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A hospitality group has been on a wine-tasting fact finding mission to an Italian vineyard. The team from Ideal Collection, which has five venues across Hampshire and West Sussex, visited the Orion Wines vineyard in Puglia, Italy, to explore adding more options for its customers. The team, consisting of managing director Oliver Weeks, venue managers and chefs, explored the vineyard in the town known as the 'Florence of the South'. Representatives came from venues including the Bugle in Hamble, Kimbridge Barn near Romsey, the White Horse in Otterbourne, the Boat House in Chichester and Boathouse Swanwick. They spent the week sampling wines with Alessandro Michelon and Elena Ciurletti, who founded Orion Wines in 2010. Orion Wines is renowned for its 20 different wine brands, including the popular Masseria Borgo Dei Trulli Primitiva, one of Waitrose's top-selling reds. Mr Weeks said: "We take great pride in our strong relationships with our suppliers. These close connections allow us to source the finest food and drink and share the stories behind them with our guests. Myself and the team learnt so much about Orion’s story and the wine-making process at its Puglia vineyard. "I’m keen to build on the range of Orion Wines we already stock - the quality is truly remarkable." Mr Michelon added: "It was a pleasure to welcome Oliver and his team. Ideal Collection’s values align with ours at Orion Wines and we both share a passion for exceptional food and drink." Ideal Collection has five venues based across Hampshire and West Sussex offering informal dining experiences, each with its own unique character. For more information about Ideal Collection and its venues, visit its website.
New York has repealed a seldom-used, more than century-old law that made it a crime to cheat on your spouse - a misdemeanour that once could have landed adulterers in jail for three months. or signup to continue reading Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill repealing the statute, which dates back to 1907 and has long been considered antiquated as well as difficult to enforce. "While I've been fortunate to share a loving married life with my husband for 40 years - making it somewhat ironic for me to sign a bill decriminalising adultery - I know that people often have complex relationships," she said on Friday. "These matters should clearly be handled by these individuals and not our criminal justice system. Let's take this silly, outdated statute off the books, once and for all." Adultery bans are actually law in several states and were enacted to make it harder to get a divorce at a time when proving a spouse cheated was the only way to get a legal separation. Charges have been rare and convictions even rarer. Some states have also moved to repeal their adultery laws in recent years. New York defined adultery as when a person "engages in sexual intercourse with another person at a time when he has a living spouse, or the other person has a living spouse." The state's law was first used a few weeks after it went into effect, according to a New York Times article, to arrest a married man and 25-year-old woman. State Assembly member Charles Lavine, sponsor of the bill, said about a dozen people have been charged under the law since the 1970s, and five of those cases resulted in convictions. "Laws are meant to protect our community and to serve as a deterrent to anti-social behaviour. New York's adultery law advanced neither purpose," Lavine said in a statement Friday. The state's law appears to have last been used in 2010, against a woman who was caught engaging in a sex act in a park, but the adultery charge was later dropped as part of a plea deal. New York came close to repealing the law in the 1960s after a state commission tasked with evaluating the penal code said it was nearly impossible to enforce. At the time, lawmakers were initially on board with removing the ban but eventually decided to keep it after a politician argued that repealing it would make it seem like the state was officially endorsing infidelity, according to a New York Times article from 1965. Advertisement Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date. We care about the protection of your data. Read our . AdvertisementThe Onion's bid for Alex Jones' Infowars hangs in the balance as judge orders new hearingMAI Capital Management Cuts Stock Holdings in HP Inc. (NYSE:HPQ)Mother orca and her children make 'grocery shopping' trip near downtown Vancouver
VANCOUVER — A family of killer whales has made a rare trip into waters off downtown Vancouver for what an expert says was likely a "grocery shopping" hunt for harbour seals. Video shared on social media by False Creek Ferries shows the whales cruising past highrise towers at the entrance to False Creek on Sunday. The captain of the ferry, Jack Hemsworth said the passengers on board were stunned as the whales' dorsal fins cut through the surface. He put the engine into neutral as the whales glided by. “I've never been that close, even on like a whale watching tour,” said Hemsworth, adding that at one point, the whales passed within five feet of his little vessel, which was crossing from the West End in Vancouver to Kitsilano Beach. The boats in the ferry fleet are only about 20 feet long -- smaller than most adult orcas. Andrew Trites, director of the University of British Columbia's marine mammal research unit, has identified the whales as a family group of transient orcas consisting of a mother and her three offspring. Trites said the video shows the whales moving quietly like "ghosts" to avoid alerting their prey. "They're on the hunt, and so they don't want to make a big splash about it. They want to come in very stealthy-like, as though they weren't even there," said Trites. "I'm sure there were hundreds of people walking along the seawall that day and they didn't even notice and these people aboard the boat, they had a very special moment they will remember for the rest of their lives." He said it's the first time the 26-year-old mother orca, known as T35A, has shown up in downtown Vancouver with her children aged six, 11 and 14. Trites said the well documented family has previously been seen by marine researchers from Alaska to the Strait of Juan de Fuca south of Vancouver Island. He attributes the pod's surprising downtown appearance to seals also changing their habits as they hide from orcas, forcing killer whales to hunt in backwater areas like False Creek. Killer whales have previously been spotted in False Creek, including in 2019, and in 2010 a grey whale swam all the way to the end of the inlet, near Science World. Trites said researchers are hearing more reports of killer whales being seen in places where they've never been seen before. He said the behaviour captured on the video suggests the whales didn't catch anything. Trites said the sighting was an indication of the recovered health of the Salish Sea, saying it was "in a state that we haven’t seen it for over a century." He likened it to living next to Tanzania's Serengeti National Park. “It's a very healthy, vibrant system ... we've seen humpback whales come back. We've seen our seal numbers recover and stabilize," he said. "We see killer whales here every single day now and when I first came to B.C., I hardly ever saw a seal, never saw killer whales in here and it's all changed." In 2021, the B.C. government estimated there were 206 "mature" transient orcas in the province's coastal waters, while U.S. authorities have put the total population at about 350. The species is designated as threatened, meaning they are likely to become endangered without interventions. But Trites said the population was growing, in association with the recovery of prey species, such as the Steller sea lion. As a marine researcher who has been through many encounters with killer whales, Trites said those aboard the ferry should feel privileged. "They are magical experiences," he said. Hemsworth, who has worked for False Creek Ferries since 2019, agreed. “I'm sure they shared all those videos with their friends and family, and it's nothing that they're gonna forget anytime soon,” he said. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 25, 2024. Nono Shen, The Canadian PressBELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian university students left piles of old school books outside the education ministry building on Friday as part of almost daily street protests demanding accountability over that killed 15 people in the country’s north. Scattered traffic blockades were also held on various locations throughout Serbia at 11:52 a.m. — the exact time that the concrete construction on the front of the railway station building in Novi Sad crashed onto the people below. The traffic blockades have been held every Friday since the Nov. 1 crash, lasting 15 minutes for the 15 victims. Many in Serbia blame the collapse on and sloppy work on the railway station building in the city of Novi Sad that was twice renovated in recent years as part of questionable mega projects involving Chinese state companies. Persistent protests in Serbia reflect widespread anger at the accident but also wider discontent with the rule of and his government. Tens of thousands joined a big rally last Sunday in Belgrade led by the university students. over the Novi Sad tragedy, including a government minister whose release later fueled public skepticism about the honesty of the investigation. Striking university students have garnered support from various walks of life, challenging the tight grip on power of Vucic’s government. The movement’s symbol — a red handprint telling authorities they have blood on their hands — has been used by actors, farmers and others backing the protests. In Belgrade, more than 2,000 students marched to the education ministry. A speaker told the crowd that “we are sick of being called political mercenaries and attacked in the streets.” In Novi Sad, a student rally criticized the way the state-run RT Vojvodina reports about the protests and the canopy collapse. Populist officials and the pro-government mainstream media have described the protests as a ‘hybrid war’ against Vucic under the orders of foreign intelligence services. Though Serbia is formally seeking European Union membership, Vucic has faced accusations of curbing democratic freedoms rather than advancing them. University students in neighboring Bosnia’s capital, Sarajevo, and the northwestern town of Banja Luka on Friday gathered in support of their Serbian colleagues and to draw attention to problems in their own country. The Associated Press