in the indonesian capital. emergency services say thousands of people had to be evacuated as the blaze engulfed houses in the plumpang district of jakarta. coming up in 10 minutes time, newswatch. but first on bbc news, click. the contribution of women in all walks of life has often been forgotten, because history has mainly been recorded by men. but here at the glasgow women s library, their achievements are rightly celebrated. this is the only accredited museum in the uk dedicated to women s history, and it s filled with books that are about, for or by women. 20,000 books and 500,000 archived items here are providing a valuable resource for researchers and historians. amongst all of that, you will find stories about some amazing women. like this one. i m a bit of a fan of ada lovelace. when i learned to program computers when i was young, i could practise on the computers i had around at the time. but when ada lovelace wrote the very first algorithm in the 1840s, computers
of political times past, so too was the speech at a global power conference by his former boss, borisjohnson, part of which was shown live on the news channel on thursday. nothing and no one will stop me reciting the song. of the oompa loompas about augustus gloop, which you all remember. # augustus gloop. # the great big greedy nincompoop. that made me weep with laughter as a child. and frankly, i d be very surprised if anybody at cis in vauxhall behaved towards their secretaries as bond behaved towards moneypenny. but that doesn t mean we should be banned from reading fleming s novels. not everyone welcomed the reappearance of the former prime minister, with janet edwards asking. we mentioned a couple of weeks ago complaints about hugh edwards and reeta chakrabarti travelling from london to edinburgh to present news bulletins on the day of nicola sturgeon s resignation, and that this practice of flying news anchors out on location was a regular source of irritation. so regu
and wednesday have been suspended after three of the four unions representing ambulance workers agreed to talks with the government. you re watching bbc news. now its time for the travel show. we start this week in brixton, a part of south london that s become the go to for caribbean british culture, from food to fashion and art. but it hasn t always been like this. after the second world war, britain was decimated, and so thousands of people from commonwealth countries were invited here to fulfil labour shortages. so, i m here in windrush square, which was named after one of the first ships to bring almost 1,000 people from the west indies to britain. now, the boat became a symbol for a generation of people who settled here from 19118 to 1971. and this year is a pretty important one for britain, as it marks the 75th anniversary of the boat s first arrival. some of the new arrivals were temporarily housed in clapham, but many found accommodation in nearby brixton after travel
From nobs to navvies, tea is a therapeutic necessity for British palates. How you take your humble cuppa says much about you. Me? White no sugar please, and don’t just show the bag to the water. Give it a proper dunk-and-squeeze in the mug, which should be neither a large thimble nor a small tureen though either is preferable to a prissy cup and saucer. Milk slopped in after but not the whole udder thanks. Oh, and baristas who seem to think tea can brew in milk-cooled water, for the umpteenth ti
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