According to the Fairtrade Foundation, cotton could soon match the success of ethically traded coffee and tea. The group is in talks with retailers which it hopes will stock Fairtrade goods Ten have already signed up. To me, going back home to Zimbabwe would have meant the end of my life. It is something that you can never express properly, the fear you can have about returning to your own country."Her Big Brother appearance triggered African media headlines such as "Every Zimbabwean should be ashamed", and branded her a "low-life lesbian".Her Zimbabwe-based parents, Richie, and Sennie, who needs an operation for a brain tumour near her optical nerve, travelled from Harare to show their support at the hearing.Her sister Veronica, 22, who graduates today as a mental health nurse, also attended yesterday's hearing.Ms Musambasi said: "My mother was very stressed to have the whole thing hanging over her. She is therefore a failed asylum-seeker and because she is an involuntary returnee, she is a refugee under the 1951 Convention and, therefore, we allow her appeal."After the hearing, Ms Musambasi said: "I was petrified of being physically attacked and discriminated against. The appearance on the show has changed things a great deal."Her evidence is that she now does fear to go back to Zimbabwe. She also said a relative of President Robert Mugabe had been a lover.Francis Pinkerton, the tribunal chairman, said yesterday: "She is in a different situation now than she was some seven months ago before appearing on Big Brother.

Before that, she had been to Zimbabwe on a number of occasions and presumably encountered no problems. The 25-year-old resigned as a cardiac nurse at High Wycombe Hospital, Buckinghamshire, to go on Big Brother, breaching the rules of her work visa. The Home Office gave her notice to leave in August because she was allowed to stay only as long as she worked as a nurse. An asylum application by Ms Musambasi, who came to Britain in 1998, was rejected. Makosi Musambasi, the reality television personality, has won her battle to stay in Britain as a refugee.

Her risqu?ntics in the Big Brother show meant it was now unsafe for her to return to her native Zimbabwe, where she could face hate mobs, the Central London Asylum and Immigration tribunal ruled. They will also be showcased in Portfolio Magazine - which organises the awards with sponsorship help from the Jerwood Charity The winners receive an award of £2,000.. Redolent of old-fashioned portraits, he created comedic retro fantasies through Sixties and Seventies styling.The judges said: "Assuming personae dictated by the spectacles, this beguiling cast of characters, posing with mock gravity, challenge the viewer to explore the notion of persona, identity and disguise."The images go on display at the Jerwood Space, Bankside, London, from tomorrow until 11 December before touring the UK from 10 February. He has journeyed into forestland at Big Sur in California, the Forest of Dean in the UK, Busaco and Sintra, in Portugal, and the Black Forest in Germany.The youngest winner, Luke Stephenson, 22, opted for a lighter note in his colour series Spectacle Wearing Folk.

Some of the hottest political issues of the day feature prominently in this year's Jerwood Photography Awards, albeit beautifully transposed from the debating arena. Hunting, public order, immigration and the environment are all featured in a diverse range of photographs from the five winners selected from 6,000 entries by recent visual art graduates. "When we look at these photographs, we learn more about the complexity of the society in which we live," said the writer and curator Val Williams.Nina Mangalanayagam's Snotackt narrates the life of her Sri Lankan ?gr?ather in Sweden, against a backdrop of bleached and frozen landscapes.The judges praised the 25-year-old for avoiding the visual clich?which represented migrants as urbanised ethnic groups living segregated lives.Meanwhile, Oliver Parker, 25, chose to portray foxhounds in a studio, removed from the political debate that surrounds them.Examining another often controversial world, 32-year-old Sarah Pickering's colour series, Public Order, documents the ambiguous landscape of the Metropolitan Police Public Order Training Centre."Pickering's conceptual photo-reportage records neither the reality nor the fantasy but hovers somewhere in between," said the judges.By contrast, Daniel Gustav Cramer, 30, has documented woodlands over several continents. "We are delighted that with this collection our museum now holds the largest known body of his work and the importance of it being returned to his home town cannot be underestimated," said Timothy Deans, mayor of Coleraine.Although his name may not be readily recognised by the general public many of Thomson's works are - until recently characters created by him to illustrate works by J M Barrie were used worldwide on boxes of Quality Street chocolates.. "The collection represents a substantial and definitive body of Thomson's work."The 540 watercolours and drawings in the collection - bought by Coleraine Museum from a couple who were given the collection by a nephew of the artist - include original drawings for Vanity Fair andEmma.Coleraine Borough Council now intends to create a Hugh Thomson Study Room within the Town Hall and a series of travelling exhibitions are being planned. While working for the publishers Macmillan, he earned a reputation as one of the top illustrators of his time, alongside Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac.Commissioned to illustrate works by Charles Dickens, Thackeray, Jane Austen, Oliver Goldsmith, Austen Dobson, George Eliot and Shakespeare, he was responsible for creating many of the interpretations still associated with a number of legendary literary characters."His work offers insight into the social conditions of the Victorian period and his attention to detail records and brings to life the historic landscapes, people and social customs during this period," said a spokeswoman for the National Art Collections Fund, which has given a grant of £40,000 to help acquire the works. A collection of work by Hugh Thomson, whose illustrations gave form to the personalities described in classics such as William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair and Jane Austen's Emma, is to go on permanent display in his home town in Northern Ireland after being rescued from a suitcase where they lay forgotten for 30 years. Thomson was born in Coleraine in 1860 and became an accomplished painter after his family moved to Kilrea in the south of the Borough.

However it was as an illustrator that his talents shone and he was discovered by the prestigious publishing firm, Marcus Ward of Belfast.Under the tutelage of John Vinycomb, he worked withartists such as Kate Greenaway, J W Carey and Walter Crane before moving to England in 1883. An artist whose work brought to life many of English literature's greatest characters and chronicled the social conditions of the Victorian age is to be honoured, 85 years after his death. He is perfectly stable and is talking to his family."He just needed help to sort out some breathing problems."The 59-year-old ex-Manchester United star was admitted to the hospital with flu-like symptoms on 1 October.His health then rapidly deteriorated when he developed a kidney infection and internal bleeding and he was transferred to intensive care.He was moved out of intensive care nine days ago as his condition improved but is now back there after the breathing trouble developed.. Former football star George Best was readmitted to intensive care today. But doctors said he was "perfectly stable" and had not suffered a serious relapse. A spokesman at the Cromwell Hospital in west London said: "He has been readmitted to intensive care."It is just for some respiratory management procedures. I didn't look around."I saw Marcus run, he was ahead but went a different direction."She told the court that she ran to a local police station but did not return to the scene that night.On the night of his death, she had spent the evening at his house, helping him to look after his two-year-old nephew, Reuben.The trial was adjourned until Monday.. I just saw them jump out and when Anthony let go, I just ran I panicked.