Bahrain Grand Prix: Ferraris Fernando Alonso fastest in final practice

1036AM GMT thirteen March 2010

Statement of vigilant Fernando Alonso proves because he is one of the favourites Photo AP

Alonso set a benchmark of 1min 54.099secs, 1.3 seconds quicker than the majority appropriate yesterday from Mercedes GP"s Nico Rosberg, who was forced to solve for second today, finishing 0.269secs down on stand in universe hold up Alonso.

Red Bull Racing additionally upped their diversion as Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel were third and fifth, sandwiching Michael Schumacher in his Mercedes.

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It equates to for the the third uninterrupted use session, the seven-times universe hold up was knocked about by team-mate Rosberg, this time by only underneath 0.2secs.

Felipe Massa was 0.640secs at the at the back of of team-mate Alonso, with reigning universe hold up Jenson Button down in seventh in his McLaren, but scarcely a second adrift.

As for Lewis Hamilton, the 25-year-old was a squalid 12th, despite hampered by a stop channel complaint that singular him to only eight laps in some-more aged to the infancy of the leaders who ran up to 16.

In in between the dual Britons were Renault"s Robert Kubica in eighth, the Force Indias of Vitantonio Liuzzi and Adrian Sutil in ninth and 11th, with Williams" Nico Hulkenberg sandwiching the twin in 10th.

Virgin Racing suffered strident annoyance forward of their subordinate debut.

Twenty-two mins in to the last hour-long use event at the desert-bound Sakhir circuit, the bulb on Timo Glock"s front-left tyre worked loose.

Within a make a difference of seconds the tyre itself rolled off and along the lane prior to attack a separator and entrance to rest.

Glock was equates to to debate at the back of to the garage for the residue of the path on 3 wheels, with the group finding the complaint was a error with the circle gun.

The device unsuccessful to amply tie up the nuts as mechanics found the alternative 3 were additionally somewhat loose.

It was a empathize for Glock as he had moments progressing turn the initial of the newcomers to drop underneath the two-minute symbol for the 6.299km track, clocking a time of one notation 59.245 seconds.

Virgin Racing"s issues were compounded by problems inspiring Lucas di Grassi as he accomplished only dual designation laps, sitting out majority of the event with a gearbox issue.

Glock in the future wound up 19th on the timesheets, scarcely 0.6secs forward of associate visitor Lotus Racing, with Heikki Kovalainen at the wheel, with his team-mate Jarno Trulli an additional 1.5secs behind.

As for Hispania Racing, Brazilian Bruno Senna managed to finish a important eleven laps, and accomplished inside of 10 seconds of Alonso.

However, Senna"s Indian team-mate Karun Chandhok again sat out the finish session, that equates to he has been incompetent to finish a singular path forward of qualifying.

The FIA have reliable a motorist has to take piece in use to contest in a race, and as they contend subordinate counts as practice, his group have one some-more event to get him up and using for his debut.

Liberty department store in �35m takeover talks

By Amy Wilson 537PM GMT twelve March 2010

The Liberty dialect store"s important mock-tudor extraneous

The association voiced last month the programmed sale and leaseback of the important mock-Tudor construction on Great Marlborough Street, with agents putting a �40m cost tab on the property.

Now talks with in isolation equity and genuine estate investors have thrown up the probability of offered the total business. The frontrunner is thought to be BlueGem Capital, a in isolation equity organisation run by former Merrill Lynch landowner Marco Capello.

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Liberty"s determining shareholder, the skill association MWB Group, relaunched the store and the Liberty code in Feb last year, and has been looking new investors given the summer to account enlargement abroad.

"Over the past 6 months Liberty has been examining and assessing a range of options and initiatives that would capacitate it to set up on the success given the launch of the Renaissance of Liberty in Feb 2009," the association said.

Richard Balfour-Lynn, arch senior manager of MWB, pronounced he was gratified with the turn of seductiveness being shown by intensity investors, and put it down to the new success of Liberty, that reported a 20pc sales climb in 2009 notwithstanding the consumer spending downturn. However, the last annual results, that came out in Apr 2009, showed a loss of �7m

As well as the flagship dialect store, Liberty sells own-branded products online and has a indiscriminate fabric business. Liberty is important for the floral prints.

Other intensity bidders embody Robert Bensoussan, the oppulance investor, and Li & Fung, the Hong Kong-based sell supplier, it was reported.

Liberty"s shares jumped twenty to 295p yesterday, receiving the marketplace worth to �66.7m.

MWB is being suggested by Cavendish and Global Leisure Partners.

The Liberty store"s singular ridicule Tudor front is done from beams from the warships HMS Impregnable and HMS Hindustan.

Bookmaker Tote to be put up for sale for up to �200m

By Amy Wilson 657PM GMT twelve March 2010

Tote was formerly put up for sale in Jul 2008 Photo PA

Ministers have allocated bankers from Lazard to suggest on the ordering of the betting outfit, that could reportedly fetch in between �100m and �200m.

That"s about half the cost tab the last time the Tote was put up for sale in Jul 2008. That time, Goldman Sachs was advising but the routine was deserted as the monetary predicament done it unfit to get an suggest the Government was happy with.

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The Government initial attempted to sell the Tote in 1989 and there have been a series of attempts given then. With a ballooning bill necessity to tackle, the Government is seeking again at the sale of state assets.

Lazard"s appointment was reliable by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Repo 105 at the heart of Lehman report

By Sean Farrell 811PM GMT twelve March 2010

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Mr Valukas finds what he calls "colorable claims" that could await a justice preference opposite the former management team and the accountancy firm.

At the heart of his commentary is "Repo 105", an accounting device that was instead used to try and keep the bank alive.

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What is Repo 105?

Repo 105 was the name used at Lehman for what the own staff called an "accounting gimmick". The bank had used the pretence given 2001, but what proposed as "a quiescent approach of handling the change sheet" became consequential as the bank attempted to tarry the credit crisis.

At the finish of each quarter, Lehman sole a small of the loans and investments at the moment to alternative monetary institutions for money utilizing short-term repurchase (or "repo") agreements and afterwards paid for them behind a couple of days later. Ordinarily the resources would still be enclosed on the bank"s change sheet, but since they were valued at 105pc or some-more of the money received, the exchange counted as a "sale" underneath accounting manners and Lehman was means to inform a less unsure change sheet.

The bank stranded rounded off to a extent of $25bn of Repo 105 until early 2007 but increasing the make make use of of so that in the initial and second buliding of 2008 Lehman was stealing $50bn of resources from investors, the government, rating agencies and regulators. For the second quarter, Lehman reported a net precedence comparative measure of 12.1 when the loyal figure was 13.9 - and a disproportion of 0.1 was regarded as material.

In Mr Valukas"s words, Lehman was "trumpeting" the marked down precedence as it reported a large $2.8bn second-quarter loss but divulgence that it had paid for the resources behind once the books were sealed off.

The auditor"s role

Ernst & Young knew about Repo 105 but did not keep a check on how most the bank was utilizing the accounting trick. E&Y"s lead Lehman partner, William Schlich, told Mr Valukas his organisation did not "approve" Repo 105 but "became gentle with the process for purposes of auditing monetary statements".

Mr Valukas resolved that there was a intensity box opposite E&Y for malpractice for purported "failure to subject and plea crude disclosures" by Lehman and not behaving when a Lehman whistleblower told Mr Schlich about the $50bn of resources dark from investors. Mr Schlich had already been asked by Lehman"s review cabinet to examine alternative claims done in May 2008 by the whistleblower but did not inform the new claims about Repo 105 to the cabinet the following month. E&Y"s toleration of Repo 105 for the absolute customer might have echoes of Arthur Andersen"s complicity in Enron"s off-balance-sheet accounting, that resulted in the former big five accountancy organisation imploding in 2002. However, Repo 105 is a bona fide accounting tool.

The tip management team

Mr Valukas says there are drift for claims opposite Dick Fuld, the bank"s fearsome arch executive, and 3 of his former monetary directors for permitting the filing of monetary statements that wanting or skewed Lehman"s Repo 105 activities and for unwell to discuss it the bank"s directors about the accounting "gimmick".

The inform pronounced Mr Fuld was told in Jun 2008 by Bart McDade, Lehman"s arch handling officer, that the bank relied as well heavily on Repo 105. "Fuld took no movement to establish either Lehman"s make make use of of of Repo 105 exchange materially impacted the publicly filed statements and associated disclosures" and this movement could be deemed grossly negligent, the inform said.

Lehman went by a array of monetary directors as the predicament unfolded. Chris O"Meara, who served from 2004 to Dec 1, 2007, claimed small believe of Repo 105 but was concerned in targeting net precedence ratios and knew Repo 105 was directed at change piece reduction, the inform said.

Erin Callan transposed Mr O"Meara and was warned in early 2008 by the bank"s tellurian monetary controller that Lehman was using risks with Repo 105 exchange that "lacked mercantile substance" and were not used by the rivals. There was sufficient justification that both Mr O"Meara and Ms Callan had breached their fiduciary duties, and there was additionally sufficient justification to await a explain that Ian Lowitt, who took over in Jun 2008, was grossly negligent, Mr Valukas said.

Cheese rolling event cancelled

1034AM GMT twelve March 2010

Competitors take piece in the Cheese Rolling eventuality on Coopers Hill in Gloucester. Photo REUTERS

This year"s event, scheduled for May 31st, will not take place since of military and internal legislature concerns about overcrowding on Cooper"s Hill, nearby Gloucester, organisers announced.

"We have had to terminate on the recommendation of the military and internal authorities this year since of the issues of health and reserve and alternative aspects," pronounced Richard Jefferfies of the organising committee.

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"Last year fifteen thousand spectators came to the event, by far the majority we have ever seen, and we only could not cope.

"As well as concerns about the reserve of the throng and the competitors, internal landowners were additionally disturbed by the volume of repairs finished by people rock climbing over fences and that sort of thing."

Following a 200 year old tradition, competitors run down the fraudulent twelve incline bank in office of bouncing 7lb Double Gloucester cheeses. Injuries are usual and the perfect volume of spectators jams roads, call complaints from locals.

The proclamation of this year"s termination was done currently on the event"s website.

It pronounced "The organisers of the Cooper"s Hill Cheese Rolling and Wake bewail to have known that the 2010 eventuality has been cancelled.

"The assemblage at the eventuality has far outgrown the place where it has traditionally been hold for multiform hundred years last year some-more than 15,000 people attempted to attend (according to central estimates) that is some-more than 3 times the genius of the site.

"The organisers are operative with the internal Authorities and Police to carry out numbers that will enhance

- throng safety

- apply oneself for the internal community

- puncture car access

- trade upsurge on internal and case roads

"The eventuality will be back, in a revised form, in 2011."

Tewkesbury precinct councillor Mike Collins complained after last year"s races about the miss of parking and the disaster to have an in effect throng carry out complement in place.

"There was no military cover at all," he pronounced at the time. "All we had was a small organisation of untrained stewards.

"We had thousands of people there, most of whom had had a lot to splash and a little cars were damaged.

"They should have some-more car parking accessible and they could conduct the trade improved than I did, station on a devious shouting.

"There was trade corroborated up to the M5 and people were even parking on the advance booking in Shurdington Road, that is utterly ridiculous."

Mr Jefferies concluded at the time that some-more military cover was needed.

"We proceed them each year and discuss it them when it"s going to be but they"re only not interested.

"The trade is the main complaint we need their assistance with and it would be most improved if we had a military presence."

Inspector Steve Chester of Gloucestershire Police pronounced "We have discussed the security and policing needs for this eventuality with the organisers in the past but sadly they have unsuccessful to co-operate with us.

"Organisers for events such as these have an requisite to safeguard open safety. This includes building an suitable trade government plan to minimise intrusion to the internal community.

Cancer sufferer given two weeks to live is still here four years on

237PM GMT eleven March 2010

Claire with her children, Lolli, five, Micki, three, and Abbi, 7 Photo ARCHANT

Claire Blair, 36, a mom of 3 girls, believes she has survived so prolonged as she has been prescribed the drug Herceptin that stops breast cancer cells dividing and growing.

Mrs Blair pronounced "I wouldn"t be here but it. I still take it and I have to have alternative scans each 3 months that exam my heart to check the drug isn"t inspiring it.

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"I regularly try and put those scans off since I am shocked they will stop me receiving it.

"I don"t think I have side effects. I get sleepy really, unequivocally sleepy but who isn"t with 3 immature kids underneath seven, You can"t keep blaming it on being ill

Mrs Blair of Stowmarket, Suffolk, was since the distressing headlines that she had only days to live in Sep 2006.

But 3 and a half years later, she is scheming to applaud an additional Mother"s Day after fighting behind opposite the disease.

She is even receiving piece in a gift competition after examination from the sidelines for the last dual years as her dual eldest daughters lifted income using in her honour.

Mrs Blair is competing in the 5km Cancer Research Race for Life with all her daughters Abbi, seven, Lolli, five, and Micki, 3 in Ipswich on Jun 13.

Amazingly Mr Blair who is tied together to Mark, 37, still functions as a sales officer.

She combined "I never thought I would see this day so I feel really fortunate. When I was diagnosed I was in the misfortune probable situation.

"I was told I had about dual weeks to live since the cancer had widespread to my liver and bones. Not majority people have been where I"ve been and bounced back."

At the time she was diagnosed, Mrs Blair thought her impassioned lassitude was down to carrying since bieing born to her youngest daughter 3 months earlier.

When she went to sanatorium she was kept in overnight for tests. Even prior to the formula came behind she knew there was something severely wrong.

She combined "I could discuss it by the approach the staff were treating me that the formula were going to show something distressing but I had no thought how horrible it would be."

The following day her misfortune fears were realised when doctors reliable that she had depot breast cancer and she had dual weeks to live notwithstanding being only 32.

Her internal vicar visited her and staff from the Hospice at Home helped her family hope for for the worst.

Life for Claire, her family and friends became a competition opposite time to fit all in, to outlay time together.

She and her family went on mental condition holidays to Disneyland in America and euro Disney in Paris and attended her sister"s marriage in Scotland.

Mrs Blair and her father additionally finished their 10th marriage anniversary mental condition come true, returning to Bali where they outlayed their honeymoon, forward of schedule.

She combined "There was no time to waste.

"I would go out and if I was ill down myself, I was ill down myself zero was going to stop me removing out and creation memories for my young kids and husband."

Mrs Blair faced carrying to organize her own wake and explaining to her eldest daughter Abbi where ma was going.

But she battled opposite the disease by receiving Herceptin and carrying steady rounds of chemotherapy at Ipswich Hospital

She pronounced "What I have learnt in the last 3 years and 3 months majority people don"t sense in a lifetime and I have to appreciate cancer for that. People regularly ask the subject "why?". I ask, "Why not?"

"What is so special about me? Why am I still here? You can feel ill in the morning, you can throw up in the center of the night, but you get up in the sunrise to take the kids to school, to go to work.

"You can feel similar to you can"t be worried to go to work but you have to be bothered. If you stay at home and feel contemptible for yourself but if you stay certain it will have a difference.

"There will come a time when I will get knocked behind but I"m not failing whilst I have 3 small children. I"m vital with cancer and I"m really grateful for the time I"ve been given.

"Everybody"s going to die cave was only rammed in my face. But but it I would not have got up and finished all things we have as a family, finished all those special memories and lived each day to the full.

"I would not be here but my husband. For me hold up is easy, I am going to die and it is my father and young kids who will be left to collect up the pieces. It is harder for them.

"My kids have been a outrageous strength. They are 3 small reasons to live, 3 small reasons to love.

"Surviving cancer isn"t only about treatment. It is not only about your personality. It"s not only about love and support. It is about all of those things pulled together. You have to have a happy change of them all."

Sticking plaster can treat skin cancer

By Kate Devlin, Medical Correspondent 209PM GMT twelve March 2010

The Ambulight device functions by triggering a containing alkali greeting that kills the cancer cells.

The creation could potentially assistance thousands of people diagnosed with the condition each year.

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Less unpleasant than surgery the smear additionally leaves no injure and has already been successful in tests on 50 patients.

It uses a comparatively new technique called photodynamic therapy, that uses light to turn on absolute drug placed on the carcenogenic area.

Previously, patients would have had to outlay hours in sanatorium whilst the light was practical to their skin.

With the growth of the plaster, however, that contains a small light device, patients can embrace the diagnosis as they go about their every day business.

Although at the impulse they would still have to have a sanatorium appointment to embrace the drugs, the inventors of the new smear hold that the total care could sometime be delivered in GP surgeries.

Prof James Ferguson, from Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, who invented the device, pronounced "We get an 80-90 per cent finish cure.

"What we are anticipating to do is optimise it further, by utilizing new ways of delivering the light ... pulsing for example.

"So there is room for improvement."

The device can customarily be used to provide non-melanoma skin cancer, that is customarily not deadly and intensely common, inspiring around 81,000 people a year in Britain.

It would not be befitting for the some-more deadly form of the disease, virulent melanoma, that affects around 10,000 people annually.

Dr Alison Ross, from Cancer Research UK, pronounced "Photodynamic care has been around for multiform years right away and the infrequently used for treating non-melanoma skin cancer.

"It customarily involves carrying to lay still underneath a light for a little time, so this new approach of reception the diagnosis utilizing a light-emitting plaster" competence give people some-more freedom.

"It will be engaging to see the formula of correct trials of these inclination to find out either they are as in effect as required photodynamic care for treating non-melanoma skin cancer."

The Ambulight is to be strictly launched at the European Society for Photodynamic Therapy in Monaco.

Coming up: whats on in the world of travel

By Jolyon Attwooll 1217PM GMT twelve Mar 2010

The Cheltenham Festival is one of the greatest events on the sporting monthly monthly calendar Photo CORBIS

Cheltenham Festival

Expect the common outrageous crowds and mad betting at this festival, one of the greatest occasions on the sporting calendar. There are twenty-six races during the four-day event, that includes Ladies" Day on Thursday and culminates in the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

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March sixteen to 19; Cheltenham, Glocs; cheltenham.co.uk Tickets from �20 (only when requisitioned online, in advance)

The tip hold up of quilts

A new muster at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Quilts 1700-2010, facilities quilts in silk and velvet, bedcovers done by � la mode artists, memorial quilts together with one for Queen Victoria"s accession and interesting stories about the people who slept underneath the displays.

March twenty to Jul 4; Victoria and Albert Museum, London;www.vam.ac.uk Adult �10, kid �6

Jewish Museum London

After a �10m refurbishment, the notable relic reopens on Mar seventeen with revamped collections exploring how and because Jewish people have come to Britain, a arrangement on the Holocaust, and a description of what hold up is similar to for British Jewish people today. Includes singular rite objects, and a re-creation of an East End travel and tailor"s workshop.

Jewish Museum, Camden; 020 7284 7384; jewishmuseum.org.uk Adult �7, kid �3

Beyond the range

Through photos of cricketers such as Viv Richards, Paul Adams and Basil D"Oliveira, this muster celebrates players who pennyless by secular bounds utilizing their skills on the cricket field.

March nineteen to Sept 12; International Slavery Museum, Liverpool; liverpoolmuseums.org.uk Free

Mother"s Day provide

There is free acknowledgment and a cut of baked sweat bread for all mothers at Hughenden Manor, once the chateau of Benjamin Disraeli, on Mother"s Day. Booking not required.

March 14; Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire; 01494 755573;www.nationaltrust.org.uk

Adult �8, kid �4.10

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NY restaurants face total salt ban if politician gets his way

By Tom Leonard in New York 1231AM GMT twelve March 2010

Felix Ortiz has due a check that would anathema the make use of of salt in New York restaurants Photo CORBIS

Bill A10129 would excellent restaurateurs $1000 (�600) each time they were held adding salt to food.

Felix Ortiz, a New York representative who due the bill, pronounced it would concede diners to select either to do it themselves.

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The administration department of Michael Bloomberg, New York City"s mayor, has already outlawed smoking from most open areas, criminialized diseased trans fats from rebuilt food and systematic most restaurants to list the calories in each object on the menu. He additionally favours a new taxation on honeyed fizzy drinks to assistance cut obesity.

An estimated 1.5 million New Yorkers humour from high red blood vigour and Mr Bloomberg is penetrating to inspire people to devour less sodium, that can intensify the problem.

However, the mayor has stopped well short of proposing an undisguised anathema on restaurants adding salt, instead campaigning for a intentional cut of a entertain over five years.

Mr Ortiz claimed that shortening the sodium calm of food could cut deaths in the city by as most as 100,000.

My Food My Choice, a bloc of restaurateurs, chefs and consumers, described his offer as "absurd".

World Indoor Athletics 2010: Jenny Meadows sets captains standard for GB team

By Simon Hart in Doha 930AM GMT twelve Mar 2010

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The 28-year-old was declared captain of the 37-strong GB group as a prerogative for her gutsy bronze award at last summers outside World Championships and she delivered a intense group speak on the eve of competition.

"Basically, I usually attempted to discuss it the group that it was patently a big warn to everybody what I did in Berlin," she said. "But from a personal perspective, the my ninth year in the GB group and my fifth World Indoors and infrequently youve got stop creation excuses and be some-more confident.

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"Last year I usually pronounced to myself, How most some-more experience do I need to get? Its time to be confident. Hopefully, that rang a couple of bells with a small of the group and helped lift their heads a small bit."

Meadows, who was the quickest qualifier of the day in 2min 0.39sec and right away goes true in to Sundays final, additionally suggested that her family behind home were glued to the live movement in Doha on Telegraph.co.uk.

"Its great that family and friends can watch it on thewebsite, that is fantastic," she said. "I know they were all up early this sunrise examination it."

Meadows feat was the collect of the British performances on the opening sunrise of the three-day championships, though 22-year-old Andrew Osagie additionally held the eye as he lowered his 800m lifetime most appropriate by some-more than three-tenths of a second to finish runner-up in his feverishness in 1min 47.40.

Carl Myerscough done it by to the shot put last in sixth place with a last throw of 20.44m, his most appropriate of the season, whilst Richard Buck competent for the 400m semi-finals as one of the dual fastest losers with a time of 47.02sec.

Steven Lewis additionally progressed to the stick safe last but done tough work of his qualification, clearing 5.60m with his third and last try to fist by in ninth place.

Vikki Hubbard, competing in her initial comparison international, unsuccessful to swell in the high-jump after clearing usually 1.85m, whilst there was additionally beating for Vicky Griffiths in the 800m, Ed Aston in the 800m and Dale Garland in the 400m.

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Frank DSouza, star of John Lewis bonus day

By Harry Wallop, Consumer Affairs Editor 630AM GMT twelve Mar 2010

Frank D"Souza, a salesman in the seat dialect of John Lewis, Oxford Street, unveils the annual reward figure - a better-than-expected 15pc of salary. Photo Geoff Pugh

The honour of opening the over-sized pouch containing the sorcery reward series at John Lewis"s flagship at Oxford Street fell him after he completed what John Lewis believes is a jot down offered �82,000 value of products to a singular patron over the march of only dual days.

Due to the singular partnership structure, with each one of the 70,000 staff owning a interest without delay in John Lewis, employees suffer poignant benefits, together with a inexhaustible pension, discounts to the theatre, the own nation club, and an annual bonus.

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At stores opposite the country, staff accumulate on the sunrise of reward day in Mar to listen to how big it will be. It is regularly voiced as a commission of annual salary.

Staff recollect fondly 1998, the jot down year when 22pc was paid out.

Mr D"Souza, who did not know what the reward was until the pouch was non-stop to exhibit the 15pc figure, beamed as the throng roared their approval.

"I"m going to make use of the reward to revisit my family in America," he said. "I can"t wait."

Mr D"Souza, who has outlayed twenty-three years at the company, believes the patron who gave him the possibility to betray the reward was a radio producer.

"He had a big residence in Tunbridge Wells he had only paid for and it indispensable furnishing. He came in to the seat dialect last Dec and I helped him. Sofas, three-piece suites, beds, the lot. By the finish of the day, he"d outlayed �40,000."

The subsequent day he returned and insisted Mr D"Souza offer him again. So they went around the rest of the store electricals, fate and alternative departments, spending a serve �42,000.

Hockey World Cup 2010: Australia 2 Holland 1

Bystaff and agencies 650PM GMT eleven March 2010

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Australia degraded the Netherlands 2-1 on Thursday to validate for a third unbroken last opposite fortifying champions Germany in the men"s domain hockey World Cup.

The Kookaburras available their 10th win in a row over the Dutch in vital competitions to set up Saturday"s pretension strife in between the tip dual teams in the sport.

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Luke Doerner and Glenn Turner scored once in each half, prior to Taeke Taekema converted a chastisement cadence twelve mins from the finish to slight the margin.

Doerner and Taekema, the dual heading chastisement dilemma specialists, head the goal-scorers list in the contest with 7 goals apiece.

Australian physical education instructor Ric Charlesworth, who played in his team"s sole World Cup-winning group in 1986, hoped it will be "third time lucky" opposite the Germans, who won the last dual World Cup finals opposite Australia in 2002 and 2006, prior to adding the bullion award at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

"We learnt from the progressing mistakes and stepped up the game. Now I idea we fool around a serve step up in the final.

"Germany are really unchanging in their diversion and have high peculiarity players around the field. They don"t have any weaknesses, but we have to find a little in the final.

"Who knows, it could be third time propitious for us."

Earlier, four-time champions Pakistan slumped to an annoying 3-2 better by Canada on Thursday to finish last for the initial time in the sport"s premier event.

Scott Tupper scored a golden idea dual mins prior to the finish of extra-time in the play-off for the 11-12 positions to palm Canada their initial win in the tournament.

The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) reacted to the better by sacking the group management, together with physical education instructor Asif Bajwa and physical education instructor Shahid Ali Khan, and the preference committee.

In a apart statement, the PHF"s media physical education instructor Shahzad Malik pronounced the complete 18-man patrol had offering to "retire from general hockey".

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China becomes biggest export market for bordeaux wine outside EU

624PM GMT eleven March 2010

The zone has high hopes of the 2009 harvest, with immature wines being presented to the general traffic and reporters over the entrance weeks.

"The incident is formidable for everybody," Alain Vironneau, authority of the CIVB bordeaux booze body, pronounced on Thursday.

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"Several hundreds of vineyards are at hazard due to deficient cash...Our companies, generally the smallest, need monetary support," he added.

He called the 2009 sales year "catastrophic", with exports down fourteen per cent in volume and twenty-three per cent in value.

However, he combined that during the past 3 months there had been a slight reconstruction that could prove the abyss of the predicament is at the back of and the 2009 "millisime" wines could assistance the zone redeem again.

Bordeaux sole 661 million bottles of booze in 2009 for revenues of 3.37 billion euros (�3 billion) for wines trimming from low-price supermarket wines to tip chateaux.

Of those sales, the French themselves paid for 68 per cent, especially around large supermarkets. Of the exports, 56 per cent remained in the European Union.

China paid for 13.7 million litres for 74 million euros (�67 million), overtaking the United States, that took 11.6 million litres for 139 million euros. Japan came third, with the same volume as the United States.

Hong Kong is counted as a apart market, where 4.2 million litres were sole for 109 million euros.

"The climb of China is definite and we design that marketplace to move up the worth sequence only as has happened in Japan," pronounced Bertrand Carles, a booze merchant for the Ginestet group.

"We have set up emporium in Bombay since we design India to follow the same route. And then, think about Brazil that creates no booze such as Argentina and Chile do, think about countries in Africa...soon we might be short of bordeaux," he said.

Bordeaux creates up around 2.5 per cent of universe booze production.

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Juventus 3 Fulham 1: match report

By Jason Burt in Turin 959PM GMT eleven March 2010

No shouting make a difference Juventus" Fabio Grosso enjoys a impulse during his side"s extensive feat opposite Fulham in the Europa League on Thursday Photo REUTERS

Fulham have been creation story with their Europa Cup forays but on Thursday night that was all but consigned to story after a vehement time in Turin.

Manager Roy Hodgson had pronounced he was no romantic but his defenders will be carrying nightmares about David Trezeguet. For the 32-year-old World Cup winner, this was one of his increasingly couple of on evenings; a possibility to show what bent he has. And a complicated cost was paid.

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Hodgson had additionally asked that his group at slightest took Juventus at the behind of to Craven Cottage with the tie still "alive"; that they gave themselves a fighting chance, a sluggers shot. They still do but the a flattering slim one. It looked similar to a diversion as well far; the quarter-finals a faraway awaiting opposite such potential as the Italians positively possessed.

It was an journey that meant so majority to Fulham, to their swell and status, but they were fast behind, fast struggling. After the primary sparring, a cranky flew in from the left and Trezeguet, fourteen yards out, rose to head towards Mark Schwarzers goal. He sloping it away.

From the corner, executive defender Nicola Legrottaglie, with Brede Hangeland held out, charged by to energy an additional header. This time, Schwarzer had no possibility as the round bounced past him. Juventus had the lead.

It silenced the 1,800 Fulham supporters who had been shoe-horned in to their splinter of a belligerent that was frugally populated. It reinforced that, for the 27-time Italian champions, who have won the European Cup twice, this was not such a big understanding though, also, sheet prices were prohibitive.

There are larger priorities. They are a faraway fifth in Serie A, fifteen points at the behind of leaders Inter Milan, carrying achieved runners-up last season. There was a host of big names blank and a superficial knowledge on the dais but there was still an experienced, expensively-assembled group with, for example, �22 million Brazilian Diego personification at the behind of a rejuvenated Trezeguet.

Fulhams run to reach this theatre of the foe proposed at the behind of in July, and this is their 13th compare so far and their 18th crater tie of a debate that has additionally taken them to a FA Cup quarter-final replay.

They are positively battle-hardened and began to feel their approach in to the competition with Damien Duff operative his approach down the right, slicing the round back, usually for Simon Davies to miscue. It was a great opportunity.

After all, Fulham couldnt design abounding pickings nonetheless conjunction could they means to suggest up chances as Jonathan Greening did in accidentally surrendering receive usually for Trezeguets shot to, just, transparent the bar.

The notice went unheeded. Soon after and right-back Jonathan Zebina simply evaded Daviess bluff challenge, as he cut in-field, and struck a fierce, right-footed cross-shot from twenty-five yards that tore past Schwarzer. It was overwhelming and dumbfounded Fulham. They were being out-played, taught a lesson. Their usually idea was containment or a propitious break. They, gratefully, got the latter.

Bobby Zamora won a free-kick, Davies swung it in and the round in the future pennyless to Dickson Etuhu who shot goalwards. Alex Manninger would have saved comfortably, but it took a infamous deflection off Legrottaglies heels and trundled in to the net. Moments after and they were roughly turn with Hangeland assembly a corner, usually for Manninger to scratch his header afar whilst Zamora and Zoltan Gera had half-chances.

Back came Juventus. And again they scored with an achieved strike. This time, after Schwarzer well sloping over Fabio Grossos pointed drive, the dilemma was met by Trezeguet usually for his right-foot shot to gunnery unit at the behind of off a post. With smashing instinct the French striker spread out to encounter the rebound, this time volleying it, left-footed, in to the alternative dilemma of the goal. Right on half-time. Hodgson was furious.

Fulham were only about unresolved on in there with Geras shot shut off and an additional dangerous cranky by Zamora, who differently struggled opposite 36-year-old Fabio Cannavaro, scrambled afar prior to Trezeguet was withdrawn. Fulham were urged on, but it was laboured.

Juventuss majority dangerous competition was relief with surrogate Vincenzo Iaquinta on fire over when well-placed prior to Diego drew an additional excellent save from Schwarzer and Legrottaglie headed narrowly wide. After the fireworks of the initial half, the competition was fizzling out. For Fulham the fire is, not yet, extinguished.

World Indoor Athletics 2010: Jenny Meadows leads Great Britains quest for gold

By Simon Hart in Doha 626PM GMT eleven Mar 2010

Standard dispatcher Jenny meadow has the perspective Charles Van Commenee wants to instil in each British contestant Photo ACTION IMAGES

Before the World Championships in Berlin, where Britain"s preparations had been strike by a spate of injuries, he delved in to history, propelling his patrol to follow Jesse Owens" e.g. in overcoming obstacles.

on Thursday night, forward of the three-day World Indoor Championships that proceed on Friday sunrise in Doha"s Aspire Dome, his theme was Qatari ambition.

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"Ten years ago this was a desert," he said. "See what it is now? Somebody there motionless to have something big out of nothing. They had a dream."

It was an engaging preference of embellishment since the barren, post-Beijing state in that Van Commenee found British entertainment when he took assign only over a year ago. But, after a six-medal transport and twenty top-eight finishes in Berlin, the immature shoots of liberation have already taken root. Now Van Commenee is seeking for a little strong, powerful growth.

The deficiency from Doha of multiform tip British performers equates to Van Commenee is less meddlesome in the altogether award equate and some-more endangered that the 37 members of the GB team, a mix of seasoned campaigners and immature hopefuls, grasp opposite their own particular goals.

For a little that does meant winning medals, preferably golden ones. Jessica Ennis will be unhappy with anything less in the pentathlon, whilst in the 60 metres Dwain Chambers will never have a improved possibility of winning his initial comparison tellurian title, generally right away that Ivory Williams of the United States, has perceived a three-month anathema after contrast certain for cannabis.

Jenny Meadows, fortified by her new British jot down in the 800m, goes in to the championships with the second fastest time in the universe this year at the back of Russia"s Yevgeniya Zinurova. And in the last eventuality on Sunday, Britain"s men"s 4x400m send patrol should plea for at slightest the silver.

For Van Commenee, Meadows"s gutsy 800m bronze award in Berlin typifies the certain genius he wants to see in Doha.

"She is has valid that you can take piece for a series of years and be fundamentally invisible, and afterwards have a preference that those days are over," he said.

"She said, "I"m going to step up and from currently onwards I"m going do it differently", and that"s what she did in Berlin. She was so assured that she could hang to her aim time after one lap. She was not in row at that stage, but she was ideally on aim to run her 1-57.

"She was assured in her own plan and that done her win her medal. I design her to grow from that. You need genuine certainty to do good things."

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Chinese inflation hits 16-month high, raises pressure for stimulus cut

By Malcolm Moore in Shanghai 958AM GMT eleven Mar 2010

Chinese acceleration hits 16-month high in February, after a cold spell forced up food prices during the month by 6.2pc. Photo EPA

Consumer cost acceleration rose to 2.7pc in February, year-on-year, compared to a rate of 1.5pc in January.

The comparatively pointy spike in acceleration widely separated perspective between economists. Some pronounced the rate was accurate, whilst others pronounced it was a fillip given of the late attainment of Chinese New Year, when family groups traditionally spend extravagantly on food and gifts.

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Others, meanwhile, pronounced the rate of acceleration had over to climb and was still not representing the rocketing food, commodity and skill prices being available in most cities.

"This celebration of the mass essentially represents the loyal rate of acceleration at the moment," pronounced Zuo Xiaolei, the arch economist at Galaxy Securities.

"In the months to come, however, acceleration might climb to as most as 5pc. However, this should be the threshold, exclusive any disasters."

Sheng Laiyun, a orator for China"s National Statistics Bureau, pronounced that a low bottom last year increased the celebration of the mass for this Feb and underlined that the Chinese supervision does not see any signs of overheating.

He pronounced acceleration might dump behind in Mar after a cold spell forced up food prices in Feb by 6.2pc.

However, economists forked to interpretation that showed a 46pc climb in exports in Feb as well as the fastest enlarge in skill prices in dual years. Banks handed out 700 billion yuan (�68bn) whilst M2 income expansion was up by 25.5pc. Retail sales in Feb grew by 22.1pc.

Although the Chinese supervision affianced to keep financial process lax at the stream National People"s Congress meetings in Beijing, economists pronounced the executive bank would have to move fast to tame inflation.

"More wilful policy-tightening measures than those implemented so far are indispensable to forestall the economy from overheating," pronounced Yu Song, an economist at Goldman Sachs.

Tao Wang, an economist at UBS pronounced China might right away lift seductiveness rates, that have been on hold given Dec 2007."Our foresee is that a rate travel should occur comparatively soon, if not this month afterwards probably early in the second quarter," she said.

The stream one-year lending rate is 5.31pc, whilst the assets rate is 2.25pc.

Meanwhile, writer cost acceleration climbed to 5.4pc in February, year-on-year, from 4.3pc in January.

Ken Bates: Leeds challenge for League One title back with a vengeance

By Rob Stewart 139PM GMT eleven March 2010

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The Elland Road bar returned to form with a 4-1 midweek win at Tranmere, when Beckford scored twice to take his total to the deteriorate to 27, and Bates is assured that both player and group are timing their run to soundness as the graduation competition hots up brazen of Saturday"s revisit to Southampton.

Beckford could leave Leeds this summer for free, but Bates is confident his goals will absolve his preference to reject a �1.8 million bid for the player from Newcastle dual months ago, even though most fans have vented their spleen in the player"s citation in new weeks.

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"Jermaine is critical but he is one of those players - a bit similar to Jimmy Greaves and I was a great fan of Jimmy"s when I was immature and he was personification - and he did zero and contributed really small to a diversion but he got goals," Bates said.

"Jermaine doesn"t run around all over the representation but he scores goals and that is what we got him for. When he is on form he is deadly. When he is not on form he struggles and so do we.

"But his jot down speaks for itself. And the points we have gained interjection to his goal-scoring verbalise for themselves as well. We contingency not dont think about that we have one or dual others who know how to measure goals such as Luciano Becchio, Snoddy (Robert Snodgrass) and Jonny Howson from midfield. They all supplement up.

"We had a possibility of offered Jermaine but we pronounced utterly bluntly that, even though we know you can leave for zero at the finish of the season, whatever we lose by keeping him will be some-more than compensated for on condition that his goals keep going up and that is what he is doing.

"All in all we are right away behind with a reprisal and we should be seeking brazen to the superfluous games with great confidence."

The feat at Tranmere strengthened Leeds" hold on the second involuntary graduation container as the Yorkshire bar non-stop up a five-point lead over Charlton and the rest of the chasing pack.

After their revisit to Southampton, Leeds host Millwall prior to streamer to leaders Norwich and afterwards hosting Swindon.

Bates knows those games could figure the club"s destiny.

"The subsequent couple of games will go a little approach to determining both the predestine and that of the 3 teams we play," the former Chelsea authority said.

"When we fool around them they will be wanting to win since alternative teams we have played not long ago have indispensable not to lose.

"That is since they are such lousy matches to watch with teams make-up their defence. These people need the points so it will be a most some-more open diversion since they will have to come at us. It equates to the character of football will be authorised to flourish.

"We"re as great as anybody, if not the best, but it takes dual to tango. We"ve knocked about Norwich and Southampton this season, but Millwall kick us there and Swindon, who still have to come here, additionally kick us, so we owe them one.

"By the time those games have left hopefully we will be in a incident where alternative teams are chasing us."

Nasdaq 10 years on: Windows 7 is Microsofts last hurrah. I am selling the stock after that

By Emma Wall 413PM GMT 10 March 2010

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"The record zone is no opposite to the vehicle sector, or the journal industry or bullion mining," pronounced Ben Rogoff, the physical education instructor of Polar Capital"s Technology trust.

"When the bullion pour out initial started, hundreds set off with their pickaxes for bullion but usually a integrate of done it big. Nobody knew that bonds would be successful at the time."

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Cogent Communications is one success story that profited from the crash. The internet use provider went open in Jun 2000, and hold onto the income it had lifted until the dust had settled. It afterwards paid for up most of the companies that had unsuccessful in the pile-up and extracted profitmaking technologies or services from the rubble. It stays a clever stock.

Cogent might have been so successful since of the diversification. Mr Rogoff warned that winning one kind of computing equates to that, when record changes, you lose. Since the pile-up both Microsoft and Nokia have been hugely successful companies, but the finish seems close for both giants.

"Microsoft has the marketplace share," pronounced Mr Rogoff. "But how can you contest with free? Google has acquired systems and launched products that have solemnly eaten afar at Microsoft. Windows 7 is the last hand for Microsoft. I am offered the batch after that."

Google creates up 5pc of the Polar Capital trust, and stays a collect for the destiny as companies are approaching to opt for free Google products over pricey Windows equivalents.

The investment industry is great at rising supports at the rise of the marketplace Mr O"Gorman drew parallels with the rising markets zone but of the 35 tech supports at the rise of the bang usually 10 section trusts remain, and usually dual Henderson Global Technology and the New Star (formerly the Aberdeen fund) have poignant amounts underneath management.

The SLFC internet Tollkeeper certitude has only �3m invested in it, heading Tim Cockerill of Rowan to disagree that maybe the time has come to move the income in to an additional account and close it down. "Investors should not see record as a apart sector," he said. "Apart from a integrate of dilettante funds, the rest are superfluous. If a tech batch is any good, afterwards a UK or American income or expansion physical education instructor will buy it."

Mr Cockerill pronounced the industry had learnt the doctrine and no longer looked to inundate a zone only since a sure sort of investment was you do well. He pronounced "At the time, 35pc of indices were done up of tech bonds in a identical ensue to line now. But there is no pour out to launch commodity supports now, and righteously so."

The hangover from the pile-up still lingers; a era of investors has been lost as burnt fingers have disheartened them from ever entering the batch marketplace let alone the record zone again.

Lessons have been learnt, however; today"s stock-picking ensue is really opposite from a decade ago and is written to forestall the outrageous waste that investors suffered then. "It"s all about anticipating the honeyed spot," Mr Rogoff said. "We are no longer as meddlesome in companies with a 1pc marketplace invasion and large projected profits. We similar to to catch companies at in between 10pc and 30pc when the batch looks costly but is about to go by the hyper-growth phase."

He explains that at 30pc people inundate in as the batch is cheaper, but the genius for growth, and thus profit, is significantly less.

Philippa Gee of T. Bailey, who warned investors not to take the record thrust in early 2000, right away has conviction that the tech zone might nonetheless set free itself. She sloping 2010 as a certain year for the zone following the recession.

"Companies have paid in instalments investments in their IT for a year or dual and right away need to ensue and mostly have the income to do so," she said. "Also, we see that program and hardware advancements due out this year are expected to pull sell direct serve it"s the old present benefit for new gadgets." But she endorsed that investors rely on a account physical education instructor to have tech picks for them, rather than take the risk themselves.

Alan Steel of Alan Steel Asset Management is a long-time record longhorn and lost income in Aberdeen Technology. He sole out years ago, but eighteen months ago proposed to go behind in, investing in Henderson Global Technology and Axa Framlington Technology. "It"s a zone of great opportunities," he said.

Mick Gilligan of Killik & Co pronounced "We right away hold it"s time to take an additional see at technology, a zone that is cyclical and has experienced descending increase as mercantile wake up has declined. However, the clever change sheets and diversified income streams of a series of US large-cap names leave them well positioned to lead converging in the industry, shortening foe and raising distinction margins.

"For those who cite to fool around the record thesis by a fund, we suggest Polar Capital Technology trust. While the infancy of the account is invested in US-based stocks, it has invested in British bonds such as Arm Holdings as well as Autonomy and Imagination Technology."

Despite this optimism, a little advisers are wary.

Adrian Lowcock of Bestinvest pronounced "While we can see intensity for the zone and it does see comparatively cheap, we suggest investors get bearing by broader equity funds, quite in the US, where tech stays strongest. We suggest Schroder US Mid Cap, that has great bearing to the tech zone but will additionally give larger diversification."

Madeira picks up the pieces

By Louise Roddon 428PM GMT eleven Mar 2010

Previous of Images Next "The old locale seemed flattering infancy as primitive as on my last visit" Photo LOUISE RODDON "It"s usually when you head easterly towards the Mercado dos Lavradores lonesome marketplace that you find a opposite picture" Photo LOUISE RODDON One internal pronounced "Everyone mucked in ? children, neighbours, associate cafeteria owners ? over and on top of the central troops assistance we received" Photo GETTY

"The object is shining, so it"s commercial operation as usual," says Toni, the trainer of Madeira"s important straw-hatted toboggan runners. He helps a integrate of Germans in to their wicker sled and watches with compensation as they speed off down squiggly cobbled Carreiros do Monte, shaken smiles etched opposite their sunburnt faces. "The peep floods essentially helped purify the travel for us, but even so, we lost a week"s work."

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Toni is referring to the harmful Saturday scarcely 3 weeks ago, when a month"s value of sleet fell in usually one hour and thespian landslides incited Funchal, the island"s superb capital, in to a mudbath.

Naturally, feelings are still raw, and magnetism high for the 42 passed and 200 finished without a country by that awful day. Yet Toni"s stoic "keep ease and lift on" ethos was echoed by infancy islanders I met whilst travelling at large over the island to check the repairs and the reformation efforts.

So is Toni right? Is Madeira behind in business? Things are positively seeking earnest for Funchal and the old locale seemed flattering infancy as primitive as on my last visit, a small eighteen months ago. Young Madeirans lingered over espressos outward Avenida Arriaga"s select Golden Gate caf, whilst a handful of tourists mooched between beside stalls offered dress trinket and festooned linen. A standard Saturday stage then, as my waitress reliable dribs and drabs of sunrise visitors, prior to the lunchtime set up up begins.

It"s usually when you head easterly towards the Mercado dos Lavradores lonesome marketplace that you find a opposite picture. Over one of the 3 rivers, the ribeiras, that flare down in to the capital, I see a integrate of lopsided bridges all of them pennyless free from their petrify proportions over the march of that morning. Farther south I see pockets of murky puddles, the two-metre-high brownish-red waves warp outlines on the superb Palacio de Sao Lourenco and, down on the marina, a football-pitch sized pour of towering rubble and large and clumsy boulders.

Here, lilliputian by the perfect distance of the effluence, diggers drop and lift their absolute orange jaws, valiantly chomping by the disaster similar to inspired automatic dinosaurs.

Tourist officials, disturbed by the new spate of cancellations, are propelling visitors not to desert this renouned Atlantic island. And righteously so since the rapid resprucing of Funchal"s centre. Admirably, infancy of this is down to Madeira"s own still heroes the teenagers who swabbed flooded shops, rather than provide the disaster as an astonishing legal legal legal holiday from school; the islanders who donated garments and income to those finished without a country (�7 million so far); Reid"s Hotel that supposing 700 dishes to the cleaning teams.

Then there are the heroes of the day itself; the Funchal tattooist who discovered dual drowning policemen and the old man whose notice write call from the north helped save large lives over south. As I watched the diggers plunge into Funchal"s last vegetable patch of replacement work, I thought of Neil and Gail Derbyshire, a Horsham integrate who had common my frugally filled moody audacious initial timers to the island who joked about not make-up a grassed area shovel.

Had they finished so, the locals would have welcomed their spirit, reckons Vanessa Rebelo, physical education instructor of smart on the H2O grill Riso. On a routinely bustling Friday night, there were usually 6 alternative diners enjoying Riso"s important risottos, whilst brawny Atlantic rollers thundered atmospherically opposite the deck flooring below.

"Everyone mucked in children, neighbours, associate caf owners over and on top of the central troops assistance we received," she said.

"We were propitious it happened on a Saturday when schools and offices were sealed differently the casualties would have been higher. By Tuesday, infancy of normal hold up was restored. Besides, the total highway house section transient damage. As far as infancy tourists were concerned, they probably thought it was usually a horribly stormy day."

Her criticism was reliable by Cathy and Ian MacGregor, whose legal legal legal holiday apartment, similar to the infancy of Funchal"s traveller digs, lies a mile or so west of the old town.

"The initial we listened was on CNN, and in disturbed texts from the family. The Madeirans merit all the visitors they can get they"ve worked so quickly to revive order," Mr MacGregor said.

But what of the rest of the island? I held the wire car to hill-straddling Monte and as we swooped over the town, flower-filled terracotta roof tiles gardens gave proceed to deformed side roads and nonetheless some-more diggers and trucks. Despite that, horticultural enthusiasts won"t be disappointed. Monte"s delectable pleasant gardens, similar to others, stays open for business.

Travelling west to Ribeira Brava uncovers a some-more joyless scene. Some twelve miles from Funchal, this tasteful locale is poignantly temperament the brunt of the "Wild River" name quite along the ER104 road, that runs together to the water. Ten mins out of locale and the highway peters out, ludicrous down on to a temporary severe track.

All along the stately Serra de Agua fill I saw deformed Volvos crumpled similar to tin foil and houses still total but sloping over on their sides. Gutted plantation buildings clung to rust-coloured cliffs of topsy-turvy earth and the internal sports locus dripped with floodwater.

I wondered what had turn of my prime small Poncha bar, where the island"s manly punch is served in a little cosy room carpeted with peanut husks. But no earlier had I asked than it appeared on the horizon, really infancy open for commercial operation a guide of witty Madeiran normality among sand and mayhem.

Later, I tagged along with Safari Jeep tours and explored the interior. In new years, the island has finished efforts to enhance over the normal interest for aged lovers of gardens. Younger visitors have been wooed by canyoning, severe levada (mini-canal) walks and off-piste jeep rides.

As we strolled along the Ribeiro Frio and Pico das Pedras levada paths, the object lively by really old laurels, my guide Celia voiced an upbeat outcome

"Sure, a small levada walks have sealed usually to be cautious. But even the misfortune affected, Nuns Valley, has right afar been cleared. And for canyoners, infancy reckon the additional H2O adds to the thrill."

Most holidaymakers have been "sensible" in their reactions, pronounced Prue Taynor, of Cadogan Holidays, and Nick Munday, handling executive of Classic Collection. But afterwards these are the island"s unchanging visitors and, as such, maybe some-more in balance to the audacious Madeirans" proceed to renewal.

It is potentially new visitors who are staying afar a means of good regard to infancy here. Conceicao Estudante, the Secretary of Tourism, is praying that the barbarous storms will have used from mental recall by the time of the Flower Festival in April.

As I left Funchal, where family groups were entertainment on the mosaic-paved avenidas for ice creams in the sun, my strenuous sense was of a tranquil town; a thoughtfulness of a dauntless island.

What I had seen assured me that Madeira is really scarcely behind to normal. The infancy of roads are open, as are hotels, bars, walks and infancy restaurants. The disaster is perceivable in parts, but not ruinously so. Madeira lives on. It"s time to go back.

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Pink Floyd stops EMI from cutting up albums online

By Stephen Adams, Arts Correspondent 145PM GMT eleven March 2010

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Band members took the jot down tag to justice on Tuesday arguing it had damaged a 1999 contract.

Lawyers for Pink Floyd had argued that a proviso in the stipulate "expressly prohibits the sale of albums in any pattern alternative than the strange configuration".

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Robert Howe, QC, for Pink Floyd, had pronounced this practical to all recordings together with those distributed online. He pronounced the rope had longed for to say inventive carry out over their "seamless" albums, in all formats.

Elizabeth Jones, QC, for EMI, had argued the anathema was singular to earthy records.

On Thursday Sir Andrew, Chancellor of the High Court, concluded with Mr Howe, and postulated Pink Floyd the stipulation they sought.

It prevents EMI from permitting the band"s albums together with Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall from being chopped up for sale as particular lane downloads, a routine well known as "unbundling".

The Pink Floyd box is thought to be the initial time a rope has succeeded in obtaining a justice statute preventing a tag from offered the albums as particular online tracks.

Sir Andrew pronounced the role of the proviso was to "preserve the inventive firmness of the albums".

iTunes was still offered particular marks from Pink Floyd"s albums on the UK site at lunchtime on Thursday.

Songs such as Money that includes the wise line "Grab that money with both hands and have a stash" and Another Brick in the Wall Part II, were still offered for 99p apiece.

Mobile phone ring tones formed on the band"s hits were additionally accessible elsewhere on the internet, with one site, What"s on TV ring tones, offered an Another Brick in the Wall ringtone for �3.50.

Pink Floyd additionally appears to have won a plea on the volume of royalties that rope members embrace from online sales, that could move them in millions more.

However, the evidence and settlement on this issue were hold in in isolation at EMI"s request, on the drift of blurb confidentiality.

It is believed to be the initial time a royalties brawl in in between artists and their jot down association has been hold in private, incompatible the media and public.

Pink Floyd sealed with EMI in 1967 and became one of the majority remunerative signings, their behind catalog being outsold usually by that of The Beatles.

Stuart Dredge of Music Ally, a digital low-pitched consultancy, pronounced he was unknowingly of any alternative box in that a rope had taken their recording association to justice to forestall unbundling.

Such a direct causes problems for jot down companies since iTunes, by far the greatest online song retailer, prefers artists to concede their albums to be sole as particular tracks.

Mr Dredge pronounced there were mostly "informal arrangements" in in between bands and their labels when the artists did not wish their albums to be sole as singles.

For example, AC/DC"s albums were not accessible on iTunes for that reason, he said.

Radiohead quickly refused to concede the song to be sole on iTunes since it against unbundling for inventive reasons. However, the rope members altered their minds in 2008.

While Mr Dredge did not think the Pink Floyd statute would set a fashion as it merely simplified a point of the stipulate with EMI he thought some-more disputes could movement as a outcome of the case.

"It will be a box of everybody going behind to their contracts and checking the small print," he said.