14/11/2012
Other News In Brief
Raymond Blanc Restaurant Has Liver Dish Banned
Chef Raymond Blanc's Covent Garden restaurant has been banned from serving an "undercooked" liver dish which left two diners with food poisoning.
Brasserie Blanc is forbidden from offering pink lamb's liver after ignoring a Westminster Council environmental health warning.
It posed an "imminent risk of injury to health", Westminster Magistrates' Court was told.
The two diners contracted campylobacter food poisoning after they had the dish on separate occasions this summer.
Auctioned Enigma Machine Exceeds Estimates
A rare Enigma encoding machine has sold at auction in London for £85,250.
That is more than its £40,000-£60,000 estimate, but less than the £131,180 price an Enigma sold for last year.
The typewriter-like devices were used by the Nazis in World War II to encrypt and decode messages sent between the military and their commanders.
Interest has been high as this is the centenary year of Alan Turing's birth - the British mathematician who played a key role in breaking the Enigma code.
Auctioneer Bonhams said that the version sold was a three-rotor model used in Germany between 1938 and 1944.
Albarn Composition To Mark 90th Anniversary Of BBC Radio
A composition by Blur frontman Damon Albarn will be played to radio listeners around the world on Wednesday to mark 90 years of BBC broadcasting.
2LO Calling is a "snapshot of the airwaves" featuring iconic sounds such as Bertrand Russell in Morse code.
The broadcast at 17:33 GMT will be hosted by BBC Radio 2's Simon Mayo from London's Science Museum.
It will be the first scheduled simultaneous broadcast since 1922, when the BBC was established.
The 2LO transmitter made the first broadcast - from the British Broadcasting Company as it was then known - on 14 November, 1922.
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Chef Raymond Blanc's Covent Garden restaurant has been banned from serving an "undercooked" liver dish which left two diners with food poisoning.
Brasserie Blanc is forbidden from offering pink lamb's liver after ignoring a Westminster Council environmental health warning.
It posed an "imminent risk of injury to health", Westminster Magistrates' Court was told.
The two diners contracted campylobacter food poisoning after they had the dish on separate occasions this summer.
Auctioned Enigma Machine Exceeds Estimates
A rare Enigma encoding machine has sold at auction in London for £85,250.
That is more than its £40,000-£60,000 estimate, but less than the £131,180 price an Enigma sold for last year.
The typewriter-like devices were used by the Nazis in World War II to encrypt and decode messages sent between the military and their commanders.
Interest has been high as this is the centenary year of Alan Turing's birth - the British mathematician who played a key role in breaking the Enigma code.
Auctioneer Bonhams said that the version sold was a three-rotor model used in Germany between 1938 and 1944.
Albarn Composition To Mark 90th Anniversary Of BBC Radio
A composition by Blur frontman Damon Albarn will be played to radio listeners around the world on Wednesday to mark 90 years of BBC broadcasting.
2LO Calling is a "snapshot of the airwaves" featuring iconic sounds such as Bertrand Russell in Morse code.
The broadcast at 17:33 GMT will be hosted by BBC Radio 2's Simon Mayo from London's Science Museum.
It will be the first scheduled simultaneous broadcast since 1922, when the BBC was established.
The 2LO transmitter made the first broadcast - from the British Broadcasting Company as it was then known - on 14 November, 1922.
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