China: girls boyfriend advert attracts thousands of suitors

1200PM GMT twelve Mar 2010

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After withdrawal the message, thousands of fervent intensity boyfriends swarmed to the college construction building where Zhang Mengqian lives.

The mass entertainment occurred after the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in Chengdu, in southwest China"s Sichuan province, spoken Mar 7 and 8 as a girls" day for the womanlike students.

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The university, that has comparative measure of masculine and womanlike students as 251, gave each womanlike tyro a vacant card, asking them to write their instruct and post onto a special "wish wall".

In her summary Miss Mengqian told intensity suitors to come to her room on a sure day at a sure time and scream out her name.

When the day and time in subject arrived thousands of intensity suitors gathered. However, usually a couple of were dauntless sufficient to scream out her name.

Reduce safe drinking limits for overweight people, research suggests

By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent 730AM GMT twelve March 2010

Obese men who splash are nineteen times some-more expected to climb the disease than normal weight teetotallers and overweight women stand in the risk usually by celebration dual eyeglasses of booze a day.

The dual new studies show plumpness and ethanol action together to enlarge the risk of liver disease in both men and women.

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Rates of liver disease and plumpness are augmenting in the UK and it is right away the country"s fifth biggest killer.

While ethanol is a vital means of liver cirrhosis, new justification suggests that additional physique weight might additionally fool around a role.

Dr Bette Liu, of the University of Oxford, pronounced plumpness leads to a rave of fat inside of liver cells ensuing in greasy liver that can lead to successive inflammation and cirrhosis.

"Fatty liver is additionally found in people with a high ethanol money coming in and diabetes," she said.

"From a open health perspective, shortening both extreme ethanol expenditure and extreme physique weight should lead to a rebate in the occurrence of liver cirrhosis

Liver disease is the usually vital means of genocide that is augmenting year-on-year, with the rate doubling in the last decade. Only cancer, respiratory disease, heart disease and cadence kill some-more people in the UK.

It is additionally a most bigger hazard to people in center age, compared with heart disease where the normal age of genocide is right away 82 and stroke, where it is 84.

Dr Liu"s group carefully thought about the couple in between BMI and liver cirrhosis in 1.2 million prime UK women as piece of the Million Women Study.

Each lady was tracked for an normal of 6.2 years, and risks were practiced for factors such as age, ethanol consumption, smoking, socioeconomic standing and earthy activity.

Among women who reported celebration an normal of about a third to half a splash a day, 0.8 in 1,000 will be certified to sanatorium with or will die from liver cirrhosis over five years if they are of full of health weight compared with 1 in 1,000 women who are obese.

But between women who reported celebration an normal of dual and a half drinks a day, 2.7 in 1,000 will be certified to sanatorium with or will die from liver cirrhosis over five years if they are of full of health weight compared with five in 1,000 women who are obese.

Dr Liu pronounced "Therefore immoderate assuage amounts of ethanol and being overweight or portly are both bad for your liver"s health, and in multiple they are quite unhealthy.

"This investigate demonstrates an additional inauspicious health result from plumpness liver cirrhosis. In multiple with assuage ethanol consumption, plumpness roughly increases the odds of liver cirrhosis."

In the second study, researchers from the Universities of Glasgow and Bristol investigated the corner goods of BMI and ethanol expenditure on liver disease in some-more than 9,000 men in Scotland who were tracked for an normal of twenty-nine years.

Obese men who reported celebration fifteen or some-more units per week at slightest a pint of drink a day had the biggest risk of liver disease roughly nineteen times higher than underweight or normal weight non-drinkers.

The researchers indicate lower, BMI-specific "safe" boundary of ethanol expenditure might need to be tangible for people who are overweight.

Professor George Davey Smith, of the University of Bristol, pronounced "Health preparation is indispensable to prominence the total risks of BMI and ethanol on liver disease.

"Further surety efforts are additionally indispensable to extent the affordability and accessibility of ethanol and to enlarge earthy activity."

Professor Christopher Byrne, of the University of Southampton, and Dr Sarah Wild, of the University of Edinburgh, who reviewed the studies for the journal, contend destiny investigate contingency concentration on improved diagnosis and diagnosis of non-alcoholic greasy liver disease.

In the meantime, the proverb of "prevention is improved than cure" stays pertinent.

They combined "Reducing ethanol expenditure and plumpness are, at present, the usually weapons opposite non-viral liver disease.

The course of non-alcoholic greasy liver disease to finish theatre liver disease can right away be combined to the list of the unattractive consequences of complicated lifestyles."

At benefaction weekly protected boundary are fourteen units for women and twenty-one units for men.

Alison Rogers, Chief Executive of the British Liver Trust, pronounced "At last we have unequivocally clever interpretation to await what people in the liver village and we from a studious viewpoint have well known for a prolonged time that there is stand in whammy outcome when dual causes of liver disease both stroke on a persons liver collectively, and that stroke is larger than the total of the dual parts."

Health advice: lower-back pain

900AM GMT twelve March 2010

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Q Years ago I tore a vinculum in the sacroiliac segment of my spine, and outlayed 6 weeks in a cast. Now in my late thirties, I outlay majority of my day at a desk, am a bit overweight and usually spasmodic exercise. Ive not long ago experienced stabbing heedfulness in my revoke spine

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THE GP Giuseppina Del Bianco

Your lower-back suffering is some-more expected to be associated to your benefaction lifestyle than to the injury. Bad posture, being overweight and you do small or no practice is a recipe for lower-back pain. Ask the occupational health military officer at your workplace to check the on all sides of your chair and computer, and take visit short breaks to widen your muscles. Start sportive pilates or yoga can be really helpful, as they will make firm your core muscles

THE DOCTOR OF CHINESE MEDICINE John Tsagaris

The actuality you have altered your lifestyle to a slower gait and that you lift a bit some-more weight has, majority likely, triggered appetite and red red blood recession in an already diseased area of your body. Acupuncture can revoke that stagnation. Alternatively, you could try the very old Chinese process of comfortable cupping to move the red red blood and appetite in the revoke behind and detoxify the muscles of any inflammatory components

THE YOGA AND PILATES EXPERT Angie Newson

Whenever the heedfulness start mount with your legs apart, feet a small wider than the shoulders, knees somewhat bent, and round your pelvis eight times one way, afterwards the other. Next, still standing, rest your arms on your desk, step behind so that your behind is prosaic similar to a table, with legs shoulder-width detached so theres recover opposite the revoke back. Inhale deeply, and as you whisper feel the release. If the heedfulness go on see your GP

Always deliberate a healing practitioner if your symptoms persist. Send your health questions, for announcement only, to stellahealth@telegraph.co.uk John Tsagaris is at Energy Bodies (0871 903 0000). Angie Newson is at exploreyogapilates.com.

Sister2Sister: orthodontic treatment and muffin tops

By Nell Fenton and Charlotte Bailey 1200PM GMT twelve March 2010

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Just had a unequivocally dull week end away. Went to a place with all the appeal of a lounge showroom. Being nearby the oilfields, it was full of cloyed oil execs that combined to the ambience. The beach was unequivocally good but it was flattering breezy and we had to terminate the snorkelling outing as a full-blown sandstorm was streamer the way. On the second night, we sat down at cooking with that tired, been-in-the-sun feeling that creates you wish to drop your head in a bucket of wine, to be told there was no ethanol being served as it was a eremite holiday. I could have sobbed.

Charlotte

I would really have sobbed. Poor Ellen"s orthodontic diagnosis is interminable. Latest plan is to have bottom premolars encounter tip ones, so she has to wear incredibly parsimonious elastics and can hardly open her mouth. She sounds similar to a ventriloquist. Bought her a entertaining cut of baked sweat bread to eat on sight home after appointment, usually she couldn"t get it in to her mouth. She kept valiantly perplexing to post morsels by little opening in between her teeth until the elastics snapped loudly.

Nell

Rachel sent me an email with birthday wishes, formed on larger knowledge she has acquired by being five months comparison than me. Principal one was that I should be spared irregular creeping weight benefit notwithstanding no shift in lifestyle or practice regime. Replied that unless she can accede to that wish, it"s not most make use of and anyway, creeping weight benefit already been afflicting me for a little time. "Muffin top" right away a full-blown dewlap.

Charlotte

If it"s any comfort, cave creates my trousers hurl down. Yesterday, on approach to swimming with Dora and Mei-Li, a underline came on air wave about sex preparation at first school. Dora was definitely angry and asked because they were going to be taught how to do something that was "nearly illegal". Mei-Li was similarly disapproving and righteously so, as assumingly her sister, who is twelve has been taught "how to do sex" at her propagandize already.

Nell

How shocking. Rob is really gratified as he has a promenade date with a flattering girl. I"m all in foster distinct his last dual much-pierced girlfriends, she has no piercings at all and doesn"t resemble a Bratz doll in any way.

Charlotte

Sounds great. Given his prior form with not recognising his partner after a haircut, maybe he should rehearse recognising her in opposite places, in and out of unvaried and with her hair scored equally back, etc.

Apple pie recipes for Mothers Day: Florentine pie

By Diana Henry 940AM GMT twelve March 2010

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Serves 6

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225g (8oz) solid flour

150g (5oz) butter

3 tbsp caster sugar

1 egg yolk, from a small egg

3 oranges

1 lemon

2 tbsp honey

50g (1oz) soft brownish-red sugar

2 tbsp orange liqueur

4 Bramley apples

2 tbsp orange marmalade

caster sugar, for dusting

Make the fritter as in the prior recipe and put in the refrigerator to rest. Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/gas symbol 5 and put in a steel baking-sheet to warm.

Divide the fritter in two, creation one half somewhat bigger than the other. Roll out the not as big half to cover a 25cm (10in) finish plate.

Cut the ends off the oranges and the lemon. Using a small pointy blade cut off the peel and heart in extended strips and discard. Slice the citrus finely.

Put the honey, half of the brownish-red sugarine and half of the liqueur in to a vessel and feverishness gently. Add the citrus and prepare for five minutes. Lift out the slices with a slotted ladle and cool. Reduce the liquid to 50ml (2fl oz). Leave to cool utterly afterwards supplement the rest of the liqueur to it.

Peel and core the apples and cut the strength in to slices about 4mm (1/6in) thick. Pile on to the pastry, layering with the citrus, the jelly and the rest of the brownish-red sugar. Pour on the syrup. Moisten the fritter edges with water.

Roll out the rest of the fritter and cover the pie, dire the edges to seal. Trim off the additional and tighten the edges. Cut a star figure in the centre of the cake tip and have use of the additional fritter to have musical leaves. Slide on to the steel baking-sheet in the oven and prepare for thirty minutes, or until the apples are tender.

Leave to cool for a bit afterwards dust easily with caster sugar. Serve half hearted or at room heat with thickk thickk cream or with vanilla ice cream.

Bahrain Grand Prix: Jenson Button hoping to repeat flying start of last season

Bystaff and agencies 1010AM GMT twelve March 2010

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Last deteriorate Button dumbfounded the foe by winning 6 of the opening 7 races, construction a height that enabled him to turn universe hold up with Brawn GP.

The 30-year-old"s soaraway early success valid consequential as he usually managed dual lectern finishes in the last 10 grands prix, you do usually sufficient to hold off a assign from Red Bull"s Sebastian Vettel.

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Button has given switched teams to McLaren, desiring he compulsory the shift to reignite his passion as he feared going seared with Brawn, and with the pretension in his pocket.

But with this deteriorate the majority open for years, and with clearly so most contenders for the crown, whoever gets a navigator could again be in stick on all sides to explain the championship.

Ahead of Sunday"s season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, a foe he won last year en track to the title, Button certified "I feel I"ll need a widespread begin again this weekend.

"I think each championship, for any champion, it"s critical to be discerning out of the blocks.

"If you see back, routinely the man that unequivocally fights for the championship and gets the championship is clever from the word go.

"So yes, it is critical for all of us to be up there at the front here in Bahrain. The foe is unequivocally fierce, I contingency say, but that"s since it is exciting.

"For a fan of Formula One, this deteriorate should unequivocally be electric. If it"s not, we"re you do something severely wrong."

Button concurred the lapse of Felipe Massa after eight months out following his collision in subordinate for last year"s Hungarian Grand Prix that resulted in him requiring life-saving surgery.

There was additionally special discuss for Schumacher, with Button patting the 41-year-old on the shoulder as he pronounced "It"s good to have Michael behind since it creates me feel immature again!"

Sitting in the main FIA media discussion yesterday with associate universe champions Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso additionally to one side him, it underlined the stellar inlet of this year"s field.

"Looking at this race, I don"t think there have been so most rival drivers in rival cars for a prolonged time, so it"s good to see," assessed Button.

It is Button, though, who goes in to the deteriorate with the desired series one on his car, that equates to so most to him - nonetheless it is a feeling he concedes will not last for long.

"I can usually see at that in a certain way, and stepping in to the car and saying the series one on it is a unequivocally special feeling," smiled Button.

"Especially here in Bahrain at the initial foe when, usually prior to I put on my steel sheet and see at the car and see the series one, it"s going to be an romantic moment.

"But the impulse I step in to the car and close my visor, last deteriorate is out of the window, and that"s when I concentration on this year."

Johnston Press signals end to fall in advertising revenue

By Jonathan Russell 645AM GMT twelve March 2010

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The owners of 300 internal and informal writings pronounced the thespian falls in promotion revenues plateaued in the initial dual months of this year after descending 35pc in the initial entertain of 2009. However the association pronounced it did not design engine promotion to recover. The association was some-more confident about skill advertising.

Chief senior manager John Fry pronounced "The main subject confronting us is either the falls in promotion are cyclical or structural. It is opposite by category. We have seen comparatively small constructional shift in skill promotion however we do not design engine promotion to redeem as well."

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For the year finished Jan 2 the association purebred a 19pc tumble in income to �428m. Underlying distinction fell to �43m. Profit prior to taxation that includes non-cash equipment such a �126m write down in the worth of the groups titles came in at a loss of �113.8m. The association pronounced it would not be profitable a dividend.

Over the march of the year Johnston refinanced the �485m debt facility. However the agreement with the bankers was reached in Aug last year at the tallness of the credit crunch. Interest costs on the debt roughly doubled from 6pc to 10pc. The association pronounced it was right away focusing on debt reduction. Last year the association paid down �55m of debt.

After shutting dual presses last year Johnston pronounced it had no plans to close any some-more journal titles.

Six Nations 2010: Joe Worsley will relish chopping down Scotland, says Mike Ford

By Gavin Mairs 727PM GMT eleven March 2010

Confrontation Joe Worsley (left) in precision for his purpose as destroyer-in-chief for England Photo PA

Ford admits that Bowe"s thespian touchdown in England"s 20-16 defeat, that came without delay from an Irish line-out, was one of the majority agonising moments of his time as counterclaim coach.

"It was gutting. I felt similar to Kevin Keegan when he was Newcastle United physical education instructor and he slumped on to the hoardings at Liverpool when Stan Collymore scored that late leader in the 4-3 classical [2009]," Ford said.

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"We pronounced "they are going to go for a drop-goal here" and vocalization to them [Ireland] after the game, they certified that"s what they were going to do and Tommy was only a set-up. That done it even some-more galling.

"We only lost thoroughness for that one second. Our truth defensively is that the antithesis don"t come by us. Wherever the round is, we urge the ball.

"If they antithesis wish to go pass, pass, pass, pass and get over on the outside, afterwards infrequently you have to contend "fair enough". But they never come by us. And if they come by us, I regularly have an word policy. But we got that wrong as well. It was a large blunder since we lost the diversion from it but there were alternative errors along the approach that we got wrong as well."

Ford admits Worsley"s lapse to the England behind row at the responsibility of Lewis Moody was a difficult call on the Leicester Tigers flanker. But he feels Worsley"s imperishable defensive qualities will be ideally matched to stop at source a Scotland side that he predicts will furnish something special at Murrayfield on Saturday.

"Joe is a world-class defender," Ford added. "In proviso fool around Scotland have got a little unequivocally great runners, but that suits Joe, removing up and outstanding their runners. He chops them down. He only loves it.

"Knowing Andy Robinson unequivocally well, he will lift something new that we have not seen so we unequivocally have to be on the toes, generally at line-out time.

"As a team, we reckon we are personification at 90 per cent and it is the last five or 10 per cent that is the majority critical in conditions of winning Test matches. Ninety per cent won"t win you Test matches opposite the improved teams."

US-Israeli relations hit new low over settlement plan

Matthew Kalman in Jerusalem and Alex Spillius in Washington 727PM GMT eleven March 2010

US Vice President Joe Biden with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Photo EPA

US Vice-President Joe Biden finished a three-day revisit to the segment by observant President Barack Obama had asked him to issue an "immediate and unequivocal" defamation of the moves.

Mr Biden had hoped his outing would be crowned by the resumption of talks in in between Israel and Palestinians after a year of stalemate. But he was left flustered after the warn proclamation on Tuesday of plans for allotment building a whole a whole in doubtful easterly Jerusalem.

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Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President, pronounced it would right away be "impossible" for the US-mediated surreptitious talks to go brazen unless the plans were withdrawn.

"Our on all sides is simple," pronounced orator Nabil Abu Rudeineh. "The Palestinians and the Arabs supposed the surreptitious talks.

"It was the Israeli preference to begin a new allotment plan in East Jerusalem that hindered these talks. The Israelis should devaluate these decisions, differently it will be formidable and unfit to go behind to the negotiations."

The Palestinians were upheld by the 22-nation Arab League that had initial lifted hopes of negotiations by giving Mr Abbas the subsidy to restart talks.

Mr Biden attempted to set upon a accommodating tinge in his last debate yesterday but warned that Israel"s proclamation had "undermined the certitude compulsory for prolific negotiations".

"I, at the ask of President Obama, cursed it rught away and unequivocally," he said. "Sometimes usually a crony can broach the hardest truth."

Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, telephoned the vice-president yesterday sunrise to "express his bewail for the hapless timing" of the decision.

He is pronounced to have reiterated his explain that he had not been wakeful of the announcement, and pronounced he had summoned Interior Minister Eli Yishai to rebuke him.

The last capitulation routine for the allotment would probably take some-more than a year, with building a whole a whole starting multiform years from now, he said.

Palestinians see East Jerusalem as collateral of their destiny state, whilst Mr Netanyahu considers it piece of "the eternal, amount collateral of Israel and the Jewish people".

President Obama had hoped that by restarting the Israeli-Palestinian routine he would convince Arab states to behind difficult sanctions to force Iran to give up the chief ambitions.

But given his proposition to the Muslim universe in a debate in Cairo last year he has had small success. Mr Biden"s revisit this week was written to be a closely-choreographed display of Washington"s capability to move Israel in to line.

Experts on the segment pronounced they could not recollect the last time an American personality had used the word "condemn" in propinquity to Israel.

Aaron David Miller, who worked on assent negotiations for the Clinton administration, pronounced "If you longed for to emanate in a laboratory a set of events that was some-more damaging to American interests you could not have finished a improved pursuit than this.

"Its privately annoying for the vice-president and it undermines the firmness of the talks, that didnt have majority possibility of operative anyway."

Another Washington Middle Eastern consultant pronounced the White House had been done to see "weak and hopeless" in the exchange with the Israelis and the Palestinians.

In a debate to students at Tel Aviv University on Thursday, Mr Biden pleaded with Israel to do all required to come in negotiations with Mr Abbas and his colleagues.

"Israeli leaders eventually have peaceful partners who share the idea of assent in in between dual states and have the cunning to settle a nation. Their joining to assent is an event that contingency be seized," pronounced Mr Biden.

"The majority critical thing is for these talks to go forward, and go brazen soon and go brazen in great faith," he said.

The Americans instituted the surreptitious talks since the Palestinians had refused to come in approach negotiations but a full allotment freeze in East Jerusalem.

Israeli officials pronounced was it was "unacceptable" of the Palestinians to have new final prior to entering surreptitious talks as well.

"They are relocating the goalposts," pronounced one Israeli diplomat.

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Do we really want Britons to be spending, spending, spending?

By Kamal Ahmed 109PM GMT eleven March 2010

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John Lewis has warned that 2010 won"t infer any simpler for the consumer Photo EPA

Both are great companies, focusing on creation certain the patron feels longed for (and it"s startling how most consumer-facing businesses don"t assimilate that blindingly elementary concept). Even by a down-turn, it is transparent that mending the extent of services and how you broach them can expostulate expenditure growth.

I don"t know how most people held the BBC programme on John Lewis last night, but saying one of the partners scarcely ripping in to tears of happiness when the initial smoothness lorry arrived at the new store at Cardiff was a pleasure to spy and shows how encouraged staff have a difference. I suggest the second monthly payment subsequent week.

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However, there is a big but here and those John Lewis numbers come with a notice - however most sets of Egyptian string towels they sell. The sell zone appears to have bounced behind from retrogression and it seems we"re all out "spending, spending, spending".

The subject is, are we saying the beginnings of an additional unsustainable consumer-led recovery? And when will the apocalyptic warnings of a "flattening" in the sell zone come to pass? Is the British economy still due a large improvement downwards? And, if consumers begin staying at home, what will the total see similar to afterwards and how will the Government, either Labour or Conservative, react? If there is a hung Parliament, integrity usually knows what will happen.

Sure, we"re seeking for some-more bargains and Waitrose"s essentials line has led a lot of John Lewis"s growth. But a Bank of England inform expelled currently pronounced that we are all aroused that there will be a high possibility of acceleration ahead. Is the consumer ever going to think there"s a retrogression on and cut their spending accordingly?

We"ve had a prolonged duration of consumer generated growth, most of it formed on debt. George Osborne has argued that the UK needs to shift to a indication where assets and entrepreneurial creation hold the key to the UK"s future. The ultimate sell total show that the consumer is still - may be dangerously - you do their bit. On the economy, there still seems a desperately prolonged approach to go.

I see brazen to your thoughts

Kamal

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Google Street View goes nationwide in Britain

926AM GMT eleven March 2010

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On Thursday, 360-degree cinema from Penzance to the Shetland islands go online, encompassing scarcely a entertain of a million miles of British roads.

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.

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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.

Despite featuring images perceivable usually from open roads, Street View has captivated critics who hold the minute street-level report could be exploited by criminals.

Google has taken stairs to safety anonymity. Its record automatically blurs series plates and faces and users can ask for their homes or cars to be removed.

Google believes the use will be a progress for UK businesses, that can hide the maps in to their own sites for free. For example, a bed and breakfast owners can foster the internal area by charity intensity business a practical wander by the streets.

The launch equates to the UK will catch up with alternative European countries - such as Spain, France, and Italy - that already exaggerate national coverage.

Because Street View images see most appropriate in dry, cloudy conditions, Google pronounced the greatest plea in the UK was the weather.

Campaigner Alex Deane, executive of Big Brother Watch, is endangered about the remoteness implications of Street View after a series of people contacted him with their concerns.

He pronounced "For many, Google"s Street View cameras are an upsetting advance of privacy. People lend towards not to be asked either they are gentle with it entrance to their town.

"When it arrives somewhere for the initial time, those who are endangered about being prisoner should check it to see if they or their skill are right away on worldwide open view.

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Massage no better at beating stress than deep breathing and soft music

By Heidi Blake 730AM GMT eleven March 2010

People who lay receiving low breaths in a dimly illuminated room with soft song emerged only as loose as those who underwent massages or sessions of thermotherapy, in that their arms and legs were wrapped with comfortable towels, researchers found.

While all 3 methods are similarly in effect at easing anxiety, elementary decrease techniques can be practised at home for free, since rub the physique and thermotherapy sessions can cost �90 an hour.

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Scientists at the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle pronounced the feeling of decrease people experience during a rub the physique could be a product of the balmy song played during the session, rather than the diagnosis itself.

During the study, 68 patients pang from stress were separate in to groups and since 10 sessions of one of the 3 forms of pick therapy.

All 3 treatments were conducted in a dimly-lit room with soft music, and participants were educated to breath deeply to assistance them relax.

Unlike the dual carry out treatments, the rub the physique was privately written to raise the duty of the parasympathetic shaken system, that controls flesh contraction, and soothe symptoms of stress together with curled muscles.

When asked by researchers to rate their stress levels after the sessions, all 3 of the groups pronounced their symptoms had decreased by about 40 per cent by the finish of the 12-week diagnosis duration - and by about 50 per cent 3 months later.

As well as a decrease in stress levels, patients reported fewer symptoms of basin and less be concerned and ubiquitous disability.

Karen Sherman, a comparison researcher at the Seattle-based health co-operative, pronounced "We were astounded to find that the benefits of rub the physique were no larger than those of the same series of sessions of "thermotherapy" or listening to relaxing music.

"This suggests that the benefits of rub the physique competence be due to a generalized decrease response.

"Treatment in a relaxing room is majority less costly than the pick treatments similar to rub the physique or thermotherapy, so it competence be the majority cost-effective choice for people with generalized stress commotion who wish to try a relaxation-oriented interrelated disinfectant therapy."

The commentary were published in the biography Depression and Anxiety.

Massage is between the majority renouned forms of pick care for stress and practitioners explain it decreases tragedy in the muscles and improves red red blood circulation.

But scientists at the University of Ontario in Canada claimed last year that rub the physique essentially cuts red red blood dissemination to the muscles and hinders the removal of lactic acids by as majority as twenty-five per cent.

Proponents of the diagnosis contend it is unfit to magnitude the the benefits since of far-reaching variations in the techniques used and the capability of practitioners.

Thermotherapy is written to ease flesh tragedy by once in a whilst jacket prohibited pads and towels around the arms and legs, whilst decrease care simply involves lying down and respirating deeply with mood song in personification in the background.

Riverside property: Tide is high for seafaring buyers seeking waterfront bolt-holes

By Caroline McGhie 315PM GMT eleven March 2010

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Scott Couper lives on the really dilemma of the River Lynher in Saltash, only opposite the Tamar from Plymouth, where Devon ends and Cornwall begins.

He keeps his vessel in a bizarre old construction subsequent door. "We cocktail around the dilemma to the beer hall in Saltash, or go right up the Tamar or over to Newton Ferrers," he says. Estuary dwellers were ever thus, vital by the tides and the transformation of the water.

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The vessel is amphibious so he drives in to the water, afterwards unfolds the wheels and heads onto dry land. It is called Legs-Akimbo.

His father additionally keeps a 34ft yacht moored outside, and nephews and nieces in the encampment come to disaster about in boats with him. The Boat House is remarkable, too, in that it has the own harbour, dual deep-water moorings and slipway, and Scott creatively longed for to rise it as a fantasy house. But he and his mother Linda have motionless to sell it for at �1.5 million and move to France. It has formulation accede for a five-bedroom residence with a helipad.

The riverbanks are full of curiosities similar to this, ruins of old waterside life, that are regarded as bullion dust by house-hunters in poke of magic. "This was built in the Seventies by a man who was a tip representative and engineer, who never got formulation accede but lived and worked in it," Scott says. A packet once ran from this harbour, receiving estate workers opposite the stream each day. Now a army cadet precision propagandize creates unconstrained diversions, such as man-overboard and upset precision exercises.

On the River Dart at Dartmouth is an additional mudlark"s treasure, a large dull boathouse owned by the Dartmouth Trust, that is offered it by Savills and Marchand Petit at �1 million. "Beacon Boathouse was the old coastguards" surveillance with the old flare on the sea wall, that the boats line up to as they come in and that has to stay put," says Peter Gardner of Marchand Petit. The construction is vast, with an office, seminar and stairs down to the old mooring.

So select has this front row of houses on the Dart right away turn that Gardner is certain it will be demolished and rebuilt. "Values on the H2O haven"t forsaken in the past integrate of years so it is seen as a good investment, and people wish to put their income somewhere alternative than the bank," he says. Indeed, new investigate by Knight Frank shows that bay vital is right away sought after, with normal properties on eight key estuaries in the South West autocratic an normal 31 per cent some-more than elsewhere.

These are properties that constraint your heart. Geoff and Jackie White saw Perchwood House, on the H2O at Bow Creek in Tuckenhay, Devon, when they were on legal holiday eleven years ago. "We only upheld it by possibility and thought wow!" he says. They were vital and operative in London.

"We packaged up the car on Friday nights, outlayed weekends and holidays there. Every time we arrived it strike us how extraordinary it was." It altered their lives. "I had never been meddlesome in boats, but being right there I had to, so we paid for a 20ft engine cruiser. We felt similar to characters from Swallows and Amazons. We explored the Dart in good detail, up stream to Totnes, to villages similar to Stoke Gabriel, scored equally up and had afternoon tea. And down stream to Dartmouth," Geoff says. "Once you get to know the stream it is easy to navigate. On excellent days we jumped in the vessel and off we went."

Vast cinema-screen windows gave them a skipper"s-eye perspective of the landscape, from the unprotected murky flanks of the stream bed at low waves to the flowing scenery when the waves is up. "We have seen a sign bask, a salmon jump. We have held sea bass, grayling, mullet," Geoff adds. "And the fish move the birds cormorants, egrets, heron."

So deeply in love did they tumble with the area that they have right away changed from London to a riverside residence in Dartmouth and substituted the cruiser for a Sunseeker yacht. They let Perchwood, earning up to �40,000 a year from it, but are offered it for �795,000 (through Marchand Petit). The residence has harbour access, 3 bedrooms, a walled grassed area opposite the highway and a riverside terrace.

Families gather, girls and boys lurch to their dinghies and the total universe seems to take to the boats in the summer. Even estate agents and residence poke agents raise their sails. "August is the month, with Cowes in the initial week, Falmouth the second, Fowey the third and Dartmouth the fourth," says Jonathan Cunliffe of Savills, that sponsors a May regatta at the Mylor Yacht Club in Falmouth.

It isn"t the same as seeking true out to sea, as Graham Falconer, owners of Sailor"s Creek in Flushing, says. His residence is on the Penryn river, on tip of the harbour, and he keeps his 26ft ship in the important Carrick Roads marina, origin he sets off to try the mixed of creeks and inlets. To be closer to their grandchildren in Suffolk, the Falconers are offered by Chesterton Humberts at �1.75 million. "There are pubs you can tie up up to such as the Smugglers Inn towards Truro," he says. At the bottom of the wooded grassed area is a haul-out for a boat and stairs down to a in isolation beach.

The Boat House, �1.5m, Knight Frank (01392 423111) Beacon Boathouse, �1m, Savills (01392 455744) and Marchand Petit (01803 839190) Perchwood, �795,000, Marchand Petit (01803 847979)Sailor"s Creek, �1.75m, Chesterton Humberts (01872 278288)

ESTUARY VALUE (Average prices on the tip estuaries. Source Knight Frank)

Salcombe �560,000 Dartmouth �482,000 Falmouth �438,000 Helford River �435,000 Camel �408,000 Fowey �422,000 Exe �366,000 Teign �320,000

ESTUARY FINDS

Riverside chair Temeraire with 4 bedrooms, terraces and views right up stream in Dartmouth �1.35m. Strutt & Parker, 01392 215631. Creek bower Cliff House at Cliff on the Fowey River, with 3 bedrooms and stream front �825,000. Savills, 01872 243200.Lighthouse views Castle Cottage at Kingswear, with 3 bedrooms and in isolation entrance to the Dart �950,000. Savills, 01392 455755.

Burmese python on the loose on housing estate

730AM GMT 10 March 2010

The Burmese python is the largest subspecies of the Indian python Photo AP

The immature snake, believed to be ""several feet long"", was seen by a bystander in the undergrowth in Lingswood, Northampton, at around 9.30am on Tuesday.

Police have suggested that whilst it is not well known to be a dangerous species, the savage should not be approached and witnesses should call 999 or the RSPCA.

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It was last seen in a wooded area subsequent to a large housing estate and has so far evaded capture.

A orator for Northamptonshire Police pronounced "Police were called currently at we estimate 9.30am to a reported sighting of what is believed to be a large lizard in the undergrowth.

"It is believed the lizard might be a immature Burmese Python."

The Burmese python is the largest subspecies of the Indian python and one of the 6 largest snakes in the world, local to areas of Southern and Southeast Asia.

They can be found nearby H2O and in trees. Wild people grow to an normal of twelve feet prolonged but can grow to nineteen feet in a little cases.

Patients medical records go online without consent

By Kate Devlin, Medical Correspondent 1020PM GMT 09 March 2010

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At benefaction 1.29 million people have had their sum placed on the system. A serve 8.9 million annals are due to be combined by Jun

Those who do not instruct to have their sum on the �11 billion computer complement are ostensible to be means to opt out by informing health authorities.

But doctors have indicted the Government of rushing the plan through, definition that patients have had their sum uploaded to the database prior to they have had a possibility to object.

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The scheme, one of the largest of the kind in the world, will in the future hold the in isolation annals of some-more than 50 million patients.

But it has been stubborn by accusations that the in isolation report hold on it will not be protected from hackers.

The British Medical Association claims that annals have been placed on the complement but patients believe or consent.

It follows allegations that the Government longed for to finish the plan prior to the Conservatives had a possibility to terminate it.

In a minute to ministers published today, the BMA urges the Government to postpone the scheme.

Hamish Meldrum, the chairman, writes "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.

"If the routine continues to be rushed, not usually will the rights of patients be damaged, but the singular certainty of the open and the healing contention in NHS IT will be serve eroded."

At benefaction 1.29 million people have had their sum placed on the system. 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 "summary" annals enclose simple healing report together with illnesses, vaccination history, and could embody remedy patients have been given. Ages and addresses are additionally included.

Patients are ostensible to be told by minute at slightest twelve weeks prior to their sum go live on the complement and since the possibility to opt out.

The BMA says that letters have left to the wrong addresses and that most patients have been uncertain what they mean.

Doctors point out that there has been no inhabitant promotion programme to insist the scheme, as has been the box with alternative supervision initiatives.

David Wrigley, from the BMA"s GP committee, pronounced "The regard is that people competence not be aware, since they did not embrace the letter, they did not review it or they thought it was junk mail and threw it away."

The BMA additionally criticises the actuality that the report packs do not embody the form that allows patients to opt out. It can usually be performed around the internet or by job a helpline.

Katherine Murphy, of the Patients Association, pronounced "The Health Service should not put in place official obstacles to studious preference since they are disturbed about what patients competence select to do."

Norman Lamb, the Liberal Democrat health spokesman, pronounced "The Government needs to finish the mania with large executive databases.

"The NHS IT intrigue has been a catastrophic rubbish of income and the inhabitant programme should be abandoned."

A orator for the Department of Health pronounced that ministers "absolutely support" the right of patients to opt out of the scheme, adding that assorted options were supposing to have this straightforward.

Weir to profit from new nuclear delays

By Rowena Mason 530AM GMT 10 March 2010

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Keith Cochrane, arch executive, additionally pronounced there augmenting opportunities for servicing new chief plants in China, as the association upgraded the gain forecasts for the entrance year and reported higher profits.

"There has been an increase in speed of new-build in China and things are additionally function on the belligerent in the US," Mr Cochrane said.

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"In Europe there"s a lot of speak but in being there"s small activity. We are saying delays in the UK and Europe but that is formulating opportunities in upkeep and hold up extension."

Pre-tax increase rose 6pc to �187m, as some-more oil and gas developments began to come by in the second half of 2009 following a unemployment in the recession.

Weir"s share cost rose 56, or 7pc to 915p, after the organisation pronounced that the income for 2009 climbed 3pc to �1.39bn nonetheless it expects expansion to be prosaic subsequent year.

Its commercial operation in rising markets grew during the year, as the association won Chinese chief contracts and others in the Middle East downstream oil and gas markets.

Mr Cochrane pronounced "aggressive" gas prolongation in US shale fields wore out equipment, ensuing in some-more direct for Weir"s services and products.

Weir pronounced it would compensate a last division of 16.2p, receiving the full-year sum on credit on Jun 3 to 21p, compared with 18.5p in 2008.

Airbus aircraft delays push EADS to a loss

By Amy Wilson 630AM GMT 10 March 2010

EADS Eurofighter Typhoon jet lands at the Swiss Army Airbase in Emmen, senior manager Switzerland

The strength of the euro opposite the dollar additionally dragged down gain by €1bn for the third year in a row, arch senior manager Louis Gallois said.

EADS reported a net loss of €763m for 2009, down from a distinction of €1.57bn last year. A €1.8bn assign on the behind and over-budget A400M and €240m of supplies for the A380 both weighed on the result. Revenue slipped 1pc to €42.8bn. The association does not mangle out pre-tax profit.

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EADS additionally pronounced it had been forced to lift out of the competition to set up 179 new refuelling tanker planes for the US troops since of strong disposition in the conditions of the contract.

"We had no possibility of winning and we are contemptible about that since we think we have the most appropriate plane," Mr Gallois said. But he emphasised the preference to lift out, along with partner Northrop Grumann, did not meant EADS would equivocate behest for US contracts in the future.

"The tanker preference does not lessen the joining to the US," Mr Gallois said. The US is by far the world"s greatest counterclaim market, and you do some-more commercial operation there will additionally assistance EADS revoke the bearing to dollar weakness.

Politicians in Europe upheld Mr Gallois" decision. "Given the open marketplace to US producers we have in Europe, it is really unsatisfactory that a US-led European consortium feels that the revised tanker buying routine is right away so inequitable opposite them that it is not even value creation a bid," pronounced Lord Mandelson, the commercial operation secretary.

There were splendid spots between the numbers EADS" heavenly body commercial operation Astrium reported a 12pc enlarge in income to €4.8bn. Astrium"s Paradigm commercial operation in the UK yesterday concluded a �400m stipulate prolongation to yield secure heavenly body information exchnage for UK armed forces.

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Currency devaluation needs new export markets on Mars to prove a panacea

Jeremy Warner 530AM GMT 09 March 2010

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In Asia, it tends to be the conflicting complaint that exercises policymakers how to conflict the solid ceiling vigour on sell rates. And in Europe, it"s about how to remodel a promissory note kinship whose error lines have been laid unclothed by the monetary crisis.

The last of these problems is at one and the same time the majority formidable and the easiest to residence the majority formidable since it requires eurozone members to move over the benefaction lax have up of emperor states to a some-more integrated sovereign proceed in conclusion involving loss of mercantile independence.

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But additionally the easiest in that the passing from one to another has already proposed of the own accord. Greece in outcome surrendered the mercantile government with last week"s purgation package and others will positively follow prior to the predicament is over.

The idea of a European Monetary Fund, resurrected over the week finish by the German monetary minister, Wolfgang Schauble, as a equates to of bailing out countries that run in to monetary difficulties, is but a entertainment post to the centralised Treasury functions that are required to the singular currency"s prolonged tenure survival.

The euro"s first fathers continually realised that this is where the plan would finish up, but it has taken a promissory note predicament of ancestral proportions to accelerate an expansion that competence differently have taken decades.

The alternative key part to successful promissory note kinship is the free transformation of work conflicting borders. For viewable reasons this is proof some-more formidable to grasp than in the US, where total tracts of the competition will continually up sticks in economically vexed states to move to some-more moneyed ones.

Yet even on this front, there is some-more cranky limit transformation in Europe than you competence design since the denunciation and informative differences, utterly at the youth, higher and reduce ends of the work market.

A series of the eurozone"s marginal part of states competence enviousness Britain the promissory note weakness, nonetheless carrying taken and mostly consumed the advantages of low German seductiveness rates, they contingency right afar live with the consequences. Leaving the euro is not an choice for these countries. The ensuing promissory note and seductiveness rate disharmony would have the benefaction deflationary composition in salary and benefits see similar to a wander in the play ground by comparison.

Currency remodel in China is relocating at an exactly slower pace, in spite of remarks over the week finish by Zhou Xiaochuan, administrator of the People"s Bank of China, to the outcome that the dollar brace might be reaching the finish of the healthy life.

On closer examination, his remarks were not as thespian as at large reported. In fact, all he is articulate about is a move behind to the process that existed prior to the monetary crisis, when the renminbi was cramped to a crawling brace that authorised an high regard of around 5pc a year. When the predicament strike and exports collapsed, even this tranquil high regard was withdrawn, to be transposed by a elementary dollar peg.

Mr Zhou seems to be observant that it might shortly be suitable to lapse to the crawling peg, but with the liberation still fragile, not utterly yet. This falls a prolonged approach short of the sort of step shift composition demanded by the US.

Would it have most disproportion to imbalances even if the US were to convince China of the merits of such a revaluation? I"ve got my doubts. Over time, economies that are structurally blending to progressing big stream comment surpluses lend towards to find ways of coping with stronger sell rates. Look at Germany and Japan. If the favoured sell rate rises, relations Chinese and Western salary would regulate to compensate. And if they didn"t, the disproportion in work costs is already so immeasurable that China could simply say competitiveness.

In any case, even a aroused composition in the sell rate of itself wouldn"t have most disproportion to done at home direct in China. Outside collateral products required for infrastructure development, horse opera furnish is in all as well costly for Chinese consumption.

The fall in universe traffic that accompanied the monetary predicament has done the Chinese care painfully wakeful of the need to move afar from the old traffic led expansion indication and rise self nutritious sources of inner demand.

But this cannot be conjured up overnight. Domestic direct is already expanding at a rate deliberate dangerously high. To go faster requires both some-more at large permitted consumer credit, to have big sheet equipment permitted to typical consumers, and a some-more arguable amicable reserve net, to daunt extreme saving.

Looking at what"s only happened to the big necessity nations, where the fall of the credit bang has unprotected a complement of amicable entitlements that seems to be fiscally unaffordable, you can see because China would wish to take the time in introducing the Western model.

Everyone, it seems, wants a reduce sell rate, nonetheless it is a judicious stupidity for all countries to have one. Britain is roughly singular between large modernized economies in carrying devalued conflicting both the euro and the dollar, and by the dollar, the renminbi too.

If the singular promissory note hadn"t existed we would be intent in a pauper thy next door neighbour devaluation competition to the bottom. Small consternation that others see on with a grade of envy. As yet, it is not most some-more than that, for with universe direct still so depressed, the analogous value of a low sell rate is utterly limited.

But there are already rumblings in Europe to the outcome that membership of the singular marketplace should need membership of the singular currency. If the euro doesn"t break soon, this will in time turn a potentially strident source of tension.

There is small in this predicament that the universe economy hasn"t seen prior to in a little figure or form, and positively it has lifted zero new about the problems compared with bound sell rate systems. Many of these were strong as prolonged ago as Bretton Woods, when British representatives rightly forked out that but floating sell rates, there was no viewable resource for editing traffic imbalances alternative than to place next to and conflicting obligations on over-abundance and necessity nations to regulate done at home direct accordingly.

Fifty 6 years later, and there is still no pointer of these obligations being recognized between today"s big over-abundance nations. To the contrary, roughly everyone, necessity nations to one side the over-abundance ones, right afar have their eyes resolutely set on exporting their approach out of trouble. It perceptibly needs observant that unless we are about to find new traffic markets on Mars, the universe economy has something of a problem.

Property agent finds it can do without Cannes

616PM GMT 09 March 2010

The checked shirts are being pressed, the far-reaching ties packed. The UK"s skill marketplace is streamer to MIPIM, the annual bunfight in Cannes.

I suppose the champagne will be issuing again after a integrate of years of purgation for some.

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One association that is giving the eventuality a far-reaching berth is skill representative Drivers Jonas. Property watchers will recollect that DJs, as the association is known, fell tainted of the French courts for "piggy-backing" the eventuality last year and had to compensate �90,000 to the organisers of the do, Reed Midem.

This year the association is promulgation usually dual (paid for) delegates, compared to opposition DTZ"s 20-odd and Savills" around 30.

Not usually that, the association has additionally strike behind by organising a day at Cheltenham races for the clients called NICE, "Not in Cannes Event". It"s on Wednesday subsequent week, right in the center of the MIPIM week.

Sir Stelios offices an easyMistake to make

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the airline-to-offices entrepreneur, has been bustling pulling his PR. In a Sunday paper he was extolling the virtues of the internet, the US and skill amongst alternative things.

Whether this work on his picture has anything to do with the defame box he is posterior opposite opposition Michael O"Leary of Ryanair I have no idea.

But one thought does arise. "Property is king," Sir Stelios tells us in the piece. "I didn"t make use of to hold in it in conditions of investment I used to think it was irrelevant, so I longed for the last boom. Now I"m shopping land…"

If so, because is it that Sir Stelios"s stretchable bureau space operation easyOffice has possibly sealed or is shutting dual of the operations, Glasgow and High St Kensington, London?

Back in Oct easyOffice trainer Mark Smith pronounced "We right away have eight centres…"

Hmm, see on your website Mark, I equate usually six.

July 4 binds no mental recall for landowner

Following on from my square about Bank of Scotland"s new process on seductiveness rates "we don"t do them", I"m contacted by a reader with this story of the times.

"I had this new review with a bank call centre in the UK," he tells me, rising true in to the plead the span enjoyed.

"Before we can plead your comment I need to ask you a security question," the workman said. "What is your noted date or anniversary?

"I answered Jul 4, 1776."

"She remarked that this was a formidable date to remember.

"I told her it was my grandmother"s date of birth

"Ooh," she said. "She"s old."

jonathan.russell@telegraph.co.uk

Property in Norwich: local knowledge

830AM GMT 09 March 2010

Cottages at Old Buckenham in Norfolk; Hunsett Mill, Norfolk Broads Photo ALAMY

THIS WEEK Tom Goodley, Strutt & Parker, Norwich; (01603 617431, struttandparker.com)

Very prosaic in truth - and rising all the time Time to sell your nation residence Norwich gets to arise up, climb and gleam Britain"s tip 10 nation towns Wreck of the week Village voice

AREA All of Norfolk together with the Coast, Breckland, Norwich and surrounding panorama and The Broads

GENERAL OUTLOOK The phone has proposed to ring some-more not long ago and wake up levels are up. With the days removing longer, peoples minds have proposed to spin to shopping and offered houses.

AVERAGE PRICES Encouraging, depending on what it is and where it is. We have properties trimming from �5 million to �150,000.

ON THE BOOKS There are 42 on the books at the impulse with a solid upsurge entrance to the marketplace over the subsequent couple of weeks. Things are unequivocally picking up and we are busier than ever.

NEW INSTRUCTIONS A pleasant isolated locale residence in Beccles preferred for a complicated family who similar to technology. The residence has a full Bang & Olufsen receptive to advice complement and is on the marketplace for �640,000.

HOT DEMAND Swanns Barn in north Norfolk has been really popular, even removing the courtesy of a sure Channel 4 skill programme. It is one of the majority appropriate stable conversions we have ever seen, with five bedrooms and glorious dimensions. The cost is �730,000.

LINGERING Sandwade in Breckland is lingering, majority to my surprise. It is really formidable to emphasize in a brochure, on the internet and in an advert how enchanting the place is. The three-bedrooms residence is set in about 35 acres of wonderful, different land with rank and file of wildlife but no takers yet. However, we do have a spectator or two. The cost is �750,000.

LOCAL ATTRACTIONS Great schools in north Norfolk and Norwich together with Greshams, Beeston Hall, Town Close, Taverham and the Norwich School. Lots of great pubs, sailing, golf and big expanses of land with really couple of people about majority of the year, and houses that are great worth for money.

Norfolk boasts a little of the excellent nation houses in England, together with Houghton, Holkham and Blickling (once home to Anne Boleyn), not to discuss Sandringham. Norfolk hides most celebrities and they come here for assent and quiet, so they wouldnt be named.

WORD ON THE STREET Lotus Formula One postponing the move from Norfolk to Malaysia and the Canaries (Norwich City FC) being promoted are both prohibited topics. Plus the probability of a new array of Alan Partridge!

Be patient, Davis Cup success will come, says Jamie Baker

By Jamie Baker 728PM GMT 09 March 2010

Front row Colin Fleming (right) and Ken Skupski of Great Britain embrace recommendation from captain John Lloyd Photo GETTY IMAGES

I thought rambling my ankle on the eve of the Davis Cup tie in Lithuania was painful. But that was zero compared to the anguish of saying what has happened since examination the better to Lithuania unfold, and listening to the inquisition that has followed.

As a player, I"m disturbed we could lose out in another, far some-more poignant competition the censure game.

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I"ve listened the calls for John Lloyd to give up as Davis Cup captain. I was piece of the patrol in Lithuania, and I apply oneself him hugely. And I"ve listened the complaints about the Lawn Tennis Association. "Rip it up and begin again" seems to be the mantra.

Nothing would be some-more deleterious for the competition in this country.

Take my ankle injury. Within half an hour of nearing behind at the National Tennis Centre, I"d had an MRI scan. I"ve been since a state-of-the-art ice application appurtenance in my bedroom, that I am utilizing each hour of the day.

I"m carrying physio, operative out in the gym, swimming. Getting the right food, the right recommendation and support. The result? I should be behind on justice inside of the week. That would never have happened 4 years ago.

The total turn of professionalism around British tennis has left up massively. Everything is in place for the players to succeed.

It"s not up to the LTA to shake out winners. Their pursuit is to see after the wider game, and yield the sourroundings for success at the chosen level. And we as players need to grab that opportunity. We need to set a precedent, to action as purpose models.

I don"t think the Davis Cup is an correct thoughtfulness of the state of British tennis.

We"ve got so most gifted youngsters entrance by the ranks. I know that, since I sight with them each week. Team Aegon boys such as George Morgan, Luke Bambridge and Andrew Bettles.

Boys who recognize that bent isn"t only in the hands, but in the mind; who assimilate that with the await comes a clarity of responsibility.

Success will come, but if we begin again now, there"s a risk that losing in Lithuania won"t be inexcusable. It"ll be the norm.

Jamie Baker was piece of Great Britain"s Davis Cup patrol to face Lithuania but was ruled out on the eve of the tie after an damage in practice.

Good news about Afghanistan

By Sardar Ahmad, in Kabul for AFP 1056AM GMT 09 March 2010

About time too. Photo AFP/Gtty

Stories about war, depressed soldiers, self-murder bombs, drug traffickers, kidnappings, poison attacks on schoolgirls - bad headlines had dominated given the 2001 US-led advance overthrew the Taliban regime.

So he set up Good Afghan News to fill the gap.

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"Sure, you find sprinkles of great headlines here and there," pronounced Qazi by email from his home in northern California.

"But they don"t get the courtesy (they) need given they are customarily in the same journal that"s carrying 3 or 4 alternative articles revelation people how bad things are in Afghanistan," he said.

And he"s right - there are a little great headlines stories in Afghanistan.

Billions of assist dollars pumped in to Afghanistan given 2001 have helped set up roads, energy stations, irrigation systems and hospitals opposite the country.

Millions of children, together with girls, are right away going to school.

Preventable diseases such as polio are being dealt with, thousands of clinics have been set up to yield much-needed health caring in farming areas and notwithstanding fast problems of corruption, millions of people opinion in elections.

But to one side the assist efforts, 121,000 US and Nato infantry are stationed in the nation - shortly to climb to 150,000 - to quarrel a Taliban insurgency.

Many of these infantry are assisting to sight the Afghan armed forces and infantry to safeguard Western nations can begin pulling out their own infantry in about eighteen months, as their participation in Afghanistan is increasingly without a friend both in between Afghans and in their home countries.

A large descent opposite Taliban insurgents and their drug-trafficking cohorts in the southern range of Helmand has compounded the consistent drumbeat of bad news.

Operation Mushtarak has replaced thousands of families, and commanders contend it could be weeks prior to the militants are pushed out and the booby-trap bombs they have left at the back of are cleared.

Nato mistakes are racking up a flourishing fee of civilians opposite the country, as well as heightening Afghan open annoy about the unfamiliar infantry presence.

These factors shroud anything great that competence happen, from exports of apples to illusory general success in cricket that has seen the inhabitant group validate for the World Twenty20 finals.

That"s where http://www.goodafghannews.com comes in, pronounced Qazi.

To have certain his summary gets across, he illustrates his site with a smiley face wearing a normal Afghan turban.

"This site is opposite in that we usually concentration on the great news. If it is bad headlines we pass, given there are already sufficient sources for that kind of news," Qazi said.

The tinge of the website is upbeat, the headlines sprinkled with copiousness of call for help outlines along with photos of sports heroes, happy young kids and industrious men digging irrigation channels and given money crops alternative than drug poppies.

Unsavoury topics such as human rights abuses are dealt with in a certain light - for instance, falls in assault opposite women and kid abuse.

"How honeyed it is! It"s an sparkling day for Afghan sports fans all over the world," reads a title about Afghanistan"s basketball group at the new 2010 South Asian Games in Bangladesh, where Afghan athletes won five bullion medals.

"More Afghans right away with entrance to electricity," reads an additional title on a prolonged inform about dual small energy plants in a remote northern Afghan village.

Another essay goes in to item about a girls" propagandize in horse opera Herat range being saved and built by unfamiliar troops.

"The propagandize includes 10 classrooms, 6 executive bedrooms and a sports gymnasium. The propagandize will house the needs of 600 students," it says, reminding readers that in between 1996 and 2001 the Taliban system of administration criminialized girls from in attendance school.

In the couple of months given Qazi proposed Good Afghan News with the aphorism "Afghan headlines that will have you happy," he has purebred thousands of hits from Afghans, he said.

"I could simply see thousands on vacation the site each day. Everyone I discuss it about the site loves the thought and tells me they will widespread the word," he said.

But the most appropriate headlines from Afghanistan, he said, has nonetheless to come.

"My greatest wish? I would similar to to see a permanent assent in Afghanistan."

Two soldiers killed in Afghanistan on same day named

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(L) Cpl Stephen Thompson and (R) L/Cpl Tom Keogh Photo MoD

Cpl Thompson, 31, from 1st Battalion The Rifles, died as a outcome of an blast nearby Sangin district centre, Helmand province.

L/Cpl Keogh, 24, from 4th Battalion The Rifles, was killed by a gunshot wound during a firefight in Sangin.

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Both men died on Sunday, the Ministry of Defence said.

Cpl Thompson, from Bovey Tracey, in Devon, leaves his mother, Carol, father, Peter, brother, Philip, sisters, Claire and Helen, and son, Ewan.

In a statement, his relatives pronounced "We are so really unapproachable of the son Stephen and all that he achieved. He lived hold up to the full and died you do the pursuit he loved.

"He will be sorely longed for by his silent and dad, hermit and sisters, his son, Ewan, and all of those who had the wish of meaningful him. Always in the hearts."

Lt Col Nick Kitson, Commanding Officer 3 Rifles Battle Group, pronounced Cpl Thompson assimilated the territory about a month ago, carrying outlayed dual years instructing recruits at Catterick after enlisting with the Army in Jan 1997.

"Go-getting and committed, he embraced the plea of handling in one of the majority perfectionist environments, inside of this majority perfectionist of operational theatres," pronounced Lt Col Kitson.

"Dedicated to his job, his usually thoughts were for the efficacy of his group in bringing a improved destiny for the oppressed people of Sangin."

Second Lieutenant Peter Cay, 2 Platoon Commander, pronounced "From the initial time I met him, Tommo came opposite as a rarely veteran infantryman who was dedicated to his job."

Major Tim Harris, Officer Commanding A Company 3 Rifles, described him as a "leader of men".

"In my exchange with him I recognized the qualities that symbol out an superb infantryman and personality of men - he was courageous, intelligent, merciful and fiercely loyal," pronounced Maj Harris.

"It is a symbol of the man"s abilities that in usually 4 weeks he had made his new territory in to a well encouraged and offset fighting unit."

L/Cpl Keogh, from Paddington, London, creatively assimilated the Army in 2003 and served until 2008, together with a debate in Iraq. He rejoined after a year"s mangle in 2009.

He leaves at the back of his parents, Lawrence and Marion Keogh, and dual brothers.

His relatives pronounced in a matter "Tom was the eldest son and we all desired and dignified him greatly. He desired the Army hold up and lived his hold up to the full. He brought delight and complacency to the home and all who knew him.

"Our family has been left ravaged by Tom"s comfortless death, but not a day will pass but us remembering the complacency and honour he gave us. We love you Tom."

Lt Col Rupert Jones, Commanding Officer, 4 Rifles, described L/Cpl Keogh as "one of the best".

"It is infrequently tantalizing to get carried afar in extolling the virtues of the fallen, but with Lance Corporal Tom Keogh there is no risk of flapping towards exaggeration," he said.

"He was utterly simply one of the really most appropriate soldiers in the corps and proves nonetheless again the unhappy proverb that it is the most appropriate that die young."

Major Richard Streatfeild, Officer Commanding, A Company, 4 Rifles, pronounced "He came with a clever reputation. When we chatted on his attainment he told me that he had rejoined the Army for this debate - to infantryman in Afghanistan, to infer himself. He has finished all of that in the short time he has been here."

Captain Tom Cairncross, Adjutant, 4 Rifles, combined "It is the irony of this dispute that the most appropriate regularly appear to tumble first, and Lance Corporal Keogh was the best. He stood out in an unusual platoon."

There have right away been a sum of 272 British troops fatalities in Afghanistan given the dispute began in 2001.

China could ease dollar currency peg says Dr Doom

By James Quinn, US Business Editor 804PM GMT 08 March 2010

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Prof Roubini well known as "Dr Doom" due to his desperate take on the tellurian mercantile opinion believes that the Chinese executive bank could let the yuan conclude as shortly as the second quarter.

The economist done his predictions forward of a matter at the week end by Zhou Xiaochuan, administrator of the People"s Bank of China, in that he pronounced China should be "very cautious" when creation a move.

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Governor Zhou cautioned that the "global liberation isn"t solid" and that thus China should take caring about the "timing of normalising the policies" together with the position on the yuan.

However, Prof Roubini believes that the Beijing supervision will authorize a 2pc enlarge opposite the dollar initially, followed by a serve 1pc-2pc strengthening over the subsequent twelve months.

"They will move by a token amount. The universe is most cloudier in each dimension. They are super cautious," Prof Roubini told Bloomberg News.

If Beijing were to concede the yuan to climb opposite the dollar, it would be the initial time given Jul 2008 that the Chinese banking that rose 21pc in the 3 years before to the hold being imposed has been authorised to benefit ground.

Such a move would additionally ease family with Washington, as President Barack Obama and Tim Geithner, the US Treasury Secretary, have both been vicious of Beijing"s position over the yuan.

The US supervision has argued that the stream incident creates an astray personification margin for China"s exports, keeping the cost of Chinese imports artificially low so as to undercut done at home suppliers.

Prof Roubini"s comments follow those of Jim O"Neill, Goldman Sachs" arch economist, who likely in Feb that "something"s brewing" in China over the yuan.

But not everybody is convinced. "Given Zhou"s counsel that echoed identical comments on the state of the liberation done by budding apportion Wen Jiabao on Friday it is tough to suppose any vital change in sell rate process function in entrance weeks," pronounced Mark Williams, of Capital Economics.

"In particular, the chances of an approaching one-off step revaluation, as a little had thought likely, are certainly really low," combined Mr Williams, who believes that when a change does come, it will be to a "crawling peg" with a possibility the dollar will be transposed by a basket of currencies as the target.

Dalhousie Castle and Spa, Edinburgh: hotel review

By Anne Jepson Published: 4:04PM GMT 08 March 2010

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The captivate of Midlothian

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Midlothian tends to get lost as visitors head true to Edinburgh or over north. It was once customarily well known for mining and the vestiges sojourn the Innocent Railway (now a renouned cycle track from Edinburgh) and glorious The Scottish Mining Museum. The county"s hotels yield a great bottom for exploring the Borders and Edinburgh itself, nonetheless majority of the internal towns, in truth, have small to suggest them to majority visitors. Access is easy by car or from Edinburgh airport.

HISTORIC HOUSE

DALHOUSIE CASTLE AND SPA

LOCATION Five mins from the city bypass on the banks of the Esk in endless wooded parkland.

CHARACTER Has a 700-year story that is entirely reflected in the courteous dcor and supportive restoration. It successfully mixes baronial splendour, the architectural quirks of the former owners and a genuine clarity of privacy and relaxation. Notable guest embody Queen Victoria, Walter Scott and Edward I, who stayed prior to defeating William Wallace.

ROOMS All fourteen bedrooms are themed according to assorted people compared with the castle. They range from classical to heavily draped tartan and unprotected stonework. Even Cromwell, who besieged the place for 6 months, is celebrated with a themed room that contains a stout ash bed and less magnificent dcor.

FOOD The barrel-vaulted Dungeon Restaurant serves Scottish food venison, diversion and salmon sourced locally where possible; the Orangery, a large conservatory, is less grave and has a some-more � la mode menu.

WE LIKE The sauna and the actuality the road house is undiluted if you usually have a short time but are seeking to experience the city as well as something of the hold up of the laird.

NOT SO KEEN The absolute smell of a as if Gothic drainage complement a proxy corrupt that raid the Dungeon Restaurant, or an inevitable facet of palace living? Either way, it did rather blotch the dining experience.

ESSENTIALS 01875 820153; dalhousiecastle.co.uk Double b & b from �100.

World Indoor Athletics 2010: Phillips Idowus withdrawal hits British medal chances

By Simon Hart Published: 6:52PM GMT 08 Mar 2010

Home boy: Phillips Idowu will not transport to Doha following the new bieing born of his son Photo: GETTY IMAGES

The 31 year-old, who won the universe indoor climax in Valencia dual years ago and combined the outside pretension in Berlin last summer, pronounced the new bieing born of his second kid had interrupted his preparations for the championships and he no longer felt equates to to do himself justice.

"I am gutted not to be representing the GB group in Doha and flitting up the eventuality to urge my title," he said.

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"However, the late attainment of my baby child has meant that my precision has been exceedingly disrupted and I motionless after articulate with my manager that I"d not had the credentials we concluded was indispensable to do the British group proud.

"I was anticipating to equivocate this by competing in a incomparable than common series of events early in the season, but it hasn"t worked out that way.

"Instead I will enlarge the precision with a concentration on the European Championships in Barcelona. I instruct the group the majority appropriate of fitness in Doha."

Idowu"s duel with Sweden"s Christian Olsson had been one of the majority energetically awaited clashes of the three-day championships, that proceed on Friday, and his deficiency equates to Britain will be but one of their majority appropriate gold-medal prospects.

The country"s main hopes will right away rest with Jessica Ennis in the pentathlon, Dwain Chambers in the 60 metres and Jenny Meadows in the 800m.

Charles outpost Commenee, UK Athletics" head coach, said: "I am unhappy that Phillips is not competing this week as he was a transparent award prospect.

"However, I need to apply oneself his preference and I see brazen to him resuming winning ways in the summer."

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