The site houses 400 staff from South Oxfordshire District Council and Vale of the White Horse District Council

A "major" fire has broken out at council offices in Oxfordshire after a suspected arson attack.

The South Oxfordshire District Council building in Crowmarsh Gifford has been ablaze since 03:15 GMT.
Council leader John Cotton told the BBC: "We believe it to be the result of arson, though that's not clear at the moment."
Firefighters are also dealing with two other fires in the area, with 27 appliances being called out.
The building on Benson Lane usually houses 400 staff, including the housing, planning, building control and leisure teams.
The headquarters is also home to about two thirds of the Vale of the White Horse District Council's staff.
Andy Roberts, senior communications officer for the councils, said: "There has been a major fire... most services will be affected."
'Fire raging' Mr Cotton added: "At the moment we're putting together our contingency plans to keep the services running.

An eyewitness said the top level of the building was ablaze

"We have a lot of people there during the day, but happily overnight there's no one there so as far as I know there are no injuries."
Andrea Turner, who can see the offices from her bedroom window, described the fire as "really bad".
"I could hear loads of bangs and pops and got up to see what it was and saw massive high flames coming from the top floor of the building.
"The roof is now caved in and everything. It's all gone."
A caller to BBC Radio Oxford, who gave his name as Raleigh, said the fire was "raging".
The taxi driver, who was passing the scene, added: "The entire top level of the building is ablaze, there's going to be nothing left of it."
Mr Roberts added: "The councils are putting their business continuity plan into place to make sure the effect on the most important front line services is kept to a minimum.

A spokesman said most council services would be affected because of the 'major fire'

"Councils will set up an emergency phone line for people who have urgent inquiries."
Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service described it as a "large incident which was ongoing". Up to 100 firefighters are working on the fires.
The service was called at 03:11 to a fire at a thatched cottage and derelict buildings in Roke Marsh, near Benson, which is still ongoing, and to a funeral parlour in Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford, at 3:20.
Thames Valley Police confirmed it was on the scene of the fires alongside the fire service.

A 150m (492ft) cordon is in place around the Roke Marsh incident

Retail giant H&M and service station operator Welcome Break are among 37 firms to be "named and shamed" for failing to pay the minimum wage.

It is the single biggest list of companies exposed by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
The 37 firms will be fined a total of £51,000 and must also pay affected staff the £177,000 they were underpaid.
Welcome Break said a new IT problem contributed to the mistake, while H&M blamed time logging errors.
The government has already named 55 firms since October 2013 for underpaying staff.
The minimum wage for adults aged 21 and over currently stands at £6.50 per hour although the three major Westminster parties have all said they want to raise it.

Current National Minimum Wage rates:

• Adult rate (21 and over) - £6.50 per hour

• 18 to 20-year-olds - £5.13 per hour

• 16 to 17-year-olds - £3.79 per hour

• Apprentice rate - £2.73 per hour

'Tough action' Business Minister Jo Swinson said: "Paying less than the minimum wage is illegal, immoral and completely unacceptable.
"If employers break this law they need to know that we will take tough action by naming, shaming and fining them as well as helping workers recover the hundreds of thousands of pounds in pay owed to them."
H&M owner Hennes & Mauritz failed to pay £2,604.87 to 540 workers, said the government department.
"H&M employs over 9,500 people in the United Kingdom. Unfortunately due to errors within some of our stores concerning time logging, 540 employees were accidentally underpaid the national minimum wage," it said in a statement.
"The average underpayment for those affected was £4.82. All such arrears were immediately processed and we accept that the errors should not have occurred.
"HMRC have confirmed that they were happy with H&M's complete transparency cooperation and full engagement with the process."
Birthday error Welcome Break failed to pay £1,318.70 to 20 people.

Welcome Break chief executive Rod McKie said: "The initial breach was brought to light as an employee complained to the HMRC that her pay rate had not been increased correctly upon reaching her 21st Birthday.
After investigating, the firm found more people "in a similar position", he said.
"These incidents were not as a result of a decision to withhold an increase but resulted from a combination of factors, specifically, a change of management within the units, periods of holiday and a difficulty with a new IT system and set of management processes," said Mr McKie.
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: "It's good to see the government getting tough on bad bosses who cheat hard-working employees out of the pay they're legally entitled to. But with over 600 employers being caught underpaying each year, those named and shamed today are only the tip of the iceberg.
"There are companies out there that cheat hundreds of staff out of a legal minimum wage - these are the biggest offenders and their pay crimes must be made public too.
"Ministers must also step up enforcement action with more prosecutions, higher fines and a bigger team of enforcement officers to catch the cheats."
The TUC recently published a 10-point plan for minimum wage enforcement, including a call for much higher fines.

Stuart Kerner had sex with the girl the same week his wife had a miscarriage

The Attorney General is to consider whether a suspended sentence handed to a religious studies teacher who had a sex with a pupil should be reviewed.

Stuart Kerner, 44, from Kent, received an 18-month suspended sentence for two counts of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust.
A tweet from the Attorney General's Office said it had received complaints the sentence was unduly lenient.
The teacher had an affair with the girl, then 16, at Bexleyheath Academy.
The Attorney General's Office said it would be considering whether to refer the case to the Court of Appeal under the unduly lenient sentences scheme, with a decision due by 11 February.
Inner London Crown Court heard Kerner took the girl's virginity on a yoga mat on the floor of a school storeroom, in the same week his wife miscarried their second child.
He later drove her to his home where the pair had sex, kissed and cuddled.
'Gave in to temptation' During the trial, jurors were told what started out as a schoolgirl crush turned into an 18-month affair, which was discovered in 2013.
Kerner, of Russett Close, Aylesford, was found guilty by a jury last month of two counts of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust but was cleared of four counts of the same offence and two counts of sexual activity with a child that related to alleged behaviour when the victim was only 15.
In sentencing, Judge Joanna Greenberg QC said the victim had become "obsessed" with him.
She told Kerner: "Her friends described her, accurately in my view, as stalking you.
"If grooming is the right word to use, it was she who groomed you, (and) you gave in to temptation."
Judge Greenberg said he was "emotionally fragile" because of complications with his wife's pregnancy.
Although this did not excuse his behaviour, she said it did help explain why someone with an "exemplary" character would commit such offences.
'Abusive relationship' But critics have criticised the sentence, which is suspended for 18 months. He was placed on the sex offenders' register indefinitely and barred from working with children, also indefinitely.
Marilyn Hawes, a former teacher and founder of the charity Enough Abuse UK, which provides support for abuse victims, said the judge had been unduly lenient in her sentencing.
"She was still a pupil and she had a right, as did the parents or her carer, to expect she would be secure and safe in those hours in school with someone who had been given that trust, and it was a total breach of trust.
"I just do not understand where the judge was coming from when she says she stalked him. He abused his position."
And Jon Brown, National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children lead for tackling sexual abuse, said Kerner had committed a gross breach of trust.
"This was an abusive relationship and young people involved in situations like this can be damaged in many ways. Teachers have a duty of care to their pupils and Kerner should have taken steps to distance himself from the girl rather than encouraging her behaviour."

A satellite image of Doron Baga taken on 7 January showed the destruction of homes and foliage (in red)

Satellite images of Nigerian towns attacked by Boko Haram show widespread destruction and suggest a high death toll, Amnesty International says.

The images show some 3,700 structures damaged or destroyed in Baga and Doron Baga this month, Amnesty said.
Nigeria's government has disputed reports that as many as 2,000 were killed, putting the toll at just 150.
Amnesty cited witnesses saying that militants had killed indiscriminately. It said the damage was "catastrophic".
There has been a surge in violence linked to Boko Haram. In the past week there have been several attacks, including by suspected child suicide bombers.
Nigeria is to hold elections next month, amid growing doubts whether they can successfully go ahead in all parts of the country.
'Wiped off the map' Amnesty said the attack on Baga and Doron Baga, neighbouring towns in the far north-east of Nigeria, was the largest and deadliest Boko Haram assault that it had analysed. It said about 620 structures had been destroyed in Baga, and more than 3,100 in Doro Baga.
The before and after satellite images were taken on 2 January and 7 January.
"These detailed images show devastation of catastrophic proportions in two towns, one of which was almost wiped off the map in the space of four days," Daniel Eyre, an Amnesty researcher, said in a statement.
"It represents a deliberate attack on civilians whose homes, clinics and schools are now burnt out ruins," he said.

Images released by Amnesty International show the impact of an attack by Boko Haram

The BBC's Will Ross says that while the images show the destructive nature of Boko Haram, they do not help establish just how many people were killed.
Last week, Musa Alhaji Bukar, a senior government official in the area, said that fleeing residents told him that Baga, which had a population of about 10,000, was now "virtually non-existent".
"It has been burnt down," he told the BBC Hausa service.
Officials said militants had attacked Baga on 7 January, four days after overrunning a multinational military base in the town that had been abandoned by Nigerian troops.
Amnesty's Adotei Akwei told the BBC that although it was still difficult to access the area where the attack took place, the Nigerian government was "grossly understating" the death toll.
"They killed so many people," one man told the group. "I saw maybe around 100 killed at that time in Baga. I ran to the bush. As we were running, they were shooting and killing."

BAADA ya wiki iliyopita kuwaletea marais wa Afrika waliofia madarakani. Yaani walikuwa wakiongoza nchi zao wakakumbwa na mauti. Wiki hii tunawaletea marais waliouawa kwa kupigwa risasi wakiwa madarakani.

Abraham Lincoln.

ABRAHAM Lincoln; alikuwa Rais wa 16 wa Marekani. Aliuawa mwaka 1865 jijini Washington kwa kupigwa risasi kichwani kwa nyuma na John Wilkes. Alikuwa amekaa na mkewe. Bastola iliyotumika inaitwa Deringer.

Muhammar Muhamad Abu Migar al Ghaddaf.

MUHAMMAR Muhamad Abu Migar al Ghaddaf; alikuwa Rais wa Libya kwa miaka 42. Aliuawa kwa kupigwa risasi ya kichwa kwenye vurugu za kisiasa mjini Sirte, Libya, Oktoba 20, 2011.

John Francis Kennedy ‘JFK’.

JOHN Francis Kennedy ‘JFK’; ni Rais wa 35 wa Marekani. Aliuawa mwaka 1963 mjini Dallas kwa kupigwa risasi na Lee Harvey akiwa kwenye gari la wazi barabarani.

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi;

INDIRA Priyadarshini Gandhi; alikuwa Rais wa India. Aliuawa mwaka1984 kwa kupigwa risasi na walinzi wake, Satwant Singh na Beant Singh jijini New Delh, India.

Laurent Desire Kabila;

LAURENT Desire Kabila; alimng’oa madarakani Rais Mabotu Seseko wa Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasi ya Kongo, lakini mwaka 2001 akauawa kwa kupigwa risasi na watu wanaosadikiwa ni walinzi wake.

Thomas Isdor Noel Sankara;

THOMAS Isdor Noel Sankara; alikuwa Rais wa Burkina Faso Alitawala nchi kwa miaka 4 hadi 1984 alipouawa kwa kupigwa risasi na Blaise Compaore ambaye hivi karibuni ameikimbia nchi hiyo.
WILLIAM Richard Tolbert Jr; alipigwa risasi mwaka 1980 katika mapinduzi ya kijeshi akiwa Rais wa Liberia. Samuel Doe akiwa na cheo cha sajenti ndiye aliyetajwa kumuua.

Abeid Amani Karume;

ABEID Amani Karume; alikuwa Rais wa Zanzibar tangu mapinduzi ya mwaka 1964. Aliuawa kwa kupigwa risasi akiwa anacheza bao mwaka 1972 na mtu ambaye hakuwahi kupatikana.
Jean baptist ouedraogo; aliitawala Burkina Faso kwa mwaka mmoja tu, 1982-83. Aliuawa kwa kupigwa risasi na Thomas Sankara ambaye alichukua madaraka ya kuiongoza nchi hiyo kabla na yeye kupinduliwa.

Stori: Gladness Mallya

MWANAMUZIKI wa Bongo Fleva, Emmanuel Elibariki ‘Nay wa Mitego’ amefunguka kuwa japokuwa ana watoto wengine wa nje lakini anajivunia kuzaa na mkewe, Siwema kwani walipitia changamoto nyingi kabla ya kupata mtoto.

Mwanamuziki wa Bongo Fleva, Emmanuel Elibariki ‘Nay wa Mitego’ akiwa na mpenzi wake Siwema.

Akichezesha taya na paparazi wetu, Nay alisema katika maisha ya mapenzi yake na Siwema walivumilia vingi na hivi sasa ana mshukuru Mungu kwani wameweza kufikia hatua nzuri ya kupata mtoto.

“Maisha ya mapenzi yetu yalikuwa na changamoto sana lakini nilisimama kwa sababu nampenda mke wangu Siwema, najivunia kuzaa na Siwema mtoto wa kiume na ninaendelea kumuomba Mungu aendelee kumkuza mwanetu,” alisema Nay wa Mitego.

Mwanamuziki wa Bongo Fleva, Emmanuel Elibariki ‘Nay wa Mitego

Wadau mbalimbali wamekuwa wakimpongeza Nay kwenye mitandao ya kijamii kwa kile wanachodai kwamba ana mapenzi ya kweli licha ya changamoto nyingi zilizojitokeza kwa mpenzi wake Siwema za picha kuzagaa mitandaoni kwamba alikuwa mchumba wa mtu.

Stori: Gladness Mallya

BAADA ya hivi karibuni Msanii wa Filamu na Muziki Bongo, Baby Madaha kusema ameamua kuwapanga wanaume, hivi sasa ameibuka na jipya na kudai kwamba huwa hatumii kinga ‘kondom’ hata siku moja.

Msanii wa Filamu na Muziki Bongo, Baby Madaha 

Akipiga stori na paparazi wetu, Baby Madaha alisema kabla hajaanguka penzini na mwanaume lazima akapime kwanza Ukimwi na baada ya hapo ndipo mambo mengine yanaendelea hivyo akishahakikisha huyo mwanaume ni mzima huwa ahangaiki kutumia kinga.

“Japokuwa nawapanga wanaume lakini najali sana afya yangu yaani kila baada ya miezi mitatu huwa naenda kupima kabla sijaingia naye kwenye uhusiano, nikikuta yuko fresh tunaendelea na mapenzi yetu na huwa situmii kinga kwa sababu nakuwa nimeshajua afya yake.

Ikitokea amenizingua nampiga chini namchukua mwingine naenda kumpima hivyohivyo maisha yanasonga mbele,” alisema Baby Madaha.

Stori: Hamida Hassan

Staa wa Filamu za Kibongo, Yvonne Sherry ‘Monalisa’ hivi karibuni aliweka wazi kuwa anatamani kuolewa lakini hajampata wa kumuoa.Monalisa alifunguka maneno hayo baada ya uvumi kuenea kuwa amepata mtu anataka kumuoa na mipango ya ndoa iko tayari.

  Staa wa Filamu za Kibongo, Yvonne Sherry ‘Monalisa’.

“Mh! Wewe si wa kwanza kuniambia maneno haya jamani hivi yanatoka wapi? Mimi sijapata mtu wa kunioa jamani ila nikimpata nitaolewa kwa sababu jua limekuchwa pia ndoa ni jambo la heri,” alisema Monalisa
Katikati ya mwaka huu, Monalisa alionyesha matamanio yake ya ndoa ambapo alivaa shera kwenye harusi ya rafiki yake na kuingia na mumewe ikiwa kama maigizo kituko hicho kiliipendezesha shughuli hiyo.

The BBC's Jonah Fisher reports on President Obama's visit

US President Barack Obama has said he is "confident" about the political change process in Myanmar during a visit to the country - but added that "the work is not yet done".

His comments followed a meeting with Burmese lawmakers, including opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Mr Obama is in the capital Nay Pyi Taw for the East Asia summit.
Earlier, in an interview, he accused the government of backsliding on reforms.
In 2010, Myanmar held elections which replaced military rule with the military-backed civilian government of Thein Sein.
Since then, many political prisoners have been released, media restrictions have eased and Ms Suu Kyi has been released from years of house arrest.
Amid the reforms, her National League for Democracy rejoined the political process and secured a small block of seats in parliament after a landslide win in by-elections in 2012.
But Ms Suu Kyi - who is currently banned by a constitutional clause from becoming the nation's president - has recently warned that reforms have stalled, as all eyes turn to 2015 when the next general election will be held.

Then Sein's (R) government replaced military with civilian rule - but reforms have since slowed, say critics

Aung San Suu Kyi spent years under house arrest under military rule

Mr Obama told reporters he discussed Myanmar's transition from military rule to democracy with the Burmese parliamentarians,.
Among the issues discussed were the protection of minority rights and how majority and opposition parties could work together, he said.
"I'm confident there will be a completely new day for Myanmar.
"The work is not yet done, and the goal of the United States here is to be a strong partner in the process. Like every good friend we will praise what works, there will be time where we'll offer constructive criticism about the lack of progress in certain areas or where reform efforts have stalled.
"But our consistent aim and goal will be to see that this transition is completed so that it delivers concrete benefits for the people."
Mr Obama was due to hold talks with President Thein Sein on Thursday, and then meet Ms Suu Kyi again in Yangon on Friday.

Analysis: Jonah Fisher, BBC News, Yangon So did the reformers run out of steam? Did Thein Sein's project reach a roadblock manned by hardliners in the Burmese army? Or perhaps we're close to the final destination - that is, with sanctions lifted and the army still really in charge.
Ms Suu Kyi's main frustration is that the constitution remains unchanged.
Drafted in 2008, it entrenches the military's control of political life, guaranteeing it a quarter of the seats in the Hluttaw (the Burmese parliament), and a veto over any changes to the constitution.
This is what its architects proudly call a "disciplined democracy".

Has Myanmar's reform journey ground to a halt?

In an interview with a Thai-based Burmese website ahead of his arrival, Mr Obama said reform momentum had slowed in Myanmar and that there had even been some steps backwards.
He cited restrictions on political prisoners, the arrest of journalists and the ongoing plight of the Rohingya Muslim minority displaced in Rakhine state after anti-Muslim violence.
"Even as there has been some progress on the political and economic fronts, in other areas there has been a slowdown and backsliding in reforms," he said.
Human Rights Watch said the US needed to work with other major donors to Myanmar to demand promises made by the military-backed government be kept.
"The sticking point is that the Burmese military has not significantly changed the way it operates, either in business and politics or on the ground out in the ethnic areas," Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch Asia, told the BBC.
This is Mr Obama's second visit to Myanmar. He last came in November 2012, in what was the first visit to the nation by a US president.
Mr Obama's meeting with Thein Sein will take place on the sidelines of the East Asia summit - which groups the Asean bloc with the US, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Russia and New Zealand.
On Wednesday Asean (the Association of South East Asian Nations) held its own meeting in the Burmese capital.

Stori: Imelda Mtema

Mastaa wawili hapa Bongo ambao huko nyuma walikuwa katika bifu kali, Wema Sepetu na Penny Mwingilwa wameonekana kumkejeli aliyekuwa mpenzi wao, Nasibu Abdul ‘Diamond’ kwa kutumia neno Project.

Staa wa bongo Penny Mwingilwa,  'penny'.

Mastaa hao walionekana wameweka picha yao wakiwa pamoja wamejilaza chini nyumbani kwa Wema  na kuandika kuwa wakiwa katika Project yao neno ambalo lilitumiwa na Diamond akiwa na mwanadada Zarina Hassan  ‘Boss lady’ anayedaiwa kutoka kimapenzi na mwanamuziki huyo.

Staa wa filamu bongo,  Wema sepetu ' Madam'.

Gazeti hili lilifanikiwa kuzungumza na Penny kwa njia ya simu ambapo alisema kuwa siku hiyo walikutana na kuzungumza na rafiki yake huyo wa muda mrefu na mambo ya project yalitokea tu.
“Sisi tulimisiana sana na tulikutana na kuzungumza mambo mengi ya zamani, hiyo project iliingia tu,” alisema Penny.

Ahmed Ally Upete 'Geez Mabovu' enzi za uhai wake.

MWANAMUZIKI wa Hip Hop nchini, Ahmed Ally Upete 'Geez Mabovu' amefariki dunia jana usiku akiwa mkoani Iringa alikokwenda wiki mbili zilizopita akitokea jijini Dar es Salaam.
Kwa mujibu wa bwana Dennis ambaye alikuwa mtu wa karibu wa Geez Mabovu amethibitisha kuhusu kifo hicho na kusema rapa huyo aliondoka Dar kwenda Iringa akiwa kwenye hali ambayo sio nzuri kiafya. Marehemu Geez Mabovu anatarajiwa kuzikwa leo Novemba 13, 2014.
Mwenyezi Mungu ailze roho ya marehemu mahali pema peponi. AMEN

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