Notre-Dame rebuilding and university ‘gagging orders’
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Getty ImagesNotre-Dame ‘to be more beautiful’
How long will it take? French President Emmanuel Macron is promising that Paris’s Notre-Dame cathedral will be rebuilt “even more beautifully” within five years following the fire that broke out on Monday. But an expert on such restorations claims it could take “decades”.
Whatever the timescale, the money’s coming in. So far companies and business tycoons have pledged €800m (£692m). We look at how Notre-Dame can be restored.
‘Gagging orders’ row hits universities
Climate change protests continue in London
Extinction Rebellion climate change activists have held, or are holding, protests in 80 cities worldwide. In London, motorists face gridlock on certain routes, as some roads are blocked. Mayor Sadiq Khan said he “shared the passion” of the activists, but he was “extremely concerned” about plans some had to disrupt the Tube on Wednesday. Nearly 300 people have been arrested so far.
What do drones and GPS owe to an 18th-Century shipwreck?
On 5 October 1744, a storm was brewing in the English Channel. With sails set for home after chasing a French fleet off the coast of Portugal, a squadron of English warships was in trouble. The lead ship HMS Victory sank 100m to the seabed 50 miles (80km) south of Plymouth, taking with it 1,100 men and – so rumour had it – lots of Portuguese gold.
The wreckage lay undisturbed until it was located in 2009. Beyond the rumoured gold, there was something on board which was arguably much more economically significant. Also lost that day was the first known attempt to develop an idea that is now used to guide everything from submarines to satellites, from rovers on Mars to the phone in your pocket.
What the papers say
Messages of hope abound following the fire that destroyed much of Notre-Dame cathedral. Metro pays tribute to the “hero” firefighters who saved the main structure, while the Times leads on a report saying how close the building came to collapse. The Guardian describes the scene inside as “eerily silent and deserted”. Elsewhere, the Daily Mail says official statistics show a record number of women over 50 working. And the Financial Times reports that Boeing is facing criticism from investors after two fatal crashes involving its aircraft.
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Lookahead
09:30 The Office for National Statistics publishes UK inflation figures for March.
11:00 England announce their 15-man preliminary squad for the men’s Cricket World Cup.
20:00 Manchester City host Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool are away against Porto in the second legs of their Champions League quarter-finals.
On this day
1984 Police officer Yvonne Fletcher is killed and 10 people are injured as shots are fired from the Libyan People’s Bureau in central London.
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