Turkey bans trips abroad for artificial insemination

By Our Foreign Staff 619PM GMT fifteen March 2010

The Turkish healing investiture has prolonged campaigned opposite the use and heading total have uttered suspicions of spermatazoa donations on eremite and patriotic grounds.

Many of the fewer than 100 or so women who transport abroad to grasp conceiving physically go to beside Greece, that has a prolonged story of dispute with Turkey.

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New regulations on synthetic insemination posted in the Official Gazette enclosed a sustenance prohibiting women from going abroad for a use that is not accessible at home.

Sperm concession is criminialized in Turkey. Clinics in Turkey were formerly usually authorised to yield consultancy services and hope for the donor and target with the compulsory drug protocol. A full mental analysis was additionally compulsory of all couples deliberation donation.

The new restrictions will forestall clinics behaving as agencies for unfamiliar comforts inside of Turkey.

The new regulations published by the health method creates anxiety to an essay in the rapist formula that forbids Turkish adults from concealing the paternity of a child.

Despite the despotic laws, Turkey has turn a end for European couples looking flood diagnosis in new years.

Clinics have been indicted of permitting unfamiliar relatives to name the sex of their child, a use that is bootleg in majority of Europe.

Solar by Ian McEwan: review

By Lorna Bradbury 630AM GMT thirteen March 2010

Solar by Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan has regularly finished sex with gusto. Who can dont think about the impulse in On Chesil Beach when Edward and Florences long-awaited passionate kinship misfires so disastrously in "gouts" of beforehand fruition; or the proposal descriptions in Saturday of the neurosurgeon Henry Perowne rousing his mom from her slumbers?

But never prior to has he used it for a comic end, at slightest never intentionally. This is the box with his new novel, Solar. Here we have Michael Beard, McEwans pretentious anti-hero, a philanderer whose fifth matrimony is on the rocks, whose physique is unwell him and whose veteran achievements are buried in the past, perplexing and, increasingly, unwell to get a lady in to bed.

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Theres his fifth wife, Patrice, who abandons him for their builder after guidance about his eleven affairs in five years, and whom he tries to get behind by impersonation a partner in the residence they still share. And a successive girlfriend, Melissa, a mom surrogate in to whose inexhaustible familiar he gratefully falls until she traps him with conceiving physically and the disturb is lost. To get by a utterly powerful event with Melissa, Beard has to review to a fantasy about sex in open with an immigration military officer who had formerly deserted his advances. And afterwards theres Darlene, a waitress roughly as massive as Beard who, in a wild moment, he promises to wed an suggest he comes to bewail as the elements of his hold up accumulate around him in the novels last section.

Michael Beard is a comic origination in the same category as Martin Amiss John Self. Indeed, if Money could be seen as the high point of Amiss career, summing up the excesses of the Eighties, so Solar is expected to come to be regarded as the homogeneous for McEwan. For this novel takes on the domestic mania of the age meridian shift and fashions out of it a humorous masterpiece.

McEwan nails Beard in his opening judgment "He belonged to that category of men vaguely unprepossessing, mostly bald, short, fat, crafty who were unaccountably tasteful to sure pleasing women." And it is not prolonged prior to Beards veteran failings are nailed, too. Though he completed eminence early in his career with the Beard-Einstein Conflation, that warranted him a Nobel Prize, he has been coasting on this success for decades. Honorary degrees, after-dinner speeches, positions on committees all this for a undone has-been who compensates for his miss of ideas with an contentment of deviousness.

Beards views on meridian shift are bracing, to contend the slightest "There was an Old Testament ring to the forewarnings, an air of plague-of-boils and deluge-of-frogs, that referred to a low and consistent inclination, enacted over the centuries, to hold that one was regularly vital at the finish of days." But the Blair supervision is endangered to crop up to be receiving meridian shift seriously, so a centre is set up outward Reading and who is charged to manage it, but Beard. The hopelessly emasculate establishment is run by a yes man in line for a chivalry and spends the time fielding "clean energy" schemes from loners and eccentrics.

The investigate outing Beard is sent on to the Arctic yields a little comical moments for the increasingly ridiculous favourite the abhorrence of removing in to a ski suit, usually to realize that one has lost to put ones boots on prior to ones gloves; the hurdles of urinating in the Arctic, generally when "his penis had trustworthy itself to the zip of his snowmobile suit". The usually resolution is to lard it in brandy. Beard, in suffering from this incident, and drowning his sorrows in buckets of wine, acts as an comical foil to the inventive do-gooders around him.

McEwan sends up the workings of supervision and how personal benefit is played out at the responsibility of ideology. Beards views mutate as the novel progresses and his commercial operation interests lead him to hold up solar appetite in a photosynthesis plant in New Mexico. But McEwan casts his net wide, poking fun at � la mode life, from designation art (Stella Polkinghornes "scaled-up Monopoly set on a personification margin in Catford") to journalism. "Nobel Prof Says No to Lab Chicks" is the title concomitant a publication story stating Beards insusceptibility to the make a difference of since women are under-represented in physics. And all the whilst he belches his approach by piles of junk food.

Solar can, at times, appear loose, structured by a array of anecdotes and diversions about Beards life. It is usually utterly far in that it becomes transparent usually how well plotted and severe it is. Though it incorporates a array of styles trimming all the approach to slapstick farce, there are couple of remaining tract strands. And all roads lead to the dramatically sudden though frequency startling ending. If Solar is a gratifying read, it is since McEwan plays without delay to the expectations. The polar-bear skin that slides as well simply on the discriminating wooden floor, or the visitor toolbox in the sideboard we know that these will volume to something for the hero, and so they do.

McEwan is in most ways the closest thing we have to a inhabitant writer he is a leader of the Booker Prize, his books are often eliminated to the shade and he is the usually well read writer to find himself with any rule on the bestseller lists. He has prolonged been distinguished as a master of macabre, and of the realist novel, and with Solar he has proved, after the competent success of Saturday, that he is a excellent proponent of the state-of-the-nation novel, as well one delivered not as a polemic, such as the Poet Laureates poem "Atlas", but as a dim satire. Solar is fun and clever, but the luminosity of the timing, as the questioning about the perceived systematic perspective of meridian shift grows, equates to it will come to be regarded as a classic.

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Having two children is best for your health

By Laura Donnelly, Health Correspondent 822AM GMT thirteen March 2010

The investigate published in the Social Science & Medicine Journal found that dual young kids was the most appropriate number, in conditions of parents" health Photo ALAMY

A mass investigate has found that apropos a mom or father reduces the risk of a resources of conditions and health risks from cancer and heart disease to apropos an alcoholic.

However the investigate on 1.5 million people found the benefits were usually transparent for men and women who had dual children.

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Those who had only one child, or nothing at all, were at increasing risk of genocide from roughly all the conditions studied, maybe since they were less expected to see after their health.

Those with incomparable family groups additionally had a higher possibility of pang from most diseases, maybe since they struggled to cope with the stresses of seeking after multiform children.

The investigate published in the Social Science & Medicine Journal found that dual young kids was the most appropriate number, in conditions of parents" health.

The research by British and Norwegian researchers carefully thought about the annals of Norwegian men and women innate over a 33 year period.

It found those who had no children, or only one, had an increasing risk of failing from roughly each condition, with a quite clever couple with ethanol abuse.

Among women, there was a higher contingency of accidents and heart and circulatory disease whilst men some-more ordinarily suffered lung and respiratory problems.

Those with 3 young kids had churned health fortunes, but relatives of dual fared majority appropriate overall.

Those with incomparable family groups did roughly as really bad as those with nothing or one kid but for opposite reasons.

Cervical cancer featured prominently between mothers of four, whilst father of large family groups were some-more expected to humour assault and accidents.

There were a little benefits for women with multiform children, whose contingency of breast cancer were reduced.

Researcher Emily Grundy, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine pronounced "Four-plus young kids competence have inauspicious goods outset from stress, socio-economic disadvantages and lifestyles, offsetting or even outweighing amicable benefits of parenthood".

Peter Storrie steps down as Portsmouth chief executive

By Paul Kelso 750PM GMT twelve March 2010

Pompey chimes Portsmouth arch senior manager Peter Storrie left "in the most appropriate interests of the club," acccording to director Andrew Andronikou Photo GETTY IMAGES

Andronikou had defended Storrie whilst a authorised evidence with Her Majestys Revenue and Customs over the standing of the administration department department department was ongoing, but with HMRC withdrawing the plea on Thursday his on all sides was weakened.

Storries change at Fratton Park will not finish with his depart however after he negotiated a consultancy purpose that will see him support in the sale of the bar and assistance preparations for the FA Cup semi-final subsequent month.

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He will go on to be paid, a move that is expected to means fear between supporters already distressing that he was one of the top paid management team in the joining via Portsmouths decline. In 2008 he was paid wages, reward and grant payments totalling �1.2 million.

Storrie, who has been a consistent figure at Portsmouth for 7 years, during that time the bar has had that have seen 6 opposite owners, has turn a concentration for believer discontent.

He was obliged for introducing Ali Al-Faraj and a consortium together with stream owners Balram Chainrai to the club, a move that in conclusion saw the bar come in administration.

On Friday night Storrie pronounced he was being foul blamed by supporters for the clubs plight, and that he was carefree that a understanding to save the bar would shortly be concluded with a South African consortium that he claimed to have introduced.

"It is not satisfactory on my friends and family. They are seeking for red blood vouchsafing and Im the one there to take all the stick," he said.

"It is most appropriate that I travel afar for the consequence of the bar as well as my family and friends. Despite operative uninterrupted to try to keep this bar alive for the last fourteen months, they need someone to blame, and there is nobody left to censure but me.

"I unequivocally goal Portsmouth survive, and they will do if the South African organisation I brought to the bar take it over.

In a matter the director pronounced "Mr Storrie… has after talks with his family and friends motionless it is in the most appropriate seductiveness of the bar for him to leave his full time employment.

"Mr Storrie has affianced to go on to support the bar and the Administrators on a range of counts together with the sale of the club, the semi-final arrangements and alternative projects and will be remunerated accordingly."

Urban deer a growing problem for UK

By Louise Gray 800AM GMT thirteen March 2010

Half a million deer need to be culled in sequence to strengthen Britain"s panorama Photo PA

The "kings of the forest" have been speckled on roundabouts, in cemeteries and on golf courses as the race explodes opposite the UK.

The animals not usually repairs trees and widespread disease but are obliged for causing some-more than 74,000 highway accidents each year, together with up to twenty fatalities.

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The complaint is so bad that a vital discussion is being hold this week end in Warwickshire, Deer Management 2010, to work out the majority appropriate approach to understanding with "urban deer".

Experts from the US, where the "Bambi in the behind garden" materialisation has sparked inhabitant debate, will disagree that relocation and contraception have valid ineffectual and the usually approach to understanding with deer in the city is a cull.

The Deer Initiative, a gift often saved by Government, is now carrying out investigate on civic deer for the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) on improved ways to conduct the flourishing population.

The ultimate total guess there are up to dual million deer in the UK, the top turn for 1,000 years. Currently around 350,000 deer are killed in Britain each year, often by rifle.

But there is small carry out in cities as it is costly for internal authorities to trap and fire the deer. Anecdotal justification of problems is growing. Two years ago a twenty mill ram stopped pour out hour trade in Milton Keynes, whilst in Glasgow the animals are being illegally poached with packs of dogs or air rifles.

Peter Watson, executive of the Deer Initiative, pronounced deer have changed in to the cities as the race rises opposite the nation due to a run of comfortable winters and miss of healthy predators.

He pronounced the territorial inlet of majority class meant deer move in to new areas as the race grows and the suburbs have valid great stuff oneself drift for shrubs and immature trees.

This winter even some-more roe deer and red deer have been seen since cities are warmer and there are some-more immature plants to eat during the cold weather. Non-native class similar to fallow, muntjac and sika multiply faster and are not as big creation it simpler for them to move in to civic settings. These class will flower in scabby habitats such as disproportionate railway cuttings or outworn construction sites.

In the panorama a vital regard about deer is the widespread of cattle disease similar to cow illness and foot-and-mouth but in the city the be concerned is some-more about the expansion in tick-bourn diseases similar to Lyme disease that can widespread to pets and humans. The animals can additionally frame bellow from trees and eat changed plants similar to roses.

But the main complaint is highway accidents. The National Deer Vehicle Collisions Project estimates guess there are 74,000 accidents caused by deer each year, of that 44 per cent are in civic areas.

Mr Watson pronounced culls might have to take place in cities in the future. The venison could be sole to pay off at slightest a little of the cost.

"Whatever happens there will be some-more deers in towns in the destiny and we only have to understanding with that by possibly guidance to live with it or traffic with the consequence. Generally, traffic with the complaint might well meant culling the deer," he said.

The RSPCA concluded culls might have to be carried out in cities, as prolonged as deer fences and alternative surety measures have been put in place initial and the animals are killed humanely by trapping and shooting.

"If deer are causing a poignant complaint in a sold area then, at present, there might not be any unsentimental choice for solution such problems but culling," a orator said.

Ian Rotherham, Professor of Environmental Geography at Sheffield Hallam University and consultant in civic animals, has carried out investigate in to the expansion of the deer race in cities. On the hinterland of Sheffield he available 150 sightings of red deer in 2008, compared to only 3 in 1980.

He pronounced civic deer are apropos piece of the city landscape only similar to foxes, squirrels and even badgers. But he pronounced humans can live with deer in the city and referred to introducing "deer passes" similar to landscaped flyovers on motorways to revoke engine accidents and fencing around gardens.

"Some people are not penetrating on foxes in their grassed area but majority people love them. It is the same with civic deer," he said. "There are issues but we can sense to live with them."

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Toddler died of meningitis after five doctors failed to spot symptoms

1054AM GMT twelve March 2010

An inquisition listened 21-month-old Oliver Martin was rushed to sanatorium by his mother, a district nurse, when he fell severely ill at home.

He was displaying multiform of the critical symptoms of meningitis, together with a unreasonable that did not vanish when pressed, high temperature, dark mettle and lethargy.

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But the conference was told the seizure was "at the behind of the mind" of the initial alloy to inspect Oliver who thought he was pang from duck pox.

He was subsequently seen by a serve 4 alternative doctors - but was not since antibiotics until eight and a half hours after his attainment at the Leicester Royal Infirmary.

By afterwards it was as well late, and Oliver, of Welford, Northants, died of meningococcal septicaemia, a sort of red blood poisoning caused by the same germ as meningitis, a short time later.

Oliver"s mother, Louise Martin, 27, was as well dissapoint to attend the inquisition at Leicester Town Hall.

But vocalization afterwards, his aunt, Susan Wilson, who sat by the evidence, pronounced "He was unsuccessful from the impulse we walked by the door.

"His diagnosis was disgusting. The healing contention let him down. I"m very, really angry.

"The Government tells us by their leaflets to certitude the instincts and not take any chances, to get young kids to sanatorium and get antibiotics.

"And Oliver did - but eight-and-a-half hours later, and by afterwards it was as well late.

"If his silent had kept him at home and since him a sip of Nurofen, that is fundamentally what the sanatorium did, she would be on a kid slight and killing assign now.

"But what have the Leicester Royal Infirmary got? Nothing. We"ve not even had an apology.

"If this inquisition prevents this function again, afterwards it will have been worthwhile."

Leicester City Coroner Catherine Mason, who available a account verdict, criticised "poor" report exchnage in between staff at the sanatorium that meant critical report about Oliver"s condition and symptoms was not upheld on when his box was handed over.

She combined "Had progressing diagnosis been since Oliver might still have died, but on the change of probabilities his chances of presence would have been better."

The inquisition listened Oliver was taken to the sanatorium by his mom at around 10am on May thirteen last year, and initial seen by Accident and Emergency alloy Kalmjit Kaur.

She remarkable a series of probable diagnoses, together with meningitis, but suspected it was some-more expected he was pang from duck pox.

Crucially, she chose not to discharge antibiotics - and instead motionless Oliver"s condition should simply be monitored.

He was after changed to the children"s ward, where endangered nurses attempted to get the avocation paediatric registrar, Dr Manjith Narayanan, to re-examine him.

But he unsuccessful to do so for over an hour since he had been told at the begin of his dusk change that Oliver"s condition was "not serious".

He pronounced "If I had been since all of the report I would"ve come out of the hand-over, left to see him true afar and since him antibiotics."

Doctors in the future suspected meningococcal septicaemia and systematic a march of the anti-viral drug at 6.30pm. But Oliver died at around 10pm.

Kevin Harris, the behaving healing executive at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust pronounced "We accept the coroner"s outcome following the inquisition in to Oliver Martin"s death.

"We would similar to to demonstrate the frank condolences to his family for the dissapoint and trouble caused.

"If Oliver"s family have any questions following the outcome we would acquire the event to plead these with them."

The GM war in Europe starts here

By Geoffrey Lean 745PM GMT twelve March 2010

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Not so common food a potato various is the initial GM stand to be authorized for civilised world in Europe for thirteen years Photo Graham Kirk

Not usually a spud, this is approaching to infer a really prohibited domestic potato indeed. It is living, knobbly explanation of the integrity of Brussels bureaucrats to widespread GM crops via Europe, opposite the will of infancy of the people.

In a little-noticed move last week, the European Commission defied infancy of the governments to that it is ostensible to answer to give the immature light to flourishing a mutated potato opposite the continent. It was the initial time a GM stand had been certified for civilised world in thirteen years. But, right afar the prolonged duration has been broken, identical approvals for others are approaching fast to follow.

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The preference has the origins in a integrate of secret, top-level meetings called by Jose Manuel Barroso, the Commission"s strongly pro-GM president. He invited the budding ministers of each of the twenty-seven EU part of states to send a personal deputy along to plead how to "speed up" the widespread of the record and "deal with" open opposition.

You can see given he was frustrated. Only one GM stand a maize constructed by Monsanto had ever been privileged for flourishing in Europe, and that was approach at the back of in 1998. Other applications, together with the GM potato, had unsuccessful to get by the Council of Ministers, representing the EU governments. No warn there about 3 times as majority Europeans conflict genetic alteration as await it.

As a result, GM crops cover usually about 0.12 per cent of Europe"s rural land, especially in Spain and the continent accounts for usually 0.08 per cent of the area flourishing them worldwide. And they have been losing ground. In the past dual years, both France and Germany criminialized the Monsanto maize, fasten Austria, Hungary, Greece and Luxembourg.

The meetings" trusted mins show that Barroso was perplexing to get the budding ministers to over-rule their own civilised world and sourroundings ministers, and "look at the wider picture". And the leaders" emissaries duly called for "the speeding up of the permission process, formed on strong assessments so as to encourage the public".

But small altered the Commission attempted to force countries to lift their bans on flourishing the Monsanto maize, but again unsuccessful at the Council of Ministers. So it undemocratically took counts in to the own hands to launch the GM potato. Called Amflora grown by BASF to furnish starch for paper, textiles and glue the potato has twice been to the Council for approval, in Dec 2006 and Aug 2007. Each time, as in roughly all GM applications, the ministers were separate in between pro and anti-GM countries, and the Commission could not get the competent infancy it needed. So, last week it cynically authorized the spud for civilised world utilizing a sustenance that allows it, when ministers are deadlocked, to confirm over their heads.

The sustenance that the Commission has already used to authorize the expenditure of GM crops grown outward Europe, especially for animal feed is deeply controversial. Five years ago, it was cursed by Markos Kyprianou, the afterwards health and consumer insurance commissioner, and by the tip EC central in assign of pesticides and biotechnology. But it was defended at the insistence of the afterwards traffic commissioner, the own Lord Mandelson.

Now, instead of scrapping it, the new Commission, that took bureau progressing this year, has motionless to magnify it. Three mutated maizes are approaching to be certified over the subsequent weeks, and fourteen alternative crops are backing up at the back of them. GM advocates are hailing "a new dawn".

Oddly, it is function as augmenting problems are rising elsewhere. One of the biotech industry"s biggest successes, a mutated string in India, is losing the harassment insurgency for that it was developed. The Indian supervision has suddenly shut off the civilised world of the country"s initial GM food, an aubergine. And superweeds, resistant to herbicides, are swelling roughly everywhere mutated crops are grown, mostly given they have acquired genes though cross-pollination. Amflora is doubtful to means this complaint given it especially multiplies by tubers. It will not be eaten by people, though it will be fed to animals. The European Food Standards Agency has conspicuous it safe, but it contains a gene that confers insurgency to antibiotics and there is a little concern, to some extent upheld by the European Medicines Authority, that it could meddle with diagnosis for diseases similar to TB if it were to widespread to people and animals.

Already, Italy and Austria have sworn to anathema the crop, and a French sourroundings apportion has uttered alarm. But Germany and the Czech Republic design to plant it this year, with Sweden and the Netherlands to follow. Stand by for spud wars.

Village joins the renewable revolution

Nothing utterly as insubordinate has happened in Hook Norton given the Vikings came by in 913AD. For the 2,000-strong encampment in Conservative north Oxfordshire has borrowed from the revolutionary traditions of Robert Owen to set up a associated to revoke the CO footprint.

Next month, Low Carbon Hook Norton is to get �500,000 from the Government to kickstart the programme. Its initial plan will be to put solar panels on the roof tiles of the 250-pupil first school, financing them from the new feed-in price tag for generating small-scale renewable electricity.

Other plans embody formulating gas from the rubbish from the internal genuine ale brewery, and on condition that electric cars that villagers can sinecure to expostulate to Oxford, twenty-five miles away. But infancy of the bid will go, some-more prosaically, to bulk-buying energy-saving materials so people can isolate their houses some-more cheaply.

More supervision income is to go to Ashton Hayes, nearby Chester, that has already cut normal CO emissions from the 370 homes by scarcely a entertain given 2006, and some-more surprisingly to yield breeze turbines and alternative renewables to a deprived estate in Middlesbrough, and small hydropower turbines in a former South Wales mining village.

The clunkingly entitled Low Carbon Energy Challenge, launched last month, is a house pet plan of Ed Miliband, who wants to bless it in the Labour choosing manifesto. As hes essay the thing it contingency be in with a chance, whatever Owen would have thought of New Labour.