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Robin Williams’ suicide this week shook up people across the political spectrum — and for good reason. When a highly successful, incredibly popular figure from our culture decides to take his own life, it feels as though suicide could happen to anyone.
It can’t.
Robin Williams reportedly suffered from mentally illness. He stated during an interview in 2006 that he hadn’t been formally diagnosed with depression or bipolar disorder, but stated, “Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.” He added, “I get bummed, like I think a lot of us do at certain times. You look at the world and go, ‘Whoa.’ Other moments you look and go, ‘Oh, things are OK.’” That same year, according to the Huffington Post, he explained the temptation of alcoholism — he had famously admitted to drug and alcohol addiction problems — to Diane Sawyer. “It’s the same voice thought that … you’re standing at a precipice and you look down, there’s a voice and it’s a little quiet voice that goes, ‘Jump.’”
Williams’ death has spurred multiple writers and celebrities to announce their own struggles with such issues; virtually every family has suffered through the horrors of mental illness. My grandfather was diagnosed with bipolar disorder decades ago, and routinely battled suicidality until his introduction to lithium.
Raising awareness is praiseworthy – the stigma attached to getting help for mental illness should be wiped away as soon as possible.
By the same token, we ought to ensure that normalizing mental illness helps no one, and damages those who truly are mentally ill. The lack of awareness surrounding mental illness comes from two directions: first, those who pretend that mental illness represents a lack of willpower or dedication; second, those who pretend that serious mental illnesses are not mental illnesses at all, but representations of free thought and behavior.
Forty years ago, the first group predominated; today, the second does.
Forty years ago, men and women feared career destruction should rumors spread that they were seeing psychologists or psychiatrists. That fear has largely dissipated. But a new threat to the well-being of those suffering from mental illness has replaced the original threat: the threat of diversity campaigners leaving those with mental illness to suffer in the name of heterogeneity.
This is not to suggest that all of those who are “different” are mentally ill, or vice versa. But it is meant to suggest that we ought to consider the mental health of those who are homeless, rather than labeling them, in blanket fashion, advocates for free living spaces. It is meant to suggest that those who suffer from gender dysphoria may not be suffering from societal bigotry, but from something far deeper and more dangerous, and that physical mutilation and stumping for tolerance will not solve their problems.
In other words, if we are to recognize the importance of mental illness as a society, the left must stop papering over mental illness with platitudes about diversity, and the right must stop treating mental illness as a moral problem rather than a medical one. Those racked with mental anguish are crying out for our help. If we don’t hear them, it may be because too busy pushing political viewpoints rather than listening.
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There was some hubbub about my column last week, where I complained about Christians, like Dr. Kent Brantly, who abandon America to do much-praised work in Third World countries.
I planned to respond to my critics this week, but, unfortunately, there’s nothing to respond to. They call me names, say I’m cruel, malicious, not a Christian, compare me to Howard Stern and cite the titles of my books as if they are self-refuting. (Zippy, aren’t they?)
In other words, it feels like a book tour.
Missing from these alleged refutations is what we call a “point.” What is with these Christians? I know God didn’t distribute brains evenly, but can’t they make an argument? Christian websites should start separating columns into “Arguments” and “Anger” sections.
I’ve decided to help out my detractors with a few pointers.
First, exposing error is much more hurtful than name-calling.
Take former Bush speechwriter Peter Wehner’s digs:
– “The irony of Coulter accusing anyone of narcissism seems lost on her.”
– “Let’s just say that when one thinks about what St. Paul calls the fruit of the Spirit — love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control — Ann Coulter’s name doesn’t leap immediately to mind.”
– “Near the end of her 1987 book, Ms. (Elisabeth) Elliot writes this: ‘If there should appear in the 20th century one who was truly holy … would we say, “Away with him! Crucify him!”?’ … If Elisabeth Elliot didn’t personally know Ann Coulter, she certainly knew her type.”
I’ve always hoped to be part of an “ilk,” but I guess “type” will do.
Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention — and I hope, for their sake, the brother-in-law of some important Baptist — wrote:
– “Ann Coulter has not suddenly pivoted to saying some outrageous, shocking thing. She’s made a living at it.”
(Original!)
– “Ann Coulter’s … comments are none of my concern. The church is to hold accountable those who are on the inside, not those on the outside” of the church.
Whoa, Russell! You got so wrapped up in your insults, you forgot that your whole point was to defend Christian missions to those so far “on the outside” of the church, they’re practicing voodoo! I don’t care how big a Baptist your brother-in-law is, Russ; you need a class in logic.
Liberals have been trying to insult me into submission for more than a decade. These guys think they can succeed where Vanity Fair failed?
Second, to get the upper hand on someone you disagree with, it’s crucial to know what that person said. I find that the ancient art of reading is invaluable in this regard.
On a website called Southern Baptist Convention Voices, Alan Cross wrote: “Conservatives like Ann Coulter, Michael Savage and Donald Trump (or whatever he actually is) have sounded off saying that the Christian missionaries who contracted the virus should NOT be brought back to this country to be treated. We must protect ourselves, they say.”
I said nothing of the sort.
My complaint was not with the bringing-back part, but with the going-over part. My rationale: 1) America is in the fight of its life and if this country dies, the world dies; and 2) the cost of Dr. Brantly’s medical care has now exceeded any good he did there.
I also expressly said: “There’s little danger of an Ebola plague breaking loose from the treatment of these two Americans at the Emory University Hospital.”
(In his defense, Cross devoted most of his column to promoting his own book, so maybe refuting me wasn’t really the point.)
Wehner also skipped the reading step. He falsely accused me of “mocking” Dr. Brantly (in addition to his main point that I am cruel, narcissistic, callous and malicious). “It takes an unusually callous and malicious heart,” Wehner says, to mock a “husband and father who, while serving others, is stricken with a virulent disease.”
I don’t think I “mocked” Dr. Brantly. I mocked — I would say “assailed” — the whole concept of American Christians fleeing their own country, which needs them, to run off to Third World hellholes. (“Mocking” would be saying something like, “Let’s just say that when one thinks about what St. Paul calls the fruit of the Spirit … Dr. Brantly’s name doesn’t leap immediately to mind.”)
True, Dr. Brantly’s mission was my example. I like to give examples in my writing. I find it’s more effective than abstract theorizing about how a hypothetical person might go on a Christian mission to Liberia that would end up being completely counterproductive by costing his Christian charity $2 million if he ended up catching the Ebola virus there.
No one has responded to that argument. It was a major strategic error for my critics to ignore one of my central points, while beating a straw man to death. (He’s a “husband and father”!)
Third, I strongly advise against using one-size-fits-all arguments that can be turned back against you.
They say: “How do you know whether God called Dr. Brantly to go to Liberia?”
Ah ha! But then I riposte: “How do you know whether God called me to write that column?”
And there we are, stuck at an impasse.
This is the weakest technique of my critics, and one that is sadly common among certain types of Christians. (We usually call them “atheists.”)
In this case, it’s even worse than the usual “who’s to say?” dodge, inasmuch as I set forth evidence for what I’m saying about there being glory-seeking and cowardice in Christian missions to Third World hellholes.
Among other things, I wrote: “Of course, if Brantly had evangelized in New York City or Los Angeles, The New York Times would get upset and accuse him of anti-Semitism, until he swore — as the pope did — that you don’t have to be a Christian to go to heaven. Evangelize in Liberia, and the Times’ Nicholas Kristof will be totally impressed.”
(Hey, you know what else a Christian desperate for a pat on the head from The New York Times might do? Write a column questioning Ann Coulter’s salvation!)
Thus, I clearly pointed out that one path — missions to Third World hellholes — leads to worldly glory, while another — serving Christ in America — leads to abuse and ridicule.
The counter-argument to that point would be to say that Dr. Brantly has never been hailed as a hero or won humanitarian awards. But that would be false. Or they might tell me that Christians in Hollywood are the toast of the town — maybe Mel Gibson could write a guest column! That also would not be true.
My critics are left retreating into absurdity, essentially asking: “How do you know whether God calls on people to behave in ways that will get them standing ovations?”
I ask these similarly thought-provoking questions:
“How do you know whether God called the Dixie Chicks to insult George W. Bush in front of an America-hating audience, winning thunderous applause?”
“How do you know whether God called Gov. O’Malley to grandstand about the poor illegal immigrants at our border — while secretly demanding that none of them be sent to his state?”
“How do you know whether God called Samaritan’s Purse to fly out the affluent white Americans at a cost of millions of dollars, and give them an incredibly scarce medicine, while leaving the poor Africans to die?”?
Oh I don’t know. Call it a sneaking suspicion.
Ironically, despite the flailing anger of my critics — in fact because of it! — I’ve changed my mind. I see now that not everyone is called to be a Christian witness in an advanced nation.
You guys should definitely go to Africa.
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The Israeli regime has carried out four airstrikes against Gaza shortly after the extension of a temporary truce to five more days.
On Wednesday, Tel Aviv claimed the attacks were launched in response to rockets fired from the besieged Gaza Strip.
Earlier in the day, Israeli media claimed that Palestinian resistance movement Hamas violated the truce by firing several rockets into Israel, an allegation Hamas denied.
Later Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum reacted to Tel Aviv’s new airstrikes, saying the regime would suffer from the consequences.
The strikes hit several places in Gaza, including Khan Yunis in the south.
The truce was extended for five more days in the besieged sliver as Israeli and Palestinian negotiators continued talks to reach a long-term deal in the Egyptian capital Cairo.
Israeli warplanes have been carrying out incessant airstrikes on the blockaded Gaza Strip since July 8.
Nearly 1,960 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have lost their lives and at least 10,100 have been injured despite pressure from the international community on the Tel Aviv regime to end the military aggression.
Moreover, nearly 400,000 Palestinian children are in immediate need of psychological help due to “catastrophic and tragic impact” of the Israeli war, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
NT/HSN/MHB
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George Friend
Boro are ready to offer George Friend a new deal to head off interest from would-be suitors.
The marauding left-back has been linked with interest from Premier League clubs QPR and Crystal Palace.
A storming second half of last season and a fine opening day display against Birmingham has caught the eye of several top flight sides.
But Boro chiefs have emphatically said that Friend is not for sale.
They, and Aitor Karanka, see him as integral to Boro’s promotion push this term.
He has played 93 times and scored three goals and become a first team fixture since his switch to the Riverside.
But the defender, a £100,000 signing from Doncaster in July 2012, has just one year left on his contract so his future needs resolving.
And chairman Steve Gibson plans to sit down with popular Friend to discuss an improved new deal as soon as the distractions of the transfer window are ended.
BEIRUT:Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil linked Israeli crimes in Gaza to the heinous assault of extremist militants in Iraq, saying that both entities spoke the language of “blind violence.”
“ISIS cut off heads with swords, Israel cuts off the heads of an entire population with its planes” said Bassil during an extraordinary meeting of of Arab foreign ministers in Jeddah to discuss Palestine.
Bassil slammed Israel for its brutal policies, saying that it turned the entire Gaza strip into a giant concentration camp, worse that Nazi concentration camps.
The Foreign Minister rejected the notion of a democratic Israel, saying that democracy does not entail a freedom of killing nor does it give legitimacy to “butchering civilians.”
Bassil said that Israeli policies are nourishing state and Takfiri terrorism, arguing that ISIS’s aims fall in line with an Israeli desire to turn the region in to a cluster of small states fighting each other.
“Is there any doubt of a link or common interest between what Israel is doing in Gaza and what ISIS is doing in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon?” Bassil asked.
Bassil reiterated that Lebanon had asked the International Criminal Court Prosecutor to launch investigations on crimes against humanity perpetrated by Israeli forces in Gaza.
The Foreign Minister called for support for to the Lebanese army and urged supplying the military with the necessary weapons and gear to fight terrorism.
“No Gulf state nor Asian, European or American country is immune to what is happening in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq,” Bassil concluded
Around two dozen Muslim families, operating small enterprises such as barbers shops, and tailoring and scrap units were thrashed and forced to flee Basai village in Gurgaon earlier this week.
Confirming the incident, Deputy Commissioner of Police (West) Sangeeta Rani told The Hindu that five persons, including prime accused Amit, have been arrested and a case registered under Sections 148, 149, 323, 427 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code.
A senior police officer said the attackers suspected the involvement of the scrap dealers in petty theft. He however, said that only four to five families were targeted.
Earlier this year, Mewat saw an escalation of communal tension over cattle smuggling which resulted in the death of a Hindu youth.
Several Muslim youth have been arrested for their alleged involvement in cattle smuggling, but members of the community argued that most of the victims of last week’s attack were natives of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar who have been running their shops for nearly a decade.
They alleged that the attack was aimed at polarising the two communities to seek political mileage.
Haryana is one of the two States which will go to polls later this year.
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained 12 Palestinians overnight, a Palestinian rights group and an army spokeswoman said Tuesday.
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said that three Palestinians were detained in the Bethlehem district and that another five were arrested in East Jerusalem.
PPS said in a statement that Israeli forces detained brothers Hamza Abdullah Shusha and Muhammad Shusha in Bethlehem, while Majd Awwad al-Rashayda was detained from the nearby village of al-Rashayda.
In East Jerusalem, Israeli forces arrested Muhammad Zakariyya Abu Khdeir, Jaafar Yassir Abu Khdeir, Mahmoud Abu Taa, and his brothers Taher and Abd al-Karim.
The five detainees are teenagers, the PPS statement said.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said 12 Palestinians were arrested in the West Bank overnight
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli warships on Tuesday opened fire at fishermen off the coast of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, in an apparent violation of an agreed-upon three-day ceasefire, a union official said.
Nizar Ayyash, spokesman for Gaza’s fishermen union, told Ma’an that a number of Palestinian fishermen were near the shore when Israeli forces shot at them with machine guns.
No injuries were reported.
Ayyash said Israeli naval forces had been preventing fishermen from fishing in the area, even within the “authorized fishing zone.”
An Israeli army spokeswoman said a Palestinian motorboat in the area had “breached the naval military closure,” and that Israeli naval soldiers “fired warning shots into the air.”
The boat then moved closer to shore, the spokeswoman said.
A 72-hour ceasefire between Israeli forces and Palestinian factions was set in place at midnight Monday.
Israeli forces frequently shoot at Gazan fisherman if they stray further than three nautical miles from the shore.
Palestinian factions have demanded that Israel lighten restrictions on fishermen as a part of a lasting agreement to end hostilities in Gaza.
Israel’s month-long offensive on Gaza has left nearly 2,000 Palestinians dead, the vast majority of them civilians, in addition to 67 people on the Israeli side, most of them soldiers
A country club could be built in Yarm - more than a decade after a legendary nearby nightspot was closed.
Proposals to build a new country club in the town will go on show at a public consultation next week.
The development is earmarked for land off Leven Bank Road, and would provide the Yarm and surrounding communities with a range of community and leisure facilities.
But it comes 11 years after the demolition of Kirklevington Country Club, a venue renowned on Teesside as the place many a music legend launched their career.
Names such as Elton John, Georgie Fame, Pink Floyd, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Rod Stewart all appeared there.
But bulldozers moved in on the site at Kirklevington village back in 2003 to make way for a housing development.
Outline proposals for the new club are currently being prepared which will feature a leisure centre including gymnasium, fitness centre, swimming pool and spa, as well as a café and restaurant for daytime and evening dining.
The planning application will be submitted by the end of September and the developer, Howson Developments, is keen to hear what people think about the proposals, and what they would like to see included in the development.
The proposals are at an early stage, but the development to also planned to include orchards and private allotments, providing fresh produce for the cafe and restaurant.
Ruth Shepherd, Consultation Manager and spokesperson for the project said: “We believe the proposal we have responds to the demand for more leisure and community facilities in Yarm and the surrounding area.
“We are aware of the demand for a swimming pool in the area, and this proposed country club can deliver that and more.
“We’d like to hear from as many people as possible about the proposals, and look forward to welcoming the community to the public consultation where they will be able to view the proposals.”
The proposals will be available to view during a drop-in consultation at Yarm Fellowship Hall on Thursday August 21 between noon and 6.45pm.
Anyone unable to attend will also be able to view the proposals online via the Consultations page at
http://ift.tt/1sZzkNN from 10am on Friday August 22.
Feedback forms will be available during the public consultation, although feedback and comment can also be provided via the dedicated email address - ycc@resultscommunications.co.uk.
Anyone having trouble accessing the boards should report their problem to consultations@resultscommunications.co.uk or call 01434 689415 between 9am-5pm.
Shootings in South Side, Chicago have left two men dead and six others injured midday Monday and early Tuesday morning, police authorities said.
Police said a man, aged 20, was shot in the head about 2:00 a.m. on Tuesday in the 11600 block of South Stewart Avenue.
Officers received a call from someone who heard multiple gunshots from a nearby alley, police said. Officers arrived at the scene to find a man with a gunshot wound to the head. The victim was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Also, a 26-year-old man was fatally shot at about 7:00 p.m. on Monday in the Englewood district of Chicago, police reported.
Apparently, a person in a passing white car opened fire, shooting the man in the 7100 block of South Green Street and fled on Green Street.
The man shot in the side once and twice in his right leg was rushed to Advocate Christ in critical condition and later pronounced dead.
In other shootings, two teenage boys were shot Monday afternoon on the 7300 block of South East End Avenue. A 15-year-old was shot in the left leg and a 16-year-old boy was shot in the back and both are in stable condition.
In addition, a man, 28, was shot in the eye and another 21-year-old man in the back Monday, police said. Both of them were hospitalized in stable condition.
Finally, two other men aged 18 and 24 were shot in left ankle and in the leg respectively and were taken to hospital in stable condition.
AT/GJH
Cars stranded in the sea prompted two separate call-outs for Redcar’s lifeboat crews this afternoon.
The first “shout” came at 3.20pm when two men had to scramble on to the roof of their submerged car after efforts to launch a speedboat went wrong.
Both men escaped without injury.
And at 4.40pm, during the second highest tide of the year, the lifeboat received another call-out to a second vehicle in the sea, this time at Paddy's Hole near off South Gare.
Again, there were no injuries, but the vehicle also ended up fully submerged.
Another day, another unarmed black man killed by police. We grieve their loss and pray God’s strength for their families:
Eric Garner, 43, strangled to death on a Staten Island sidewalk.
John Crawford, 22, shot to death in a Beavercreek Walmart.
Michael Brown, 18, shot to death, reportedly with arms raised, on a Ferguson street.
How often must we drink from this bitter well?
The disturbing nature of the frequency of recent news reports in which unarmed Black men have been killed by law enforcement officers is only exceeded by this fact: the act itself is deeply embedded into the racial fabric of our nation. Fifty years removed from the Freedom Summer murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner — a conspiracy allegedly enacted by Neshoba County sheriff Lawrence A. Rainey — we still face the difficult reality that for generations unarmed Black men have met their demise at the hands of those sworn to serve and to protect all citizens.
On the night of June 21, 1964, a year after the brutal assassination of Medgar Evers, three courageous young men were also killed in Mississippi. The two white men, Goodman, 20, and Schwerner, 24, died of a single gunshot wound to the heart. The lone Black man, Chaney, 21, was tortured, then tied to a tree and beaten with chains, before ultimately being shot three times. Here, even amid brutalities, a clear distinction was made concerning the value of Black life, the white lives ended immediately, with diabolic mercy, the Black life made to suffer greatly before finally being terminated. In the search for these three men after their disappearance, eight more Black bodies were found having been discarded like rubbish across Mississippi lakes, forests, and plains. Undoubtedly, law enforcement had a hand in these deaths as well, Sheriff Rainey notorious for intimidating and killing Blacks.
Mine is not an indictment of all police officers. There are many men and women who put their lives on the line for the public good each day. Some I have been blessed to call mentor or friend. Many officers themselves have lost their lives. I honor their memories and ultimate sacrifice even as I offer gratitude for those who continue to work with great integrity to keep us safe.
Yet, unquestionably, there is cause for great concern as I believe that a critical mass of law enforcement officers find Black lives expendable. Towards this, I see this likely cause: there is a racially-motivated culture of fear that over-assigns threat to Blacks, especially, but not exclusively, to Black males, even when no justifiable threat is present. Recent findings from the American Psychological Association supports this fact stating, “Black boys as young as 10 may not be viewed in the same light of childhood innocence as their white peers, but are instead more likely to be mistaken as older, be perceived as guilty and face police violence if accused of a crime.”
Historically, Black bodies have been considered expendable and easily replaceable. Tens of millions of Africans were brought to this nation as slaves because Black life was considered expendable. If an African became gravely ill or died while in forced voyage to the “New World,” they were just thrown into the sea. While Black life was considered expendable, and the supply of other Africans on the continent was considered inexhaustible. Other Black bodies would substitute for any losses in future voyages.
During American slavery, Black babies and children were used as bait to lure alligators from the swamps for capture. This sometimes resulted in the maiming or death of these Black children because Black life was considered expendable. The United States Public Health Service used Black men to test the impact of untreated syphilis from 1932-1972 resulting in the death of many Black men and in the infection of their partners because Black life was considered expendable.
Environmental racism places the urban poor near landfills and factories that cause increased rates of cancer and other diseases because Black, and even poor lives, are considered expendable. Levies in New Orleans were poorly maintained and constructed near poor Black communities resulting in massive flooding after Hurricane Katrina because Black lives are considered expendable. Blacks receive harsher penalties for the same crimes, and, according to a recent Stanford University report, the disproportionate rate of Black imprisonment may actually encourage white support of racially-driven tactics such as stop-and-frisk because Black lives are considered expendable.
The expendability of Black life also extends to our national foreign policy. America’s response to acts of genocide, religious persecution, and the spread of infectious disease on the continent of Africa today is oft times delayed, if acted upon at all. When it comes to foreign policy, African Black lives are especially considered expendable, their difficulties rarely considered our priority.
Of course, Black life is not expendable! No life is, for all life has great value. Yet, the treatment of Black life as expendable reveals our deep and abiding malfeasance. We often fail to see the face of God in the face of our neighbor, especially if that neighbor is darkly pigmented. Since all human life was created in the image of God, we are guilty of no less than the desecration of God’s image when we ignore the brutalization of our neighbors, who we are commanded to love as ourselves (Mark 12:31).
It was while traveling the road to Damascus that Saul had an encounter with the resurrected Christ, himself a victim of fatal brutalities at the hands of law enforcement. To Saul, Jesus posed this powerful inquiry; “Why are you persecuting me?” (Acts 9:4)
For the recently fallen, Jesus surely weeps and asks his question, anew; “Why are you persecuting me?” Maybe it is because we see Christ as we increasingly see each other, and Black life; as expendable.
AT/GJH
A man who drunkenly smashed a pint glass into the face of another man has been spared jail.
James Hadlet, 22, struck his victim on the cheek during a row over an ex girlfriend at the Swan pub in Billingham on April 27.
Hadlet, of Conway Avenue, Billingham, appeared at Teesside Crown Court today for sentence.
Rachel Masters, prosecuting, said the pair had got into a “heated argument” after Hadlet accused his victim of becoming involved with his ex.
She said: “Hadlet said he knew it was true because his former girlfriend had told him.
“After a conversation with a mutual friend, the victim approached Hadlet to confirm this was not the case, and he wanted to explain the circumstances of their meeting.”
The court heard at this point, Hadlet struck the victim to the left side of his face with a beer glass causing it to smash.
Door staff intervened and removed Hadlet from the premises.
The victim suffered minor cuts to his forehead and a 1 inch cut to his jaw which required nine stitches.
Mitigating, Christopher Baker said that his client deserved credit for pleading guilty at the first available opportunity.
He told the Judge that although Hadlet had previously received a caution for causing actual bodily harm around six years ago, his character references described him as a “polite and hardworking man.”
Sentencing Ward, Recorder Christopher Knox said: “You seem to be a man who should not be here. For the fact that you are essentially a good character I am prepared to accept that on the whole you are a reasonably behaved, hard-working man.
“I don’t think we have got to the bottom of what actually caused you to snap that night but I take the view that in your circumstances you are not violent.
“I am prepared to accept that this was a row about a girl which was probably blurred by alcohol.
"Fortunately it seems the victim didn’t sustain serious injury. However, it is a serious enough offence to be marked by a sentence of imprisonment.”
Recorder Knox gave Hadlet a 12 month sentence suspended for two years with supervision. He was also ordered to complete 60 hours unpaid work and pay £100 victim surcharge.
Boro could face former reported transfer target Billy Sharp on Saturday after the striker completed his move to Leeds United from Southampton.
The 28-year-old Yorkshireman has reportedly agreed to take a wage cut to sign a two-year deal with Dave Hockaday's side.
Sharp was linked with a Boro move in the past when Tony Mowbray was looking to add more firepower to his side although the former Boro boss played down interest in the striker.
The former Doncaster man spent last season on loan at Reading and back at his previous club Doncaster and has now returned to the Championship after agreeing his move to Elland Road.
Hockaday has been in the market for a striker since Leeds lost another former Boro target Ross McCormack to Fulham earlier this summer.
A group of acrobats who spend much of their time helping others is hoping Gazette readers will lend them a hand.
Riverside Display Team, based in North Ormesby, is a non competitive sports acrobatics display team which is open to both boys and girls in the local community.
Now they have joined the Gazette Wish Sport 2014 campaign in the hope of raising money towards new uniforms.
Myra Pennock, from the club said: “All staff are voluntary and the team travel throughout the uk and locally in an effort to promote our sport in a friendly scenario.
“We also appear at local charity events.”
“The money we raise this year will go towards training equipment and a new team uniform.”
The Gazette has teamed up with Middlesbrough and Teesside Philanthropic Foundation, which is providing £30,000 to share between groups across Teesside.
Tokens are being printed in the Gazette every day for groups to collect. The more collected, the greater the share of the prize pot.
This year the tokens will be worth a share of £25,000, with the remaining £5,000 up for grabs during two online bonus days.
All groups will be in with a chance during the bonus days to win a share of the additional money pot – the four that receive the most votes on http://ift.tt/1md60Qe will get the cash.
Paul Davison, commercial director of of Erimus Insurance Brokers, corporate patrons of the Middlesbrough and Teesside Philanthropic Foundation, said: “Erimus are delighted to back this great campaign, joining other businesses to help make Teesside an ever better place where sport and teamwork thrive. Support for initiatives like this that make a real difference for Teesside is exactly why we’re proud to be patrons of the Foundation.”
Riverside Display Team has entered Wish sport previously and the money raised has always been used to buy costumes, equipment or in subsidizing team members who are meeting difficulty with travel cost.
To help them this year send your tokens to: Riverside Display Team, North Ormesby community Hub, Derwent street, North Ormesby.
Palestinians have held a demonstration in the besieged Gaza Strip in support of the resistance movement Hamas, Press TV reports.
Thousands of Palestinian people participated in the demonstration, which was held on the streets of Khan Yunis, a city in the south of the blockaded territory.
They also waved Hamas flags, and chanted slogans against the Tel Aviv regime and in support of the resistance movement.
The demonstrators further said that they will only accept a long-term ceasefire if it helps efforts to end the Israeli siege of the Palestinian people.
“We don’t accept anything less than what the resistance deserves. We don’t accept any agreement that doesn’t include the freedom of the people and the ability to live with dignity,” a demonstrator told Press TV.
Palestinian and Israeli officials are currently involved in indirect talks in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, to extend a truce between the two sides that came into effect at 2100 GMT on Sunday.
According to Israelis, there has not been any progress in the talks and gaps still remain wide. Israeli minister of military affairs Moshe Ya’alon warned that Tel Aviv would resume its offensive against Gaza late on Wednesday if the two sides cannot reach a deal.
Israel launched the recent war against the blockaded Gaza Strip on July 8. More than 1,940 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have lost their lives and nearly 10,000 have been wounded in the Israeli military attacks. Hamas says more than 150 Israelis have also been killed in the conflict.
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Film lovers in Redcar have come together to spruce up the town’s historic cinema.
People who were part of the fight to save the Regent Cinema in Redcar held a community clean-up on Sunday.
The clean-up saw more than 20 members of the community roll up their sleeves and get stuck into sprucing up the unique interior of the cinema, on Newcomen Terrace on Redcar’s seafront.
The event was organised by the Regent Heritage Trust – the group that came together as a result of the Save the Regent Cinema campaign, which hosted a public meeting back in May.
The trust is a growing community group which aims to secure a strong future for the much-loved building on the seafront.
Chair of the trust Natalie King said: “We wanted to give the cinema manager a helping hand with such a huge cleaning task, and to show our support for everything he does to keep the cinema thriving.
“We want to help get the cinema ready for its revamp, and show the community cares.”
Local businesses showed their support for the action day too, with Tesco Distribution Centre at Teesport donating cleaning materials and raffling a television for volunteers.
Other companies such as Sainsbury’s Local and Heaven’s Best Carpet Cleaning of Redcar provided refreshments for volunteers and other equipment.
Redcar and Cleveland Council have told campaigners that they will renovate the exterior of the cinema, including replacing the canopy - so the team organised this event to give the inside a lift too.
The group scrubbed, polished, mopped and dusted the much-loved venue as a sign of their appreciation to the current manager and their love of the cinema.
Anna Turley, Redcar’s Labour Parliamentary candidate, joined the team at the clean-up and said: “Well done to the trust for organising this event. The Regent is a wonderful building and it was great for the community to be able to play its part in keeping it at its best.”
The first public meeting to discuss the future of the Regent saw about 50 members of the public turn out to discuss the future of the iconic cinema, which was built in 1928.
The Regent Heritage Trust had worked with proprietor Neil Bates to set up the campaign after concerns the cinema was being allowed to fall into disrepair, despite the seafront regeneration, and of rumours that a new multiplex on the Coatham Bowl site would spell the end for the cinema.
Campaigners say they were reassured by the council’s assertion that there was no intention of demolishing the building.
Another 130 US military personnel have arrived in Iraq on what the Pentagon described as a temporary mission to assess the scope of the humanitarian crisis facing thousands of displaced Iraqi civilians trapped on Sinjar Mountain.
Chuck Hagel, the US defence secretary, announced the deployment on Tuesday, saying that “this is not a combat boots on the ground kind of operation”.
Another defence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the extra troops were Marines and special operations forces whose mission was to assess the situation in the Sinjar area and to develop additional humanitarian assistance options beyond current US efforts there.
The 130 troops, who are in addition to 250 US military advisers already in Baghdad and Erbil, arrived on Tuesday in the city of Erbil, well east of Sinjar.
They are to work with representatives of the State Department and the US Agency for International Development to prevent potential acts of genocide by the fighters of the so called Islamic State who forced them from their villages, the defence official said
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Seven people have appeared in court in connection with a host of fraud offences.
Allah Ditta Ghani, 60, and Imran Ditta, 32, of Mansfield Avenue, Thornaby, both pleaded guilty to a charge of perverting the course of justice by giving a false statement to police, while Ditta also admitted to making a false claim for damages from an insurance company after claiming an accident had occurred.
Iftikhar Hussain, 40, of Harehills Road in Leeds, pleaded guilty to fraud by giving false information to an insurance company that an accident had occurred and claimed damages.
Teesside Crown Court heard on Tuesday not guilty pleas from two other men faced with similar charges.
Macbool Hussain Aslam, 29, of Beech Grove Road, Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, pleaded not guilty to charges of making false statements to an insurance company at the inception of a policy, and defrauding an insurance company by claiming to be someone involved in a car accident.
Sajid Mirza Hussain, 33, of Southfield Road, central Middlesbrough, denied the same charges relating to different dates.
Also linked to the case were Amanda Jackson, of Dovecot Street, Stockton and Simon Robinson, of Broad Close, Stainton, Middlesbrough.
They did not face charges at the hearing, while the court attempted to clarify who was representing them.
Ms Jackson and Mr Robinson will return to court on September 12.
Aslam and Sajid Murza Hussain will face trial, on a date yet to be set in March 2014.
Ghani, Ditta and Iftikhar Hussain will face sentencing upon the conclusion of that trial.
Seven people have appeared in court in connection with a host of fraud offences.
Allah Ditta Ghani, 60, and Imran Ditta, 32, of Mansfield Avenue, Thornaby, both pleaded guilty to a charge of perverting the course of justice by giving a false statement to police, while Ditta also admitted to making a false claim for damages from an insurance company after claiming an accident had occurred.
Iftikhar Hussain, 40, of Harehills Road in Leeds, pleaded guilty to fraud by giving false information to an insurance company that an accident had occurred and claimed damages.
Teesside Crown Court heard on Tuesday not guilty pleas from two other men faced with similar charges.
Macbool Hussain Aslam, 29, of Beech Grove Road, Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, pleaded not guilty to charges of making false statements to an insurance company at the inception of a policy, and defrauding an insurance company by claiming to be someone involved in a car accident.
Sajid Mirza Hussain, 33, of Southfield Road, central Middlesbrough, denied the same charges relating to different dates.
Also linked to the case were Amanda Jackson, of Dovecot Street, Stockton and Simon Robinson, of Broad Close, Stainton, Middlesbrough.
They did not face charges at the hearing, while the court attempted to clarify who was representing them.
Ms Jackson and Mr Robinson will return to court on September 12.
Aslam and Sajid Murza Hussain will face trial, on a date yet to be set in March 2014.
Ghani, Ditta and Iftikhar Hussain will face sentencing upon the conclusion of that trial.
UN Security Council envoys have warned South Sudan’s warring leaders they would face sanctions if a civil war that has pushed the young nation to the brink of famine does not stop.
“The council has made it very clear: that it is prepared to impose consequences if there continue to be spoilers, if there continue to be people carrying out gross violations of human rights,” US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power said after meeting with President Salva Kiir.
Representatives of the 15-member council, who were in the capital Juba on a two-day mission, were due also to meet rebel chief Riek Machar.
“We will not tolerate violation of the cessation of hostilities and people who spoil the peace agreement,” Power told reporters, in one of the strongest warnings yet.
“We have delivered that message here, we will deliver it to Riek Machar,” she added.
EU Special Representative to the Horn of Africa, Alex Rondos, also expressed concern “that both sides in South Sudan continue spending their money on arms and fighting for power while South Sudanese citizens are beginning to starve to death”.
There is no justification for this humanitarian disaster, he said.
Thousands of people have been killed and more than 1.5 million have fled almost eight months of carnage sparked by a power struggle between Kiir and his sacked deputy Machar, with battles between government troops, mutinous soldiers and ragtag militia forces divided by tribe.
“The parties must know that the people of South Sudan have suffered enough,” Rwandan ambassador Eugene-Richard Gasana told reporters.
“The international community will not look on as a seemingly endless situation goes on.”
The ambassadors later left to visit the northern town of Malakal, one of the hardest hit areas in the fighting.
The town has been left in ruins after swapping hands several times between government and rebels.
Foreign Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin told reporters the diplomats would be “shown what South Sudan is doing with regard to peace”.
Power said there were “very worrying reports” more weapons and arms were being brought into South Sudan for a fresh offensive, warning there was “no military solution” to end the conflict.
“There is a grave risk of famine that now looms, that hangs over this visit,” she added.
“Fifty thousand children under five are at risk of dying by malnutrition in the coming months, and around half of this country’s population is facing grave food insecurity.”
‘Shocking suffering’
The United Nations has said the South Sudan food crisis is the “worst in the world”, with aid workers warning of famine within weeks if conflict continues.
The United States said it would provide $180 million in additional aid to help feed people. The funds would raise to $636 million the total amount Washington has put up in humanitarian assistance.
“But the scale of the suffering and humanitarian need there is shocking, and the threat of famine is real — so much so that we are using this emergency funding authority for the first time since 2008,” the White House said.
Stop-start peace talks in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa which began in January officially restarted again last week, but the delegates have made little if any progress
Middlesbrough Railway Station bombing: James Henwood
Perhaps the most enduring image of Teesside during the Second World War is the bombing of Middlesbrough Railway Station.
It was on August 3 1942 that a lone Luftwaffe Dornier Do 217 evaded British air defences, took aim at the Victorian glass and steel structure below, and dropped a single bomb, killing eight railway workers and civilians.
Now, James Henwood, 82, has told The Gazette how he could be the last man alive, who lived to tell the tale.
“August 3 1942 - Bank Holiday. If I could paint, I would get every detail,” said James, “It’s so vivid.”
“I was 10 at the time. I had an aunt, Sarah ‘Sally’ Davis, who lived in Blyth in Northumberland.
“I remember she was wearing a blue felt hat and was carrying a big bunch of flowers in one hand and a case containing half a dozen eggs in the other.
“Nearly every year at that time, she would come down to visit us in Middlesbrough. We’d had a nice weekend and she was leaving to go back on the train to Newcastle.”
James escorted his Aunt Sally to the railway station along with his older brother Ronald, and mum Elsie while his dad, Herbert, stayed at the family home in Acklam, Middlesbrough.
James said: “As we walked along, the air-raid siren went off. But we were that used to hearing it we just carried on to the station.
“In them days there was a big barrier between the passengers and everyone else. I was stood with my brother near the gate.
“My aunt got onto the train and we were waving when, all of a sudden, it happened.
“It wasn’t a bang - It was this deep whoomph.”
At 1.08pm, the German bomb had made a direct hit, completely destroying the station’s Victorian roof and the waiting train at the platform below.
James said: “The next thing, I couldn’t see. There was just chaos. It had knocked my brother and my mother over and the whole glass roof was coming down.
“I just ran - I was off.
“I was sprinting when my brother grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and we all hid behind the one of the doors leading to Albert Road until everything died down a bit.”
Terror quickly turned to worry as thoughts turned to Aunt Sally, who moments earlier had boarded the train.
“We went back to see if my aunt was alive or not. When we got to the station there was a lot of rubble. The place was just chaos.
“As we walked in, we saw one guy had been killed in the luggage office, then we saw the train which had been completely destroyed.”
By chance, three trains which are thought to have been the bomber’s target, had just left the station when the bomb exploded leaving only the one boarded by Sally.
“When we finally saw Sally, it was terrible. She was sat on the railway line and there was a soldier trying to help her.
“She still had her case in her hand and she was holding the bunch of flowers even though they were just stalks.”
Sally had survived but the sight of his aunt was shocking to James. And several surreal details have cemented into James’s mind.
He said: “She was in a hell of a state and kept saying, ‘Where’s my hat? Where’s my hat?’
“The soldier went back look for it and, perched on top of this big pile of rubble, was her blue hat. It was so strange.
“Amazingly she was okay but very shaken up. We stayed a while and then, it was odd, we just got the bus back home.”
Meanwhile, James’s father, a First World War veteran, had heard the sound of the explosion and was filled with terror.
James said: “We lived in the lower part of Acklam. My father used to do repairs, especially for bomb damaged property.
“He knew exactly where the bomb had gone off. He had heard the explosion and he knew straight away that it was Middlesbrough Station.”
“Because of his job, he had the right to a car.
In a panic, he had taken it out of the garage about a dozen times wondering what to do.
“Eventually we wandered in, all of us just a complete mess.
“My mother, who had been a midwife, got some eye baths out and Sally put her case on the kitchen top. When she opened it, every single egg was in one piece.
“After all that we all just got on with life and after a while we got over it.”
Between July 21 and 25, 2014, Israel attacked the southern Gaza town of Khuzaa. Civilians were reported to have been killed and wounded, some while reportedly trying to escape.
Then after the attack, Israeli forces besieged the town for 10 days, during which it was cut off from the outside world
This film was shot by crews working for Al Jazeera Arabic Channel that made two visits to the town. The first was during the four-day period of the initial attacks on July 24.
According to the production team, Israeli forces had bombed and shelled Khuzaa for three days but then declared a brief, humanitarian ceasefire during which they allowed medical crews in for a couple of hours.
The crew, including Al Jazeera Correspondent Tamer Al-Meshal witnessed the destruction and loss of life first-hand. The wounded had been appealing for help for three days but none had arrived; and the dead had been left where they fell.
Many residents had managed to escape but some claimed to have been shot at and targeted by tank shelling whilst doing so. The Al Jazeera crew filmed the rage and distress of the survivors and the bereaved as they vented their anger at the attacks, the heavy death toll and the shocking, untreated injuries, many to children.
The crew filmed the removal of the dead and rudimentary treatment of the injured – and interviewed Red Crescent workers who were equally as angry and shocked. One said it was as though a tsunami had hit the small, agricultural town.
After the brief ceasefire, the tanks and artillery returned, the attacks resumed, the townspeople sought refuge and the rescue services were forced to withdraw. Khuzaa was closed to the outside world as Israeli forces took control of the town.
Returning home
The crew paid its second visit to Khuzaa 10 days later on August 2, when residents started returning to the town – but nothing they had experienced in the conflict so far had prepared them for the devastation confronting them – and, more disturbingly, the killing of civilians who’d remained.
Anyone who failed to escape by July 25 had met a violent end. Bodies lay by the shattered facades of bombed-out buildings, and the dead – who had lain there unattended for 10 days – were in the noxious stages of bodily decay, the stench of death filling the air.
Al Jazeera’s Tamer Al-Meshal continued with his camera crew into the heart of Khuzaa and the neighbourhood inhabited by the extended Al-Nijar family. They were directed to a house where people were suggesting a group of young men had been killed. Meshal went inside, despite the smell of decay, and saw a group of men lying dead in the bathroom. The house had not been bombed and the murder appeared to Meshal as having been close-up and calculated.
Human Rights Watch is investigating reports of Israeli soldiers firing on unarmed civilians trying to flee Khuzaa in what it called an ‘apparent violation of the laws of war’ and describes three incidents, including one in which 120 people who’d survived an attack by shelling escaped towards neighbouring Khan Younis carrying white flags with their hands raised.
But when they came across Israeli soldiers they were allegedly attacked and one man was hit by a missile and another badly wounded. At the time, the Israeli military had not responded to this report
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Gallery: Boro striker Kike
"Kike is bilingual, being fluent in both Spanish and goals #borolive"
That tweet from Boro fan @tiernagekicks after last night's 3-0 win at Oldham in the League Cup set the ball rolling.
Within minutes other supporters were pitching in with their own satirical posts in the style of the Chuck Norris facts internet phenomenon and it wasn't long before the #kikefacts hashtag emerged.
We've rounded up 14 of the best tweets below.
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A man arrested by Cleveland Police as part of a national investigation into online child abuse has admitted a string of offences.
John Jukes was one of 12 people arrested by Cleveland Police after the force joined 44 others as part of Operation Notarise.
The 49-year-old appeared at Teesside Crown Court yesterday where he admitted six counts of recording a person doing a private act and 14 counts of making indecent photographs of a child.
He was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on August 27.
Operation Notarise was co-ordinated by the National Crime Agency and led Cleveland’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection team officers to people suspected of accessing child abuse images.
Using the codename Operation Excalibur, Cleveland’s officers executed 11 warrants resulting in 12 arrests - including Jukes, of Bruce Crescent, Hartlepool.
Ninety-three hard drives and 41 mobile phones were recovered.
A spokeswoman for Cleveland Police said the other 11 people arrested in the force's area have since been bailed pending further police inquiries.
Officers involved also worked closely with colleagues from local children’s social care to ensure 16 children were appropriately safeguarded, which included 5 children being moved to a different address.
Detective Superintendent Rob Donaghy said at the time: “Operation Excalibur formed part of the ongoing day to day work of our new CEOP team which provides a co-ordinated, consistent professional approach to investigating online sexual abuse.
“The CEOP team has developed and evolved in the 11 months since its inception, with officers undergoing regular specialist training in order to enable the team to take full advantage of new technical knowledge as it becomes available.
Mr Donaghy said the crime is increasing due to technological developments creating new opportunities for criminals.
He said: “Locally, figures estimate that 80% of current investigations relate to the possession and distribution of indecent images of children.
"The remaining 20% of investigations relate to incitement/grooming offences, with a small number of contact offences.”
Picture gallery: Fans at Oldham for Boro's Capital One Cup first round clash
More than a quarter of the attendance at Oldham's SportsDirect.com Park was made up of Boro fans for the Capital One Cup first round clash.
And the Teessiders who made the trip to the North-west were treated to three goals and a fine performance as Boro coasted into the next round.
Luke Williams, Grant Leadbitter and Kike lit up the rain soaked ground with the goals to separate the sides.
Were you at the game? Take a look through our pictures of the Boro fans at the match.
School in Gaza will start on time as scheduled on August 17 for the faculty and August 24 for students, the Minister of Education and Higher Education Khawla Al-Shakhshir said.
Al-Shakhshir explained, during an Education Ministry’s video conference meeting between the West Bank and Gaza Strip, that this decision was taken after consultation with ministry staff in the Gaza Strip. She added that there are technical and administrative committees that work on following different procedures to facilitate the start of the school year and the completion of the second-round exams for high school students, the schedule of which will be announced very soon.
The minister said there is coordination on more than one level to provide the moral and material support for students, teachers and administrators as well as preparing schools and providing stationery, school supplies and textbooks, in addition to providing psychological guidance for students through crews of specialists who will be working on this particular mission.
Approximately 250,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have taken refuge in dozens of schools affiliated to the UN Relief and Works Agency for refugees (UNRWA).
Lauren Bacall, the award-winning actress and Humphrey Bogart's partner off and on screen, has died at 89.
Robbert JF de Klerk, managing partner of the Humphrey Bogart Estate, said Bacall died yesterday at her home in New York. A family member told entertainment website TMZ that the actress had a massive stroke.
Her films included How To Marry A Millionaire, The Mirror Has Two Faces, The Big Sleep and Designing Woman, but one of her biggest was with Bogart - Key Largo, in 1948.
She married Casablanca star Bogart in 1945 and the couple remained together until his death in 1957.
Bacall married actor Jason Robards in 1961 but they divorced in 1969.
The actress, who had three children, appeared recently on an episode of the US animated sitcom Family Guy as Evelyn, a friend of Peter's mother.
Sultry-voiced Bacall became famous with her first movie scene, opposite Bogart in 1944's To Have And Have Not. The willowy 19 year old famously said: "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow."
She was nominated for an Academy Award, won two Tony Awards and received an honorary Oscar in 2009.
Here are 10 key roles in Lauren Bacall's long career, in film and on stage.
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944): Bacall's film debut, made when she was 19, and of course, her first film with Humphrey Bogart. The two fell in love on set. And if that were not enough to immortalise the movie, there was the classic line, delivered by Bacall: "You know how to whistle, don't you Steve? You just put your lips together and ... blow." Director Howard Hawks wisely mined the chemistry between these two actors.
THE BIG SLEEP (1946): By the time this film noir was made, Bacall and Bogart were married. Hawks also directed this one, an adaptation of Raymond Chandler's 1939 detective story. Despite what was seen as a terribly confusing plot, the film capitalised on the public fascination with the screen couple.
KEY LARGO (1948): Also a film noir, and also starring Bogart - along with Edward G Robinson, Lionel Barrymore and Claire Trevor. The movie, directed by John Huston, was the last of four Bacall did with her husband (the third was Dark Passage). Inspired the 1981 song Key Largo by Bertie Higgins.
HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE (1953): A light-hearted comedy that teamed Bacall with Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable; the actresses played models aiming to land rich husbands. Also a great one for quotes. "You don't think he's a little old?" Bacall's character, Schatze Page, is asked. "Wealthy men are never old," she replies.
DESIGNING WOMAN (1957): Another romantic comedy, this time with Bacall starring opposite Gregory Peck. Bacall played a fashion designer, Peck her sports writer husband. The film did well, but Bacall was going through personal turmoil; Bogart died of cancer several months before the film's release.
APPLAUSE (1970): Appearing on Broadway, Bacall won a best-actress Tony for her performance as Margo Channing in this musical, based of course on the 1950 Bette Davis film All About Eve.
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1974): An older Bacall played a brash, widowed American socialite in this popular Agatha Christie adaptation in which everyone was a suspect.
WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1981): Bacall won her second Tony in this John Kander and Fred Ebb musical, also based on a classic film: the 1942 movie of the same name starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.
THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES (1996): Bacall played Barbra Streisand's vain, obnoxious mother - and scored an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress.
DOGVILLE (2003): Bacall starred with Nicole Kidman in this Danish drama by Lars von Trier about a young woman (Kidman) hiding out in a small town in Depression-era Colorado.
New recruit James Husband believes Boro belong in the Premier League.
The 20-year-old left back penned a four-year deal at the Riverside this summer after making the move north from Doncaster.
Talk of a possible promotion push is rife on Teesside after Boro brushed aside Birmingham on the opening day, with goals from Daniel Ayala and Kike Garcia sinking Lee Clark’s men.
And with Boro’s top six credentials likely to be given a much sterner test at Elland Road on Saturday, Husband admitted everything is now ready for Boro to make a return to the top flight.
He said: “The club is a sleeping giant. If you look around the place the Championship isn’t good enough for it.
“Obviously we’ve had a few years in the Championship but now, hopefully, we can make a big push for promotion this year.
“I’m very settled. I live in Leeds so it’s not been a major move for me in terms of the area.
“But this place is unreal compared to where I’ve been at Doncaster.
“No offence to Doncaster, I love that place and owe a lot to them, but Boro is another level entirely.
“As soon as I heard Boro were interested in signing me I was straight on the phone to say ‘get this sorted as soon as possible’. Gladly now it’s happened and I’m pleased to be here.”
Husband, who made 64 appearances in three years at the Keepmoat Stadium, will battle it out with George Friend for the left-back berth this season.
With Aitor Karanka’s side going into Saturday’s derby against Leeds having won seven out of their last nine Championship games, expectations are high that Boro can kick on to launch a promotion push this campaign.
Having also faced many of his new team-mates last season, Husband said he is well aware of the level of talent oozing through Boro’s squad.
He said: “If you ask any of the lads we all think we can go far this season. You can see the confidence around the place and the form at the end of last season was play-off level.”
MILITARY EXPERTS CALL FOR UK ACTION
David Cameron faced further pressure to consider military intervention to prevent genocide in Iraq as the Government stepped up the armed forces' involvement in the humanitarian relief effort.
A "small number" of RAF Chinook helicopters is being sent to the region to increase the options available as efforts continued to ease the plight of tens of thousands of Yazidis trapped in searing heat on a mountain by Islamic State (IS) forces.
The Government has already sent RAF Tornado jets equipped with sophisticated surveillance equipment to the region to help gather intelligence about the situation on Mount Sinjar and C-130 transport planes have been involved in air drops of water and other supplies for the desperate Yazidis.
WILLIAMS OUR 'GENEROUS, GENTLE' DAD
The children of actor Robin Williams have paid tribute to their father after he was found hanged in his bedroom at his California home.
The Mrs Doubtfire star was discovered by his personal assistant on Monday morning after he failed to answer his door.
Williams, 63, was last seen alive by his wife, Susan Schneider, at around 10.30pm on Sunday before she went to bed, Lieutenant Keith Boyd, Marin County's assistant chief deputy coroner, said.
NEW DATA ON EASTERN EUROPE MIGRANTS
Further figures showing the numbers of Romanians and Bulgarians who have taken up employment in Britain since access restrictions to the labour market were lifted at the turn of the year will be published today.
Labour market data, published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), will show how many citizens of the eastern European countries were employed in the UK between April and June this year.
The previous batch of data appeared to suggest a predicted surge in Romanians and Bulgarians arriving in Britain had not transpired.
868,000 YOUNGSTERS OUT OF WORK
A full-blown economic recovery will not solve the UK's structural youth unemployment problem, according to a new report.
Think-tank IPPR said despite steady falls in the jobless total, even among younger people, there are still 868,000 out-of-work 16 to 24-year-olds.
Around 700,000 workless young people have never had a job, said the report, published ahead of the latest unemployment figures.
HUNT FOR RATES CLUE IN BANK REPORT
The Bank of England will publish its latest outlook for the UK economy today, with its forecasts likely to be seized on for any signs that interest rates might rise by the end of this year.
Britain's recovery to pre-recession levels after six years in the doldrums has driven expectations of a hike, which were intensified by remarks from Bank governor Mark Carney in June.
Mr Carney said in his Mansion House speech that the first hike from the historic low of 0.5% could come sooner than markets were expecting at the time.
HEADS TO OFFER 'ALTERNATIVE TABLES'
Headteachers are to publish their own alternative league tables which they say will give parents more information about schools than data published by the Government.
The rival rankings, which will focus on secondary schools to begin with, are expected to cover GCSE results as well as details on extra-curricular activities such as music and sport, the curriculum and other measures like class sizes and subjects.
School leaders said they believe that the new tables will become the established, independent way of publishing data that bypasses politicians and government.
HOLLYWOOD LEGEND LAUREN BACALL DIES
Lauren Bacall, the award-winning actress and Humphrey Bogart's partner off and on screen, has died at 89.
Robbert JF de Klerk, managing partner of the Humphrey Bogart Estate, said Bacall died yesterday at her home in New York. A family member told entertainment website TMZ that the actress had a massive stroke.
Her films included How To Marry A Millionaire, The Mirror Has Two Faces, The Big Sleep and Designing Woman, but one of her biggest was with Bogart - Key Largo, in 1948.
INQUEST INTO KABUL DEATH RESUMES
An inquest is to resume today into the death of a Labour MEP candidate who was killed in a suicide bomb and gun attack in Afghanistan.
Dhamender Singh Phangurha, known as Del Singh, died in the attack on a restaurant in Kabul on January 17 which killed 21 people including senior UN officials, Afghan dignitaries and restaurant staff.
Simon Chase, a former British soldier from Limavady, Co Londonderry, was also killed.
'SPECIAL MEASURES' CALL OVER TRUST
One of the largest hospital trusts in England should be put into a failure regime, inspectors said after they identified a series of problems at the organisation.
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust should be put into special measures, the Care Quality Commission has recommended.
The trust, which serves a population of more than 750,000 across five different hospitals, was rated "inadequate" by inspectors.
HARRY TO ATTEND TEAM ANNOUNCEMENT
Prince Harry will mark the latest milestone in the run-up to his inaugural Invictus Games next month as he attends the announcement of Britain's team in the sporting spectacular today.
Harry will attend the announcement of more than 100 injured servicemen and women selected to represent the British Armed Forces team at the event next month.
The 100-plus strong team announced today in London will take on hundreds of competitors from 14 nations in the games, which will see injured servicemen and women from across the globe compete in the capital in a Paralympic-style competition.
