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Sky News UK Weather Forecast

22.00 | Label:


The next few days will bring showers, but the weekend looks promising.
In the meantime, Wednesday evening will be fine for many, but south-east Wales and central and southern England will have outbreaks of heavy rain.
Thundery downpours will give tricky driving conditions and some flooding.
The rain in the blustery south will ease and clear eastwards overnight, leaving most places dry, but Ireland can expect a few showers.
The Northern Isles will be wet for a time as well.
Clear skies mean it will turn chilly again with some fog forming in the calmer west.
Temperatures will be down to 2 or 3C in rural spots in the north.
Thursday will bring good sunny spells, with any early fog lifting, but East Anglia and the south-east may start rather cloudy.
Most places will be dry, but showers will develop widely over Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic through the afternoon.
Thundery downpours are possible.
England and Wales will stay largely fine, but the odd shower is likely in the west later.
It will feel cool in the brisk wind, especially for Channel coasts.
Temperatures will typically range from 16 to 18C (61-64F)
Friday will bring yet more showers, some heavy in the south-east, but the weekend looks mainly fine.

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Royal Visit For School Where Parents Join Classes

22.03 | Label:


The charity behind a unique new school where parents go to class with their children says it is already having a dramatic impact on improving pupils' mental health.
Sky News has been given access to the school, which is run by the Anna Freud Centre in North London, ahead of a visit by the Duchess of Cambridge today.
The Family School focuses as much on a child's mental health as teaching them traditional subjects.
Mums and dads sit in on lessons, but also go to their own classes to learn how they can more effectively support their children.
Most pupils will only spend a couple of terms at the school. Wayne Llewllyn's son is now ready to go back into mainstream school.
He told Sky News: "Before he came here he was very aggressive, very outspoken and challenged everything.

"Things happen at home that can affect a child's learning at school and sometimes parents can be wearing blinkers and blind to that sort of thing, because you may have other children.
"I have another son who has ADHD, so we knew there were a lot of things we had to do, and this school has taught me to listen to my son a lot more and made me a better father for it."
Now back to her royal duties after the birth of her daughter, the Duchess will be given a tour of the school.
Kensington Palace says Kate wants to learn more about what is being done to help children currently being failed by mental health provision, and support vulnerable families.

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Restaurant Review: Casa Mono in Gramercy Park

22.05 | Label:

Casa Mono has a lot to answer for. Founded by Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich in 2003, it was among the earliest and most influential restaurants to twist the Spanish tapas idiom into what New Yorkers learned to call small-plates dining. The Casa Mono style has spread far and wide, leaving in its wake a trail of cluttered tables, unpredictably sequenced dishes, and diners reduced to asking pathetically, “Will that be enough food?”
All of this might earn Casa Mono the historical notoriety bestowed on early tremors of annoying or inconvenient trends, like the first spam email, if it weren’t the case that almost everyone agrees that Casa Mono has always been very good. To that I’ll add a contention of my own. The pleasures of eating there are both richer and more varied than in 2004, when this tiny, perpetually crowded restaurant was last reviewed in The New York Times. (Marian Burros gave it two stars.)
Andy Nusser, the executive chef and an owner, kept the
tapas fairly uncomplicated in the early days. Roasted piquillo peppers filled with juicy braised oxtail were on the menu then, are there now, and probably will be forever. The seared skirt steak, served with sweet stewed onions and a romesco that crunches with coarsely chopped almonds, is still one of the most elementally satisfying one-course meals near Union Square. It’s even better if you eat it alone at the bar, which may be your only option on those nights when reservations are impossible.

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René Redzepi Plans to Close Noma and Reopen It as an Urban Farm

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COPENHAGEN — “Welcome to the new Noma,” the chef René Redzepi said on a bright summer day. “This is it.”
Mr. Redzepi, 37, the godfather of the New Nordic movement and the chef at Noma, arguably the world’s most influential restaurant at the moment, was standing outside what looked like an auditorium-size crack den. Used spray-paint cans lay in heaps amid the weeds of an abandoned lot. Street art covered the walls of an empty warehouse; inside, teenagers rumbled around on skateboards.
World-class culinary destination? The site, right outside the ragged border of this city’s freewheeling Christiania neighborhood, seemed more like the Four Seasons after an apocalypse.
But Mr. Redzepi envisioned something else as he climbed a staircase to a tar-papered roof and gazed out at a lake on the edge of the property. In what qualifies as a wildly risky roll of the dice, he plans to close Noma after a final service on New Year’s Eve in 2016. He hopes to reopen for business in 2017 with a new menu and a new mission.
As a crucial part of that, he wants to transform this decrepit patch of land into a state-of-the-art urban farm, with Noma at its center.

“It makes sense to do it here,” he said, despite visual evidence to the contrary. “It makes sense to have your own farm, as a restaurant of this caliber.” His plans are nothing if not ambitious. He will put a greenhouse on the roof. He will dig out the dank old asphalt lot and truck in fresh soil. He wants part of the farm to float.
“We’ll build a raft, and we’ll put a huge field on the raft,” he said. “We need a full-time farmer with a team.”

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Ruth Reichl Recharges in the Kitchen

22.08 | Label:


SPENCERTOWN, N.Y. — Ruth Reichl was in the kitchen she designed as both command center and comfort station, making a salami sandwich for her husband, Michael Singer, 75, a former CBS News producer who has been recovering from back surgery.
“He has this thing from his childhood about salami,” she said, smearing a slice of ciabatta bread with Dijon mustard.
“It’s not a Freudian issue,” he shouted from the Danish-modern kitchen table, where his head was buried in his laptop. “I just like salami.”
This, now, is life for Ms. Reichl. At 67, she is softer, less anxious and, her friends say, a happier version of the cautious workaholic who was the food editor at The Los Angeles Times, the restaurant critic at The New York Times, a best-selling memoirist and, for a decade, the editor of Gourmet, the oldest food and wine magazine in America.
She makes her husband three meals a day when she is not traveling. She writes in a little cabin set a few dozen paces behind the sleek house with glass walls that the couple built 11 years ago here on a shale plateau between the Hudson River and the Berkshires. And she cooks for just about anyone who walks in the door.
“At this point in your life,” she said, “you have to have as much fun as you can because you don’t know what’s coming down the road.”

In 2009, while she was in Seattle promoting a Gourmet cookbook, her horse was shot out from under her. Without warning, Condé Nast closed Gourmet, after 69 years, on her watch.
(She said she still doesn’t know why, although luxury advertising was in a slump and not all readers responded favorably to articles in which writers like David Foster Wallace were given 7,500 words to explore the moral implications of killing lobsters. Her memoir about her years at Condé Nastis in the works.)
In as much time as it takes to peel a peach, she went from the top of the heap into free fall. No more Condé Nast salary, black cars at her beckoning and $30,000 budgets to shoot a Thanksgiving spread. Her carefully curated team of writers, designers and cooks, many of them close friends, were gone, off to find work elsewhere with varying degrees of success.
Ms. Reichl, who often invokes her hippie bona fides, said she always knew she was a visitor in that world. It didn’t take her long to remember that one can get by just fine without those trappings.

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Thursday's National Newspaper Front Pages

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:: Metro
A 25-year-old man has been charged with murdering a woman and kidnapping her two children.
:: Daily Express
The Express says thousands of people are signing up every day to a Eurosceptic group campaigning to leave the EU.
:: The Independent
 Police have detected more than a dozen cases of gangs flying packages into prisons using drones.
:: i
Labour's Jeremy Corbyn has been praised for taking a new approach and putting the public's questions to David Cameron during Prime Minister's Questions.
:: The Times
Hull City FC owner Assem Allam will "bankroll" MPs who want to defect from Labour under Mr Corbyn.
:: The Daily Telegraph
Bank of England governor Mark Carney has suggested Mr Corbyn's economic plans would "imperil" the UK economy and "hurt" the poor and elderly.
:: The Guardian
The Archbishop of Canterbury is considering a radical shake-up of the worldwide Anglican church because of big differences over attitudes towards gay people.
:: Daily Star
One of the victims of the Alton Towers rollercoaster crash, Victoria Balch, says it was a relief when her leg was amputated because she was in so much pain.
:: Daily Mail
The paper continues its campaign over a Royal Marine serving life for murdering a Taliban insurgent. It says a secret report shows he was "utterly failed" by senior officers.
:: Daily Mirror
A woman describes how her life was "torn apart" after she was raped by her best friend's fiance.
:: The Sun
Prince Harry is back with ex-girlfriend Cressida Bonas, according to the Sun.
:: Financial Times
:: Watch the Press Preview on Sky News every evening at 10.30pm and 11.30pm. Thursday's reviewers will be writer and psychotherapist Lucy Beresford and PR consultant George Pascoe-Watson.

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Killer Ends Strangeways Jail Roof Protest

22.11 | Label:


A convicted killer has ended his four-day protest on the roof of Strangeways prison.
Stuart Horner, who was locked up in 2012 for killing his uncle, came down early on Wednesday morning.
The 35-year-old gingerly made his way across the roof to a waiting cherry-picker on which he was lowered to the ground.
He reportedly said: "I've proved my point. I've got a 12in pizza and a can of coke. I've done what I wanted. I've had a mad one."
Horner began his protest on Sunday afternoon when he clambered over an 18ft fence to get on top of the high-security jail, officially known as HMP Manchester.
At various times he stripped to his underpants, smashed window panes, kicked CCTV security cameras and and climbed on chimneys.
He is believed to have caused thousands of pounds worth of damage.
Horner is serving a minimum of 27 years for shooting dead his uncle, Ian Taylor, after a long-running family feud.
On Monday negotiators went up in a cherry-picker crane in an effort to talk him down, but he refused.

It is unclear exactly why he was protesting, although he yelled down to reporters about conditions at the jail.
He also scrawled messages on his shirt.
One said: "It's not 1990 tell the Gov we've all had enough. Sort the whole system." Another proclaimed his innocence.
He also shouted he wanted to stay on the roof for 40 days and 40 nights to break a previous record.
Crowds gathered below to watch Horner, who had food, water, cigarettes and blankets with him.
Some yelled words of encouragement, as did his fellow inmates.

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