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And now even the boss behind that ?1bn move north won't leave London</h1><ul></ul><p> By </p><p><span class="article-timestamp"><strong>PUBLISHED:</strong>22:32 GMT, 15 May 2013</span> <span class="article-timestamp"><strong>UPDATED:</strong>07:55 GMT, 16 May 2013</span></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">The webcams in the BBC Radio 5 Live studios at the station's shiny new ?1 billion headquarters in Salford do not provide the Beeb's most scintillating offering. <br></font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Indeed, the visual feed from the controversial and vastly expensive northern complex is more interesting for what it doesn't show, than what it does.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Anyone wishing to watch one of 5 Live's most high-profile presenters, Victoria Derbyshire,cheap ghd, host her mid-morning phone-in show is likely to be disappointed.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Many are the days when the webcam would show nothing but an empty studio while the disembodied voice of the presenter mysteriously fills the ether.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Rather suspiciously, you might think,ghd hair straighteners, on Tuesday she yet again presented her show from London, just hours after posting pictures on Twitter of herself glammed-up at the Sony Radio Awards, held the previous evening at the swanky Grosvenor House Hotel in the capital.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">It seems that she, like many of her highly paid BBC colleagues, shuns the Corporation's much-hyped MediaCity HQ, dubbed the Canary Wharf of the North.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">In a two-week period earlier this year,ray ban sunglasses, 44-year-old Miss Derbyshire, whose image dominates the walls of the entrance to the impressive building, presented her daily show from Salford only twice.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">During the three months after her show was first transferred from London to Salford, she spent only two weeks broadcasting from the North-West.</font><font style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Officially, the Beeb excuses her absences for 'editorial and childcare' reasons.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">But according to colleagues, even when she does make an appearance at the studios near Manchester, Miss Derbyshire — who lives with BBC executive Mark Sandell and two sons in the South-East — invariably flies from Heathrow at her own expense, doesher show and returns in time to pick up her children from school.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">She isn't the only famous name who refuses to give up London for the north. Among others, Breakfast TV presenter Susanna Reid and Radio 5 Live host Richard Bacon continue to commute to and from London.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Just over a year after the state-of-the-art building in Salford Quays was opened by the Queen, it has already become a billion-pound white elephant and monument to the licence-fee-funded broadcaster's shameful profligacy.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">At the same time, hard-pressed residentsare furious over claims by BBC bosses — including former director-general Mark Thompson, who conceived the ludicrous scheme — that the venture would create 15,000 new jobs for local people. In fact,unemployment in the area has risen. <br></font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Scandalously, it was revealed last monththat only 34 of the 2,300 people working there have been recruited fromthe Salford area. </font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Now comes news that the BBC has been slammed by the National Audit Office for paying out ?24 million in over-generous allowances to make the 200-mile trek north more palatable to staff.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">It criticises the decision to give more than 90 employees 'exceptional' payouts to compensate them. Eleven staff received more than ?100,000 each, one getting ?150,000.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">According to the NAO report, one member of staff received an allowance for selling a second home in the east of England while retaining a London home. It also claims the BBC had 'inadequate' controls on the use of public money. The BBC Trust agrees the failings are 'unacceptable'.<br></font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">What a complete farce,Richard Dyson experts at loggerheads markets swirl, and all to placate those inside the Corporation who consider it to be too London-centric, and to appease the former Labour government which pushed for the taxpayer-financed folly in one of its heartland areas. <br></font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">No wonder former Blue Peter presenter Valerie Singleton recently joined the chorus of disapproval — adding her voice to those of such venerable BBC figures as Terry Wogan and John Simpson — and branded the Salford complex a waste of public money. <br></font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">It would be unfair to single out Victoria Derbyshire for her apparent aversion to Salford, considering that even her boss, BBC North supremo Peter Salmon,ghd sale, has steadfastly refused to up sticks from London.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Instead, according to the BBC's website,Mr Salmon, who is married to former Coronation Street actress Sarah Lancashire and enjoys a salary of ?375,000, receives ?2,375-a-month to cover his supposedly 'temporary relocation allowance'.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">In other words, he stays in Manchester at our expense during the week and goes home to leafy Twickenham, South-West London, at the weekends.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">In the last financial year alone, Salmon, who has held his post since 2008, received just under ?28,500 as part of his relocation package, on top of his wages.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">You may think that having run the BBC's operation in the north for five years, he might have been able to find a suitable permanent home close to work by now.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">How typical of the bloated Beeb that while the rest of the country faces austerity, the gravy train rolls on unhindered.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Thewastefulness is mind-blowing. A recent Freedom of Information request revealed the Corporation spent ?30,000 a week on travel costs after the relocation of Radio 5 Live, BBC Sport, Breakfast TV, plus the Children'sand Learning departments, to the MediaCity complex, which is also home to other northern-based broadcasters such as Granada TV. </font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Additionally, ?15,000 a year goes on taxis just to ferry Match Of The Day host Gary Lineker between Salford and his home in Surrey.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">One unnamed BBC executive charged ?785 for a single rail trip to the capital, and another made three return trips from London to the new northern HQ in a week, racking up fares of ?584.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">The grotesque waste of money was starkly illustrated by one London-based regular 5 Live freelance contributor who told me he used to take a short Tube ride to the station's old base in White City, West London. <br></font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Now, however, the BBC buys him a round-trip train ticket, which can cost up to ?308, to Manchester's Piccadilly station. 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In many cases, receipts of expenditure were not even required.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Others, like Peter Salmon, have taken advantage of the so-called 'temporary relocation allowance', under which they keep their main house in London and then have their rent paid by the broadcaster for their weekday 'crash pads' in Manchester.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Under the generous scheme, each member of staff is given an allowance of up to ?3,Herbs with a twist! Crab cakes with chives and dil,390 a month before tax, equivalent to ?40,680 a year, for up to two years.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Meanwhile, the Corporation is also offering to arrange the sale of houses on behalf of staff in the south, guaranteeing them the equivalent of 85 per cent of the market value if they cannot find a buyer. <br></font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Beeb also plans to relocate a further 1,000 staff from London in the next decade, ramping up costs even more (starting with BBC 3 later this year).</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Many high-profile staff still will not move. Among them is 42-year-old BBC Breakfast presenter Susanna Reid, who has refused to uproot her partner and their three sons from London.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Miss Reid,ray ban uk, who appears on air three days a week, takes the train from London in the evening and arrives in the north just in time to go to bed at a Manchester hotel.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">She then goes to work the next day and returns home to her family in the afternoon — before beginning the whole commute again.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Given such a gruelling schedule, it is little wonder that in 2011 former Breakfast TV presenters Sian Williams and Chris Hollins decided to take up other roles rather than make the trip north.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">They are not alone. Farcically, the two senior executives charged with overseeing the move made it clear that they preferred to stay in London.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">In 2010, Paul Gaskin, the ?190,000 human resources director, who was hired to persuade BBC staff to take positions in Salford, left after only two months because he did not want to move to Manchester.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">A year later, Richard Deverell, the chief operating officer in Salford,ray ban sale,County cricket performance review Luke Wells Mai, moved to another job within the Corporation that kept him in the capital before quitting last summer for a job at London-based regulator Ofcom. <br></font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">And it was revealed that Guy Bradshaw, the consultant brought in to manage the day-to-day relocation of staff, actually lived 4,000 miles away in Kentucky with his American wife.<br></font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">More than half the London staff offered transfers to Salford have refused, despite bosses enticing them with all-expenses-paid jollies to the area, including coach tours of local beauty spots and lavish dinners at the swish Malmaison hotel in Manchester.</font><br></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Meanwhile, the very people the move was supposed to benefit — the residents of the predominantly rundown Salford — have gained little. No wonder community leaders are unhappy.<br>Stephen Kingston, the editor of the award-winning local online newspaper the Salford Star, told me: <br></font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We predicted that the only jobs for Salford people would be as cleaners, security and receptionists and that's exactly what has happened.<br></font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The truth is that unemployment has gone up here, so where are all the jobs we were promised?<br></font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">'MediaCity is a big bubble that localpeople don't have access to. Given the amount of public money that has gone into it, you would expect Salford people to get more out of it.<br></font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Instead, people here say the heart is being ripped out of Salford just for the BBC. 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Those I spoke to this week at the soulless, black and neon-painted offices, are gloomy. <br></font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Theyare instructed to brainstorm in brightly coloured 'collaborative pods' and,ghd hair straighteners, it is reported, are discouraged from having their own litter bins to stop them becoming 'territorial'.<br></font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">The poor morale is not helped by the fear of crime from gangs on the nearby rundown Ordsall estate. </font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">One male BBC employee was shot at with an air rifle as he cycled home and another was persuaded to hand over the keys to his Hertz hire car to someone posing as an employee of the company.<br></font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Such is the fear of attacks that security staff now offer to escort staff at MediaCity to their cars and local tram stations.<br></font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">RobertOxley, Campaign Manager at the TaxPayers' Alliance, says: 'While staff have been forced to vacate their homes in the south-east, the Corporation has allowed an exorbitant bill for temporary accommodation to be racked up.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">'It is also shocking how much licence-fee-payers' cash is being spent on hotels, trains and taxis merely to enable London-based guests to sit on a sofa in Salford when it would be far cheaper to talk to them from a studio in the capital.'<br></font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">But a BBC spokesman insisted: 'Our Salford-based workforce has continued to grow and we have seen the first of our local apprentices and young ambassadors progress from their training schemes into permanent jobs.<br></font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Ten per cent of our workers live in the borough, and we continue to work in schools and colleges to support the long-term development of skills and experience.'<br></font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Which sounds distinctly like platitudes — and, of course, of that ten per cent, a significant proportion are likely to be those who have relocated from London,ghd, not genuine local residents.<br></font></p><p><font style="font-size:1.2em;">In the meantime, we can expect to carry on footing the enormous bill for the BBC's billion-pound Salford money pit.</font></p> </div>
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| − | <div id="js-article-text" class="article-text wide"><h1>Silver reward for 'normal' Lancashire lass Murray in modern pentathlon,cheap ghd straighteners</h1><p> By </p><p><span class="article-timestamp"><strong>PUBLISHED:</strong>17:17 GMT, 12 August 2012</span> <span class="article-timestamp"><strong>UPDATED:</strong>20:38 GMT, 12 August 2012</span></p><br><p><font style="font-size:1.2em;">London 2012 was nearly two days old when Great Britain celebrated their first medal, but such has been this country’s success at these Games, even at 6.30pm on the final day there was still a British athlete taking her place on the podium.</font></p><p><font style="font-size:1.2em;">Samantha Murray fenced, swam, rode, shot and ran her way to Britain’s 65th medal at London 2012 as the 22-year-old from Clitheroe,ghd hair straighteners, Lancashire won silver in the modern pentathlon on Sunday night.</font></p><p><font style="font-size:1.2em;">‘Honestly, if you have a goal — if there’s anything you want to achieve in life — don’t let anybody get in your way,’ she said. ‘You can do it. If I can do it, and I’m a normal girl, anyone can.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘I’m a Lancashire lass — and very proud of it. We’ll have a big party at the end of the summer with some Lancashire hotpot, for sure.’ <br></font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Now the girl nicknamed Olive —,ray ban sunglasses; because of her supposed likeness to the character from Popeye — is an Olympic silver medallist; something that looked unlikely at 11am on Sunday afterMurray lost 18 of her 35 fencing bouts inside the Copper Box on the Olympic Park.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Her swim,ghd sale, though, gave a definite hintof what was to come as she covered four lengths of the Olympic pool in 2min 20.08sec, finishing just an arm’s length behind Sarolta Kovacs of Hungary, who set an Olympic modern pentathlon record.</font></p><p><font style="font-size:1.2em;"> It was Murray’s first time in the water at the Aquatics Centre and she was actually disappointed with her performance, but it put her into third overall.</font></p><p><font style="font-size:1.2em;">The Briton then lost a little ground during the show-jumping at Greenwich Park,ghd sale, in which competitors are randomly allocated horses and have only 20 minutes to familiarise themselves with their rides. Murray, on a year-old chestnut gelding called Glen Gold,Mulberry sale,Picture This THE HIDDEN LIFE OF WOLVES BY JIM AND JAMIE DUTCHER Mail Online, knocked down two of the 12 fences and conceded a time penalty, but she still entered the combined run and shoot in fourth place, starting eight seconds behind the leader.</font></p><p><font style="font-size:1.2em;">She was then into third after shootingfive targets twice with a laser gun and starting the second 1,cheap ghd,000m lap,Cash-strapped hospital bosses employ American IT expert on a salary of £25,000 A MONTH...and even picked up his bar tab and his laundry bill Mail On,before quickly moving ahead of Yane Marques of Brazil,ray ban wayfarer, who finished third.</font></p><p><font style="font-size:1.2em;">Laura Asadauskaite of Lithuania won the gold medal, but it was a gutsy run from Murray,Meet the Kooteninchela deppi an ancient lobster-like beast with scissor claws th, who has a year left of a degree in French and politics at the University of Bath, almost as passionate as her defence of a sport that is under threat to be withdrawn from the Olympic programme after 100 years. She found modern pentathlon through swimming, then ‘fell in love’ with running.</font></p><p><font style="font-size:1.2em;">‘I already horse-rode because my grandma had stables,’ she added. ‘Luckily for me there was some shootinggoing on by my swimming pool so I picked up a pistol when I was 12,ray ban sale, then went along to fencing at 13.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘,Mulberry sale;It’s the ultimate sport for an all-round athlete and I think it’s an important part of the Olympic Games.’ <br></font></p><p><font style="font-size:1.2em;">World champion Mhairi Spence finished a disappointing 21st in anevent in which Britain has a proud heritage, having now won five medalsin the four Olympics women have competed.</font></p><p><font style="font-size:1.2em;">‘I don’t feel like a world champion,’ said Spence, ‘I feel a bit embarrassed that I couldn’t put on a better show.’</font></p><p><br></p><p> </p> </div>
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Instead of playing tightly contested games against each other for the rest of the week, the Spurs will be preparing for their fifth Finals appearance while the Grizzlies will have plenty of time to examine how and why their promising postseason run ended so abruptly. </p><p>A big part of this "how" would involve the Grizzlies' inability to stop Spurs point guard Tony Parker on Monday night. , and ,ray ban aviators, showed off exactly why he was in the MVP conversation this season before being sidelined with injuries. 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How can people be expected to evaluate and filter out advice emanating from those pushing special interests? How can people distinguish between top-notch science and pseudo-science?</p><p>Those who lead us have no excuse - they are elected to guide, to protect the public and its best interests. They have at their disposal the best scientific organisations in the world, such as the Royal Society and the US National Academy of Sciences. Only in the past few years did the science crystallise,, revealing the urgency. Our planet is in peril. If we do not change course, we'll hand our children a situation that is out of their control. One ecological collapse will lead to another,,ray ban, in amplifying feedbacks.</p><p>The amount of carbon dioxide in the air has already risen to a dangerous level. The pre-industrial carbon dioxide amount was 280 parts per million (ppm). , oil and gas, have increased this to 385 ppm; it continues to grow by about 2 ppm per year. </p><p>Earth, with its four-kilometre-deep oceans,Mulberry sale, responds only slowly to changes of carbon dioxide. So the climate will continue to change, even if we make maximum effort to slow the growth of carbon dioxide. Arctic sea ice will melt away in the summer season within the next few decades. Mountain glaciers,cheap ghd straighteners, providing fresh water for rivers that supply hundreds of millions of people, will disappear - practically all of the glaciers could be gone within 50 years - if carbon dioxide continues to increase at current rates. Coral reefs, harbouring a quarter of ocean species, are threatened.</p><p>The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that humans can imagine. If coastal ice shelves buttressing the west Antarctic ice sheet continue to disintegrate, the sheet could disgorge into the ocean, raising sea levels by several metres in a century. Such rates of sea level change have occurred many times in Earth's history in response to global warming rates no higher than those of the past 30 years. Almost half of the world's great cities are located on coastlines.</p><p>The most threatening change,ghd straighteners, from my perspective, is extermination of species. Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant and animal species became extinct. New species came into being over tens and hundreds of thousands of years. But these are time scales and generations that we cannot imagine. If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elders. </p><p>Clearly, if we burn all ,chanel, we will destroy the planet we know. Carbon dioxide would increase to 500 ppm or more. We would set the planet on a course to the ice-free state, with sea level 75 metres higher. Climatic disasters would occur continually. The tragedy of the situation, if we do not wake up in time,Mulberry bags, is that the changes that must be made to stabilise the atmosphere and climate make sense for other reasons. They would produce a healthier atmosphere, improved agricultural productivity,Mulberry bags, clean water and an ocean providing fish that are safe to eat.</p><p>Fossil-fuel reservoirs will dictate the actions needed to solve the problem. Oil, of which half the readily accessible reserves have already been burnt, is used in vehicles, so it's impractical to capture the carbon dioxide. This is likely to drive carbon dioxide levels to at least 400 ppm. But if we cut off the largest source of carbon dioxide - coal - it will be practical to bring carbon dioxide back to 350 ppm, lower still if we improve agricultural and forestry practices, increasing carbon storage in trees and soil.</p><p>Coal is not only the largest fossil fuel reservoir of carbon dioxide, it is the dirtiest fuel. Coal is polluting the world's oceans and streams with mercury, arsenic and other dangerous chemicals. The dirtiest trick that governments play on their citizens is or that they will build power plants that are "capture-ready" in case technology is ever developed to capture all pollutants.</p><p>The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death. When , I estimated that in its lifetime it would be responsible for the extermination of about 400 species - its proportionate contribution to the number that would be committed to extinction if carbon dioxide rose another 100 ppm.</p><p>The German and Australian governments pretend to be green. When I show German officials the evidence that the coal source must be cut off, they say they will tighten the "carbon cap". But a cap only slows the use of a fuel - it does not leave it in the ground. When I point out that their new coal plants require that they convince Russia to leave its oil in the ground, they are silent. The Australian government was elected on a platform of solving the climate problem, but then, with the help of industry, it set emission targets so high as to guarantee untold disasters for the young, let alone the unborn. These governments are not green. They are black - coal black.</p><p>The three countries most responsible, per capita, for filling the air with carbon dioxide from fossil fuels are the UK, the US and Germany, in that order. Politicians here have asked me why am I speaking to them. Surely the US must lead? But coal interests have great power in the US; the essential moratorium and phase-out of coal requires a growing public demand and a political will yet to be demonstrated.</p><p>The Prime Minister should not underestimate his potential to transform the situation. And he must not pretend to be ignorant of the consequences of continuing to burn coal or take refuge in a "carbon cap" or some "target" for future emission reductions. My message to Gordon Brown is that young people are beginning to understand the situation. They want to know: will you join their side? Remember that history, and your children, will judge you.</p><p>? is director of in New York. 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