A Huguenot silk merchant’s home that campaigners have spent 20 years trying to turn into Britain’s first museum of immigration is in danger of collapsing. The charity has been unable to find the £3m needed to make the building safe and tomorrow it will be placed on English Heritage’s register of Buildings at Risk. Susie Symes, chairwoman of the Spitalfields Centre charity, said if the Grade II building deteriorated further the chance to preserve the experience of immigrants in the way the United States did at the Ellis Island museum in New York would be lost.The building is supported by internal props. Ms Symes said she hoped that once it was categorised as at risk, bodies such as the Heritage Lottery Fund could be persuaded to give it a grant.”Now is the perfect time for a museum like this because it brings home much we have gained as a society from the different forms of incomers, be they asylum-seekers or economic migrants,” she added.. An exhibition is placing works by great English painters such as Turner and Stubbs alongside pieces by controversial current artists such as Damien Hirst in aid of the ailing British countryside. The piece, from Hirst’s own collection, is said to convey the renewal the return of lambing and calving has restored to the countryside since the end of the epidemic.The artwork’s appearance among exhibits worth a total of £50m will renew sheep farmers’ soft spot for Hirst, whose work with a chainsaw and formaldehyde immortalised British livestock in the mid 1990s “He’s clever, there’s no denying that And he’s a shrewd judge of a sheep. Anything that raises the profile of British lamb in times like these has to be good.

Every little helps, you know,” said one farmer after Hirst’s work, Mother and Child Divided, won the 1995 Turner Prize.The artist’s empathy for farmers is inevitable, since his home is a farm with vast acreage in north Devon.But the exhibition he has contributed to is not the first use of art to regenerate the North’s agricultural economy. Barns across Cumbria and Lancashire have become eye-catching exhibition spaces in the ArtBarns project.The new exhibition would explore agriculture’s “centrality to the physical, cultural and commercial landscape of Britain over the last 300 years”, Clive Adams, its curator, said. It conveys the sentimental, moral and spiritual interpretations of farming through works by Ford Madox Brown, Rossetti and Blake, before entering the “modern” realm of the past 100 years.Alongside Hirst, Sam Taylor-Wood and Karen Knorr will sit a newly commissioned series of works by the digital artist Daro Montag, featuring a DVD screening on plasma of a magnified foot-and-mouth disease bacilli.The exhibition will show at the two counties worst affected by foot-and-mouth: at Carlisle from 20 July to 22 September; and at Exeter, Devon, in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery from 5 October 2002, to 4 January 2003.. Two construction workers helped to pull a group of disabled people from a smoke-filled minibus that caught fire at the weekend as it was driven along a motorway. The men hauled clear the passengers in their wheelchairs before the bus was destroyed by fire within five minutes of developing an electrical fault. The damaged electrics in the van meant she was unable to use the onboard lift to get the passengers out.The two workmen, Richard Testa of Castle Donington, Derbyshire, and John Balfe of Aspley, Nottinghamshire, saw the fire, pulled over in their van and helped to rescue the three disabled people.Chris Bromley, a station officer with Staffordshire ambulance services, said: “When they went on for the third person, they couldn’t see each other because the smoke was that thick They were less than three feet apart It was a heroic act. If they hadn’t done it, there could even have been fatalities.”Another driver pulled over and helped the group who were all suffering from the effects of the smoke.The passengers, the driver and her assistant, Tina Smith, were taken to North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary for treatment.

The two men were also treated with oxygen by the side of the road but were allowed to go home.The three disabled passengers had been on holiday in Southport and were being taken home to the Castel Froma home in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, when the fire broke out.Firefighters believe it was caused by a broken fuel line and an electrical fault The Castel Froma residential home declined to comment.. Here’s a quick exercise. Look at the photograph on the right and see if you can spot anything unusual about it Take a minute. Give up? Well, one of them – the one with the spiky hair, to be precise – isn’t the eldest son, but the nanny That’s right: a male nanny

Here’s a quick exercise. That’s right: a male nanny.
“Warwick is our first,” the mother, Sue Woodman proudly asserts. “All his predecessors had been female, but we felt the time was right for a change.