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The one area where we don't excel, according to Simon Daniel at Moixa, is in providing the finance for small companies to scale up and take on the world. He says Silicon Valley doesn't have the same strength in battery research as the UK "but they are faster at getting it out of the labs."
He is confident that the government's new industrial strategy will address this issue.
But around the world, companies and governments with deep pockets are investing heavily in battery technology that could transform many areas of our lives. The UK will need to move faster to turn some brilliant research into world-beating products.
Tuesday afternoon the school’s wide hallways were quiet. Seniors said their goodbyes last week at graduation, and only about 100 students showed up for the final day. Most classrooms in the four-story building were empty. In those that weren’t, students played games, watched movies or chatted while waiting for the last 2:20 p.m. end-of-school bell.
She said she has enjoyed her students.
The Kansas City school board voted to close Southwest along with Wendell Phillips Elementary and Satchel Paige Elementary schools as part of a plan that reconfigures school attendance boundaries. The plan is designed, district leaders say, to make better use of school building space.
With the creation of more neighborhood schools, the plan is also expected to strengthen community ties and bolster student achievement. Next year, Southwest students will join students at Southeast High School, now the district’s African-Centered College Preparatory Academy.
Enrollment in the district has dwindled over the years. In 2006, enrollment was 28,299; in 2015 it was 15,258. At Southwest, enrollment went from 1,491 in 2011 to 239 in 2015.
Closing Southwest reduces the district to four neighborhood high schools.
Southwest was built on a part of the old Armour farm in early 1925 to serve a rapidly growing Country Club District.
Over the years, many of Kansas City’s prominent citizens graduated from Southwest, including Lester Milgram, owner of Milgram Food Stores, in 1934; journalist and author Calvin Trillin in 1953; and Henry Bloch, co-founder of tax preparation giant H&R Block, in 1939.
Ed Matheny, a retired Kansas City attorney and author of “The Rise and Fall of Excellence: The Story of Southwest High School,” graduated from Southwest in 1940. He was class president his senior year and remembers playing football and basketball and running track.
He said that in the 1950s it was listed in national magazines as one of the 30 best high schools.
District demographics changed through the years, resulting in fewer residents of the neighborhood around Southwest sending children to public schools.
From 1990 until 2005, Southwest operated as Southwest Charter School. Then it was established as an early college prep school. By the 2009-2010 school year, it was known as one of the district’s more successful programs.
Five years ago, when the district sought to downsize, middle school students were put in high school buildings. Students from Westport High School moved into Southwest.
With Westport, unanticipated behavior problems erupted. In 2010, the school principal changed twice. The graduation rate dropped from 68.5 percent in 2012 to 51.5 percent last year. At the same time, composite ACT scores dipped from just above 16 to about 15 out of a possible 36.
But that’s not how TechN9ne, born Aaron D. Yates, remembers his school.
“It prepared me,” said Jones, a former St. Louis Ram known for making the final, winning tackle of Super Bowl XXXIV. Jones now is the head football coach at Lincoln University in Jefferson City. He has given the commencement speech at Southwest twice, as recently as 2015.
Southwest Early College Campus, more commonly known as Southwest High School, closed for good on Tuesday. The building is at 6512 Wornall Road.
One of the greatest luxuries in life, besides our health and time, is the ease of living.
At 19 Dutch in New York City, a Butterfly MX smartphone video intercom system lets guests bypass the traditional check-in.
The last decade has seen developers race to out-do each other in the state-of-the-art amenities they import into their projects. But no matter how extravagant residential amenities become, they can't obscure one simple fact. Few if any of the most “out-there” extras would be possible without cutting-edge technologies developed over the past several years.
That realization, along with 5G connectivity's anticipated arrival late this year, has many wondering what the latest leap forward in tech evolution will mean for smart dwellings. One thing's for sure: Watch for household staples like keys and remote controls to join coal bins and Victrolas on the list of items technological progression has rendered obsolete.
San Francisco luxury home developer Troon Pacific is merging technology and home design in each of its new homes at a development called Residence 2680. Troon Pacific incorporated a Savant home automation system that controls thermostats, audio, lighting, window shades, TV viewing and other home activities via tablet and mobile devices from anywhere.
A continent away, at the center of New York City's Financial District, luxury apartment community 19 Dutch is giving its residents the most up-to-date smart home technology. Butterfly MX, the first smartphone video intercom system, is installed at the front entrance to enable guests to bypass the traditional check-in. The technology offers double convenience for residents and their guests accustomed to a 24-hour attended lobby. In addition, through an app, residents can control several functions, including the temperatures and lighting of their apartments as well as remote door access.
“Our intention when designing 19 Dutch was to create spaces for the future that redefine access and convenience in a rental building,” says Jason Hill, senior marketing director at Douglas Elliman Development Marketing, the exclusive leasing and marketing firm.
Toronto's KPMB Architects-designed Thornwood House blends into its natural surroundings with its design based on the transcendental number “phi,” or the Golden Ratio. The property's unifying character incorporates a smart integrated control system that includes interior climate control, security surveillance and automatic adjustment of lighting and window shades based on weather and other outside conditions. All are controlled by either a smart phone or a tablet application accessed through fixed iPads installed throughout the home.
I would like to commend you on the information shared in the Arena section of the March issue regarding elementary education choices for parents with young children ["It’s Elementary,” Service Desk, by Jennifer Tanaka]. I was, however, disappointed that a quality option for parents was omitted: public charter schools.
for the youngest students, in kindergarten through third grade.
There is no entrance exam for public charter schools, but parents must complete an application to have their child(ren) included in the lottery for open seats. For additional information, please visit our Web site at ChicagoIntl.org.
Editors’ note: “It’s Elementary” focused on the application process to the Chicago Public Schools lottery. Because each charter school conducts its own public lottery, we chose not to address the category in the article.
Richard Babcock omitted mention of another Chicago chapter in the life of Johnny Stompanato [American Gigolo, April]. In 1940-41, he was a student at Morgan Park Military Academy in Chicago and, according to the recollections of classmate Bill Getz, Johnny did not last the full year.
One other curious note: Jerry Geisler, the “lawyer to the stars” who defended Cheryl Crane, attended the same school as Stompanato in 1904-1906, when Morgan Park Academy was the preparatory school for the University of Chicago.
The story [American Gigolo] brought back memories of the night Johnny Stompanato was murdered. We lived on Washington Street in Woodstock. Our phone rang probably sometime between four and five in the morning. Back then, the phone didn’t ring at that time of day.
On the line was Helen Merwin, wife of the funeral home owner, and my mother was her best friend. They had received a call from the family to start arrangements for getting the body back and a funeral service. I’m sure we were among the first to know about the incident.
One myth destroyed by the story was the Stompanato boy in our eighth grade class at Central Junior High School. I guess he couldn’t have been Johnny’s brother. It was his third year in eighth grade. He sat in the back of the room and said nothing. I wonder who he was.
+ In the June article The Friends of O, Cass Sunstein’s middle initial was printed incorrectly in a caption. It is R.
+ In The Friends of O, the first African American elected to Congress in the 20th century was identified incorrectly. The distinction belongs to Oscar De Priest.
When campaign questions came up about the relationship between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers, the sixties radical turned professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, we posted on our Web site an August 2001 Chicago profile of Ayers, No Regrets, by Marcia Froelke Coburn.
One element of the story particularly exercised readers, as it did when the story was first published: a Jeff Sciortino photo of Ayers standing on an American flag. The photo drew attention from Fox News, including the program Hannity & Colmes, and media organizations around the country followed suit. Traffic surged at the magazine’s Web site, much of it steered by right-wing blogs, including HughHewitt.com, MichelleMalkin.com, and Little Green Footballs.
Dozens of comments appeared on the site, the vast majority of them excoriating the ex-radical. “Ayers exhibits all of the stereotypic characteristics of a sixties liberal—self-righteousness, hypocrisy, hubris, and unrepentance,” one said. “Hey, don’t be so hard on Bill Ayers. This is a free country. He is perfectly free to be an idiot,” another offered. The activity slowed after a few days, as the campaign coverage turned—for the time being, anyway—to other matters. The story, along with the comments, is still available to read at Chicagomag.com (search for “Bill Ayers” or “No Regrets").
Jeremy Corbyn has set out a 10-point programme for Britain’s future, based on a huge public investment programme and a commitment to equality.
He has also dismissed the idea Labour could split if he is re-elected leader.
At a business park in Dagenham, east London, on Thursday, Corbyn pledged about £500bn in public spending, which would be used to build new homes, boost the NHS and education and reduce income divisions.
Answering media questions after the event, Corbyn said there was no chance of the party separating if he defeats Owen Smith in the party’s leadership election. Smith, who will enter his first head-to-head debate with Corbyn at a leadership hustings in Cardiff on Thursday evening, warned this week it was likely that the party would split or even “bust apart and disappear” if Corbyn won.
The Labour leader said on Thursday: “I’m sure no Labour MP would even dream of breaking away from the family of the Labour party, the family of the Labour party that helped to put them into parliament.” Cheers from supporters watching the speech drowned out the rest of the answer.
Asked about the mass resignations from his shadow cabinet that precipitated the leadership challenge, Corbyn again said he expected rebels to fall back into line if he was re-elected.
While Thursday’s speech, in front of about 60 supporters and members of the media, was officially part of the leadership battle, Corbyn used the chance to launch the 10-point list of his priorities to put to the country. At the centre is a previously-announced plan for £500bn in public spending via a new national investment bank, to help create a hi-tech and green-based economy. Corbyn said this would be financed by a resultant stronger economy and by cracking down on tax evasion.
Corbyn said a Labour government under him would pledge to build 1m new homes in its first term, half of them council properties. Other pledges covered more job security at work, a better-funded and wholly public NHS, more spending on education and environmental issues and action to combat inequality and income disparities.
On foreign policy, he said a Labour government would focus on conflict resolution and human rights, saying his party’s record over the Iraq war meant it must “work for a more peaceful world”.
Corbyn won the backing of another trade union in the race for the Labour leadership on Thursday. The executive of the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association voted unanimously to support Corbyn rather than Smith.
Manuel Cortes, the union’s general secretary, said: “Jeremy has a set of policies and values which will benefit working people and we will be backing him on the basis.
Earlier, John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that a huge programme of investment was needed, which is backed by business groups such as the CBI.
On Smith’s warning of a Labour split, McDonnell accused him of attempting to blackmail Corbyn voters into supporting his campaign, and dismissed the claim as the “wrong tactic in a leadership election”. He described the message coming from some of Smith’s friends as a threat and said he did not think that was acceptable.
The decision to bar Labour members who joined after 12 January from voting in the election is being challenged in the high court, in a crowdfunded case brought by some of the estimated 130,000 people who have been excluded.
Full employment and an economy that works for all: based around a £500bn public investment via the planned national investment bank.
A secure homes guarantee: building 1m new homes in five years, at least half of them council homes. Also rent controls and secure tenancies.
Security at work: includes stronger employment rights, an end to zero hours contracts and mandatory collective bargaining for companies with 250 or more employees.
Secure our NHS and social care: end health service privatisation and bring services into a “secure, publicly-provided NHS”.
A national education service: includes universal public childcare, the “progressive restoration” of free education, and quality apprenticeships.
Action to secure our environment: includes keeping to Paris climate agreement, and moving to a “low-carbon economy” and green industries, in part via national investment bank.
Put the public back into our economy and services: includes renationalising railways and bringing private bus, leisure and sports facilities back into local government control.
Cut income and wealth inequality: make a progressive tax system so highest earners are “fairly taxed”, shrink the gap between the highest and lowest paid.
Action to secure an equal society: includes action to combat violence against women, as well as discrimination based on race, sexuality or disability, and defend the Human Rights Act.
Peace and justice at the heart of foreign policy: aims to put conflict resolution and human rights “at the heart of foreign policy”.
The Centre for National Affairs (CNA), has petitioned the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, to fast-track investigations into alleged corruption at the Electoral Commission (EC).
The CNA told Citi News the delays compromise the work of the EC ahead of critical elections.
The group is concerned about the upcoming political party primaries and the expected referendum on the creation of new regions. The Executive Director of the Centre, Samuel Lartey, said these activities that require the EC may be disrupted.
President Akufo-Addo in accordance with the constitution forwarded both petitions to the Chief Justice to look into the matter.
'We heard an almighty bang': Residents shock as Sunderland's Mowbray Road sealed off as police officer and two others seriously injured after car collides with police dog van.
Residents living near Sunderland's Mowbray Road have spoken of their shock after part of the street was sealed off as three people were taken to hospital after a police dog van was hit by a car.
A huge police presence and ambulance crews were dispatched to the street at 11.30am this morning following the incident.
A damaged police van in Mowbray Road after this morning's incident where three people were taken to hospital after a collision.
Three people, including a police officer, were taken to Sunderland Royal Hospital with serious but non life-threatening injuries. A 30-year-old man was arrested after the incident and remains in custody.
Northumbria Police said it had earlier received reports that a Vauxhall Corsa was being driven dangerously in Hylton Road and had begun a search for the vehicle before it hit a police dog van in Mowbray Road, near The Cloisters.
One local resident, a man in his 30s, told the Echo: "I was in the house with my partner when we heard an almighty bang and then as I made my way to the front door to see what had happened, I heard an awful screeching sound and then another bang.
"A police vehicle appeared to have gone into a wall in the street. There was a lot of commotion, the ambulances arrived quickly and they were treating somebody in the street.
"After that more police cars arrived and people were told to go back. The street was sealed off and nobody was able to get in or out."
An elderly woman who lives nearby said: "I've never seen anything like this in 30 years of living in the street.
"I never actually saw the collision but saw lots of flashing lights going past when I looked out of my window.
"They put a cordon in place and I could see someone being treated in the street. I just hope everyone involved is OK."
Police are appealing for any witnesses who may have seen an incident involving the car today.
If you're lucky, you may even see a horse.
1. So Tuesday was the Melbourne Cup, the biggest day on Australia's social calendar.
2. The Cup was won by a female jockey for the first time, with the help of her brother Stevie. It's a really nice story.
3. Just more than 100,000 people packed into Flemington race course for the event. It's the nation's biggest party.
4. And boy oh boy were the punters in a good mood.
5. Aussies. They just love horse racing.
8. And some really nice outfits.
9. The men built human pyramids as a way of gaining female attention.
10. While the females were just classy af.
11. People played traditional games. Like tie limbo!
14. If you're lucky you may even see a horse at some stage.
15. Most people enjoy a quiet drink.
16. Admittedly, it's a long day.
17. Sometimes you need a nap to get through it.
18. Some handle things better than others.
19. There are always a few casualties.
20. It can be a slow crawl to the finish line.

The one area where we don't excel, according to Simon Daniel at Moixa, is in providing the finance for small companies to scale up and take on the world. He says Silicon Valley doesn't have the same strength in battery research as the UK "but they are faster at getting it out of the labs."

He is confident that the government's new industrial strategy will address this issue.

But around the world, companies and governments with deep pockets are investing heavily in battery technology that could transform many areas of our lives. The UK will need to move faster to turn some brilliant research into world-beating products.

Tuesday afternoon the school’s wide hallways were quiet. Seniors said their goodbyes last week at graduation, and only about 100 students showed up for the final day. Most classrooms in the four-story building were empty. In those that weren’t, students played games, watched movies or chatted while waiting for the last 2:20 p.m. end-of-school bell.

She said she has enjoyed her students.

The Kansas City school board voted to close Southwest along with Wendell Phillips Elementary and Satchel Paige Elementary schools as part of a plan that reconfigures school attendance boundaries. The plan is designed, district leaders say, to make better use of school building space.

With the creation of more neighborhood schools, the plan is also expected to strengthen community ties and bolster student achievement. Next year, Southwest students will join students at Southeast High School, now the district’s African-Centered College Preparatory Academy.

Enrollment in the district has dwindled over the years. In 2006, enrollment was 28,299; in 2015 it was 15,258. At Southwest, enrollment went from 1,491 in 2011 to 239 in 2015.

Closing Southwest reduces the district to four neighborhood high schools.

Southwest was built on a part of the old Armour farm in early 1925 to serve a rapidly growing Country Club District.

Over the years, many of Kansas City’s prominent citizens graduated from Southwest, including Lester Milgram, owner of Milgram Food Stores, in 1934; journalist and author Calvin Trillin in 1953; and Henry Bloch, co-founder of tax preparation giant H&R Block, in 1939.

Ed Matheny, a retired Kansas City attorney and author of “The Rise and Fall of Excellence: The Story of Southwest High School,” graduated from Southwest in 1940. He was class president his senior year and remembers playing football and basketball and running track.

He said that in the 1950s it was listed in national magazines as one of the 30 best high schools.

District demographics changed through the years, resulting in fewer residents of the neighborhood around Southwest sending children to public schools.

From 1990 until 2005, Southwest operated as Southwest Charter School. Then it was established as an early college prep school. By the 2009-2010 school year, it was known as one of the district’s more successful programs.

Five years ago, when the district sought to downsize, middle school students were put in high school buildings. Students from Westport High School moved into Southwest.

With Westport, unanticipated behavior problems erupted. In 2010, the school principal changed twice. The graduation rate dropped from 68.5 percent in 2012 to 51.5 percent last year. At the same time, composite ACT scores dipped from just above 16 to about 15 out of a possible 36.

But that’s not how TechN9ne, born Aaron D. Yates, remembers his school.

“It prepared me,” said Jones, a former St. Louis Ram known for making the final, winning tackle of Super Bowl XXXIV. Jones now is the head football coach at Lincoln University in Jefferson City. He has given the commencement speech at Southwest twice, as recently as 2015.

Southwest Early College Campus, more commonly known as Southwest High School, closed for good on Tuesday. The building is at 6512 Wornall Road.

One of the greatest luxuries in life, besides our health and time, is the ease of living.

At 19 Dutch in New York City, a Butterfly MX smartphone video intercom system lets guests bypass the traditional check-in.

The last decade has seen developers race to out-do each other in the state-of-the-art amenities they import into their projects. But no matter how extravagant residential amenities become, they can't obscure one simple fact. Few if any of the most “out-there” extras would be possible without cutting-edge technologies developed over the past several years.

That realization, along with 5G connectivity's anticipated arrival late this year, has many wondering what the latest leap forward in tech evolution will mean for smart dwellings. One thing's for sure: Watch for household staples like keys and remote controls to join coal bins and Victrolas on the list of items technological progression has rendered obsolete.

San Francisco luxury home developer Troon Pacific is merging technology and home design in each of its new homes at a development called Residence 2680. Troon Pacific incorporated a Savant home automation system that controls thermostats, audio, lighting, window shades, TV viewing and other home activities via tablet and mobile devices from anywhere.

A continent away, at the center of New York City's Financial District, luxury apartment community 19 Dutch is giving its residents the most up-to-date smart home technology. Butterfly MX, the first smartphone video intercom system, is installed at the front entrance to enable guests to bypass the traditional check-in. The technology offers double convenience for residents and their guests accustomed to a 24-hour attended lobby. In addition, through an app, residents can control several functions, including the temperatures and lighting of their apartments as well as remote door access.

“Our intention when designing 19 Dutch was to create spaces for the future that redefine access and convenience in a rental building,” says Jason Hill, senior marketing director at Douglas Elliman Development Marketing, the exclusive leasing and marketing firm.

Toronto's KPMB Architects-designed Thornwood House blends into its natural surroundings with its design based on the transcendental number “phi,” or the Golden Ratio. The property's unifying character incorporates a smart integrated control system that includes interior climate control, security surveillance and automatic adjustment of lighting and window shades based on weather and other outside conditions. All are controlled by either a smart phone or a tablet application accessed through fixed iPads installed throughout the home.

I would like to commend you on the information shared in the Arena section of the March issue regarding elementary education choices for parents with young children ["It’s Elementary,” Service Desk, by Jennifer Tanaka]. I was, however, disappointed that a quality option for parents was omitted: public charter schools.

for the youngest students, in kindergarten through third grade.

There is no entrance exam for public charter schools, but parents must complete an application to have their child(ren) included in the lottery for open seats. For additional information, please visit our Web site at ChicagoIntl.org.

Editors’ note: “It’s Elementary” focused on the application process to the Chicago Public Schools lottery. Because each charter school conducts its own public lottery, we chose not to address the category in the article.

Richard Babcock omitted mention of another Chicago chapter in the life of Johnny Stompanato [American Gigolo, April]. In 1940-41, he was a student at Morgan Park Military Academy in Chicago and, according to the recollections of classmate Bill Getz, Johnny did not last the full year.

One other curious note: Jerry Geisler, the “lawyer to the stars” who defended Cheryl Crane, attended the same school as Stompanato in 1904-1906, when Morgan Park Academy was the preparatory school for the University of Chicago.

The story [American Gigolo] brought back memories of the night Johnny Stompanato was murdered. We lived on Washington Street in Woodstock. Our phone rang probably sometime between four and five in the morning. Back then, the phone didn’t ring at that time of day.

On the line was Helen Merwin, wife of the funeral home owner, and my mother was her best friend. They had received a call from the family to start arrangements for getting the body back and a funeral service. I’m sure we were among the first to know about the incident.

One myth destroyed by the story was the Stompanato boy in our eighth grade class at Central Junior High School. I guess he couldn’t have been Johnny’s brother. It was his third year in eighth grade. He sat in the back of the room and said nothing. I wonder who he was.

+ In the June article The Friends of O, Cass Sunstein’s middle initial was printed incorrectly in a caption. It is R.

+ In The Friends of O, the first African American elected to Congress in the 20th century was identified incorrectly. The distinction belongs to Oscar De Priest.

When campaign questions came up about the relationship between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers, the sixties radical turned professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, we posted on our Web site an August 2001 Chicago profile of Ayers, No Regrets, by Marcia Froelke Coburn.

One element of the story particularly exercised readers, as it did when the story was first published: a Jeff Sciortino photo of Ayers standing on an American flag. The photo drew attention from Fox News, including the program Hannity & Colmes, and media organizations around the country followed suit. Traffic surged at the magazine’s Web site, much of it steered by right-wing blogs, including HughHewitt.com, MichelleMalkin.com, and Little Green Footballs.

Dozens of comments appeared on the site, the vast majority of them excoriating the ex-radical. “Ayers exhibits all of the stereotypic characteristics of a sixties liberal—self-righteousness, hypocrisy, hubris, and unrepentance,” one said. “Hey, don’t be so hard on Bill Ayers. This is a free country. He is perfectly free to be an idiot,” another offered. The activity slowed after a few days, as the campaign coverage turned—for the time being, anyway—to other matters. The story, along with the comments, is still available to read at Chicagomag.com (search for “Bill Ayers” or “No Regrets").

Jeremy Corbyn has set out a 10-point programme for Britain’s future, based on a huge public investment programme and a commitment to equality.

He has also dismissed the idea Labour could split if he is re-elected leader.

At a business park in Dagenham, east London, on Thursday, Corbyn pledged about £500bn in public spending, which would be used to build new homes, boost the NHS and education and reduce income divisions.

Answering media questions after the event, Corbyn said there was no chance of the party separating if he defeats Owen Smith in the party’s leadership election. Smith, who will enter his first head-to-head debate with Corbyn at a leadership hustings in Cardiff on Thursday evening, warned this week it was likely that the party would split or even “bust apart and disappear” if Corbyn won.

The Labour leader said on Thursday: “I’m sure no Labour MP would even dream of breaking away from the family of the Labour party, the family of the Labour party that helped to put them into parliament.” Cheers from supporters watching the speech drowned out the rest of the answer.

Asked about the mass resignations from his shadow cabinet that precipitated the leadership challenge, Corbyn again said he expected rebels to fall back into line if he was re-elected.

While Thursday’s speech, in front of about 60 supporters and members of the media, was officially part of the leadership battle, Corbyn used the chance to launch the 10-point list of his priorities to put to the country. At the centre is a previously-announced plan for £500bn in public spending via a new national investment bank, to help create a hi-tech and green-based economy. Corbyn said this would be financed by a resultant stronger economy and by cracking down on tax evasion.

Corbyn said a Labour government under him would pledge to build 1m new homes in its first term, half of them council properties. Other pledges covered more job security at work, a better-funded and wholly public NHS, more spending on education and environmental issues and action to combat inequality and income disparities.

On foreign policy, he said a Labour government would focus on conflict resolution and human rights, saying his party’s record over the Iraq war meant it must “work for a more peaceful world”.

Corbyn won the backing of another trade union in the race for the Labour leadership on Thursday. The executive of the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association voted unanimously to support Corbyn rather than Smith.

Manuel Cortes, the union’s general secretary, said: “Jeremy has a set of policies and values which will benefit working people and we will be backing him on the basis.

Earlier, John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that a huge programme of investment was needed, which is backed by business groups such as the CBI.

On Smith’s warning of a Labour split, McDonnell accused him of attempting to blackmail Corbyn voters into supporting his campaign, and dismissed the claim as the “wrong tactic in a leadership election”. He described the message coming from some of Smith’s friends as a threat and said he did not think that was acceptable.

The decision to bar Labour members who joined after 12 January from voting in the election is being challenged in the high court, in a crowdfunded case brought by some of the estimated 130,000 people who have been excluded.

Full employment and an economy that works for all: based around a £500bn public investment via the planned national investment bank.

A secure homes guarantee: building 1m new homes in five years, at least half of them council homes. Also rent controls and secure tenancies.

Security at work: includes stronger employment rights, an end to zero hours contracts and mandatory collective bargaining for companies with 250 or more employees.

Secure our NHS and social care: end health service privatisation and bring services into a “secure, publicly-provided NHS”.

A national education service: includes universal public childcare, the “progressive restoration” of free education, and quality apprenticeships.

Action to secure our environment: includes keeping to Paris climate agreement, and moving to a “low-carbon economy” and green industries, in part via national investment bank.

Put the public back into our economy and services: includes renationalising railways and bringing private bus, leisure and sports facilities back into local government control.

Cut income and wealth inequality: make a progressive tax system so highest earners are “fairly taxed”, shrink the gap between the highest and lowest paid.

Action to secure an equal society: includes action to combat violence against women, as well as discrimination based on race, sexuality or disability, and defend the Human Rights Act.

Peace and justice at the heart of foreign policy: aims to put conflict resolution and human rights “at the heart of foreign policy”.

The Centre for National Affairs (CNA), has petitioned the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, to fast-track investigations into alleged corruption at the Electoral Commission (EC).

The CNA told Citi News the delays compromise the work of the EC ahead of critical elections.

The group is concerned about the upcoming political party primaries and the expected referendum on the creation of new regions. The Executive Director of the Centre, Samuel Lartey, said these activities that require the EC may be disrupted.

President Akufo-Addo in accordance with the constitution forwarded both petitions to the Chief Justice to look into the matter.

'We heard an almighty bang': Residents shock as Sunderland's Mowbray Road sealed off as police officer and two others seriously injured after car collides with police dog van.

Residents living near Sunderland's Mowbray Road have spoken of their shock after part of the street was sealed off as three people were taken to hospital after a police dog van was hit by a car.

A huge police presence and ambulance crews were dispatched to the street at 11.30am this morning following the incident.

A damaged police van in Mowbray Road after this morning's incident where three people were taken to hospital after a collision.

Three people, including a police officer, were taken to Sunderland Royal Hospital with serious but non life-threatening injuries. A 30-year-old man was arrested after the incident and remains in custody.

Northumbria Police said it had earlier received reports that a Vauxhall Corsa was being driven dangerously in Hylton Road and had begun a search for the vehicle before it hit a police dog van in Mowbray Road, near The Cloisters.

One local resident, a man in his 30s, told the Echo: "I was in the house with my partner when we heard an almighty bang and then as I made my way to the front door to see what had happened, I heard an awful screeching sound and then another bang.

"A police vehicle appeared to have gone into a wall in the street. There was a lot of commotion, the ambulances arrived quickly and they were treating somebody in the street.

"After that more police cars arrived and people were told to go back. The street was sealed off and nobody was able to get in or out."

An elderly woman who lives nearby said: "I've never seen anything like this in 30 years of living in the street.

"I never actually saw the collision but saw lots of flashing lights going past when I looked out of my window.

"They put a cordon in place and I could see someone being treated in the street. I just hope everyone involved is OK."

Police are appealing for any witnesses who may have seen an incident involving the car today.

If you're lucky, you may even see a horse.

1. So Tuesday was the Melbourne Cup, the biggest day on Australia's social calendar.

2. The Cup was won by a female jockey for the first time, with the help of her brother Stevie. It's a really nice story.

3. Just more than 100,000 people packed into Flemington race course for the event. It's the nation's biggest party.

4. And boy oh boy were the punters in a good mood.

5. Aussies. They just love horse racing.

8. And some really nice outfits.

9. The men built human pyramids as a way of gaining female attention.

10. While the females were just classy af.

11. People played traditional games. Like tie limbo!

14. If you're lucky you may even see a horse at some stage.

15. Most people enjoy a quiet drink.

16. Admittedly, it's a long day.

17. Sometimes you need a nap to get through it.

18. Some handle things better than others.

19. There are always a few casualties.

20. It can be a slow crawl to the finish line.