The Wardman Wire

Here is todays roundup of stories.

Comment

Ian Buruma (Comment is Free) - Tibet last stand
The last glimmers of Tibetan culture are in danger of being extinguished by restrictions on language and the breakneck pace of development

Economist (Economist) - Palaeontology - Seeing the light
Palaeontologists can now look inside fossils without damaging them

Mark Jones (Times Online) - The hitch to marrying a rich woman
Men are happy to be with a woman who earns more than they do, a recent survey claims. But our writer, after his own research, doubts that

News

Audrey Gillan (Guardian) - TV presenter body not found for six days
The body of the television presenter Mark Speight was hanging from the roof of a building next to Paddington station for six days before he was discovered by rail workers, it emerged yesterday.

WILLIAM J. BROAD (NYT) - In Weak Rivets, a Possible Key to Titanic’s Doom
Researchers have discovered that the builder of the Titanic struggled for years to obtain enough good rivets and riveters and ultimately settled on faulty materials that doomed the ship, which sank 96 years ago Tuesday.

Obituary

BBC (BBC) - Green Party Peer Lord Beaumont dies
The Green Party peer, Lord Beaumont of Whitley, has died aged 79. He was chairman of the Liberal Party when he joined the Lords in 1967 but then defected to the Greens in 1999.

Economist (Economist) - Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston, died on April 5th, aged 84

Scotland

BBC (BBC)

- Fight to allow gay blood donors
A petition by gay rights campaigners against what they believe is discrimination over who can give blood is to be considered by MSPs.

Wales

BBC (BBC)

- Row on archbishop immoral claim
The archbishop of Wales says it would be immoral for Wales not to have full law-making powers in the near future.

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