He really knows biography. So when i heard that shelby was establishing a biography center in leons honor i thought perfect. So its a great thought pleasure to be here giving a lecture on him this evening. I have to share this pleasure with a team of researchers who have helpedme on all my books. Thereare rather small team actually. In fact, it consists of only one person. She writes her own books of course but she always finds time to help me with mine. Id like to say thank you to the only person ive everbeen able to trust with my research , the whole team, my wife. [applause] the aspect of biography i want to talk about this evening is something that in my opinion is seldom talked about when we talk about biography. Giving the reader a sense of place. By a sense of place i mean letting the reader see in his minds eye the physical setting in which a books action is occurring. Letting the reader see clearly enough so he feels as if he was there in that place while the action is occurri
From knife crime londons mayor, sadiq khan, sets out his plan for the School Holidays. Car insurance on the rise average premiums are approaching £800 a year, according to one comparison site. Ill be finding out why, and what you can do about it. And it is since wednesday today, dry start to the week. Will it last that way for the next a0 days or is there actually some rain on the horizon . I will have all of those details here on breakfast. Its monday, the 15th ofjuly. Our top story england have won the mens cricket world cup for the first time in an extraordinary finish to a tense final at lords. The main match ended in a tie, which meant the game went to a super over to decide the winner, and it went down to the very last ball. We all now fully understand what is super over is now. Heres our Sports Correspondent john watson. Englands men, World Champion for the very first time. Proving it on the very first time. Proving it on the biggest stage by the tightest of margins. After seve
President trumps racist tweets. Surgeons in the uk successfully separate these conjoined twins from pakistan after 50 hours of surgery. We will see how that was done. The twins have been in theatre now for more than seven hours, and there are still seven hours of this operation to go. So far everything is going to plan, and both girls are doing well. We will speak to the co author of Ground Breaking research that finds the origins of anorexia nervosa are both in the mind and the body. The fallout from Donald Trumps racist tweets continues. And americas profound political and cultural divisions are there for all of us to see once again. This was what the president said yesterday. Progressive democrat congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe. And he went on to say. Why dont they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came . The women he was talking about are these three congresswome
To have to quickly talk about Mike Huckabee he is the best report storyteller he is charming and wonderful i saw him in the hallways in the morning out of my hotel room he was walking down the hallway in did not miss a beat. How are you . Mrs. Huckabee was with him i dont expect to be recognized everybody calls me dennis anyway. [laughter] by the way he is a very bad man. Dell by his book the 10 commandments is because it is a bat and ball dash a best seller i warned her about that i suggest because of their experience to identify as a native she did work the back roads like Mike Huckabee did. Body general body is the only one that speaks faster than i do. He has trouble getting traction early on but what that space he sued the federal government over common core that is his issue the most explosive domestic policy issue i have seen arrive on the political scene in 25 years and the beats have no idea how badly screwed up whole market is at the Kitchen Table and there is nothing worse t
Its our family and its difficult for all of us to deal with it, from line staff, command staff, to myself. Its not fun seeing your employee draped with an american flag. Reporter the van carrying kims body was given a Police Escort from the accident scene to the Coroners Bureau in downtown oakland. The deputy who lived in the Central Valley leaves behind a wife and four children. In dublin, Laura Anthony, abc7 news. The Alameda County sheriff tweeted this picture in memory of khin and wrote, our thoughts and prayers to his family and friends. You can find on our abc7 News Facebook page we created this image you can share to let his loved ones and coworkers know that he is in your thoughts. Back at the police, they put the middle school on lockdown briefly today after a report of a gun on campus. Several officers responded to vaca school. The Department Posted this photo on the facebook page. They a est ared a 15yearold boy for charges of bringing a weapon onto school grounds. Were lear