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| VIDEO: Spain's Queen cancels Jubilee visit Thu, 17 May 2012 07:13:43 GMT Queen Sofia of Spain has cancelled a visit to the UK to mark Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee because of disputes over Gibraltar. |
| VIDEO: Actor Will Smith back in Black Wed, 16 May 2012 20:39:23 GMT Fifteen years after the release of the first Men in Black, Hollywood actor Will Smith is back with the third film in the franchise. |
| VIDEO: Police apology over body parts Wed, 16 May 2012 14:28:05 GMT Police in Northern Ireland have apologised for any distress caused to families following the revelation the PSNI kept body parts and tissue samples in some cases of unexplained deaths. |
| AUDIO: Children's shows leave BBC One Wed, 16 May 2012 21:51:46 GMT Children's programmes will no longer be shown on BBC One and Two following the digital switchover, the BBC Trust has confirmed. |
| VIDEO: 'Petrol used' in Derby fire tragedy Wed, 16 May 2012 13:01:30 GMT Petrol was used to start a fire at a house in Derby in which six children died, police have said at a news conference alongside the grief-stricken parents. |
| VIDEO: May: I have told police 'as it is' Wed, 16 May 2012 16:37:20 GMT Home Secretary Theresa May has denied her relationship with the police is beyond repair after she was heckled at the Police Federation conference. |
| VIDEO: Bank warns of euro crisis 'storm' Wed, 16 May 2012 15:16:12 GMT The governor of the Bank of England has warned the eurozone is 'tearing itself apart' as it tries to get to grips with the economic crisis. |
| VIDEO: Icelandic artist celebrates Jubilee Wed, 16 May 2012 21:21:08 GMT A new stained-glass window commissioned to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee has been installed in Southwark Cathedral. |
| VIDEO: Queen praises Prince's community work Wed, 16 May 2012 12:08:17 GMT The Queen, Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Charles visit Lancashire on the latest leg of the Diamond Jubilee tour |
| VIDEO: Will Smith's Team GB Olympic workout Wed, 16 May 2012 14:02:34 GMT Actor Will Smith tried his hand at Olympic sports when he met members from Team GB at the Ethos Centre at Imperial College in London. |
| AUDIO: Are you 'drowning in clutter'? Wed, 16 May 2012 09:01:50 GMT Research for the Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba) indicates that one of the most significant issues for homeowners and renters is storage. Riba's Harry Rich and Lesley Spellman of Clutter Fairy discuss how to improve the situation. |
| AUDIO: Should insulting someone be illegal? Wed, 16 May 2012 07:37:15 GMT A campaign is being launched calling on the Home Secretary Theresa May to change the law criminalising "insulting behaviour". |
| VIDEO: Queen continues Jubilee tour Wed, 16 May 2012 14:42:46 GMT The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Charles are visiting East Lancashire on the latest part of the Diamond Jubilee tour. |
| VIDEO: 'I keep a train carriage in my house' Tue, 15 May 2012 20:54:21 GMT Jim Higgins, a retired coach transport manager, is in the process of repairing a 130-year-old Great Western Railway carriage, that sits within his bungalow. |
| VIDEO: Aircraft in Jubilee rehearsal flypast Wed, 16 May 2012 11:25:52 GMT Aircraft have rehearsed a flypast over Anglesey for the Diamond Jubilee, although the actual event will be over Windsor Castle. |
| VIDEO: Name mix-up costs council £20,000 Tue, 15 May 2012 21:20:42 GMT Human error is being blamed for a mix-up over payments to Kent County Council (KCC) leader Paul Carter which cost the authority more than £20,000. |
| VIDEO: PM faces LOL text jibe Wed, 16 May 2012 12:07:28 GMT The Labour leader Ed Miliband has joked in the Commons about the prime minister's text correspondence with former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks. |
| VIDEO: Police officers grill May on pay Wed, 16 May 2012 12:38:09 GMT Home Secretary Theresa May has faced questions over police pay, following her speech to the Police Federation conference in Bournemouth. |
| VIDEO: Fire death parents appeal for privacy Wed, 16 May 2012 10:14:36 GMT The parents of six children who were kiiled in a house fire in Derby have appealed to the press to leave them to grieve alone. |
| VIDEO: Ex-umpire Dickie Bird receives OBE Tue, 15 May 2012 11:25:58 GMT Former Test cricket umpire Dickie Bird receives an OBE from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace for services to sport and to charity. |
| VIDEO: Takeaway brothel boss jailed Tue, 15 May 2012 17:37:31 GMT A Carlisle takeaway boss has been jailed for 15 years for attempting to recruit four girls aged between 12 and 16 into prostitution. |
| VIDEO: Carrier section begins move to Scotland Tue, 15 May 2012 15:13:11 GMT Work begins on moving a massive 6,000 tonne section of the first of Britain's two new aircraft carriers from Portsmouth to Rosyth in Scotland. |
| VIDEO: Heathrow queues: 'Get a grip' warning Tue, 15 May 2012 13:20:59 GMT The government needs to "get a grip" on queues at Heathrow Airport, the chief executive of London First says. |
| AUDIO: Katona: 'vendetta against me' Tue, 15 May 2012 14:52:02 GMT Kerry Katona has told BBC Radio 5 live's Victoria Derbyshire that she felt bullied by certain tabloid newspapers. |
| VIDEO: Student egg donor plea 'wrong' Tue, 15 May 2012 12:24:29 GMT A leading fertility clinic has criticised a leaflet campaign asking Cambridge University students to become egg donors. |
| VIDEO: London's new cable car is tested Tue, 15 May 2012 18:56:26 GMT Testing is under way of London's newest form of transport - a gondola lift cable car across the River Thames. |
| AUDIO: Brother's tribute to fire victims Tue, 15 May 2012 10:14:33 GMT The 14-year-old half-brother of six children who died in a house fire in Derby has paid tribute to his siblings. |
| VIDEO: 'One pound fish' man on his internet success Mon, 14 May 2012 15:59:11 GMT Muhammad Shahid Nazir has notched up over a million YouTube hits after performing his 'one pound fish' song at Queen's market in east London. |
| AUDIO: Pay-as-you-go road charge proposal Tue, 15 May 2012 14:34:04 GMT BBC Radio 5 live asked the Institute of Fiscal Studies why it is proposing a pay-as-you-go driving system. |
| VIDEO: Hopes for West Country mining Tue, 15 May 2012 11:44:23 GMT Contracts giving a mining company ownership of land in Cornwall which it says it needs for new buildings have been signed. |
| VIDEO: Ashdown in Lords reform clash Tue, 15 May 2012 09:04:03 GMT Former Lib Dem leader Lord Ashdown clashes with a party colleague during a debate on plans to reform the House of Lords. |
| VIDEO: MPs warn of medicine shortages Tue, 15 May 2012 06:28:48 GMT Patients in England are suffering from shortages of some medicines, according to the All Party Pharmacy Group of MPs. |
| VIDEO: Why exams are about to get harder Tue, 15 May 2012 10:26:37 GMT Free schools, an accelerated move to academies and a planned return to a more rigorous, traditional type of exam are part of government changes for the English education system. |
| VIDEO: Tougher rules over dangerous dogs Tue, 15 May 2012 05:57:18 GMT Owners of dangerous dogs who are convicted in England and Wales are to face tougher punishments under new guidelines. |
| VIDEO: Model agency talks body pressure Tue, 15 May 2012 05:43:38 GMT One model agency talks about the pressures facing young people to achieve a model standard. |
| VIDEO: Man City parade Premier League trophy Mon, 14 May 2012 21:37:09 GMT About 100,000 Manchester City fans lined the streets for a victory parade celebrating the club winning the Premier League title. |
| VIDEO: Campbell: No deal with Murdoch Mon, 14 May 2012 18:32:30 GMT There was no "express deal" between Labour leader Tony Blair and Rupert Murdoch in the run-up to the 1997 election, Alastair Campbell has said. |
| VIDEO: Should alcohol have a minimum price? Mon, 14 May 2012 17:33:53 GMT The Scottish government has confirmed that it wants to set a minimum price for alcohol of 50p per unit. |
| VIDEO: Weir accident: How the tragedy unfolded Mon, 14 May 2012 18:06:52 GMT A boy who was rescued from the River Avon after a boating accident in which his father and three-year-old brother died has been discharged from hospital. |
| VIDEO: Sixth child dies after Derby house fire Mon, 14 May 2012 13:16:06 GMT A 13-year-old boy has died days after a house fire in Derby that killed five of his younger siblings. |
| VIDEO: Racing driver pays for advanced tests Mon, 14 May 2012 10:51:32 GMT Former racing driver John Cleland is offering to pay for young motorists in the Borders to pass their advanced driving test. |
| VIDEO: Disability changes to go ahead Mon, 14 May 2012 15:27:50 GMT Planned changes to disability benefits will go ahead, according to Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith |
| AUDIO: Noel Gallagher on Man City title Mon, 14 May 2012 07:12:28 GMT Manchester City fan and musician Noel Gallagher admits he "cried like a baby" when Sergio Aguero fired the Blues to a "mind-blowing" title win. |
| VIDEO: Food label consultation to begin Sun, 13 May 2012 07:27:08 GMT A consultation will begin on Monday aimed at making food labelling simpler so people can monitor the amount of salt, sugar and fat they eat. |
| VIDEO: Campbell: 'No deal between Blair and Murdoch' Mon, 14 May 2012 15:16:51 GMT Tony Blair's former press secretary Alastair Campbell has told the Leveson Inquiry that there was "no evidence of a trade-off" between Mr Blair and Rupert Murdoch. |
| AUDIO: How do you talk to children about death? Mon, 14 May 2012 09:05:30 GMT How do you talk to children about death? Shelley Gilbert, founder of Grief Encounter, and Children's author Judith Kerr discuss. |
| VIDEO: 'Yawning black hole' filled in MoD budget Mon, 14 May 2012 15:13:22 GMT The Ministry of Defence has balanced its budget for the first time in a decade, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has said. |
| VIDEO: Guide to developing mobile games Mon, 14 May 2012 05:29:08 GMT With mobile gaming becoming an increasingly lucrative sector, young entrepreneurs are focusing their attentions on this growing industry. |
| VIDEO: Defence budget 'to be balanced' Mon, 14 May 2012 07:11:47 GMT Defence Secretary Philip Hammond is due to give details of how the MoD will balance its budget |
| VIDEO: Feed the birds: Turtle doves' decline Sun, 13 May 2012 07:28:36 GMT Once widespread in England and Wales, the turtle dove is now in serious decline, with only nine birds for every 100 there were in the 70s. |
| VIDEO: Ainslie on being the UK's first torchbearer Sun, 13 May 2012 09:56:22 GMT A few days ago, the athlete who will carry the torch on its first leg in Cornwall was named. |
| VIDEO: Community nursing 'overburdened' Mon, 14 May 2012 06:57:54 GMT Cuts to councils and hospitals in the UK are overburdening nurses working in the community, a survey by the Royal College of Nursing finds. |
| VIDEO: Patients 'treated in corridors' Sun, 13 May 2012 07:25:19 GMT Patients are being treated in corridors and left waiting on hospital trolleys for up to a day because of a lack of hospital beds, nurses have warned. |
| VIDEO: Duke and Duchess attend Team GB gala Fri, 11 May 2012 20:15:31 GMT The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attend a gala performance at London's Royal Albert Hall, to celebrate Great Britain's Olympic and Paralympic athletes. |
| VIDEO: Leveson Inquiry: Brooks gives evidence Fri, 11 May 2012 17:17:03 GMT Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt sought "private advice" from News Corporation over phone hacking, an email given to the Leveson Inquiry has suggested. |
| VIDEO: 'Curry colleges' to help create UK jobs Sat, 12 May 2012 07:29:28 GMT Curry houses in the UK which are struggling to recruit Asian staff because of tougher immigration rules, are being urged by the government to accept graduates from new "curry colleges". |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:
maffick • \MAF-ik\ • verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior
Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.
"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." — From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011
Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.