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Family Service at 10.30am, Evening Service at Salvation Army this week. Mansfield Baptist Church, Rosemary Street.
Family Parish Communion Sunday’s at 9:30 am at St Alban’s, Forest Town.
Café styled Children & Family service 1st Sunday at 9:30 St Alban’s Forest Town.
FREE children’s club first Sunday 10:30-11:30am at St Alban’s Forest Town.
Christmas Gift Service. Farnsfield Methodist church with gifts donated to the Salvation Army at 6.15pm.
Living with Loss Service. St John’s Church Mansfield at 3.00pm. All are invited to bring along a flower in memory of a loved one, this will then be placed with other flowers to make a floral tribute, and will remain in church over the Advent period. Everyone welcome to attend this service.
Christmas Gift Service. Farnsfield Methodist churchwith gifts donated to the Salvation Army at 6.15pm.
All Saints Church services, Huthwaite. 10am. More traditional services held Sunday evenings from 6pm. All welcome; Church running two Alpha Course, all are welcome. Both are on a Tuesday, one is at 7.30pm and another, women’s group (children welcome) is at 9am.
Ladies Running Club. Weekly outside Scout Headquarters, Bilsthorpe, regardless of weather. Starts at 7pm. All ladies of all abilities welcome.
Men In Sheds. (Age UK Nottingham & Nottinghamshire). Meet Monday to Thursday, from 9am-3pm Burma Road, Blidworth. Contact Mansfield 797750 or Mick Connelly on 07872839570. Men in Sheds provide a relaxed and sociable atmosphere based on a wood working theme for older men.
Painting for Pleasure classes. Village Hall, Edwinstowe. Weekly from 2-4pm. All welcome. Contact 01777870588.
Zumba. Farnsfield Village Centre, Upper Hall, New Hill, NG22 8JN. Weekly from 6–6.45pm.
Cardio Fusion. with Fit4Fun weekly 7pm £2 for 30 minutes session at Ladybrook Community Centre. Contact 07863 987271 for details.
Zumba Gold. Chair-based for those with limited mobility. Weekly at 10.30am, £2.50 per session at Ladybrook Community Centre. Contact 07863 987271 for details.
Sequence dance. St John’s Centre. New Beginners Sequence Dance Class from 1-1.30pm every week followed by the Monday Tea Dance until 4pm. Price £5 for tuition, dance and refreshment. (£2 for Tea Dance & refreshments). Popular dances taught. Contact Mansfield 609001.
Social sequence tea dance. Weekly from 1.30-4pm, Sherwood Welfare Centre, Mansfield Woodhouse. Refreshments.
Dukeries and District Foodbank, the Methodist Church, Forest Road, Ollerton. Open Monday and Thursday, from noon-2pm. Operating on a voucher system. Vouchers can be obtained from all local schools, CAB, health visitors and many other places. Contact 07716439740.
Self-help Cancer Group. Meet first and third Mondays of the month at The Patchills, off Eakring Road, at 7pm. Free complementary therapies.
Festival Hall Leisure Centre, Kirkby. Mature Movers. Mondays, Wednesday and Thursday 10am-noon. Badminton, bowls and table tennis.
Art Club meeting. At Blidworth Methodist Church, weekly at 7pm till 9pm, all welcome.
Bingo. St Andrew’s Church, Blidworth. Bingo with Steven weekly at 2pm. Free admission and refreshments.
Fitsteps. Farnsfield Village Centre, Upper Hall, New Hill, NG22 8JN. FitSteps® weekly from 6–6.45pm.
Coffee mornings. Ollerton Library, from 9.30am-11am every week.
Sequence dance. Weekly, Rainworth Village Hall from 2-4pm, with Beverley Howard. All welcome. Contact Beverley on 07910 849339.
Tabuz Tennis. Ravenshead Leisure Centre for over 50s. Everyone welcome 4-5pm..
Alzheimer’s Society. Shirebrook Memory Café. Meets second Tuesday of each month, from 10.30am – 12.30pm at Shirebrook Miners’ Welfare, Central Drive, Shirebrook, NG20 8BA.
Sequence Dance Club. Weekly, from 2-4pm at Whaley Thorns Village Hall. Admission £1.50, includes refreshments. All welcome. Contact Mr K. Clarke on 743577 or Mrs A. Stone on 472541.
Psychic and Spiritual development classes. Weekly Hare and Hounds, Warsop from 8-10pm beginners to advanced level. £2 per class. Contact Mansfield 843018.
Bingo. St Andrews, Rainworth. Bingo with Steven, Weekly at 2pm, free admission, free refreshments, all welcome.
Toddlers 10 - 12am and 1 - 3pm.. Mansfield Baptist Church, Rosemary Street.
call in or ring MCVS 36 Wood Street. Tel: 01623 651177.
Home League carols. At Shirebrook Salvation Army with Mince pies at 2pm. All welcome.
Toddler Sessions: Huthwaite Leisure Centre from 9.15-11am. Soft play and crafts with juice and snacks. Contact 457130.
Mature Movers. Festival Hall Leisure Centre, Kirkby. Mondays, Wednesday and Thursday 10am-noon. Badminton, bowls and table tennis.
New Cross Community Choir. Enjoy singing or would like to try? Join our relaxed non audition choir. Varied programme of songs. Meets weekly 7-9pm at New Cross Community Church, Downing Street, Sutton. £2 per session. Just turn up on the night or contact newcrosschoir@gmail.com.
Toddler Group 1pm-2:30pm at St Alban’s Forest Town.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican plans to make President Donald Trump’s tax cuts permanent for individuals and many private businesses would worsen an already rising U.S. debt burden, congressional researchers said on Tuesday.
In its annual long-term budget outlook, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said the debt will equal 78 percent of U.S. gross domestic product by the end of the year and a record 152 percent by 2048, a trajectory that it said would hurt the economy, increase the likelihood of a fiscal crisis and make it harder for the government to respond.
Trump’s $1.5 trillion tax cuts and a $1.3 trillion spending bill enacted by Congress in March have already helped push CBO’s debt projections higher through 2041, the report said.
The new tax law permanently slashed the corporate income tax rate to 21 percent from 35 percent. But $1.1 trillion in tax cuts for individuals and businesses structured as “pass-throughs” are set to expire after 2025.
“If lawmakers changed current laws to maintain certain policies now in place, preventing a significant increase in individual income taxes in 2026, for example, the result would be even larger increases in debt,” the CBO report said.
Analysts said the federal fiscal picture is rapidly deteriorating under the combined effect of higher spending for healthcare programs and Social Security, insufficient government revenue and rising debt interest payments.
“The massive deficits caused by policymakers’ recent tax and budget decisions have drastically worsened the country’s long-term finances,” said Shai Akabas, director of economic policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank.
But the specter of fiscal deterioration has had little effect on Congress, as lawmakers head toward a November midterm election showdown for control of the Senate and House of Representatives.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady said on Tuesday that his tax writing panel will outline a new tax package this summer that would make permanent tax cuts for individuals and private businesses.
“In tax reform 2.0, permanency for those middle-class families and for those small businesses will be the centerpiece,” Brady, a Texas Republican, said at a tax forum hosted by the Washington Post.
Brady expects a House vote in the autumn. But new tax legislation may not fare well in the closely divided Senate, where Republicans would need support from Democrats who uniformly opposed last year’s tax overhaul.
Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett told the same forum that tax cuts were not to blame for the rising deficit.
“The deficit is skyrocketing. But it’s not a legacy of the tax law. It’s a legacy of the spending deal,” Hassett said, arguing that corporate tax revenue is running higher than expected.
Administration officials and Republicans in Congress contend that the tax cuts will pay for themselves by generating higher economic growth.
But the CBO said rising debt levels would hurt the economy, constrain budget policy and reduce longer term national savings and income.
Peterborough United have signed Nuneaton players Aaron Williams and Callum Chettle.
Striker Williams (22) and midfielder Chettle (19) have both signed two-and-a-half year contracts.
Both have played for England C, the non-league international side.
Williams has scored 16 goals in 30 games for National North side Nuneaton this season. He was at Walsall as a youngster.
Chettle is the son of former Nottingham Forest defender Steve.
Posh chairman Darragh MacAnthony said: “Aaron Williams a gem of a goalscoring striker from Nuneaton who has spent time training with us recently.
“Callum Chettle from Nuneaton one of best teenagers in Non league & superb talent.
Neither player was due to be involved in today’s (January 23) League One fixture at Gillingham.
They will link up with the first-team squad on Monday (January 25).
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday virtually rejected BJP leader Yashwant Singh demand for his appearance before the Joint Parliamentary Committee probing the 2G scam, saying the panel should take a call on it even as he asserted that he had nothing to hide.
Two days after Sinha, a JPC member, wrote to him, Dr. Singh responded by saying that all “pertinent” documents related to 2G spectrum allocation of 2008 were available with the JPC.
“The decision as to what evidence should be sought and which individuals should be asked to appear before the JPC is a matter that needs to be decided internally by the JPC and its Chairman,” the Prime Minister said in his letter to Sinha.
Dr. Singh underscored that he had said “from the beginning that neither the Government nor I have anything to hide in this matter” related to 2G spectrum allocation.
“You are aware that all pertinent records and documents available with the Government have already been placed at the disposal of the JPC,” he told the BJP leader.
Sinha’s letter to the Prime Minister had triggered a fresh war in JPC with its chairman P C Chacko on Tuesday rubbishing the demand as a “political stunt”.
Heidi Klum talks exclusively with Access' Scott Evans about supporting her fellow "AGT" judge Mel B through tough times. And, she shares why she decided to leave "Project Runway." Plus, she spills details about her new Amazon show!
Former A-League winning coach Mike Mulvey has been handed the reigns to Central Coast Mariners after being appointed as the club's new head coach for the next two seasons. Mulvey was announced three weeks after the abrupt departure of former coach, Paul Okon but will not take charge of the club until the start of pre-season for the 2018-19 season. Mulvey joins the Mariners after stints coaching in Thailand, Malaysia and previously Brisbane Roar in the A-League.
“Mike is one of a very select few that has won the A-league and from the moment we first connected it was clear that Mike’s vision for our club is perfectly aligned to where we want to head and how we are going to get there," Mariners chief executive Shaun Mielekamp said.
Mulvey was unveiled as the Mariners new coach at a members function on Wednesday evening.
“I couldn’t be more delighted to be returning to Australia and to embrace the opportunity that exists here on the Central Coast,” Mulvey said. “The Mariners are a club with a rich history and genuine tradition. During the first decade, they demanded success and developed some wonderful players. My task in the coming years is very clear – I want to restore that culture of ambition and promote the hungriest young talent in the country," Mulvey said.
Is it Pestonian or Pestonese? A dialect or a full-blown language? One thing's for sure, it's not English as it's ever been spoken before. But after a rocky period, when Disgusted of Dorchester petitioned for Robert Peston's removal as BBC business editor, he has now become an unexpected cult figure and a linguistic sensation. I, on the other hand, am none of those things; my dull monotone is holding me back. So I have pleaded for a quick lesson in Pestonian.
What is the key? "Ummmmm, errrrrr ... Live the story; it's your story, nobody else's story. You have to be clear - and you can't fake this - that the story matters. Annnnnnnd you've got to be unselfconscious. Be true to yourself and, if being true to yourself is occasionally accentuating words in an eccentric way, don't worry about it."
He clearly thinks I am failing to live the story enough, because soon he is chiding me. "You've got to get excited about what you're doing. Your brain has to fizz a bit more. You've got to think, 'TALKING TO ROBERT PESTON IS THE MOST EXCITING THING I'VE EVER DONE IN MY ENTIRE CAREER!!!! This could be the biggest moment of your LIFE.'" It is, I assure him. "But you're not PROJECTING that. Let's be clear. You're not getting that across. I'm not FEELING that from you."
A central part of Pestonian is to linger on the little words - an "of", for instance, can last half a minute - and then speed through the big ones. "Explosion", in Pestonian, does explode in a wonderfully onomatopoeic way. Is this the grammatical heart of his way of speaking? "I've always done this thing of thinking and speaking more or less simultaneously, so you have to devise strategies to make sure that what comes out isn't completely stupid," he explains. "It does mean occasionally that the pauses go in slightly odd places, because you're holding on a word, making sure that what you have to say is rational."
As the final part of the tutorial, I ask him to read one of Shakespeare's most famous passages.
"To be, or not to be [pause]: that is the QUESTION: / Whether 'tis NOBler in the MIND to suffer / The slings and ARROWS of OUTRAGEOUS fortune, / Or to take ARMS against a sea of troubles, / And by opposing [pause] end them [very softly]?
Magnificent. And a final tip? "You've got to be completely rubbish at where you put your emphasis," he says. "That's quite important."
Former professional wrestler Sean Haire, who went by the stage name of Sean O’Haire, has died at the age of 43 of what is being ruled a suicide.
According to local Spartanburg, S.C. police, the WCW/WWE star was found dead in his bedroom with a rope tied around his neck in his bedroom.
O'Haire first made his World Champion Wrestling debut in 2000. During his time in the WWE, he developed a Devil’s advocate character who inspired people to commit acts of chaos. He would tell the audience to break the law, cheat on their spouses and not pay taxes before saying, "I'm not telling you anything you don't already know."
Chuck Palumbo, who was O'Haire's tag team partner during much of his career, tweeted this message about his late friend.
Following his 5-year stint in pro wrestling, O’Haire retired to pursue mixed martial arts. His obituary reads that "He was a gentle and kind person that studied Buddhism and was employed as a personal trainer at Exzel Fitness in Spartanburg."
Meanwhile the WWE offered this statement: "WWE extends its condolences to Sean Christopher Haire's family, friends and fans on his passing."
Public paychecks: Who earns the biggest salaries on the D.C. payroll? Check out our database.
Ronald Mason, president of the University of the District of Columbia, is once again the highest-paid person on the District payroll, according to data provided by the city and compiled by the Washington Business Journal.
With a 2018 salary of $312,965.50, Mason — who stepped into the president’s office at the Connecticut Avenue NW campus in July 2015 and has been D.C.’s highest-earner ever since — is the only person on the D.C. payroll to earn more than $300,000.
Still, his salary puts him on the last rung in terms of compensation for executives leading Greater Washington’s public universities. University of Maryland President Wallace Loh is set to earn $650,000 in 2018, while George Mason University President Angel Cabrera will take home $563,927.01 this year. Bowie State President Mickey Burnim was making roughly $319,000 before moving to a job at UMd. Eastern Shore in July.
Abraaj Holdings had an “unusual” business model reliant on short-term borrowing, and key financial statements are missing or nonexistent, according to one of the firms tasked with salvaging the Dubai-based private-equity firm’s assets.
This is “an unusual practice for a structure operating in a private equity capacity,” PwC said. “It creates a highly unstable business model, sensitive to volatility and potential liquidity crises, particularly where the cost base cannot be funded by ongoing revenues,” according to the report, which was filed to a Cayman Islands court on July 11.
Deloitte and PwC were hired as the provisional liquidators of Abraaj, once one of the biggest private equity firms in the Middle East, which owes its creditors more than $1 billion. After an audit demanded by Bill Gates’s charitable foundation and others, the buyout firm ran into trouble after being accused of mingling investors’ money with its own in a health-care fund, setting in motion a series of events culminating in a voluntary liquidation filing in the Caymans last month.
PwC said that under Cayman rules, companies like Abraaj, which was founded by Pakistani executive Arif Naqvi in 2002, don’t need to file standalone financials, but it’s “highly irregular” for such a firm not to do so. A spokeswoman for Abraaj said they couldn’t comment on a report that is confidential, while a representative for PwC declined to comment.
Abraaj Holdings posted a loss of $188 million at the end of March after dipping into investors’ money to run its operations, the filing shows. The company owes lenders $1.1 billion after the delayed sale of K-Electric in Pakistan led it to tap its health-care fund without investor consent, according to the report.
The latest PwC report said that Abraaj owes a total of $170.8 million to two funds it manages -- Private Equity Fund IV and Infrastructure and the Growth Capital Fund.
The buyout firm has been seeking to sell its fund unit and also the stakes it owns in the funds. Cerberus Capital Management LP and Colony Capital Inc. made new offers to buy some of Abraaj’s assets, people familiar with the matter said this week. Discussions on the sale of the firm’s asset management business are ongoing, a spokeswoman for Abraaj said at the time.
Meanwhile, lenders have been reporting their exposures to the firm, with Commercial Bank of Dubai PSC putting its exposure at $166.3 million of secured credit facilities, according to a statement Thursday. First Abu Dhabi Bank PJSC provided a three-year fully-secured $21.4 million term loan to Abraaj Holdings, while Mashreqbank PSC has an overall exposure of 66.46 million dirhams ($18 million) to Abraaj and its funds, the lenders said earlier.
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Thousands of Jewish artifacts found in Iraq a decade ago have been restored and are now on public display.
They’re slated to be returned to Iraq — and that’s angered many in the Jewish community, CBS 2’s Carolyn Gusoff reported Monday.
Thousands of miles — and years — From ancient Babylonia, Alice Aboody is fighting to preserve history.
“This is stolen material. How can you return it?” she said.

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