St Patricks Day: itrdistillery seeks whiskey lover for dream job

730AM GMT eighteen March 2010

Whiskey sappy in casks at Bushmills Distillery . Photo ALAMY

The Bushmills Whiskey distillery in Northern Ireland is scouring the world for someone to work with master distiller Colum Egan and his group for a month to emanate his or her own mix of Irish whiskey.

The leader will outlay a month on Northern Ireland"s north Antrim coast, nearby the Giant"s Causeway, where Bushmills has strong whiskey given James I certified it to do so in 1608.

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To win the job, impending whiskey makers ought to have certain they know the disproportion in between Irish whiskey and the Scottish rival, over the actuality that one is spelt with an "e" and the alternative is not, when they request online at the Bushmills Facebook page.

Mr Egan pronounced "If someone can infer to us that they have what it takes, afterwards we"d be gay to let them be the initial chairman outward of the distillery to work to one side me to emanate their own special mix of Bushmills Irish whiskey."

Italian teenager asks father for money to pay hitman to kill him

By Nick Squires in Rome 444PM GMT twenty-three March 2010

Ilenia Moretti"s plan free when the second hitman got cold feet and confessed the plan to police.

Miss Moretti, 19, from the small locale of Luzzara in northern Italy, told military she had endured years of written abuse from her determined father, Rodolfo, and resolved to have him killed assumingly with the good fortune of her mother.

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In January, she allegedly hired the initial murderer a twenty-two year old man who she recruited from the circuitously locale of Mantova.

On the night of January 8, the purported hitman, Alex Grantana, cycled twenty miles from Mantova to Luzzara in the passed of night and waited until Mr Moretti, a night porter, emerged from his residence to go to work in a internal mill.

Mr Grantana allegedly jumped out of the shadows at around 1.30am and stabbed him in the shoulder with a five-inch-long knife.

But Mr Moretti managed to quarrel off his attacker, disarming him and job the police.

Detectives were undetermined when Mr Grantana pronounced he pounded Mr Moretti since he did not similar to him notwithstanding the actuality that they had never met before.

Undaunted by the disaster of the gangland slaying attempt, Miss Moretti motionless to sinecure a second hitman.

She recruited a immature Moroccan newcomer who she met accidentally in a railway station.

But he had second thoughts and went to the police.

His admission led the Carabinieri to re-examine the resources of the initial attack.

They arrested the teen on guess of conspiring in dual attempted murders.

"She pronounced she longed for to move to an finish years of danger suffered by both daughter and mother," an questioner said.

Police additionally placed underneath review her mother, Roberta, who allegedly gave the immature light for the killing.

Juliet and her Romeo at the Bristol Old Vic, review

By Charles Spencer 452PM GMT seventeen March 2010

Michael Byrne (Romeo) and Sian Phillips (Juliet) Photo SIMON ANNAND

Some competence call it merely perverse, others a officious aspersion to the Bard. For in this startling new production, Shakespeares tragedy of childish intrigue has been incited in to a investigate of love in old age.

Whats conspicuous is how small the plays adapters, Sean OConnor and Tom Morris, have had to change. Apart from the prologue, that relocates the movement to a modern-day caring home, Verona plc, roughly each line is Shakespeares. And I have to contend I was gripped and intrigued throughout, not regularly the box when examination some-more required productions of a fool around I have maybe seen as well often.

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With the ageing race one of todays vital open concerns, and the awaiting of being bundled off in to a dour night before home a fright that haunts most of us, the prolongation is positively timely. Morriss prolongation is additionally ingenious, infrequently unequivocally funny, and mostly deeply touching.

How do you create, for instance, the extreme enmity in in between the Montagues and Capulets in an old folks home? Very simply. The Montagues are the bad saps who have been forced to money in their homes and their hold up assets to live and nap in a community ward. The Capulets are those from abounding family groups who have in isolation caring and a room of their own. No consternation tensions simmer, though when fights mangle out the selected weapons arent swords but on foot sticks and Zimmer frames. Romeo eventually gives Tybalt his quietus by smothering him with a cushion.

What creates the prolongation relocating as well as appealing is the piquancy of the mural of geriatric love. Throughout this honestly intense staging, I was reminded of Philip Larkins lines in An Arundel Tomb, when he writes that the very old forged commemorative to an nobleman and his countess proves "our almost-instinct roughly loyal what will tarry of us is love".

Tom Pyes excellent pattern captures the soulless care-home with chilling precision, right down to the smell of disinfectant, with younger actors personification doctors, nurses, Juliets vicious, niggardly daughter and the institutions proffer padre, Friar Lawrence.

Meanwhile the comparison members of the cast, personification characters that are immature in the strange play, move a smashing smashed grace and experience to their roles. I was generally changed by Michael Byrne, who plays Romeo similar to a little old-school, rheumy-eyed poet, sanctified with a watchful clarity of consternation and with a tasty pitiable humour about him as he declares "With loves light wings did I oer roost these walls."

Siân Phillips brings a used glorious and a clarity of character to a Juliet who will be 80 "come Lammas Eve", and the love scenes in in between the span have a gentle, heart-catching ardour.

Among the ancillary cast, I quite favourite Dudley Sutton, whose mischievous Mercutio delivers the Queen Mab debate with good beauty, whilst Tim Barlow brings a terrifying viciousness to his rickety Tybalt.

It doesnt all smoke-stack up carrying killed Tybalt, would Romeo unequivocally have been authorised to skid off in to the streets? but where it counts this prolongation reinvigorates an over-familiar fool around with intelligence, aptitude and singular tenderness.

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Gay soldiers attack US general who claimed homosexuals were to blame for Srebrenica

By Bruno Waterfield 448PM GMT twenty-three March 2010

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John Sheehan, a former US ubiquitous and Nato commander, angry the Netherlands last week when he purported that plainly happy Dutch soldiers had so shop-worn infantry spirit that the country"s armed forces was unable to forestall violent death in Bosnia.

Up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys were massacred by Bosnian Serb forces after Dutch UN peacekeepers unsuccessful to forestall the tumble of the Srebrenica enclave in July, 1995, a bequest that has one after another to haunts the Netherlands.

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Peter Schouten, a Dutch activist, has founded the "Pink Army" to move a category movement authorised box opposite General Sheehan in a Californian sovereign court.

With the await of the Dutch Homosexuality and Armed Forces Foundation, Mr Schouten is aiming to partisan 7 homosexual Dutch soldiers to record slander and insult charges opposite the general.

The litigants will direct a full-page nullification in US and Dutch newspapers, full authorised costs and will ask US judges to send the late ubiquitous on mandatory "sensitivity training".

"Nobody should blink what an huge change these statements of Sheehan had on the American people. There are most who will really hold that these statements are true, and that feeds a total alternative era of hatred opposite homosexuals again," pronounced Mr Schouten.

Gen Sheehan claimed that Henk outpost basement Breemen, a former arch of staff of the Dutch army, had told him that happy soldiers were seen as "part of the problem" that contributed to the tumble of Srebrenica.

Mr Schouten has indicted him of lying for "conservative" domestic purposes during the US Senate hearing, convened to plead the box for permitting gays to offer plainly in the American military.

"He was lying underneath promise in front prior to a Senate Commission. There is additionally the issue of perjury," he said.

Young woman is suspected sixth victim of legal drug

By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor 535PM GMT twenty-three March 2010

Lois Waters, whose physique was found on Monday, is believed to have taken the authorised high, additionally well known as miaow miaow, in the 48 hour duration heading up to her death.

She was found at a friend"s residence in the encampment of Norton, North Yorkshire, and military are watchful for the formula of toxicology tests to work out what purpose mephedrone played.

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The ravaged family of Miss Waters yesterday paid reverence to a "really poetic girl" but pronounced they still did not know the full story at the back of her death, that follows those of dual teenagers in Scunthorpe last week.

It came as the Government"s arch drug confidant signalled mephedrone should be criminialized as a Class B drug, a difficulty that now includes amphetamines similar to speed.

Professor Les Iversen, the authority of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), pronounced his personal perspective was mephedrone was "amphetamine by an additional name" and that any deaths related to the drug were a "tragedy".

His organisation is approaching to rigourously indicate a anathema in a inform to Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, on Monday, but it stays misleading either they will have sufficient investigate to additionally indicate a classification, definition it could be majority some-more months prior to any anathema is in place.

The Commons Home Affairs Select Committee yesterday pronounced it was essay to Mr Johnson to protest that delays in banning the potentially fatal piece are "most unsatisfactory".

Research by the ACMD is believed to have been hold up by Mr Johnson"s sacking of it"s afterwards authority Professor David Nutt last October, that Prof Iversen certified had caused a "period of hiatus".

The issue has come to inflection following the spate of new deaths, culminating in that of Miss Waters.

Detective Chief Inspector Nigel Costello, of North Yorkshire Police, pronounced yesterday that her family and friends had told him that she had been receiving the drug in the 48-hour duration heading up to her death, presumably with alternative substances.

The immature woman"s mother, Alison, who was being comforted at the home of Lois" sister Joni in Norton, pronounced "Lois was a unequivocally poetic girl, she was unequivocally quiet."

A masculine relations combined "All the family is very, really upset. We don"t know the full story about what happened yet."

Mr Costello pronounced military were called to the house, where Miss Waters had been staying since the early hours of Sunday morning, only after 9am on Monday.

The investigator pronounced the plant outlayed Sunday observant she did not feel well, angry of feeling indolent and was defunct for majority of the day.

He pronounced alternative substances had been recovered but he is not nonetheless in a on all sides to contend what they are.

Miss Waters" genocide follows those of Louis Wainwright, 18, and Nicholas Smith, 19, whose deaths in the Scunthorpe area last week have additionally been compared with mephedrone.

The substance, that is marketed as plant food, has additionally been related to at slightest 3 alternative deaths and the Government has been criticised for not you do some-more to plunge into the threat.

Giving justification to the Home Affairs Committee yesterday, Prof Iversen pronounced "As a pharmacologist these drug are amphetamines by an additional name and I know that amphetamines are harmful.

"I think you can ascertain my conclusions from that."

Amphetamines are now a Class B drug along with cannabis.

Putting mephedrone in Class B would meant carrying the drug would be punishable with a jail tenure of up to five years and traffic it with up to to fourteen years in prison.

But such a letter of reference could means a quandary for Mr Johnson as the goods of the drug are likened to those of Ecstasy and cocaine, that as Class A and kin of suspected victims would wish tougher action.

Keith Vaz, authority of the Committee, pronounced "We will be essay following this event to the Home Secretary about these matters.

"We only think the check is majority unsuitable since the dangers that are fundamental (in receiving mephedrone)."

The mom of a tyro killed by an additional authorised high criticised Government delays in behaving as "outrageous" as she stepped up her debate for puncture banning powers.

Maryon Stewart, whose 21-year-old daughter Hester died after receiving the dance drug GBL subsequently finished bootleg last year has regularly called for US-style laws banning all authorised highs for a year whilst scientists consider their dangers.

But after surveying her proposals to anathema all authorised highs in a request sent to the Home Office, as well as Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs, she pronounced changes to the complement should have been finished "years ago".

Ms Stewart, a nutritionist writer from Brighton, pronounced "I only do not wish any some-more family groups to go by what we have been through.

"If something thespian is not finished immediately, the consequences for younger generations are going to be dreadful."

David Cameron attacks Labour lies over free perks for elderly

By Andrew Porter, Political Editor 800PM GMT twenty-three March 2010

The Tory personality is mad that Labour campaigners around the nation are revelation the aged that their free train passes and winter fuel payments would go if the Conservatives were elected.

In a press discussion Mr Cameron pronounced that pensioners would keep those benefits if he was inaugurated budding minister. And he launched a sardonic conflict on the "appalling people" peddling the "lies".

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Mr Cameron was asked either a Conservative supervision would cut any of the benefits paid out to aged people, such as the winter fuel payment, that is value in between �125 and �400 to over-60s depending on their situation.

He pronounced "We will keep the winter fuel allowance. Let me take this event to contend really obviously to any licentiate ... You know you are removing letters from the Labour Party that contend the Conservatives would cut the winter fuel allowance, would cut the free train travel, would cut the free radio licence.

"These statements by Labour are utterly simply lies. I don"t make use of the word "lie" really often, but I am utilizing it currently since they are lies.

"A Conservative supervision would keep the winter fuel allowance, would keep the free radio licence, would keep the income for pensioners. Don"t be fearful by a Government that is perplexing to shock you in to not opting for change."

The Tory leader, thumping the pulpit at what he pronounced he hoped would be his last unchanging press discussion as Opposition leader, pronounced that the "sooner they are out of bureau the better".

The Conservatives expelled a dossier containing examples of where Labour MPs and possibilities have done improper accusations about Tory policies.

Jon Tricket, a Yorkshire Labour MP, wrote to electorate "If you are a licentiate you could lose your winter fuel allowance, free travel, eye tests, swimming, TV looseness and passport."

Patrick Hall, a Labour MP in Bedford, asks on his debate circular "Do you think your free buss transport would be protected in their hands?"

Maria Eagle, the Prisons Minister and Labour MP in Liverpool, in a minute sent out in January, wrote that "your winter fuel stipend could… be at risk if the Tories win".

Labour knows that the votes of the aged will be consequential in the election. Mr Cameron additionally understands that pensioners are additionally expected to opinion some-more than younger electorate and that explains his annoy over the Labour "lies."

But a Labour celebration orator claimed Mr Camerons annoy was "synthetic".

He pronounced "It"s a bit abounding for David Cameron to explain we are the celebration scare-mongering old people when he put a tombstone on a print about caring for the elderly. And his annoy over claims that the Tories are a hazard to pensioners seems a small fake in the light of his party"s record.

"The Tories have regularly against the await we have since to pensioners and they against the key of the Winter Fuel Allowance."

Six Nations 2010: Scotland coach Andy Robinson demands winning mentality

By Alasdair Reid 730AM GMT eighteen March 2010

Worry Kelly Brown, Scotland"s blindside flanker who suffered a head damage in a incident with England"s Ugo Monye Photo PA

Yet Robinson came in to his pursuit as Scotland manager last year priesthood the gospel that winning is everything, so he at slightest showed a turn of firmness not regularly viewable in a little of his predecessors by adhering to that line on Wednesday.

Naming the same starting XV to fool around Ireland in the Six Nations at Croke Park on Saturday that had lined up opposite England, Robinson stressed again that the usually sort of growth that interests him involves his group scoring some-more points than their opponents.

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"We"re here to win games of rugby," was Robinson"s organisation reply to a subject connected with the swell Scotland have done in new matches. "That"s what we"re about and what we"re going to be judged on. We contingency never, ever dont think about that."

The thesis of the contest is that Scotland"s players have been praised by the critics, but taunted by the scoreboards. They were comprehensively knocked about by a improved side when they lost to France in the opening game, but they saw some-more than sufficient of the round to do improved in their waste to Wales and Italy and their 15-15 pull with England.

Scotland have been concerned in a little frustratingly parsimonious matches their majority new margins of defeats have been three, nine, 7 and 4 points but they have accomplished unequivocally bad in all of them.

"There"s a lot of aspiration and a lot of people are perplexing unequivocally hard," Robinson explained. "There has been a little genuine peculiarity in the line-out, in a little of the plays and in the go-forward we"ve had. But when it unequivocally comes down to the crux, what we have to do is assimilate how to win games.

"Argentina [last November], Wales, Italy and England were all covenant to the actuality that"s an area we unequivocally have to nail. If and when we entirely assimilate that afterwards this group can unequivocally move forward."

If luck, or at slightest the absence, has played any piece in the settlement of Scotland"s championship, Robinson competence take joy from the actuality that the damage concerns that had behind his group preference for twenty-four hours all privileged up and authorised him the oppulance of job on the same players who had come so close to reclaiming the Calcutta Cup a couple of days earlier.

The majority poignant be concerned had been Kelly Brown, the blindside flanker who suffered a critical head hit in a incident with England"s Ugo Monye early in the second half.

Although he showed no symptoms of the damage when he returned to Murrayfield on Monday morning, Brown still had to come by a series of cognitive tests, as demanded by determined healing protocols, prior to his place in the group to face Ireland could be confirmed.

There is still one slow disbelief around Brown as he has nonetheless to take hit in training. If he can come by that with no inauspicious reaction, he will consequence his 35th Scotland top in Croke Park.

Brown"s Glasgow clubmate Graeme Morrison will have his 23rd general coming on Saturday.

Last week, Robinson referred to that the centre"s 22nd top competence well be his last if he could not furnish a opening almost improved than a little of his new displays. Morrison responded with a glorious match, and his manager was happy to admit that response.

Robinson pronounced "I was gratified with the approach Graeme carried the round and ran strongly. I"ve done no tip that I"m a Graeme Morrison fan and I hold that carrying a centre of his peculiarity in the midfield, with his gait and physicality, is critical for us if we wish to win rugby matches."

Scotland XV H Southwell (Stade Francais); S Lamont (Scarlets), N De Luca (Edinburgh), G Morrison (Glasgow), M Evans (Glasgow); D Parks (Glasgow), C Cusiter (Glasgow, capt); A Jacobsen (Edinburgh), R Ford (Edinburgh), E Murray (Northampton), J Hamilton (Edinburgh), A Kellock (Glasgow), K Brown (Glasgow), J Barclay (Glasgow), J Beattie (Glasgow). Replacements S Lawson (Gloucester), A Dickinson (Gloucester), R Gray (Glasgow), A MacDonald (Edinburgh), M Blair (Edinburgh), P Godman (Edinburgh), S Danielli (Ulster).

England 44-man squad to tour Australia and New Zealand

By Gavin Mairs, Rugby News Correspondent 948AM GMT eighteen March 2010

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England will fool around dual Tests opposite Australia, in Perth on Jun twelve and Sydney on Jun 19, and 3 midweek games.

The debate additionally facilities dual matches opposite the Australian Barbarians on Jun 8 in Perth and Jun fifteen in Gosford, whilst England"s last tie is opposite New Zealand Maori on Jun twenty-three in Napier, in a compare that will form piece of the New Zealand Maori centenary celebrations.

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The large patrol of 44 players - 7 some-more than the British and Irish Lions took to South Africa last summer - will contain of members of Englands chosen player patrol and the Saxons. It will be Englands initial five-match summer debate given their revisit to South Africa 10 years ago.

"The debate presents all the players and coaches with a good event to exam themselves opposite a little glorious teams," pronounced England physical education instructor Martin Johnson.

"All five matches will be really difficult and give us the event to see at a little players who might not have had the event to fool around on this debate if it had been limited to dual exam matches.

"The games will be good occasions and to fool around the New Zealand Maori in their centenary year is a outrageous honour."

The RFUs chosen rugby executive Rob Andrew pronounced the debate would be a poignant step in England"s idea of construction a patrol for the 2011 World Cup in New Zealand.

"Id similar to to appreciate the Australia and New Zealand Unions for assisting us to set up this debate and Premier Rugby and the RPA (Rugby Players Association) for their persisting await for the England deputy teams as piece of the eight-year agreement," pronounced

"It will give England patrol members an glorious event of experiencing a full debate prior to they potentially get comparison for a Rugby World Cup.

"The patrol will embody players that would differently have trafficked to Denver for the Churchill Cup with the England Saxons in May and Jun and it additionally gives a series of players the event to step up in to the Saxons patrol around the Elite Player Pathway and they will good from the experience."

Questor share tip: Salamanders high-impact drilling make it a risky buy

By Garry White, Questor Editor 700AM GMT twenty-three March 2010

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The association is training twelve wells this year, targeting resources of 340m barrels of oil equivalent. The primary big headlines on the training programme should come towards the finish of Apr from the well at Bang Nouan in Laos. Drilling work was proposed or "spudded" on Feb twenty-two and is approaching to take up to 75 days. Salamander has a 30pc operative seductiveness in this plan and it could enclose recoverable pot of up to 1.1 trillion cubic feet of gas.

Two serve wells are approaching to be drilled in the second quarter, 3 in the third entertain with the rest in the fourth entertain of 2010. Success at any of these sites would open up most serve training prospects that could be drilled in the future.

The shares changed reduce last week after the organisation denounced a $100m (�66.3m) automobile down payment issue to one side the full-year numbers. The automobile issue was not to lift supports for the 2010 training programme, that is full funded. The income lifted is a fight chest to buy some-more resources in Middle East should the event arise. The association believes that there has been a change in the item marketplace as the oil cost seems to be stabilising and thinks that this is expected to move out some-more sellers in the region. "We haven"t seen the item marketplace in Middle East this colourful given the begin of the downturn," pronounced James Menzies, arch executive.

Salamander voiced the primary squeeze to one side the automobile announcement. It has paid for the operatorship and a 50pc seductiveness in a retard offshore Northern Vietnam in the Hanoi Trough from Santos and Singapore Petroleum. This is a new dish entrance for Salamander and the area is in the primary stages of exploration. However, item purchases crop up to be a medium-term goal, so investors should not design to see a raft of purchases in the subsequent couple of months.

In the 12-month duration to Dec 31, revenues rose 56pc to $157.1m and pre-tax waste narrowed to only $3m from $75m in the prior year. Production in 2009 averaged 13,600 barrels of oil homogeneous a day, a 41pc year-on-year rise. Salamander expects prolongation in the stream year to climb by in between 17pc and 18pc. The association had $59.2m in income at the finish of 2009 and net debt of $115.4m.

The shares are trade on a Dec 2010 gain mixed of 17.6 times, in expectation of their training programme. The shares changed roughly 6pc reduce after the automobile headlines last week and are right away 13pc next the primary letter of reference cost compared with a marketplace up 2pc. Salamander stays a speculative, high-risk fool around formed on the high-impact training programme over the march of this year. Being high risk, investors should not deposit a poignant volume of income in the shares.

Arsenals Cesc Fabregas to return against West Ham on Saturday

127PM GMT eighteen Mar 2010

Recovered Cesc Fabregas accessible again after injure leg tendon damage Photo EPA

Arsenal captain Fabregas has been out given Mar 6 - blank the matches with Porto and Hull - due to a injure leg tendon damage but is approaching to pass a fitness exam tomorrow morning.

Tomas Rosicky is additionally expected to be fit following a groin problem, but defender William Gallas has "an unconstrained calf injury", according to Wenger.

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Gallas has longed for the last 6 games and is set to be out for at slightest dual some-more matches - blank the West Ham compare and the diversion at Birmingham on Mar 27.

"Cesc and Tomas have a last exam tomorrow morning," Wenger said. "They should be accessible for Saturday.

"From the last diversion we don"t lose anybody. So routinely we should have Fabregas, Carlos Vela and Rosicky back. Plus of march we have Song entrance behind from suspension.

"However, William Gallas will not be accessible this week or at Birmingham. It is going on and on. It is a concern.

"It is an unconstrained calf aria and so we need Sol Campbell and Mikael Silvestre to be rarely ready to assistance us out."

Alex Song will be behind from a two-match cessation opposite West Ham and Carlos Vela could be combined to the patrol as Arsenal find to raise their pretension bid after their last-gasp 2-1 win at Hull last weekend.

Wolfgang Wagner and Lady Waltonvery different keepers of the flame

By Rupert Christiansen 1205PM GMT twenty-three March 2010

With the deaths voiced yesterday of Wolfgang Wagner, at the age of 90, and Lady Walton, at the age of 83, dual of the song worlds good keepers of the fire have been snuffed out. Their paths never crossed, and they could frequency have been some-more opposite in personality, but the fluke of their coexisting flitting leads one to cruise them in comparison.

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Wolfgang Wagner was Richard Wagners grandson, and had clear memories of his parents mother Cosima, Wagners widow. This alliance to the source of the cult done him a extreme defender of what he saw as the truth, the proceed and the light of Wagnerism, but one wonders if he had any surpassing bargain of them. His abilities were unsentimental from 1951, he was obliged for the commercial operation side of the revived, de-Nazified Bayreuth Festival, a charge he one after another to liberate for over half a century, latterly in partnership with his second mother Gudrun.

The inventive decisions were primarily left to his some-more egghead and charismatic hermit Wieland, whom Wolfgang loathed. (Nothing surprising about that - roughly everybody in the Wagner dynasty loathes everybody else.) But when Wieland died immature in 1966, Wolfgang took solitary carry out and proposed directing the Wagner operas himself, in a character in all deliberate clumsy and dull. This folie de loftiness was his biggest mistake. Wieland had been a theatre executive of might and originality, whose post-Nazi reinterpretation of Wagners operas were of good informative importance. Wolfgang was in some-more aged a plonker, unreflectively regressive in his proceed and not in in aptitude for stagecraft.

Although he was mostly indicted of being cruel and unimaginative, even his misfortune enemies had to confess that Wolfgang was a rarely fit administrator, and the Bayreuth Festival prospered underneath his deceit and advantageous management. Those who went to work there, regularly for unequivocally small money, regularly dignified his courtesy to item and his capability to keep sequence and safeguard glorious operative conditions - not usual in the pell-mell universe of opera.

Yet the irony of Wolfgangs career is that however majority of a dull- witted conservative he was personally, he had the cleverness to see that if Wagner was to sojourn title headlines and Bayreuth was to keep the general repute and clat, it was critical that it was seen to be open to immature bent and in advance influences = even if they were profoundly detestable to his own tastes.

From the 1970s onwards, he invited a array of left-leaning immature directors to theatre the operas, between them Patrice Chreau, Götz Friedrich, Werner Herzog, Harry Kupfer, Christoph Schlingenschief and Christoph Marthaler. It is their work - and the controversies, scandals, ovations and abuse that they desirous - that constitutes Wolfgangs biggest achievement.

Susana Gil was innate in Argentina. A distinguished beauty, she met the composer William Walton when he was on vacation Buenos Aires on a post-war outing and she was a cabinet member at the internal British Council.

They were tied together in 1948 and set up home together on the island of Ischia, where Walton could harmonise in peace.

Susana was a shining housewife and shortly learnt how to understanding with Waltons ardent appetites, that mostly led him astray. Girl friends were tolerated up to a point, but no further, and Walton regularly went at the back of to his wife.

Susana wasnt quite low-pitched and the integrate had no children.

What joined them - and what used up majority of Waltons beautiful appetite in his after years was the pretentious grassed area they combined with the gardener Russell Page on their estate at La Mortella. It is right away open to the open and majority visited.

After Waltons genocide in 1983, Susana became fiercely active in the means of compelling her late husbands music, mostly pushing others concerned - orchestras, conductors, publishers to daze with her letters and phone calls. She could, but doubt, be a bit of a nightmare, and both her loyalties and her enmities were ardent and absolute. But there was good warmth, affability and munificence about her too, as well as a superb clarity of humour, as evinced in her comical warts-and-all discourse of her matrimony Behind the Façade.

Wolfgang Wagner didnt unequivocally have a possibility in life, one feels. His estate was complicated and inevitable and poisonous, though his feuding with his own young kids and nephews and nieces usually exacerbated the abuse on the dynasty. In appointing Eva, the daughter of his initial marriage, and Katharina, the daughter of his second marriage, as his successors at Bayreuth, he was receiving his last punish on Wieland by decisively incompatible his lineage. But I wouldnt bank on this being the finish of the story.

Susana Waltons last years, done physically unpleasant by distressing arthritis, contingency have been done even some-more unhappy by the obscure in Waltons reputation, that all her efforts could do zero to reverse. But she leaves at the back of her intense memories of a vivid, life-enhancing celebrity - she illuminated up a room when she entered it - and the relic of a grassed area of good and lasting beauty. Thats a improved human bequest than Wolfgangs.

Fiona Cairns recipe: Easter biscuits

By Sarah Stephens 730AM GMT eighteen March 2010

Easter biscuits Photo LAURA HYND

(Makes 24)

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370g solid flour

250g unsalted butter, diced

125g golden caster sugar

1 egg yolk

1 tsp vanilla extract

100g dim or divert chocolate,

broken in to pieces

biscuit cutters (I used a rabbit, an egg and a chick, each 7-8cm long)

Sift the flour and half a teaspoon of salt in to a play and set aside. Cream together the butter and sugarine in a large bowl, utilizing a wooden ladle or a mixer, until well total and fluffy. Add the egg yolk and vanilla and brew well, afterwards work in the flour. Once the reduction comes together as a dough, dust your hands with flour and hang it in adhere film. Chill for an hour (or up to a couple of days if some-more convenient) or freeze for up to a month. This mix can differently be wily to work, generally in prohibited continue or a comfortable kitchen.

Preheat the oven to 180C/gas symbol 4. Roll out the mix utilizing copiousness of flour (it is utterly sticky) to 3-4mm thick. Cut out the biscuits with your selected cutters and lay them on dual baking sheets lined with parchment. Make holes towards the tip of each with a skewer for threading by the ribbon. Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until dark gold. Cool on a handle rack, re-forming the badge holes with the skewer.

To decorate

700g white sugarpaste

1 pot yellow food colour paste

1 pot immature food colour pulp

1 pot pinkish food colour paste

250g parcel stately icing

6m phony badge for hanging

Divide the sugarpaste in to 3 and place in apart polythene bags. Leave one white for the rabbits, colour one dark yellow for the chicks and the alternative dark immature for the eggs. Colour the sugarpaste, as per the roses recipe above, the day prior to you need it.

On a purify work aspect dusted with topping sugar, hurl out the white sugarpaste to about 2mm thick. Cut out with the rabbit cutter, creation as most as you have rabbit biscuits.

Make the stately topping according to the parcel instructions, order in to three, colour yellow, immature and pinkish as per the sugarpaste roses recipe on top of and put in to piping bags.

Pipe a small stately topping on to the biscuit and hang on the sugarpaste rabbit. Make a hole in the sugarpaste in the same place as that on the biscuit for the ribbon. Repeat with the yellow sugarpaste on the chicks and the immature for the eggs.

Pipe pinkish dots on the rabbit, an ear and an eye, a pinkish eye for the chicky and yellow patterns on the egg. Allow the sugarpaste and topping to set overnight. Cut the badge in to 25cm lengths and thread by each biscuit.

An election baby

733PM GMT twenty-two March 2010

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Whatever we think of the heading politicians, it cannot be pronounced that they miss an bargain of what it equates to to have all the worries, joys and, sometimes, tragedies of family life. It was voiced yesterday that David and Samantha Cameron are awaiting an additional kid after this year, for that most congratulations are due. Nick and Miriam Clegg have immature children, as do Gordon and Sarah Brown in Number 10. While the Blair immature kids additionally grew up in Downing Street, it is nothing the less singular if not rare for all the principal protagonists in a ubiquitous choosing to have immature families. This is not simply a thoughtfulness of the relations girl of complicated politicians, but additionally a timely sign that a little things comparison the receptive to advice and ire of pre-election campaigning.

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BBC Symphony Orchestra, Barbican, review

By Ivan Hewett 526PM GMT twenty-two Mar 2010

THE BBC Symphony Orchestras arch transmitter Jirí Belohlávek is a man with a mission. He is assured that his compatriot, the Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu, is a vital symphonist of the 20th century, and is conducting all 6 of his symphonies this season.

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Last Friday night, he reached the Fifth, stoical - similar to the prior 4 -in a detonate of impulse during Martinus wartime outcast in the US.

Like Stravinskys Symphony in Three Movements, a some-more obvious wartime harmony by a European migr, the anxieties of the time show by in the nervous steady rhythms.

The disproportion is that Stravinsky regularly knew just how prolonged he could repeat one of those rat-a-tat-tat total prior to the tragedy starts to sag.

Martinu, alas, did not but the tough to hold that opposite him, as the simply a pointer of his easily guileless nature.

When he hits on an idea, his healthy bent is to urge it on to a fulsome climax. This can be an endearing trait, but additionally an irritating one, and the a reverence to Belohláveks eager but supportive opening that majority of the time it seemed similar to the former.

Brahmss German Requiem, that followed the symphony, is obviously a masterpiece, but in alternative ways it is deeply puzzling 19th-century unison requiems routinely elicit the terrors of the Last Judgment and afterwards a consoling prophesy of the hereafter, but this

one doesnt utterly do either.

Belohláveks opening referred to that underneath Brahmss sincere Christian summary is another; that the assent of the penance is unequivocally usually a embellishment for the assent of the grave, and that one should essay to live a great hold up and recollect ones mortality, with no thought of celestial reward.

That feeling emanated from the executive "All Flesh is Grass" movement, that far from sounding grimly minatory - as it mostly does - simply had the immense, ease earnest of destined fact. Not all about the opening was similarly successful. "How pleasant are thy tabernacles" felt a small hulking even Brahms could have his carefree moments.

Ana María Martínezs sensuously tawny voice was pleasing in itself, but seemed somewhat out of place, as if a remarkable sniff of Massenets Thais had invaded Brahmss sanctuary.

But baritone Benedict Nelson - station in for Markus Eiche - struck the right, critical note. In all, the opening had a ease spaciousness, that went right to the musics obscure heart.

Listen to this unison online until Mar twenty-six at www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer

NHS should cut 30,000 beds to save money, think tank warns

By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor 730AM GMT seventeen March 2010

Regions together with London, the North East and the North West should design to close over a entertain of their beds, the inform said. Photo CLARE KENDALL

Many regions in England have as well most hospitals and as well most beds and patients, a inform by Reform said.

Instead, some-more patients should be treated with colour with colour in the village nearer their homes that is softened for them and cheaper for the NHS, it said.

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Its inform pronounced that around 32,000 of the 160,000 hospitals beds should be cut and it criticised politicians for station in the approach and hostile the changes.

Doctors warned such large cuts for quite monetary reasons would be "immoral and catastrophic" for studious caring rather than urge services.

Regions together with London, the North East and the North West should design to close over a entertain of their beds, the inform said.

The NHS has already marked down the series of sanatorium beds it provides by some-more than one third given 1987 but it should go further.

The health make use of contingency save at slightest �20bn over the subsequent five years as the large increases in appropriation are entrance to an finish and direct for healthcare continues to climb with the plumpness predicament and ageing population.

A key long-term Government process has been to yield some-more healthcare in the village instead of in hospitals but the incentives in the complement have it formidable to emanate poignant shifts, the inform said.

Hospitals are paid on the series of patients they yield and so there is small value for them to see patients treated with colour with colour in the village by GPs or nurses.

However illnesses suffered by patients has altered significantly given the NHS was determined and some-more people are vital with long-term conditions similar to arthritis, asthma, lung disease and heart disease. These patients need await to stay well at home, the inform said.

Surgical record has additionally softened so patients need to stay in sanatorium beds for less time and most operations are right away carried out as day cases.

The inform additionally highlights the series of beds being taken up by aged patients who could be vital elsewhere supposed "bed blockers".

It additionally highlighted that most trusts are not utilizing their maternity beds and pronounced in a little hospitals usually half the beds are in make use of at any one time.

The inform says London, the North East and the North West all have a most higher series of beds and hospitals per head than alternative tools of the country.

For example, the North East has 40 per cent some-more beds and some-more than twice as most sanatorium sites per head of race as the south of England.

The inform criticises Tory personality David Cameron for proposing a duration on changes to district ubiquitous hospitals and to maternity and A&E services.

And it says health apportion Mike O"Brien was wrong to meddle with plans to revoke sanatorium beds by Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Mr O"Brien indicted managers of carrying "a miss of imagination" in proposing the cuts and wrote to the certitude expressing his concerns.

The certitude has pronounced it needs to save in between �27 and �30 million in the 2010/11 monetary year due to reductions in open zone spending. It has right away affianced to deliberate serve on the plans.

Patrick Nolan, arch economist at Reform, pronounced "Health systems around the universe are gearing up to change caring out of hospitals and in to the community. The English NHS is righteously formulation to do the same thing.

"Politicians would do most appropriate to rivet internal people in the choices confronting their NHS services rather than sustain myopic antithesis to them."

Dr Mark Porter, Chairman of the British Medical Associations Consultants Committee, pronounced "Bed occupancy rates are already really high in the NHS, that is a principal means of hospital-acquired infection. Cutting beds for quite monetary reasons would be incorrigible and inauspicious for studious care.

"There can and should be reconfiguration of services when it is driven by the needs of patients, and the veteran recommendation of clinicians. Some of these will outcome in changes to bed numbers.

"But the thought that make use of changes should be carried out quickly, that they can automatically urge quality, and that genius in the first caring zone can rught away enlarge to cope with such changes, is nonsense."

A Department of Health orator pronounced "The internal NHS is most appropriate placed to confirm how most appropriate to encounter the needs of patients in their areas.

"Efficiencies are about creation certain that trusts can go on to yield high peculiarity caring at a time when spending is going to be tighter opposite the total open sector.

"Each certitude will have to confirm how most appropriate it can do this and how it can most appropriate strengthen the needs of patients.

"This is practicable - focusing on mending quality, capability and creation opposite the NHS will not usually urge caring but additionally save income opposite the NHS."

Companies avoid �90m stamp duty

By Harry Wilson 600AM GMT twenty-two March 2010

Schemes of agreement engage the aim association cancelling the shares and re-issuing them to the customer who pays the squeeze cost approach to shareholders.

Deals value �18.2bn saved acquirers �90m in stamp avocation costs in 2008 and 2009.

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Lawyers contend this series is expected to climb as some-more companies see to have use of the structure.

Charles Wilson, a partner at law organisation Trowers & Hamlins, that rebuilt the figures, pronounced the marketplace was apropos "ever some-more comfortable" with schemes of agreement to equivocate stamp avocation of 0.5pc on acquisitions.

"During the mercantile downturn each penny counts," pronounced Mr Wilson.

"For a commercial operation that competence already be stretching itself to have an merger the stamp avocation assets that can be completed around a intrigue of agreement creates it a renouned option."

A decade ago usually about one in 10 deals were finished by a intrigue of arrangement.

Last year 37pc of all takeovers were organized this way, up from 24pc in 2008.

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Cosmetic surgeon creates boob job without implants

By A DailyReporter 730AM GMT twenty-two March 2010

The surgeon takes tissue from underneath the breast and places it on top of the pap to give a fuller look.

Professor Laurence Kirwan, a British expert who has a make use of in New York and an additional in London will plead the operation at an American healing discussion subsequent month.

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The technique is one of the rising methods surgeons are building to emanate a fuller breast some-more of course and but the need for silicone implants. Other techniques engage relocating fat from elsewhere the in the physique and even utilizing branch cells to grow new breast tissue.

Prof Kirwan pronounced "What I do is to move around a little of their resources to furnish the most appropriate effect. What we are you do is relocating tissue so that the skin is tightened below, pulling the breast up and stuffing it out.

"For a lot of women this will be the idealisation breast increase operation that will be roughly permanent compared to the make use of of implants that need replacing after around 10 years."

The surgeon -who has finished a 150 operations so far with around 50 in the UK claims the formula so far have been excellent.

His operation lasts we estimate 3 to 3 and half hours and will set behind patients in between �8,000- �12,000, depending on the length of the operation and the sanatorium used.

Pearl aims for full LSE listing

By Lawrie Holmes 941PM GMT twenty Mar 2010

Pearl"s bankers, JP Morgan Cazenove and Deutsche Bank, are operative on a second-quarter inventory on the main marketplace of the London Stock Exchange, a step up from a delegate listing. In addition, the organisation is approaching to lose the first inventory on the Amsterdam-based Euronext marketplace over the march of the subsequent year, the source said.

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In Feb the group, that will rebrand as Phoenix Group before to listing, pronounced it had already generated some-more than �500m in money in 2009 that it will betray at full-year formula on Mar 31. The organisation is additionally thought to be close to solution a long-running conflict with the bondholders in a brawl over an delinquent banking on �500m of the bonds.

The bondholders, together with Aviva, Axa and Fidelity, suggested by law organisation Bingham McCutchen, had in jeopardy to retard a intensity fund-raising by job on their equity departments not to buy shares. Pearl betrothed to resume banking payments if creditors concluded to a twenty-five per cent cut in the face worth of their investments to �375m. It additionally asked them to pardon the formerly longed for remuneration of �33m last March.

Pearl has built up a absolute register of City heavyweights to spearhead the flotation. They embody Ron Sandler, non-executive authority of the organisation and authority of Northern Rock, who assimilated in Nov 2009. Three heavyweight non-executive directors were in combined in Feb in allege of the listing. They are Isabel Hudson, who was a executive at Prudential; David Woods, emissary authority of Aberdeen Asset Management and authority of Royal Liver Assurance; and Charles Clarke, who has been an accountant with KPMG for thirty years.

Pearl has debts of about �2.4bn but is rarely cash-generative and stays profitable.

The inventory and rebranding of the organisation will see it take on a new franchise of hold up after a violent duration when the organisation was run by Hugh Osmond, the pizza-to-pubs entrepreneur. Under Mr Osmond the organisation acquired the closed-life supports commercial operation of Resolution Life from his arch-rival Clive Cowdery. It was afterwards taken over by sidestep fund-backed Liberty Acquisitions, that injected �500m in to the group. Pearl"s bank lenders concluded to a debt-for-equity barter and the group"s equity backers, together with Mr Osmond, saw their land almost reduced. Pearl has debts of about �2.4 billion but is rarely cash-generative and stays profitable. Mr Osmond"s Horizon Acquisition company, that lifted �417m when it listed in February, has still to squeeze any consumer-facing businesses it is targeting.

Forget tribunalschange your job

530PM GMT twenty-one March 2010

Q I am endangered that there seems an component of ageism being used opposite me by my stream employer in sequence to forestall me surpassing inside of the association by not on condition that my satisfactory share of "on-the-job" and "off-the-job" training. I have even listened of comments from a comparison fitter similar to "Don"t show Rich."

I am in my forties and did a pursuit shift withdrawal monetary services to retrain as a plumber. My stream employer took me on meaningful my age but has since promoted youngsters, charity them gas precision and compensate rises whilst unaware me. Alleging that I"m slow, isolating me or giving me a pursuit well underneath my capabilities have been unequivocally demoralising.

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An comparison fitter told me that the association has motionless to concentration on the youngsters but, as he argued, there is no pledge that they will sojourn constant to the association in the destiny and not move on. Often their timekeeping is bad and work standards are slipshod. I feel I have been kicked in the teeth by comparison members of the workforce and directors. Do I have a box for helpful exclusion and/or taste around an industrial tribunal? Where can I go from here?

A Before you do anything unreasonable be honest with yourself and face up to a straightforward subject are you unequivocally cut out to be a plumber? Even if this is the right traffic for you it is positively not the right business.

I don"t think you should try to finalise your problems by receiving the association to court. Discrimination is formidable to infer and unequivocally couple of employees have this kind of box hang at an practice tribunal.

You won"t grasp anything by stability to protest about members of center government even if you are assured they are in the wrong. Life is as well changed to rubbish on a pursuit you don"t enjoy.

It is time for you to dont think about about your protest and literally move on. But be careful. You competence not find it easy to find a new employer, so don"t palm in your notice until you have somewhere else to go.

Q How tough have you pushed suppliers recently? I know we all have to get along but the commercial operation still need to cut costs and creation the suppliers feel a little pang seems similar to a great approach to do it.

A Business competence be bad but this is no reason to spin your arch customer in to a Rottweiler. Even in formidable times, keep meditative a couple of years forward and see after your key suppliers. You will need their await when the liberation comes.

Obviously you don"t wish to be a soft touch, so expostulate a tough bonus to safeguard you are not profitable some-more than your competitors, but once a understanding is struck, hang to it. I strongly debate of companies who brag their suppliers by becoming different conditions median by a stipulate by perfectionist an additional bonus or lengthened credit.

Real commercial operation is not formed on the techniques done renouned by programmes such as The Apprentice. Good commercial operation is some-more expected to come from loyalty and consideration than brief articulate or mind games. Your suppliers are probably already pang sufficient pang but carrying to share a little of yours.

Buyers don"t need to be assertive to get a great deal. When I was a customer we built up buyer/supplier relations formed on great manners and mutual trust. We consistently worked closely together with a series of key providers over a prolonged period.

By all equates to have certain your trade conditions are keen, but never lose steer of the worth that comes from long-term relationships.

Q My son unequivocally doesn"t get the commercial operation and whilst I"ve since him each chance, I am starting to think that he"ll never be great sufficient to attain me? Do you have any recommendation on how I should conduct this?

A You are confronting a preference that will affect the rest of your life. At interest are the destiny of your commercial operation and the attribute in between you and your son.

Before giving organisation recommendation I would need to know the answers to multiform key questions Do you unequivocally wish to retire? How old is your son? How prolonged has he been operative in the business? How well do you and your son get on together? Do others determine with your comment of your son"s ability? Is it probable that your son has got it right and that you are out of touch? What does your son wish to do?

If all confirms your fright that he simply hasn"t "got it" the dual of you urgently need to have a straightforward conversation. For the consequence of your commercial operation your son contingency not be your successor. But you need a resolution that keeps the family together.

A inestimable pursuit outward the boardroom could yield a short-term resolution but once you retire and possibly sell up or palm over to a new arch senior manager your son"s on all sides might be vulnerable.

I think your son needs a finish shift of direction. By perplexing to follow in your footsteps he is probably blank out on a goal most improved matched to his talents - do all you can to assistance him find it.

Those of us who suffer a cultivatable father/son operative partnership are intensely fortunate.