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Essex Police issued the warning after the vehicles were stopped on the M11 and the M25 recently and stolen.
The thieves, dressed in police uniforms and, in one incident, carrying a handgun, used blue flashing lights.
Officers have been told they should not pull people over when in unmarked cars unless it is an emergency.
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Det Ch Insp Stuart Smith said: "We have taken this decision to safeguard motorists in Essex while these offenders remain outstanding.
"Our victims have told us that the suspects are purporting to be police officers and are wearing body armour to further enhance this deception in order to steal these vans.
"Anyone who is signalled at to stop by someone in a car which may appear to be an unmarked police is asked not to stop but to call 999 immediately to verify whether the vehicle and its occupants are genuine."
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Drivers are being warned not to stop if an unmarked police car tries to get them to pull over after two vans were stolen by fake officers.
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Gwyn Haydn Roberts, 45, drank one-and-a-half litres of cider and two cans of Special Brew after a visit to his sick mother in Gwynedd ended in a row.
Mold Crown Court heard he drove on the wrong side of the road and went around bends on a grass verge on the A487.
Roberts, from Abergavenny, admitted causing serious injuries by dangerous driving.
He was also banned from driving for four years.
The court heard the head-on crash happened on 17 June between Penrhyndeudraeth and Maentwrog in Gwynedd when Roberts crossed a double white line and hit a car.
Two men in that car suffered broken bones, deep cuts and bruises while Roberts' sternum was broken.
Blood tests taken from Roberts four hours later showed he had 180mg of alcohol in 100ml of his blood. The legal limit is 80mg.
Judge Rhys Rowlands said the decision to try and drive more than 130 miles along "tortuous roads" was "extraordinarily dangerous".
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A doctor has been jailed for 27 months for seriously injuring two people in a crash while over the drink-drive limit.
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Tuesday's match between the two sides was postponed because of a waterlogged pitch at Moss Rose.
A torrential downpour just over an hour before the scheduled 19:45 BST kick-off time left large sections of the pitch under water.
Referee Steve Rushton waited until 18:45 BST before deciding there was no chance of any play.
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Macclesfield Town will host Wrexham in the National League on Tuesday, 27 September, with kick off at 19:45 BST.
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Mcebisi Jonas says he rejected the offer, calling it "a mockery of our hard-earned democracy".
The opposition has long accused President Jacob Zuma of letting the Guptas wield excessive influence.
The Indian-born family has built up holdings in mining, travel and media.
The Guptas, whose forebears arrived from India in 1933, also have huge interests in computers, air travel, energy, and technology.
They said Mr Jonas' statement was political point-scoring.
In 2013, there was an outcry after a private jet carrying guests to the wedding of a Gupta family member was allowed to land at a South African military air force base in Pretoria.
The opposition has said that links between President Zuma and the Guptas were so close that they have been nicknamed the "Zuptas".
Analysis: Milton Nkosi, BBC News, Johannesburg
The allegations, confirmed by a serving minister, may well represent the lowest point of Mr Zuma's presidency, which has already been beset by multiple corruption scandals.
South Africans have reacted with shock and dismay. Some are already calling for the president to resign.
It is very difficult to see how President Zuma can come out of this latest scandal unscathed.
The ANC's national executive committee's meeting this weekend will face a tough decision: should it keep President Zuma as head of state?
Mr Jonas' shock statement follows questions about the role of the Gupta family in parliament.
He said that "no-one apart from the president of the Republic appoints ministers.
"The narrative that has grown around the issue of 'state capture' should be of concern to all responsible and caring South Africans."
Mr Jonas said he was offered the job of finance minister in December 2015 just before Nhlanhla Nene was sacked by President Zuma.
Mr Zuma then appointed the little-known David van Rooyen, leading to a run on the currency and national protests.
Just days later, Mr Zuma made an about-turn and replaced Mr Van Rooyen with the widely respected Pravin Gordhan.
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South Africa's deputy finance minister has confirmed reports alleging that he was offered the position of finance minister by a member of the wealthy and controversial Gupta family.
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The 28-year-old centre-half was released by the Robins at the end of last season, having signed on at Ashton Gate in 2006.
Fontaine's arrival coincides with the departure of defender Michael Nelson, who has joined Cambridge United.
The 34-year-old joined Hibs 12 months ago from Bradford City and played in the club's last two matches.
Fontaine, who played in Scotland previously on loan to Kilmarnock from Fulham in 2005, is available to face Dumbarton in the League Cup on Tuesday evening.
While at Craven Cottage, he was also farmed out to Yeovil Town and Bristol City.
That latter switch led to permanent transfer and he went on to make 279 appearances for the Robins.
However, he spent five games back on loan from the English League One club to Yeovil last season as the Glovers were relegated from the Championship.
"Liam is a real quality signing, who will undoubtedly add a huge amount to the squad and further strengthen our defence," said Easter Road manager Alan Stubbs.
"We did our homework on him - both as a player and as a person - and he ticked all the right boxes and he has immediately bought into what we're trying to achieve at the club."
Nelson, previously of Norwich, Scunthorpe and Kilmarnock made 39 appearances for Hibs and scored three goals for the club.
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Hibernian have signed former Fulham and Bristol City defender Liam Fontaine on a one-year deal.
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The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced the tour would go ahead after conducting a security review.
Nazmul Hasan Papon, president of the BCB, has offered security for players, fans, family members and media.
He said no nation is "100% safe" but no other country's board "provides such security".
England will play two Tests and three one-day internationals between 7 October and 1 November.
"The security aspect, well it's almost the same everywhere," Papon told reporters in Bangladesh. "One can't say that any country in the world is a 100% safe. It can happen anywhere.
"However, the security plan that we gave them and the Bangladesh government is providing, I don't think any other board provides such security.
"Lastly, when we handled so many teams during the Under-19 World Cup, I don't think it will be difficult to handle one team for our security agencies. So I was confident that they would come."
Papon also said safety would be provided not just to the England team, but to all those travelling as part of the tour, including relatives, supporters and media.
"We will make sure that not just the players but the fans, the family members, the reporters - if they let us know as to where they stay and they contact us, we will arrange security for them no matter where they are, be it in the stadium or next to the hotel, wherever," he said.
"We believe that there won't be any problem with regards to this England tour."
England's matches will take place in Chittagong and Dhaka, where 20 hostages died when a cafe was attacked in July.
On Saturday, Bangladeshi police said they had stormed a hideout near Dhaka and killed the suspected planner of that attack.
Australia postponed their Test tour of Bangladesh in October 2015 over security concerns.
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The head of the Bangladesh Cricket Board has said he is confident there "won't be any problem" with security when England tour there this autumn.
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The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) said Turkey shot at its forces in the town of Tal Abyad on Sunday.
The YPG has been a key ally of the US in fighting the so-called Islamic State (IS) group in Syria.
Turkey fears advances by the YPG near its Syrian border could fuel separatist sentiments amongst Kurds in Turkey.
The attacks come amid increasing tensions in Turkey ahead of elections.
"We said the [YPG-aligned Democratic Union Party] PYD will not go west of the Euphrates and that we would hit it the moment it did," Mr Davutoglu told Turkish ATV television late Monday.
He gave no further details.
It is not the first time the YPG has said Turkey has attacked them. In July they said Turkey had shelled them in the Kurdish-held village of Zormikhar, which Turkey denied.
In a separate incident, Turkey has confirmed detaining 30 IS militants during a dawn raid on Tuesday.
Police conducted simultaneous operations against IS cells in the central Anatolian city of Konya and the nearby town of Cumra, the Dogan news agency reported.
It comes a day after a deadly shoot-out with suspected IS militants in the city of Diyarbakir on Monday which left two police officers and seven militants dead.
Another five officers were injured and 12 militants were detained, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said.
AFP news agency said this was the first clash with IS militants on Turkish soil since Turkey launched air strikes on IS targets in Syria in July.
Turkey has stepped up operations against IS since the group was blamed for twin blasts that killed more than 100 people in Ankara this month.
Tensions are running high in Turkey just five days ahead of general elections.
The double bombing in Ankara - targeting a Kurdish peace rally - was the country's most deadly, and came amid an upsurge of fighting between Turkish forces and Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels.
Prime Minister Davutoglu said the bombings were an attempt to influence the 1 November elections.
Many of the victims were activists of the pro-Kurdish HDP party, which believes its delegation at the rally was specifically targeted.
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Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has confirmed that the Turkish military has attacked Kurdish fighters in northern Syria.
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The Conservative-run council's plan is to hand the centres to Care UK, which would then build 10 replacement homes.
Labour councillors claimed financial information was inadequate and asked the scrutiny committee to look at it.
Committee members upheld the original decision, saying it was not convinced by Labour's arguments.
The transfer of the homes was due to take place on 1 November before the decision was called in.
Councillor Colin Hart, Conservative chairman of the scrutiny committee, said: "The majority of the committee was not convinced by the 'call-in' argument that the information available to the cabinet, when they took their decision, was inadequate."
A new date for the transfer has yet to be set.
The council said Care UK would be investing £60m in building the new homes, with construction beginning next year.
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A decision to transfer Suffolk's 16 local authority care homes to a private firm has been endorsed after Labour opponents called it in.
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Elizabeth Hutton gave Medi Abalimba the phone while he was serving a sentence for fraud at HMP Moorland, near Doncaster, Sheffield Crown Court heard.
She also gave him a pair of knickers and a "provocative" photo of herself.
The relationship came to light after colleagues became suspicious of 50-year-old Hutton's behaviour.
On one occasion she hung a "Do not disturb" sign outside a consultation room, the court was told.
Following that encounter, Abalimba was found to be in possession of a black Samsung mobile phone.
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During a subsequent search of his cell, a cardboard box containing the underwear and photograph was found under his bed.
When the police examined a phone previously seized from Abalimba they found "a series of increasingly intimate and sexual messages" sent between the prisoner and Hutton.
Hutton, of Kingsley Avenue, Wakefield, pleaded guilty to charges of misconduct in a public office and conveying a prohibited article into prison.
Her barrister Ian Howard said his client had been "in a vulnerable position" and suffering from low self-esteem as a result of large debts she had accrued following her divorce in 2005.
He said Abalimba, who was jailed in 2014 for impersonating Chelsea footballer Gael Kakuta, was a "skilled confidence trickster".
"He used his charm on this vulnerable woman to persuade her to do what it was that he wanted," said Mr Howard.
Jailing Hutton, Judge Julian Goose said: "Your obligation was to provide a professional medical service for serving prisoners.
"The public was entitled to expect you would perform that duty.
"To form an inappropriate relationship with a serving prisoner was plainly a breach of that obligation."
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A prison nurse who smuggled a mobile phone into jail in order to exchange sexual text messages with an inmate has been jailed for 20 months.
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The manager was reported to be open to allowing 29-year-old Fabregas to leave before the transfer deadline.
Fabregas, however, has posted on social media that the pair have a "good relationship" and that he is "fully committed" to the club.
"Contrary to what has been written, the manager has never told me that I can leave," Fabregas wrote.
"He said that he counts on me, as I count on him. I will continue to fight for this club until the very end and when called upon I will always give my very best.
"I'm fully committed to Chelsea FC and my only goal is to help them win more trophies."
The former Barcelona and Arsenal midfielder has made 97 appearances for Chelsea but was an unused substitute for their 3-0 Premier League win over Burnley on Saturday.
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Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas has rejected suggestions of a bust-up with manager Antonio Conte.
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The Scots actor appears in Generation Hope, which focuses on the charity's projects in Malawi, Haiti and India.
The 30-minute film, by US director Charles Kinnane, will be exhibited at the festival's Short Film Corner.
Mary's Meals now feeds more than one million of the world's poorest children every day they attend school.
Butler has supported Mary's Meals for several years and has visited one of its sites in Liberia.
He previously appeared in a short film about the charity's work, titled Child 31.
Mary's Meals was born in 2002 when Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, from Argyll, visited Malawi and witnessed the plight of youngsters there who did not have enough to eat.
Mr MacFarlane-Barrow said: "When we were filming Generation Hope we couldn't have imagined it would enjoy the exposure offered by such a high-profile international event.
"It's an incredible gift to bring our work to new eyes, new ears and new hearts in this way."
Describing what the film is about, he said: "Children who used to miss school are now in classrooms, children who were once too hungry to concentrate can now learn, children who used to be unhappy are laughing in their playgrounds, and children who were resigned to having no energy are chasing footballs.
"Now we see that a beautiful revolution is taking place as a new generation, once fed by Mary's Meals, begins to find its voice.
"We call them 'Generation Hope' and this is what this film is about - the university students, singers, farmers, teachers, DJs, footballers and other young people who, well-nourished and well-educated, are now finding their own way in life."
Generation Hope will be shown at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
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Hollywood A-lister Gerard Butler will feature in a documentary being shown at the Cannes Film Festival about the Scottish charity Mary's Meals.
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Juba is in lockdown amid fresh fighting, apparently sparked by a shootout between the bodyguards of the leaders of the two factions. Some reports speak of dozens dead.
President Salva Kiir and Vice-President Riek Machar have both called for calm.
A 2015 peace deal to end a 20-month civil war has failed to quell unrest.
'We want peace - and ice cream'
The latest clashes came after Mr Kiir and Mr Machar met at the presidential palace on Friday.
A half-hour shootout among bodyguards escalated into heavy weapon and then artillery fire in several parts of the city.
A doctor at a hospital told the Associated Press that soldiers had brought in scores of bodies, most of them military men, but this has not been independently verified.
An earlier deadly altercation on Thursday night left five soldiers dead at a checkpoint.
Mr Kiir and Mr Machar described Friday's violence as "unfortunate".
The rival armed factions both took up positions in April as part of the peace deal, which saw Mr Machar return to the country.
Tens of thousands died in the civil war and millions were forced from their homes.
South Sudan, the world's youngest nation, is so broke that the authorities say no official anniversary celebrations will be held.
But the streets of Juba were at least reported to be fairly quiet on Saturday.
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South Sudan's capital, Juba, remained tense on Saturday, the fifth anniversary of its independence, after deadly clashes between rival factions.
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Ben Stokes became the IPL's most expensive foreign player when Rising Pune Supergiants bought him for £1.7m.
Bowler Tymal Mills, bought for £1.4m by Royal Challengers Bangalore, could face former international team-mate Chris Jordan in the opening match.
Jordan's Sunrisers Hyderabad play RCB in Deccan at 15:30 BST.
The Sunrisers, captained by Australia international David Warner, beat RCB in the final of the 2016 competition.
All-rounder Stokes could be in action on Thursday when his side play Mumbai Indians, who have wicketkeeper Jos Buttler in their ranks.
The competition features some of the best Twenty20 players in the world, including South Africa's AB de Villiers, Australia batsman Aaron Finch and India captain Virat Kohli.
England one-day captain Eoin Morgan joined Kings XI Punjab for £240,066, while limited-overs opening batsman Jason Roy was sold to Gujarat Lions and all-rounder Chris Woakes was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders for £504,140.
Sam Billings was also kept on by Delhi Daredevils during the first round of the auction.
Fast bowler Mills is available for the whole tournament as he is limited to playing T20 cricket because of back pain.
England's other players may not be available for the full competition because of international commitments, beginning when England host Ireland in one-day matches on 5 and 7 May.
The eight-team IPL format is similar to the proposed city-based Twenty20 tournament for English domestic cricket, which could be introduced in 2020.
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Eight England players are set to appear at the Indian Premier League when the 10th edition of the competition begins on Wednesday.
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Chairs were thrown outside Sinclair's Oyster Bar in Exchange Square in Manchester city centre.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) tweeted the Polish football fans were held on suspicion of violent disorder.
A GMP spokesperson said the injured man was treated at the scene by paramedics for a head wound and the group of fans dispersed after officers arrived.
In a later tweet, the force said: "A fourth male was arrested after being found hiding in a restaurant near where the other three were detained."
The trouble flared before Manchester City's Champions League group match against Spanish side Sevilla at the Etihad Stadium, which kicked off at 19:45 BST.
Reports have suggested some of the people involved in the trouble were wearing the colours of Polish club Slask Wroclaw, whose fans have clashed with those of Sevilla recently.
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Four men have been arrested after a fight involving football fans resulted in one man being injured.
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Martin Galbraith, 18, had just been escorted off the A13 at Grays for speeding when he drove his BMW into officer Paul Hills.
Police said Mr Hills was pushed 35 yards (32m) into the roundabout before he crashed.
Officers believe Galbraith then tried to run the officer over, but was blocked by another car.
Galbraith, of Boscombe Avenue, Grays, was eventually caught and jailed for six years for admitting attempted grievous bodily harm with intent, aggravated vehicle taking, driving without insurance and having no driving licence.
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A police motorcyclist is "lucky to be alive" after being rammed into a roundabout and almost run over, Essex police said.
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Police rescued Aleksei Makeev, 42, on Friday night after the crowd stormed his apartment in the Caribbean resort.
The man had allegedly posted disparaging and insulting remarks about local people in videos on social media.
He was accused of fatally stabbing someone during the affray, the authorities said.
A crowd of locals tried to confront Mr Makeev over his comments, and managed to gain entry into his apartment after the encounter turned violent.
According to local official Guillermo Brahms, a young man who was injured later died in hospital.
Mr Brahms said police managed to rescue Mr Makeev and take him to hospital for treatment. Although he was bloodied in the attack, he is reported to be in a stable condition.
Footage of the attack circulated in Mexican media on Saturday, with the attackers heard shouting "You're going to die" and "I'm going to cut your head off".
Police say frequent complaints had been made about Mr Makeev's behaviour and requests had been made to deport him.
Some of the videos he had posted were against a backdrop of swastikas, officials said.
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A Russian man has been put into protective custody in hospital after he was attacked by a crowd of angry Mexicans in Cancun, authorities say.
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Derby's WW Winter opened in 1867 in the same Midland Street building it occupies today.
Large glass plate negatives from the late 19th to the early 20th Century, which go on show next week, offer rare glimpses of Derbyshire, including German prisoners of war held there during World War One.
The prisoners - mostly officers - were held from 1915 to 1918 at Donington Hall on the Leicestershire border, where they formed sports teams.
There will be other pictures of Derbyshire in wartime on display, including these shots of British soldiers at Derbyshire barracks.
WW Winter's studio was photographer by Royal Appointment to King Edward VII and there are a number of negatives of the monarch in the archive.
The studio has become the first business in the East Midlands to receive a Heritage Lottery grant, after the National Lottery recently allowed private firms to apply.
It has been granted £51,800 to employ an archivist to start preserving and cataloguing its archive of glass negatives.
"We know there is a vast collection of photographs of Derby residents and city scenes but within our day-to-day operations we do not have the resources to work with the collection and thus, until now, it has sat dusty in the cellar unseen," said photographer Louisa Fuller.
She said the funding is an "exciting opportunity" to digitise the archive and make it publicly accessible.
Pictures of Derby's cricket pavilion and a team shot of Derby County players from 1888 are also included in the collection.
The photographs are on display from September 11 to 13.
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One of the UK's oldest photography studios is set to display part of its "vast" historic archive to the public for the first time.
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The fire, which broke out at about 20:42 BST on Tuesday at the Blackpole Trading Estate, destroyed about 60 scrap vehicles, tyres and heavy machinery, Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue said.
Six engines tackled the blaze which was brought under control at 22:55.
The service said it was investigating the cause of the fire.
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An investigation has been launched after a fire on a trading estate in Worcester.
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The Belfast Coroners' Court inquest into the murders more than 40 years ago was hearing from a barrister for some of the victims' families on Wednesday.
The 10 men were ordered out of a bus and shot in January 1976 in what became known as the Kingsmills massacre.
No-one has ever been convicted in connection with the killings.
Speaking in court, the families' barrister referred to a Police Service of Northern Ireland review of the case that was conducted after a report by its Historical Enquiries Team in 2011.
The barrister said the police review linked a "prime individual" to 46 murders that happened between 1974 to 1976.
The killings included 22 civilians, one of whom was a seven-year-old boy.
The other murders involved 21 soldiers, two police officers, and a paramilitary activist.
The inquiry into the massacre is also seeking clarity on the status of so-called 'on-the-run' letters after it was claimed that a number of suspects in the massacre received the controversial correspondence.
The controversial letters were issued by the government and assured the recipients that they were not being sought by police.
During the cross-examination of a police intelligence officer on Wednesday, the barrister asked if forensic evidence that is not new "dies a death" because of the letters.
The police witness said he did not know and therefore could not answer the question.
The coroner said he was also not clear on the status of the letters and the hearing would keep "an open mind" on the question.
He said it may be that some other witness will be required to provide an answer.
The inquest into the killings has resumed this week after being adjourned last year due to a police investigation.
It also heard on Wednesday about a secret intelligence document that recorded details of a self-confessed member of the IRA providing a list of 11 suspects.
The hearing was also informed of police intelligence that linked a "crack unit" of the IRA in Whitecross in County Armagh with the massacre.
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An inquest into the IRA killing of 10 Protestant workmen in County Armagh has been told that a key suspect has been linked to almost 50 murders.
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The incident happened on the 23:09 service from Dunblane to Edinburgh on 16 December shortly after the train left Larbert railway station.
A man who was sitting in the seat next to the girl placed his hand on her legs twice.
She was able to alert a conductor who helped her to move seats.
The man was described as white, about 5ft 11in tall, in his late 20s, with strawberry blonde hair.
He was wearing a Christmas jumper and jeans at the time.
PC Andrew McAinsh, said: "Everyone should be able to travel on the railway network without experiencing unwanted sexual behaviour.
"I would like to commend the victim for reporting what happened to her.
"She was very shaken by the incident and an investigation is under way to identify the offender."
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A 17-year-old girl has been left "very shaken" after being sexually assaulted on a train by a man wearing a Christmas jumper.
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Riot police used tear gas to prevent activists distributing food from a lorry on Syntagma Square, where the country's parliament is located.
Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis says a Golden Dawn MP later tried to assault him for banning the gathering.
Golden Dawn, once a fringe movement, is now Greece's fifth-biggest party.
It was staging the handout to celebrate Greek Orthodox Easter, which falls this weekend. At past events, the anti-immigration party asked recipients to show ID cards proving they were Greeks.
Golden Dawn reportedly managed to hand out some food before police moved in, and it later continued the distribution elsewhere in the city.
Mr Kaminis said no party could use the square for such purposes and vowed to prevent "thuggery".
The mayor told the BBC that a Golden Dawn MP tried to attack him at a charity centre he was attending later in the day.
Bodyguards managed to restrain MP Giorgos Germenis, he said, although a 12-year-old girl was injured in the process.
Mr Kaminis says he plans to sue the MP over the incident, which was reportedly caught on camera.
Speaking to the BBC, the mayor called members of Golden Dawn "criminals".
The party, whose neo-Nazi ideology has been condemned by human rights groups, has soared in popularity during the financial crisis.
Greek authorities have been accused in the past of failing to take action against hate crime and attacks on immigrants.
Mr Kaminis said Thursday's police action was a "victory for the democratic state".
"Thuggery will not prevail in this city as long as I am mayor," he was quoted as saying by the Greek newspaper Kathimerini.
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Police in the Greek capital Athens have stopped the far-right Golden Dawn party from handing out free food only to Greeks on the city's main square.
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The views were expressed following a meeting of the EU Negotiation Joint Ministerial Committee in London.
Mr Davis said the UK government would keep Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland up-to-date about negotiations.
However, Mr Russell said transparency about UK government plans was needed.
Mr Davis said he wanted to hold a monthly meeting to share analysis as part of a "two-way information flow" with each of the three nations.
He believed that would allow the devolved administrations to voice their views as the Westminster government prepares talks with Brussels.
Mr Davis said: "Today's meeting was an important step in bringing the devolved administrations together with the UK government to discuss how we can work together to get the best deal for the whole of the UK.
"Naturally, there are different standpoints around the table, but the meeting was constructive and amicable. We will meet regularly and share our latest thinking as the UK shapes its negotiating strategy.
"We will work positively with the Scottish government, the Welsh government and the Northern Ireland Executive as we implement the decision of the people of the UK to leave the EU."
Mr Russell said it was "good" that the process of involving the Scottish government was under way.
But he added: "More than four months after the referendum the UK government has still not made its strategic intentions clear.
"There was a discussion over EU market access but we do not know whether UK ministers want to remain inside the single market or the customs union. This will remain a considerable problem as we continue to promote the interests of Scotland.
"The UK Government must provide greater clarity and transparency on its intentions."
He said he made it "absolutely clear" that membership of the single market "is essential for the economic prosperity of Scotland".
The UK government hopes the High Court judgment on how Article 50 will be triggered will be overruled on appeal to the Supreme Court next month.
However, the Scottish government will seek to oppose the UK government in the Supreme Court during the appeal.
The intention is for Lord Advocate James Wolffe, Scotland's most senior law officer, to apply to be heard in the case.
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The UK's Brexit minister David Davis has hailed his latest talks with devolved ministers but Holyrood's Mike Russell has called for greater clarity on the "strategic objectives".
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Its decision means Vote Leave gets increased spending limits of £7m during the campaign period, campaign broadcasts and a free mail-out to households.
But why was Vote Leave, not the rival Grassroots Out organisation, chosen?
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Speaking after the announcement, Grassroots Out's Peter Bone joked that his group's distinctive green ties might have swung the decision against them.
In fact, the criteria were rather more technical.
Electoral Commission chief executive Claire Bassett said both had submitted "high quality" applications, which had been analysed "in some detail".
In the end, she said, it came down to which group had the greater "depth of representation" of EU exit campaigners.
The final decision was taken at an Electoral Commission board meeting this morning.
Both organisations - as well as the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) - had submitted applications setting out their case.
The commission's scorecard reveals Vote Leave scored 49 to Grassroots Out's 45. It rated higher in the categories of "support for application", "representing other campaigners" and "organisational capacity".
The commission said both groups had demonstrated support from a wide range of organisations - but Vote Leave had "better demonstrated the depth of representation in their support from those campaigning, including at a regional and local level".
It also had "well-developed plans... for how they would support other campaigning organisations", the commission said.
The left-wing TUSC's application was rejected as it "did not demonstrate that it adequately represented other campaigners".
Asked about the possibility of a judicial review bid by the Grassroots Out-supporting Leave.EU campaign, Ms Bassett said the commission's decision had been reached "transparently, openly and robustly" and she was confident it would withstand a challenge.
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The battle to become the official campaign to quit the EU has finally been settled by the Electoral Commission.
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The government has issued the The Dominic Barberi Multi Academy Company a financial notice to improve because of its "weak financial management".
The company is based at St Gregory The Great Catholic School in Cowley.
The government will now monitor all the company's financial transactions until the notice is lifted.
The company also runs St Thomas More in Kidlington, St John Fisher in Littlemore, Our Lady's in Cowley, St Joseph's in Thame, St Joseph's in Carterton, and Our Lady of Lourdes in Witney.
Its annual report puts the deficit down to "high expenditure that went unchecked against a background of weak financial controls and lack of transparency around the company's finances".
It continues: "The company's board has acted to strengthen controls and improve visibility of the company's trading and cash performance: in addition the board has imposed restrictions on expenditure."
Melinda Tilley, cabinet member for education at Oxfordshire County Council, called the situation "very worrying".
She added: "I'm worried about the other six schools that they also support.... I think they need a very good finance person on the school governing body.
"I know that probably we'll end up finding school places for all the children if they walk away, and certainly the transport for the schools... if it does go wrong."
The BBC has asked the Dominic Barberi Multi Academy for comment.
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An academy company that runs seven schools in Oxfordshire has been put into financial special measures after running up a deficit of £879,000.
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Jo Meeke and Matt Gurney's son Puck died in hospital following complications in labour.
They have set up an appeal to create an outdoor space for other grieving families and hospital staff.
Ms Meeke, from Bosham in West Sussex, said she hoped the woodland would help people on the "long journey" of coping with the death of a child.
She had an "uncomplicated dream pregnancy" but after complications in labour, Puck was born via emergency Caesarean section on 15 March.
He was transferred from St Richard's Hospital in Chichester to Southampton General Hospital's neonatal ward, where he died the following day.
When it became clear he would not survive, the couple had 30 minutes to say goodbye.
Ms Meeke said the time together had been "a special moment that will live with us forever".
"The hardest thing we're having to deal with now is the immediate raw grief of looking at photos of our son, knowing we're not going to hold that little boy," she said.
"But it's all the other things we had planned for our family moving on - suddenly those things are not going to happen."
The couple has set up the Puck's Promise appeal and aim to crowd-fund £65,000 to buy the woodland.
Mr Gurney said he hoped it would bring "something positive" out of their experience.
"I'd primarily like families who have lost children in some way to be able to use it, for a walk or overnight camp, to be with other people who have been though the same thing."
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A couple who lost their newborn baby have raised more than £12,000 towards buying an area of woodland in his name.
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The 20-year-old has impressed Buddies manager Tommy Craig during a trial in pre-season.
Caldwell made his debut for Hibs in 2011 and made 19 appearances in 2012/13, scoring two goals.
"We hope that we develop him into the player that we believe he can be," said manager Craig.
Caldwell fell out of favour under boss Terry Butcher last term and was loaned to Scottish Championship side Alloa, for whom he scored twice.
"I am delighted to have joined St Mirren," the front-man said.
"Having been at the club now for a couple of weeks I have thoroughly enjoyed every minute and already feel part of the set up.
"I now want to repay the faith shown in me by Tommy, Gary [Teale] and Jim [Goodwin] in the season ahead."
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St Mirren have signed former Hibernian striker Ross Caldwell on a one-year contract, with the option of a further year.
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Businessman, Frank Cushnahan, who has been at the centre of the controversy, claimed in a covert recording made last year, that he was due to be paid a fixer fee in relation to the sale.
Mr Cushnahan was an adviser to Nama.
He has consistently denied he was due to receive money.
Nama NI deal jargon buster
Timeline of Nama's NI property deal
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said there should be a Commission of Investigation held in the Republic of Ireland while Alliance Deputy Leader Naomi Long has called for an independent investigation.
Nama is the Republic of Ireland's "bad bank".
It sold its entire Northern Ireland loan portfolio to the Cerberus investment fund in 2014.
Mr Cushnahan, a former banker, was appointed to Nama's Northern Ireland advisory committee by the DUP.
Unknown to Nama he began talking to a US investment fund, Pimco, who were interested in buying the entire Northern Ireland portfolio.
Prior to leaving his post at Nama, Mr Cushnahan attended meetings with Pimco as it prepared to mount a bid.
He was due to be paid £5m if the bid succeeded - but it collapsed when Nama learned of Mr Cushnahan's role.
Another company called Cerberus then bought the loan portfolio for more than £1bn.
Nama had received assurances that no one connected with Nama (which would include Mr Cushnahan) was to benefit from that deal.
However, in a covert recording, Mr Cushnahan discusses work he did with a Belfast solicitor Ian Coulter.
He said: "You know when I was working on that Cerberus thing to get that thing out, he worked with me to get that. And basically all the work was done by me and him."
He goes on to say his role was deliberately hidden because of Nama's objections.
Cerberus has previously stated that it has "never employed, paid or sought advice from Frank Cushnahan in relation to our purchase of the Project Eagle portfolio or any other activity."
Nama said it had dealt with the issue "very extensively over the past 12 months" and had nothing further to add at this time.
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Politicians have called for an inquiry into the sale of Nama's Northern Ireland loan portfolio following revelations in a BBC Spotlight programme.
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Yemen's state-run Saba news agency reports the attack took place in the province of Hadramawt.
Security sources earlier said eight had died and six were wounded in an attack that one source attributed to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
The Yemeni military has been tackling a powerful al-Qaeda insurgency in the province in recent years.
Hadramawt is a centre of oil production and seen as a stronghold for AQAP, which has been waging a campaign against the Western-backed government.
"Twenty soldiers were killed in the armed attack on an army checkpoint" near Reida, about 135km (85 miles) east of the provincial capital Mukalla, Saba reported.
One source told the AFP news agency that the attack was carried out by gunmen in several vehicles.
Last year, the army managed to drive al-Qaeda out of towns it had taken over in southern Yemen amidst the chaos triggered by a mass uprising against the veteran President Ali Abdullah Saleh in 2012.
But this year, its members appear to have regrouped, carrying out a wave of attacks on security targets, says the BBC's Arab affairs editor Sebastian Usher.
In a gruesome warning, the group recently executed one of its own and displayed his body, claiming he had been a spy helping US drones to hit al-Qaeda leaders, he adds.
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Twenty Yemeni soldiers have been killed in an attack on a military checkpoint in eastern Yemen, reports say.
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It came a day after the embattled government inaugurated a new legislative body, the 545-member constituent assembly.
Chief prosecutor Luisa Ortega had asked a local court to halt the inauguration.
She cited allegations that the government had misrepresented the results of the vote that created it.
"I reject the siege of the headquarters of the public prosecutor's office," Ms Ortega, a leading critic of President Nicolas Maduro, wrote on Twitter on Saturday.
"I denounce this arbitrary act before the national and international community."
President Maduro says the constituent assembly - which is due to begin work on Saturday - is needed to bring peace after months of crisis sparked by the country's economic implosion.
But the opposition says the new body, which has the ability to rewrite the constitution, is a way for the president to cling to power.
On Friday in Caracas, police used tear gas against opposition protesters who tried to reach parliament.
Several people were injured as security forces tried to disperse a few hundred demonstrators, reports say.
In other parts of the city, thousands of government supporters gathered to cheer and wave flags as the new members took office. Some carried pictures of late leader Hugo Chávez and the independence hero Simón Bolivar.
Among those sitting for the first time in the 545-member assembly are Mr Maduro's wife and son.
A close ally of Mr Maduro, former foreign minister Delcy Rodriguez, was elected president.
Her opening speech attacked the opposition as "fascist" and warned the international community against interfering.
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Venezuelan security forces have surrounded the public prosecutor's office in Caracas in what the chief prosecutor has called a "siege".
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Samantha Yeoman, the former head at Rogerstone Primary School, is accused of allowing teachers to see exam papers before the tests and giving pupils extra time to complete them.
Ms Yeoman resigned from her post last year, the conduct hearing was told.
Her counsel said she was not leading the tests at the time.
Gwylim Roberts-Harry told the hearing on Monday his client only became aware of "certain elements" after the tests.
The panel heard she allowed staff to manipulate the 2013 National Reading and Numeracy Test results, so pupils would achieve better grades.
The school's deputy head teacher, Wayne Millard, told the hearing Miss Yeoman returned from a conference, where she said the majority of teachers indicated they had been shown the test papers.
He said Miss Yeoman "became angry" when she found out her teachers had not been shown the tests. He said a timetable was then drawn up for them to view them.
The panel was also told of claims pupils were called back to change wrong answers on their test papers.
A complaint was also made by a parent who claimed the way tables were arranged in her daughter's class meant she could see the test answers on her teacher's desk.
Miss Yeoman is also alleged to have applied undue pressure on staff by agreeing unrealistic standards, and creating a threatening and intimidating work environment for staff.
She denies unacceptable professional conduct and did not attend the hearing.
Evidence is expected to continue for the rest of the week.
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A former Newport primary school head teacher allowed staff to manipulate national test results, a General Teaching Council for Wales panel heard.
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The Premiership leaders conceded three tries in the first eight minutes and eight in total as they were beaten 64-23 at Allianz Park on Sunday.
"We didn't see it coming and it's hard to put into words what happened out there," he told BBC Radio London.
"This is a very big setback. The important thing is what happens next."
Saracens conceded the most points at home in their history as they suffered just their second defeat of the season.
"It went wrong right from the beginning and we were given a real lesson by Wasps with and without the ball," McCall added.
"When you concede 60 points, there is clearly an issue. Every time they got down our end they came away with a try.
"We have shown some real energy and resilience in the last couple of performances but that, as a collective, wasn't the case against Wasps."
Saracens had seven players on Six Nations duty with England in Italy, but McCall declined to blame international commitments for their defeat.
"This squad we played with had a great result at Exeter last week, so we are not going to use that as an excuse," the 48-year-old said.
"This is a challenging period, no question about that.
"Next week we play against a team on form in Gloucester. It is important we put some of the really bad things right."
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Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall says how his squad react to their heavy defeat by Wasps will be crucial as the club are in a "challenging period".
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Allan Bryant, 24, was last seen leaving the Styx nightclub in Glenrothes on 3 November 2013.
Police carried out extensive searches of the area, using specialist teams of divers and dogs, but there have been no further confirmed sightings of him.
His family hope the march will remind people that he is still missing.
About 100 people walked through the town in a bid to prompt members of the public to come forward with information.
Police Scotland welcomed the march.
Ch Insp Nicola Shepherd said: "The search and inquiry into Allan's disappearance continues and we are totally committed to finding Allan.
"Throughout our investigation we have been supported and assisted by many of Allan's family and friends who have turned out in large numbers to volunteer to help search for Allan.
"Their assistance and support has been invaluable to the officers dedicated to this inquiry. The support from the wider community in Glenrothes has been remarkable and is testament to the community spirit and their willingness to help.
She added: "We continue to support his family and seek assistance from the public to think back to what they were doing on the night of Saturday 2nd November and into Sunday 3rd November 2013. Were you in the area? Did you see Allan?
"Allan's family are desperate for news about him and I would appeal to anyone who has information, no matter how insignificant they may feel it is to contact us."
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The family and friends of a missing man from Fife have taken part in a march to try to jog people's memories about the night he disappeared.
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Security firm Eset found the gang controlled its malware, called Turla, by posting comments about images in the singer's gallery.
The comments looked like spam but once transformed by code in the virus, directed victims to other sites.
Several other compromised websites were also being used to track victims and spread the malware.
Turla has been active since 2014 and sought to catch out government workers, diplomats and other officials, said Eset researcher Jean-Ian Boutin. It is believed to be run by a hacker group working for the Russian state.
Most often, he said, Turla's handlers compromised websites that targets would be likely to visit.
One compromised server asked visitors to install a booby-trapped extension for the Firefox web browser.
Digital detective work by Mr Boutin revealed that the command and control (C&C) channel set up between the creators of the extension and victims' machines was on the singer's Instagram page.
The malicious extension searched for comments that, when digitally transformed, matched a specific value. These were then converted into a website address that the compromised machine visited to report in or to update the malicious code they harboured.
Very few comments posted to the Instagram account had the key characteristics - suggesting that Turla's creators were testing or refining the control system.
Mr Boutin said using social media in this way made "life harder for defenders".
"Firstly, it is difficult to distinguish malicious traffic to social media from legitimate traffic," he wrote. "Secondly, it gives the attackers more flexibility when it comes to changing the C&C address as well as erasing all traces of it."
Mr Boutin added that he had been in touch with Mozilla, which was working on ways to stop extensions for Firefox being compromised in this way.
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The comments section of Britney Spears' Instagram account has been used by cyber-thieves to co-ordinate attacks.
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The teenager, from Manchester, was allegedly found with a copy of a document known as the Anarchist Cookbook.
She appeared at Manchester Youth Court accused of two offences under the Terrorism Act 2000.
She was granted bail but was told she must observe a curfew.
The girl must also report to police three times each week and is forbidden from applying for a passport.
In addition, she must remain in England or Wales.
It is alleged that, on or before 3 April, the girl was in possession of information of a kind likely to be of use to a person preparing or committing an act of terrorism.
As well as the Anarchist Cookbook, she was alleged to have possessed a second document, described as "a recipe for explosives".
Wearing a green parka jacket and headscarf, she sat before the district judge flanked by her mother and an uncle.
No pleas were entered, and she was released until a further hearing planned for 26 August.
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A 16-year-old girl accused of possessing a guide to making bombs has been released on bail after appearing in court accused of terror offences.
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Motorists pay £1.50 for a one-way car journey across the bridge or £1.35 for drivers using an electronic tag.
The Humber Bridge Board said there would be no increase until 2021 despite plans to install a glass lift at the bridge and create a visitor centre.
Chairman Rob Waltham said the toll had been "significant in growing the Humber economy".
A planning application for the proposed tourist development at the site was submitted in June.
Project costs have not been released by the board but Bridge Master Peter Hill said it would be financed by the bridge board and "not be funded from bridge tolls".
The tolls were halved in April 2012 after the government cut £150m from the bridge's outstanding debt.
Source: Humber Bridge Board
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Tolls for the Humber Bridge are to be frozen for the next five years, officials have announced.
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German Shepherd Orion arrived at the RSPCA's Bryn-y-Maen centre in Colwyn Bay in January.
But a check-up discovered a surprise heart murmur, and she may need costly treatment in the future.
Staff say they were "devastated" by the news.
Orion was found abandoned in the Anglesey area in January along with another German Shepherd Sirius, who has since been re-homed.
The RSPCA said they are struggling to find a home for Orion because of her potentially costly vets bills.
Mel Kermode, the centre's deputy manager, said: "We can't tell whether her condition will or won't develop in the future.
"She could potentially live for years but it would be wrong if weren't honest with people about her condition.
"It takes a special person to take that on, but then she is a very special dog."
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An abandoned dog with a potentially life-limiting heart condition is a "special dog" who deserves a forever home, say staff at a Conwy county animal sanctuary.
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The firm's new forecast was a small improvement on previous guidance but it marks a swift upturn in its fortunes.
Just last month the company cut its full-year earnings forecast and warned about profit margins.
In 2013 it had to recall its yoga leggings for being too revealing.
The controversy over its yoga kit hurt its image and undermined the company's share price.
Its new forecast for the three months to January was raised up to $695m (£477m), from an initial estimate of up to $685m.
Its New York listed shares rose as much as 8.7% on Monday in extended trading after the company announced that it holiday season sales had exceeded expectations.
"We had a very successful holiday season driven by strong execution in stores and online during the key holiday weeks," chief executive Laurent Potdevin said in a statement.
The Vancouver-based company competes with the likes of Nike and Under Armour in the fashion and exercise market, which has grown rapidly thanks to people increasingly wearing their sportswear outside of the gym.
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Shares of yoga wear maker Lululemon Athletica jumped over 8% in after-hours trading after the Canadian firm raised its revenue forecast on strong holiday sales.
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Balotelli this week dropped tribunal action against City, who had given him a two-week fine for missing 12 games last season because of suspensions.
When asked if Balotelli would be given another opportunity, Mancini said: "Sure. I am his manager and, like the other players, if he deserves another chance I'll give him another chance. But Mario now needs to deserve this."
The hearing between the player and his representatives and the Premier League champions had been due to take place on Wednesday, but the issue was resolved following "amicable" talks on Tuesday night.
And Mancini believes the Italy international, 22, who will miss Saturday's match against Reading through illness, made the correct decision not to pursue his action against the club.
"This is an old situation and it is normal when someone does a mistake he should take his responsibilities and Mario did this. It's normal," added the 48-year-old manager.
"He [should] respect himself, not me, because it's important for him to respect himself, very important."
City began the disciplinary process after Balotelli was sent off against Arsenal in April 2012.
In total, he received nine yellow cards and three reds - one of them retrospective - during the season.
Last Saturday, Balotelli was left out of the squad that defeated Newcastle 3-1 at St James' Park.
After the match, Mancini revealed the striker was "not in good form" and that was the only reason he had been excluded.
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Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini says he is willing to give Mario Balotelli another chance but the striker needs to "deserve it".
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Election campaigning officially began on Monday, two weeks ahead of the first round of voting.
Opinion polls predict Mr Macron and far-right Marine Le Pen will reach the second round on 7 May.
Ms Le Pen will set out her security priorities later in the day.
One new poll has put hard-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon into third place, ahead of the centre-right's Francois Fillon, who has been embroiled in corruption allegations.
Mr Melenchon is thought to have been buoyed by two televised debates which saw him get tough on Ms Le Pen.
Eleven candidates will compete in the first round on 23 April.
Speaking at his Paris launch, Mr Macron said he wants to legally compel social media companies to give authorities access to encrypted messages between terror suspects.
"Democratic states must have access to content exchanged between terrorists on social media and instant messaging," he said, while introducing a five-point strategy that would bring in new powers across Europe.
He said it was "no longer acceptable" for companies to insist that they have a contractual obligation to clients after offering protected communication.
He cited Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter as those he wants to have frank discussions with.
Mr Macron, a former investment banker, is running for his self-created En Marche (Onwards) party.
Ms Le Pen, who heads the National Front party created by her father, was heavily criticised at the weekend for saying France was not responsible for rounding up Jews to send them to Nazi death camps during the World War Two.
During a television interview on Sunday, she was speaking specifically about 13,000 Jews who were gathered at at the Vel d'Hiv cycling track in Paris in 1942, on Nazi orders.
Ms Le Pen has since expressed her condemnation for the French government at the time of the "vile round-up".
"I consider that France and the Republic were in London during the occupation and that the Vichy regime was not France," she said.
However late on Sunday, Ms Le Pen issued a statement saying her stance "in no way exonerates the effective and personal responsibility of the French people who took part in the horrible Vel d'Hiv roundup and in all the atrocities committed during this period".
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French centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron has launched his presidential campaign with a plan to tackle terrorism by forcing internet firms to release encrypted messages.
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Hadiza Bawa-Garba, 40, was convicted of Jack Adcock's manslaughter at Nottingham Crown Court last November.
Jack, who had a heart condition, died at Leicester Royal Infirmary in 2011 hours after being admitted with sickness and vomiting.
She was seeking the right to appeal against her conviction.
Updates on this story and more from Leicestershire
The doctor was given a two-year sentence, suspended for two years.
Counsel for Bawa-Garba argued before three senior judges in London that her trial was unfair because the judge misdirected the jury.
But Sir Brian Leveson ruled: "We have come to clear conclusion that none of the grounds of appeal are, in fact, arguable".
He ruled the trial judge's directions to the jury could not be faulted and refused permission for a full appeal.
Jack's parents, Nicky and Vic, who live in Glen Parva, Leicester, were not in court to hear the decision.
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A doctor who was convicted of the manslaughter by gross negligence of a six-year-old boy has failed in her bid for an appeal.
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It is the third time UK industry has been in recession in eight years.
Although industrial production rose 0.3% from February to March, it fell 0.4% both in the first three months of 2016 and in the last three of 2015.
Compared with a year ago, manufacturing production in the first quarter fell 1.9%, the biggest fall since 2013.
The biggest fall in output came from the basic iron and steel sector which saw production drop in March by 37.3% percent compared with a year earlier.
However, the oil and gas industries saw sharp gains, increasing production 17% in February, and 10.9% in March from the same months a year earlier.
Manufacturing and construction is proving to be a drag on the whole economy, helping slow UK economic growth from 0.6% in the last three months of 2015 to 0.4% between January and March, according to the ONS.
Earlier this month a survey by Markit/CIPS also showed manufacturing contracting. Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit said: "The goods-producing sector therefore looks to be on course to act as a drag on the economy again in the second quarter, contributing to a slowing in economic growth to near-stagnation.
"Growth could be even weaker if the surveys disappoint in coming month, which seems probable given the intensifying uncertainty over the outcome of the EU referendum."
Despite this, economist Ruth Miller from Capital Economics is optimistic for the rest of the year.
She said: "We still expect things to look up as the year progresses. Sterling's recent depreciation and our expectations that global growth will pick up slightly in 2016 should allow the sector to return to modest growth later this year."
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UK industry fell back into recession as it shrank for the second quarter in a row, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
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The American, 22, won the Masters and US Open, missed out by one shot on a play-off at The Open and finished second in the US PGA Championship.
Spieth has won twice in 2016 but blew a five-shot lead at the Masters in April.
"Most of the questions are comparing to last year and that's unfair because that's happened less than a dozen times to anybody in golf," he said.
"I would appreciate if people would look at the positives over comparing to maybe what would hopefully happen to me a few times in my career, a year like last year.
"So it seems a bit unfair, at 22, to be expecting something like that all the time."
Spieth made four birdies in the first seven holes at The Open on Saturday but dropped five strokes in seven holes as he finished five over for the tournament after three rounds.
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Jordan Spieth feels he is being unfairly criticised after failing to replicate his successes of 2015.
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The pair were asleep in Manor Road, Colchester, when the woman was woken by the sound of the fire on the stairs.
They were rescued from an upstairs bedroom by firefighters and were both unharmed.
Acting station officer Ian Ryder said:"This fire could have had dire consequences."
The candle was in a scented oil burner which had not been properly extinguished when the woman went to bed, the fire service said.
Mr Ryder added: "As this oil burner was on the stairs it completely cut off their escape route.
"This is the third fire in Colchester we have been to in the last fortnight which was started by a candle.
"Make sure you use them safely and always put them properly out before you go to bed."
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A woman and her one-year-old baby were trapped in their home by a fire sparked by a candle that had not been properly blown out.
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Edward Wood, 50, was injured near the Oceans Eleven takeaway on Railway Road in Leigh, Greater Manchester on 4 May and later died.
Kevin Darbyshire, 33, of Findlay Street, and Dwayne Turner, 28, of Railway Road, pleaded guilty to manslaughter at Liverpool Crown Court.
They were sentenced to 10 and nine years respectively.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Darbyshire kicked Mr Wood once to the head, and Turner punched him once under the chin as he sat in a doorway before they both stole items from him.
Mr Wood was "highly vulnerable" as he was sitting on the floor in a drunken state, David Graham, Senior Crown Prosecutor for CPS North West said.
"They accused him of spitting at them, before each delivering one violent blow to his head and face."
Darbyshire had a community order revoked after a separate incident so three years were added to his sentence.
That three-year term will run concurrently to his 10-year sentence.
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Two men who kicked and punched a man outside a chip ship before stealing from his pockets have been jailed.
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The ??359m Independent Living Fund pays out an average of ??300 a week, to help people pay for carers so they can live at home and not in a care home.
It was already shut to new applicants for this year and will now shut to new claims permanently, said the minister for disabled people, Maria Miller.
Payments to existing users are to continue until 2015.
Ms Miller said: "An independent discretionary trust delivering social care is financially unsustainable."
But Richard Hawkes, chief executive of disability charity Scope, said the decision to phase out the fund was "bemusing".
"The fund is comparatively very small and is designed to support disabled people to live at home rather than in care homes," he said.
"It's hard to see how phasing out this fund will do anything but narrow down options and push people towards greater dependence on the state."
The phased closure was described as "foolhardy and lacking in humanity" by Labour peer Lord Morris of Manchester.
Lord Morris, who was the first minister for the disabled, said: "This will not save money. If you make it harder for disabled people to live at home, it will cost more because more of them will have to be in hospitals and other places of full-time care.
"It will mean far more of them having to be in institutional care at far greater cost to the taxpayer."
The government said local authorities had a statutory responsibility to provide social care support to their residents.
And it said it remained its priority to safeguard the position of the recipients of the fund.
It said it would carry out a formal consultation next year on how best to continue to support existing users.
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A fund which supports more than 21,000 people with severe disabilities is to be phased out by 2015.
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The worker was hurt when there was a "flash over" from the gas range at the Angel Inn, White Cross Lane, in July 2015.
Pub chain Enterprise Inns Plc admitted failing to ensure the equipment was safe and without risk to health.
It was fined £95,000, with costs of £15,860, at Newport Magistrates' Court.
Details of the hearing, which took place on 16 August, were revealed by Caerphilly council on Thursday, on the back of an investigation by the authority's environmental health team.
The council's cabinet member for community services, Nigel George, said: "We take all cases of accidents reported to the council very seriously and investigate them thoroughly.
"This was a serious incident involving a person becoming injured as a result of a faulty gas appliance and I am pleased that the court has reflected this in the fine".
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The owners of a Caerphilly pub have been fined almost £100,000 after a staff member was burnt on a faulty cooking range.
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Homeowners in St Dogmaels claim a small housing development is being built on a higher level than planning permitted.
They said the River Teifi would now flood towards their homes in severe weather and have called for the council to take action.
A Pembrokeshire council spokesman said the developer had accepted remedial works need to be carried out.
Residents set up St Dogmaels Environmental Action Group to work "constructively" with relevant agencies after serious flooding last November but feel more needs to be done.
Chairwoman Lenka Janiurek, 56, said the situation had become "much worse" since work began on the development, with people's homes and gardens flooded with water and sewage.
Member Jake Elster-Jones, 43, said: "We are sitting here waiting for the rain, wondering what's going to happen.
"It's clearly a very serious issue and there is good evidence that when it rains, it will be worse flooding than there's been before."
He added: "We are angry and worried about this and feel something needs to be done about it."
A Pembrokeshire council spokesman confirmed ground levels on the flood plain have been raised above the levels shown in the site's original plans.
The spokesman said a representative for the developer had accepted "remedial works were necessary" and the council was "awaiting written conformation" of a course of action.
Bell Designs, the developer's agent, declined to comment.
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Residents fear their homes are under threat of flooding due to building work on a Pembrokeshire village flood plain.
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Earlier this month the court had asked for the numbers during a hearing on the decriminalisation of gay sex in India.
A 2009 Delhi High Court ruling that decriminalised same-sex relationships is being challenged.
Many political, social and religious groups want the 19th Century colonial-era law reinstated.
The figures filed by the Ministry of Health were compiled by India's National Aids Control Programme.
The Aids programme has already reached 200,000 men in same-sex relationships and the hope is to raise that number to 400,000.
The prevalence of HIV in the group is 6.54%-7.23%.
But overall, the number of HIV-infected people in India is just 0.2% of the population as the country's Aids control programme has been successful in reducing the number of new infections.
Last month, the Supreme Court criticised the government for its shifting stand on the issue of decriminalising gay sex.
This was after a senior government lawyer, PP Malhotra, told the court that homosexuality was unnatural and immoral.
Within hours, the home ministry disowned the lawyer's statement and said he had read from an out-of-date file.
The health ministry then stated that it supported the 2009 Delhi High Court order decriminalising gay sex.
Judges GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhyaya criticised the government for not doing its "homework" on the case and ordered the government to provide a count of the country's homosexual population for the next hearing.
"You should have done your homework before coming to the court," they told an official.
The 2009 ruling decriminalising gay sex was welcomed by India's gay community, which said the judgement would help protect them from harassment and persecution.
Many people in India still regard same-sex relationships as illegitimate, but rights groups have long argued that the law contravened human rights.
Section 377 of the colonial Indian Penal Code defined homosexual acts as "carnal intercourse against the order of nature" and made them illegal.
But the Delhi High Court said the law was discriminatory and gay sex between consenting adults should not be treated as a crime. Until the high court ruling, homosexual acts were punishable by a 10-year prison term.
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There are about 2.5 million gays in India of whom 7% are HIV-positive, according to figures submitted by the government to the Supreme Court.
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The program interprets visual signals and translates them into words, which are then "spoken" by a machine.
Intel originally developed the technology specially for Prof Hawking, but it has been used by other sufferers of motor neurone disease (MND).
Anyone is now able to download and experiment with the system.
In the case of Prof Hawking, the Assistive Context-Aware Toolkit (ACAT) interprets sensor data capturing movements in his cheek muscles but other parts of the body may be used.
Intel hopes that ACAT, which runs on Microsoft Windows 7 or higher, will be used by researchers developing new interfaces for sufferers of diseases like ALS.
The programme and full source code have been published on code-sharing site GitHub.
Intel told the BBC that the software can carry out various functions besides sending text to a speech synthesizer.
"We have contextual menus to access all different parts of your computer," said Lama Nachman, principal engineer. "If you want to use Word, surf the web or speak you can use ACAT for that."
She added that the team had already experimented with a variety of different sensors, and they are hoping developers will try out other options appropriate to each patient's needs and abilities.
"We also have an accelerometer [motion] sensor for patients who can use a finger but not much more, and a button system for someone who can push a button," she said.
The UK's MND Association has praised the move.
"Helping maintain communication for someone with MND could be as simple as using a pen and paper. But as the disease progresses people often lose the use of their hands too," said Karen Pearce, Director of Care for the MND Association.
"That's when cutting edge Augmentative and Alternative Communication, or AAC, aids can help but it's vital speech and language therapists look at the best options for families.
"It will be exciting to see how this open source approach works."
Euan MacDonald, an MND sufferer who runs a disabled access reviews website called Euan's Guide , said, "AAC is an absolutely fundamental part of my life. Unlike medical research, technology is moving very quickly and it's exciting to see new things emerge every year.
"The more that technology can help us express what we are thinking, the better," he added.
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Software that helps Prof Stephen Hawking to speak via a computer has been published online by Intel, the company that created it.
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The British Transport Police said they were called to Hamilton West railway station, at 17:30.
When they arrived they found a man who had stab wounds to his legs. He was taken to hospital where his condition has been described as stable.
Anyone with information has been urged to contact British Transport Police.
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A man has been taken to hospital after being stabbed on a train.
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The girl was walking with a woman, aged 55, when they were hit by a black Ford Fiesta at 15:00 GMT on Prescot Road.
The car then hit a lamp-post before the two male occupants reportedly fled on foot.
The girl was taken to hospital. The woman is serious but stable
Prescot Road was closed from Lugsmore Lane to Dunriding Lane.
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A four-year-old girl is critically ill in hospital after a suspected stolen car mounted the pavement and hit her in St Helens, police said.
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The trial will last for six months and will be evaluated by the Police Service of Northern Ireland in partnership with the College of Policing and Cambridge University.
The evaluation will help inform the introduction of body cameras for the entire PSNI.
They will be used by officers in Foyle, Strabane, Limavady and Magherafelt.
As part of the evaluation, not all officers will wear the cameras all of the time.
Superintendent Garry Eaton said the technology potentially offered a number of advantages for police and public alike.
"Officers can wear the cameras on their uniform and use it when they respond to a call or interact with members of the public.
"These contacts will be captured and can be downloaded and used in evidence where appropriate.
"They offer an opportunity to capture events as they happen and to store them so that they can be played back later to support victims and establish facts.
"Not only are the cameras useful from an evidence-gathering point of view, but if there is a disagreement between an officer and a member of the public, they can provide information quickly of what actually happened to establish facts."
As well as the PSNI, a number of services in Great Britain have also begun to deploy the cameras.
Supt. Eaton added: "The cameras will normally be attached to an officer's uniform at chest height. They are small and robust and have been designed for ease of use. Only minimal training is required.
"The cameras can record pictures and sound for up to two and a half hours, but would not normally be on all the time. They can be switched on and off by the user."
One of the areas for using the cameras will be domestic violence incidents.
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Police in parts of County Londonderry and Tyrone have begun a pilot scheme to introduce the use of body cameras.
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Steve Davies told AMs officials were "concerned" about the volume of early entry.
It follows criticism from Education Secretary Kirsty Williams that children were being "banked" at lower qualifications.
Mr Davies said the government wants to take action on the issue in the autumn.
Ms Williams expressed concerns earlier in May that the focus on raising GCSE attainment to C grade has led to "unintended consequences", with some children put in for early entry to bank a lower qualification instead of potentially reaching higher.
The senior civil servant - asked about the issue of "early entry as a way of gaming the system" by Labour AM Lee Waters - said the Welsh Government advice was that decisions around early entry were made "in the interests of an individual child".
He told the assembly's public accounts committee that this year that some schools have conducted early entry "almost to test the system".
But he added: "I do believe... there are also those out there who are gaming."
Mr Davies acknowledged: "Sometimes that's the pressure that the system we have puts on them.
"I'm not in any way justifying it, but I can understand that people will resort to that."
Mr Davies said the government was working with Qualifications Wales (QW) to identify "the scale of the problem" with a report from the body due in September.
He added Ms Williams is "very aware of it" adding that action will be taken in the "early part of the autumn term" following the review.
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Some schools are "gaming" the exam system by entering children early, the Welsh Government director of education has said.
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Steelers coach Paul Thompson said the Devils had an advantage, after their request to rearrange their Elite League game 24 hours before the final was declined.
League rules state teams cannot change fixtures within four weeks of a game.
The Steelers face Coventry Blaze in the Elite League on Saturday, 4 March.
"I know Sheffield have tried to make a big media frenzy out of having to play the night before a game," Kelman told BBC Wales Sport.
"But 32 weeks of the year, pretty much, you play two games in a row and I think the fans need to understand that.
"We had the foresight to plan not to play the night before a game, they did not and they wanted a rule put in place that you could not cancel a game in four weeks, so I don't feel bad for them at all.
Cardiff Devils travel to Manchester on Friday to play Manchester Storm in the Elite League, and two days later take on the Steelers in the final at Ice Arena Wales.
"It is advantage to Cardiff because they pulled that move on us that we could not move the game," Steelers coach Paul Thompson said.
"It is not fair. It is a cup final, both teams should have the same opportunity so we are a little bit rattled about that, but I hope that comes back and haunts Cardiff."
The Devils and the Steelers faced each other in the Challenge Cup final in 2015 and during that match it was the Devils who took the victory, winning 2-1 in the Sheffield Arena.
Kelman acknowledged that in the Elite League playing back-to-back games is not uncommon, and the Devils even had to play a game the night before their Challenge Cup final in 2015.
"Whatever media circus they want to create over having to play the night before a game - they do it every single weekend just like nine other teams in the league do," Kelman continued.
"We are not worried about it and we are not rising to it. We are just focusing on the game.
"I don't think the Cardiff Devils are the bad guys for making them obey the rule they put in place, I think it is kind of silly."
The Devils are currently top of the Elite League standings on 71 points and will be aiming for their third Challenge Cup trophy on Sunday, after winning the cup in 2006 and 2015.
The Welsh side were runners up in the competition in 2016 after losing 1-0 against the Nottingham Panthers.
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Cardiff Devils managing director Todd Kelman says the Sheffield Steelers have caused a "media frenzy" ahead of their Challenge Cup final on 5 March.
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About 1,000 athletes, aged between 14 and 18, will participate in the event, scheduled for 27 July to 1 August.
Boxers Carl Frampton and Michael Conlan, and swimmer Sycerika McMahon are among Northern Irish athletes to have previously competed at the Games.
NI Commonwealth Games chairman Robert McVeigh described it as a hugely significant day for local sport.
"This is the result of many years of lobbying and hard work," said McVeigh.
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"It offers a great opportunity for children to strive towards being part of the largest ever Team NI at a Commonwealth Youth Games."
More than 60 nations were represented at the last Youth Games, staged in Samoa in September, with Northern Ireland finishing eighth in the medal table.
The next Youth Games will take place in the Bahamas in 2017, after which it will revert to a four-year cycle.
The formal announcement of Northern Ireland's hosting of the 2021 Games will take place at Belfast City Hall on Monday, with Commonwealth Games NI patron Dame Mary Peters in attendance.
It is expected the swimming competition will take place at the Aurora complex in Bangor, with the Mary Peters Track in Belfast hosting the athletics, and the gymnastics being held in Lisburn.
Northern Ireland were the only bidders for the 2021 Games, after Jersey and Botswana withdrew.
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Northern Ireland has been chosen to host the Commonwealth Youth Games in the summer of 2021.
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The 72-year-old denies 12 counts of sex offences against a girl who was 15 at the time of the alleged incidents.
He told the jury at Belfast Crown Court: "I have done nothing wrong."
Giving evidence for a second day, he said the teenager "insisted" on accompanying him on the trip to Bangor, County Down.
It happened four months after the girl's family had confronted Mr McPeake about the nature of his relationship with her, the court heard.
Mr McPeake denied that her mother had told him to stay away from the teenager, but said he was told she would no longer attend music lessons with him.
He said he had travelled to Bangor as he needed work done on his car.
A prosecution lawyer put it to him: "You didn't have to take her, did you Mr McPeake?"
He replied: "No, that was a big mistake on my behalf."
Mr McPeake also dismissed as "a lie" a suggestion that he had kissed the girl in front of two older women at a playpark in the seaside town.
He said the girl would keep turning up and harassing him.
When asked why he continued to agree to meet her, Mr McPeake said she had threatened to tell his wife he was having an affair with another woman, warned that she would call social services and said she would kill herself.
Asked why he had answered "no comment" when police put the allegations to him during interview, he said he was acting on the advice of his solicitor.
The trial continues.
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Traditional Irish musician Francis McPeake has told a court he made a "big mistake" in taking a schoolgirl and her friend on a day trip.
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Jacques and Torin Lakeman, aged 19 and 20, from Port St Mary, were found in a room above a pub in Bolton after taking drugs bought on the "dark web" in 2014.
Isle of Man Skateboarding (ISB) is supporting the Jactor skate project and an official launch is taking place at Scoill Phurt le Moirrey school later.
Ray Lakeman said: "It would provide a real boost for young people."
The Jactor skate project would cost around £75,000 and the launch includes a presentation and demonstration by ISB.
Mr Lakeman, who has called for drugs that killed his sons to be legalised, said: "After the boys died we held a memorial service where the idea came around.
"We've already done some fundraising and when we asked local school children what the town needs the skate park was a very popular idea.
"It would certainly be something the boys would have loved themselves."
Jacques was an aspiring chef and Torin was in his second year of studying physics at Aberystwyth University.
ISB Founder Kristian Edwards said: "Braddan commissioners were extremely forward thinking with the skate park and subsequent concrete bowl, the first of its kind on the island.
"It is regularly used by children and adults. We have already got a great set of designs for Port St Mary.
"This will be a fantastic asset to community so please support."
Last week skateboarding was included in the MicroGaming community games for the first time with hundreds of children taking part.
Clubs have also been set up at two of the island's secondary schools in 2017.
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A father who sons died after taking lethal doses of ecstasy has revealed plans for a skate park in their memory.
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The Wings are four points adrift of safety and without a win in 10 league matches, stretching back to 13 October.
The 31-year-old led the side to the FA Cup second round before losing to Carlisle, but they have lost their last five games in all competitions.
Coaches Matt McEntegart and Paul Barnes have also left the club.
Welling operations manager Barry Hobbins told the club website: "We're disappointed that we've had to make a change but we felt we had to give ourselves the best chance possible of staying up.
"We enjoyed a good run in the FA Cup this season but the league is our priority and we need to get back to winning ways very quickly."
Former Welling defender Fazakerley, who made 219 appearances for the club, helped save the Wings from relegation last season after taking over from Jody Brown in March.
"I'm very disappointed because I still believe we could still have turned things round," he told BBC Radio Kent.
"It has been a very intense few months and we gave it everything. With every game you fail to win your time runs out so we knew it was a possibility.
"It is the end of an era as I had some great years at Welling."
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Welling United have sacked manager Loui Fazakerley after 10 months in charge, with the club currently in the National League relegation zone.
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Bookmakers Ladbrokes said it was its highest ever pay-out on a multiple bet placed online for the stake size.
The Berkshire punter, who declined to be identified, predicted results in nine games on Wednesday, including Wolves' shock win over Chelsea.
The mystery gambler said he was "over the moon" and intended to use the money to start his own firm.
"It's a life changing sum of money for me," he added.
"Everything changes from here on in and one of my first moves will be to start my own business."
Alex Donohue, from Ladbrokes, said the punter had achieved one of the "hardest feats in the industry".
He added: "It was his first bet of 2011 so it's been a perfect start to the year for him.
"We have had bigger pay-outs for other bets but not with just one small stake of £2.50.
"We expect the champagne corks are popping in Berkshire as he celebrates one of the biggest football wins of all time."
The nine bets also included predicting Arsenal would draw with Manchester City and Blackburn Rovers would beat Liverpool.
His final game rested on a draw in the Spanish cup match between Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao with the equalising goal being scored by Bilbao five minutes from time.
Ladbrokes said the majority of the money would be transferred into the man's bank account.
But the punter said he also wants to collect a substantial amount of the winnings from branches.
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A punter has won £272,529.60 from a £2.50 stake by correctly predicting the results of nine football matches.
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The disappointing fourth round left the Cavan woman on three under, which meant she missed out to Sophie Lamb as the best amateur at the tournament.
English golfer Lamb carded a 69 to end on six under, three ahead of Maguire.
Maguire was well placed after three rounds as a two-under-par 70 had left her tied 22nd on three under.
However her challenge for a top-20 finish never materialised as bogeys on the fifth and ninth, along with a double bogey on the 17th, saw her drop down the leaderboard.
Korea's IK Kim held off a brilliant challenge from England's Jodi Ewart Shadoff to claim a maiden major title.
Kim saw her six-shot overnight lead cut in half thanks to a superb run of scoring from Shadoff, who followed a birdie on the second with five in a row from the sixth and another on the 13th.
The 29-year-old from Northallerton then birdied the 17th to close the gap to two and parred the last to complete a 64, equalling the course record set on day one by Michelle Wie and matched by Inbee Park in round three.
However, Kim, who famously missed a one-foot putt to win the Kraft Nabisco Championship - now called the ANA Inspiration - in 2012, was able to par the final five holes for a closing 71 and winning total of 18 under par.
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Irish amateur Leona Maguire fired a final round of three-over-par 75 to finish in a share of 49th place at the Women's British Open at Kingsbarns.
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The 29-year-old England international has not made a final decision, but is understood to favour extending his time at the King Power Stadium.
Arsenal made a reported bid of £20m for Vardy, activating a release clause in his contract and offering him a deal reported to be worth £120,000 a week.
Leicester responded with an offer said to be worth £100,000.
Arsenal do not plan to improve their offer and are thought to be pursuing alternative options.
Vardy, who joined Leicester from non-league Fleetwood Town for £1m in 2012, signed a three-year deal in February, and the Foxes' new offer would extend that into a fourth year.
Arsenal's offer was a three-year contract with the option of a fourth.
Vardy, whose tally of 24 league goals last season was bettered only by Tottenham's Harry Kane, is currently with the England squad at Euro 2016.
The Gunners asked Vardy to give them an answer before he flew to France, but he wanted to focus on the competition.
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Leicester striker Jamie Vardy is set to reject an offer to join Arsenal and stay with the Premier League champions.
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The animals all ended up in council pounds and more than 5,000 were later put down, according to the charity's annual survey of 345 local authorities.
In total, 102,363 strays were picked up by UK councils in 2014-15 - a fall from 110,675 dogs in 2013-14.
Councils were having to put healthy ones down due to "a lack of space and resources", the Dogs Trust said.
Of the 102,363 stray dogs picked up last year, 54,767 were reunited with their owners, the charity said, but 47,596 dogs were never picked up.
Dogs Trust said it also had handled 43,771 calls from people trying to give up their dogs in the last 12 months.
The charity said it was hopeful the number of stray pets returned to their owners will rise once it becomes a legal requirement from April for dogs in England, Scotland and Wales to be microchipped.
But Adrian Burder, chief executive of the Dogs Trust, said it was time for people to stop treating family pets as a "disposable item".
"Abandoning a dog is simply unacceptable and sadly, Dogs Trust's famous slogan 'a dog is for life' is as significant as ever," he said.
"If you are not ready to care for a dog for its entire life, do not commit to becoming a dog owner.
"This year's... survey shows that local authorities continue to pick up the pieces and have found themselves in the tough position of being forced to put healthy dogs to sleep for lack of space and resources."
The charity said 319 local authorities in England Wales and Scotland responded to its survey, as well as 26 councils in Northern Ireland.
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More than 47,500 dogs were abandoned by their owners in the UK last year, figures from the Dogs Trust suggest.
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Armed police targeted the property at Aspen Walk in Twinbrook in the early hours of Wednesday after a 41-year-old man was shot in the leg.
The victim is in a serious condition after the attack at Glasvey Drive.
Two men, aged 25 and 35, were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after armed officers and a police helicopter were deployed.
The suspects remain in police custody and officers remain at the property at Aspen Walk where they have been carrying out searches.
A Police Service of Northern Ireland detective said: "A motive for this attack has not yet been established.
"I would appeal to anyone who witnessed the incident or anyone with any information that would assist with our investigation to contact detectives in Lisburn police station."
Photographs taken at the scene by photographer Kevin Scott show the raid on the house.
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This is the dramatic moment when a police officer held a gun to a man's head in a raid at west Belfast house.
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James Greig is pictured on one knee holding a ring for Katie Moore, next to the words: "Will you marry me, Katie?"
The article says they are "in a hotel in the countryside... as soon as we hear her answer we will let you know."
But - for those wondering what happened - the Observer Magazine tweeted this update: "Katie said yes!"
The magazine says the pair met in New York through friends and began a relationship, despite Ms Moore living in the US East Coast city and Mr Greig residing 3,500 miles away in London.
Ms Moore, from Shropshire, took part in an interview after being told the magazine was doing a story on long-distance relationships.
The Observer says the proposal is a "first" for a national newspaper.
Their first "proper" date, six weeks after they met, ended with Mr Greig telling Ms Moore he loved her "in a Brooklyn nightclub at 4am".
"On the flight home, to the embarrassment of the BA cabin crew, I cried," Mr Greig, from west Wales, told the magazine.
The couple, who now live together in south London, say they spent many thousands of pounds on plane tickets and had many tearful goodbyes at customs before Ms Moore moved to London in 2014.
The article says Mr Greig recently put their travel miles into a carbon footprint calculator and worked out their long-distance relationship "had effectively used up three whole worlds".
"Do I get let off because it was for love?" he asks.
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One man found a very public way to pop the question to his girlfriend on Valentine's Day - by appearing on the cover of the Observer Magazine.
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The women, wearing hijabs, entered the station saying they wanted to report a stolen phone, police say.
One of the women pulled a knife and another threw a petrol bomb, starting a fire. Two officers were injured.
It is not clear who is behind the attack, but Islamist group al-Shabab has staged numerous attacks in Kenya.
The Somali-based group has been targeting Kenya since 2011, when Kenyan troops were deployed to rid Somalia of the militants.
A BBC journalist in Mombasa said the women were apparently wearing bullet-proof vests under their dresses, and an unnamed police officer said "they were definitely on a mission".
A witness called Saumu told Agence France-Presse that they were "shouting Allahu Akbar (God is greatest, in Arabic).
Al-Shabab has recruited hundreds of Kenyans, especially around Mombasa which has a large Muslim population.
Al-Shabab said it was behind the massacre at Garissa University in April 2015, in which 147 people were killed, and the attack on Nairobi's Westgate shopping centre in 2013 in which 68 people were killed.
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Three women have been killed after trying to stage an attack at the main police station in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, officials say.
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The discovery was made after HM Revenue and Customs officials visited a house in North Street, Clackmannan, on 19 August.
Police Scotland said cannabis plants were subsequently recovered.
Forth Valley Division said a man has been charged in connection with the incident and will appear at Alloa Sheriff Court.
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Customs and revenue staff uncovered a £25,000 cannabis cultivation at a Forth Valley property, police have revealed.
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The blaze broke out at Southampton's SeaCity Museum on Havelock Road at about 12:25 BST on Tuesday.
The fire service said a wooden model caught fire. Hampshire Constabulary said the till in the cafe was also broken into and cash stolen.
Visitors and staff were evacuated from the building but no-one was injured, the force added.
Officers are appealing for witnesses to come forward.
The £15m museum opened in April 2012 and is dedicated to Southampton's maritime heritage and the Titanic which made its ill-fated voyage from the city in 1912.
The Heritage Lottery Fund awarded a £4.9m grant towards the cost of the museum - the rest of the money came from the city council.
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A fire at a museum dedicated to the Titanic is being treated as arson, police have said.
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It has been reported that she was attacked in the Bank Place area near the Guildhall on Thursday evening.
A teenager was arrested but he has since been released on police bail, pending further inquiries.
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The police are investigating a report of a serious sexual assault on a teenage girl in Londonderry on St Patrick's Day.
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IS media channels say US-led airstrikes weakened the Tabqa dam, but US-backed fighters denied hitting the facility.
Some reports say civilians have begun to flee, while others say they are being reassured they can stay.
US-backed Syrian rebels are trying to capture Raqqa from IS.
On Wednesday, the Pentagon said members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance had been airlifted to positions behind IS lines close to the Tabqa dam, which is about 40km (25 miles) upstream of the city on the Euphrates river.
However, the BBC is not able to independently confirm the condition of the IS-held dam - which provides power to the region - nor the orders received by Raqqa's civilians.
Earlier the anti-IS activist group, Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, said people had started to flee the city - but that militants had been using loudspeakers to tell them that the dam was safe and that they should not leave.
That comes despite IS channels saying the facility was at imminent risk of collapse amid rising water levels.
A technical source at the dam told the AFP news agency there had been a power failure - but said damage to the dam would only pose a danger over time, with water levels not rising significantly so far.
And another source told the BBC the power had been partially restored.
Aside from being strategically important and providing electricity to the region, the dam is believed to be used by IS foreign fighters to plot attacks outside Syria, according to the Pentagon.
The United Nations recently warned that damage to it could lead to massive-scale flooding.
There were similar concerns last year for a dam outside Mosul, an IS stronghold in northern Iraq.
If the Mosul dam burst, floodwaters could kill 1.47 million Iraqis living along the River Tigris, the US embassy said.
However, the dam has so far remained in operation.
US warplanes are supporting the Iraqi army's mission to retake Mosul from the Islamic State (IS).
Meanwhile the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, supported by the US, are said to be closing in on Raqqa as well as the Tabqa dam.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said coalition airstrikes had killed 89 civilians in the countryside west of Raqqa in the past week, including 35 in the Badya school, in the village of al-Mansoura.
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Fears that a nearby dam might collapse are reportedly causing panic and confusion in the Syrian city of Raqqa, a stronghold of the so-called Islamic State (IS) group.
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The hotel was sold by the Belfast-based Mooney Group who had owned it since 1986.
The McKeever Group owns a portfolio of hotels which includes the Adair Arms in Ballymena and the Dunsilly in Antrim.
Bookings at the Dunadry are not affected by the change of ownership and all employees will be retained.
In 2016, the McKeever group made a pre-tax profit of just under £1m on turnover of £8.2m.
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The Dunadry Hotel in County Antrim has been bought by the McKeever Hotel Group for an undisclosed sum.
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Taylor's 7-4 loss at Birmingham's Barclaycard Arena was followed by an impressive 7-1 win for world number one Van Gerwen over James Wade.
Four players - Gary Anderson, Adrian Lewis, Wade and Wright - can still claim one of the remaining two spots.
Anderson needs one point from his final two games to qualify for the last four.
A win over Wright would have booked the defending champion's place in London on 19 May, but he was held to a 6-6 draw by Wright.
Lewis is three points clear of fifth-placed Wade and requires one more win to seal a play-off place following his 7-2 success against Robert Thornton, while Anderson's 7-5 defeat of Raymond van Barneveld ended the Dutchman's hopes of qualification.
Peter Wright 7-4 Phil Taylor
Raymond van Barneveld 5-7 Gary Anderson
Adrian Lewis 7-2 Robert Thornton
James Wade 1-7 Michael van Gerwen
Peter Wright 6-6 Gary Anderson
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Michael van Gerwen secured a Premier League play-off place and went top of the table as Phil Taylor slipped to a surprise defeat by Peter Wright.
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Alex Staniforth, of Cheshire, has already tackled Pen-Y-Fan, Fan Foel and Snowdon since starting the series on 13 May.
The 22-year-old will aim to scale Moel Famau, on the Flintshire-Denbighshire border, on Sunday.
If successful, he will have climbed the equivalent of 13 Mount Everests.
He said: "A big thanks for all my friends and supporters from all over north Wales who encouraged me so brilliantly over the past few months and who've been so generous."
Mr Staniforth previously became the youngest person to complete the Three Peaks Challenge and has twice attempted to scale Everest.
He abandoned his last bid to reach the world's highest summit in 2015, after an avalanche left three of his friends dead.
Mr Staniforth, who sets off at 11:30 BST, is carrying out the latest series of climbs in aid of mental health charity, Young Minds UK, and has so far raised £15,000.
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An adventurer is set to complete his bid to climb the highest point of every UK county when he scales a north Wales peak.
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She went to hospital in New York City on the advice of her doctor on Friday evening.
Sean Lennon and her spokesperson were quick to quash reports that she had suffered a stroke, saying that she was only experiencing "flu-like symptoms".
"She's home and running about as usual. Just the flu in the end," Sean tweeted on Saturday evening.
Ono, 83, was married to former Beatle John Lennon until he was murdered in 1980 outside New York's Dakota Building, where she still lives.
An ambulance was called to the building at 21:00 on Friday (02:00 GMT Saturday), a Fire Department spokesman said.
Ono spent the night in Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan.
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Artist and musician Yoko Ono is back at home after spending a night in hospital, her son Sean Lennon says.
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Exxon Mobil reported it earned $4.2bn (£2.68bn) in the second quarter, which marked a drop of more than 50% from last year.
Profits increased in the company's chemical unit during the period, but that was not enough to offset the oil price drop.
Since last year, Brent crude oil prices have fallen more than 40%.
"Our quarterly results reflect the disparate impacts of the current commodity price environment, but also demonstrate the strength of our sound operations, superior project execution capabilities, as well as continued discipline in capital and expense management," said Rex Tillerson, Exxon Mobil's chairman and chief executive officer.
The massive drop in crude oil prices also weighed on results at oil producer, Chevron.
Second quarter profit fell 90% from last year, to $571m (£365m).
"Second quarter financial results were weak, reflecting a crude price decline of nearly 50% from a year ago," Chevron chief executive officer, John Watson, said.
"Our upstream businesses were particularly hard hit, as lower prices reduced revenues and triggered impairments and other charges," Mr Watson added. "Downstream operations continued to deliver strong financial performance, reflecting both high reliability and improved margin."
Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell announced yesterday it has shed 6,500 jobs as part of cost-cutting plans as it seeks to counter falling oil prices.
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Plunging crude oil prices weighed on quarterly earnings at the world's biggest oil company.
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The former heavyweight boxing champion, 47, was due to attend events promoting his autobiography Undisputed Truth.
Tyson served three years of a six-year sentence imposed in 1992 for raping a teenage beauty-pageant contestant.
Anyone sentenced to more than four years in prison is not allowed to enter Britain under immigration laws.
Tyson will carry out his promotional obligations in Paris after publisher Harper Collins admitted to being unaware he was barred from the UK.
"There was a change in the UK immigration law in December 2012 of which we were unaware," the publisher said in a statement. "For this reason, Mike had to change location to Paris to salvage his press obligations for the UK."
Tyson, who became the youngest world heavyweight champion, aged 20, when he beat Trevor Berbick in 1986, also has convictions for assault and cocaine possession.
"We would not comment on the details of an individual case," said a Home Office spokeswoman. "We reserve the right to refuse entry to the UK to anyone who is convicted of serious criminal offences.
"In December 2012, we toughened up the rules on entering the UK, replacing the previous discretionary approach with a clearer, stronger framework including mandatory refusals based on the length of, and time since, sentence."
Listen to Mike Costello's interview with Mike Tyson on BBC Radio 5 live on Thursday, 19 December, between 1900 and 2000 GMT.
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Mike Tyson has been forced to pull out of promotional appearances in London after being barred from entering the UK because of previous convictions.
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William Miller, from Balfron, Stirling, had last been seen in Jamestown, Alexandria at about 00:20 on 7 January.
His body was recovered from the River Leven, near the Vale of Leven Industrial Estate in Dumbarton last Thursday.
Police Scotland said there did not appear to be any suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.
Members of Mr Miller's family had appeared at a press conference and appealed for anyone with information to contact police.
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A 62-year-old man who has been missing since January has been found dead in a river.
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Celtic only need one more win - given their vastly superior goal difference - after the 1-1 draw with Ross County.
But the mood inside Parkhead was one of frustration and anger with a flurry of boos at the final whistle.
"It is tough for the players but we did not perform very well so you can accept it. But it isn't helping," Deila said.
"The performances haven't been good enough lately and today again in the second half, there was not enough heart and energy in it. That is what they are reacting to.
"But you saw with Aberdeen on Friday that it isn't an easy job to go out and win. They lost three points, we got one point, so it hasn't been that bad a weekend.
"We are going the right way, we are now nine points ahead with four games left so we have to celebrate the opportunity.
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"I understand there are a lot of people who want to drag us down but we have only lost three games in 34. What has happened is we have lost important games. That is killing us and taking the energy of the players.
"But now we need to stick together and get over the line. We are only three points away from a fifth championship in a row."
Celtic could effectively seal the title with victory at Hearts next Saturday lunchtime, but sections of the home support unveiled anti-board banners before kick-off and their mood was not improved by a frustrating second-half display.
Leigh Griffiths' 38th goal of the season put the champions ahead but County missed several good chances before Stewart Murdoch's strike gave them a deserved point, and it might have been more.
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"The players worked extremely hard for each other and I thought a point was the least we deserved," said County boss Jim McIntyre.
"We had some golden opportunities that we should have taken. From that side we are disappointed not to win it but I can't be disappointed with what the players gave me and the type of performance they put in.
"We will continue to try to get better and that is the challenge that lies ahead this summer.
"There will be some new signings but there won't be wholesale changes. We will try to add the right ones to complement what we already have."
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Outgoing boss Ronny Deila urged Celtic's players to "stick together" as they prepare to secure a fifth straight title despite unrest among supporters.
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Alfie Lindsey visited the west London estate to donate his superhero-themed tin filled with up to £70 in cash.
Alfie's dad Arthur said his son wanted to help after watching news about the tragedy on television.
He handed the money over to the Bishop of Kensington, Graham Tomlin, who said the gesture was "absolutely amazing".
"He brought out of his bag this tin... and I said, 'have you been collecting?' and he said, 'no, it is my pocket money'," the bishop said.
"It was absolutely amazing. It is just a little sign of the incredible outpouring of compassion there has been in London as a result of this.
"And in some ways, that is actually what we need, because we are now in a situation where we probably have enough clothing, food and so on, but cash - money -really does help.
He said when he accepted the donation, he promised Alfie it would get to those who needed it.
Alfie, from Hounslow, said he felt "sad" for the people who lived at Grenfell Tower and a "little bit worried".
At least 58 people are now presumed dead or missing, presumed dead following the fire that ravaged the 24-storey tower block in the early hours of Wednesday.
Many others have lost their homes as a result of the blaze, which has gutted the tower and left it charred and virtually destroyed.
Government staff have now been drafted in to bolster the official response to the disaster, following widespread criticism of the local council's performance.
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A six-year-old boy has gone to the site of the Grenfell Tower fire to donate his pocket money, saying he felt "sad" for the people who had lived there.
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Aribo set up three goals in Monday's 4-1 win over Bristol Rovers, adding to an assist against Southend on 31 December.
Robinson worked with Alli at previous club MK Dons before the 20-year-old moved to Tottenham Hotspur.
"Four assists in two games is incredible. I have seen it before with a very special talent who is working in north London now," he said.
Robinson handed Alli his Dons debut as a 16-year-old in November 2012, and the midfielder scored 24 goals in 88 appearances for the Buckinghamshire club before joining Spurs in the summer of 2015.
Aribo, 20, made his first-team debut for Charlton in October, and last month extended his contract with the Addicks until 2019.
"South-east London is a hotbed for talent and I do class myself as a developer," Robinson added to BBC Radio London.
"I spoke to the owner [Roland Duchatelet] after the game at Southend and he was really excited about Joe.
"My job is to keep that fire fuelled and this club moving forward."
Meanwhile, Robinson says he has taken Ademola Lookman "out of the firing line", with the winger linked with a move away from The Valley in the January transfer window.
The 19-year-old is on the brink of a £10m move to Everton and has missed the Addicks' last two matches.
"A deal has not been done," Robinson, 36, said.
"But there is so much talk surrounding the young man I can't see it being too long. There is no smoke without fire."
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Charlton Athletic midfielder Joe Aribo has been compared to England's Dele Alli by Addicks boss Karl Robinson.
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The pictures were taken in Monument Valley, Arizona, and at the Trona Pinnacles and Red Rock Canyon in California.
The glowing fireball resembling a meteor was a giant "honey moon" passing in time-lapse across the sky.
The footage is made up of over 10,000 thousand still photographs, which were put together by film-makers Gavin Heffernan and Harun Mehmedinović.
Footage courtesy of BBC Earth.
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An amazing time-lapse has been captured of the sun, storms and stars passing over three landmarks in America.
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It came after allegations that he breached parliamentary rules by failing to register financial interests.
A complaint was reportedly made alleging Mr Boswell did not properly record his directorship of Boswell and Johnston Ltd.
The SNP said the inquiry did not imply the Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill MP broke the rules.
The allegations against Mr Boswell were made by a Liberal Democrat candidate.
The parliamentary commissioner for standards, Kathryn Hudson, has several options open to her, including throwing the complaint out or referring it to the Commons standards committee for further investigation.
Labour and the Conservatives called on SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon to launch an investigation of her own into the issue.
In December, Mr Boswell, who worked in the oil and gas industry before being elected, admitted benefitting from a tax loophole by receiving an interest-free loan of £18,000 while working for US energy company Phillips 66 - something he called a "common practice" in the industry.
The SNP then said the MP had always declared his interests in line with guidelines, and was "committed to ending tax avoidance schemes".
On Tuesday afternoon, a spokesman said: "Phil Boswell sought advice from the Register of Interests and as the rules set out by the Commissioner for Standards make clear, their inquiry does not imply that there has been a breach of the rules of the House."
Two SNP MPs - Michelle Thomson and Natalie McGarry - are currently suspended from the party after withdrawing from the whip.
Ms Thomson has been linked to property deals that led to a solicitor being struck off, while Ms McGarry is at the centre of a police investigation into claims that donations made to the Women for Independence group have gone missing.
Both deny any wrongdoing.
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Westminster's standards watchdog has opened an investigation into the conduct of SNP MP Phil Boswell.
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Anthony Grainger, 36, from Bolton was killed when he was shot in the chest during a Greater Manchester Police operation in Cheshire on 3 March 2012.
He was shot through the windscreen of a stolen Audi in a car park in Culcheth.
The inquiry into his death heard firearms officers involved did not give full statements for six days.
Liverpool Crown Court heard an officer, referred to as W9 to protect his identity, told the court that on 8 March 2012 there had been a meeting with firearm officers involved in the investigation which led to Mr Grainger's shooting death and V53, the officer who fatally shot 29-year-old Mark Duggan in Tottenham, north London in 2011.
W9 said it was held to discuss their welfare and post-incident procedure.
Q9 - the officer who shot Mr Grainger - also attended.
W9 told the inquiry he could not recall if Q9 and V53 went for a private meeting.
Leslie Thomas QC, representing Mr Grainger's family, asked W9 if he thought it "a bit odd" the man who shot Mark Duggan - came up to Manchester for a meeting with all the firearms officers in this case.
W9 said: "No, because we'd not been in that situation before.
"He's saying what's happened to him, he's not giving, or he wasn't giving me, advice."
The inquiry heard details of the meeting had only come to light on Tuesday.
W9 told the court some officers were getting a "bit frustrated" at the delay in giving statements.
The inquiry heard the officers were all taken to the same room - which had a flip chart with details about the day on - to write statements on 9 March.
W9 said it only had information such as timings which could have been found on logs.
Q9 a serving officer who had be began giving evidence to the inquiry earlier. He said he had been an authorised firearms officer for six years when Mr Grainger died.
The inquiry continues.
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A police officer who shot dead an unarmed man met with the officer who shot Mark Duggan before making his full statement, a public inquiry has heard.
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One of India's most successful actresses, her political career was marked by allegations of self-enrichment to fund an extravagant lifestyle.
Her admirers say she played a key role in the economic development of the southern state of Tamil Nadu - but critics say she encouraged a personality cult and fostered corruption in the state.
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Jayaram Jayalalitha, who died in the city of Chennai on Monday night, was one of India's most influential and controversial politicians.
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The 22-year-old played five songs, including Only Girl (In The World) and Cheers, which she dedicated to "all the semi-alcoholics in the world".
Rihanna said the album had been recorded late at night after she came off stage on her Last Girl On Earth world tour.
"I'd be doing vocals at 4am with a raspy voice," she joked.
The record, Rihanna's fifth in six years, marks a return to the singer's pop roots after the bleak nihilism of last year's Rated R.
That album, recorded in the wake of the star's assault by then-boyfriend Chris Brown, had a much darker tone - presaged by single Russian Roulette, which talked about a subservient, violent relationship.
One track from the new album, S&M, revisits those themes, with Rihanna declaring, "sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me".
But most of the new material presented a more carefree side to the Barbadian star.
Fizzing synths, club beats and sing-along chants featured heavily, with three songs - Only Girl, What's My Name and S&M - produced by Norwegian team Stargate.
The duo previously collaborated with Rihanna on dance tracks like Don't Stop The Music and Rude Boy.
Cheers, which the singer also referred to by its working title, Drink It Up, was a funky, loping guitar groove dedicated to a night on the town.
Despite its lyrical content, Rihanna confessed she was "too busy" to drink alcohol, and "hardly ever gets any sleep".
The night concluded with a strummed, acoustic ballad called California King Bed, about a couple who sleep beside each other but feel "10,000 miles apart".
Dressed in a figure-hugging white dress with a bold floral print, Rihanna sang along while her new music played, and chatted bashfully to a small audience of invited fans and journalists.
She revealed that the new album would also contain a duet with R&B star Drake and a collaboration with hotly-tipped rapper Nicki Minaj on a track called Raining Men.
"Thanks for coming along tonight, this really means a lot to me," she said. "Thank you for coming to hear my silly music."
Loud is due for release in the UK in November.
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Pop star Rihanna has unveiled tracks from her forthcoming album, Loud, at a club in London.
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Gray, Darren McGregor, Lewis Stevenson, Marvin Bartley and Ross Laidlaw have all committed to two-year extensions.
Hibs boss Neil Lennon has steered the Edinburgh side to promotion from the Championship and a return to the top-flight following a three-year absence.
Gray, who scored the winning goal in last season's Scottish Cup final, moved to Hibs in 2014.
The defender was then manager Alan Stubbs' first signing and has gone on to make 122 appearances for Hibs.
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Hibernian captain David Gray is one of five players to sign new deals at Easter Road.
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She was giving evidence to the Lords' communications committee on the future of the BBC.
Now a BBC 6 Music presenter, she said she left in 2007 because she wanted her children to have access to advert-free public service broadcasting.
She said the BBC was a "true window on the world".
The House of Lords communications committee is looking at what the public purposes of the BBC should be and who should set the level of the licence fee.
Matthews, the former lead singer of Catatonia, was giving evidence alongside the chairman of the Arts Council for England, Sir Peter Bazalgette.
She said you needed to spend time in Australia, where people are "very envious of BBC" and the United States, where she lived for six years, to appreciate the broadcaster.
"It was during those years that I truly felt the true value and extent of what the BBC gives us culturally," she said.
"This disparity between the rich and poor and black and whites in America is shocking and I truly believe it's because they lack a well-funded and easily accessible public broadcasting provider that these disparities exist."
She said American TV bombarded you with adverts and she decided to come back to Britain in 2007 "because she missed the BBC so much" and wanted her children to have access to advert-free broadcasting and a "true window on the world".
"It's allowed to take the risks that the commercial sector can't take. The BBC has a completely different agenda, it's there to provide high quality entertainment and unbiased and informative programmes for everyone in the UK, whatever their interests."
Matthews also spoke about how her own band's growth was helped by BBC radio.
The UK government has launched a green paper on the future of the BBC, ahead of the renewal of its royal charter in 2017.
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Singer and broadcaster Cerys Matthews has told a House of Lords committee she left the United States because she missed the BBC.
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Paul Nicholl, 50, of Carnkenny Road, Newtownstewart, drank beer and took diazepam before the collision which killed GAA fan Patrick McCroary.
He was jailed on Tuesday for two-and-a half-years.
He will serve a further two-and-a-half years on licence and has been banned from driving for six years.
In a statement, the McCroary family called the sentence a "real insult".
"I feel as a family we have been really let down by the justice system," the statement said.
It added: "I feel the justice system in regards to drink driving has not just failed our family but failed many families in recent times and will continue to do so until the law changes.
"So how can he take my Dad's life but have his own back after two-and-a-half years? Where is the justice in this?"
The crash happened near Sion Mills, when Mr McCroary, 62, was travelling towards Strabane with his wife, son and daughter.
The rest of the family were badly injured, but survived the crash.
Nicholl was two-and-a-half-times over the drink-drive limit when he caused the crash in January 2014.
The statement continued: "As every day goes by we miss Daddy more and more. Paul Nicholl has caused a lot of pain and heartache to our family.
"By his selfish act of drink-driving he has torn our family apart as all dad lived for was his family and GAA."
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A County Tyrone family have said the sentence handed down to the drunk-driver who killed their father was "too lenient".
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Warren Duke, 48, died at an address in Jellicoe Close in Cippenham, police said.
A 23-year-old man from Cippenham was arrested on suspicion of murder.
Senior investigating officer, Supt Nora Holford, said: "Our investigation continues as we establish the full facts of what has happened."
"We are also working with the community to offer support and reassurance to them," she added.
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A man who was found dead at a house in Slough on Christmas Eve died of a single stab wound, a post-mortem examination has revealed.
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Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Sunday Programme after being stripped of the title reverend last week, Mr Flowers, 66, said his problems were "largely" in the past.
But he said it would be a "lie" to suggest they were completely over.
In 2014 he was fined for having cocaine, crystal meth and ketamine.
Mr Flowers, who became a Methodist minister in Bradford in 1976, has now also lost the authority to lead services for "seriously impairing the mission, witness or integrity of the Church".
He had initially been suspended in November 2013 following allegations in the Mail on Sunday newspaper that he bought and used the illegal drugs.
Along with claims of inappropriate expenses payments, the allegations led to him stepping down from his roles as deputy chairman of the the Co-op Group and chairman of its banking arm.
Mr Flowers told Radio 4: "The truth is that I think all of us struggle with issues of addiction and we have different addictions that affect millions of us in this country,
"I'm not going to tell you a lie that it's behind me totally, because it isn't, but I believe it's now largely behind me, but we still struggle with addiction of different sorts."
Mr Flowers added that his departure from the bank and suspension from the church ultimately made his faith stronger.
He said his mother's death was behind his drug use, adding that a "disaster" of a performance in front of a parliamentary select committee over his banking role could have been influenced by substance misuse.
But while accepting the Church disciplinary proceedings, he said he lacked "the same respect for the Church as an institution".
He said the "Church generally - and the Methodist church is part of that" lagged behind on issues affecting LGBT people such as himself.
Addressing further newspaper claims about his use of male escorts, Mr Flowers told Radio 4 that being at the top of an organisation was "sometimes lonely".
Listen to the full interview with Paul Flowers on the Sunday Programme, BBC Radio 4 at 07:10 GMT, or catch up on iPlayer
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Former Co-op Bank chairman Paul Flowers says he still struggles with addiction, three years after a drugs sting led to his suspension as a Methodist minister.
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A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 6 and 13 January. Send your photos to [email protected] or our Instagram at #bbcscotlandpics.
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Sir Elton spoke at a Senate hearing that is considering funding for the US's global Aids programme.
"The Aids epidemic is not over and America's continued leadership is critical," he said on Wednesday.
Senators Lindsey Graham and Patrick Leahy invited the singer to speak.
The subject of the Senate committee's hearing was the President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief, also known as Pepfar.
"We cannot afford to let the window close if our efforts flag," Sir Elton told the senators, while wearing his signature pink sunglasses.
"Drug resistance will surface, transmission rates will rise and this disease which knows no boundaries will once again become a ruthless pandemic with disastrous and far-reaching consequences.
"This is the most powerful legislative body in the world and this Congress indeed has the power to end Aids."
And when asked by Sen Graham about what his worst fear was going forward, the British musician replied: "The worst fear is stigma, to be honest with you."
He mentioned Africa as an example, saying that "draconian laws" were forcing gay men with HIV to go underground "and the disease is spread even further".
"But getting people to feel unashamed... because they may have a sexual orientation that the leader of the government may not approve of, is incredibly important," Sir Elton said.
The fight against Aids amounts to 1% of the US budget, Sir Elton told the BBC's Katty Kay.
The programme was launched by President George Bush in 2003, and has been strengthened by his successor Barack Obama.
For fiscal year 2016, $6.542bn (£4.28bn) has been requested for the programme.
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Sir Elton John has told a US Senate panel that Aids could be eradicated in his lifetime, but only if the US government continues funding the fight against the virus.
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The Somerset Choices website, run by Somerset County Council, will see approved and vetted carers list the types of services they can offer.
The National Care Association said if listed carers fell ill or took holiday, there could be gaps in service.
Somerset County Council said steps were in place to mitigate against this.
The two-year project - which lists services on a website - has been prompted by the introduction of the Care Act 2014, which came into force in April.
By law, councils must develop new markets which can offer a range of choices for those needing care.
Nadra Ahmed, chair of the National Care Association, said: "There is a concern over the continuity of service.
"If these are single employers with 'single' roles, if something happens to them, are we going to find people left at critical periods of time without any support?"
She said there were also issues with how well-trained the self-employed carers were.
Gareth O'Rourke, senior manager at the council, said: "[The service] is for a group of people who have a very good understanding of their needs and a strong understanding of how they want their needs to be met."
He added those on the register were vetted, insured and met self-employment law criteria.
According to Somerset County Council, the number of people likely to need support will rise from 2,392 in 2011, to 2,751 in 2015.
In 2011/12, about 58,300 people provided unpaid care.
It is not known how many people need care in the county as some pay for it privately and have no contact with social services.
Somerset Choices offers services from personal care to dog walking.
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A council project to boost the number of "sole trader" carers for the elderly may leave people without support, a care association has said.
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Brownings Bakery, who make the delicacy and provide match-day catering, have applied to trademark the name.
The club has owned the "Killie" trademark, which includes pies and snacks, since 1998 and will end its partnership with Brownings from 31 May.
Brownings managing director John Gall said the Kilmarnock bakery owned the pie name.
He said the club would be asked to stop using it.
The Killie Pie, which has a steak and gravy filling and a puff pastry lid, was voted the best pie in the SPFL last year.
Kilmarnock FC's company secretary, Michael Johnston, said the fans' favourite was created by another local baker and, in 2003, the club's then chief executive agreed to let Brownings use the name.
Mr Johnston said the trademark held by the club included confectionery, pies and snack foods and that the bakery was never charged for using the brand name.
The club claim that Brownings had increased their sales significantly with the Killie Pie but Brownings said the pie sales accounted for about 3% of its turnover.
Mr Gall has openly criticised Mr Johnston's running of the club in the past and backed a consortium of local business owners to take it over.
He told BBC Scotland: "Michael has a grudge against me but I've put a lot of money into Kilmarnock FC because I'm a fan."
The bakery plans to rebrand its pies as "Brownings" until the matter can be resolved.
Mr Gall said the recipe for his Brownings Pie would remain the same.
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Kilmarnock FC are facing a legal battle with a local bakers over the naming rights for the famous "Killie Pie".
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Seven people have been infected with the disease so far in South Korea, said the country's health ministry.
Chinese officials said they had traced the son of a patient who had refused voluntary quarantine.
Cases of the virus, for which there is no known cure, have been confirmed in more than 20 countries.
Two new cases of Mers (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) in South Korea were confirmed on Thursday.
The health ministry said that all of them had been linked to a man who returned from the Middle East - where Mers is more common.
Dozens of people are now in quarantine.
Meanwhile, Chinese officials said they had identified and isolated a South Korean man who had ignored quarantine restrictions to fly to China through Hong Kong.
Local media said that health workers had contacted 35 people who came into close contact with him.
His father was diagnosed with the virus earlier in May.
"We should have checked more actively and broadly on family-related issues. We are deeply sorry about that," said Yang Byung-kook, director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The mystery virus with no known cure
Mers was first identified in humans in 2012 and is a type of virus from the same family as Sars (severe acute respiratory syndrome).
Sars killed almost 800 people in an outbreak that began in 2002.
There is no cure or vaccine for Mers.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported a total of 1139 cases of Mers globally and at least 431 deaths.
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Concern is growing in South Korea over the spread of the Mers virus after a man defied quarantine to travel to China.
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The five-year-old, from Blackhall Colliery near Hartlepool, won December's goal of the month award and was recently a mascot at Everton.
Bradley was diagnosed with neuroblastoma in 2013 and his mother says he has only months to live.
Last year £700,000 was raised for him and treatment has now begun in hospital in a bid to prolong his life.
Everton pledged £200,000 to the cause in September, when Bradley was mascot for Sunderland's home fixture with the Toffees at the Stadium of Light.
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Terminally ill Sunderland fan Bradley Lowery was visited in hospital by the club's players on Thursday.
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Rat droppings and a live mouse were found in the kitchen at Shimla Pinks, in Leicester, on Tuesday.
Officers shut the restaurant while people were dining, with the business fined £1,000 during a hearing at the city's magistrates.
Owner Meena Patel told the Leicester Mercury he felt "terrible" about the problem and vowed to rectify it.
Leicester City Council health inspectors confirmed the closure during the hearing on Thursday.
The court was told droppings were found behind the freezer and there were holes in doors and the skirting boards, allowing the rodents access to food preparation areas.
Bacterial infections such as Leptospirosis and Ecoli can be spread by urine from mice and rats.
The council said in a statement the owners are not allowed to open until it was satisfied they have "addressed the problems".
The BBC approached Shimla Pinks for comment but has yet to receive a reply.
However, Mr Patel told the Mercury he was going to "eradicate" the problem.
The premises, in London Road, will close for a week to allow walls to be rebuilt and kitchen equipment replaced.
Shimla Pinks has earned consistent positive reviews on Trip Advisor, earning it a "certificate of excellence" in 2015.
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A curry house has been shut down after an infestation of rats and mice was found by health inspectors.
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The RMT guards will walk out as part of their dispute over the role of train staff.
Aslef drivers have called strikes on Tuesday 1, Wednesday 2 and Friday 4 August in their separate pay dispute.
Both unions have urged the transport secretary Chris Grayling to meet them for talks, following a meeting with Eastbourne Lib Dem MP Stephen Lloyd.
The BBC has contacted the Department for Transport for comment, but has yet to receive a response.
Aslef and the RMT union have been involved in dispute with Southern's parent company Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) over plans to replace conductors with "on-board supervisors", with extra responsibilities including the closing of train doors switching to the drivers.
The drivers' union is operating an overtime ban in the bitter long-running action.
Mr Lloyd has met with both unions at Westminster after individual talks between each union and Southern broke down.
He said after 16 months of disruption the South East was reaching a point of "absolute crisis".
"Now is the time for no more posturing and no more of the government trying to divide and rule," he said.
Both unions have urged Mr Grayling to negotiate directly with them to end the dispute.
Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan said the dispute "could go on for an awful long time".
Mick Cash, the RMT's general secretary said his members were also prepared to "continue the fight".
He said: "We have been trying for some time now to talk to Chris Grayling.
"The opportunity to resolve this dispute is in his hands."
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Guards on Southern rail are to walk out on 1 August to coincide with the first day of a strike by train drivers.
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Organisers said 280 cyclists and 3,500 visitors attended Saturday's Bristol Grand Prix event, which returned to the city following a 30-year absence.
Sunday's Sky Ride Bristol covered a 4.7 mile (7.5km) route. Organisers said 7,500 people took part in the event.
The national Sky Ride event replaced Bristol's Biggest Bike Ride, which had been going for more than 20 years.
Bristol Grand Prix director Nicola Waterworth said the event aimed to "inspire" people to cycle and it had been a "great spectacle".
"Part of the Bristol Grand Prix was funded through crowdfunding, so lots of people pledged their support," she added.
"The great thing about a race of this kind is it's great to watch it from lots of different angles. It's great to walk around, see different corners and see what people are doing."
Bristol's mayor George Ferguson, who attended the Grand Prix, which was part of Big Green Week 2015, tweeted that the event had had a "great atmosphere".
Brian Johnston, recreation manager for British Cycling, the organisation behind the Sky Ride, said the event had been a great opportunity to see the city "from a completely different perspective".
"Sky Ride is aimed at everybody, not just cyclists but maybe people who had not cycled for many, many years," he added.
Bristol became England's first cycling city in 2008 and was awarded £22m in 2008 to encourage residents to ride bicycles.
In 2011 it was announced that the project, which aimed at doubling the number of regular cyclists in the city, had failed to meet its target.
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Thousands of cyclists and spectators have taken to the streets of Bristol this weekend during two major events.
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The Australian couple had twins through the surrogate in 2012 but only kept the girl; the boy went to an Indian couple.
The couple said they could not afford to keep both babies.
Julie Bishop, speaking on a visit to India, said she believed staff at the consulate and the foreign affairs department had "acted professionally".
The row comes in the wake of the birth last year of a baby with Down's syndrome to a surrogate mother in Thailand. The baby was left in Thailand while his twin sister went home with Australian parents.
That case sparked intense debate in Australia about international surrogacy agreements.
Emails and other messages between Australian officials in Delhi and Canberra show the couple - who have not been named - travelled to India in late 2012 to seek citizenship for a baby girl.
What the parents said to the Australian High Commission staff in Delhi over what would happen to the baby boy left behind remains unclear.
However, they told Australian consular staff that the twin brother would be left behind because they could not afford to keep him.
They said they already had a son at home and wanted to "complete their family" with a girl.
They reportedly told officials that the boy would be given to friends in India "who were unable to conceive a child".
The documents, first obtained by Australian broadcaster ABC, revealed that Australian officials had raised concerns that the baby boy could be left stateless as India "did not recognise surrogate children as citizens".
A cable from High Commission staff to Canberra early in 2013 said: "The proposed adoptive parents are in fact not close family friends of the biological parents, but are known to the biological parents through a mutual friend."
Ms Bishop said, quoted by ABC, said it was "a matter for the Indian authorities as it always was".
"There was only one application for citizenship, as it was, Australia could only act on the application that was made, but subsequently we have determined that the adoption was valid and that the Indian authorities are now in charge of the matter."
But she said Australian officials were continuing to stress that people entering into surrogacy arrangements checked both the legal situation in their home state and in the country they were hoping to adopt from.
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Australia's foreign minister has backed consulate officials in India over the case of a couple who rejected a baby born to an Indian surrogate.
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The device was discovered on an eastbound Jubilee Line train at North Greenwich in south-east London at about 11:00 BST.
North Greenwich station, which serves the O2 Arena, was evacuated but reopened at about 18:50 BST.
The Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command is leading the investigation.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman told BBC London the device looked "real enough" for the controlled detonation to be carried out.
In a statement, the force said: "Specialist officers from the Met and BTP [British Transport Police] are in attendance and a controlled detonation has since taken place to ensure the item is safe.
"While we are keeping an open mind, the Met's Counter Terrorism Command is leading the investigation because it has the expertise to deal with incidents of this kind."
Canadian rock band Nickelback were performing at the O2 Arena despite the disruption on the Jubilee Line.
In a statement, the O2 said it remained open for the performance and urged people to also use other forms of transport such as the Thames Clippers, the DLR to Royal Victoria and the Emirates Airline to North Greenwich.
The current threat level for international terrorism in the UK is severe - meaning an attack is "highly likely".
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A suspect device found on a London Underground train was destroyed in a controlled explosion.
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