Backed by a £1 million Home Office awareness campaign, it was unveiled at a conference in London which will also look at the media’s role in covering controversial subjects available on the web, such as suicide websites and pro-anorexia and self-harm online forums. Mr Carr added that figures he obtained from industry before Christmas had shown 80% of domestic internet users were covered by internet service providers which were already implementing some kind of blocking. But he said: “One in five home users of the internet could access illegal child pornography on websites because their internet service provider is not using the same blocking technology (as BT) and that is completely unacceptable.” The policy of self-regulation should be replaced by legislation if it is clear that it is not working, Mr Carr added. Clare Tickell, NCH’s chief executive, said: “NCH deals with children and young people who have been abused on a daily basis and sees first hand the trauma it causes. “Thirty-five thousand illegal images blocked daily is a great start but it also shows there are still a worrying number of illegal images involving children and young people in existence.
“Online child protection is crucial and something all ISPs must take seriously. Until online child pornography is eradicated, we must all work together to ensure children and young people are safe and protected from harm.”. A partner at one of Britain’s biggest law firms stabbed his wife to death in a “ferocious” attack after she admitted having an affair, a court heard yesterday. Christopher Lumsden, 52, used a kitchen knife to stab his wife, Alison, in the neck, face and back as she sat at a dressing table in their home in Altrincham, Greater Manchester.
Five days earlier Mrs Lumsden, 53, had told her husband she was having an affair with a family friend.Mr Lumsden, a partner at Pinsent Biddle in Manchester, admits killing his wife and blames an “abnormality of mind” but denies murder. A jury at Manchester Crown Court must decide whether he is guilty of murder or manslaughter.The court heard that Mr Lumsden and his wife, who have two children aged 20 and 17, met in London in the late 1970s when he was working as a trainee solicitor and she was working for the auctioneer Sotheby’s.They moved to Altrincham in 1985 and lived in a large house. The court heard that Mr Lumsden was a respected lawyer working long hours.
His wife was “vivacious” and sociable.”On the face of it, their marriage was successful and happy, and had been for many years,” said Charles Chruszcz QC, for the prosecution.The jurors heard things began to change in November 2004 when Mr Lumsden was diagnosed with a muscle-wasting disease.Mr Chruszcz said: “There is evidence that from about the time the diagnosis was made, the Lumsdens’ relationship changed and was apparently less than happy.”In February last year the court heard that Mrs Lumsden began a relationship with a “family and social friend”, Roger Flint.The court heard that on 11 March last year Mrs Lumsden told her husband about the affair and said that she wanted a divorce.The court heard that Mr Lumsden began considering his financial and social position. Notes found in his office referred to excluding his wife from his will and reducing her share in assets.On 16 March, Mrs Lumsden and Mr Flint had dinner at a restaurant in Plumley, Cheshire, and drove back to Altrincham. At 10.40pm that night Mr Lumsden phoned his sister to confess to killing his wife. “His sister thought he was virtually incoherent at the time,” Mr Chruszcz said.His sister Elizabeth and her husband drove to the house where they found Mr Lumsden in blood-soaked pyjamas and his wife lying dead on the bedroom floor.The jurors were told that Alison Lumsden suffered “horrific injuries”. Most of the injuries were stab wounds on the neck area, but she also had wounds on her face and back The deepest injury was 13cm (5 inches) The trial continues.. A supermarket roof collapsed in the southern German town of Toeging am Inn today. It was not clear how many people were in the building, but police said employees were able to escape when the roof fell onto supermarket shelves.
A spokesman for the Netto supermarket chain, Markus Mosa, said there were no reports of injuries.
The roof had sagged relatively slowly, rather than coming down suddenly, fire service officials said. No cause was immediately given, but there was heavy snowfall overnight in Bavaria. The roof caved in minutes before authorities received the emergency call at 11:26 a.m. (1026 GMT), according to a district official speaking on customary condition of anonymity.
Last month, 15 people were killed, most of them children, when the snow-covered roof of an ice rink collapsed in the Bavarian town of Bad Reichenhall.. Isabelle Dinoire showed a new face to the world yesterday. To a storm of flash bulbs and camera shutters, she appeared before a two-hour press conference, sometimes bewildered, sometimes amused, sometimes irritated, but always dignified and courageous. Mme Dinoire, 38, had the lower half of her face replaced two months ago in the first transplant operation of its kind. She put her rebuilt face on public view before the TV cameras in Amiens, in northern France, in an attempt, once and for all, to satisfy the world’s (understandable) prurience and curiosity.What do you look like when you’ve had someone else’s nose, lips and chin sewn on to your own face? Remarkably normal, actually Mme Dinoire slurred her speech. Her mouth seemed partially frozen open, as if she were under a dentist’s local anaesthetic. Her lower lip did not move when she spoke, as if she was a ventriloquist.
