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By Martin BarberBBC News, Norfolk Kieron Williamson, from Ludham, whose latest exhibition opened in Holt on Friday, has sold more than 30 pieces from the show for nearly £450,000. The first 23 pieces released to buyers sold for £242,095 in less than 20 minutes. A gallery spokesman said Williamson's "raw talent" was "unrivalled". Kieron started painting aged five when he asked his parents to buy him a drawing pad while on holiday in Cornwall. Presenting his work publicly for the first time in 2010, when just seven years old, the exhibition sold out within minutes for £150,000. 'Famous painters' Nicknamed after the French Impressionist Claude Monet, Kieron's work is now highly sought after by collectors around the world with some pieces held in the Royal Collection. Adrian Hill, from the Picturecraft Gallery, said the paintings were "impressionist without being abstract" creating "a natural balance to his work". Mr Hill said Kieron was following in the footsteps of the great painters like Picasso and Giotto. "Picasso was nine years old when he had his first exhibition, Giotto was discovered by a merchant when he was 11 years old drawing in the mud and went on to become one of the most famous Renaissance painters of all time. "These guys had a raw natural talent, they could mix colour, they had an ability to draw perspective and proportion - Kieron just has this ability to put those things together in a very natural way." Michelle Williamson, Kieron's mother, said for the first time she had seen collectors explore the young artist's "investment potential". "He's unrivalled by any other 10-year-old artist in the world and the support for him is overwhelming," she said. "Before people would have been happy with just one example of his work, now it seems collectors are buying a number of his pieces at a time because of their investment potential."
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A 10-year-old landscape artist from Norfolk, dubbed the "mini-Monet", has boosted the earnings from sales of his work to almost £2m.


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The chief of this indigenous community, Uruvarige Vanniyaleththo told the BBC Sinhala service that forest department officials prevented Veddas from entering their late leaders resting place in the Maduru Oya National Park. "These officers did nothing to stop building a road through the nature reserve" he added. Two miles through the reserve The head of Sri Lanka’s first inhabitants claimed that the road construction work through the reserve will destroy its vegetation. “It is a threat to birds, animals and our own existence” he pointed out. According to the head of Veddhas, the road which connects Padiyathalawa – Mahiyanganaya road with Kandagammana is going to be 30 feet wide. Two miles of the road is going through the forest reserve. “The reason to construct such a wide road connecting a small village is to cut the big trees in the Maduru Oya reserve” Vanniyaleththo said. “I am not against the development of Sri Lanka, but all indigenous people are against the destruction of the natural reserves under the guise of development." We are not aware Speaking to BBC Sandeshaya, Deputy Minister of High Ways W. B Ekanayake said, “although, I am aware of the construction of this road I don’t know who is responsible for it”. “I will have more details on Monday and I expect to speak to Media on Monday with more details”, He added. Maduru Oya was declared a nature reserve by the Sri Lankan government in 1983. Situated in the dry zone 300 k.m. away from Colombo and spread over 58849 hectares of land, Maduru Oya is home to several endemic bird species as well as other wild animals.
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The indigenous community in Sri Lanka known as the Veddhas, are opposing a highway that is being built through a nature reserve.


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North Lanarkshire-based Healthcare Environmental Services (HES) is seeking "upwards of £15m" in damages. The company was stripped of the contracts after reports that tonnes of clinical waste piled up at its sites. The Environment Agency has taken enforcement action against HES and launched a criminal investigation. Bosses at HES, which has its headquarters in Shotts, have denied claims of mismanagement and insist the company has been unfairly "vilified". Managing director Garry Pettigrew said: "We feel that we have been left with no choice but to take legal action against the trusts after the terms of the agreed contracts were broken. "Our contracts were terminated without first discussing any performance issues with the company and we were given no opportunity to fulfil our obligations. "We are now taking this action to safeguard the company and our employees' future, and to give us an opportunity to correct some of the misinformation that has been reported in the media." Last month, UK Health Minister Stephen Barclay told Parliament that NHS Improvement had concluded that HES "failed to demonstrate that they were operating within their contractual limits". Environmental permits As a result, a number of NHS Trusts in England had served notices to terminate their contracts with the firm, he said. The contracts it has with more than 30 other trusts in England are still ongoing. The Environment Agency, which operates in England, previously said HES was in breach of its environmental permits at four of its six sites which deal with clinical waste - by having more waste on site than their permit allows and storing waste inappropriately. HES has retained its NHS contracts in Scotland. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) confirmed that it issued enforcement notices at HES sites in Dundee and Shotts in September, where its officers are conducting "ongoing monitoring".
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The firm at the centre of the NHS clinical waste scandal has announced it is suing 17 health trusts in Yorkshire which terminated its contracts.


