Alan Smith: Sunderlands pay cut threat helps to concentrate players minds

By Alan Smith 900AM GMT thirteen March 2010

Golden shot Sunderland"s players applaud during win over Bolton Photo ACTION IMAGES

Maybe it wasnt usually the motivational powers of physical education instructor Steve Bruce, or in truth the munificence of their visitors.

It turns out, you see, that each player fasten Sunderland these days contingency determine to a 40 per cent income cut should the bar go down. Failure is reflected in each contract, that is accessible since if there is one thing on trial to combine a footballers mind, the that kind of monster blow to his wallet.

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Perhaps the hazard of relegation, then, had spin a small as well real. With the awaiting of that extreme income rebate flourishing some-more probable by the week, maybe the Sunderland players motionless it was time to liven up.

If so, it usually proves the point that performance-related compensate should be some-more prevalent in an epoch when rich players can get far as well comfortable. Too often, a clubs relegation equates to small to someone with a proviso in his stipulate stipulating he can leave for an concluded fee. Either that or his salary stay the same so, distinct majority backroom staff who lose their jobs to cost-cutting, the player carries on as if zero has happened.

So tip outlines to Niall Quinn, Sunderlands chairman, for insisting on the proviso when deliberating conditions with intensity signings.

Not usually does the move guarantee the clubs future, it encourages players to stay on their toes.

Using his noddle

To measure 7 uninterrupted headed goals, as Wayne Rooney has right away managed, is piece fluke and piece the outcome of great service. Mostly, though, the down to the Manchester United striker operative tough in precision by going by a little customary drills.

A manager will get dual servers, one on the right, one on the left, to cranky balls in spin towards the forward.

It competence be that Rooney waits in the chastisement box on his own with usually a goalkeeper to flog or is since a defender who doesnt plea but check for the round but usually gets in the approach to supplement some-more realism.

In the main, the all about timing the run to encounter the cranky and timing the header to have great contact. In this regard, the critical that the striker knows when the cranky is coming. In a match, theres zero some-more annoying than creation a nearby post run, say, usually to see the winger check his cross.

Consistency predictability even is thus consequential when it comes to this relationship, as a outcome the success of Antonio Valencia. With the Ecuadorean, Rooney knows whats entrance and when, as against to Cristiano Ronaldo, who valid some-more formidable to read.

City"s watchful game

It contingency have felt similar to a prolonged and frustrating dual weeks for Manchester City. Because after their majority appropriate outcome of the deteriorate in violence Chelsea 4-2, theyd have longed for to flog on but serve happening rather than cling to about for the subsequent match.

That subsequent match, whats more, has an ungainly see about it. As explained above, Sunderland should be in decent intoxicating beverage at the Stadium of Light tomorrow to exam the eagerness of this City side.

But if Carlos Tvez and Craig Bellamy opposite conflict with the same harmful force they did in the second half at Stamford Bridge, the bar can take an additional critical step brazen in their office of fourth place.

Keeping it real

How lovely to see a little supporters keep a viewpoint on things, to not provide each better similar to a family bereavement. To majority Burnley fans, this top-flight journey is there to be enjoyed rather than endured - an perspective that should essentially assistance the players going in to high-pressure games similar to Saturdays revisit of Wolves.

One to watch

Nicklas Bendtner the not usually his goals, the striker is right away really critical to Arsenals figure in a pretension assign that stops off at Hull on Saturday.

Buy a pothole, 111 other people have

415PM GMT twelve March 2010

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Niederzimmern nearby Leipzig is offered the potholes online for €50 each underneath the heading, "We need Tar".

For that, the encampment authorities will correct the pothole and place a "badge" on tip with the buyer"s name.

Prospective owners can select a potholes by on vacation the town"s website http://www.niederzimmern.de. A yellow fondle bail out lorry has been placed subsequent to each hole to give a clarity of the size.

The encampment has sole 111 so far and the mayor reportedly does not know how most potholes there are. The website is usually display photographs of ten.

Jupiter fund manager not quite seeing the stars

643PM GMT twelve March 2010

We"ll begin at the excitingly patrician Investment Strategy Conference, where Jupiter account physical education instructor John Chatfield was regaling monetary advisors about the coherence of funds, phones and, infrequently enough, his specs.

What point he was perplexing to have I"m not wholly certain but to denote the significance of coherence he took his unbreakable glasses, focussed one arm back, focussed the alternative arm brazen and afterwards focussed them opposite the overpass - at that point they snapped.

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Obviously this was the high point of the presentation, so most so record had to stop for five mins to give people the possibility to clean their eyes and tack up their sides.

Problem is, when the display did restart Chatfield couldn"t see his own PowerPoint presentation.

No eyeglasses you see.

Dixon in the wharf over bureau threat?

To the PLC Awards, the endowment rite where the ties are blacker and the champagne some-more sparkly than any alternative in the City.

I won"t worry to go by who the winners were, certainly that"s for the organisers to publicise.

All I"ll do is point out the participation of Mark Dixon of serviced bureau provider Regus on the shortlist for office worker of the year.

This is the man whose rarely essential association is melancholy to lift the block on a small offices - costing the buildings" landlords a small happening unless they cut the rent.

Fine entrepreneurial work.

Paris-Soir is ooh la la for Russian oligarch

It"s not only London where Russian oligarchs are jacket themselves in newspapers to keep out the mercantile chill, Paris is observant the own conflict of the journal barons.

France-Soir, the once good every day that used to sell up to 2m copies a day in the 70s, has been snapped up by Alexandre Pugachev.

Now down to sales of small some-more than 20,000, the paper has a small approach to got to recapture the former glories. But that"s what the new owners says he plans to do. Media watchers are removing really excited. The initial step on that highway takes place subsequent week with a relaunch.

Meanwhile, behind in London, we still don"t know when Lebedev is eventually going to buy The Independent. I"m going to take a punt and contend it will occur subsequent week. After all that"s what a small penetrate or alternative has been observant on a unchanging basement for the last month.

Sooner or after one of us has to be right.

Surely a name shift for Shore?

A small late, but I note boutique investment bank Shore Capital is upping sticks and looking preserve in the taxation breakwater of Guernsey.

I call up the association to ask the viewable question. "Does this meant you will be becoming different your name to Offshore Capital?"

Stony silence.

Pimilico plumbs abyss for publicity

More on taxation - Charlie Mullins, the loudmouth plumber in assign of Pimlico Plumbers has turn the ultimate office worker to bluster to move abroad over the 50pc taxation rate.

"I am severely deliberation observant goodbye Pimilico Plumbers and hola Puerto Banus Plumbers," he pronounced in a matter yesterday.

"Cheerio afterwards Charlie," this Diary pronounced in response.

jonathan.russell@telegraph.co.uk

London at centre of Lehman Brothers accounting gimmick

By James Quinn and Sean Farrell 753PM GMT twelve March 2010

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The inform found Lehman had to make make use of of the European arm to commence the controversial accounting practices as they were not deliberate authorised in the US Photo Reuters

The dual advisers are underneath glow for their believe of a array of formidable exchange well known strictly inside of the bank as "Repo 105", but referred to by comparison staff as "window dressing" and an "accounting gimmick".

The pair"s actions are questioned in court-appointed questioner Anton Valukas"s downright inform in to the bank"s collapse, that additionally found that British bank Barclays perceived resources it should not have when after shopping Lehman"s US brokerage business.

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The inform additionally finds that the bank had to make make use of of the European arm, formed in London, to commence the controversial accounting practices as they were not deliberate authorised in the US.

Repo 105, the surprising accounting device at the heart of Lehman"s downfall, radically authorised the bank to facade the borrowing at the finish of each quarter, dwindling the strong risk form to the outward world.

According to the report, the difficult device authorised Lehman to explain the resources were $38.6bn reduce than they essentially were at Nov 2007. By May 2008, Repo 105 was concealing $50.4bn.

In echoes of Arthur Andersen"s purpose in auditing fake appetite hulk Enron, Mr Valukas goes so far as to claim that E&Y could face authorised claims for "professional malpractice" stemming from a series of inattentive actions.

The Wall Street counsel found that dual comparison E&Y staff William Schlich and Hillary Hansen, who are both still with the organisation unsuccessful to take on house the comments of Matthew Lee, afterwards a comparison vice-president, about Repo 105.

In May 2008, Mr Lee wrote to government informing them of his concerns about off-balance piece accounting practices. A month later, on Jun 12, when interviewed by the E&Y auditors, Mr Lee pronounced Lehman changed $50bn from the change piece at the finish of the second entertain for a couple of days.

In a successive assembly with Lehman"s review committee, Mr Schlich did not discuss it them about the whistleblower"s concerns, notwithstanding the committee"s ask that it listen to all his allegations, the inform states.

Mr Valukas argues that there is the intensity for viable authorised claims opposite the accounting organisation for a series of failings. An E&Y orator pronounced the last full review of the bank was for the year to Nov 2007, and that it believes Mr Valukas done no commentary in his inform that Lehman"s books were "improperly valued or accounted for incorrectly" in those statements.

The endless inform additionally reveals that Repo 105 was authorized by Linklaters in London, that in 2006 wrote an perspective minute saying that the compulsory exchange were authorised underneath English law.

A Linklaters orator pronounced "The Examiner…does not criticize those opinions or indicate they were wrong or improper."

Supersize K-cup bras arrive on the high street

By Laura Donnelly 1022AM GMT thirteen March 2010

Purchases of bras for those with D to G cups have risen by 50 per cent year-on-year given 2005, and right away comment for one in 4 bra purchases Photo ALAMY

For years, women with large chests have struggled to find the right support, with majority of those with the top crater sizes usually served by dilettante bra outlets.

Now, one dialect store is to begin stocking a K-cup brassiere, in reply to the flourishing numbers of women with intensely large busts.

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Selfridges has taken the preference to batch the supersize bra after saying a surge in sales of slip in incomparable sizes.

Purchases of bras for those with D to G cups have risen by 50 per cent year-on-year given 2005, and right away comment for one in 4 bra purchases, the store said.

The �32 model, done by oppulance code Fantasie, and formerly stocked usually in dilettante shops, is over 4 feet in circumference, with each crater measuring one and a half feet at the widest part.

It uses additional thick straps to yield enough support.

Helen Attwood, Selfridges Buying Manager for Lingerie, pronounced direct for large bras followed the direction for the normal lady to weigh some-more than those of prior generations.

She pronounced "We are saying some-more direct for the incomparable sizes and generally for fashionable, voluptuous bras in bigger sizes for younger women.

"We are in ubiquitous removing heavier and thus some-more women have incomparable busts, but it can even shift depending on the time of the month."

Already, 10,00 women have paid for the K-cup from dilettante shops, manfacturers Fantasie said.

The majority renouned bra distance in the UK is a 36D, up from a 34B only a decade ago.

Dr Joanna Scurr, a techer in biomechanics at the University of Portsmouth pronounced "Breasts are removing bigger but the not only since we are removing heavier."

The university has carried out investigate that carefully thought about 300 British women over 4 years and found an enlarge in the distance of the normal bosom, in any case of the womans weight.

Dr Scurr pronounced "We dont nonetheless know the reason but it has positively done women most some-more wakeful of the need for scold support."

Studies have found 85 per cent of women wear a really bad propitious bra, with majority women underestimating their crater size, and overestimated the dimensions around their back.

Until now, the largest bra on the high travel has been the J-cup, launched by Marks and Spencer 3 years ago.

The K-cup is accessible at Selfridges in London and Manchester Trafford.

Overhaul of credit cards to be announced next week

By Myra Butterworth, Personal Finance Correspondent 253PM GMT twelve March 2010

The changes are directed at rebellious Britains "crippling" consumer debt and stamping out insane lending practices between lenders.

It follows credit label companies augmenting normal seductiveness rates to a twelve year high of roughly nineteen per cent.

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Martin Lewis, of MoneySavingExpert.com described the new laws as "good news", explaining "These reforms should be a genuine step brazen in introducing improved rights for borrowers."

He likely the measures being reliable subsequent week will embody a crackdown on grant of payments, with the costliest debts being paid off first.

This shift stems from cards levying opposite rates for opposite transactions, such as 0 per cent on change transfers but twenty per cent on purchases. Most lenders allot repayments to the poor debt first, withdrawal the costly debt delinquent that increases seductiveness charges.

Mr Lewis combined there will additionally be construction of the manners on supposed rate jacking. Customers can now exclude a climb in seductiveness rates practical on their card, but the denunciation used by companies to insist this to business is mostly treacherous for borrowers.

Mr Lewis pronounced "People are told they can close their accounts, that doesnt receptive to advice good. It essentially equates to as prolonged as you dont steal some-more you can exclude a rate rise."

An enlarge in smallest payments has been due and it is accepted that whilst this will be rejected, lenders will be forced to insist the stroke of usually creation smallest payments on annual statements.

Credit label providers have been augmenting rates among concerns about borrowers unwell to compensate off their debts.

While the normal rate on all credit cards is nineteen per cent, a little label holders will compensate even more.

Fees for change transfers, money withdrawals and unfamiliar transfers additionally go on to go up, definition business are profitable some-more opposite the board.

The Department of Business declined to comment.

Ban demand on websites that allow promotion of self-harm among teens

1045AM GMT twelve March 2010

There were 1,758 admissions for self-harm with a pointy intent between people underneath twenty-five in 2004/05 - a figure that rose to 2,727 in 2008/09, according to investigate conducted by the University of Stirling.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) has right away called on websites to take down any report that appears to glamorise the activity.

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Dr Margaret Murphy, chair of the kid and youth faculty, pronounced ""The RCP is severely endangered at the new expansion in the series of internet sites featuring images and video footage of immature people enchanting in self-harm and, in particular, websites that crop up to foster self-harm.

""The Royal College of Psychiatrists calls on all website owners and moderators to safeguard that element images and explanation that crop up to foster or romanticise self-harm are removed.""

Highlighting the scale of the problem, she pronounced one in 10 people rivet in self-harm at a little point in their lives.

Britain has one of the top rates in Europe, she added, something that could be exacerbated by an enlarge in images and video footage online.

But she pronounced the reasons at the back of self-harm were ""complex"" and warned opposite demonising the internet as a whole.

""We know that self-harm is compared with mental distress, mostly in the context of stressful hold up events or resources that the immature chairman is struggling to cope with. Self-harm might additionally be compared with illnesses such as depression,"" she said.

""Websites that crop up to romanticise self-harm might stop immature people from looking assistance and instead foster self-harm as a resolution to their problems.""

She referred to media outlets should approach immature people to sites that suggest veteran support.

""The Samaritans have released discipline for reporters on the obliged stating and description of self-murder and self-harm and we urge new media to adopt these discipline as well,"" she said.

Marjorie Wallace, arch senior manager of the mental health gift Sane, called for people treated with colour for self-harm to be closely monitored after they leave hospital.

""Secret and untreated, self-harm can go on in to adult hold up and with it a clarity of guilt, self-blame and isolation,"" she said.

""Rather than only focusing on the change of internet sites, Sane calls for severe follow-up for those in attendance collision and puncture departments who have self-harmed and mental assistance offering for the underlying causes, such as depression.""

Skiing Mount Etna: Hit the slopes one day, sail the next

1135AM GMT twelve March 2010

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Did you know that with an experienced guide you can ski or snowshoe to the limit of Europe"s largest active volcano in winter? Once at the tip of Mount Etna, if the continue is good, you can mount at a crater"s edge, smell the sulphur and suffer stimulating views of the Ionian, Adriatic and Mediterranean seas.

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If you wish some-more of a challenge, you can begin from the volcano"s southern slant with sealskins strapped to your skis, span Etna"s limit of 3,329 metres and afterwards ski all the approach down by the birch and beech landscape of the northern flank. The treeless top slopes of the volcano are undiluted for wild off-piste snowboarding and the lava bumps and high-altitude winds have sleet white Etna a great place for the perfectionist competition of kite skiing.

All great chin-strutting, adrenalin-pumping stuff, but Etna frequency sounds similar to the majority viewable place to take my 10-year-old son for his initial ski lesson. Or does it? Further down the volcano, at about 1,800 metres, the lava spreads out similar to demerara sugarine to form kindly undulating slopes that have easy blue runs for ski softies similar to myself and my uninformed son.

These conditions and the actuality that the relations regard of the seashore of Catania and the delights of Taormina are usually a 40-minute expostulate away, have Etna a flattering great gamble for beginners.

I had experienced a pang of regard when I had beheld on the Ski Etna website that to one side the common sleet inform and webcams there was a territory entitled "Volcanic Activity" charity updates of any uninformed seismic shifts or new eruptions. Apparently the last important wake up was as new as Dec so I was personally relieved when we stepped out of the car at the Etna"s northern ski review of Piano Provenzana to find a tranquil, fireball-free landscape. The main ski locus was lonesome in uninformed sleet that hid the evil black lava and the southern Italian fever gave the total stage a soft glow. It was tough to design the extinction of usually eight years ago when a new five-mile crevasse had non-stop and lava had swept by the resort, destroying majority of the infrastructure. My guide, Claudio, forked to a large petrify footprint at the centre of the review where the Betulle Hotel had once stood.

"That used to be the main heart of the skiing movement and the most appropriate place for a drink after a mass departure up to the crater"s edge," he explained. Now the usually justification of the tear were a couple of resounding white larches on the corner of the piste. Everything else, from the sinecure apparatus and the wooden use huts to the hi-tech ski lift, was new. It might have taken a prolonged time, but the place was right away reborn as an eco-friendly, boutique resort.

My son, Ben, was unknowingly of the resort"s thespian story as he struggled with the humerous entertainment of his initial ski lesson. Using physique denunciation and gestures, Nino, his physical education instructor from the internal Italian ski school, communicated the scold viewpoint and the significance of the snowplough technique. After an hour or so of carrying his skis behind up the slant Ben communicated his depletion and the significance of a draglift there wasn"t one. I betrothed that after lunch the doctrine would turn a lot simpler when we could head up on the four-seater chairlift and rehearse the stops and turns as we changed down the peaceful slip of the half-mile Monte Conca run.

No such luck. After a typically drawn out Italian feast, together with a little glorious hand-rolled macaroni with wild mushrooms, the continue outward incited nasty. Etna was demonstrating that it is a critical towering able of impassioned continue conditions as the review remade from a family-friendly sleet play ground in southern Italy to Ice Station Zebra. Claudio explained that the genuine ski risk on Etna was not avalanches or eruptions, but skiers lost in haze or whiteouts.

It was patently time to take worth of Etna"s great shun pretence and we headed down to the kinder climes of the coast. Stepping out of the car at Casa Scimone, the villa in Taormina, was rather similar to removing out of Doctor Who"s Tardis after a mark of space travel. Instead of wintry whiteouts, we were greeted with the scents and colours of a semi-tropical coastal garden. Enormous cacti were in flower, the mimosa in freshness as Ben began picking oranges from the small timber for an après ski considerate of creatively squeezed juice.

On the following morning, to get the most appropriate of eastern Sicily and usually to infer that it is probable to ski one day and cruise the next, we hired a small neat yacht and headed out from the newly determined Porto Etna to the Gulf of Catania. The blue-black H2O was usually comfortable sufficient to suffer a discerning English-style dip, nonetheless I did notice that the skipper, Diego, buttoned up his puffer coupler and winced as we went in for the second time. Towelled dry we sat out on deck, basking in the fever and stared up at the snow-crowned rise of Etna.

Studying the strong La Montagna it was right away tough to heed in between plumes of volcanic smoke, icy clouds and swirls of blown snow, but as Diego destined us towards a prime seafood grill it was comforting to know that the preference of sea or ski was regularly on the menu.

Etna basics

There are dual small ski resorts on Etna; the incomparable and some-more swarming Rifugio Sapienza on the southern slant has a gondola, a chairlift and 3 ski rises whilst the prettier Piano Provenzana on the northern slant is versed with usually dual rises and a chairlift. See www.etnasci.it for the ultimate report about continue conditions and volcanic activity. For all organized winter trips hit Sicilian Capers, that offers recommendation and bookings in English (0039 333 412 2480; siciliancapers.com). Sicily Charter suggest from one day to one week"s yacht sinecure (www.sicilycharter.com)

Accommodation

Casa Scimone Villa in Taormina is accessible by Ville in Italia (055 412058; villeinitalia.com ). There are 3 guesthouses 3 miles from Piano Provenzana in the Etna National Park.

Rifugio Ragabo (095 647841; www.ragabo.it) offers great worth and transfers from Catania airfield to the resorts. Linguaglossa is the nearest main centre to the northern slope.

The Shalai Resort (095 643128; shalai.it), housed in the former locale hall, offers sauna treatments and a restaurant.

Getting there

British Airways (0844 493 0787; ba.com) flies from Gatwick to Catania.

Germany fights to keep Holocaust organisers files sealed

Allan Hall in Berlin 1129AM GMT twelve March 2010

Adolph Eichmann during his hearing in 1961

Those anticipating to have a 50-year privacy sequence overturned hold the supervision is broke by sum inside of that might infer German and Vatican officials colluded in his shun and freedom.

The privacy sequence is being challenged in a benchmark probity box opposite the BND, Germany"s done at home comprehension service, that wants the 4,500 pages of papers on Adolf Eichmann to sojourn out of the open domain. The use claims that comprehension agencies in alternative countries will be "frightened off" in destiny data-sharing if they are disclosed, Der Spiegel reported.

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Critics hold this is a smokescreen written to equivocate central annoyance both in Berlin and the Vatican. It is well documented that German Bishop Alois Hudal in Rome operated postwar "Ratlines," removing passports for longed for Nazis to concede them to shun justice.

Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka murder camp, certified to British Nazi consultant Gitta Sereny that Hudal helped him get afar after the Nazi better in 1945.

Eichmann additionally escaped. He was the idealisation "desk murderer" of the Third Reich who, as head of dialect IVB4 of the SS in Berlin, was obliged for the trains that carried millions to their deaths at murder centres in Nazi assigned Poland.

After the fight he was prisoner but fled from Allied custody. As the victors scoured Europe and the universe for the tip officials of the regime, Eichmann"s name was hardly well well known it was usually as some-more and some-more sum of the Holocaust emerged that his main purpose in it began to emergence on Nazi hunters.

For fifteen years he lived, infrequently underneath his own name, in Argentina, raising his family whilst operative at a VW car plant. In 1960, behaving on a tip-off, a Mossad group was despatched to Buenos Aires with orders to kidnap him and move him behind to Israel for trial. He was seized, stood trial, found guilty and hanged on May 31 1962.

Now the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig, Germany, is study the files about his getaway from Europe and hold up in Argentina to confirm if they should be done public. The focus for their recover was done by German publisher Gabriele Weber.

The BND maintains that privacy is required since "much of the report contained in the files was supposing by an unnamed unfamiliar comprehension service." If released, the BND argues, it would "deter" alternative nations from pity comprehension with Germany in the future.

But critics hold what the files will unequivocally exhibit are the levels of assistance, succour and branch a blind eye to Nazi fugitives from officials in degraded Germany, together with sum of Vatican benefit to tip Nazis similar to him.

A preference on either to recover the files will be done in the subsequent couple of weeks.

Bangladesh v England: Alastair Cook leads by example with century in first Test

839AM GMT twelve March 2010

Centurion Alastair Cook raises his bat higher after reaching 3 total Photo PA

Alastair Cook became the fifth England captain to strike a century in his initial Test innings in the job, with a autocratic 113 not out opposite Bangladesh.

Cook led the group out for the initial Test as his country"s 79th skipper and proceeded to ease his approach to 3 figures, following in the footsteps of Archie McLaren, Allan Lamb, Andrew Strauss and Kevin Pietersen.

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Pietersen himself had endured a calamity run going in to the diversion but looked unfazed as he reached tea dominant on 51 with the tourists 243 for two.

Home captain Shakib Al Hasan, meanwhile, was left to charity a leftfield preference to margin initial carrying won the toss.

Michael Carberry, one of dual England debutants to one side Steven Finn, eased any nerves by tucking his third round in general cricket off his pads for dual to get off the mark.

The Hampshire opener fast found his stride, dispatching Rubel Hossain for 3 bounds in the fourth over, the last of that was a perfect true drive.

Two some-more bounds followed in discerning period for Carberry, both off the outward edge, as the home seamers began to trickle early runs.

Shakib quickly incited to his own left-arm turn to branch the upsurge but was hoisted by Cook high over midwicket for 6 in usually his second over.

Naeem Islam kick the captain when he attempted to repeat the shot but, that aside, England progressed serenely to the half-century symbol with unbroken Cook fours off Rubel.

Mahmudullah found a contrast line early on in his spell and was up in arms to see wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim dump a law catch off Carberry.

But he had to wait for usually an over to get his man, winning a candid lbw outcome as Carberry longed for a sweep.

By afterwards Cook had already taken carry out of the 72-run opening mount and one after another to lead the approach after Jonathan Trott"s arrival.

The Tigers grew in certainty after the new thing and Trott shortly had 4 men in close catching positions opposite Shakib, though he played conservatively to see his approach to lunch.

The No 3 was in some-more aggressive form after the break, punching Shahadat Hossain to the ropes at third man in his initial over at the back of and afterwards crunching him by the covers for 4 more.

Cook - who upheld his half-century usually prior to lunch - was seeking resolute at the alternative finish and he as well milked Shahadat, pulling a short one to prolonged leg prior to training him by extra-cover when he overpitched.

Umpire Tony Hill, as if intuiting an edge, judged Trott held at the back of for 39 after a Rubel bouncer that seemed to come true off the batsman"s helmet.

The discontented see on Trott"s face as the preference was since suggests additionally upheld that view.

The wicket brought the under-pressure Pietersen to the middle, with Abdur Razzak ready to examine his ostensible debility opposite left-arm spin.

Pietersen proposed positively, though, hammering Razzak past mid-off to move up the England 150.

He found 3 serve bounds as he pushed his approach to twenty-three - his top measure on the debate to date after a gloomy run.

Pietersen and Cook one after another to keep the scoreboard ticking, with a brush from the former racing afar to excellent leg to ease the innings past 200.

Cook, though, was not to be outdone and heaved Mahmudullah for a second limit over mid-wicket to move up his century in style.

Remarkably Cook had usually ever strike dual Test sixes prior to today"s game.

The rotating expel of spinners looked short of responses as the runs one after another to come, Pietersen attack down the belligerent to move up a 61-ball 50.

World Indoor Athletics 2010: Dwain Chambers destroys rest of field in 60m heats

By Simon Hart in Doha 530PM GMT twelve Mar 2010

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Ominously for his rivals, the Londoner was even means to journey the last 10 metres of his feverishness to preserve appetite for Saturdays rounds, nonetheless his winning time of 6.59sec was still 0.02sec quicker than the second fastest qualifier, American Trell Kimmons.

Fellow Briton Harry Aikines-Aryeetey additionally done certain of his semi-final place by finishing runner-up in his feverishness in 6.72sec.

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After winning the European indoor entertainment 60m pretension a year ago, the universe climax right away looks there for the receiving for Chambers, whose main rival, Ivory Williams, is at home in the United States after being criminialized for 3 months for contrast certain for cannabis.

Chambers would not be drawn on Williams predicament, insisting he would not be dreaming from his own performance, but pronounced he was feeling assured about his prospects of winning his initial comparison tellurian title.

"Its all good," pronounced the 31-year-old, who common the china award at the 2008 World Indoors in Valencia but is right away ranked No 1 in Williams absence.

"Its still early days nonetheless and Ive got to keep an eye on my opposition. But Im usually blissful I got the initial one out the approach since I was a bit nervous.

"Its usually something I regularly go through. You regularly get a bit jittery. Its the unknown. But right away that Ive got the heats out the approach I know where Im at and I know where I stand."

Elsewhere, the afternoon eventuality in Dohas Aspire Dome valid unsatisfactory for the British squad. Apart from Chambers and Aikines-Aryeetey, the usually alternative curtain to validate from the heats was Helen Clitheroe in the 1500m, and even she did so usually as a fastest loser.

Samson Oni competent for the eight-man high burst last with a clearway of 2.26m though team-mate Tom Parsons narrowly longed for out after clearing the same tallness but finishing outward the top-eight cut-off a count-back.

Kate Dennison, the British stick safe record-holder, was additionally separated on a count-back, finishing next to ninth with a clearway of 4.35m, whilst long-jumpers Greg Rutherford and Chris Tomlinson, both finalists in Berlin last summer, crashed out at the subordinate stage.

Richard Buck done it by the initial turn of the 400m as a fastest crook but went out in fifth place in his semi-final.

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Greece will be saved, but what about other debtors?

By Adrian Michaels 826AM GMT twelve March 2010

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The Greek predicament has brought the mess-up of the euro to light Photo EPA

Greece is being pieced behind together, financially at least. Next week, plans to condense the bill necessity are expected to be authorized by associate Europeans, and in lapse it will embrace pragmatic assist by assorted bank guarantees. German taxpayers, the majority well-off in the eurozone, will be the idealisation backstop, nonetheless Brussels will fake that the in isolation banks are receiving the strain. There will be authorised hurdles and German parliamentary rancour, alleging that the assist contravenes a anathema on bail-outs of one part of of the euro by others, but Greece will be some-more stable.

That won"t be the finish of the matter. For typical Greeks, out on set upon and rioting again yesterday, the assertive purgation measures are expected to meant years of soul-sapping recession. The country"s leaders hugely misled their partners and the markets about the state of the finances; the improvement is quite heartless as a result. As Warren Buffett says, it is usually when the waves goes out that you see who has been swimming naked. Greece is arch nudist at a naturists" convention, and a really cold breeze is blowing.

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Meanwhile, Spain, Portugal and Ireland are additionally streamer for years of darkness. Nor can alternative economies in the eurozone rest comfortably. A complement improved versed to hoop large mercantile shocks is needed. The rest of the European Union competence be self-satisfied now, but that will shift once they are dragged in to discuss about referendums and covenant changes indispensable to exercise such a system. This comes usually a couple of weeks after the deeply divisive Lisbon Treaty eventually came in to force and was ostensible to finish serve inherent shift for a decade.

The march of the low tellurian retrogression has unprotected the diseased complement of supervision of the euro. When the European Monetary System, a predecessor to the euro, was put in place in 1979, it was envisaged that a European Monetary Fund would additionally be created. It, similar to the International Monetary Fund, was ostensible to be there to assistance countries in difficulty and additionally levy process conditions for any assist disbursed. The EMF never happened; such clever domestic division from the centre was a sovereign step as well far.

Instead, the euro launch was fudged. Countries such as Greece, Italy and Belgium effectively deceived to have the subordinate criteria. The euro countries concluded to a fortitude agreement that governed mercantile discipline, but was as well diseased from the opening and has been breached regularly since. It was never able of traffic with immeasurable outmost shake and the contamination we have seen given 2008.

So, on one level, the Greek predicament is an event to exercise a long-needed fix. No doubt, a little of the majority fervent believers in the European plan are rubbing off their hands in anticipation. But nothing of the decent solutions is viable. The domestic fears that ruled out the origination of an EMF are still there; France in sold is against to stronger outward slip of the economy. Angela Merkel, Germany"s chancellor, says an EMF could be a great idea, but she additionally says it would need a new treaty. This enables her to behind an thought she knows full well will never fly.

Meanwhile, Brussels is struggling to denote the value to a distrustful open after the years of infighting over Lisbon. The European Commission will thus probably try for something some-more spontaneous and indispensably weaker than an EMF a pull for part of countries unilaterally to restructure their economies, and larger mercantile notice from the centre. Even that, though, will land it in difficulty with countries such as Germany, that see such notice as a intensity crack of their constitutions.

In the UK, the discuss is a bother for both Government and opposition. Gordon Brown has betrothed to conflict any serve European institutional change, but what constitutes change? Proposals from Brussels will presumably be ready to go up as anything alternative than triggers for a referendum, usually as Lisbon itself was skewed by the Labour supervision to equivocate for a guarantee of a poll.

Meanwhile, David Cameron and William Hague have usually usually managed to overpower their inner Conservative critics over Europe in allege of the election. They have affianced to hold a referendum on any destiny covenant changes, but they desperately don"t wish that distraction. Mr Hague pronounced this week that if elected, the Conservatives had motionless not to go in to conflict with Europe. "We have sufficient on the hands but an present fight with the EU," he said.

There is an additional reason since Brussels wants speak of a new covenant to go away. If discuss proposed in Brussels on what would be indispensable to emanate an EMF, Mr Cameron as budding apportion would begin perfectionist all sorts of alternative changes to the manners that connect together EU countries. This would be usually the event to find an unwinding of EU amicable and probity process and most else besides. Every alternative nation has a wish-list, starting with the Spanish enterprise for some-more MEPs. Weak reforms of the euro will be the result, since no one wants Pandora to open that box.

US reaches tipping point as minority births set to outnumber white births

By Alex Spillius in Washington 525PM GMT eleven March 2010

Caucasian women increasingly are loitering carrying immature kids and carrying not as big families, whilst flourishing numbers of Hispanic women are carrying large family groups at compulsory child-bearing ages, according to a new demographic study. If trends continue, America is on march to have a white minority by 2050.

"Census projections indicate America might turn a minority-majority republic by the center of the century," pronounced Kenneth Johnson, a sociology highbrow at the University of New Hampshire who researched majority of the secular trends in a paper expelled this week.

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Whites right away have up two-thirds of the sum US population, but the series of white women of budding child-bearing age 20-39 years old is in decline, dropping nineteen per cent from 1990.

Minorities done up 48 per cent of US immature kids innate in 2008, compared with 37 per cent in 1990. Broken down by race, about 52 per cent of babies innate in 2008 were white, compared with about twenty-five per cent who were Hispanic, fifteen per cent black and 4 per cent Asian. Another 4 per cent were identified by their relatives as multiracial. The numbers prominence the nations flourishing secular and age divide, seen in pockets of communities opposite the country, that could worsen tensions in stream debates on policies trimming from immigration remodel and preparation to health caring and amicable security.

According to the total analysed by the University of New Hampshire, rounded off one in 10 of the nations 3,142 counties already has minority populations larger than 50 per cent. But one in 4 communities has some-more minority immature kids than white immature kids or is impending that point.

The researchers found that the flood rate was higher between Hispanics, who had an normal of 3 immature kids per woman, than between non-Hispanic white women, who had an normal of only underneath dual immature kids (1.87) each. Fertility rates between alternative minority groups were utterly identical to whites.

Black flood had declined significantly in new years, with African-American women right away averaging 2.13 children.

The US Census Bureau subsequent week starts the 2010 race count, using open use announcements this week to urge the total of immature children, quite minorities, who are majority mostly longed for in the once-a-decade head count.

The advertisements will underline renouned childrens characters together with Dora the Explorer, the animation impression that speaks English and Spanish.

The commentary in the inform could have clever implications for the 2010 count. Population total are used to discharge sovereign assist and redraw legislative bounds with secular and racial balance, as compulsory by sovereign law.

The 2008 census estimates used internal annals of births and deaths, taxation annals of people relocating inside of the US, and census census data on immigrants.

Omega profits up ahead of key vote

By Jamie Dunkley, City Reporter (Insurance) 901PM GMT eleven March 2010

The Lloyd"s of London insurer, that faces a shareholder rebel at a special ubiquitous assembly on Friday afternoon, saw increase burst to $47.1m (�31.3m) in 2009 compared with $28.2m last year.

The formula counterpart the direction seen opposite the Lloyd"s market, as insurers benefited from softened investment earnings and a soft whirly deteriorate opposite North America.

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The numbers are doubtful to forestall the company"s heading shareholders winning a key opinion on the company"s future.

Neil Woodford, the account physical education instructor who controls 29pc of Omega by Invesco, has called the special assembly to implement 6 house members and force the abdication of five stream house members.

The conflict in between Omega and heading investors has strong given Omega"s owner John Robinson left the association last autumn.

In a matter last week, "certain Omega shareholders" representing 45.5pc of the company"s bottom of investors pronounced they had already corroborated Mr Woodford"s proposals.

Sources close to Omega are right away pinning their hopes on involvement from US regulators. However, it is not well known either the Delaware Insurance Department will take any movement after the opinion is held.

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Cheltenham Festival 2010: Pray that Robert Thorntons vow of silence catches on

By Jim White 605PM GMT eleven March 2010

Tight-lipped Robert Thornton, the heading manoeuvre at Cheltenham in 2007, is to evade the post-race peep talk Photo GETTY IMAGES

The stirring Cheltenham confront in between Denman and Kauto Star underlines the point that it has a little of the majority constrained tract lines in the total of sport. What it needs, it is at large agreed, is a little assertive open family to foster the narrative.

So there has been a little tut-tutting at the manoeuvre Robert Thornton"s uneven warding off to co-operate with Channel 4 during the Festival.

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The broadcaster likes to dispatch a contributor to follow the winning supplement for a word the impulse they cranky the finish line, in the demeanour of Clare Balding interrogation after Liam Treadwell"s dentistry at last year"s Grand National. But alone between his colleagues, Thornton, the majority successful aspirant at Cheltenham in 2007, has pronounced he won"t complete a word if a microphone is bearing in his direction.

Thornton, though, is not racing"s version of Sir Alex Ferguson, arising bans to any one he believes has passed over him. His overpower has some-more unsentimental motive.

"I don"t wish to contend anything foolish in the feverishness of the moment," he explained this week. "I usually think it can be a bit cringeworthy at times. I don"t know what they design you to contend solely "I feel wonderful"."

He has a point. And, after examination the evident post-match research of multiform of those endangered in Champions League matches, we can usually goal his is an proceed that catches on.

Winning regulation - fool around some-more Brits

Anyone who worries that British tennis has no hope, abyss or destiny need usually peek at the formula of the second turn in the AEGON Pro-Series mens eventuality in Tipton for acknowledgment that they are right to be concerned.

Of 10 British participants, usually 3 progressed to the third stage. And Burnham Arlidge, Daniel Smethurst and Daniel Evans usually modernized since they were drawn opposite associate Brits. All 4 of the immature Britons who played opposite a unfamiliar foe lost.

Still, such unity provides John Lloyd, or whoever takes over from him as Davis Cup captain, with food for thought. If the man in assign wants to stop the run of defeats he right away knows what he has to do. He has to safeguard that the subsequent time GB fool around in the foe it is opposite a GB team. Even we competence conduct to kick them.

Pension Protection Fund eyes investments in private equity and infrastructure

By Jamie Dunkley 715AM GMT eleven Mar 2010

The pensions lifeboat, that takes on tangible good grant schemes of collapsed companies, pronounced the move was being taken to assistance it outperform the own investment benchmarks by 1.8pc over the march of the year, rather than the stream aim of 1.4pc.

The PPF saw the total necessity of the schemes strike �1.2bn in the year finale Mar 2009. However, given then, it has hired 3 tellurian equity managers to goal for it for a nearby threefold enlarge in resources to �10bn.

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Alan Rubenstein, arch executive, pronounced "Our portfolio is impending the �4bn symbol that equates to we right away have far some-more event to variegate the resources and larger shopping energy than ever before."

Despite the change in policy, the PPF pronounced it would say the "low risk proceed to investments" with at slightest 65pc of the portfolio superfluous invested in money and bonds.

The account additionally lengthened the joining to "responsible investment principles" and pronounced it would soak up these beliefs "across all assets", together with any new item classes in that it invests.

In an talk with The Dailylast year, Mr Rubenstein pronounced he hoped investment earnings would in the future reinstate the levy it places on UK commercial operation as the PPF"s vital source of income.

At the time he pronounced "In five to 10 years time we goal the levy will be a comparatively small piece of the income, with the rest driven by investments."

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Forget Cristiano Ronaldos 42, Wayne Rooney can top Denis Laws mark

By Mike Norrish 1038AM GMT eleven March 2010

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Sir Alex Ferguson has corroborated Rooney to plea the symbol set by Ronaldo in the Champions League winning deteriorate in 2007/08. To do that, Rooney will need to measure thirteen some-more goals prior to the finish of the season. Here"s how it could be finished ...

United have 9 superfluous Premier League games, and a limit of five in the Champions League, should they reach the final. That potentially gives Rooney fourteen games to measure the thirteen goals required to pass Ronaldo"s mark.

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Rooney has scored twenty-three goals in the twenty-seven Premier League games he has played this season, an normal of 0.85 goals per game. So if he plays the residue of United"s games until the finish of the season, he is in line to measure an additional 7 goals. He has 4 goals in five games in the Champions League, an normal of 0.8 goals per game. Should United reach the final, that would statistically give Rooney the possibility to measure an additional 4 goals, receiving his sum to 11. Added to his stream sum of 30, that would give him 41, one short of Ronaldo"s total.

However, if we take Rooney"s new form as a guide, afterwards he will absolutely pass Ronaldo"s mark. Rooney has scored thirteen goals in his last eleven games, an normal of 1.18 goals per game. Should that comparative measure go on until the finish of the season, Rooney will usually need fool around in eleven some-more games to measure the thirteen goals he needs to pass Ronaldo.

Intriguingly, should Rooney"s form and fitness sojourn consistent until May, he could even kick Law"s all-time United record. If Rooney continues to measure an normal of 1.18 goals per diversion and plays in the limit fifteen fixtures he will finish the deteriorate with 47 goals, one some-more than the all-time jot down set by Law in 1963-64.

Eight out of 10 women would have surgery to lose weight rather than through diet and exercise

730AM GMT eleven March 2010

The women pronounced liposuction would ""work immediately"" and ""give good results"".

More than half of British men and women would rather change additional weight by extreme surgery than diet or exercise, the check said.

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Women see weight-loss operations as the key to discerning formula whilst a little men courtesy it as the ""lazy option"", it found.

Asked how they would similar to to lose additional weight, liposuction was the majority renouned with women (34 per cent), followed by gastric bypass (26 per cent) and slicing calories (14 per cent).

Eight per cent would opt for a stomach tuck whilst usually 2 per cent pronounced they would practice some-more and 6 per cent would mix diet and exercise.

Overall, twenty-six per cent of women pronounced they never practice and would rather continue the annoy of surgery than revisit a gym once a week.

The consult was carried out between 1,305 members of the open on interest of the website www.goodsurgeonguide.co.uk.

It found 56 per cent of men and women in the UK would rather lose weight by surgery than eating less and sportive more.

Meanwhile, some-more than half of men (52% per cent) pronounced they would rather lose their additional pounds by augmenting the volume they exercise.

The subsequent majority renouned choice for men wanting to strew pounds was carrying a stomach tuck (19 per cent) followed by liposuction (11 per cent).

Most men (63 per cent) regarded surgery as ""the quiescent option"" but usually 7 per cent would cut calories to dump additional pounds, with usually 7 per cent mixing diet and exercise.

Christiana Clogg, owners of The Good Surgeon Guide, pronounced ""Obesity is a outrageous issue in the UK.

""The republic positively needs to get healthier; however we additionally need to get fitter.

""Surgery might be a discerning repair and give good results, but it doesn"t regularly urge underlying health or mental issues.

""If people are deliberation weight-loss surgery they could be pang from low self-respect - this is when people can get without eyes by low prices and technical language.

""Researching the practitioner and surgery is positively imperative.""

Oregon: Camping adventures in the home of the brave

1133AM GMT 10 March 2010

Previous of Images Next Rafting on the Merced tide The yurt valid approach over the expectations, it even had the own small yard, safeguarded from alternative sites by thick underbrush There were majority opportunities for crabbing, fishing and sport for agates Nothing can utterly goal for you for the sovereignty of Yosemite Photo Alamy

It was the yurt that sole it to me the thought of pushing down America"s imperishable North Pacific Coast camping in Mongolian-style domed round tents sounded similar to an experience not to be missed. So I requisitioned one night at a yurt at Sunset Bay in Oregon and on that gossamer offshoot hung a three-week family legal legal holiday .

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Thus on a Sunday dusk in early July, we found ourselves circuitous down the overwhelming coastal highway towards Sunset Bay. Appropriately, the object was environment over the beach when we arrived. The easeful shoal cove, shut in by sandstone bluffs, looked so interesting that the 3 young kids ill of spending half the day in the car clamoured to be let out prior to we had even found the yurt. Off they scampered in to the stone pools, anticipating crabs and as my four-year-old daughter voiced lots of "enemies" sea anemones.

It took an hour to captivate them at the back of in to the car but it was usually a two-minute expostulate from there to the yurt, set at the back of from the brook in a wood. For $27 a night we were not awaiting much, but what endangered me majority was the weather. Now the object had set it had spin spectacularly cold. When a crony from Oregon warned me about the continue here, I was dismissive "We come from England it will feel similar to home."

The yurt valid approach over the expectations a immature board have up hold up by wooden struts, it had a wooden building with a large berth bed and a pullout sofa. There was electric light, a lockable front doorway and a porch. It even had the own small yard, safeguarded from alternative sites by thick bushes. And most appropriate of all there was heating. The young kids warmed their hands on the small radiator. Compared with camping in a tent, this felt similar to luxury. "It"s even nicer than the home," concluded the children.

When the light poured in by the round window on the roof the subsequent morning, it looked even some-more welcoming. We all motionless we could outlay at slightest a week here. Unfortunately, we had usually requisitioned one night due to a inexhaustible termination policy, yurts book up months in allege so you need to check the website often and pounce on anything available. There was a gossip that there had been a termination for the yurt conflicting (there are eight tents in sum at Sunset Bay), but the people right away in it would have initial refusal. If, by midday, they had not renewed their rental, it would be ours. As shortly as they packaged up their car, a cleaning organisation materialised to dumpy down the yurt. We were in.

You can representation your own tent here, as well but for the additional $8, it seemed well value carrying all the additional amenities. We stayed an additional 3 days, utilizing the yurt as a bottom to try the seashore from the flattering fishing towns to the unusual pointer colonies usually south of Sunset Bay. Approaching the lookout, the receptive to advice of barking filled the air. "The seals are singing," voiced the four-year-old. A courteous play belligerent ranger had set up multiform telescopes and he pleasantly carried up my daughter to get a improved view. (They unequivocally see after you in Oregon on the interstates there are stops for free coffee and cookies, enlivening motorists to take a break.)

Farther up the coast, usually over the strand locale of Florence, are the Sea Lion Caves. A lift takes you down in to the inlet of the world"s largest sea cavern an scary cold place inhabited by a rookery of sea lions. Here the doglike yelps are so shrill that you can listen to zero else.

Mostly we paid for uninformed seafood in the beside encampment of Charleston outrageous tiger prawns that we grilled over the heat outward the yurt, cleared down with booze constructed usually a integrate of miles afar in the Willamette Valley. This was unequivocally a step up from the common stay transport of sausages on sticks.

Moving up the seashore of Oregon, we were forced to give the tent an airing as no some-more yurts were available. We stayed 3 nights at Tillicum Beach, a dramatically pleasing if windswept bay. From there, we explored circuitously Newport where we went crabbing, fishing and sport for agates at Agate Beach. We held so majority crabs and sea drum that they became the tack diet for the subsequent integrate of days. I haven"t been means to see at a sea drum since.

Before stability the highway outing down to California we gathering internal to Crater Lake, the usually state play belligerent in Oregon. Driving by volcanic fields we held steer of the lake for the initial time that is of a blue so heated that Kodak used to send at the back of people"s photos with apologies for removing the colour wrong, not realising that the lake unequivocally is that blue. Skeletonised tree stumps and red-streaked sleet (the colour caused by a snow-dwelling algae) describe the environment even some-more dramatic.

As we incited westwards towards the seashore again I was struck by the beauty of the Oregon panorama flattering small farms and vineyards, golden fields, bursts of flowering plants and unusual disfigured trees that seemed to heat red. We were streamer for Gold Bluffs beach campground in California, a word-of-mouth place that you cannot pre-book.

We reached the Redwood National Forest but could not find the small highway heading to Gold Bluffs, so stopped to ask directions at Elk Meadow (where the horns of extending elk were usually perceivable on tip of the tall grass). It was late afternoon and we were told there was no goal of a campsite unless you incited up initial thing in the morning. "Campground full" pronounced the pointer indicating down the six-mile highway by the redwoods.

Undeterred, we pulpy on handling on the element that if you spin up somewhere something will happen. Arriving at the beach campground, the ranger reliable what we already knew and suggested us to lapse at eight the subsequent morning. We were about to leave to expostulate 40 miles to the nearest motel when he combined "Have you got a dog?"

"No."

"In that case," he said, "there is an environmental campground half a mile up the highway I have one site left there."

"We"ll take it," we said, thrilled.

He gave us a formula to transparent the embankment in to the forest, warned us about bears one had ripped by a tent a integrate of days progressing and left us to it. We gathering down a prolonged mud track, parked the car, afterwards hiked 300 yards or so deeper in to the timberland to find the site. It was beautiful, surrounded by large ferns and redwood trees reaching up to the sky. But it was far some-more removed than we had anticipated. I had envisaged a integrate of tents and a big community fire, but the alternative dual sites were invisible to us, multiform hundred yards away. We were enveloped in complete silence, punctuated spasmodic by a crack or a break of undergrowth that done us burst out of the skins. There was zero for it but to representation the tent and cranky the fingers.

At the crack of dawn, after a excited night, we packaged up and hiked out of the timberland to try to secure a beach campsite. Nothing would satisfy us to outlay an additional night in the forest.

I right away felt dauntless sufficient to ask the ranger that site the bear had targeted. "Site 3" he pronounced ours of course.

"We think it was a youthful that has been causing a small problems recently," he added. "I suppose," I pronounced hopefully, "it would have fled if it had seen any humans."

"Oh no," pronounced the ranger "it was captivated by human scent."

We cruised around the beach campground, examination people pack up. A integrate of alternative cars were circling, too, and courtesy was focused on the handful of budding sites essentially on the beach. Some deals had been thrashed out the night prior to and multiform internal campers were relocating up a stage in the skill ladder. The ranger sloping us off about one beach site due to spin empty so we hovered nearby, watchful for the tent occupants to emerge. But we were novices at campsite takeover practice an additional car swooped in and proposed a two-pronged conflict on the same site a lady lurked at the front of the tent, her partner staked out the back. The impulse a head popped out, the lady asked for the tent. We"d been gazumped. "First come, initial served," crowed the man. "In that case… ," I said, digging in my heels.

"So sorry," pronounced the man, hauling his tent out of the at the back of of the car.

"Actually," pronounced one of the campers, opening to the rescue "I think this family was here first."

It was ours we had a square of budding genuine estate on one of the most appropriate beaches in California. As the vacating integrate pronounced "Where else can you get a perspective similar to this for usually $15 a night?" We pitched the tent between the grasses flanking the beach, the fog-enshrouded golden cliffs at the back of us and miles of forlorn beach prior to us. The tents were so far detached that you could not see or listen to any one else.

Mostly we usually hung out on the beach, but we did animate ourselves to have the short travel to Fern Canyon, a indenture in the building of the Redwood Forest with ferns papering the tall walls and small icy waterfalls cascading down. The young kids wanted for minnows in the rivulet between upturned trees, the roots on tip of their heads, the branches buried beneath.

A integrate of days later, we gathering internal by Mount Shasta a asleep volcano lonesome in sleet all year and down to Yosemite National Park. Nothing can utterly goal for you for the sovereignty of Yosemite, that contains 3 of the tallest waterfalls in the world, soaring slab rank and file and views stretching opposite towering ranges as far as the eye can see. Here the continue was far some-more as you would suppose a Californian summer to be prolonged balmy days and transparent nights.

We stayed in a wooden cabin surrounded by extending deer on the less-visited south side of the park, afterwards changed up to stay in Tuolumne Meadows, where the site flanked a shoal stream. We hiked a two-mile meadow double back that took us past effervescent soft drink springs by a landscape populated by marmots and white picket pins (ground squirrels) that sparse as we approached.

We outlayed a week in the play belligerent and still felt we had usually scratched the surface. There was usually so most to see and do we went rafting down the Merced River, rented bikes to try the Valley Floor, took a four-hour jackass float up to Clark"s Point, where we were spin with the tip of the blast Nevada Falls. We wandered by the large sequoia trees in Mariposa Grove, picnicked in overwhelming meadows and hiked to waterfalls where rainbows danced in and out of the rocks. Occasionally we even speckled bears nonetheless the newness of this was fast wearing off.

Just outward the south opening of the play belligerent we went bullion panning at Sugar Pine Railroad, afterwards rode an old steam sight in to the forest. Nearby was a place that rented out Model T Fords to debate Yosemite. David, the avuncular owner, was dynamic to let my dual sons, elderly eight and six, take turns at the circle of a 1915 indication on a dry in isolation side road. "Tread on the gas," he educated them.

"No don"t," I yelled. The car juddered brazen as my sons squealed with delight.

It has to be pronounced that pushing a Model T was the prominence of the outing for my dual boys. For my daughter it was the seals. For my father it was the perspective from Glacier Point in Yosemite.

For me, there was unequivocally no competition it had to be the yurt.

Oregon

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California

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Greek rioters clash with police as 10,000 protesters take to the streets

1128AM GMT eleven March 2010

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The set upon grounded all flights and brought open ride to a halt. State hospitals were left with puncture staff usually and all headlines broadcasts were dangling as workers walked off the pursuit for twenty-four hours to criticism spending cuts and taxation hikes written to plunge in to the country"s debt crisis.

Riot military dismissed rip gas to sunder rock-throwing protesters at one point of the proof as some-more than 10,000 strikers and protesters marched by executive Athens, banging drums and chanting slogans such as "no scapegoat for plutocracy," and "real jobs, higher pay." People draped banners from unit buildings celebration of the mass "No some-more sacrifices, fight opposite war."

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The demonstrators enclosed a organisation of about 100 youths wearing pile-up helmets and ski masks, a little of whom crushed windows of a dialect store and bank, and sprayed proof military with brownish-red paint. Shopkeepers along the proof track scrambled to hurl down their shutters, whilst a couple of blocks away, people sat at outside restaurants, stability their meals.

Fears of a Greek default have undermined the euro for all sixteen countries that share it, putting the Greek supervision underneath heated European Union vigour to fast show mercantile improvement.

It has voiced an one more 4.8 billion euro (�4.4 billion) in assets by open zone income cuts, employing and grant freezes and consumer taxation hikes to understanding with the ballooning deficit, but the measures have led to a new call of work discontent.

The cutbacks, combined to a prior 11.2 billion euro (�10.2 billion) purgation plan, find to revoke the country"s bill necessity from 12.7 per cent of annual outlay to 8.7 per cent this year. The long-term aim is to move overspending next the EU roof of 3 per cent of GDP in 2012.

The new plan sparked a call of strikes and protests from work unions whose greeting to the primary purgation measures had been muted. Thursday"s set upon was the second vital walkout in a week, shutting down all open services and schools, withdrawal ferries scored equally up at pier and suspending all headlines broadcasts for the day. However, a little in isolation bank branches were open notwithstanding calls from the bank employees" kinship to experience in the strike.

While their colleagues clashed with groups of protesters, a little military assimilated the demonstration.

About 200 uniformed police, seashore ensure and glow band of soldiers officers, who cannot go on set upon but can hold protests, collected at a block in the centre of the city prior to long prior to the marches got underneath way.

"The military and alternative security forces have been quite difficult set upon by the new measures since the salaries are really low," pronounced Yiannis Fanariotis, ubiquitous cabinet member of one military association. He pronounced the normal law enforcemetn officer done about 1,200 euros (�1,000) a month if week end and night shifts were included.

Joining the criticism "doesn"t feel strange, since we are operative people similar to everyone else and we are all cheering out for the rights," he said.

The supervision says the difficult cuts are the usually approach to dig Greece out of a predicament that has beaten the usual European banking and dumbfounded ubiquitous markets inflating the loan-dependent country"s borrowing costs.

But unions contend typical Greeks are being called to compensate a jagged cost for past mercantile mismanagement.

"They are perplexing to have workers compensate the cost for this crisis," pronounced Yiannis Panagopoulos, personality of Greece"s largest union, the GSEE.

"These measures will not be in effect and will throw the economy in to low freeze."

A ubiquitous set upon last Friday was injured by assault during a large criticism march. Riot military used rip gas and rod charges opposite rock-throwing protesters, who crushed banks and storefronts.

The disturbance could hint fears that the supervision will have difficulty in implementing the new measures.

Greece insists it doesn"t need a bail-out, and the European partners are demure to account one. But it has called for European and ubiquitous await for the program, observant that unless it receives that await and the cost for it to steal on the marketplace falls, it competence have to interest to the International Monetary Fund for help.

Real Madrid v Lyon: match preview

Bystaff and agencies 600AM GMT 10 Mar 2010

Wednesday, Mar 10

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Real Madrid v Lyon; agg 0-1 Santiago Bernabu, Madrid, SpainKick-off 19.45 (GMT) TV Sky Sports 1 19.00

Tale of the game

A towering summer cost of over €250 million and home value for the last has seen Real Madrid put themselves underneath measureless vigour to win the Champions League this season.

However, the jot down nine-time European champions initial have to come from at the back of to discharge French side Lyon who arrive for Wednesday"s last sixteen decider at the Santiago Bernabeu holding a 1-0 initial leg lead.

Real have been unstoppable in the joining at home winning all thirteen games but in Europe their prevalence has not been as strenuous losing 3-2 to AC MIlan at home in this season"s organisation theatre whilst Liverpool and Juventus both won in Madrid last season.

Lyon, third in their made at home league, might not have the loftiness of Real but they are seasoned campaigners in the Champions League and have outperformed Real in the last five campaigns reaching the quarter-final theatre in 2005 and 2006.

The bar is entrance off a 0-0 pull opposite relegation-threatened Boulogne in the French league, not an preferred outcome forward of the compare opposite the jot down nine-time champions.

Team headlines

Real striker Karim Benzema has unsuccessful to redeem from damage in time for the revisit of his former club. The France general has been struggling with a groin complaint and was left out of Manuel Pellegrini"s patrol along with the harmed Royston Drenthe and Pepe, and dangling Marcelo and Xabi Alonso.

Lyon will be but Brazilian midfielder Michel Bastos but have taken a punt on the fitness of tip scorer Lisandro Lopez (foot) and left-back Aly Cissokho (ankle).

Francois Clerc and Cleber Anderson are still harmed but midfielder Cesar Delgado should underline after creation his quip from a two-game deficiency with a thigh damage opposite Boulogne at the weekend.

What they are saying

Manuel Pellegrini "The ambience at the Bernabeu will be special and we need to try and have the majority of this. It is a slight necessity we face and I hold we can overturn it to have the quarter-finals."

Cris (Lyon captain) "This is zero some-more than a compare in between twenty-two players and their stars does not be concerned us some-more than necessary. It"s all about believing."

Karun Chandhok rejects safety fears over untested Hispania F1 car

By Tom Cary 715AM GMT 10 March 2010

Debut Hispania group drivers Brazilian Bruno Senna (left) and Indian Karun Chandhok (right) with group executive Jose Ramon Carabante Photo GETTY IMAGES

Chandhok, who will expostulate to one side associate debutant Bruno Senna this year, was usually denounced last week following months of doubt during that his group looked cursed to disaster usually to be taken over at the 11th hour by Spanish office worker Jos Ramón Carabante and rebranded Hispania Racing.

Hispania did not have any of the pre-season tests and will spin a circle for the initial time on Friday forward of Sunday"s Bahrain Grand Prix.

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David Coulthard wrote in hisSport mainstay on Tuesday that asking them to do this was "irresponsible". "Has the universe left mad?" Coulthard wrote.

"Formula One is a dangerous competition at the most appropriate of times. For a group who have been up and using for years it is formidable sufficient to pass the difficult FIA pile-up tests whilst accumulating competent miles to infer the firmness of tools that are not compulsory to be tested; for example cessation parts, that as a sign to all keep the wheels trustworthy to the car."

However, Chandhok, who becomes the second Indian motorist in F1 following Narain Karthikeyan, says he has finish certainty in Dallara, the Italian manufacturer that has built Hispania"s chassis.

"I have driven Dallara Formula 3 cars, universe array cars, GP2 cars they are a conjectural manufacturer so when they contend that the car is protected I have no subject outlines per the reserve angle," he said.

"It"s not going to be the Lewis Hamilton debut, I won"t distortion to you. If we finish the competition it will be a teenager miracle. But these are the cards we have been dealt with. No one is holding a gun to my head. This is what I select to do competition in F1. This is the event I have got.

"I mean, if the contrast regulations were the approach they were when DC proposed at Williams, afterwards you would contend "OK, I will be a exam motorist with a tip group and afterwards goal one of the drivers breaks his leg". But the approach the manners are, it doesn"t have that most clarity any more."

McLaren handling executive Jonathan Neale pronounced on Tuesday that he approaching the FIA to step in if it looked if Hispania, one of 3 teams creation their debuts this deteriorate to one side Lotus and Virgin Racing, were struggling.

"I wouldn"t similar to to be an MD with a car using for the initial time on a GP Friday in conditions of the trustworthiness package," he said.

"I"m certain that the FIA will see really closely at it and if there are big gaps in shutting speeds and copiousness of red flags, afterwards they"ll take the required actions. And it"s critical that they do since we don"t wish nonetheless some-more casualties prior to the begin of the season."

Pakistan ban Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf for life from national team

By Simon Briggs 605PM GMT 10 March 2010

Barred Mohammad Yousuf (right) criminialized after examination in to indiscipline Photo AFP

The expulsion of Pakistans dual majority appropriate players comes in the arise of their inauspicious debate of Australia, that saw them lose all 3 Tests and all five one-day internationals. An exploration was set up by the inhabitant board, and on Wednesday it emerged with the harshest set of punishments imaginable.

On tip of the unfixed bans for Yousuf and Younis, there were additionally one-year bans for Shoaib Malik and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, and complicated fines for Shahid Afridi - whose leather-chewing piece in Adelaide was certainly the majority obvious e.g. of ball-tampering ever seen - and both Akmal brothers, Kamal and Umar.

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In the light of Pakistans argumentative history, these measures are firm to encourage guess and rumour. But the explanations since by the house done no discuss of corruption. Instead they indicted the dual comparison players - Yousuf and Younis - of "infighting that resulted in bringing down the total team".

The winnow will have worrying implications for English cricket, as Pakistan are due to fool around 6 Tests around the nation this entrance summer 4 opposite England and dual opposite Australia.

The Pakistan Cricket Board competence feel that the bad perspective of the comparison players "has a trickledown outcome that is a bad change for the total team". But it seems doubtful that Pakistans opening will be softened by the loss of 4 comparison players, together with their dual highest-ranked batsmen in Younis and Yousuf. The odds is that they competence yield even some-more abjectly than they did in Australia.

The thought of banning players for underperforming on debate is alarming.

Just suppose what competence have happened to Steve Harmison after the 2006-07 Ashes. But at slightest the PCB pulled behind last night from the thought that Younis and Yousuf would never fool around for their nation again.

Six hours after their strange statement, they expelled a construction saying that "the letter of reference of the Committee is not a hold up anathema on these cricketers … As and when the PCB deems appropriate, these players will be deliberate for preference for the inhabitant team."

Elite referee Daryl Harper will take no piece in the ICC World Twenty20 after an International Cricket Council row resolved his "general performances" did not effect selection.

The ICC yet insisted in a matter that Harper"s deficiency is not a effect of the Australian"s piece in the preference examination complement debate that raid this year"s Johannesburg Test in between England and South Africa.

One of Britains oldest twins dies aged 102

730AM GMT 10 March 2010

Betty Richards (left) and Jenny Pelmore Photo SWNS

Betty Richards upheld afar usually dual months after she and sister Jenny Pelmore distinguished their birthday on Jan 1 with a brandy and ginger for the former and a solitaire for the latter.

The twins came in to the universe on New Year"s Day in 1908 - the year Henry Ford constructed his initial Model T car.

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They were innate in Manchester when King Edward VII was on the bench and the alloy who delivered them arrived on horseback.

Both sisters were widowed and lived nearby each alternative in Feock, nearby Truro, Cornwall.

Betty was a cabinet member and tied together Brandon Richards in 1936 and had young kids Peter and Gina.

Great grandmother-of-two Jenny was a hothouse clergyman and tied together Hugh Pelmore, an RAF commander who raced Bentley cars.

Jenny was as well dissapoint to speak about her sister"s death, who last year pronounced the tip of her longevity was "staying healthy".

"Live in the moment," she said. ""Life is most faster right away but the usually thing I don"t assimilate is computers."

Mrs Pelmore combined that she did not think about her age much. "The tip is keep smiling and keep going," she added.