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...
Kent の Northward Hill で捉えどころのない nightingale が「順調」に推移しているが、専門家は生息地の喪失に懸念を表明している
Kent の RSPB Northward Hill における dawn chorus は音の饗宴だ。メロディアスな robin、2音の cuckoo、whitethroat のかすれたさえずり。隣接する Thames 湿地帯のガチョウや牛の鳴き声さえも、その交響曲に加わる。しかし4月下旬、一羽の精力的な歌い手が主役を独占する。West Africa から到着して数週間、nightingale は夜から早朝にかけて複雑な歌を披露する。つがいを探し、縄張りを主張するその歌声は、ある時はソウルシンガーのように甘く旋律的で、またある時はカーアラームのように激しい。 続きを読む...
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Klaudia Zakrzewska, 32, was hit at about 4.30am six days ago in Soho in incident that left 58-year-man with life-changing injuriesA social media influencer has died six days after a car hit her and other pedestrians outside a nightclub in London, police said.Klaudia Zakrzewska, 32, was injured in Argyll Street, Soho, at about 4.30am on 19 April and was pronounced dead on Saturday. Continue reading...
Dnipro bore the brunt of the attacks but Odesa and Kharkiv were also targeted in largest onslaught for several daysRussian drone and missile strikes across Ukraine killed at least seven people overnight, including five in the city of Dnipro, Ukrainian local authorities have said.Reports say that at least 34 people have been injured in the strikes, which lasted “practically all night”, according to the Dnipropetrovsk regional head, Oleksandr Hanzha. The bodies of four people were found in the ruins of a house destroyed in the attacks, and workers continued to search for bodies on Saturday morning. Continue reading...
Mandelson received two ‘clearance denied’ red ticks yet top Foreign Office civil servant says he did not have access to file – which he later readUK politics live – latest updatesThe verdict on Olly Robbins’ parliamentary testimony, among fellow knights of the civil service realm at least, was unanimous. Lord Sedwill, a former Cabinet secretary, called on the prime minister to “retract his accusations against Olly Robbins and reinstate him”.Simon McDonald, who once held Robbins’ job as top civil servant in the Foreign Office, said if Keir Starmer had only waited to hear his evidence to the foreign affairs select committee he would never have sacked him. Continue reading...
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