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It had also heard that McGrattan admitted at the scene that he had been speeding and told a police officer that he thought he was going to "tip over".
On Tuesday, the court was told that McGrattan had shown remorse, but had also said victims share some of the responsibility.
It heard that the defendant had told a probation officer that there should have been signs in place alerting him to their presence.
The judge, when sentencing, said she took McGrattan's remorse into consideration but that a prison sentence was appropriate because of the | non-member |
have not only protected the NHS budget but increased it.
"However we must always strive to be as efficient as possible with taxpayers' money, and we welcome that health boards have met their financial targets for the last six years and exceeded their efficiency targets, allowing more than £1.5bn to be ploughed back into front-line services over the same period."
Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesman Jim Hume called on the health secretary to explain how the NHS 24 IT project was "allowed to go so far off track".
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proportion of the breakages which were recorded and he appeared to involve himself unnecessarily in clearing up after operations."
He said Mr Bamford had ordered diamorphine from the pharmacy which had not been "put into the centre's stock" and advised a colleague not to report finding broken ampoules.
He added: "Bamford's actions had the potential to put the public at risk but thankfully it's not believed anyone was harmed as a result of medication being tampered with." A hospital worker has been jailed for stealing prescription drugs | non-member |
Radio Ulster at 12:30 GMT on Sunday 1 March 2015. It will then be available on BBC IPlayer radio. A new BBC Radio Ulster documentary, Not Dad's Army - Northern Ireland's Home Guard, tells the story of the controversial Ulster Home Guard. Sexton suffered a calf injury during Leinster's 24-24 European Champions Cup draw away to Castres on Friday.
"There's not a lot of damage there, nothing's showing up that's overly significant," said Schmidt | non-member |
2016-17 were missed.
This was despite a 25% drop in Clostridium difficile (C. diff) cases and a 9% fall in MRSA cases.
The health board has hospitals in Wrexham, Bangor and Bodelwyddan.
In her report, Ms Harris said: "Rates of infection in BCUHB remain too high and the health board is committed to protecting people from infections.
"Improvements are needed across a wide range of key clinical practice standards, including the | non-member |
esity.
"I don't think that this study will have direct implications for obesity, as the summer microbiota will make you fat and the winter insulin resistant.
"But perhaps we can find clues for treating malnutrition from the summer bacteria, and help patients with anorexic disorders - including cancer patients."
To collect the samples, the researchers worked with the team from the Scandinavian Brown Bear Research Project, who specialise in monitoring the creatures in the wild.
And specialist expertise was required; it | non-member |
war of Bud Wolfe.
It will be shown as part of Dig WWII a series for BBC Northern Ireland, to be presented by Dan Snow next year. The tail wheel of a WWII Spitfire has finally made it home to the runway it took off from 70 years ago. Lines into London Bridge station were shut for safety and services cancelled, following the discovery of the 50cm-wide hole at Forest Hill, south-east London, on Thursday.
It comes after 13ft-deep hole opened in the same area on 18 July | non-member |
big urban centres in Brazil, such as Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, but would stay wherever they could make a living.
Brazilian police last year raided a number of sweatshops in the capital, Brasilia, and in Sao Paulo, where undocumented immigrants from Bolivia and Pakistan were found working in unsafe conditions for very little or no pay. The Brazilian state of Acre has declared a state of emergency after a surge of illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bolivia and Peru. He said the RAF strike that killed two British Islamic State j | non-member |
Woods said: "We don't get paid but we all have to do things that make the site run, like growing food or running the free community workshops.
"With the solar panels and wind turbine we have more than enough energy for phones, lights and music. We have totally normal electricity but you learn to appreciate the weather so much more.
"It's really understanding the power of community and a gift economy."
Ms Woods' home has come from the land too.
"Mine's made out of hazel and it's just very small | non-member |
would go on to adopt, including the Four Yorkshiremen skit - recently seen at the Python reunion shows earlier this year - and the line: "And now for something completely different..."
Mr Fiddy added: "Cleese, Feldman, Brooke-Taylor and Chapman created, scripted and starred in ...The 1948 Show, and the fact that the show remains very, very funny 47 years later is a tribute to their extraordinary abilities."
The two episodes were found when Mr Fiddy was invited to explore the collection of Sir David | non-member |
orwich - Sheffield Wednesday] Undisclosed
Matt Ingram [Wycombe - QPR] Undisclosed
Glen Kamara [Arsenal - Southend] Loan
Matt Palmer [Burton - Oldham] Loan
Jamie Proctor [Fleetwood - Bradford] Loan
Alan Sheehan [Bradford - Luton] Loan
Connor Smith [Watford - AFC Wimbledon] Free
Luke Wilkinson [Luton - Stevenage] Und | non-member |
its offices and charged its founder Mogens Amdi Petersen with fraud.
Found not guilty in 2006, he and some of his associates immediately left the country, but prosecutors appealed and the group are now wanted by Interpol.
It is thought they may have taken refuge in a massive luxury compound, worth an estimated £20m, on the Pacific coast in Mexico.
In a statement, the Department for International Development urged the BBC to share all the information it obtained during its investigation into Dapp and Teachers Group, which included inter | non-member |
both New Jersey and New York, but there was no indication a terror cell was active in the area.
The bombing in the Chelsea district on Saturday night injured 29 people. An unexploded device was found nearby.
Other devices have been found or have exploded in New Jersey over the past few days.
Early on Saturday, a pipe bomb exploded in a shore town ahead of a charity race. No-one was hurt.
One of several devices found in an abandoned backpack near the railway station in Elizabeth exploded as a police robot was trying to disarm | non-member |
hard to be open about it. And it was a criminal act.
"So for this legislation to come through is joyous, and we should celebrate it. We shouldn't just say, 'Oh, well we have a civil partnership. We're not going to bother to get married.' We will get married."
However, those already in civil partnerships are currently not able yet to convert to a marriage. The government said it hoped to rectify that before the end of the year. It is not known how that will affect the couple's plans.
Sir Elton said their | non-member |
unsettle the markets, he said. "I was very worried about what the impact would be."
Mr Greenspan, 87, who now runs his own consultancy business, also criticised a growing "crony capitalism" in the US.
He said: "Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours."
He said it was prevalent in China and Russia, but had not been common in the US or the UK. But he added: " | non-member |
can use Bing, Yahoo, Quora, DuckDuckGo, and a new wave of search assistants like Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Cortana," it said.
"In addition, users increasingly turn to social networks like Facebook and Twitter to find news and suggestions - where to eat or which movies to watch.
"[And] mobile is changing everything - with the explosion of apps taking people directly to the information they want."
The EU's investigation is not the only one Google is facing.
Investigators at India's Competition Commission delivered a | non-member |
wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Lille. Conceded by João Moutinho. Monaco all but sealed their first Ligue 1 title since 2000 after Radamel Falcao scored twice in a straight-forward home victory against mid-table Lille. Some schools are closed, and work is continuing to reopen the West Coast Main Line north of Carlisle.
About 1,500 properties remain without power, including in Glenridding and Patterdale, which have been cut off as access roads are under | non-member |
"I have to maintain my focus and keep my foot down.
"He looked in really good nick in that first frame and didn't really have a chance up until 3-1 when he was unfortunate to go in off the yellow.
"That was the only obvious mistake he made - even though it was very unlucky."
China's Liang Wenbo joined Robertson in the last eight, beating Englishman Tom Ford 6-5 in a tense final-frame match that lasted more than four hours.
And Londoner Martin Gould was a comfortable | non-member |
and therefore the council has decided to temporarily close these schools as a purely precautionary measure.
"Whilst the survey results have indicated that these schools could continue to operate in normal weather conditions until the necessary works are carried out we are unwilling to take any risk.
"We fully recognise the inconvenience caused by these closures and we would like to apologise to parents for this, however I am sure everyone will understand why we have taken these steps."
The council said it would update parents at Braidburn Special and St Peter's schools with more information as soon as possible.
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00 last year, according to new figures. Clydesdale Bank's Scottish £5 note was the first fully polymer banknote to enter circulation in Great Britain.
The International Bank Note Society has nominated the fivers, made from a polymer substrate, for the award alongside banknotes from countries including New Zealand and China.
They are the only UK note on the shortlist.
Clydesdale chief executive David Duffy said: "We are proud that our polymer £5 note has been nominated.
"We take our responsibility as an issuer of banknotes seriously." | non-member |
against the dollar to $1.4828. Against the euro, sterling climbed 0.28% to €1.3696. (Open): The London stock market opened lower, with mining shares among the biggest fallers, but shares in airlines staged a recovery. The British number one, playing his first ATP tournament since becoming a father last month, was beaten 6-4 4-6 7-6 (7-3) in the third round.
The Scot, 28, was well short of his best, | non-member |
Rule, is established.
1976 - The islands become fully self-governing.
1978 - The islands achieve independence within the British Commonwealth. Queen Elizabeth II remains head of state.
1988 - Solomon Islands join Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea to form the Spearhead Group, which aims to preserve Melanesian cultural traditions.
1997 - Bartholomew Ulufa'alu, a Malaitan, is elected prime minister.
1998 - Ulufa'alu's government narrowly surv | non-member |
page and stake their claim as the wizarding world's greatest new (yes, new) creations.
One wonders what Rowling would have done had Cursed Child manifested itself in her home medium, with her inimitable mode of description guiding readers rather than leaving them to fill in the acting blanks in their vision of how this piece operates on a stage.
Read the full review
It is not actually a novel, but a play script, which may annoy some people expecting a Harry Potter adventure in the typical format.
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, Amnesty said.
The Qatari government said its Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs would investigate the contractors named in the report.
But Amnesty said every migrant it had interviewed had reported abuses of one kind or another, including being:
One metal worker from India who worked on the Khalifa stadium refurbishment told Amnesty he was threatened by his employer when he complained about not being paid for several months.
"He just shouted abuse at me and said that if I complained again I'd never leave the country | non-member |
them out.
Six of the suspects surrendered to police immediately after CCTV pictures of the incident in Berlin were released.
The alleged ringleader was arrested near his home.
He now says he was drunk and cannot remember what happened.
But he will be charged as an adult and will face at least three years behind bars if found guilty.
They have all been in detention since 27 December. Seven young migrants have gone on trial in Germany, over a Christmas day attack on a homeless man which could have killed him. The 36-year-old | non-member |
On Friday, it was announced that Mr Trump had settled the three claims for a total of $25m (£20m), saying he did not have the time to fight the allegations while setting up a transition team.
How did he change the conversation?
Hours after the settlement was announced, his vice-president-elect, Mike Pence, attended a performance of the hit Broadway show, Hamilton.
Mr Pence was booed entering the theatre and addressed by the actors on stage after the show who said they were "alarmed and anxious" the new administration "will not | non-member |
20 years ago he took the opening track of the album - Coyote - and began playing about with it.
The result was written in Scots, but came out as a poem about a fox, also known as a tod. Some time later, he began looking at some of the other songs on Hejira to see if he might do something similar.
"They're not translations, the word we're using is re-imaginings," says Mr Robertson.
"The words have shifted into Scots but as that has happened, the words have also relocated | non-member |
public. A 38-year-old man has been charged with firearms offences following a police operation in Edinburgh. With 22% of the vote, PSOE came second, edging the anti-austerity upstarts of Podemos by one percentage point. That difference meant more than 20 extra seats for the established party of the left in Spain and a lifeline for Mr Sanchez, under internal pressure for the leadership of the party.
Now, six weeks after the elections, King Felipe VI has asked Mr Sanchez to form a government, after acting Prime | non-member |
to wear the ring of power and not have this need to be elevated above all else as if they were gods of some kind," he says.
He admits it's difficult, particularly for people at the top who will often have others telling them how great they are, and with their usually large salaries helping to boost their sense of self-importance.
Whole Foods has designed both its management structure and its pay to safeguard against these sorts of dangers.
Mr Mackey already shares the top job with Walter Robb, but the two of them are also part of seven member executive | non-member |
12% of the world's population rely on the fishing industry for their livelihoods. The majority of these people are in the developing world."
He added that trade in fish had grown exponentially in recent decades: "In 1976, fish exports amounted to only US $8bn. In 2014, it had reach US $148bn.
"Of this total, US $80bn was directly improving the finances of developing countries. That amount is higher than the net trade revenues of meat, tobacco, rice and sugar | non-member |
when they are in the hospital the home is not being paid.
"There were no sheets to change the residents' beds. Sometimes there were no pads to change them. Sometimes there was no tea bags for them during teatime."
Yousaf Khan's barrister said he wanted to apologise to Mrs Atkin's family and nothing could excuse "shameful and deplorable" conditions.
Mohammed Rahamatullah Khan, 39, of Zulla Road, Nottingham, admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act and | non-member |
ainable and highly competitive business able to trade profitably with other organisations".
It was hoped the arrangement would generate savings of £5m over the first five years of operation, by bidding for contracts with other public and private bodies.
Managing director Dave Hudson said "CoSocius has made progress in a number of areas and contributed to the success of other areas of both councils, however the changing environment meant that many aspects of the company's original agreed business plan needed revisiting."
Cheshire East Council Labour spokesman Sam Corcoran criticised the | non-member |
league should look to expand to Australia, according to Wakefield director of rugby John Kear. Pete Wishart said an unelected chamber had no place in a modern society.
The comments came after Lord Sewel resigned from the House of Lords after being filmed allegedly taking drugs with prostitutes.
Prime Minister David Cameron is resisting calls from other parties for wider reforms.
A report by the Guardian suggested Mr Cameron intended to press ahead with plans to appoint more Conservative peers to the House of Lords.
At present there are 2 | non-member |
-back league postponements, January signings Antonio German and Aidan Nesbitt are still waiting to make their debuts.
St Johnstone defender Brian Easton misses out again with a gashed foot but will resume training later this week.
New signing Plamen Krachunov could feature if international clearance arrives in time.
The Bulgarian provides cover for skipper Dave Mackay, who has been ruled out for the rest of the season with a hip problem.
Saints' planned visit to Firhill on Boxing Day was postponed after torrential | non-member |
identified and samples have been taken with a view to initiating prosecution proceedings."
The incident was first reported on Friday by members of Glenavy Conservation and District Angling Club.
Club member Barbara McGeown said the incident was "very disappointing". Almost 400 trout have died in what has been described as a "major fish kill" in a County Antrim river, the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) has confirmed. The Met Police said the man was followed on foot after officers tried to stop a car in Kingsland Road, Hackney, at | non-member |
out. Sometimes it rains so much, especially in the financial nerve centre of Mumbai, that the city is flooded.
But none of those troubles take away from India's romance with the monsoons, an association so old classical poets have written odes to it.
For the great Sanskrit poet Kalidasa, it was on rain that "impregnation in the entire universe" rests.
Rain makes "earth a comely courtesan/attired in the green silk of grass/wearing silver ornaments of sprung-up | non-member |
ating the delicacy.
"When people come in and immediately squirt Hoisin Sriracha sauce, it completely destroys the decisions we make about the soup. I do not put sauce in my soup," the US chef said in a running commentary that was rebutted by many diners, who pointed out that they enjoyed hot sauce, particularly with their beef slices.
"Hey Vietnamese people, guess what? We have been eating our pho the wrong way," said Facebook user Klot Kleng Dong.
"This is coming from a | non-member |
ald described the findings as clear and measured.
She called for a new "culture of co-operation" between the Garda and GSOC.
In a statement, Garda Commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan said: "An Garda Síochána acknowledges Judge Cooke's finding that 'the evidence does not support the proposition that actual surveillance... took place and much less that it was carried out by members of the Garda Síochána'."
"An Garda Síochána also acknowledges that the working relationship between | non-member |
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The world's largest platinum producer suspended its operations last week after thousands of people protested outside one of its Rustenburg mines. Striking miners at a Lonmin-owned platinum mine in South Africa have agreed to return to work on Thursday after accepting the latest pay offer. Lotto Soudal's Greipel, 34, won the 100.5-mile stage from Glasgow to Castle Douglas ahead of Australian Caleb Ewan and Dutch rider Ramon Sinkeldam.
Cavendish, 3 | non-member |
is warning the sport not to squander the game's return to the Olympics. The 24-year-old prop has played 50 games since joining the club in the summer of 2014 from Buenos Aires-based San Cirano.
Lancuba has not added to his five international caps during his spell in Jersey, with his last Pumas appearance against Brazil in May 2013.
He may not play again in a Jersey shirt having been injured in a recent match against London Scottish.
He is the second prop this week to confirm he is leaving the island | non-member |
in Yemen - a rival of al-Qaeda - said it was behind the assault, which it said had killed 50 troops.
IS has carried out a string of bombings and attacks since the group emerged in Yemen in late 2014.
A Saudi-led coalition has been fighting Houthi rebels and its allies in Yemen since the government was forced into exile in March by a Houthi rebellion.
Since then, the fighting has left at least 5,700 people dead, about half of them civilians | non-member |
passion born from burlesque and the artistry and theatricality - from the stagecraft to the costume and underwear that they wore." Celebrity underwear has long attracted interest - and big bucks - with garments once owned or worn by the likes of Ed Sheeran, Kelly Brook and Dame Helen Mirren a big attraction at auctions. Montagner drowned in the river where the crew had been recording scenes for Brazil's most popular soap opera.
His death has caused shock and consternation in the country, where millions watch TV | non-member |
Higgs has signed a one-year extension to his contract with the National League club. Daniel, four, was starved and beaten for months before he died in March 2012 at his Coventry home. His mother and her partner were jailed for his murder.
Dr Mohammad Pathan did not provide a "safety net" when teachers raised concerns over Daniel's appearance and weight.
He was found guilty of misconduct last month but remains fit to practise.
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service said the warning, imposed on Wednesday, | non-member |
blown hot and cold this season, but currently is showing his normal assassin-like coolness in front of goal.
There is no doubt that we only see glimpses of what City are truly capable of and they are certainly suspect at the back. However, it's Aguero who is providing the weaponry to retain their interest in the title.
What must concern Arsenal, even if they won't admit it, is that if City can get Yaya Toure, David Silva, Raheem Sterling and Kevin de Bruyne, not to mention Vincent Kompany, | non-member |
comparison with other religious groups.
But IS says Christians should not be accorded protection because they are part of a "Jewish- and Crusader-led conspiracy" against Islam. It has forced Christians living in territory it captures to choose between conversion, payment of a protection tax known as jizyah, or death.
In February 2015, IS released a video showing the beheading on a beach in Libya of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christian migrant workers who had been kidnapped in the city of Sirte.
Islamic State | non-member |
the oven. Firefighters in London rescued a family's Christmas dinner after the oven caught fire while the turkey was roasting. The plan, to be announced by the National Police Chiefs Council, will see staff pass on police terror training and advice to colleagues.
The initiative will extend an existing scheme, which currently sees police train around 100,000 workers a year.
Police said they need "everyone to play a part in keeping the public alert".
Det Ch Supt Scott Wilson, the national counter-terrorism co- | non-member |
floating in the North Atlantic off the west coast of the Western Isles.
The Icelandic scientists hope to extract data from the devices, which were fitted with GPS equipment usually used to track the movements of birds.
They had expected the devices to wash up in Norway. A "message in a bottle" scientific experiment has reached a Scottish island a year after it was dropped into the sea in Iceland. The university has been given permission to build its new business school at its Oxstalls site.
The business school is being moved from Cheltenham to Gloucester. It | non-member |
chickens and pigeons.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum condemned the "brutal and cruel act".
Last month, the emir ordered a group of men to clean streets for four hours a day as punishment for reckless driving.
It is not clear if the men who fed the cat to the dogs will also face prosecution.
Maj Gen Khalil al-Mansouri of Dubai police force's criminal investigation department warned on Tuesday that those convicted of animal cruelty could face jail terms and heavy | non-member |
it matters if politicians say things publicly into a microphone.
And we now have it on the record that the UK is willing in principle to attack Syrian government targets at the behest of the United States.
And this is not just his view: he said it was the prime minister's view too.
This is a departure because until now overt UK military action in Syria has been focused on attacking the so-called Islamic State group.
MPs voted to allow this, after a debate in December 2015.
Since then, the Ministry of Defence says | non-member |
engage in sexual activity and making indecent photographs of a child.
Mr Fox denies all of the charges.
St Albans Crown Court heard that the defendant befriended the boy and would buy him lunch on Saturdays before driving him to the empty car park.
Samantha Cohen, prosecuting, said that Mr Fox started by kissing the boy in his car before later performing a sex act on him.
The court heard that Mr Fox, of Northumberland Avenue, Reading, allegedly committed the offences between October 2013 and October 2 | non-member |
ingement, conspiracy to commit money laundering and wire fraud.
An extradition hearing for Mr Dotcom and three of the other accused is scheduled to take place in Auckland in June. Kim Dotcom's US lawyer has denied that a guilty plea by one of the Megaupload's former employees has major implications for his client's case. The 26-year-old man is in a "serious" condition after the assault in Netherton Way, Bootle.
Police were called to Royal Liverpool University Hospital after the man | non-member |
one of the main reasons which attracted me to West Ham," Byram said of Hammers boss Slaven Bilic.
"I think he's done unbelievably well with his team so far, so I'm really looking forward to working with him and his staff.
"My uncle and my cousin are big West Ham fans and have bought their tickets for the new stadium. My uncle was down here yesterday getting a shirt with my name on the back." West Ham have signed full-back Sam Byram from Leeds United for an undisclosed fee. Calls for | non-member |
aim was to "stabilise the legitimate authority" of President Assad.
In a separate interview with the BBC, Mr Fallon dismissed recent media reports that a new vote on Syria has been dropped, saying it would be held when "we are pretty sure we can win".
"We've had 30 British holidaymakers slaughtered on a beach in Tunisia, and it's not right morally to rely on French or Australian or American aircraft to keep our streets safe," he told the BBC's defence correspondent Jonathan Beale.
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see the Burmese government take 50% of the value of aircraft recovered, while Mr Cundall's share will be 30% and his agent 20%.
Mr Cundall said: "It's about preserving aeroplanes. The Spitfire was a very special aeroplane, it saved our neck in 1940 in the Battle of Britain.
"Built as a tool of war I am hoping to use them as a tool of friendship to bring Burma and Great Britain closer together." A team of experts is heading to Burma | non-member |
The 4km-wide icy dirt-ball known as 67P is now throwing off copious amounts of material as it warms up on its journey in towards the Sun.
Rosetta is keeping a safe distance, but continuing to image the evolving body.
And in a series of new pictures from its Osiris science camera system, the probe watched the jet burst from the duck-shaped comet's "backside".
This is the region dubbed Imhotep, after the Ancient Egyptian god of wisdom and medicine.
The event | non-member |
had been abducted because he had not taken his travel document, which is necessarily for cross-border travel, with him, and the Hong Kong authorities said they had no record of his having crossed into the mainland.
The UK has said Mr Bo was probably "involuntarily removed" to China, calling it a "serious breach" of the handover treaty that undermined the principle of "One Country, Two Systems".
1. Lui Bo, general manager, goes missing in Shenzhen, 15 October
2. Cheung Jiping, business manager, | non-member |
ks, and the dos and don'ts:
Unless your optician has said you can, it is a bad idea to leave your contacts in when you go to bed.
Most contact lenses are not designed for this and extended wear can aggravate the cornea - the transparent outer covering of the eye - leaving it more vulnerable to infection.
Water can carry and spread a rare but dangerous infection called acanthamoeba keratitis. People who wear contacts are particularly susceptible to the infection, which attacks the cornea. Water-borne bacter | non-member |
mlin.
It has emerged that Mr Kushner not only spoke to Moscow's ambassador in December 2016, but met the head of a US-sanctioned, Russian state-owned bank.
The New York Times and the Washington Post report that Mr Kushner allegedly discussed setting up a back channel with the Russian ambassador.
Investigators reportedly believe Mr Kushner has relevant information, but is not necessarily suspected of a crime.
He will be the closest person to the president quizzed in the ongoing congressional inquiry and will | non-member |
competitive location for manufacturing.
In the last decade, manufacturing grew gradually from 2005 to 2008, at which point it took a dive in the financial crisis, in common with the rest of the economy.
It recovered from 2010 until the start of 2012 and its growth has been volatile since then.
The sector is still below its pre-crisis peaks, unlike the service sector, which is well above its pre-crisis level.
Meanwhile, carmakers have also revised down | non-member |
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Japanese carrier ANA lost some 1.4bn yen ($15m; £9.5m) in revenue through January's disruption alone. The US airline regulator has approved a plan to redesign the lithium-ion batteries of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Konta, who has described Grand Slam champion Williams as her idol, won in straight sets 6-4 6-2.
"Right now it is still very much a blur," said Konta.
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ing costs offshore.
The ACCA report warns executives "not to throw the baby out with the bathwater" when they are cutting costs.
"Where redundancies are inevitable, manage them carefully to account for skills-gap impact, and ensure readiness for future growth when the oil price rebounds," it said.
"The inevitable short-term fire-fighting should not come at the expense of the long view."
The PwC reports also warned firms with spending power against buying up too many oil reserves, as | non-member |
England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The government says it has asked experts to examine how to tackle self-harming and related issues in schools.
The NHS figures show the number of hospital admissions rose from 22,978 in 2012-13 to 28,730 in the following year.
Figures for Scotland were not available.
According to the National Association of Head Teachers and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, spending cuts to local services have left schools without as much expert medical help as | non-member |
to Client C, who accepted - which Ms Winter denies.
Ms Shall told the hearing: "Helen Winter offered client C and me a dab of MDMA, which I declined. Helen Winter and client C consumed the MDMA."
She said that after she left the club she felt "awful" about what she had witnessed and wanted to tell her boss, but was persuaded not to with Dr Winter telling her the clients had "had a good time and nothing had come of it".
She told the hearing: "I went to colleagues and they advised | non-member |
walking off the highway, but he "agitated the situation".
The officer, Daniel Andrew, is seen on the video forcing her to the ground, briefly struggling with her before repeatedly punching her.
A few moments later, a plainclothes officer enters the picture and helps his colleague put the woman in handcuffs.
The officer could still face criminal charges. Ms Pinnock will be interviewed by the local prosecutor's office within a few weeks.
In a search warrant made public last month, police said Ms Pinnock had pushed Mr Andrew as | non-member |
level in terms of human rights," citing "harrowing incidents of torture and deaths in police custody".
"Egypt's notorious state security forces are back and operating at full capacity, employing the same methods of torture and other ill-treatment used during the darkest hours of the Mubarak era," says Amnesty's Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui.
Torture methods, the report says, include the use of electric shocks, rape and handcuffing detainees and suspending them from open doors. | non-member |
's bodies. She thinks that public entities like Makerere University "shouldn't pick and choose when to moralise".
"Recently a girl jumped out of a window to near-death, after a friend allegedly tried to rape her," she continues.
"Makerere did not issue a statement. Why are they now suddenly enraged?"
Uganda is caught up in rapid social change.
It takes only a short time for the latest trends seen in American films and pop music videos to arrive on the streets of Kampala.
Ripped jeans | non-member |
, he is simply preparing the TSA villa to look after more seized tortoises. Madagascar's conservationists are working in secrecy to protect one of the world's most beautiful tortoises from poachers, writes journalist Martin Vogl. A 20-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman were both arrested at an address in Bow on Friday on suspicion of attempted murder.
A 17-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday night following the attack on suspicion of attempted murder.
He was released on bail | non-member |
ry (Coventry City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Foul by Gary Madine (Bolton Wanderers).
Jordan Willis (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Ruben Lameiras (Coventry City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Coventry City. Jack McBean replaces Kyel Reid.
Corner, Coventry City. Con | non-member |
events rarely runs smoothly.
London had spiralling costs, security concerns, fears over terrorism and complaints about tickets and yet the Olympics will be remembered as a joyous celebration of sport and success. In South Africa, the headlines were about legacy, or the lack of it, crime, poverty and human rights issues. The issues were endless when Delhi hosted the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Brazil is next in line.
So often the glory and golden moments created by the sport wipe away the memory of a troubled build-up. To some, the Confeder | non-member |
last summer, Froch engaged in the most gruelling sequence of fights of any British boxer in living memory.
Not since Jack 'Kid' Berg was sticking it to New York's finest in the 1930s had a British fighter tried to chew on so much.
There was the last-gasp, come-from-behind knockout of former middleweight king Jermain Taylor, in true Rocky style. There were demolitions of Arthur Abraham and Lucian Bute. There were two ding-dong fights against Mikkel Kess | non-member |
, for Twenty20)
Ins: Callum Taylor (YTH), Liam Gough (trial until May, will be registered for first team), Aron Nijjar (trial, June-Sep), Saf Imtiaz (trial, 2015 season), Daniel Lawrence (YTH), Adeel Malik (three-month contract from May), Liam Dawson (Hampshire, loan from 6-18 July); Ravi Patel (Middlesex, loan from 18 July-7 August)
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"The DfE figures in fact show clearly that pupils from families on below average incomes are far less strongly represented in grammar schools than non-selective schools."
Prof Sullivan believes that there was no evidence that grammar schools would tackle educational inequality and increase social mobility.
Out of all manifesto plans, she suggests this policy is the one as least likely to achieve its stated aim.
The Conservative Party said: "As our manifesto says, official research shows that slightly more children from ordinary, working class families attend selective schools as a percentage of the school intake compared | non-member |
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While the arc is broadly true, Hollander compresses and condenses events, even creating composite characters to keep up the momentum.
Here's what's true, and what isn't.
The first act of the script focuses on Madonna's pre-fame band The Emmys, which she formed with her boyfriend Dan Gilroy and childhood friend Stephen Bray, who went on to co-write Into The Groove, Express Yourself and True Blue.
Their name derived from Madonna's childhood nickname, and video footage of their scra | non-member |
such as the income from their visitor centre, shop and cafe.
For the Shetland Distillery Company, a visitor centre was not a viable option because of the remoteness of their base on the Unst, the most northern of the Shetland islands.
Instead the four founders have opted to distil gin, as a means of generating income while they wait for the whisky to mature, due to the lower start-up costs of around £110,000.
Stuart Nickerson, 59, has worked in the whisky | non-member |
mented or vandalised as they make their way along the gritty streets but he says the company has tested them over thousands of miles in Tallinn, London and the United States without suffering major mishaps.
It may succeed, it may not, but Starship Technologies is just one of a number of Estonian startups, many of them with Skype connections, that make this one of Europe's most energetic tech clusters.
Even if they have no connection with the company - which was bought by eBay in 2005 and then sold on to | non-member |
requires the government to promote an inclusive education system.
HRW said the government should adopt a new policy and legislation that would ensure equal learning opportunities for people with disabilities.
However, the education department said it was working hard to improve data-gathering and screening that would help children with disabilities to go to "neighbourhood schools and receive support in inclusive settings from an early age". An estimated 500,000 disabled children are being excluded from South Africa's education system, US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) says in a report. | non-member |
es Scotland said the action was "hugely disappointing" at a "critical time" for students.
The union has threatened to strike three days every week if the dispute is not settled.
Further proposed strike dates are:
EIS general secretary Larry Flanagan said: "Lecturers have shown great patience in waiting for colleges to honour the deal that was agreed last year.
"However, after more than a year of waiting and watching college managers talk down the agreement that they freely signed up to, Scotland's FE lecturers have simply had enough. | non-member |
us) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Sami Khedira (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andrea Rispoli (Palermo).
Corner, Palermo. Conceded by Alex Sandro.
Foul by Andrea Barzagli (Juventus).
Alessandro Diamanti (Palermo) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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Huw Jenkins also bears responsibility for Swansea's situation.
"He's as culpable as the owners," he said. Ex-Swansea City and Wales winger Leighton James says the silence from the club's owners after Bob Bradley's sacking, "frightens" him. Regulator Ofgem found the company had blocked 40,000 customers from moving to other suppliers.
Refunds totalling £110,000 will be paid to customers who lost out financially as a result.
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Roger Thomas told the court he had "absolutely no doubt" that Hamilton suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, but since his arrest and subsequent treatment he had shown significant recovery.
Hamilton's barrister, Geraint Walters, said the killing of Ms Durrant had been "a tragedy that no-one saw coming".
Judge Keith Thomas said Hamilton had thought of leaving the property to escape the demons but that would have "left her unprotected and the entities would have got her and a fate worse than death". A man cut his partner's | non-member |
ised now. As I travelled by road there, I saw checkpoints where people were having their temperature taken and were washing their hands.
"Fortunately the world has received a wake-up call - but the response was slow at the beginning." A leading malaria control expert has said efforts to contain the disease may be jeopardised by the Ebola crisis. Spain said there had been a "worrying delay" in executing plans agreed by eurozone leaders last month.
The main provision would allow the future European bailout fund, the ESM, to pour money directly | non-member |
Mr Trump's remarks echoed a controversial speech last month which many Democrats condemned as a call for Mrs Clinton's assassination.
Speaking in North Carolina, he claimed that Mrs Clinton wanted to abolish the second amendment, adding: "By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the second amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know."
The Trump camp later said he was referring to action through the ballot box, not violence.
The latest comments came just hours after Mr Trump | non-member |
In 1994, for example, the music industry body claimed that the Lion King soundtrack had sold 7 million copies. SoundScan, which compiles the charts, contested the actual figure was 4.9 million. It turned out the RIAA had counted records that had been shipped to stores, but were still sitting on shelves and in warehouses (it also counts music distributed by non-retail record clubs, mail order houses, specialty stores and direct marketing sales).
So while you should take Jay-Z's figures with a pinch of | non-member |
flag".
A few hours' work uncovered a previously unknown bug in the camera's core software that Mr Turner was able to exploit.
"It meant we were able to do things with it that we really should not be able to do," he said. "At that point it was pretty much game over."
The attack the pair developed revealed the internal passwords for the network the camera sat on. Knowing that allowed attackers to join the network with the same privileges as all the members of my family. Maybe that's why my network security system did not spot the intrusion.
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climate change was a disadvantage to an animal, because the smaller birds had a lower survival rate, he added.
The scientists found that over the course of 30 years, the date of the snow melt in the Arctic had advanced by more than two weeks.
Meanwhile, the birds produced smaller and smaller offspring - probably because the chicks missed the main food supply at the time of the thaw.
The birds pay the price when they arrive in Africa after their long flight.
Analysis of the diet of the red knot in its winter home found that individuals | non-member |
riot Ryan Day stays in the world's top-16 and qualifies for the World Championship.
Victory for Williams would have moved him from 22 in the world into the top-16 and offered an automatic place in the draw for the tournament in Sheffield, which starts on 15 April.
The two-time champion will now have to win three best-of-19-frame preliminary matches in the qualifying event at Ponds Forge in Sheffield from 5-12 April if he is to be in the 32-man | non-member |
of my colleagues left their jobs because the market is dead," Mr Saeedi, 33, says.
Iran's housing sector shrank 13% in the year to March 2017, while the country's overall economy grew by almost 6.6%, estimates International Monetary Fund.
That growth came mostly from increased oil exports following the lifting of sanctions.
For young Iranians like Ali Saeedi there is no shortage of promises these days.
Tehran Mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, who is running | non-member |
to hosting more than 3,000 participants, of which 1,200 are chief executives or company chairs and more than 50 are world leaders.
This year, the likes of Matt Damon, Will.i.am and Shakira will be jostling for pole position against Bill Gates, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Theresa May.
Donald Trump's fast-approaching reign as US president, the Brexit vote and climate change are likely to be among the big themes.
As you can imagine, there are lots of meet | non-member |
on holiday in Dubai. 14 December 2015 Last updated at 10:24 GMT
In this method, data is sent at the best time, potentially making signals much faster even in busy locations.
BBC Click's Vieri Capretta spoke to Aleksandar Kuzmanovic of the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University about the results of their experiments.
More at BBC.com/Click and @BBCClick. Researchers at Northwestern University have been working on using Radio Digital Signals (RDS) to improve w | non-member |
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He repeated his call for the government to grant EU nationals living in the UK the right to stay in the country after Brexit - a commitment the government says it wants to make as long as it can secure a reciprocal deal for Britons living abroad.
And he criticised Mrs May over the UK's response to the migrant crisis affecting Europe: "At every stage of the biggest refugee crisis since the end of the Second World War, she has dragged her feet.
"As Europe has struggled with the enormity of it, Britain has looked wrapped up in its | non-member |
ton shirts, especially in the mud and rain, although it's fascinating to look back at the pictures.
Gone now, too, are the days of wearing men's rugby kit - at international level at least - and that is just fantastic.
Rugby kits have definitely improved over the years and I'm really excited that this season, for the first time in my England career, I'll be wearing kit designed specifically for women in the 15-a-side game.
This summer, the Rugby Football Union awarded professional contracts to | non-member |
come to characterise the response of the international community to the war in Syria...
"Increased arm transfers hurt the prospect of a political settlement to the conflict... and have devastating consequences for civilians," it says, in what correspondents say is a pointed message to foreign powers. Syria's war has reached "new levels of brutality", the UN says, with evidence of fresh suspected massacres, sieges and violations of children's rights. Ronaldo, back from a knee injury picked up with Portugal during the Euro 2016 final, | non-member |
one of four failed shots at goal.
In beating Toulon for the first time in four attempts, Scarlets kept their qualification hopes alive, albeit with Pool 3 leaders and defending champions Saracens beating Sale later in the day.
Toulon's losing bonus point ensured they stayed second behind champions Saracens with Scarlets third, two points behind the French club.
The hosts dictated the pace for most of the opening period and were rewarded when the pressure on Toulon's defence earned Patchell the chance to open the scoring with a | non-member |
Goal! Wycombe Wanderers 0, Fulham 2. Denis Odoi (Fulham) header from the left side of the six yard box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Lucas Piazon with a cross.
Substitution, Fulham. Ryan Sessegnon replaces Matt O'Riley.
Corner, Fulham. Conceded by Adam El-Abd.
Attempt saved. Aboubakar Kamara (Fulham) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved | non-member |
tell us where our darling daughter, and Ali's loving sister, is.
"I have always said that the not knowing is the hardest thing for the family to bear."
The four men, who are all in their 50s and from the York area, were arrested in March and April of last year as part of a review of the initial investigation into the case.
North Yorkshire Police said up to 20 detectives and police staff had worked full-time on the review for more than two years at a cost of nearly £800,000 | non-member |
an uprising in the French colony of Algeria that would eventually lead to the country's independence.
In Women of Algiers version O, Picasso has distilled all of these ingredients into one large-scale painting of great quality: a study not only of the Arabesque, but also a serious enquiry into the nature of colour, line and composition.
Experts believe the investment value of art is behind the high prices.
"I don't really see an end to it, unless interest rates drop sharply, which I don't see happening in | non-member |
Bryce who left to go surfing from Machrihanish beach near Campbeltown.
A large area of sea and shore line was combed after the alarm was raised at lunchtime on Monday.
It involved RNLI lifeboats from Campbeltown, Islay and Red Bay and Coastguard rescue teams from Campbeltown, Southend, Gigha, Tarbert and Port Ellen as well as the Coastguard rescue helicopter based at Prestwick.
Mr Bryce had last been seen in the St Catherines area of Argyll. An | non-member |
would apply to all developments of five homes or more.
Similar schemes operate in the rest of the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
The departments commissioned the research from Heriot Watt University and Three Dragons Consultancy.
It concluded that introducing a scheme "with a single percentage of affordable housing across Northern Ireland will not work given current market conditions".
It added that a scheme could be considered for greater Belfast but that "timing, percentage target and form of provision is best left to local decision makers".
That suggests that it would be decision for councils | non-member |
wed and irresponsible approval of the first genetically engineered animal for human consumption, it's clear that there is no place in the US market for genetically engineered salmon".
There are also uncertainties over how long it will take for the salmon to be produced in sufficient numbers for marketing.
Dr Alison Van Eenennaam, an animal geneticist at the University of California, Davis, said this process could take a couple of years.
"Legally it could appear on a food plate tomorrow in the US but you've got to grow | non-member |
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He said: "It's basically a glorified catapult but you've got a counterbalance on one end. Think of a see-saw with a big weight on one end.
"They are based loosely on the trebuchet design but I have detuned them as with a full weight, they would be quite lethal."
Cabbages are typically grown in Lincolnshire, where the fertile soil is ideal for brassica crops.
The county also hosted a bowling competition played with cabbages, as part of celebrations | non-member |