Are on the honours list but, of the more than 1,000 people receiving honours this new year, around two thirds are being recognised for their work in the community, as Kathryn Stanczyszyn reports. Olivia newton john says she is grateful beyond words to be made a dame for services to charity. A damehood too for former tv presenter Floella Benjamin for her lifelong work with childrens charities. Volunteering always features heavily in honours lists, with many who arent household names being rewarded. Im no hero, i was lucky. Im here. All the heroes are dead and ill never forget them as long as i live. Thank you, darling. People like d day veteran harry billinge, who becomes an mbe in recognition of his efforts fundraising for veterans. When im doing this collection, a wonderful calm comes over me, because im doing something for the boys. Back in 2012, rhiannon mannings one year old son george died. Her husband paul took his own life five days later. She now runs a charity in wales to help
With Police Outside the Malaysian Embassy. A court in egypt announced death supporters of 500 supporters of the band Muslim Brotherhood. Hello, everyone. The malaysian government has conceded it will be many weeks before any firm clues into the fate of mh370 are found if ever. Bad weather is hampering the search in the southern indian ocean. Planes have been grounded. Australian authorities who are coordinating it says the seas and Gale Force Winds have been too strong today. The search is now concentrated exclusively there on the southern end of whats become known as the southern corridor probably taken by the boeing 777. A key piece of equipment to search for the black box recorder provided by the americans cannot be shipped for another 10 years when will be when the black box runs out of power. There has been rage from many of the relatives of the people aboard the flight. Well have more from beijing later. We have details of how the search would be moving forward now. All search ef
In italy, in the last 2a hours the biggest daily rise in cases since the outbreak started. Officials say 36 more people have died in the last 2a hours. The authorites are preparing a major escalation of controls, blocking all but emergency travel to and from the entire region of lombardy, including the city of milan. The decree would also extend to eleven northern and eastern provinces, as well as the cities of parma and venice. The measures will see schools closed for several weeks, along with all museums, swimming pools and ski resorts. The number of cases in lombardy is already causing problems for hospitals. Some are running out of spare beds, according to the head of the Civil Protection agency. Translation lombardy, as you know, is facing a tense situation in its hospitals. We expect that we will be asked to transfer patients to intensive Care Services in other regions. We will win this battle, this war, if our fellow citizens adopt responsible behaviour. We have to change our wa
Killing all 176 people on board. Iran says it made a disastrous mistake when it wrongly identified the plane as a cruise missile. Demonstrators in tehran have been calling for irans Supreme Leader to resign as our Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale reports. Almost from the moment the ukrainian airliner crashed early on wednesday morning, officials in tehran furiously rejected the growing video and intelligence evidence suggesting it had been hit by an iranian missile. Then today, an abrupt about turn. In a flurry of social media postings, irans president spoke of a disastrous mistake. The foreign minister talked of human error. The ambassador in london apologised for misleading the media with wrong findings. A senior military commander explained that irans air defences had been on high alert after the attack on us bases in iraq and the aircraft was misidentified as an american missile. He said he wished he could die. Translation we are sorry. We share the sorrow with victims famili
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