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"There's room for somebody to stand up in there so we'd make a little desk and there would be pens and pencils."We're going to focus on having postcards in there for people to just write a quick message, but it's for any kind of writing.

"So far, everyone I've spoken to has an idea of their own for it - it's really sparked people's imaginations."Further Writing Box sessions will be held on 30 May, 13 June and 20 June, from 10:00 to 16:00 BST.Author Sir Salman Rushdie has said he is "pleased" the man who tried to kill him in a knife attack in 2022 has received the maximum possible prison sentence.

earlier this month for attempted murder after repeatedly stabbing Sir Salman on a New York lecture stage."I was pleased that he got the maximum available, and I hope he uses it to reflect upon his deeds," Sir Salman told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

The attack left the award-winning writer blind in one eye, with damage to his liver and a paralysed hand caused by nerve damage to his arm.

Last year, Sir Salman published a book titled Knife reflcting on the attack, which he has described as "my way of fighting back".German police will undertake a new search in Portugal this week as part of ongoing investigations into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

The search will reportedly take place in Praia da Luz, the town in the Algarve where she went missing nearly two decades ago.Madeleine was three years old when she vanished from a holiday apartment complex on 3 May 2007.

Her disappearance sparked a Europe-wide police investigation, and has become one of the highest-profile unsolved missing person cases in the world.The Metropolitan Police said it was not involved in the new search, but was aware of the operation being carried out by German authorities.