Race relations have deteriorated, with new levels of hostility being displayed towards Muslims in particular. But if the recovery gathers any pace it will surely be met with rate rises. Police said they did not believe the attack was politically motivated. It was later announced that Sunday’s referendum vote will go ahead.The Green Party leader Per Eriksson said: “For some people, this may bring back all the terrible memories of years back when Prime Minister Olof Palme was killed. Sweden was in a state of shock its Foreign Minister, Anna Lindh, died today after being stabbed while shopping at an exclusive department store. One of the issues is a lawsuit that Croatia has brought to the International Court of Justice demanding billions of dollars from Belgrade for allegedly fomenting the 1991 rebellion by ethnic Serbs in Croatia..

He lived with Dora his remaining 11 months, first in the harsh winter of 1923-4 in Berlin during the hyper-inflation, then in a series of Austrian clinics until his death on 3 June 1924. Music by Michael and Lennox Berkeley linked two Proms given by the BBC NOW under its principal conductor, Richard Hickox. The title of Michael Berkeley’s Secret Garden refers to the imagination – a menacing as well as stimulating place in this intricate, expressionist score. From implacable opening brass fanfares representing a wall, to sweetly decadent entwined woodwind lines, the piece had an impressively wide dynamic and expressive range. Lofty Sibelian horn calls at the end brought an imposing sense of culmination. Steven Isserlis and the BBC players did it justice in a compelling reading.

Isserlis was profoundly expressive in the equivocal solo part, finding anger and bitterness as well as solemn grandeur He played as if his life depended on it. The poignant coda, with ethereal first violins soaring over a continuously tolling harp, was movingly restorative, like the spirit of humanity returning after the madness of war.This Prom season’s curse – “spontaneous” applause breaking out between movements – nearly stopped Holst’s The Planets in their axes. The performance didn’t really merit such regular bouts of approbation, but this crowd-pleaser was undoubtedly responsible for the concert’s near-capacity turnout. Some planets shone more brightly than others: the opening of “Mars” lacked menace and portent, and its tutti climaxes were crude.