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Manchester City and Montenegro forward Stevan Jovetic claims Russia were waiting for an excuse before their Euro 2016 qualifier was abandoned amid chaotic scenes on Friday. The Group G game in Podgorica was marred by trouble from the first minute when play was suspended for over half an hour after Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev was struck by a flare thrown from the stands. German referee Deniz Aytekin eventually abandoned the match after a missed second-half penalty by Russia's Roman Shirokov led to a mass brawl on the pitch while riot police struggled to contain supporters off it. VIDEOS Scroll down to watch footage of mass brawl and flare incident . Players from both sides get physical before Montenegro's match with Russia s cancelled . Russia keeper Igor Akinfeev is knocked to the ground by a flare thrown from the stands after one minute . Akinfeev is carried off the pitch on a stretcher, leading to a 35 minute suspension of the game . CLICK HERE to read full details of the shameful scenes in Podgorica . Jovetic hopes the violent scenes will not see Montenegro punished too harshly, while suggesting the Russians were searching for an excuse to lodge a complaint. 'I have problems finding words after this incident,' he told reporters. 'I just hope the fine won't be too harsh. 'However, it seems like the Russians waited for the smallest thing to happen so they can tell the referee.' Meanwhile, Montenegrin fans who keep causing trouble and forced Friday's Euro 2016 qualifier against Russia to be abandoned are 'barbarians', according to the general secretary of their FA. 'These fans sing "Montenegro we love you" but throw flares, insult rivals and cause all sorts of incidents every time they turn up and that's outright hypocrisy,' general secretary Momir Djurdjevac told reporters after the ugly scenes in the stadium. Manchester City forward Stevan Jovetic believes the visitors were searching for an excuse . Fans holding flares cut intimidating figures from the upper stands of the stadium in Podgorica . Russia head coach Fabio Capello scratches his head as players leave the pitch after the match is abandoned . Riot police clash with Montenegrin fans after the game is abandoned following a pitch brawl . 'We have left the impression of barbarians and this is a complete disaster. It seems we don't deserve to have a nation, a soccer team or a berth in a major tournament. 'As far as I am concerned the game should not have continued after the first-minute incident. We can only thank God that no one was seriously hurt.' Montenegro face Denmark next on June 8 and currently sit, level with Russia, with five points from four games.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.6 | 139.025882 | 491 | 62.272727 | 0.673267 | 1 | 0.288609 | 0.761775 | 0.000135 | 1.121719 | -0.605856 | null | 0.447948 | -0.497637 | 0.067411 | null | 0.736558 | 0.264137 |
401 | 1,247 |
Manchester City and Montenegro forward Stevan Jovetic claims Russia were waiting for an excuse before their Euro 2016 qualifier was abandoned amid chaotic scenes on Friday. The Group G game in Podgorica was marred by trouble from the first minute when play was suspended for over half an hour after Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev was struck by a flare thrown from the stands. German referee Deniz Aytekin eventually abandoned the match after a missed second-half penalty by Russia's Roman Shirokov led to a mass brawl on the pitch while riot police struggled to contain supporters off it. VIDEOS Scroll down to watch footage of mass brawl and flare incident . Players from both sides get physical before Montenegro's match with Russia s cancelled . Russia keeper Igor Akinfeev is knocked to the ground by a flare thrown from the stands after one minute . Akinfeev is carried off the pitch on a stretcher, leading to a 35 minute suspension of the game . CLICK HERE to read full details of the shameful scenes in Podgorica . Jovetic hopes the violent scenes will not see Montenegro punished too harshly, while suggesting the Russians were searching for an excuse to lodge a complaint. 'I have problems finding words after this incident,' he told reporters. 'I just hope the fine won't be too harsh. 'However, it seems like the Russians waited for the smallest thing to happen so they can tell the referee.' Meanwhile, Montenegrin fans who keep causing trouble and forced Friday's Euro 2016 qualifier against Russia to be abandoned are 'barbarians', according to the general secretary of their FA. 'These fans sing "Montenegro we love you" but throw flares, insult rivals and cause all sorts of incidents every time they turn up and that's outright hypocrisy,' general secretary Momir Djurdjevac told reporters after the ugly scenes in the stadium. Manchester City forward Stevan Jovetic believes the visitors were searching for an excuse . Fans holding flares cut intimidating figures from the upper stands of the stadium in Podgorica . Russia head coach Fabio Capello scratches his head as players leave the pitch after the match is abandoned . Riot police clash with Montenegrin fans after the game is abandoned following a pitch brawl . 'We have left the impression of barbarians and this is a complete disaster. It seems we don't deserve to have a nation, a soccer team or a berth in a major tournament. 'As far as I am concerned the game should not have continued after the first-minute incident. We can only thank God that no one was seriously hurt.' Montenegro face Denmark next on June 8 and currently sit, level with Russia, with five points from four games.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.6 | 139.025882 | 491 | 62.272727 | 0.673267 | 1 | 0.288609 | 0.761775 | 0.000135 | 1.121719 | 0.188873 | -0.256079 | null | -0.612073 | 0.86214 | 0.743921 | null | 0.149702 |
402 | 1,247 |
Manchester City and Montenegro forward Stevan Jovetic claims Russia were waiting for an excuse before their Euro 2016 qualifier was abandoned amid chaotic scenes on Friday. The Group G game in Podgorica was marred by trouble from the first minute when play was suspended for over half an hour after Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev was struck by a flare thrown from the stands. German referee Deniz Aytekin eventually abandoned the match after a missed second-half penalty by Russia's Roman Shirokov led to a mass brawl on the pitch while riot police struggled to contain supporters off it. VIDEOS Scroll down to watch footage of mass brawl and flare incident . Players from both sides get physical before Montenegro's match with Russia s cancelled . Russia keeper Igor Akinfeev is knocked to the ground by a flare thrown from the stands after one minute . Akinfeev is carried off the pitch on a stretcher, leading to a 35 minute suspension of the game . CLICK HERE to read full details of the shameful scenes in Podgorica . Jovetic hopes the violent scenes will not see Montenegro punished too harshly, while suggesting the Russians were searching for an excuse to lodge a complaint. 'I have problems finding words after this incident,' he told reporters. 'I just hope the fine won't be too harsh. 'However, it seems like the Russians waited for the smallest thing to happen so they can tell the referee.' Meanwhile, Montenegrin fans who keep causing trouble and forced Friday's Euro 2016 qualifier against Russia to be abandoned are 'barbarians', according to the general secretary of their FA. 'These fans sing "Montenegro we love you" but throw flares, insult rivals and cause all sorts of incidents every time they turn up and that's outright hypocrisy,' general secretary Momir Djurdjevac told reporters after the ugly scenes in the stadium. Manchester City forward Stevan Jovetic believes the visitors were searching for an excuse . Fans holding flares cut intimidating figures from the upper stands of the stadium in Podgorica . Russia head coach Fabio Capello scratches his head as players leave the pitch after the match is abandoned . Riot police clash with Montenegrin fans after the game is abandoned following a pitch brawl . 'We have left the impression of barbarians and this is a complete disaster. It seems we don't deserve to have a nation, a soccer team or a berth in a major tournament. 'As far as I am concerned the game should not have continued after the first-minute incident. We can only thank God that no one was seriously hurt.' Montenegro face Denmark next on June 8 and currently sit, level with Russia, with five points from four games.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.6 | 139.025882 | 491 | 62.272727 | 0.673267 | 1 | 0.288609 | 0.761775 | 0.000135 | 1.121719 | null | -0.528116 | 0.319951 | -0.147796 | null | 0.471884 | 0.608561 | 0.613979 |
403 | 1,247 |
Manchester City and Montenegro forward Stevan Jovetic claims Russia were waiting for an excuse before their Euro 2016 qualifier was abandoned amid chaotic scenes on Friday. The Group G game in Podgorica was marred by trouble from the first minute when play was suspended for over half an hour after Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev was struck by a flare thrown from the stands. German referee Deniz Aytekin eventually abandoned the match after a missed second-half penalty by Russia's Roman Shirokov led to a mass brawl on the pitch while riot police struggled to contain supporters off it. VIDEOS Scroll down to watch footage of mass brawl and flare incident . Players from both sides get physical before Montenegro's match with Russia s cancelled . Russia keeper Igor Akinfeev is knocked to the ground by a flare thrown from the stands after one minute . Akinfeev is carried off the pitch on a stretcher, leading to a 35 minute suspension of the game . CLICK HERE to read full details of the shameful scenes in Podgorica . Jovetic hopes the violent scenes will not see Montenegro punished too harshly, while suggesting the Russians were searching for an excuse to lodge a complaint. 'I have problems finding words after this incident,' he told reporters. 'I just hope the fine won't be too harsh. 'However, it seems like the Russians waited for the smallest thing to happen so they can tell the referee.' Meanwhile, Montenegrin fans who keep causing trouble and forced Friday's Euro 2016 qualifier against Russia to be abandoned are 'barbarians', according to the general secretary of their FA. 'These fans sing "Montenegro we love you" but throw flares, insult rivals and cause all sorts of incidents every time they turn up and that's outright hypocrisy,' general secretary Momir Djurdjevac told reporters after the ugly scenes in the stadium. Manchester City forward Stevan Jovetic believes the visitors were searching for an excuse . Fans holding flares cut intimidating figures from the upper stands of the stadium in Podgorica . Russia head coach Fabio Capello scratches his head as players leave the pitch after the match is abandoned . Riot police clash with Montenegrin fans after the game is abandoned following a pitch brawl . 'We have left the impression of barbarians and this is a complete disaster. It seems we don't deserve to have a nation, a soccer team or a berth in a major tournament. 'As far as I am concerned the game should not have continued after the first-minute incident. We can only thank God that no one was seriously hurt.' Montenegro face Denmark next on June 8 and currently sit, level with Russia, with five points from four games.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.6 | 139.025882 | 491 | 62.272727 | 0.673267 | 1 | 0.288609 | 0.761775 | 0.000135 | 1.121719 | 0.195957 | null | 0.643691 | -0.154641 | 0.869225 | null | 0.9323 | 0.607134 |
404 | 1,247 |
Manchester City and Montenegro forward Stevan Jovetic claims Russia were waiting for an excuse before their Euro 2016 qualifier was abandoned amid chaotic scenes on Friday. The Group G game in Podgorica was marred by trouble from the first minute when play was suspended for over half an hour after Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev was struck by a flare thrown from the stands. German referee Deniz Aytekin eventually abandoned the match after a missed second-half penalty by Russia's Roman Shirokov led to a mass brawl on the pitch while riot police struggled to contain supporters off it. VIDEOS Scroll down to watch footage of mass brawl and flare incident . Players from both sides get physical before Montenegro's match with Russia s cancelled . Russia keeper Igor Akinfeev is knocked to the ground by a flare thrown from the stands after one minute . Akinfeev is carried off the pitch on a stretcher, leading to a 35 minute suspension of the game . CLICK HERE to read full details of the shameful scenes in Podgorica . Jovetic hopes the violent scenes will not see Montenegro punished too harshly, while suggesting the Russians were searching for an excuse to lodge a complaint. 'I have problems finding words after this incident,' he told reporters. 'I just hope the fine won't be too harsh. 'However, it seems like the Russians waited for the smallest thing to happen so they can tell the referee.' Meanwhile, Montenegrin fans who keep causing trouble and forced Friday's Euro 2016 qualifier against Russia to be abandoned are 'barbarians', according to the general secretary of their FA. 'These fans sing "Montenegro we love you" but throw flares, insult rivals and cause all sorts of incidents every time they turn up and that's outright hypocrisy,' general secretary Momir Djurdjevac told reporters after the ugly scenes in the stadium. Manchester City forward Stevan Jovetic believes the visitors were searching for an excuse . Fans holding flares cut intimidating figures from the upper stands of the stadium in Podgorica . Russia head coach Fabio Capello scratches his head as players leave the pitch after the match is abandoned . Riot police clash with Montenegrin fans after the game is abandoned following a pitch brawl . 'We have left the impression of barbarians and this is a complete disaster. It seems we don't deserve to have a nation, a soccer team or a berth in a major tournament. 'As far as I am concerned the game should not have continued after the first-minute incident. We can only thank God that no one was seriously hurt.' Montenegro face Denmark next on June 8 and currently sit, level with Russia, with five points from four games.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.6 | 139.025882 | 491 | 62.272727 | 0.673267 | 1 | 0.288609 | 0.761775 | 0.000135 | 1.121719 | null | -0.540951 | 0.460415 | -0.557618 | null | 0.459049 | 0.749024 | 0.204157 |
405 | 1,247 |
Manchester City and Montenegro forward Stevan Jovetic claims Russia were waiting for an excuse before their Euro 2016 qualifier was abandoned amid chaotic scenes on Friday. The Group G game in Podgorica was marred by trouble from the first minute when play was suspended for over half an hour after Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev was struck by a flare thrown from the stands. German referee Deniz Aytekin eventually abandoned the match after a missed second-half penalty by Russia's Roman Shirokov led to a mass brawl on the pitch while riot police struggled to contain supporters off it. VIDEOS Scroll down to watch footage of mass brawl and flare incident . Players from both sides get physical before Montenegro's match with Russia s cancelled . Russia keeper Igor Akinfeev is knocked to the ground by a flare thrown from the stands after one minute . Akinfeev is carried off the pitch on a stretcher, leading to a 35 minute suspension of the game . CLICK HERE to read full details of the shameful scenes in Podgorica . Jovetic hopes the violent scenes will not see Montenegro punished too harshly, while suggesting the Russians were searching for an excuse to lodge a complaint. 'I have problems finding words after this incident,' he told reporters. 'I just hope the fine won't be too harsh. 'However, it seems like the Russians waited for the smallest thing to happen so they can tell the referee.' Meanwhile, Montenegrin fans who keep causing trouble and forced Friday's Euro 2016 qualifier against Russia to be abandoned are 'barbarians', according to the general secretary of their FA. 'These fans sing "Montenegro we love you" but throw flares, insult rivals and cause all sorts of incidents every time they turn up and that's outright hypocrisy,' general secretary Momir Djurdjevac told reporters after the ugly scenes in the stadium. Manchester City forward Stevan Jovetic believes the visitors were searching for an excuse . Fans holding flares cut intimidating figures from the upper stands of the stadium in Podgorica . Russia head coach Fabio Capello scratches his head as players leave the pitch after the match is abandoned . Riot police clash with Montenegrin fans after the game is abandoned following a pitch brawl . 'We have left the impression of barbarians and this is a complete disaster. It seems we don't deserve to have a nation, a soccer team or a berth in a major tournament. 'As far as I am concerned the game should not have continued after the first-minute incident. We can only thank God that no one was seriously hurt.' Montenegro face Denmark next on June 8 and currently sit, level with Russia, with five points from four games.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.6 | 139.025882 | 491 | 62.272727 | 0.673267 | 1 | 0.288609 | 0.761775 | 0.000135 | 1.121719 | -0.599095 | -0.380666 | null | -0.625159 | 0.074172 | 0.619334 | null | 0.136616 |
406 | 1,247 |
Manchester City and Montenegro forward Stevan Jovetic claims Russia were waiting for an excuse before their Euro 2016 qualifier was abandoned amid chaotic scenes on Friday. The Group G game in Podgorica was marred by trouble from the first minute when play was suspended for over half an hour after Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev was struck by a flare thrown from the stands. German referee Deniz Aytekin eventually abandoned the match after a missed second-half penalty by Russia's Roman Shirokov led to a mass brawl on the pitch while riot police struggled to contain supporters off it. VIDEOS Scroll down to watch footage of mass brawl and flare incident . Players from both sides get physical before Montenegro's match with Russia s cancelled . Russia keeper Igor Akinfeev is knocked to the ground by a flare thrown from the stands after one minute . Akinfeev is carried off the pitch on a stretcher, leading to a 35 minute suspension of the game . CLICK HERE to read full details of the shameful scenes in Podgorica . Jovetic hopes the violent scenes will not see Montenegro punished too harshly, while suggesting the Russians were searching for an excuse to lodge a complaint. 'I have problems finding words after this incident,' he told reporters. 'I just hope the fine won't be too harsh. 'However, it seems like the Russians waited for the smallest thing to happen so they can tell the referee.' Meanwhile, Montenegrin fans who keep causing trouble and forced Friday's Euro 2016 qualifier against Russia to be abandoned are 'barbarians', according to the general secretary of their FA. 'These fans sing "Montenegro we love you" but throw flares, insult rivals and cause all sorts of incidents every time they turn up and that's outright hypocrisy,' general secretary Momir Djurdjevac told reporters after the ugly scenes in the stadium. Manchester City forward Stevan Jovetic believes the visitors were searching for an excuse . Fans holding flares cut intimidating figures from the upper stands of the stadium in Podgorica . Russia head coach Fabio Capello scratches his head as players leave the pitch after the match is abandoned . Riot police clash with Montenegrin fans after the game is abandoned following a pitch brawl . 'We have left the impression of barbarians and this is a complete disaster. It seems we don't deserve to have a nation, a soccer team or a berth in a major tournament. 'As far as I am concerned the game should not have continued after the first-minute incident. We can only thank God that no one was seriously hurt.' Montenegro face Denmark next on June 8 and currently sit, level with Russia, with five points from four games.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.6 | 139.025882 | 491 | 62.272727 | 0.673267 | 1 | 0.288609 | 0.761775 | 0.000135 | 1.121719 | null | -0.213057 | 0.291716 | -0.657692 | null | 0.786943 | 0.580326 | 0.104083 |
407 | 1,247 |
Manchester City and Montenegro forward Stevan Jovetic claims Russia were waiting for an excuse before their Euro 2016 qualifier was abandoned amid chaotic scenes on Friday. The Group G game in Podgorica was marred by trouble from the first minute when play was suspended for over half an hour after Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev was struck by a flare thrown from the stands. German referee Deniz Aytekin eventually abandoned the match after a missed second-half penalty by Russia's Roman Shirokov led to a mass brawl on the pitch while riot police struggled to contain supporters off it. VIDEOS Scroll down to watch footage of mass brawl and flare incident . Players from both sides get physical before Montenegro's match with Russia s cancelled . Russia keeper Igor Akinfeev is knocked to the ground by a flare thrown from the stands after one minute . Akinfeev is carried off the pitch on a stretcher, leading to a 35 minute suspension of the game . CLICK HERE to read full details of the shameful scenes in Podgorica . Jovetic hopes the violent scenes will not see Montenegro punished too harshly, while suggesting the Russians were searching for an excuse to lodge a complaint. 'I have problems finding words after this incident,' he told reporters. 'I just hope the fine won't be too harsh. 'However, it seems like the Russians waited for the smallest thing to happen so they can tell the referee.' Meanwhile, Montenegrin fans who keep causing trouble and forced Friday's Euro 2016 qualifier against Russia to be abandoned are 'barbarians', according to the general secretary of their FA. 'These fans sing "Montenegro we love you" but throw flares, insult rivals and cause all sorts of incidents every time they turn up and that's outright hypocrisy,' general secretary Momir Djurdjevac told reporters after the ugly scenes in the stadium. Manchester City forward Stevan Jovetic believes the visitors were searching for an excuse . Fans holding flares cut intimidating figures from the upper stands of the stadium in Podgorica . Russia head coach Fabio Capello scratches his head as players leave the pitch after the match is abandoned . Riot police clash with Montenegrin fans after the game is abandoned following a pitch brawl . 'We have left the impression of barbarians and this is a complete disaster. It seems we don't deserve to have a nation, a soccer team or a berth in a major tournament. 'As far as I am concerned the game should not have continued after the first-minute incident. We can only thank God that no one was seriously hurt.' Montenegro face Denmark next on June 8 and currently sit, level with Russia, with five points from four games.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.6 | 139.025882 | 491 | 62.272727 | 0.673267 | 1 | 0.288609 | 0.761775 | 0.000135 | 1.121719 | -0.533595 | null | 0.472705 | 0.163188 | 0.139672 | null | 0.761315 | 0.924963 |
408 | 1,247 |
Manchester City and Montenegro forward Stevan Jovetic claims Russia were waiting for an excuse before their Euro 2016 qualifier was abandoned amid chaotic scenes on Friday. The Group G game in Podgorica was marred by trouble from the first minute when play was suspended for over half an hour after Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev was struck by a flare thrown from the stands. German referee Deniz Aytekin eventually abandoned the match after a missed second-half penalty by Russia's Roman Shirokov led to a mass brawl on the pitch while riot police struggled to contain supporters off it. VIDEOS Scroll down to watch footage of mass brawl and flare incident . Players from both sides get physical before Montenegro's match with Russia s cancelled . Russia keeper Igor Akinfeev is knocked to the ground by a flare thrown from the stands after one minute . Akinfeev is carried off the pitch on a stretcher, leading to a 35 minute suspension of the game . CLICK HERE to read full details of the shameful scenes in Podgorica . Jovetic hopes the violent scenes will not see Montenegro punished too harshly, while suggesting the Russians were searching for an excuse to lodge a complaint. 'I have problems finding words after this incident,' he told reporters. 'I just hope the fine won't be too harsh. 'However, it seems like the Russians waited for the smallest thing to happen so they can tell the referee.' Meanwhile, Montenegrin fans who keep causing trouble and forced Friday's Euro 2016 qualifier against Russia to be abandoned are 'barbarians', according to the general secretary of their FA. 'These fans sing "Montenegro we love you" but throw flares, insult rivals and cause all sorts of incidents every time they turn up and that's outright hypocrisy,' general secretary Momir Djurdjevac told reporters after the ugly scenes in the stadium. Manchester City forward Stevan Jovetic believes the visitors were searching for an excuse . Fans holding flares cut intimidating figures from the upper stands of the stadium in Podgorica . Russia head coach Fabio Capello scratches his head as players leave the pitch after the match is abandoned . Riot police clash with Montenegrin fans after the game is abandoned following a pitch brawl . 'We have left the impression of barbarians and this is a complete disaster. It seems we don't deserve to have a nation, a soccer team or a berth in a major tournament. 'As far as I am concerned the game should not have continued after the first-minute incident. We can only thank God that no one was seriously hurt.' Montenegro face Denmark next on June 8 and currently sit, level with Russia, with five points from four games.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.6 | 139.025882 | 491 | 62.272727 | 0.673267 | 1 | 0.288609 | 0.761775 | 0.000135 | 1.121719 | -0.207118 | -0.625536 | null | -0.167642 | 0.466149 | 0.374464 | null | 0.594133 |
409 | 1,247 |
Manchester City and Montenegro forward Stevan Jovetic claims Russia were waiting for an excuse before their Euro 2016 qualifier was abandoned amid chaotic scenes on Friday. The Group G game in Podgorica was marred by trouble from the first minute when play was suspended for over half an hour after Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev was struck by a flare thrown from the stands. German referee Deniz Aytekin eventually abandoned the match after a missed second-half penalty by Russia's Roman Shirokov led to a mass brawl on the pitch while riot police struggled to contain supporters off it. VIDEOS Scroll down to watch footage of mass brawl and flare incident . Players from both sides get physical before Montenegro's match with Russia s cancelled . Russia keeper Igor Akinfeev is knocked to the ground by a flare thrown from the stands after one minute . Akinfeev is carried off the pitch on a stretcher, leading to a 35 minute suspension of the game . CLICK HERE to read full details of the shameful scenes in Podgorica . Jovetic hopes the violent scenes will not see Montenegro punished too harshly, while suggesting the Russians were searching for an excuse to lodge a complaint. 'I have problems finding words after this incident,' he told reporters. 'I just hope the fine won't be too harsh. 'However, it seems like the Russians waited for the smallest thing to happen so they can tell the referee.' Meanwhile, Montenegrin fans who keep causing trouble and forced Friday's Euro 2016 qualifier against Russia to be abandoned are 'barbarians', according to the general secretary of their FA. 'These fans sing "Montenegro we love you" but throw flares, insult rivals and cause all sorts of incidents every time they turn up and that's outright hypocrisy,' general secretary Momir Djurdjevac told reporters after the ugly scenes in the stadium. Manchester City forward Stevan Jovetic believes the visitors were searching for an excuse . Fans holding flares cut intimidating figures from the upper stands of the stadium in Podgorica . Russia head coach Fabio Capello scratches his head as players leave the pitch after the match is abandoned . Riot police clash with Montenegrin fans after the game is abandoned following a pitch brawl . 'We have left the impression of barbarians and this is a complete disaster. It seems we don't deserve to have a nation, a soccer team or a berth in a major tournament. 'As far as I am concerned the game should not have continued after the first-minute incident. We can only thank God that no one was seriously hurt.' Montenegro face Denmark next on June 8 and currently sit, level with Russia, with five points from four games.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.6 | 139.025882 | 491 | 62.272727 | 0.673267 | 1 | 0.288609 | 0.761775 | 0.000135 | 1.121719 | null | -0.502969 | 0.295611 | -0.681718 | null | 0.497031 | 0.58422 | 0.080057 |
410 | 1,247 |
Manchester City and Montenegro forward Stevan Jovetic claims Russia were waiting for an excuse before their Euro 2016 qualifier was abandoned amid chaotic scenes on Friday. The Group G game in Podgorica was marred by trouble from the first minute when play was suspended for over half an hour after Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev was struck by a flare thrown from the stands. German referee Deniz Aytekin eventually abandoned the match after a missed second-half penalty by Russia's Roman Shirokov led to a mass brawl on the pitch while riot police struggled to contain supporters off it. VIDEOS Scroll down to watch footage of mass brawl and flare incident . Players from both sides get physical before Montenegro's match with Russia s cancelled . Russia keeper Igor Akinfeev is knocked to the ground by a flare thrown from the stands after one minute . Akinfeev is carried off the pitch on a stretcher, leading to a 35 minute suspension of the game . CLICK HERE to read full details of the shameful scenes in Podgorica . Jovetic hopes the violent scenes will not see Montenegro punished too harshly, while suggesting the Russians were searching for an excuse to lodge a complaint. 'I have problems finding words after this incident,' he told reporters. 'I just hope the fine won't be too harsh. 'However, it seems like the Russians waited for the smallest thing to happen so they can tell the referee.' Meanwhile, Montenegrin fans who keep causing trouble and forced Friday's Euro 2016 qualifier against Russia to be abandoned are 'barbarians', according to the general secretary of their FA. 'These fans sing "Montenegro we love you" but throw flares, insult rivals and cause all sorts of incidents every time they turn up and that's outright hypocrisy,' general secretary Momir Djurdjevac told reporters after the ugly scenes in the stadium. Manchester City forward Stevan Jovetic believes the visitors were searching for an excuse . Fans holding flares cut intimidating figures from the upper stands of the stadium in Podgorica . Russia head coach Fabio Capello scratches his head as players leave the pitch after the match is abandoned . Riot police clash with Montenegrin fans after the game is abandoned following a pitch brawl . 'We have left the impression of barbarians and this is a complete disaster. It seems we don't deserve to have a nation, a soccer team or a berth in a major tournament. 'As far as I am concerned the game should not have continued after the first-minute incident. We can only thank God that no one was seriously hurt.' Montenegro face Denmark next on June 8 and currently sit, level with Russia, with five points from four games.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.6 | 139.025882 | 491 | 62.272727 | 0.673267 | 1 | 0.288609 | 0.761775 | 0.000135 | 1.121719 | -0.474212 | null | 0.131914 | -0.599328 | 0.199055 | null | 0.420524 | 0.162447 |
411 | 1,247 |
Manchester City and Montenegro forward Stevan Jovetic claims Russia were waiting for an excuse before their Euro 2016 qualifier was abandoned amid chaotic scenes on Friday. The Group G game in Podgorica was marred by trouble from the first minute when play was suspended for over half an hour after Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev was struck by a flare thrown from the stands. German referee Deniz Aytekin eventually abandoned the match after a missed second-half penalty by Russia's Roman Shirokov led to a mass brawl on the pitch while riot police struggled to contain supporters off it. VIDEOS Scroll down to watch footage of mass brawl and flare incident . Players from both sides get physical before Montenegro's match with Russia s cancelled . Russia keeper Igor Akinfeev is knocked to the ground by a flare thrown from the stands after one minute . Akinfeev is carried off the pitch on a stretcher, leading to a 35 minute suspension of the game . CLICK HERE to read full details of the shameful scenes in Podgorica . Jovetic hopes the violent scenes will not see Montenegro punished too harshly, while suggesting the Russians were searching for an excuse to lodge a complaint. 'I have problems finding words after this incident,' he told reporters. 'I just hope the fine won't be too harsh. 'However, it seems like the Russians waited for the smallest thing to happen so they can tell the referee.' Meanwhile, Montenegrin fans who keep causing trouble and forced Friday's Euro 2016 qualifier against Russia to be abandoned are 'barbarians', according to the general secretary of their FA. 'These fans sing "Montenegro we love you" but throw flares, insult rivals and cause all sorts of incidents every time they turn up and that's outright hypocrisy,' general secretary Momir Djurdjevac told reporters after the ugly scenes in the stadium. Manchester City forward Stevan Jovetic believes the visitors were searching for an excuse . Fans holding flares cut intimidating figures from the upper stands of the stadium in Podgorica . Russia head coach Fabio Capello scratches his head as players leave the pitch after the match is abandoned . Riot police clash with Montenegrin fans after the game is abandoned following a pitch brawl . 'We have left the impression of barbarians and this is a complete disaster. It seems we don't deserve to have a nation, a soccer team or a berth in a major tournament. 'As far as I am concerned the game should not have continued after the first-minute incident. We can only thank God that no one was seriously hurt.' Montenegro face Denmark next on June 8 and currently sit, level with Russia, with five points from four games.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.6 | 139.025882 | 491 | 62.272727 | 0.673267 | 1 | 0.288609 | 0.761775 | 0.000135 | 1.121719 | 0.109142 | null | 0.114441 | -0.128304 | 0.78241 | null | 0.40305 | 0.633471 |
412 | 1,247 |
Manchester City and Montenegro forward Stevan Jovetic claims Russia were waiting for an excuse before their Euro 2016 qualifier was abandoned amid chaotic scenes on Friday. The Group G game in Podgorica was marred by trouble from the first minute when play was suspended for over half an hour after Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev was struck by a flare thrown from the stands. German referee Deniz Aytekin eventually abandoned the match after a missed second-half penalty by Russia's Roman Shirokov led to a mass brawl on the pitch while riot police struggled to contain supporters off it. VIDEOS Scroll down to watch footage of mass brawl and flare incident . Players from both sides get physical before Montenegro's match with Russia s cancelled . Russia keeper Igor Akinfeev is knocked to the ground by a flare thrown from the stands after one minute . Akinfeev is carried off the pitch on a stretcher, leading to a 35 minute suspension of the game . CLICK HERE to read full details of the shameful scenes in Podgorica . Jovetic hopes the violent scenes will not see Montenegro punished too harshly, while suggesting the Russians were searching for an excuse to lodge a complaint. 'I have problems finding words after this incident,' he told reporters. 'I just hope the fine won't be too harsh. 'However, it seems like the Russians waited for the smallest thing to happen so they can tell the referee.' Meanwhile, Montenegrin fans who keep causing trouble and forced Friday's Euro 2016 qualifier against Russia to be abandoned are 'barbarians', according to the general secretary of their FA. 'These fans sing "Montenegro we love you" but throw flares, insult rivals and cause all sorts of incidents every time they turn up and that's outright hypocrisy,' general secretary Momir Djurdjevac told reporters after the ugly scenes in the stadium. Manchester City forward Stevan Jovetic believes the visitors were searching for an excuse . Fans holding flares cut intimidating figures from the upper stands of the stadium in Podgorica . Russia head coach Fabio Capello scratches his head as players leave the pitch after the match is abandoned . Riot police clash with Montenegrin fans after the game is abandoned following a pitch brawl . 'We have left the impression of barbarians and this is a complete disaster. It seems we don't deserve to have a nation, a soccer team or a berth in a major tournament. 'As far as I am concerned the game should not have continued after the first-minute incident. We can only thank God that no one was seriously hurt.' Montenegro face Denmark next on June 8 and currently sit, level with Russia, with five points from four games.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.6 | 139.025882 | 491 | 62.272727 | 0.673267 | 1 | 0.288609 | 0.761775 | 0.000135 | 1.121719 | -0.364824 | -0.395989 | null | -0.146365 | 0.308443 | 0.604011 | null | 0.61541 |
413 | 1,247 |
Manchester City and Montenegro forward Stevan Jovetic claims Russia were waiting for an excuse before their Euro 2016 qualifier was abandoned amid chaotic scenes on Friday. The Group G game in Podgorica was marred by trouble from the first minute when play was suspended for over half an hour after Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev was struck by a flare thrown from the stands. German referee Deniz Aytekin eventually abandoned the match after a missed second-half penalty by Russia's Roman Shirokov led to a mass brawl on the pitch while riot police struggled to contain supporters off it. VIDEOS Scroll down to watch footage of mass brawl and flare incident . Players from both sides get physical before Montenegro's match with Russia s cancelled . Russia keeper Igor Akinfeev is knocked to the ground by a flare thrown from the stands after one minute . Akinfeev is carried off the pitch on a stretcher, leading to a 35 minute suspension of the game . CLICK HERE to read full details of the shameful scenes in Podgorica . Jovetic hopes the violent scenes will not see Montenegro punished too harshly, while suggesting the Russians were searching for an excuse to lodge a complaint. 'I have problems finding words after this incident,' he told reporters. 'I just hope the fine won't be too harsh. 'However, it seems like the Russians waited for the smallest thing to happen so they can tell the referee.' Meanwhile, Montenegrin fans who keep causing trouble and forced Friday's Euro 2016 qualifier against Russia to be abandoned are 'barbarians', according to the general secretary of their FA. 'These fans sing "Montenegro we love you" but throw flares, insult rivals and cause all sorts of incidents every time they turn up and that's outright hypocrisy,' general secretary Momir Djurdjevac told reporters after the ugly scenes in the stadium. Manchester City forward Stevan Jovetic believes the visitors were searching for an excuse . Fans holding flares cut intimidating figures from the upper stands of the stadium in Podgorica . Russia head coach Fabio Capello scratches his head as players leave the pitch after the match is abandoned . Riot police clash with Montenegrin fans after the game is abandoned following a pitch brawl . 'We have left the impression of barbarians and this is a complete disaster. It seems we don't deserve to have a nation, a soccer team or a berth in a major tournament. 'As far as I am concerned the game should not have continued after the first-minute incident. We can only thank God that no one was seriously hurt.' Montenegro face Denmark next on June 8 and currently sit, level with Russia, with five points from four games.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.6 | 139.025882 | 491 | 62.272727 | 0.673267 | 1 | 0.288609 | 0.761775 | 0.000135 | 1.121719 | null | -0.617893 | -0.233628 | 0.159534 | null | 0.382107 | 0.054981 | 0.921309 |
414 | 1,247 |
Manchester City and Montenegro forward Stevan Jovetic claims Russia were waiting for an excuse before their Euro 2016 qualifier was abandoned amid chaotic scenes on Friday. The Group G game in Podgorica was marred by trouble from the first minute when play was suspended for over half an hour after Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev was struck by a flare thrown from the stands. German referee Deniz Aytekin eventually abandoned the match after a missed second-half penalty by Russia's Roman Shirokov led to a mass brawl on the pitch while riot police struggled to contain supporters off it. VIDEOS Scroll down to watch footage of mass brawl and flare incident . Players from both sides get physical before Montenegro's match with Russia s cancelled . Russia keeper Igor Akinfeev is knocked to the ground by a flare thrown from the stands after one minute . Akinfeev is carried off the pitch on a stretcher, leading to a 35 minute suspension of the game . CLICK HERE to read full details of the shameful scenes in Podgorica . Jovetic hopes the violent scenes will not see Montenegro punished too harshly, while suggesting the Russians were searching for an excuse to lodge a complaint. 'I have problems finding words after this incident,' he told reporters. 'I just hope the fine won't be too harsh. 'However, it seems like the Russians waited for the smallest thing to happen so they can tell the referee.' Meanwhile, Montenegrin fans who keep causing trouble and forced Friday's Euro 2016 qualifier against Russia to be abandoned are 'barbarians', according to the general secretary of their FA. 'These fans sing "Montenegro we love you" but throw flares, insult rivals and cause all sorts of incidents every time they turn up and that's outright hypocrisy,' general secretary Momir Djurdjevac told reporters after the ugly scenes in the stadium. Manchester City forward Stevan Jovetic believes the visitors were searching for an excuse . Fans holding flares cut intimidating figures from the upper stands of the stadium in Podgorica . Russia head coach Fabio Capello scratches his head as players leave the pitch after the match is abandoned . Riot police clash with Montenegrin fans after the game is abandoned following a pitch brawl . 'We have left the impression of barbarians and this is a complete disaster. It seems we don't deserve to have a nation, a soccer team or a berth in a major tournament. 'As far as I am concerned the game should not have continued after the first-minute incident. We can only thank God that no one was seriously hurt.' Montenegro face Denmark next on June 8 and currently sit, level with Russia, with five points from four games.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.6 | 139.025882 | 491 | 62.272727 | 0.673267 | 1 | 0.288609 | 0.761775 | 0.000135 | 1.121719 | null | -0.527272 | 0.482893 | 0.117463 | null | 0.472728 | 0.771502 | 0.879238 |
415 | 1,247 |
Manchester City and Montenegro forward Stevan Jovetic claims Russia were waiting for an excuse before their Euro 2016 qualifier was abandoned amid chaotic scenes on Friday. The Group G game in Podgorica was marred by trouble from the first minute when play was suspended for over half an hour after Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev was struck by a flare thrown from the stands. German referee Deniz Aytekin eventually abandoned the match after a missed second-half penalty by Russia's Roman Shirokov led to a mass brawl on the pitch while riot police struggled to contain supporters off it. VIDEOS Scroll down to watch footage of mass brawl and flare incident . Players from both sides get physical before Montenegro's match with Russia s cancelled . Russia keeper Igor Akinfeev is knocked to the ground by a flare thrown from the stands after one minute . Akinfeev is carried off the pitch on a stretcher, leading to a 35 minute suspension of the game . CLICK HERE to read full details of the shameful scenes in Podgorica . Jovetic hopes the violent scenes will not see Montenegro punished too harshly, while suggesting the Russians were searching for an excuse to lodge a complaint. 'I have problems finding words after this incident,' he told reporters. 'I just hope the fine won't be too harsh. 'However, it seems like the Russians waited for the smallest thing to happen so they can tell the referee.' Meanwhile, Montenegrin fans who keep causing trouble and forced Friday's Euro 2016 qualifier against Russia to be abandoned are 'barbarians', according to the general secretary of their FA. 'These fans sing "Montenegro we love you" but throw flares, insult rivals and cause all sorts of incidents every time they turn up and that's outright hypocrisy,' general secretary Momir Djurdjevac told reporters after the ugly scenes in the stadium. Manchester City forward Stevan Jovetic believes the visitors were searching for an excuse . Fans holding flares cut intimidating figures from the upper stands of the stadium in Podgorica . Russia head coach Fabio Capello scratches his head as players leave the pitch after the match is abandoned . Riot police clash with Montenegrin fans after the game is abandoned following a pitch brawl . 'We have left the impression of barbarians and this is a complete disaster. It seems we don't deserve to have a nation, a soccer team or a berth in a major tournament. 'As far as I am concerned the game should not have continued after the first-minute incident. We can only thank God that no one was seriously hurt.' Montenegro face Denmark next on June 8 and currently sit, level with Russia, with five points from four games.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.6 | 139.025882 | 491 | 62.272727 | 0.673267 | 1 | 0.288609 | 0.761775 | 0.000135 | 1.121719 | 0.216724 | -0.510402 | 0.583453 | null | 0.889992 | 0.489598 | 0.872063 | null |
416 | 1,050 |
It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.4 | 112.920682 | 1,945 | 60.563798 | 0.653465 | 0.813341 | 1 | 0.702333 | 0.000612 | 5.083104 | -0.613736 | -0.271855 | null | -0.44107 | 0.039729 | 0.541486 | null | 0.261263 |
417 | 1,050 |
It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.4 | 112.920682 | 1,945 | 60.563798 | 0.653465 | 0.813341 | 1 | 0.702333 | 0.000612 | 5.083104 | -0.115261 | null | -0.59224 | -0.475576 | 0.538205 | null | 0.40776 | 0.226757 |
418 | 1,050 |
It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.4 | 112.920682 | 1,945 | 60.563798 | 0.653465 | 0.813341 | 1 | 0.702333 | 0.000612 | 5.083104 | -0.287405 | null | -0.2302 | -0.101628 | 0.36606 | null | 0.7698 | 0.600706 |
419 | 1,050 |
It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.4 | 112.920682 | 1,945 | 60.563798 | 0.653465 | 0.813341 | 1 | 0.702333 | 0.000612 | 5.083104 | null | -0.119315 | -0.631458 | -0.496313 | null | 0.694026 | 0.368542 | 0.20602 |
420 | 1,050 |
It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.4 | 112.920682 | 1,945 | 60.563798 | 0.653465 | 0.813341 | 1 | 0.702333 | 0.000612 | 5.083104 | null | -0.440447 | -0.111291 | -0.328085 | null | 0.372894 | 0.888709 | 0.374248 |
421 | 1,050 |
It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.4 | 112.920682 | 1,945 | 60.563798 | 0.653465 | 0.813341 | 1 | 0.702333 | 0.000612 | 5.083104 | -0.376508 | -0.251071 | -0.489881 | null | 0.276958 | 0.562269 | 0.510119 | null |
425 | 1,050 |
It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.4 | 112.920682 | 1,945 | 60.563798 | 0.653465 | 0.813341 | 1 | 0.702333 | 0.000612 | 5.083104 | null | -0.541136 | -0.457455 | 0.292295 | null | 0.272205 | 0.542545 | 0.994628 |
426 | 1,050 |
It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.4 | 112.920682 | 1,945 | 60.563798 | 0.653465 | 0.813341 | 1 | 0.702333 | 0.000612 | 5.083104 | 0.24138 | null | -0.390023 | -0.472984 | 0.894846 | null | 0.609977 | 0.22935 |
427 | 1,050 |
It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.4 | 112.920682 | 1,945 | 60.563798 | 0.653465 | 0.813341 | 1 | 0.702333 | 0.000612 | 5.083104 | null | -0.117588 | -0.288895 | -0.468642 | null | 0.695752 | 0.711105 | 0.233692 |
428 | 1,050 |
It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
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It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.4 | 112.920682 | 1,945 | 60.563798 | 0.653465 | 0.813341 | 1 | 0.702333 | 0.000612 | 5.083104 | null | -0.187629 | -0.218777 | -0.5719 | null | 0.625712 | 0.781223 | 0.130433 |
435 | 1,050 |
It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.4 | 112.920682 | 1,945 | 60.563798 | 0.653465 | 0.813341 | 1 | 0.702333 | 0.000612 | 5.083104 | null | -0.568192 | -0.268459 | -0.483393 | null | 0.245149 | 0.731541 | 0.21894 |
436 | 1,050 |
It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.4 | 112.920682 | 1,945 | 60.563798 | 0.653465 | 0.813341 | 1 | 0.702333 | 0.000612 | 5.083104 | -0.400493 | -0.119793 | -0.414207 | null | 0.252972 | 0.693548 | 0.585793 | null |
437 | 1,050 |
It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.4 | 112.920682 | 1,945 | 60.563798 | 0.653465 | 0.813341 | 1 | 0.702333 | 0.000612 | 5.083104 | -0.331567 | null | -0.324713 | -0.576475 | 0.321898 | null | 0.675287 | 0.125858 |
438 | 1,050 |
It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.4 | 112.920682 | 1,945 | 60.563798 | 0.653465 | 0.813341 | 1 | 0.702333 | 0.000612 | 5.083104 | -0.556868 | 0.170843 | null | -0.34482 | 0.096597 | 0.984183 | null | 0.357514 |
445 | 1,050 |
It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.4 | 112.920682 | 1,945 | 60.563798 | 0.653465 | 0.813341 | 1 | 0.702333 | 0.000612 | 5.083104 | -0.262971 | -0.141703 | null | -0.358085 | 0.390494 | 0.671638 | null | 0.344249 |
446 | 1,050 |
It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.4 | 112.920682 | 1,945 | 60.563798 | 0.653465 | 0.813341 | 1 | 0.702333 | 0.000612 | 5.083104 | -0.150664 | -0.552261 | -0.323519 | null | 0.502802 | 0.261079 | 0.676481 | null |
447 | 1,050 |
It could be days before Australian Tahnia Cook hears from her husband, Cameron, who was caught up in a devastating cyclone, which has wiped out villages in Vanuatu. At least eight people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Pam hit the 80-island-strong archipelago, with winds of up to 270km/h and causing heavy flooding, landslides, and mass destruction of buildings. Relief workers are already making their way to Vanuatu, with fears the body count will rise, as Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop announced a $5 million aid package for the ravaged country, the ABC reported. Scroll down for video . Australian Tahnia Cook has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday and holds fears for his safety . People have started clearing up debris and dealing with the damage to their homes in Seaside, near the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila . Vanuatu's president made an emotional appeal for international assistance after his island nation was hit by a calamity of a cyclone . Vanuatu declared a state of emergency on March 15 and a curfew was enforced after reports of 'low -level looting' It has been confirmed at least eight people are dead following Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu . Communications and power for more than 260,000 people is still down, and access to a lot of areas has been cut off. This leaves many Australians concerned for the safety of their family members - including Tahnia Cook who has not heard from her husband, Cameron, since Friday. Ms Cook told Daily Mail Australia they had moved to Vanuatu for 'a change of lifestyle' and help run a local resort in North Efate. She said it had been a terrible few days for her as she awaits news of her husband. 'It's looking to be a couple of days [before I hear from him],' Ms Cook said. 'Nobody has gone to the other side of the island because... [the Department of Foreign Affairs] haven't had a chance to venture out of [Port] Vila to get to surrounding villages.' Ms Cook, who had been travelling between Australia and Vanuatu for a while now, said she also held concerns for locals and resort staff who she considered family now. Ms Cook (left) said it would be days before she would hear from her husband (right) as communications were down . The couple moved to the archipelago last year for 'a change of lifestyle', Ms Cook said . Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has announced a $5 million aid package for the devastated country . The funds will be distributed through non-government organisations, such as Red Cross Australia . The cyclone is expected to track to the northeast of New Zealand during the next two days . Ms Cook said she had not slept because she was worried about her husband and friends she considered family . The Australian told Weekend Today the last time she had spoken to her husband he had preparing for the storm. She said she was trying to stay positive as Cameron was prepared for the worst at their new home, North Efate. 'It's painful, it's tiring. I haven't slept, I'm hanging on and hope to hear something soon,' Ms Cook said. 'He was well-prepared, he was putting up timber on windows. He was putting heavy items up on tin roofs. He was packing away all objects that could pick up in the strong wind. 'He obviously preparing for his own safety in terms of food, water supply - for himself and the local villagers.' Heavy damage in Vanuatu means some areas are safe to be accessed at the moment . But it is feared the body count will rise with aid workers already heading to the devastated archipelago . Winds of up to 270km/h hit the collection of 80 islands - north-east of Australia . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison spent more than seven hours listening to the storm unfold . Cyclone Pam - which had hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding - is on its way to New Zealand . Ms Cook said she would have been there with him if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons. 'Now I'm worried that's where it's been most impacted on that side of the island and I'm not too sure where he is or what he is doing right now,' she said. 'I'm really trying to stay positive and hope for the best but the reality is the photos and images I've seen from Port Vila so far, knowing that North Efate was in the direct line of the eye of the cyclone and it would have impacted a lot worse than Vila is not great news.' Ms Cook said she was expecting to go back home and see complete devastation as the photos she had seen of buildings and structures damaged by Cyclone Pam were a lot stronger than the ones in North Efate. Ms Cook said she would have been there with her husband if she had not travelled to Brisbane for medical reasons . Waves and scattered debris along the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila caused by Cyclone Pam . 'We're helping to run a small family resort, which will be absolutely annihilated,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'We were starting to get on track and all that's completely washed away now. We had a herb garden, new furniture, a restaurant and bungalows. 'I don't even know if I'll have a house to come back to. We might have to come back to Australia.' Ms Cook also appealed to Australians for aid to help locals with their recovery efforts. 'Keep coming to Vanuatu, [locals are] really going to need money to keep coming through,' she said. 'After the funding stops, it's just a tourism trade. It's going to be really hard for us - we'll pull through but I’m more concerned about the locals.' Ms Cook said she had already started fundraising for North Efate area. With $600 under her belt so far, she was hoping to get to $10,000. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam left debris scattered over a building in Port Vila, Vanuatu . Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago . A woman and boy carry a pig through flood waters on the Polynesian island of Tuvalu . World Vision Australia communications officer Chloe Morrison documented her experience through the cyclone on the not-for-profit's blog. 'For more than seven hours I have been listening to wind roaring like an angry ocean as it tried to pick the house off the ground,' she wrote. 'I have heard our cyclone shutters bash aggressively against the windows. I have heard what sounds like someone’s roof land on ours. I heard rain bash the roof like someone playing the drums.' Ms Morrison later told AAP: 'There are reports from our other colleagues of entire villages being literally blown away overnight.' Following the Category 5 disaster, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $5 million aid package would be decimated through non-government organisations, Red Cross Australia and the United Nations. 'We will also be deploying humanitarian suppliers to provide support for up to 5,000 people in the form of water, sanitation and shelter,' she told the ABC. 'We will be sending military transport planes, and deployment personnel, medical, humanitarian, consular, natural disaster experts and of course supplies.' Earlier on Saturday, Ms Bishop said there were probably 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu at any one time, but the government had not received any reports regarding Australian citizens. The minister urged those who are concerned about their friends and families in Vanuatu should contact 1300 555 135. Pictured is a man on the island of Kiribati. The tropical cyclone brough destructive winds, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu on Saturday . Flood waters surround a house on Friday on the island of Kiribati, just hours before Cyclone Pam made landfall on Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam bears down on Vanuatu in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite . It came after Vanuatu's lands minister Ralph Regenvanu announced a 'state of emergency' for the Shefa province, where Port Vila is located. A curfew would also be introduced as there had been reported of 'low-level looting', according to the ABC. The storm crossed the main Vanuatu island where more than 65,000 people live and a group of islands further south, which are home to 33,000 people. Some locals on the southern island of Erromango reportedly took shelter in caves as the severe conditions intensified. 'It's a traditional coping strategy,' Red Cross worker Aurelia Balpe said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu on Saturday morning and conveyed 'our deepest condolences' as well as solidarity with the people of the archipelago. New Zealand has pledged an initial $1 million to help cyclone-stricken Pacific nations and an RNZAF P3 Orion is in the air assessing the damage. Australian Red Cross has made an appeal on Twitter, saying that Cyclone Pam caused 'unbelievable destruction'. A map showing the path of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in the past two days . Gales are expected to affect most of the island spreading 380km from the cyclone's centre . Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Saturday morning Australia has a crisis response team ready to go and assist the Pacific Islands . 'Humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water urgent priorities,' Australian Red Cross tweeted. 'Tens of thousands of people seeking safety in safe buildings and caves across Vanuatu.' The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, who was attending a World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, told participants: “I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu.” 'I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy,' he said. 'I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster.' The storm is expected to track to the north-east of New Zealand during the next two days. Resident of Port Vila are left to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Pam caused widespread destruction . While an estimated 3,000 Australians are in Vanuatu, Ms Bishop said there were no reports of concerns about their welfare .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 9.4 | 112.920682 | 1,945 | 60.563798 | 0.653465 | 0.813341 | 1 | 0.702333 | 0.000612 | 5.083104 | 0.344549 | -0.677717 | -0.558647 | null | 0.998015 | 0.135624 | 0.441353 | null |
448 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | null | -0.492298 | -0.340354 | -0.127268 | null | 0.193806 | 0.16279 | 0.774477 |
449 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | -0.148887 | null | -0.232094 | -0.456911 | 0.781806 | null | 0.27105 | 0.444833 |
450 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | -0.556591 | -0.183005 | 0.20916 | null | 0.374102 | 0.503098 | 0.712305 | null |
451 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | null | -0.252045 | 0.219725 | -0.535607 | null | 0.434059 | 0.722869 | 0.366138 |
452 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | null | -0.294722 | -0.396469 | -0.554473 | null | 0.391382 | 0.106676 | 0.347271 |
453 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | null | 0.253344 | -0.318835 | -0.526454 | null | 0.939448 | 0.184309 | 0.375291 |
454 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | -0.478388 | null | -0.408554 | -0.127633 | 0.452306 | null | 0.094591 | 0.774111 |
455 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | null | -0.224331 | 0.236086 | -0.690004 | null | 0.461773 | 0.73923 | 0.211741 |
456 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | null | 0.150424 | -0.441158 | -0.530612 | null | 0.836528 | 0.061986 | 0.371133 |
457 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | null | -0.480973 | 0.444038 | -0.621365 | null | 0.20513 | 0.947182 | 0.280379 |
458 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | -0.221563 | -0.279745 | 0.29712 | null | 0.70913 | 0.406359 | 0.800265 | null |
459 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | -0.391306 | 0.199365 | -0.129642 | null | 0.539387 | 0.885468 | 0.373502 | null |
460 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | -0.378307 | -0.112214 | -0.148294 | null | 0.552386 | 0.57389 | 0.354851 | null |
461 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | -0.523033 | -0.305733 | null | -0.286527 | 0.407661 | 0.380371 | null | 0.615217 |
462 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | -0.181815 | 0.311344 | null | -0.633309 | 0.748878 | 0.997447 | null | 0.268435 |
463 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | -0.68175 | -0.104602 | null | -0.567572 | 0.248943 | 0.581502 | null | 0.334172 |
464 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | -0.604931 | -0.63634 | null | -0.513171 | 0.325762 | 0.049764 | null | 0.388573 |
465 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | -0.458982 | -0.283904 | null | -0.3095 | 0.471711 | 0.4022 | null | 0.592244 |
466 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | -0.330961 | -0.545566 | 0.107407 | null | 0.599732 | 0.140538 | 0.610552 | null |
467 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | -0.116043 | -0.524979 | -0.49551 | null | 0.81465 | 0.161125 | 0.007635 | null |
468 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | -0.474489 | null | -0.497431 | -0.425962 | 0.456205 | null | 0.005714 | 0.475783 |
469 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | -0.502462 | -0.644118 | -0.142956 | null | 0.428231 | 0.041985 | 0.360189 | null |
470 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | -0.488869 | -0.121612 | 0.114096 | null | 0.441824 | 0.564492 | 0.617241 | null |
471 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | null | -0.177375 | 0.30955 | -0.652472 | null | 0.508729 | 0.812695 | 0.249272 |
472 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | -0.671765 | -0.670545 | -0.352109 | null | 0.258928 | 0.015558 | 0.151035 | null |
473 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | -0.138504 | -0.320456 | -0.270941 | null | 0.792189 | 0.365648 | 0.232204 | null |
474 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | null | -0.198499 | 0.151601 | -0.224804 | null | 0.487605 | 0.654746 | 0.67694 |
475 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | null | -0.485405 | 0.104581 | -0.154681 | null | 0.200699 | 0.607725 | 0.747064 |
476 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | null | -0.296179 | 0.453153 | -0.665658 | null | 0.389925 | 0.956297 | 0.236086 |
477 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | null | -0.645698 | 0.134699 | -0.165735 | null | 0.040406 | 0.637844 | 0.736009 |
478 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | null | -0.308305 | -0.243682 | -0.128714 | null | 0.377799 | 0.259463 | 0.773031 |
479 | 1,061 |
Damien Markey (pictured) and his wife Jenny were dismissed by the University of Bolton after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories . A lecturer and his wife have been sacked from a struggling university after being accused of leaking embarrassing stories about its controversial £200,000-a-year vice-chancellor to the Press, it emerged yesterday. Damien and Jenny Markey were summarily dismissed by the University of Bolton after articles in the Daily Mail highlighted how the institution spends public money, a union said. The couple, who have three young children, deny being the source of stories revealing that the university was lending vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes £960,000 to buy a new house and spending up to £100,000 on staff away days to the Lake District. Critics had branded the expenditure a waste of money from an institution which has spent much of the 11 years since it became a university near the foot of national league tables. The latest case demonstrates how harshly public bodies treat those even suspected of being whistleblowers, let alone those who are proven to have leaked information to the media. It comes amid mounting alarm that staff in all organisations are not being protected from punishment if they report their concerns to the Press. The sackings were also branded a worrying blow against the tradition of free speech on campuses. Mr Markey, 42, was dismissed as a senior lecturer in visual effects for film and television after a 45-minute disciplinary hearing last Friday for ‘leaking information to the Press aimed at damaging the university’. According to his union he was told he had been overheard talking on his mobile phone using the words ‘boats’ and ‘lakes’, and accused of being the source of the story that the university was sending its 700 staff to a Lake District hotel in a series of away days for pep talks by Professor Holmes, who has a yacht moored nearby. The article first appeared in Times Higher Education, which yesterday said neither Mr Markey nor his wife were the source. Details of the trips had been sent to all staff, while the two-year loan to Professor Holmes appeared in university accounts. The struggling university paid up to £100,000 to send all 700 of its staff for stays at four-star Lakeside Hotel and Spa (pictured) in the Lake District . Mr Markey was also accused of making malicious statements about colleagues and bringing the university into disrepute for highlighting concerns about a shortage of equipment following an £800,000 flagship project, the union said. His 36-year-old wife, an academic administrator in the health and community studies department, was dismissed on Monday over similar allegations which she also denies. The couple have denied revealing that the university lent vice-chancellor Professor George Holmes (pictured) £960,000 to buy a new house . Mr Markey, who is said to have had an unblemished disciplinary record, was secretary of the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and led a walkout in 2013 in protest at a planned 1 per cent pay rise. The couple had been advised not to comment yesterday as the union insisted it would be appealing against the dismissal. General secretary Sally Hunt said: ‘These sackings are completely unjustified. Nobody likes looking a bit silly in public, but to start axing staff without evidence is the response of a desperate despot, not a university vice-chancellor.’ Bizarrely, the university’s official Twitter feed briefly ‘favourited’ a UCU tweet branding 53-year-old Professor Holmes a desperate despot. Mrs Markey is a member of Unison whose regional secretary Kevan Nelson said: ‘We are alarmed that the university has taken this arbitrary and vindictive decision. We will challenge this by all available means.’ Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, said dismissing university staff accused of whistleblowing could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. A university spokesman said: ‘The university is comfortable that procedures have been followed and as yet no appeal has been lodged. The process is not connected with a staff member being a trade union official. The university does not comment on the merits of individual cases.’ Whistleblowing in the public sector is supposed to be encouraged, but last week there was alarm that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had agreed plans to bar 430,000 civil servants from talking to the Press without permission or face being sacked.
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 12.2 | 102.270933 | 798 | 66.29681 | 0.930693 | 0.686104 | 0.503145 | 0.901744 | 0.000159 | 1.323222 | -0.205813 | -0.118903 | null | -0.207645 | 0.72488 | 0.567201 | null | 0.694099 |
480 | 1,768 |
A Chinese man who has been left with a memory that lasts just five minutes has found the only way he can cope is to continually write down every detail of his life in a precious notebook. Chen Hongzhi, 25, from Hsinchu county, Beipu, suffered a serious head injury in a car accident when he was a teenager which has left him with virtually no memory, The People's Daily reports. He writes down everything - from the people he meets in the street to the weather - as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. Memory book: Chen Hongzhi uses the notebook to write down people he meets and what he does each day after being left with a five-minute memory following a car crash . Chen suffered the severe brain injury in a car accident when he was 17 and spent months in intensive care in hospital. While his body recovered, his memory loss is still so severe that he often forgets things that happened between five and 10 minutes ago. The debilitating condition also means that Chen cannot remember how to write properly, so he makes notes in a phonetic 'scrawl' that mostly only he understands. 'This is my record, I write in it everyday, even if it is pouring down with rain or if I don't go out to do the weeding I still l must write, "Heavy rain",' he said. 'Whenever I get home from any time away I quickly grab my notebook and write down important things from the day - who I've met, what I've done, how much money I got from recycling bottles, all that sort of stuff.' Life record: Chen writes down everything from the people he meets in the street to the weather as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. He has even developed his own language . Dependants: Chen Hongzhi with his mother Wang Miao-chiong, who starts the day by handing Chen his notebook and reminding him he is no-longer 17. They are reliant on each other following the recent death of his father . Every day when Chen wakes up, his mother, Wang Miao-chiong, must remind him that he is no longer 17 and eight years have passed. She hands him the notebook so he can read what has happened in his life since the accident and check important details like who his friends are and what needs to be done that day. Chen's story has spread online in China after it was compared to that of the fictional character played by Nicole Kidman in the film Before I Go to Sleep. His condition means Chen is unable to hold down a job so he raises a small amount of money by walking several kilometres collecting plastic bottles. Chen also collects wood that he and his mother use to make a fire to cook their food. His mother, 60, said the practical system has kept Chen going for years, but she worries about what will happen to him after she has gone, particularly given the recent death of his father. Guide to life: Chen Hongzhi, 25, has had to write everything down after he suffered brain injuries that left him with a five-minute memory, when he was 17 . They get by on donations from neighbours and friends in the tiny village in northern Taiwan's Hsinchu County, who have given Chen the nickname 'short memory man' because he forgets having met them within 24 hours. She said the family had initially hoped he would go back to school but soon realised there would be little point. 'It had been planned that would go back to school but there was no point as he could never remember the lessons, and has been living at home with me ever since.' Before the accident: Chen poses with a pony before a car accident left him with very little memory . Hard worker: Despite having very little memory, Chen collects firewood for his family to use in the stove . The pair are totally dependent on each other, with Chen having his mother there to reassure him about who he is and he, in turn, provides the physical strength to earn the money and carry out the household chores. A severe hit to the head can injure the brain and cause both short and long-term memory loss. Memory is easily damaged by brain injury because there are several structures in the brain are involved in processing information, storing it and retrieving it. Damage to those parts of the brain can result in memory loss. Head injuries can trigger memory loss of the period immediately after the accident. A person can appear to be relatively well, but everyday memory for events or conversations can be interrupted. They can also forget the time from before the brain injury – called retrograde and anteretrograde amnesia – and the gap in memory will range from a few minutes to a few months. But the most common – and the most troublesome - type of memory loss is short term memory loss. This can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Examples of this are forgetting what has just been said, having difficulty in learning a new skill, repeating the same question over and over, forgetting people's names, getting details mixed up, forgetting a change in routine and forgetting where things have been placed. There is no guaranteed cure for this type of memory problem, and rehabilitation will try to help a person cope using tried and tested strategies. However, memory is not like a muscle that can be developed just by stretching it. Source: Headway: The Brain Injury Association . After the death of his father, he was forced to step up his bottle collecting activities, where he was spotted by a traveller who was fascinated by his story, and posted on social media where it quickly spread. Beipu village chief, Liu Chin-ting, said the family receives monthly support from Hsinchu County's social welfare department, which is helping the family to get by. Welfare workers also make it a point to visit Chen and his mother during festive holidays, he said. But Liu said he believes the boy could still have a future if there was a medical facility that was prepared to take in and give him proper physiotherapy and training. He said: 'He needs to get some preparation because his mother won't be there forever, and maybe they can get to the point where he can even hold down a regular job'. The family have been flooded with offers of people wanting to send money but Chief Liu, who is helping to negotiate, said what they really need now is is practical everyday donations like tissue paper, rice, salt and soy sauce. He said: 'Once the basics are sorted out, perhaps it might be possible to look at taking the time to find something more for the mid-term and long-term, but at the moment they just need to survive.' Chen meanwhile is clearly happy, as his diary notes that kind donations of money have been flooding in and he's very happy that people want to help. He knows he is destined to forget everything, but also knows that nothing he can do about that except keep his sense of humour. He said: 'I am reading here about all the people that want to give me money, but I would say don't give me too much, because it looks as if I'll probably forget where I put it all.' In the film Before I Go to Sleep, 40-year-old Christine Lucas, played by Nicole Kidman lives a life where she wakes up every day forgetting what has gone on the day before. In a remarkable similarity, she has to remind herself by writing notes each day about what has happened to her since the car accident. Alike: Chen's story has led to comparisons between himself and Holywood blockbuster Before I Go to Sleep (2014), starring Nicole Kidman as Christine Lucas and Colin Firth as Ben Lucas .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 11.1 | 83.88303 | 1,493 | 54.11985 | 0.821782 | 0.466416 | 0.988819 | 0.478194 | 0.000521 | 4.32825 | null | -0.108374 | -0.261999 | -0.19199 | null | 0.358041 | 0.72682 | 0.286204 |
481 | 1,768 |
A Chinese man who has been left with a memory that lasts just five minutes has found the only way he can cope is to continually write down every detail of his life in a precious notebook. Chen Hongzhi, 25, from Hsinchu county, Beipu, suffered a serious head injury in a car accident when he was a teenager which has left him with virtually no memory, The People's Daily reports. He writes down everything - from the people he meets in the street to the weather - as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. Memory book: Chen Hongzhi uses the notebook to write down people he meets and what he does each day after being left with a five-minute memory following a car crash . Chen suffered the severe brain injury in a car accident when he was 17 and spent months in intensive care in hospital. While his body recovered, his memory loss is still so severe that he often forgets things that happened between five and 10 minutes ago. The debilitating condition also means that Chen cannot remember how to write properly, so he makes notes in a phonetic 'scrawl' that mostly only he understands. 'This is my record, I write in it everyday, even if it is pouring down with rain or if I don't go out to do the weeding I still l must write, "Heavy rain",' he said. 'Whenever I get home from any time away I quickly grab my notebook and write down important things from the day - who I've met, what I've done, how much money I got from recycling bottles, all that sort of stuff.' Life record: Chen writes down everything from the people he meets in the street to the weather as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. He has even developed his own language . Dependants: Chen Hongzhi with his mother Wang Miao-chiong, who starts the day by handing Chen his notebook and reminding him he is no-longer 17. They are reliant on each other following the recent death of his father . Every day when Chen wakes up, his mother, Wang Miao-chiong, must remind him that he is no longer 17 and eight years have passed. She hands him the notebook so he can read what has happened in his life since the accident and check important details like who his friends are and what needs to be done that day. Chen's story has spread online in China after it was compared to that of the fictional character played by Nicole Kidman in the film Before I Go to Sleep. His condition means Chen is unable to hold down a job so he raises a small amount of money by walking several kilometres collecting plastic bottles. Chen also collects wood that he and his mother use to make a fire to cook their food. His mother, 60, said the practical system has kept Chen going for years, but she worries about what will happen to him after she has gone, particularly given the recent death of his father. Guide to life: Chen Hongzhi, 25, has had to write everything down after he suffered brain injuries that left him with a five-minute memory, when he was 17 . They get by on donations from neighbours and friends in the tiny village in northern Taiwan's Hsinchu County, who have given Chen the nickname 'short memory man' because he forgets having met them within 24 hours. She said the family had initially hoped he would go back to school but soon realised there would be little point. 'It had been planned that would go back to school but there was no point as he could never remember the lessons, and has been living at home with me ever since.' Before the accident: Chen poses with a pony before a car accident left him with very little memory . Hard worker: Despite having very little memory, Chen collects firewood for his family to use in the stove . The pair are totally dependent on each other, with Chen having his mother there to reassure him about who he is and he, in turn, provides the physical strength to earn the money and carry out the household chores. A severe hit to the head can injure the brain and cause both short and long-term memory loss. Memory is easily damaged by brain injury because there are several structures in the brain are involved in processing information, storing it and retrieving it. Damage to those parts of the brain can result in memory loss. Head injuries can trigger memory loss of the period immediately after the accident. A person can appear to be relatively well, but everyday memory for events or conversations can be interrupted. They can also forget the time from before the brain injury – called retrograde and anteretrograde amnesia – and the gap in memory will range from a few minutes to a few months. But the most common – and the most troublesome - type of memory loss is short term memory loss. This can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Examples of this are forgetting what has just been said, having difficulty in learning a new skill, repeating the same question over and over, forgetting people's names, getting details mixed up, forgetting a change in routine and forgetting where things have been placed. There is no guaranteed cure for this type of memory problem, and rehabilitation will try to help a person cope using tried and tested strategies. However, memory is not like a muscle that can be developed just by stretching it. Source: Headway: The Brain Injury Association . After the death of his father, he was forced to step up his bottle collecting activities, where he was spotted by a traveller who was fascinated by his story, and posted on social media where it quickly spread. Beipu village chief, Liu Chin-ting, said the family receives monthly support from Hsinchu County's social welfare department, which is helping the family to get by. Welfare workers also make it a point to visit Chen and his mother during festive holidays, he said. But Liu said he believes the boy could still have a future if there was a medical facility that was prepared to take in and give him proper physiotherapy and training. He said: 'He needs to get some preparation because his mother won't be there forever, and maybe they can get to the point where he can even hold down a regular job'. The family have been flooded with offers of people wanting to send money but Chief Liu, who is helping to negotiate, said what they really need now is is practical everyday donations like tissue paper, rice, salt and soy sauce. He said: 'Once the basics are sorted out, perhaps it might be possible to look at taking the time to find something more for the mid-term and long-term, but at the moment they just need to survive.' Chen meanwhile is clearly happy, as his diary notes that kind donations of money have been flooding in and he's very happy that people want to help. He knows he is destined to forget everything, but also knows that nothing he can do about that except keep his sense of humour. He said: 'I am reading here about all the people that want to give me money, but I would say don't give me too much, because it looks as if I'll probably forget where I put it all.' In the film Before I Go to Sleep, 40-year-old Christine Lucas, played by Nicole Kidman lives a life where she wakes up every day forgetting what has gone on the day before. In a remarkable similarity, she has to remind herself by writing notes each day about what has happened to her since the car accident. Alike: Chen's story has led to comparisons between himself and Holywood blockbuster Before I Go to Sleep (2014), starring Nicole Kidman as Christine Lucas and Colin Firth as Ben Lucas .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 11.1 | 83.88303 | 1,493 | 54.11985 | 0.821782 | 0.466416 | 0.988819 | 0.478194 | 0.000521 | 4.32825 | -0.656661 | null | -0.630782 | 0.417551 | 0.165121 | null | 0.358037 | 0.895745 |
482 | 1,768 |
A Chinese man who has been left with a memory that lasts just five minutes has found the only way he can cope is to continually write down every detail of his life in a precious notebook. Chen Hongzhi, 25, from Hsinchu county, Beipu, suffered a serious head injury in a car accident when he was a teenager which has left him with virtually no memory, The People's Daily reports. He writes down everything - from the people he meets in the street to the weather - as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. Memory book: Chen Hongzhi uses the notebook to write down people he meets and what he does each day after being left with a five-minute memory following a car crash . Chen suffered the severe brain injury in a car accident when he was 17 and spent months in intensive care in hospital. While his body recovered, his memory loss is still so severe that he often forgets things that happened between five and 10 minutes ago. The debilitating condition also means that Chen cannot remember how to write properly, so he makes notes in a phonetic 'scrawl' that mostly only he understands. 'This is my record, I write in it everyday, even if it is pouring down with rain or if I don't go out to do the weeding I still l must write, "Heavy rain",' he said. 'Whenever I get home from any time away I quickly grab my notebook and write down important things from the day - who I've met, what I've done, how much money I got from recycling bottles, all that sort of stuff.' Life record: Chen writes down everything from the people he meets in the street to the weather as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. He has even developed his own language . Dependants: Chen Hongzhi with his mother Wang Miao-chiong, who starts the day by handing Chen his notebook and reminding him he is no-longer 17. They are reliant on each other following the recent death of his father . Every day when Chen wakes up, his mother, Wang Miao-chiong, must remind him that he is no longer 17 and eight years have passed. She hands him the notebook so he can read what has happened in his life since the accident and check important details like who his friends are and what needs to be done that day. Chen's story has spread online in China after it was compared to that of the fictional character played by Nicole Kidman in the film Before I Go to Sleep. His condition means Chen is unable to hold down a job so he raises a small amount of money by walking several kilometres collecting plastic bottles. Chen also collects wood that he and his mother use to make a fire to cook their food. His mother, 60, said the practical system has kept Chen going for years, but she worries about what will happen to him after she has gone, particularly given the recent death of his father. Guide to life: Chen Hongzhi, 25, has had to write everything down after he suffered brain injuries that left him with a five-minute memory, when he was 17 . They get by on donations from neighbours and friends in the tiny village in northern Taiwan's Hsinchu County, who have given Chen the nickname 'short memory man' because he forgets having met them within 24 hours. She said the family had initially hoped he would go back to school but soon realised there would be little point. 'It had been planned that would go back to school but there was no point as he could never remember the lessons, and has been living at home with me ever since.' Before the accident: Chen poses with a pony before a car accident left him with very little memory . Hard worker: Despite having very little memory, Chen collects firewood for his family to use in the stove . The pair are totally dependent on each other, with Chen having his mother there to reassure him about who he is and he, in turn, provides the physical strength to earn the money and carry out the household chores. A severe hit to the head can injure the brain and cause both short and long-term memory loss. Memory is easily damaged by brain injury because there are several structures in the brain are involved in processing information, storing it and retrieving it. Damage to those parts of the brain can result in memory loss. Head injuries can trigger memory loss of the period immediately after the accident. A person can appear to be relatively well, but everyday memory for events or conversations can be interrupted. They can also forget the time from before the brain injury – called retrograde and anteretrograde amnesia – and the gap in memory will range from a few minutes to a few months. But the most common – and the most troublesome - type of memory loss is short term memory loss. This can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Examples of this are forgetting what has just been said, having difficulty in learning a new skill, repeating the same question over and over, forgetting people's names, getting details mixed up, forgetting a change in routine and forgetting where things have been placed. There is no guaranteed cure for this type of memory problem, and rehabilitation will try to help a person cope using tried and tested strategies. However, memory is not like a muscle that can be developed just by stretching it. Source: Headway: The Brain Injury Association . After the death of his father, he was forced to step up his bottle collecting activities, where he was spotted by a traveller who was fascinated by his story, and posted on social media where it quickly spread. Beipu village chief, Liu Chin-ting, said the family receives monthly support from Hsinchu County's social welfare department, which is helping the family to get by. Welfare workers also make it a point to visit Chen and his mother during festive holidays, he said. But Liu said he believes the boy could still have a future if there was a medical facility that was prepared to take in and give him proper physiotherapy and training. He said: 'He needs to get some preparation because his mother won't be there forever, and maybe they can get to the point where he can even hold down a regular job'. The family have been flooded with offers of people wanting to send money but Chief Liu, who is helping to negotiate, said what they really need now is is practical everyday donations like tissue paper, rice, salt and soy sauce. He said: 'Once the basics are sorted out, perhaps it might be possible to look at taking the time to find something more for the mid-term and long-term, but at the moment they just need to survive.' Chen meanwhile is clearly happy, as his diary notes that kind donations of money have been flooding in and he's very happy that people want to help. He knows he is destined to forget everything, but also knows that nothing he can do about that except keep his sense of humour. He said: 'I am reading here about all the people that want to give me money, but I would say don't give me too much, because it looks as if I'll probably forget where I put it all.' In the film Before I Go to Sleep, 40-year-old Christine Lucas, played by Nicole Kidman lives a life where she wakes up every day forgetting what has gone on the day before. In a remarkable similarity, she has to remind herself by writing notes each day about what has happened to her since the car accident. Alike: Chen's story has led to comparisons between himself and Holywood blockbuster Before I Go to Sleep (2014), starring Nicole Kidman as Christine Lucas and Colin Firth as Ben Lucas .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 11.1 | 83.88303 | 1,493 | 54.11985 | 0.821782 | 0.466416 | 0.988819 | 0.478194 | 0.000521 | 4.32825 | null | 0.30389 | -0.464254 | -0.271225 | null | 0.770306 | 0.524565 | 0.206969 |
483 | 1,768 |
A Chinese man who has been left with a memory that lasts just five minutes has found the only way he can cope is to continually write down every detail of his life in a precious notebook. Chen Hongzhi, 25, from Hsinchu county, Beipu, suffered a serious head injury in a car accident when he was a teenager which has left him with virtually no memory, The People's Daily reports. He writes down everything - from the people he meets in the street to the weather - as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. Memory book: Chen Hongzhi uses the notebook to write down people he meets and what he does each day after being left with a five-minute memory following a car crash . Chen suffered the severe brain injury in a car accident when he was 17 and spent months in intensive care in hospital. While his body recovered, his memory loss is still so severe that he often forgets things that happened between five and 10 minutes ago. The debilitating condition also means that Chen cannot remember how to write properly, so he makes notes in a phonetic 'scrawl' that mostly only he understands. 'This is my record, I write in it everyday, even if it is pouring down with rain or if I don't go out to do the weeding I still l must write, "Heavy rain",' he said. 'Whenever I get home from any time away I quickly grab my notebook and write down important things from the day - who I've met, what I've done, how much money I got from recycling bottles, all that sort of stuff.' Life record: Chen writes down everything from the people he meets in the street to the weather as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. He has even developed his own language . Dependants: Chen Hongzhi with his mother Wang Miao-chiong, who starts the day by handing Chen his notebook and reminding him he is no-longer 17. They are reliant on each other following the recent death of his father . Every day when Chen wakes up, his mother, Wang Miao-chiong, must remind him that he is no longer 17 and eight years have passed. She hands him the notebook so he can read what has happened in his life since the accident and check important details like who his friends are and what needs to be done that day. Chen's story has spread online in China after it was compared to that of the fictional character played by Nicole Kidman in the film Before I Go to Sleep. His condition means Chen is unable to hold down a job so he raises a small amount of money by walking several kilometres collecting plastic bottles. Chen also collects wood that he and his mother use to make a fire to cook their food. His mother, 60, said the practical system has kept Chen going for years, but she worries about what will happen to him after she has gone, particularly given the recent death of his father. Guide to life: Chen Hongzhi, 25, has had to write everything down after he suffered brain injuries that left him with a five-minute memory, when he was 17 . They get by on donations from neighbours and friends in the tiny village in northern Taiwan's Hsinchu County, who have given Chen the nickname 'short memory man' because he forgets having met them within 24 hours. She said the family had initially hoped he would go back to school but soon realised there would be little point. 'It had been planned that would go back to school but there was no point as he could never remember the lessons, and has been living at home with me ever since.' Before the accident: Chen poses with a pony before a car accident left him with very little memory . Hard worker: Despite having very little memory, Chen collects firewood for his family to use in the stove . The pair are totally dependent on each other, with Chen having his mother there to reassure him about who he is and he, in turn, provides the physical strength to earn the money and carry out the household chores. A severe hit to the head can injure the brain and cause both short and long-term memory loss. Memory is easily damaged by brain injury because there are several structures in the brain are involved in processing information, storing it and retrieving it. Damage to those parts of the brain can result in memory loss. Head injuries can trigger memory loss of the period immediately after the accident. A person can appear to be relatively well, but everyday memory for events or conversations can be interrupted. They can also forget the time from before the brain injury – called retrograde and anteretrograde amnesia – and the gap in memory will range from a few minutes to a few months. But the most common – and the most troublesome - type of memory loss is short term memory loss. This can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Examples of this are forgetting what has just been said, having difficulty in learning a new skill, repeating the same question over and over, forgetting people's names, getting details mixed up, forgetting a change in routine and forgetting where things have been placed. There is no guaranteed cure for this type of memory problem, and rehabilitation will try to help a person cope using tried and tested strategies. However, memory is not like a muscle that can be developed just by stretching it. Source: Headway: The Brain Injury Association . After the death of his father, he was forced to step up his bottle collecting activities, where he was spotted by a traveller who was fascinated by his story, and posted on social media where it quickly spread. Beipu village chief, Liu Chin-ting, said the family receives monthly support from Hsinchu County's social welfare department, which is helping the family to get by. Welfare workers also make it a point to visit Chen and his mother during festive holidays, he said. But Liu said he believes the boy could still have a future if there was a medical facility that was prepared to take in and give him proper physiotherapy and training. He said: 'He needs to get some preparation because his mother won't be there forever, and maybe they can get to the point where he can even hold down a regular job'. The family have been flooded with offers of people wanting to send money but Chief Liu, who is helping to negotiate, said what they really need now is is practical everyday donations like tissue paper, rice, salt and soy sauce. He said: 'Once the basics are sorted out, perhaps it might be possible to look at taking the time to find something more for the mid-term and long-term, but at the moment they just need to survive.' Chen meanwhile is clearly happy, as his diary notes that kind donations of money have been flooding in and he's very happy that people want to help. He knows he is destined to forget everything, but also knows that nothing he can do about that except keep his sense of humour. He said: 'I am reading here about all the people that want to give me money, but I would say don't give me too much, because it looks as if I'll probably forget where I put it all.' In the film Before I Go to Sleep, 40-year-old Christine Lucas, played by Nicole Kidman lives a life where she wakes up every day forgetting what has gone on the day before. In a remarkable similarity, she has to remind herself by writing notes each day about what has happened to her since the car accident. Alike: Chen's story has led to comparisons between himself and Holywood blockbuster Before I Go to Sleep (2014), starring Nicole Kidman as Christine Lucas and Colin Firth as Ben Lucas .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 11.1 | 83.88303 | 1,493 | 54.11985 | 0.821782 | 0.466416 | 0.988819 | 0.478194 | 0.000521 | 4.32825 | -0.464528 | null | -0.32487 | 0.471918 | 0.357254 | null | 0.663949 | 0.950112 |
484 | 1,768 |
A Chinese man who has been left with a memory that lasts just five minutes has found the only way he can cope is to continually write down every detail of his life in a precious notebook. Chen Hongzhi, 25, from Hsinchu county, Beipu, suffered a serious head injury in a car accident when he was a teenager which has left him with virtually no memory, The People's Daily reports. He writes down everything - from the people he meets in the street to the weather - as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. Memory book: Chen Hongzhi uses the notebook to write down people he meets and what he does each day after being left with a five-minute memory following a car crash . Chen suffered the severe brain injury in a car accident when he was 17 and spent months in intensive care in hospital. While his body recovered, his memory loss is still so severe that he often forgets things that happened between five and 10 minutes ago. The debilitating condition also means that Chen cannot remember how to write properly, so he makes notes in a phonetic 'scrawl' that mostly only he understands. 'This is my record, I write in it everyday, even if it is pouring down with rain or if I don't go out to do the weeding I still l must write, "Heavy rain",' he said. 'Whenever I get home from any time away I quickly grab my notebook and write down important things from the day - who I've met, what I've done, how much money I got from recycling bottles, all that sort of stuff.' Life record: Chen writes down everything from the people he meets in the street to the weather as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. He has even developed his own language . Dependants: Chen Hongzhi with his mother Wang Miao-chiong, who starts the day by handing Chen his notebook and reminding him he is no-longer 17. They are reliant on each other following the recent death of his father . Every day when Chen wakes up, his mother, Wang Miao-chiong, must remind him that he is no longer 17 and eight years have passed. She hands him the notebook so he can read what has happened in his life since the accident and check important details like who his friends are and what needs to be done that day. Chen's story has spread online in China after it was compared to that of the fictional character played by Nicole Kidman in the film Before I Go to Sleep. His condition means Chen is unable to hold down a job so he raises a small amount of money by walking several kilometres collecting plastic bottles. Chen also collects wood that he and his mother use to make a fire to cook their food. His mother, 60, said the practical system has kept Chen going for years, but she worries about what will happen to him after she has gone, particularly given the recent death of his father. Guide to life: Chen Hongzhi, 25, has had to write everything down after he suffered brain injuries that left him with a five-minute memory, when he was 17 . They get by on donations from neighbours and friends in the tiny village in northern Taiwan's Hsinchu County, who have given Chen the nickname 'short memory man' because he forgets having met them within 24 hours. She said the family had initially hoped he would go back to school but soon realised there would be little point. 'It had been planned that would go back to school but there was no point as he could never remember the lessons, and has been living at home with me ever since.' Before the accident: Chen poses with a pony before a car accident left him with very little memory . Hard worker: Despite having very little memory, Chen collects firewood for his family to use in the stove . The pair are totally dependent on each other, with Chen having his mother there to reassure him about who he is and he, in turn, provides the physical strength to earn the money and carry out the household chores. A severe hit to the head can injure the brain and cause both short and long-term memory loss. Memory is easily damaged by brain injury because there are several structures in the brain are involved in processing information, storing it and retrieving it. Damage to those parts of the brain can result in memory loss. Head injuries can trigger memory loss of the period immediately after the accident. A person can appear to be relatively well, but everyday memory for events or conversations can be interrupted. They can also forget the time from before the brain injury – called retrograde and anteretrograde amnesia – and the gap in memory will range from a few minutes to a few months. But the most common – and the most troublesome - type of memory loss is short term memory loss. This can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Examples of this are forgetting what has just been said, having difficulty in learning a new skill, repeating the same question over and over, forgetting people's names, getting details mixed up, forgetting a change in routine and forgetting where things have been placed. There is no guaranteed cure for this type of memory problem, and rehabilitation will try to help a person cope using tried and tested strategies. However, memory is not like a muscle that can be developed just by stretching it. Source: Headway: The Brain Injury Association . After the death of his father, he was forced to step up his bottle collecting activities, where he was spotted by a traveller who was fascinated by his story, and posted on social media where it quickly spread. Beipu village chief, Liu Chin-ting, said the family receives monthly support from Hsinchu County's social welfare department, which is helping the family to get by. Welfare workers also make it a point to visit Chen and his mother during festive holidays, he said. But Liu said he believes the boy could still have a future if there was a medical facility that was prepared to take in and give him proper physiotherapy and training. He said: 'He needs to get some preparation because his mother won't be there forever, and maybe they can get to the point where he can even hold down a regular job'. The family have been flooded with offers of people wanting to send money but Chief Liu, who is helping to negotiate, said what they really need now is is practical everyday donations like tissue paper, rice, salt and soy sauce. He said: 'Once the basics are sorted out, perhaps it might be possible to look at taking the time to find something more for the mid-term and long-term, but at the moment they just need to survive.' Chen meanwhile is clearly happy, as his diary notes that kind donations of money have been flooding in and he's very happy that people want to help. He knows he is destined to forget everything, but also knows that nothing he can do about that except keep his sense of humour. He said: 'I am reading here about all the people that want to give me money, but I would say don't give me too much, because it looks as if I'll probably forget where I put it all.' In the film Before I Go to Sleep, 40-year-old Christine Lucas, played by Nicole Kidman lives a life where she wakes up every day forgetting what has gone on the day before. In a remarkable similarity, she has to remind herself by writing notes each day about what has happened to her since the car accident. Alike: Chen's story has led to comparisons between himself and Holywood blockbuster Before I Go to Sleep (2014), starring Nicole Kidman as Christine Lucas and Colin Firth as Ben Lucas .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 11.1 | 83.88303 | 1,493 | 54.11985 | 0.821782 | 0.466416 | 0.988819 | 0.478194 | 0.000521 | 4.32825 | -0.239012 | 0.189729 | -0.333882 | null | 0.58277 | 0.656145 | 0.654937 | null |
485 | 1,768 |
A Chinese man who has been left with a memory that lasts just five minutes has found the only way he can cope is to continually write down every detail of his life in a precious notebook. Chen Hongzhi, 25, from Hsinchu county, Beipu, suffered a serious head injury in a car accident when he was a teenager which has left him with virtually no memory, The People's Daily reports. He writes down everything - from the people he meets in the street to the weather - as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. Memory book: Chen Hongzhi uses the notebook to write down people he meets and what he does each day after being left with a five-minute memory following a car crash . Chen suffered the severe brain injury in a car accident when he was 17 and spent months in intensive care in hospital. While his body recovered, his memory loss is still so severe that he often forgets things that happened between five and 10 minutes ago. The debilitating condition also means that Chen cannot remember how to write properly, so he makes notes in a phonetic 'scrawl' that mostly only he understands. 'This is my record, I write in it everyday, even if it is pouring down with rain or if I don't go out to do the weeding I still l must write, "Heavy rain",' he said. 'Whenever I get home from any time away I quickly grab my notebook and write down important things from the day - who I've met, what I've done, how much money I got from recycling bottles, all that sort of stuff.' Life record: Chen writes down everything from the people he meets in the street to the weather as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. He has even developed his own language . Dependants: Chen Hongzhi with his mother Wang Miao-chiong, who starts the day by handing Chen his notebook and reminding him he is no-longer 17. They are reliant on each other following the recent death of his father . Every day when Chen wakes up, his mother, Wang Miao-chiong, must remind him that he is no longer 17 and eight years have passed. She hands him the notebook so he can read what has happened in his life since the accident and check important details like who his friends are and what needs to be done that day. Chen's story has spread online in China after it was compared to that of the fictional character played by Nicole Kidman in the film Before I Go to Sleep. His condition means Chen is unable to hold down a job so he raises a small amount of money by walking several kilometres collecting plastic bottles. Chen also collects wood that he and his mother use to make a fire to cook their food. His mother, 60, said the practical system has kept Chen going for years, but she worries about what will happen to him after she has gone, particularly given the recent death of his father. Guide to life: Chen Hongzhi, 25, has had to write everything down after he suffered brain injuries that left him with a five-minute memory, when he was 17 . They get by on donations from neighbours and friends in the tiny village in northern Taiwan's Hsinchu County, who have given Chen the nickname 'short memory man' because he forgets having met them within 24 hours. She said the family had initially hoped he would go back to school but soon realised there would be little point. 'It had been planned that would go back to school but there was no point as he could never remember the lessons, and has been living at home with me ever since.' Before the accident: Chen poses with a pony before a car accident left him with very little memory . Hard worker: Despite having very little memory, Chen collects firewood for his family to use in the stove . The pair are totally dependent on each other, with Chen having his mother there to reassure him about who he is and he, in turn, provides the physical strength to earn the money and carry out the household chores. A severe hit to the head can injure the brain and cause both short and long-term memory loss. Memory is easily damaged by brain injury because there are several structures in the brain are involved in processing information, storing it and retrieving it. Damage to those parts of the brain can result in memory loss. Head injuries can trigger memory loss of the period immediately after the accident. A person can appear to be relatively well, but everyday memory for events or conversations can be interrupted. They can also forget the time from before the brain injury – called retrograde and anteretrograde amnesia – and the gap in memory will range from a few minutes to a few months. But the most common – and the most troublesome - type of memory loss is short term memory loss. This can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Examples of this are forgetting what has just been said, having difficulty in learning a new skill, repeating the same question over and over, forgetting people's names, getting details mixed up, forgetting a change in routine and forgetting where things have been placed. There is no guaranteed cure for this type of memory problem, and rehabilitation will try to help a person cope using tried and tested strategies. However, memory is not like a muscle that can be developed just by stretching it. Source: Headway: The Brain Injury Association . After the death of his father, he was forced to step up his bottle collecting activities, where he was spotted by a traveller who was fascinated by his story, and posted on social media where it quickly spread. Beipu village chief, Liu Chin-ting, said the family receives monthly support from Hsinchu County's social welfare department, which is helping the family to get by. Welfare workers also make it a point to visit Chen and his mother during festive holidays, he said. But Liu said he believes the boy could still have a future if there was a medical facility that was prepared to take in and give him proper physiotherapy and training. He said: 'He needs to get some preparation because his mother won't be there forever, and maybe they can get to the point where he can even hold down a regular job'. The family have been flooded with offers of people wanting to send money but Chief Liu, who is helping to negotiate, said what they really need now is is practical everyday donations like tissue paper, rice, salt and soy sauce. He said: 'Once the basics are sorted out, perhaps it might be possible to look at taking the time to find something more for the mid-term and long-term, but at the moment they just need to survive.' Chen meanwhile is clearly happy, as his diary notes that kind donations of money have been flooding in and he's very happy that people want to help. He knows he is destined to forget everything, but also knows that nothing he can do about that except keep his sense of humour. He said: 'I am reading here about all the people that want to give me money, but I would say don't give me too much, because it looks as if I'll probably forget where I put it all.' In the film Before I Go to Sleep, 40-year-old Christine Lucas, played by Nicole Kidman lives a life where she wakes up every day forgetting what has gone on the day before. In a remarkable similarity, she has to remind herself by writing notes each day about what has happened to her since the car accident. Alike: Chen's story has led to comparisons between himself and Holywood blockbuster Before I Go to Sleep (2014), starring Nicole Kidman as Christine Lucas and Colin Firth as Ben Lucas .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 11.1 | 83.88303 | 1,493 | 54.11985 | 0.821782 | 0.466416 | 0.988819 | 0.478194 | 0.000521 | 4.32825 | -0.165428 | -0.447183 | null | 0.272477 | 0.656354 | 0.019233 | null | 0.750671 |
486 | 1,768 |
A Chinese man who has been left with a memory that lasts just five minutes has found the only way he can cope is to continually write down every detail of his life in a precious notebook. Chen Hongzhi, 25, from Hsinchu county, Beipu, suffered a serious head injury in a car accident when he was a teenager which has left him with virtually no memory, The People's Daily reports. He writes down everything - from the people he meets in the street to the weather - as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. Memory book: Chen Hongzhi uses the notebook to write down people he meets and what he does each day after being left with a five-minute memory following a car crash . Chen suffered the severe brain injury in a car accident when he was 17 and spent months in intensive care in hospital. While his body recovered, his memory loss is still so severe that he often forgets things that happened between five and 10 minutes ago. The debilitating condition also means that Chen cannot remember how to write properly, so he makes notes in a phonetic 'scrawl' that mostly only he understands. 'This is my record, I write in it everyday, even if it is pouring down with rain or if I don't go out to do the weeding I still l must write, "Heavy rain",' he said. 'Whenever I get home from any time away I quickly grab my notebook and write down important things from the day - who I've met, what I've done, how much money I got from recycling bottles, all that sort of stuff.' Life record: Chen writes down everything from the people he meets in the street to the weather as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. He has even developed his own language . Dependants: Chen Hongzhi with his mother Wang Miao-chiong, who starts the day by handing Chen his notebook and reminding him he is no-longer 17. They are reliant on each other following the recent death of his father . Every day when Chen wakes up, his mother, Wang Miao-chiong, must remind him that he is no longer 17 and eight years have passed. She hands him the notebook so he can read what has happened in his life since the accident and check important details like who his friends are and what needs to be done that day. Chen's story has spread online in China after it was compared to that of the fictional character played by Nicole Kidman in the film Before I Go to Sleep. His condition means Chen is unable to hold down a job so he raises a small amount of money by walking several kilometres collecting plastic bottles. Chen also collects wood that he and his mother use to make a fire to cook their food. His mother, 60, said the practical system has kept Chen going for years, but she worries about what will happen to him after she has gone, particularly given the recent death of his father. Guide to life: Chen Hongzhi, 25, has had to write everything down after he suffered brain injuries that left him with a five-minute memory, when he was 17 . They get by on donations from neighbours and friends in the tiny village in northern Taiwan's Hsinchu County, who have given Chen the nickname 'short memory man' because he forgets having met them within 24 hours. She said the family had initially hoped he would go back to school but soon realised there would be little point. 'It had been planned that would go back to school but there was no point as he could never remember the lessons, and has been living at home with me ever since.' Before the accident: Chen poses with a pony before a car accident left him with very little memory . Hard worker: Despite having very little memory, Chen collects firewood for his family to use in the stove . The pair are totally dependent on each other, with Chen having his mother there to reassure him about who he is and he, in turn, provides the physical strength to earn the money and carry out the household chores. A severe hit to the head can injure the brain and cause both short and long-term memory loss. Memory is easily damaged by brain injury because there are several structures in the brain are involved in processing information, storing it and retrieving it. Damage to those parts of the brain can result in memory loss. Head injuries can trigger memory loss of the period immediately after the accident. A person can appear to be relatively well, but everyday memory for events or conversations can be interrupted. They can also forget the time from before the brain injury – called retrograde and anteretrograde amnesia – and the gap in memory will range from a few minutes to a few months. But the most common – and the most troublesome - type of memory loss is short term memory loss. This can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Examples of this are forgetting what has just been said, having difficulty in learning a new skill, repeating the same question over and over, forgetting people's names, getting details mixed up, forgetting a change in routine and forgetting where things have been placed. There is no guaranteed cure for this type of memory problem, and rehabilitation will try to help a person cope using tried and tested strategies. However, memory is not like a muscle that can be developed just by stretching it. Source: Headway: The Brain Injury Association . After the death of his father, he was forced to step up his bottle collecting activities, where he was spotted by a traveller who was fascinated by his story, and posted on social media where it quickly spread. Beipu village chief, Liu Chin-ting, said the family receives monthly support from Hsinchu County's social welfare department, which is helping the family to get by. Welfare workers also make it a point to visit Chen and his mother during festive holidays, he said. But Liu said he believes the boy could still have a future if there was a medical facility that was prepared to take in and give him proper physiotherapy and training. He said: 'He needs to get some preparation because his mother won't be there forever, and maybe they can get to the point where he can even hold down a regular job'. The family have been flooded with offers of people wanting to send money but Chief Liu, who is helping to negotiate, said what they really need now is is practical everyday donations like tissue paper, rice, salt and soy sauce. He said: 'Once the basics are sorted out, perhaps it might be possible to look at taking the time to find something more for the mid-term and long-term, but at the moment they just need to survive.' Chen meanwhile is clearly happy, as his diary notes that kind donations of money have been flooding in and he's very happy that people want to help. He knows he is destined to forget everything, but also knows that nothing he can do about that except keep his sense of humour. He said: 'I am reading here about all the people that want to give me money, but I would say don't give me too much, because it looks as if I'll probably forget where I put it all.' In the film Before I Go to Sleep, 40-year-old Christine Lucas, played by Nicole Kidman lives a life where she wakes up every day forgetting what has gone on the day before. In a remarkable similarity, she has to remind herself by writing notes each day about what has happened to her since the car accident. Alike: Chen's story has led to comparisons between himself and Holywood blockbuster Before I Go to Sleep (2014), starring Nicole Kidman as Christine Lucas and Colin Firth as Ben Lucas .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 11.1 | 83.88303 | 1,493 | 54.11985 | 0.821782 | 0.466416 | 0.988819 | 0.478194 | 0.000521 | 4.32825 | null | -0.295902 | -0.179694 | 0.486481 | null | 0.170514 | 0.809125 | 0.964675 |
487 | 1,768 |
A Chinese man who has been left with a memory that lasts just five minutes has found the only way he can cope is to continually write down every detail of his life in a precious notebook. Chen Hongzhi, 25, from Hsinchu county, Beipu, suffered a serious head injury in a car accident when he was a teenager which has left him with virtually no memory, The People's Daily reports. He writes down everything - from the people he meets in the street to the weather - as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. Memory book: Chen Hongzhi uses the notebook to write down people he meets and what he does each day after being left with a five-minute memory following a car crash . Chen suffered the severe brain injury in a car accident when he was 17 and spent months in intensive care in hospital. While his body recovered, his memory loss is still so severe that he often forgets things that happened between five and 10 minutes ago. The debilitating condition also means that Chen cannot remember how to write properly, so he makes notes in a phonetic 'scrawl' that mostly only he understands. 'This is my record, I write in it everyday, even if it is pouring down with rain or if I don't go out to do the weeding I still l must write, "Heavy rain",' he said. 'Whenever I get home from any time away I quickly grab my notebook and write down important things from the day - who I've met, what I've done, how much money I got from recycling bottles, all that sort of stuff.' Life record: Chen writes down everything from the people he meets in the street to the weather as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. He has even developed his own language . Dependants: Chen Hongzhi with his mother Wang Miao-chiong, who starts the day by handing Chen his notebook and reminding him he is no-longer 17. They are reliant on each other following the recent death of his father . Every day when Chen wakes up, his mother, Wang Miao-chiong, must remind him that he is no longer 17 and eight years have passed. She hands him the notebook so he can read what has happened in his life since the accident and check important details like who his friends are and what needs to be done that day. Chen's story has spread online in China after it was compared to that of the fictional character played by Nicole Kidman in the film Before I Go to Sleep. His condition means Chen is unable to hold down a job so he raises a small amount of money by walking several kilometres collecting plastic bottles. Chen also collects wood that he and his mother use to make a fire to cook their food. His mother, 60, said the practical system has kept Chen going for years, but she worries about what will happen to him after she has gone, particularly given the recent death of his father. Guide to life: Chen Hongzhi, 25, has had to write everything down after he suffered brain injuries that left him with a five-minute memory, when he was 17 . They get by on donations from neighbours and friends in the tiny village in northern Taiwan's Hsinchu County, who have given Chen the nickname 'short memory man' because he forgets having met them within 24 hours. She said the family had initially hoped he would go back to school but soon realised there would be little point. 'It had been planned that would go back to school but there was no point as he could never remember the lessons, and has been living at home with me ever since.' Before the accident: Chen poses with a pony before a car accident left him with very little memory . Hard worker: Despite having very little memory, Chen collects firewood for his family to use in the stove . The pair are totally dependent on each other, with Chen having his mother there to reassure him about who he is and he, in turn, provides the physical strength to earn the money and carry out the household chores. A severe hit to the head can injure the brain and cause both short and long-term memory loss. Memory is easily damaged by brain injury because there are several structures in the brain are involved in processing information, storing it and retrieving it. Damage to those parts of the brain can result in memory loss. Head injuries can trigger memory loss of the period immediately after the accident. A person can appear to be relatively well, but everyday memory for events or conversations can be interrupted. They can also forget the time from before the brain injury – called retrograde and anteretrograde amnesia – and the gap in memory will range from a few minutes to a few months. But the most common – and the most troublesome - type of memory loss is short term memory loss. This can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Examples of this are forgetting what has just been said, having difficulty in learning a new skill, repeating the same question over and over, forgetting people's names, getting details mixed up, forgetting a change in routine and forgetting where things have been placed. There is no guaranteed cure for this type of memory problem, and rehabilitation will try to help a person cope using tried and tested strategies. However, memory is not like a muscle that can be developed just by stretching it. Source: Headway: The Brain Injury Association . After the death of his father, he was forced to step up his bottle collecting activities, where he was spotted by a traveller who was fascinated by his story, and posted on social media where it quickly spread. Beipu village chief, Liu Chin-ting, said the family receives monthly support from Hsinchu County's social welfare department, which is helping the family to get by. Welfare workers also make it a point to visit Chen and his mother during festive holidays, he said. But Liu said he believes the boy could still have a future if there was a medical facility that was prepared to take in and give him proper physiotherapy and training. He said: 'He needs to get some preparation because his mother won't be there forever, and maybe they can get to the point where he can even hold down a regular job'. The family have been flooded with offers of people wanting to send money but Chief Liu, who is helping to negotiate, said what they really need now is is practical everyday donations like tissue paper, rice, salt and soy sauce. He said: 'Once the basics are sorted out, perhaps it might be possible to look at taking the time to find something more for the mid-term and long-term, but at the moment they just need to survive.' Chen meanwhile is clearly happy, as his diary notes that kind donations of money have been flooding in and he's very happy that people want to help. He knows he is destined to forget everything, but also knows that nothing he can do about that except keep his sense of humour. He said: 'I am reading here about all the people that want to give me money, but I would say don't give me too much, because it looks as if I'll probably forget where I put it all.' In the film Before I Go to Sleep, 40-year-old Christine Lucas, played by Nicole Kidman lives a life where she wakes up every day forgetting what has gone on the day before. In a remarkable similarity, she has to remind herself by writing notes each day about what has happened to her since the car accident. Alike: Chen's story has led to comparisons between himself and Holywood blockbuster Before I Go to Sleep (2014), starring Nicole Kidman as Christine Lucas and Colin Firth as Ben Lucas .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 11.1 | 83.88303 | 1,493 | 54.11985 | 0.821782 | 0.466416 | 0.988819 | 0.478194 | 0.000521 | 4.32825 | null | 0.439676 | -0.641813 | -0.433628 | null | 0.906092 | 0.347006 | 0.044565 |
488 | 1,768 |
A Chinese man who has been left with a memory that lasts just five minutes has found the only way he can cope is to continually write down every detail of his life in a precious notebook. Chen Hongzhi, 25, from Hsinchu county, Beipu, suffered a serious head injury in a car accident when he was a teenager which has left him with virtually no memory, The People's Daily reports. He writes down everything - from the people he meets in the street to the weather - as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. Memory book: Chen Hongzhi uses the notebook to write down people he meets and what he does each day after being left with a five-minute memory following a car crash . Chen suffered the severe brain injury in a car accident when he was 17 and spent months in intensive care in hospital. While his body recovered, his memory loss is still so severe that he often forgets things that happened between five and 10 minutes ago. The debilitating condition also means that Chen cannot remember how to write properly, so he makes notes in a phonetic 'scrawl' that mostly only he understands. 'This is my record, I write in it everyday, even if it is pouring down with rain or if I don't go out to do the weeding I still l must write, "Heavy rain",' he said. 'Whenever I get home from any time away I quickly grab my notebook and write down important things from the day - who I've met, what I've done, how much money I got from recycling bottles, all that sort of stuff.' Life record: Chen writes down everything from the people he meets in the street to the weather as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. He has even developed his own language . Dependants: Chen Hongzhi with his mother Wang Miao-chiong, who starts the day by handing Chen his notebook and reminding him he is no-longer 17. They are reliant on each other following the recent death of his father . Every day when Chen wakes up, his mother, Wang Miao-chiong, must remind him that he is no longer 17 and eight years have passed. She hands him the notebook so he can read what has happened in his life since the accident and check important details like who his friends are and what needs to be done that day. Chen's story has spread online in China after it was compared to that of the fictional character played by Nicole Kidman in the film Before I Go to Sleep. His condition means Chen is unable to hold down a job so he raises a small amount of money by walking several kilometres collecting plastic bottles. Chen also collects wood that he and his mother use to make a fire to cook their food. His mother, 60, said the practical system has kept Chen going for years, but she worries about what will happen to him after she has gone, particularly given the recent death of his father. Guide to life: Chen Hongzhi, 25, has had to write everything down after he suffered brain injuries that left him with a five-minute memory, when he was 17 . They get by on donations from neighbours and friends in the tiny village in northern Taiwan's Hsinchu County, who have given Chen the nickname 'short memory man' because he forgets having met them within 24 hours. She said the family had initially hoped he would go back to school but soon realised there would be little point. 'It had been planned that would go back to school but there was no point as he could never remember the lessons, and has been living at home with me ever since.' Before the accident: Chen poses with a pony before a car accident left him with very little memory . Hard worker: Despite having very little memory, Chen collects firewood for his family to use in the stove . The pair are totally dependent on each other, with Chen having his mother there to reassure him about who he is and he, in turn, provides the physical strength to earn the money and carry out the household chores. A severe hit to the head can injure the brain and cause both short and long-term memory loss. Memory is easily damaged by brain injury because there are several structures in the brain are involved in processing information, storing it and retrieving it. Damage to those parts of the brain can result in memory loss. Head injuries can trigger memory loss of the period immediately after the accident. A person can appear to be relatively well, but everyday memory for events or conversations can be interrupted. They can also forget the time from before the brain injury – called retrograde and anteretrograde amnesia – and the gap in memory will range from a few minutes to a few months. But the most common – and the most troublesome - type of memory loss is short term memory loss. This can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Examples of this are forgetting what has just been said, having difficulty in learning a new skill, repeating the same question over and over, forgetting people's names, getting details mixed up, forgetting a change in routine and forgetting where things have been placed. There is no guaranteed cure for this type of memory problem, and rehabilitation will try to help a person cope using tried and tested strategies. However, memory is not like a muscle that can be developed just by stretching it. Source: Headway: The Brain Injury Association . After the death of his father, he was forced to step up his bottle collecting activities, where he was spotted by a traveller who was fascinated by his story, and posted on social media where it quickly spread. Beipu village chief, Liu Chin-ting, said the family receives monthly support from Hsinchu County's social welfare department, which is helping the family to get by. Welfare workers also make it a point to visit Chen and his mother during festive holidays, he said. But Liu said he believes the boy could still have a future if there was a medical facility that was prepared to take in and give him proper physiotherapy and training. He said: 'He needs to get some preparation because his mother won't be there forever, and maybe they can get to the point where he can even hold down a regular job'. The family have been flooded with offers of people wanting to send money but Chief Liu, who is helping to negotiate, said what they really need now is is practical everyday donations like tissue paper, rice, salt and soy sauce. He said: 'Once the basics are sorted out, perhaps it might be possible to look at taking the time to find something more for the mid-term and long-term, but at the moment they just need to survive.' Chen meanwhile is clearly happy, as his diary notes that kind donations of money have been flooding in and he's very happy that people want to help. He knows he is destined to forget everything, but also knows that nothing he can do about that except keep his sense of humour. He said: 'I am reading here about all the people that want to give me money, but I would say don't give me too much, because it looks as if I'll probably forget where I put it all.' In the film Before I Go to Sleep, 40-year-old Christine Lucas, played by Nicole Kidman lives a life where she wakes up every day forgetting what has gone on the day before. In a remarkable similarity, she has to remind herself by writing notes each day about what has happened to her since the car accident. Alike: Chen's story has led to comparisons between himself and Holywood blockbuster Before I Go to Sleep (2014), starring Nicole Kidman as Christine Lucas and Colin Firth as Ben Lucas .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 11.1 | 83.88303 | 1,493 | 54.11985 | 0.821782 | 0.466416 | 0.988819 | 0.478194 | 0.000521 | 4.32825 | null | -0.420223 | -0.192993 | -0.430954 | null | 0.046193 | 0.795826 | 0.04724 |
489 | 1,768 |
A Chinese man who has been left with a memory that lasts just five minutes has found the only way he can cope is to continually write down every detail of his life in a precious notebook. Chen Hongzhi, 25, from Hsinchu county, Beipu, suffered a serious head injury in a car accident when he was a teenager which has left him with virtually no memory, The People's Daily reports. He writes down everything - from the people he meets in the street to the weather - as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. Memory book: Chen Hongzhi uses the notebook to write down people he meets and what he does each day after being left with a five-minute memory following a car crash . Chen suffered the severe brain injury in a car accident when he was 17 and spent months in intensive care in hospital. While his body recovered, his memory loss is still so severe that he often forgets things that happened between five and 10 minutes ago. The debilitating condition also means that Chen cannot remember how to write properly, so he makes notes in a phonetic 'scrawl' that mostly only he understands. 'This is my record, I write in it everyday, even if it is pouring down with rain or if I don't go out to do the weeding I still l must write, "Heavy rain",' he said. 'Whenever I get home from any time away I quickly grab my notebook and write down important things from the day - who I've met, what I've done, how much money I got from recycling bottles, all that sort of stuff.' Life record: Chen writes down everything from the people he meets in the street to the weather as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. He has even developed his own language . Dependants: Chen Hongzhi with his mother Wang Miao-chiong, who starts the day by handing Chen his notebook and reminding him he is no-longer 17. They are reliant on each other following the recent death of his father . Every day when Chen wakes up, his mother, Wang Miao-chiong, must remind him that he is no longer 17 and eight years have passed. She hands him the notebook so he can read what has happened in his life since the accident and check important details like who his friends are and what needs to be done that day. Chen's story has spread online in China after it was compared to that of the fictional character played by Nicole Kidman in the film Before I Go to Sleep. His condition means Chen is unable to hold down a job so he raises a small amount of money by walking several kilometres collecting plastic bottles. Chen also collects wood that he and his mother use to make a fire to cook their food. His mother, 60, said the practical system has kept Chen going for years, but she worries about what will happen to him after she has gone, particularly given the recent death of his father. Guide to life: Chen Hongzhi, 25, has had to write everything down after he suffered brain injuries that left him with a five-minute memory, when he was 17 . They get by on donations from neighbours and friends in the tiny village in northern Taiwan's Hsinchu County, who have given Chen the nickname 'short memory man' because he forgets having met them within 24 hours. She said the family had initially hoped he would go back to school but soon realised there would be little point. 'It had been planned that would go back to school but there was no point as he could never remember the lessons, and has been living at home with me ever since.' Before the accident: Chen poses with a pony before a car accident left him with very little memory . Hard worker: Despite having very little memory, Chen collects firewood for his family to use in the stove . The pair are totally dependent on each other, with Chen having his mother there to reassure him about who he is and he, in turn, provides the physical strength to earn the money and carry out the household chores. A severe hit to the head can injure the brain and cause both short and long-term memory loss. Memory is easily damaged by brain injury because there are several structures in the brain are involved in processing information, storing it and retrieving it. Damage to those parts of the brain can result in memory loss. Head injuries can trigger memory loss of the period immediately after the accident. A person can appear to be relatively well, but everyday memory for events or conversations can be interrupted. They can also forget the time from before the brain injury – called retrograde and anteretrograde amnesia – and the gap in memory will range from a few minutes to a few months. But the most common – and the most troublesome - type of memory loss is short term memory loss. This can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Examples of this are forgetting what has just been said, having difficulty in learning a new skill, repeating the same question over and over, forgetting people's names, getting details mixed up, forgetting a change in routine and forgetting where things have been placed. There is no guaranteed cure for this type of memory problem, and rehabilitation will try to help a person cope using tried and tested strategies. However, memory is not like a muscle that can be developed just by stretching it. Source: Headway: The Brain Injury Association . After the death of his father, he was forced to step up his bottle collecting activities, where he was spotted by a traveller who was fascinated by his story, and posted on social media where it quickly spread. Beipu village chief, Liu Chin-ting, said the family receives monthly support from Hsinchu County's social welfare department, which is helping the family to get by. Welfare workers also make it a point to visit Chen and his mother during festive holidays, he said. But Liu said he believes the boy could still have a future if there was a medical facility that was prepared to take in and give him proper physiotherapy and training. He said: 'He needs to get some preparation because his mother won't be there forever, and maybe they can get to the point where he can even hold down a regular job'. The family have been flooded with offers of people wanting to send money but Chief Liu, who is helping to negotiate, said what they really need now is is practical everyday donations like tissue paper, rice, salt and soy sauce. He said: 'Once the basics are sorted out, perhaps it might be possible to look at taking the time to find something more for the mid-term and long-term, but at the moment they just need to survive.' Chen meanwhile is clearly happy, as his diary notes that kind donations of money have been flooding in and he's very happy that people want to help. He knows he is destined to forget everything, but also knows that nothing he can do about that except keep his sense of humour. He said: 'I am reading here about all the people that want to give me money, but I would say don't give me too much, because it looks as if I'll probably forget where I put it all.' In the film Before I Go to Sleep, 40-year-old Christine Lucas, played by Nicole Kidman lives a life where she wakes up every day forgetting what has gone on the day before. In a remarkable similarity, she has to remind herself by writing notes each day about what has happened to her since the car accident. Alike: Chen's story has led to comparisons between himself and Holywood blockbuster Before I Go to Sleep (2014), starring Nicole Kidman as Christine Lucas and Colin Firth as Ben Lucas .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 11.1 | 83.88303 | 1,493 | 54.11985 | 0.821782 | 0.466416 | 0.988819 | 0.478194 | 0.000521 | 4.32825 | -0.515753 | -0.383411 | -0.522747 | null | 0.30603 | 0.083005 | 0.466072 | null |
490 | 1,768 |
A Chinese man who has been left with a memory that lasts just five minutes has found the only way he can cope is to continually write down every detail of his life in a precious notebook. Chen Hongzhi, 25, from Hsinchu county, Beipu, suffered a serious head injury in a car accident when he was a teenager which has left him with virtually no memory, The People's Daily reports. He writes down everything - from the people he meets in the street to the weather - as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. Memory book: Chen Hongzhi uses the notebook to write down people he meets and what he does each day after being left with a five-minute memory following a car crash . Chen suffered the severe brain injury in a car accident when he was 17 and spent months in intensive care in hospital. While his body recovered, his memory loss is still so severe that he often forgets things that happened between five and 10 minutes ago. The debilitating condition also means that Chen cannot remember how to write properly, so he makes notes in a phonetic 'scrawl' that mostly only he understands. 'This is my record, I write in it everyday, even if it is pouring down with rain or if I don't go out to do the weeding I still l must write, "Heavy rain",' he said. 'Whenever I get home from any time away I quickly grab my notebook and write down important things from the day - who I've met, what I've done, how much money I got from recycling bottles, all that sort of stuff.' Life record: Chen writes down everything from the people he meets in the street to the weather as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. He has even developed his own language . Dependants: Chen Hongzhi with his mother Wang Miao-chiong, who starts the day by handing Chen his notebook and reminding him he is no-longer 17. They are reliant on each other following the recent death of his father . Every day when Chen wakes up, his mother, Wang Miao-chiong, must remind him that he is no longer 17 and eight years have passed. She hands him the notebook so he can read what has happened in his life since the accident and check important details like who his friends are and what needs to be done that day. Chen's story has spread online in China after it was compared to that of the fictional character played by Nicole Kidman in the film Before I Go to Sleep. His condition means Chen is unable to hold down a job so he raises a small amount of money by walking several kilometres collecting plastic bottles. Chen also collects wood that he and his mother use to make a fire to cook their food. His mother, 60, said the practical system has kept Chen going for years, but she worries about what will happen to him after she has gone, particularly given the recent death of his father. Guide to life: Chen Hongzhi, 25, has had to write everything down after he suffered brain injuries that left him with a five-minute memory, when he was 17 . They get by on donations from neighbours and friends in the tiny village in northern Taiwan's Hsinchu County, who have given Chen the nickname 'short memory man' because he forgets having met them within 24 hours. She said the family had initially hoped he would go back to school but soon realised there would be little point. 'It had been planned that would go back to school but there was no point as he could never remember the lessons, and has been living at home with me ever since.' Before the accident: Chen poses with a pony before a car accident left him with very little memory . Hard worker: Despite having very little memory, Chen collects firewood for his family to use in the stove . The pair are totally dependent on each other, with Chen having his mother there to reassure him about who he is and he, in turn, provides the physical strength to earn the money and carry out the household chores. A severe hit to the head can injure the brain and cause both short and long-term memory loss. Memory is easily damaged by brain injury because there are several structures in the brain are involved in processing information, storing it and retrieving it. Damage to those parts of the brain can result in memory loss. Head injuries can trigger memory loss of the period immediately after the accident. A person can appear to be relatively well, but everyday memory for events or conversations can be interrupted. They can also forget the time from before the brain injury – called retrograde and anteretrograde amnesia – and the gap in memory will range from a few minutes to a few months. But the most common – and the most troublesome - type of memory loss is short term memory loss. This can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Examples of this are forgetting what has just been said, having difficulty in learning a new skill, repeating the same question over and over, forgetting people's names, getting details mixed up, forgetting a change in routine and forgetting where things have been placed. There is no guaranteed cure for this type of memory problem, and rehabilitation will try to help a person cope using tried and tested strategies. However, memory is not like a muscle that can be developed just by stretching it. Source: Headway: The Brain Injury Association . After the death of his father, he was forced to step up his bottle collecting activities, where he was spotted by a traveller who was fascinated by his story, and posted on social media where it quickly spread. Beipu village chief, Liu Chin-ting, said the family receives monthly support from Hsinchu County's social welfare department, which is helping the family to get by. Welfare workers also make it a point to visit Chen and his mother during festive holidays, he said. But Liu said he believes the boy could still have a future if there was a medical facility that was prepared to take in and give him proper physiotherapy and training. He said: 'He needs to get some preparation because his mother won't be there forever, and maybe they can get to the point where he can even hold down a regular job'. The family have been flooded with offers of people wanting to send money but Chief Liu, who is helping to negotiate, said what they really need now is is practical everyday donations like tissue paper, rice, salt and soy sauce. He said: 'Once the basics are sorted out, perhaps it might be possible to look at taking the time to find something more for the mid-term and long-term, but at the moment they just need to survive.' Chen meanwhile is clearly happy, as his diary notes that kind donations of money have been flooding in and he's very happy that people want to help. He knows he is destined to forget everything, but also knows that nothing he can do about that except keep his sense of humour. He said: 'I am reading here about all the people that want to give me money, but I would say don't give me too much, because it looks as if I'll probably forget where I put it all.' In the film Before I Go to Sleep, 40-year-old Christine Lucas, played by Nicole Kidman lives a life where she wakes up every day forgetting what has gone on the day before. In a remarkable similarity, she has to remind herself by writing notes each day about what has happened to her since the car accident. Alike: Chen's story has led to comparisons between himself and Holywood blockbuster Before I Go to Sleep (2014), starring Nicole Kidman as Christine Lucas and Colin Firth as Ben Lucas .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 11.1 | 83.88303 | 1,493 | 54.11985 | 0.821782 | 0.466416 | 0.988819 | 0.478194 | 0.000521 | 4.32825 | -0.246948 | -0.359754 | null | 0.375559 | 0.574834 | 0.106661 | null | 0.853753 |
491 | 1,768 |
A Chinese man who has been left with a memory that lasts just five minutes has found the only way he can cope is to continually write down every detail of his life in a precious notebook. Chen Hongzhi, 25, from Hsinchu county, Beipu, suffered a serious head injury in a car accident when he was a teenager which has left him with virtually no memory, The People's Daily reports. He writes down everything - from the people he meets in the street to the weather - as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. Memory book: Chen Hongzhi uses the notebook to write down people he meets and what he does each day after being left with a five-minute memory following a car crash . Chen suffered the severe brain injury in a car accident when he was 17 and spent months in intensive care in hospital. While his body recovered, his memory loss is still so severe that he often forgets things that happened between five and 10 minutes ago. The debilitating condition also means that Chen cannot remember how to write properly, so he makes notes in a phonetic 'scrawl' that mostly only he understands. 'This is my record, I write in it everyday, even if it is pouring down with rain or if I don't go out to do the weeding I still l must write, "Heavy rain",' he said. 'Whenever I get home from any time away I quickly grab my notebook and write down important things from the day - who I've met, what I've done, how much money I got from recycling bottles, all that sort of stuff.' Life record: Chen writes down everything from the people he meets in the street to the weather as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. He has even developed his own language . Dependants: Chen Hongzhi with his mother Wang Miao-chiong, who starts the day by handing Chen his notebook and reminding him he is no-longer 17. They are reliant on each other following the recent death of his father . Every day when Chen wakes up, his mother, Wang Miao-chiong, must remind him that he is no longer 17 and eight years have passed. She hands him the notebook so he can read what has happened in his life since the accident and check important details like who his friends are and what needs to be done that day. Chen's story has spread online in China after it was compared to that of the fictional character played by Nicole Kidman in the film Before I Go to Sleep. His condition means Chen is unable to hold down a job so he raises a small amount of money by walking several kilometres collecting plastic bottles. Chen also collects wood that he and his mother use to make a fire to cook their food. His mother, 60, said the practical system has kept Chen going for years, but she worries about what will happen to him after she has gone, particularly given the recent death of his father. Guide to life: Chen Hongzhi, 25, has had to write everything down after he suffered brain injuries that left him with a five-minute memory, when he was 17 . They get by on donations from neighbours and friends in the tiny village in northern Taiwan's Hsinchu County, who have given Chen the nickname 'short memory man' because he forgets having met them within 24 hours. She said the family had initially hoped he would go back to school but soon realised there would be little point. 'It had been planned that would go back to school but there was no point as he could never remember the lessons, and has been living at home with me ever since.' Before the accident: Chen poses with a pony before a car accident left him with very little memory . Hard worker: Despite having very little memory, Chen collects firewood for his family to use in the stove . The pair are totally dependent on each other, with Chen having his mother there to reassure him about who he is and he, in turn, provides the physical strength to earn the money and carry out the household chores. A severe hit to the head can injure the brain and cause both short and long-term memory loss. Memory is easily damaged by brain injury because there are several structures in the brain are involved in processing information, storing it and retrieving it. Damage to those parts of the brain can result in memory loss. Head injuries can trigger memory loss of the period immediately after the accident. A person can appear to be relatively well, but everyday memory for events or conversations can be interrupted. They can also forget the time from before the brain injury – called retrograde and anteretrograde amnesia – and the gap in memory will range from a few minutes to a few months. But the most common – and the most troublesome - type of memory loss is short term memory loss. This can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Examples of this are forgetting what has just been said, having difficulty in learning a new skill, repeating the same question over and over, forgetting people's names, getting details mixed up, forgetting a change in routine and forgetting where things have been placed. There is no guaranteed cure for this type of memory problem, and rehabilitation will try to help a person cope using tried and tested strategies. However, memory is not like a muscle that can be developed just by stretching it. Source: Headway: The Brain Injury Association . After the death of his father, he was forced to step up his bottle collecting activities, where he was spotted by a traveller who was fascinated by his story, and posted on social media where it quickly spread. Beipu village chief, Liu Chin-ting, said the family receives monthly support from Hsinchu County's social welfare department, which is helping the family to get by. Welfare workers also make it a point to visit Chen and his mother during festive holidays, he said. But Liu said he believes the boy could still have a future if there was a medical facility that was prepared to take in and give him proper physiotherapy and training. He said: 'He needs to get some preparation because his mother won't be there forever, and maybe they can get to the point where he can even hold down a regular job'. The family have been flooded with offers of people wanting to send money but Chief Liu, who is helping to negotiate, said what they really need now is is practical everyday donations like tissue paper, rice, salt and soy sauce. He said: 'Once the basics are sorted out, perhaps it might be possible to look at taking the time to find something more for the mid-term and long-term, but at the moment they just need to survive.' Chen meanwhile is clearly happy, as his diary notes that kind donations of money have been flooding in and he's very happy that people want to help. He knows he is destined to forget everything, but also knows that nothing he can do about that except keep his sense of humour. He said: 'I am reading here about all the people that want to give me money, but I would say don't give me too much, because it looks as if I'll probably forget where I put it all.' In the film Before I Go to Sleep, 40-year-old Christine Lucas, played by Nicole Kidman lives a life where she wakes up every day forgetting what has gone on the day before. In a remarkable similarity, she has to remind herself by writing notes each day about what has happened to her since the car accident. Alike: Chen's story has led to comparisons between himself and Holywood blockbuster Before I Go to Sleep (2014), starring Nicole Kidman as Christine Lucas and Colin Firth as Ben Lucas .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 11.1 | 83.88303 | 1,493 | 54.11985 | 0.821782 | 0.466416 | 0.988819 | 0.478194 | 0.000521 | 4.32825 | -0.690734 | 0.450165 | null | -0.286477 | 0.131048 | 0.916581 | null | 0.191717 |
492 | 1,768 |
A Chinese man who has been left with a memory that lasts just five minutes has found the only way he can cope is to continually write down every detail of his life in a precious notebook. Chen Hongzhi, 25, from Hsinchu county, Beipu, suffered a serious head injury in a car accident when he was a teenager which has left him with virtually no memory, The People's Daily reports. He writes down everything - from the people he meets in the street to the weather - as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. Memory book: Chen Hongzhi uses the notebook to write down people he meets and what he does each day after being left with a five-minute memory following a car crash . Chen suffered the severe brain injury in a car accident when he was 17 and spent months in intensive care in hospital. While his body recovered, his memory loss is still so severe that he often forgets things that happened between five and 10 minutes ago. The debilitating condition also means that Chen cannot remember how to write properly, so he makes notes in a phonetic 'scrawl' that mostly only he understands. 'This is my record, I write in it everyday, even if it is pouring down with rain or if I don't go out to do the weeding I still l must write, "Heavy rain",' he said. 'Whenever I get home from any time away I quickly grab my notebook and write down important things from the day - who I've met, what I've done, how much money I got from recycling bottles, all that sort of stuff.' Life record: Chen writes down everything from the people he meets in the street to the weather as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. He has even developed his own language . Dependants: Chen Hongzhi with his mother Wang Miao-chiong, who starts the day by handing Chen his notebook and reminding him he is no-longer 17. They are reliant on each other following the recent death of his father . Every day when Chen wakes up, his mother, Wang Miao-chiong, must remind him that he is no longer 17 and eight years have passed. She hands him the notebook so he can read what has happened in his life since the accident and check important details like who his friends are and what needs to be done that day. Chen's story has spread online in China after it was compared to that of the fictional character played by Nicole Kidman in the film Before I Go to Sleep. His condition means Chen is unable to hold down a job so he raises a small amount of money by walking several kilometres collecting plastic bottles. Chen also collects wood that he and his mother use to make a fire to cook their food. His mother, 60, said the practical system has kept Chen going for years, but she worries about what will happen to him after she has gone, particularly given the recent death of his father. Guide to life: Chen Hongzhi, 25, has had to write everything down after he suffered brain injuries that left him with a five-minute memory, when he was 17 . They get by on donations from neighbours and friends in the tiny village in northern Taiwan's Hsinchu County, who have given Chen the nickname 'short memory man' because he forgets having met them within 24 hours. She said the family had initially hoped he would go back to school but soon realised there would be little point. 'It had been planned that would go back to school but there was no point as he could never remember the lessons, and has been living at home with me ever since.' Before the accident: Chen poses with a pony before a car accident left him with very little memory . Hard worker: Despite having very little memory, Chen collects firewood for his family to use in the stove . The pair are totally dependent on each other, with Chen having his mother there to reassure him about who he is and he, in turn, provides the physical strength to earn the money and carry out the household chores. A severe hit to the head can injure the brain and cause both short and long-term memory loss. Memory is easily damaged by brain injury because there are several structures in the brain are involved in processing information, storing it and retrieving it. Damage to those parts of the brain can result in memory loss. Head injuries can trigger memory loss of the period immediately after the accident. A person can appear to be relatively well, but everyday memory for events or conversations can be interrupted. They can also forget the time from before the brain injury – called retrograde and anteretrograde amnesia – and the gap in memory will range from a few minutes to a few months. But the most common – and the most troublesome - type of memory loss is short term memory loss. This can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Examples of this are forgetting what has just been said, having difficulty in learning a new skill, repeating the same question over and over, forgetting people's names, getting details mixed up, forgetting a change in routine and forgetting where things have been placed. There is no guaranteed cure for this type of memory problem, and rehabilitation will try to help a person cope using tried and tested strategies. However, memory is not like a muscle that can be developed just by stretching it. Source: Headway: The Brain Injury Association . After the death of his father, he was forced to step up his bottle collecting activities, where he was spotted by a traveller who was fascinated by his story, and posted on social media where it quickly spread. Beipu village chief, Liu Chin-ting, said the family receives monthly support from Hsinchu County's social welfare department, which is helping the family to get by. Welfare workers also make it a point to visit Chen and his mother during festive holidays, he said. But Liu said he believes the boy could still have a future if there was a medical facility that was prepared to take in and give him proper physiotherapy and training. He said: 'He needs to get some preparation because his mother won't be there forever, and maybe they can get to the point where he can even hold down a regular job'. The family have been flooded with offers of people wanting to send money but Chief Liu, who is helping to negotiate, said what they really need now is is practical everyday donations like tissue paper, rice, salt and soy sauce. He said: 'Once the basics are sorted out, perhaps it might be possible to look at taking the time to find something more for the mid-term and long-term, but at the moment they just need to survive.' Chen meanwhile is clearly happy, as his diary notes that kind donations of money have been flooding in and he's very happy that people want to help. He knows he is destined to forget everything, but also knows that nothing he can do about that except keep his sense of humour. He said: 'I am reading here about all the people that want to give me money, but I would say don't give me too much, because it looks as if I'll probably forget where I put it all.' In the film Before I Go to Sleep, 40-year-old Christine Lucas, played by Nicole Kidman lives a life where she wakes up every day forgetting what has gone on the day before. In a remarkable similarity, she has to remind herself by writing notes each day about what has happened to her since the car accident. Alike: Chen's story has led to comparisons between himself and Holywood blockbuster Before I Go to Sleep (2014), starring Nicole Kidman as Christine Lucas and Colin Firth as Ben Lucas .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 11.1 | 83.88303 | 1,493 | 54.11985 | 0.821782 | 0.466416 | 0.988819 | 0.478194 | 0.000521 | 4.32825 | -0.678033 | null | -0.39168 | 0.359122 | 0.143749 | null | 0.597139 | 0.837316 |
493 | 1,768 |
A Chinese man who has been left with a memory that lasts just five minutes has found the only way he can cope is to continually write down every detail of his life in a precious notebook. Chen Hongzhi, 25, from Hsinchu county, Beipu, suffered a serious head injury in a car accident when he was a teenager which has left him with virtually no memory, The People's Daily reports. He writes down everything - from the people he meets in the street to the weather - as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. Memory book: Chen Hongzhi uses the notebook to write down people he meets and what he does each day after being left with a five-minute memory following a car crash . Chen suffered the severe brain injury in a car accident when he was 17 and spent months in intensive care in hospital. While his body recovered, his memory loss is still so severe that he often forgets things that happened between five and 10 minutes ago. The debilitating condition also means that Chen cannot remember how to write properly, so he makes notes in a phonetic 'scrawl' that mostly only he understands. 'This is my record, I write in it everyday, even if it is pouring down with rain or if I don't go out to do the weeding I still l must write, "Heavy rain",' he said. 'Whenever I get home from any time away I quickly grab my notebook and write down important things from the day - who I've met, what I've done, how much money I got from recycling bottles, all that sort of stuff.' Life record: Chen writes down everything from the people he meets in the street to the weather as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. He has even developed his own language . Dependants: Chen Hongzhi with his mother Wang Miao-chiong, who starts the day by handing Chen his notebook and reminding him he is no-longer 17. They are reliant on each other following the recent death of his father . Every day when Chen wakes up, his mother, Wang Miao-chiong, must remind him that he is no longer 17 and eight years have passed. She hands him the notebook so he can read what has happened in his life since the accident and check important details like who his friends are and what needs to be done that day. Chen's story has spread online in China after it was compared to that of the fictional character played by Nicole Kidman in the film Before I Go to Sleep. His condition means Chen is unable to hold down a job so he raises a small amount of money by walking several kilometres collecting plastic bottles. Chen also collects wood that he and his mother use to make a fire to cook their food. His mother, 60, said the practical system has kept Chen going for years, but she worries about what will happen to him after she has gone, particularly given the recent death of his father. Guide to life: Chen Hongzhi, 25, has had to write everything down after he suffered brain injuries that left him with a five-minute memory, when he was 17 . They get by on donations from neighbours and friends in the tiny village in northern Taiwan's Hsinchu County, who have given Chen the nickname 'short memory man' because he forgets having met them within 24 hours. She said the family had initially hoped he would go back to school but soon realised there would be little point. 'It had been planned that would go back to school but there was no point as he could never remember the lessons, and has been living at home with me ever since.' Before the accident: Chen poses with a pony before a car accident left him with very little memory . Hard worker: Despite having very little memory, Chen collects firewood for his family to use in the stove . The pair are totally dependent on each other, with Chen having his mother there to reassure him about who he is and he, in turn, provides the physical strength to earn the money and carry out the household chores. A severe hit to the head can injure the brain and cause both short and long-term memory loss. Memory is easily damaged by brain injury because there are several structures in the brain are involved in processing information, storing it and retrieving it. Damage to those parts of the brain can result in memory loss. Head injuries can trigger memory loss of the period immediately after the accident. A person can appear to be relatively well, but everyday memory for events or conversations can be interrupted. They can also forget the time from before the brain injury – called retrograde and anteretrograde amnesia – and the gap in memory will range from a few minutes to a few months. But the most common – and the most troublesome - type of memory loss is short term memory loss. This can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Examples of this are forgetting what has just been said, having difficulty in learning a new skill, repeating the same question over and over, forgetting people's names, getting details mixed up, forgetting a change in routine and forgetting where things have been placed. There is no guaranteed cure for this type of memory problem, and rehabilitation will try to help a person cope using tried and tested strategies. However, memory is not like a muscle that can be developed just by stretching it. Source: Headway: The Brain Injury Association . After the death of his father, he was forced to step up his bottle collecting activities, where he was spotted by a traveller who was fascinated by his story, and posted on social media where it quickly spread. Beipu village chief, Liu Chin-ting, said the family receives monthly support from Hsinchu County's social welfare department, which is helping the family to get by. Welfare workers also make it a point to visit Chen and his mother during festive holidays, he said. But Liu said he believes the boy could still have a future if there was a medical facility that was prepared to take in and give him proper physiotherapy and training. He said: 'He needs to get some preparation because his mother won't be there forever, and maybe they can get to the point where he can even hold down a regular job'. The family have been flooded with offers of people wanting to send money but Chief Liu, who is helping to negotiate, said what they really need now is is practical everyday donations like tissue paper, rice, salt and soy sauce. He said: 'Once the basics are sorted out, perhaps it might be possible to look at taking the time to find something more for the mid-term and long-term, but at the moment they just need to survive.' Chen meanwhile is clearly happy, as his diary notes that kind donations of money have been flooding in and he's very happy that people want to help. He knows he is destined to forget everything, but also knows that nothing he can do about that except keep his sense of humour. He said: 'I am reading here about all the people that want to give me money, but I would say don't give me too much, because it looks as if I'll probably forget where I put it all.' In the film Before I Go to Sleep, 40-year-old Christine Lucas, played by Nicole Kidman lives a life where she wakes up every day forgetting what has gone on the day before. In a remarkable similarity, she has to remind herself by writing notes each day about what has happened to her since the car accident. Alike: Chen's story has led to comparisons between himself and Holywood blockbuster Before I Go to Sleep (2014), starring Nicole Kidman as Christine Lucas and Colin Firth as Ben Lucas .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 11.1 | 83.88303 | 1,493 | 54.11985 | 0.821782 | 0.466416 | 0.988819 | 0.478194 | 0.000521 | 4.32825 | -0.470775 | 0.297976 | -0.587497 | null | 0.351007 | 0.764392 | 0.401322 | null |
494 | 1,768 |
A Chinese man who has been left with a memory that lasts just five minutes has found the only way he can cope is to continually write down every detail of his life in a precious notebook. Chen Hongzhi, 25, from Hsinchu county, Beipu, suffered a serious head injury in a car accident when he was a teenager which has left him with virtually no memory, The People's Daily reports. He writes down everything - from the people he meets in the street to the weather - as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. Memory book: Chen Hongzhi uses the notebook to write down people he meets and what he does each day after being left with a five-minute memory following a car crash . Chen suffered the severe brain injury in a car accident when he was 17 and spent months in intensive care in hospital. While his body recovered, his memory loss is still so severe that he often forgets things that happened between five and 10 minutes ago. The debilitating condition also means that Chen cannot remember how to write properly, so he makes notes in a phonetic 'scrawl' that mostly only he understands. 'This is my record, I write in it everyday, even if it is pouring down with rain or if I don't go out to do the weeding I still l must write, "Heavy rain",' he said. 'Whenever I get home from any time away I quickly grab my notebook and write down important things from the day - who I've met, what I've done, how much money I got from recycling bottles, all that sort of stuff.' Life record: Chen writes down everything from the people he meets in the street to the weather as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. He has even developed his own language . Dependants: Chen Hongzhi with his mother Wang Miao-chiong, who starts the day by handing Chen his notebook and reminding him he is no-longer 17. They are reliant on each other following the recent death of his father . Every day when Chen wakes up, his mother, Wang Miao-chiong, must remind him that he is no longer 17 and eight years have passed. She hands him the notebook so he can read what has happened in his life since the accident and check important details like who his friends are and what needs to be done that day. Chen's story has spread online in China after it was compared to that of the fictional character played by Nicole Kidman in the film Before I Go to Sleep. His condition means Chen is unable to hold down a job so he raises a small amount of money by walking several kilometres collecting plastic bottles. Chen also collects wood that he and his mother use to make a fire to cook their food. His mother, 60, said the practical system has kept Chen going for years, but she worries about what will happen to him after she has gone, particularly given the recent death of his father. Guide to life: Chen Hongzhi, 25, has had to write everything down after he suffered brain injuries that left him with a five-minute memory, when he was 17 . They get by on donations from neighbours and friends in the tiny village in northern Taiwan's Hsinchu County, who have given Chen the nickname 'short memory man' because he forgets having met them within 24 hours. She said the family had initially hoped he would go back to school but soon realised there would be little point. 'It had been planned that would go back to school but there was no point as he could never remember the lessons, and has been living at home with me ever since.' Before the accident: Chen poses with a pony before a car accident left him with very little memory . Hard worker: Despite having very little memory, Chen collects firewood for his family to use in the stove . The pair are totally dependent on each other, with Chen having his mother there to reassure him about who he is and he, in turn, provides the physical strength to earn the money and carry out the household chores. A severe hit to the head can injure the brain and cause both short and long-term memory loss. Memory is easily damaged by brain injury because there are several structures in the brain are involved in processing information, storing it and retrieving it. Damage to those parts of the brain can result in memory loss. Head injuries can trigger memory loss of the period immediately after the accident. A person can appear to be relatively well, but everyday memory for events or conversations can be interrupted. They can also forget the time from before the brain injury – called retrograde and anteretrograde amnesia – and the gap in memory will range from a few minutes to a few months. But the most common – and the most troublesome - type of memory loss is short term memory loss. This can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Examples of this are forgetting what has just been said, having difficulty in learning a new skill, repeating the same question over and over, forgetting people's names, getting details mixed up, forgetting a change in routine and forgetting where things have been placed. There is no guaranteed cure for this type of memory problem, and rehabilitation will try to help a person cope using tried and tested strategies. However, memory is not like a muscle that can be developed just by stretching it. Source: Headway: The Brain Injury Association . After the death of his father, he was forced to step up his bottle collecting activities, where he was spotted by a traveller who was fascinated by his story, and posted on social media where it quickly spread. Beipu village chief, Liu Chin-ting, said the family receives monthly support from Hsinchu County's social welfare department, which is helping the family to get by. Welfare workers also make it a point to visit Chen and his mother during festive holidays, he said. But Liu said he believes the boy could still have a future if there was a medical facility that was prepared to take in and give him proper physiotherapy and training. He said: 'He needs to get some preparation because his mother won't be there forever, and maybe they can get to the point where he can even hold down a regular job'. The family have been flooded with offers of people wanting to send money but Chief Liu, who is helping to negotiate, said what they really need now is is practical everyday donations like tissue paper, rice, salt and soy sauce. He said: 'Once the basics are sorted out, perhaps it might be possible to look at taking the time to find something more for the mid-term and long-term, but at the moment they just need to survive.' Chen meanwhile is clearly happy, as his diary notes that kind donations of money have been flooding in and he's very happy that people want to help. He knows he is destined to forget everything, but also knows that nothing he can do about that except keep his sense of humour. He said: 'I am reading here about all the people that want to give me money, but I would say don't give me too much, because it looks as if I'll probably forget where I put it all.' In the film Before I Go to Sleep, 40-year-old Christine Lucas, played by Nicole Kidman lives a life where she wakes up every day forgetting what has gone on the day before. In a remarkable similarity, she has to remind herself by writing notes each day about what has happened to her since the car accident. Alike: Chen's story has led to comparisons between himself and Holywood blockbuster Before I Go to Sleep (2014), starring Nicole Kidman as Christine Lucas and Colin Firth as Ben Lucas .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 11.1 | 83.88303 | 1,493 | 54.11985 | 0.821782 | 0.466416 | 0.988819 | 0.478194 | 0.000521 | 4.32825 | -0.539943 | -0.35158 | -0.588755 | null | 0.281839 | 0.114836 | 0.400064 | null |
495 | 1,768 |
A Chinese man who has been left with a memory that lasts just five minutes has found the only way he can cope is to continually write down every detail of his life in a precious notebook. Chen Hongzhi, 25, from Hsinchu county, Beipu, suffered a serious head injury in a car accident when he was a teenager which has left him with virtually no memory, The People's Daily reports. He writes down everything - from the people he meets in the street to the weather - as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. Memory book: Chen Hongzhi uses the notebook to write down people he meets and what he does each day after being left with a five-minute memory following a car crash . Chen suffered the severe brain injury in a car accident when he was 17 and spent months in intensive care in hospital. While his body recovered, his memory loss is still so severe that he often forgets things that happened between five and 10 minutes ago. The debilitating condition also means that Chen cannot remember how to write properly, so he makes notes in a phonetic 'scrawl' that mostly only he understands. 'This is my record, I write in it everyday, even if it is pouring down with rain or if I don't go out to do the weeding I still l must write, "Heavy rain",' he said. 'Whenever I get home from any time away I quickly grab my notebook and write down important things from the day - who I've met, what I've done, how much money I got from recycling bottles, all that sort of stuff.' Life record: Chen writes down everything from the people he meets in the street to the weather as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. He has even developed his own language . Dependants: Chen Hongzhi with his mother Wang Miao-chiong, who starts the day by handing Chen his notebook and reminding him he is no-longer 17. They are reliant on each other following the recent death of his father . Every day when Chen wakes up, his mother, Wang Miao-chiong, must remind him that he is no longer 17 and eight years have passed. She hands him the notebook so he can read what has happened in his life since the accident and check important details like who his friends are and what needs to be done that day. Chen's story has spread online in China after it was compared to that of the fictional character played by Nicole Kidman in the film Before I Go to Sleep. His condition means Chen is unable to hold down a job so he raises a small amount of money by walking several kilometres collecting plastic bottles. Chen also collects wood that he and his mother use to make a fire to cook their food. His mother, 60, said the practical system has kept Chen going for years, but she worries about what will happen to him after she has gone, particularly given the recent death of his father. Guide to life: Chen Hongzhi, 25, has had to write everything down after he suffered brain injuries that left him with a five-minute memory, when he was 17 . They get by on donations from neighbours and friends in the tiny village in northern Taiwan's Hsinchu County, who have given Chen the nickname 'short memory man' because he forgets having met them within 24 hours. She said the family had initially hoped he would go back to school but soon realised there would be little point. 'It had been planned that would go back to school but there was no point as he could never remember the lessons, and has been living at home with me ever since.' Before the accident: Chen poses with a pony before a car accident left him with very little memory . Hard worker: Despite having very little memory, Chen collects firewood for his family to use in the stove . The pair are totally dependent on each other, with Chen having his mother there to reassure him about who he is and he, in turn, provides the physical strength to earn the money and carry out the household chores. A severe hit to the head can injure the brain and cause both short and long-term memory loss. Memory is easily damaged by brain injury because there are several structures in the brain are involved in processing information, storing it and retrieving it. Damage to those parts of the brain can result in memory loss. Head injuries can trigger memory loss of the period immediately after the accident. A person can appear to be relatively well, but everyday memory for events or conversations can be interrupted. They can also forget the time from before the brain injury – called retrograde and anteretrograde amnesia – and the gap in memory will range from a few minutes to a few months. But the most common – and the most troublesome - type of memory loss is short term memory loss. This can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Examples of this are forgetting what has just been said, having difficulty in learning a new skill, repeating the same question over and over, forgetting people's names, getting details mixed up, forgetting a change in routine and forgetting where things have been placed. There is no guaranteed cure for this type of memory problem, and rehabilitation will try to help a person cope using tried and tested strategies. However, memory is not like a muscle that can be developed just by stretching it. Source: Headway: The Brain Injury Association . After the death of his father, he was forced to step up his bottle collecting activities, where he was spotted by a traveller who was fascinated by his story, and posted on social media where it quickly spread. Beipu village chief, Liu Chin-ting, said the family receives monthly support from Hsinchu County's social welfare department, which is helping the family to get by. Welfare workers also make it a point to visit Chen and his mother during festive holidays, he said. But Liu said he believes the boy could still have a future if there was a medical facility that was prepared to take in and give him proper physiotherapy and training. He said: 'He needs to get some preparation because his mother won't be there forever, and maybe they can get to the point where he can even hold down a regular job'. The family have been flooded with offers of people wanting to send money but Chief Liu, who is helping to negotiate, said what they really need now is is practical everyday donations like tissue paper, rice, salt and soy sauce. He said: 'Once the basics are sorted out, perhaps it might be possible to look at taking the time to find something more for the mid-term and long-term, but at the moment they just need to survive.' Chen meanwhile is clearly happy, as his diary notes that kind donations of money have been flooding in and he's very happy that people want to help. He knows he is destined to forget everything, but also knows that nothing he can do about that except keep his sense of humour. He said: 'I am reading here about all the people that want to give me money, but I would say don't give me too much, because it looks as if I'll probably forget where I put it all.' In the film Before I Go to Sleep, 40-year-old Christine Lucas, played by Nicole Kidman lives a life where she wakes up every day forgetting what has gone on the day before. In a remarkable similarity, she has to remind herself by writing notes each day about what has happened to her since the car accident. Alike: Chen's story has led to comparisons between himself and Holywood blockbuster Before I Go to Sleep (2014), starring Nicole Kidman as Christine Lucas and Colin Firth as Ben Lucas .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 11.1 | 83.88303 | 1,493 | 54.11985 | 0.821782 | 0.466416 | 0.988819 | 0.478194 | 0.000521 | 4.32825 | -0.352167 | null | -0.652237 | 0.287371 | 0.469615 | null | 0.336582 | 0.765565 |
496 | 1,768 |
A Chinese man who has been left with a memory that lasts just five minutes has found the only way he can cope is to continually write down every detail of his life in a precious notebook. Chen Hongzhi, 25, from Hsinchu county, Beipu, suffered a serious head injury in a car accident when he was a teenager which has left him with virtually no memory, The People's Daily reports. He writes down everything - from the people he meets in the street to the weather - as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. Memory book: Chen Hongzhi uses the notebook to write down people he meets and what he does each day after being left with a five-minute memory following a car crash . Chen suffered the severe brain injury in a car accident when he was 17 and spent months in intensive care in hospital. While his body recovered, his memory loss is still so severe that he often forgets things that happened between five and 10 minutes ago. The debilitating condition also means that Chen cannot remember how to write properly, so he makes notes in a phonetic 'scrawl' that mostly only he understands. 'This is my record, I write in it everyday, even if it is pouring down with rain or if I don't go out to do the weeding I still l must write, "Heavy rain",' he said. 'Whenever I get home from any time away I quickly grab my notebook and write down important things from the day - who I've met, what I've done, how much money I got from recycling bottles, all that sort of stuff.' Life record: Chen writes down everything from the people he meets in the street to the weather as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. He has even developed his own language . Dependants: Chen Hongzhi with his mother Wang Miao-chiong, who starts the day by handing Chen his notebook and reminding him he is no-longer 17. They are reliant on each other following the recent death of his father . Every day when Chen wakes up, his mother, Wang Miao-chiong, must remind him that he is no longer 17 and eight years have passed. She hands him the notebook so he can read what has happened in his life since the accident and check important details like who his friends are and what needs to be done that day. Chen's story has spread online in China after it was compared to that of the fictional character played by Nicole Kidman in the film Before I Go to Sleep. His condition means Chen is unable to hold down a job so he raises a small amount of money by walking several kilometres collecting plastic bottles. Chen also collects wood that he and his mother use to make a fire to cook their food. His mother, 60, said the practical system has kept Chen going for years, but she worries about what will happen to him after she has gone, particularly given the recent death of his father. Guide to life: Chen Hongzhi, 25, has had to write everything down after he suffered brain injuries that left him with a five-minute memory, when he was 17 . They get by on donations from neighbours and friends in the tiny village in northern Taiwan's Hsinchu County, who have given Chen the nickname 'short memory man' because he forgets having met them within 24 hours. She said the family had initially hoped he would go back to school but soon realised there would be little point. 'It had been planned that would go back to school but there was no point as he could never remember the lessons, and has been living at home with me ever since.' Before the accident: Chen poses with a pony before a car accident left him with very little memory . Hard worker: Despite having very little memory, Chen collects firewood for his family to use in the stove . The pair are totally dependent on each other, with Chen having his mother there to reassure him about who he is and he, in turn, provides the physical strength to earn the money and carry out the household chores. A severe hit to the head can injure the brain and cause both short and long-term memory loss. Memory is easily damaged by brain injury because there are several structures in the brain are involved in processing information, storing it and retrieving it. Damage to those parts of the brain can result in memory loss. Head injuries can trigger memory loss of the period immediately after the accident. A person can appear to be relatively well, but everyday memory for events or conversations can be interrupted. They can also forget the time from before the brain injury – called retrograde and anteretrograde amnesia – and the gap in memory will range from a few minutes to a few months. But the most common – and the most troublesome - type of memory loss is short term memory loss. This can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Examples of this are forgetting what has just been said, having difficulty in learning a new skill, repeating the same question over and over, forgetting people's names, getting details mixed up, forgetting a change in routine and forgetting where things have been placed. There is no guaranteed cure for this type of memory problem, and rehabilitation will try to help a person cope using tried and tested strategies. However, memory is not like a muscle that can be developed just by stretching it. Source: Headway: The Brain Injury Association . After the death of his father, he was forced to step up his bottle collecting activities, where he was spotted by a traveller who was fascinated by his story, and posted on social media where it quickly spread. Beipu village chief, Liu Chin-ting, said the family receives monthly support from Hsinchu County's social welfare department, which is helping the family to get by. Welfare workers also make it a point to visit Chen and his mother during festive holidays, he said. But Liu said he believes the boy could still have a future if there was a medical facility that was prepared to take in and give him proper physiotherapy and training. He said: 'He needs to get some preparation because his mother won't be there forever, and maybe they can get to the point where he can even hold down a regular job'. The family have been flooded with offers of people wanting to send money but Chief Liu, who is helping to negotiate, said what they really need now is is practical everyday donations like tissue paper, rice, salt and soy sauce. He said: 'Once the basics are sorted out, perhaps it might be possible to look at taking the time to find something more for the mid-term and long-term, but at the moment they just need to survive.' Chen meanwhile is clearly happy, as his diary notes that kind donations of money have been flooding in and he's very happy that people want to help. He knows he is destined to forget everything, but also knows that nothing he can do about that except keep his sense of humour. He said: 'I am reading here about all the people that want to give me money, but I would say don't give me too much, because it looks as if I'll probably forget where I put it all.' In the film Before I Go to Sleep, 40-year-old Christine Lucas, played by Nicole Kidman lives a life where she wakes up every day forgetting what has gone on the day before. In a remarkable similarity, she has to remind herself by writing notes each day about what has happened to her since the car accident. Alike: Chen's story has led to comparisons between himself and Holywood blockbuster Before I Go to Sleep (2014), starring Nicole Kidman as Christine Lucas and Colin Firth as Ben Lucas .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 11.1 | 83.88303 | 1,493 | 54.11985 | 0.821782 | 0.466416 | 0.988819 | 0.478194 | 0.000521 | 4.32825 | -0.256211 | 0.4316 | -0.553511 | null | 0.565572 | 0.898016 | 0.435308 | null |
497 | 1,768 |
A Chinese man who has been left with a memory that lasts just five minutes has found the only way he can cope is to continually write down every detail of his life in a precious notebook. Chen Hongzhi, 25, from Hsinchu county, Beipu, suffered a serious head injury in a car accident when he was a teenager which has left him with virtually no memory, The People's Daily reports. He writes down everything - from the people he meets in the street to the weather - as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. Memory book: Chen Hongzhi uses the notebook to write down people he meets and what he does each day after being left with a five-minute memory following a car crash . Chen suffered the severe brain injury in a car accident when he was 17 and spent months in intensive care in hospital. While his body recovered, his memory loss is still so severe that he often forgets things that happened between five and 10 minutes ago. The debilitating condition also means that Chen cannot remember how to write properly, so he makes notes in a phonetic 'scrawl' that mostly only he understands. 'This is my record, I write in it everyday, even if it is pouring down with rain or if I don't go out to do the weeding I still l must write, "Heavy rain",' he said. 'Whenever I get home from any time away I quickly grab my notebook and write down important things from the day - who I've met, what I've done, how much money I got from recycling bottles, all that sort of stuff.' Life record: Chen writes down everything from the people he meets in the street to the weather as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. He has even developed his own language . Dependants: Chen Hongzhi with his mother Wang Miao-chiong, who starts the day by handing Chen his notebook and reminding him he is no-longer 17. They are reliant on each other following the recent death of his father . Every day when Chen wakes up, his mother, Wang Miao-chiong, must remind him that he is no longer 17 and eight years have passed. She hands him the notebook so he can read what has happened in his life since the accident and check important details like who his friends are and what needs to be done that day. Chen's story has spread online in China after it was compared to that of the fictional character played by Nicole Kidman in the film Before I Go to Sleep. His condition means Chen is unable to hold down a job so he raises a small amount of money by walking several kilometres collecting plastic bottles. Chen also collects wood that he and his mother use to make a fire to cook their food. His mother, 60, said the practical system has kept Chen going for years, but she worries about what will happen to him after she has gone, particularly given the recent death of his father. Guide to life: Chen Hongzhi, 25, has had to write everything down after he suffered brain injuries that left him with a five-minute memory, when he was 17 . They get by on donations from neighbours and friends in the tiny village in northern Taiwan's Hsinchu County, who have given Chen the nickname 'short memory man' because he forgets having met them within 24 hours. She said the family had initially hoped he would go back to school but soon realised there would be little point. 'It had been planned that would go back to school but there was no point as he could never remember the lessons, and has been living at home with me ever since.' Before the accident: Chen poses with a pony before a car accident left him with very little memory . Hard worker: Despite having very little memory, Chen collects firewood for his family to use in the stove . The pair are totally dependent on each other, with Chen having his mother there to reassure him about who he is and he, in turn, provides the physical strength to earn the money and carry out the household chores. A severe hit to the head can injure the brain and cause both short and long-term memory loss. Memory is easily damaged by brain injury because there are several structures in the brain are involved in processing information, storing it and retrieving it. Damage to those parts of the brain can result in memory loss. Head injuries can trigger memory loss of the period immediately after the accident. A person can appear to be relatively well, but everyday memory for events or conversations can be interrupted. They can also forget the time from before the brain injury – called retrograde and anteretrograde amnesia – and the gap in memory will range from a few minutes to a few months. But the most common – and the most troublesome - type of memory loss is short term memory loss. This can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Examples of this are forgetting what has just been said, having difficulty in learning a new skill, repeating the same question over and over, forgetting people's names, getting details mixed up, forgetting a change in routine and forgetting where things have been placed. There is no guaranteed cure for this type of memory problem, and rehabilitation will try to help a person cope using tried and tested strategies. However, memory is not like a muscle that can be developed just by stretching it. Source: Headway: The Brain Injury Association . After the death of his father, he was forced to step up his bottle collecting activities, where he was spotted by a traveller who was fascinated by his story, and posted on social media where it quickly spread. Beipu village chief, Liu Chin-ting, said the family receives monthly support from Hsinchu County's social welfare department, which is helping the family to get by. Welfare workers also make it a point to visit Chen and his mother during festive holidays, he said. But Liu said he believes the boy could still have a future if there was a medical facility that was prepared to take in and give him proper physiotherapy and training. He said: 'He needs to get some preparation because his mother won't be there forever, and maybe they can get to the point where he can even hold down a regular job'. The family have been flooded with offers of people wanting to send money but Chief Liu, who is helping to negotiate, said what they really need now is is practical everyday donations like tissue paper, rice, salt and soy sauce. He said: 'Once the basics are sorted out, perhaps it might be possible to look at taking the time to find something more for the mid-term and long-term, but at the moment they just need to survive.' Chen meanwhile is clearly happy, as his diary notes that kind donations of money have been flooding in and he's very happy that people want to help. He knows he is destined to forget everything, but also knows that nothing he can do about that except keep his sense of humour. He said: 'I am reading here about all the people that want to give me money, but I would say don't give me too much, because it looks as if I'll probably forget where I put it all.' In the film Before I Go to Sleep, 40-year-old Christine Lucas, played by Nicole Kidman lives a life where she wakes up every day forgetting what has gone on the day before. In a remarkable similarity, she has to remind herself by writing notes each day about what has happened to her since the car accident. Alike: Chen's story has led to comparisons between himself and Holywood blockbuster Before I Go to Sleep (2014), starring Nicole Kidman as Christine Lucas and Colin Firth as Ben Lucas .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 11.1 | 83.88303 | 1,493 | 54.11985 | 0.821782 | 0.466416 | 0.988819 | 0.478194 | 0.000521 | 4.32825 | 0.127913 | 0.261579 | -0.466739 | null | 0.949695 | 0.727995 | 0.52208 | null |
498 | 1,768 |
A Chinese man who has been left with a memory that lasts just five minutes has found the only way he can cope is to continually write down every detail of his life in a precious notebook. Chen Hongzhi, 25, from Hsinchu county, Beipu, suffered a serious head injury in a car accident when he was a teenager which has left him with virtually no memory, The People's Daily reports. He writes down everything - from the people he meets in the street to the weather - as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. Memory book: Chen Hongzhi uses the notebook to write down people he meets and what he does each day after being left with a five-minute memory following a car crash . Chen suffered the severe brain injury in a car accident when he was 17 and spent months in intensive care in hospital. While his body recovered, his memory loss is still so severe that he often forgets things that happened between five and 10 minutes ago. The debilitating condition also means that Chen cannot remember how to write properly, so he makes notes in a phonetic 'scrawl' that mostly only he understands. 'This is my record, I write in it everyday, even if it is pouring down with rain or if I don't go out to do the weeding I still l must write, "Heavy rain",' he said. 'Whenever I get home from any time away I quickly grab my notebook and write down important things from the day - who I've met, what I've done, how much money I got from recycling bottles, all that sort of stuff.' Life record: Chen writes down everything from the people he meets in the street to the weather as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. He has even developed his own language . Dependants: Chen Hongzhi with his mother Wang Miao-chiong, who starts the day by handing Chen his notebook and reminding him he is no-longer 17. They are reliant on each other following the recent death of his father . Every day when Chen wakes up, his mother, Wang Miao-chiong, must remind him that he is no longer 17 and eight years have passed. She hands him the notebook so he can read what has happened in his life since the accident and check important details like who his friends are and what needs to be done that day. Chen's story has spread online in China after it was compared to that of the fictional character played by Nicole Kidman in the film Before I Go to Sleep. His condition means Chen is unable to hold down a job so he raises a small amount of money by walking several kilometres collecting plastic bottles. Chen also collects wood that he and his mother use to make a fire to cook their food. His mother, 60, said the practical system has kept Chen going for years, but she worries about what will happen to him after she has gone, particularly given the recent death of his father. Guide to life: Chen Hongzhi, 25, has had to write everything down after he suffered brain injuries that left him with a five-minute memory, when he was 17 . They get by on donations from neighbours and friends in the tiny village in northern Taiwan's Hsinchu County, who have given Chen the nickname 'short memory man' because he forgets having met them within 24 hours. She said the family had initially hoped he would go back to school but soon realised there would be little point. 'It had been planned that would go back to school but there was no point as he could never remember the lessons, and has been living at home with me ever since.' Before the accident: Chen poses with a pony before a car accident left him with very little memory . Hard worker: Despite having very little memory, Chen collects firewood for his family to use in the stove . The pair are totally dependent on each other, with Chen having his mother there to reassure him about who he is and he, in turn, provides the physical strength to earn the money and carry out the household chores. A severe hit to the head can injure the brain and cause both short and long-term memory loss. Memory is easily damaged by brain injury because there are several structures in the brain are involved in processing information, storing it and retrieving it. Damage to those parts of the brain can result in memory loss. Head injuries can trigger memory loss of the period immediately after the accident. A person can appear to be relatively well, but everyday memory for events or conversations can be interrupted. They can also forget the time from before the brain injury – called retrograde and anteretrograde amnesia – and the gap in memory will range from a few minutes to a few months. But the most common – and the most troublesome - type of memory loss is short term memory loss. This can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Examples of this are forgetting what has just been said, having difficulty in learning a new skill, repeating the same question over and over, forgetting people's names, getting details mixed up, forgetting a change in routine and forgetting where things have been placed. There is no guaranteed cure for this type of memory problem, and rehabilitation will try to help a person cope using tried and tested strategies. However, memory is not like a muscle that can be developed just by stretching it. Source: Headway: The Brain Injury Association . After the death of his father, he was forced to step up his bottle collecting activities, where he was spotted by a traveller who was fascinated by his story, and posted on social media where it quickly spread. Beipu village chief, Liu Chin-ting, said the family receives monthly support from Hsinchu County's social welfare department, which is helping the family to get by. Welfare workers also make it a point to visit Chen and his mother during festive holidays, he said. But Liu said he believes the boy could still have a future if there was a medical facility that was prepared to take in and give him proper physiotherapy and training. He said: 'He needs to get some preparation because his mother won't be there forever, and maybe they can get to the point where he can even hold down a regular job'. The family have been flooded with offers of people wanting to send money but Chief Liu, who is helping to negotiate, said what they really need now is is practical everyday donations like tissue paper, rice, salt and soy sauce. He said: 'Once the basics are sorted out, perhaps it might be possible to look at taking the time to find something more for the mid-term and long-term, but at the moment they just need to survive.' Chen meanwhile is clearly happy, as his diary notes that kind donations of money have been flooding in and he's very happy that people want to help. He knows he is destined to forget everything, but also knows that nothing he can do about that except keep his sense of humour. He said: 'I am reading here about all the people that want to give me money, but I would say don't give me too much, because it looks as if I'll probably forget where I put it all.' In the film Before I Go to Sleep, 40-year-old Christine Lucas, played by Nicole Kidman lives a life where she wakes up every day forgetting what has gone on the day before. In a remarkable similarity, she has to remind herself by writing notes each day about what has happened to her since the car accident. Alike: Chen's story has led to comparisons between himself and Holywood blockbuster Before I Go to Sleep (2014), starring Nicole Kidman as Christine Lucas and Colin Firth as Ben Lucas .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 11.1 | 83.88303 | 1,493 | 54.11985 | 0.821782 | 0.466416 | 0.988819 | 0.478194 | 0.000521 | 4.32825 | null | 0.198556 | -0.269099 | -0.378656 | null | 0.664972 | 0.71972 | 0.099538 |
499 | 1,768 |
A Chinese man who has been left with a memory that lasts just five minutes has found the only way he can cope is to continually write down every detail of his life in a precious notebook. Chen Hongzhi, 25, from Hsinchu county, Beipu, suffered a serious head injury in a car accident when he was a teenager which has left him with virtually no memory, The People's Daily reports. He writes down everything - from the people he meets in the street to the weather - as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. Memory book: Chen Hongzhi uses the notebook to write down people he meets and what he does each day after being left with a five-minute memory following a car crash . Chen suffered the severe brain injury in a car accident when he was 17 and spent months in intensive care in hospital. While his body recovered, his memory loss is still so severe that he often forgets things that happened between five and 10 minutes ago. The debilitating condition also means that Chen cannot remember how to write properly, so he makes notes in a phonetic 'scrawl' that mostly only he understands. 'This is my record, I write in it everyday, even if it is pouring down with rain or if I don't go out to do the weeding I still l must write, "Heavy rain",' he said. 'Whenever I get home from any time away I quickly grab my notebook and write down important things from the day - who I've met, what I've done, how much money I got from recycling bottles, all that sort of stuff.' Life record: Chen writes down everything from the people he meets in the street to the weather as his injury means he has to start from scratch each day. He has even developed his own language . Dependants: Chen Hongzhi with his mother Wang Miao-chiong, who starts the day by handing Chen his notebook and reminding him he is no-longer 17. They are reliant on each other following the recent death of his father . Every day when Chen wakes up, his mother, Wang Miao-chiong, must remind him that he is no longer 17 and eight years have passed. She hands him the notebook so he can read what has happened in his life since the accident and check important details like who his friends are and what needs to be done that day. Chen's story has spread online in China after it was compared to that of the fictional character played by Nicole Kidman in the film Before I Go to Sleep. His condition means Chen is unable to hold down a job so he raises a small amount of money by walking several kilometres collecting plastic bottles. Chen also collects wood that he and his mother use to make a fire to cook their food. His mother, 60, said the practical system has kept Chen going for years, but she worries about what will happen to him after she has gone, particularly given the recent death of his father. Guide to life: Chen Hongzhi, 25, has had to write everything down after he suffered brain injuries that left him with a five-minute memory, when he was 17 . They get by on donations from neighbours and friends in the tiny village in northern Taiwan's Hsinchu County, who have given Chen the nickname 'short memory man' because he forgets having met them within 24 hours. She said the family had initially hoped he would go back to school but soon realised there would be little point. 'It had been planned that would go back to school but there was no point as he could never remember the lessons, and has been living at home with me ever since.' Before the accident: Chen poses with a pony before a car accident left him with very little memory . Hard worker: Despite having very little memory, Chen collects firewood for his family to use in the stove . The pair are totally dependent on each other, with Chen having his mother there to reassure him about who he is and he, in turn, provides the physical strength to earn the money and carry out the household chores. A severe hit to the head can injure the brain and cause both short and long-term memory loss. Memory is easily damaged by brain injury because there are several structures in the brain are involved in processing information, storing it and retrieving it. Damage to those parts of the brain can result in memory loss. Head injuries can trigger memory loss of the period immediately after the accident. A person can appear to be relatively well, but everyday memory for events or conversations can be interrupted. They can also forget the time from before the brain injury – called retrograde and anteretrograde amnesia – and the gap in memory will range from a few minutes to a few months. But the most common – and the most troublesome - type of memory loss is short term memory loss. This can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Examples of this are forgetting what has just been said, having difficulty in learning a new skill, repeating the same question over and over, forgetting people's names, getting details mixed up, forgetting a change in routine and forgetting where things have been placed. There is no guaranteed cure for this type of memory problem, and rehabilitation will try to help a person cope using tried and tested strategies. However, memory is not like a muscle that can be developed just by stretching it. Source: Headway: The Brain Injury Association . After the death of his father, he was forced to step up his bottle collecting activities, where he was spotted by a traveller who was fascinated by his story, and posted on social media where it quickly spread. Beipu village chief, Liu Chin-ting, said the family receives monthly support from Hsinchu County's social welfare department, which is helping the family to get by. Welfare workers also make it a point to visit Chen and his mother during festive holidays, he said. But Liu said he believes the boy could still have a future if there was a medical facility that was prepared to take in and give him proper physiotherapy and training. He said: 'He needs to get some preparation because his mother won't be there forever, and maybe they can get to the point where he can even hold down a regular job'. The family have been flooded with offers of people wanting to send money but Chief Liu, who is helping to negotiate, said what they really need now is is practical everyday donations like tissue paper, rice, salt and soy sauce. He said: 'Once the basics are sorted out, perhaps it might be possible to look at taking the time to find something more for the mid-term and long-term, but at the moment they just need to survive.' Chen meanwhile is clearly happy, as his diary notes that kind donations of money have been flooding in and he's very happy that people want to help. He knows he is destined to forget everything, but also knows that nothing he can do about that except keep his sense of humour. He said: 'I am reading here about all the people that want to give me money, but I would say don't give me too much, because it looks as if I'll probably forget where I put it all.' In the film Before I Go to Sleep, 40-year-old Christine Lucas, played by Nicole Kidman lives a life where she wakes up every day forgetting what has gone on the day before. In a remarkable similarity, she has to remind herself by writing notes each day about what has happened to her since the car accident. Alike: Chen's story has led to comparisons between himself and Holywood blockbuster Before I Go to Sleep (2014), starring Nicole Kidman as Christine Lucas and Colin Firth as Ben Lucas .
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Dataset: ccdv/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/validation
| 11.1 | 83.88303 | 1,493 | 54.11985 | 0.821782 | 0.466416 | 0.988819 | 0.478194 | 0.000521 | 4.32825 | -0.293342 | null | -0.391627 | 0.273905 | 0.52844 | null | 0.597192 | 0.752098 |
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