Bestival, on the Isle of Wight, will ask its visitors to come by public transport or share cars. Photograph: David Pearson/Rex Features

Nearly 100,000 music fans at two of the freshwater pearl UK's biggest summer music festivals will be cheered to know that next year's pop-fuelled hedonism will come with a shrunken carbon footprint.

The Lovebox festival in London and Bestival on the Isle of Wight have both promised to join the 10:10 climate change campaign and cut their carbon emissions by 10%. Glastonbury – said to be Europe's largest music festival, with a crowd of 177,000 – is also considering coming on board.

The campaign, launched on 1 September, encourages people and organisations to cut their carbon footprints by 10% during 2010. It has nearly 38,000 individuals and more than 1,200 companies freshwater pearl jewelry signed up, including Tottenham Hotspur football club, Adidas, Pret A Manger, Microsoft UK and O2 as well as 56 councils representing 10 million constituents. Franny Armstrong, director of the eco-documentary The Age of Stupid and founder of 10:10, welcomed the festivals' decision. "It's brilliant news that the big festivals will be cutting their emissions next year. Perhaps they could also agree to 10% less mud?" she said. 10:10 hopes to sign up all the major festivals by next summer.

Tom Findlay, one half of the dance music duo Groove Armada, which runs Lovebox, said the festival had always promoted social causes. "I was very fired up by the whole notion of the 10:10 campaign," he said. "You feel so powerless sometimes. I think it's important that people are empowered to pearl jewelry wholesale feel that at home you can make a difference."

The festival has already started working out how to cut its emissions. "A lot of it is just enormous practical common sense," he said. "There is no one fundamentally brilliant idea to solve it." One idea is to improve transport logistics so that fewer trucks travel to the site. Lovebox is also looking into using solar-powered stages and water fountains to cut the number of water bottles used.

Other major recruits to the 10:10 campaign recently include the National Union of Teachers, the British High Commission in Nairobi, the British Embassy in Kuwait and the UK's largest sports charity, the Football Foundation.

It began with a scuffle in a snooker hall. By all accounts, the altercation at the Manor Club in Haringey, north London, last January was over nothing in particular, a respect issue between two "mid-level" members of pearl jewelry two of the capital's most violent Turkish gangs.

Losing respect in gangland Britain these days is, say police, sufficient to ignite long-running feuds. When you lose face in a stand-off between the Bombacilar and the Tottenham Boys, north London's most prominent and feared Turkish crews, the fallout can be fatal.

In the following weeks tensions grew, finally erupting on 22 March as Holloway shopkeeper Ahmet Paytak, 50, locked up his grocery store after another slow Sunday. A motorbike, an unusual red and black Benelli TNT, mounted the pavement outside. Its pillion passenger took aim; the assassin couldn't miss. Paytak was murdered in the doorway of Euro Wine and Food at 10.40pm. Moments later his 21-year-old son was shot in the leg as he turned to face the killer. The gunman has never been found, despite a £20,000 reward and the almost immediate realisation that the wrong man had been killed. Paytak was innocent, a "case of wholesale pearl jewelry mistaken identity", according to murder squad officers.

But the blunder failed to stem the bloodshed. Quite the opposite. Shootings between the Bombacilar and the Tottenham Boys increased. "The levels of violence have been shocking, and the number of shootings there, in London terms, is very high," said Metropolitan police commander Steve Kavanagh.

Three weeks ago the feud's most audacious killing took place. Oktay Erbasli, a prominent member of the Tottenham Boys, was waiting at traffic lights at a busy junction in his Range Rover when a motorcycle pulled alongside. A hitman linked to the Bombacilar gang opened fire, killing the 23-year-old, but missing his five-year-old stepson seated beside him. Within the tit-for-tat mentality of gangland retribution, reprisals are inevitable. In Erbasli's case it came within 72 hours: Cem Duzgun, 21, had been playing snooker in a Clapton social club with friends when two hooded men approached at 10.50pm and pearl jewelry wholesale opened fire with a semi-automatic weapon.

For Scotland Yard's senior command, Duzgun's death was the final straw. Something had to give, something drastic was required to tackle the vortex of violence. The decision was taken; for the first time, officers armed with Heckler & Koch semi-automatic sub-machine guns would be deployed on routine patrol on London's streets. They could also have fast motorbikes at their disposal. History may well interpret Duzgun's killing as the catalyst for the UK's first step towards an armed police service.

But the news last week attracted the inevitable backlash, with critics accusing the Met of a disproportionate, knee-jerk response that challenged the long-held British tradition of policing by consent and not force.

Yet the details behind the agreement to routinely deploy C019, the Met's specialist firearms unit, on selected London streets reveals a narrative that offers a disturbing insight into how violent, anarchic gangs are able to terrorise and oppress entire communities. The decision, ratified in a recent meeting between Met borough commanders and CO19 senior officers, had followed months of anxious reports from community leaders that their areas were under siege and concerns among senior officers that they risked losing control.

TPG, the American private equity house that made its name in Britain by taking Debenhams private, sold its last remaining shares in the retailer yesterday, taking the total profit on its investment to nearly £500 million.

Traders said that TPG’s entire 9.34 per cent stake in the freshwater pearl retailer had been bought by a single, unnamed investor, whom Debenhams’ management was scrabbling to identify yesterday.

Industry insiders said that the buyer could be Och-Ziff, the American hedge fund that owns Peacocks, the retailing chain. The buyer is expected to identify itself within days to comply with stock market regulations.

TPG’s exit signals the end of an era at Debenhams. The retailer’s take-private-and-refloat came to epitomise the so-called “quick flip”, a model whereby private equity would buy listed businesses cheaply and load them with debt before refloating them a couple of years later at a huge profit.
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CVC Capital Partners, TPG’s coinvestor in the deal, sold most of its shares in June, when the debt-laden Debenhams tapped investors for cash. Neither CVC nor TPG subscribed to the retailer’s rights issue, proceeds of which were used to pay freshwater pearl jewelry down its £970 million debt mountain.

TPG and CVC took Debenhams private for £1.7 billion in 2003, with Merrill Lynch’s private equity unit joining the consortium later. The trio made a profit of £950 million between them after two refinancings that left the company with £1.9 billion of debt by the time it was floated. Debenhams had only £100 million of debt when taken private.

It is believed that TPG received about 40 per cent of biwa pearl that £950 million. The private equity house added to the bonanza with a further £98 million yesterday when it sold its remaining Debenhams shares. TPG’s final profit from six years’ investment in the retailer is thought to be about £480 million.

The Debenhams buyout was led by Philippe Costeletos, TPG’s co-head of European operations, a dapper banker typifying private equity’s “Masters of the akoya pearl Universe”. The Ivy Leagueeducated Mr Costeletos, who is fluent in five languages, is a former investment banker who lives in Kensington, West London.

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A teenager has been murdered after she apparently met her killer over the internet, police said yesterday.

The body of Ashleigh Hall, 17, from Darlington, was found dumped, fully clothed in a field near a Little Chef pearl jewelry restaurant on the outskirts of Sedgefield, Co Durham. Detective Chief Inspector Paul Harker said there was “nothing to indicate a sexual element”.

Friends said that Ashleigh, who was studying childcare at Darlington College, had met a man over the internet who claimed he was 16.

Police later arrested a homeless man, 32, on suspicion of murder after he was stopped for traffic offences on Monday night.
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The man, thought to come from the Merseyside area, was pulled over between Sedgefield and Stockton-on-Tees after a camera recognised his numberplate. He was taken to Middlesbrough police station where he asked to speak to detectives. It is wholesale pearl jewelry understood that he later led officers to the field where the body lay.

Scientific experts and a Home Office pathologist carried out examinations at the scene and the body was taken later to Darlington Memorial Hospital for post-mortem examination.

Durham police believe that Ashleigh left her home on Sunday night after contacting a man on the internet. She told her mother she was staying overnight with a friend.

Her mother had not heard from her by lunchtime on Monday and became increasingly concerned when her repeated calls to the teenager’s mobile phone went unanswered.

Danny Fisher, 17, who went to pearl jewelry wholesale college with Ashleigh, said: “She was very outgoing and had loads of friends. She was always really popular.” Other friends paid tribute to to the “bubbly” girl who was “always smiling”.

The family were too upset to comment last night.

Detective Chief Inspector Harker urged parents to be careful about their children arranging to meet strangers over the internet.