads from Liverpool that went by the name of the Beatles. Welcome to the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

Get there by...

Plane. Lufthansa (www.lufthansa.com) flies from Heathrow from about �145 return, together with taxes. Other airlines drifting without delay embody British Airways (www.ba.com) and easyJet (www.easyjet.com)

Stay at...

One of a gorgeous form of engineer hotels. The George (www.thegeorge-hotel.de, 0049 40 280 0300; doubles from �125), close to the Alster lake, plays on Hamburg"s extraordinary affinity for all things British (think Chesterfield sofas and a pointed alloy of the colonial and the contemporary). Check the website www.designhotels.com for serve options together with East, an generous jubilee of unconventional curves; Side, a minimalist fool around on potion and stone; and, for younger, some-more price-conscious visitors, the twenty-five Hours Hotel (doubles from �75). Too modern? Try the classical Kempinski Atlantic (www.kempinski.atlantic.de, 0049 40 28880; doubles requisitioned early from �140), that is where Paul McCartney stayed after behaving in Hamburg in December.

Spend the morning...

Getting your bearings. Despite the drop wrought by the good glow of 1842 and the bombing raids of 1943, there is a loftiness to a little of the buildings of the old locale and along the Jungfernstieg at the finish of the "inner" Alster. If you have time, get to know a little of the superficial districts such as the Schanzenviertel (popular with an catchy set) and Eppendorf (exuding an older-world category and charm).

Have lunch in...

The really acceptable (and central) Art Nouveau environment of the Caf Paris (www.cafeparis.net, 0049 40 3252 7777), where internal dignitaries gnaw the cud (and the French-inspired meals of the day). Mains similar to Boeuf Bourguignon cost about �17.

Spend the afternoon...

Getting behind to where they once belonged. The Beatlemania muster (www.beatlemania-hamburg.com), that non-stop last year, is a value trove of memorabilia and displays detailing the story of the band, and in sold the lengthened durations in between 1960 and 1962 that were outlayed in Hamburg (the Fab Four as we know them came together here rather than Liverpool). There are postcards from Ringo to his grandmother, capricious photos taken by Astrid Kirchherr; and clips from the Strawberry Fields Forever video. Whatever you think of the Beatles, this is a wonderful, enchanting poser tour.

Dine out at...

Fischereihafen (0049 40 381816), a grand fish grill and oyster bar on the harbour. This is one of Hamburg"s premier dining venues with prices to compare (expect to compensate at slightest �50 a head for 3 courses and wine). Despite that, it"s good fun. As is Yakshi"s Bar & Lounge and the grill trustworthy to East (see above), with imaginative, Asian-inspired cuisine and a thespian setting.

Stay out late at...

A song club. Hamburg stays a place of tender low-pitched appetite and innovation. A integrate of the clubs that the Beatles used to fool around in are still going clever (the Indra and the Kaiserkeller). Newer options embody the Grünspan (www.gruenspan.de) Want to go upmarket? Hamburg has an glorious ballet company. Downmarket? Well, not for zero is the Reeperbahn well known as the majority corrupted mile in the universe (but see what to avoid, below).

Spend the subsequent morning...

On the water. Head down to the Elbe and take a journey by the red-brick Speicherstadt (warehouse district) and serve in to Hafen City, a large new growth of Hamburg"s residential and blurb districts. On the way, you will pass docks full of immeasurable enclosure ships and the to some extent built Elbphilharmonie unison hall, that is unfailing to turn the pitch of the city. Ferry no 62 additionally offers good views ofthe harbour.

And afternoon...

Wandering, cycling or sailing on the "outer" Alster (best in open and summer), where grand villas line the lake"s shores. Then strike the shops Hamburg has lots of high-quality garments outlets (embracing normal intelligent and engineer chic) and, ladies take note, multi-storey shoe stores.

At all costs avoid...

The lap-dancing clubs of the Reeperbahn.

Further information

Hamburg Marketing (www.marketing.hamburg.de); Hamburg Tourism (www.hamburg-tourism.de/en)

Network Rail workers vote for strike

1126AM GMT eleven Mar 2010

The brawl is over Network Rail"s plans to shift operative practices so that some-more upkeep staff worked at weekends to have repairs and upkeep some-more fit Photo PA

The Rail Maritime and Transport kinship pronounced 77 per cent of the members who took piece in the list corroborated strikes, with 89 per cent ancillary movement short of a strike.

There was a 65 per cent audience in the ballot, called in criticism at plans to cut 1,500 upkeep jobs and shift operative practices. The opinion paves the proceed for the initial inhabitant rail set upon given 1994.

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The brawl is over Network Rail"s plans to shift operative practices so that some-more upkeep staff worked at weekends to have repairs and upkeep some-more efficient. Signal workers will opinion in a apart set upon list subsequent week in a move that could dull the railway network over the Easter holidays.

RMT ubiquitous cabinet member Bob Crow pronounced ""RMT members were faced with a sheer preference in this ballot. They could possibly lay behind and wait for for these cash-led upkeep cuts to lead to an additional vital mess on Britain"s railways or they could opinion to take movement to stop the conflict on rail safety. They have overwhelmingly voted to take action.

""Nobody should be underneath any illusions about only how dynamic RMT members are to win this brawl and to stop this forward play with rail safety. Nearly 150 MPs have sealed an Early Day Motion hostile Network Rail"s cuts plans and have urged the Government to meddle to call a hindrance to this jobs destruction on the tracks.

""RMT is in no disbelief that the cuts programme drawn up by Network Rail would draw towards us behind to the dim days of Railtrack and would have an additional Hatfield, Potters Bar or Grayrigg mess an inevitability. That is what this brawl is all about and even the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) has had to concur that the botched try to move by these cuts has lifted critical reserve concerns.

""RMT stays accessible for talks with Network Rail and we would goal that in light of the strenuous assign for movement delivered by the members currently that the authority will reply to the ask for suggestive discussions directed at ensuring that the staffing levels compulsory to broach a protected rail complement are maintained.""

The RMT senior manager will plead the subsequent move in the brawl subsequent Friday, Mar 19, on the same day that a set upon opinion between NR vigilance workers in the same brawl is announced.

The Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) voiced currently that 1,600 of the members, together with electrical controllers in assign of provision energy to the tracks, would opinion in the entrance weeks on either to set upon over a 0.8 per cent compensate offer.

The kinship will make known tomorrow the outcome of a list between 2,000 of the NR members, together with supervisors, in the pursuit cuts row.

TSSA personality Gerry Doherty pronounced "Network Rail is stumbling in to a brawl by the overbearing proceed to the workforce.

"Bosses are discerning to endowment themselves bonuses value hundreds of thousands of pounds each year and afterwards they spin around and ask their employees to take an in effect compensate cut with an scornful suggest well next inflation."

The dual unions will theatre a proof outward NR"s London domicile tomorrow.

NR pronounced this week it had strait plans to understanding with any strikes over Easter and confirmed that the immeasurable infancy of pursuit cuts would be completed by intentional redundancy.

Gordon Brown to warn economic storm not yet over

730AM GMT 10 Mar 2010

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The Prime Minister will guarantee to lift the economy out of the ""storm"", but insists the liberation depends on holding to the benefaction course.

His comments come as Westminster and the City energetically await the date of the budget, that is to be voiced by Chancellor Alistair Darling this morning.

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There is heated conjecture that it will be hold on Mar 24. Treasury officials would usually endorse that the date would be published in a created matter to the House of Commons.

According to reports, Gordon Brown staid on Mar twenty-four as the majority appropriate date for the Chancellor"s last monetary matter prior to the ubiquitous election.

The Prime Minister could afterwards call the choosing shortly after, with May 6 seeking increasingly organisation for polling day.

Mr Brown will currently have what aides are describing as a ""major"" debate on the economy, defying calls for progressing movement to revoke the large bill deficit.

""We are weathering the storm; right away is no time to spin back,"" he will say.

""We will hold to the course. And we will finish this mission. We have got by this charge together but there are still estimable risks ahead.

""There will be bumps in the road. And I hold the usually approach to overcome them is by displaying the same strength and finalise as we did during the crisis.""

Mr Brown will be vocalization at Thomson Reuters in Canary Wharf, the same venue where Tory personality David Cameron pounded Labour"s jot down on the economy last week.

The Tories are dynamic to have the economy one of the defining issues of the ubiquitous choosing campaign, arguing that Labour has left electorate worse off given 2005.

Mr Brown has been pinning his hopes, at slightest in part, on the economy bouncing behind strongly from the retrogression in the early months of 2010.

Mr Cameron and shade chancellor George Osborne demand the Government is putting expansion and seductiveness rates at risk by loitering moves to move down borrowing.

Trade total showed yesterday that UK exports took their biggest thrust in some-more than 3 years during January.

Rating group Fitch combined to the mercantile dejection yesterday by raising doubts about the UK"s triple-A credit rating.

The organisation pronounced Britain"s emperor credit form had ""deteriorated"" due to the bearing to the monetary crisis, with the majority fast climb in debt of any AAA-rated country.

The UK, Spain and France were the 3 triple-A rated countries in majority obligatory need of clever movement on the open finances, Fitch said.

The annual bill necessity is approaching to reach about �178 billion this year, a jot down turn most times that of a couple of years ago.

But the Prime Minister will contend currently that zero contingency be finished to discredit the recovery, observant the nation is at a ""crossroads"".

""The stakes are high, we brave not risk the recovery,"" he will say.

""For the charge on top of all else is to safety and enhance the jobs - and lift the standards of hold up - of the British people.""

Liberal Democrat Treasury orator Vince Cable pronounced ""Gordon Brown"s debate shows he is heading with a diseased hand.

""It"s really formidable to see how the man who claimed to have abolished bang and bust can debate on his stewardship of the economy after the biggest bust for decades.

""The usually reason he is, of course, is since the Conservatives are even worse.

""The usually unchanging thing about their mercantile process is that they have been consistently wrong.""

Prestonfield House, Edinburgh: hotel review

By Anne Jepson 405PM GMT 08 March 2010

Previous of Images Next Prestonfield House has an proceed that mirrors the individual, unapologetic lush character of the owner, James Thomson The bedrooms are written to tempt you to live out a little hedonistic, ancestral or overindulgent fantasy

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PRESTONFIELD HOUSE

LOCATION In the shade of Arthur"s Seat, and surrounded by Holyrood Park and Duddingston golf course.

CHARACTER Delightfully decadent and really extravagant; honestly pleasing antiques and an proceed that mirrors the individual, unapologetic lush character of the owner, James Thomson, additionally well known for the Witchery and Tower restaurants in the city.

ROOMS twenty-four bedrooms and suites (all featuring Bose receptive to advice systems and large flat-screen televisions) written to tempt you to live out a little hedonistic, ancestral or overindulgent fantasy. The rich, dim colours of fabrics, walls and seat will move out the pleasing debauchee in everyone.

FOOD Perhaps we picked a bad night, but the food in the not often declared Rhubarb grill was disappointing. Despite promotion a "fuss-free style", there was far as well most going on in conditions of flavour, texture… and salt.

WE LIKE The possibility in this Calvinist city to penetrate happily in to this utterly individualistic basement of epicurean oppulance and history.

NOT SO KEEN The inconsistent "Scotch" themed nights for up to 500 coached-in visitors multiform times a week in the Stables. Kept apart from the main house, but it adds a really peculiar energetic to proceedings.

ESSENTIALS 0131 225 7800; prestonfield.com. Double b & b from �150.

Sir James Dyson plan to fill UKs engineering vacuum

By Louise Armitstead 630AM GMT 09 March 2010

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The pattern millionaire, whose inform was commissioned by the Conservative Party, has called for an renovate of the start-up funding, a re-routing of the investigate and growth (R&D) taxation credits and uninformed appropriation for scholarship and record in education.

Conservative personality David Cameron has affianced to see at each letter of reference with a perspective to taking advantage of them as process if the Tories win the ubiquitous election.

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In his report, Ingenious Britain, Sir James has been rarely vicious of the Government disaster to behind engineering projects.

He pronounced "Backing British engineering and moving new bent contingency begin with the Government. We need to have decisions on big projects similar to high-speed rail or arch energy and get on with it. Big projects enthuse engineers and universities and children. Instead we get bogged down with unconstrained reports and bickering."

Sir James additionally called for the R&D taxation credits most of that have been targeted for scrapping by George Osborne to be redirected to record start-ups. He pronounced "Nearly 70pc of the taxation breaks are claimed by banks and the use industry. These should be scrapped but the ones for hi-tech growth should be increasing from 140pc to 200pc."

He additionally endorsed boosting the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) service for "angel" investors that await record companies, and a government-guaranteed commercial operation loan intrigue to inspire some-more lending by banks to innovative businesses.

Sir James pronounced shift had to begin from school. "There is a critical necessity of scholarship teachers," he said. "And health and reserve manners have stopped scholarship experiments in schools. These contingency be brought back. Children wish the plea of formidable tasks only see how most improved they are than their relatives on a computer."

Sir James has called for Government income to be channelled in to scholarship education. His suggestions embody improved compensate for science, record and maths teachers to capture some-more higher-calibre staff. He has additionally called for improved await in universities and quite for graduates. One idea is to yield engineering undergraduates with industry-sponsored scholarships of �2,000 each. Another is that post-graduate investigate students should have their compensate increasing from �13,000 a year to �23,000 a year.

Sir James pronounced "There are so couple of British students in post-gradate work since they are as well gladdened to stay on. As a outcome the universities are filled with unfamiliar students who afterwards take the imagination behind to the competitors. We need to assistance students with their loans and afterwards compensate them."

Sir James, whose ideas have been corroborated by heading British manufacturers together with Sir John Rose, arch senior manager of Rolls-Royce, pronounced "Change contingency begin with the Government."

Patients put in cupboards and kitchens due to overcrowded wards: survey

By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor 715AM GMT 09 March 2010

The use puts patients at risk since of the close conditions and miss of apparatus around the proxy beds but when nurses inform it to managers, mostly zero happens, the consult discovered.

Patients competence even miss dishes as catering staff do not realize they are there and the beds do not have call bells.

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Reasons for utilizing non-clinical areas dubbed "overspill car parks" by patients enclosed that the four-hour watchful time aim in A&E was at risk of being breached so some-more patients indispensable to be certified or the sanatorium would have to spin people away.

Unions warned that the incident will get worse as hospitals are formulation to close wards to save money.

The consult conducted by the Nursing Times perceived 900 responses and dual thirds pronounced patients were being treated with colour with colour in areas of the sanatorium not written for clinical care.

Extra beds are being put in the center of wards, patients are being put on trolleys in corridors, cupboards and kitchens as hospitals onslaught to cope with the numbers, it was warned.

Six in ten of the nurses pronounced the areas were being used some-more than once a week and in a little cases for days at a time.

The overcrowding risks studious reserve as they have no entrance to call bells, H2O or puncture apparatus and glow exits competence be blocked. Putting beds as well close together increases the risk that infections will be drawn out in in between patients, the nurses said.

One helper pronounced "Areas used to house patients are additionally used as storage areas and thus have linen and gangling apparatus in them. One studious described it as an overspill car park."

Another combined "If a patients condition unexpected run-down ensuing in them carrying a cardiac detain we would not be means to get the pile-up trolley to them."

Although the use is pronounced to be proxy and usually finished in impassioned cases, roughly 3 in ten of the respondents pronounced it happened each day.

Those who reported it to comparison managers as being unsuitable were indicted of "not being a group player" or were told it was "none of your business".

More than eight out of ten nurses in the consult had reported the use to managers but in usually 4 per cent of cases had it been stopped.

One helper in the consult pronounced "The escalation area is kept accessible for vital incidents but is mostly looked at as an prolongation to the hospital. It is located in the center of vicious care, so if it is occupied, alternative exposed vicious caring patients are put at risk of cross-infection, for instance."

Another pronounced "Urine bottles are not emptied, dishes are missed, as staff are not wakeful of the patient."

Howard Catton, executive of process at the Royal College of Nursing pronounced if nurses were not listened to by managers they would turn quiescent to the situation. He warned that this was a regard lifted during the exploration in to the liaison at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust were up to 1,200 people died needlessly.

Shadow Health Minister Anne Milton pronounced "This is indeed shocking. No studious should be put by the distress of being treated with colour with colour in an area that is vulnerable or is unpleasant to their remoteness or dignity.

"Nurses contingency be free to have decisions about where and when to provide people on clinical grounds. They should not be forced in to treating people in sideboard or a kitchen usually to encounter Labours official targets."

Katherine Murphy, Director of the Patients Association pronounced "Not usually is this potentially unsafe, but it is utterly undignified. In impassioned resources the NHS competence need to review to this, but the formula of this consult indicate it is a drawn out practice.

"That is utterly unacceptable. Yet again, this consult highlights the opening in in between tongue and being in the NHS lottery of care. If Trusts contend they have been left no preference afterwards what does that contend about appropriation for front line care? There possibly isn"t sufficient or the being outlayed unwisely."

A Department of Health orator pronounced "It is for internal healthcare commissioners and providers to consider the services indispensable locally to encounter the final of their population.

"However, each helper contingency imitate with the standards, opening and ethics summarized in the NMC code. In particular, any helper who is endangered about any risk to their patients should inform their concerns to their manager, in essay if necessary.

"The immeasurable infancy of NHS patients experience great quality, protected and in effect caring and that we are one of the universe leaders in the general expostulate to urge the reserve of healthcare. However, we admit there is some-more to do and will go on to essay to have services even safer."

Badminton All England 2010: GBs lost generation need success, says Anthony Clark

By Rod Gilmour 540PM GMT 09 March 2010

Key twin Nathan Robertson, front, and Anthony Clark in movement Photo AFP

The Championships begin on Wednesday in Birmingham with the daunting thought of England carrying to contest with no seeded players for the initial time and China, the sports widespread force, seeking to repeat last years five-medal purify sweep.

Clark, who will partner Nathan Robertson in the mens badminton doubles as England bid to win a initial home pretension given 2005, pronounced "Having no seeds isnt a great state of where English badminton is at the moment. But we were unseeded at the Singapore Open last year and came afar with the title. Hopefully we can trip underneath the radar.

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"The complaint is that we have lost a generation. Weve lost a decade where no players came by and right away we are relying on girl after a little high-profile retirements.

"Were at the age right away where we dont hold you can fool around at the tip of your diversion for the complete deteriorate and you need to rise for the vital tournaments such as the All England."

However the not all severe threat and gloom. Robertson and new churned doubles partner Jenny Wallwork are commencement to freshness as a partnership whilst Englands childish opinion is led by twenty-three year-old Rajiv Ouseph, the universe No 23, in the mens singles. That foe will additionally see dual of the biggest players of the last decade, Malaysia"s Lee Chong Wei and China"s Lin Dan, go head-to-head.

Clark pronounced "We have a little great younger players and that is the plea for the coaches. We have an Olympic Games entrance up and UK Sport final really high levels. That is the kind of vigour they are putting on sports such as ours. We havent delivered in the last couple of big events but we have to target high."

Despite England being seedless, the National Indoor Arena is still approaching to declare cacophonic outbursts from the sports traditionally-noisy spectators over the five days - generally from the Asian fans.

Clark combined "I find that it regularly rises me. If you can overpower the throng afterwards you know you are you do well.

"However most thousand Indonesian and Chinese fans spin up, though, they will regularly be outnumbered by the Brits."

The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge by Patricia Duncker: review

By Jake Kerridge 1056AM GMT 09 March 2010

The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge by Patricia Duncker

The story of the Heavens Gate group, 39 of whose members killed themselves in California in 1997 in the idea that this would concede their souls to house an visitor spaceship, is endorsed celebration of the mass for anybody who thinks that the grounds of Patricia Dunckers new novel is as well outlandish. It concerns an conflict of suicides between the Swiss members of a cult who ceremony an planetary physique in the constellation Auriga they call the Dark Host and hold to be a outrider of the Apocalypse.

But there is a turn in Dunckers tale. The cult members are not the common saddos but Switzerlands systematic and inventive elite, together with the arch global- warming confidant and best-known radio astronomer; to conclude the outcome this has, we have to suppose Nicholas Stern, Patrick Moore and the total of the Royal Society jumping off the roof tiles of the Greenwich Observatory.

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The novel starts with the find in a timberland in the Jura of the corpses of sixteen people, organised in a semicircle. Andr Schweigen, a testy French cop, records similarities to a mass self-murder in Switzerland a small years progressing and court sequence his co-worker and lover, Dominique Carpentier, a decider well well known as "la chasseuse de sectes", the cult hunter. She is a receptive thinker who marks down the ageing smoothies who set up fraudulent sects in sequence to lay waste the gullible.

Dominique and Andr find a smashed book containing planetary maps and prayers created in an illegible denunciation and find that they are traffic with a cult of really old start well well known as the Faith.

They lane down the guru, a important Swiss composer called Friedrich Grosz, who fundamentally turns out to be an ageing smoothie and takes to promulgation Dominique flowers. The incident develops in a proceed that lends the novels pretension an play on words Dominique is the Composers Judge in the clarity that she is perplexing to consider his blame over the suicides, but she additionally starts to tumble in love with him.

Ambiguity additionally characterises Dunckers proceed to Dominique. Her fervour for her work is excellent but has led to an emptied personal life. We are told that "she disliked song for the elementary reason that it muddied her emotions"; examination the Composer perform and saying "the zealous attention" of the rest of the assembly is "like being piece of a assemblage whose ideology she did not share". She refuses to admit a colleagues evidence that a small people who stick on sects find a clarity of village well value handing over their hold up assets for. If not utterly as distrustful of note values as, say, the Prince of Wales, Duncker is maybe implying that those who live by them could do so a small some-more imaginatively.

One does wonder, though, because Dominique, with all her dread of music, seems so lustful of poetry; we are treated with colour to unconstrained Shakespearean tags, the peculiar verse of Emily Dickinson and a movement on Sir Thomas Wyatt. Duncker never explains because her French decider has such a ambience for anglophone verse; here is an author, one feels, whose mind is stocked with an considerable form of well review quotations but who is not really observant about deploying them appropriately.

Otherwise, this is an beguiling novel. And in the issue Duncker out-Dan-Browns Dan Brown you will never review a some-more stirring comment of somebody perplexing to find the scold exit to get to Jodrell Bank from the M6.

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Family Book Club: Little Darlings by Jacqueline Wilson

By Christopher Middleton 1210PM GMT 09 Mar 2010

Tears and smiles Dame Jacqueline Wilson Photo NAOMI COOPER

Our book of the month for Mar is a story of dual daughters. On the one hand, there"s Destiny, who lives in a cheap piece of Manchester, with an bum mom who functions around the time to compensate the mortgage. And afterwards there"s Sunset, who lives in oppulance in Surrey, with her ageing stone star father, her neurotically glamorous mother, and small sister, Sweetie, and baby brother, Ace.

Although they live worlds apart, the dual heroines of Dame Jacqueline Wilson"s novel Little Darlings have one thing in common, the same father. For Sunset"s luminary father, the right afar somewhat unfortunate rocker Danny Kilman, is additionally Destiny"s father, interjection to a short intrigue with her mom behind in the Nineties.

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Not that he has any opinion of this at the begin of the book, but by the finish of this relocating tale piece fable, piece satire, piece all-too-real-life the dual family groups have not only met, but collided head-on. Amid the hysteria, the recriminations and the amplified self-centredness of the adults, the dual still-small voices of ease go to Destiny and Sunset.

It is, of course, a Jacqueline Wilson heading that instead of removing absolved of the grown-ups early on, as alternative children"s writers do, she puts them in the center of the action. And they don"t regularly come out well.

"Because immature kids currently don"t go out as majority in the travel to play, they are with their relatives some-more than they used to," she says. "They see them close up and, on occasions, are unprotected to the realization that their mom and father don"t regularly know best."

Just as when bad Sunset hears her father plotting over the phone to run afar with his ultimate unlawful girlfriend, and earnings to the playroom with the report, "Dad"s formulation to bail out us".

Hardly the fluffy-rabbit things of normal children"s books, but Dame Jacqueline stands by her theme matter. "The thing is, each kid currently knows at slightest one alternative kid whose relatives have separate up," she says. "This is a piece of children"s lives today, and I try and execute what"s function now.

"My perspective is that a churned diet of celebration of the mass is lovely. Children who suffer my books additionally discuss it me they suffer Harry Potter, for example, and Ballet Shoes there"s room for all stories.

"In this book, for example, immature kids get to suppose what it"s similar to to live both on a severe legislature estate and in a palace with a guitar-shaped swimming pool. They are additionally introduced to the thought that you can have all the income and courtesy in the world, and still competence not be carrying that ridicule a time."

As demonstrated by the universe of luminary in that Sunset and her family are trapped. A universe where mom and father censor their tears and melancholy from the cameras, where the guest at small Sweetie"s birthday celebration are all possibly kid models or the brood of alternative artists on her dad"s jot down label, and where the birthday lady isn"t authorised to open her presents until the photographer from the silken repository has arrived.

"I don"t essentially know any immature kids of celebrities, but it seems to me they all have unusual names and unusual lives," says Dame Jacqueline. "Of course, I assimilate the worth of broadside and image, but I am endangered about the approach in that immature girls are so shabby by looks. Sunset is regularly being finished to feel bad about her curved teeth by her mom and, as a result, feels unequivocally insecure, in all about smiling. By contrast, Destiny has the same teeth, but since her mom has never finished an issue about it, she"s not in the slightest bit worried by them.

"The greatest thing that bothers me about luminary culture, though, is when I ask immature kids what they wish to be, and they reply, "Rich and famous".

"If zero else, I goal this book will plant the thought that if all in your hold up becomes open property, the outcome competence be nowhere nearby as sparkling as you competence think."

Little Darlings (Random House) is accessible fromBooks at �11.99 and �1.25 p&p (0844 871 1515). Find out about Jacqueline Wilson at jacquelinewilson.co.uk The Official Jacqueline Wilson Magazine is published by D C Thomson

Reading Notes LITTLE DARLINGS By Jacqueline Wilson

Chapter One

"She feels so skinny, Im frightened of gnawing her in half".

In majority childrens stories, the writer gets absolved of the relatives early on; either the Harry Potter or Enid Blyton, mums and dads in all arent around to interfere. In this story, though, the grown-ups are around, but the the immature kids who are some-more in carry out than they are. Which agreement do you cite in a story?

"Steve proposed slapping Mum about"

Destiny and her silent have had it hard. No money, vital on a severe estate, receiving up with a aroused stepdad. A question, then, for relatives do you think this is the sort of thing that should or shouldnt - be in a childrens book? Is it right that they find out about the kind of problems alternative kids have, or is it as well early and as well joyless for them to be introduced to such things?

Chapter Three

"Its similar to Mum has shrunk down in to being a small girl, and Im the grown-up now, left seeking after her"

She unequivocally is a bit daft, isnt she, Destinys mum? Thinking that greedy stone star Danny Kilman is going to be gratified to see her and his tip daughter? A question, this, for the children. then. Can you put yourself in to Destinys shoes? Can you suppose what it would be similar to if the tables were turned, and it was you who were some-more grown-up than your parents? Or have you maybe had that feeling in genuine hold up anyway?

Chapter Four

"Isnt it poetic here?"

On the face of it, Sunset, Sweetie and Ace have got everything. They live with rich, important relatives in a great, big residence with a guitar-shaped swimming pool, they go to a propagandize where there are no rules, they get driven everywhere in chauffeur-driven cars, theyve got a nanny to see after them spin the clock, and theyre regularly carrying their print taken for the silken magazines. Would you similar to to be them? If not, since not?

Chapter Five

"Mum has to leave, or bombard be late for her cleaning job."

A lot of the time, Destinys Mum isnt at home since shes out working. So who do you think is the improved mom her or Sunsets silent Suzy? And why?

Chapter Six

"They are a relating pair, smiling, smiling, smiling, vocalization gently in spin since they are being interviewed."

Sunsets relatives Suzy and Danny are great at putting on a show of togetherness in public, in all when theyre giving an at-home talk for a showbusiness magazine. Can you suppose vital in a residence where the all about how things look, rather than how they unequivocally are? How would it have you feel?

Chapter Eight

"They appear to think they can do anything they wish only since theyre supposed celebrities"

So says Claudia; underpaid, overworked, unappreciated nanny to Danny and Suzys children. Shes right celebrities do think they can get afar with things that "normal" people cant. What competence be the disadvantages, though?

Chapter Ten

"Theyll be the immature kids of alternative artistes from Dads jot down label, or any alternative expected immature kids that Rose-May finds at a indication agency"

The guest at Sweeties birthday parties arent her friends at all! Would you determine to have a birthday celebration with no genuine friends, only to get in to a silken magazine?

Chapter Twelve

"When has your father ever finished anything for you, Sunset?"

This is a hideous thing for Suzy to contend to Sunset, in all as the so horribly true. Can you assimilate the reasons since Suzy is being so cruel?

"This could be huge"

So thats the reason Danny agrees to acquire his long-lost daughter Destiny behind in to his life! Because it will be great publicity. It sounds all as well likely, doesnt it? Can you think of anything else that would have swayed him to accept her?

Chapter Thirteen

How happy an ending?

What do you think about the approach the story ends? Would you have favourite it if greedy Danny and Suzy had concluded to shift their ways, and be improved parents? Or do you think that would have been as well majority similar to a angel tale? If this were a film, and we were to see all the characters faces at the end, who do you think would be smiling most?

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Boris Becker backs Tim Henman to restore Britains Davis Cup fortunes

By Simon Briggs in Abu Dhabi 630PM GMT 09 March 2010

Top preference Boris Becker argues that Tim Henman"s standing as one of Britain"s majority successful complicated players creates him the preferred to captain the Davis Cup group Photo GETTY IMAGES

John Lloyd, the group captain, pronounced after the better to Lithuania that he indispensable to step behind and cruise either he was the right man to hindrance Great Britain"s gloomy slip down the ladder of universe tennis.

Reports have referred to that the Lawn Tennis Association has already approached Greg Rusedski as a deputy captain a explain that the LTA is denying. But Becker argues that Henman"s standing as one of Britain"s majority successful complicated players creates him the preferred candidate.

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"I would similar to to see Tim concerned in a little figure or form," Becker said, "because I think he"s a big purpose indication and he"s shown that it"s probable to reach a Wimbledon semi-final. At the impulse it"s not happening, but may be everyone will think twice about the future.

"Not prolonged ago, he was one of the most appropriate players, so he"s not articulate about something that happened 50 years ago. It"s really formidable to verbalise the denunciation of the kids today, you have to be close to them in years to have a little sort of information exchnage with them. I think Tim would have that."

The group that lost in Vilnuis last week end were but Andy Murray, the universe No 4, who withdrew on the drift that Britain"s immature players indispensable to benefit experience of general tennis. But Becker scoffed at the thought that the likes of James Ward and Dan Evans felt underneath vigour opposite the Lithuanians.

"Getting wild cards to Wimbledon and personification at Roehampton isn"t pressure," pronounced Becker, who is in Abu Dhabi forward of tonight"s Laureus Sports Awards. "Pressure is if you have zero to eat and you have to win the subsequent turn to feed your family.

"It"s all about the system," Becker said. "The French have a illusory system. The precision centre at Roland Garros is amazing, the coaching is really great and surprise, warn you have players. It"s not space station scholarship what you"re perplexing to do."

James Bulgers mother calls for staff who monitored Jon Venables to be sacked

149PM GMT 08 March 2010

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Speaking in her initial radio talk since headlines pennyless of Venables" stop to jail, Denise Fergus demanded answers over the claims surrounding him, together with that he faces kid publishing charges.

She told ITV"s This Morning "whoever"s been safeguarding and seeking after Venables in the 9 years of his release" should be dismissed.

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Her comments came as she rebuilt to encounter Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, to plead the case.

She is approaching to lay down with him after this week but pronounced she does not design to get answers to her questions.

She pronounced the initial subject would be about because Venables was recalled.

But she declined to insist what alternative questions she had so not to give Mr Straw time to think of the answers.

Mr Straw progressing appeared to endorse the calm of a little media allegations opposite Venables.

He pronounced told the Today programme "What I wish to do is to see at what has already been finished public...to see at that and afterwards to have a visualisation about either there is report that since it is right afar out in any eventuality we could right afar confirm."

It has been reported Venables hexed kid pornography, was in a quarrel and continually returned to Liverpool opposite his looseness conditions.

Ministers have so far unsuccessful to expand, simply referring to the crack as "extremely critical allegations".

Asked how meaningful the sum would help, Mrs Fergus pronounced "It"s not going to take the suffering afar but it will encourage me that if these allegations are loyal and Venables is going to outlay time in an adult prison, that is what he should have finished for a murder."

Asked either Venables should be since an additional temperament if convicted in future, Mrs Fergus pronounced "No, really not. Why should we outlay some-more income on him?

"There"s millions been outlayed on him already. I would earlier give the income to kids that need it. There"s kids out there with illnesses, give them the money."

She told the programme ""It has been up and down, I have been really emotional. My head has been all over the place. I don"t know what he has done.

""I don"t know either he has left on to kill someone else. I have had excited nights and I am not eating again - I have had to lift my kids out of school.

""It is only one large rollercoaster again for me. And I can"t hold that they are putting me by this.""

Venables and Robert Thompson, both only 10 at the time, snatched James from the Strand selling centre in Bootle, Liverpool in 1993.

They walked him some-more than dual miles to a railway line where they kick him to genocide and left his physique on the marks to be strike by a train.

The span were expelled on hold up looseness in 2001.

Speaking to Phillip Schofield and co-presenter Holly Willoughby, Mrs Fergus pronounced she was told in 2001 she would be sensitive of any breaches.

She pronounced "I was told that if any of them pennyless their conditions I would be told straightaway. Now I hold that that is not the case.

"If these allegations that are reported in the writings are true, afterwards this has been going on in the 9 years of their release.

"And because wasn"t I told that he had been you do these things?"

Mrs Fergus, upheld on shade by her father Stuart, pronounced she found out about Venables" stop last Tuesday when officials visited her home in Kirkby, Merseyside.

But, notwithstanding her most appropriate efforts, nothing of her questions have been answered.

She pronounced "Any subject I have asked them, I have had no answers and it"s about time right afar I got a little answers.

"I am ill of them shutting doors in my face. It"s about time they proposed revelation me what I think I should know. As James"s mom I have a right to know."

McLaren F1: 2010 driver, team and car guide, analysis and statistics

By Tom Cary, F1 Correspondent Published: 2:07PM GMT 08 March 2010

Previous of Images Next Silver machine: universe Formula One hold up Jenson Button at the back of the circle of his new McLaren Photo: ACTION IMAGES Signed up: Jenson Button, carrying won the F1 driver"s pretension with Brawn GP, assimilated McLaren Photo: AP At the wheel: Lewis Hamilton tests his McLaren forward of the 2010 Formula One deteriorate Photo: REUTERS Behind the iron curtain: Lewis Hamilton will try to wring the F1 universe pretension from his McLaren team-mate, Jenson Button Photo: GETTY IMAGES

A chastening 2009 has since approach to a feeling of genuine confidence inside of McLaren"s domicile in Woking. Such was the turnaround in form last year from the initial exam when the car was seconds off the gait to the finish of the year when the MP4-24 was arguably the quickest car out on lane the idea is there that Martin Whitmarshs group can lift that movement in to 2010.

The attainment of universe hold up Jenson Button, to finish a "dream team" all-British choice to one side Lewis Hamilton, has usually combined to the feelgood cause at McLaren. After the tasteless Lie-gate part that blew up around the group in Australia and Malaysia, emancipation is in the air.

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Telegraph verdict:

Hamilton and Button are a really clever pairing; tender speed and silky smoothness. If they are since a decent appurtenance and the MP4-25 set the fastest time in the last pre-season contrast event in Barcelona they will be contenders for both the constructors and drivers crowns. But usually one man can come out on top, and Hamilton doesnt do second best.

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Website: www.mclaren.com/index-racing.phpHeadquarters: Woking, SurreyTeam principal: Martin WhitmarshDrivers: Jenson Button (Great Britain), Lewis Hamilton (Great Britain)2010 car: MP4-25Debut: 1966 Monaco Grand PrixRaces: 666Wins: 164Poles: 145Fastest laps: 137Constructors titles: 8 (1974, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1998)Drivers titles: twelve (1974, 1976, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1998, 1999, 2008)

Shell and PetroChina swoop on Arrow Energy for its gas reserves

Published: 8:25AM GMT 08 March 2010

A workman at a Coal Seam Gas operation in Queensland

A understanding for ArrowEnergy would see Shell and PetroChina secure some-more supply of a fuel that browns some-more clean than both spark and oil. The companies are charity A$4.45 a share for Arrow Energy, whose shares soared roughly 50pc to $5.13 on the Sydney Stock Exchange as investors expected a higher bid.

Arrow owns the Fisherman"s Landing plan in Queensland, one of some-more than 10 liquified healthy gas ventures in Australia. The Government of Queensland is forecasting up to A$50bn of investment in the supposed coal-seam gas pot as companies from around the universe contest to trade the fuel to energy-hungry Asia.

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China is intending to three times the make use of of gas to about 10pc of the appetite expenditure by 2020, as it tries to cut the faith on coal. The authority of PetroChina, the country"s greatest oil and gas producer, pronounced currently the association will work toward augmenting the liquified healthy gas resources this year.

"The gas industry is comparatively dull and it has turn an increasingly critical source of appetite in China," Shi Yan, an appetite researcher at UOB-Kay Hian Ltd. in Shanghai, told Bloomberg. "It appears that this bid is in the early stages, but the piece of Chinas efforts to secure supply."

Video: Paris Fashion Week: Jean Paul Gaultier autumn/winter 2010/11 collection

By Hilary Alexander at Paris Fashion Week Published: 11:49AM GMT 07 March 2010