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Morning. The gunman flooded a Train Carriage with smoke from two Gas Canisters before shooting, injuring ten people. A major manhunt is underway. There was fury amongst many uk voters when the claims first came out of Staff Parties in downing st and whitehall during lockdown. So, how are the latest revelations being viewed . Our correspondent, danny savage, has been to a town in the north of england to gauge the mood. Mirfield in West Yorkshire a busy town between wakefield and huddersfield which fell silent during lockdown. An area of Northern England where people we spoke to say they stuck to the rules concerning coronavirus restrictions. They shouldnt have broken the rules anyway. They made them. Everyone else was adhering to those rules, and they didnt. I think he should resign, personally, yeah. I think he should. Hes asking us to obey one rule, and then hes doing something completely different, the opposite. Its not right, its not fair, its not british. No point resigning. Pay the fine and get on with it, and obviously dont do it again. You stuck to the rules . Absolutely. They didnt. How does that leave you feeling . Well, im actually angry. Im angry. Ive never been into politics, but itjust made me so angry. Its like one rule for them, and one for us. But will todays headlines damage the conservatives in a forthcoming General Election . To be fair, the people we spoke to here today werent sure. But some of their gains in 2019 have very slim majorities, like here, where they won byjust over 1,500 votes. What is clear is that partygate has cut through to people far from westminster. Theyre fully aware of it, and have firm views. Danny savage, bbc news, mirfield in West Yorkshire. Now on bbc news, The Travel Show. This week on The Travel Show the museum with nothing to hide. The fact that everybody can see so many more artworks, it opens up new perspectives. It is a wonderful thing. How to pick a greener hotel. This is not good. This is The Good Guys, refillable. And rustling up a light lunch in the freezing seas of iceland. Im looking forward to hearing what you think about foraging in iceland in late november. I was kind of hoping you might have some indoor activities. We are starting this week in the netherlands, in the city of rotterdam, europes largest seaport known for its quirky architecture and now its Game Changing approach to looking at art. Its all down to this brand new eye catching building in the citys museum park. The depot Boijmans Van Beuningen is the worlds first publicly Accessible Art Storage Facility and from the outside it looks a bit like a giant space age teacup, so i wonder what the inside� s going to look like. After flooding forced the museum to move The Collection out of its usual Storage Facility, the team rethought the entire concept of an archive. Gone was the idea of a warehouse with a Security Guard and a dog, replaced by a concept based on radical transparency. My goodness, look at this place what an incredible space. Yeah, you like it . Tell me the concept behind this place because this is like no warehouse i could imagine. It is open storage. The first thing is that museums, they have a collection that you show to maybe just 3 6 7 but it feels awkward because many things sink into oblivion or do not get the care that is necessary so we opened our vaults with all the Art Collections to the audience and we show how we work with The Collection to clean paintings, to restore things that are not in a good shape. The audience is the owner and we are the very proud ca reta kers. This is almost the opposite of a curated museum. Items arent displayed by artistic theme or historical significance. Instead, theyre organised by the conditions that will best preserve them. This is brilliant because you dont expect to see these things all in one place, i can see some ceramics there, furniture. Yeah, yeah. If you look at the material you see a Sewing Machine and you see a metal face, its the same kind of care. So these are just grouped by the kind of climate they need, the kind of Lighting Conditions . Exactly, and size as well, so it is total democracy you could say. Each item is treated in the same way, so they are all equal, so what you see is the very, very important and expensive ones, like the tower of babel, its 400 million euros, but you can also have a look at such as Sewing Machine, which my mother had, too. The access visitors have is remarkable. You can even request to see certain individual pieces of your choice. I found a group with their guide and you have to have a guide when you come here because i guess they cant just let people loose among these racks of possibly priceless works. And they get white coats, too. Wheres my coat . The only real limiting factor here is time. Because the environments are so strictly controlled, visitors are only allowed in certain rooms for a limited period. Even a small group can alter these delicately balanced conditions. This is very much a Working Building where you get to see the inside story of a museum. This is the paintings conservation studio. The art handling, restoration and cleaning of items all happens here in full view. Is this a mondrian . This is a mondiran painting. Are you working on this . Yep. Its part of a Research Project which has two paintings by mondrian. Tell me about the work that you do here. The research is about the yellow in particular. This one we have unframed so now i can look at it more closely. I am trying to find out if the yellow has just as much cracks as the other colours or if the yellow has changed over time. Can we have a look at it under the microscope . Yes, i can position it under the microscope and then you can see it through the computer. You can see the yellow layer that is on top of the white layer. The cracks. Yeah, you can see the cracks. Is that just age . Thats age, yeah. Do you ever restore those elements to get rid of the cracks or this is just part of the history of the piece . Yeah, its part of the ageing so, but sometimes cracks can become so disturbing that there might be a reason to retouch it but for this painting i dont think that will happen very soon. The depot isnt the only place reinventing its archives. The worlds most visited museum, the louvre in paris, has just relocated its vaults to a huge High Tech Campus in northern france. Its only open to academics but claims to now be one of the biggest study and Research Centres in europe. Meanwhile, londons v a museum plans to open storehouse on the olympic park in 2024 Putting Hundreds Of Thousands of items on display for the first time in generations. One of the biggestjoys of all this open access is a direct contact with the people whose job it is to look after the exhibits. It has made ruben here a man very much in demand. Hello there. Hello. Sorry to interrupt, could i ask what you are doing, what you are looking for . A visitor asked us online if the frame is original or not. And is it . I dont think it is. If you look closely you can see it is white and on brown, if it was originally would be an oak frame. The ornaments would be carved out of the wood. And not molded . Exactly. So anyone can just send you an e mail and ask a question about a piece . Exactly, the whole collection is actually visible online and there is a button so you can just click on it and ask any question and it will come into my mailbox. So when you have members of the public coming through here, how does that feel for you . Is it distracting, what do you do . In the beginning it was a little bit distracting but im just supposed to continue to do myjob and do whatever i am doing. Do you get more questions from people . Yeah, prying eyes. Laughter what you make of this idea of a kind of inside out museum, where you can see behind the curtain . The fact that everybody can see so many more artworks enables people to ask questions that we might never have thought about before. So it also makes us think about our collection and it opens up new perspectives of The Collection, of course. It is a wonderful thing. Ruben looks after around 2000 old masters, but there was one in particular he was keen to show me. So this here is one of my all time favourites, portrait of a schoolboy from 1531. I think it is just wonderful because it is such a delicate portrait, and actually the most interesting visual thing in the painting is the small item that he holds in his hands. There is a latin saying on the paper, and you can actually read it in mirror view through the paper, so i think it is so witty to have done that. And also it is beautiful. Its wonderful, absolutely. Just while ive been here i think have probably seen a dozen artworks ive never seen before that utterly captivate me, theyre incredible. What an amazing way to see art, so different. This spring, it is hoped that more than1 Million People will head to the Keukenhof Gardens for the annual tulip festival, commonly known as the Worlds Largest flower park, it boasts a dazzling display of around 7 million buds, blooming from march until may. This is the first time the park has opened for two years and they are celebrating with a historical theme, looking at how flowers have been represented across centuries of art, architecture and design. If you prefer Music Festivals to floral ones, amsterdams dgtl returns in april with a packed lineup of electronic artists. There is a strong eco theme with the organisers claiming it is more sustainable to come along and dance the night away than it is to stay at home. They are aiming to become an entirely climate neutral event, reducing the amount of waste per visitor to zero, encouraging people to arrive by Public Transport and powering it all with renewable energy. For the foodies, alkmaar� s weekly Cheese Market rolls around again at the end of the month, in a tradition that dates all the way back to 1365, up to 30,000 Kilos Of Cheese is ceremonially stacked in the main square. Porters in traditional dress then cart them away to be weighed and sold. Its running every friday until september 24. And any Spring Visitor to the netherlands should try to make the annual kings day celebrations, marking the birth of the current monarch, king willem alexander, on april 27. As many as a Million People arrive in amsterdam to attend markets and toast the occasion at massive street parties. Just remember your orange outfit. Still to come here on The Travel Show low carbon luxury. Ways to make your stay more sustainable. Here we have dulse. They only grow in certain areas where freshwater meets the ocean. And the tasty treats hidden on the icelandic seabed. So dont go away. Hi, im juliet kinsman. I am a Sustainable Hotel expert, im Sustainability Editor of Conde Nast Traveler magazine and i also work with hotels to make sure they tell their stories of being eco, without any greenwash. So, i think at some counts, there are about 800,000 hotels in the world. That is a lot of businesses operating to give us our holidays and our business travel, but that also means a lot of energy used, a lot of sheets being changed, a lot of laundry, a lot water think of all of the Swimming Pools they could do a lot better, and i think what we need to do is really think about, when we spend time in a hotel, its less about excess, indulgence, things, stuff and more aboutjust having really great experiences. So, theres a new generation of hotels opening, its really exciting, and one of them is is saorsa 1875, which is a vegan hotel, so that means obviously its plant based, no animal products, which also means its supply chain will have much less carbon emissions, particularly methane, which wont be contributing to Global Warming in the same way. We dont want to be a fusty old hotel. We want to be we want to be quite forward thinking in our design and the vibes, so thats what we try to provide here at the hotel. Another hotel i absolutely love for being much more transparent about exactly how they operate is fogo island in newfoundland in canada. They have a label they call it the economic Nutrition Label which shows you where their money goes, and whats most interesting about that is a lot of it stays with the staff and in local pockets, and thats whats key. So im going to give you three things to think about when you book a hotel so that you can have a better trip that does more good. Number one. In everything we do, book local, buy local. So, choose a locally owned hotel where you know the money from that business is more likely to stay in local pockets, where the people who own it may be from that place, so they are more likely to care about the destination, better custodians, and that is one of the key ways to tackle many of the symptoms of all the problems we see in the world today. Its all about Community Economics spending local, thinking global. Number two, accreditations. What a sea of confusion that can be. We often want to look for a badge or a seal of Approvalfrom An Organisation that has weighed up whether that business is responsible. Now, the thing is with travel and hotels, there are hundreds of them out there, so how do we know what they mean . One that i love is earthcheck, particularly if a hotel has reached platinum status but they have paid for that accreditation. The gstc thats the Global Sustainable Tourism Council they are somebody who works independently. It originally stemmed from the United Nations and their framework is very reliable. But how do you know someone is actually following it . So, be alert. Look at every hotels own website, see how they talk about sustainability. They really need to notjust tell you they are sustainable, eco, orjust use these words, they need to show you. So, make sure they are talking about the right things, such as how they measure their Energy Consumption and how they look after their local community. Is it good for nature . Is it good for community . Thats a better hotel to book. Number three. This is a simple one be minimalist. Its so tempting when they put all these things out for us to use but this . Not good more stuff even this one thats dressed up to look a bit eco, its gonna end up in landfill. This is not good. This is The Good Guys refillable. I reallyjust try and minimise everything i use and think if thats gonna end up in the garbage, i dont want to use it. Keep things simple. Stay minimalistic. Up next, were on the hunt for more tasty treats in some of the worlds most exciting cities. Kate hardie buckley headed to the icelandic capital of reykjavik. Reykjavik, icelands capital on the edge of the Arctic Circle gets very little sunlight during the winter months, and its remoteness has meant that people have always had to come up with ingenious ways of securing, preparing and cooking their food. For centuries, icelanders maintained a simple diet, using techniques such as fermentation, dehydration and smoking to prepare theirfood. Chef fanney dora loves to experiment with traditional agreements to create new flavours, and shes invited me to the lady brewery for a drink to warm up. I would say whats special about Icelandic Cuisine is that pureness. I use a lot of icelandic products icelandic fish, seaweed and try to put my stamp on it. For example, utilising seaweed with vegetables to get, like, more Umami Flavours into it. Tell me what youd like me to bring for you. I would love for you to go and fetch me some salmon. I would also love it if you could meet raxel, my friend, and go Foraging Seaweed with her. I love foraging. Yeah, im looking Forward Hearing what you think about foraging in iceland in late november i was kind of hoping you might have some indoor activities i start off exploring a food source thats undergone a revival in Icelandic Cuisine seaweed. Ragnheidur axel has foraged the superfood for decades. So here, we have dulse. They only grow in certain areas, where freshwater meets the ocean. So, lets take those and then we can dry those for fanney. Icelanders used to be ashamed of going to pick their seaweed and they would hide it, that they were picking dulse, but now, it is a really valuable raw material. We also find the much sought after sea truffle. People say it tastes like truffles from tuscany. Its that distinctly umami flavour. In icelandic, its called pangskegg. Its � seaweed beard. Seaweed beard. Yeah, because it looks like beard. Chuckles. I next travel one hour south of the capital to the west ranga river, to meet the man known as � the salmon whisperer�. Phew and then, i pull back . Yeah, pull back, stop and wait a little bit. 0k, good. The Fishing Season is over but weve secured a special permit to chance our luck. At what stage does the salmon reach the river . In the middle ofjune, and then in october, they put their eggs here in the river and the eggs becomes a little parr. And when they are getting big enough, then they go to the to the sea to feed up, and then they come back up to the river, one or two years later, just to take part in the love life here. So this is a romantic spot for the salmon . Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah its quite a Big Industryjust For Trawlers to come and fish in iceland for salmon, because our salmon stock is quite good. Its kind of a mecca for many people to come here and fish for salmon. Despite stefan� s skills, and my enthusiasm, the fish are not biting. So were going to give it a few more minutes, and then, whats plan b . Well, we have some frozen salmon, so it we can always use that. Yay the back up option thank you so much, harper. Thank you. Ive returned to the lady brewery, where i met chef fanney, to find out more about the women crafting these unique beers. This is first lady. 0h, shes super happy to see you only 3 of all Craft Brewers Around The World are owned by women. We were shocked. Porey halldorsdottir also made an interesting discovery about the origins of brewing beer. It was always a kitchen job, so it was always in the hands of women throughout the centuries. So, it was women who created beer . Yes wow and, like, they had these pointy hats, the ale wives. They were sweeping the corn and they had, like, the cat The Black Cat and the big pot and they were, you know. Witches witches. Thats how we interpreted this history of beer and beer making. I meet chef fanney at her Restaurant Hnoss to see her work her magic. Its a beautiful colour, this salmon. Yeah, it is. Lets use this. Yes. The salt with the truffles, seaweed. Yeah. What are, then, the sort of traditional icelandic flavours that youre playing on . Its the smoke and its the pickling and its the freshness of the fish. You dont need to do much because the product already is amazing. Its a beurre blanc sauce, its got a lot of butter and the butter has been smoked. This is the dulse that you brought to me. Yep. And then, this is sugar kelp. I use both of those seaweed to make my smoked carrots, which im gonna use as a. This looks like smoked salmon. Mmm. Im just put a little bit of seaweed in some apple cider vinegar. A lot of people think that were only about fermented food. I always say its a part of us, it is not what a typical icelander will eat on a day to day basis. 0ur cuisine in iceland, its more about utilising, you know, what we have learned living on this island, and what we have now is an abundance of Fresh Produce and fresh fish and meat. Mmm. Its got that umami flavour. Its from the dulse. Yep. So this is the pickled seaweed. Hmm. Tastes, like, totally different. Wow. Thats almost fizzy. Yeah. Thats really good, fanney. Cheers. Skol that was Kate Hardie Buckley there in reykjavik. And thats it for this weeks show, but coming up next week. Lucy is in naples to explore the archaeological treasures being opened to the public for the very first time. Oh, my god yes look at this this is the star. And if youd like to catch up with some more of our recent adventures, you can find us on bbc iplayer. Were on social media, too on facebook and instagram. You can find us by Searching Bbc Travel Show and looking for the blue logo. Until then, im off to get some more coffee and stroopwafels. Bye bye hello. The easter weekend is just around the corner, and as we move closer to it, things will turn drier and warmerfor many, whilst not always sunny, complicated slightly by some mist and low cloud lingering, and here we could see some patchy rain at times, but a lot of dry weather in the forecast. It is looking drier for many, as we head through wednesday. The area of rain we had on tuesday came courtesy of this area of low pressure, and it is pulling away into the north sea through wednesday. Still close enough to scotland that it will bring more cloud, still some patchy rain into Northern Scotland and the Northern Isles through the morning, that will pull away. Some mist and low cloud likely to linger through some northern and western coasts through the day, but elsewhere, some spells of Sunshine Developing, but also some sharp afternoon showers, perhaps with a rumble of thunder. The winds will be a light to moderate westerly for many, and that means a warmer day across North Eastern coasts, where we have the best of the sunshine through wednesday afternoon, temperatures quite widely into the mid or high teens. Pollen levels, though, will be high for much of england and wales through wednesday, moderate across Northern England, and also moderate across southern scotland, and into Northern Ireland, as well. So through wednesday evening, most of the showers will fade. Many of us will see some clearer skies, although mist and low cloud will start pushing back in to wales, south west england, north west england, and also more cloud nudging into Northern Ireland and the western isles. Again for many, it is a mild night, with temperatures typically between six and nine celsius. So for thursday, weve got this area of high pressure, which is the dominant feature, and im sure you can see these fronts trying to push in from the west, and will bring much more cloud across Northern Ireland, mainly some patchy rain, particularly for Western Areas through the afternoon. Some of that could just push into the western isles, too. Once again, mist and low cloud will be slow to clear for some northern and Western Areas, but elsewhere, spells of Sunshine Developing through thursday, particularly the further east you are, and here is where we will see the highest temperatures, mid to high teens for many, perhaps 19, 20, maybe even 21 celsius in South East Anglia and south east england. Frontal systems trying to push in from the atlantic, they will be fairly weak affairs, but particularly as we head into easter sunday, then we could begin to see some more showery outbreaks of rain into the north and the west, but for most, over the easter weekend, it is looking warmer, it is mainly dry yes, there will be some overnight mist and fog, but also some sunshine, too. Goodbye. You will welcome to bbc news. You will im nancy kacungira. Our top stories britains Prime Minister and his chancellor found to have broken the law after breaching the lockdown rules they imposed on the country. In all frankness, at that time, it did not occur to me that this might have been a breach of the rules. But, of course, the police have found otherwise and i fully respect the outcome of their investigations. President biden has for the first time referred you to russias actions in ukraine as genocide. Is next the family budget, the ability to fill up your tank none of it should not impinge on whether a dictator declares war and commits genocide a half a world away

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