FOREX-Dollar falls vs yen euro on Bernanke rate oath

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* Euro touches session high, dollar falls vs. yen

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* Fed chief says continues to expect ultra low rates

* Housing data underscores fragility in U.S. economy

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By Luciana Lopez

NEW YORK, Feb 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar fell againstthe euro and yen on Wednesday after U.S. Federal Reserve chiefBen Bernanke reaffirmed expectations the bank will keep itsbenchmark interest rate exceptionally low for some time.

A surprise plunge in new U.S. home sales last monthbolstered investor outlooks for low rates, underscoring that arecovery in the world"s largest economy remains an ongoing --and sometimes bumpy -- process.

The euro rose as high as $1.3626 EUR= and last traded at$1.3600, up about 0.7 percent. The dollar fell 0.3 percent to89.96 yen JPY= as Bernanke"s comments subdued hopes U.S.interest rates would rise sooner rather than later -- a movethat would boost the value of dollar-based assets.

"The (Federal Open Market Committee) continues toanticipate that economic conditions -- including low rates ofresource utilization, subdued inflation trends, and stableinflation expectations -- are likely to warrant exceptionallylow levels of the federal funds rate for an extended period,"read Bernanke"s prepared testimony to the House FinancialServices Committee on Wednesday. For details see[ID:nN23238973]

The weak housing numbers showed consumers are stillstruggling, said Vassili Serebriakov, currency strategist withWells Fargo in New York.

"All combined, there are not a lot of reasons to buydollars today," he said. "The initial reaction has beennegative for the dollar but I wouldn"t be surprised if thatreverses because there are even fewer reasons to buy currenciessuch as the he euro and the pound."

Sales of newly built U.S. single-family homes unexpectedlyfell to a record low in January, dropping 11.2 percent.Analysts had expected the figure to gain over the previousmonth. [ID:nN24169849]

The single European currency was also propped up as sometraders further trimmed short positions following broadweakness in recent weeks.

The euro fell to a nine-month low of $1.3442 last week onconcerns about Greece"s public finances. A ratings downgrade ofGreece"s four largest banks by Fitch on Tuesday remindedinvestors of the financial woes facing the country.

Recent data showing German consumer sentiment set todecline in March also added to negative euro sentiment, as dida weak German business sentiment Tuesday. [ID:nBAF003980]

Elsewhere, sterling rose 0.2 percent to $1.5439 GBP=after having tumbled on Tuesday when the Bank of England leftthe door open to more emergency measures and issued a downbeateconomic outlook.

The dollar fell 0.3 percent against its Canadiancounterpart to C$1.0528 CAD= while the Australian dollar rose0.5 percent to $0.8939 AUD=.

(Additional reporting by Steven C. Johnson and VivianneRodrigues in New York and Naomi Tajitsu in London; Editing byAndrew Hay)

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Derby 0 Swansea 1: Savage plunge into by Pintado sparks indignant scenes as Kuqi seals it for Swansea

Police had to help restore order on the pitch at Pride Park after Robbie Savage was at the centre of ugly scenes in an ill-tempered match.

Two officers were forced to act when players squared up to each other after a tackle on the Welsh international that saw Swanseas Gorka Pintado dismissed.

Shefki Kuqi scored the goal that extended Swanseas unbeaten Championship run to 11 games, but the match will be remembered for the mass brawl that followed a few minutes later.

Tempers were already frayed following the dismissal of Derbys James McEveley for a second yellow card. But matters got out of hand when Swansea substitute Pintado, who had only been on the pitch for nine minutes, was shown a straight red by referee Steve Tanner for a ridiculous tackle from behind that sent Savage cart-wheeling over the touchline near the corner flag.

Flashpoint: Derby"s Robbie Savage is brought down by Swansea"s Gorka Pintado

Pintado was surrounded by furious Derby players, including keeper Stephen Bywater, who pushed the Spanish striker over. That sparked a prolonged bout of pushing and shoving involving 18 players, coaches and the police before order was restored.

Both clubs face hefty fines for failing to control their players but Derby boss Nigel Clough was unrepentant. He said: ;We do not want players to walk away from those sort of situations. We expect them to support their team-mate, especially after a tackle like that.

;You need a show of togetherness and spirit in a team.

Clough also dismissed Swansea boss Paulo Sousas claim that the officials had been biased towards the home team. Sousa said: ;We played against 14 today everybody saw it.

But Clough retorted: ;He can pop down to the FA and explain his comments if thats what he thinks.

Melee: Pintado is pushed to the ground

The spat between the managers merely mirrored events on the pitch. At the start of the second half, referee Tanner summoned both skippers and urged them to ;cool it after issuing two quick bookings. The warning went unheeded, however. In the 65th minute, the linesman flagged for a foul against McEveley following an off-the-ball clash that earned the Derby defender his second yellow.

That prompted a prolonged rant from McEveley towards the official which continued as he took a flying kick at the water bottles in front of the dug-out.

To add further insult to injury as far as the home fans were concerned, Kuqi got in first to glance home David Cotterills free-kick off the inside of the post.

Derby were unfortunate not to equalise in the 88th minute as Michael Tonges free-kick crashed back out off the crossbar.

Derby could now face a third charge this season of failing to control their players.

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At leisure: Theatre fan revels in racecourse drama

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"Wouldnt it be usually terrific? Edward Gillespie exclaims. Kauto Star and Denman have slugged it out over 3 miles, but as they come up the mountain at the finish, they are upheld by Tricky Trickster, who wins. Wouldnt that be a story?

It would be bizarre if the handling senior manager of Cheltenham Racecourse were not vehement about subsequent Fridays conflict of the dual heavyweights of burst racing Kauto and Denman which, for a third time, conflict each alternative in the Gold Cup. The total to illustrate far is one each in this equine homogeneous of Ali and Foreman, or Borg and McEnroe. With the conflict billed as The Decider, Mr Gillespie is personification a full piece in ratcheting up the hum forward of the duel in in in in in between the Big Two.

To mischievously indicate that the dual good steeplechasers and leaders in the Gold Cup betting dual horses for that scarves have been woven, T-shirts printed and bracelets minted competence be knocked about is not a profanity to their jockeys, Ruby Walsh and A. P. McCoy, dual of racings complicated greats. Rather, it indicates Mr Gillespies love eventuality with the pristine entertainment of Cheltenham and the magic, in burst racing in general, of the unexpected.

What it additionally reveals is Edward Gillespie as impresario. Racecourses need handling and need directing, generally Cheltenham, with the week of championship racing at the annual mid-March Festival. However, Mr Gillespie additionally brings not a small of the West End writer to the role. He wants his commercial operation to giggle and cry, to have their emotions spread out in in in in in between champagne-swilling feeling of well-being and back-of-the-beer-tent despair. Ultimately he wants the profitable guest to go home carrying had an experience they will never forget.

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We have met in the club of Questors, an unheralded entertainment in the behind streets of Ealing, West London, where we are about to lay down to the Steven Berkoff fool around Kvetch. Isnt it marvellous? What a small find, Mr Gillespie says of Questors. And for good reason, it transpires. He has usually paid for a prosaic up the highway with his wife, Alyson, as a entertainment post in in in in in between the family home in Gotherington, 3 miles from the day job, and the British Horseracing Authoritys new domicile in High Holborn, Central London.

Questors is small, with no some-more than 100 seats. We are right in in in between the actors. I love earthy theatre, Mr Gillespie says. I can take or leave the West End, but with earthy entertainment you usually dont know what is going to happen. You usually dont know either it is going to work. You get that frisson of expectancy identical to the moments prior to the off of a big race.

Kvetch ticks those boxes. Typically Berkoff, the laughs come usually in in in in in between the high angst of a small expel of protagonists and their suicidal tendencies, rape and happy sex fantasies and the overarching kvetch, the yiddish word for a whinging censure or determined anxiety. As we record out, a singular action and 75 mins later, the Gillespie examination is: Thats going to be utterly tough to forget, isnt it?

Mr Gillespie knows his theatre. He was a West End unchanging as a kid up from his home in Guildford with his father, an accountant to companies in Theatreland. As a immature adult, his camp pursuits were separate in in in in in between there and Sandown, Kempton and Ascot. A love of the territory shabby his preference of university: York, where he review Politics and complicated form at the Knavesmire racecourse. While at university he met Alyson, right away a teacher, and fell in with a thespian crowd, throwing himself in to college pledge thespian productions. One of his close round of friends was David Thacker, late of Londons Young Vic and right away inventive senior manager at the Octagon in Bolton.

Mr Gillespie went in to the racing diversion after withdrawal York, but when he pitched up in Cheltenham 7 years later, in 1980, he was drawn to the entertainment again. There was a outrageous am-dram entertainment in Cheltenham at the time and I usually went right in to it, behaving and directing and spending a total bucket of time at The Playhouse, he said. It was utterly full on, all the guidance of the lines, and I contingency have finished that for about fifteen years. As his entertainment impasse lessened, he became authority of Cheltenhams Everyman Theatre, a post he hold until recently. He stays on the board.

Had he ever deliberate behaving professionally? It is very, really tough work. A lot of really good people wish to get in to it and it is really competitive. Frankly, I knew I was never going to be good enough.

But I discuss it you what: the not so opposite to what I do now. Ask any handling senior manager or arch executive. I have brought a lot of behaving and entertainment experience in to my corporate life. The capacity to set things up to grasp that limit effect, the capacity to hold an assembly or room full of people. There is a lot of symmetry.

And a capacity to stir emotions, too. Of all the people in racings hierarchy, Mr Gillespie has at times been the majority vilified, with an capacity to crop up to be piece of the investiture nonetheless happy to plea the industrys inherent conservativism.

Here is the man who set off a metaphorical explosve underneath the Derby. He was brought in as handling senior manager of Epsom racecourse by the Jockey Club in 1994, when prosaic racings summer showpiece was clearly down on the uppers, with crowds in strong depot decline.

A integrate of years on, he motionless to move the Derby from the normal Wednesday to the Saturday. Now seen as a extravagantly successful move, given Epsom on the Downs on the initial week end of Jun has regained the lustre, it was a outrageous gamble, generally as the initial Saturday Derby clashed horribly with an England compare in that footballs entrance home summer of the 1996 European Championship.

Mr Gillespie is at it again. He frightened traditionalists by stretching the three-day Cheltenham Festival to 4 days. People pronounced we were destroying the ethos of people, generally from Ireland, entrance for the total 3 days of the Festival.

Now he has due becoming opposite the Tuesday-to-Friday Festival to a Wednesday-to-Saturday event. Arms have been taken up again. Many people in racing do not wish the Gold Cup on a Saturday, nonetheless if you were to keep the showpiece competition on the Friday, the Gold Cup would no longer be the consummate of the festival.

Tossing around his thoughts, nothing of them concrete, Mr Gillespie suggests that the Thursday label that most cruise to be the weakest of the week could be changed to the Saturday to maximize embankment income by attracting those who cannot have the Festival during the operative week.

I am not certain we would take the Gold Cup to the Saturday, as Gold Cup day is simply the most appropriate day any way we do around stand in the commercial operation on Gold Cup day than any alternative day of the Festival. And relocating to a Wednesday-to-Saturday could give people behind their three-day Festival during the week and we could capture a opposite Saturday racing crowd.

Mr Gillespie is additionally underneath glow from a little racing folk over his acknowledgment that Cheltenham competence H2O the course, notwithstanding the misfortune winter in 3 decades. Trainers wanting faster galloping ground, rather than the winter bogs of late, are aghast. We will H2O if we need to, Mr Gillespie insists. Our biggest fright is equine fatalities. We dont wish them. We wish going that will be good to soft to minimise that.

Other legal holiday counts are additionally causing a bit of kvetch. In the opener on Tuesday, the prohibited prime Dunguib is odds-on and already carrying a outrageous volume of Irish money, the normal monetary liquidity that helps to have Cheltenham unique.

Dunguib is a good story. Hes from a small fast in Ireland with a manoeuvre couple of will have listened of [the newly veteran Brian OConnell]. It would be a illusory win for the Irish. But what happens if Dunguib loses? The Irish [punters] could be wiped out for the total week.

In brief

Age 57

Educated Tonbridge School and University of York

Position Managing senior manager of Cheltenham Racecourse given 1980

Other racing appointments Managing senior manager of United Racecourses (Epsom, Kempton and Sandown)

Favourite play/theatrical experience Most recently, the multi-media prolongation of Brief Encounter. More generally, anything by Tom Stoppard, Michael Frayn and Alan Ayckbourn

Favourite behaving purpose The elder hermit in Rattigans The Winslow Boy

Favourite directing purpose Stoppards On the Razzle

Favourite Cheltenham mental recall Dawn Runs Gold Cup win in 1986, when she and Jonjo ONeill appeared to be the slightest expected of 4 horses to win jumping the last blockade

Nap for this years Festival Long Run in Wednesdays RSA Chase

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Elliot Morley David Chaytor and Jim Devine on top of the wharf but not the law

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The 3 MPs didnt wish to be in the dock. They arent the first, of course. Others who thought it underneath them embody Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic, nonetheless their vicinity were far grander than could be mustered yesterday in the City of Westminster Magistrates Court, a practical bureau chunk flashy in a colour called drab.

It is a ten-minute walk, and a world, afar from the Neo-Gothic elegance that is the Palace of Westminster.

But the dock, if not the construction or the complicated beige courtroom, was impressive. It is a 12ft-high apartment of callous potion and timber that fills the corner. Think Alice in Wonderland showering cubicle. That is the wharf in Court One, building three, SW1. The apartment had kept a little surprising company, thats for sure. Just that morning, it had housed a apprehension suspect. But, on the whole, the occupants come from the pettier side of the rapist probity system, the drunks, the flotsam and jetsam of the crime world.

But at 2.10pm, it stood empty, available the MPs. Their barrister, Julian Knowles, was asking the decider to keep it that way.

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Mr Knowles, who looked similar to an escaper from 1930s Chicago in his blue pin-stripe fit with carmine lining, longed for them to be immune that sold ordeal. Judge Timothy Workman, whose wavy dim hair has an impediment shock of white, pursed his lips.

At this impulse the MPs shuffled in and complacent their hands on the behind of 3 dull chairs in the well of the court.

Why? asked the judge. Mr Knowles pronounced that the MPs had been on umbrella bail and it was a make a difference for the courts discretion.

Judge Workman lived up to his name: It is normal use for the defendants to be in the dock, he said.

The 3 MPs only stood there, not responding. Gentlemen, pronounced a clerk, ushering them in to the showering cubicle. He close the door. They were stranded now. There is no hoop on the inside.

The Right Hon Elliot Morley, as he was called, told us his bieing born date.

The Hon David Chaytor and the Hon Jim Devine followed. It seemed majority imaginary until the clerk essentially began to review out the charges in all their boring detail, together with mixed references to the ACA2 one more cost stipend explain form.

They all pleaded not guilty. Mr Morley stared ahead, eyes fixed, his large obese face stunned. Mr Chaytor standing his head, his high cheekbones sculpted on to an unresponsive face. Only Mr Devine, red-faced and round, showed emotion. As the charges were review opposite him, he muttered: Not true, not true.

It was no warn to find that they did not wish to be attempted in this justice either. They are special and it all goes behind to 1689. Mr Knowles insisted that this did not meant that the MPs thought that they were on top of the law. Only, perhaps, the dock.

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Artes Mundi esteem contenders" art goes on show Art and pattern

Olga Chernysheva walks past piece of her Artes Mundi vaunt at the National Museum in Cardiff. Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA

The work of eight artists competing for the UK"s richest visible humanities esteem went on arrangement in Wales today– and nothing could be indicted of triviality.

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There was no steer of a light being incited off and on at the preview opening of the fourth Artes Mundi esteem muster in Cardiff. This was big theme art rebellious subjects from post-communist amicable sequence to consumerism and globalisation.

The esteem of £40,000 is one of the majority remunerative in the universe and the greatest in the UK. It is presented each dual years and, whilst it might have a reduce form than the Turner, for example, the standing and significance in the universe of � la mode art seems to grow each time.

Importantly, the esteem provides a height for general artists nonetheless to have a big name for themselves in the UK. This year, scarcely 500 were nominated from 80 countries.

Tessa Jackson, first inventive executive of Artes Mundi, pronounced one target had been to enlarge "the turn and scope" of � la mode art on arrangement in Wales, and one approach outcome has been the preference to emanate a dedicated space for it in the inhabitant notable relic from subsequent year.

"There has been an huge lust for what we do and it has been one of the inhabitant museum"s majority renouned exhibitions," pronounced Jackson. "Beyond Doctor Who and dinosaurs even."

It will be an impressively familiar caller who knows the names or work of any of the shortlisted artists. Jackson said: "It has been a really unwavering preference to move together artists who aren"t indispensably piece of the London or blurb scene. We wish a opposite range of players. People don"t indispensably know the names of the artists, but they get really intent with the work and the calm of it and what it"s about."

Jackson concluded that all of the artists tackled critical subjects, but pronounced the show was not po-faced. "There is extraordinary humour in a little of the work," she said. "I don"t fish, but there"s a bit of tickling going on here."

All of the artists this year were shortlisted for their ability in reflecting the governing body that approximate them, and there was a clever arrangement by artists from prior to comrade countries, together with the Albanian Adrian Paci; the Bulgarian Ergin Çavusoglu; the Russian Olga Chernysheva; and Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev, from Kyrgyzstan.

The latter pair, who try typical hold up on the new Silk Road, were not at the esteem preview after they were denied visas. The alternative artists are the Peruvian Fernando Bryce, who has lived in Europe for roughly twenty years; Chen Chieh-yen, from Taiwan; and Yael Bartana, from Israel.

Many of the exhibits show the stability strength of movie and video art. Bartana, for example, has on arrangement her majority new work, a movie called Wall and Tower, in that she imagines the lapse of the 3 million Jews who lived in Poland prior to the Nazi occupation.

We are the "same but changed" says the open speaker as Bartana re-enacts the construction of a wall and building in the heart of Warsaw. This new Jewish allotment fast has spiny handle turn it and nonetheless it has a acquire sign, it is anything but.

Bartana has called herself an pledge anthropologist and examines wily subjects. "I"ve been exploring anti-semitism, the Jewish and Polish relationship, the economy of shortcoming and guilt," she said.

So far, Bartana pronounced she had managed to equivocate feeling to her work. "The Polish plan is some-more difficult and in contact with on a little low wounds. I"m awaiting a little some-more difficulties than before, maybe."

The muster at Cardiff"s inhabitant museum, that opens to the open tomorrow, provides a image of each artist, but they will be judged on their work over the last five to eight years. The leader will be voiced on nineteen May.

Europe bars Wall Street banks from supervision down payment sales Business

European policymakers have slammed Wall Street banks for putting increase prior to monetary stability. Photograph: Mark Lennihan/AP

European countries are restraint Wall Street banks from remunerative deals to sell supervision debt worth hundreds of billions of euros in plea for their purpose in the credit crunch.

For the initial time in five years, no big US investment bank appears between the tip 9 emperor down payment bookrunners in Europe, according to Dealogic interpretation gathered for the Guardian. Only Morgan Stanley ranks at series 10.

Goldman Sachs doesn"t have the table. Goldman finished it to series five last year and in 2006, and series eight in 2007, the interpretation shows. JP Morgan was in the tip ten last year and in 2007 and 2006 but doesn"t crop up this year.

"Governments do not have the certainty that the extreme risk-taking enlightenment of the big Wall Street banks has altered and they still cannot be devoted to put the fortitude of the monetary complement prior to profit," pronounced Arlene McCarthy, clamp chair of the European parliament"s mercantile and monetary affairs committee. "It is no warn thus that governments are demure to do commercial operation with banks that have unsuccessful to sense the doctrine of the crisis. The banks need to admit the mistakes that were finished and handle in an reliable approach to recover the certitude and certainty of governments."

European emperor down payment joining tables are right away dominated by European banks such as Barclays Capital, Deutsche Bank, and Société Générale, the Dealogic list shows. Their commercial operation indication is customarily seen as some-more relationship-based, whilst US investment banks have traditionally been focused on evident deal-making.

Being left out of supervision down payment sales equates to blank out on one of the tip fee-earning opportunities this year, since the relations dry weather in mergers and acquisitions and batch marketplace flotations. Western European governments need to lift an estimated half a trillion dollars this year to refinance debts and compensate for bank bailouts and rising unemployment.

Banks typically take a commission of the sum understanding worth for underwriting a down payment issue, that could run in to tens of millions since the ballooning emperor debt sales this year. On a 1% fee, Barclays Capital would have pocketed $92m (£61m) from the $9.2bn European holds it helped sell this year.

Barclays might have profited as a made at home anchor of UK debt sales, as a sure turn of "nationalism" has flush according to Philip Augar, writer of Chasing Alpha and alternative books about investment banking. "People have finished as majority as probable to take caring of their own monetary institutions," Augar said.

The National Bank of Greece featured in the tip 10 for the initial time in at slightest five years, according to Dealogic. Greece left Goldman and Morgan Stanley out of the majority new down payment sale, and additionally forsaken sidestep supports from the list.

Petros Christodoulou, the head of Greece"s debt supervision office, told the Guardian the down payment issue had been destined to some-more "long-term" investors as they were looking marketplace stability. Greece has had moving relations with Goldman not prolonged ago after it emerged that the US bank had helped censor the genuine turn of the country"s open debt with derivatives contracts. The nation additionally denied reports about the bank offered a interest of the debt to the Chinese supervision fund.

Investment banks demand their commercial operation areas are distant by confidentiality walls, but countries have been mad about a little of their trades looming to dispute – possibly on their own books, or on interest of clients.

Goldman Sachs pronounced the altogether on all sides in the European emperor down payment marketplace had softened this entertain once US dollar denominated deals were included. It pronounced the own interpretation showed it ranked fourth in European emperor down payment sales this year.

Greece, Spain, Germany and France are additionally pulling for changes in the credit default barter market, where investors can gamble opposite the probable default of a country, in conclusion bringing some-more instability.

Britain, Spain, Ireland and Belgium have not used Wall Street firms in the largest 10 deals of the year, according to Dealogic.

Britain used Barclays, Deutsche, RBS and Royal Bank of Canada in the $7bn issue last month, the interpretation shows. Spain has additionally used Santander, as well as Barclays, Citi and SocGen in new issues.

Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley have exploded in resources and energy over the past decade. In their potion towers in Canary Wharf, or in Goldman Sachs" European domicile on Fleet Street, accepting bedrooms continually acquire budding ministers, universe commercial operation leaders and multibillion-pound investors.

"The energy of big investment banks was a cause in the promissory note crisis, and it"s up to regulators and business to mount up to them, and not picking them is one of the ways," Augar said.

But the energy amassed is as well large to wane, the writer said. "I disbelief this will last," he said. "The US investment banks will be behind in Europe prior to as well prolonged since they are really absolute and they have a really big footprint in Europe."

The EU is additionally perplexing to quell US monetary energy by formulating the own monetary account – a reproduction of the Washington-based IMF.The need of a European account has emerged during the Greek crisis, as European politicians have insisted monetary troubles should be resolved at home.

Man held on foot dog whilst pushing his car UK headlines

The scold approach to travel your dog ... a County Durham man has lost his looseness for pushing his car at 5mph whilst "walking" his house house pet lurcher. Photograph: Paolo Aguilar/EPA

A dog owners as well quiescent to travel his house house pet has lost his pushing looseness after removing held on foot the animal whilst pushing his car.

Paul Railton, 23, of County Durham, had wound down the window of his Nissan Navara to practice his lurcher when military held him. Officers reported saying him pushing at 5mph along a nation lane.

Yesterday, at Consett magistrates court, Railton pleaded guilty to not being in correct carry out of a vehicle.

Sharon Lowrie, prosecuting, pronounced a cyclist alerted military that dual men were boring a dog along from a car. She said: "The motorist was unresolved on to the dog"s lead by the motorist window, coming a blind summit."

Railton was told to put the dog in the behind of the car and was authorised to go, but five days after military incited up at his home to assign him. A military matter review out to the justice pronounced that "due to the slight highway there was no area for alternative cars to pass".

Paul Donoghue, defending, pronounced Railton had pleaded guilty at the beginning opportunity. "He accepts it was a stupid thing to do and there was an component of laziness. He does not customarily expostulate in a such a manner," Donoghue said.

Railton, who is unemployed, was fined £66 and systematic to compensate £43 costs and a authorised surcharge of £15. He had 3 chastisement points combined to his looseness and, since he already had nine, this meant he was criminialized from pushing for 6 months.

After the hearing, Railton is reported as saying: "I"m not bothered. I knew I"d get 3 points. I competence save myself a little income not carrying a car."

Bafta night fashion: The prolonged and the short of it Life and character The Guardian

Kate Winslet in Stella McCartney at the Baftas. Photograph: Ian Gavan/Getty Images

It was all go on Sunday afternoon in London"s Covent Garden. On one side of the piazza, at the Royal Opera House, last preparations were being done for the Bafta awards rite while, around the corner, assorted London conform week shows were receiving place.

Sensibly, the British Fashion Council had teamed up with the Baftas for a ridiculously glamorous bubbly beverage celebration on the initial day of conform week, to deliver actors to the designers who are showcasing their autumn/winter collections in the capital. And, either as a proceed outcome or not, it was appreciative to see so most British labels being championed on the Bafta red runner on Sunday night, from heavy-hitters Stella ­McCartney and Burberry – the ­latter shows again in London this afternoon – to newer names, such as Erdem.

Naturally, there were Alexander ­McQueen tributes (pregnant Sam Taylor-Wood wore a edging series from 2007; Jaime Winstone went 3 years serve behind for an on-trend bare number), but the greatest conform story of the night was positively ­gown-length.

Following in the stilettoes of ­Julia Roberts and Marion Cotillard, who wore knee-length styles to the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild awards respectively, the shorter hemline gave longer lengths a genuine run for their income at this year"s Baftas. It is rarely doubtful that this whim for short dresses will lift over to the Oscars, where full-on floor-length regularly dominates. Which is a shame; as last night showed, a brew of lengths creates for a some-more eye-catching red-carpet experience.

Romola Garai Romola Garai in Erdem at the Baftas. Photograph: Matt Baron/BEI/Rex Features

You"ve customarily got to love a lady with a bun. Atonement star Garai"s preference of a � la mode floral-print, on-the-knee skirt by Erdem was winningly exemplary and youthful. The designer, afavourite of both Sarah Brown and Samantha Cameron, is one of London conform week"s greatest draws – he showed his autumn/winter 2010 pick up yesterday. The customarily complaint with this outfit is the shoes: black is a bit as well hefty.

Saoirse Ronan Saoirse Ronan in Burberry at the Baftas. Photograph: Mike Marsland/WireImage.com

This custom-made, white stormy skirt by Burberry is stunning. Getting the change in between teen and grownup-going-to-a-posh-work-do is no meant attainment but 16-year-old Ronan, star of The Lovely Bones, put herself in great hands with Christopher Bailey and his team. The directional leather leather belt underneath the bust, the showering of ruffles, and her lax hair cascading on to the tip of the delegate emanate an outcome that is customarily lovely.

Trudie Styler Trudie Styler in a Victoria Beckham skirt at the Baftas. Photograph: Jon Furniss/WireImage.com

Well, well, well. Who"d have thought Styler would see this pointy – and in a zippy Victoria Beckham black series too. Beckham"s tidy dresses are increasingly being selected for red runner dos. This is a graceful short skirt choice, but the lonesome tip and ambiguous tights keep a scrupulous balance.

Audrey Tautou Audrey Tautou in Lanvin at the Baftas. Photograph: David Fisher/Rex Features

Despite being nominated for personification Coco Chanel, Tautou chose a prohibited pinkish ruched event by a opposite stylish Parisian label, Lanvin. Not customarily is it lovely to see a jar of colour, but the figure is engaging – one shoulder on, one off – and the contrary red accessories are a complicated addition. A condense of red mouth continues this theme, and her hair looks lovable and elegant.

Kristen Stewart Kristen Stewart in Chanel at the Baftas. Photograph: David Fisher/Rex Features

White Chanel couture should not be accessorised with moodiness, but that appears to be Stewart"s default look. It might work in the Twilight drive-in theatre (Stewart won the Rising Star award), but not on the red carpet. At slightest she didn"t slap on any bottled tan – her dark skin functions with this skirt – and that somewhat pushed-back hair is a successful curtsy to the 90s revival.

Carey Mulligan Carey Mulligan in Vionnet at the Baftas. Photograph: Ian Gavan/Getty Images

Not customarily did she bag the most appropriate singer drum for AnEducation, but her blond stand is strictly the excellent short haircut on a lady given Ghost-era Demi Moore. This floral skirt by French tag Vionnet is both graceful and directional – dual notions that do not customarily co-exist on the red carpet. The change of the dress"s double-length to one side the badge leather leather belt and fashiony YSL peep-toe heels is a delight of modernity.

Kate Winslet

Wow. Sleek, voluptuous and simple, this black StellaMcCartney series with the edging inserts, thigh-high separate and no-fuss proceed was one of the most appropriate of the night. Classy Kate additionally came in couple of instances close to hidden Mulligan"s best-shade-of-blond crown, with her do that looked customarily the right side of ­not-too-done-but-there-was-definitely-a-hairdresser-involved.

Kristin Scott Thomas Kristin Scott Thomas in Louis Vuitton at the Baftas. Photograph: Mike Marsland/Mike Marsland/WireImage.com

Even in protected black, KST looks worldly but with the kind of corner that customarily a couple of stars, Julianne Moore for example, ever perfect. This Louis Vuitton skirt took 60 hours to qualification – when you see at the bodice, festooned with Swarowski stones, silk bows and black beads, that timeframe starts to have sense. The hair garment looks improved carried similar to a pet, than on the shoulder.

Bonnie Wright Bonnie Wright in Prada at the Baftas. Photograph: Dave M. Benett/Getty Images

This neutral mainstay skirt by Prada is positively on the right side of boring. The Harry Potter actress is a bit English Rose, but this dress"s risque plunging front and winding shoulders show she can stone a conform look. The jewel-embellished purchase is a great square to poise with, and her updo and pointed earrings keep things simple, discriminating and cool.

Claire Danes Claire Danes in Burberry at the Baftas. Photograph: Jon Furniss/WireImage.com

This silk Burberry robe in a lead paint slots in to this season"s direction for neutrals. It"s the sort of skirt you can design the Oscars to be rammed to the rafters with, so great work on removing in first, Miss Danes. The tip half of the skirt is quite beautiful, the draping and ruching is graceful and the no-fussy-accessories proceed functions well.

Uma Thurman

Here"s a lady who knows how to do sex explosve with class: how radiantly beautiful did she see in her lace, done to order Burberry? Presenting Vanessa Redgrave with her brotherhood award, the 6ft-something Kill Bill actress was the summary of old-school Hollywood glorious with this floor-length, swishing golden gown.

And as for the men . . .Mickey Rourke Mickey Rourke at the Baftas. Photograph: Matt Baron/BEI/Rex Features

Oh Mickey, what would awards ceremonies be but you? Shiny grey fit with snooker player-style waistcoat underneath and no shirt – repeat, no shirt – all set off by his own take on a top-knot. Oh, and a precious slapstick teleprompter impulse to boot.

Robert Pattinson Robert Pattinson at the Baftas. Photograph: Dave M. Benett/Getty Images

What happened to Pattinson"s customarily extraordinary hair – had there been a malfunction with a pot of wax? Wild hair is a vital piece of the Twilight star"s sex factor, so this flattened see was troubling. Best masculine hair of the dusk was a purify brush by Tom Ford"s garb expel of Colin Firth, Nicholas Hoult and Matthew Goode.

Guy Pearce Guy Pearce at the Baftas. Photograph: Matt Baron/BEI/Rex Features

A serious shaved head done the former Neighbours star hardly recognisable, but he looked super-sleek in a custom-tailored Burberry tux, skirt shirt and swish shoes. Pearce, who appears in The Hurt Locker, accomplished his see with a span of fanciful – think complicated nerd – frames, nonetheless maybe he should have lent them to Rourke.