Bangladesh v England: Graeme Swann and Stuart Broad double act reaps rewards

Bystaff and agencies 1113AM GMT thirteen March 2010

The man Graeme Swann"s Test rebirth one after an additional with wickets in Chittagong Photo PA

Paul Collingwood became England"s second centurion of the compare and Bangladesh surrendered five initial innings wickets as the tourists changed in to a widespread on all sides on day dual of the initial Test.

England spoken on 599 for 6 after Collingwood (145) purebred a 10th Test hundred, following in the footsteps of captain Alastair Cook, who fell for a career-best 173 this morning.

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Stuart Broad and Graeme Swann afterwards common the booty as Bangladesh crumbled to 154 for five, with usually the daring Tamim Iqbal (81 not out) holding firm.

Cook had 158 of his side"s 374 for 3 overnight and nudged 3 singles to ease past his prior high of 160.

Collingwood, resuming on 32no, was additionally off the symbol fast this morning, operative Rubel Hossain for 4 by mid-wicket for the day"s initial boundary.

Cook followed with a clinical true expostulate for four.

Collingwood brought up England"s 400 by thumping Shakib Al Hasan for 6 over long-on and ensured his own half-century with a poke to extra-cover.

Then, after scarcely 7 hours at the crease, Cook gave his wicket afar in the softest of fashions, held and bowled by Mahmudullah off a top-edged pull.

Collingwood and new batsman Ian Bell began pciking up runs with the pinnacle morality on both sides of the wicket, with the latter bringing up the fifty partnership with 3 fours in as most balls.

After lunch, the span began to exam the flagging Bangladesh fielders and the reply was tardy sufficient that they began using unsure singles with impunity.

Bell duly despatched Abdur Razzak for 4 to crack 500.

Collingwood did not repeat Kevin Pietersen"s inapplicable designation of descending for 99 and quietly guided the careless Shahadat Hossain to third man to move in to 3 figures.

The 33-year-old"s celebrations were muted, in keeping with the prosaic inlet of the Tigers" attack.

Bell beaten the subsequent smoothness by the covers for 4 to move up nonetheless an additional England half-century.

Collingwood was put down when he middled one true behind to Shakib on 119 and responded with a tasty 6 down the ground.

From there it became transparent that the stipulation was imminent, Collingwood peppering - and clearing - the range a handful of times prior to eventually removing caught.

Bell was seeking to turn his side"s third centurion prior to being called in but he was held for 84 dual balls after being since a hold up at long-on.

Tamim offering an early denote of how he dictated to proceed Bangladesh"s innings, slicing the initial round for 4 only past point.

Broad was in assertive mood, though, and in his subsequent over struck Imrul Kayes wash out on the helmet.

A follow-up bouncer weakened the batsman serve and a third saw him double behind the round to wicketkeeper Matt Prior.

Junaid Siddique followed for seven, fending an additional short-pitched smoothness true behind to Broad to leave the hosts in low trouble.

Tamim was serene at the alternative finish and hoisted Broad for 6 over excellent leg when he was handed a short one.

He one after an additional to fool around his shots, scoring 31 of the his side"s initial 50.

Graeme Swann took the 12th over and one after an additional his supernatural robe of distinguished in his initial over.

Aftab Ahmed was the man to go, held by Bell at short leg for one.

Debutant Steven Finn struggled at the alternative end, surrender twenty-five runs in 3 overs, together with 4 off his initial smoothness in general cricket.

Another lax round down leg side gave Tamim his eighth 4 and brought up a 53-ball half-century.

Mahmudullah was going well in await of the opener and strike one of the shots of the day to swell Swann behind over his head for six.

The all-rounder afterwards clubbed Tim Bresnan for unbroken bounds as the fourth-wicket span scored at pace.

But Swann had him for 51, with a idea of glove as the round floated to Collingwood at slip.

Shakib looked set to reach stumps to one side Tamim but lost his off branch to Swann attempting a unreasonable shot.

Nightwatchman Shahadat roughly followed but the third referee incited down England"s interest for held at stupid point.

Simon Halabis �900m office empire up for sale after debt default

By Graham Ruddick 636PM GMT twelve March 2010

Eight offices, together with Millennium Bridge House and JPMorgan"s Alban Gate site, are to be marketed for sale by agents CBRE and Knight Frank, a matter to bondholders pronounced yesterday.

Five of the properties will be sole together in a "Thames Portfolio" with a guide cost of �466m, however, Aviva Tower, home of the British insurer, that is additionally piece of the portfolio, will not be marketed for sale at this time.

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Mr Halabi, once regarded as one of the UK"s wealthiest entrepreneurs, fell in to worry after his pick up of London offices, well known as the Protractor portfolio, tumbled in value from �1.8bn in 2006 to �929m last June.

The 9 offices were corroborated by �1.15bn of holds released by the White Tower 2006-3 vehicle, but the decrease in value caused a crack of a loan-to-value covenants and stirred bondholders to call in the debt last summer.

CBRE, the loan servicer, pronounced in yesterday"s matter that the sale of the eight resources should concede "the full repayment" of Class A Notes, value �678.5m, and "at slightest a poignant proportion" of Class B Notes, value �171.5m.

Data from IPD showed yesterday that blurb skill collateral values have grown 2.7pc over the last twelve months, the initial time in two-and-a-half years that the index provider has available an annual growth.

Painless recession is Gordon Browns killer app

By Jeremy Warner 727PM GMT twelve March 2010

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There are usually dual sorts of choosing campaign, according to the American domestic strategist Stan Greenberg. One is "its time for change" and the alternative is "dont risk it with the alternative guys". The polls here leave us small disbelief about that plan is triumphing the wearing away of David Camerons lead suggests that his time for shift summary is being gradually eclipsed by Browns stick-with-the-devil-you-know approach.

This competence appear bizarre, verging on the incomprehensible, in light of the mercantile disaster that has befallen the republic infancy in the Government can perceptibly hold it themselves but essentially it is a comparatively predicted development, compounded by flourishing difficulty over the Oppositions mercantile agenda.

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Treasury ministers discuss it me theyve no disbelief whats causing the Governments check reconstruction "Its the economy, stupid" (another of Greenbergs observations about what determines the result of elections). So given would an economy as really bad shop-worn as ours be great headlines for the Government that had presided over the highway crash?

The answer is five fold. First and infancy important, for the immeasurable infancy of people this has so far been a comparatively painless recession. The Government has stable them from the full force of the contraction with rare quantities of open await that in any alternative resources would have been cursed as the infancy shameful pre-election giveaway of all time.

Unemployment has remained comparatively subdued, roughly incredibly so given the scale of the crisis, while, given of the outcome of jot down low seductiveness rates on debt repayments, infancy family groups have a higher disposable income than prior to the downturn.

Disingenuously, the Prime Minister promises that this happy state of affairs can continue. This is the fantasy economics of Neverland, but for the initial time given the predicament began, electorate appear to hold it. Contrast this with the Conservative summary of critical purgation to come and it is not tough to see given people would subject the need for change.

Second, the Opposition has played the cards badly. Some competence contend that the Tories have pronounced as well small about what they would do with the economy, and, therefore, cannot be treated with colour severely as a celebration of government. In fact, the conflicting is the case; if anything, they have pronounced as well much, whilst the message, though flushed with a great understanding some-more realism than the candyfloss of Browns rhetoric, is treacherous and has small renouned appeal.

Two of the 3 pillars of mercantile process summarized by George Osborne in his Mais lecture, those of an Office for Budget Responsibility and creation the Bank of England obliged for financial supervision, are usually of seductiveness to technocrats; whilst the third, an vague programme of supply-side remodel that would concede for mercantile tightening upheld by accommodative financial policy, looks to infancy people similar to usually one thing cuts.

The actuality that the Government, if it gets behind in to power, will be forced down most the same highway is lost in the cut and bearing of open debate. The last pre-Budget inform pragmatic a spending fist some-more critical than anything given the 1930s, with the Government carrying to remove probably all the increases in departmental spending given Labour came to energy thirteen years ago.

The usually genuine disproportion in between the dual main parties on cuts to illustrate becomes that the Tories competence be improved matched to the purpose of Grand Old Duke of York than Gordon Brown.

Third, the Opposition has been unsuitable in the mercantile message. One day it promises taxation cuts; the subsequent it concedes that for the time being they are unaffordable, usually to shift the mind again the day after. The Tory front dais has been similarly confused on mercantile converging no consternation their competency is being questioned.

Fourth, the doctrine from Tony Blairs landslide feat in 1997, and from Neil Kinnocks abrasive electoral better in 1992, is that oppositions should contend as small as probable about what they intend to do with the economy. Instead, they should concentration on the obligatory governments record, that in this box provides plenty ammunition. Mr Brown betrothed no some-more bang and bust, nonetheless the nation is as certainly set on the trail to incriminating bust as Wilkins Micawber.

Fifth, the old warhorse is regularly bound, in a crisis, to see a safer gamble than the consecutive colt. Brown bears a complicated weight of shortcoming for the disaster we are in, but his reply to the predicament was broadly scold and his mustering of general accord honestly impressive. The Oppositions integrity to find error with this looks as well most similar to the disobedient schoolboy sitting in the behind row with a peashooter.

In any case, as the choosing approaches, Gordon Brown finds himself in the perceptibly fathomable on all sides of "win win" on the economy. If the economy strengthens, he can contend the all down to his policies, but if, as seems some-more likely, it shows one after another signs of weakness, he can contend it justifies some-more necessity spending until the liberation is assured.

Hector Sants calls time on FSAs light touch regulation

By Harry Wilson 955PM GMT twelve March 2010

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Hector Sants pronounced the FSA would no longer wait for for for problems to start prior to behaving Photo Justin Sutcliffe

Hector Sants, arch senior manager of the Financial Services Authority, has called time on the epoch of "light-touch" or "principles-based" law and pronounced that a new "outcomes-based" proceed was indispensable in the arise of a monetary predicament that most censure on the prior regime.

Speaking at Oxford University"s Saïd Business School, Mr Sants pronounced the FSA would no longer wait for for for problems to start prior to behaving and would instead meddle "in a active way", observant the regulator would sinecure some-more staff in the subsequent year, notwithstanding the doubt over the future.

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The Conservatives were indifferent and Mark Hoban, shade monetary cabinet member to the Treasury, pronounced the reforms voiced by Mr Sants were not sufficient and confirmed the party"s oath to annul the FSA if inaugurated and separate the powers in between the Bank of England and a new Consumer Protection Agency.

"We argued in the White Paper last Jul for a some-more pro-active proceed to regulation, rebellious problems as they emerge," pronounced Mr Hoban.

"The FSA"s proclamation now recognises the strength of that evidence but it additionally reminds us that in the run up to the promissory note crisis, the FSA lacked concentration and it unsuccessful to both strengthen consumers and plunge into the risks construction up on banks" shift sheets."

The FSA has come in for complicated critique in the arise of the monetary crisis, that saw the initial run on a British bank in some-more than 150 years and the nearby fall of dual of the country"s largest lenders, as well as for a one after another slew of mis-selling scandals that have cost consumers billions of pounds.

Mr Sants certified the FSA should have "stepped in progressing in the past".

"At the finish of the day you"d have to contend the formula were not excusable to multitude and thus it is right that we should shift and step in earlier," he pronounced and betrothed a some-more brazen proceed going forward. He pronounced one some-more staff would be hired to capacitate the regulator to control some-more inspections of monetary services providers and poser shopper operations in an try to forestall mis-selling scandals such as that over remuneration word insurance.

"The old FSA"s reactive truth focused on ensuring firms had the suitable systems and controls," pronounced Mr Sants.

"Judgements were frequency done on the consequences of government actions. In the new complete proceed to organisation the FSA is receiving a perspective on government action."

A orator for consumer watchdog Which? pronounced the reforms were "broadly in the right direction" and pronounced it welcomed the shift of citation by Mr Sants who had been a clever proponent of less brazen regulation.

Martin Lewis of MoneySavingExpert.com pronounced the proposals lacked detail, in sold how and when the regulator will intervene.

"There is now a ticking time explosve in the debt marketplace as seductiveness rates climb and what I would similar to to know is when the involvement by the FSA starts and stops," he said.

Opera singer murders husband then uses double to claim �5 million estate

Allan Hall, in Berlin 151PM GMT twelve March 2010

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Police hold that Waltraud Hill, a 55-year-old soprano, killed her father Hermann, afterwards used a man to burlesque him to pointer over to her his properties, stocks, bonds, money and hold up word policy.

Detectives think that she approached up to 10 people to fool around the piece of the "fake" husband, and once she had found a peaceful candidate, used a make-up artist to have him see similar to Mr Hill.

The 71-year-old victim, a rich fish farmer, was reported blank from his home in the encampment of Kappel-Grafenhausen, nearby Freiburg, in October. He and Mrs Hill lived apart.

It was treated with colour as a blank persons inquiry, until his mother allegedly attempted to clear his assets.

In December, military explain that Mrs Hill went with the confederate to a womanlike lawyer"s bureau in Freiburg, where she perceived energy of profession for all her blank husband"s estate. She additionally visited a open notary with him.

"This, in effect, gave her carry out of all the finances," pronounced police.

The purported dishonesty was unclosed when an additional man Mrs Hill had asked to burlesque her father came brazen to police.

Detectives launched an review in that officers interviewed 7,000 people, and found an additional eight people who certified they had been asked to poise as the fraudulent Mr Hill.

One allegedly told detectives "She showed me a print of this old geezer, pronounced there would be a "good splash in it for me" if I played him at a lawyer"s bureau and at a notary"s. I didn"t wish to get involved."

Police additionally traced the counsel in Freiburg and she reliable sum of the send of resources to Mrs Hill. Detectives did not detain her immediately, but asked her to spin up at the military hire with her father for an interview.

On the day she was ostensible to show with him she telephoned in allege to contend "I am terribly sorry, but he has been called afar on a commercial operation trip."

The thespian explained that Mr Hill had surprisingly appeared, afterwards left again, and has remained blank for dual months.

Detectives have not found the physique of Mr Hill, but his mother has been arrested and charged with attempted murder and fraud.

A military orator pronounced "We have to go on the arrogance he is passed and that she is obliged for it. In the weeks after she went to the counsel she done most opposing statements to us.

"She thought she had committed the undiluted crime, never meditative that any one would ask questions about because a blank man would spin up to pointer authorised writings and afterwards go blank again."

Patients will not be warned before medical records go online after vital letters lost

By Heidi Blake 730AM GMT twelve March 2010

Around 9 million patients are due to embrace letters this month asking either they instruct to stop their healing annals being eliminated onto the �11 million system, but officials pronounced the perfect scale of the plan has done errors inevitable.

Patients should be told twelve weeks prior to their annals go live, but the NHS certified that people sparse opposite 3 counties in the North East have not been sensitive since their trusted letters were sent to the wrong addresses.

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The Summary Care Records system, that will in the future hold the healing sum of some-more than 50 million patients, has been stubborn by fears that the in isolation report it stores will never be protected from hackers and interpretation losses.

Deepa Shah of NHS Connecting for Health, that manages the database, pronounced "Its really formidable not to have mistakes when you are mailing 9 million people. Its a contrition that a handful of letters have left missing, but it would be really formidable for us to guard ever singular one."

Patients in Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk have perceived letters addressed to the wrong authority in the same pouch as their own letter.

NHS Connecting for Health claimed the blunder was cramped to the North East, but inside sources pronounced letters had additionally left blank opposite Trafford in the North West.

The border of the error, that occurred when staff began seasoned mixture envelopes manually after machine pennyless down, is unknown, but twenty-five cases of transcribe letters have already been reported.

Officials at the Central Office for Information, that manages Government mail-outs, pronounced they would surprise patients whose letters had been sent to the wrong residence of the mistake.

But they certified that nothing of at smallest twenty-five cases detected by The Daily had been reported but delay to them, raising fears that most some-more letters competence have left erroneous but officials realising.

Lateral Group, the in isolation association engaged by the Central Office for Information to lift out the mail-out, did not reply to questions about the array of letters that had been lost. A mouthpiece for the NHS pronounced the association had taken the blunder "very seriously".

At benefaction 1.29 million people have had their sum placed on the complement and a serve 8.9 million annals are due to be combined by June. By the finish of subsequent year, the NHS hopes to have some-more than 50 million uploaded.

The complement is combined to couple about 30,000 GPs to 300 hospitals, on condition that entrance to an online appointments complement and electronic prescriptions.

The Government says patients would be means to entrance their own annals online and will be asked prior to health caring staff perspective their information.

But The Dailydisclosed on Wednesday that the British Medical Association had combined to ministers to give notice that annals are being placed on the database but patients believe or consent.

The authority of the Association called for the plan to be dangling among claims that the Government is rushing it by prior to the Conservatives have a possibility to terminate it if they win the General Election.

Hamish Meldrum wrote "The breakneck speed with that this programme is being implemented is of outrageous concern.

"Patients right to opt out is crucial, and it is intensely shocking that annals are assumingly being combined but them being wakeful of it."

He warned that people were not reception their letters since they were being sent to the wrong addresses and most patients who have perceived them are uncertain of what they mean.

Some patients have additionally complained of being done to answer a array of personal questions prior to being authorised to opt out of carrying their trusted annals placed on the database.

Staff on the Summary Care Records helpline are told to ask a person"s name, address, date of birth, racial organisation and either they work for the NHS prior to similar to send them an opt-out form.

Chris Mannering, a 57-year-old serving woman from Sussex, pronounced "It"s intimidating when you"re told that all you have to do is ring the array and ask for a form, and in actuality you are interrogated. It done me really cross."

Dr Katherine Murphy, executive of the Patients" Association, pronounced "There is a genuine risk that an beginning that will good patients is going to spin in to the common finish mess. Many patients are righteously endangered about their confidentiality and agree and if there is even the smallest sense that this is being pushed by it will beget a feeling of mistrust.

"People who competence differently have consented could finish up opting out that would be the last thing everyone wants."

A mouthpiece for the Central Office for Information pronounced "As shortly as we became wakeful [of the mistake] the executive acted soon to put in place one more peculiarity checks to guarantee opposite a repeat of the issue. We sojourn committed to studious confidentiality and the internal NHS will write to those influenced to apologize and yield reassurance."

She combined that the letters do not themselves enclose any trusted healing information, nonetheless they do enclose names, addresses and sum of the GP surgeries attended by the people concerned.

Graham Nortons problem page

By Graham Norton 1200PM GMT twelve March 2010

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Dear Graham

My sister has asked me to be her arch bridesmaid in June. There are dual reasons since I find this the infancy awful prospect. Firstly, Im fifteen years comparison than her and twice her size. I will see similar to an huge whale subsequent to my sister and her 3 beautiful friends.

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Secondly, Im singular and find the total awaiting of following my younger kin down the aisle utterly degrading. When I attempted to speak to her about it, she cried and told me I was usually meditative about myself. Which I am really, but the total incident creates me feel similar to such a loser. What should I do? Venetia, Cornwall

Dear Venetia

Short of withdrawal the nation or impersonation a critical healing condition, Im fearful you will be trudging down an aisle this June. The complaint is that youve left your be scared conflict as well late. When she initial asked you it would have been in accord with to contend that since you are older, you felt peculiar being a bridesmaid, but youd love a small pick purpose in the wedding, but right away there is a large skirt with your name on it

The great headlines is that the day is about your sister and couple of people will compensate you any attention. The pick bit of great headlines is that hopefully this will galvanize you in to movement to sort out your own life. You dont similar to being incomparable repair it! Maybe afterwards youll have the certainty to residence your pick issue of being single.

For one day you contingency continue the humiliation. Try to take wish in your sisters complacency and dont pull courtesy to yourself. By that I meant no perplexing to catch the fragrance and no removing unequivocally drunk.

A bridesmaid slumped by the disco pathetic is not a great look.

Dear Graham

Is there a cut-off date for breastfeeding? One of my friends, an ex-corporate counsel incited housewife, is still at it notwithstanding the actuality that her son, Tom, essentially talks and wears shoes. (He is 3 and looks similar to a mini version of his Greek father all jet black hair and flashing dim eyes.)

It is unequivocally annoying when she gets her leaky breasts out in open and Tom says ""more titty Mummy". I know the ostensible to be great for the health and all that, but people unequivocally stare.

Some of them see in truth troubled (my crony is oblivious). And I consternation either the unequivocally such a smashing thing for a kid of his age to be swinging from his mothers nipple. What are your thoughts on the matter? Claire S, Beds

Dear Claire

It heedfulness me to have to mangle it to you but Im not, in fact, a universe management on breastfeeding. Ive never finished it and to be honest I find the total judgment utterly baffling.

Im not certain since you have created to me or in truth any one as it is utterly transparent that no one could remonstrate you that breastfeeding a toddler is a great idea. The nonplus is since it bothers you so much. If your crony ends up station in the propagandize canteen charity her breasts up as an pick to mini pizzas afterwards so be it.

Focus on your own issues. Its roughly as if there is a peep of possessiveness as you watch the down payment in between mom and child. In the infancy of cases similar to this, the small kid will crawl to counterpart vigour and breastfeed less and less. At this point your crony will be bereft. Its weaning but behind to front. I dont know about the health benefits but it seems that there contingency be some-more talented ways for a mom to feel indispensable by her child. Soon Tom will be introduced to a universe of fizzy drinks full of sugarine and your crony will be left drizzling sensitively similar to a splash daub that needs the tub changing.

Dear Graham

On the recommendation of my most appropriate crony Ive put my form on dual dating sites. Shes met a smashing man on My Single Friend and sees the internet as a sort of regretful Eldorado (she additionally happens to be attractive, blonde and unequivocally confident). But my experience is that the all unequivocally bruising.

Other friends have suggested me to proceed internet dating in a ""playful approach and not to take it as well seriously. The complaint is that I get dissapoint when nonetheless an additional man doesnt reply to a summary or put me in his "favourites box. At slightest when Im not online I dont get deserted on a every day basis.

How do others manage? Jemma, Nottingham

Dear Jemma

The universe far-reaching web is not the same as the world. We all handle otherwise there. In hold up you would never go up to a organisation of men you didnt know and have known you are available, and nonetheless that is precisely what you are you do online. If a small man fails to reply to an email, you cant take it as well privately since he didnt meant it in that way.

The anonymity that creates you bolder and some-more untroubled functions for men in most the same way. In a club they would have to have a bit of small speak or buy you a splash prior to creation their excuses, but the internet equates to that nobody has to worry pretending. On the face of it, this should be a great thing, but a computer can never communicate that hint in the eye or the droll thing you do with your hair. Equally, it doesnt exhibit how tedious someone is or that somewhat slightly wet physique odour. Computer dating isnt for everybody and the not regularly a discerning fix.

I indicate you leave your form online but dont give up on bumping in to someone in a lift, or spilling a splash on them in a bar. Love exists but it wouldnt find you out. Whether the universe is genuine or virtual, the article needs to be proactive, dauntless and ready to experience suffering as well as joy.

Ryanair stamps its authority... again: Ask Gill

By Gill Charlton 1045AM GMT twelve Mar 2010

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With Ryanair it"s utterly elementary if you don"t have the right office work at the gate, you don"t fly Photo Alamy

Luke Douglas-Home, from London, writes

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I not prolonged ago flew with Ryanair from Stansted to Nimes for a wedding. Our celebration enclosed a crony entrance from Japan. I requisitioned his moody and he met us at the airport. We customarily had palm luggage so we all went true by to departures and arrived at the embankment with twenty-five mins to spare.

My Japanese crony was stopped from going by to the aircraft since he didn"t have an exit stamp on his boarding pass. The review afterwards went similar to this

"Why does he need one?"

"Because he"s a unfamiliar pass holder."

"But he doesn"t need an additional visa right away he"s in the EU."

"He does. He has a Japanese passport."

"But the immigration table didn"t contend he indispensable a stamp."

"It"s not compulsory by immigration; it"s compulsory by Ryanair."

"Can"t you customarily stamp it right away so he can catch his flight?"

"No. He has to get it from check-in."

"Can you take his boarding pass and fast get it for him?"

"No."

"Please, please, can you chaperon him behind to get the stamp?"

"No, it"s as well late."

A Servisair worker called Ben overheard this exchange.

"So all he needs is a Ryanair stamp on his boarding pass, right?" The representative certified this was so. "Give it to me; I"ll do it."

He returned a couple of mins after with the stamp and Taka assimilated us. But I"m still indignant at the approach we were treated. It seems to be an inner Ryanair requirement. Why?

Gill Charlton replies

You are the third chairman in as majority weeks to lift this subject. The pick readers didn"t find someone to assistance and longed for their flights.

With Ryanair it"s utterly elementary if you don"t have the right office work at the gate, you don"t fly.

The reason the embankment representative wants steer of a stamp is that it shows that unfamiliar pass holders (many of whom will need visas to come in pick EU countries) have had their writings checked by a Ryanair representative informed with EU entrance mandate for non-residents. If an airline carries a newcomer but the scold paperwork, it can be fined.

Documents can customarily be checked, and the boarding pass stamped, at Ryanair"s special Visa/Document Check table not at the typical bag-drop desks.

The airline says that passengers are suggested of this order on the website, in the acknowledgment email and again on the boarding pass printout so there"s no excuse. You patently did not mark this when creation the reservation.

That said, I can utterly assimilate your distrurbance at the jobsworth perspective at the gate. What has happened to elementary human affability at airports these days?

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My father and I are both in the sixties and have regularly enjoyed active holidays all over Europe.

Unfortunately I have grown a health condition that precludes on foot any distance. I would similar to to find a legal legal holiday where I could suffer the view and potter about in a locale or a encampment for the day, whilst my father strides out in to the landscape with others who are some-more able. Do you have the solution?

Gill Charlton replies

I think Ramblers Holidays (01707 386767; ramblersholidays.co.uk) could compromise your problem. It has put together a special cruise-and-walk programme in and with Fred Olsen Cruise Lines (www.cruiseandwalk.co.uk) directed at couples with opposite interests. While your father joins the organisation for a five-hour transport around a Norwegian fjord or opposite an island in the Canaries, you can relax on rug or book one of the ship"s own manager excursions to circuitously places of interest.

Prices begin from around �900 per chairman full house for a turn outing from Liverpool to the Norwegian fjords together with every day guided walks (maximum organisation distance is 15).

Ramblers has additionally introduced "two-grades, two-leaders" day walks from a little of the road house bases for couples who have opposite abilities.

Should we go to Madeira?

Pat Dawson, from Bath, writes

We have requisitioned a week"s legal legal holiday in Funchal, Madeira, starting on Mar twenty-three but it"s formidable to find what the incident is after the distressing floods. We are demure to terminate as we know how majority the island depends on tourism, but if the centre of Funchal is cordoned off and majority of the excursions aren"t running, is it value going? We have requisitioned exclusively so we can terminate the road house up to 7 days beforehand, but we would pledge the flight.

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In reply to the majority emails we have perceived from readers, Travel sent Louise Roddon to Madeira this week to consider the damage.

She detected that the capital, Funchal, has recovered in few instances quickly, whilst areas in the interior, such as Ribeira Brava, have borne the brunt of the landslides. The island"s important gardens and levada walks are roughly all open, as the clean-up bid continues in earnest.

Watch out for Australian visa errors

John Mahon, from London, writes

Following your recommendation on how to acquire free e-visas for Australia, I should similar to to rapt people to a intensity risk of utilizing this system. Travellers customarily embrace a contract series for an e-visa. With the pick ETA complement they get a earthy duplicate of the visa.

Making a inapplicable designation when inputting pass sum for an e-visa can outcome in passengers being incompetent to house their flight.

I determine that majority transport companies assign as well majority for arising ETA visas. This should cost A$20 (�11.67) around the Australian government"s website, immi.gov.au

Our agency, Visas4oz, can issue ETA visas for customarily �6.50 per chairman and email a duplicate of the visa approach to the traveller.

I would contend that at slightest fifteen per cent of field utilizing the use submit improper data. We do not assign to rectify any sum and this avoids hassles at the airport.

Gill Charlton replies

The Australian Tourist Commission admits that travellers could have problems at the airfield if they have since improper report (even a brute minute or number) when requesting for an e-visa. This might meant they have to reapply for the visa utilizing an airfield computer. It takes about dual hours for a deputy e-visa to come through.

It might give assent of mind to request for a some-more strong ETA visa by Visas4oz (01270 842670; visas4oz.co.uk)

Overnight at Gatwick

John Scanlon, from London, writes

We have a really early moody from Gatwick this summer. What"s the most appropriate and cheapest approach of overnighting there?

Gill Charlton replies

I would plump for the Yotel inside the south depot construction at Gatwick (there"s additionally one at Heathrow"s Terminal 4). It"s a good concept. The bedrooms are little and can be rented in four-hour bursts.

An overnight stay in a customary room (1m-wide bed for two) customarily costs �49; reward bedrooms have incomparable beds and cost �69.

There"s additionally a Yotel in the movement area at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam really utilitarian if you are drifting prolonged transport with KLM from informal British airports.

Reservations can be done by Yotel (020 7100 1100, www.yotel.com)

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Online tools are starting to change society and politics

514PM GMT eleven March 2010

David Cameron, seen here on his "webcameron", understands how the internet has altered governing body Photo PA

Today the Conservative Party launched the declaration for creation Birtish supervision "the majority technology-friendly in the world". And from the "Post-Bureaucratic Age" to the "Alliance of Youth Movements", an ever-growing form of conferences is asking highfalutin questions about the same subject can new record do the guarantee to have a genuine disproportion in the genuine world. Are all those Facebook groups and iPhone apps essentially achieving really much?

The elementary answer is yes, at slightest according to majority of the people who attend such events. Indeed, at this weeks Alliance of Youth Movements discussion in London, there is positively a clarity of the volume of projects that are underneath approach representatives point to the actuality that the Iraqi supervision has the own YouTube channel, or that content messages are being used to concede people in Mexico to anonymously inform crimes.

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Cynics might contend that, in Baghdad, YouTube is small joy when bombs are going off in the markets but it is certainly critical that record is used to dive progress, rather than deliberate usually after seemingly some-more critical issues have been addressed.

In a sense, however, the easy to point to examples in the building universe where small advances have done huge differences content messages are being used, in a intrigue voiced by Hillary Clinton, to have people who live on the Pakistan-Afghanistan limit some-more wakeful of threats to their safety. Up to 15,000 people have been sealed up in a singular day.

In Russia the Alliance of Youth Movements has been concerned in enlivening the Kremlin to recover a little of the interpretation about bland hold up to program developers. So the "openness" bulletin that is regarded as insubordinate in America and the UK is being promoted around the universe at a chaotic pace.

Esoteric discussions that used to be of seductiveness usually to geeks are, finally, starting to have an stroke in the real, offline world, where apps are right away divulgence report about internal legislature spending, cycle lanes and pot holes. As adults see the trivia of where income is spent, is an increasing seductiveness in the sum and the governing body a genuine possibility?

Closer to home, that equates to the fight of difference about how online campaigning will affect the own General Election is right away focused on something new for the subject tangible human contact.

Douglas Alexander MP has claimed that Labour has been removing in hold with over 100,000 people each week; eccentric investigate has nonetheless to determine that figure, but does indicate that 58 per cent of the citizens has been contacted by the Tories.

If they do form the subsequent government, maybe being technology-friendly might interpret in to a story thats some-more about people than it is about IT projects.

Warringtons Richie Myler well worth his �200,000 transfer fee, says Tony Smith

By Rob Stewart 1210PM GMT twelve March 2010

No regrets Tony Smith has already reaped the benefits of profitable �200,000 for Richie Myler Photo GETTY IMAGES

Smith has seen Myler shrug off the vigour that came with being one of the majority costly teenagers in rugby joining story when he left Salford to underline Warrington"s standing as a rising Super League energy and is assured the destiny is splendid interjection to income paid for the scrum-half"s services.

Smith toldSport "We are one of the couple of clubs that is rebuilt to compensate a send price for peculiarity players and a little of the house felt it was a matter of vigilant as well as a player who was value construction a group around for the subsequent couple of years.

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"Warrington is an desirous bar with an desirous house of directors who would love us to do well. We can supplement peculiarity players around Richie and have fortitude in years to come that investment will reap dividends in the end."

Smith, whose side face Bradford Bulls at the Halliwell Jones Stadium on Saturday, is certain Widnes-born Myler, 19, has the spirit to safeguard the send price does not go to his head.

"He is a earnest immature player, he is a gifted immature half-back but what is majority appreciative is that as well as being unequivocally desirous he is unequivocally penetrating to clarity his trade," Smith added.

"Above all he is a good immature man who is a unequivocally gifted rugby joining player. I am not unequivocally endangered that all the courtesy that will be focused on him this deteriorate would have an inauspicious outcome on his game. He is practical and takes all in his stride. Also in rugby joining the people are good at bringing people behind down to earth and creation certain they are level-headed.

"You fast get a clarity of when players are removing carried afar with themselves and Richie positively hasn"t finished that. He"s on no ego outing and that shows in the approach he conducts himself on and off the field.

"Plus I don"t think he feels as though he is underneath an lavish volume of outmost pressure, it"s elementary to me and to him - he usually needs to got out there and do the most appropriate he can week in week out. So the usually vigour he will feel is from me and his team-mates but he will cope.

"He is a unequivocally grown up immature man. He has a good head on his shoulders. He difference unequivocally difficult and has had a possibility to work to one side Andrew Johns in the pre-season that has been a good preparation for him."

The former Leeds Rhinos and England manager guided Warrington to Challenge Cup excellence last deteriorate but is personification down suggestions that the bar could have a lean at Super League success this term.

"It has since the locale and the bar the players unequivocally suffer being in the spotlight at bug venues in front of big crowds. That is a big motivator. It should coax the players on to benefit a little coherence for the games where there aren"t big crowds and cup-tie atmospheres. That is where we have to find the form. If we do that we would similar to to think he will be okay.

"It is going to be a difficult deteriorate for all endangered and it will be ultra competitive, once again it will come down to is means to keep their players on the representation and out of the diagnosis room.

"Keeping players fit and full of health will give you each possibility is the plea each year either you are approaching to do well or you are nearby the bottom. It would be good to be up there severe this deteriorate since we were unhappy with the unchanging deteriorate last year since we were so inconsistent.

"We are additionally happy to have tasted success in the Challenge Cup and hopefully that will have the players inspired for some-more silverware."

Liberty International receives a takeover approach

Reuters 809AM GMT twelve March 2010

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"Liberty confirms that it has perceived approaches that might or might not lead to an suggest being done for the company," Liberty said. "At this stage, it is as well early for the house to establish either or not these discussions will outcome in any grave suggest being done for the company."

Liberty, that additionally owns a fabric association and oppulance products brand, pronounced it one after another to see for investors to assistance it grow at home and abroad and was additionally mulling the sale and leaseback of the flagship store on Great Marlborough Street in London"s budding West End entertainment district.

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Earlier this month the association pronounced a series of parties had voiced seductiveness in appropriation the freehold of the Tudor Building on Great Marlborough Street building.

Liberty, that is majority-owned by Britain"s MWB Group (MWB.L), additionally pronounced it had done a clever begin to 2010, driven by one after another great traffic at the Great Marlborough Street store.

Liberty grew sales by twenty percent in 2009, with the flagship store delivering a sixteen percent enlarge in revenues.

McLaren win arms and legs race as new MP4-25 car is approved

By Tom Cary in Manama, Bahrain 837PM GMT eleven March 2010

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Ahead of Sunday"s curtain-raiser a series of teams are deliberation protests over the pattern of the MP4-25, that not usually has a "slot" on the behind wing that helps to revoke draw towards but, in what is believed to be a initial for Formula One, allows the motorist to channel air upsurge from an "inlet" in the framework utilizing his physique - believed to be in the form of presumably his knee or his elbow.

The altogether outcome is to give the car a straight-line speed value of as most as 6 miles per hour, a poignant benefit that could assist overtaking.

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While McLaren"s pattern is doubtful to infer as successful as the "double-diffuser" that utterly overshadowed the begin to last deteriorate and authorised Brawn GP to take afar with 6 of the initial 7 races, it is firm to dissapoint opposition teams.

Using the physique to channel air effectively circumvents the law opposite "moveable parts" and has led to allegations that McLaren"s judgment is opposite "the suggestion of the rules".

There are additionally suggestions that by commendatory the pattern the FIA, Formula One"s ruling body, has non-stop a can of worms that could have reserve implications. Drivers who should be concentrating on the highway might be some-more endangered with relocating their arms or legs.

When contrast starts no pick group will be means to replicate McLaren"s "inlet" creation given framework have to be approved, definition Ferrari, Red Bull and Mercedes their expected pretension rivals will have to find an pick approach to channel air by the cockpit. And even if they conduct to do so, it will take them weeks to pattern and exam their versions.

McLaren"s gay group principal, Martin Whitmarsh, certified it was a service that no pick group had cottoned on in time. However, he cautioned that it was as well early to contend if it would infer decisive.

"It"s similar to anything you have on the car. You wish to display it as late as probable and you wish it to be as formidable as you can presumably have it for people to duplicate it," he said. "But I think I"ll usually be self-satisfied if that"s the right countenance in Abu Dhabi if we win the championship. We crop up to be opposition but we"re not complacent."

Whitmarsh did confirm, despite euphemistically, that his racers were utilizing their bodies to channel air flow, fooling around that McLaren"s rivals would have to find pick ways of "cooling their drivers" to grasp the same effect.

He combined that the crafty guy behind in Woking who had the Eureka impulse would merit a pat on the behind if it valid wilful in the pretension race.

"This was a really beautiful and inventive particular in the association who came up with the thought and we"ve grown it," Whitmarsh said, nonetheless he would not be drawn on the name of the individual. "Maybe in time. Secrets in F1 have a in few instances short shelf-life and we will have certain that, in due course, the particular gets utterly a lot of credit."

McLaren, who were in consistent hit with the FIA over their tip pattern during the winter, hold that any protests from opposition teams would be doomed.

"From what I understand, there are no drift for a protest," Whitmarsh said. "I don"t think everybody nonetheless understands the inlet of the systems that are on the car. So if they put a criticism in, it would potentially be on a wrong set of assumptions as to what we"ve got. We will see."

Red Bull group principal Christian Horner, who initial lifted concerns about McLaren"s behind wing, certified his group were doubtful to protest.

"It looks similar to it"s authorised so we will see at building the own version," he said. "Engineers are beautiful people. I"m certain ours will find an additional approach of you do it."

Retail therapy fails to rouse large-caps

By Rachel Cooper, City Reporter (Markets) 632PM GMT eleven March 2010

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Following a flurry of takeover fad on Wednesday, the blue-chips pared at the behind of those gains to tumble 23.31 points to 5617.26.

During a resigned day"s trading, retailers were in foster following appreciative results. Home Retail Group, the association at the behind of Homebase, ticked up 4.2 to 272p as notwithstanding a drop in sales, it lifted distinction superintendence for the second time in 3 months.

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Continuing the do-it-yourself theme, Kingfisher the organisation that owns B&Q was on the climb too, ticking up 7 to 223.7p partly interjection to a pull from Bernstein, that published a pithy book on the "self-help story".

Luca Solca pronounced Kingfisher could great from augmenting direct for home alleviation as the housing marketplace is stability to show shy signs of recovery.

"Furthermore, DIY is at the behind of in trend, as consumers opposite Europe are slicing at the behind of and perplexing to save more. This should additionally action as a await for home alleviation sales in 2010 and beyond," pronounced Mr Solca, giving Kingfisher an "outperform" rating with a aim cost of 280p.

Next and Marks & Spencer additionally benefited from certain sentiment, up 42p to �20.20 and 4.6 to 353.7p respectively.

Supermarket sequence Wm Morrison, that posted a surge in the dividend, dipped around 8.5 to 295.7p as the association gradual the spike in enlarge with a discreet opinion on the year forward and investors cashed in profits. The retailer"s shares have risen around 10pc since the begin of the year.

Shore Capital defended the "hold" rating but pronounced the tradesman had "delivered a really great set of formula to the minds, set opposite a difficult mercantile and consumer backdrop and severe comparatives."

Basking in the heat of researcher regard was Thomas Cook that gained 7.7 to 248.1p, following the financier day on Wednesday.

The association set a aim of augmenting the handling domain to 5.5-6pc in the subsequent 3 to five years, that BarCap pronounced was "feasible", reiterating the "overweight" rating and giving the association a 300p aim price.

Credit Suisse additionally pushed the group, rating it "outperform" , citing the attractions of a poor gratefulness and a self-help story.

Weighing on the large-caps however were miners, that retreated on unsatisfactory metals prices following fears that China could move to rein in the sepulchral economy after acceleration spiked. Fresnillo was off twenty-five to 842p, whilst Kazakhmys was the greatest faller, shifting 49p to �14.96.

Hip deputy manufacturer Smith & Nephew, slipped eighteen to 677p, following an unlucky obvious statute in the United States.

Citigroup, however, thinks that it will have an roughly immaterial stroke on sales and profits.

Analysts pronounced that the statute relates usually to the United States with Smith & Nephew carrying won all the obvious cases outward of the US. The attorney reiterated the "buy" rating and a aim cost of 785p.

Panmure Gordon described it as a reversal in vital terms, but done no changes to near-term forecasts and kept the "hold" recommendation. Smith & Nephew pronounced it will find to overturn the ruling.

Among the second tier, that altogether forsaken 10.85 points to 9854.44, takeover tittle-tattle one after another apace this time, it was Connaught in the frame.

The association that maintains amicable housing rose in early trade on the at the behind of of conjecture that in isolation equity organisation 3i competence be mulling a bid. But after the marketplace closed, Connaught pronounced it had perceived no suggest approaches, grave or otherwise. The shares were up 6 to 308.5p by the bell, carrying progressing climbed 4pc.

Investors were sipping up shares in beer hall groups with Enterprise Inns, Punch Taverns and Greene King putting on 6 to 118.4p, 4.2 to 84.7p and 16.4 to 437.4p respectively. Giving them a lift were formula from JD Wetherspoon, that ticked up 7 to 512p after announcing a special division and observant it is set to enhance after securing a �530m debt facility.

Analysts at Charles Stanley, who have a "buy" recommendation, pronounced the formula were "solid" and that refinanced debt along with a backed division should encourage investors.

Tullett Prebon, that surged on Wednesday following takeover excitement, was in the ennui on Thursday, descending 21.6 to 368.4p as investors sealed in profits.

News progressing this week that the inter-dealer attorney was in rough talks that competence lead to an suggest annoyed a flurry of researcher conjecture as to who the poser bidder competence be.

Private equity houses and exchanges were both in the frame. "We perspective a in isolation equity bid as utterly probable since the great cashflows of the Tullett commercial operation and the inbuilt precedence potential," pronounced Numis.

But analysts combined "We go on to hold the majority expected bidder to be an exchange."

They pronounced such a understanding would yield IT synergies, as well as enhancing earnings.

Also slipping at the behind of was Computacenter, that fell 18.7 to 308p, notwithstanding a enlarge in profits.

Panmure Gordon, who rate the IT association a "buy", pronounced "Computacenter has been going by a still series whereby it has been becoming different the DNA from boxes to services and small tweaks in services income will have for incomparable changes in profitability."

Badminton All England 2010: Jenny Wallwork and Gabby White show glimpses of future

By Rod Gilmour at the NIA, Birmingham 435PM GMT eleven March 2010

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Badminton Englands mens doubles span lost to Zhendong Guo and Chen Xu, Chinas No 7 seeds, 21-14, 21-11 prior to both players over in unanimity to hope for for their superfluous pretension office in the churned doubles.

It was a lifeless arrangement in truth. The span never found their walk during a frustrating second turn confront where both players were celebration to net errors as the Chinese sealed the biased compare out in 34 minutes.

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Englands women doubles pairing additionally found better but at slightest the Yorkshire twin came close to replicating last years quarter-final berth.

The universe No twenty-four span looked well in row to dissapoint Miyuki Maeda and Satoko Suetsuna, Japans No 6 seeds, but after receiving the opening diversion 23-21 showed their unawareness at comparison level, in the future going down 21-9, 21-8.

The British span looked loose and assured in the opening exchanges but notwithstanding a 7-4 necessity showed sufficient deception and suggestion to corner the opener in a high-quality, 28-minute opener.

There were tension-filled moments along the way, not slightest when the convey found the approach looping over both English girls after a disagreement on diversion point. Having done certain of the initial diversion moments later, however, the compare incited on the head and the home span won usually seventeen some-more points.

Wallwork pronounced "We are a really aggressive span but afterwards they proposed to fool around the diversion we were personification and couldn"t get it going on defence.

White, 20, combined "They altered their diversion around and we couldn"t cope with it. It was a tough compare to play."

Meanwhile, Englands players wore black armbands after the remarkable genocide of Mike Avertin, Badminton Englands forward-thinking chairman.

The 66 year-old, who had overseen key changes at the inhabitant ruling physique over the last couple of years, died on Wednesday night at his road house in Birmingham.

Earlier in the dusk Sertin had been benefaction at a key assembly with the Badminton World Federation. The All England Open is at risk of blank out on tip tier-status when the BWF revamps the Super Series monthly calendar in 2011 to emanate a Grand Slam series.

Gerald Corbett driving off with allowance, in triplicate

630AM GMT eleven March 2010

I ask since he seems to have grown a penetrating seductiveness in cars since withdrawal the rail business. Corbett now takes the chair at slightest 3 listed companies, fizzy cocktail commercial operation Britvic, condom manufacturers SSL and word salesman Moneysupermarket.com.

For the purposes of this story we"ll jump over over how majority Corbett takes home from the 3 companies (it"s �552,000 separate sincerely uniformly in between the 3 if you contingency know) and combine on his car allowances.

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SSL is now striking out �22,000 on "a association car" whilst Britvic pays �69,000 for "the sustenance of a chauffeur". Which you competence think usually about wraps things up. You"d be wrong. Yesterday Moneysupermarket"s annual inform came out with the avowal it pays a serve �25,000 for "a engine car and compared costs".

That"s a sum of �116,000, separate 3 ways for a car and a man in a cap. What engine has the man got? "A Range Rover," he tells me, adding "It"s mission unfit to do that kind of portfolio on open transport."

So majority for the trains then.

How majority is that Ferrari in the...

A follow on from my story yesterday on the sale of the name and resources compared with the AI Grand Prix that went in to administration department last year. The resources embody something similar to 32 Ferrari and Lola competition cars, gangling engines and dual reserve cars, a Maserati Quattroporte and a Ferrari 599GTB.

Cost new? Well anything up to �100m. I"m told the cost the administrators are seeking is closer to �8m.

Parker gets down to a little Good Work

So sensitively it hardly caused a ripple, London"s majority absolute spinner Alan Parker took the chair of the Good Work Commission this week. It"s a articulate emporium set up by The Work Foundation to "examine the vital hurdles of work in the 21st century" maybe they could begin with how to find it. Parker patently doesn"t miss for work, so why"s he you do it?

"Look at the alternative names on the committee," I"m told. Well there"s Andy Bond of Asda (client), John Varley of Barclays (client), Peter Sands of Standard Chartered (occasional client) and Adam Crozier of Royal Mail (client). Of march Adam Crozier is on his approach to ITV (not a customer at the moment, but watch this space) so that could beget a little interest. But since the list it seems doubtful Parker is there to see for some-more work.

"In that box he contingency be out seeking for the usually alternative thing he covets as much," I"m told. "A gong." Of course.

Manuel Pellegrini refuses to quit as Real Madrid and Cristiano Ronaldo crash out of Champions League to Lyon

816AM GMT eleven March 2010

Failure Real Madrid"s spending hasn"t seen a shift in fortunes Photo AFP

With the last being played at their Bernabeu home and some-more than €250 million being outlayed on new bent last summer, Madrid had placed great batch in going all the approach in this year"s competition.

However, they were dumped out of the Champions League last sixteen theatre for the sixth unbroken deteriorate after losing 2-1 on total to Lyon.

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Madrid were trailing 1-0 from the initial leg in France but Cristiano Ronaldo"s early set upon wiped out that value and the Spanish bar afterwards laid encircle to the Lyon idea in a massively biased initial half.

The second duration was a opposite story though as Lyon, who had finished dual half-time substitutions, were majority softened and they deservedly drew turn by Miralem Pjanic"s 74th-minute goal.

There was no approach behind for Madrid after that and the inquests proposed rught afar after the match, with Pellegrini being asked if he was deliberation descending on his long knife following the setback.

The former Villarreal coach, who took assign at Madrid last summer, was daring in his answer, observant "I"m not going to resign, I"m not going to give up the fight.

"Of march we"re all really unhappy since we longed for to go far in this competition, but I"ve never thought about resigning."

When serve quizzed on his future, Pellegrini pronounced "You will need to ask the directors that question.

"I see myself in only the same incident as I saw myself yesterday, though patently with the sour beating of the disaster of being knocked out.

"My destiny depends usually on the board, the usually thing I can do is go on operative as until now."

Madrid could frequency have had a improved begin to last night"s lapse leg, with Ronaldo banishment home his seventh Champions League idea of the deteriorate after only 6 mins to turn up the total scores.

The home side afterwards combined a host of chances, with Gonzalo Higuain blank the majority appropriate dual when he strike the nearby post with an open idea to target for prior to being denied by a excellent stop by Lyon goalkeeper Hugo Lloris.

Pellegrini combined "We had a great initial half, we had dual great chances but we didn"t modify them.

"After the mangle the group were endangered about the 1-0 scoreline until Lyon scored. It was everyone"s goal to be means to fool around the last at the Bernabeu. The becoming different room is hurting."

Lyon manager Claude Puel was understandably gay with his side"s turnaround after being underneath vigour for majority of the opening 45 minutes.

"We could have finished majority improved in the initial half, we were opposite the ropes and rode the luck," he said.

"We valid at the finish of the initial half we could get behind in to the game. In the second we did really well, we had majority some-more peculiarity in the game. We should have finished that in the initial half."

Puel"s preference to reinstate Jean Makoun and Jean-Alain Boumsong with Kim Kallstrom and Maxime Gonalons at half-time looked an desirous one as Lyon were unrecognisable in the second half compared to their opening prior to the break.

Puel pronounced "The substitutions were really critical since they were dual sets of uninformed legs.

"One of the players was injured. We had dual players who were not seeking as well clever and we altered things at the break. We proposed the second half well and we were higher to Real Madrid.

"They (Madrid) were really great in the initial half. They gave everything, they combined a lot of chances and we had to shift the strategy somewhat with uninformed players entrance in in the second half.

"We kept receive majority better. We know Real Madrid similar to to have receive and we took that afar from them in the second half."

Review of patient records urged two years ago: report

By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor 730AM GMT eleven March 2010

The inhabitant outline caring jot down is right afar being rolled out with the target of together with short healing sum of 50m people opposite the nation by 2012.

Doctors have warned the system, destined to assistance provide patients taken ill out of hours or afar from home, is being rushed and have called for it to be halted.

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Records are right afar being uploaded in Bolton, Bury, Bradford, Dorset, South West Essex and South Birmingham.

Everyone else who is purebred with a GP and over the age of sixteen will be reception a minute in the subsequent couple of weeks and months if they have not already perceived one.

It has right afar emerged that an analysis of the initial commander areas, dual years ago, lifted critical questions over how the complement was being run and urged an obligatory review.

A surprise conducted by University College London warned that usually thirty per cent of patients endangered in the early pilots were wakeful of the outline caring record, even though all should have perceived letters informing them.

If the studious does zero after reception the minute their annals will automatically be uploaded to the system. Only if they actively opt out will their annals sojourn with their internal GP.

This process of "implied consent" was questioned in the UCL surprise and it was warned that it should be urgently reviewed.

The UCL surprise pronounced "Health surprise systems academics and ethicists have argued that pragmatic agree ("if we dont listen to form you, well upload your record") is usually sensitive agree (and usually ethical) if there is justification that the studious has review and accepted their mail and additionally that they know what is on their record."

It pronounced that there was substantial insurgency from GP staff obliged for studious confidentiality, well known as Caldicott Guardians.

"The actuality that majority of the particular insurgency inside of GP practices has come not from IT-ignorant laggards but from Caldicott Guardians who are in all the majority information-literate members of staff and positively the grave custodians of the practices interpretation adds weight to the evidence that the stream agree indication should be urgently reviewed," it said.

It comes as five of the ten vital health authorities in England are starting to write to patients about uploading their data.

The Dailyhighlighted the problems yesterday and dozens of readers have created to contend they have had problems perplexing to opt out of the system.

They complained that the surprise packs do not enclose opt out forms and they are instead destined to a inhabitant phone series or a website to download one instead.

The letters emphasize the benefits of the outline caring jot down and indicate that studious reserve might be put at risk by not carrying one since doctors might not know the patient"s stream medications or allergies.

GPs in London, where letters are right afar being sent to patients, are so endangered over the miss of open bargain of the caring jot down that they have constructed their own leaflets and posters for practices.

Dr Michelle Drage, authority of the Londonwide Local Medical Committees, that paint GPs in the capital, pronounced "We have already been removing reports from practices saying patients who are confused and who do not assimilate what the letters said.

"We will be promulgation serve superintendence out to doctors."

Dr Grant Ingrams, authority of GP IT Committee at the British Medical Association warned that the letters looked similar to junk mail and so might have been thrown afar or patients might not have accepted them.

He pronounced "We should be seeking at this again."

Prof Ross Anderston, highbrow of security engineering at Cambridge University pronounced the agree complement was "not valid".

He pronounced "Research has shown that 7 out of ten people in the commander areas were utterly unknowingly that the outline caring jot down existed. The basement for agree is false."

University College London are right afar compiling a second surprise on the outline caring jot down that is due to be presented to ministers subsequent month.

A Department of Health orator pronounced "As well as essay to patients away to surprise them about formulating a Summary Care Record, we built in an additional turn of insurance by asking patients accede for their annals to be noticed by healthcare professionals. This is without delay in reply to the letter of reference done by the UCL analysis in 2008.

"The stream UCL analysis was lengthened to foster one after another guidance as Summary Care Records proceed to be implemented some-more widely."

Train conductor uses Google Street View to tell life story

By Chris Irvine 113PM GMT eleven March 2010

Marc Loterijman, who functions for Southern railways, formed in Croydon, South London, is utilizing the use to post a contentious "Street View hold up story" after Google lengthened the coverage to some-more than 95 per cent of Britain"s roads.

Using his Twitter feed, he explained that he used to work at a McDonald"s in Telford, Shropshire during his holidays from Aberystwyth university in Aberystwyth, Wales.

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He afterwards posted his halls of chateau for his initial year, as well as where he lived for the rest of his university career, together with a "student village" in Terrace Road.

Mr Loterijman, who has his own website detailing his difficulty at anticipating a job, wrote that during Yuletide 2008, he worked at his internal Sainsbury"s in Telford, prior to in the future removing a pursuit as a sight transmitter formed in Croydon.

Google"s Street View use has been accessible in twenty-five cities given last March, but the increasing coverage creates an one more 210,000 miles of minute mapping public.

Street View images are prisoner by Google"s car, propitious with a special breathtaking camera on the roof. Pedestrianised areas were shot with Google"s tricycle, together with Stonehenge and the banks of Loch Ness.

Man killed himself after leaving reminder on whiteboard

1040AM GMT eleven March 2010

Police found the note after Christopher Bartlett was detected unresolved from the bannisters at his home in the Cotswold locale of Wotton-under-Edge on Nov sixteen last year.

His sister Jane King she had disturbed that her hermit was flourishing wearied after timid from an general purpose as a computer engineer.

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Mr Bartlett left the note on a whiteboard routinely used for some-more paltry reminders, Gloucestershire Coroner Alan Crickmore was told.

While he was operative for his last employer Fuji-Siemens, the association lost a large stipulate he had been operative on and there was really small for him to do even though he was still on full pay," Mrs King said.

"He became wearied and 7 months ago, at the age of 49, he motionless to give up work altogether. He was financially secure for the rest of his life.

"But I was disturbed about him since work was his life. I speedy him to take piece in village activities and he additionally helped with the father. There was no denote that he was feeling down."

She pronounced the last time they spoke in Nov last year, he had been irked and indignant and she had been incompetent to get hold of him on the phone the following day.

"His mobile went passed the day after that and that was a bad pointer since he regularly kept it charged.

"I went to his residence after work and after I let myself in with my keys I found him hanging."

She combined that the note on the whiteboard was in her brother"s handwriting.

Recording a outcome of suicide, the coroner pronounced Mr Bartlett was fit and full of health and there was no story of depressive illness.

"There was no reason to think he was vexed but when his sister last spoke to him he was irked and angry, and this was poignant as far as she was concerned," he said.

"I hold the note created on the white house was an denote of his vigilant to take his life."

Roger Draper must pay for Davis Cup tennis failure, says Mark Petchey

By Mark Hodgkinson, Tennis Correspondent 700AM GMT 10 March 2010

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If Draper does not resign, Petchey believes the LTA"s legislature contingency remove him; differently the ruling physique will go on to rubbish millions of pounds.

On the day that one derisive bookie offering contingency on Cliff Richard replacing John Lloyd as Davis Cup captain, Petchey told The Daily that the difficulty in Lithuania, that put Britain one some-more improved afar from being in the bottom multiplication with the likes of Andorra, San Marino and Moldova, was "a unhappy indictment" of the dismal, "shockingly bad" state of British tennis after Draper"s 4 years at the LTA.

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It is Petchey"s perspective that Draper has squandered vast amounts of income on contracting "world-class" coaches, who lend towards to authority world-class salaries, and on using the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton in south-west London, whilst not putting sufficient supports in to mending grassroots tennis.

Though Lloyd"s destiny is in disbelief after he became the initial British captain to lose five uninterrupted Davis Cup ties, Petchey pronounced the outcome in Lithuania was not the error of Lloyd or the players, and if any one deserved to lose his pursuit it was Draper.

"I can"t recollect a some-more annoying part for British tennis. I"m certain there will be scapegoats, but you shouldn"t usually go and censure the players and the captain as this goes majority deeper than that. This is about the have up of British tennis, about the prophesy at the LTA. Losing to Lithuania was a unhappy complaint of where British tennis is now," Petchey said.

"Either Draper has to resign, or the legislature have to get off their hands, do their jobs and force him out. Unfortunately, I really majority disbelief either Draper will resign, so it"s going to take the legislature to do something about this.

"Draper has unsuccessful as the arch executive, his total prophesy for British tennis has failed; he"s not a leader. He has outlayed an unusual volume of income over the past integrate of years, millions and millions of pounds, and where has it got us? Nowhere. I think we"re in a worse on all sides with men"s tennis than we were when Draper took over."

On Monday, Draper referred to that "ripping it all up" at the LTA would do infinite repairs to British tennis. Petchey disagreed with that view. "It would be some-more deleterious for Draper to see out his stipulate and stay for an additional 3 years. Why lift on similar to this if we"re going nowhere?"

In 2008, Draper was since a five-year extension, receiving him by to 2013. "That was a intolerable bit of commercial operation by the LTA. What had he completed in his initial integrate of years to merit five some-more years? It would be costly to pouch Draper and compensate him off, but that would still be improved than for him to lift on in the job.

"It"s not as if this was a one-off distressing week end for British tennis. I take no wish in what has happened, but this outcome usually vindicates what I have thought for a prolonged time. British tennis has been shockingly bad for a prolonged time. The formula on the men"s side have been terrible. Draper"s prophesy has failed, and there contingency be consequences for that failure. I can"t see how he can lift on as the arch executive.

"About the usually great thing that come of this is that people will see the light and see that Draper"s prophesy has failed."

Petchey pronounced that, if Murray won this summer"s Wimbledon, and millions of young kids unexpected took an seductiveness in tennis, Draper"s LTA would not have the comforts in place to have the majority of it. "Draper"s prophesy has been to move in "world-class" this and "world-class" that, but what British tennis has indispensable is a larger importance on comforts and grassroots tennis. All the income could have been majority improved spent. We"re never going to get behind all the millions Draper has wasted.

"If Murray wins Wimbledon, and that gets millions of kids vehement about tennis, we won"t be means to house them as we don"t have the facilities. At the moment, the LTA are usually profitable lip-service to mending comforts and grassroots tennis. We need to be classification out the clubs, and giving kids some-more opportunities to fool around tennis locally. The National Tennis Centre is the emperor"s new clothes. I think everybody sees that, don"t they?"

This week, the LTA is conducting a examination in to what happened in Vilnius. Petchey does not assimilate why. "All this speak about carrying a review, if they have world-class people in place, afterwards because do you need a review? It"s usually PR-speak. If Lloyd is replaced, the LTA should deliberate Murray about Lloyd"s replacement, as Murray"s is the perspective that matters. If you wish Murray to wish to fool around in the Davis Cup, you have to speak to him and engage him."

Angus Porter begins first week as PCA chief executive

By Paul Bolton 730AM GMT 10 March 2010

Porter, who has been obliged for Maltesers chocolates and a troubleshooter at the Abbey National during a sundry career in business, took assign of the players" kinship this week as inheritor to Sean Morris who stepped down last October.

Porter, 52, enters cricket administration department at a time of intensity shake for the English diversion with the monetary captivate of the IPL attracting the world"s tip players, the new Champions League encroaching on the made at home deteriorate and plans to revoke the volume of County Championship cricket played by twenty-five per cent on the agenda.

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In his initial talk given his appointment Porter has welcomed the monetary prerogative accessible in the IPL as an impulse to immature players.

"I think it"s usually a hazard if it threatens the determined patterns of cricket and with that small premonition I think it"s a outrageous opportunity," he said.

"It gives veteran cricketers and potentially a little who competence not fool around Test cricket something new to make an effort to. It gives the most appropriate players an additional event to magnitude themselves opposite the most appropriate players in the universe in unknown conditions.

"Even for the players who are not going to fool around IPL it"s something for them to make an effort to and target for. If it grows the sum pot of income accessible inside of cricket afterwards there will be a trickle-down good for everybody.

"I do accept the point that right right away it is rewarding a comparatively small series of players but at the same time the actuality that those rewards exist should be moving each immature cricketer to wish to urge their standards so that they can share in a little of that in the future."

The due rebate in championship cricket will be an early plea for Porter. The PCA has consistently lobbied for a rebate in the apportion of county cricket played whilst maintaining the benefaction format of sixteen championship matches.

"Clearly I am still combining my own views on that but I do allow to the perspective that there is an unfit volume of cricket being played," Porter said.

"It is not tolerable to keep tipping some-more commitments in to the pot and for the deteriorate to get ever longer quite when you see things similar to the Champions League encroaching in to the made at home season.

"I cannot fake that I have got solutions but it does feel to me similar to a resolution needs to be found that reduces the volume of cricket that is played."

Porter, authority of Buckinghamshire encampment bar Wooburn Narkovians and an MCC part of given 1976, describes himself as a ardent cricket fan. He is right away concerned at the pointy finish of the diversion but the England and Wales Cricket Board will be creation a inapplicable designation if it expects a man who outlayed his early commercial operation career selling chocolates to have a soft centre.

"If we have got the attribute right afterwards the ECB and PCA both have the interests of "the diversion of cricket at heart so we ought on most most issues to be operative really closely together," he said.

"From time to time we will have a full of health discuss and plea and if required we will have an argument. But those have to be seen in the context of a full of health and certain relationship."

Jacob Kennedys recipes for Mothers Day

By Xanthe Clay 705AM GMT 10 March 2010

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Previous of Images Next Art of the make a disproportion Jacob Kennedy and his mom Haidee Becker at Bocca Di Lupo Photo PHILIP HOLLIS Saffron risotto with gremolata and pith skeleton Photo PHILIP HOLLIS

It competence be Mother"s Day on Sunday, but Jacob Kenedy, cook enthusiast of Bocca di Lupo in Soho, has a bone to collect with his mama. "You owe us for the lobsters," he says with ridicule cruelty as a small blonde in a paint-spattered jumper walks past the long, marble-topped bar.

Since opening a art college of music and college of music in a former brothel only over the street, Haidee Becker, Jacob"s mom and a much-admired artist, has been dropping in and "borrowing" food from the kitchen for her still lifes.

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Not that Jacob has finished really bad from the arrangement. Patrons of Bocca di Lupo can admire her deft, liquid oils of fish, vegetables and outrageous vases of flowering plants that line the walls.

While majority chefs credit their mothers as being their arch inspiration, Haidee claims that for them it"s the alternative approach around. "Jacob has been training me about food given he was two," she insists.

"My beginning mental recall is of my grandfather [the bard John Becker] stuff oneself me artichokes," Jacob says, unconditional Parmesan in to a kindly burbling vessel of risotto.

So what did Jacob sense from his mother? "She taught me how to eat and how to suffer it," says Jacob as he stirs the risotto vigorously, afterwards adds with a grin, "and how to bake it."

Haidee has a love of Italian food that dates behind to her upbringing in Rome. "I learnt how to ambience and know when things were right," she explains.

It"s a ability she"s upheld on to her son, who explains that majority wily subject how to discuss it when risotto is ready. "You"re seeking for a voluptuous sauce, the coherence of stand in cream." The rice contingency be conjunction tender nor overcooked, he says, but it should still have a spirit of crunch.

"Taste it and be brave. If you can"t utterly discuss it if it"s finished or not, it"s ready."

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JACOB KENEDY"S RISOTTO RULES

Use onions, that have a amiable flavour, rather than shallots as a base. Instead of arborio rice, that tends to be stodgy, make make use of of vialone nano (a lighter texture, good for seafood) or carnaroli (more estimable and creamy, good for meat-based risottos).A wooden ladle is improved for stirring than a steel one, that competence mangle the grains.Stir the risotto often, but "not obsessionally" Jacob says. "The majority critical time to stir is at the end, when you supplement the last further of cheese and butter (mantecare)," he adds.Use a batch that matches the ingredients, perfectly done with the skeleton or shells of the beef or seafood. Non-vegetarians can make make use of of duck batch in unfeeling risottos for additional body.The batch doesn"t need to be prohibited when you supplement it to the rice, whatever the recipe says. Jacob uses cold batch "It competence take a notation or dual longer to cook, but no one will discuss it the difference."Add the batch small by little, so the reduction stays sincerely dry and the rice grains massage opposite each other, that creates for a tawny sauce.

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Jack Straw: Tory plans to cut MPs are anti-democratic

730AM GMT 10 March 2010

Jack Straw arrives for the weekly cupboard assembly at Downing Street Photo PHOTOSHOT

The Justice Secretary criticised a Conservative offer to revoke the series of parliamentary seats by about 10% as ""outright gerrymandering"" on Tuesday.

In a Hansard Society harangue on electoral reform, Mr Straw additionally warned that carrying fewer MPs would outcome in a poorer use for constituents.

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If elected, the Tories are approaching to cut the series of MPs and turn out subdivision sizes, a little of that have tens of thousands some-more electorate than others.

David Cameron, the Tory leader, has urged the move as square of plans to revoke the cost of politics.

But the benefaction electoral bounds additionally meant that the Tories need a most higher share of the renouned opinion than the Labour Party in sequence to win as most seats.

Labour could nonetheless sojourn the greatest celebration in the Commons after the subsequent ubiquitous election, even if they check fewer votes than the Tories overall.

But Mr Straw pronounced ""The assumingly just call to cut the cost of governing body is essentially deception for a dangerous, mortal and anti-democratic square of gerrymandering.

""The Conservative Party proposes to cut the series of MPs by 10% but contrariety the will of the people in a referendum and but any correct bid to find any kind of cross-party consensus.

""That is given their offer is not about slicing the cost of politics, as they explain - it is about advantaging the Conservative Party.""

Mr Straw pronounced that the series of seats had usually augmenting by 3 per cent given 1950, whilst constituencies had augmenting in distance by twenty-five per cent.

""The effect of the Conservative proposals would be to be severed Members of Parliament from their constituencies and, where MPs go on to exist, supplement extremely to their workload,"" he said.

""That can usually meant that the turn of use to electorate would decrease at a time when we should be augmenting it.

""In sheer contrariety to Labour"s bulletin for relocating towards a new governing body on the basement of renouned consent, the Conservatives target to grocer scores of constituencies for contemptible domestic ends.""