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WEARING traditional kilts and bonnets, thousands of Scotland football fans descended on Lon-dons Trafalgar Square August 14 before their homelands first game in 14 years against neighbor and fierce rival England.

The match at Wembley Stadium came 13 months before Scotland stages a refer-endum on whether to break away from the United Kingdom after more than 300 years of political union with England.

Pro-independence Yes signs were soon plastered onto lion statues in the shadow of Nelsons Column and Scot-lands blue-and-white Saltire flag covered walls just a few hundred meters yards from Prime Minister David Camerons Down-ing Street office.

Police officers kept their distance at the edges of the square, allowing fans to down beer and climb into fountains, with bagpipes setting the tone for a party

JUST LIKE THE AULD DAYS

Scotland Footy Fans Invade London Again

atmosphere in the sun.Around 25,000 fans are estimated to

have made the journey south for the 111th match against the Auld Enemy since the two countries first official meeting on the soccer field in 1872.

SCRAPInternational soccers oldest rivals

were forced to scrap their annual friendly matches in 1989 because of hooliganism. They previously had been called off only during the World Wars.

The three matches between the cross-border rivals since then have taken place because they were drawn to face each other in official competitions. The last was in 1999.

The English Football Association said a considerable amount of intelligence-led work has been carried out with police to prepare for the influx of fans from north of the border. Scottish police sent special-ized hooligan spotters to London to work alongside the local force.

For many Scotland players and fans, the chance to face England was a high point for a national team currently ranked 50th by FIFA that has never won a major tournament and hasnt qualified for the World Cup since 1998.

QUALIFYIts more populous neighbor, though, is

ranked 14th and on course to qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

But Scottish sporting spirits were boost-ed after the country produced Britains first mens Wimbledon champion since 1936, with Andy Murray winning the Grand Slam in July at the All England Club.

He has certainly given us a huge spur, said 67-year-old Roscoe Hendrie, who was wearing a Scotland shirt and kilt. Hope-fully we have got the spirit of Andy Murray and that lad will encourage everyone to do their best in tennis and everything else.

The hard-fought game finished with a 3-2 England win.

By Jill Lawless

JEWELRY, pieces of ships, medieval ice skates, centu-ries-old skulls some fas-cinating pieces of Londons history arent in museums, but underground.

More often than not, they stay there, but work on a new railway line under the British capital is bringing centuries of that buried history to light.

The 73-mile Crossrail line is Britains biggest construction project and the largest archaeological dig in London for decades. In the citys busy business core, archae-ologists have struck pay dirt, uncovering everything from a chunk of Roman road to dozens of 2,000-year-old horseshoes, some golden 16th-century bling and the bones of long-dead Londoners.

One afternoon last month, archaeolo-gists were unearthing newly discovered bones in a pit beside Liverpool Street rail and subway station, while living city-dwellers scuttled by, oblivious, a few feet away. The remains belong to a few of the 20,000 people interred in a burial ground established in the 16th century.

Everyones been running around in Liverpool Street for years and not thinking that theyve been walking around on bod-ies from one of the densest burial grounds in London, said Nick Elsden, a Museum of London archaeologist helping to oversee excavations that go along with the work on the Crossrail line.

DEEPThe 2,000-year history of London goes

deep 16 to 20 feet deep, the distance between todays street level and sidewalks in Roman times. Crossrail is providing archaeologists with a chance to dig down through those centuries and even beyond, to prehistoric times.

This site is a rare, perhaps unprec-edented opportunity, Elsden said as he watched museum staff gently brush dirt

CONSTRUCTION of platform tunne ls at Whi techape l Station, just a small portion of the Crossrail project due to be completed in 2018Photo: Crossrail

from newly found bones and a skull in a hole that will soon house a maintenance shaft. This is a major roadway outside one of Londons busiest railway stations. You dont get to dig that up normally.

The 14.8bn railway, due to open in 2018, will run across London from west to east, with a central 13 mile section underground. That has meant tunneling

beneath some of the citys oldest, most densely populated sections.

Alongside tunneling work advancing by 330 feet a week and due to be finished next year more than 100 archaeologists have been involved in excavations at 40 sites over the past four years.

Theyve found everything from rein-deer, bison and mammoth bones dating back 68,000 years to the remains of a moated Tudor manor house, medieval ice skates, an 800-year old piece of a ship and the foundations of an 18th-century shipyard.

Earlier this year, the dig unearthed skeletons belonging to victims of the Black Death, the plague that wiped out half of Londons population in 1348.

NOMADICThe latest discoveries include pieces of

flint, some shaped into tiny blades, from a 9,000-year-old tool-making factory be-side the Thames in what is now southeast London. Its evidence the area was being resettled after the last Ice Age by nomadic hunter-gatherers.

At Liverpool Street, recent finds include a 16th-century Venetian gold coin with a small hole that suggests it was an early sequin, worn as decoration on the clothes of a wealthy person who probably lost it. It was found in a rubbish deposit.

Elsden and his team are especially excited to have uncovered the remains of

Work On New Railway Line Digs Up London History

PROSECUTORS formally levied drug-trafficking charges last month against two young women from Scotland and Ireland who were arrested last month trying to depart Peru with 24lbs of cocaine in their luggage.

The prosecutors office in Callao, the city abutting Lima where its airport is located, also said in a statement that Michaella McCollum Connolly, 20, and Melissa Reid, 19, face a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison if convicted.

Their lawyers claim they were coerced into carrying the drugs by criminals who threatened them and their families and had them followed to Peru to ensure they collected the cocaine.

A Peruvian police official says both women insisted on their innocence dur-ing questioning. He spoke on condition of anonymity.

The two young women spent much of their court day in medical checks and preprocessing ahead of an expected transfer to prison to await trial.

Since their August 6 arrest at Limas airport as they tried to board a flight for Madrid, the womens plight has received blanket coverage by British tabloids. The reports have featured photos of both young women in swimsuits, and partying in Ibiza.

Small-time smugglers who plead guilty in Peru usually receive six-year prison sentences and, with good behav-ior, can be out in two years.

Perus penal authority says 1,648 foreigners are currently in its prison on drug-trafficking charges, 31 of them British citizens.

R Play About Bradley Manning Wins Drama PrizeA PLAY about WikiLeaks source Brad-ley Manning has won a drama award in Britain.

The Radicalization of Bradley Man-ning was named winner of a James Tait Black Memorial Prize last month.

The play by Tim Price focuses on Mannings teenage years in Wales, where he lived with his British mother, and his transformation into a troubled US soldier who leaked troves of con-fidential documents to the anti-secrecy organization.

James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are Britains oldest literary awards, and have introduced a drama category for the first time. It comes with a 10,000 check.

R Italian Mafia Suspect Arrested In BritainPOLICE say they have arrested a convicted Mafia boss who has been sought by Italian authorities for almost 20 years.

Londons Metropolitan Police force says 64-year-old Domenico Rancadore was detained last month on a European arrest warrant. He was due to appear at a London court for an extradition hearing.

Police say Rancadore is wanted in Italy to serve an outstanding seven-year sentence for participation in Mafia association in Sicily between 1987 and 1995. He went on the run in 1994 and was later convicted in his absence in Italy.

Italys Interior Ministry said that Rancadore was chief of the Sicilian Mafia, or Cosa Nostra, in Trabia, Sicily, in the 1990s.

It said he had been running a travel agency while living in London.

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LIVING in the seaside town of Bridlington has always been a delight to Penny Freeman; that was until she was faced with aerial at-tacks by a flock of seagulls every time she left her home.

Freeman, 69, described her terror to the Sun saying: It was terrifying. I couldnt leave the house and I felt like a prisoner. The birds were very threatening theyre like lizards.

She was left facing the consequences after beginning to put food out in the garden for small birds, but, living on the coast of East Yorkshire, she was soon swamped by a large colony of ravenous seagulls.

The problem then escalated when one of the eggs fell from the nest and the adults constantly guarded it.

Canned 12-Course Meal Described As Culinary DelightA DESIGNER has created a 12-course meal that comes in a single can.

The All In One was created by Chris Godfrey at Kingston University in London, is described as giving everyone a chance to eat like royalty.

For those who doubt, this is what the All In One can contains:

A selection of local cheeses with sour-dough bread; Pickled Kobe beef with charred strawberry;

Ricotta ravioli with a soft egg yolk; Shitake mushroom topped with filled peppers;

Halibut poached in truffle butter in a coco-nut crepe; Risotto foraged ramps, prosciutto and fresh parmesan; French onion soup with fresh thyme and gruyere cheese;

Roast pork belly and celeriac root puree; Palate cleanser, pear ginger juice;

Rib eye steak with grilled mustard greens; Crack pie with milk ice cream on a vanilla tuile; French canele with a malt barley and hazelnut latte.

Godfrey added on his blog: Contempo-rary culture means on every trip into town; youre bombarded with gimmicks galore. Gimmicks often diminish their products to turn a profit; downgrading on the content but selling you something thats 50 per cent more.

The All in One 12-course meal offers the average Joe; the chance to dine like royalty without the washing up.

Though many have cast serious doubts that any visiting dignitaries would be served this canned nosh at Buckingham Palace.

Dangerous Needles Cited In Knitting Group Ban

NO LONGER will a knitting club be meeting at the local library due to them causing danger and noise.

The Knit n Natter group used to meet at a library in Cramlington, Northumberland every week, where they produced anatomical parts for trainee midwives.

But, after three years of their productive work Northumberland County Council have banned the ladies from the building, because it is too small to accommodate the group, sometimes between 20 and 30 members. Yet, the welcome mat is still out for them if they split into smaller groups.

One confused member told the BBC: Weve been told different stories and differ-ent complaints and I dont now know what to believe. Weve been told knitting needles are

dangerous instruments and against health and safety policy. Weve also been told that its because we are too noisy.

She added: Its just so sad, we cant afford to hire a room.

The knitting group has made thousands of pieces of clothing for ill babies since they started. They have also knitted around 1,500 pairs of breasts and knitted wombs for midwives on training courses.

Wayne Daley, Tory councillor for Cram-lington North, described the decision as barmy.

He said it was unbelievable the council would penalise a group trying to help the NHS by throwing them out of what is supposed to be a community library.

Getting Hundreds Of Dogs To Stay, Fails In World Record Attempt

AN ATTEMPT at getting a huge number of dogs to sit still at one time in one place went to the dogs last month, when 34 dogs wandered.

The attempt to beat the world record saw The Kennel Club gather 635 dogs to take part in the challenge, which required the animals to sit or lie still for two minutes.

The animals were lined up alongside their owners for the challenge at Rockingham Castle in Market Harborough, Leicestershire.

But the effort ended in failure after 34 animals were disqualified by independent adjudicators, meaning only 601 managed the feat.

The current record stands at 627, set by the RSPCA at Windsor Great Park in 2005, reported the Daily Telegraph.

A spokesman for the Kennel Club said: Some dogs did seem to find it a bit too distracting. A few of them were a little too busy wandering around or sniffing the other animals.

Organisers say they will try again next year.

Marmite Rescue Telly Ad Causer Uproar, 250 ComplaintsA MARMITE advertisement on television has upset some people, who say it is deeply offensive.

The ad, a parody of the work of animal welfare officers, drew hundreds of com-plaints last month.

The prime time ad first aired during Coro-nation Street, and spoofed on officers recov-ering neglected jars of Marmite that had been stored in the back of food cupboards.

Over 250 complaints about the ad were received by The Advertising Standards Authority. An ASA spokesman said some people felt the ad was deeply offensive because it trivialised the work of both animal welfare charities and child protection agencies. The ASA is currently logging and assessing the complaints but has made no decision on whether it will investigate the ad.

A Unilever spokeswoman said: This is the first time Marmite has been on television for two years and we have made every ef-fort to ensure that it entertains anyone who watches it.

An RSPCA spokeswoman commented: We understand that animal lovers are concerned on our behalf people either love the advert or hate it. We plan to talk to the makers of Marmite about how we can work together on animal welfare.Marmite Video online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHjssdNNzP0

Mascot Loses Job After 20 Years Not Fat Enough

BRADFORD CITY football club fired their mascot last month for not being fat enough.

Lenny Berry, who has played the bowler hat-wearing mascot for almost 20 years, refused an offer to wear a padded suit, reported the Bradford Telegraph and Argus.

Bosses at the League One club said his appearance no longer matched the original concept after he lost seven stones after contracting diabetes.

Club director Roger Owen confirmed the issue of club mascots had been discussed during a board meeting at the end of last season and it had agreed action needed to be taken.

In the case of The City Gent, the main issue was his physical appearance, which was much changed from the original con-cept of the then-chairman, the late Stafford Heginbotham, who styled the City Gent on himself, he said.

Berry, 59, said: Im am absolutely gut-ted. I am a grown man and this is something I have cried over.

I dont want the club getting hurt, I love the club. If you cut me open Id be claret and amber.

It was thought Berry had been diagnosed with diabetes in 2006 which prompted him to lose weight afterwards. However the lifelong Bradford fan is not bitter, and will still attend their matches.

PC Becomes UnPC When Programmed To Tell Jokes

SCIENTISTS at Edinburgh University have de-veloped a computer that writes sexist jokes.

The software was initially designed to generate its own witty one-liners by finding unlikely pairings of words and making a connection between them.

However, unpredictably, and like us regu-lar humans, the computerised comedian has developed a politically incorrect approach to humour, reported the Daily Telegraph.

The computers brain has compared men or women with another object, such as: I like my women like I like my gas natural and I like my men like I like my acorns buried. While others, such as I like my men like I like my court superior lacked the human touch.

David Matthews, a computer scientist who helped develop the computerised co-median, said it did make people laugh, but not as much as the real thing.

He said: Computers have an advantage over people in that they can process masses of information, so we fed computers a wealth of material from which they extracted creative and unusual word combinations to fit our joke template.

Scouse Triple-Layer Burger Dislocates Womans Jaw

IN ATTEMPTING to munch down on a triple-layer beefburger in Liverpool a woman dislocated her jaw last month.

Nicola Peate, 25, suffered the injury trying

to devour a Kids in America burger from the Almost Famous restaurant.

Peate has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a medical condition whereby her joints are hyper-flexible, unstable, and prone to dislo-cation. She told the Press Association: I tried to eat it with a knife and fork and couldnt. I couldnt open my mouth fully.

It felt like I had cramp in my tongue, then I started to get an ear ache and a headache. The next morning I woke up and felt really, really ill. The whole side of my head was hurting.

She had her jaw put back into place by medics at Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

Toilets And Flushing Stopped By Fatberg In London Drains

REPAIRS HAVE started after Britains biggest ever fatberg the size of a double-decker bus was removed from a London sewer.

The 15-tonne mass of festering food fat mixed with wet wipes and sanitary products threatened to send raw sewage spurting onto the leafy streets of Kingston upon Thames.

Gordon Hailwood, waste contracts super-visor for Thames Water, said: Weve never seen a single, congealed lump of lard this big clogging our sewers before He added: The sewer was almost completely clogged with over 15 tonnes of fat, said Hailwood.

If we hadnt discovered it in time, raw sewage could have started spurting out of manholes across the whole of Kingston.

It was so big it damaged the sewer and repairs will take up to six weeks.

It took workmen 10 nights of work, using an extremely high-pressure jet hose to blast away the massive blockage.

The repairs on 20 metres of damaged pipe affected by the fatberg were expected to take six weeks.

Meanwhile water bosses want the public to change their ways to help avoid another gigantic fat blob forming under Londons streets. Advice to the general public includes, sanitary items and wet wipes which do not break down like toilet paper and the mes-sage is: Bin it dont block it.

Jolly Rocker Queue At Legoland, Became Jolly

Punch Up For ParentsA WONDERFUL day out at Legoland was ruined for many when a massive brawl broke out in the queue for the Jolly Rocker ride last month.

The fight, amongst parents, involved 10 people, and one man even brandished a metal pole as a weapon, as horrified children witnessed the brawl at the theme park in Windsor, Berkshire.

The ride had to be closed for 20 minutes as a result of the fracas.

Police were called and two men, aged 29 and 30, were held on suspicion of a public order offence. They were both given a fixed penalty notice.

It was vicious, one witness told The Sun. All hell broke loose. It was frightening for in-nocent adults forced to watch, not to mention the kids. There were quite long queues so I dont know if that is what made things boil over. You dont expect to see things like this at Legoland. My 10-year-old said that hes never going back there again. Hes never seen this kind of violence before.

The troublemakers and their families were

banned by Legoland for life.

Legal Tussle Erupts Over Bones Of Richard III

HES BEEN deposed, reviled, buried and dug up, and now a new battle looms over Englands King Richard III.

A British High Court judge last month granted a group of Richards relatives permission to challenge plans to rebury the 15th-century monarch in the city of Leices-ter, where his remains were found last year.

Judge Charles Haddon-Cave said the Plantagenet Alliance could take action against the government and the University of Leicester though he hoped the opposing sides would settle out of court.

The government has given Leicester Cathedral permission to rebury the king, but the relatives want him buried in the northern England city of York, claiming it was Rich-ards wish.

Richard was killed in battle in 1485. His skeleton was found under a Leicester parking lot.

Cat DNA Database Helps Convict Killer

BRITISH academics say a newly created DNA database of British cats has helped convict a killer, illustrating how even pets genetic material can be a boon to forensic scientists.

The University of Leicester says its catalogue of 152 felines DNA buttressed the prosecution case against David Hilder, who was convicted of manslaughter last month at a court in Winchester.

Hilder killed and dismembered his neigh-bor, David Guy, in an English resort town last year, dumping his torso on a nearby beach, where it was discovered by students.

Cat hairs found on the torso matched Hilders pet, Tinker. Academics said last month that they created the DNA database in an effort to show how accurate the match was.

Lawmakers Told Not To Rub Dignitary Statues Toes

PARLIAMENTARY officials in Britain want lawmakers to keep their hands off Margaret Thatchers toes.

Authorities are considering roping off statues of former prime ministers, including Thatcher and Winston Churchill, because they are suffering wear and tear from legisla-tors rubbing their toes for luck.

Members of Parliament traditionally touch the statues in the House of Commons lobby before entering the chamber.

Deputy House of Commons curator Melanie Unwin told Parliaments Works of Art Committee that statues of Thatcher, Churchill, Clement Attlee and David Lloyd George are seriously under threat due to the tradition of touching the toes of the statues for good luck.

The committee agreed that Do not touch signs should be put up, and is considering installing barriers around the statues.

A BRITISH lawmaker was among more than two dozen people arrested last month at a protest against shale gas extraction in southern England.

Caroline Lucas, Britains only Green Party member in Parliament, was led away by police from a sit-in at the gates of a drilling site near the village of Balcombe and put in a po-lice van. Sussex Police said about 25 protesters were arrested for offenses including assault and obstruction of the highway.

Lucas said she and the other dem-onstrators took peaceful non-violent direct action only after exhausting ev-ery other means of protest available.

Along with everyone else who took action today, Im trying to stop a process which could cause enor-mous damage for decades to come, Lucas said. The evidence is clear

that fracking undermines ef-forts to tackle the climate cri-sis and poses potential risks to the local en-vironment.

T h e C u a -drilla Resourc-es Ltd site, 30

miles south of London, has been targeted by demonstrators opposing the process known as fracking.

The company says its operation at Balcombe involves exploratory drilling for oil and wont include fracking, though it hasnt ruled it out in future.

Cuadrilla suspended work at the site as protesters gathered for a six-day protest camp.

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London Underground says that any changes will be discussed with staff first. TSSA leader Manuel Cortez accused Mayor Boris Johnson of reneging on his 2008 elec-tion promise to retain a manned ticket office at every tube station.

He said: We have a deal with Transport for London which clearly rules out compul-sory redundancies. If he tears that up, all bets are off.

Rail expert and Labours prospective may-oral candidate Christian Wolmar described the plan as impractical.

You have to have some kind of ticket-selling facility because you get occasional users and you have to cope with them, he said. I just dont think that its feasible. Every station has to be staffed while its open, for safety reasons, and you wouldnt save much money.

London Underground managing director Mike Brown said: In recent years we have successfully reduced costs and at the same time improved services. The Tube is carrying more passengers more safely and reliably than ever before. Any changes we propose to the way we staff our services will be discussed with our staff first.Living The High Life

A 44-storey residential tower planned for Elephant and Castle will be the countrys largest private rental building, the Mayors office said.

The tower, on the Newington Butts site owned by the Greater London Authority, will stand 482ft tall and cost 100m. Of its 462 homes, 188 have been earmarked as affordable.

Developer Mace Essential Living is due to start work next year and complete in 2016. The GLA claims it will be the first residential scheme to have institutional backers.Women Dominate Booker Longlist

Seven women are on the 13-strong Man Booker longlist this year. These include a debut novel by London author Eve Harris, 34, who drew inspiration from teaching in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish school. She joins established writers led by Jim Crace and Colm Toibin on the list with her novel The Marrying of Chani Kaufman.

Also on the list is NoViolet Bulawayo, 31, a Zimbabwe-born writer also nominated for her first book, We Need New Names, about life in a Zimbabwe shanty.

The youngest contender is Eleanor Catton, 27, a New Zealander, with The Luminaries, an astrological murder mystery.

Robert Macfarlane, Chairman of judges, said the long list had to be the most diverse in the history of the prize. These 13 out-standing novels range from the traditional to the experimental, from the first century AD to the present day, from 100 pages to 1,000 and from Shanghai to Hendon, Mr

Macfarlane said.A shortlist will be announced in Septem-

ber and the winner of the 50,000 prize on October 15.Up Up And Away, Away, Away

Heathrow chiefs pushing for a third runway were given a boost last month when three airline alliances publicly backed staying at the airport.

Their stance strengthens Heathrows case for expansion as opposed to another runway at Gatwick, Stansted or the four-runway su-perhub in the Thames Estuary championed by Mayor Boris Johnson.

But Heathrow Chief Executive, Colin Mat-thews, later admitted that plans for expansion there could still be scuppered by the Liberal Democrats if there is another Coalition gov-ernment after 2015 or the Conservatives can-not be won over to support at least one more runway. I dont think anything will happen as long as its party-politically divisive, he said. But he added, I think we have the best case economically.

British Airways, which heads the One-world alliance, has said it wants to remain at Heathrow. Star, which includes Germanys Lufthansa, United Airlines of the US and Singapore Airlines, is due to move into the new Terminal 2 next year. SkyTeam, which includes Air France-KLM, Americas Delta Airlines and China Eastern, also emphasised its support for Heathrow and said relocating is not an option.

Pop Up Start-UpsFrom stylish dog accessories to reflective

tweed, Londons start-up businesses are being given the chance to showcase their products at the heart of the West End as part of a new initiative launched last month.

For six weeks, 60 small businesses will take turns in a shop on Piccadilly. The shop, run by PopUp Britain, is in the new 100m St Jamess Gateway.

The scheme, supported by John Lewis, aims to boost businesses that could become high street names in the future. The theme for the first week is Made in Britain, with 10 businesses that all produce their goods in the UK. They include online business Bone & Rag, founded two years ago by Jeremy Cooper and Alex Sullivan to make dog accessories.

Also taking part is Guy Hills Dashing Tweeds, which makes urban tweed which reflects in light. He said: We hope to start our own shop in Mayfair next year so this is a great opportunity.

Annabel Goes To The MoviesThe Director of Hollywood blockbusters,

including Alien, Blade Runner and Gladiator, has been given unprecedented access to the elite London club Annabels to make a documentary to mark its 50th anniversary.

ITS NOT THE TICKETLONDON UNDERGROUND plans to close every one of its ticket offices and to axe 6,000 jobs.

According to rail union TSSA and the Labour party, Tube bosses are considering the move, affecting 268 ticket offices, which will be replaced with about 20 travel centres at major stations such as Kings Cross and Waterloo.

British-born Sir Ridley Scott approached the owners of Annabels so exclusive that it is the only nightclub the Queen has ever visited this year, and filming has already begun.

His team has free rein at the discreet Mayfair venue where celebrity members and guests have ranged from Joan Collins, Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Prince Charles, Frank Sinatra to Kate Moss, Penelope Cruz and Hugh Grant.

Film-makers at the production company RSA Films are interviewing members and veteran staff about the rich tapestry of life at the Berkeley Square institution. The celebra-tory hour-long documentary is expected to be shown initially to members in the autumn and then given a wider public release.

Annabels was founded by the late en-trepreneur Mark Birley in 1963. He named the venue after his then wife Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart. The Birleys divorced in 1975 and Lady Annabel married Sir James Goldsmith. Birley sold Annabels in 2007 to Richard Caring, owner of The Ivy, Scotts and Le Caprice restaurants, in a 90m deal.House Prices Rocket By 8 Percent In A Year

London House prices have soared by 8.1 percent in a year to record highs, official figures revealed last month.

The increase pushed the average cost of a home in June to 425,000. It was the biggest jump for two and a half years and sparked a warning of a very real risk of a property bubble in London. But as property prices rose across England, the Government said the housing market had turned a corner by showing renewed confidence.

London is racing ahead of other regions, with the West Midlands seeing the second biggest rise at 3.1 percent, followed by the South East at 2.9 percent.

Howard Archer, chief UK economist at IHS Global Insight said: The increase is already becoming a matter of some concern and they could rise even more because of the shortage of homes for sale. While many homeowners will welcome the value of their property rising, the increases mean a growing number of Londoners are unable to buy their first home.

Boris Johnson rejected the criticism, stressing that billions were being invested to increase the housing supply in London. A spokesman for the Mayor said: Having built a record number of affordable homes already, the Mayor remains on track to deliver 100,000 affordable homes over two terms.

Communities Secretary, Eric Pickles, hailed figures showing 10,000 reservations for new-build homes under the Help-To-Buy equity loan scheme as showing the Govern-ment was creating a sustainable boost in UK housing.Top Of The Tots

Harry and Amelia were the most popular baby names in 2012 for the second year in a row.

They retained their 2011 top spots while old-fashioned favourites including Arthur and Elsie saw big rises in the names tables

collated by the Office for National Statistics.There was relatively little movement in the

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Riley made it into the top boys names for the first time, while Joshua fell to number 11, and Mia and Isla replaced Ruby and Grace in the top 10 girls names.

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Work On New Railway Line Digs Up London History

a Roman road, studded with 2,000-year-old horseshoes more precisely equine sandals, made of metal and fastened to the hooves with leather straps.

So many have been found that re-searchers suspect this must then, as now, have been a busy transit area, with horses bringing produce from the countryside to residents of what was then known as Londiniun.

Roman horseshoes, stuck in a rut of the Roman road youve got this unique little snapshot, Elsden said. You can see a Roman pulling his cart across the bridge. Thats a rare little glimpse into ordinary Roman life.

BEDLAMSome of the archaeologists most

delicate work involves remains from the Bedlam burial ground, established in the 16th century underneath what is now Liv-erpool Street as the citys medieval church graveyards filled up.

Thousands of Londoners were buried there over 150 years, from paupers to religious nonconformists to patients at the adjacent Bedlam Hospital, the worlds first psychiatric asylum. Its name, a cor-ruption of Bethlehem, became a synonym for chaos.

Jay Carver, Crossrails lead archaeolo-gist, says the project will mean disinterring the remains of about 4,000 people.

Workers will treat the remains with delicacy and respect, practices not always followed in the past.

The recently discovered Roman road is made of rammed earth, clay, wood and surprisingly human bones, washed by a river from a nearby cemetery and incor-porated into the building material.

SUPERSTITIOUSWe tend to think in the past they were

superstitious about bodies, but no, Elsden said. Bits of bodies are washing around

out of cemeteries theyre not that wor-ried about it.

Centuries later, gravestones from the Bedlam cemetery were used as foundations of later buildings, and the soil has yielded pieces of bone, antler, tortoiseshell and ivory leftovers from local craft work-shops dumped over the cemetery wall in the 17th century.

The newly excavated human remains

THE GOVERNING Conservative Party have hired Jim Messina, President Barack Obamas former campaign manager, to advise them ahead of the 2015 general election.

Messina was Obamas national chief of staff for the 2008 presidential campaign and the presidents campaign manager in 2012. His organizational flair and social media strategy have been credited for help-ing secure Obamas re-election.

Messina is now chairman of a nonprofit called Organizing for Action and head of consulting firm The Messina Group.

Messina said last month that he had long admired Prime Minister (David) Cameron and would be offering the Con-servatives strategic campaign advice. He said he would remain based in the United States and would not manage day-to-day political operations.

The Conservatives currently govern in coalition with the Liberal Democrats, but hope to win a parliamentary majority in 2015. Their challenge is to gain re-election at a time when Britains economy is only

Conservative Party Hire Obama Campaign Strategist

weakly recovering from the recession trig-gered by the 2008 global financial crisis.

Under Cameron, the party combines conservative economic policies such as privatization and spending cuts, with a liberal stance on issues like same-sex marriage, which Britain recently legalized.

The BBC reported that Messina will advise Conservative chiefs and the partys campaign strategist, Lynton Crosby. Since hiring Crosby a veteran Australian po-litical operator nicknamed the Wizard of Oz in November, the Conservatives have appeared to take a tough stance on issues such as immigration in order to win support away from rivals on the right.

This is not the first time the Conserva-tives have turned to US Democrats for ad-vice. Cameron hired Obama adviser Anita Dunne to help him prepare for televised debates during the 2010 election

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Archaeologists working on the Crossrail project have discovered a historical burial ground in an area of London that opened in 1348. Up to 50,000 victims of the Black Death plague may have been buried in the hastily established cemetery.

will be studied for clues to diet and disease before being reinterred elsewhere.

Most of them will, of necessity, be re-buried anonymously. But Carver holds out hope that research may be able to identify some individuals. The Bedlam graveyard is known to contain the remains of sev-eral prominent people, including Robert Lockyer, a member of an egalitarian 17th-century political movement known as the Levelers.

Lockyer was executed by firing squad at St Pauls Cathedral after leading an army mutiny in 1649 before being buried at Bedlam.

If you find someone whos been executed with a musket, thats going to leave some kind of damage, Carver said. It would be quite exciting if we could identify someone in that way.

The team found a silver Roman Denarius which would have been in use across Europe at the time.

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THE MOTHER and stepfather of a four-year-old boy who was starved and beaten to death were sentenced last month in Britain to a minimum of 30 years in prison for his murder.

Magdelena Luczak and Mariusz Krezolek were convicted this week of murdering Daniel Pelka, who was abused and tortured in the months before his death.

The case has horrified Britain and raised questions of why teachers at Daniels school in Coventry who had seen his bruises and increasingly emaciated frame did not intervene.

Judge Laura Cox said the sentences reflected the couples unimaginable acts of cruelty and brutality and callous dis-regard for Daniels suffering.

Luczak and Krezolek, who are both from Poland, had blamed each other for Daniels death in March 2012, after the boy had been beaten and left to die in an unheated cell-like room.

The judge noted that the pair had con-structed elaborate lies such as telling school administrators not to feed Daniel because he suffered from an eating disor-der to shield their campaign of cruelty.

EVILDeputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has

described Daniels killing as evil and said: His death should be on all of our consciences.

Over a nine-week trial, Birmingham Crown Court heard that Daniel appeared healthy when he started school in Septem-ber 2011. Over the months that followed, he was subjected to deliberate, escalating brutality.

He was forced to swallow salt, held under cold water until he lost conscious-ness and subjected to regular beatings. Daniel was locked in a room where the door handle had been removed and key-hole blocked.

The small hand and finger marks on the inside of that door provided a poignant image of his desperate attempts to escape, the judge noted in sentencing.

His starvation was systematic and chronic, to the point that his bones ceased to grow. In testimony, experts likened his appearance to that of a concentration camp survivor.

FATALThe judge said that after Daniel was

dealt what would be the fatal blow, the couple went about their lives, hoping that he would regain consciousness and did not take him to the hospital.

Over the nine weeks of acutely dis-tressing evidence, I have not observed a single sign of genuine remorse at any stage from either of you, the judge said. Both of you are in breach of what is probably the most important position of trust, as the parents of a small child who was entitled to their protection, their love and their care.

Local lawmaker Geoffrey Robinson said Daniel had been badly let down not just by his mother and stepfather but by his school, health professionals and social services.

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IMMIGRATIONBy Stephen Ure

GREAT NEWS for same-sex couples who are in bi-national relationships. Same-sex couples are not eligible for an array of immigration ben-efits that were previously limited to opposite-sex couples. US citizen or lawful permanent residents (green card holders) can now spon-sor their same-sex foreign national spouse for a family based immigrant visa (green card). On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)s definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman as unconstitutional. Under DOMA, federal agencies such as the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) were required to define marriage as between a man and woman, preventing same-sex couples from being eligible for hundreds of federal benefits that were avail-able to opposite-sex couples. Now, same-sex couples will be able to access such benefits, including immigration benefits. USCIS has announced on its website that in all cases where the eligibility of an immigration benefit depends on the existence of a marriage or on ones status as a spouse, a same-sex marriage will be treated exactly the same as an opposite-sex marriage. The immigration benefits for spouses include sponsoring a spouse for a green card, sponsoring stepchil-dren, derivative visas for spouses of holders of nonimmigrant visas like H-1B, F, E or L visas, derivative status for immigrant visas, hardship waivers, Violence Against Women Act petitions, K (fianc) visas, and following to join benefits, among others.

For US citizen or lawful permanent residents who wish to sponsor their spouse for an im-migrant visa (green card), one key will be the legal validity of the marriage. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has clarified that, with limited exceptions, as a general matter, USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) looks to the law of the place where the marriage took place when determining whether it is valid for immigration purposes. The Board of Immigration Appeals has also decided that the validity of a marriage is based on where it was celebrated. So it appears that as long as a couple was legally married in a place where same-sex marriages are recognized and valid they can apply for immigration benefits, even in cases where the

couple lives in a state that doesnt recognize marriage equality. In fact, since the Supreme Court struck down DOMA, USCIS has already started approving family based petitions for same-sex couples.

In addition to proving that a marriage is legally valid, same-sex couples must still prove that their marriage is bona fide (a real marriage, not for immigration purposes) just like opposite-sex couples. Proof of a bona fide marriage can include documentation such as a marriage certificate, photos of the wedding/honeymoon, photos of joint life, joint ownership of property, joint lease, joint tax returns, joint bank accounts, joint children, and affidavits from friends and family verifying the marriage.

For a US citizen or legal permanent resident to sponsor their spouse for a green card, they must first file an I-130 Petition for Alien Rela-tive with a USCIS together with proof of valid marriage and proof of his or her status as a citizen/permanent resident. Proof of financial responsibility for the foreign national spouse is also needed. If a foreign national spouse is already in the US, they may be able to file to adjust their status. Adjustment of status is the process in which a foreign national can gain permanent resident status (green card) without leaving the US and returning to their home country. The adjustment of status ap-plication can be filed along with the I-130. If a spouse is not in the US, they will likely need to get an immigrant visa through the consul-ate of their home country. The process and timeframe for sponsoring a foreign national spouse varies greatly depending on certain factors such as where the spouses live and whether or not the sponsor is a US citizen or green card holder. There are also other factors that can affect the successful sponsorship of a spouse including past overstay, illegal entry, finances, or criminal records, among others. Please consult with an immigration attorney to determine what the best and fasted way is for a specific foreign national spouse to gain their permanent residency.

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BRITISH OFFICIALS drafted an emotional rallying cry for Queen Elizabeth II as part of an exercise simulating the outbreak of nuclear war, records released last month show though the monarch never uttered the words and likely never saw them.

The text of a dummy speech prepared as part of a war game exercise in the spring of 1983 to spell out possible Cold War scenarios was released by Britains National Archives in a tranche of declas-sified documents.

Invoking family, God and patriotism in moving tones, it shows the queen trying to rally the country amid the threat of annihi-lation from a nuclear-armed Soviet Union.

We all know that the dangers facing us today are greater by far than at any time in our long history, the text reads. But whatever terrors lie in wait for us all the qualities that have helped to keep our free-dom intact twice already during this sad century will once more be our strength.

The documents, which show the imagi-nary address from the queen dated as March 4, 1983, underscore the seriousness with which UK officials contemplated the nuclear threat.

REAGANThat same year, President Ronald Rea-

gan denounced the Soviet Union as an evil empire and the US deployed cruise mis-

siles to Europe, including in Britain. The text also recalls the strength and struggles of the first two World Wars.

Now this madness of war is once more spreading through the world and our brave country must again prepare itself to survive against great odds, the speech reads.

It has Elizabeth who last year marked 60 years on the throne saying she had never forgotten the sorrow and pride she felt as she and her sister huddled around the radio listening to her father, George VI, ad-dress the nation as World War II broke out.

Not for a single moment did I imagine that this solemn and awful duty would one day fall to me, the text says.

Speech Drafted For Queen In Case Of Nuclear War, Declassified Files Show

Aligning herself with British families throughout the country, she refers to her beloved son Andrew, a helicopter pilot, fighting with his Royal Navy unit and stresses that if families remain united and resolute ... our countrys will to survive cannot be broken.

In the war game exercise, the Orange bloc forces representing the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies launch a dev-astating attack on Britain with chemical weapons. The Blue forces, representing NATO, retaliate with a limited yield nuclear strike, forcing the Orange bloc to sue for peace.

BRITAINS EQUALITY watchdog said last month it would investigate the govern-ment for possible unlawful discrimination after a campaign against immigration violators that saw people detained at workplaces and transit stations.

The Home Office took to Twitter to tout the arrest of 139 people, using the hashtag immigrationoffenders.

The tweets sparked a backlash from critics, who pointed out that those detained were suspects, not convicted offenders.

Part of the operation involved UK Bor-der Agency officials stationed outside Lon-don subway stations conducting checks on some commuters. Several witnesses said the border agents appeared to stop only non-white people.

The Equality and Human Rights Com-mission said it would be examining the powers used and the justification for the immigration checks in order to assess

UK Immigration Checks Draw Discrimination Claims

whether unlawful discrimination took place.

Labour Party immigration spokesman Chris Bryant called on the government to offer immediate reassurance that people were not being stopped on the basis of ethnicity.

A Home Office spokesman insisted the immigration checks were intelligence-led and not based on appearance, race, color, ethnic origin or nationality.

The equality watchdog said it also would look at a government pilot project in which signs were driven around London advising people who did not have visas to Go home, or youll be picked up and deported.

Len McCluskey, leader of Unite, one of Britains biggest trade unions, branded the billboards vile, and the Refugee and Migrant Forum of East London has hired lawyers to mount a court challenge if the ad campaign is not dropped.

1D Singer Signs With Soccer Team

ONE DIRECTION singer Louis Tomlin-sons career in heading in a new direction.

The boy band star has signed up to play a game for English soccer club Doncaster, a team that plays in the second-tier League Championship.

The announcement was labeled break-ing news by Britains 24-hour sports news channel. Hell wear the No 28 shirt on his hometown clubs squad.

The 21-year-old Tomlinson says this has always been a childhood dream for me. I feel very honored to have been asked to sign for Rovers.

But One Directioners shouldnt worry whether the group will perform as a quintet again. Tomlinson says hes not leaving the band and likely will play in a reserve-team game to raise money for charity.

Britain Open To Better Relations With IranFOREIGN SECRETARY William Hague says Britain is open to better relations with Iran on a step-by-step basis and he is willing to meet with Tehrans foreign minister.

The Foreign Office says Hague stressed the need for urgent progress to resolve the Wests concerns about Irans nuclear program in a phone call with Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi.

It said last month that Hague made

clear that the UK was open to improve-ments in the bilateral relationship with Iran, on a step-by-step and reciprocal basis and is willing to meet in New York in September during the United Nations General Assembly.

The call comes after Hasan Rouhani won Irans June 14 presidential election.

Rouhani has pledged to follow a path of moderation, reviving hopes for easing tensions with the West.

Anti-Fraud Investigators Lose Track Of DocsBRITAINS Serious Fraud Office says it temporarily lost track of thousands of documents gathered as part of its inves-tigation into allegations of corruption at defense company BAE Systems PLC.

The fraud office said last month that 32,000 documents, along with audio tapes and other electronic media, were mistakenly shipped to the wrong place after the end of its investigation into the

British military contractor. BAE had been suspected of using

corrupt means to win contracts in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa. The company eventually paid hundreds of millions of dollars in a settlement with American and British authorities in 2010.

The Serious Fraud Office says almost all the documents have been recovered .

V&A Museum Acquires Vivien Leigh Archive

BRITAINS Victoria & Albert Museum says it has acquired the archive of Gone With the Wind star Vivien Leigh, including personal diaries and letters to her husband, Laurence Olivier.

The London museum said last month it bought the archive from Leighs grand-children for an undisclosed sum.

The trove includes photographs, an-notated film and theater scripts, and thou-sands of letters from Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, Noel Coward and others.

There are more than 200 letters ex-changed with Olivier, to whom Leigh was married for 20 years.

The British-born star won an Academy Award for playing iron-willed Southern belle Scarlett OHara in the US Civil War epic Gone With the Wind. She died of tuberculosis in 1967, aged 53.

Some of the material will go on display at the museum this fall.

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THE ITALIAN LAKES are the home of celeb-rity. This is a theme that constantly recurred in a recent holiday we spent on Lake Como.

Look down there on the rightCan you see the villa with all the chimney pots? Grey roof, lots of chimneys...Overlooking the lake. Thats it. Thats the place. George Clooneys villa. Im afraid I cant tell if hes in.

These were the words of our courier, Thomas, sent out to accompany a party of aged Brits in their conquest of Lake Como and other tourist hotspots.

Now along here, just after this tunnel isNo, I wont spoil it for you. I did not know this till today and our driver Roberto has just told me about it. Its along here on the left No, its after this set of traffic lightsOh no, not those. No, this is the place. At the end of this wall, there is a gate Thats it. Maybe we should reverse and look for ourselves. Well, maybe not today Oh, there it is. If you look through that gate, you could see a drive running down to the lake. There. That was where Berlusconi used to hold his bunga-bunga parties. Sorry, we were going just a little too fast Oh and just up here on the right, a very famous English actor. I am sorry I dont know his name but hes going to buy a villa here.

APPRECIATEDont get me wrong. I can fully appreciate

the attractions of a holiday villa by Lake Como so I suppose I can congratulate myself upon having chosen this bit of Italy for a summer break. Keeping company with the great and the good. Well, with the wealthy anyhow, not that my few hundred pounds a week budget will get me much further than looking over peoples garden walls.

It is nice though, Lake Como that is.We stayed on the left hand side of the

lake, Menaggio to be exact. Now you may not know it but Menaggio is famous. Well, close to being famous anyway. For here well not very far from here, Benito Mussolini was taken by the partisans as a German troop column was pushing its way up the western shore road in late April 1945, fleeing the Allies as they were entering Milan forty miles south.

The locals stopped the column, unaware that Benito was in it along with his mistress, Clara Petacci disguised as a German soldier on the back of one of the lorries heading for the mountains and a possible last stand. The lorries were persuaded to turn round in a village square at Dongo and then, captured under the nearby aptly named rock Musso, Mussolini was dragged out to be executed in the village square.

DUMPEDThe dead Italian dictator was then carried

down to Milan for a second, more public, execution. He was dumped in a market place where his corpse and that of Clara were violated before being strung up by the feet on a market stall. According to Thomas, some-where in the vicinity of Dongo is a plaque stating that near here someone famous died. Apparently the notice is really that bland and hard to find since it is designed to prevent latter-day fascists from using it as a shrine.

Oh, I forgot to mention that close to

Dongo is the only island on Lake Como, the Isola Comacina. Here we found the Villa del Balbienello whose beautiful gardens and elaborately decorated house were paid for by its 20th century owner, the explorer Guido Monzino. The house was full of memorabilia from various expeditions. Monzino was the first Italian to climb Everest in 1973, two years after leading an expedition to the North Pole. Monzino, in fact, seemed rather short of things to do other than climb high places or penetrate difficult terrain.

He would have been gratified had he lived beyond 1988 to know that on the shore by his house Richard Branson owns a villa. Or is said to own a villa, You cant miss it. Ees the one with the long red brick wall over there, said our guide Alessandria. Zees house was also used for the James Bond film Casino Royale.

RUNNINGJames Bond spent a lot of time on Lake

Como, running through gardens and being shot at. Or driving up and down the winding roads above Tirano, the railway town at the foot of the Alps where the Berne Express chugs its way up to St Moritz. He was men-tioned so much in connection with every beauty spot and winding road, I came to believe that he was a real person.

Luckily for my sense of reality, real celebri-ties still exist. Also in the vicinity, Madonna had a residence and Gianni Versace still has one. Sorry, got that wrong. Versace died in 1997 shot down outside his Miami Beach home. Thats the problem with celebrity, you see. So many villas to choose from and just

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occasionally you make the mistake of being at the wrong one at the wrong time.

Or not being in your Lake Como villa when Thomas is driving around with his bunch of tourists.

I shouldnt be mean. We saw a lot of wonderful places.

Most beautiful of all perhaps for me was Lake Maggiore and the fabulous Isola Bella. Here the garden was built by Carlo IV in memory of his ancestors wife, Isabella. They were developed in the 17th century in the Italianate style, all symmetry and order. In the early 18th century a new, English, style of garden emerged. Chief among its exponents was Lancelot Capability Brown who pre-ferred to create a natural effect with flowing lawns and flowers amid stretches of water.

ECHOESI like the way that the design of gardens

echoes changes in mens thoughts and attitudes. The eighteenth century begins in order and complacency. Men are living in the best of all worlds in the best of all times. By the end of the century, the world is in political, social and industrial revolution, from America to France and beyond, and suddenly the world is a threatening place. Art changes from third person contemplation of the won-ders of the world to first person agonising about its faults.

For a while man believed he ran the world and the world was his servant. This delusion is what makes Lake Como such a lovely place. It offers nothing but guilt-free pleasure and contentment, especially for celebrities.

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LONDON police apologized last month to the family of a British newspaper vendor who died after an officer hit him with a baton during demonstrations against a Group of 20 meeting in 2009. The force said it had reached an out-of-court settle-ment with the family.

Officer Simon Harwood hit 47-year-old Ian Tomlinson and shoved him to the ground as Tomlinson tried to leave a cordon put up to contain protesters in Londons financial district. Tomlinson collapsed and died moments later.

Scotland Yard said a settlement had been reached that acknowledged the suf-fering Tomlinsons family has endured with dignity over the last four years.

I apologize unreservedly for Simon Harwoods use of excessive and unlaw-ful force, which caused Mr Tomlinsons death, and for the suffering and distress caused to his family as a result, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Maxine de Brun-ner said in a statement.

ACQUITTEDHarwood was tried and acquitted of

manslaughter, but later fired after a po-lice disciplinary panel ruled this actions amounted to gross misconduct. That panel had declined to consider whether Harwoods actions contributed to Tom-linsons death prompting accusations of a whitewash from Tomlinsons family.

De Brunner added that she took full responsibility for Harwoods actions.

Tomlinsons death became a rallying point for those who alleged police had brutalized demonstrators.

By Danica KirkaIT TOOK 45 seconds, but it was enough.

Newborn Prince George, carried from the hospital to the royal car, appeared in a cotton swaddle with the tiny birds on it. Mums-to-be around the world wanted to know: Who are you wearing?

The answer shows what it is like when a small company gets swept into the maelstrom of attention that comes from touching the golden hem of the House of Windsor.

Once the photos of the swaddle hit the Internet, style bloggers and fashion writ-ers identified the would-be kings new clothes as being from New York-based aden + anais. Within four hours of Georges appearance, the website crashed. The next

HIS NEWBORN son is a little bit of a rascal and car seats can daunt any dad, Britains Prince William says.

The second in line to the British throne has described his joy at introducing his son to the world on the steps of a London hospital last month and about his nerves over fitting the car seat securely into the Land Rover before driving off.

William told CNN in his first interview since Prince Georges birth on July 22 that both he and the Duchess of Cambridge couldnt wait to show off their son when they emerged from St Marys Hospital to meet the worlds media a day later.

Im just glad he wasnt screaming his head off the whole way through, he said in an interview broadcast last month.

William was quizzed on a range of child-rearing topics from baby toys to diapers and sleep deprivation and ac-knowledged that his expert performance sliding his childs car seat into the back of the royal four-wheel drive was a well-drilled exercise.

SPECULATIONBelieve me, it wasnt my first time.

And I know theres been speculation about that. I had to practice, I really did, he said.

William and his wifes assured, do-

Prince William Describes His Joy At Parenthood

it-yourself performance in front of the hospital helped cement the couples image as the modern face of Britains monarchy. But William said the decision to take his own baby in hand and drive home in the glare of the international press was a way of establishing his independence.

I very much feel if I can do it myself, I want to do it myself, he said. And there are times where you cant do it yourself and the system takes over or its appropri-ate to do things differently. But, I think driving your son and your wife away from hospital was really important to me.

RASCALAs for the nearly one-month-old baby,

William referred to him as a little bit of a rascal who he said reminded him of his younger brother, Prince Harry.

Striking a slightly exasperated tone famil-iar to many new fathers, he said he wished Prince George would settle down a little.

At the moment, the only legacy I want to pass on to him is to sleep more and maybe not have to change his nappy so many times.

The interview is part of a one-hour CNN documentary, Prince Williams Passion: New Hope, New Father, due to air on September 15.

Swaddle-Maker Swamped After Royal Photo-Opday, the site crashed again. In nine days, the company had 7,000 orders a 600 percent increase in sales on that item.

The company never even issued a press release. Anyone who wanted to know the manufacturer simply had to type royal swaddle into Google, and up it came.

Raegan Moya-Jones, the chief execu-tive of aden + anais, was about to start a meeting when a colleague brought in the picture. She couldnt believe it.

I thought it was photo-shopped, she said.

The company is still digging out from under a pile of orders for the swaddle, part of the Jungle Jam pack of four that in Britain costs 44.95.FULL STORY: www.ujnews.com

Police Apologize For G-20 Protest DeathTomlinsons widow, Julia, said last

month that the police apology was as close as we are going to get to justice.

It will always be painful for us that Ian died so violently, but at least he is at rest now, and the force has publicly acknowl-edged the truth, she said.

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UK-US TAX INFORMATIONWhen Do I Have To File These US Tax

Returns?NO, APRIL 15 is not the answer were looking for! What Im thinking about here is the year you first arrive in the US, when the chances are high that you wont arrive on January 1!

Many people organize their US visits to avoid the requirement to file details of their worldwide income to the IRS. Obviously if youre coming here to live, this is not a possibility, but you will need to know when your liability will start.

The US rules for deciding if someone has been in the country long enough during a year to be resident for tax purposes, are quite complicated. (Please remember here, that your tax status and immigration status may not be the same its much easier to become due to pay tax here than to be allowed to stay!) The simple part applies if you have been here for over 183 days, but since thats half a year, it doesnt come as much surprise! Also, you can be tax resident if you are here for at least 31 days in a year, and the total of your days this year, one-third of your days last year and one-sixth of your days in the year before that is more than 183 days. This calcula-tion is known as the substantial presence test and it will generally apply if you are in the US for four months or more on a regular basis. Its possible to overcome the results of the test if you are paying taxes as a resident in another country and you have a closer connection with that country.

To claim this closer connection, you need to file Form 8840 with the IRS. I hope

it wont surprise you to learn that you cant just decide on the closer connection your-self and not file anything! Also, of course, you would have to file a non-resident return with any US-source income on it, but you would not have to include your worldwide income.

People who become subject to US tax during a year, will have both resident and non-resident status at different times. This is known as being a dual-status alien in IRS jargon. (Isnt it amazing how the US government hasnt yet realized that the word alien doesnt sound so great!)

The IRS want to have returns covering a whole calendar year, so these people should (but often dont!) file two tax returns for the first year one would be a non-resident return covering the period up to their entry date. But from this date, you are due to declare your worldwide income and file a US resident tax return, together with any state tax returns, if you live in a state with income tax.

Some restrictions to deductions, ex-emptions and allowances that apply for these years and different rules again apply if you married a US citizen or green card holder during the year. My underlying mes-sage is not to think, Well, Ive only been in the US for a few months, how difficult can my tax return be? Be warned there may be more issues than in future years!

Mary-Heather Styles is finding it difficult to reconcile how long she has been working in tax (over 30 years) and being called Miss in stores (clearly many visually impaired people working in retail in Arizona!) She is qualified in tax law in both the US and UK and would be pleased to deal with your queries. She can be contacted at (602) 845-1420 or at mhstyles@transatlantictax.com.

AND SO it begins, the start of the end of an era. Hayley visits her GP and when blood tests come back needing more investigation, shes sent for more tests and her worst fears are confirmed. Hayley has pancreatic cancer at an advanced stage. Roy takes refuge in cancer research online and then tries (and fails) to wrap her up in cotton wool. He doesnt half get on Hayleys nerves. And although hes only got her best intentions at heart, he follows Hayley into the Bistro where shes celebrating Audreys birthday with a drink of bubbly, grabs the glass from her hand and tells her not to drink, announcing loudly to everyone wholl listen (and most of them do): You are gravely ill and you could die! Its not exactly the way Hayley wanted everyone to find out her news and she gives Roy a ticking off before storming off home.

But it doesnt take long for our two Corrie favourites to make-up over a strong cup of tea and a plate of cheese on toast. Roy

holds Hayley and Hayley holds Roy and there wasnt a dry eye in the house when Roy tells Hayley shes given him the happiest time of his life and Hayley tells her husband: I dont want to go. I always thought the best was yet to come for us both. Gulp.

Eileens not best pleased with Paul for making a racist remark to Lloyd and she gets together with Mandy to make the two men sit down to make up. In the Rovers, Eileen makes Paul apologise to Lloyd. Im sorry, says Paul, without really meaning it. I accept your apology Lloyd replies, without meaning that either. The two fellas do eventually make up but not before Paul attacks Lloyd on the Street and a whole lot of nastiness about male pride is stirred.

Over in the bookies, Rob bets 500 on a four horse accumulator which, much to Peters horror, wins. Peters skint, he cant pay Robs winnings and so offers him the bookies shop on a free lease for six months to honour the debt. Peter leaves the Bookies and starts work with Carla in the knicker fac-tory while Rob and Tracy take over Barlows Bookies and turn it into a second-hand pawn shop, Barlows Buys.

Now that Carlas got Peter working for her at Underworld, she proposes he becomes a partner in her life, not just in business and

asks him to marry her. Although Peter ac-cepts, its left to Carla to splash out on her own sparkler as Peters too broke to cough up for an engagement ring.

Anna Windass tells Fayes dad Tim that she wants him out of Fayes life. And after Owen threatens Tim to leave, hes got no choice but to pack up and move on. He breaks the news to Faye, without blaming Anna and Owen, that hes going to move away and lies to say hes got a new job elsewhere. But Faye isnt the only one wholl be sad to see her dad go, hes currently making an impression on Sally Webster and has fair turned her head after giving her the glad-eye in the pub.

And finally this month, David ups his evil plan to split up Nick and Leanne after find-ing out that Nick could be the dad of Kylies baby. David gets Nicks Bistro into all sorts of trouble by watering down the spirits and alerting Trading Standards, stealing cash from the till and leaving critical reviews online. But the worst is yet to come as David writes an anonymous poison pen-letter to send to Nicks wife Leanne, asking her if she knows where her husband was on Christmas Day, and with whom. Ooh, therell be trouble when it all comes out.

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Peter Capaldi Named As Next Doctor Who Star

By Jill LawlessSCOTTISH actor Peter Capaldi is the next star of the long-running science fic-tion series Doctor Who, the BBC an-nounced last month.

The identity of the new Doctor had been the subject of frantic speculation, and the revelation was made with fanfare befitting one of Britains best-known shows, during a live suppertime television broadcast.

The 55-year-old Capaldi is best known as venom-spitting spin doctor Malcolm Tucker in political sitcom The Thick of It and its film spin-off, In the Loop.

He has a long list of movie, television and stage credits, from the 1983 film Local Hero to the BBCs recent newsroom drama The Hour. Hes also an Oscar winner he directed Franz Kafkas Its a Wonderful Life, which won the Academy Award for best short film in 1994.

TARDISCapaldi is the 12th actor to play the

Doctor, a galaxy-hopping Time Lord who travels in the Tardis, a time machine shaped like an old-fashioned British police telephone booth.

Doctor Who was first broadcast in 1963 and is now one of the BBCs most popular programs, both in Britain and abroad.

Its longevity is due partly to the flex-ibility of the premise. The Doctor can regenerate into new bodies and can travel to any point in space or time.

Doctor Who ran from 1963 to 1989, and was revived to acclaim in 2005. Since then, the Doctor has been played by Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant and Matt Smith, who took the part in 2010.

Capaldi, a fan of the show since child-hood, said that being asked to play the Doctor is an amazing privilege.

Like the Doctor himself I find myself in a state of utter terror and delight, he said.

Smith will leave after a November epi-sode to mark the shows 50th anniversary, and a Christmas special.

By Danica KirkaPOOR FAMILIES in Britain are struggling to provide basics for their children as the cost of living rises faster than wages and benefits, research released by a charity suggested last month.

The cost of raising a child during the first 18 years of life rose four percent to 148,105 last year, while average earnings rose 1.5 percent and safety net benefits rose one percent, according to the report from the Child Poverty Action Group.

This research paints a stark picture of families being squeezed by rising prices and stagnant wages, yet receiving ever-diminishing support from the government over the course of the last year, said Ali-son Garnham, the groups chief executive. Every parent knows its getting harder to pay for the essentials their children need, and they dont feel like politicians see them as a priority.

The report comes as Britains coalition government, elected in 2010, imposes tough austerity measures to reduce the nations budget deficit. Those programs include limiting benefit increases to one percent annually for three years, forcing many low-income residents to pay local council tax for the first time, and a new

Report: UK Family Living Standards Dropping

fee for public housing tenants with spare bedrooms.

Treasury chief George Osborne has acknowledged that the recovery is taking longer than anyone hoped, but says that tackling the deficit will be better for the country in the long run despite the short term pain.

Child poverty advocates argue that such measures hit families hard and that safeguarding families should be the governments priority. Looking at the numbers in economic isolation without considering the impact of such policies on children wont help the economy, they say, because families under strain wont be able to spend in the local community or save for the future.

Low-income families have been hit es-pecially hard by higher world commodity prices, because basic items such as grocer-ies and heating bills take up a larger portion of their incomes, according to the report. Rising costs for public transportation and public housing also fall disproportionately on the poor.

At the same time, safety-net benefits were cut in real terms for the first time since the 1930s, rather than rising by at least the rate of inflation, the report said.

PRIME MINISTER David Cameron had a constructive phone conversa-tion with Spanish premier Mariano Rajoy last month amid tensions over the British enclave of Gibraltar, of-ficials said.

Cameron tweeted that he had made clear my concerns re Gibraltar and that our position on sovereignty wont change.

Last month, Britains ambassador in Madrid lodged a formal protest with Spanish authorities over what Britain says are disproportionate

PM Speaks To Spanish Leader Over Gibraltarborder checks.

Spain has long laid claim to Gi-braltar, and the tiny territory on the southern tip of the Iberian peninsula is the source of occasional diplomatic friction between Madrid and London.

REEFThe latest spat involves an artificial

reef being built in Gibraltar that Spain says is hurting its fishermen. It has floated the idea of charging border fees as compensation.

In the phone call, Cameron stressed that the issue should not damage bilat-

eral relations but added there was a real risk that could happen unless the border situation improved, ac-cording to the prime ministers office.

Rajoy agreed that he did not want the issue to become an obstacle in the bilateral relations and that we needed to find a way to de-escalate the issue, it said.

It added that the Spanish premier committed to reducing measures at the border and both sides agreed on the need for a solution to the fishing dispute.

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I Was Standing on the edge of my toilet hanging a clock. The porcelain was wet, I slipped, hit my head on the sink, and when I came to I had a revelation! A vision! A picture in my head! A picture of this! REMEMBER this quote from the Back to the Future movie? Well that revelation was time travel, and the vision was from Doc Emmett Brown. Well, Stephen Wynne must have had a similar revelation, not a flux capacitor exactly but a vision into the future, when he decided to revive the DeLorean DMC-12.

A motor mechanic by trade, Liverpool born Stephen Wynne immigrated to the United States in 1982 and started a motor repair facility specializing in the repair of British and French cars. In 1982 he was approached by a DeLorean owner who needed repairs to his car, Wynne recognized the Renault drivetrain and other components commonly found on other cars his company normally serviced were compatible with the vehicle so the repair of the DeLorean was second nature. Word quickly spread throughout the DeLorean owners community and soon his specialist customer base grew.

To further support this growth a second location in Houston, Texas was opened in 1988. This location was also a central United States location for DeLorean owners who wished to have their cars professionally serviced and repaired but who may have been reluctant to send their cars to the California Location.

Soon after the closure of the DeLorean

Motor Company in Northern Ireland in 1983 a company in Columbus, Ohio had bought the remaining inventory of parts, tooling and the complete engineering blueprints plus other company documents with the idea of fulfilling the part needs of DeLorean owners and service centers. In 1997 Stephen Wynne acquired what remained of this inventory along with exclusive distribution rights, as well as the tooling, engineering drawings and company records.

After acquiring the original company name DeLorean Motor Company, Stephen Wynne relocated the original Houston facility to a larger purpose built facility located close by Houstons Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH). This 40,000 square foot warehouse which includes showrooms and offices can facilitate up to 80 DeLorean cars along with their entire spare parts inventory including re-manufactured stainless steel frames, new, old stock and original equipment manufac-tured parts. Newly assembled DeLorean DMC