SPECIAL SERIES -Colombia's Medellin pushes slum renewal in shadow of gangs
By Reuters

Published: 01:13 BST, 10 September 2015 | Updated: 01:13 BST, 10 September 2015














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By Anastasia Moloney

MEDELLIN, Colombia, Sept 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
- O n the upper reaches of one of Medellin's poorest hillside slums overlooking
a warren of tin-roofed shacks, scores of residents lug wheelbarrows and mix cement as two
gang members speed by on a motorbike.

The slum dwellers are helping to create a network of
paved paths and steps, vegetable allotments and drainage canals that
will wrap around Colombia's second city.

The green belt will act both as a buffer to contain further slum sprawl and a forested park through which residents can stroll and cycle.


It's the latest in a series of initiatives by the mayor's office over the past
decade focused on once no-go slum areas -- helping Medellin to rebrand itself from a "murder capital" ruled by drug cartels to a city in the vanguard
of urban regeneration.

"I'm proud to be part of this change and make my community better. It's something I can tell my children and grandchildren I did. And it gives me a job," said gardener Kelly Ossa, taking a break from the hot midday sun.

The city is no longer at the mercy of Medellin native and drug lord Pablo Escobar after the demise of the world's largest cocaine cartel following his death in 1993.


But

A car used and driven by Diana, Princess of Wales
has sold for £650,000 at auction.

The black Ford Escort RS Turbo was driven by Diana while
accompanied by a bodyguard from August 23 1985 to May 1 1988.


The RS Turbo Series 1 went under the hammer on Saturday during a sale held by Silverstone Auctions.


The firm had expected the car to sell for more than £100,000, but the news that the car was driven by Diana herself
seems to have sparked many people's interest. 

By comparison, a new Ford Fiesta is available from £18,665 today.


Diana was previously pictured with the RS Turbo Series 1
outside the boutique shops of Chelsea and the
restaurants of Kensington.

Diana preferred to drive her own car and had a member of the
Royalty Protection Command (SO14) in the passenger seat.


The car is believed to be unique as the first and only black RS Turbo Series
1, as agreed by S014 and the Ford PR department for reasons of discretion, instead
of the only-white manufactured model.






Princess Diana is photographed getting into the car in 1986,
wearing a chic autumnal ensemble and court shoes









Silverstone Auctions' classic car specialist Arwel Richards polishes the 1985 Ford Escort
RS Turbo previously owned by Diana, Princess of
Wales, on display at the Silverstone Race Circuit near Towcester, Northamptonshire



















The stealthy, black Escort RS Turbo was insisted on by the
royal

KYIV, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Ukrainian troops have recaptured more than 700 square km (270 square miles) of
territory in the south and in the eastern Kharkiv region, where they
advanced up to 50 km (31 miles) into Russian lines and retaken more than 20 villages, a Ukrainian general said on Thursday.



The comments by Brigadier General Oleksiy Gromov at a briefing were the most detailed public assessment
so far of Ukraine's counter-offensive.

Kyiv has so far declined to disclose many details so
as not to compromise the operation.

"During defence operations to recapture lost territory in the Kharkiv direction, since the start of the week, Ukraine's armed forces... have penetrated into enemy's lines by a depth of up to 50 km," Gromov said.


He did not say which settlements had been recaptured in Kharkiv region.

"The total amount of territory returned to Ukrainian control in the Kharkiv and Pivdennyi Buh directions stands at over 700 square kilometres," he said.


Pivdennyi Buh is a river that runs through the southern frontline city
of Mykolaiv before discharging in the Black Sea.


He said that Ukrainian troops have advanced up to 3 km (1.8 miles) on the Sloviansk
front in the east and recaptured a settlement called Ozerne.


He singled out the role of Turkish-made Bayraktar drones.


"Enemy infantry and motorized artillery units unprotected by air defence systems become easy prey for our Bayraktars, the quantity of which is always

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