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BBC studies history and language with University of Chichester lecturer (University of Chichester)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Apr 2016
How terms and phrases have developed from significant historical events is the feature of a BBC programme by a senior lecturer from the University of Chichester ... 'The book, the basis of the programme, examines how language has changed and how we use historical events to define the way we live ... The BBC Radio Four programme is available online here but will be repeated live on the national station from 11pm on Monday 25 April....

Fullscreen launches YouTube subscription video rival

Edit BBC News 26 Apr 2016
"Social media is a great place to make quick, inexpensive content to engage a fanbase," Fullscreen founder George Strompolos told the BBC ... We're leading with original programmes ... Undercutting Google's $9.99 (£6.90) offering, Fullscreen's subscription service will cost $4.99 (£3.40) a month, with programmes viewable on a standalone app and website....

Junior doctors to begin first all-out strike in NHS history

Edit Belfast Telegraph 26 Apr 2016
Share Go To ... He said. "No trade union has the right to veto a manifesto promise voted for by the British people ... An Ipsos Mori poll for BBC News has found 57% support the doctors' cause while a quarter oppose it ... The head of the BMA, Mark Porter, told Monday's BBC Radio 4 Today programme the Government had "distorted" weekend death statistics and stressed emergency cover would be provided by consultants during the strike ... ....

Top Gear's Chris Evans is defended by the BBC amid reports of Radio 2 disharmony

Edit Digital Spy 26 Apr 2016
Top Gear's Chris Evans is being defended by the BBC amidst reports of disharmony among his BBC Radio 2 staff ... Top Gear is expected to premiere on BBC Two beginning next month....

EastEnders spoilers: Ronnie makes an unsettling discovery about Roxy when she returns to Walford

Edit Digital Spy 26 Apr 2016
With Glenda determined to win Ronnie's trust, further unsettling truths about Roxy soon come to light, but what is really happening? And can anyone help before it's too late? EastEnders airs these scenes on Wednesday, May 4, Thursday, May 5 and Friday, May 6 on BBC One. ​Read more EastEnders spoilers and news ....

Eating and Drinking in Shakespeare’s Theatreland

Edit Skiddle 26 Apr 2016
This talk aims to explore the wider entertainment scene that was inextricably linked with the theatre in Shakespeare’s time, using the latest evidence from archaeologically excavated sites to throw light on the many and varied aspects of theatre-going that Elizabethan and Jacobean Londoners would have enjoyed, from smoking and drinking ale to eating bar snacks....

Mangaluru events

Edit The Times of India 26 Apr 2016
Lecture-cum-presentation on service pension for armed forces veterans, St Aloysius College auditorium, Light House Hill Road, 10.30am ... Cancer awareness programme by Dr M Vijaykumar, vice-chancellor, Kavitha S Shastri, Governor, Lions District 317D, Roopa D Bangera, leader of opposition in the Mangaluru City Corporation, and Balakrishna S, principal, ......

Feds Approve Charter's Bid for TWC

Edit The Street 26 Apr 2016
Under a settlement with the DOJ, the merged company would be barred from entering into or enforcing agreements that could make it more difficult for online video distributors to obtain content from programmers ... "This merger would have threatened competition by increasing the merged company's leverage to demand that programmers limit their licensing to these online providers."....

Fishermen protest, call for ban on LED light fishing

Edit The Times of India 26 Apr 2016
Fishermen staged a protest here on Monday against the use of LED lights mounted boats for fishing in Uttara Kannada district ... Fish get drawn to the light and hover around the boat ... has taken the issue seriously and a notification banning LED light fishing is expected in a fortnight....

Overhead wires for light rail installed at Sable and Exposition

Edit Denver Post 26 Apr 2016
A passenger disembarks from the light-rail train at the I-25 & Broadway Station on July 13, 2015, in Denver ... part of the new R Line light rail project that will open in Aurora by the end of the year, the city announced on Monday....

Kurdish PKK warns Turkey of long fight

Edit Topix 26 Apr 2016
The Kurdish rebel PKK movement has told the BBC that it is ready to intensify its fight against Turkey because Ankara is trying to make it surrender. "The Kurds will defend themselves to the end, so long as this is the Turkish approach - of course the PKK will escalate the war," he said ... ....

LGBT magazine editor and rights activist hacked to death in Bangladesh

Edit Topix 26 Apr 2016
An editor at the first LGBT magazine in Bangladesh was hacked to death by suspected Islamist militants on Monday in the capital city of Dhaka. According to a BBC breaking news alert , one other person was killed and another injured in a horrific attack that took place in the unnamed editor's apartment ... ....

Pakistan's polka-dotted comic heroine

Edit BBC News 26 Apr 2016
Pakistan's first female professional cartoonist, Nigar Nazar, talks to the BBC about her comic creation Gogi, and freedom of expression in Pakistan ... ....
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