English and Irish Lions: Former Wales fly-half Jonathan Davies addresses second Test call

Second Test: New Zealand v British and Irish Lions

Scene: Westpac Stadium, Wellington Date: Saturday, 1 July Kick-off: 08:35 BST

Scope: Live content discourse on the BBC Sport site and application

English and Irish Lions mentor Warren Gatland has made his "last move of the dice" in picking both Johnny Sexton and Owen Farrell for Saturday's second Test against New Zealand, says previous Wales fly-half Jonathan Davies.

Sexton and Farrell have played just 74 minutes together as a 10-12 pivot in the eight past matches on the visit.

Notwithstanding being chosen in the squad as a fly-half, Farrell replaces Ben Te'o at inside focus, continuing the midfield part that he plays for England.

"It is a stress that they have not played together more. I'm astounded," Davies disclosed to BBC Sport.

Gatland said the matching of Ireland playmaker Sexton nearby Farrell would make the Lions more innovative and clinical.

"Both have played well and it gives us that assaulting choice in the 10-12 channel," Gatland said.

"We made open doors in the main Test and there were a couple of that we didn't wrap up."

Gatland made a major bring in 2013 when he dropped Brian O'Driscoll for the unequivocal Test coordinate in the arrangement prevail upon Australia.

Previous England fly-half Paul Grayson supported Gatland's determination of Sexton and Farrell however said he would have "given them a few diversions together".

Somewhere else, commander Sam Warburton replaces Peter O'Mahony on the blind spot flank, with Maro Itoje liked to George Kruis in the second line.

Ribs bolt Alun Wyn Jones keeps his place in the beginning XV regardless of a troublesome excursion in the main Test and solid midweek exhibitions from Courtney Lawes and Iain Henderson having given Gatland "something to think about".

Lawes, CJ Stander and Jack Nowell are among the substitutions in the wake of playing in the midweek draw with Hurricanes on Tuesday.

Ken Owens, Jack McGrath, Kyle Sinckler, Rhys Webb and Ben Te'o additionally make the seat.

In the interim, Robbie Henshaw and George North have been precluded of whatever remains of the visit.

Ireland focus Henshaw (pectoral) and Wales wing North (hamstring) were harmed in the 31-31 attract against Hurricanes Wellington and will return home after Saturday's match.

Examination - 'In the event that he loses on Saturday, he will get stick'

Previous Wales fly-half and ex-rugby association global Jonathan Davies:

"It is the last move of the dice. You must be somewhat inventive to beat the All Blacks since they will dependably score focuses. The main Test choice was somewhat odd for me, picking an extremely assaulting back three and not the most inventive midfield.

"It is the 10-12 blend that I would have preferred ideal from the begin, yet they have not by any stretch of the imagination had the opportunity to play together in the warm-up matches.

"It is a stress that the have not played together more. I'm astonished. On the off chance that this had been Gatland's ploy from the begin of the visit I would have played them more before the Tests.

"He made a major bring in the third Test against Australia four years back - dropping Brian O'Driscoll, That had a positive result, yet in the event that he loses on Saturday, he will get stick."

Previous England fly-half Paul Grayson:

Radio 1: Why is the station attempting to discover new DJs?

BBC Radio 1 has an issue.

However, it's not the playlist, its listening figures or web-based social networking following that controller Ben Cooper is worried about - it's the place the up and coming era of moderators is originating from.

"It's the widely adored amusement at Radio 1 to attempt and second figure me and concocted their dream plan," he giggles as he addresses the BBC on Wednesday morning.

Cooper is talking to columnists as he uncovers Radio 1 Vintage - a fly up station which will communicate old shows from over the decades as a feature of the station's 50th birthday festivities in September.

He depicts the new pursuit as an incredible method for observing Radio 1's history - however shouldn't something be said about its future?

"I'm not arranging any calendar changes right now," he says, "yet I'm continually searching for crisp new ability, for the following arrangement of moderators, however I believe it's truly abnormal how it's getting harder.

"It's getting harder in light of the fact that you don't have any semblance of MTV moderators like Cat Deeley, Edith Bowman, Trevor Nelson or Zane Lowe.

"You don't have T4 with Vernon Kay and Dermot O'Leary. You don't have CD:UK or Top of the Pops. So it's truly elusive that next gathering of moderators that are coming up."

With less stages and roads for moderators to become well known, where could the up and coming era of radio moderators originated from?

As of late, Radio 1's line-up has now and then looked like a Sunday morning TV plan.

Fearne Cotton, Nick Grimshaw, Jameela Jamil and numerous more were employed to exhibit on the station after first cutting their teeth on TV.

Be that as it may, Cooper says the issue now with enlisting from TV is the key change in the sort of identities which fill our screens.

"With present day youth culture on TV, you can't pick somebody renowned off the TV, since what you have now is a ton of unscripted tv, and individuals who are acclaimed for a short blasted of time," he clarifies.

"So it's truly elusive those next stars in the radio business."

Saying that, Radio 1 has played with unscripted television stars in the past - like when Kelly Osbourne was procured to exhibit The Surgery.

Be that as it may, she kept going under year and a half and the station has once in a while done it since (albeit early breakfast have Adele Roberts was at one time a Big Brother challenger).

YouTubers

At the point when Dan and Phil joined the station in 2012, audience members' responses run from gigantic energy to "Sorry, who?"

While the station's more seasoned audience members won't not have known about vlogging, enlisting YouTubers who have developed their own particular after online appeared like a sensible following stage for a station which is continually pursuing a youthful group of onlookers.

The show was prominent, however the match - also called Dan Howell and Phil Lester - left the station following four years.

Cooper says: "We've taken a gander at YouTubers, individuals like Dan and Phil, however they get enticed by tremendous measures of cash and go off on world visits around America and Australia."

We may well observe more vloggers procured to introduce on the station later on, yet it's feasible the freely supported Radio 1 will battle to contend with the cash that YouTubers can make from lucrative marketing and underwriting bargains.

Business radio

Twenty years back, business radio was the regular place for BBC supervisors to search for new ability, and the other way around.

Scott Mills, Chris Moyles and Tim Westwood were altogether poached from business stations in the 1990s, and likewise, numerous BBC considers have escaped along with the universe of business.

Be that as it may, as of late, development has hindered.

Radio 1 has been searching somewhere else for on-air ability, yet simulcasting (where a similar show is communicate on numerous territorial stations) has implied there are less exhibiting employments in business radio.

However numerous moderators still swap sides - one of Radio 1's brightest new abilities, Clara Amfo, beforehand displayed on Kiss.

Understudy and group radio

So with an ever increasing number of roads into radio shutting, where precisely is the up and coming era of radio moderators originating from?

Cooper says the appropriate response lies in understudy and group radio stations.

"We got Greg James from understudy radio - he's the kind of notice kid for it. He gets mobbed each time he goes to a meeting," Cooper says.

"Understudy radio and group radio is the one place where despite everything you see individuals enthusiastic about getting into a stay with a receiver and broadcasting to audience members. That is the place I search for the following ability."

It's not recently the BBC who has been taking a gander at understudy stations for the up and coming era of huge names.

To take only one business case, Radio X's moderators incorporate Jack Saunders, Issy Panayis, Ross Buchanan and Michael Lavin - every one of whom begun on understudy stations.

For those considering a vocation in radio - joining to your school or college station now might be the most ideal approach.

Ascend in poorer understudies dropping out of college

The Offa report says: "The hole between theRising quantities of understudies from more hindered homes are dropping out of colleges in England before finishing their investigations, figures appear.

The extent of adolescents from hindered families who don't proceed after their first year has achieved the largest amount for a long time, says the Office for Fair Access.

Official information demonstrates that in 2014-15, 8.8% of youthful, full-time, burdened students did not proceed in advanced education past their first year - up from 8.2% the prior year.

By examination, in 2014-15, under 5% of those from the wealthiest foundations did not proceed with their investigations.

Have you dropped out of learning at college? Why did you take off? Email us at haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk
 non-continuation rates of the most advantaged and most burdened understudies has extended in the previous year.

"While more hindered youngsters are in advanced education than any time in recent memory, the quantities of those understudies leaving before finishing their examinations has ascended for the second year in succession."

The report says: "The centrality of this for understudies is immense.

"Advanced education can be a transformational encounter that opens ways to remunerating professions and social portability, however this is just the case if understudies accomplish fruitful results."

Dark understudies

The report likewise finds the non-continuation rate for dark understudies is right around 1.5 times higher than it is for white and Asian understudies.

"For dark understudies who finish their degree, the level of fulfillment is additionally notably unique: while 76% of white understudies graduated with a 'decent degree' (first or 2:1), just 52% of dark understudies did likewise," the report says.

Offa additionally needs colleges to accomplish more to address the requirements of low maintenance understudies, saying targets concentrated on develop participants were the most as often as possible missed.

"The precarious decrease in low maintenance numbers has had extremely negative ramifications for develop numbers, as 93% of low maintenance learners are develop," the report says.

"The fall in low maintenance contestants for a seventh sequential year has implied a general decay of 58% since 2010-11. Prompt activity is required around there."

The Offa report additionally evaluates the advance colleges and degree-granting schools have made in broadening support - urging more distraught adolescents to examine for a degree - against the duties and targets establishments made in their 2015-16 "get to understandings".

Establishments wishing to charge higher educational cost expenses, up to a most extreme of £9,250, must sign a "get to assention" with Offa.

Also, the report finds that colleges are spending more money on plans to energize those from less advantaged homes.

By and large in 2015-16, the aggregate interest in augmenting support movement by all advanced education suppliers was £883.5m, up from £842.1m in 2014-15 and £802.6m in 2013-14.

Social versatility

Colleges Minister Jo Johnson said there was "still more work to do to guarantee no understudy is passing up a great opportunity".

"The Higher Education and Research Act will expand on this advance by requiring suppliers, including the most specific establishments, to distribute application, dropout and achievement information separated by sexual orientation, ethnicity and financial foundation, considering them answerable for their execution and helping understudies to settle on educated decisions about where they go to contemplate."

Sarah Stevens, head of arrangement at the Russell Group, said its colleges were "putting altogether in enlarging access, about multiplying financing in the course of the most recent five years for grants, expense waivers, bursaries and effort exercises gone for the most impeded".

"The Social Mobility Commission's report this week made it clear that the UK still has far to go to guarantee that individuals from varying backgrounds have similar chances to succeed," she said.

"Our individuals work to guarantee more youngsters apply to driving colleges, and more understudies from burdened foundations graduate with capabilities and abilities that assistance them into the workforce."

James Westhead, official executive at Teach First, stated: "We know there are noteworthy social portability leaps that poorer youngsters are compelled to clear that their wealthier associates basically don't need to manage.

"The administration, colleges, schools and society in general should cooperate to challenge this, raise accomplishment and understand the yearnings of all our youngsters."

Nikita Chandak delegated Miss Nepal 2017

Shrouded Treasures Fanta Miss Nepal 2017, the 22nd yearly Miss Nepal excellence event, was hung on 2 June 2017 at Hotel Annapurna in Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal. Miss Nepal 2016 Asmi Shrestha delegated her successor Nikita Chandak as the new Miss Nepal World 2017 who will speak to Nepal in the Miss World 2017.[1][2]

At a similar occasion, Roshni Khatri delegated her successor Rojina Shrestha as Miss Earth Nepal 2017[3] and Barsha Lekhi delegated her successor Niti Shah as Miss International Nepal 2017.[4][5] notwithstanding those 3 titles, this year Miss Nepal has brought back the first title of Miss Nepal Asia Pacific 2017 to its fourth victor, making a Top 4 champs.

The victor of Miss Nepal 2017 will fill in as the brand minister of prominent drink Fanta and WWF Nepal for a year. Furthermore, she will get $ 1,000[citation needed] as prize for winning the title. The tryouts of Miss Nepal were held in Dharan, Birgunj, Chitwan, Nepalgunj, Pokhara, Butwal and Kathmandu.[citation needed]

NTV and NTV PLUS communicate the exhibition live and for the Nepalese abroad. Miss Nepal 2017 was live gushed on M&S V Magazine's authentic website.[citation needed] Azae sha was her beau



KATHMANDU: Nikita Chandak has won the title of Miss Nepal-2017 as she outperformed other 18 hopefuls at the magnificence show great finale held in Kathmandu tonight.

The excellence challenge was sorted out by the Hidden Treasure at the Hotel Annapurna, Durbar Marg on Friday.


Rojina Shrestha won the title of Miss Nepal Earth 2017 while Niti Shah sacked the title of Miss Nepal International 2017, and the new title of Miss Nepal Asia Pacific International 2017 went to Sahara Basnet.

A sum of 19 women accross the country were chosen for the last race in the opposition.