- The Guardian Sat urday 31 Aug ust 2019
58SchoolsLeaked Tor y plans focus
on funding and behaviour
Indonesia
Sinking prompts plans to
move capital to BorneoSustainability
Tube line to help heat
London homes in winterEpstein scandalAccuser says Duke of York
‘knows what he’s done’
Menopause
Cancer risk from HRT is
‘twice what was thought’Notting Hill carnival
‘Carnival should be taken as
seriously as Glastonbury’More than 1 million people
descended on west London
this bank holiday weekend to
celebrate the two-day Notting
Hill festival.
The fi rst carnival was
held in 1959 in response to
a series of racist attacks and
rioting that spread from
Nottingham to west London,
where white youths went out
targeting black people. The
carnival was put together to
celebrate the culture of the
local community. Today, it
has developed into Europe’s
biggest street party.
Levi Roots, who made a
name for himself selling his
Reggae Reggae Sauce , fi rst
on a stall at carnival, then
across the country and is one
of 10 Notting Hill carnival
ambassadors, said: “Carnival
should be taken as seriously as
the Chelsea fl ower show and
Glastonbury.” Dancers join
the carnival
parade on
Monday
PHOTOGRAPH:
VICKIE FLORES/EPAA crackdown on student behaviour
and more free schools are to be
announced by the government within
days, according to a confi dential
briefi ng paper seen by the Guardian.
It details proposals for schools in
England designed to be rolled out
over the coming weeks.
Proposals including a £3.5bn
funding announcement and plans to
increase teachers’ basic pay may be
broadly welcomed but there will be
concern over disciplinary measures
that include a renewed emphasis on
exclusions and allowing teachers to
use “reasonable force”.
The paper, which is under
discussion between the Department
for Education and No 10, is
understood to have been inserted
into the government “grid” of
announcements, as families prepare
for the new school year in England.
The headline fi gures include
£2.8bn for primary and secondary
schools up to the age of 16, including
£800m for children with special
educational needs and disabilities.
The details for an extra £800m for
sixth form and further education
colleges are still under discussion
with the Treasury.
Indonesia has announced plans to
move its capital from the climate-
threatened megalopolis of Jakarta
to the sparsely populated island
of Borneo, which is home to some
of the world’s greatest tropical
rainforests.
President Joko Widodo said the
move was necessary because the
burden on Jakarta was “too heavy”,
but environmentalists said the
$33bn (£27bn) relocation needed
to be carefully handled or it would
result in fl eeing one ecological
disaster only to create another.
As well as dire problems of
pollution and traffi c congestion,
Jakarta suff ers from severe
subsidence, which makes the coastal
city extremely vulnerable to rising
sea levels.The sweltering temperatures on the
tube’s Northern line will soon begin
keeping homes in Islington, north
London, cosy through the colder
months, under a scheme to harness
the heat from the underground.
By the end of the year the project
will pipe heat from the underground
into hundreds of homes and
businesses that are part of a heating
scheme in the borough.
The project is one of a number
of schemes across the UK designed
to warm homes using “waste heat”
from factories, power plants, rivers
and disused mine shafts.
The Islington heat network
already keeps about 700 homes
warm by channelling heat created in
the borough’s Bunhill Energy Centre,
which generates electricity, intolocal council housing, schools and
a leisure centre. The next phase of
the project, due to be completed in
the coming months, will extend the
network to a further 450 homes.
The tube project could pave the
way for district heating schemes
across the capital to warm homes
with cheap, low carbon heat from
underground lines.
The Greater London Authority
estimates there is enough heat
wasted in London to meet 38% of the
city’s heating demands.An accuser of the convicted sex
off ender Jeff rey Epstein addressed
her accusation that she was coerced
into sex with Prince Andrew, saying
the royal “knows what he’s done”.
In a 2014 court fi ling Virginia
Giuff re alleged she was made to have
sex with Andrew and other friends
of Epstein. The prince has always
vehemently denied the claims.
In 2015 a court decided Giuff re’s
allegations about the prince were
“immaterial and impertinent”.
Giuff re was one of nearly two
dozen women who spoke about
alleged abuse by Epstein during a
court hearing scheduled after the
fi nancier’s death in prison on 10
August, which was ruled a suicide.
His death at 66 brought an end to his
criminal case.
The risk of breast cancer from using
hormone replacement therapy
(HRT) is double what was previously
thought, according to a major piece
of research, which confi rms that
HRT is a direct cause of the cancer.
The fi ndings of the defi nitive
study will cause concern among
the 1 million women in the UK and
millions more around the world
who are using HRT. It fi nds that the
longer women take it, the greater
their risk, with the possibility that
just one year is risk-free. It also fi nds
that the risk does not go away as
soon as women stop taking it, as had
been previously assumed.
The UK’s drug licensing body
suggested women who have used
HRT in the past or use it now should
be vigilant for signs of breast cancer.▲ The Northern line heat project
could be replicated across the capitalThe week
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