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BBC News
2 days ago
- Automotive
- BBC News
Bagshot residents angry at traffic light upgrade diversion
Residents in a Surrey village are "up in arms" and concerned for the safety of their children over temporary roadworks to replace a set of traffic Highways has been upgrading the lights on the A30 at the junction with Yaverland Drive, in Bagshot Matters residents' association said the diversion now in place until 30 June was dangerous and would cause County Council (SCC) said the diversion route would still allow traffic to flow along the A30 and thanked residents for their patience while the "essential work" was carried out. A one-way system has been put in place from the entrance of Yaverland Drive around to Church Drive can only be accessed by northbound traffic and there is no right-turn entry for southbound road should be followed around to Church Road to join the northbound carriageway of the Hamilton, founder of Bagshot Matters, said: "All our members are up in arms, they're distressed because they didn't receive notification."Of 1,011 members, only 13 report having seen a letter that Surrey County Council claims to have issued about a week ago."Three weeks is a long time, especially for people taking their children to and from school, people trying to get to work, people expecting deliveries, and for the church which may have funerals during the course of this." Mary Wilson, a resident and local Scout leader, said: "My concern is the safety of the children being dropped off and collected for Scouts and other youth clubs."With the extra traffic coming up and down these roads it could cause problems with the children coming in and out of their meeting places."She said she was also worried about pets and children playing outside during periods of increased Matt Furniss, cabinet member for highways, transport and economic growth at SCC, said the works were part of a £300m project to improve the county's roads and pavements."Local residents received a letter outlining the works and diversion routes at the end of May," he said."New, clearer advanced warning signs are also now in situ and we are reminding residents and others travelling in the area via our Surrey Highways social media channels."We thank residents for their patience while we carry out these essential works and apologise for any inconvenience caused."
Yahoo
31-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Sherry Robb, Literary Agent, Talent Manager and Producer, Dies at 81
Sherry Robb, a literary agent, talent manager and producer whose career spanned more than five decades across publishing, television and film, has died. She was 81. Robb, who battled congestive heart disease for two decades, died Feb. 14. A memorial service has been set for 1:30 p.m. on June 9 at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. More from The Hollywood Reporter Valerie Mahaffey, Actress on 'Northern Exposure,' 'Desperate Housewives' and 'Young Sheldon,' Dies at 71 Alf Clausen, Emmy-Winning Composer for 'The Simpsons,' Dies at 84 Loretta Swit, Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan on 'M*A*S*H,' Dies at 87 Robb helped bring to publication Robert Graysmith's Zodiac, the 1986 true-crime book about unsolved serial murders in San Francisco in the late 1960s that inspired David Fincher's Zodiac (2007), starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo. She also played a critical role in launching the screenwriting career of Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), selling his first two scripts to Paramount. Based on an idea that Robb developed while listening to Betty White talk about how her animals helped her recover from the loss of her husband, Password host Allen Ludden, she came up with Pet Love, a 1983 book that launched the beloved actress' literary career. She also was a guiding force behind Mary Wilson's 1986 book, Dreamgirl: My Life as a Supreme, one of the best-selling music autobiographies in history. The singer and White were just two of the 100 or so first-time authors that Robb guided during her long career. After receiving a bachelor's degree from Whittier College and a master's of social work from Smith College, Sherry Ann Robb became a therapist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and a teacher at Boston State College, Tufts University and the University of Massachusetts. She worked for five years in New York City for a major publishing company, then teamed with Bart Andrews, who had written a 1976 book about TV's I Love Lucy, to form a literary firm, the Andrews & Robb Agency, in 1981. She split with Andrews in 1989 and to launch her own business, AFH Talent Agency, then founded The Robb Co., a boutique management firm dedicated to representing actors and writers, in 2003. In 2020, she co-founded the Robb Squad Film Co. alongside director Marc Martinez and produced the 2024 feature The Memory in My Heart, which fulfilled her dream of spotlighting her talent roster through original content. Inducted into the Personal Managers Hall of Fame in 2019, Robb also served as a judge for UCLA's Script Competition Showcase and consulted for the film masters program at USC. Best of The Hollywood Reporter Most Anticipated Concert Tours of 2025: Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar & SZA, Sabrina Carpenter and More Hollywood's Most Notable Deaths of 2025 Hollywood's Highest-Profile Harris Endorsements: Taylor Swift, George Clooney, Bruce Springsteen and More
Telegraph
13-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- Telegraph
Radishes are this summer's hottest vegetable. These four recipes prove it
Crunchy, juicy, peppery, there's a lot to love about radishes – and we love them more than ever. Ocado is reporting a surge in sales of 18 per cent for all radishes, with searches for pickled radish up 33 per cent compared with last year. More impressive still is the 180 per cent year-on-year search growth for watermelon radishes, a green and white variety that's a type of daikon, a large Asian radish. With a vivid magenta core underneath the outer layer, they are a gift to the visuals-obsessed TikTok generation, but they taste good too – crunchy and more coarsely textured than the small pink radishes in the supermarket produce aisle. Peel them finely, slice them wafer-thin and spread them on a plate with sliced cucumber, crumbled feta and a sprinkling of olive oil for an early summer salad. The classic lipstick-pink radish looks great on camera as well, and thousands of TikTok videos are reimagining this classic salad staple in completely new ways: blended into butter, braised with miso and roasted like a potato. They are much loved by gardeners too, as they are an early crop, during the so-called hungry months of March to May, when there's little home-grown produce around. 'It's the first sign that something's happening', says Jan Ostle, a radish fan and chef at the Michelin-starred Wilsons Restaurant in Bristol. Ostle's wife, Mary Wilson, grows six varieties on the farm, including the elongated pink and white breakfast variety, slender white icicles, purple orbs and black-skinned 'Spanish' radishes, which need peeling to remove their bark-like skin. Look out for unusual kinds in farmers' markets, or check out the mixed bags sold in Sainsbury's and Marks & Spencer that feature breakfast, white and purple radishes. Bunches of leafy breakfast radishes are available from Natoora, via Ocado. Radishes at Wilsons come fresh from the plot, leaves still attached, with a hillock of whipped ibérico pork fat, or finely sliced like frosted glass to eat with raw scallops. They are fantastic with seafood, in part because of their spicy heat. 'If you pick them really fresh, they can be super peppery,' points out Ostle. 'So grated, salted radish with some raw fish is a really delicious thing, and it has sort of wasabi vibes going on.' Try Diana Henry's buckwheat galettes with hot-smoked salmon and grated radish, on the same theme but with cooked fish. Creaminess makes sense with the cool crispness. At London's hip restaurant Lita, chef Luke Ahearne serves them with whipped cod's roe, taramasalata style, while at The Sportsman, in Kent, Stephen Harris includes new potatoes, also at their prime right now. Or try Mark Hix's vegetarian version, with a beetroot dip. Citrus pairs well with the spicy heat of radishes. Legendary food writer Elisabeth Luard, author of the classic tome European Peasant Cookery makes them into a salad with orange segments and black olives, while Diana Henry pairs pickled radishes with watermelon grapefruit and a hot chilli and lime dressing. Don't save them just for salad. TikTok is right: they are great for cooking too. Ostle cooks different coloured radishes separately, in an emulsion of butter, lemon juice and water (shake two tablespoons of butter and one tablespoon each of water and lemon juice in a pan over a low heat until combined). 'You can cook them until they're tender. The colour seeps out, turning the cooking liquid bright pink, purple or red, depending on which radishes you use.' If you can get radishes with leaves, grab them: they have to be harvested by hand making them more expensive than the standard bags of rosy marbles. But the peppery leaves are good eating. Luard chops them to add to a potato salad or wilts them with spinach and chard, or they can be left on for braising. Ostle dresses radishes in a radish juice in a sort of nose-to-tail preparation that is, he says, 'properly verdant and green and peppery.' Roasted, sliced or smashed in chilli butter, there's not much you can't do with a radish – including bucking a culinary cliché. Disdainful of the ubiquitous pomegranate seeds, Luard scatters tiny pink and white cubes of diced radishes over dishes instead. 'The colour and flavour is more interesting,' she decrees. The humble radish goes radical.
New York Times
12-05-2025
- Business
- New York Times
A Vulnerable China Comes to the Table
Hosted by Natalie Kitroeff Featuring Keith Bradsher Produced by Mary WilsonMooj ZadieWill Reid and Shannon M. Lin Edited by Lisa Chow Original music by Diane WongRowan Niemisto and Pat McCusker Engineered by Chris Wood Over the weekend, top negotiators from the U.S. and China met for the first time since President Trump rapidly escalated a trade war between the world's two economic superpowers. Keith Bradsher, the Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times, discusses the pressures facing China, as it came to the negotiating table and why it so badly needs a deal. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Keith Bradsher, the Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times The U.S. said 'substantial progress' had been made in trade talks with China. There are a lot of ways to listen to 'The Daily.' Here's how. We aim to make transcripts available the next workday after an episode's publication. You can find them at the top of the page. The Daily is made by Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad Fisher, Chris Wood, Jessica Cheung, Stella Tan, Alexandra Leigh Young, Lisa Chow, Eric Krupke, Marc Georges, M.J. Davis Lin, Dan Powell, Sydney Harper, Michael Benoist, Liz O. Baylen, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Rachelle Bonja, Diana Nguyen, Marion Lozano, Rob Szypko, Elisheba Ittoop, Mooj Zadie, Patricia Willens, Rowan Niemisto, Jody Becker, Rikki Novetsky, Nina Feldman, Will Reid, Carlos Prieto, Ben Calhoun, Susan Lee, Lexie Diao, Mary Wilson, Alex Stern, Sophia Lanman, Shannon M. Lin, Diane Wong, Devon Taylor, Alyssa Moxley, Olivia Natt, Daniel Ramirez, Brendan Klinkenberg, Chris Haxel, Maria Byrne, Anna Foley and Caitlin O'Keefe. Our theme music is by Jim Brunberg and Ben Landsverk of Wonderly. Special thanks to Sam Dolnick, Paula Szuchman, Lisa Tobin, Larissa Anderson, Julia Simon, Mahima Chablani, Elizabeth Davis-Moorer, Jeffrey Miranda, Maddy Masiello, Isabella Anderson, Nina Lassam, Nick Pitman and Kathleen O'Brien.
Times
01-05-2025
- Health
- Times
Mary Wilson obituary: lady almoner during Second World War
At no time in recent history has the role of a social worker been more exacting than during the Second World War; not only did the National Health Service not exist but there was the challenge of staying healthy, well and cheerful during a time of war and rationing. However, this was the work that Mary Wilson undertook between 1942 and 1945 as the medical outpatients' lady almoner at Great Ormond Street Hospital, which involved assessing families' financial situations and needs after children had been medically examined. Sometimes she would see 60 or more families in a single day and she recalled finding it rewarding but exhausting. Blessed with a lively sense of humour, Wilson told an interviewer about her friendship during her work in
