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The Goodwood Festival of Speed will go ahead as planned, after being named as a pilot event to test Covid-19 safety measures. The event at the Sussex venue will take place on 8-11 July but had been in doubt after the government delayed the lifting of social-distancing measures and limits on mass events due to ongoing coronavirus case levels. That cast doubt on Goodwood’s plans, but the event has confirmed on social media that it has been named as part of the Events Research Programme (ERP), which has run scientific studies at a number of events. The decision means that all ticket, grandstand and hospitality pass holders will be able to attend as planned, including those who ‘rolled over’ tickets from the cancelled 2020 event. As part of the ERP study, everyone attending the Festival must have either received two doses of Covid-19 vaccine at least 14 days before the event, or show proof of a negative lateral flow test taken within 48 hours of attending. Attendees will also have to consent to ERP and NHS test and trace requirements. The delay in the lifting of coronavirus restrictions has created uncertainty for a number of motoring and motorsport events. The British Grand Prix is due to take place on 18 July. Organisers said they are “confident fans will be back at Silverstone” and are in discussions with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and Public Health England. The UK government’s ERP has staged scientific studies on the impact of mass events on the coronavirus at a number of events in the past few months. Pilot events so far include the FA Cup semi-finals and final at Wembley, the Brit Awards in London, Royal Ascot and the recent Download Festival at Donington Park.

This photo shows pet custody specialist Karis Nafte with her dogs Sam, left, and Jax in Cape Town, South Africa. Nafte helps couples settle disputes over their pets as more states move to make it easier for judges to consider the best interests of companion animals in divorce. (Eytan Nafte via AP). In the eyes of the law, pets are property when it comes to divorce, but new ways of working out custody of the dog, cat or parrot have sprung up with special mediators and “petnups” to avoid courtroom disputes. Alaska, California and Illinois are among states that have enacted laws giving judges leeway to consider the best interests of pets, not unlike what they do for children. A bill is pending in New York state to take the same approach. “Someone’s cat or someone’s dog is a part of their family and should not be treated like a piece of furniture or their Honda Civic,” said Sen. James Skoufis, chief sponsor of the New York measure and proud dad to a cat named Ruth, for the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Some judges around the country have been taking the approach on a case-by-case basis, Skoufis and matrimonial attorneys said. But couples are left to the whims of whichever judges they’re assigned should they choose to go to trial. ALSO READ |My 70-year-old father joined Tinder Adam Citron, a New York lawyer who has handled dozens of divorces, said pets are “constantly an issue.” He’s among lawyer who’ve sometimes see the worst in people in divorce court and advocates for prenups covering pets. A “petnup” is especially helpful for animals acquired during the marriage. More laws specifically addressing the interests of pets are needed, he said, because custody issues over furry, feathered or scaled loved ones are far more emotional and difficult to resolve than claims over a set of china or the wedding silver. In states that haven’t taken the new approach, Citron suggests agreeing at the time a pet is acquired during a marriage whose name will appear alone on registration or adoption papers. That person should pay any costs out of a separate bank account. Such measures are especially helpful if one party is trying to weaponize a pet in exchange for other coveted property. While some mediators work to settle pet disputes through joint custody, others said that’s not always best for the animal, particularly dogs. Dogs are most often at the center of pet custody disputes. Memphis divorce lawyer Miles Mason Sr. has seen the worst-case scenario writ large. Several years ago, a couple went to war over their two German shepherds. The wife had taken training to handle the dogs, while the husband had not. Before the divorce, while on a walk with the husband, one of the dogs bit and killed another dog. The wife claimed it was because the husband failed to give the “stand down” command in German as the dog was trained. During a divorce proceeding, he sought visitation rights. A judge barred him from unsupervised time with the dogs outside the wife’s home, but reserved the right to reconsider if he took the schutzhund training. “We believe the judge had experience with German shepherds because he understood the concerns with highly trained and disciplined dogs,” Mason said. dog divorce Philip Tedeschi, director emeritus of the Institute for Human-Animal Connection at the University of Denver, poses with his dog, Samara, on campus in Denver on July 25, 2018. In the eyes of the law, pets are property when it comes to divorce. But new ways of working out custody of the dog, cat or parrot have sprung up in recent years. There are special mediators and a push for “petnups” to avoid courtroom disputes. (Jess Blackwell Photography/Rover.com via AP). Karis Nafte has been an animal behaviorist for nearly 26 years. Two years ago, she started working as a pet custody specialist for couples seeking divorces through pre-trial mediation. Nafte is usually brought in at the recommendation of lawyers, mediators or divorce coaches. “Part of what I try to help people understand is that even if a dog feels like a child in your heart, it isn’t, and if you’re treating it like a child, it’s actually a disservice to the dog,” she said. “Having that voice, that kind of expert eye on the situation, calms things down. A lot of times, people just don’t know what to do. They just don’t want to say goodbye to their dog.” Visitation schedules or shared custody, Nafte said, can be far more stressful for a dog than a goodbye forever. The back and forth between two homes and the emotions attached to each reunion can lead to behavioral problems, she said. Nafte suggested putting pet custody at the top of divorce negotiations. It can make the rest of the process run more smoothly. So can couples therapy for some. Marriage therapist Sharon O’Neill has helped couples through divorce in New York’s Westchester County for more than 20 years. In one case, during a joint therapy session, a wife was adamant that she keep the dog, while the husband didn’t b

A photograph has emerged which appears to show Princess Latifa, the daughter of the ruler of Dubai, who has rarely been seen or heard from in months. The Instagram post seems to show Princess Latifa with a friend at Madrid airport. In February, the BBC broadcast footage shot by Princess Latifa in which she said she was being held captive in a villa and feared for her life. The footage prompted the UN to demand "concrete" proof she was still alive. Human rights experts from the UN also said she should be released "urgently". Dubai ruler's daughter reveals ‘hostage’ ordeal The princess who vanished The United Arab Emirates (UAE) later said she was "being cared for at home". "She continues to improve and we are hopeful she will return to public life at the appropriate time," the statement said. What does the photo show? This latest image appeared on the public Instagram account of Sioned Taylor. It is the third photo that Ms Taylor, who lives in Dubai and is a long time friend, has posted of Princess Latifa since mid-May. "Great European holiday with Latifa," the caption reads. "We're having fun exploring!" Both women are wearing face masks and appear to be in Madrid-Barajas airport in Spain's capital. Timeline: Failed escapes of sheikh's daughters Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum: Who is Dubai's ruler? David Haigh, co-founder of the Free Latifa campaign, said in a statement he was "pleased to see Latifa seemingly having a passport, travelling and enjoying an increasing degree of freedom". He also said the princess had directly contacted members of the Free Latifa team, but added he could not comment further at this stage. In May, Ms Taylor posted two other photos on Instagram which appeared to show Princess Latifa at a mall in Dubai and later at a restaurant in the city. What happened to Latifa? Latifa, one of the 25 children of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, attempted to escape from Dubai in February 2018. In a video recorded shortly before she left, she said that her life was heavily constricted. "I haven't left the country since 2000. I've been asking a lot to just go travelling, to study, to do anything normal. They don't let me," she said. But the escape went wrong: eight days into a sea journey across the Indian Ocean, they were caught by commandoes who forcibly removed Latifa and returned her to Dubai. Her father later said that he considered this a "rescue mission". In February 2021, BBC Panorama broadcast videos secretly recorded by Princess Latifa and communicated to friends abroad, in which she describes her capture and her imprisonment after her return to Dubai. She said she was being held alone without access to medical or legal help in a villa with windows and doors barred shut, and guarded by police.

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What is it? The car for anyone who turned their nose up at the first-generation 4 Series Convertible for looking too much like the Coupé version and, as a result, the 3 Series Saloon on which they were both based. In switching from a metal roof to a fabric one and carrying across the new-gen coupé’s controversial front end, the second coming of the folding-top 4 Series has far more road presence - especially in range-topping M440i guise. It's wider, longer and ever so slightly lower, and that new vertical grille (more lungs than kidneys now) ensures no one will mistake it for a G20-generation 3 Series any time soon. The most potent powertrain in the line-up, at least until the M4 Convertible arrives later in the year, it’s only here that the 2.0-litre four-pot of lesser models is exchanged for a meatier 3.0-litre six-cylinder, which sends 369bhp and 369lb ft to both axles via BMW’s xDrive all-wheel drive system. Unlike other territories, the UK won’t be getting a rear-drive-only version. We've already driven the M440i on the Continent, but this is our first experience of it on UK roads. What's it like? The extra structural strengthening that comes with a folding roof means the new convertible carries a 150kg weight penalty over the coupé, which translates to a little under half a second longer in the 0-62mph sprint. It’ll still get you to the legal limit at a rapid pace, with an eagerness to rev and an engine note that goes from dulcet to cacophonous as you approach the redline. There's definitely some audio synthesis going on, but you hear less of it with the roof down, and the active exhaust will still put smiles on faces as the engine spins beyond 6000rpm. Like a lot of modern BMW powertrains, the B58 engine avoids feeling overly boosty, with an almost (but not quite) linear response to throttle inputs. The eight-speed transmission is more than responsive enough when left in automatic, so you don’t feel the need to take manual control with the wheel-mounted paddle shifters whenever you attempt a manoeuvre, like you would in the equivalent Audi. It just picks a gear and goes, rather than juggling ratios indecisively. Its 48V mild-hybrid technology helps fill in some gaps at low revs, which makes for smooth getaways and navigating stop-start traffic. More impressive are its refined motorway manners, where it becomes a relaxed cruiser that lets passengers speak to, rather than shout at, one another. Roof-up isolation is very good, if not class leading, and with the wind deflector fitted, long top-down journeys are no sweat. ADVERTISEMENT Find an Autocar review Make Select model Latest Drives 1 BMW 4 Series M440i Convertible 2021 UK FD hero front BMW 4 Series Convertible M440i 2021 UK review 1 renault Arkana 2021 LHD FD hero front Renault Arkana 2021 UK review 1 Mercedes Maybach S680 2021 FD hero front Mercedes-Maybach S-Class S680 2021 review 1 BMW M5 CS 2021 UK FD hero front BMW M5 CS 2021 UK review 1 Honda Civic Type R Sportsline 2021 UK FD hero front Honda Civic Type R Sport Line 2021 UK review View all latest drives Back to top As with the 3 Series Saloon, the xDrive system has an uncanny ability to deliver grip when needed, without also stripping away fun through the twisty bits. It allows for a bit of friskiness when pushed, although it’s through the slightly diminished steering feel and reduced body control where you most feel the difference between it and the lighter coupé. While the M440i rides on 19in run-flat tyres and has lowered M Sport suspension, the adaptive dampers cope fairly well with the UK’s notoriously pockmarked carriageways when set to Comfort mode. Larger ruts and uneven surfaces are still felt clearly within the cabin, and the sportier suspension modes are best avoided on anything but the smoothest bitumen. We suspect the 330i, shod in 18in rubber and without the optional M Sport suspension, will be the model of choice for those concerned with comfort - although it also loses out on the M Sport Differential found here. There’s a distinct whiff of 3 Series about the cabin, but that’s by no means a bad thing. It has lots of premium materials, a fairly relaxed driving position and one of the slickest infotainment systems around, with your choice of touchscreen or rotary dial inputs. Wireless CarPlay and Android Auto are slickly integrated, making the most of the widescreen display. The 4 Series delivers for occasional four-up use, with decent leg room for those in the rear, although they’re sure to find top-down drives at motorway speeds somewhat bracing. With the wind deflector fitted and windows raised, there’s minimal buffeting for those in front. The folding roof takes an 85-litre bite out of the 385-litre boot when closed, so you have to be smart with how you load your shopping bags if you want to go topless after a trip to the supermarket, but it’s about as practical as mainstream convertibles get. Back to top Should I buy one? For those wanting a four-seat convertible right now, the 4 Series seems an obvious choice. Mercedes has yet to reveal the soft-top version of the new C-Class, and the Audi A5 Cabriolet likely has a few years left before it is replaced. We’d be surprised if the BMW wasn’t the most dynamic of the three once they do arrive. The Ford Mustang remains a more left-field choice that simply can't match the BMW for on-road precision or in-cabin refinement. Only very keen drivers will spot the disparity between it and the coupé, and the M440i’s engine is very sweet indeed. We have a feeling the rear-driven 330i may be even sweeter still, despite a cylinder deficit, although confirmation will have to wait until after we’ve driven one. Technical specs Model tested: BMW M440i xDrive Convertible Price: £59,805 Price as tested: £68,855 Engine: 6 cyls in line, 2998cc, turbocharged, petrol Transmission: 8-spd automatic Driveline layout: Front engine, all-wheel drive Power 369bhp at 5500-6500rpm Torque 369lb ft at 1900-5000rpm 0-62mph 4.9sec Top speed 155mph (governed) Kerb weight (DIN) 1890kg Fuel economy 33.6-36.2mpg CO2 183g/km BIK tax band 37%

Rebel Wilson’s remarkable weight loss journey had won appreciation from all. Months later, the actor has not given up and continues to motivate herself to keep up with her fitness regime. “Hey babe, you got this x I know it’s hard right now, I know you’re trying to deal with stuff – but let’s keep getting up every day and CRUSH IT – work out, hydrate, fuel your body with quality food …show your brilliant brain and your big heart. Remember the vision,” the 41-year-old wrote on Instagram recently. A social media user wrote,” OMG, Rebel! The world is a better place because you are in it being you!” “You’re such an inspiration for a lot of girls, Rebel!” another wrote. Also Read |Rebel Wilson opens up on how people treat her differently after weight loss Earlier, the actor, who shed about 40 pounds, was quoted as saying by People that she did not “focus too much on the numbers”. “I still look like me. I love being curvy and I’m still super curvy but just a healthier version. That was my goal,” she said. Prior to weight loss, the Pitch Perfect actor was consuming up to “3000 calories most days” and “would still be hungry”. Her weight loss journey was more about achieving an “overall healthy balance”, she said in the interview.

Exactly a year on from the discovery that a cheap steroid drug prevented Covid deaths, researchers say they have found another life-saving therapy. It is expensive - a potent intravenous infusion of antibodies to neutralise the virus, rather than dampen the body's inflammatory response to it. Results from the Recovery trial suggest it could help one in three of those in hospital with severe Covid. For every 100 patients treated, experts calculate, it would save six lives. Ground-breaking treatment But only those who have not already made any antibodies of their own to fight the virus should be given the treatment, which costs between £1,000 and £2,000. Kimberley Featherstone, 37, who received the treatment during the trial, said: "I feel very lucky that the trial was up and running by the time I was taken to hospital with Covid-19 and I was able to receive this ground-breaking treatment. "I'm happy that by participating I played a part in finding out this treatment is successful." The monoclonal antibody treatment, made by Regenoron, binds to the virus to stop it infecting cells and replicating. In the trial, which included nearly 10,000 UK hospital patients, it significantly reduced the: risk of death length of hospital stay, by four days on average likelihood of needing a ventilator to breathe Joint chief investigator Sir Martin Landray said: "Giving them this combination of two antibodies by an intravenous infusion then actually reduces their chances of dying by a fifth. "What we found is now here we can use an antiviral treatment, in this case these antibodies, in patients who have got a one in three chance of dying untreated and we can reduce that risk for them." Great uncertainty The treatment was given in addition to the anti-inflammatory steroid drug dexamethasone, which itself cuts death risk by up to a third for the sickest Covid patients. Sir Peter Horby, the other chief investigator, said there had been great uncertainty about whether antibody therapies were the right approach, when some other studies had found no benefit. Using blood plasma from recovered patients - which contains antibodies that should recognise and fight the virus - has not proved effective as a Covid therapy, for example. But the antibody treatment used in the Recovery trial contains large doses of two specific antibodies, made in the lab, that are good at latching on to the pandemic virus. Sir Peter said: "It is wonderful to learn that even in advanced Covid-19 disease, targeting the virus can reduce mortality in patients who have failed to mount an antibody response of their own. Banner image reading 'more about coronavirus' LOOK-UP TOOL: How many cases in your area? SYMPTOMS: What are they and how to guard against them? YOUR QUESTIONS: We answer your queries GLOBAL SPREAD: How many worldwide cases are there? TREATMENTS: What progress are we making to help people?

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With back-to-back victories at Autocar’s Britain’s Best Driver’s Car contests and a five-star road test verdict to its name, the Ariel Atom 4 is a car that punches above its weight. But so is the company that makes it. You’d be forgiven for driving straight past Ariel’s works, on the A30 Yeovil Road, just outside Crewkerne in Somerset, the first time you visit. It comprises some neat brick buildings that could be tidy barns or small industrial units. But from here come world-beating sports cars. Pull in and to your right is the service department. To your left is the production line, main offices and the R&D and engineering studios. Ariel is threatening to outgrow the place, but you wouldn’t know it from how well organised it is. It’s a neat site because Ariel likes to do things properly. Inspect an Atom 4 closely and you’ll note how it is beautifully assembled and finished. I’ve come to see what a typical day is like at Ariel. I’m aware that general manager Tom Siebert does a bit of everything – and he’s spent plenty of time with us over the years – so I’m expecting him to tell me no two days are alike, but that’s not the case. “I do have a typical day – at the moment,” he says. “I get here at about 7.45am and spend until 10am doing emails. Then the phone starts ringing – customers, more business stuff. And a lot of my job is HR.” Over the years, Siebert has taken over more of the daily running of the business from his old man, founder Simon Saunders. “My job is just organising the whole thing, basically,” says Siebert. “From ‘matey’s going to fix those tiles’, to budgets and dealing with customers.” Phone up to order an Atom and there’s still a decent chance Tom, who oversaw the car’s development alongside his brother Henry Siebert-Saunders, or Simon, will answer. Talking with customers, or to plebs like me, is apparently one of the more enjoyable parts of Siebert’s job, allowed by the company’s organisation. “I’ve spent a long time putting in a proper business structure, making sure that for the most part everything functions without having to micromanage people,” he says. Previously, he says, Ariel was really just a group of “mad men who wanted to drink cider and make cars”. ADVERTISEMENT Find an Autocar review Make Select model Latest Drives 1 Skoda Enyaq 2021 UK FD hero front Skoda Enyaq iV 60 Suite 2021 UK review 1 Everrati Porsche 964 2021 UK FD hero front Everrati Porsche 964 Signature 2021 UK review 1 Genesis GV80 2021 UK FD hero front Genesis GV80 2021 UK review 1 Audi Q7 TFSIe 2021 UK FD hero front Audi Q7 55 TFSIe 2021 UK review 1 Genesis G80 2021 UK FD hero front Genesis G80 2021 UK review View all latest drives Read our review CAR REVIEW Ariel Atom 4 2019 road test review - hero front Ariel Atom 4 World’s fastest piece of mobile scaffolding gets a new chassis and turbocharged engine Read our review But what cars they’ve turned into. And what a bike – the two-wheeled Ace is perhaps even more pleasingly finished than the Atom 4 and Nomad. “I think it helps that a lot of us are bikers,” says Siebert. “Because everything is on show, even if it’s not pretty it has to be nice from an engineering perspective.” Up next will be a new Nomad, currently in development but not as yet a real prototype, followed by the range-extended battery-electric Hipercar. “It’s when you get a physical car that I get excited,” says Siebert. “I like driving them and messing with them. Ultimately it’s such a team effort here. We’re punching above our weight, so it has to be. We take on board ideas from everyone, but Simon, Henry and I will steer it the way we want to go. I’ve got knowledge of the models because I’ve been there from the start.” That wasn’t planned. Simon Saunders had taken the Lightweight Sports Car Concept he’d shown at the 1996 British Motor Show and turned it into the Atom, and he was running the company with a friend who fell ill. “I’d had and raced bikes as a kid and wasn’t interested in cars,” says Siebert. “I went and worked in a motorbike shop and lived away.” Only a few Atom 1s had been built when “mother begged me to come and help the old man because he was struggling”. He was only supposed to help for three months, “but I’ve never left”. VIDEOS FROM AUTOCAR All of 2020's Best Sports Cars Reviewed | Autocar Best Driver's Car Shootout That was in August 2000, and for somebody who wasn’t into cars at the time, it’s clear they are now in his veins. “I reckon we must have made five or six Atom 1s when I started,” he says, “though they were pretty rudimentary. The last ones were good and loads of them went to Japan, bizarrely. It’s one car we don’t have that I’d like for the museum.” James Cousins - workshop supervisor, thirteen years at Ariel Cousins is in charge of all the car builds and starts his day by ensuring everybody has something to do and knowing the specs of the cars being built. “And I’m building a car at the same time,” he says. “It takes

US first lady Jill Biden and Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, learned about bunny care Friday as they toured a preschool during a joint outing in southwest England. They also took part in a talk about early childhood education with experts from the U.K. and some from the United States who joined the discussion via Zoom. “It’s a huge honor to have you in the United Kingdom,” the duchess said just before the discussion. She thanked Biden, a longtime English teacher, for her interest in early education, also a topic of interest for the duchess, who has three young children with husband Prince William. Biden, 70, and the former Kate Middleton, 39, visited with 4- and 5-year-olds who attend Connor Downs Academy in Hayle. The school works with children who have experienced trauma. It also has outdoor classrooms where children plant vegetables and flowers and tend to rabbits. Biden carried a bowl of carrots when the women went outside to see Storm, one of several bunnies housed in pens, and handed the bowl to a group of kids so they could feed him. Before the indoor roundtable, Biden said she was glad to visit the school. “I met some wonderful teachers and principals and most of all the children, who were so inspiring and well behaved,” the first lady said. “I couldn’t get over it.” She is travelling with her husband, President Joe Biden, who is attending a Group of Seven summit of leaders from the world’s largest economies that opened Friday in Carbis Bay. She thanked the news media for covering the appearance “because early childhood education is so important to lay the foundation for all of our students.” Both women took notes during the discussion, which centered on child mental health and the importance of early education in childhood development. Also Read |Here’s why people are finding Jill Biden’s latest look relatable As they departed, reporters asked Biden if she had sought advice from the duchess on meeting Queen Elizabeth II, which the Biden’s are set to do at a summit reception later Friday, followed by tea with the monarch on Sunday at Windsor Castle. “No, I didn’t,” the first lady replied. “We’ve been busy. Were you not in that room. We were talking education.” Jill Biden is scheduled to head back to Washington after meeting the queen, while the president continues on to Brussels for a NATO summit and to Switzerland for a highly anticipated one-on-one summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Nasa has assembled the first of its powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rockets, which will carry humans to the Moon this decade. On Friday, engineers at Florida's Kennedy Space Center finished lowering the 65m (212ft) -tall core stage in-between two smaller booster rockets. It's the first time all three key elements of the rocket have been together in their launch configuration. Nasa plans to launch the SLS on its maiden flight later this year. During this mission, known as Artemis-1, the SLS will carry Orion - America's next-generation crew vehicle - towards the Moon. However, no astronauts will be aboard; engineers want to put both the rocket and the spaceship through their paces before humans are allowed on in 2023. Test success for world's most powerful rocket Nasa's giant SLS rocket: a guide Artemis: To the Moon and Beyond Nasa chooses SpaceX to build Moon lander The SLS consists of the giant core stage, which houses propellant tanks and four powerful engines, flanked by two 54m (177ft) -long solid rocket boosters (SRBs). They provide most of the thrust-force that propels the SLS off the ground in the first two minutes of flight. Both the core stage and the SRBs are taller than the Statue of Liberty, minus its pedestal. Over Friday and Saturday, teams at Kennedy Space Center used a heavy-lift crane to first hoist the core stage, transfer it from a horizontal to a vertical position, and then lower it into place between the SRBs on a structure called the mobile launcher. This structure currently resides inside the huge, cuboid Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). The mobile launcher allows access to the SLS for testing, checkout and servicing. It will also transfer the giant rocket to the launch pad. Engineers began stacking the SRBs on the mobile launcher in November last year. While this was going on, the core stage was attached to a test stand in Mississippi, undergoing a comprehensive programme of evaluation known as the Green Run. n March, the core stage engines were fired successfully for around eight minutes - the time taken for the SLS to get from the ground to space - in the Green Run's final and most important test. After refurbishment, the core was taken by barge to Kennedy Space Center. Artemis-3, which will be the first mission to land humans on the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972, should launch in the next few years. Nasa recently awarded the contract to build the next-generation Moon lander to SpaceX, which is adapting its Starship design for the purpose.

The first test session for Autocar and Shelsley Walsh’s new hillclimb initiative has been held at Curborough sprint track. Places are still open for further entrants, with another test planned at Shelsley Walsh itself on 15 June, before the season proper gets underway with a sprint at Curborough on 11 July. The test session saw six young drivers take part, being put through their paces by a group of instructors as they all look to get up to speed ahead of 11 July. The test day was meant as a taster for the new initiative between Autocar and Shelsley Walsh, the two organisations combining to launch a new, affordable motorsport competition for 17 to 21-year old licensed drivers. It’s based around the 1.2-litre Vauxhall Corsa and is aimed at bringing fresh talent to a sport that prides itself on welcoming cars and drivers of all. For its first season, the Autocar-Shelsley Walsh Young Drivers’ Championship aims to attract a maximum of 10 competitors to a series of six rounds that will start in earnest this July at the Curborough sprint track, near Lichfield, on 11 July. There are then five further rounds at Shelsley Walsh, Worcestershire, the world’s oldest motor sporting venue still in use, this September. “Our sport needs more younger competitors,” says series instigator and guiding light, Paul Matty. “We think this is the ideal way to draw them in. We want to attract young competitors with lots of ambition but no racing experience, by keeping the cars simple and equal, and the cost of entry as low as it can be. We’ve already had plenty of interest — including from other clubs and tracks who’d like to do the same kind of thing.” At the competition’s official launch at Shelsley Walsh yesterday its first official entrant, 21-year old Ben Evans, took to the track for our cameras in a healthy-looking 2008 Vauxhall Corsa bought for £2300 in the local classifieds. The car was standard apart from a fire extinguisher (supplied free to all entrants). Ben, a Bromsgove-based car parts specialist, also modelled a set of the special series race overalls that, like the helmet, will be supplied to all entrants at a heavily discounted price. Also on hand to lend support for what he called “a great initiative” was Constable Simon Yuile, a forensic collision investigator representing the West Mercia Police, and a lifelong car enthusiast. “This is the kind of practical step that can help young drivers enjoy themselves in cars, but be much safer when they do it,” he said. ADVERTISEMENT Find an Autocar review Make Select model Latest Drives 1 Mazda MX 5 Sport Venture 2021 UK FD hero front Mazda MX-5 1.5 Sport Venture 2021 UK review 1 DS 9 2021 UK FD hero front DS 9 2021 UK review 1 Audi Q4 2021 FD hero front Audi Q4 Sportback 50 E-tron quattro 2021 review land rover defender se d300 review 2021 049 Land Rover Defender 110 SE D300 2021 UK review 1 Aston Martin Victor 2021 FD hero front Aston Martin Victor 2021 UK review View all latest drives Read our review CAR REVIEW Vauxhall Corsa 2020 road test review - tracking front Vauxhall Corsa Do PSA Group mechanicals herald a new era of success for Vauxhall's fifth-gen Corsa supermini? Read our review Back to top Before the new Autocar Shelsley competition begins, all entrants will be invited to a day-long driver training course at the Curborough sprint track on 27 May, where they will receive driving tuition from qualified instructors from the Midland Automobile Club, Shelsley Walsh’s owners. Entrants will be required to join the club, again at a discounted price, and pay special, lower event entry fees. The series’ car of choice is any standard-tune, three-door 1.2-litre Vauxhall Corsa made after January 2000, running on pump petrol and weighing no less than the standard 1035kg. With specified safety equipment it must have cost less than £3000, verifiable by a sales invoice. No tuning modifications are allowed: engines and ECUs will be sealed at the start of a season by an eligibility scrutineer, Adrian Deane, who has already been appointed. Cars must have insurance and MoT, will race on standard tyres and must be driven to events. Under Motorsport UK rules for standard cars the Corsas need no roll cages and drivers can utilise standard seat belts, but all will need approved race overalls, a compliant race helmet and gloves like any other hillclimb competitor. They also need, at least, an RS Interclub licence available on application Motorsport UK Points will be allotted at every round — 20 for the winner, two for the 10th-placed driver. Prize money and trophies will be awarded at the season-end: £500 for the winner, £200 for second, £100 for third. Technical and sporting regulations have already been issued, and entry forms will soon be available on the Midland Automobile Club’s website, or by contacting Shelsley Walsh’s competition secretary, Lucy Hart (lucy@mac1901.co.uk). Entries close on 15 June.

By Jill Cowan As in any other year, teenage girls in California stepped out of salons, only to sit in front of mirrors at home carefully rearranging their coifs. They wore jewel-toned cocktail dresses and floor-skimming gowns. Some strapped themselves into rhinestone-encrusted heels, while others, planning for a night on their feet, stuck with Vans or Air Force 1s. Their dates wore white tuxedos, three-piece suits, corsages. In Fowler, a small city southeast of Fresno, there were cowboy boots and hats. Yet, unlike any other year, there were custom-made masks to match outfits. There were silent discos to encourage social distancing, as revelers donned headphones and danced to the beat, quite literally, of different drummers. Vaccine cards or coronavirus tests were required for entry. In Petaluma, dinner was prepacked sandwiches eaten picnic-style on the football field before the dancing started on the painted lines. The 2021 prom season has shown that American high school rites of passage are durable, flexible and pandemic-proof. Teenage traditions, like teenagers themselves, have a resilience. Somehow, the prom — that timeworn cliche of growing up — turned into something vital and emotional. Strict pandemic rules meant that most of California’s Class of 2021 spent roughly a year learning from home. As the spread of the virus has waned in California and around the country, proms — even those retooled with mask-wearing and other precautions — have served the twin function for many of celebrating both the end of high school and the end of the worst of the pandemic. Dancing on the track around the football field during prom at Petaluma High School. (Maggie Shannon/The New York Times) “For so long, I didn’t take advantage of all the moments I had in high school,” said Michelle Ibarra Simon, a senior at Dos Pueblos High School, in the Southern California city of Goleta. “COVID helped me see that I was letting time fly and letting every moment slip through my fingers.” Prom, she added, “was probably one of the best moments of my life.” Here are stories from a few high schools in California. Encore High School in Hesperia At first, no one was dancing at Encore’s prom. It was an unusual sight: Encore is a performing arts school, and some of the students are professionally trained dancers. “I don’t know,” senior Marco Gochez said. “They were getting shy or weird or uncomfortable.” Caroline Esquivel, Encore’s senior class president, theorized that perhaps her classmates were anxious after not being together in a group for so long. The school is in Hesperia, a desert city in San Bernardino County, but the prom was held at a banquet hall in Upland. Soon, after dinner was served, the mood changed. “It was like a giant mosh pit,” Esquivel said. “Everyone was so happy, jumping and screaming.” During Jennifer Lopez’s “On the Floor,” Esquivel and other members of her dance team got onto the stage and performed a competition routine in their finery. For Jaired Mason, who graduated from Encore in 2020, attending this year’s prom as his best friend’s date helped give him a sense of closure that he had been missing because of the pandemic. Encore hosted a small, restricted prom of about 30 people last year, he said, and Mason’s class graduated over Zoom. He postponed going to the prestigious Boston Conservatory at Berklee to study dance. proms, proms in the pandemic, enjoying prom in the pandemic, high school prom party, COVID-19 pandemic and proms, NYT, indian express news A group hug while dancing during prom at Fowler High School. (Maggie Shannon/The New York Times) The prom signaled an end to the uncertainty. “Especially after last night, I’m feeling really good and excited about the future,” he said the day after. And in the fall, his future is no longer postponed. He is headed to Boston. Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta Bill Woodard, principal of Dos Pueblos and the parent of a senior there, described the evening as magical. “I don’t use that word lightly,” he said. Woodard said Goleta, a suburban community near Santa Barbara, was sometimes mistakenly assumed to be uniformly wealthy and, thus, insulated from the ravages of the pandemic. “We had families that lost family members,” he said. “There was economic devastation. That all was swirling as we were planning our prom.” Initially, he said, nearby schools had hoped to host on-campus carnivals as a kind of substitute. But Dos Pueblos students wanted to do something off-campus, to make the event “as normal as possible,” he said. A connection at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum helped the school score a discount on the space, which is often a destination wedding venue. Flowers were donated, Woodard said, then reused at the school’s graduation days later. There was a Shirley Temple bar, karaoke and air hockey. Ibarra Simon, the senior, said she and her best friend made the silent disco not so silent when they started singing along to the Miley

Four members of a Muslim family were killed in a "premeditated" vehicle attack on Sunday, Canadian police say. The alleged attack took place in the city of London, Ontario province. A boy aged nine, the family's only survivor, is in hospital with serious injuries. A 20-year-old Canadian man has been charged with four counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. The attack was the worst against Canadian Muslims since six people were killed in a Quebec City mosque in 2017. "It is believed that these victims were targeted because they were Muslim," Detective Superintendent Paul Waight told a news conference on Monday. Police are weighing possible terrorism charges, he said, adding that it is believed to be a hate crime. Map What are the details? The victims were two women - aged 74 and 44 - a 46-year-old man and a 15-year-old girl. They have not been named, in accordance with the wishes of the family. A nine-year-old boy was in hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, said police. Police named the alleged attacker as Nathanial Veltman, 20, of London, Ontario. He was arrested without incident at a shopping centre about 6km (4.8 miles) from the crime scene. It is not yet known if the suspect has ties to any hate groups, said Det Supt Waight. "There is no known previous connection between the suspect and the victims," Det Supt Waight said, adding that the suspect was wearing a vest that appeared to be "like body armour". Officials added that there was good weather and high visibility conditions when the black truck was seen mounting the kerb on Hyde Park Road at around 20:40 local time on Sunday. One eyewitness told CTV News she had to shield her young daughter's eyes from the bodies. Another witness told CTV the scene was "just chaos". "There were people everywhere and running," said Paige Martin. "Citizens were trying to direct the emergency vehicles where to go. There was a lot of pointing and screaming and arm waving." A 2016 census found that London - a city about 200km southwest of Toronto - is growing increasingly diverse. One in five people was born outside of Canada, with Arabs being the area's largest minority group, and South Asians coming in a close second. What has the reaction been? Ontario Premier Doug Ford was among those who paid tribute to the victims, tweeting: "Hate and Islamophobia have NO place in Ontario." Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted that he was "horrified" by the news. "To the loved ones of those who were terrorised by yesterday's act of hatred, we are here for you," he wrote. "This was an act of mass murder, perpetrated against Muslims, against Londoners, and rooted in unspeakable hatred," said London Mayor Ed Holder. In a statement, Mayor Holder said he was speaking "on behalf of all Londoners when I say our hearts are broken". "We grieve for the family, three generations of whom are now deceased." The mayor's statement added that he had ordered flags outside London City Hall to be lowered for three days of mourning. The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) said in a statement that the attacker should face terrorism charges. "A man allegedly got in his car, saw a Muslim family walking down the street, and made the decision that they do not deserve to live," said the organisation's CEO Mustafa Farooq. "He did not know them. This is a terrorist attack on Canadian soil, and should be treated as such," his statement continued. Nawaz Tahir, a London lawyer and representative of the Muslim community, said during the police news conference: "These were innocent human beings who were killed simply because they were Muslim." "We will stand strong against Islamophobia. We will stand strong against terror with faith, with love, and a quest for justice," he continued. "Hate will never overshadow the light of love."

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The Singapore Grand Prix has been removed from the 2021 F1 calendar due to the Covid-19 pandemic restricting travel to the country. Unlike many countries, Singapore has responded to the coronavirus outbreak by imposing strict immigration restrictions that F1 and national authorities have agreed make it impossible to hold the event in the city state. The thousands of people due to descend on Singapore for the race would have put too great a strain on the city state's test-and-trace system. An F1 spokesperson told the BBC: "We continue to work with all promoters during this fluid time and have plenty of options to adapt if needed." This is the second year in a row that the Singapore event has been cancelled due to the coronavirus. The race series’ organisers have yet to confirm which track will replace Singapore’s Marina Bay Street Circuit, which was scheduled to host the GP on 1-3 October. According to the BBC, Turkey is being considered as a replacement. There could also be a revival of the Chinese Grand Prix. A double header at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, is also a possibility, as the track owners recently offered F1 the option of two races at the venue in the middle of October. F1 owner Liberty Media is an American company. While F1 will hope that Singapore is the last race to be cancelled this season, there are warnings that other grands prix may drop from the rota. These include the Mexican and Brazilian rounds, whose countries are currently dealing with some of the world’s highest Covid-19 infection rates.

In October 2019, shortly after opening, chef Jordan Bailey’s Aimsir restaurant in County Kildare won two Michelin stars. Ten months later he was selling lobster rolls and lamb kebabs from a camper van. Having been closed entirely to guests – like the rest of a hospitality industry emerging from Ireland’s third COVID-19 lockdown – for all but four of the past 15 months, he had to innovate to survive. “It really kicked in a few weeks into lockdown when things were getting worse and worse and worse, that’s when it got really scary and forced us to start thinking how can we keep Aimsir going?” said Bailey. An estimated 25% of Irish restaurants have turned their hands to offering meal delivery or collection services or, in some cases, even transformed their dining rooms into greengrocer shops. Their flexibility has helped limit the economic impact of the current, longest lockdown to, Ireland’s finance department estimates, around half that of the first in 2020. Aimsir has been selling weekly meal kits featuring the likes of puffed cod skin and deer with smoked bone marrow emulsion, and a QR code for home cooks to access instructional videos. General manager Majken Bech-Bailey, the other half of the husband-and-wife team, calls them a lifesaver that has even boosted revenues. A lifesaver is also how Barry Fitzgerald describes the 30-40 euro a head cook-at-home collection kits he has sold out of through much of lockdown at his Bastible and Clanbrassil House restaurants near Dublin’s deserted city centre. Operating at 50-60% of pre-pandemic revenue with lower staff costs, a temporary halving of rent, and wage subsidies and grants from the government have kept both restaurants afloat and allowed him to rebuild cashflow. “It’s pretty scary just seeing your bank balance fade away,” said Fitzgerald. “I’m so thankful the dining public were sick of cooking (from fresh) at home.” Despite most stores and the entire hospitality sector having been shut down since late December, Irish retail sales rose above pre-pandemic levels from February to April. That points to adaptability, also typified by the Dublin bookstore owner who took to her pushbike to deliver books when click-and-collect was banned, that Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe described as extraordinary. Monthly spending on restaurant food, having collapsed 76% year-on-year to 75 million euros ($91 million) in April 2020 during the first lockdown, hit 215 million euros in November during the second one and has averaged 175 million euros during the third. DAY OF RECKONING? Outdoor dining has been authorised again in Ireland from next week, and limited-capacity indoor service is scheduled to resume in early July. The Restaurants Association of Ireland (RAI) believes those kitchens that found a way to keep cooking should emerge from the COVID-19 crisis relatively unscathed. But it also estimates that around 50% of operators are teetering on the edge of collapse. Rent arrears is the number one issue, according to RAI chief executive Adrian Cummins, who says landlords have been evenly split between “the good, the bad and the ugly”, those that have postponed or reduced rents, or expected them in full. “The minute you open your doors, everyone starts coming looking for money and that’s where you’re going to have the big car crash,” Cummins said, anticipating a “day of reckoning” next year when state supports are phased out. Restaurants like Dublin’s Las Tapas de Lola, which tried to adapt but simply “lost money hand over fist” due to steep labour and delivery costs and a cuisine ill-suited to takeaway, are instead counting on a sharp rebound once the economy reopens. The restaurant has survived by exhausting money set aside for a potential expansion, deferring “massive” tax liabilities and agreeing to pay a percentage of its rent, co-owner Vanessa Murphy said. With the sector desperate to tap into record levels of household savings and a public chomping at the bit for some normality, Las Tapas de Lola is already booked out well into August and it needs to be. “It’s going to take all of us about five years to rebuild,” Murphy said.

A global agreement to end the "race to the bottom" on corporate taxation is within sight, according to the French and German finance ministers. France's Bruno le Maire told the BBC the G7 club of rich nations were "just one millimetre away from a historic agreement" on a global minimum rate. He urged low tax states like Ireland to back a deal which would target tech giants such as Amazon and Microsoft. The German finance minister said a 15% rate would help pay back Covid debt Tax on big tech and multi-nationals has been a source of friction between the US and fellow G7 countries such as the UK. German finance minister Olaf Scholz said it was important to stop the world's biggest companies from dodging tax. He said it was "absolutely necessary" to reach a deal in order to "get out of this race to the bottom we see with taxes today…especially after the Covid crisis and all the money we spent to defend the health of the people, and to defend the economy." French finance minister Bruno le Maire image captionFrench finance minister Bruno le Maire told the BBC any deal must include both a tech tax on digital activities as well as a minimum rate Mr Le Maire also urged Ireland, which has one of the lowest corporate tax rates in the European Union, at 12.5%, to get "on board". He added: "European countries, that in the past, opposed this new international tax system, must understand that they have to give the agreement to this major breakthrough". 'Starting points and sticking points' Both ministers said agreement on a minimum rate remained a sticking point. Mr Le Maire said he saw the 15% rate as a "starting point". He said: "If it can be higher, it is better to have a higher rate than 15%." However, Mr Scholz suggested that 15% would be an effective starting point that would mark a "turning point" after years of going in the other direction. It came after UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak says he was "confident" of reaching a global agreement on digital taxation ahead of a meeting of world finance leaders. Finance minsters will also discuss climate change at the two day meeting which starts in London on Friday. Ahead of the G7 talks, starting in London on Friday, Mr Le Maire and Mr Scholz along with their counterparts in Italy and Spain co-signed a letter urging an agreement on an international tax system "fit for the 21st Century". In a letter to The Guardian, they wrote: "Introducing this fairer and more efficient international tax system was already a priority before the current economic crisis, and it will be all the more necessary coming out of it." Those attending the G7 finance ministers summit are certain that a deal will be done on global taxation by Saturday morning - and they are not shy about its "historic nature". Mr Scholz told me they'll "have an agreement which will really change the world... this will be a turning point in global co-operation". Another finance minister said privately the deal will start to set the rules for the 21st Century, because if the Western G7 democracies were incapable of doing it, then China would. The UK's turnaround on minimum tax rates is quite something. Successive elections have been fought on the danger of corporation tax hikes to jobs and investment. Now, not only is that policy, but the UK looks set up to have overseen an agreement to limit the extent to which a future chancellor could cut it. There are two sticking points, sources tell me. Firstly, there is the mention (or not) of a global minimum corporation tax rate of 15%. There is also a move to use the wording "at least 15%" to show some ambition - but also to provide some negotiation space at the wider G20 meeting chaired by Italy and including the likes of China and Russia. The US also asked countries that have levied digital taxes - France, Italy and the UK, to withdraw them quickly as part of the deal. At least one finance minister said that was a "non-starter", as it could immediately result in the big tech giants paying less, not more tax. The end result will depend on fine detail, but looks likely to involve a new ability to charge 100 or so of the world's largest companies based on where their sales are, not where they house the factories or patents and trademarks. This could be transformative, and not just for Big Tech, but some more conventional multinationals. line Tax tech On Wednesday, the US announced it would impose tariffs on about $2bn (£1.4bn) of imports, including certain goods from the UK, in retaliation for taxes on big US tech firms. However, it suspended them for 180 days to allow further talks to take place in London and at a meeting of G20 nations in July. US delays tariffs in 'tech tax' row Amazon has €250m 'back taxes' overturned in court Mr Sunak is expected to push for an agreement on taxes and call for all global businesses to commit to climate reporting. Speaking ahead of the G7 meeting, Mr Sunak said: "Securing a global agreement on digital taxation has also been a key priority this year - we want companies to pay the right amount of tax in the right place, and I hope we can reach a fair deal with our partners. "I'm determined we work together and unite to tackle the world's most pressing economic challenges - and I'm hugely optimistic that we will deliver some concrete outcomes this weekend." The ministers will be looking at how to stop the likes of Google, Amazon, Starbucks and Apple paying low or no taxes in countries where they generate revenues. The meeting is being held as it emerged that an Irish subsidiary of US technology giant Microsoft paid no corporation tax on $315bn in profit it made last year, according to The Guardian. Microsoft Round Island One is resident in Bermuda and the profit it generated last year is equal to nearly three-quarters of Ireland's GDP. All G7 countries, bar the UK, have supported a proposal from the US for a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15% that could raise $50-$80bn for governments around the world. 'Deal within reach' Germany, France, Italy and Spain said the commitment to a minimum 15% tax rate is "a promising start" but said G7 nations must reach "a common position on a new international tax system" in London before more nations meet next month. They wrote: "We are confident it will create the momentum needed to reach a global agreement at the G20 in Venice in July. It is within our reach. Let's make sure it happens. We owe it to our citizens." The UK is holding out for reassurances about the Digital Services Tax, which levies 2% on revenues derived in the UK from online marketplaces, search engines and social media platforms. It is open to the idea of a global corporate minimum tax rate and is said to be prepared to let the Digital Services Tax go if it obtains assurances that big tech will not simply be let off the hook. The Biden administration initially pushed for a global minimum corporate tax rate of 21% but has now retreated to 15%. However, officials have said that's regarded very much as a "floor". Finance ministers from the US, Japan, France, Canada, Germany and Italy will be attending the meeting at Lancaster House, along with representatives from the European Commission, the Eurogroup, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.