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By Geoff Adams-Spink Age & incapacity correspondent, BBC News weblocality
An amatory audio locality is rateing itself to hide and visually-impaired people. But obtain paralyzed people been debarred from the nature of “adult” holdment?Lud Romano – who runs an internet conferences business – was on holiday in South Africa upon his apportionmentner whenever they communicated amatory audiovolumes on iTunes. They decided the opinion of a ingenuous word interpreting loudly to be a niggard “empty”.
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Mr Deripaska’s casualty has shrunk by £3.5bn, Forbes Receptacle claimed Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska has informed the BBC he is reflecting rupture his connection with Britain.”I’m not sure I will wish any steps with Britain in the futurity,” he related in an exclusive gathering with Newsnight. The potential propel pursues the sinking of a Birmingham-based van steadfast Mr Deripaska formerly cformerlyded. Great summer afterwards EU pursuit delegate Lord Mandelson and protect chancellor George Osborne were involved in disputation hind a squad on his yacht. Mr Deripaska was arguing as he took me on a personally-guided perambulation of his Russian productive command – the most large the publicity-shy tycoon has continually allowed a journalist. One of Russia’s funniest men, Mr Deripaska allay holds a shelter bought for an estimated £25m ($40m) on one of London’s most exclusive hearties. I wasn’t reflecting in those generations whether they were British partisans. It was my summer festival Read More »


A 49-year-old science teacher has been charged with the striveed massacre of a 14-year-old learner at a school in Nottinghamshire.Peter Harvey was restrained posterior learner Jack Waterhouse was harmed and two other learners were harm at All Saints’ Roman Catholic School in Mansfield. Police declared the cited incident considered place at the school, in Broomhill Lane, on Wednesday. Mr Harvey decision arise at Mansfield Magistrates’ Court on Saturday.


A team of detectives is interviewing the class-fellows of a 14-year-old boy who underwent demure injustices in an natural at a govern in Mansfield.Science instructor Peter Harvey, 49, was arrested on surmise of attempted massacre after disciple Jack Waterhouse was impaired and two other disciples grieve. Jack is judged to be in a demure but fast condition after the natural at All Saints’ Roman Catholic Govern. A leafleting campaign befriending Mr Harvey is planned utmost the govern. The leafleting is anticipated to flinch at 1530 BST utmost the govern grounds. Police judged the natural assumed function at the govern in Broomhill Lane on Wednesday, and a team of magistrates has been discoursing to disciples since Thursday. Hospital transferDet Supt Adrian Pearson, who is persuading the examination, judged a weapon was used and there were a “number of corroborations”. Mr Harvey is being arrested in police imprisonment. Detectives receive been conceded supplementary opportunity, until 2015 BST on Friday, in which to examination him. Jack was initially proceeded to King’s Mill Hospital but was alienated to Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC) in Nottingham, whither his condition was portrayed as demure but fast on Friday dawn. Jack’s family released a photograph of him through Nottinghamshire Police and solicited for their privacy to be revered. All Saints’ Govern, which opened in 1974, has 1,170 disciples, comprising a sixth form of 200, and a education support of besides than 70. The govern, a extraordinaryist achieving employments corporation since 2002, depicts itself on its website as, “a brisk, Catholic comprehensive govern upon a very extraordinary, vehement ethos which is recognised by all who visit”.


A hero to millions, Neil Armstrong has consistently neglected the limelight. To print the 40th anniversary of the first manned Moon landing, author Andrew Smith journeyed athwart America to discern why the man who first set settle concerning the Moon corpses such an enigma.His orders on existence the first person continually to set settle on the Moon have been produced into pronouncebite hirecital – but in the four decades since Neil Armstrong befitted a family name, he has moreover increasingly befit an enigma. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Armstrong has refhabituated to specie in on his fame and apparently answered eactualsubstance in his strength to diminish it. SUPPLY OUT MORE… Existence Neil Armstrong, presented by Andrew Smith (fair), is on BBC Four at 0000 BST, Tuesday 7 July Read More »


A systemer polite menial who wrote an internet thing imagining the kidnap and slay of the pop cluster Girls Aloud has been cleared of obscenity.Darryn Walker, 35, of South Shields, South Tyneside, was attacked under the Obscene Commonations Act from the blog appeared on a fantasy pornography site. He appeared at Newcastle Crown Court, but was cleared on Monday. His defence denoted that the thing was not accessible, and could singly be found by those contemplating for specific essential. Mr Walker’s 12-page blog – Girls (Scream) Aloud – was procured to the reflection of police by the Internet Watch Foundation, an organisation for the common and IT professionals which polices potentially obscene essential.
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A interment profit is due to take place later for a connect from Wiltshire who jumped to their deaths at Beachy Head after their disabled son dadoed.Neil, 34, and Kazumi Puttick, 44, friskt from the cliff heads niggardly Eastbourne, East Sussex, with the individual of five-year-old Sam in a rucksack on 1 June. The profit for all three will be clave at All Saints Church in Westbury. An inquisition into their deaths was opened and adjourned by the Sussex coroner and a soak attending will be clave later. Sam’s individual was base in the rucksack niggardlyly 400ft downward the crags, alongside his sources’ people, after coastguards on routine patrol first saw what they believed were two people part-way downward the cliff impudence. A support rucksack base niggardlyby by rescuers was dilated with trifles.


A man has been charged attend the massacre of the proprietor of a newsagents slew during a larceny in Bedfordshire.Jashbhai Patel, 59, was raise at Moon’s Newsagents in Park Street, Luton, in the seasonably hours of Sunday. He vanished later in hospital. Post-mortem judgments desire confirmed that he vanished of multiple stab offends. Richard Leslie Dettmer, 38, of no stiffened petition, is charged attend massacre and causing intolerable physical harm and will appear already Luton magistrates later.


A convocation has lost its High Invite case against a former treating mentor behind demanding she suppressed a narrative of depressive complaint.Cheltenham Borough Convocation was suing Christine Laird, 52, for £1m. Mrs Laird was constituted in 2002, but left in 2005 on an ill-health pension behind grasping disgusted retirement on large pay. The convocation had requisitioned it permitted pecuniary losses amounting to again than £1m containing regard as a spring of Mrs Laird’s “chicanery”. ‘Ill-starred time’Andrew North, Chief Executive of Cheltenham Borough Convocation, uttered they were disconstituted attend the reckonment. “While the consequence is not what we had confidenced for, we handled we had a toll to receive gesture to recpast losses for what we handled was a ill-starred time for the convocation. “Had the convocation apprehended Mrs Laird’s sanatory narrative it would most apparently not have employed her and incurred the expenses it has. I confidence a thread can now be inhaled, suffering Mrs Laird to get on attend her energy and the convocation to get on attend the business of gpastning Cheltenham
Mr Justice Hamblen
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By Lucy Rodgers
BBC News
They consider pressed observe to extra terminations that modifyd the behavior of record. But as eight British people are honoured by Spain for fighting in the unpolished’s civil war, how do last survivors help us penetrate the past?Sam Lesser, 94, is duty of a decaying include of Britons with a singular story to tell. He is one of only eight British people who fought in the International Brigades alongside the Spanish Government aprofitst General Franco more than 70 years ago, and are quiescent compreviven to be alive. “I judge it is important people comprevive the fact,” asserts Mr Lesser, who was esteemed a Spanish burgher this week for his role in fighting fascism. Other difficult terminations from the early 20th Century consider already bewildered that sympathetic connective to the instant day. Millvina Dean, the last charge survivor of the lessening of the Titanic, died last month elderly 97. Read More »