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Thursday, 10 October 2013
Lynne Spalding Found Dead in a San Francisco hospital 17 days after she vanished.
Crime Reporter/ sky/wp:::A British patient who disappeared from her room at San Francisco's main public hospital more than two weeks ago has been found dead in a stairwell at the building.Lynne Spalding, 57, was admitted to San Francisco General Hospital for a urinary tract infection on September 19.
The mother-of-two was reported missing from her room there two days later.Ms Spalding's relatives and friends spent days scouring the streets of San Francisco with flyers and set up a Facebook page to help find her.
But a member of the hospital's engineering staff found Ms Spalding's body on Tuesday - 17 days after she vanished - while conducting a routine check.
Authorities are continuing to investigate how the marketing and tourism executive, who was originally from Peterlee, County Durham, got there and what caused her death.
The hospital's chief medical officer Todd May said: "What happened at our hospital is horrible.
"We are here to take care of patients, to heal them, to keep them safe. This has shaken us to our core. Our staff is devastated."
Nurses were checking on her every 15 minutes, and she disappeared in the brief time between those visits, Mr May said.
The last time she was seen - about 10.15am on September 21 - she was in a "fair condition", the hospital said.
But friends said Ms Spalding was very thin, frail and on medication that could have made her confused when she disappeared.
The San Francisco Sheriff's Department provides security at the hospital.
Assistant Sheriff Paul Miyamoto said it was not yet known how long Ms Spalding had been in the exterior stairwell.
The rarely used stairwell is a fire exit that has an alarm on it, is locked from the outside and exits onto hospital grounds.
"All of us are committed to learning what happened and ensuring it never happens again," Mr Miyamoto said.
David Perry, who is acting as a spokesman for Ms Spalding's family, has told Sky News that relatives and friends are "horrified, dismayed and frustrated".
"For 17 days Lynne's body was there unfound in the very hospital where she'd gone for treatment," he said.
Mr Perry said officials have a lot of explaining to do as to why Ms Spalding "died alone, in the stairwell, at one of the finest medical institutions" in the US.
"There are a number of questions for San Francisco General Hospital and the San Francisco Sheriff's Department,"
"The San Francisco Sheriff's Department oversees searches and security at the hospital, and we were assured that a search had been done.
"If they searched for her 17 days ago, it wasn't a very good search because her dead body was discovered there."
But Mr Perry praised the work carried out by the San Francisco Police Department, which was responsible for searching outside the hospital.
Ms Spalding had lived in the city for more than two decades and had two grown-up children, a 19-year-old son and 23-year-old daughter, who both live in the US.
Mr Perry said Ms Spalding's children are "stunned".
He added: "She had dozens of friends. She was well known and well liked. She was a consummate professional."
The Sheriff's Department is conducting an internal investigation of its security measures at the hospital.
The Foreign Office said it was providing consular assistance to Ms Spalding's family.
Tuesday, 3 September 2013
:::EDITORIAL:::DEEP SOCKED &DEATH FOR THE ROYAL ENGLISH GREATEST JOURNALIST SIR DAVID FROST
Deep socked for greatest famous THE ROYAL ENGLISH Journalist Sir David Frost(OBE) who died 31st august.its big for THE ROYAL ENGLISH Media&journalist society to produce another such this kind of greatest journalist.its unforgettable.this sector lose a greatest personality who is symbol of good journalism and idol for honest and journalist society.we hope country,media society, his family ,friends,fans are coming back in normal life follow his great work.
its need to mention that he was and world wide very popular journalist for his own journalism way to take interview very famous persons.
hope creator give him haven for his greatest work.we all pray for his soul for peaceful forever.
Tuesday, 13 August 2013
Prince Charles's secret meetings defended by ex-minister!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Royal Correspondent,London(wp/wt/g)::::
A former Tory minister has defended Prince Charles's right to have secret meetings with members of the government, arguing he offers more "practical help" than those trying to stop him meddling.
Tim Loughton, a Sussex MP, said it would be a "nonsense" to stop the heir to the throne talking to ministers as he had always come across as "well-briefed and knowledgeable" in their meetings.
Speaking to the Guardian, he said it was a "grotesque caricature" to present Charles as lobbying the government when it was important for him to be prepared for his future role as king.
Loughton spoke out after it emerged that Charles had held 36 meetings with ministers since the government took power in May 2010.
The prince has met David Cameron seven times, local government ministers four times and energy ministers six times. Neither Whitehall nor Clarence House would elaborate on what was discussed at the private meetings, even though those departments oversee planning and the environment – two topics on which the prince has campaigned.
Critics have raised concerns about the lack of transparency surrounding the meetings, but Loughton said all the "sniping" showed the royal family cannot win because they are seen as out of touch when they do not engage in society.
"The thing about him trying to influence policy is completely wrong," he said. " I found him hugely beneficial to me, well-briefed and knowledgeable, with real life experience.
"He was really interested to hear what's going on and make sure I was up to speed with the work of the Prince's Trust. Lobbying is a grotesque caricature of what those meetings were all about. If you look at the sort of people he's meeting it's in areas of his interest and hands-on experience."
Loughton's intervention comes as MPs prepare to examine Charles's controversial role in helping to shape government legislation.
The House of Commons political and constitutional reform committee will next month examine the prince's little-known royal veto over any new laws that affect his private interests.
The move follows a Guardian investigation in 2011 into the secretive constitutional loophole that revealed how ministers have been forced to seek permission from the prince to pass at least a dozen government bills.
The committee, chaired by Graham Allen, a Labour MP, will ask whether there is a risk that the requirement of royal consent, which is also granted by the Queen depending on the nature of the law being passed, "could be seen as politicising the monarchy".
The royal veto is seen by some constitutional experts as a nuclear deterrent – a red button that is unlikely to be pressed but that may focus ministers' minds when Charles and other members of the royal family discuss policy matters with them.
Later this year, the court of appeal will hear the latest stage of an eight-year battle by the Guardian to get the government to reveal a set of 27 letters written by the prince to ministers in seven departments over a nine-month period.
death in carehome at nottingham:::11 person arrested
crime repoter(wp/t):::
Atkin, 86, died on November 22 last year, just after she had been moved following the closure of the Autumn Grange residential home in Sherwood Rise, Nottingham, police said.
Eleven people - five men aged 37, 44, 56, 64 and 77, and six women aged 19, 20, 25, 28, 29 and 52 - have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter as part of the inquiry.
They will be questioned by detectives today.
A Nottinghamshire Police spokesman said: "An investigation into the standard of care provided to residents at Autumn Grange is also under way and police are working closely with partner agencies to establish if any criminal offences took place."
The home closed in 2012 when its council contract was suspended.
2013 6 new music promo in THE ROYAL ALBERT hall
Royal correspondent(wp/es):::
It suited the punk spirit of the first 6 Music Prom that the wildly varied mix of music was less of a cosy crossover than a clash.
What could have been perceived as the BBC’s attempt to dumb down the Proms by letting in the pop people was actually as daring as anything in this long Albert Hall season.
Presented by Radio 3’s Tom Service, labouring the point that music is music whether on guitar or glockenspiel, and 6 Music’s Steve Lamacq, who cheerfully admitted that he had no idea about the classical world, the line-up was an education for all. Old punk fans learned that when The Stranglers are joined by the London Sinfonietta in an attempt to bring out their subtleties, they sound disappointingly quiet.
The rock iconoclasts may also have been shocked by the boldness of Edgard Varese’s Ionisation from 1931 – 13 percussionists hammering out awkward rhythms with only an air raid siren for melody.
Luciano Berio’s O King was equally startling, mezzo-soprano Anna Stephany’s voice weaving abstractly amongst the most delicate touches of piano and strings.
Singer and 6 Music presenter Cerys Matthews lightened the studious mood with a collection of fiddle-heavy folk songs favoured by King Henry V, something in Welsh and a singalong interpretation of Blueberry Hill.
It was Laura Marling, though, who showed what could be achieved when the flanks of accompanists were left in the shadows, allowing an acoustic guitar and an extraordinary voice to shine out. The final orchestral swell during her last song, Breathe, was lovely but almost unnecessary. With songs this good, the worlds of pop and classical can do perfectly well without each other.
Monday, 12 August 2013
::::EDITORIAL:::4th test and ashes seris win:::congrat THE ROYAL ENGLAND cricket team family
congrat all of THE ROYAL ENGLAND cricket team member.coach.managment.for victory ashes seris and 4th test .batting require more carefull and strong for future performance.for this yr ashes seris win all member get very best benifite from cricket authourity.
Thursday, 8 August 2013
£1m fracking promised money should give
Diplomatic correspondent(wp/t):::
Prime Minister told an audience in Lancashire, where fracking is due to resume next year: "We are looking at trying to have a very simple system where every time a well is dug, immediately £1m goes to the local community.
"And not just to the local council but actually to local people, so people can see a cash benefit in their local village, in their local town and even, potentially, in their local pocket as well."
In fact, ministers in June backed a proposal from the shale gas industry to offer local communities £100,000 in an upfront payment for each exploration or appraisal well site where fracking takes place.
Downing Street sources confirmed the Prime Minister had slipped up and the correct figure was £100,000.
Fracking, which involves pumping water, sand and chemicals into the ground to extract gas trapped in the rocks, has faced fierce local opposition. Protestors have attempted to block fracking firm Cuadrilla from drilling for oil at Balcombe in Sussex
Prime Minister said the government was working to dispel “myths” over fracking and pledged: “Nothing is going to happen in this country unless it’s environmentally safe.
“There is no question of having earthquakes and fire coming out of taps,” he said. “There will be very clear environmental procedures and certificates you will have to get before you can frack."
Mr Cameron said he did not want Britain to miss out on "cheaper energy" and wanted to emulate the shale gas boom in the US.
He said that the promised community benefits - labelled 'bribes' by their critics - were key to winning over local communities.
“I think if people can see a direct benefit from fracking and from shale gas they will be more willing to really look at the arguments about, ‘what will this mean for my community if it goes ahead’. I think in that way we can see wells dug and we can see the benefits of shale gas here in the country," he said.
As well as the upfront payment when a well is drilled, Mr Cameron said that "if that well is successful, even more money should be ploughed back into the local community".
This matched proposals by shale gas explorers who have promised they will also provide 1pc of the revenues if drilling succeeds and production begins, with this money split between the local community and the county.
country Onshore Operators Group estimates this could be worth between £5m and £10m per production site over a period of 25-years. Total benefits across the country could be in excess of £1.1bn.
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