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Japan's Glastonbury takes UK theme

This year's Fuji Rock Festival in Japan - headlined by Underworld and Primal Scream - has a British theme.

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A plane is forced to make an emergency landing after two British women tried to open a cabin door mid-flight.

Obama whirlwind breezes into UK

The BBC's Adam Fleming gives his verdict on Barack Obama's brief and genteel visit to Britain.

Dead UK army dog handler is named

The British dog handler killed under fire had stayed in Afghanistan because he was worried about the lack of cover.

Death of ace fighter pilot marked

The 90th anniversary of the death of the highest scoring British pilot of the Great War is marked in Canterbury.

Morton to make directorial debut

Actress Samantha Morton will make her directorial debut with a British TV drama about a girl growing up in care.

CBE award for Helmand commander

A commander who led British forces to victory in a key battle for a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan is awarded a CBE.

UK warns of damage in TNK-BP row

The British Embassy in Moscow accuses the Russian shareholders of TNK-BP of using the state in their dispute with BP.

Murder charge mother in bail plea

A British woman charged with murdering her newborn baby is set to appeal against decision to remand her custody.

Missing climber 'warned off peak'

A missing British climber was warned not to attempt a solo attempt on a 20,000ft (6,096m) summit in northern Pakistan, his sister says.

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The BBC's Alastair Leithead sees a well-planned attack by British soldiers turn into a race back to camp with injured troops.

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Caricatured as low-brow and smutty, Carry On films were never much rated by movie critics. But do they tell us something more profound about the huge social changes in post-war Britain? The BBC's Carolyn Quinn thinks so.

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UK waterways 'rise in popularity'

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Welsh English speech goes online

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Secured Or Unsecured Loans - Which Is Your Choice?

The two most well-known types of loan are an unsecured loan and a secured loan. These are two very different ways of obtaining credit, the big difference between the two is the rate of interest you will be charged. Unsecured loans typically have a higher rate of interest than secured loans.

The definition of a secured loan is that you borrow money against collateral, i.e. something of value, usually, your home. With an unsecured loan the lender has no security if you fail to make the payments; this is why the interest rate will be higher.

Now more than ever there are large numbers of lenders competing for borrowers. This places the public in a good position to negotiate for lower interest rates and better terms.

There are obviously pros and cons to secured as opposed unsecured loans, a secured loan will be much cheaper each month than unsecured loan. But on the other hand, if you fail to make the payments it is possible that you could lose your home.

An unsecured loan does not require that you risk your house, but on the other hand you will pay more interest and therefore bigger monthly payments. Secured loans are probably best avoided when you need relatively small amounts of money, it does not seem very practical to risk the roof over your head for a small loan.

Well within living memory, unsecured loans where the territory of very dubious lenders and organised crime. Trading standards and other government authorities have now managed to remove 99% of these dubious lenders. But care should still be taken when dealing with companies offering unsecured loans.

It is important to approach a quality broker, to help you in finding the right loan company to deal with your case. These days, many of these loan officers are located online as well, as in traditional offices.

With the removal of these criminal lenders the unsecured loan market has moved into mainstream business, with many large household name companies willing to make unsecured loans available to the public.

Secured loans, for many generations, were the exclusive world of banks and building societies. But over the last 20 years many new lenders have come into the market, offering a wider choice and more competition, which has resulted in a better deal for the borrower.

Many of these ‘new’ lenders are not actually new; they are large foreign companies that have moved into the UK market from their home countries in the EEC, America and even as far afield as Asia.

For example, well known 'British' high-street bank HSBC, is in actual fact "The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation". The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, who are probably the largest finance and banking company in the world.

Borrowing secured and unsecured loans from companies that may not be familiar to you, but are world renowned financial institutions is now an everyday event. With so much competition it is essential that you get the best advice possible in order to obtain the best deal you can on a secured or an unsecured loan.

It is not practical to search out the best deal on your own. Professional advice is certainly the best way to secure a deal that will benefit you in terms of the amount you pay in interest and your monthly cash payments. So take advantage of a broker and his services it is sure to benefit you in the long term.

Written At Four In The Morning

Nashville songwriter Jerry Chesnut remembers well that pre-dawn morning in 1971 when he could not sleep. He picked up his guitar, looked at his watch, and said, "It's four in the morning and a new day is dawning." Then he started writing a song. The first two verses and chorus came easily, but he got stuck on the final verse.

He went outside and started disking one of the fields on his farm. A line came to him while driving the tractor: "I saw more love in her eyes when I left her than most foolish men will ever see." He wrote the third verse in his mind, and then sang the song over and over, above the sound of the tractor motor. When he got it "right" and could remember it, he pulled the pin to disconnect the disk and took off down the hill.

A boy Jerry had hired to pick up rocks dislodged by the disk started hollering, "Where're you going?"

Jerry waved and kept driving. When he rushed into the house, his children were getting ready for school. They asked if anything was wrong. He headed straight into his writing room and scribbled down the last verse of the song.

The next day Jerry was at his Nashville office when Faron Young called and asked for some songs. The song Jerry brought to Faron's office earned the reaction, "That ain't what I'm looking for."

Then Faron asked, "Have you got anything else?"

"Yeah, but it's not for you. It's a waltz and I know you hate waltzes."

"Let me hear it."

Jerry grabbed a guitar and sang "It's Four in the Morning."

"I'm gonna cut that, but I'll do it in four-four," Faron said.

"A waltz. You can't do nothing with it but waltz, but he thought he could," Jerry recalls. "He tried western swing, he tried four-four, he tried bluegrass. He tried everything in the world to get that thing out of waltz time, and finally he said, 'Hell, let's just do it the way it is.'"

"He hated waltzes and wanted to change it to four-four," agrees Mercury producer Jerry Kennedy. "I fought him. That was the one time we had a real difference of opinion on something. But he let me win. He went ahead and did it as a waltz time."

After deciding to record the song, Faron called Chesnut and said, "We're gonna put your song out, but I want to change the title of it to 'The Wanting In Me.'"

Chesnut replied, "Hell, call it 'Under the Double Eagle' if you want to. If it ain't a hit, I'll get somebody else to cut it."

"Faron, just leave it alone," is how Chesnut remembers Kennedy's reaction to the idea.

"'Four in the Morning' was a song I didn't like when I recorded it," Faron said. "I wanted to do it in a simple - like 'Wine Me Up' - what we call a Texas two-beat. And the words wouldn't fit. I put the thing back over on the music stand. When we got through with our session, we had fifteen minutes to go, and my producer said we need one more song to complete the album. I said, well give me this piece of junk and let's cut it."

"I always listen to my tapes over and over," Faron said. "I'd go out to play golf with someone, and I'd catch myself humming, and it kept growing on me."

They had already chosen "Evening" to be the next single and the album title, with "It's Four in the Morning" a selection on the album.

"Jerry," Faron finally told Kennedy, "I think we're fixing to make a mistake putting out this other record. I think we should put out Four In the Morning."

Kennedy reached into his desk drawer and pulled out the tape. He asked, "Where is 'Four In the Morning' on your tape?"

"It's next to the last song."

"It's number one on mine," Kennedy said. "I've already been listening to it."

The song hit number one on both the Billboard and Cash Box country charts in the United States. It spent 23 weeks on Billboard in Great Britain and reached the number three spot as a British hit single in 1972.

Kennedy says, "I knew that it was a good record. I never thought it would be that huge, and that it would be huge in England."

Faron enjoyed saying he asked Jerry Chesnut to write him a song with no esses, because he couldn't pronounce the letter S after an auto accident almost severed his tongue. However, that is merely one example of Faron folklore. (Another is getting his "Sheriff" title from a movie role.)

"Good story, but it didn't happen," says Chesnut. "I think he told me one time, 'Write me a hit that ain't got no esses in it,' but it didn't have anything to do with 'Four in the Morning.'"

This was Faron's third hit single and album after his June 1970 accident. It followed "Step Aside" and "Leavin' and Sayin' Goodbye," both in 1971. So he obviously had no trouble pronouncing S.