BBC News Up to 13,000 slaves working in UK

There could be 10-13,000 victims of slavery in the UK, far more than previous estimates, analysis for the Home Office suggests.
Modern slavery victims are said to include women forced into prostitution, "imprisoned" domestic staff and workers in fields, factories and fishing boats.

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Proof that a lens can be the difference between pretty and pretty ugly

Everyone has at some point had the same problem: no matter how much you try to be consistent with your camera face, some pictures look great and others look awful.
Photographer Stephen Eastwood has finally solved the mystery - showing that the difference between a good photo and instantly deleted disaster can be down to the camera lens.
To prove his point, he took a series of portraits, using the same model's facial expression and the same lighting - but each time changing the lens.

Distortion: Mr Eastwood's exercise in changing lenses shows how the same model can have the same expression in the same lighting - but have varying results

Both ends of the spectrum: Mr Eastwood says the larger lenses, in the left case a 230mm lens, will flatten and widen the face, where the 24mm distorts the same model

The difference is in the level at which each lens distorts the natural image, bending light so that the three-dimensional image is represented as a two-dimensional photo.
Depending on the lens' focal length, the image will deform and affect how the image looks in photos.
Mr Eastwood took the same photo using a wide range of optics, from 19mm up to 350mm. He moved the camera so that his model would be framed exactly the same way.

Self-portrait: Seven Eastwood undoubtedly got the focal distortion just right for this picture

The shorter the focal length, the more field of view you can capture. That's why something like a 'fisheye' lens (15mm) distorts objects dramatically.
But Mr Eastwood's experiment showed that the distortion continued up the focal range, albeit more subtly.
And the killer is that some of these subtle distortions can make the face prettier, while others make the face - to put it bluntly - uglier.
Either way, the brain accepts the photo as the true image and we imagine we look better or worse.
A larger lens (say 350mm) will flatten and widen the face of the subject. Mr Eastwood said this could sometimes make the ears look further back - or make the nose look bigger - with tragic consequenses.
Experts say a 135mm lens would produce the best, most consistently accurate results. But even then there's an element of risk.
If nothing else, you can now give your friends a decent excuse as to why you always look bad in holiday snaps.

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Opposition leader Ranil Wickramasinghe said Military forces fail to take action against the grease devil in North and East.

Leader made this announcement when addressing the parliament today.
Other parliamentarians point out that Opposition leader inform the parliament on the activities of the grease devils in the North and East on August 23rd, and this was the second time where leader speaks about the same issue.
By informing the parliament they hoped that the government would take necessary steps this regard but government fail to do so due to these problems of the grease devils rose day today and tense situation raised in the Jaffna district.


Several incidents took place on the August 30th at Kondavil area as also in the same day night another incident of grease devil occurs in the Thirunalvelli area in Jaffna district.
Due to these incident people in the Jaffna district are force to lead fearful life in their home town.
At present more than 50,000 Forces are been deployed in the Jaffna district and they are providing 24 hours security services to the shops in the Jaffna town.
20-30 areas are been identified as the high security zones.
In such situation Army is has enough facilities and the power to catch the grease devils acting in the province. But government is not interested to take action against the secrete man and the grease devils because government knows the purpose of these activities.
Ranil Wickramasinghe questioned the Prime Minister on the activities of the government against the grease devils and Secrete man I the Northern Province.
Mr.Wicramasinghe also said lands which come under the high security zones should be hand over to the respective land owners because its need to evacuate the high security zones in the Jaffna district due to the cancellation of the state of emergency from the country.

Opposition leader urge the government to appoint special committee which include the members of the Tamil political parties to solve this problem.

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