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that went into covid and it fell off the to do list. in 2022, rebecca submitted a new application for the trademark and separate applications covered the waxing aftercare products she'd developed. but then she got a letter from the beauty giant l'oreal, who told her she could no longer use the name nkd. this is the naked brand that l'oreal are fighting for the trademark over, they say the nkd waxing brand is confusingly similar and could lead to consumer confusion, something rebecca disputes. i think it's the epitome of corporate bullying. we're an east midlands waxing business. do i really pose a threat to l'oreal�*s customers to their business, especially bearing in mind that our brand names are written and pronounced differently? one trademark attorney says both parties are just trying to protect their brands. as attorneys, we always try and get an amicable settlement because it saves on costs for both
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parties, and also it means that both people can generally keep their mark or use their mark in a certain way. so i think and no—one's ever really out to win and get as much as they can from the situation. they're just protecting their brand. in a statement, l'oreal says: we are wholly committed to resolving any misunderstanding that might have been with rebecca dowdeswell from the beginning of our exchanges with her lawyers in 2022. we have communicated an offer that supports her business aspirations while respecting our long standing trademark rights. we look forward to resolving this matter in a mutually agreeable way. rebecca says she's been advised the tribunal could be held next year. jodie law, bbc leicester. it's been described as the biggest miscarriage ofjustice in uk history. the post office scandal saw hundreds of former sub—postmasters wrongly convicted of theft and fraud on the basis of incorrect data
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from a faulty it system. tim brentnall�*s life was destroyed by the scandal, but, 10 years after he was prosecuted, he has cleared his name and is celebrating a very special new arrival. our reporter fi lamdin went to meet him. steph and i have joked about it, but it's also been a little bit of a joke in the postmaster group that he's already got perhaps two dozen grandmothers looking after him. everyone in the group has been with us on thatjourney and everyone is so happy for him. everyone has been overjoyed with it. lando was the first baby of the group and you know what a baby does to most people. everybody sort of goes a bit soft and gooey. it's a dream come true. we wanted a child for many years and with steph going through cancer treatment, we had to wait for a while. i don't think, ten years ago, i would have thought we could have been this happy.
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we've really got this wonderful, brilliant little man to focus on. good morning. the subpostmasters fighting forjustice. i the evidence i shall give. shall be the truth. the whole truth. and nothing but... and nothing but the truth. i was totally lost in the moment because i knew i hadn't stolen — there was no evidence that i'd stolen anything. i certainly wasn't living, you know, the high life from ill—gotten gains. tim was charged with false accounting. 11 years later, he finally cleared his name. it really started to feel like i was trapped in a nightmare. it felt unreal. it felt like i was watching myself do it because i knew i hadn't done anything wrong. but i was stood in front of a judge in crown court pleading guilty to a crime that i hadn't done. the thought of going to prison terrified me. tim was one of many subpostmasters who gave evidence at the inquiry. they now both know it added
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to the stress of trying for a baby. but, three weeks ago, baby lando was born. they told us over and over — you're the only one. the subpostmaster group portrayed here in the itv drama and now a close group of friends, messaging most days. lando brentnall arrived at 10am, 7lb i. mum and baby are doing fine. there are lots of people wishing congratulations. jo sent us this lovely sleep sack, della crocheted, knitted — whatever you call it — a lovely, lovely soft blanket for him. maria sent us a lovely load of babygrows and things like that, and there's so much more, as well. everyone in the group has been with us on thatjourney and everyone is so happy for him. the whole group are sort of celebrating lando's birth. yeah, everyone�*s been sort of overjoyed with it. the inquiry listening
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to all the evidence has now finished and is taking a break for the summer. in the autumn, it will consider recommendations for the future. but 15 years on, tim, like so many others, is still waiting for compensation. living next door is a constant reminder of what happened. i was in my early 20s when we took it on and that was going to be my future and that was all ripped away after five years. can you put it all behind you now? ten years ago, i wouldn't have thought it was possible to be this happy and we'd have sort of this new life ahead of us. it's been a constant sword hanging over us, the post office, and the struggle to get a baby, which just happened naturally. it's just been a realjoy to be able to start to build towards the next chapter. fiona lamdin, bbc news.
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spaces like museums and galleries are traditionally calm and quiet places, but for families with children, this may be off—putting when looking for somewhere to go in the summer holidays. but some attractions are now taking part in dedicated �*children's hours�* so they can explore as freely as they like. a warning, this report from nicky ford contains flashing images. when you picture an art gallery, it might look something like this, a place for quiet contemplation as you take in the artworks on show. so when you're ready, feel free to go. well, not today. running, laughing and enjoying yourself is definitely encouraged. this is the launch of kids allowed, a new project to allow children to enjoy art galleries and museums in their own way. yeah, it's really lovely. i mean, i think they're a little bit maybe intimidated
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by the space in the beginning. um, and then slowly, as they make their way through the gallery, like, you can see, there's a lot of energy, a lot of interest in the paintings as well. i'm drawing something similar to the painting up there. how do you feel about seeing these artworks? i feel very impressed about how they had it so detailed to make it look so realistic. the idea is to give children a designated time to visit and to put parents at ease. it follows research by the art fund, who surveyed more than 1,000 parents. they found 90% wanted to visit art galleries, but over 50% were worried how their children would behave. just seeing kids actually feeling relaxed in a creative space in a museum. it's not about being hush and quiet and reverent, it's actually about letting your personality shine and being inspired by creativity from the past, which helps us to be creative still today. as well as giving the children a chance to look at the art,
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the idea is that they will feel connected to it too, and maybe even give them some inspiration. i think trying to draw the clouds are pretty tricky since you're trying to draw white and white. it'sjust nice and it's very, quite relaxing, and there are a lot of good paintings and stuff. there are certain spaces- where you might feela bit, um, apprehensive about taking small ones, of which i've got- a couple, so it's reallyl nice to feel welcomed. however that might be, whether that's, yeah, . events that are put on or the way that the tone that a space - kind of gives you about - what children are allowed to do and what's appropriate. more than 20 art galleries and museums are taking part, including the science museum and the horniman museum. these are great community spaces. they belong to us all and actually bring your children and reclaim them as families for yourself and to benefit from everything that they've got to offer. a chance, then, to let your children's imagination run free.
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after months of planning, the edinburgh festival starts today with more than 3,500 shows planned across the month. the world's biggest arts festival will showcase performers from 58 countries until the 26th august. the theme of this years festival is �*rituals that unite us.�* during the festivals get under way today. what an event! thousands of performances in terms of the fringe. we get people coming from 58 different countries to take part. and what a location. look at this. this is just in the shadow of edinburgh castle, these kinds of views from all different parts of the city. we've got a couple of the groups and artists performing with us today. claire docherty, this is tinderbox orchestra. tell me a little bit about them.
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we're a 20 piece band of rappers, singers, orchestral instruments and then fully amplified background vocals. locals? yeah, we're based in edinburgh, so we're part of the tinderbox collective, who are a music and digital arts charity. there's some people talk about the challenges of coming to the festival in terms of performing, let alone paying to come and see it and paying for accommodation. but it can be quite challenging, can't it, to perform here? yeah, it can be. i think we're really lucky. we have an instrument library project where we get musical instruments into public libraries across scotland. so we've been working with edinburgh libraries for the last two years, and they are helping us out by letting us use the edinburgh central library as a venue this year. so yeah, we're really lucky. fantastic. you're performing in the library. loudest thing you'll hear in a library. it doesn't get much better than that. yeah, yeah, yeah. thanks very much for that. let's pop across here and have a quick word with marie foster. your first time at the festival? second time at the festival. first time performing. you came to watch it last year came to watch. and i wasn't a performer at that point. and then i got so inspired and i came back to put
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on my own show. you have been a successful business woman in a previous career, very successful businesswoman. how do you feel about performing? how does it compare now? it's starting from scratch all over again, which has actually been very fun. and suddenly i'm naive and clueless every day. what an outfit. good luck with your show. i know you started last night, but you've got a run of a couple of weeks ahead. and another ten days. um, yes. thanks, marie. thanks very much for that. so just a taste of some of the shows here at the the fringe. we've got everything from clowns to comedians to music as well. as we've been hearing, team gb have won their eighth gold of the paris olympics in the women's trampolining. bryony page has now completed her set of olympics medals. here she is collecting her gold
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in the last few minutes. hello. i thought i'd start off with a look back at the enormous thunderstorms that developed yesterday across central and southern england. the storms that went across fairford in gloucestershire dumped 35mm of rain in the space ofjust one hour. i think that's the heaviest downpour i've seen all year. the result of those massive storms was some quite severe localised flooding problems that we had. today it's all changed weather—wise really. for the north and west of the country we've got a band of rain edging in here. for northern ireland and western scotland it's a wet afternoon. holding on to a reasonable amount of dry weather for east scotland for most of the day. for most of england and wales things are looking fine, with some sunny spells breaking through. it's still very humid across eastern england and that humidity could bring a few showers near to the east coast of east anglia and kent as we go on through the afternoon. there is an outside chance of a rumble of thunder,
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but the storms won't be as severe as the ones we had on thursday. overnight tonight we'll see that band of rain push its way southwards and eastwards into parts of england and wales, but as the front continues to push eastwards it will weaken. we've got the fresh air behind the front across scotland and northern ireland, but another quite warm and humid night for england and wales. we pick up on that front on saturday morning, draped across east anglia and south—east england, with outbreaks of patchy rain. most of it is going to be quite light, but there could be a few heavier bursts mixed in. eventually that clears through the afternoon. what follows for most of the uk is a fresher feeling day, with sunny spells widespread and just a few showers running into the north and west of scotland. heading into the second half of the weekend, it's not a bad start to the day really. most areas dry with variable cloud and there should be some sunny spells coming through that as the day goes by. however, we end the day in northern ireland and western scotland with the next area of rain moving its way in. that rain is associated with the next area of low pressure that's going to be bringing rain
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across these north—western areas of the uk into the early part of next week. the rain could turn out to be really quite heavy across these areas, so there is a risk of seeing some localised flooding. even beyond that, as the rain clears through, we'll be left with quite a few showers around, temperatures generally running into the high teens to low 20s across western areas. the east and south—east of the country fares a bit better. closer to an area of high pressure, at times the weather could become quite warm with some sun.
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live from london. this is bbc news. free at last — three americans and a kremlin critic — imprisoned in russia — arrive on us soil — part of the biggest prisoner swap deal since the cold war. my myjob is to make sure that they don't get there and if they do we get them back. i don't buy this idea that you will let these people rot in jail. the deal sees 2a prisoners and 2 minors held in seven countries set free, including hit man vadim krasikov, a member of russia's security service. key landmarks across merseyside will be lit up in pink tonight and over the weekend — in tribute to the three victims of the southport knife attack. the body of the hamas political leader, ismail haniyeh — is now in qatar where a special
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prayer service has been held before his burial north of doha.

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