The average daily wind speed in August has been around 12 km/h, thatâs the equivalent to about 7 mph, or 6 knots. In recent years the maximum sustained wind speed has reached 69 km/h, thatâs the equivalent of around 43 mph, or 37 knots.
US student Otto Warmbier given hard labour in North Korea. Read more about sharing. US student Otto Warmbier has been given 15 years hard labour in North Korea for crimes against the state. Warmbier, 21, was arrested for trying to steal a propaganda sign from a hotel while visiting North Korea in January.
Background to the poem. Betjeman imagines the moment when the dramatist, writer and flamboyant wit Oscar Wilde is arrested by police on 6 April 1895. Wilde was charged with gross indecency and, at a time when homosexuality was illegal, he was sentenced to two yearsâ hard labour. The prison regime was brutal and, although he was released in 1897, he died three years later in exile in France.