内容摘要："There's so much happening across the city and we were very, very keen for the Proms to be a part of that."

"There's so much happening across the city and we were very, very keen for the Proms to be a part of that."

Ms Jirde said the venue "will be a very special asset for the community; we are developing exciting plans to refurbish the building and transform it into a unique and dynamic social innovation hub".She continued: "This project will create a lasting legacy, not in a glass case, but in the lives, voices and creative expressions of the people who carry this heritage every day."

She said that, in BSWN's conversations with people around the South West, the issues of access to cultural heritage spaces, and telling stories from different perspectives, often came up."The UnMuseum is actually rebalancing that and giving power to communities – to be able to tell the stories that they want to hear, that mean something to them."Ms Jirde added: "But most crucially for me, what came through was the idea around preservation – how we capture stories from the older generation and how we share those stories of culture and heritage with the younger generation."

According to BSWN, there are more than 650,000 people from black and racial minorities living in the South West, with 107 nationalities and more than 90 languages.The project will culminate in 2027 in a festival of black identity and belonging to "celebrate and honour the cultural heritage of black communities across the South West".

A university banking and IT student says competing as a powerlifter has "given her purpose".

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The mission, co-ordinated by global policing agency Interpol, led to the arrest of 300 people with links to Black Axe and other affiliated groups.Interpol called the operation a “major blow” to the Nigerian crime network, but warned that its international reach and technological sophistication mean it remains a global threat.

In one notorious example, Canadian authorities said they had busted a money-laundering scheme linked to Black Axe worth more than $5bn (£3.8bn) in 2017.“They are very organised and very structured,” Tomonobu Kaya, a senior official at Interpol’s Financial Crime and Anti-Corruption Centre, told the BBC.