Following Andrew Flintoff’s remarks about ‘six-fingered’ Burnley residents, we’d like commenters to write for us on local rivalry Following Prestonian cricket star Andrew Flintoff’s Twitter sledging in which he labelled the people of rival Lancashire town Burnley as “six-fingered dingles”, we would like four Comment is free users to go “above the line” and discuss their own experiences of regional rivalry. Do you live in a town, city or area that has a long-standing rivalry with a neighbour? Maybe you’re in Yorkshire, and look down on Lancashire. Maybe you’re in north London, and wouldn’t dream of crossing the river south. Or is Portsmouth held in contempt if you’re based in Southampton? And if so, why? How does this rivalry manifest itself? Is it friendly and lighthearted or are there darker undertones? Was this tribalism instilled in you from an early age by family, friends or the local culture? What knowledge do you have of its origins? We’d like to hear from people up and down the country. If you would like to participate, please email Philip Oltermann (philip.oltermann@guardian.co.uk) before 9am tomorrow, Friday 15 April, with a contribution of around 200-250 words, from which we’ll pick four. The subject line of your email should be “People’s panel”. Please include your Comment is free username if you have one, your real name, and a number we can contact you on. Please note that we may not be able to respond to all submissions. Andrew Flintoff guardian.co.uk
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Singer returns to Worthy Farm as festival organisers announce star-studded bill including Beyoncé, Cee Lo Green and Elbow Read the full Glastonbury 2011 lineup The first time he played the world’s biggest and best-loved music festival in 1984, the set had to be cut short as fans stormed the stage. Twenty-seven years later, and still with a devoted fanbase, Morrissey will return to Glastonbury, playing the festival’s opening night (Friday 24 June), warming up for headline act U2. Fellow Mancunians Elbow are also on the bill, organisers announced as they released the full lineup, playing the Pyramid stage before Glastonbury stalwarts Coldplay headline on the Saturday evening. Festival organiser Emily Eavis said this year will be one of Glastonbury’s most exciting offerings. “To get all of these incredible artists is really quite a feat,” she said. “I think this is one of most eclectic lineups yet.” Elbow will raise the crowd with their “lovely, celebratory and uplifting” music, she said, while Queens of the Stone Age – who are going head-to-head on the Other Stage against Beyoncé on the Sunday evening – will go some way to keeping everyone happy. “That will be fantastic because they will appeal to very different people,” she added. There are also acts geared toward Glastonbury’s older fans. Sunday will see Don McLean play the Pyramid stage in the afternoon, followed later by Paul Simon. Blues legend BB King will play the same stage on Friday, while Jimmy Cliff and Kool and the Gang will feature on West Holts. Simon is expected to play a range of hits, said Eavis. “Everyone should check out Paul Simon. He’s going to do a total mix of his songs, so it will be like a greatest hits set.” American band Fleet Foxes will play the Other Stage before Mumford & Sons on Friday, while White Lies will warm up for the Chemical Brothers on Saturday. There will also be acts appealing to urban music fans, with rising British rap star Tinie Tempah taking to the Pyramid stage on Saturday and US R&B singer Cee Lo Green at West Holts on Friday, while dance fans can take their pick from Chase and Status, DJ Shadow and Robyn, with Annie Mac and John Digweed also playing DJ sets. Up-and-coming artists include Anna Calvi, James Blake, Jessie J, Warpaint and the Vaccines. Festival founder Michael Eavis could barely contain his glee at getting Morrissey back to Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset, where the festival takes place. Morrissey last played Glastonbury in 2004. “When the Smiths played in 1984 it changed everything for us. We had just been about hippy bands until then and when they performed it was like a bolt of lightning,” he said. “There were no fences in those days – we thought fences were wicked – and when the crowd started invading the stage we had to close the set. It got everyone talking about us.” Coldplay’s performance on the Saturday evening will be “the climax of their career”, while U2′s headline set on Friday will have no shortage of “razzmatazz”, he promised. “It is going to be an enormous set for Coldplay and I think U2 will be one of the biggest moments of the summer. They might have been on a long tour, but our wait to get them at Glastonbury has been even longer,” he said. Glastonbury’s night-time playgrounds, such as Shangri La and Trash City, will have more venues, with the festival also creating a new performance “bull-ring” from donated lock timbers. Last year, the festival’s 40th anniversary, was blessed with memorable performances and uninterrupted sunshine, but Eavis is confident it can be bettered. “I think we have the best headliners we’ve ever had, and if we get the sunshine I think it will be even better than last year.” Glastonbury festival Morrissey U2 Queens of the Stone Age Beyoncé Coldplay Elbow Cee Lo Green Tinie Tempah R&B Pop and rock Festivals Alexandra Topping guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Yale University is mourning a young woman killed this week in a horrific lab accident. Michele Dufault’s hair was caught in a lathe in a chemistry lab’s machine shop, and the quick-spinning machinery pulled her in, choking her to death. The medical examiner determined that the 22-year-old senior died from…
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Gael García Bernal is overgroomed as Che Guevara, but this chronicle of a formative and revolutionary roadtrip is accurate Director: Walter Salles Entertainment grade: B History grade: A– Ernesto Guevara de la Serna was an Argentine doctor. Under the name Che Guevara, he became a comandante, or major, in the Cuban revolution, and later led communist guerrilla units in the Congo and Bolivia. Casting Medical student Ernesto Guevara and his biochemist friend Alberto Granado set out on their motorcycle from Buenos Aires, heading for North America. According to press reports, Rodrigo de la Serna, playing Alberto, is a second cousin to the real Che Guevara. DNA isn’t everything, though: the unrelated Mexican actor Gael García Bernal, playing Ernesto, much more closely resembles Guevara in 1952. Indeed, when the real Ernesto was well groomed, it was often said that he looked like a movie star. But that didn’t happen too often, for he had a lifelong aversion to grooming. He once wore a pair of underpants for two months, and then gleefully won a bet that they would stand up by themselves. Thankfully, that isn’t in the film. Romance The first stop on the men’s trip is Miramar, south of Buenos Aires, where they visit Ernesto’s girlfriend Chichina. He gives her a puppy, named (in English) Come-back, to indicate that he intends to, well, come back. In the film, she gives him $15 to buy her a bathing suit when he reaches the United States. In real life, according to one of Che’s biographers, the money was for a scarf. Other than that, this is accurate. Media The bike breaks down near a small Chilean town. Alberto and Ernesto are broke – but they have an idea. They give an interview to the town paper, claiming to be touring leprosy experts, and then use the piece to impress the locals into giving them free stuff. This is also true. The mechanic who fixes their bike invites them to a dance. By now, Chichina has dumped Ernesto, and he is nursing a broken heart. Which means he’s trying to cop off with the mechanic’s wife. Scandal The film subtly cleans Ernesto’s conduct up in comparison with his own description of the evening. It depicts the mechanic’s wife, as the real Guevara wrote, acting “pretty randy”, but glosses over the fact that Ernesto too was “full of Chilean wine”. When she refused him, “I was in no state to listen to reason and we had a bit of a barney in the middle of the dance floor,” he admitted. As in in the movie, Ernesto and Alberto were chased out of the dance hall by a mob of angry Chileans. But the film uses dramatic licence when it has them bust out their bike from the mechanic’s garage and speed off in the nick of time. In reality, they stayed another night, had lunch with a family next door to the garage, and left without incident in the afternoon. Politics In the mining settlement near Chuquicamata, Alberto and Ernesto meet an impoverished couple who fear persecution on the grounds that they are communists – which, at the time, Ernesto was not. From 1948 until 1958, the Chilean Communist party was banned and its adherents prosecuted under the Law for the Defence of Democracy. The poet Pablo Neruda was among those who fled the country. The scene in the movie sticks closely to Guevara’s account. There’s one striking difference. In the film, we are later told that Ernesto gave Chichina’s $15 to the couple. In real life, both Ernesto and the $15 eventually made it to Miami – and, though Ernesto never saw Chichina again, he did apparently send her that scarf. Verdict If the young Ernesto Guevara needed a clean-up, it was in the sense of an actual wash. As for his faults, he himself was more frank about them than this movie is. That aside, The Motorcycle Diaries gets a lot right. It’s an entertaining and accurate portrayal of the formative youth of a revolutionary icon. • Alex von Tunzelmann’s Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder and the Cold War in the Caribbean, is published by Simon & Schuster this week. Che Guevara Alex von Tunzelmann guardian.co.uk
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Gael García Bernal is overgroomed as Che Guevara, but this chronicle of a formative and revolutionary roadtrip is accurate Director: Walter Salles Entertainment grade: B History grade: A– Ernesto Guevara de la Serna was an Argentine doctor. Under the name Che Guevara, he became a comandante, or major, in the Cuban revolution, and later led communist guerrilla units in the Congo and Bolivia. Casting Medical student Ernesto Guevara and his biochemist friend Alberto Granado set out on their motorcycle from Buenos Aires, heading for North America. According to press reports, Rodrigo de la Serna, playing Alberto, is a second cousin to the real Che Guevara. DNA isn’t everything, though: the unrelated Mexican actor Gael García Bernal, playing Ernesto, much more closely resembles Guevara in 1952. Indeed, when the real Ernesto was well groomed, it was often said that he looked like a movie star. But that didn’t happen too often, for he had a lifelong aversion to grooming. He once wore a pair of underpants for two months, and then gleefully won a bet that they would stand up by themselves. Thankfully, that isn’t in the film. Romance The first stop on the men’s trip is Miramar, south of Buenos Aires, where they visit Ernesto’s girlfriend Chichina. He gives her a puppy, named (in English) Come-back, to indicate that he intends to, well, come back. In the film, she gives him $15 to buy her a bathing suit when he reaches the United States. In real life, according to one of Che’s biographers, the money was for a scarf. Other than that, this is accurate. Media The bike breaks down near a small Chilean town. Alberto and Ernesto are broke – but they have an idea. They give an interview to the town paper, claiming to be touring leprosy experts, and then use the piece to impress the locals into giving them free stuff. This is also true. The mechanic who fixes their bike invites them to a dance. By now, Chichina has dumped Ernesto, and he is nursing a broken heart. Which means he’s trying to cop off with the mechanic’s wife. Scandal The film subtly cleans Ernesto’s conduct up in comparison with his own description of the evening. It depicts the mechanic’s wife, as the real Guevara wrote, acting “pretty randy”, but glosses over the fact that Ernesto too was “full of Chilean wine”. When she refused him, “I was in no state to listen to reason and we had a bit of a barney in the middle of the dance floor,” he admitted. As in in the movie, Ernesto and Alberto were chased out of the dance hall by a mob of angry Chileans. But the film uses dramatic licence when it has them bust out their bike from the mechanic’s garage and speed off in the nick of time. In reality, they stayed another night, had lunch with a family next door to the garage, and left without incident in the afternoon. Politics In the mining settlement near Chuquicamata, Alberto and Ernesto meet an impoverished couple who fear persecution on the grounds that they are communists – which, at the time, Ernesto was not. From 1948 until 1958, the Chilean Communist party was banned and its adherents prosecuted under the Law for the Defence of Democracy. The poet Pablo Neruda was among those who fled the country. The scene in the movie sticks closely to Guevara’s account. There’s one striking difference. In the film, we are later told that Ernesto gave Chichina’s $15 to the couple. In real life, both Ernesto and the $15 eventually made it to Miami – and, though Ernesto never saw Chichina again, he did apparently send her that scarf. Verdict If the young Ernesto Guevara needed a clean-up, it was in the sense of an actual wash. As for his faults, he himself was more frank about them than this movie is. That aside, The Motorcycle Diaries gets a lot right. It’s an entertaining and accurate portrayal of the formative youth of a revolutionary icon. • Alex von Tunzelmann’s Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder and the Cold War in the Caribbean, is published by Simon & Schuster this week. Che Guevara Alex von Tunzelmann guardian.co.uk
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Two men say staff at the John Snow asked them to leave because they were being ‘obscene’ Two men have spoken of their shock and anger after they were asked to leave a pub in London after a member of staff apparently objected to them kissing. Jonathan Williams, a journalist for a financial trade magazine, and James Bull, a charity volunteer, say they were ejected from the John Snow on Broadwick Street, Soho, by a woman who claimed to be the landlady and said they were being “obscene”. Bull said he was physically sick after the incident, which happened at about 10.45pm on Wednesday, after the couple had earlier been for dinner on their first date together in Covent Garden. Bull said: “I felt so belittled, and to be made to feel so dirty and cheap over something like that – it’s just wrong.” The pair say that objections were first raised to their displays of affection shortly after they arrived at 8.30pm by a fellow drinker claiming to be the landlord, who was off duty. They refused what they described as his “polite request” to stop kissing. Williams, 26, and Bull, 23, insist they were not indulging in a “huge display of affection”, but were merely kissing on the lips. They said they chose the John Snow, which they have both visited in the past but which does not style itself as a gay bar, because they enjoyed the cider sold at the venue. Williams said: “It’s a nice little pub, it’s a nice atmosphere. The people are friendly, it’s not too expensive considering the area and it’s a decent pub where you can just relax.” He said the first man, who identified himself as the landlord, asked them to stop kissing “because it was bothering him”. The couple refused and were left alone until about 10.45pm, when a woman who said she was the landlady intervened. Bull said he was putting on his coat to leave and had given Williams “a peck on the lips” when the woman, who was wearing a staff uniform, came up to them. “She said we had to leave because we were being obscene. Then the other guy from earlier came over again and said we had to leave now, we ‘weren’t allowed to do that’.” Both Bull and Williams said the man took hold of Williams’s coat lapels as he asked them to leave the pub. Bull called the police when he arrived home, who came and took a statement. Bar staff have the right to eject drinkers, but they must abide by equality legislation. It is not clear what further action the police intend to take. Lucy Clements, a 27-year-old production manager, and Jamie Morton, neither of whom know Bull or Williams, were sitting at the next table and witnessed the events. They were also asked to leave after questioning the couple’s ejection. Clements said: “I was totally shocked. Dumbfounded really. From a pub in the middle of Soho you just don’t expect it.” She said Bull and Williams were “snogging, but it wasn’t heavy petting”, adding that “no one seemed to mind apart from this one man”. She said she spoke to bar staff who confirmed the man who raised the first objections was the landlord. The John Snow is one of about 300 pubs in the UK operated by the independent brewery, Samuel Smiths. Bull and Williams said they had not yet complained to the company, but planned to do so today. When the Guardian called the pub, a woman initially put the phone down. On a second call, she said: “Can you just stop calling this number please, or we’ll have you done for harassment.” Williams said: “We weren’t being over the top, there wasn’t anything that would be deemed unseemly – I’m not the kind of person to do that kind of thing in public. “I was very angry. I’ve been incredibly lucky and never had to experience much in the way of homophobic bullying, a few minor incidents at school aside. “So considering that’s the extent of it, I mostly felt anger and shock. The upset wore off pretty quickly and the anger remained.” Williams turned to Twitter to complain about the ordeal. “Seven years in London & I’ve never been made to feel bad for being gay. 45 min ago the John Snow pub, W1F had me removed for kissing a date.” His post was retweeted dozens of times, while several high-profile tweeters, including Goodness Gracious Me and The Smoking Room actor Emma Kennedy, helped to raise awareness of the incident. “The John Snow pub is in SOHO. Way to alienate your passing trade fellahs. Well done. *never, ever goes there again*,” Kennedy wrote. A spokeswoman for the Metropolitan police said: “Police are investigating an incident which occurred at approximately 10.50pm last night at a venue in Broadwick Street, W1. There have been no arrests and inquiries are ongoing.” Gay rights London Equality Adam Gabbatt guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Two men say staff at the John Snow asked them to leave because they were being ‘obscene’ Two men have spoken of their shock and anger after they were asked to leave a pub in London after a member of staff apparently objected to them kissing. Jonathan Williams, a journalist for a financial trade magazine, and James Bull, a charity volunteer, say they were ejected from the John Snow on Broadwick Street, Soho, by a woman who claimed to be the landlady and said they were being “obscene”. Bull said he was physically sick after the incident, which happened at about 10.45pm on Wednesday, after the couple had earlier been for dinner on their first date together in Covent Garden. Bull said: “I felt so belittled, and to be made to feel so dirty and cheap over something like that – it’s just wrong.” The pair say that objections were first raised to their displays of affection shortly after they arrived at 8.30pm by a fellow drinker claiming to be the landlord, who was off duty. They refused what they described as his “polite request” to stop kissing. Williams, 26, and Bull, 23, insist they were not indulging in a “huge display of affection”, but were merely kissing on the lips. They said they chose the John Snow, which they have both visited in the past but which does not style itself as a gay bar, because they enjoyed the cider sold at the venue. Williams said: “It’s a nice little pub, it’s a nice atmosphere. The people are friendly, it’s not too expensive considering the area and it’s a decent pub where you can just relax.” He said the first man, who identified himself as the landlord, asked them to stop kissing “because it was bothering him”. The couple refused and were left alone until about 10.45pm, when a woman who said she was the landlady intervened. Bull said he was putting on his coat to leave and had given Williams “a peck on the lips” when the woman, who was wearing a staff uniform, came up to them. “She said we had to leave because we were being obscene. Then the other guy from earlier came over again and said we had to leave now, we ‘weren’t allowed to do that’.” Both Bull and Williams said the man took hold of Williams’s coat lapels as he asked them to leave the pub. Bull called the police when he arrived home, who came and took a statement. Bar staff have the right to eject drinkers, but they must abide by equality legislation. It is not clear what further action the police intend to take. Lucy Clements, a 27-year-old production manager, and Jamie Morton, neither of whom know Bull or Williams, were sitting at the next table and witnessed the events. They were also asked to leave after questioning the couple’s ejection. Clements said: “I was totally shocked. Dumbfounded really. From a pub in the middle of Soho you just don’t expect it.” She said Bull and Williams were “snogging, but it wasn’t heavy petting”, adding that “no one seemed to mind apart from this one man”. She said she spoke to bar staff who confirmed the man who raised the first objections was the landlord. The John Snow is one of about 300 pubs in the UK operated by the independent brewery, Samuel Smiths. Bull and Williams said they had not yet complained to the company, but planned to do so today. When the Guardian called the pub, a woman initially put the phone down. On a second call, she said: “Can you just stop calling this number please, or we’ll have you done for harassment.” Williams said: “We weren’t being over the top, there wasn’t anything that would be deemed unseemly – I’m not the kind of person to do that kind of thing in public. “I was very angry. I’ve been incredibly lucky and never had to experience much in the way of homophobic bullying, a few minor incidents at school aside. “So considering that’s the extent of it, I mostly felt anger and shock. The upset wore off pretty quickly and the anger remained.” Williams turned to Twitter to complain about the ordeal. “Seven years in London & I’ve never been made to feel bad for being gay. 45 min ago the John Snow pub, W1F had me removed for kissing a date.” His post was retweeted dozens of times, while several high-profile tweeters, including Goodness Gracious Me and The Smoking Room actor Emma Kennedy, helped to raise awareness of the incident. “The John Snow pub is in SOHO. Way to alienate your passing trade fellahs. Well done. *never, ever goes there again*,” Kennedy wrote. A spokeswoman for the Metropolitan police said: “Police are investigating an incident which occurred at approximately 10.50pm last night at a venue in Broadwick Street, W1. There have been no arrests and inquiries are ongoing.” Gay rights London Equality Adam Gabbatt guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …It’s a official. Sort of. Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum announced last night that he’s launching an exploratory committee to begin raising funds for a possible run at the presidency. Santorum, popular with social conservatives, revealed the new step on Fox News last night. Earlier in the day Santorum, 52,…
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Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko meet evacuees in Asahi city, where 13 people died in the earthquake and tsunami Japan’s emperor has made his first trip to the disaster zone since last month’s earthquake and tsunami. Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visited two evacuation shelters in Asahi city, near the Pacific coast. They knelt on mats and spoke quietly with evacuees, who bowed deeply. Some wiped tears from their eyes. Thirteen people died in the city and 3,000 homes were damaged or destroyed. The emperor and empress plan additional visits to other tsunami-affected areas in coming weeks. More than 26,000 people are believed to have died in the disaster. About 11,250 bodies have been recovered so far. Nearly 140,000 people are still living in shelters after losing their homes or being advised to evacuate because of concerns about radiation leaking from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Officials have insisted the situation at the crippled plant is improving, but a series of mishaps and aftershocks of the 9.0-magnitude quake have impeded work in clearing debris and restoring disabled cooling systems. The setbacks have angered and frustrated residents. “I’m physically and mentally worn out,” said Yoshihisa Kato, a 66-year-old noodle shop owner in Kawamata, about 28 miles north-west of the plant. “I’ve been going to funerals almost every day because many elderly people in my neighbourhood have died due to shocks and exhaustion,” said Kato, whose business has dried up as residents have fled the area. Japan this week raised the severity level of the nuclear crisis, putting it on a par with Chernobyl, although the radioactivity emitted is one-tenth of that in the 1986 disaster. Japan disaster Japan guardian.co.uk
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• Anger at executive pay deals in wake of gulf disaster • Protest includes fishing boat owners and climate activists • Follow Andrew Clark ( @clarkaw ) on Twitter for latest updates BP executives faced angry protesters as shareholders prepared to vote at its annual meeting in London, which is taking place a few days before the first anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion. Fishermen and women from the Gulf coast affected by the spill, some of whom had bought BP shares to allow them to attend the annual meeting, joined climate change activists and artists protesting against the oil company. Institutional investors, angry at what they claim are excessive executive pay deals , urged shareholders to vote against the remuneration package. As BP’s chairman, Carl-Henric Svanberg, described a year of “unprecedented crisis” and remembered the families of the 11 who died in the explosion, protesters spoke of their lost livelihoods. “I am coming to articulate the anger of thousands of Gulf coast residents whose lives and livelihoods have been destroyed while the BP board continues to prosper,” said Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation fisherwoman from Texas, one of several who bought shares in BP in order to attend the meeting at the ExCeL centre. She was ejected from the conference centre lobby, having covered her face with a dark syrup intended to resemble oil. “This is the only thing they understand,” she said. The explosion last April caused a spill that polluted fishing areas and fouled hundreds of miles of beaches. Byron Encalade, president of the Louisiana Oystermen Association, said he planned to tackle the company over its compensation process, claiming many oystermen have been denied payments or given insufficient payouts. “We’ve not been made whole: our fishing grounds have been depleted, our oysters are dead and we’re not receiving the funds we need to support and sustain ourselves,” Encalade said. “We’re seeing money going everywhere but at ground zero. We’re the communities at ground zero – the first to be put out of work and we’re going to be the last to be able to go back to work and sustain ourselves.” Tracy Kuhns and Mike Roberts from Grande Isle in Louisiana own a shrimping boat. They have not fished since the spill. They are reluctant to go out when the season starts next month because they are not sure it is safe, even though most of the waters have been declared open. Kuhns, executive director of Louisiana Bayoukeeper, which works to protect the Gulf habitat, said: “The oil is still there – it’s just sunk to the bottom.” Roberts added: “Opening the fishing grounds was just a way for BP to limit their liability.” The couple put in a compensation claim for $100,000 (£60,000), based on typical earnings for a poor season, but received only $6,000 from BP. They worked for BP on its clean-up programme, but that lasted only three months, so money is tight. Roberts said that even if fishing resumed, “the market is ruined because no one thinks it’s safe. People have common sense.” BP shareholders have been urged to vote against the company’s remuneration report by Pirc, the corporate governance watchdog, over “excessive” payouts to outgoing executives. Tony Hayward, BP’s former chief executive, who got £1m compensation for loss of office, has share awards yet to vest worth as much as £8m. Glass Lewis, a large US shareholder advisory firm, is also urging a vote against BP’s report and accounts. The Association of British Insurers (ABI), which does not issue voting advice, warned investors of possible concerns about BP’s discretionary use of share-based bonus awards. The ABI has issued an “amber top” alert to fellow institutional investors, warning them to examine the issues surrounding bonuses of more than £100,000 awarded to two of BP’s top executives – its finance director Byron Grote and downstream chief Iain Conn. Critics view the payments as inappropriate in the wake of the environmentally catastrophic oil spill. BP argues that the executives met targets in their particular roles and that neither played any part in its offshore exploration division. Members of first nation tribes in Alberta, northern Canada, where BP is developing its oil sands projects, also staged a demonstration. Melina Laboucan-Massimo, from the Lubicon first nation, said that her father, a hunter, has started to find tumours inside animals he had killed. She blames the use of natural gas by BP in its “in-situ” projects, where steam is used to extract oil from the sands, for polluting the air and water. Laboucan-Massimo accused BP of not explaining to shareholders the full environmental impact of these projects. BP Oil Oil and gas companies Tony Hayward Carl-Henric Svanberg Executive pay and bonuses Energy industry BP oil spill Pollution Oil spills Oil Tim Webb Karen McVeigh guardian.co.uk
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