Top News Stories –
Ant and Dec repeat Bafta success –
Ant and Dec have picked up two prizes at the Bafta Television Awards for the second year in a row. The duo won best entertainment show and best entertainment performance for their ITV show Saturday Night Takeaway. ITV’s Coronation Street also won best soap in the year it celebrated its 60th anniversary. [BBC] For full winners list see List of the Day below.
Scotland tops gay equality league –
Scotland has been rated the best country in Europe in terms of legal equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people. Scotland came top of the Rainbow Index after meeting 92% of ILGA-Europe’s criteria for equality and human rights, ahead of the UK as a whole. Equality campaigners said the ranking recognised the country’s progressive measures. But they said more needed to be done to achieve full equality. [BBC]
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List of the day –
BAFTA TV Award 2015 winners
Leading actor
Jason Watkins – The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies – winner
Benedict Cumberbatch – Sherlock
Toby Jones – Marvellous
James Nesbitt – The Missing
Leading actress
Georgina Campbell – Murdered by My Boyfriend – winner
Keeley Hawes – Line of Duty
Sarah Lancashire – Happy Valley
Sheridan Smith – Cilla
Supporting actor
Stephen Rea – The Honourable Woman – winner
Adeel Akhtar – Utopia
James Norton – Happy Valley
Ken Stott – The Missing
Supporting actress
Gemma Jones – Marvellous – winner
Vicky McClure – Line of Duty
Amanda Redman – Tommy Cooper: Not like That, Like This
Charlotte Spencer – Glue
Entertainment performance
Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly – Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway – winner
Graham Norton – The Graham Norton Show
Leigh Francis – Celebrity Juice
Claudia Winkleman – Strictly Come Dancing
Female performance in a comedy programme
Jessica Hynes – W1A – winner
Olivia Colman – Rev
Tamsin Greig – Episodes
Catherine Tate – Catherine Tate’s Nan
Male performance in a comedy programme
Matt Berry – Toast of London – winner
Hugh Bonneville – W1A
Tom Hollander – Rev
Brendan O’Carroll – Mrs Brown’s Boys – Christmas Special
Single drama
Marvellous – winner
A Poet In New York
Common
Murdered By My Boyfriend
Mini-series
The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies – winner
Cilla
Our World War
Prey
Drama series
Happy Valley – winner
Line of Duty
The Missing
Peaky Blinders
Soap and continuing drama
Coronation Street – winner
Casualty
EastEnders
Hollyoaks
International
True Detective – winner
The Good Wife
House of Cards
Orange Is The New Black
Factual series
Life And Death Row – winner
15,000 Kids and Counting
Educating The East End
Protecting Our Parents
Specialist factual
Grayson Perry: Who Are You? – winner
David Attenborough’s Conquest Of The Skies 3D
The Great War: The People’s Story
Our Gay Wedding: The Musical
Single documentary
The Paedophile Hunter – winner
Baby P: The Untold Story
Children Of Syria
The Miners Strike And Me
Features
Grand Designs – winner
George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces
The Great British Bake Off
Long Lost Family
Reality and constructed factual
The Island With Bear Grylls – winner
The Apprentice
I’m A Celebrity… GET ME OUT OF HERE!
The Undateables
Current affairs
Children On The Frontline (Dispatches) – winner
Ebola Frontline (Panorama)
Inside Kenya’s Death Squads (Al Jazeera Investigates)
Terror At The Mall (This World)
News coverage
Sky News Live At Five: Ebola – winner
BBC News At Ten
Channel 4 News – Inside Gaza: Children Under Fire
ITV News At Ten: Iraq Crisis
Sport and live event
WW1 Remembered: From The Battlefield and Westminster Abbey – winner
2014 FA Cup Semi-final Hull vs. Sheffield United
Monty Python (Mostly) Live: One Down, Five To Go
Tour De France 2014, Stage 1
Entertainment programme
Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway – winner
Dynamo: Magician Impossible
Strictly Come Dancing
The Voice
Comedy and comedy entertainment programme
The Graham Norton Show – winner
Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe
Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle
Would I Lie To You
Situation comedy
Detectorists – winner
Harry & Paul’s Story Of The Twos
Moone Boy
The Wrong Mans
Radio Times Audience Award (voted for by members of the public)
Sherlock – winner
Cilla
Eastenders
Game of Thrones
The Great British Bake Off
The Missing
Strictly Come Dancing
Fellowship
Jon Snow
Special award
Jeff Pope
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Other News Stories –
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Yemeni Civil War
- Saudi-led airstrikes target the Sanaa home of former President of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh. (Thomson Reuters Trust)
- The Yemeni Army accepts a five day truce offer from the Saudis. (Reuters via Daily Mail)
- Business and economy
- The People’s Bank of China in the People’s Republic of China lowers its benchmark interest rate for the third time in half a year. (Reuters)
- Disasters and accidents
- 2015 Pacific typhoon season
- Typhoon Noul (Dodong) makes landfall in the northern Philippines as a Category 5 typhoon with thousands of passengers stranded and warnings of landslides. (Al-Jazeera), (Reuters via Daily Mail), (Reuters via ABC News Online)
- 2015 Atlantic hurricane season
- Tropical Storm Ana makes landfall near the city of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, today. (CNN)
- 2015 Nepal earthquake
- The death toll from earthquake reaches 8000 as three earth tremors hit Nepal. Avalanches disrupt rescue efforts higher in the mountains.(Times of India)
- Health
- Mexico suspends vaccination of infants and authorises an inquiry after two babies die and 29 injured in the municipality of Simojovel in Chiapasstate. (AP via ABC News)
- International relations
- Two boats carrying 500 members of Myanmar‘s Rohingya Muslim people arrive in western Indonesia. (AAP via SBS)
- King Salman of Saudi Arabia will not meet with President of the United States Barack Obama at Camp David or at a summit meeting sending senior Ministers instead reportedly due to disagreement over a nuclear deal with Iran. (New York Times)
- Law and crime
- Police in the Mississippian city of Hattiesburg arrest three people on suspicion of murdering two policemen. (AP)
- Several people have been shot dead in the Swiss town of Würenlingen in Aargau canton northwest of Zurich. (BBC), (AP via Los Angeles Times)
- Politics and elections
- Polish presidential election, 2015
- Voters in Poland go to the polls for a presidential election with a second round of voting likely. (The Economist)
- Sport
- 2015 Spanish Grand Prix
- In auto racing, the Formula One Spanish Grand Prix is held at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Montmeló with Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg finishing ahead of Lewis Hamilton. (BBC)
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