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The musician-turned farmer will host the Harvest event, featuring acts such as KT Tunstall, at his farm at Kingham, Chipping Norton from 9 to 12 September. It will be a sister event to the one being held by TV presenter Jimmy Doherty at his farm near Ipswich in Suffolk over the same weekend. Mr James said it will be a "celebration of food, the farm and music". The bassist, who has developed a cheese-making business since stepping away from the limelight, as well as working as a broadcaster, said: "We'll throw open the farm gates for Harvest this September. "My family are looking forward to a celebration of all our favourite things - food, the farm and music." Notable food experts at the event will include Richard Corrigan, Mark Hix and Yotam Ottolenghi as well as Gardeners' World host Monty Don. The festival will include cookery master classes, pop-up restaurants, gardening workshops, a farmers market and a children's field at the farm at Kingham, Chipping Norton. Blur reformed for shows in 2009 with the bassist expected to record with them again this year.
Blur bassist Alex James is to hold a music and food festival at his Oxfordshire estate.
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The Unite and RMT unions said the latest proposals from the Catering Offshore Trade Association (Cota) would freeze pay at existing levels. More than 60% of workers who took part in a ballot by phone turned the offer down. The unions will now consult with workers. Cota expressed disappointment at the result of the consultative ballot. Its chairman Andrew Thomson said: "We are committed to ongoing and open dialogue with employees and the unions."
Offshore catering workers have rejected an offer of new terms and conditions from their trade body.
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The result comes from stronger sales in the US, together with a weaker yen. The firm said net income increased from 2.1733 trillion Japanese yen ($18.1bn; £11.7bn), up from 1.8231tn yen a year earlier. But it said consolidated vehicle sales decreased by 144,169 units during the period, to 8,971,864 vehicles. Many of Japan's firms - especially those relying on exports, such as Toyota - have benefited from the weakness in the yen, which helps bring down the cost of Japanese goods sold abroad. It has forecast a net income of 2.25tn yen for the year ending in March 2016, backed by continued strength in the US market. Toyota's operating income for the year ending in March 2015 was also up by 458.4bn yen during the period, to 2.7505tn yen. "Operating income improved... due to positive factors such as favourable foreign exchange rates and cost reduction efforts," said the firm's president, Akio Toyoda. He said those positive factors had "more than offset negative factors" including increased expenses and decreased vehicle sales. Vehicle sales decreased for the firm in Japan, where a sales tax rise has put consumers off big-ticket items. But sales in its North American market increased by 185,775 units to 2,715,173 units.
Japan's biggest car manufacturer, Toyota, has posted a year-on-year 19% rise in net income for the 12 months to March, beating expectations.
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Armed officers were called to the scene at an address in Parkway at about 01:00 BST on Saturday. Two men, aged 22 and 41, and a 38-year-old woman, needed hospital treatment but have since been discharged. Jordan Barrett, 22, of Chelwood Drive, Allerton has been charged with attempted murder and is due before Bradford Magistrates' Court later. Mr Barrett has also been charged with firearms offences. More stories from across Yorkshire
Three people suffered injuries to their legs and arms after being shot in Bradford.
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The number of mycologists has declined by 70% over the past 20 years, with less than 12 remaining. As a result, Plantlife Cymru are launching a three-year project to try and engage people across Wales in fungi conservation. Wales is one of the richest countries in the world for fungi, with 112 species, many of which are in decline. Wild fungi, such as mushrooms and toadstools, are spore-producing organisms that feed on organic matter and are found throughout the UK. Plantlife Cymru said the shortage in experts means some species could disappear without anyone knowing. School children, land owners, local communities and budding new experts could become 'Waxcap Fungi Apprentices', going on to study and conserve threatened species and their habitats. Anita Daimond, from Plantlife Cymru, said: "We will be working with schools, communities, conservation partners and land owners across Wales to breathe new life into what has become an almost forgotten field of science. "Welsh grasslands are home to some extraordinarily beautiful fungi. "The current shortage of fungi experts meant their future looked bleak but we are confident that this new project will help by finding and training the next generation of fungi fanatics."
A new project hopes to find the next generation of wild fungi experts.
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Darpa, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has awarded computing giant IBM a $3.5m (£2.1m) contract to work on its Vanishing Programmable Resources (VAPR) project. It is looking to develop a class of "transient" electronics that can be destroyed by remote control. The kit could be used in combat zones. IBM's proposal involves the use of a radio frequency trigger that could shatter a glass coating on a silicon chip and turn it into powder. "A trigger, such as a fuse or a reactive metal layer will be used to initiate shattering, in at least one location, on the glass substrate," the US government said in its grant award notice. Darpa wants to develop large distributed networks of sensors that can collect and transmit data for a limited period and then be destroyed instantly to prevent them falling into enemy hands. VAPR tech could also have applications in medical diagnosis and treatment, Darpa believes, if sensors can be developed that the body can reabsorb. The Pentagon's research arm also granted $2.1m to Xerox company, Palo Alto Research Center (Parc) - a specialist in bioinformatics and large-area electronics. Its proposed solution is similar to IBM's and relies on the materials being engineered under stress, so that when an electrical signal is received, the circuit crumbles into dust instantly as the stress is released. Other companies involved in the VAPR transient electronics project include Honeywell Aerospace, awarded $2.5m, and SRI International, awarded $4.7m, late last year. Honeywell's microelectronics experts are looking to develop components that would decompose naturally when they are no longer needed - a new take on the old "built-in obsolescence" concept.
The US military is funding a project to develop electronics that can self-destruct like the secret messages in the Mission Impossible TV show.
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He was arrested in Donegal on Saturday night. The father of two was shot dead at his home in Buncrana, County Donegal, in February 2012. Republican Action Against Drugs (RAAD) admitted responsibility for the murder. Mr Allen's family have always denied claims he was a drug dealer.
A man in his 50s, who was being questioned over the murder of Londonderry man Andrew Allen in 2012, has been released without charge.
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About 50 people blocked the path of lorries carrying sheep as they entered the Kent port for first shipment of live animals of the year. Live animal exports were banned in 2012 after the deaths of more than 40 sheep. The ban by Thanet District Council was later overturned by the High Court. Former Green Thanet councillor Ian Driver called the trade "barbaric". Speaking to protesters, Mr Driver said he was at the port demonstrating his opposition to "this cruel and barbaric trade". He said: "Brexit will allow the laws to be changed and for this evil trade to be stopped. "I'd like to hope this trade is stopped within two years with the Brexit negotiations. It would be nice if the government tried to bring it forward in the negotiations." Craig Mackinlay, the Conservative MP for South Thanet, said: "Single market rules will be the deciding factor once we can leave the EU and we will have complete freedom to stop this trade from local council owned ports, which Ramsgate is." He said the transport boat MV Joline used to carry live animals to Europe was not a suitable vessel. NFU spokesman Frank Langrish, who farms sheep on Romney Marsh, said: "I don't think anyone would dispute that Ramsgate and Joline are not ideal, but the protesters are looking at this in completely the wrong way. "They need to be persuading the large ferry companies to carry our local livestock." Two sheep drowned at Ramsgate in September 2012, and 44 had to be destroyed after the lorry carrying them was stopped at Ramsgate by animal health inspectors. In a separate accident six fell in the water, with four being rescued by RSPCA officers while two animals drowned.
Protesters at the Port of Ramsgate say they hope the vote to leave the EU will allow live animal exports to be banned.
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Farmhand Kyle Warren, 17, student Billy Hines, 16, and Dominic O'Neill, 18, who was unemployed, died on 5 April. Their black Ford Ka ploughed into trees on Tivetshall Road, near Pulham Market in Norfolk at about 23:50 BST. The inquest was opened at Norfolk Coroner's Court and adjourned until 25 July for a pre-inquest review hearing. The trio were travelling towards Pulham Market when the crash took place and they died at the scene. Norfolk's senior coroner Jacqueline Lake did not give details on who was driving the vehicle. Mr O'Neill lived in Pulham Market, Kyle lived in Harleston in Suffolk and Billy lived at Magpie Green, near Wortham in Suffolk. Their families have been paying tribute to them. Mr O'Neill's mother Davina said she had been overwhelmed with the support and love of his friends for her "beautiful, much loved... greatly missed" son. Kyle's family remembered a "very cheeky chappy, who always had a wonderful smile on his face", with a passion for banger racing and who was "outgoing and loved in return by all". Billy's family said he was "a funny, loving, caring, hard-working boy" who brought "so much joy to everyone he met" and enjoyed shooting, motorbikes and cars. They added: "It is testimony to Billy, Kyle and Dom to all the support we have had as a family."
Three teenagers who died when their car crashed and burst into flames were killed by multiple injuries, an inquest has heard.
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