Age empty to cities leaves farming UK comparison

West Somerset is the district with the highest percentage of elderly residents in Britain and the village of Porlock is the most elderly village of all.

Nearly half the residents are old enough to collect their pensions 45.1 per cent including author Margaret Drabble, 70.

The Department for Health tracks regional age profiles by means of a survey called POPPI Projecting Older People Population Information system.

Ageing community: Author Margaret Drabble, 70, is just one of the many residents of Porlock old enough to collect their pensions

The data reveals how the population gap between parts of Britain is widening. The inner districts of London are getting younger, while the rural parts of Britain are getting ever older with obvious repercussions on the provision of medical and transport services, as well as the housing market.

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The population projections have led the National Housing Federation, which represents housing associations, to call for more social housing to be built in rural areas, with more elderly-friendly homes as well as more affordable housing for young people priced out of the property market by older, wealthier inhabitants.

In West Somerset, which includes most of Exmoor, plus the towns of Minehead and Watchet, 28.8 per cent of the population are aged over 65.

But by 2020 that is projected to grow to 35.4 per cent. Rother, in East Sussex, and North Norfolk are the next most elderly districts in England, with 28.1 per cent and 27.5 per cent of residents aged over 65.

Matt Derbyshire revels in Greek odyssey as he prepares for Champions League crawl

The nation awaits Jose Mourinho versus Chelsea in Milan tomorrow, but for one Englishman the Champions League explodes into life on Tuesday.

Matt Derbyshire has waited through a season blighted by injury to make his debut in Europes top club competition for Olympiakos against Bordeaux in Piraeus, the Athenian port he has called home for a year and where the fans embrace him as an adopted son.

Home from home: Derbyshire has impressed despite a series of injuries

Olympiakos won 15-14 on penalties but he had been sidelined again by then with a groin injury and concussion.

;Id been clobbered and I was seeing treble, says Derbyshire.

Butit would be the groin issue which kept him out for seven months. Ahernia operation did not solve the problem, but a series of injectionsinto his pelvic area did.

;It was my first real long-terminjury. I went through four courses of 27 injections into my pubicarea, which was every bit as painful as it sounds. Im grateful to beplaying again.

;I was out for seven months, so its been difficult but Im excited, full of energy and relishing training.

;Id like to think I havent forgotten where the net is but I dont want to curse myself.

Derbyshire, 23, has scored twice in three games on his return, whichhas coincided with his teams recovery at the top of the Greek League.

Olympiakos, champions for 12 of the last 13 years, were trailing their fierce rivals Panathinaikos by eight points at one stage and had four managers, including Temuri Ketsbaia and Zico, in nine months.

Feeble England humour Groundhog Day Six Nations Rugby

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AT THE finish they couldnt apart them; they were roughly similarly bad. England were ludicrously advantageous to finish turn with a boisterous Scotland, even though Toby Flood forsaken for idea and for a little kind of tarnished excellence in the failing seconds. It would have been a caricature had he succeeded and a scabby flog that was simply charged down typified, in conditions of execution and spectacle, the match. Tries have turn an involved species. So has flow. So has joy.

The English self-delusion goes on. Such is Englands miss of aggressive intent, certainty and direction, it seemed they were roughly petrified to go for the win at the end, promulgation the round behind to Flood when it begged to be driven on. Apart from a couple of mins in the third entertain and a pretty sharp-witted bit at the end, they did not exist as an aggressive force.

Scotland will go to their graves feeling this was a smashing possibility missed. Dan Parks, who was far some-more successful than Jonny Wilkinson in ushering in something that upheld for an aggressive game, struck a post twice. England were additionally advantageous to be awarded the chastisement that gave them the draw, and even some-more advantageous that Mark Cueto was not discharged to the sin-bin for murdering the round usually a couple of mins after the unsound South African arbitrate Marius Jonker had obviously settled that the subsequent England offender would be off.

There were alternative unedifying aspects. The scrum phases were a nightmare, something that perverted the march of the compare with the unconstrained re-setting. But such was the referees miss of believe and authority, majority of the last dual mins were outlayed perplexing to get a scrummage to rivet properly, when any decent arbitrate would have determined what was wrong 75 mins earlier. Nearly 3 mins at the finish of the initial half were outlayed removing one scrum sorted. Shocking. The compare became a ping-pong of pointless refereeing decisions and shots at a chastisement goal.

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It was frequency benevolence and light on the terraces either. Wilkinson and Flood were booed by large sections when they rebuilt to flog for goal, and so the England fans motionless to disapprove Parks. The late Bill McLaren was not a faultfinding man, but he would have piled in had he still been at the microphone.

Scotland will take some-more from this match, even though it is unfit to see them you do most in Dublin subsequent weekend. The Scottish scrum was unsatisfactory but their lineout was palpably superior. Max Evans on the wing and Jim Hamilton up front gave Scotland an appetite and merriment and their behind row was far some-more in effect going forward.

England stopped personification by numbers usually at the really end, they were positively ongoing in the initial half, Wilkinson cannot begin opposite France on Saturday since he was so definitely ineffectual, bailing out with kicks to the far wing prior to he had tested himself and the Scotland counterclaim nonetheless Flood was usually a extrinsic improvement. Riki Flutey is simply not handling in the centre and it was usually as well Englands tasty forwards, not in a genuine engine room at lock, were means to hold on in a little areas. But this handicapped side appears to be at the forgiveness of France in Paris.

Scotland played roughly all of what upheld for decent rugby in the initial half with one or dual bursts by midfield opposite a porous England defence, with both wings on sharp-witted form with the peculiar detonate from Johnnie Beattie. They were hapless to be heading by usually 9-6 at the mangle with dual penalties and a dump by Parks opposite dual penalties by the wavering Wilkinson.

There was an alleviation of sorts in the third entertain for England and it is formidable to shun the finish it coincided with the depart of Wilkinson, who took a blow to the eye and was transposed by Flood, who shortly was at the heart of a array of moves that initial sprung Cueto by the counterclaim and afterwards Flood conjured a move heading to his own penalty. Wilkinson had brought England turn prior to his depart and it was right away 12-9 to England. To their credit Scotland steadied, proposed receiving the round by the phases and Parks kicked them turn after an England offence.

Parks strike a post with a chastisement usually when Scotland indispensable additional sustenance, afterwards Scotland combined a glorious possibility that took a glorious plunge in to by Dan Cole to stop an glorious mangle by Chris Cusiter and when Scotland gathering the round down the right, Kelly Brown and Ugo Monye clashed heads, Brown was led off confused and Monye had to be taken off on a stretcher. These were grave scenes, and they put a stop to a mini-period of flourishing Scottish confidence.

Two massively argumentative decisions by Jonker came to Englands rescue initial when Scotland won a lineout on their line usually for the arbitrate to endowment a free flog and Flood kicked England in to the lead. Soon afterwards, Cueto killed a Scottish ruck, and Jonker went to his slot for the yellow label and afterwards appeared to lose his self-assurance and, unfathomably, Cueto was authorised to stay on.

Parks again strike an honest with his penalty, but Alastair Kellock followed up, Scotland gathering the round on and Parks was means to move it turn when England infringed again.

At the finish with Ben Foden giving England a little spark, they attempted to allege down the far-reaching channels and an additional argumentative chastisement gave Flood the possibility to dump for idea from nearby halfway. He was short, and the headless chickens on both sides attempted desperately to find the impressive person blow.

England supplement damage to insultBoth the England backs who left the margin harmed yesterday should be fit to face France in Paris on Saturday evening. Ugo Monye was reported to be up and about in sanatorium in Edinburgh last night after he was taken from the margin on a equipped with a motor bracket after a strife of heads with Scotlands Kelly Brown, who managed to travel off the margin underneath his own steam. Jonny Wilkinson took what England physical education instructor Martin Johnson called a complicated strike in hit and postulated bruising around his left eye but additionally recovered fast

Star man: Jim Hamilton (Scotland) Scorers: Scotland: Pens: Parks (4) DG: Parks England: Pens: Wilkinson (3), Flood (2) Referee: M Jonker (South Africa) Attendance: 66,891

Scotland: H Southwell (S Danielli 69min); S Lamont, N De Luca, G Morrison, M Evans; D Parks (G Cross 75min), C Cusiter (capt) (S Lawson 65min); A Jacobsen (P Godman 74min), R Ford (R Lawson 65min), E Murray, J Hamilton (N Hines 52min), A Kellock, K Brown (A MacDonald 56min), J Barclay, J Beattie

England: D Armitage (B Foden 47min); M Cueto, M Tait, R Flutey, U Monye (B Youngs 55min); J Wilkinson (T Flood 44min), D Care; T Payne, D Hartley (S Thompson 62min), D Cole (D Wilson 77min), L Deacon (C Lawes 73min), S Borthwick (capt), J Haskell (L Moody 64min), J Worsley, N Easter

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A really British recoil at Bafta awards opposite Avatar

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You could smell early on that there competence be a still British recoil opposite Avatar at last nights Bafta awards, an tacit tract to send James Camerons movie to Coventry for being as well big, ardent and blue.

As The Hurt Locker sucked up awards for cinematography, sound, screenplay, directing and editing, it was transparent that box bureau behemoths meant zero to the Bafta judges. They were there to prerogative quality, not quantity. To massage it in, there was Kathryn Bigelows endowment for executive of The Hurt Locker too, a moving movie about an American explosve ordering patrol in Iraq.

Aside from the Bigelow bonanza, the British patted themselves on the behind for the rest of the awards, and the tide of self-congratulation was mostly deserved. Colin Firth, the countrys heading man in A Single Man, at last had a purpose estimable of his skills his moving, happy highbrow in Tom Fords entrance film. Meanwhile Carey Mulligan, the brave woman of An Education, rught away entered the inhabitant value category. Mulligan was twenty-two when she played a 16-year-old ingnue, formed on the discourse of the surprisingly raunchy schooldays of the publisher Lynn Barber.

For unfamiliar film, the judges went for the jail thriller A Prophet rather than the philosophical punch of White Ribbon. They were mark on with their collect of Fish Tank as superb British film, since it says some-more about the pitiable state of the nation than any headlines inform could. Villainy paid for ancillary actors this year: MoNique won for her crazy mom in Precious, and in the gents dilemma Christoph Waltz won most appropriate ancillary actress for his Nazi in Inglourious Basterds.

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Duncan Jones, formerly well known as Zowie Bowie, was awarded superb entrance for his citation of Moon, an smart sci-fi thriller done for peanuts in the UK.

The glorious, self-satisfied days of 2009, when Slumdog Millionaire swept the Baftas and the Oscars and Kate Winslet collected her emotions over Best Actress awards on both sides of the Atlantic, will probably not be repeated. But the Baftas are a vigilance to the thousands of Oscar electorate to lay up and compensate courtesy to small-budget British success prior to the rite on Mar 7.

Turkey recalls Ambassador after US opinion on Armenia genocide

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One of the misfortune massacres of the 20th-century came behind to show up general governing body yesterday when a absolute Washington row voted to call the attempted murder of about 1.5 million Armenians in Turkey genocide.

After some-more than 3 hours of debate, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs narrowly authorized a fortitude job on President Obama to characterize the one after another and counsel obliteration of 1.5 million Armenians as genocide.

The opinion went forward notwithstanding last-minute pleas from the White House and State Department and triggered a mad greeting from Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish Prime Minister.

We reject this resolution, that accuses the Turkish republic of a crime it did not committ, he said. As Armenian observers applauded the opinion on Capitol Hill, the Turkish Ambassador to Washington was recalled.

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The Obama Administration might still be means to forestall a full opinion in the House of Representatives but yesterdays fortitude in jeopardy to poison Americas family with the closest Muslim ally. Washington depends on Turkey for entrance to northern Iraq and in the informal efforts to besiege Iran.

The vote, with twenty-three congressmen in foster and twenty-two against, will additionally imperil ancestral efforts started last year to emanate normal tactful family in in between Turkey and Armenia.

We are severely endangered that this fortitude authorized by the cabinet notwithstanding all the warnings will mistreat Turkey-US ties and efforts to nomalise Turkey-Armenia relations, Mr Erdogan added.

Mr Obama betrothed as a claimant to mangle with longstanding US make use of and begin job the First World War epoch killings violent violent death if inaugurated to the White House. He pennyless the guarantee last year, refusing to make use of the word on a revisit to Ankara, where he praised Turkey as a indication Muslim democracy.

He telephoned his Turkish reflection this week to appreciate him for operative towards a truce with Armenia, whilst Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State, had implored the Foreign Affairs Committee not to go forward with the vote.

The cabinet chairman, Howard Berman, refused to be swayed. At the begin of yesterdays conference he called Turkey a critical and customarily constant fan but insisted that zero fit branch a blind eye to the being of the Armenian genocide.

Mr Berman, a California Democrat who counts absolute Armenian migrs in between his Los Angeles constituents, pronounced that Turkeys avocation to face up to the past compared to that of Germany to face up to the Holocaust and South Africa to admit the full abhorrence of apartheid.

Ankara accepts that majority thousands of Christian Armenians vital in what was afterwards eastern Anatolia died in blood-letting by Muslim Ottoman infantry in 1915. It rejects the tenure violent violent death and says that the 1.5 million figure for the last violent death fee is exaggerated. Experts, together with a little of Turkeys own majority reputable historians, disagree.

Taner Akcam, a highbrow at Clark University in Massachusetts, became the initial Turkish dilettante to call the killings violent violent death in his extensive investigate A Shameful Act, published in English 3 years ago.

Since afterwards Turkish and Armenian leaders have started a normalisation routine that has enclosed a football compare in Turkey in in between the dual countries inhabitant teams last year, attended by the Armenian President.

The last time a fortitude on the events of 1915 was debated in Congress it was authorized by the House cabinet but never voted on by the full House of Representatives after Bush Administration officials urged congressional leaders not to list a opinion for the consequence of US-Turkish relations. Even so, Turkey at the moment withdrew the Ambassador to Washington.

In a pointer of the energy of chronological accord to produce petrify restitution, the French word hulk AXA began creation €8,000 (7,200) payments yesterday to family groups of Armenian victims of the 1915 killings who paid for policies from companies that AXA has given taken over.

France and Canada have personal the killings as genocide. Britain, similar to the US, has not.

Peter Greenaway"s agreement with genocide Film

Playing with genocide ... Peter Greenaway. Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images

"I don"t know majority about you," says Peter Greenaway, sipping his packet tea, "but I do know dual things. You were conceived, dual people did fuck, and I"m unequivocally contemptible but you"re going to die. Everything else about you is negotiable."

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Negligible, too. For Greenaway, there"s sex and there"s genocide and "what else is there to speak about?" He believes, he continues, as loose as if presaging sleet tomorrow, "that all sacrament is about genocide and art"s about life. Religion is there to say: hey, you don"t have to be concerned – there"s an afterlife. Culture represents the conflicting of that – sex. A unequivocally foolish Freudian approach of seeking at it, but one is certain and one is negative. Especially conflicting people similar to you. All religions have regularly hated females."

Steam billows up from the crater in to his face. He looks half David Attenborough, breath fogging the lens as he explores the Arctic (he has the same energy, the same radiant curiosity), half Chris Tarrant, rising from a clouded cover of dry ice.

We"re in a cafeteria on a grand, slightly wet block in Amsterdam; Lady in Red on a loop, sausages on the menu. Greenaway, 67, lives circuitously with a entertainment executive called Saskia and their dual immature young kids – he additionally has integrate of grownup daughters from a prior matrimony to Carol, a potter. Looming conflicting is the Rijksmuseum, of that Greenaway has only since me a first-class tour, embracing the role with relish: rolling his r"s, spitting his t"s, hammering good low cleaves in between each syllable. Tourists stop and goggle, not indispensably at the Vermeers.

We wound up at The Night Watch, Rembrandt"s musket-heavy board and the theme of Greenaway"s ultimate film, Nightwatching. It"s a sort of Renaissance-era CSI (a show he admires; he"s additionally a Midsomer Murders fan) questioning the puzzles in the portrayal itself and the poser of the artist"s remarkable tumble in to practical penury. Martin Freeman plays Rembrandt: infrequently trustworthy and mostly nude.

In actuality Nightwatching is rather some-more required than majority of his behind catalogue. It"s an simply eatable hearing of – yep, sex and genocide – and Greenaway"s alternative key concerns: painting, snobbery, conspiracy. It"s the ultimate in an ongoing plan to unpick 9 art masterpieces by movies and in attendance installations. He"s already knocked off The Last Supper and The Marriage at Cana ("Which I think is the marriage of Christ"). The motherlode is Michelangelo"s Last Judgment. Talks, he says, are underway with the Vatican.

The Night Watch, he reckons, is the initial work of genuine cinema, on comment of Rembrandt"s strategy of synthetic light. Though were Rembrandt around today, "he would have been sharpened on holograms. He would be post-post-James Cameron." He shakes his head. "All unequivocally inestimable artists, creators, have make use of of the record of their time and anybody who doesn"t becomes rught afar a fossil."

In Greenaway"s case, that equates to relocating towards "feature movie as essay. Like Montaigne. It"s majority some-more discursive. It doesn"t cling to on to a mental account and it"s not impressionistic. I don"t wish to take you anywhere. It"s not a block of escapism."

At 67, Greenaway is no longer meddlesome in motion picture per se – it"s a half-dead middle squandered by receiving the cues from books, "telling time to go to bed stories for adults. Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings are with pictures books. Not cinema. I wish to be a budding creator. As each self-regarding artist should do."

He believes motion picture needs to figure out a approach to get out of the dim ("Man"s not nocturnal"), get absolved of the frame, and the camera, too. "We have a motion picture of what we see, not what we think." Until that happens, though, he"s still creation films. And still, apparently, eager by their possibilities. He talks as majority about dual alternative drive-in theatre he has in the tube as he does Nightwatching: one about Eisenstein losing his decency in Mexico, an additional – "my first, real, dyed-in-the-wool pornography" – about a 17th century Dutch engraver. He fishes a postcard from his blazer pocket. It"s an additional Rijksmuseum highlight, this time by Hendrik Goltzius. "Here you can see Lot and his dual daughters; this is a couple of mins prior to they fuck him in sequence to furnish a delay of the human race."

Why does he do so much? "Maybe it"s a hunger. A abhorrence of the dull space. Without wishing even remotely to stir you, I"m concerned in twenty-six projects at the impulse all over the world. It"s a stately event to make use of being an artist."

Greenaway is an incorrigible self-promoter, perpetually ready with a fusillade of stats about how majority people he VJ"d in front of in Gdansk, or have seen The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover. There will regularly be, he says, "people who transport thousands of miles to see a Greenaway film. And I"m still portrayal – I"ve got a big vaunt entrance up in Milan soon. And that"s even some-more private."

Yet it is on show to the public? "Yes. Well, do you think a chairman who keeps a diary keeps it for himself? Anybody who writes a diary insists it contingency be review by someone else. So if I"m creation unequivocally in isolation drive-in theatre I wish people to see them; of march I do."

There"s a tenderness underneath the swagger. In England, at least, Greenaway contingency be his own cheerleader. He"s come underneath conflict from his peers; even a little of his defenders validate their praise. He"s additionally had a severe press review in a lot of interviews. He suggests assorted explanations: since he"s a jack of all trades, not a specialist. Because he"s not Oxbridge. Because the English are "textually disposed … and so those who rehearse the picture are regarded as not kosher." He cites an fan in undervaluation: RB Kitaj, an additional artist of ideas. "He had a big vaunt in Tate 10 years ago and he was positively excoriated by people similar to you since he did your pursuit so majority improved than you can. He accepted it so majority some-more than you did."

He"s happy in Holland. He likes the miss of snobbery, the openness, the freedom. "For a prolonged time right afar they"ve been means to speak about homosexuality, termination and euthanasia at the breakfast table. Elsewhere people spin afar in annoyance or run for the hills." He is, he says, formulation to take value of the leisure afforded and kill himself when he"s 80. "My youngest daughter will be twenty-one so I can see her to full adulthood. Why would it be sad? I"ve got fourteen years left. They contend the majority profitable thing about genocide is that you never know when it"s going to happen. But I think this a curse. I think if we knew we"d have majority improved have make use of of of life."

To a little extent, this self-murder plan is an additional e.g. of his zeal to be at the slicing corner – "I think unequivocally shortly we"re all going to have to severely plead mandatory euthanasia." But it"s additionally nobler. He"s an ideas man to the end, who"s penetrating to put them in to make use of – and not only in film. He has a genuine clarity of responsibility.

"I"ve had a illusory hold up and I"m still enjoying it and am an intensely happy man, but there has to be a trade-off somewhere. I"m a Darwinian. All I can think is that we"re here to fuck, to procreate. And we"re incredibly focused towards it. All the novel and radio is pulling us towards it. But I upheld on my genes a prolonged time ago, so I have to clear my place in the human competition a little alternative way."

You might have to prepare up a role in hold up for yourself "since we"ve thrown afar God and Satan and Freud", but he"s devout about the prerequisite of you do so. "I"m not here to fool around tiddlywinks and I don"t think you are either."

He"s off shortly after, striding opposite the block in his thick pinstripes, sepulchral in to his mobile, ripping to crack on with those twenty-six projects whilst he"s still got the time.

• Nightwatching is expelled on twenty-six March. Peter Greenaway will be receiving piece in a QA for Nightwatching at the ICA in London on twenty-eight March.

• This is a longer version of the talk published in FilmMusic.