Exclusive: Paul McCartney の弟 Mike からの寄贈品を含むこのコレクションは、60年代初頭のバンドの発展を示している。初めて自分たちがスターのように感じたことについて綴られた Beatles 初期の希少な手紙や写真のセットが、Hamburg で展示される。バンドがドイツの同都市に滞在していた影響力のある時期のコレクションには、ベーシストの弟 Mike McCartney 宛てに書かれた、Paul McCartney と John Lennon 両名の言葉が含まれる現存する唯一の手紙も含まれている。 Continue reading...
大学の恒例行事に参加した学生たちは、水着姿の自身の画像が本人の同意なく全国紙に掲載されていると訴えている。
金曜日の夜明けとともに、何百人もの St Andrews University の学生たちが、試験に幸運をもたらすとされる学部生の伝統行事 May Dip のために、冷え込む North Sea へと飛び込む。しかし、ビーチにいるのは学生たちだけではない。近年、この風変わりな儀式は、ビキニ姿の学生の写真で利益を得ようとするエージェンシーやフリーランスの写真家たちの標的となっており、中には Fife の海岸沿いの遊歩道近く、East Sands の砂丘で一晩中キャンプをして待ち構える者もいる。
「It ruined my night」と、Scotsman の見開きに写真が掲載された学生の一人、Anna は語った。「今、あの May Dip のことを思い出すと、その写真のことばかり考えてしまいます。それだけなのです」。続きを読む...
Hinckley says ‘bad things keep happening’ at Washington Hilton and it was ‘not a secure place to hold big events’US politics live – latest updatesThe man who shot Ronald Reagan at the Washington Hilton in 1981 has said it was “spooky” for him to learn of Saturday’s shooting at the hotel during a prestigious media gala attended by Donald Trump and senior members of the president’s administration.In an interview with TMZ published on Monday, John Hinckley Jr also observed that “bad things keep happening” at the hotel and maintained it was “just not a secure place to hold big events”. Continue reading...
Queensland and NSW set for lower than usual rainfall in May, June and July, while temperatures in most of the country likely to be higher than normalFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLarge parts of south-east Australia look set for drier and hotter conditions over the next three months as a potential El Niño weather phenomenon takes shape in the Pacific Ocean.Much of Queensland and New South Wales are forecast to have lower than usual rainfall in May, June and July, with almost the entire country likely to experience hotter than average maximum temperatures. Continue reading...
Nearly 1 million Californians supported push by Republican Carl DeMaio but it faces historic opposition from DemocratsCalifornia voters will decide in November whether to require photo identification to cast a ballot, making California the latest battleground in a long-running effort by conservatives to push voter ID laws that have been bolstered in recent years by Donald Trump’s repeated and unfounded accusations of widespread voter fraud.Nearly 1 million Californians signed on to support the ballot measure championed by Carl DeMaio, a Republican state representative from San Diego. Continue reading...
Staff are handing over sandwiches from behind a theft-proof counter as the high street fights backGreggs has axed self-service display cabinets in bakery stores that have been most severely hit by shoplifters.The move is the latest aimed at combating a problem plaguing the high street. Last year official figures revealed annual shoplifting offences in England and Wales had passed half a million offences for the first time, and since then many retailers have reported high levels of crime in their shops. Continue reading...