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Thousands march in London against spending cuts
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Turnout for the anti-cuts demo and march to Trafalgar Square has been revised upwards to around 400,000 as people take to the streets in London to protest against the government’s planned public service cuts.
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Douglas Adams’s Doctor Who story to be novelised
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The lost Doctor Who episodes serial by Hitchhiker’s Guide author Douglas Adams will be published sometime in March 2012
This article titled “Douglas Adams’s Doctor Who story to be novelised” was written by Benedicte Page, for guardian.co.uk on Thursday 24th March 2011 14.58 UTC A novelisation of the “lost” Doctor Who serial Shada, scripted by Hitchhiker’s Guide author Douglas Adams in 1979, will be published next year. Adams wrote three series of Doctor Who in the late 1970s, when he was in his twenties and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was first airing as a BBC radio comedy. Shada was intended as a six-part drama to finish off the 17th season, with Tom Baker in the role of the Doctor. The story features the Time Lord coming to Earth with assistant Romana (Lalla Ward) to visit Professor Chronotis, who has absconded from Gallifrey, the Doctor’s home planet, and now lives quietly at Cambridge college St Cedd’s. (The Doctor: “When I was on the river I heard the strange babble of inhuman voices, didn’t you, Romana?” Professor Chronotis: “Oh, probably undergraduates talking to each other, I expect.”) Chronotis has brought with him the most powerful book in the universe, The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey – which, in a typical touch of Adams bathos, turns out to have been borrowed from his study by a student. Evil scientist Skagra, an escapee from prison planet Shada, is on its trail. Large parts of the story had already been filmed on location in Cambridge before industrial action at the BBC brought production to a halt. The drama was never finished, and in the summer of 1980 Shada was abandoned – although various later projects attempted to resurrect it. Douglas Adams’s Doctor Who series are among the very few which have never been novelised, reportedly because the author wanted to do them himself but was always too busy. Gareth Roberts, a prolific Doctor Who scriptwriter, has now been given the job. Publisher BBC Books declared the book “a holy grail” for Time Lord fans. Editorial director Albert De Petrillo said: “Douglas Adams’s serials for Doctor Who are considered by many to be some of the best the show has ever produced. Shada is a funny, scary, surprising and utterly terrific story, and we’re thrilled to be publishing the first fully realised version of this Doctor Who adventure as Douglas originally conceived it.” Ed Victor, the literary agent representing the Douglas Adams estate, said: “The BBC have been asking us for years [to allow a novelisation of Shada] and the estate finally said, ‘Why not?’” Having Roberts novelise the Adams script was “like having a sketch on a canvas by Rubens, and now the studio of Rubens is completing it,” he added. The book will be published in March 2012 as a £16.99 hardback. Adams died in 2001, and a posthumous collection of his work, including the unfinished novel The Salmon of Doubt, was published the following year. A Hitchhiker’s Guide followup, And Another Thing…., written by Eoin Colfer, was published in 2010, but Victor said there were “no plans at the moment” for more such sequels.
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West Ham win delivers Olympic Stadium option nobody wanted
West Ham United Tottenham Hotspur Why couldn’t they have organised a stadium sharing system with West Ham and Tottenham Hotspur both playing at a rebuilt Olympic Stadium in Stratford, East London? After having taken away the running track, of course.
This article titled “West Ham win delivers Olympic Stadium option nobody wanted” was written by David Conn, for The Guardian on Thursday 10th February 2011 21.40 UTC The expected decision to hand the Olympic Stadium to West Ham United, a £600m jackpot for the club’s owners, David Sullivan and David Gold, will deliver precisely the post-Games option nobody would have sanctioned at the beginning: a permanent athletics track with 60,000 seats around it. Sullivan has said they will make it work, for supporters, financially and for community use, and that after looking closely at the design he has changed the view he held when he and Gold took over the club, that: “I don’t think running tracks work, particularly behind the goal. The customers are so far back it doesn’t work.” There are two accepted principles in planning a stadium to host the Olympics or other multi-sport events, both of which will have been overridden if West Ham’s bid is accepted. First: the only way a major stadium can be financially viable after the tournament, certainly in this country, is if it is occupied by a football club. That was resisted in the Olympic board’s original decision to reduce the stadium after the games to 25,000 seats with a permanent track. That decision was made partly out of distaste from the then mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, the Olympics minister Tessa Jowell and the bid spearhead Sebastian Coe for handing a glistening asset built with public money to wealthy Premier League club owners. Second: after the Games themselves, during which 80,000 spectators and global billions of viewers will be enthralled by the athletics, no similar crowd will ever watch what happens on the track again. Except possibly once in the stadium’s lifetime, for finals day of a World Athletics Championships. That is why retractable seating over the track, as at Stade de France, is widely seen as a good solution, or the City of Manchester Stadium option, of taking the track away completely, as Spurs were bidding to do in Stratford, and relocating it at a refurbished 25,000-seat Crystal Palace. That was why the design Coe, Jowell and Livingstone approved was temporary above 25,000 seats. Richard Caborn, the then sports minister, argued vainly for West Ham to occupy the stadium with retractable seating but he was overruled. West Ham’s proposal is to build the seating back up to 60,000 permanent seats, using £95m to install proper facilities and a more durable roof. Their pitch is that the stadium will be “intimate”, with none of their fans as far from the action as the outermost seats at Wembley – but Wembley is a 90,000-seat venue. In the proposed post-Olympic stadium, West Ham fans will have a track between them and their team – a minimum 35-metre distance according to the rival Tottenham bid, not confirmed by West Ham. Spurs pointed to major clubs in Europe, including Bayern Munich and Espanyol, who have moved or are moving out of their originally Olympic stadiums for newly built, dedicated football grounds with no tracks, and at the underuse of tracks left in modern Olympic stadiums. West Ham, however, are propounding the view, which Caborn supports and the Olympic Park Legacy Company is expected to approve, that incorporating a track is important symbolically. West Ham have said there will be 20 first-class athletics events in the stadium each year, although they have not specified what they are. Generally only the Diamond League event, once a year, which features Usain Bolt and other box office stars, attracts a capacity crowd to a maximum 24,000-seat Crystal Palace. UK Athletics will have to work extremely hard to promote its sport and prove the track is not the white elephant Spurs are arguing, retained for a gesture. Football will pay for the stadium, as the Olympic board did not want to accept first time round. West Ham insist they can fill it, saying they have 17,000 fans on a paid-for waiting list, as well as the 33,000 average crowd at Upton Park this season. “We anticipate a 60,000 sell-out for the big games,” West Ham say, with Gold promising to make tickets cheaper than standard Premier League prices, affordable to less well-off east London supporters, with some given away to local schools and community groups. The £95m for converting the stadium to a permanent 60,000 seats with the improved roof consists of a £40m loan from Newham council, a partner in the move, £35m provided by the OPLC and a projected £20m from selling Upton Park. The financial requirements on the partners in the separate company which will take over the stadium, principally West Ham, are to maintain it with no further cost to the tax payer, pay a rent, share some of the income and distribute profits for community activities. Neither West Ham, Newham, nor the OPLC will say yet what the rent is, how revenue will be shared, or what the profits are expected to be, even though the stadium has been built entirely with public money. West Ham have pledged that they can meet all the costs whether they remain in the Premier League, with its £45m average TV income and possible 60,000 crowds, or are relegated to the more straitened Championship. If it all does succeed as West Ham promise, it would result in the profitability and value increasing of a club who were close to insolvent before Gold and Sullivan bought 60%, for £30m each, last year. They have said that, as West Ham fans, they do not ever intend to sell, and want to own the club “for generations”. There are, though, no guarantees, and the partners, both of whom made their initial fortunes in pornography, made £27.5m each when they sold Birmingham City to Carson Yeung’s Hong Kong-based company in 2007 and 2009. Thaksin Shinawatra, the deposed Thai prime minister, who had been convicted of corruption offences in Thailand, made a £130m profit when he sold Manchester City to Sheikh Mansour in 2008, the club’s value heightened by the occupation of Eastlands, built with public money for the Commonwealth Games. That was a scenario Coe, Jowell and Livingstone wanted to avoid, by sanctioning the reduced 25,000-seat bowl for which no viable legacy could be found. The OPLC has not yet said whether it has introduced any provisions to claw back money if Gold and Sullivan do, after all, make a super-profit from the Olympic Stadium.
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