But following criticism over the project, with local businesses saying it was "killing" trade, changes were made to bring traffic back one-way from Station Square to Queen's Road.
Many of the conversations during and since the Pelicot trial have focused on how to make the distinction between consensual and non-consensual sex and whether it should be better defined in law - but the problem is that what consent amounts to is a complex question.As 24-year-old Daisy sees it, some women of her age tend to go along with men's sexual preferences regardless of their own feelings. "They think something is hot if the man they are with thinks it's hot."
So, if heterosexual men, in particular, really are increasingly taking their sexual cues from pornography, then that prompts further questions about the changing shape of male desire. And if young women can feel that the price of intimacy is to go along with those desires, however extreme, then arguably consent is not a black and white matter.Ultimately, there may be widespread relief that the Pelicot case is over and that justice was served, but it leaves behind even more questions - questions that, in the spirit of an amazingly strong French woman, are perhaps best discussed out in the open.More than 400 people have taken part in UK's only charity plane pull.
The 15th year of the Dorset Plane Pull saw 21 teams pulling a 35-tonne Boeing 737 a distance of 50m along Bournemouth Airport's runway on Monday morning.Participants, who had to pull the equivalent of seven-and-a-half adult elephants, raised money for 15 charities.
The event has been running since 2009, raising £300k in total, and founder Richard Griffin said it was "crazy, lots of fun and extremely rewarding".
A mother said the support she received from a city's free family hub has made an "incredible" difference to her and her child.It found that the barriers to success were "social, institutional and political, rather than technical".
Furthermore, sponge cities have beenfor being designed to deal with the present, when they should be looking to deal with future changes.
Prof Charlesworth believes this would be an issue in the UK, too, saying: " I don’t think the government - of whatever colour - could demand such a change."But she admits that simply simply developing more large-scale infrastructure isn't the way forward: "A bigger pipe is not the answer to bigger storms."