Here In the uk its the first week In power for the newly elected Prime MInister, Sir Keir Starmer whos just completed a tour of all four Uk Nations england, wales, scotland and Northern Ireland. Mr starmer has also been meetIng his labour partys new mps, who today started to arrive at the Uk Parliament many begInnIng their political careers. Our political editor Chris Mason has more. Applause. However good your trip to work was this mornIng, i reckon you werent applauded and serenaded on the commute like this new mp for plaid cymru, ann davies. The national anthem of wales rIngIng In her ears, the trip from Carmarthen To WestmInster began. There were flowers rather than song for green Mp Carla Denyer In bristol. It was a laptop and a flask for others, haulIng suitcases, a sense of Wonder And Pride to parliament. Its all been a bit of a whirlwInd and theres a lot to take In, but im really excited to get started and see how it goes over the next few days. How was it walkIng Into that cha
TOKYO: A huge black barrier to block Mount Fuji from view will be installed in a popular photo spot by Japanese authorities exasperated by crowds of badly behaved foreign tourists. Construction of the mesh net – 2.5m high and the length of a cricket pitch at 20m – will begin as early as next week
At Lake Kawaguchiko 7-Eleven it’s all gone Fuji. Among the strawberry cheesecake KitKats and mugwort mochi dumplings, there are blue-tinged Fuji bath plugs, Fuji rice crackers, chiffon cake Fuji, bottles of Fujisan Blue Cream Soda and boxes of mould-it-yourself Fujisan Blue Curry Rice. The challenge is to make this edible version of the sacred mountain look like the picture on the box, which depicts a perfect cone of flat-topped rice with radioactive turquoise stripes rolling down its sides. Sho