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Expert: Yemen president expected to leave country soon
Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi on Monday left to Saudi Arabia, carrying a message from President Ali Saleh. This came as Salam Mohammed, head of the Aba'ad Centre for Studies predicted that arrangements are being made for the departure of the Yemeni president. He expected his departure could take place in the coming hours after the army abandoned him and joined the ranks of the popular revolution.
He said that Saudi Arabia wouldn't receive Ali Saleh, but expected Saudi Arabia would make efforts to arrange Saleh's departure to the United Arab Emirates, Russia or China.
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TV review: Katie: My Beautiful Friends; Supersize Vs Superskinny Kids
This sequel to the extraordinary story of Katie Piper made you wonder anew at her amazing resilience
Katie Piper's is an extraordinary story which two years ago was made into an extraordinary documentary by Cutting Edge ? Katie: My Beautiful Face. It told how in 2008 Piper, a model and aspiring television presenter, was raped and badly beaten by a man she had been dating for a few weeks and who then arranged for another to douse her with acid. The attack blinded her in her left eye and melted that beautiful face. Surgeon Mohammad Ali Jawad rebuilt it in a pioneering operation ? the first ever to use a skin substitute over the whole face as a foundation for a skin graft.
The programme ? and its showcasing of Piper's extraordinary courage and powers of endurance ? garnered a huge response from the public. In her turn, Piper has decided to harness some of that emotion and fellow feeling to found her own charity, the Katie Piper Foundation. It aims to create a support network for people coming to terms with disfigurement and to raise money for the kind of groundbreaking post-operative treatment she received in France. A new four-part series, Katie: My Beautiful Friends (Channel 4), follows her as she puts together the launch and recruits similarly disfigured ambassadors for the cause.
The heart sank when the first episode opened with Katie on the phone and floundering as she tried to find a champagne sponsor for the launch party ("Do I just say ? 'We'd like some free champagne?'") and appeared to be setting off down the well-worn reality TV grooves of watching someone well-meaning but incompetent being well-meaning but incompetent for an hour. I suspect, from what we saw of the very basic advice Piper was still gratefully receiving from her board of trustees extremely close to the launch date, that there would have been ample material for such a programme, but thankfully the makers spurned the easy way out and it rapidly became something, if still not comparable to the original documentary, a great deal better than it had threatened to be.
The bulk of the narrative concentrated on 22-year-old Chantelle who since birth has suffered from a disorder of the veins and arteries which has given her a furiously red, bulbous nose, a lifetime of being bullied and has now developed into a life-threatening condition. Her soft voice and cowed demeanour attested to the power of the prejudice that faces the aesthetically abnormal and made you wonder anew at Piper's own resilience.
It was a resilience tested when she took a call from her lawyer informing her that the man who organised the attack on her was beginning his third appeal. She took a few moments to regroup and then set to work again. Let's hope the charity's success is matched by the appeal's failure.
Supersize Vs Superskinny Kids was the latest outing for Channel 4's ubiquitous (that's Latin for "wears clothes a size too small") Dr Christian Jessen. Every night this week he and dietician Ursula Philpot are taking a cursory look at child obesity and anorexia. One child in six suffers the former condition while cases of the latter have nearly doubled in the last decade.
Part of the solution, apparently, is to put samples from each camp into a feeding clinic for a week and film them for television. Last night, it was 15-year-old Ieuan from Newport, who weighs twice what he should and 15-year-old Jess from Bristol, whose diet of chicken fried rice with barbecue sauce and the occasional tuna baguette has left her two stone underweight.
Dr Christian has the answer. The adults in houses across Britain need to take back control. "You need to stop being a pal and start being a parent." Which is undoubtedly true, but hardly the whole of it. Mixed in with the usual arse/elbow experiments (blind tastings proving that children can like the taste of fruit and veg if they don't know what they're getting!) were . . . well, I'd use the word insight, but this would raise expectations for follow-up action of which there seemed to be none.
Ieuan's mother Kay acknowledged that she had grown up in a household where she had literally to beg for food "so I've just fed him and fed him and fed him", Ieuan was told off for using this to wheedle more chips and then he and Jess were bunged a three-month diet plan and sent back home. On their return, Jess had gained and Ieuan had lost a nugatory three pounds ? a result that reflected poorly on all, not least the programme makers who decided the exploitation of unhappy children and their parents was worth this shallow and meretricious effort.
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Julian Fellowes to bring Titanic to ITV
Downton Abbey writer to retell story of the sinking of liner in mini-series
Downton Abbey writer Julian Fellowes's next ITV drama is to be a mini-series about the sinking of the Titanic.
Fellowes, who hit on a successful, Oscar-winning formula of interweaving the lives of upper and lower classes in the movie Gosford Park and repeated it for last year's ITV1 hit Downton Abbey, will take a similar approach in retelling the story of the sinking of the Titanic on 14 April 1912.
ITV promised that viewers will be "taken on a heart-wrenching journey through Titanic's last hours, as the drama reveals which of the characters they have come to know so well will survive ... and who does not".
"Interweaving multi-arc action, mystery and romantic plotlines and featuring fictional and historical characters, Titanic will focus on different characters ranging from steerage passengers to upper class guests," the broadcaster said.
"Each point of view will culminate in a cliffhanger as the ship begins to founder, building to an explosive conclusion which draws together each of the stories."
The sinking of the Titanic was a key plot point in Downton Abbey, with the heir to the title of Earl of Grantham going down on the "unsinkable" liner in the first episode, bringing the much-debated "entail" into play.
Filming will begin on the mini-series in Hungary in the spring and the drama has already been snapped up by foreign broadcasters including ABC in the US and Channel Seven in Australia.
Maria Kyriacou, managing director at ITV Studios Global Entertainment, said: "The fantastic pedigree of the production talent behind this major series has generated huge interest from our global broadcast clients and we are very pleased to announce these new partners today. Providing a vividly different experience of the ship's last hours alongside a definitive snapshot of what was a unique and uncertain moment in history."
Titanic is a UK/Hungary/Canada co-production and will be produced by Nigel Stafford-Clark and Chris Thompson.
The executive producers are Simon Vaughan (Lookout Point), Kate Bartlett (ITV), Jennifer Kawaja, Julia Sereny (both Sienna Films), Howard Ellis and Adam Goodman (Mid Atlantic Films), and David Collins (Samson Films).
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A 22-YEAR-OLD man has been charged in connection with a shooting which left a man with a bullet wound in his leg.
The incident took place in Larkdale Street, on the edge of the Arboretum, on March 4, and 23-year-old had to be treated at the Queen's Medical Centre for his wounds.
Kieran Adam Langley, of Pearmain Drive, St Ann's, was charged with grievous bodily harm with intent, and possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence on March 17, and he appeared at Nottingham Magistrates the following day.
Langley has been remanded in custody and is due to appear at Nottingham Crown Court, but a date has not been set yet.
Detectives are still appealing for witnesses to this incident come forward and anyone with any information should contact Det Sgt John Armstrong at Central CID on 0300 300 9999 ext 801 5132.
Alternatively, people can call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.
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Ofgem is warning energy firms to simplify their 300-plus pricing tariffs for consumers or risk a competition inquiry
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Prominent Muslim cleric Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi described the protests in Bahrain as a "sectarian" revolution by Shiites against the Sunnis. Al-Qaradawi has strongly criticized the opposition movement in Bahrain, which he considered to be very different from the protest movements in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.
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Whatever Ireland lack next Saturday, it won't be motivation
Under Discussion: Ireland's controversial loss in Cardiff and Round 4 of the Six Nations
Chatting were: Alan Good, Peter Jackson, John Kelly, Tony Leen and Simon Lewis
PETER JACKSON, veteran rugby writer: Good morning from Cardiff, where Mike Phillips is a national hero!
TONY LEEN, Irish Examiner sports editor: Is it Mike Phillips or Peter Allan is the Welsh national hero? All fun aside, will he be stood down over this, or does rugby not do the soccer thing with officials' cock ups?
ALAN GOOD, Irish Examiner rugby writer: I think Declan Kidney was admirably restrained in his comments on the incident, but his line about there being plenty of people and procedures in place to ensure such a massive cock-up doesn't occur is spot on. The IRB should haul Allan and Kaplan in to demand an explanation at the very least.
SIMON LEWIS, Irish Examiner rugby correspondent: Drop them immediately. They have to be punished for an embarrassing series of mistakes, though their masters at the IRB should be chastised for taking the TMO option out of the equation.
JOHN KELLY, former Ireland wing, Irish Examiner rugby columnist: Linesmen and referees should be accountable in the same way managers and players are. What galled me so much was the way Allan was so adamant that the correct ball was used. I would have preferred to hear him saying he didn't know what ball was used.
SIMON LEWIS: I agree, it was like he was struck by panic at the thought of having to make the call when he clearly didn't have a clue.
JOHN KELLY: Players understand that referees make mistakes and have to make decisions when they might not have all the facts. However, communication at the time of the incident and post match would have also been appreciated. Why can't they hold their hands up and acknowledge a mistake?
PETER JACKSON: The first thing I did after the match was to ask to speak to the referee. How naive! I'd have got through to the president in the White House by the time they explained that the ref was off limits. Here we are, 36 hours after the event, and still not a peep from the Six Nations or the IRB about an incident which could have been avoided with sensible use of the technology. Surely there's a simple solution. Instead of restricting technology to in-goal decisions, why not extend it to the act of scoring the try. That would have allowed Kaplan to call the TMO, and justice would have been seen to be done in 20 seconds.
TONY LEEN: And yet and yet and yet... was there still not a strong whiff of Irish mistakes on and off the field, which could have made the Welsh try issue redundant? Donal Lenihan said this morning he could not understand the timing of the O'Gara-Sexton substitution. And being as benevolent as I can, how did Paddy Wallace not put Earls in for the last gasp try? The latter was particularly ironic because one thing Ireland have been on the opponent's 22 this season is clinical..
ALAN GOOD: There are plenty of us who have wondered for quite some time about Wallace's inclusion in the 22 in the first place instead of Fergus McFadden, who is also a third goal-kicking option and covers the three-quarters far better. No-one can say with certainty he would have made the pass to Earls though. The Millennium Stadium is not a happy hunting ground for poor Paddy - almost cost the Slam in 2009, and now this!
JOHN KELLY: Ireland always looked comfortable in defence against the Welsh. There was never even a hint of try apart from the dodgy one. Wallace was also not an option to replace Luke Fitzgerald, who was having a poor game. McFadden should be on the bench.
ALAN GOOD: I'm with Donal on the out-half substitution. Simon and John, do you buy into this theory that we now have two out-halves who don't know where they stand, due to Kidney's musical chairs? Which one of them should start against England?
PETER JACKSON: Confusion's hardly the word for it. O'Gara has to start on Saturday.
SIMON LEWIS: Ireland seemed to have become paralysed by indecision as a result of the fly-half issue. They've gone from running the ball too much to the point where Sexton seemed scared NOT to kick. O'Gara may not have been enjoying his best game, but he had done little to warrant the big hook so early in the second half.
ALAN GOOD: Kidney said afterwards that Sexton brings a different skill set, yet he came on and kicked the leather off the ball (admittedly, he did it well after a horror start) whereas only a few weeks ago we were chastising him for running it too much. Are there mixed messages coming from up top, or are the 10s just trying to play what's in front of them?
JOHN KELLY: I think if you start Sexton, it makes sense to introduce O'Gara because he has the temperament to come on with a cool head and turn a game around. When Sexton comes off the bench, he tries to force his way back onto the starting 15 by forcing the game. O'Gara should start on form, and also, Sexton shouldn't come off the bench, because he hasn't added anything in the two games where he came on as a replacement.
ALAN GOOD: Do you think that's an experience thing John?
JOHN KELLY: Ultimately this is the difference between Sexton and O'Gara. Sexton plays to a game plan. O'Gara adapts a game plan to what he thinks is right when he's on the pitch. I think Sexton will develop this attribute in time, but he is not there yet.
ALAN GOOD: Speaking of game-plans, we are increasingly seeing the credit Declan Kidney built up from the 2009 Grand Slam being eroded by criticism. How much blame should he and the coaching staff take for this defeat?
PETER JACKSON: It would be a mistake for Ireland to cite the Kaplan-Allan debacle as the reason they lost. They had enough time to repair the damage but in the end weren't clinical enough to break a Welsh defence which had been leaking tries to the Big Three last November.
SIMON LEWIS: The players have to take the flak for the error count and decision-making that allowed Wales to edge the win. It's difficult to blame coaches for dropped balls but there does seem to be something not quite right in the way Ireland are conducting themselves psychologically in games. They have supposedly been on the 'cusp' of great things for some time now and yet we are still waiting for that killer 80-minute performance. What's stopping that?
ALAN GOOD: Which brings us nicely to England at the Aviva. Will the carrot of stopping a Grand Slam for the auld enemy be enough for Ireland to click into the right place mentally? And on that note, how will this England side handle that pressure? They did a good job of dampening expectation yesterday!
PETER JACKSON: If that doesn't motivate Ireland, nothing will. Lob a burning sense of injustice over the Welsh try into the mix and whatever Ireland lack on Saturday, it won't be motivation. I take them to win, which would leave England with the title, unless Wales exploit the French team which Marc Lievremont has reduced almost to the state of a national laughing stock. England at Twickenham yesterday strengthened my conviction that Ireland will beat them. They hardly looked a Grand Slam side in the making. Ireland will fancy their chances, provided they don't make any more substitutions as damaging as the one involving O'Gara. I'm still baffled by that. Lucky Wales.
SIMON LEWIS: I've had a hunch for some time that Ireland could finally click with the English in front of them, and allied to their performance against the Scots that should still be the case. I think though that Ireland took a big backward step in losing to Wales and the loss of momentum may be too much to stop Martin Johnson's men. However, the Scots should Ireland the way to subdue and frustrate England: a solid, quick and hard-hitting defence and slowing down their ball at the breakdown as well as crowding out the half-backs. Ireland have the defensive capabilities but the breakdown will be a worry.
JOHN KELLY: Ireland are due a big performance. Players are the ones responsible for their own poor performances and to a large extent their own psychological state. Coaches are responsible for selecting the right players. I think selection has been Declan's greatest strength as a coach. If he gets this right and the players perform, it will be an Irish win.
ALAN GOOD: John, you've been in plenty backs-to-the-wall situations with Munster and Ireland, how will the boys in green get themselves ready for this one?
JOHN KELLY: Munster players do siege mentality well. When they're being criticised in the media and there is no belief in the supporters, then the old 'chip' kicks in. Munster do bitterness better than most teams. Hopefully this bitterness will have spread.
ALAN GOOD: Having watched Kidney and Brian O'Driscoll bristle post-match, I have every confidence it will have! Peter, you touched on the French fall from grace. Their media are comparing Lievremont to Raymond Domenech, and some are even calling for his head just a few months out from the World Cup. What's going on there?
PETER JACKSON: It beggars belief. How can a coach accuse his players of 'obvious cowardice' and survive, especially when the coach in question has picked more than 80 since taking over from Bernard Laporte? You could not make it up. Imagine Sir Alex saying that about his players?
SIMON LEWIS: Lievremont's selection of Chabal was always suspect but dropping Harinordoquy was lunacy. He's like Claudio Ranieri, the tinkerman, and France have finally been made to pay in the most humiliating fashion. It's great for Italy, of course, who have come so close against Ireland and Wales this season, to have finally gone on and taken a bigger scalp.
ALAN GOOD: Let's finish on that note, a positive one - what a victory that was for Italy! They really needed that one. Peter, your man Sergio Parisse came up trumps again, and he's already the undisputed player of the tournament in your books - any dissenting voices there?
PETER JACKSON: I think he's been the man of the tournament from the opening round. Italy have done the Six Nations a massive favour, and the victory will do wonders for a sport which has always been swimming against the tide in a country obsessed by another code of football.
JOHN KELLY: Parisse is a fantastic player; He had a brilliant game against Ireland. It's good for the tournament to see Italy doing so well. They could easily have six points from their three home matches. Entry into the Magners League seems to be improving them.
SIMON LEWIS: Difficult to argue with Parisse, although James Haskell has also been consistently very good in the England back row this season. Parisse, though, is inspirational and Italy are clearly lost without him.
ALAN GOOD: And with the Scots next up, they could very well nab two tournament victories, a rare achievement indeed! Thanks for your time gents, we'll be back next week to see how it all finished up!
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I've had cancer and now need a job
Problems at work? Need advice? Our agony uncle ? and you, the readers ? have the answers
Must I put up with the music that plays all day in our office?
I work in an open plan office ? it is a converted hall so it's a large space with high ceilings. It is a buzzy, agency environment with lots of office noise and phones ringing, and is fairly relaxed (people laughing, etc). Earlier this year, speakers were installed hanging from the ceiling all across the office, and music now plays all day.
Someone else has their finger on the sometimes repetitive playlist (music taste is not shared universally) and the volume, though controlled in three zones, is a problem because it is a big, open space, so that even if I grumpily turn it down in my zone it permeates the building from the other zones.
There was no consultation before this happened, and it's not something I welcome for what I think are good business reasons: it seriously affects concentration levels and makes phone calls to clients more difficult.
Are there any rules governing this kind of thing? I appreciate that it's not like industrial noise, where health and safety is an issue and a specified decibel count would be a suitable measure. Nonetheless, to me it represents an enforced change in the work environment and isn't well-regulated. Unfortunately "music off" seems not to be an option.
Jeremy says
I'm no expert on this sort of thing, but as far as I'm aware there are no obligations placed on employers to consult staff before introducing music to the workplace; neither do I think you have any legal right to challenge such an action. (However, your company will have had to buy a licence from the PRS for Music.)
None of this means that you are stuck forever with a tiresome distraction. The absence of legal rights doesn't prevent you and your colleagues from having an important say in what goes on in your office ? indeed, it is often much more effective to use sweet reason and amiable discussion to make your case rather than looking for rules and regulations. It's all too easy to get labelled a troublemaker. However unjustified the label may be, it can lose you support ? even the support of those who would otherwise be with you. Most people prefer a quiet life to a confrontational one.
So, without being militant about it, find out what other people think. Start by sounding out one or two; if you quickly get a sense that you're alone in your dislike of this omnipresent music, and that the majority of your workmates positively enjoy it, the only option you're left with is to attempt to negotiate the quietest space in the quietest zone on your own behalf.
But if you get the sense that you're not alone, and that most would actively welcome change, you can take the next step. And that should be not a formal, written complaint, but an entirely reasonable solution. People who come forward with positive suggestions are much more likely to get what they want than those who simply register grievances.
I know this music permeates the whole space, but I imagine that one Quiet Zone, where the speakers are turned off completely would, for example, make conversations with clients a great deal less difficult? You may have a better idea.
Don't register all your arguments at this stage, or start collecting signatures. Just make your case very simply, emphasising the impairment of concentration and difficulty with client phone calls ? and then suggest your solution. You may be surprised how easily it is accepted. Only if your company fails to respond should you start to pile on the pressure a bit.
Readers say
? Sounds hideous! As a client I would expect to hear music in the background if I phoned my hairdresser, but not if I phoned someone I was paying a considerable chunk of money for professional advice.
I think you should compile a log to show examples of lost business or lower productivity resulting from the music, and of clients complaining about the noise. If you can demonstrate that the music is detracting from, rather than complementing, the business, you may find your managers take a sympathetic view. louella72
? This would do my head in. I could understand it in a factory, warehouse or farm buildings, but not an office. What about ear plugs? Or could you get some cans to pop on? I have mine on at work if I've got a monotonous task to do or I want to blot out office irritations ? it tends to be Radio 3 at a volume where I can listen out for the phone, or if someone wants to talk to me they don't have to wave at me.
If you didn't want yet more music in your ears you could listen to tracks of sea sounds or birdsong. In the environment you describe, though, you might look a bit unsociable/weird with cans on. But sometimes you need complete quiet and to be denied that must be awful. Loud music is for the car, not the office. BeckyDavidson
I've had treatment for cancer and now I am looking for a job
I am a 50-year-old, female, full-time student on a course which finishes in June. Your advice would be appreciated on how to market myself for a part-time job following cancer, radiotherapy and chemotherapy late last year, given I am now subject to three-monthly check-ups for the next five years. How can I get people to see beyond the disease to the person, particularly as survival rates for ovarian cancer are not totally brilliant? Will an administrative job (rather than a career) be too difficult to find? I have relevant experience up until the last 18 months, and my college course has filled the gap after that.
The aftermath of cancer is a bit like puberty: you're not quite sure who you are at the time you are going through it, and your confidence afterwards is reduced, though essentially you want to get out there and keep working and living.
Jeremy says
I have some slight knowledge of Macmillan Cancer Support ? and what I know has impressed me. If you haven't already done so, do get in touch. There are other cancer-related support groups, too ? research them all thoroughly online
Such groups don't just help with nursing and counselling; they'll be extremely familiar with your own circumstance and state of mind. And while I know it's true that no two individuals experience precisely the same problems and emotions, I am pretty sure they'll be able to help you in the specific area of getting back to work.
You ask, "How do I market myself so that people see beyond the disease to the person?" The answer , I think, is that you shouldn't have to. It is just too big a burden, particularly for someone whose confidence is not at its highest level. You need initially to talk to people who understand what it is like, and who can put you in touch with potential employers who have demonstrated that they are not only capable of looking beyond the disease to the person, but are willing to do so. In other words, you're relieved of the daunting need, over and over again, to explain your circumstances, and are free to let your personality shine through.
In your letter, you do this with a wonderful clarity. You're obviously intelligent, realistic, totally without self-pity, and have an engaging self-awareness. I have every confidence that all these qualities will serve you well when talking to sympathetic possible employers.
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? Under current employment legislation you no longer need to mention your condition until after you've been offered a job. You'll most likely be asked to declare any existing medical condition at that point, but this is solely to help the employer decide what (if any) adjustment they need to make to help you do your work.
If you meet the required criteria for a job and you're turned down because you've had cancer, the employer is acting illegally. Good luck! Watty145
? Although Watty145 is technically right, I would be inclined to be up front with prospective employers about your experience of cancer and your current position. Waiting until you have been offered a job may not be the best way to start off an employment relationship, and if you are holding something like this back at interviews you are less likely to make a favourable impression.
In addition, there must be positive selling points that you can use, such as having the ability and determination to cope with adversity and having a fresh insight into what is important to you.Best of luck. rob1archon
? Someone employing you will see through your illness to the brave, focused woman beneath, and will want to help you but also benefit from your skills, loyalty and sheer tenacity. Many people are cancer survivors these days, and it touches many lives.
Use your connections to seek work and do consider a related field like a charity, as here your experience will also be inspiring and you might well get opportunities to progress. The very best of luck with it. ExBrightonBelle
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Gas and electricity firms told to simplify prices
? Ofgem wants single tariff and no tie-ins for consumers
? Watchdog wants suppliers to sell a fifth of generating capacity
? Evidence companies put up bills quicker than they cut them in response to costs
Britain's electricity and gas suppliers have been ordered to reform their pricing and stop confusing customers, or face a formal referral to the Competition Commission.
In a damning verdict on the UK energy market, industry regulator Ofgem said consumers are being "bamboozled", with more than 300 different energy tariffs now available. It pledged to "sweep away this complexity", so that households can easily compare prices and pick a good deal.
The UK's Big Six suppliers have just two months to accept wide-ranging reforms that will prevent them from continuing to fail customers, Ofgem warned.
The regulator wants suppliers to sell off up to a fifth of their electricity generation capacity to inject much-needed competition into the industry. It also said that, for the first time, there was clear evidence that energy firms have adjusted their prices in response to rising costs more quickly than they reduced them when costs fell.
"Ofgem's proposals should force open the electricity and gas markets to ensure the market works effectively for consumers," said Ofgem's chairman, Lord Mogg. "The energy supply companies have eight weeks in which to engage constructively with Ofgem's proposals. If firms frustrate reforms they risk ending up at the Competition Commission. This is a holistic package of changes."
The proposals were backed by energy secretary Chris Huhne, who welcomed the drive to simplify tariffs.
"Consumers deserve the best possible deal, which means rough and tough competition in the marketplace," said Huhne.
Scott Byrom, energy manager at moneysupermarket.com, was pleased that Ofgem was "finally" taking decisive action to protect bill payers.
"For years there has been speculation the speed price increases hit consumers is far quicker than the rate price decreases are passed on and OFGEM is finally looking to stop this unfair practice which sees bill payers left severely out of pocket," Byrom said.
Disappointingly poor progress
Three years ago, Ofgem conducted a probe into the energy market, which resulted in new measures that were meant to improve competition. It admitted on Monday that the industry's response to the 2008 investigation had been "disappointingly poor". It now wants to tighten licence conditions, so that suppliers comply with the spirit, as well as the letter, of the law.
"Consumers must have confidence that energy companies are playing fair at a time when they are being asked to foot the �200bn bill to pay for the investment Britain needs to ensure secure and sustainable energy supplies," said Ofgem's chief executive, Alistair Buchanan.
Britain's electricity and gas market was fully deregulated in the late 1990s, giving consumers the ability to take their energy from a range of suppliers. More than a decade on, though, the landscape is dominated by six companies ? British Gas, EDF Energy, E.ON, Npower, Scottish and Southern Energy and Scottish Power.
According to Ofgem, these companies reap higher profits from customers who take both electricity and gas ? the "dual-fuel" option ? from the company which supplied them before deregulation. It hopes that forcing companies to auction off some of their generation capacity will help new firms to enter the market.
On pricing, Ofgem proposes that suppliers would only be allowed to offer one single domestic tariff for each payment method, for so-called "evergreen" products which do not tie consumers into a fixed-term. This would make it easy to compare the suppliers' "per unit" price.
The regulator also announced that it has launched an investigation into Scottish Power over the differential between the cost of its standard credit dual fuel product, and the direct debit alternative. It is already investigating how British Gas, EDF Energy and Npower deal with consumers' complaints, and is also conducting a separate probe into allegations of mis-selling by EDF Energy, Npower, Scottish Power, and Scottish and Southern Energy.
Ofgem's proposals will now enter a consultation period, which will close on 1 June 2011.
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Fashion goes pop
From Lady Gaga's fantastical creations to Katy Perry's tongue-in-cheek costumes - today's female pop stars are in competition to top the charts for outrageous fashion. So what happened to elegant red-carpet styling? And how much more bizarre can their outfits get?
Spring is a fertile time. Not just for the lambs and the budding trees, but for fashion and trends. The first months of each year bring the latest round of catwalk shows from New York, London, Milan and Paris, and the concurrent awards season sent the best dressed in film and music trotting up the red carpets to the Grammys, the Brits, the Baftas and the Oscars. Spring is an orgy of style.
In the old days, if you wanted to look at the beautifully ridiculous, the conceptual or the just plain silly, the fashion shows were your best bet. Awards ceremonies, by contrast, used to be elegant oceans of pretty, colourful gowns by Valentino, Marchesa and Versace. They were so sedate that, in 2001, when Bj�rk wore a swan dress by fashion designer Marjan Pejoski and laid six eggs on the red carpet at the Oscars, she was lampooned for years. In 2011, a decade later, nobody would blink if Bj�rk had taken off and flown to her seat. This spring, at the Grammys, Katy Perry sported angel wings, 10-year-old actress and pop star Willow Smith turned up in 8in platform trainers, US singer Nicki Minaj added leopard-print highlights to her pompadour hair to match her leopard-print dress and Lady Gaga arrived in an egg, carried like a Roman emperor.
The designers' most outrageous creations were papped on celebrities at red-carpet events rather than at the fashion shows. In fact, the most talked-about turn on the catwalk this season wasn't by Kate Moss, Lara Stone or any other model ? it was Lady Gaga's debut at the Thierry Mugler womenswear show in Paris. Something odd is happening with celebrities and style. The stars are becoming more daring, more avant garde than the designers.
Nowadays, the biggest female names in music don't particularly set themselves apart from their predecessors through musical style ? most of them create surprisingly traditional pop ? but the way they look is a whole new world. Mainstream pop stars have typically had mainstream styling. (This trend is mainly centred on music ? film stars are rarely extreme in their style choices, perhaps because they need to be believable in a versatile range of personas.) The Spice Girls, Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Kylie, Girls Aloud, even Madonna ? all the platinum-selling female acts of the past decade have fitted within received ideas of fashion and femininity, be it sexy, pretty or cool. Singers typically wore clothes that were easy to sell or easy to copy for the high street: Buffalo trainers, hot pants, hipster jeans.
Professor Mathieu Deflem is a sociologist who teaches a course called "Lady Gaga and the Sociology of the Fame" at the University of South Carolina. He says Gaga's fashion is a change from that of other pop stars. "Lady Gaga reassembles and restyles familiar items in an unfamiliar way. Her sense of style and sex is different. It is artistic, not commercial. Her fashion is the goal, the expression, not a means."
The new generation don't go out without a carapaced catsuit, flame-throwing bras, dresses made of cupcakes or flowers or Muppets, and hair that defies logic and gravity. Singers such as Rihanna, Jessie J and Paloma Faith choose to look kitsch or theatrical or even warrior-like rather than follow a standard idea of beauty. Not only is their style a break from tradition but it's impossible for fans ? or retailers ? to recreate their looks, well, at least without the aid of a mechanic and a pastry chef.
These new stars have unique relationships with the designers. Traditionally, when performers forged partnerships with labels, they were equal. Kylie works with Dolce & Gabbana, an Italian label which shares her often kitsch and flamboyant style. Julien Macdonald is known for pretty dresses and so are Girls Aloud. No one blinked when he created stage outfits for them. But when Giorgio Armani dressed Lady Gaga for the 2010 Grammys, the partnership seemed crazy. The designer is synonymous with restraint and the colour "greige"; Lady Gaga likes wearing a lobster on her head. Armani completely abandoned the style he has developed over 36 years to dress the pop star in spangles. "It wouldn't be possible to give Gaga a look from the collection because she wears pieces of art," a spokesperson admitted.
This year, Armani dressed Katy Perry for the Grammys and gave her a custom-made, winged, crystal-encrusted gown. Gaga, meanwhile, went to Hussein Chalayan, who is known as creative and experimental, but it was Lady Gaga who convinced him to make her an egg. That so many of these new pop stars wear custom-made clothes from established names, clothes which differ wildly from the labels' signature looks, marks a shift in the fashion status quo. These pop stars are inspiring designers to change. Particularly with the Gaga/Armani collaboration, it didn't feel that Armani dressed Gaga ? more that she inspired him to rethink his idea of a dress.
The fashion designers haven't always been so fascinated by these stars. Nicola Formichetti is creative director of the Thierry Mugler label and has worked as a stylist at magazines such as Dazed & Confused, Another and American Harper's Bazaar. He is also Lady Gaga's fashion director, the man responsible for finding the meat dress, the veils and the dildo she wore on the cover of Q magazine. He has said that labels weren't always keen to work with the singer. "At the beginning, fashion designers didn't get her. Nobody would lend her anything. I had to lie and say I needed it for my editorial work."
Hussein Chalayan cheerfully admits he wasn't a fan of Lady Gaga or her dress sense until he saw her perform. "I wasn't interested in her at all until I went to see her in concert. She's likable and warm and makes an effort with everyone ? I hope she doesn't change. I think what she's doing is a regurgitation of the past, but it's fresh packaging."
Being snubbed by the fashion establishment has meant these stars and their stylists have worked hard to find their fantastical looks. Whether the singers are underground or transgressive is debatable; the fact that they've brought new fashion talents into the international spotlight is not. Formichetti tweets the credits for all the clothes Gaga wears, and being worn by Beyonc� or Rihanna is now as important as being name-checked by US Vogue's Anna Wintour. Designers such as David Koma, Gareth Pugh and Francesco Scognamiglio have achieved international reputations in part from working with pop stars. The Blonds, David and Phillipe ? otherwise known as David Trujillo and Phillipe Rollano ? are a rising New York fashion duo who have made their reputation dressing stars such as Fergie, Rihanna and Katy Perry in sculpted, outrageous outfits.
"Over-the-top glamour is our speciality," says David Blond. "The 'Blond' aesthetic and themes hark back to a time when women dressed to kill, like the golden age of Hollywood. Now there is a real need for fantasy and escape from the everyday, and elaborate costume plays a huge role in this. Life is theatre for us and we want to bring a bit of that into everyone's life."
The Blonds believe the charisma of the new wave of pop stars is about more than their clothes. "Stars like Gaga, Nicki Minaj and Katy Perry understand the impact of how they present themselves and we believe that comes from within, because without these women the costumes don't have life."
The new stars do seem to be more humorous and self-aware than their pop predecessors. When Jessie J won the Critics' Choice at this year's Brit Awards she wore a Vivienne Westwood minidress. "I look like the evil queen from Snow White," she told reporters. "I just need to go and find my dwarfs now." Similarly, when asked about her big-cat Givenchy couture at this year's Grammys, Minaj described her outfit as "miraculous meets her cub meets ferocity meets fabulosity meets the runway". Katy Perry is more pragmatic. "We're all unique. That's why we all win and we all can exist. People don't just want vanilla. They want 31 flavours. I couldn't do what Rihanna does. I couldn't do what Gaga does. They can't do what I do."
What these stars do is create a break in the monotony of style that has smothered culture of late. Trends used to wash from catwalk to stage to club and pavement unhampered. They may not be of vast cultural significance, but these new celebrities' style is vivid and fun. We have come a long way from laughing at a star for laying eggs on a red carpet to applauding one for arriving in an egg. It's going to be entertaining to see how much further we can go.
Alice Fisher is commissioning editor of the Observer Magazine
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Trio of 'fake tree' sculptures set to go on show in city
A TRIO of "fake trees" inspired by churches, synagogues and mosques could be built on derelict land in the city.
The 12-metre sculptures aim to represent Christianity, Judaism and Islam and are the brainchild of controversial Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping, who is holding his largest UK solo exhibition to date at Nottingham Contemporary next month.
Now the gallery has applied to Nottingham City Council for permission for the three sculptures to be exhibited on land opposite the Broadmarsh car park surrounded by tram lines, Cliff Road and Maltmill Lane.
The sculptures – called Hill of Faiths Or Fake Trees – will look like large trees, with minarets as trunks, made from steel and aluminium.
They were inspired by the work of Hungarian-born architect Yona Friedman.
Lynn Hanna, head of communications and development at Nottingham Contemporary, said: "We believe an international public art sculpture of this high calibre will enhance our city's national reputation, as well as being enjoyed by residents."
Other pieces inside the gallery will include a life-size elephant and Bat Project IV, a plane fuselage filled with stuffed bats, inspired by the diplomatic crisis after the collision of a US reconnaissance plane with a Chinese fighter jet in 2001. Visitors will also be able to walk inside the plane.
It was censored when first shown in China and this will be the first time it has been exhibited in Europe.
The artist will be at the exhibition launch on April 14.
Jennie Syson, of the magazine Nottingham Visual Arts, said she had worked with Huang before, adding: "I think the outdoor sculptures will have the support of the Nottingham art community and I'm really looking forward to seeing them."
If permission is granted, the sculptures they would be on site from August for a maximum of 12 months. Planning officers have recommended approval and a final decision will be made by councillors on Wednesday.
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Damascus: Syrian security forces disperse some 150 protesters
Syrian security forces dispersed some 150 people who demonstrated in front of the Interior Ministry in downtown Damascus on Wednesday. They were demanding the release of political detainees.
Reports quoted an eyewitness as saying that dozens of security personnel dressed in civilian clothing beat the crowd with batons. At least one of the demonstrators was hit in the head.
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Bahrain: Leading opposition figures detained
Bahraini authorities detained at least six prominent opposition leaders on Thursday, a day after three police and three protesters died in clashes. Among those arrested overnight were Haq leader Hassan Mushaima and Wafa leader Abdel Wahhab Hussein, who called to topple the royal family, Wefaq said. Also arrested was Ibrahim Sharif, head of the secular leftist party Waad.
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Outlook for family finances bleakest for two years, survey shows
Markit household finance index finds third of families have seen their income and spending worsen since February
Household finances have plunged back to lows last seen in the recession while workers are at their most pessimistic for two years in a bleak assessment of household finances ahead of Wednesday's budget.
A combination of falling incomes and rising prices have squeezed household disposable incomes, according to the economic consultancy Markit. Amid concerns over the slowing economy and job losses in the public sector, households reported the steepest monthly deterioration in their finances since March 2009.
Almost 35% of households reported that their finances have worsened since February, while just 5% saw an improvement.
At 35.2 in March, down from 35.6 in February, the headline Markit household finance index is likely to be seen as a strong indicator that families are finding life tough financially and unlikely to venture back to the high street in the next few months.
The study follows a report by building society Nationwide showing that its monthly confidence index fell back 10 points in February to its lowest level since the survey began in May 2004.
Both indexes could add to pressure on the Bank of England to keep interest rates low. The City regulator, the Financial Services Authority, and City economists have warned that many people with tracker mortgages are vulnerable to a rate rise. The FSA devoted an entire chapter in last week's Prudential Risk Outlook to the low interest rates that have prevailed during the financial crisis and noted that homeowners were taking on as much debt as they were before the crisis.
The poor state of families' day-to-day finances will add to the sense of unease among policymakers that many people are in financial difficulty.
Markit said public sector workers continued to be more downbeat than those with jobs in the private sector. People working in education, health and social services reported the most pessimistic assessment of their future finances since the survey began. Worries about job security intensified in March with nearly five times as many respondents reporting lower job security as those who reported an improvement.
Tim Moore, senior economist at Markit, said: "The March HFI survey presents a bleak assessment of household finances ahead of the UK budget. Job insecurity and worries about higher everyday living costs once again dominate the outlook for household finances, which fell to its lowest since the survey began in February 2009."
He said the budget on Wednesday may confirm the worst fears of public sector workers that thousands of jobs would be lost after April.
More than 100,000 public sector jobs have already disappeared. The GMB union said its records showed that another 226,000 are scheduled for the chop. Moore said: "With the forthcoming budget likely to reaffirm the need to continue along the path of fiscal consolidation, public sector workers are especially pessimistic about their job security.
"Their assessment of the outlook for their finances is even weaker than that seen on the eve of last year's emergency budget, suggesting that other concerns such as proposed pension reform and higher inflation have further dented confidence."
Households continue to report higher living costs, with 82% of respondents in March saying prices of goods and services rose with only 2% reporting a fall.
"Higher living costs have resulted in a record drop in cash available to spend and despite pockets of growth in manufacturing and business services, weak economic conditions mean that incomes continue to fall behind inflation," Moore said.
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Six million pound plan could make Redhill Marina one of the biggest in Notts
A MARINA in Ratcliffe-on- Soar could get a �6 million revamp which will see it more than double in size and create 20 full time jobs.
The plans, if they are approved, will make the Redhill Marina one of the biggest in the county.
A planning application has been received by Notts County Council, but negotiations are ongoing between marina boss, Richard Morley and the planning officers before the application is registered for public viewing.
A letter has been sent out to all current members of the marina who moor a boat at the site explaining the plans for expansion.
Currently the marina harbours around 250 boats, however the new plans will make room for 632 boats.
The marina will increase in size from around 20 acres to around 45 acres.
Former farmer Mr Morley, who founded the marina in 1974, said: "We hope the new plans will improve the quality of the site for its users.
"We believe we have got the trade to cope with this level of expansion and we want to offer customers better facilities.
"This is a long-term project and we want to get it right.
"Currently the marina has excellent transport links for road, rail and waterways and we want to continue its growth.
"I estimate that this will be a �6 million project and create at least 20 full-time positions."
He said he hopes work will be finished and the site fully operational in 2014.
A Notts County Council spokesman said: "The application is being filed to us because the expansion would involved the extraction of minerals, namely sand and gravel.
"We have received an application and negotiations are ongoing with the planning team.
"The applicant is fully complying with our officers."
The application is expected to become available for public viewing next month and will appear on the planning section of the council's website.
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34-year-old man in court over Newark murder
A MAN has appeared in court charged with the murder of a woman in Newark.
Denise Skilbeck, 31, was discovered dead at a house in The Wharf area of the town shortly after 7pm on Wednesday.
Gary Spalding, 34, of Dobsons Quay, The Wharf, Newark, appeared at Mansfield Magistrates' Court this morning charged with her murder.
A post-mortem examination carried out on Thursday concluded Miss Skilbeck died of a head injury.
The police cordon, which had been in place around the house, has now been lifted.
Miss Skilbeck had lived in Newark for several years, although is originally from Oxfordshire.
Spalding was remanded into custody and is due to appear at Nottingham Crown Court on Monday, April 4.
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Be a judge in fictional court case
PEOPLE are invited to have a go at being a judge in a fictional court case.
It is part of a new project to help the public understand why some offenders are given non-custodial and community sentences.
The Local Crime Community Sentence project – a joint venture between magistrates and the Notts Probation Trust – will be launched at the Bass Management Centre at Nottingham Trent University on Wednesday.
Sheila Wright, deputy chief executive of the trust said: "Many people are surprised to learn that community-based penalties are not a soft option.
"Some orders are more punitive than custodial sentences, imposing a restriction on a person's freedom and making them spend time thinking about their victims."
Groups and organisations can book the interactive presentations.
Graham Hooper, clerk to the justices for Notts, said: "The courts rely on the public to report crime and give evidence. This project is an important way of showing how community sentences work and why the public can have confidence in them."
Students from Nottingham Trent University will take part in Wednesday's launch.
To book a place, call Notts Probation Trust on 0115 8406497.
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Palestinians in Gaza and W. Bank call for unity
Thousands of Palestinians marched in Gaza City and the West Bank on Tuesday calling for an end to the domestic division. The biggest gathering was in Gaza City, where officials from the Hamas-run interior ministry said "tens of thousands" had gathered into the city's Square of the Unknown Soldier.
On his part, Gaza's Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya publicly invited his bitter Fatah rival, Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas, for "immediate" unity talks in Gaza.
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Kluber solid for Clippers, Aeros playoff hopes dim: Minor league report
Columbus gets six good innings from Corey Kluber, who was part of the Jake Westbrook deal.
MINOR-LEAGUE REPORT
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Clippers 4, Indians 1: Corey Kluber (1-0, 1.50) pitched six strong innings, giving up one run on four hits with four strikeouts in an International League victory in Indianapolis.
Notes: Columbus' Matt McBride hit his fourth homer of the season.
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Thunder 4, Aeros 2: Akron took a hit in the wild-card race, losing in Trenton, N.J., in an Eastern League game. Right-handed starter Rob Bryson (1-1) took the loss despite allowing only two runs (one earned) on one hit with two strikeouts.
Notes: The Aeros are 31/2 games behind the Senators for the wild card, and has an elimination number of three with five games remaining in the regular season.
Advanced A Kinston Indians
Indians 7, Keys 4: T.J. McFarland (11-5, 3.13) pitched six shutout innings, striking out four in the Carolina League game in Frederick, Md.
A Lake County Captains
Loons 4, Captains 3: The Loons' Angelo Songco hit a two-run double with the bases loaded in the bottom of the tenth to defeat Lake County in Midland, Mich., in a Midwest League game.
Takafumi Nakamura (0-1) took the loss, giving up two runs on three hits in one inning.
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Scrappers 6, Crosscutters 1: Alex Kaminsky (6-5, 2.48) pitched six shutout innings, striking out six in a New York-Penn League victory in Williamsport, Pa.
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Crushers 3, Wild Things 2: Lake Erie got its second straight walk-off victory over Washington, winning in 10 innings for its fourth consecutive victory.
Andrew Davis opened the 10th with a walk. Lee Huggins, unsuccessful in two bunt attempts, singled to left. Joel Collins ended the game with a double deep to center.
Notes: The victory was the sixth walk-off win of the year for the Crushers, who are 5-7 in extra-innings.
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Students learn of life in Malaysia
STUDENTS at West Notts College met three international visitors.
Tan Jing Shen, the student association president of the University of Nottingham's Malaysian campus, visited the college on March 16.
The 21-year-old, known as Jason, spoke to students about life in Malaysia, his studies, and his work in setting up a company called Amun-ra Global Entertainment.
The company is working on a �1.2 million reality TV project to promote racial integration in business all over the world.
Paul Rusagara, the principal of APEBU School in Nyamata, Rwanda, and teacher Judith Mwambarangwe also visited the college on the same day.
It followed a visit to Rwanda by the college's academic studies' programme area leader, Vlad Gogelescu, in 2009.
The visitors held a discussion with politics students on key political issues in the UK and Rwanda.
Mr Gogelescu said: "This was a great opportunity for students and staff to find out about the challenges faced by the people of Rwanda".
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