Proclaims this has it all, love, death, and psychodrama. It goes on to describe the life story of richard st. George, the exhibitions starring figure, a wealthy irishman who finds himself on the wrong side of two revolutions in america and ireland, as part dickens with a spritz of yankee doodle. There is no doubt that richard st. Georges story is a cracking good tale, but the story reveals so much more than love my death, and psychodrama. In st. George, we see the complex entanglements of social, cultural, political identities of the time and the connectedness of the American Revolution. In st. George, we find a story of the age of revolution and a story of today, of who we are and how we got here, and what the past means to us as a people or as nations. But in st. George, we also find a detective story. A decades long mystery that started with two relatively obscure paintings, and a mystery that ended with this deal for and moving exhibition featuring 22 works of art depicting or comm
Nikkei up. European equities right now as well a bit of a mixed picture ftse up slightly the tenyear note is trading at 2. 053. Now to the big story of the morning. Details on the hack capital one disclosing a massive data breach that affects 100 million u. S. Customers and 6 million in canada. The company says 140,000 social numbers and 80,000 Bank Accounts and 1 million Canadian Social insurance numbers were compromised. It says the largest category of data that was exposed was from credit card applications including names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and self reported income the hacker also accessed customer status status such as payment history, Credit Scores and credit limits. The breach occurred in late march. The hacker accessed information through a vulnerability of the servers in an unnamed cloud company. The fbi arrested a suspect, Paige Thompson shes a former engineer at Amazon Web Services. Authorities allege thompson posted some data on gethub and a private ch
Check on markets. Some positivity still feeding through the back of that china data that came in better than expected in terms of the retail sales. S p futures on the front foot, up. 2 . Four days of gains. Closer to above 3000. How much farther does the rally have to go. We look ahead to earnings. The 10year yield is backed up a. 2 curve. Lets get the bloomberg first word news. President donald trump has been accused of racism this after suggesting four female lawmakers to back to their crime invested crime infested places they came from. Of the four women were born in the u. S. And are racial or ethnic my own minorities. The purchase of a Russian Missile defense system. The u. S. Says deploying the missiles jeopardized a fighter jet. The white house as picked a package of sanctions for turkey with an announcement coming soon. Dozens arrested as protests continue in hong kong. This includes clashes with the police in a shopping mall. Emmis traders were demanding demonstrators were dem
And its a Political Party growing in popularity. But will reforms announcement this morning help or hinder their ambitions . Well be hearing live from richard tice in about an hour with further insight then from deputy leader ben habib. From deputy leader ben habib. And muslim Protection Fund. The government is spending more than £117 million to keep muslims and mosques safe in britain. Is that how you want to see your money spent and generation creativity . Generation creativity . After rishi sunak said he wants teens to study maths until 18, an labour leader, sir keir starmer , announces that he wants starmer, announces that he wants the arts to be accessible to every child in britain, not just privileged pupils but what lessons will they ditch to meet this aim . Weve got a sneaky suspicion us conference might be about. So were going to talk to our political editor, chris hope, about that. Look, its been very quiet. Its quiet politically. Post budget. So reform are choosing make thi
Were called to the crooked house pub just before 1045 last night. The blaze was extinguished. No one was injured. Its affectionately known to many as the wonky pub thats due to its unusual angle, where visitors would enjoy the illusion of coins and other objects seemingly rolling uphill along the bar. Police are appealing for anyone with information about the fire to get in touch. About the fire to get in touch. The renowned composer sir carl davis, has died at the age of. Davis, has died at the age of. 86. He first came to prominence 86. He first came to prominence in the 1970s and his work in the 1927 epic napoleon was given a cinematic release in 2016. Among as many other credits was the bafta winning musical score for the bbcs 1995 bafta winning musical score for the bbcs1995 adaptation of pride and prejudice. This is gb pride and prejudice. This is gb news across the uk on tv , in news across the uk on tv, in your car, on Digital Radio and on your Smart Speaker by saying, play gb