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Party leader Peter Robinson revealed on Saturday that DUP officers unanimously decided to expel her for allegedly bringing the party into disrepute.
The decision followed her public criticism of the selection of Emma Pengelly as an MLA for South Belfast.
Ms Patterson told the BBC she stands over her criticism of the party.
Ms Pengelly, a former adviser to Mr Robinson, was chosen by the party ahead of Ms Patterson in September to fill the South Belfast assembly seat vacated by Jimmy Spratt.
The party used the co-option system, which allows parties to replace departing MLAs with a party colleague without a by-election, to put Ms Pengelly in place.
Thirty days after her appointment as an MLA, Ms Pengelly was handed a role as a junior minister in the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister. She has defended the system that allows for co-option.
Ms Patterson also said she had major difficulties with the party's decision to return to the Northern Ireland Executive after the publication of a report on paramilitaries last month.
She confirmed she received a letter from the party on Friday telling her she had been expelled.
But she said: "I stand over my criticism over the appointment.
"I wanted to do the job and had hoped to get the seat.
"You have to earn your stripes in a political party."
Asked if he was concerned that Ms Patterson would join the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV), Mr Robinson said: "It might give the TUV some cause for concern."
But she said she intends to continue her political career on Belfast City Council as an independent unionist.
"A weight has been lifted. My spirit is free and the shackles that have bound me have gone.
"I bear no ill will to Peter Robinson or the party that I have loved for 20 years."
Ms Patterson said she does not intend to join the TUV or any other political party.
"I have always said that if I leave the DUP I will not be going anywhere else," she added.
"I will be an independent unionist until I decide to stand down."
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Belfast councillor Ruth Patterson has said she will not appeal her expulsion from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
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BT Sport confirmed a power outage caused a brief loss of pictures and sound in the dying minutes of the game at White Hart Lane.
The match, touted as the biggest north London derby of a generation, finished 2-2.
BT apologised and said it was "investigating the root cause".
A spokesman said: "We are sorry for the temporary loss of picture and sound. This was due to a loss of power at the stadium."
BT Sport quickly displayed a technical fault message on screen, and when the pictures returned - initially without accompanying sound - it was just in time for fans to see a last-ditch tackle from Tottenham's Kevin Wimmer which prevented Arsenal's Aaron Ramsey from scoring a potential winning goal.
After the match, presenter Jake Humphrey told viewers: "What a pleasure that was, apart from the couple of minutes that you lost and apologies again for that."
The draw earned Arsenal a vital point as Spurs missed the opportunity to go top of the Premier League.
Fans took to Twitter to vent their frustration at missing the crucial minutes of added time.
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Television viewers of the Premier League clash between Arsenal and Tottenham were left frustrated as a power cut hit the north London stadium.
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The 27-year-old, who emerged through the club's academy, scored 827 runs in County Championship Division Two last season, at an average of 48.64.
He has also been in good form in 2017, scoring five fifties and a century in four-day games and 234 runs in seven appearances in white-ball cricket.
"I've been here since I was 13 so it's great to be able to continue my career with Northants," Newton said.
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Opener Rob Newton has signed a new two-year deal at Northamptonshire.
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Police carried out searches across the county and on the rail network after a suspicious death was reported at a property in Benenden on Thursday.
Kent Police named the woman as Caroline Andrews, 52, and said they were now treating her death as a murder.
Officers said the detained man, 54, was found in the London area and taken to hospital for treatment to injuries.
"A post-mortem examination of Mrs Andrews took place earlier today and the death is now being treated as a murder enquiry," a Kent Police spokeswoman said.
A police cordon remains in place outside the property, which is off the village's main street.
Mrs Andrews worked as a supply teacher at Benenden CE School in the village.
Head teacher Gill Knox said staff had been left shocked and saddened.
She said: "Caroline and her family live in the village and are well known to the school.
"Caroline has been a loved and well-respected supply teacher here for a number of years, who has enriched the lives of the many children she has taught.
"At the present time, we cannot comment on what has happened but our thoughts and prayers are with her family, and all who knew her and will miss her."
Neighbour Derek Catlin described Mrs Andrews and her family as "normal, very pleasant people".
He said Thursday was quiet in the village but police arrived at about 16:30 GMT with "an accumulation of police vehicles - probably three police cars".
Another Benenden resident, Karen Callaghan, said: "It's very sad for the village. Everyone knows everyone round here. The locals have been here a long time."
During the search, armed officers boarded a train in Gillingham.
Armed police held a train at Gillingham station for more than 90 minutes from about 21:00 GMT on Thursday.
Footage showed officers walking down the carriage holding guns, with one distressed passenger demanding to be let off.
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A man has been detained by police following an armed manhunt after a woman died in Kent.
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PC Christopher Lintern began the secret affair in 2015, six weeks after the police investigation ended, a force misconduct hearing was told.
It found he abused his position to establish an "improper relationship" which amounted to "serious corruption".
The victim said she was a "willing and equal partner in the relationship".
During the hearing, held on Friday, the panel heard Mr Lintern sent the woman a picture of his penis taken from a toilet cubicle while on duty at Bristol Crown Court as a witness in an attempted rape trial.
Panel members saw written evidence from Mr Lintern, who did not attend, in which he claimed the relationship was not an abuse of his position but a "workplace affair".
He said the woman, named only as X, "was not vulnerable" at the time when they met, and while he accepted his action was misconduct he denied it amounted to gross misconduct.
The panel concluded that while X did not regard herself as vulnerable, the officer had enough information "to reach a proper assessment that she was a vulnerable victim".
The report added: "The improper relationship with PC Lintern and subsequent investigation has caused X significant setbacks.
"While she was not aware of the impropriety of his actions and the certainty that they would lead to investigation if discovered, PC Lintern was, or should have been."
The woman's violent partner was later convicted and had a restraining order imposed on him.
Deputy Chief Constable Gareth Morgan said: "I welcome the decision of the independent misconduct panel to dismiss Christopher Lintern with immediate effect.
"He has betrayed the trust placed in him by the public and exploited a vulnerable victim of crime. There is no place for him in policing.
The panel resolved to dismiss PC Lintern without notice due to gross misconduct.
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A married police officer has been sacked for having a sexual relationship with a vulnerable victim of domestic abuse whose case he had worked on.
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Tom Bradshaw missed several chances for the visitors early on, including an effort which hit the home crossbar.
However, Bradshaw gave the promotion hopefuls the lead with a penalty following a George Cooper handball.
Crewe drew level when Brad Inman nodded in after Semi Ajayi headed on David Fox's free-kick and the home side held on for a point.
Walsall head coach Sean O'Driscoll told BBC WM:
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"I'm just really pleased with the level of performance once again. We could've been out of sight in the first 10 minutes, but that's a different Crewe side to what you usually see.
"Defensively, we were excellent. Yes I'm disappointed in the result, in the sense that we did enough to warrant getting more than a point."
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Crewe extended their unbeaten run to five matches as the relegation battlers held Walsall to a draw.
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The U's have cut their wage budget in favour of directing funds towards the academy, which Humes managed until replacing Joe Dunne as boss this week.
Colchester have yet to win a game this season, but five academy products have featured for the side in that time.
"That's the philosophy of the club, to continue to bring young players through. That won't change," he said.
"I would imagine that's one of the reasons I've been put in the role, because of my knowledge of what is coming through the system. I won't be afraid to put them in."
Macauley Bonne, Alex Gilbey, Frankie Kent, Sammie Szmodics and Drey Wright were all given first-team chances this term by Dunne, who left the club by mutual consent on Monday.
Defender Tosin Olufemi broke into the senior side last term, but he suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon in the summer.
Former Ipswich and Wrexham defender Humes, 48, arrived at Colchester as head of youth in 2009 and will take charge of his first game as manager against Walsall on Saturday.
"It's something I've never done before. I'm sure there will be nerves and excitement," he said.
"We want to implement what we've done over the last few days."
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New Colchester United boss Tony Humes has insisted the club's reliance on youth will continue.
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Muchelney was cut off by flood water for two months earlier this year and residents were reliant on tractors and boats to bring in supplies.
The proposed scheme would raise the first 500m of the Drayton Road from Muchelney by 60cm.
The plans are part of the 20-year Flood Action Plan with the council hoping it will secure access in future floods.
A council spokesman said the exact cost of the scheme "will not be known" until tenders for the work have been received.
Conservative councillor Harvey Siggs, cabinet member for Highways and Transport said: "Being cut off for so long had a massive impact on the community which is why this is one of the first actions in the plan being addressed.
"All solutions are expensive, and while no decision has been made this is our preferred option.
"Compared to the other options, this is relatively affordable and, depending on other factors like the weather, could be completed this year."
A decision on whether to proceed with the preferred scheme would be taken "before the end of July", the council said.
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A road in Somerset could be raised in a bid to protect a village from future flooding, the county council has said.
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Disappointed fans will also be offered $100 in the form of the app’s in-game currency, Pokecoins.
The event on Saturday had been touted as a chance for fans to come together and catch some of the rarest monsters on the hugely successful app.
But fans booed and chanted “fix our game!” and “we can’t play!" as executives from Niantic, the game’s creator, attempted to explain the problems.
At one point a bottle was thrown at a presenter on stage - it missed.
Pokemon Go was launched last summer and has since been downloaded over 750 million times, reportedly making more than $1bn in revenue. The game required players to walk around the real world in order to find monsters in different locations.
On Saturday, in Chicago’s Grant Park, fans had hoped to find some species of Pokemon that were otherwise not available or extremely rare.
Tickets to the event sold out within around 10 minutes of going on sale, leading to many tickets being resold at almost 10 times their face value.
But the festival succumbed to a combination of overwhelmed mobile networks, and several bugs that Niantic admitted were “on our side”.
“We know that this is not the day that we had all envisioned,” Mike Quigley, the firm’s chief marketing officer, told angry attendees.
“But we appreciate your patience.”
As well as the technical problems, long lines prevented many ticket holders from getting into the event for more than three hours.
“This is the worst time I have ever had doing anything,” tweeted one fan, who later left.
In an attempt to fix the issues, the company increased the radius of the event by a further two miles, meaning players could leave Grant Park in order to try and connect to the game and get access to the rare creatures.
And just before 6pm local time, attendees were told they would all get a Lugia - a Pokemon that had not been available on the game before, an announcement that drew big cheers from an otherwise dejected crowd.
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As many as 20,000 attendees at a Pokemon Go festival in Chicago are being offered refunds after technical glitches meant fans were mostly unable to catch anything - let alone “them all”.
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The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said families it had interviewed described people being shot dead by IS as they crossed the Euphrates River.
The NRC, that runs refugee camps near Falluja, said up to 50,000 people remained in the city.
Iraq's army began the fight to retake the city late last month.
Falluja lies just 50km (30 miles) west of Baghdad and has been held by IS since 2014. It is one of two remaining IS strongholds in Iraq.
Shakir al-Essawi, the head of Falluja's regional council, told Reuters people were trying to cross the Euphrates in refrigerators, cupboards and barrels.
"Our biggest fears are now tragically confirmed with civilians being directly targeted while trying to flee to safety," said Nasr Muflahi, the Iraq country director of the NRC, in a statement which said "armed opposition groups" were behind the shooting.
"This is the worst that we feared would happen to innocent men, women and children who have had to leave everything behind in order to save their lives."
Falluja: Embattled city of mosques and minarets
Final push for Falluja some way off
Islamic State group: The full story
Iraq's army said on Sunday it had all but encircled Falluja, with only the western bank of the Euphrates not under its control.
The latest area secured by Iraq's military, with the help of US-led air strikes, was the southern district of Naymiyah, Associated Press reported.
Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said last week that the offensive had been slowed down to protect people still inside Falluja.
Other Iraqi officials have said IS is offering stiff resistance as troops push towards the city centre.
In other developments:
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Civilians fleeing Falluja, an Iraqi stronghold of the so-called Islamic State (IS), are being shot as they leave, an aid agency says.
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30 September 2014 Last updated at 07:08 BST
As the summer draws to a close spiders often head indoors to escape the chilly weather.
Experts say that this year, they might be even bigger than usual, because the recent mild weather has meant there are more insects for them to eat.
But not everyone's a massive spider fan, and when there's a hairy arachnid poised above your bed when you're about to turn out the light, sometimes you've just got to send them packing!
So if you've ever wondered what's the best way to get rid of the critters - without hurting them - spider expert Simon Garrett, from Bristol Zoo, has the top technique.
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Spiders - love em or hate em, there's a good chance there's a few in your house this autumn.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that US firms created 223,000 new jobs in April, while the unemployment rate dropped to a seven-year low of 5.4%.
The Dow Jones jumped 267.05 points, or 1.49%, to 18,191.11.
The S&P 500 index rose 28.10 points to 2,116.10, while the Nasdaq added 58.00 points to finish at 5,003.55.
April's strong jobs increase followed a rise of just 85,000 jobs in March, when cold weather was blamed for hurting the US economy.
"This is one of the most encouraging jobs reports that we have seen in years, because it shows that the recovery in the US labour market is no flash in the pan," said Ranko Berich, head of market analysis at Monex Europe.
"Last month's figures were well below expectations, leading many to worry whether the cold winter would lead to a permanent slowdown in jobs growth. April's report puts these worries to rest," he added.
However, some analysts said the US Federal Reserve would want to see more signs that the recovery was being maintained before raising interest rates.
US benchmark interest rates have been near zero since late 2008 when the central bank slashed rates during the financial crisis.
US fast food firm Bojangles made a strong start when it debuted on US markets on Friday. Shares in the firm rose over 40% after initially pricing at $19 per share, which valued the restaurant firm at $680m.
Shares in credit card firm Visa were the day's biggest winner on the Dow Jones, rising over 4% after Bloomberg reported that it was in talks to buy its former subsidiary, Visa Europe.
But online staffing firm Salesforce.com suffered the opposite fate.
Shares in the company rose sharply earlier in the week amid rumours that the firm was going to be acquired by Microsoft.
But they declined by nearly 3% on Friday after online publication Recode said that Microsoft denied the reports, citing unnamed sources.
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(Close): US stocks ended sharply higher on Friday after official figures showed the US labour market rebounded last month.
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The body of David Miller, 56, was found at his home in Northampton last June.
Ian Cuthbertson, 49, Michael Hallett, 37, Joseph Catlin, 30, and Zena Kane, 35, all of no fixed address, deny murder.
The court heard Mr Cuthbertson had gone to the flat for "a bath, a change of clothing and to watch TV".
Mr Miller had been stabbed multiple times and crude attempts had been made to destroy his body during the attack at Patterdale Walk, Boothville, Northampton, on 14 June 2016.
He had been partially-dismembered.
Summing up at Northampton Crown Court, prosecutor Peter Joyce QC said the defendants had acted like "a pack of wolves".
He said the only possible verdicts were guilty of "murder, murder, murder, murder".
He told the jury: "It is not argued that what happened to David Miller wasn't murder.
"The question is whether one or all of these four defendants took part."
He called the killing of Mr Miller "a team job", saying that was why none of the accused had given evidence during the trial.
Mr Joyce dismissed a statement to police by Mr Cuthbertson - in which he denied he had been at the scene - as "lie, after pathetic lie, after pathetic lie".
He also accused Ms Zane of "crocodile tears" and "hypocrisy".
Solicitors for all four of the accused are due to sum up their defences on Monday.
The case continues.
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A homeless man accused of killing a man in his own flat was "petrified" when the attack was carried out, a court has heard.
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The small aircraft came down in a field at Steve Powell's farm at Cwmbach, Builth Wells, Powys, just before 12:00 BST on Sunday.
The men from Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, have been named locally as Scott Penlington and Nick Jefferies.
Mr Powell said the aircraft appeared to have "fallen out of the sky into our field".
"It is a terrible tragedy and we've never had anything like this before," he added.
"The police are examining the wreckage but we don't know exactly what happened."
Dyfed Powys Police said recovery work has now been completed and the emergency services left the scene on Tuesday.
A spokesman for the Independent Air Accidents Investigation Branch, which is leading the investigation, said the wreckage was being recovered to its headquarters at Farnborough for a more detailed examination.
He added safety recommendations may be issued to prevent similar accidents in the future, if any issues were identified.
One Direction singer Harry Styles is a family friend of Mr Jefferies after he once dated his daughter Emilie, also 22.
They remained friends with her father taking him up in his single-engine two-seater Cosmik plane.
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The owner of a farm where a microlight crashed killing two people has said the men had "no chance" of survival.
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The ship was greeted with fireworks and cheers from a crowd that had gathered at the Cocoli locks to celebrate.
The Panamanian President, Juan Carlos Varela, described the waterway as a route that would unite the world.
The president thanked the nearly 30,000 people who had worked on the canal's expansion.
Construction on the new lane for the canal, which runs for 77km (48 miles), began in 2007 and was due to finish in 2014.
But strikes and disputes over costs delayed the $5.2bn (£3.8bn) project.
Panama Canal expansion prompts safety concerns
The original Panama Canal was first used in August 1914. It was built by the US and handed over to local control in 1999.
The expansion allows a new, much-larger generation of container ships to pass through the isthmus.
Some 35 to 40 vessels transit the waterway everyday.
Panama hopes the expansion will increase the revenues it gets from the canal, reported to have been $2.6bn (£1.9bn) in 2015.
But the canal could face competition from a new passage in Nicaragua.
The controversial 278km (172 mile) scheme, being built by a Chinese firm, will be longer, deeper and wider than the Panama Canal.
Its construction started in 2014 and it is estimated to cost $50bn (£32bn).
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A giant Chinese container ship has become the first vessel to move from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean via the newly-enlarged Panama Canal.
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Prince Rogers Nelson left no known will and his assets are estimated to be worth about $100m (£68m).
The singer died at his Paisley Park compound outside Minneapolis, Minnesota, on 21 April.
His sister, Tyka Nelson, and half-siblings are the apparent heirs to his estate, authorities have said.
Ms Nelson and and Prince's half-sibling Alfred Jackson attended a hearing on Monday at the Carver County courthouse in Minnesota, where lawyers began surveying the singer's estate.
If no will is found, the state will determine how the money is divided up.
During the short hearing, Judge Kevin Eide formally appointed Bremer Trust National Association as the special administration to oversee Prince's probate case.
One attorney said there was an "ongoing search" for a will.
Investigators are still determining how the singer, songwriter and producer died.
Prescription painkillers were in the singer's possession when he died. But it is unclear what role, if any, those drugs may have played.
A law enforcement official confirmed to the Associated Press that investigators were looking into whether Prince died from a drug overdose and whether a doctor was prescribing him drugs in the weeks before his death.
They are also looking at whether a doctor was on a plane that made an emergency landing in Illinois less than a week before the singer died. He was taken to a hospital in Illinois, but was treated and released a few hours later.
A vault containing unreleased Prince songs was found at his estate and will be drilled open by the company with temporary authority over his estate, according to ABC News.
He told US TV programme The View about his unreleased music in 2012.
"One day, someone will release them. I don't know that I'll get to release them," he said. "There's just so many."
Enough music was apparently left behind to release an album a year for the next century.
His former recording engineer, Susan Rodgers, said: "We could put out more work in a month than most people could do in a year or more."
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The family members of pop singer Prince have begun the process of dividing up the American singer's sizeable assets.
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In a 2005 letter, the prince referred to "the most pressing and urgent problem" of tuberculosis (TB) in cattle, which was "caused and spread" by badgers.
He wrote: "I do urge you to look again at introducing a proper cull of badgers where it is necessary.
The Labour government later rejected a cull in the English countryside.
The revelations come from private letters sent by the Prince of Wales to Labour ministers a decade ago, which have been published after a lengthy legal battle.
Prince Charles wrote: "I, for one, cannot understand how the 'badger lobby' seem to mind not at all about the slaughter of thousands of expensive cattle, and yet object to a managed cull of an over-population of badgers - to me, this is intellectually dishonest."
In reply, Mr Blair said he could "personally see the case for culling badgers" but did not want to prejudge a decision by environment ministers".
The coalition led by David Cameron gave the go-ahead for pilot culls in England in 2013.
These are expected to resume for a third year in the Southwest this year and may be rolled out to other areas of England.
Other letters written by the prince reveal more details of his interest in agriculture.
He appealed for support for farmers and British-grown produce, and raised his "anxiety" about the country's lack of self-sufficiency in foods such as meat and vegetables.
He also mentioned "the enormous problem of climate change", praising "the remarkable leadership role" the government was taking in this area.
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Prince Charles asked the Blair government to consider the culling of badgers, historic documents reveal.
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Delegates voted 309 in favour and 183 against.
The vote followed a church-wide debate and consultations with all 45 presbyteries, which voted 31 to 14 in favour of change.
A further vote will be held this week on whether or not to extend ordination to ministers in same sex marriages.
Supporters said it was time for the church to be inclusive and recognise the "mixed economy" of modern Scotland.
Opponent warned that the move was contrary to God's law, would prove divisive and lead to resignations.
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The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has voted to allow congregations to ordain gay ministers who are in same sex civil partnerships.
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Investors offloaded technology companies, already under pressure following a shaky outlook from Apple, as well as consumer stocks such as cruise lines.
There were also disappointing results from Boeing, whose shares fell almost 9%.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended 1.4% lower at 15,944 points.
The S&P 500 dropped 1.1% to 1,882 points, while the Nasdaq Composite slid 2.2% to 4,468 points.
Shares in Apple fell 6.5% after the technology giant reported only marginal growth for iPhone sales.
Shares in aircraft maker Boeing suffered their biggest one-day loss in 14 years after saying that revenue and deliveries could fall in 2016. Boeing shares ended $11.40 lower at $116.61.
Facebook shares closed down almost 3%, but soared more than 12% in after-hours trading after more than doubling profits for the last three months of 2015.
US crude rose 2.7% to close at $32.30 a barrel in New York, while Brent crude jumped 4.1% to $31.10 a barrel in London. Oil prices also increased about 4% on Tuesday.
The US central bank said it was "closely monitoring" global economic conditions, but would not raise interest rates. It did so for the first time in almost a decade last month.
Since the Fed took action in December, oil has plunged, stock markets have swung wildly and investors have become more concerned that China's huge economy - a major driver of global growth - is losing momentum.
The Fed said US growth had slowed as exports fell because of the strong dollar.
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(Close): Wall Street sank on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve said US growth had slowed down.
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GM will buy Cruise Automation, a firm that creates self-driving technology.
Ford will set up a Silicon Valley-based subsidiary to invest in car-sharing and ride-hailing services.
Both have been making investments in technology to boost their role in the personal mobility market, that is moving away from driving.
GM has not disclosed how much it will pay for Cruise Automation, in a deal expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2016.
The company has been testing its self-driving cars in San Francisco and should help GM in its quest to beat Google to be the first producer of consumer-ready self-driving cars.
Cruise Automation will operate as an independent unit within GM's automated driving division.
"Fully autonomous vehicles can bring our customers enormous benefits in terms of greater convenience, lower cost and improved safety for their daily mobility needs," said GM president Dan Ammann.
Ford has been testing autonomous vehicles and ride-hailing services in London and Kansas City.
The new subsidiary - Ford Smart Mobility - will invest in these sectors further. In a statement, the company said: "Ford is aggressively pursuing emerging opportunities."
The unit will not initially be reported in Ford's earnings statements.
"Our plan is to quickly become part of the growing transportation services market, which already accounts for $5.4 trillion in annual revenue," said Ford's chief executive Mark Fields.
Ford Smart Mobility will be run by Jim Hackett, the former head of office furniture and technology supplier Steelcase.
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US carmakers General Motors and Ford have both announced strategies geared at taking on the tech world's growing influence in the car industry.
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Robert Munce, 47, was travelling along the A1 near Newark, Nottinghamshire, in November 2014 when he failed to see traffic was slowing down.
He hit Margaret Nile's car at 60mph, killing the 65-year-old and causing a series of other crashes.
At Nottingham Crown Court Munce admitted causing death by dangerous driving and was given four years.
He was also banned from driving for seven years.
The court was told the crash happened because Munce, of Dunster Walk, Immingham, North East Lincolnshire, was using his phone "for a prolonged period of time".
Det Con Paul Jaycock, from Nottinghamshire Police, said Ms Nile, of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, died because Munce was "needlessly distracted by his mobile phone".
"Margaret's family now have to try and rebuild their shattered lives. Their lives... have changed forever," he said.
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A driver using his mobile phone who crashed into the back of a car, killing a woman, has been jailed.
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Berlin is the latest city that has suffered a "terrorist attack" as a man driving a lorry ploughed into people at a German Christmas market, killing 12.
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The wax model belongs to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and is of Charles Talbot, Duke of Shrewsbury.
It is one of two masks in the museum's Treasured Possessions exhibition, 80% of which is taken from its vaults.
Death masks were "standard practice" for "eminent individuals", but co-curator Dr Victoria Avery said one using hair was "so unusual".
The duke's model may have been used for the head of his funeral effigy.
It is not known when Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam, acquired it, but it formed part of the art collection he bequeathed to Cambridge University in 1816.
The second death mask will also be seen by the public for the first time and is "incredibly rare", according to the museum.
It is of John Howard, a philanthropist and social reformer, after whom the Howard League for Penal Reform is named.
While examining Russian military hospitals he contracted typhus in Kherson, Ukraine, and died in 1790.
The plaster mask was created in Russia and survived the journey home to be given to Howard's executor, Samuel Whitbread.
His son gave the model to the museum in 1822.
The Fitzwilliam Museum's Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment features 300 objects from the 15th to 18th Centuries, including some of its "least-known treasures".
Co-curator Dr Mary Laven said: "Today... many of our acquisitions end up on the scrap-heap or boxed away.
"Before industrial mass production... the most significant things in life were hand-crafted in homes and workshops, customised for their owners."
Many of the items have not been shown before as the museum normally displays artefacts in the context of similar objects, a spokesman said.
"This is the first time we have been able to devote part of a gallery to mementos and funerary items of this type."
The exhibition runs from 24 March until 6 September.
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A "rare" 18th Century death mask, with eyebrows and eyelashes made from hair, is to go on display for the first time.
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The 26-year-old played 43 times for the Welsh side last season, scoring his only goal against Oxford in April.
The ex-Colchester, Dagenham and England Under-19 man has made 217 appearances in English football and also had a season with Dutch side VVV-Venlo.
"I'm pretty sure we'll be in and around (promotion places) because I know what this squad's capable of," said Elito.
He added to BBC Radio Cambridgeshire: "(Manager) Shaun Derry is very inspirational, just from the talks I've had with him and what he wants from his team. He wants them to work hard and be fit.
"He's been at the top level playing for QPR and Crystal Palace and having a manager who's been there and done that, you couldn't ask for any more because he knows what he's talking about."
Meanwhile, 22-year-old Danny Carr has left the U's after mutually agreeing to cancel his contract having only made six appearances for them since joining last summer.
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Cambridge United have signed Medy Elito on a two-year contract after the winger rejected a new deal at Newport County.
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The A465 Heads Of The Valleys Road was shut in both directions near Hirwaun, following the incident, which happened at about at 06:50 BST on Tuesday.
The spillage was between the junctions for A4059 Hirwaun Road/Brecon Road and B4276 Merthyr Road.
South Wales Police tweeted there was "only one minor injury".
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A busy road in Rhondda Cynon Taff which was closed after two lorries were involved in a crash, causing a fuel spillage, has reopened.
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The small letterbox was on top of a pole at the corner of Sir George Bruce Road and Erskine Wynd in Oakley.
It was removed from its mountings sometime between 18:30 on Tuesday 25 November and 09:30 on Wednesday 26 November.
Police have been pursuing a number of lines of inquiry and have appealed for witnesses.
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A postbox has been removed from its mounting and stolen from a Fife village.
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People served by the Rosemarkie transmitter will lose Radio Scotland, Radio Nan Gaidheal, and BBC national radio services for short periods.
DAB radio and TV services are unaffected.
The disruption is expected over the course of the day. BBC Scotland said it apologised for the loss of service.
Listeners in the Inverness and Inner Moray Firth area were expected to be the worst affected.
The final phase of disruption is expected to last for about two hours from 12:45.
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BBC radio listeners in the Highlands could find their service affected due to essential transmitter work taking place on Tuesday.
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But Jamie Dickens' WBA world super-bantamweight title hopes were ended as his jaw was broken by top pound-for-pound fighter Guillermo Rigondeaux.
The undefeated Cuban's huge left hook in the second forced Dickens to retire as Rigondeaux kept his crown in style.
Flanagan had to rely on the judges to win a unanimous decision.
The Englishman maintained his unbeaten record as all three judges agreed a 120-106 points success to ensure Flanagan earned a 31st successive win.
Durable Fana rallied after a fourth-round knockdown from a huge left hook but Flanagan's class ensured a third title defence, the second in a row decided on points.
The 27-year-old failed to impress in his defeat of Derry Mathews and he was rocked by a crafty veteran as Fana's forehead cut Flanagan's cheek in the fourth.
But he overcame that setback and now the man known as "Turbo" will hope for an all-Manchester unification clash with city rival Anthony Crolla, the WBA world lightweight champion, who fights Jorge Linares in September.
It is back to the drawing board for Dickens, though, after this step up in class against a fighter ranked fifth in Ring Magazine's latest pound-for-pound rankings.
"I'm not the best, but I'm the most complete," Rigondeaux said afterwards.
"I ripped his jaw out. All those guys that want their jaws ripped out, I'm here!
"Not 100 of those guys add up to 1 of me. I want hard fights. People make it boring [against me] once they feel my power."
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Terry Flanagan successfully defended his WBO world lightweight title with a battling points win over South African champion Mzonke Fana in Cardiff.
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Darren Manley stocked products with names such as King B, Cherry Bomb, Blow and Charly Sheen at his shop Red Eye on Oxford's Cowley Road.
They were described as research chemicals and herbal incenses.
He has now been handed a six-month suspended jail sentence by a judge at Oxford Crown Court, who also ordered £120,000 in fines and costs to be paid.
Oxfordshire County Council's trading standards team said the way the products were sold without health risk warnings was illegal.
The council started investigating the business in 2014 after doctors raised concerns about the products' effects upon people using them as drugs.
Jody Kerman, a trading standards manager, said the way the supposedly legal highs were sold meant they were not legal.
He said: "The products were labelled incorrectly and contained dangerous substances with no appropriate warnings or instructions for their safe use.
Manley, 36, of Curlew Place, Portishead, and his firm RAD Trading Limited each admitted eight counts of breaching the General Product Safety Regulations 2005.
Both were fined £20,000 and told to pay £40,000 in prosecution costs. Manley also had to forfeit all the illegal products and pay an £80 victims' surcharge.
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A company director who admitted selling "dangerous" so-called legal highs has been given a suspended jail sentence.
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Christopher Templeman and Gary Fraser struck either side of half-time for the impressive hosts.
Adrian Mallagaray put the game well beyond Elgin five minutes later with a tap-in, courtesy of another good ball from Templeman.
Neil Martyniuk put through his own goal with a misplaced header late on, but it would not spoil Montrose's day.
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Struggling Montrose dominated League Two leaders Elgin City en route to a 3-1 Links Park victory.
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Valdes, 32, has signed an 18-month contract at Old Trafford.
De Gea, 24, won United's player of the year award last season.
"Nobody is happy to be number two and Victor has to have ambition to beat David De Gea - but it shall be very hard for him," said Van Gaal.
Valdes had been training at United as he recovered from a serious knee injury.
De Gea has 18 months remaining on his present deal with United after signing for the club in 2011, but he has recently been linked with a move to Real Madrid.
However, the United boss says he will extend the player's terms with the club rather than succeed the 33-year-old Iker Casillas at Real.
When asked if he thought De Gea would stay, Van Gaal said: "I think so, yes. There is no problem for him to sign."
The Dutchman also does not see an issue with having two full Spain internationals in his squad fighting for one position.
"My ambition is that I have the best players who can collaborate with each other to form the best team in the world," he said.
"When we invited Victor in to have his rehabilitation at Manchester United, we did it for him and ourselves, so I could see if his quality is also still the same. He has confirmed both."
Valdes' arrival on a full-time basis is likely to mean the exit of previous back-up goalkeeper Anders Lindegaard.
Unbeaten in 11 games, United play Southampton with their manager able to pick from a virtually fully fit squad for the first time this season.
"We only have one player injured. Can you believe it?" said Van Gaal.
"I have to select, for the first time in my career at Manchester United, the 11 players and the 18."
Van Gaal confirmed England winger Ashley Young would be missing for between four and six weeks with a hamstring injury.
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Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal says he signed Victor Valdes knowing the former Barcelona goalkeeper will not be happy being back-up for fellow Spaniard David De Gea.
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Briton Froome, 32, won his latest Tour title on Sunday in Paris.
No rider has won the Tour and Vuelta in the same year since the race moved from April, to August and September in 1995.
"I've got the opportunity and I'm certainly going to go for it," Team Sky's Froome, who has finished second on three occasions in the Vuelta, said.
"The Vuelta is a race I love - it's vicious but it's three weeks that I enjoy. I've come second three times now and I'd love to win.
"To win both the Tour and the Vuelta in one year would be absolutely incredible."
The 2017 Vuelta - the Spanish race that is the third of the three Grand Tours along with the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France - begins on 19 August in the French city of Nimes and finishes three weeks later on 10 September in Madrid.
Froome could face competition in the general classification from many of the same riders who he beat to the yellow jersey in the Tour.
Romain Bardet, Fabio Aru, and Alberto Contador are all expected to be on the start line, as well as Vincenzo Nibali, who missed the Tour de France.
Froome has come close to winning the Vuelta on three occasions in the past - he finished just 13 seconds behind Juan Jose Cobo in 2011 while riding for team-mate Bradley Wiggins, before coming second to Contador in 2014 and Nairo Quintana in 2016.
Victory in this season's race would make Froome the first Briton to win Spain's national tour and only the third rider in history to manage the Tour-Vuelta double - but Jacques Anquetil's victory in 1963 and Bernard Hinault's in 1978 both came when the race was held in April.
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Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome has confirmed he will ride in the "vicious" Vuelta a Espana this year in pursuit of a historic double.
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Graham Wagg is named in the team - who have not won yet this season - despite suffering an arm injury in Bristol, while Craig Meschede returns.
Essex's Nick Browne has recovered from a groin strain suffered during his career-best 255 against Derbyshire.
Experienced seamer David Masters replaces Aaron Beard.
Essex are the only side in the division to have won twice this season.
Glamorgan: Rudolph (c), Wallace (wk), Bragg, Cooke, Donald, Lloyd, Wagg, Meschede, Salter, Van der Gugten, Hogan.
Essex: Browne, Mickleburgh, Westley, Bopara, Lawrence, Ryder, ten Doeschate (c), Foster (wk), Napier, Masters, Porter.
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Bottom-of-the-table Glamorgan make just one change against division two leaders Essex, despite their 125-run defeat against Gloucestershire.
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The latest Bank of Scotland purchasing managers index (PMI) found activity in the private sector dipped in November.
There had been modest growth in the previous month.
The bank's headline index, which measures changes in output in both manufacturing and services, fell to 49.8 from 50.9 in October.
Any figure below 50 suggests economic contraction.
The report found that the decline stemmed from the manufacturing sector, where the rate of contraction was the sharpest in just over three years.
However, service providers reported a slight rise in business activity.
The survey also indicated a fall in incoming new orders linked to a slowdown in the oil and gas industry.
Despite this, the number of people employed in Scotland's private sector grew, although the rate of job creation was said to be "weak".
Alasdair Gardner, Bank of Scotland regional managing director for Scotland, said: "The headline index fell below the crucial 50 mark in November as a slowdown in the oil and gas industry veered the Scottish economy into contraction.
"The drop in activity stemmed from declining new orders, which was affected by unfavourable exchange rates.
"However, this did not discourage firms from further adding to staffing numbers."
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The Scottish economy contracted slightly last month as a result of a downturn in the oil and gas industry, according to a report.
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The quartet appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court charged with conspiracy to conceal, disguise, convert or transfer criminal property.
Brenn Walters and Laura Perkins, both of Manor Court, Enfield, and Terri and Steven Robinson of Sterling Road, Enfield, did not enter pleas.
They were bailed and are due to appear at Woolwich Crown Court on 4 September.
Nine other men charged with conspiracy to burgle and conspiring to conceal or transfer the jewellery are also due to appear at the court on the same day to enter pleas ahead of a trial scheduled for November.
The nine men charged with conspiracy to burgle and conspiring to conceal or transfer the jewellery are:
It is alleged they entered Hatton Garden Safe Deposit in London's jewellery quarter, with the intent to steal.
The raid over the Easter weekend in April saw thieves drill a hole into the vault, before ransacking 73 safety deposit boxes and making off with the goods worth millions of pounds.
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Four people accused of offences in connection with the Hatton Garden jewellery raid have appeared in court.
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The bonfire, which is about 20ft (6m) high, has been built near the bottom of the Lecky Road flyover in the city.
Both Sinn FeÃn and DUP election posters were placed on it on Monday evening.
Police have advised motorists to consider alternative routes to the Bogside, other than the Lecky or Brandywell Roads.
Bonfires are traditionally set alight on 15 August in some nationalist areas of Derry to mark the Assumption.
The Catholic feast commemorates the Virgin Mary's death and assumption into heaven.
In recent years, efforts have been made to replace the bonfire tradition with family fun days and live music.
On Friday, police supervised the removal of bonfire material from Meenan Square.
Sinn FeÃn councillor Patricia Logue said the majority of Bogside residents were not in favour of the bonfire.
"This will cause a lot of disruption for local people and motorists, it's not the best place for this bonfire," she said.
"Someone could get hurt. Obviously, parents have a role to play in any young person's life, so they do have a judgement call to make.
"There's more work to be done, but there is excellent work ongoing by the community leaders in the Bogside and Brandywell area."
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A road in Londonderry is still partially blocked due to a bonfire being set up overnight.
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Several websites offering fatwas have recently been blocked, following a decree by King Abdullah.
The decree was seen as an attempt to reduce controversial fatwas issued by minor or ultra-conservative clerics.
Some of these have been a serious embarrassment to the Saudi authorities.
The Saudi newspaper, Arab News, said Islam Today had closed its fatwa pages in order to avoid closure of the website by the authorities.
The decree restricts the right to issue fatwas - usually translated as religious edicts, but sometimes carrying the status merely of advice - to members of an officially approved council of Islamic scholars.
King Abdullah is known to favour reform, but he has faced opposition from conservative clerics and some members of the Saudi ruling family allied with the religious establishment.
Ultra-conservative clerics have sometimes used fatwas to publicly oppose what they see as attempts to Westernise their society.
There have also been a number of controversial fatwas that have embarrassed Saudi reformers.
In one such instance, clerics suggested that the Saudi prohibition on mixing of the sexes could be overcome if a man were symbolically to become a woman's child by sucking on her breast or drinking her breast milk.
In other cases, more liberal interpretations of Islam sparked counter-fatwas by conservatives, leading to what some commentators have described as fatwa chaos.
Islam Today gave no explanation for why it had closed its fatwa section. As of 1300 GMT on Thursday, the closure applied only to the website's more popular Arabic-language section and it was still possible to access the smaller fatwa archive in English.
Salman al-Awdah himself was once a controversial figure, a hardline cleric who was imprisoned in the 1990s for inciting opposition to the Saudi government.
He has since reinvented himself as a moderate figure and has become one of Saudi Arabia's most influential religious figures, with a wide following through the media although he has remained outside the government-backed religious establishment.
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The popular Islam Today website, run by the Saudi cleric Salman al-Awdah, has closed a section that contains thousands of Islamic religious rulings, or fatwas.
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Frances Cappuccini suffered a fatal haemorrhage at Tunbridge Wells hospital after an emergency Caesarean in 2012.
The original NHS report into her death stated another woman had suffered a haemorrhage in Dr Nadeem Azeez' care.
It said he had mismanaged her resuscitation and it was recommended he have a period of supervised practice.
Consultant anaesthetist Errol Cornish was cleared of gross negligence manslaughter and Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust was cleared of corporate manslaughter last January.
The inquest at Gravesend Old Town Hall heard details of the earlier mistake had been removed from the report given to Mrs Cappuccini's family, the coroner and the strategic health authority.
Neil Sheldon, the family's lawyer, asked Karen Woods, the nurse who compiled the report, if she took it out.
"I don't remember personally taking it out," she answered.
He suggested to her that it was done "because, for the trust, it was an embarrassment".
Ms Woods denied this, saying it "would go against all my personal and professional integrity".
She went on to say no pressure had been applied to anyone at any stage to remove the section from the document.
The coroner will deliver his findings on Monday.
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A doctor caring for a woman who died following childbirth had made a mistake seven months earlier, an inquest heard.
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The 33-year-old was released by Wolves in May having made just six appearances last season in an injury-hit year.
His signing follows a brief trial period with The U's on their pre-season trip to Portugal earlier this month.
"It's an exciting place to be, a good club heading in the right direction," he told BBC Radio Oxford. "I want to play games and contribute."
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Oxford United have signed former Newcastle United and Wolves defender Mike Williamson on a one-year deal.
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Germany replace world champions USA as the number one team.
England came third at the SheBelieves Cup earlier in March after a 1-0 win over USA and defeat by European and Olympic champions Germany.
Northern Ireland rise four places to 55th, Wales move up one to 33rd and Scotland stay 21st.
It is the first time since March 2015 that USA have been replaced at the top of the table.
England Women will host Italy and Austria in April - their final home matches before the Euro 2017 finals this summer.
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England women have moved back up to fourth in the Fifa world rankings, overtaking Canada to equal their best ever position.
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The Care Quality Commission immediately moved all 48 residents out of Bentley Care Home in Liverpool.
Inspectors also found a disconnected call bell and dead flies and mouse droppings in the kitchen.
The home, which was run by Prasur Investments Limited, has since closed.
Debbie Westhead, CQC's deputy chief inspector for adult social care, described the home as "appalling".
It was officially rated "inadequate" in all areas, with residents' "lives, health and wellbeing" at significant risk.
She said: "We were left with no other option than to urgently remove their registration and work with Liverpool City Council to immediately relocate residents.
"I have no doubt that if Bentley Care Home stayed open, it would have been a case of when, not if, something awful and unavoidable would have happened."
During the visits in April and May, the CQC found medicines not being safely managed, night staff sleeping on duty and people smoking in the building.
A member of staff told inspectors that a call bell had been deliberately cut off to stop a resident ringing for help as it irritated the staff.
Environmental Health also closed its kitchen because of a serious rodent problem. Inspectors found dead flies in a potato peeler and mouse droppings on the floor.
The official report said: "There were no systems or processes in the home to ensure that the service provided was safe, effective, caring, responsive or well led."
The Bentley Road home had been placed in special measures in 2015 under its previous operator.
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A care home had its registration revoked and residents relocated after inspectors found rodents, faulty electrics and staff sleeping on the job.
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The defender, 26, has been strongly linked with a move to Liverpool, although the Anfield club said they ended their interest last month.
Southampton say they do not want to sell the Netherlands international.
Saints boss Mauricio Pellegrino said last week that Van Dijk had been training alone because he feels the player is "not 100%" mentally.
Van Dijk, who joined Southampton in 2015 from Celtic, travelled with his team-mates for a pre-season tour in Austria earlier this month but has been left out of Pellegrino's 25-man squad heading to France.
Southampton will play Saint Etienne in a friendly on Saturday as they prepare for their Premier League opener at home to Swansea City on 12 August.
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Southampton captain Virgil van Dijk has not been included in their squad for a training camp in France this week.
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The EBU light-heavyweight champion failed a drugs test on 12 March, following his unanimous points victory over Frenchman Patrick Bois in Paris.
Mikhalkin has been stripped of the belt he successfully defended three times, according to the European Boxing Union.
Meldonium was added to the World Anti-Doping Agency's banned list in January.
Over 100 athletes have tested positive for the drug, including former Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova.
On 25 March, Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko confirmed 27 Russian sportspeople had tested positive for meldonium this year.
The EBU's general secretary Enza Merchionne Jacoponi said: "Igor Mikhalkin tested positive for an illegal substance last month and, in accordance with the rules of the EBU, he was stripped of his belt.
"The illegal substance in question was meldonium, which is now on Wada's banned list but was not on the list until January of this year.
"We asked him if he had taken the drug, and he confirmed it. That is why no counter-analysis of a B sample has taken place."
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Russia's Igor Mikhalkin has been suspended for two years after testing positive for banned substance meldonium.
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Bentley was sent from the touchline as his side lost 2-1 at home to Cheltenham in a game for which he was only able to name five substitutes.
The defeat means the Shrimps have won just one of their last eight games in League Two.
"We've got problems in the squad, we've got problems off the field," Bentley, 40, told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"This is the worst it has been - in my opinion the next month is going to be the biggest in the club's history.
"We've got that much going on and there are things that need looking at on and off the field."
Brazilian businessman Diego Lemos bought the Shrimps on 1 September, taking over from Peter McGuigan, but the players were paid late in October because of "unexpected cash flow problems."
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Morecambe boss Jim Bentley is concerned about the future of the club over the next month.
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Fell, 22, who had surgery in October for testicular cancer and missed the start of this season after chemotherapy, scored an unbeaten 116.
Steven Croft top-scored with 78 as Lancashire registered 267-7 to drop to the bottom of the South group.
Worcestershire's victory keeps their quarter-final hopes alive.
They will need to overcome Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge on Monday to stand a chance of sealing a spot in the last eight of the competition.
Kyle Abbott led the way with the ball for Worcestershire in the must-win game, claiming the wickets of openers Tom Smith and Alviro Petersen on the way to figures of 3-56.
Lancashire's Luke Procter (47) shared a 99-run fifth-wicket stand with Croft on a day in which each of the top six batsmen reached double figures, although only Croft managed to notch a half-century.
While Worcestershire captain Daryl Mitchell lasted just three overs and five runs at the start of the hosts' response, his wicket saw Fell join the chase.
He brought up his maiden limited-overs century from 104 balls in a knock that included 15 fours.
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Tom Fell scored his first century since returning from cancer treatment to help Worcestershire beat Lancashire by four wickets in the One-Day Cup.
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Baghdad said the deployment was done without consultation and was a violation of national sovereignty.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu defended the move as routine troop rotation at a pre-established camp.
Mosul has been under the control of militants from the so-called Islamic State group since last year.
Turkey deployed hundreds of its forces to the town of Bashiqa to train Iraqi Kurdish forces fighting IS.
"Iraq has the right to use all available options, including resorting to the UN Security Council if these forces are not withdrawn within 48 hours," Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in a statement.
Mr Davutoglu wrote to Mr Abadi promising not to send further troops but stopped short of agreeing to a withdrawal.
Turkey enjoys close relations with autonomous Kurdish regions in Iraq, although it views Syrian Kurdish groups over the border as hostile, analysts say.
The fall of Mosul was a key moment in the rise of IS and a Iraqi government offensive to retake the city has been repeatedly put back.
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Iraq has threatened to go to the UN if Turkey does not withdraw soldiers it sent to areas near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul within 48 hours.
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Among her prizes were best female artist, best streaming song for Shake It Off and the ceremony's top honour, artist of the year.
Sam Smith won best new artist and accepted his trophy via a video message using a series of cards.
One Direction came away with two trophies, for best group and best touring artist, dedicating one of the awards to Zayn Malik, who left the band in March.
Other Brit winners were Coldplay who won best rock album for Ghost Stories, while Irish singer Hozier picked up best rock song for Take Me To Church.
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Taylor Swift dominated at the Billboard music awards winning eight of the 14 categories in which she was nominated.
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Forster, 23, had a year remaining on his contract with Hibernian, who won the Scottish Championship in 2016-17.
However, the former Plymouth loanee has left Easter Road in search of regular first-team football.
"It's great to have a player with as much experience as him at the age of only 23," manager Gary Johnson told the club website.
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Defender Jordon Forster has joined English League Two side Cheltenham from Scottish Premiership club Hibernian.
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The increase, which will come into effect on 1 April, marks the the first rise in the licence fee since 2010.
In October that year, the coalition government announced the fee would be frozen at £145.50 until 31 March 2017.
Last year, the government announced that it would rise in line with inflation from April 2017 for the next five years.
The Government is responsible for setting the level of the licence fee, which covers all BBC services and contributes to the costs of rolling out broadband to the UK population.
It also helps to fund the Welsh Language TV channel S4C and local TV channels.
Licence fee payers will receive a payment plan or a reminder reflecting the new amount when their licence is next due for renewal, the BBC said in a statement.
Those buying or renewing a licence after 1 April will pay the new fee.
Those already buying a licence on an instalment scheme which started before 1 April will continue to make payments totalling £145.50 until their licence comes up for renewal.
The announcement comes two days after BBC director general Tony Hall ordered an investigation into reports TV licence fee collectors targeted vulnerable people, spurred on by an aggressive incentive scheme.
Last year, the government set out major changes to the way the BBC is run as part of the corporation's charter renewal.
It guaranteed the licence fee would continue for at least 11 years and will be linked to inflation.
Other changes included closing the so-called "iPlayer loophole" - which meant viewers who only watched BBC content via the catch-up service did not need a TV licence.
That loophole was closed in September last year.
It was also announced that the salaries of BBC employees and freelancers earning more than £150,000 per year will be published.
The culture secretary at the time, John Whittingdale, said the BBC must put "distinctive content" at its heart.
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The UK's annual television licence fee is to rise to £147 from £145.50, the government has announced.
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Joseph O'Malley, who taught at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School in Billesley, Birmingham, was cleared of criminal charges last year.
But a disciplinary panel found he "failed to maintain proper...boundaries" in relation to three pupils.
It found the former guilty of professional misconduct.
Mr O'Malley, who was not present during the hearing, abused his position of trust and that his behaviour had been "sexually motivated", the panel concluded.
The panel noted the allegations were "emphatically denied" by O'Malley in recorded police interviews and heard evidence he was a "good teacher" about whom there had been no previous complaints.
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In February 2013, parents of some pupils at the Billesley school reported their children had been touched inappropriately by Mr O'Malley. This led to the criminal investigation and his subsequent acquittal.
The National College for Teaching and Leadership panel investigated allegations by five pupils who claimed they were inappropriately touched.
Allegations by three pupils were found "proven" by the panel, including one accusation of touching a pupil's back and bottom on a number of occasions in the classroom, and touching the top of another pupil's leg while alone in the school toilets.
Panel chair Alan Meyick said in his ruling: "This case was a serious one and involved actions that were for the purpose of Mr O'Malley achieving or seeking to achieve some form of sexual gratification.
"The panel has also found that Mr O'Malley's actions were an abuse of his professional position."
He added: "In view of the seriousness of the allegations found proved against him, I have decided that Mr Joseph O'Malley shall not be entitled to apply for restoration of his eligibility to teach."
Mr O'Malley was given 28 days to appeal against the decision.
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A school teacher has been banned from teaching indefinitely for touching boys inappropriately.
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Vanessa Marcotte, 27, was attacked while on a Sunday afternoon jog near her mother's home in a wooded area of Princeton on 7 August.
Officials have appealed for help in finding the vehicle witnesses saw parked near where her body was found.
Police suspect the Boston University graduate fought with her attacker, leaving him with scrapes and bruises.
Investigators had previously determined the suspect is male.
Worchester District Attorney Joseph Early said in a statement: "State Police Detectives and Princeton Police have asked that area law enforcement agencies be vigilant and mindful of this homicide investigation when interacting with men operating or occupying a dark-colored SUV."
The police's dedicated tip line had already received more than 1,000 calls before Wednesday's lead.
The body of Ms Marcotte, who lived in New York City, was discovered just half a mile from her mother's home.
She was naked and had burns on her head, feet and hands, a WCVB-TV reporter quoted police sources as saying.
The murder was the town's first in three decades, and made national headlines, sparking fears among female joggers.
The killing happened only days after the sexual assault and strangling of another jogger, 30-year-old speech therapist Karina Vetrano, in Queens, New York.
Police officials have said they do not believe the attacks are related, despite many noting a resemblance between the two women.
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Massachusetts police investigating the murder of a Google employee say they are looking for a "dark-coloured SUV".
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The individual should have received a short-acting type of the drug, but was given a long-acting variety.
Details of the so-called 'Never Incident' - where serious harm or death could occur - were revealed in a report to the Betsi Cadwaladwr health board.
The findings will be discussed by the board at a meeting next week.
According to the quality and performance report, the incident at the unnamed clinic took place in August.
It was one of four separate 'Never Incidents' reported to the board so far in 2015.
In July, a swab used during a surgical procedure at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Denbighshire was unaccounted for, leading to a patient requiring an additional x-ray test to ensure it had not been left inside them.
In June, a patient underwent treatment on the wrong knee at Wrexham Maelor Hospital.
In April, another patient had a procedure carried out on the wrong body part at Glan Clwyd.
This incident has already been the subject of a serious incident review report, which has been passed to the Welsh government.
Jill Newman, assistant director for improvement and business support at the health board, said a full investigation has begun into the August incident, with immediate steps taken to prevent similar errors in future.
A review of the missing swab case has also taken place with "learning points" identified and an action plan being developed.
In the third case, the patient with the wrong knee treatment has gone through follow-up appointments and is pain-free, the report said.
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Officials in north Wales have held an investigation after a patient at a Wrexham health centre was given a potentially fatal dose of insulin.
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Design proposals for the £5.5m facility at Easter Langlee near Galashiels will go on show on later this month.
Councillors decided in August last year to close a landfill site in the area when it reaches capacity in 2018.
It would be replaced by the new facility which will prepare household waste for transfer outside the Scottish Borders.
Councillor Gordon Edgar said: "The plans for a waste transfer station are important due to changing legislation which led to the council deciding to close the landfill site at Easter Langlee.
"The project team has already met with resident groups close to Easter Langlee but we would encourage members of the public to come along to this consultation event to see the plans and ask council officers any questions they may have about the project.
"After the public exhibition, the aim is for the full planning application to be submitted next month, and if approved the waste transfer station is expected to open in 2018."
The proposed design of the facility will be available to view from 15:00 to 20:00 in the Blue Room at Langlee Community Centre on 29 September.
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Plans for a waste transfer station to replace a landfill site in the Borders are to go on public display.
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New Jersey couple Max Singer and Kenya Smith were celebrating their marriage when Swift appeared to play a stripped-down performance of Blank Space.
It was arranged by the groom's sister, who wrote to the star, telling her the couple had legally wed in her mother's hospital room just before she died, so she did not miss out on their big day.
Blank Space was played at the time.
Swift later contacted Singer's sister, Ali, and they planned the surprise together.
As the wedding guests danced, the star emerged to play her hit song behind a small electric piano. Several guests captured the performance on their phones, while others simply sang along.
Swift also painted a watercolour card for the couple, featuring the Blank Space lyric "so it's gonna be forever", and stuck around to pose for photos with the wedding party.
The singer later uploaded a picture of herself with the bride and groom to Instagram, captioning it "third wheel".
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Pop star Taylor Swift surprised one of her biggest fans by turning up at their wedding over the weekend.
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The 30-year-old forward, who has joined Burton Albion on loan, said starting one league match and both EFL Cup fixtures "painted a picture" for him.
"The most important thing at my age is to play," Ward told BBC Radio Derby.
"It obviously wasn't going to happen for me there and I am not a player to sit around and just collect the money."
Ward did not play against Burton in the season opener, but scored in the EFL Cup game against Doncaster and then started the league fixture against Brighton.
However, he was taken off just over an hour into the 3-0 defeat and did not feature in the Championship again.
The Northern Ireland international said linking up with Nigel Clough - his manager from his time at Derby County - was a "great" opportunity.
"I obviously wasn't playing at Forest," Ward added. "Nigel knows what I am like and I know what he is like. We have had a good relationship in the past and hopefully it carries on."
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Jamie Ward felt he had no option but to leave Nottingham Forest during the transfer window after playing just one of the club's five Championship games.
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Edward Stokes, 29, was critically injured near The Army and Navy pub in Plaistow at about 00.10 GMT on Saturday.
He was taken to hospital for treatment, along with three other injured men, but died.
A post-mortem examination is expected to take place on Monday. Ten people have been arrested and bailed.
Detective Ch Insp Cliff Lyons said: "Although ten people have been arrested and are currently being questioned, it is believed that two men involved in the attack fled the scene prior to the arrival of the emergency services being alerted and we are keen to trace them."
"Whilst we are aware that a fight broke out prior to these four males being injured, what instigated the fight resulting in the death of Edward is unclear at this stage and we are retaining an open mind."
An 18-year-old old man was later discharged from hospital. Two others - aged 19 and 37 - are still being treated for injuries not believed to be serious.
The Met said six women and four men arrested in connection with the incident had all been released on bail until April.
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A man who died from stab wounds inflicted during a fight outside an east London pub has been identified.
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He said his government would distance itself by allowing an independent prosecutor to investigate cases and make its own decisions.
Mr Akufo-Addo defeated incumbent John Dramani Mahama in last week's election.
Mr Mahama has been accused of not tackling a series of corruption scandals.
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In an interview with the BBC's Akwasi Sarpong in his home in Accra, Mr Akufo-Addo outlined how he intended to deliver the promises he made to Ghanaians which earned him the presidency.
"As a matter of principle, we have decided to take the politics out of it, so that screams of witch-hunting ... don't arise, by establishing an office of special prosecutor," he said.
He said the prosecutor would be "somebody who will be independent of the executive and whose remit will be to investigate and tackle issues of corruption".
He also warned that people in his government would not be "immune from investigation merely because we are politicians".
Mr Akufo-Addo is to be sworn in on 7 January.
He gained 54% of the vote, while Mr Mahama took 44%.
He had been defeated in the two previous elections.
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Ghana's President-elect Nana Akufo-Addo says he will set up a special team to investigate corruption but said it would not be a "witch-hunt".
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George Thompson, from Livingston, was convicted of supplying cocaine and amphetamines worth £500,000 between July and November 2014.
Some of the drugs were found in his van when police stopped and searched it on the A7 two years ago.
Thompson was ordered to serve nine years following a hearing at the High Court in Edinburgh.
The court heard that surveillance officers had watched as he made contact with three men who were stopped in possession of illegal drugs shortly after meeting him. All were later convicted of drugs offences.
They then stopped Thompson's transit van on the A7 road, near the village of Heriot, in Midlothian, in November 2014 and found a kilogramme of cocaine hidden in a compartment.
A search of his home later revealed two bags containing more than 82g of amphetamine stored in freezer drawers.
Three kilogrammes of high-purity cocaine and a kilogramme of amphetamine were also recovered at kennels used by Thompson.
Lord Bannatyne told him that the offences were "undoubtedly serious matters" and "involved a large amount of drugs and those drugs had a substantial value".
The judge said it was not a case, such as often came before the courts, of a courier caught on one day who often had a drug problem and debts.
Sentencing Thompson to nine years behind bars, Lord Bannatyne said he considered that in the circumstances "a very substantial period of imprisonment" required to be passed.
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A 60-year-old greyhound breeder who trafficked drugs in the Lothians and Borders has been jailed.
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It was the second-highest February debut ever, behind The Passion of the Christ's $83.9m opening in 2004.
Based on EL James' best-selling novel, Fifty Shades of Grey is directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson and stars Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson.
According to Universal Pictures, North American audiences were 68% female.
The film's takings were more than double those of its nearest box office rival, Kingsman: The Secret Service, which earned $35.6m (£24m), according to studio estimates.
Around the world, Fifty Shades of Grey took an estimated $158m (£102m) from 58 countries.
James's trilogy of Fifty Shades books have reportedly sold more than 100 million copies worldwide and been translated into more than 50 languages.
The film, which contains "strong sex and nudity", is R-rated in the US - meaning those under 17 years old can watch it if accompanied by an adult - and has an 18 certificate in the UK.
Animated children's film The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water came third on the box office chart with $30.5m (£19.8m) in its second weekend on release.
Rounding out the top five were the Oscar-nominated American Sniper with $16.4m (£10.6m), and sci-fi fantasy Jupiter Ascending with $9.4m (£6.1m).
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Erotic film adaptation Fifty Shades of Grey sizzled at North American box offices this weekend, taking an estimated $81.7m (£53m).
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Joe Kelly, of Cheltenham, played the game for 35 hours, 35 minutes and 35 seconds, raising £1,800 for cancer research.
The current record, 24 hours 10 minutes, was set by Martin Fornleitner in Austria in 2011.
Minecraft involves building structures out of blocks, exploring worlds and taking part in battles.
The title has sold more than 54 million copies worldwide.
Last year, Microsoft bought Mojang, the studio behind it, for $2.5bn (£1.5bn).
Mr Kelly, who runs a film company and works as a voice actor, has been playing the game since buying a pre-development version in 2010 but usually only plays for a couple of hours a week.
"Staying awake wasn't too bad - I did the whole thing without any caffeine," he told the BBC.
"There were no stimulants other than sugar and stubbornness."
Mr Kelly, who live streamed the entire game on YouTube, added that the stunt had taken its toll on his hands.
"My shoulders didn't ache, my back didn't ache - the worst thing was my fingers.
"They hurt so much just from holding keyboard and mouse and being in clenched position for such a long time.
"Every little break I got I was flexing my fingers."
Mr Kelly and his girlfriend, Sarah Vallance, are now in the process of sending evidence of the feat to the Guinness World Records.
But he has no intention of taking a break from the game.
"I introduced my girlfriend to Minecraft, we usually play together," he said.
" It's something we like to do together. I'm not shut away gaming."
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A British man hopes to have broken the world record for the longest continuous game of Minecraft.
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Jodie Wilkinson, 27, was attacked by a group of up to 11 men in Stanhope Street, Newcastle, on 11 October.
Sharif Kalimba, 19, of no fixed address, has been charged with violent disorder and remanded in custody.
Four men from Newcastle, aged 25, 25, 22 and 20, have been charged with violent disorder. David Waterston, 43, from the city, was charged with murder.
Mr Kalimba is due to appear at South East Northumberland Magistrates' Court on Monday.
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A further man has been charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of a woman, bringing the total to six.
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The 27-year-old man was walking home along Lamont Way in Knightsbridge, at about 03:50 on Saturday when he was assaulted by a group of youths.
He was treated at St John's Hospital for cuts and bruises to his face and was later released.
Police have appealed for witnesses to the seemingly unprovoked attack to come forward.
Det Con Ally Urquhart, of Police Scotland, said: "This appears to be an unprovoked attack on a lone man and as a result he received a number of serious injuries.
"We are appealing to anyone who may have been in Lamont Way around this time to get in touch if they have any information which may help us identify these youths."
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Police are investigating a serious assault after a man was attacked by a gang in Livingston, West Lothian.
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Set up on the site of a colliery in Gateshead, Antony Gormley's iconic structure has become one of the UK's best-loved pieces of public art.
Family events are taking place around it, including plays, a workshop and an art installation featuring flowers and plants made from recycled materials
Gateshead Council described the 200-tonne steel sculpture as an important figure in local people's daily lives.
Anna Pepperall, the council's public art curator, said that back in 1998 they had no idea what an iconic symbol the Angel would become.
"I think we always thought and hoped it would be really popular," she said.
"Many people predicted we'd have lots of visitors there.
"But if you'd said to me all those years ago that we'd be celebrating its 15th birthday like this, I'm not sure we would have believed that would happen."
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The Angel of the North is celebrating its 15th birthday.
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The opposite holds true of their male counterparts, who get more lines the older they get, according to a study made by statistics website Polygraph.
Its research found that men dominated every genre, from romantic comedies to Disney animations.
That was even in the case in Disney films named after a female character.
"Even [with] films with female leads, such as [1998's] Mulan, the dialogue swings male," the study's authors claim.
In that instance, however, they concede that Mulan's role is more significant than any of the film's male character.
The report found that 38% of the dialogue spoken by women in the films analysed came from actresses aged between 22 and 31.
Actresses between 32 and 41 spoke 32% of the dialogue, a percentage that fell to 20% when dialogue by actresses between 42 and 65 was analysed.
When lines spoken by actors in the same age bracket was scrutinised, the percentage - 39% - was found to be almost double.
"Dialogue available to women who are over 40 years old decrease[s] substantially," the report concludes.
"For men, it's the exact opposite: there are more roles available to older actors."
The writers of the study admit their findings are "not perfect" but insist they are still "directionally accurate".
Dame Helen Mirren is among those who have called for more roles to be made available to women, possibly by having more women cast in parts where the character's gender is not specified.
"You look at a scene and it's going to be all men around a table and you think at least half of those could have been women," she told the BBC last month.
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A detailed analysis of around 2,000 film scripts has suggested that actresses are given fewer lines of dialogue the older they become.
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Terence McGeown was found at the property in Broadstone Avenue in Port Glasgow at about 06:30 on Saturday.
He was taken to Inverclyde Royal Hospital but died later of his injuries.
Police said a 24-year-old man had been arrested and detained in connection with the death. He is due to appear at Greenock Sheriff Court on Monday.
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A 38-year-old man has died after being found seriously injured at a house in Inverclyde.
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Corrie Mckeague, 23, vanished after a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on 24 September.
Experts from McKenzie Intelligence Services were brought in to assist Suffolk Police after £51,000 was raised through an online crowdfunding page.
Forbes McKenzie said his team would add "clarity" to the investigation.
What do we know about Corrie Mckeague's disappearance?
He said: "Our mission is to create clarity from the huge amount of data that has emerged.
"We think the phone is a key piece of information.
"Where the phone finished is indicative of where Corrie was last.
"I'm very interested in what other phones were co-located with Corrie's phone."
Mr McKenzie, whose company is based in London, said he had three specialists, including himself, working on the case.
He stressed his team was "not running a parallel investigation" to Suffolk Police but was there to "add value" to what the force was doing.
The team's first task would be to collate all of the information available on social media feeds, CCTV and areas that have and have not been searched, he said.
"We are plugging the gaps that Suffolk Police just doesn't have the people power to do.
"This investigation might prove to be the very first crowdfunded and crowd-data sourced investigation," Mr McKenzie added.
About 5,000 people pledged support to the crowdfunding page after the family of Mr Mckeague, from Dunfermline, Fife, expressed concerns about the police investigation.
The RAF Honington gunner was last seen at about 03:25 BST walking alone in the Suffolk town.
A second public search for Mr Mckeague will take place on 22 January. More than 60 volunteers joined in the first on 17 December.
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A private detective hired through a crowdfunding appeal has said a missing airman's mobile phone is "key" to the investigation.
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The 42-year-old, who passed the mark of Cape Horn on Christmas Day after 48 days at sea, is behind Armel Le Cleac'h but has reduced the deficit to 77 miles with under 3,000 miles remaining.
Welshman Thomson is aiming to become the first Briton to win the race.
Thomson had led for the majority of the race but was overtaken by Le Cleac'h when he suffered a damaged foil.
The skippers have begun their journey north back across the Atlantic towards the finish port at Les Sables-d'Olonne. They are expected to finish in eight days and are both picking up pace after a weekend in the Doldrums.
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Thomson regained the lead in the round-the-world race north of the Kerguelen Islands in the Indian Ocean on 30 November, but then lost ground.
He broke two race records prior to being overtaken, as he reached the Cape of Good Hope in record time.
The Vendee Globe takes place every four years.
Since the first race in 1989, only 71 of 138 starters have completed the voyage, which is known for being one of the most gruelling sporting challenges in the world.
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British sailor Alex Thomson has made up almost 250 miles on his main rival for victory in the Vendee Globe Trophy.
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In 2016 20,000 mobile phones and sim cards, which are also contraband, were also seized from prisoners.
The haul comes after £2 million investment in mobile phone detectors across the service, as well as 300 specialist dogs for drug detection.
Prisons minister Sam Gyimah said that the amount of drugs and phones in prisons is "unacceptable".
He said: "I have been clear that the current levels of violence, drugs and mobile phones in our prisons is unacceptable.
"These figures highlight the determination of prison staff to disrupt this behaviour."
Illegal mobile phones are used by some prisoners to continue their criminal activity, and can be rented for up to £1,000.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice added that the Prisons Service was working to curb the use of drones in delivering phones and drugs, by creating "a specialist squad of prison and police officers".
So far 35 people have been arrested and 11 others have been convicted for drone-related activities.
Mr Gyimah added: "The issues within our prisons will not be resolved overnight, but we must make progress in tackling these problems."
In February, a reporter from BBC's Panorama programme went undercover at HMP Northumberland, where he found a number of inmates incapacitated from taking the drug spice.
In 2016, more than 45% of prisoners in a survey conducted by the HM Inspectorate of Prisons said it was easy to get drugs behind cars.
Mr Gyimah said that the ministry was continuing to employ more prison officers in England and Wales to help tackle the problem. It is hoped there will be an extra 2,500 members of staff by 2018.
The department began rolling out tests for psychoactive substances at prisons in September 2016, in a bid to curb the drugs problem across correctional facilities in England and Wales.
It is also working with mobile network operators to develop ways of blocking mobile phone signals in prisons.
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Prison officers confiscated about 225kg (496lbs) of drugs in one year, according to the Ministry of Justice.
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Despite that, Mr Cantor is convinced it will make it through Congress.
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Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor - a top Republican during the Obamacare fight - tells me he thinks it will be a "real difficult road" for the rest of the Republican agenda if the healthcare bill is not passed.
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The incident at Alliance Parade was reported shortly before 04:00 BST on Saturday.
Police said it is "believed that someone broke into the house and deliberately set it on fire".
They said there was no-one in the house at the time.
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A house in north Belfast has been gutted in an arson attack.
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The 33-year-old, who is second in the ICC Test bowling rankings, pulled up while bowling shortly before lunch.
Steyn will return to South Africa to see a shoulder specialist and it is expected he will have surgery.
South Africa closed day two at the Waca on 104-2 in their second innings, leading by 102.
Proteas team manager Dr Mohammed Moosajee said: "An injury of this nature is rare and will in all likelihood require surgery but that will only be confirmed once we receive an opinion from the specialist."
South Africa say he will bat in their second innings "if absolutely necessary". A decision on whether a replacement will be called up has yet to be made.
Steyn's injury marred what was otherwise a superb day for the tourists, who fought back brilliantly after Australia reached 158-0 in reply to South Africa's first-innings' 242.
Before his injury, Steyn took the first wicket to fall, Australia opener David Warner, who top-scored with 97.
Seamer Vernon Philander took 4-56 and debutant left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj 3-56 as Australia's 10 wickets fell for 86 runs in 35 overs.
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South Africa fast bowler Dale Steyn is out of the Test series in Australia after fracturing his shoulder on day two of the first Test in Perth.
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Tour chief executive Keith Pelley says he hopes to "experiment as early as 2017 and maybe roll it out in 2018".
Speaking on BBC Radio 5 live, he added: "Yes, there'd be a shot clock. Yes, there'd be music and players would probably be dressed a bit differently.
"Maybe they'd only play with five or seven clubs."
Pelley said the format would probably feature the top players representing national sides.
"It would probably be a country competition," he said. "So you could see England playing Scotland in a six-hole matchplay.
"If you're not prepared to change, you're not prepared to be innovative, if you're not prepared to actually take chances, then sports will fall behind."
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The European Tour is set to trial a new six-hole competition featuring a shot clock, music and fewer clubs in an effort to attract younger players.
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"They never said a single word regarding this," Mr Assad told NBC News, referring to conversations with President Vladimir Putin and officials.
He said "only the Syrian people" would decide "when to come and when to go".
The US, which accuses Syria's leader of responsibility for atrocities, says he must go as part of a political transition to end the conflict there.
Russia has given the Syrian government strong diplomatic and military backing in its fight against rebels, but Mr Putin has said only a political solution can resolve the conflict.
Mr Assad's comments came as US Secretary of State John Kerry prepared to fly to Moscow for fresh talks about Syria.
The Syrian leader said he was not concerned about the possibility of Washington and Moscow agreeing a deal that would involve him stepping down.
"Because their politics, I mean, the Russian politics, is not based on making deals. It's based on values," Mr Assad said.
He said it "won't take more than a few months" until he regained full control of Syria.
He said "terrorism" in Syria had been pushed back "only when the Russians intervened" while the US was "not serious" about tackling so-called Islamic State.
"We wanted to defeat those terrorists, while the United States wanted to manage those groups in order to topple the government in Syria," he said.
In other comments, Mr Assad said Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin had been "responsible" for her own death, when covering the conflict in 2012.
"It's a war and she came illegally to Syria. She worked with the terrorists, and because she came illegally, she's been responsible of everything that befall on her," he said.
Colvin's family recently said they were suing the Syrian government in the US for wrongful death.
Relatives said they had evidence that she was murdered as part of a policy of deliberately killing journalists.
Colvin was reporting from the rebel-held area of Baba Amr, in Homs, when she was killed by government artillery.
Shortly beforehand, she had done live broadcasts for the BBC, Channel 4 and CNN.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said Russia has never talked to him about leaving power.
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It is understood the woman was from Eastern Europe and had been living in the village for some time.
Lisa McAlister reports.
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A 25-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the death of a woman in Portavogie, County Down.
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In an agreement signed in Washington, the two nations pledged to work together to fight drug trafficking.
President Morales expelled US drug enforcement agents and the ambassador, Philip Goldberg, in 2008, accusing them of conspiring against the government.
But relations have improved and talks began last year to reinstate ties.
The agreement sees "the swift return of ambassadors to Washington and La Paz," according to a Bolivian Foreign Ministry statement cited by Reuters news agency.
"The accord's objectives include strengthening and deepening bilateral relations... (and) supporting efficient co-operation against the production and trafficking of illegal drugs," the statement said.
But the pact does not mention whether US drug agents will return to Bolivia, the world's third largest cocaine producer.
In 2008, Mr Morales, a critic of Washington's policies in Latin America, accused Mr Goldberg of inciting pro-autonomy opposition leaders in the country's eastern lowlands.
The Bolivian president - who also heads the country's coca growers' union - expelled US drug enforcement agents two months afterwards.
In response, the US sent the Bolivian ambassador back.
Correspondents say relations between the two countries have gradually improved since the row, but tensions remain.
In March, Mr Morales hit out at the US government over critical drug reports which the Bolivian leader said were intended to link his government with narcotic smuggling.
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Bolivia and the US have agreed to restore full diplomatic ties three years after the US ambassador to La Paz was expelled by President Evo Morales.
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The women's quarter-finals were interrupted twice before Latvian Jelena Ostapenko and Swiss Timea Bacsinszky booked their semi-final places.
As a result of Tuesday's downpours, officials decided to reschedule the first two men's quarter-finals.
That means all four men's last-eight matches will be played on Wednesday.
Fourth seed Nadal meets fellow Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta as he aims to move a step closer to a record 10th title at Roland Garros.
Twelve-time Grand Slam winner Djokovic, who is seeded second, plays Austrian sixth seed Dominic Thiem.
World number one Andy Murray faces Japan's eighth seed Kei Nishikori, while Swiss third seed Stan Wawrinka - the 2015 champion - takes on Croatian seventh seed Marin Cilic.
The remaining women's quarter-finals are also scheduled for Wednesday.
Czech second seed Karolina Pliskova plays France's Caroline Garcia, while 2014 finalist Simona Halep - the Romanian third seed - faces Ukraine's fifth seed Elina Svitolina.
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Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic's French Open quarter-finals were postponed until Wednesday following torrential rain in Paris.
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Abdul Hadi Arwani, 48, from west London, was found dead on Tuesday in Wembley.
The Syrian-born British national was believed to be a critic of President Bashar al-Assad.
The Metropolitan Police said a 46-year-old man was arrested in Brent in north-west London on Sunday night.
The Met said he was being held in custody at a central London police station.
Counter-terrorism detectives have been carrying out the investigation into the death of the former imam, a father of six.
Mr Arwani was born in Syria and is believed to have attended protests against the Assad regime outside the Syrian embassy in London in 2012.
He had claimed he had been forced to flee Syria in 1982 because the country's regime sentenced him to death for photographing damage in his home city of Hama following government suppression of a rebellion.
Mr Arwani was a preacher at the An Noor mosque in Acton, west London, from 2005 to 2011.
He was found with bullet injuries to his chest in a parked car at the junction of Greenhill and The Paddocks on Tuesday at about 11:15 BST.
Police have said they want to speak to anyone who may have seen Mr Arwani or his car, a dark coloured Volkswagen Passat, that day or on Sunday 5 April.
Officers from the Counter Terrorism Command have discovered Mr Arwani had driven on the Sunday morning near where his body would later be found and parked in Havenwood, where he remained for a short while.
A post-mortem examination found the cause of death to be gunshot wounds. An inquest is due to be opened and adjourned at Barnet Coroner's Court in the coming days.
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A man has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder a Syrian-born preacher found shot dead in a car in north-west London.
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Emmerson Whittel may need surgery on his jaw, while the club alleges player Josh Lynam was also bitten on the ear.
The RFL's match review panel will look at official video on Thursday, as it does for all on-field incidents.
Keighley have gathered additional video from spectators following an appeal.
Footage already online, shot from the stands, shows a number of fights breaking out on the field between the two sets of players.
Following the incident, Whittel posted on Twitter that brackets and bands had been used to try to re-align his jaw and that he faces at least three months out.
Keighley Cougars of League One, England's third-tier competition, progressed to the Challenge Cup fourth round with a 50-32 win over Fryston Warriors - a side from the second tier of England's amateur game.
The match, a "home" game for Fryston, was played at nearby Featherstone in West Yorkshire after the tie was at risk of being reversed and played at Keighley instead.
Keighley have also complained to the RFL about their off-field treatment before kick-off, as they allege players and members of staff were refused entry to the ground without a valid matchday ticket.
A statement on Keighley's website said: "The players' allocation of 'family and friends' tickets was then claimed to have been used to admit the playing squad and coaching staff into the ground.
"The club is outraged by this development."
The BBC contacted Fryston Warriors, who have declined to comment at this time.
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Keighley want the Rugby Football League to consider amateur video footage when they review a brawl during the club's Challenge Cup tie against Fryston, which left a player with a broken jaw.
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Andrew Hocking, 57, of West Sussex, sexually assaulted four girls, aged between six and 12, from 1976 to 1990 in Gloucestershire and Hampshire.
He was found guilty of one count of rape and six indecent assaults following a trial at Lewes Crown Court.
Sussex Police said Hocking showed "no genuine remorse" for his actions.
"Hocking stands out as cold, calculating, predatory and ruthless," said Det Con Chris Smith.
"Despite the strong evidence against him, he put the victims through the ordeal of having to recount their episodes of abuse."
Detectives discovered records of allegations of indecent assaults on a seven-year-old girl at his home in Alveston, Gloucestershire in 1976 and 1977, while they were investigated him over the making of indecent images of children.
Police were contacted by three woman claiming they had been attacked, when they were aged six, seven and 12, by Hocking at his address in Fareham, Hampshire, in the 1980s and 1990, following an appeal for information.
Following a trial, Hocking was convicted of one count of rape and six indecent assaults and cleared of one indecent assault.
The 57-year-old admitted making indecent images of children and possession of extreme pornography at an earlier hearing.
He was ordered to be put on the sex offenders register for life.
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A paedophile, branded "calculating and predatory", has been jailed for 15 years for a string of sex attacks on girls as young as six years old.
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KCC has approved a 3.99% tax rise including the 2% social care precept.
The Unite union said schools, libraries and street cleaning would be cut and Unison said the 2% social care precept would not cover costs.
Conservative council leader Paul Carter said plans maintained frontline services despite financial challenges.
Unison spokesman David Lloyd said residential care providers' costs had risen and the living wage would also see expenses rise.
Referring to the social care precept, he said: "Even with the increase it's going to be difficult to make ends meet."
Eric Segal, branch secretary of Unite, which organised the protest, said: "These budget cuts, driven by a Tory government, will have an adverse affect on much-needed essential services such as schools and libraries."
He said about 80 people protested outside County Hall in Maidstone, including union members, families, students, care home staff and library workers.
Parents and pupils also protested against the planned closure of Pent Valley School, which KCC has said should shut because of declining numbers.
Mr Segal said campaigners wanted KCC to set "a people's budget" based on community needs, and use its financial reserves in order not to cut services.
"They should draw on the £50m which is sitting idly by while they are cutting services and closing down mobile libraries," he said.
The authority needs to save £126m.
Mr Carter said the social care precept would raise £11m and cover living wage costs of about £8m - but an extra £31m was needed for adult social care.
He also said changes in government legislation including increases in National Insurance and the impact of the National Living Wage had brought additional costs of £13m.
"Our grant has gone down by about £40m every year which is a significant proportion of our budget - which is about £900m," he said.
He said while the budget had reduced each year, pressure on services had risen by £55m a year.
On Wednesday, KCC said it had received an extra £5.7m from the government which made the budget "slightly more bearable".
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Union-led protests against public sector cuts have taken place outside a meeting to set Kent County Council's (KCC) budget for next year.
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Historians believe the Staffordshire Hoard could hold vital clues to explain the conversion of Mercia - England's last great pagan kingdom - to Christianity in the 7th Century.
The hoard was found buried on a farm in Staffordshire in July 2009.
The 1,500 pieces of gold are thought to be the spoils of an Anglo-Saxon battle.
TV historian Dan Snow believes the find has the potential to rewrite the history books.
Speaking on BBC1's The Staffordshire Hoard, he said the conversion of Mercia "marked the beginning of a new era in English history".
"The Staffordshire Hoard is helping shine a light on exactly how and when the transformation occurred," he explained.
Historian David Starkey said: "England, remember, isn't England at all; England has yet to be invented - the word barely exists.
"Instead, there were these rival warring Anglo-Saxon kingdoms that behaved like the worst kind of takeover bidders of the city.
"They decapitated each other - literally, not metaphorically.
"It's gang warfare, when you take over the territory of a rival gang, the lot get bumped off."
Mercia was one of Britain's largest and most aggressive kingdoms, stretching from Humber to London.
The pagan kings of Mercia resisted conversion to Christianity until it became surrounded by Christian states late in the 7th Century.
Historians believe the hoard could give the last glimpse of Paganism and the first of Christianity.
The largest-ever haul of Anglo-Saxon gold found in Britain, the Staffordshire Hoard was discovered buried beneath a farmer's field near Brownhills by amateur metal detector enthusiast Terry Herbert.
The hoard comprises more than 1,500 items, made of gold and silver, embedded with precious stones and jewels and was valued at nearly £3.3m.
After the Staffordshire Coroner ruled in September 2009 that the find was the "property of the Crown", arrangements were made for the valuation.
The money was split between Mr Herbert, and Fred Johnson, who owns the farm where it was discovered.
More than 40 items from the Staffordshire Hoard are on display in this summer's Tour 2011 across the West Midlands.
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A haul of Anglo-Saxon gold discovered beneath a Staffordshire farmer's field could help rewrite history, experts say.
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The Swansea City head coach was under huge pressure after losing 2-1 to Liverpool at the weekend, with the Swans finding themselves 17th in the Premier League table.
His side haven't won a game since the opening day of the season and are only just above the relegation zone.
Guidolin is replaced by former USA coach Bob Bradley.
The American, who leaves French side Le Havre, has also managed the Egyptian national team and Norwegian side Stabaek.
The club say they think Bradley makes a good "long term appointment" to "stabilise matters on and off the pitch".
Swans chairman Huw Jenkins said he was disappointed, but said that the club "needed to change things as soon as possible" to move forward positively.
Swansea's next match is against Arsenal on 15 October, following this weekend's international break.
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Francesco Guidolin is the second footy boss to be sacked in day, on his birthday as well!
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It is the latest example of the largest local party being left in opposition.
Last week, a proposed coalition deal between Labour and the Conservatives in West Lothian was vetoed by the party's executive body.
Administrations have still to be formed in Edinburgh and Clackmannanshire.
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A Labour minority administration is to run West Lothian Council - even though the SNP has more local councillors.
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James Warnock, 56, strangled 17-year-old Yiannoulla Yianni in an attack described as "cruel, brutal and without mercy" at her north London home.
Recorder of London Nicholas Hilliard QC told the Old Bailey Ms Yianni had endured a "terrifying ordeal" at knifepoint.
The jury took two hours to convict Warnock, a divorced father of two.
How a killer was brought to justice after 34 years
Ms Yianni, who was known as Lucy, was from a Greek Cypriot family from Hampstead. Warnock lived just half a mile away from their house.
He managed to evade justice for 34 years, despite still living in the local community, and was only caught by a chance DNA match.
When the roofer was caught sharing indecent pictures of children on the internet last year he gave a routine DNA sample. It matched a profile retrieved from a semen stain at the 1982 crime scene. The match was one in a billion.
At the time of Ms Yianni's murder, DNA testing had not been invented and the sample that helped convict Warnock was only fully recovered from a bed sheet in 2003.
Sentencing Warnock, Judge Hilliard said: "It is impossible to understand how one human being could do such things to another.
"In the process you visited misery beyond measure on those to whom Yiannoulla was, and is, so dear and which will never leave them."
Following the verdict, the Yianni family described how Lucy's murder had left them "saturated by grief" although they always believed her killer would be caught.
Her brother Rick said: "Thankfully the long arm of the law has reached out from the past to bring this evil being to justice."
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A man who raped and murdered a teenage girl in 1982 has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 25 years.
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Throughout this election campaign we are taking and answering your questions about the issues which matter most to you.
If you want to know where the parties stand on Brexit, the NHS, education, or an issue which you believe deserves more attention, let us know.
If you're concerned how boundary changes could affect your vote or if you don't know how to vote, get in touch.
If we ask or answer your question, we will do our best to let you know and may ask you to be part of the process on air, too!
Here are some of your questions we answered earlier.
Whatever you want to ask about the general election, please use the box below.
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Theresa May is seeking to hold a snap general election on 8 June.
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The government estimate is an increase of 16% from the £123m it budgeted for the 2015 general election.
The price tag reflects the scale of the operation to staff tens of thousands of polling stations, process millions of votes and distribute candidates' mailings.
The cost of last year's EU referendum was similar.
That cost the taxpayer around £142m.
Taking the 2015 election as a guide, around 7.6 million postal votes were sent out. There were over 46 million poll cards and ballot papers printed to reflect 650 separate candidate lists for the election.
On the day of the vote itself, 41,000 polling stations were staffed for many hours by tens of thousands of people.
That evening, more than 30 million votes were counted by tens of thousands of people sorting through thousands of ballot boxes.
Holding national votes has become an expensive business.
Based on the government's estimate, obtained from the Cabinet Office and Northern Ireland Office, this would become the UK's most expensive election.
Since 2010, holding by-elections have on average each cost close to £240,000.
Costs for 8 June are higher than previous elections because this poll is being held on a stand-alone basis. Often joint local and national elections are held, where administrative costs can be shared between different bodies polling on the same day, such as councils.
The anticipated costs may also reflect expectations over turnout, the number of candidates and parties standing and how many people are expected to vote.
The deadline to hold the national poll on the same day as this May's local elections had passed by the time Theresa May surprised many in Westminster and called for a snap election.
As a result, returning officers in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have been allocated up to £101.6m in total for the 8 June poll.
The cost of delivering election mailings for candidates is expected to match the £41.7m spent on the 2015 general election, according to the Cabinet Office.
Spending by individual candidates and political parties on the campaign trail is treated separately.
For the 2015 general election, there was a total reported spend of over £39m by 57 parties and 23 non-party campaigners, according to the Electoral Commission.
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Holding the 8 June general election is expected to cost the taxpayer more than £143m, the BBC understands.
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Athletes push themselves to the limits to win competitions and are regularly tested to make sure they are not using anything illegal to improve their performance.
However a secret list has just been revealed which suggests that hundreds of athletes might have taken drugs, or banned supplements, to try to help them win.
It was shown to the Sunday Times newspaper in the UK, and a TV station in Germany, and reveals the results of huge numbers of abnormal blood tests going back to 2001.
The people who run the sport - the International Association of Athletics Federations - say they've always worked hard to make sure athletes can't cheat and will continue to carry out tough testing programmes.
Watch Martin's report to find out more...
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The athletics world has been shocked by new evidence that suggests hundreds of competitors may have cheated to win medals.
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The union, Unison, said more than 130 members employed by Cordia - an arms-length body of Glasgow City Council - could take part in the action.
It wants additional payments for staff undertaking tasks which are dirty, unpleasant, involve regularly working outside or involve heavy lifting.
Cordia said it would make sure affected schools would be open.
A Cordia spokesman said: "We will make sure that affected schools are open and that any disruption is kept to a minimum. The majority of our janitors are not involved and will continue to work normally."
Unison said that Cordia was "refusing to pay a Working Context and Demands Payment to school janitors" and was "using spurious arguments to justify not making this payment".
The payment covers "dirty, unpleasant" tasks and those that "involve working outside on a regular basis or heavy lifting".
The annual payment ranges from £500 to £1,000.
Unison said its members had been boycotting disputed duties for six weeks and had decided to escalate their action as Cordia and the council had refused to reach a negotiated settlement.
Unison Glasgow branch officer Sam Macartney said: "Unison is very clear that school janitors meet the criteria to be awarded this payment.
"Our members have been left with no option other than to take this action as both Cordia and the council are wrong and just not listening to our members."
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More than 100 school janitors in Glasgow are to stage a three-day strike next week in a dispute over pay.
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Uefa's disciplinary body reviewed the case after fans booed before the 2-1 home win over Sevilla on 21 October.
The case was considered after a report by the European governing body's delegate at the match.
A Uefa spokesman said: "It is confirmed that the Uefa control, ethics and disciplinary body has decided to close the disciplinary proceedings."
City's fans are understood to have booed the anthem repeatedly over the past year to express anger at Uefa over a number of issues.
The club were fined £16.3m in May 2014 after breaching Financial Fair Play restrictions.
A City fan group also led a protest against Uefa after 650 CSKA Moscow supporters gained access to the Arena Khimki for their Champions League game in October 2014, despite the Russian club being ordered to play it behind closed doors.
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CSKA were handed the sanction as punishment for a series of offences including racist chanting.
Uefa's decision to take no action over the anthem had been expected after the organisation's general secretary Gianni Infantino said two weeks ago that fans had a right to boo anything they wanted.
The report of the booing had been made by match delegate Geir Thorsteinsson, the chairman of the Iceland Football Association, which led to disciplinary proceedings being opened.
Meanwhile, City manager Manuel Pellegrini has declared striker Sergio Aguero fit for Saturday's Premier League home match against Liverpool.
The Argentina international has been absent for seven matches with a hamstring injury sustained while playing for his country in a World Cup qualifier against Ecuador in October.
"Sergio is fit, he's ready to come back," said Pellegrini, who added that City will be without playmaker David Silva (ankle), striker Wilfried Bony (hamstring) and captain Vincent Kompany (calf).
Winger Raheem Sterling is set to face his former club for the first time since a £49m move from Liverpool in July.
Pellegrini said: "I always think it is special for the player to play against his former side. Not only for Raheem, but for any player to face a team for whom they played for many years.
"I always say that Raheem is a very young player. He must improve a lot, but I am very happy with the way he is playing so far."
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Manchester City will not face any Uefa sanctions after their fans booed the Champions League anthem.
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The man was trapped under a pile of rubble when the derelict church crumbled in Splott at about 14:50 BST on Tuesday.
Two others escaped with minor injuries following the incident close to the main south Wales to London railway line.
South Wales Police is investigating the incident at the building.
The building was in the process of being demolished.
It follows a report for Cardiff council in June 2016 which warned the building was a "dangerous structure" at risk of "imminent collapse".
Report authors Bruton Knowles warned part of the building close to the railway line was unstable and needed to be stabilised or it may "fall" and damage the tracks.
The report warned: "In our opinion, the building may be deemed as a dangerous structure. In consideration of the close proximity of the railway line."
The structural survey was undertaken for Network Rail ahead of work to replace a bridge nearby, as part of rail upgrades.
Cardiff demolition firm Young Contractors, which has been working on the derelict church for about three weeks, confirmed none of its staff were on the site at the time.
Cardiff council said police were investigating.
Stephen Doughty, MP for Cardiff South and Penarth, has said on Twitter "questions must be asked".
Firefighters, rescue dogs and a drone had been searching for the man who was found on Tuesday between 20:00 and 21:00, police said, adding formal identification would now take place.
Splott Road is still closed in both directions following the church collapse while closures also affect Pearl Street and Agate Street.
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Rescue teams have recovered the body of a man from the wreckage of a Cardiff church which collapsed.
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Rakhat Aliyev, a former ambassador to Austria, is accused of killing two bank managers in his home country in 2007.
Kazakhstan has attempted to have him extradited to face trial, but Austria has twice refused because of the former Soviet republic's human rights record.
Instead, Austrian prosecutors opened their own murder investigation in 2011.
Mr Aliyev has denounced the case against him as politically motivated.
However, in June he flew voluntarily to Vienna from his home in Malta and handed himself in to the Austrian authorities. Since then, he has been held in "investigative custody".
On Tuesday, a court in Vienna said Mr Aliyev had been charged.
A spokeswoman for the court told the Reuters news agency that the judge had not set any bail option and that Mr Aliyev's lawyers had two weeks to appeal against the charges.
He faces at least 10 years in prison if found guilty of murder. If extradited to Kazakhstan he could face a sentence of up to 40 years.
Mr Aliyev was once married to Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev's eldest daughter, Dariga.
A businessman with extensive contacts among the Kazakh elite, he spoke out against Mr Nazarbayev after being sacked as ambassador to Austria.
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A former son-in-law of Kazakhstan's president who later became a prominent opponent has been charged with murder by prosecutors in Austria.
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Centro's Midland Metro extension from Snow Hill travels via Corporation Street to Wolverhampton.
Construction of the 0.7 mile (1.2km) track extension was halted over the busy Christmas period and was due to be completed in February.
Further lines to Edgbaston and Centenary Square are planned in the £128m project.
When the delays of the track were announced, Phil Hewitt, from Centro's Midland Metro, said: "A stringent testing programme has identified minor anomalies in some of the track alignment which need to be addressed".
Jonathan Cheetham, from Retail Birmingham, said the tram system "gives us huge credibility as a city".
"Investors from abroad, which we've seen a lot of recently, know and understand how important transport is," he added.
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Following a three month delay, trams have started running from Birmingham New Street station.
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The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) said it wanted to reflect "the rapid development and popularity of this new form of sports participation".
Competitive video gaming will also feature as a demonstration sport in the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia.
And it will first appear in this year's Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG) in Turkmenistan.
Alongside Fifa 2017, gamers at AIMAG can expect to compete in MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) and RTA (real time attack) games.
The move is the result of a partnership between Alisports, the sports wing of e-commerce giant Alibaba, and the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA).
E-sports generated $493m (£400m) in revenue in 2016, with a global audience of about 320 million people.
Revenue is predicted to rise to $696m (£553m) in 2017, with 15% of that coming from China alone, according to e-sport analysts Newzoo.
The winning team at the biggest e-sports event, the League of Legends World Championship, shared $1m (£810,000) in prize money last year.
While millions of viewers watch online, tournaments staged in front of live audiences attract tens of thousands of fans.
In 2014, more than 40,000 people attended the League of Legends World Championship finals when they were held in Seoul.
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E-sports will be included in the official sporting programme of the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.
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A total of 234 bands from more than a dozen nations, such as Canada, the US, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, will contest "The Worlds".
The competition will be staged at Glasgow Green and is the culmination of the week-long Piping Live! festival.
Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia won the competition in 2015 and were the first Scottish winner since 2005.
This year the event welcomes one of the biggest fields in it history.
Ian Embelton, chief executive of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association, said: "Glasgow has been home to the World Pipe Band Championships for the last 30 years and you can see from the strength of the entry that the appetite from bands to come and play at Glasgow Green remains as strong as ever.
"We are looking forward to a very strong day of competition from some truly gifted, dedicated and outstanding musicians."
The Lord Provost of Glasgow and Chieftain of the World Pipe Band Championships, Sadie Docherty, said: "It is an enormous privilege to be asked to be chieftain of this truly incredible event.
"Glasgow is proud to have such a long association with the World Pipe Band Championships."
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Thousands of pipers will converge on Glasgow over the next two days for The World Pipe Band Championships.
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The 19-year-old is the junior world number one and will make his debut in the competition as the team's youngest member.
MacDonald, who trains at the British Judo Centre of Excellence in Walsall, won silver at the 2016 Junior European Championships in Malaga.
He is currently the top-ranked 60kg junior judoka in the world.
The 11-strong British team heading to Poland from 20-23 April contains a mixture of experienced judoka - among them Olympian Natalie Powell - and debutants.
In 2016 British Judo had its best return from the European Championships in 10 years with Colin Oates and Powell winning silver and bronze respectively.
GB Judo squad: Chelsie Giles, Kelly Edwards, Nekoda Davis, Bekky Livesey, Alice Schlesinger, Amy Livesey, Natalie Powell, Ashley McKenzie, Neil MacDonald, Max Stewart, Ben Fletcher
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Scotland's Neil MacDonald has been named in the GB squad for this month's European Judo Championships in Warsaw.
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The 39-year-old woman was sexually assaulted then held round the neck until she became unconscious.
The attack took place on the Leeds Liverpool canal near Viaduct road in Leeds at about 06:00 BST last Wednesday, West Yorkshire Police said.
Police released CCTV pictures last week in an attempt to find the suspect.
Detectives want to speak to cyclists who were in the area early last Wednesday and may be potential witnesses.
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A 16-year-old boy is being questioned by police on suspicion of kidnap and sexual assault after a female jogger was attacked on a canal towpath.
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Thunder, helped by debutant Amy Clinton, edged clear in the final quarter for a 65-51 success that moved them to the summit on goal difference.
Mavericks had beaten Celtic Dragons the previous Monday.
Team Northumbria remain a place above bottom side Yorkshire Jets, who were beaten 52-39 by Loughborough Lightning.
The battle between third and fourth saw Surrey Storm beat Team Bath 54-42 to go level on 15 points.
Bath won the Super Saturday battle between the two teams in January but Surrey gained revenge to keep up the pace at the top end of the table.
Storm are back on court in Monday's televised game when they take on Team Northumbria.
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Manchester Thunder leapfrogged Hertfordshire Mavericks at the top of the Netball Superleague with victory away to Team Northumbria.
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It is the fallout from a "risk summit" focusing on Worcester Acute Hospitals Trust (WAHT), which according to NHS England is "experiencing difficulties".
"Bed occupancy", the body says, is too high, potentially jeopardising patient safety.
To try to boost the number of available beds, some non-urgent surgery will be delayed.
The BBC understands the trust's Worcestershire Royal Hospital has been running at up to 110% capacity.
NHS England - the body that leads the health service in the country - says the trust is working towards a national aim of 85% bed occupancy.
"This will also help with A&E flow through the hospital," a spokesperson said.
The situation is to be reviewed in mid-January.
"Risk summits" are a formal meeting between local authorities, hospital trusts - the provider organisation - and other health agencies, including NHS England, to identify and mitigate dangers for service users.
Thursday's meeting, NHS England said, was organised to discuss "concerns raised following a recent inspection by the Care Quality Commission" and "ensure that patient safety is maintained".
An NHS England spokesperson said: "It is common, at a risk summit, for health and social care organisations within a health economy to agree actions to assist a trust that is experiencing difficulties.
"To help reduce bed occupancy it is usual for a trust to postpone some non-life threatening elective surgeries. This is what WAHT will be doing."
A spokesperson for WAHT said: "The trust welcomes the support and advice received and will be working to confirm all required actions and improvements are fully implemented."
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Fears over patient safety mean some hospital operations are to be postponed.
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The Premier League's bottom side issued a statement later that day denying they had sacked the 51-year-old.
"They don't want to get rid of me," Pearson said after Tuesday's 2-1 defeat at Arsenal. "I'm here. I had lunch with the owners today.
"My relationship remains very good, professionally and personally."
He added: "I'm more than within my rights to move on from that situation now."
Pearson said he spoke to Crystal Palace midfielder James McArthur on Monday after the pair tangled on the touchline in Leicester's defeat on Saturday.
"It was a friendly chat and the lad comes out of it with an awful lot of credit in defusing the situation," said Pearson, who avoided FA punishment for the altercation.
Owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who bought Leicester in 2010, sat one seat in front of Pearson in the stands during the first half and the pair were spotted laughing at one point.
Laurent Koscielny and Theo Walcott gave Arsenal a 2-0 lead before Andrej Kramaric pulled a goal back.
He was denied a late equaliser by Arsenal keeper David Ospina to leave Leicester five points adrift of Premier League safety.
"I'm getting a bit tired of talking about being an unlucky side," Pearson added.
"It's all well and good talking about performances. It's all right looking on the bright side of life but ultimately it's about winning games and we continue to be under scrutiny because of the position we are in."
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Leicester manager Nigel Pearson says the club do not want to sack him, despite reports he was dismissed on Sunday.
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Simpson & Marwick has 45 partners based in offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, North Berwick, Newcastle upon Tyne, Leeds and London.
Clyde & Co has more than 320 partners, 1,700 legal professionals and 2,800 staff in 39 offices worldwide.
The merged firm will be known as Clyde & Co.
However, the residential property division will continue to trade under the Simpson & Marwick name.
The merger is due to take effect from 1 October.
Simpson & Marwick, which was founded in 1886, specialises in insurance disputes and residential property.
Clyde & Co senior partner James Burns described it as a "client-led" merger.
He added: "Simpson & Marwick is the go-to firm for many of our clients in Scotland and we've long held it in high regard.
"Not only does it firmly position us as the leading insurance-sector firm on both sides of the border but it benefits our clients across all our sectors by giving us a great platform to meet their legal needs in Scotland."
Simpson & Marwick managing partner Gordon Keyden said: "We are proud of our history as one of Scotland's leading law firms and this is a merger that will enable us to significantly increase the services we offer to our clients.
"Increasingly clients want consolidated expertise across England and Scotland and Clyde & Co is a tailor-made fit for us given that we share a number of similar practices and clients.
"Many of our insurer clients operate on a global stage and this merger enables us to join them on that stage."
The deal is the latest in a series of mergers involving Scottish firms over the past 18 months.
Last year, Dundas and Wilson merged with international law firm CMS, while Aberdein Considine completed a merger with Stirling-based Muirhead Buchanan.
Harper Macleod also announced a tie-up with solicitors Bird Semple, while Thorntons merged with leading Fife solicitors Murray Donald and Cupar legal firm Steel Eldridge Stewart.
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One of Scotland's largest law firms, Simpson & Marwick, has announced it is to merge with global legal business Clyde & Co.
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