And if 17-year-old Karen Hussey and Leighanne Yeoman 19 of Nottingham were anything to go by this is where Tate Modern will

And if 17-year-old Karen Hussey and Leighanne Yeoman, 19, of Nottingham, were anything to go by, this is where Tate Modern will triumph The fact that it was free, they agreed, was crucial. But its beauty, they said, was that it does not intimidate.”The entrance is really welcoming; you don’t get smacked in the face by artworks straight away.”It’s not so daunting for people who don’t understand it,” said Ms Hussey.Her father, an accountant with “little interest” in art, had watched the opening with her the previous night on television “He thought it was really interesting He liked the spider,” she said. “I even think he’ll come with me next time.”Ms Yeoman said: “I can’t wait to see the Rothkos I’ve been so excited all week. But the thing is, you don’t need to be interested in art to come and like these things.”.

The family of a black accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers who was killed in a row over a taxi have appealed for help finding his killer. The family of a black accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers who was killed in a row over a taxi have appealed for help finding his killer.
Jay Abatan died 17 months ago after an attack outside a Brighton nightclub, but his killer has not been caught. His brother, Michael, and Worthing West MP, Peter Bottomley, pleaded yesterday for “Justice for Jay”Michael Abatan, who was also injured in the attack, said he had sworn the day Jay died to fight for justice “We were attacked and he was killed This was in front of lots of people. Someone saw what happened and I want them to come forward,” he said.Mr Abatan said the Macpherson report into the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence in London had “changed nothing”.”No one has been brought to account for my brother’s death,” he said. “The criminal justice system has failed a black person again.

Jay’s family are left with no answers as to how he went out that night and never came home.”Mr Bottomley, who was MP for Eltham at the time of Stephen Lawrence’s death in the constituency, began by apologising to Stephen’s parents, Neville and Doreen, for not making more of a fuss over their son’s case. “It was at a similar stage in the proceedings after Stephen Lawrence’s death that I was unhappy about the police investigation.”I went to see Sir Paul Condon, the commissioner of [the Metropolitan] police, to say that there were worries. He came back saying he’d looked into it and things were all right. I didn’t make a fuss then – I didn’t ask for an inquiry early enough. I don’t want to make the same mistake again.”Mr Bottomley said that he had asked for assurance from Sussex Police that Jay’s case would be treated the same way it would have been had he been white.Sussex Police said it does not believe the attack on Mr Abatan, 42, who lived in a five-bedroom home in Eastbourne, East Sussex, was racially motivated.

No one had admitted to striking Mr Abatan and no one had witnessed who assaulted him, it said.The killing happened when the brothers left the Ocean Rooms nightclub in Brighton after Michael’s 31st birthday celebration and became involved in a dispute over a taxi. They were kicked and punched and Jay suffered severe brain injuries and was in a coma for five days before doctors decided there was no hope for him.Graham Curtis, 38, from Brighton, and Peter Bell, 36, of Hove, were arrested within 24 hours of the attack but manslaughter charges against them were dropped and they were cleared earlier this week of actual bodily harm against Michael Abatan.. Eurovision song contest hosts Kattis Ahlstroem and Anders Lundin practiced all week to say a few words of welcome in 22 different languages. Eurovision song contest hosts Kattis Ahlstroem and Anders Lundin practiced all week to say a few words of welcome in 22 different languages.
If they get it wrong during Europe’s biggest song contest Saturday night in the Globe Arena, Stockholm, a lot of people will notice.Approximately 100 million people are expected to follow the three-hour televised pop music extravaganza in 33 countries in Europe alone, as well as Japan and Australia.”We are getting help from everywhere. I ask every taxi driver who is not from Sweden where he is from and how you pronounce the words in his language,” Ahlstroem was quoted as saying by the Swedish news agency TT.Since its inception in 1956, the Eurovision contest has grown to become one of Europe’s most popular music events with entries that go by names such as “Wadde hadde dudde da?” by German personality Stefan Raab and “Kada Zaspu Andeli” or “When The Angels Fall Asleep” by Croatia’s Goran Karan.Estonia’s 18-year-old newcomer Ines, known in her small country as their version of Britney Spears, has local authorities both excited and concerned about the high hopes pinned on her song, “Once In A Lifetime.”Government spokesman Priit Poiklik said TV executives in the former Soviet republic were nervous about the prospect of having to foot the $10m bill – roughly equivalent to their annual budget – to stage the contest next year if Ines wins.”They’re a little afraid. They would get in trouble if they had to organize it themselves,” he said.