Tarek Panja

First of all, let me say I completely accept it because I do understand what it was like then.

The shock therapies at Crumsell Hospital were trials overseen by academics at Manchester University.

It has expressed regret, saying the attitudes behind the experiments were widely held at the time but are now considered unethical and harmful.

The BBC understands the government will now investigate the historical use of electric shock therapy.

The Equalities Minister, Olivia Bailey, condemned the practice as utterly appalling and pledged a full ban on conversion practices.

That report by Hayley Hassel.

Few architects were as famous as Frank Gehry, who's died at the age of 96.

Born in Canada, Gehry moved to the United States to study architecture when he was a teenager, and he continued working into his 90s.

One of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Art Museum in Bilbao in northern Spain.

Its innovative use of stone, glass, and thousands of sheets of titanium that can change colors from silver to gold created the Bilbao effect, the introduction of fresh buildings with stunning architecture that revamped rundown cities.

Vincent Dowd looks back on Frank Gehry's career.

Vincent Dowd on the life of Frank Gehry, who's died at the age of 96.

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