our arts editor, will gompertz, has more.his is the centre of bradford, the heart of bradford. 30 years ago, this was also where some rather momentous events took place. crowd chants. this is where the satanic verses was burnt. it's the image that became seared in the national consciousness and became associated with this city. for muslims collectively, it was a moment of crystallisation of identity. prior to that, you know, everybody was asian, there wasn't really the religious nuance, but what you see at that moment is people saying, actually i live here, this is my country, i belong here, i'm going to spend the rest of my life here and my children are going to grow up here, so if i don't like something i'm going to raise my voice. the festival is hosting a series of events, with contemporary authors reflecting on the politics of writing three decades on from salman rushdie‘s controversial novel. would your books, which are about muslim dating and putting a mosque in a british village — would those have been published, 30 y

--- first major exhibition of the guyanese-born artist on disay in london, and our arts editor will gompertzwill: these are frank bowling'ns early pain made when he was clearly influenced by francis bacon's expressionism and swinging 's pop culture. he was part of the scene, young london-based artist who trained alongside david hockney. both were highly rated, both went to america. nthockney weo l.a. and became a star. bowling went to new york and became a teacher. >> spray adhesive on the stencil. and directly on the canvas. will: he continued to paint, of coarse, but to noreat acclaim. recognition has been a long time coming. how do you feel about the tate exhibition? frank: i waited so long for it to happen. aswhen it was announced it going to happen, i was told that the hibition to be an exhibition that i wanted. i quickly found out that once more, e language between myself and the people at the tate -- i hear one thing and they think theysa hav something else. well, it turns out it is going show, not tatein will: he wanted to show to focus purely on his work, the investigation into ligh

our arts editor will gompertz has taken a look.se are frank bowling's early paintings, made when he was clearly influenced by francis bacon's expressionism and swinging 60s pop culture. he was part of the scene, a young london—based artist who had trained alongside david hockney. both were highly rated, both left for america. hockney went to la and became a star. bowling went to new york and became a teacher. spray adhesive on the stencil... and directly on the canvas. he continued to paint, of course, but to no great acclaim. recognition has been a long time coming. how do you feel about the tate exhibition? er, well, i waited for such a long time for it to happen, that when it was announced that it was going to happen, i was told that the exhibition would be an exhibition that i wanted, and very quickly i found out that once more, the language between myself and people like the tate, i hear one thing and they think they've said something else. well, it turns out that it's going to be the tate‘s show, not mine. he wanted the show

our arts editor, will gompertz, has been to meet her.nning, going back to the mid—60s, a young, black american artist, a female artist living in harlem. how difficult was it? 0h! it was really difficult. news archive: harlem, new york's negro quarter... riots in the street, all kinds of stuff was happening. i mean overt racism. faith ringgold emerged as an artist at the height of america's civil rights movement. she was making politically charged paintings in response to what was going on around her. a group portrait, of sorts, of a country divided by race. american people, that's the story that i started with. i am going to tell it like i see it. i am going to do images of the important aspects of american life that affects me. you make these paintings which are politically charged, which are dealing with major issues — racism being at the centre of it — and yet you say you can find beauty in them? truth. there is beauty in truth. inspired by african culture and western fashion, she started to make what she calls story quilts — painting

our arts editor, will gompertz, has more.e 60s her pictures as a way of undermining and criticising the portuguese fascist regime. my mother was very outrageous portuguese fascist regime. my mother was very outrageous and took huge risks with her pictures. and went crazy and her studios. at home, she was quite a straightforward person. i think that if you do pictures, they are about what's inside you as much as what's outside you. but you've got secrets and stories that you've got secrets and stories that you want to put out there in the pictures. in 1998, paula rego produced a set of large but still pictures in response to a recent referendum held in portugal to bring an end to illegal abortions, and extremely dangerous practice for which she had personal experience. my which she had personal experience. my mother, who had suffered so much in her life, from backstreet abortions, was so incensed that the portuguese public, and particularly women in portugal hadn‘t bothered to go out and vote all were too embarrassed to vote.

this from our arts editor will gompertz.o her studio almost every day. her son gave me a tour of her work, which was overtly political. she used her pictures as a way of undermining and criticising the portuguese fascist resume. my mother was very outrageous and took huge risks with her pictures and went crazy in her studio, but at home she was quite a straightforward woman. i think that if you do pictures, they are about what's inside you as much as what's outside you, but that you've got secrets and stories that you want to put out there in the pictures. her son, the film—maker nick willing, gave me a personal tour of this major exhibition of her work, which starts in the early days, when his mother's art was overtly political. in 1998, paula rego produced a set of large pastel pictures in response to a recent referendum held in portugal to bring an end to illegal abortions — an extremely dangerous practice of which she had personal experience. and my mother, who had suffered so much in her life from backstreet abortions,

will gompertz, bbc news. that's it from us, now on bbc one it's time for the news where you are.roome, as a serious crash ruins his dreams of a record equalling fifth tour de france title. 100% start from hosts continuous france when it began at the women's world cup. and andy murray says he hasn't given up hope of playing singles tennis by the end of the year, as he continues his return from surgery. hello and welcome to sportsday. we start with the four time tour de france winner chris froome who is in intensive care tonight after a high speed crash ruled him out of this year's race. froome was practising for the fourth stage of the criterium du dauphine in france when he hit a wall and fractured his right femur, elbow and ribs. team ineos boss dave brailsford has been telling the bbc cycling podcast bespoke exactly what happened. it is at the bottom and came down it isa it is at the bottom and came down it is a quite technical at the same time he came into a straight road, with housing on either side and he was with the well at the time and signalled to al that he was going to

our arts editor, will gompertz, has been to meet her. all the way back to the ‘60s, a young, black, female artist living in harlem. how difficult was it? it was really difficult. riots in the street, all kinds of stuff was happening. oh, i mean overt racism. faith ringgold emerged as an artist at the height of america's civil rights movement. she was making politically—charged paintings in response to what was going on around her. a group portrait of sorts, of a country divided by race. american people, that's the story i started with. i am going to tell it like i see it. i'm going to do images of the important aspects of american life that affect me. you make these paintings which are politically—charged and dealing with major issues, racism at the centre, and yet you say you can find beauty in that. truth. there is beauty in truth. inspired by african culture and western fashion, she started to make what she calls story quilts, paintings on fabrics with statements — written because publishers and big art institutions wouldn't present h

our arts editor will gompertz has taken a look.re frank bowling's early paintings, made when he was clearly influenced by francis bacon's expressionism and swinging 60s pop culture. he was part of the scene, a young london—based artist who had trained alongside david hockney. both were highly rated, both left for america. hockney went to la and became a star. bowling went to new york and became a teacher. spray adhesive on the stencil... and directly on the canvas. he continued to paint, of course, but to no great acclaim. recognition has been a long time coming. how do you feel about the tate exhibition? er, well, i waited for such a long time for it to happen, that when it was announced that it was going to happen, i was told that the exhibition would be an exhibition that i wanted, and very quickly i found out that once more, the language between myself and people like the tate, i hear one thing and they think they've said something else. well, it turns out that it's going to be the tate‘s show, not mine. he wanted the show to f

will gompertz, bbc news.i’ for you out our bbc website —— on our website. and you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter — i'm @bbcmikeembley. hello. our very unsettled spell of weather is set to continue as low pressure is still dominating our weather out there at the moment. now this picture was taken on wednesday by one of our weather watchers in herstmonceux, east sussex. grey skies there, we've had some heavy showers around. much of the country has already seen heavy rain and we have still got flood warnings in force with more persistent rain to come over the next 24—48 hours. now the area we are most concerned about during the day on thursday is this region, the south—east of scotland where there could be 80—100 millimetres of rain falling falling over the highest ground. so that means disruption to travel, and flooding is likely. if you have a look through the course of thursday, that rain really will be quite relentless, only slowly easing away as we head through the latter part of t

the age of 85, his first major exhibition has opened at tate britain in london. 0ur arts editor, will gompertz paintings, made when he was clearly influenced by francis bacon's expressionism and swinging 60s pop culture. he was part of the scene, a young london—based artist who had trained alongside david hockney. both were highly rated, both left for america. hockney went to la and became a star. building went to new york and became a teacher. bowling went to new york and became a teacher. spray adhesive on the stencil... and directly on the canvas. he continued to paint, of course, but to no great acclaim. recognition had been a long time coming. how do you feel about the tate exhibition? er, well, i waited for such a long time for it to happen, that when it was announced that it was going to happen, i was told that the exhibition would be an exhibition that i wanted, and i quickly found out that once more, the language between myself and people like the tate, i hear one thing and they think they've said something else. well, it turns out that it's going to be the tate's show, not mine. he w

our arts editor, will gompertz, has more.ents took place. crowd chants. this is where the satanic verses was burnt. it's the image that became seared in the national consciousness and became associated with this city. for muslims collectively, it was a moment of crystallisation of identity. prior to that, you know, everybody was asian,

will soon move to 66. campaigners argue the shift was unfair for nearly 4 million people who didn't have enough time to prepare. our personal finance correspondent, simon gompertzked this. they say the weight has been done amounts to six discrimination. why is this process sex discrimination? we were not given enough notice. it is not about the non—equality, we we re is not about the non—equality, we were not equal to start with. we never had the opportunity to join an occupational pension scheme for example, we were excluded from that. we have never been able to build up a pension pot. once the female pension age was 60, now 65, like men, 66 next year. these women are asking for a back payment of all the pension they would have picked up had they been able to get the state pension from the age of 60. but critics say it is asking for too much because the total bill for the taxpayer if they got that would add up taxpayer if they got that would add up to more than £17 billion. some jobs might be fine at 66, mine isn't. a60 four-year-old ambulance driver in margate had little more than a year's noticed that she would not be able to retire at 60 and she is still wo

people will still be able to use them and they won't be offered the terms of this recall, which we probably won't find out for the next few days. the recall itself hasn't yet been issued. simon gompertzo cut net zero emissions by almost zero by 2050 to tackle global warming. a former gang member meets the police chief who put him behind bars to thank him. coming up on bbc news. the weather has finally cleared at the cricket world cup. will australia build on their good start against pakistan in taunton? police in hong kong have fired rubber bullets and used tear gas, during serious clashes with protesters who are angry about plans to make it easier to send people to mainland china to stand trial. some of the protesters tried to get inside hong kong's assembly building where the extradition proposals were due to be debated. hundreds of thousands of people have occupied motorways around the government headquarters, amid the worst unrest in the territory for years. stephen mcdonnell reports from hong kong. riot police using tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets came in ha rd to move spray and rubber bullets came in hard to move demonstrators out of hong kong's central business distr

will soon move to 66. campaigners argue the shift was unfair for nearly four million people, who didn't have enough time to prepare. 0ur personal finance correspondent, simon gompertz the way it has been done, pushing theirs up, amounts to sex discrimination. why is this process sex discrimination, in your view? we were not given enough notice. it is not about the non—equality, we were not equal to start with. we never had the opportunity tojoin an occupational pension scheme, for example. we were excluded from that. we have never been able to build up a pension pot. once the female pension age was 60, now it's 65 like men, 66 next year. these women are asking for a back payment of all the pension they would have picked up, had they been able to get the state pension from the age of 60. but critics say it is asking for too much because the total bill for the taxpayer, if they got all that, would add up to more than £70 billion. somejobs might be fine at 66, mine isn't. a 64—year—old ambulance driver in margate had little more than a year's notice that she would not be able to retire at 60 and she is still working. iam angry. i feel discriminated against. i wasn't t