SIMI ..NOW SAFE.

SIMI -INDIAN SIBERIAN TIGER WAS PART OF A GERMAN CIRCUS WHO SUFFERED CRUELTY.SHE WAS HELPED TO BE SAVED IN SEPTEMBER 2012 BACK BENCH TORY MP BROUGHT UP ABOUT HER PLIGHT DURING PMQS .SIMI WAS CLOSE TO DEATH DUE TO AN INFECTION FOLLOWING A BOTCHED TAIL AMPUTATION AND NOW RESIGNS IN ISLE OF WIGHT ZOO.

TURTLE ON SOUTH WEST COAST

1ST CANINE CUB SCOUT.

THIS  IS A DOG CALLED RUBY WHO HAS 30 BADGES .SHE IS PART OF THE 1ST TOLWORTH EVEREST CUB PACK,SOUTH LONDON.

DOG DEPRESSION.

ANIMAL CHARITY -P.D.S.A DID A RESEARCH INTO DEPRESSION IN DOGS. 31,500 PET OWNERS -28 PER CENT THOUGHT  IT OK TO LEAVE DOGS FOR BETWEEN 6 TO 10 HOURS .VETS ADVISE A MAXIMUM OF 4 HOURS BECAUSE LONELY DOGS GET DEPRESSED.

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Episode 1

Four modern bakers bake their way through the era that gave us modern baking as we know it - the reign of Queen Victoria. Experts Alex Langlands and Annie Gray join them to tell the incredible story of our daily bread.

The journey begins in 1837, when bread was the mainstay of most diets and bakers were at the heart of every community. A rural bake house has been kitted out exactly as it would have been in the 1830s. The bakers must get to grips with centuries-old methods of breadmaking and that means doing absolutely everything by hand.

The first loaves are made with heritage wheat flour and brewers' yeast in a tiny wood-fired oven. It is bog standard bread that fed Victorian rural workers but to modern palettes it is an absolute revelation. Fifth-generation baker John Swift gets a taste of the bread his ancestors once made and artisan baker Duncan is in his element in this unhurried, organic world. There is no shop, so the bakers deliver door-to-door. For industrial baker John Foster, who deals with customers as far afield as China, the fixed demand and lack of competition enjoyed by Victorian bakers is an utter joy.

But the idyll doesn't last. In the 1840s, poor harvests and an economic downturn saw the price of wheat rocket, so barley bread must be made for the poor. It is an irony not lost on the bakers that this bread would only sell in the poshest artisan bakeries today. But it is when they have to turn their hand to making crammings - Victorian chicken feed - that their forebears' role in feeding a starving nation really hits home.-http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06vn7sq/victorian-bakers-episode-1

story-of-scottish-art

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06h7xsm/the-story-of-scottish-art-episode-1-Lachlan Goudie visits the Ring of Brodgar in Orkney, a stone circle that has stood for thousands of years. He also encounters the Westray Wife, an ancient figurine on the island of Westray that is the oldest sculpted human figure in the British Isles.

There is also a look at the sophisticated art of the Picts and the Gaels, the exuberant Renaissance period of the early Stuart kings, and the destruction of the Reformation, when religious artworks in Scotland were all but wiped out.

Trapped 45ft sperm whale dies on beach in Norfolk after injuring tail

A 45ft sperm whale weighing around 30 tonnes has died after getting stuck on a beach.

The whale got stuck beneath the cliffs at Hunstanton, Norfolk, injuring its tail on Friday just hours before low tide.

A second whale managed to free itself and swim away to safety with the rest of the pod.

"It was obviously a very distressing scene earlier. We would ask the public to stay away from the beach."

Richard Johnson, senior maritime operations officer for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency

It is quite rare for whales of this size to come so close to the coast and -read more -http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wildlife/12117169/Trapped-45ft-sperm-whale-dies-on-beach-in-Norfolk-after-injuring-tail.html