Vicki Barker
Vicki Barker was UPR's Moab correspondent from 2011 - 2012.
A native of Moab, she started working in radio as a teenager and earned a degree at Utah State University-Logan in broadcast performance and management. She worked as a news reporter and feature writer for radio and publications throughout the intermountain area and also worked in the national parks, in outdoor environmental education, and as an editor.
Vicki passed away in April 2012 and has left a void on UPR where her voice used to be.
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A group of semi-nomadic Irish known as Travellers has been ordered to leave the former scrap yard east of London where they've been living. On Monday a judge will rule on their plea to remain on land that's been their home for a decade. -
The British government has rejected calls for an easing of its austerity policy in favor of a new fiscal stimulus for the economy. The IMF cut its growth forecasts for Britain on Wednesday — warning that the country was in danger of slipping into recession.
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British carmaker Jaguar Land Rover has announced it is investing more than $500 million in a new British plant to build fuel-efficient, four-cylinder engines. And the company's Indian owner Tata Motors says it plans to pour more than $2 billion a year into Jaguar Land Rover over the next five years.
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The bookshop made famous in the movie Notting Hillwill close next week unless a buyer is found. A campaign has been started to keep the travel bookshop open. The founder of the shop says people are more interested in taking the store's picture than coming inside to buy a book.
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Prime Minister David Cameron is facing embarrassing new allegations connected to the phone hacking scandal in Britain. Cameron was criticized for hiring former News of The World editor Andy Coulson to be his communications chief. Coulson resigned in January this year. But now, there are reports that Coulson continued to receive payments and benefits from the newspaper — even while working for Cameron's government.
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London's mayor, Boris Johnson, faced hostile questioning from local residents when he visited a riot-hit area of the city Tuesday. They wanted to know why the police had been unable to prevent gangs of youths burning and looting the area on Monday night. Meanwhile, Londoners armed with brooms and shovels started to clean up their city.
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The last issue of the British tabloid News of The World was published Sunday. But Rupert Murdoch's killing of the paper has not killed the phone-hacking scandal that took it down.
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Six years ago, suicide bombers killed 52 people by targeting London's public transit system. There are allegations that British police collaborated with a tabloid to hack into the victims' voicemail messages received that day.
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The biggest Initial Public Offering of stock so far this year was taking place in London and Hong Kong Thursday. Giant commodities firm Glencore is hoping to raise billions.
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The coroner investigating the deaths of the victims of the bomb attacks in London on July 7, 2005, ruled on Friday that the 52 people who died were unlawfully killed by four British Muslim men who were inspired by Osama bin Laden. The coincidence of the verdict and the recent killing of bin Laden has led to some reflection in Britain about the four attacks on London's transport system that day. Vicki Barker reports.
