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The decision was taken despite the 26-year-old running the Olympic qualifying time on six occasions and coming third in the trials.
"I accept I will never win an Olympic medal," she wrote on eightlane.org.
UK Athletics said they do not respond to individual selection policy when asked for a response.
Shelayna Oskan-Clarke and Lynsey Sharp were the only 800m runners named in the Team GB squad for Rio, with a third place left unfilled.
"To leave a space empty on an Olympic team when several athletes have the qualifying standard is an insult to the effort that athletes put in to the sport," said Leonard.
"It tells us that the early mornings, icy runs, hill reps, missed parties and every other thing we do, are not worth anything if you're not going to make the Olympic final.
"For me to be told that the space will be left empty despite being third in the trial... makes me feel I am mediocre."
The Chorley athlete clocked 2 mins 2.45 secs behind Oskan-Clarke and Sharp at the British Championships last month, but said the selection decision had left her feeling like an "also-ran".
She added: "I am an extra on the stage of athletics and no one cares that I practised my lines over and over - I am not needed and my part has been cut."
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Alison Leonard has criticised UK Athletics after she was not selected to compete in the 800m at the Olympic Games in Rio.
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A SpaceX cargo ship sent the sequencer into orbit on Monday, along with other items for the crew.
It was developed by the UK-based company Oxford Nanopore Technologies.
The device is designed to show whether DNA sequencing is possible in microgravity.
Nasa hopes DNA sequencers could enable the environmental monitoring of microbes to identify potential causes of illness and understand the health of astronauts.
Last year, Nasa microbiologist Dr Sarah Castro said of the project: "Currently aboard the space station there is not a real-time method for identifying microbes, diagnosing infectious disease, and collecting any form of genomic and genetic data concerning crew health.
"Meeting these needs relies on returning samples from space to Earth and subsequent ground-based analysis, which takes time."
The sequencer, which is just 9.5cm long and weighs 120g, is tiny compared to the microwave-sized devices used on Earth.
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Nasa has sent a DNA sequencer to the International Space Station in an effort to help astronauts monitor their own health.
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As the world's most successful investor - his company Berkshire Hathaway is worth $200bn (£128bn) - the decisions he makes have big ramifications for companies, industries and sometimes, for countries.
This week, it has been Australia's turn.
Mr Buffett's A$500m ($386m, £247m) investment in one of this country's biggest insurers, Insurance Australia Group (IAG), has spurred speculation about other companies he might invest in.
Mr Buffett does not like taking risks, a senior analyst at investment research firm Morningstar, David Ellis, told the BBC.
"He wants a reliable return, and that's what the Australian market gives him. It is very mature and well run," explains Mr Ellis about why the American investor from Omaha has invested in IAG.
In a video statement he made overnight, Mr Buffett told his faithful following: "I'm 84 and this is my first investment in an Australian company."
"I've been very derelict but it has been worth waiting for," he said.
The recent decline of the Australian dollar may have prompted his move.
Six months ago, Mr Buffett would have exchanged one Australian dollar for one US dollar. Now he gets a A$1.30-bang for his US buck.
"The expectations are for the [Australian] dollar to keep on falling, and that would mean he can increase his holding [in IAG]," says Mr Ellis.
The current investment in IAG will give the American investor a substantial cash flow which he said he would re-invest in Australia.
His has his eye on Australia's big banks.
"I would say there is a good chance that five years from now, we will have bought one or more positions in Australian banks," he told Fairfax Media in a telephone interview.
Berkshire Hathaway has a track record of buying cheaply and making significant profits, but Australian banks are not cheap.
"If Warren Buffett is interested in banks, there are only four major banks in Australia, and they are relatively expensive compared to others worldwide, for a good reason," says Mr Ellis.
"They are very profitable, they hold strong market positions, and are backed up by reliable regulation."
Julian Lorkin is a Sydney-based business writer.
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When Warren Buffett makes a move, others are sure to follow.
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Roy Deeming's yacht, Desiree, was found drifting off La Corbiere, off the south-west coast, on Christmas Day, prompting a major search operation.
He has been missing from his home in St Brelade since late on Christmas Eve.
Searches were called off on Friday and were not restarting on Saturday, Jersey Police said.
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Weather conditions are too dangerous for searches to continue for a missing man off Jersey, police say.
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The medicine does not contain the ingredient that produces the high associated with recreational cannabis.
The treatment, called Epidiolex, is based on one of the non-psychoactive components of the cannabis plant, CBD.
Early studies in the US have shown treatment with CBD may reduce the frequency and severity of seizures in children with severe forms of epilepsy.
The new trial marks the first time the treatment has been tested in the UK.
Patients are being enrolled for a trial of the treatment at Edinburgh University's Muir Maxwell Epilepsy Centre, based at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, and Great Ormond Street Hospital.
The Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow and Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool are also driving the study.
There are further centres in the US, France and Poland.
Their initial focus will be on children with Dravet Syndrome, a rare but serious type of epilepsy that is difficult to treat. Some children will receive the treatment while others will receive a placebo.
In a further phase, researchers will also study the effect on children with Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome.
Only children whose seizures cannot be controlled with existing medications will take part in the trial.
Dravet Syndrome usually takes hold in the first year of life. It causes seizures that are often prolonged, lasting longer than five minutes.
They then develop other seizure types. This has a significant impact on the child's development and can be fatal in some cases.
Epidiolex has been developed by the British biotechnology company GW Pharmaceuticals, which is sponsoring and funding the trial.
Dr Richard Chin, director of the Muir Maxwell Epilepsy Centre, said: "Many children with serious forms of epilepsy do not respond to the medications that we currently have available.
"We need new means of treating these conditions so that we can give back some quality of life to these children and their families."
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Children with severe epilepsy could be helped by a new treatment derived from the cannabis plant.
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Nasheed's departure was delayed by a day after - according to his party - the government imposed new conditions on his trip.
Nasheed was given a 13-year sentence under anti-terror laws last year.
The Maldivian government said Nasheed had signed an undertaking to return after his treatment.
His brother has agreed to act as guarantor, it said.
The government had only agreed to his trip on Saturday following international pressure.
On Sunday his lawyers said the government was insisting that he nominate a family member to stay in the capital, Male, to guarantee his return.
They called this "blackmail".
However the Maldivian Foreign Minister Dunya Maumoon said it was "standard procedure" for any prisoner travelling abroad for medical treatment to sign a guarantee.
"All prisoners who have travelled abroad have signed such documents as required by Maldivian law," he said.
"This rule has been in existence before Mr Nasheed came to office, and has not been introduced in an ad hoc manner."
One of Nasheed's US lawyers, Jared Genser, tweeted that the jailed politician had spoken to US Secretary of State John Kerry by phone.
Nasheed was flying from Male to Colombo, AFP reported, and from there would fly to the UK.
A former human rights campaigner, Nasheed became the nation's first democratically elected leader in 2008, ending three decades of rule by former strongman Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
In 2012, he was detained after being accused of ordering the arrest of a judge.
He resigned months later amid an army mutiny and public protests over the judge's fate.
Nasheed alleged that he had been removed by a coup, but this was denied by his vice-president, who replaced him.
The current President Abdulla Yameen was elected in controversial polls in 2013 and is the half-brother of Mr Gayoom.
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The Maldivian opposition leader and former president, Mohamed Nasheed, has left for the UK where he is due to have back surgery.
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Fire fighters said the blaze spread quickly in Siskiyou County. They're are also battling a number of smaller fires.
Around 250 homes have been evacuated, but up to 750 are at risk.
The blaze has already destroyed 100 square miles of forest, but so far no-one's been hurt and no houses have been damaged.
The fire was sparked by lightning in mid-August.
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This wildfire has been raging since Tuesday in the American state of California, putting hundreds of homes in serious danger.
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In a letter with Bexhill and Battle MP Huw Merriman, the Hastings and Rye MP said constituents would otherwise face higher costs and longer journeys.
They also expressed disappointment about the lack of reinstatement of the emergency timetable across Sussex.
RMT members are due to stage a 48-hour strike on 7 and 8 September.
The rail union is fighting moves to turn conductors on Southern into "on-board supervisors", with drivers taking over responsibility for opening and closing carriage doors.
The union has said it has concerns over safety and job cuts, but the company began imposing the changes earlier in August.
In their letter to the managing director of Southern rail, Charles Horton, the MPs said the industrial action was "regretted in circumstances where the RMT have been offered guarantees on jobs and pay".
Ms Rudd and Mr Merriman said bus replacement services would "minimise the impact" of next week's strike.
"A failure to provide a bus replacement service sends out the signal that constituents closer to the coast are not treated with the same sense of urgency as those closer to London.
"This has already been exacerbated by the news this week that certain services which had been subject to the temporary timetable have been returned to normal in south London and Surrey but not in Sussex," they said.
The MPs went on to point out that their constituents, unlike other parts of the network, would not be able "to enjoy the benefits of the new driver-operated trains", and were suffering "more detriment than others".
Mr Merriman later told BBC South East that he had received "a communication" from Southern saying the timetable to the coastal routes in Sussex would be reinstated "within weeks".
The operator introduced a reduced service in July after months of delays and cancellations, which it blamed on "unprecedented" staff sickness.
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Home Secretary Amber Rudd has written to Southern rail calling for "adequate" bus replacement services to be provided in Sussex during the next RMT strike.
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Chairman John Summers said it had been "impossible" to notify fans before they submitted an application to the Football Association in December.
However, the Hawks have withdrawn their application after Summers spoke to fans during Saturday's defeat at Chelmsford.
"We have listened to fans," Summers told the club website.
Whitehawk, who are based in a suburb in the east of Brighton, are currently ninth in National League South and reached the second round of the FA Cup this season before being knocked out by Dagenham & Redbridge.
Summers said in a statement on the club website that it had previously been "unanimously agreed" that a name change would be required "in order to widen the club's appeal and to embrace the city as a whole".
However, after notifying fans last week that they had submitted an application to change name to the FA, a section of Whitehawk supporters set up an online petition opposing the move.
"We were aware that sentiments may have changed, especially since the raising of the club's profile during the recent cup run," Summers added.
"I made a point of standing on the terraces at Chelmsford to engage with fans and they made it abundantly clear to me that although they understood the need to embrace the city, they dismissed the name Brighton City as their preferred choice.
"It was good to be amongst them and listen to their views and I thank them all for their input.
"They have made it very clear to us that if we are changing our name they prefer other options such as Brighton Whitehawk or Brighton East End."
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National League South side Whitehawk have abandoned plans to change their name to Brighton City following discussions with supporters.
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Counting starts at 10:00 BST on Friday and the result will be posted on the council's website.
The local authority has been led by a coalition of Liberal Democrats and Independents since 2013.
One contest, in Bodmin St Petroc, has been delayed following the death of Liberal Democrat councillor Steve Rogerson.
The Council of the Isles of Scilly has also been electing 16 councillors.
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Voters have been to the polls to elect 122 of the 123 members of Cornwall Council.
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Due to be chopped down, the Beech tree at the Belmont estate has instead been transformed into a piece of public art.
The dead timber is being shaped by a local sculptor and wood carver, in cooperation with the Housing Executive.
The sculpture will tell the story of Bran Mac Feabhail, a Celtic demigod, who features in Irish mythology.
Speaking to BBC Radio Foyle, sculptor Jim Hughes said: "I've been doing some stuff for the housing executive social investment fund and they gave me funding for tools and we ended up coming up with the idea of doing Bran Mac Feabhal."
He explained: "Bran means crow, Mac means 'son of' and an Feabhal is the (river) Foyle. So I'm doing an image of Bran on the top and then we'll fit in an image of an Feabhal (the Foyle) as well.
"Where did the tribe come from? We're trying to tell that story so we're almost doing it like a family tree on a tree."
The innovative project began when a local resident got in touch with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) about a dying tree.
"We had a call about six weeks ago from a private tenant down here at Belmont who was a bit worried about a tree," NIHE's Stephen Proctor said.
"We looked at the tree, there was severe retrenching in the crown of the tree, we assessed the risk and decided it was necessary to remove the tree.
"But we had been working with Jim before and because of the width of this beech tree, we thought we might look into getting a sculpture on to the stem.
"It escalated from that and it's been a good news story all round," he added.
Jim Hughes is part of a two-man team which includes local wood carver Sean Carr.
Mr Carr, who was a commercial diver, began to hone his carving skills after he found a bit of driftwood and decided to turn his pocket knife to it.
"I love woodcarving and I think this is brilliant," he said.
"Instead of taking these trees down, cutting them up for firewood or shredding them, we sculpt them."
The work will be finished in August and it is hoped that the tree, which is already 60 years old, could survive for another half century.
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A legend of Celtic mythology will be keeping watch over houses in Londonderry this summer, thanks to a new tree sculpture.
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Requests from police to extend the length of time the assets could be held were declined by a court in Auckland, New Zealand, where Mr Dotcom lives.
US authorities accuse Mr Dotcom of infringing copyright on a "massive scale".
He has also been sued by several major film and music publishers.
They accuse him of using Megaupload to encourage users to upload copyrighted material illegally - and profiting from the operation.
Mr Dotcom, along with several associates, has denied the charges.
Since the raid, he has launched a new file storage site, Mega, as well as setting up his own political party.
Police raided the mansion of Mr Dotcom and his wife Mona two years ago, taking more than 15 luxury vehicles, including a pink 1959 Cadillac.
Mr Dotcom tweeted: "Breaking News: High Court ruling just now. Mona and I are getting our New Zealand assets back, unless the Crown appeals."
The authorities have 14 days to appeal against the decision.
Mr Dotcom added: "The NZ asset ruling is HUGE. We've just filed a case in Hong Kong against unlawful seizure of #Megaupload. The US case is falling apart!"
An extradition hearing is due to take place in July. If extradited and brought to trial, Mr Dotcom faces 20 years in prison.
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Kim Dotcom, the multimillionaire founder of closed file-sharing site Megaupload, has won back cars, cash and property seized in a January 2012 raid.
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Premier Toke Talagi admitted the stamps were "unusual" but said they showed Niue was celebrating the marriage.
The stamps are sold as a pair for NZ$5.80 ($4.53, £2.79), but can be torn down the middle.
Prince William's stamp is NZ$3.40 and Kate Middleton's is cheaper at NZ$2.40.
The stamps were designed and printed by New Zealand Post.
Niue, although self-governing, is in free association with New Zealand. All Niueans are New Zealand citizens and Queen Elizabeth II is their head of state.
Ivor Masters, the general manager of stamps and coins at New Zealand Post, said the stamps were collectors' items and so unlikely to be separated for postage.
And Mr Talagi said he saw nothing wrong with them.
"People indicated the stamps... meant the couple will separate in future. I don't know why they would interpret it that way," he told AFP news agency.
"I don't think it means that. I think it means we're very happy celebrating the royal marriage."
The stamps might even draw tourists to Niue, he added, because people would want to see where they were from.
The royal wedding takes place in London on 29 April.
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The leader of the Pacific nation of Niue has mounted a robust defence of stamps marking Britain's royal wedding which have a perforated line that splits the happy couple.
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Teesside steel firm SSI has suspended production at its Redcar blast furnace, blaming rising costs and a slump in demand.
Unite union branch secretary Kevin Cook said there was only enough coal to keep the coke ovens burning until Friday.
SSI has declined requests for comment and unions said they had not been told what a "pause" in production meant.
Community union chairman Paul Warren said it was "torture" for the almost 2,000 workers.
"We're getting no answers and no information," he said.
"We really, really need SSI Thailand to come forward to let us know what's going on."
He said that although the unions' relationship with the firm's UK board was good, from Thailand the "silence is just deafening".
Contractors have been seen withdrawing what they own from the site.
Redcar Labour MP Anna Turley said there was "serious risk that the site is in jeopardy".
"We've been desperately looking for an injection of cash, some support from government but, more than that, just the commitment from SSI in Thailand to say that they believe in the future of this site," she said.
Workers were looking to the government and its support for a Northern Powerhouse to see "if they put their money where their mouth is", she said.
Northern Powerhouse minister James Wharton said the situation was "incredibly serious" and the government had an "open dialogue" with SSI in the UK and Thailand.
"I don't want to sugar coat what is a very difficult period and difficult decisions that could still be to come," he said.
The Redcar plant can produce up to 400 slabs of steel a day, each weighing up to 33 tonnes.
About £1bn was invested in reopening the blast furnace.
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The Thai parent company of a threatened Teesside steel plant has been criticised for its "deafening silence".
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The UK's benchmark index closed down 203.2 points at 5673.58, and has now entered a "bear market" having fallen 20% from its record high in April.
Indexes across Europe also tumbled, with Germany's Dax down 2.8% and the Cac-40 in Paris dropping 3.5%.
Shares in Shell were down about 7% after it said that annual profits would be slightly below City expectations.
Oil shares were also hit by the continued fall in crude prices. Brent crude fell 4% $1.16 to $27.60, while US crude dropped more than 5% to $27.01.
Crude oil prices have been falling since 2014 but despite that fall, producer countries have maintained output.
On Tuesday, the International Energy Agency warned that oil markets could "drown in oversupply" in 2016.
Mining shares were also hit hard. Glencore shares fell nearly 10% while BHP Billiton fell more than 7%.
BHP Billiton released a production report containing what investors interpreted as gloomy comments about the outlook for commodity prices.
Shares in WH Smith led the FTSE 250 higher, with a 5.8% gain. The company said it expects annual profits to be "slightly ahead" of expectations, due to strong sales over the five-week Christmas period.
On the currency markets the pound was one fifth of a cent higher against the dollar at $1.4178, and one tenth of a euro cent higher against the euro at €1.2990.
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The FTSE 100 slumped 3.5% as investors fretted over global growth prospects and falling oil prices.
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Two hundred jobs are at risk at the Westwick plant in North Walsham, which produces Aunt Bessie's potato products.
Denise Burke, from the North Norfolk Labour Party, which set up the petition, said the closure would have a "substantial impact" on the local area.
A Heinz spokesman said the firm was "actively exploring all options" before a final decision was made.
The proposed closure, announced earlier this month, comes as Heinz's licence to manufacture Aunt Bessie's products comes to an end in April.
Ms Burke said some aspects of the talks with the company had been "positive", including a possible extension to the 45-day consultation period with staff.
But she said it had yet to address a number of concerns or undertake an equality impact assessment, to analyse the effect of the closure on the area.
"If the site closes, it will have a substantial impact on the local economy," said Ms Burke, who believes unemployment in the area could rise by as much as 30%.
"It's incredibly important it stays open because it's not just those who work in the factory that will be affected, it will impact on other jobs such as the farmers who grow the potatoes and the hauliers who deliver them.
"We either need someone else to come in or Heinz to actively look for other contracts."
Heinz said it was "deeply disappointed" at having to make the announcement, adding it would "continue to explore alternatives to avoid or limit the impact of a potential closure".
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Almost 1,200 people have signed a petition against the closure of a Heinz food factory in Norfolk.
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The jobs at the factory in Lincoln are under threat after parent company PepsiCo announced changes for the Newark Road site.
The factory, which makes Quavers and some of the Walkers Sensation ranges, employs about 250 people.
PepsiCo said it had "looked extensively" at the site and it had been a "tough decision to make".
Spokesman Steve Switzer said: "We are continually reviewing our operations to ensure we remain competitive and take full advantage of future growth opportunities.
"This move will significantly change the way we pack our goods, improve efficiency and ensure Lincoln has the capacity to support the long-term growth of the Walkers business in the UK.
"This has been a tough decision to make and we recognise this is difficult news for some of our employees."
The Lincoln site has been in the city for more than 70 years and was originally the home of Smiths Crisps.
Leader of the city council Ric Metcalfe said job centre staff would be offering support to the affected workers.
He added: "Your heart has to go out to the individual workers and their families in terms of the impact of this when people have already been struggling with pressure on household incomes, and this is just added misery. It is very bad news indeed."
MP for Lincoln Karl McCartney described the news as a "silver lining to a very dark cloud".
He added: "It is upsetting for the individuals affected but the upside is this secures the future of the Walkers site in the centre of Lincoln."
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Up to 90 jobs could go at a Walkers crisp factory under the firm's plans to install new packing equipment.
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McKaigue attempted to block a Donnelly run before the Tyrone man raised his right hand to the Derry player.
Referee Maurice Deegan took no action against the Tyrone centre half-forward.
"It's clear Mattie Donnelly strikes Chrissy McKaigue," said BBC Sport NI's Championship pundit Oisin McConville.
"If that's the case, it's a sending-off."
Donnelly has already been in disciplinary trouble twice this season.
The Trillick man was sent off for striking Cavan's Seanie Johnston in a Dr McKenna Cup in January and was banned retrospectively for one match during the Football League following a post-match altercation with Mayo's Aidan O'Shea in March.
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The incident happened 10 minutes into the second half as Tyrone were on their way to earning a 0-22 to 0-11 victory.
"It's something that the disciplinary committee may have a look at," added McConville.
"It wasn't dealt with on the day so they are able to have another look at it.
"Us looking at the pictures, can you conclusively say it was a punch in the mouth? It's a difficult one.
"I can imagine if Tyrone went up to defend that, they would be able to get (Donnelly) off on this occasion.
"(But) From what we saw, it was a clear enough strike. Certainly at that stage, Derry were were well in the game and it (a Donnelly red card) would have made a huge amount of difference to that match."
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Tyrone will hope that influential Mattie Donnelly avoids censure after TV replays showed him appearing to strike Derry's Chrissy McKaigue in Sunday's Ulster SFC game at Celtic Park.
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EJ, who is 20-years-old this year, has been visiting RSPB Scotland's Loch Garten reserve near Grantown on Spey in the Cairngorms for 15 years.
The bird of prey migrates from west Africa.
Staff at the reserve said EJ had experienced wintry conditions before and the snow could even act as an insulator.
However, the staff added that they could not remember EJ, whose large nest is in a tree, encountering so much snow during her visits to the loch.
The Cairngorms have experienced heavy snow falls this week.
Loch Garten reserve's Julie Quirie said: "I've worked at the centre for 10 years and I just can't remember the snow ever being so bad.
"Poor old EJ does look pretty miserable in her snow doughnut, as we like to call it, but this is her 15th season here at Loch Garten and she's well used to the worst of Scottish spring weather.
"And it's really not as bad as it seems - snow is a good insulator, so as long as this snow snap doesn't persist, EJ and her eggs should be fine.
"It still looks really uncomfortable to us though."
EJ and her mate Odin are the most successful breeding pair at the Loch Garten site.
Over previous seasons 17 of their chicks have fledged.
Ospreys migrate from west Africa to Scotland to breed and can be seen hunting for fish from rivers and lochs.
Ms Quirie said: "All being well, EJ and Odin should be proud parents by the middle of May, when hopefully the skies will be blue and the temperature rising."
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A female osprey has refused to give up on her clutch of three eggs even after her nest was smothered in snow.
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Khalilur Rahman died as a result of a head injury, a post-mortem examination has found.
His body was found in the Woking Hotel in Chertsey Road on Wednesday.
Jermaine Lee, 31, of Gorse Road, Croydon has been charged with murder. Lisa Jane Warner, 34, of no fixed address has been charged with assisting an offender.
They have both been remanded in custody and are due to appear at North Surrey Magistrates' court on Monday.
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Two people have been charged after a man's body was found in a hotel in Woking, Surrey Police said.
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The Bosse family's story was told by Heini Gruffudd, the Welsh language winner of Wales Book of the Year 2013.
His mother, Kate Bosse-Griffiths, was of Jewish decent and fled to Swansea during the reign of the Third Reich.
The street in Wittenberg will be called Bossestrasse following Friday's ceremony.
Mr Gruffudd's grandfather Paul Bosse was a prominent doctor in the town, but the family were targeted by Adolf Hitler's regime because his wife, Kaethe, had Jewish family.
Mr Bosse lost his job and Mrs Bosse died at Ravensbrück concentration camp on 16 December 1944.
The ceremony to rename the street falls on the same date and 19 family members from three generations will be there.
Mr Gruffudd said: "The renaming is way of commemorating them, and it's also a small recognition of how they suffered under the Nazi regime."
Prof Dr Hans-Jurgen Grabbe of Wittenberg has been the main force behind efforts to rename the street.
He read an English translation of the book, Yr Erlid (The Persecution), and got in touch with Mr Gruffudd - and is now working on a German-language adaptation, due out in early 2017.
"I became not only interested, but moved by the story," Prof Grabbe told BBC's Cymru Fyw.
"I hit upon the idea of renaming the street - it's to remember not only the doctor [Paul Bosse] but also his wife."
According to Prof Grabbe, the vote to rename the street in the town council was "almost unanimous".
"It's a gesture of atonement," he said. "But the gesture of reconciliation from Heini and his relatives is also important."
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A street in Germany is being renamed in honour of a family persecuted by the Nazis after a Welsh book brought their story to light.
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The body, found in Tipton, West Midlands, on Wednesday, has not been formally identified but is thought to be that of 24-year-old Indiga Daniel Wallace, known as Danny or Indy.
His death was treated as "unexplained" at first but, following a post-mortem examination, is being treated as murder.
Police said they were trying to put together his last movements.
Anyone with information should contact police. Mr Wallace was found at his home in Fisher Street in the town.
For more updates on this and other stories Birmingham and Black Country
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A man found dead in his flat had head injuries, police have said.
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Two masked men robbed the store at Largy Road, Ahoghill, on 26 November.
Police said they had released the video of the young women's "extremely frightening ordeal" in an attempt to identify the men.
A detective said that while the men's faces were covered, "their height and shape might be familiar to someone".
"Also, their gait, stance and movements may provide a further clue as to their identity," said DCI Catherine Magee.
She said anyone who had information but was reluctant to contact police should watch the footage.
"These criminals were quite prepared to use violence and highly threatening behaviour to get their hands on till money," she said.
"It is important that we keep people safe by bringing them before the courts."
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CCTV footage of an armed robber brandishing a sword at women working in a County Antrim filling station has been released by police.
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More than 5.8 million people went to the London gallery in 2016, an increase of 24%, making it the third most visited attraction in the UK.
No doubt visitors were drawn to Tate Modern's new 10-storey extension, the Switch House, which opened in June.
The British Museum was the most popular visitor attraction in Britain in 2016 for the 10th year running.
The figures come from the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA).
The British Museum had more than 6.4 million visits - but that was a 5.9% drop on the previous year.
The top 10 most-visited attractions in the country were all in the capital. Seven of those saw a fall in numbers, including The Natural History Museum and the V&A, which both suffered a drop of 12%.
The overall visitor numbers for London attractions last year were level.
Bernard Donoghue, director of the ALVA, said terrorist attacks in European cities last year had made some people reluctant to visit major cities.
He told the Press Association: "There were some security fears about central London and city centre attractions, both on the part of overseas visitors and also UK domestic families.
"We did see a displacement out of central London for some people going to visitor attractions."
In England, excluding London, there was an increase of 5.9%. Scotland enjoyed the highest increase with 15.6%, while Wales's figures went up by 11%. Northern Ireland's visitor figures increased by 7.6%.
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A million more people visited Tate Modern in 2016 compared with the previous year.
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Nick Clegg was asked on LBC about tweets by David Ward, Liberal Democrat MP for Bradford East, after the Paris terror attacks last week.
Mr Ward tweeted "Je suis Palestinian" as marchers gathered on Sunday following the attacks that left 17 people dead.
The MP said he was "disappointed" by his leader's comments.
More than three million people took part in Sunday's unity marches across France, with many displaying the slogan "Je suis Charlie" in a reference to Charlie Hebdo, the satirical magazine attacked by Islamist gunmen.
Mr Ward also tweeted that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's presence in Paris "makes me feel sick".
Mr Clegg said the Bradford MP "has repeated form on this" but he had not spoken to Mr Ward since the tweet.
The deputy prime minister told a caller to LBC "we are not suspending David Ward on this occasion" as his remarks, while offensive, were not as bad as comments he has made before which did lead to his suspension.
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Ward said he was "a bit disappointed" at Nick Clegg's criticism.
"Nick's got his own views and he is entitled to those views," he said.
"It's a contentious issue."
The MP denied his comments were aimed at Muslim voters in his constituency.
"I feel personally strongly on this particular issue," he said.
"Yes a lot of people in my constituency feel strongly about it who are Muslims.
"This is not a Muslim issue.
"Many, many people who applaud the stance that I take are not Muslims and I bitterly resent the accusation that what I'm doing and what I'm saying is somehow pandering to Muslims."
Mr Ward was suspended from the Lib Dem parliamentary party in July 2013 and had the whip withdrawn for three months over comments he made about Israel.
The suspension came after a long-running dispute with the party's leadership over his use of language and comments he made about "the Jews".
Last year he gave a "categorical apology" after tweeting: "The big question is - if I lived in #Gaza would I fire a rocket? - probably yes".
He later said his comments were not in support of firing rockets into Israel, and apologised if he had given that impression.
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The deputy prime minister has called a tweet by one of his MPs "crass, stupid, offensive and highly insensitive".
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Images published by The Sun appear to show the 20-year-old England forward taking the legal substance, commonly known as laughing gas.
Sterling scored in Liverpool's 2-0 win over Newcastle at Anfield on Monday.
"I don't think it is something you should be doing, it's as simple as that," said Rodgers.
The incident comes after Sterling admitted rejecting a new £100,000-a-week Liverpool contract in an interview with the BBC.
"We want players here who are super-professional and focused on their football - I know he is," added Rodgers.
"It's not just on the field, it's off the field as well but I will speak with him on it and we'll move on.
"Young players make mistakes. As long as they learn from them, that is what is important."
Nitrous oxide is often used in surgery and dentistry for its anaesthetic effects but it is also a popular legal high as it can make people feel relaxed, euphoric and giggly.
A Home Office campaign last year on the risks of legal highs showed it was the second most popular drug among young adults after cannabis.
The images are the second time in as many days that Sterling has featured in the news pages. The Sunday Mirror published pictures of the player allegedly smoking a shisha-pipe over the weekend.
Speaking on Sky Sports, former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher admitted he made mistakes as a young player, but added: "Raheem needs to be on the back pages, not the front pages."
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Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers will speak to Raheem Sterling after the forward was pictured apparently taking nitrous oxide.
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Arnold made 30 National League appearances last season for Dover, keeping nine clean sheets.
The 27-year-old previously played under Gills head coach Ady Pennock at League Two club Forest Green Rovers.
"For me he hasn't fulfilled his potential as a goalkeeper. He is a good lad and will fit in well," Pennock told the club website.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
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League One side Gillingham have signed former Dover Athletic goalkeeper Steve Arnold on a one-year contract.
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It analyses every known mutation in the DNA which can cause the condition.
The team, which is presenting the test at the British Society for Genetic Medicine, hope it will spread up diagnosis and help decide the best treatment.
The charity RNIB described the test as a "welcome step forward".
About 200 children are born with cataracts in the UK each year.
"Diagnosing a congenital cataract is very easy at birth, but diagnosing the cause takes considerably longer," Prof Graeme Black, from the University of Manchester, said.
The problem is there are more than 100 different mutations in a child's DNA which have been linked to congenital cataracts.
"If you have a child with no family history then finding the cause can take months or years," he told the BBC.
A complete diagnosis can help doctors work out the best course of treatment, inform families on the risks of cataracts if they have more children or diagnose severe diseases which have cataracts as an early symptom.
At the moment, each mutation has to be tested for individually.
A team of researchers, at Manchester University and the Central Manchester Health Care Trust, has used advances in genetics to look for all the errors in the genetic code in a single test.
Dr Rachel Gillespie said: "Our test looks at all of these genes in parallel, so patients can be diagnosed much faster and receive the treatment, clinical management and genetic counselling they need."
Hospitals in Manchester will begin offering the test from December.
Steve Winyard, from the charity RNIB, said: "This is very interesting research as approximately 200 children in the UK are born with some form of congenital cataract every year.
"Any development which enables children to be diagnosed quicker and gain faster access to treatment is a welcome step forward.
"It will be exciting to watch how this research progresses and how the genetic information might be used to manage congenital cataracts in the future."
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A blood test that may improve treatment for children born with congenital cataracts has been developed by researchers in Manchester.
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The Super League leaders fell behind to Benjamin Garcia's early score, but hit back through tries from Steve Michaels and Frank Pritchard.
Danny Houghton extended Hull FC's lead after the break but Fouad Yaha crossed in the corner to reduce the deficit.
Marc Sneyd's goal-kicking bolstered the advantage as Hull moved closer to their first Challenge Cup triumph since 2005.
Victory saw Hull join Wakefield and Warrington in Saturday's draw for the last four, after their respective wins on Thursday and Friday.
Catalans, the 2007 finalists, have never won the Challenge Cup and were deservedly beaten at the KCOM Stadium.
The French side took the lead through Garcia but, over the course of the match, lost the battle of the forwards in a bruising, physical encounter.
A fine 40-20 kick from Thomas Bosc led to Yaha's second-half try for Dragons but Sneyd's two second-half penalty goals helped make Hull's win safe.
Hull FC head coach Lee Radford told BBC Radio Humberside:
"The game didn't pan out like we expected but we defended fantastically and we're really pleased to still be in the draw.
"I say this all the time, to be the best you've got the beat the best, whether that is the Keepmoat, Langtree Park or wherever the semi-finals are going to be played."
Hull FC: Shaul; Michaels, Fonua, Yeaman, Talanoa; Tuimavave, Sneyd; Taylor, Houghton, Watts, Manu, Minichiello, Ellis.
Replacements: Green, Bowden, Pritchard, Washbrook.
Catalans Dragons: Escare; Broughton, Garcia, Richards, Yaha; Carney, Albert; Mason, Pelissier, Casty, Stewart, Horo, Baitieri.
Replacements: Taylor, Bousquet, Mounis, Bosc.
Referee: Ben Thaler
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Hull FC beat Catalans Dragons to earn a 10th consecutive win and reach the semi-finals of the Challenge Cup.
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Safdar Hussain appeared in private at Dundee Sheriff Court accused of sexually assaulting the woman during a car journey in the city on 18 October.
The 42-year-old, from Perth, made no plea or declaration to a petition charge of rape.
The case was continued for further examination and Mr Hussain was remanded in custody.
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A man has appeared in court in Dundee accused of raping a woman in a car.
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Dunwoody, 52, is among the first volunteers for a research project examining the long-term effects of concussion on competitors in sports.
"I lose my track and lose my memory," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I don't know whether it's old age or whether it's a result of concussions. I had about 700 falls."
Belfast-born Dunwoody, who won the champion jockey title three times in a 17-year career ended in 1999 by a neck injury, added: "Of those falls, I was reasonably concussed seven or eight times.
"I either woke up in the ambulance room, on the racecourse, in a sauna or somewhere else, and had quite bad memory loss.
"My father was a jockey. He fractured his skull and had Alzheimer's towards the end of his life.
"He did live to 91 so it might have been just old age, but the more we can find out from this study the better.
"Are we as jockeys more susceptible to neuro-degenerative diseases or not?"
The study, Concussion in Sport, wants to establish whether retired sportsmen and sportswomen have an increased incidence, or suffer an earlier onset, of neuro-degenerative disorders.
The British Horseracing Authority, which has welcomed the research project, is already reviewing its own practices around concussion.
Funding and support for the study, which will then extend to all sports in which concussion is a recognised risk, has come from a range of sources, including the Injured Jockeys' Fund, racehorse owners Godolphin, American football's NFL.
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Former champion jump jockey Richard Dunwoody says the memory loss he suffers could be a result of falling "hundreds of times" in his career.
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He has made 155 appearances for the Lions since signing from MK Dons for an undisclosed fee in January 2014.
The 30-year-old played 56 games in all competitions last season.
"Having such success last season made it an easy decision for me to sign another contract," Williams told the club website.
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Millwall midfielder Shaun Williams has signed a 12-month contract extension with the newly-promoted Championship club, with an option for an extra year.
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9 February 2017 Last updated at 07:40 GMT
They are being transported to Banff National Park in Canada - the oldest national park in the country.
But how do you move a herd of North America's biggest land mammals 250 miles to their new home?
By car, and helicopter of course!
Take a look at this clip to see their adventure in action...
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This herd of bison is getting a bit of help with a big move.
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Wales asked organisers for permission to play all their home games under the tournament's only retractable roof but were turned down.
"It's now a discussion between the teams the week of the game like has always happened," said Howley.
England are Wales' first visitors on Saturday, 11 February.
Eddie Jones, England's Australian coach, said he cannot understand why the use of the roof - open or closed - is an issue.
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"I don't care. It makes no difference because both teams have to play under it," said Jones.
However, Howley and his team will not know until close to the game what will happen.
"It's something that we wanted to have because of the experience one, of the atmosphere, but also controlling the conditions," said Howley.
"We understand and we respect that decision."
The Wales coach - deputising for 2017 British and Irish Lions boss Warren Gatland - also recalled England's 2013 visit to Cardiff when Stuart Lancaster was in charge of England.
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The former Wales and Lions scrum-half was also in charge of Wales that season, as Gatland prepared to take charge of the Lions in Australia.
Howley said: "Stuart Lancaster rang me on the Monday and wanted the roof closed.
"If that's the case when England come to the Principality and Eddie Jones wants the roof closed that's fine.
"So it's down to the opposition coach who will dictate if the roof is open or closed."
Wales start the tournament on Sunday, 5 February and also travel to Scotland and France.
They host Ireland on Friday, 10 March.
Wales have two home matches in the 2017 Six Nations - firstly against England and then Ireland on 10 March.
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Wales must wait for England and Ireland to decide if the Principality Stadium roof will be closed during their Six Nations games in Cardiff.
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In an interview with the Financial Times, the former foreign secretary said his brother Ed, the Labour leader, had "clarity, vision, determination".
He also said it would be "unbelievably stupid" for the UK to leave the European Union.
Mr Miliband now runs the International Rescue Committee in New York.
The Miliband brothers contested the Labour leadership in 2010, which was eventually won by Ed, the younger of the two.
David, who left UK politics when he resigned as MP for South Shields in 2013, told the FT: "I passionately want Labour to win - and Ed to win [the general election]."
There has been recent speculation over the Labour leader's ability to take his party to victory in the general election next May, with reports that some backbenchers wanted him to resign.
But when asked if his brother would make a good prime minister, David replied: "Of course. I would know that better than most."
Questioned about his brother's relevant qualities for the post, he added: "What I would say is that the clarity, the vision, the determination, those are all important qualities.
"But, equally, I have made it a rule not to insert myself into the political dynamic for two reasons. One, I have got a job that requires me to work with the current government.
"And, two, I am trying to run a charity, not a political party. My experience is that anything I say gets taken out of context."
Mr Miliband was also asked about Prime Minister David Cameron's plans, should the Conservatives win the next election, to hold a referendum in 2017 on whether or not the UK should remain in the European Union.
There was a "real danger" that the prime minister might "paint himself into a corner", Mr Miliband said.
"Those on the pro-ÂBritish - as I call it - proÂ-European side of the argument have got to make the case that we get far more from being at the table than shouting with a loud hailer outside the room.
"I have this residual faith in the common sense of the British people that generally they don't do stupid things. And it would be unbelievably stupid to walk out of the European Union."
When asked if he could ever envisage a return to UK politics, Mr Miliband pointed out that two years ago he had no idea he would be in his current post.
"You just don't know, do you," he said.
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David Miliband has said he "passionately" wants Labour to win the general election and for his brother to become the next prime minister.
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BBC Wales has been told the retired player and Kate Weaver-Gibbs were involved in the incident involving a motorbike last week.
There are no further details available about the accident. The Foreign Office has been asked to comment.
Reports in Italian media suggest only Ms Weaver-Gibbs has been injured.
Ms Weaver-Gibbs, who is in her early 30s, is a beauty and travel writer who is originally from south Wales.
In a magazine article published after their wedding, she said they met at the Pelican pub in Ogmore-by-Sea, in Vale of Glamorgan, after she finished studying at Bristol University.
The couple were married in 2014 in Cape Town, South Africa.
They moved in 2009 to Aspen, Colorado, and the following year to South Africa, from where Scott Gibbs did media work.
Mr Gibbs, who is now aged 45, retired from rugby in 2004, having played 53 Tests for Wales, and on three tours with the British and Irish Lions.
He also played rugby league for Wales and for St Helens, winning the Challenge Cup.
He made his Wales union debut in 1991, with probably his most famous moment the last-minute try against England in 1999 which helped his country to a 32-31 win.
For the Lions he was named Man of the Series in the winning 1997 tour in South Africa.
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Former Wales rugby international Scott Gibbs and his wife are understood to have been involved in a road accident in Italy.
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Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service, which employs about 700 people, may also lose 50-60 on-call firefighters as part of the savings plan.
The number of full-time crewed stations was reduced to four in a previous round of cuts - two remain in Ipswich, along with Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds.
A public consultation on Suffolk County Council's plans will now take place.
Seven of the county's 47 fire engines could be scrapped and Wrentham fire station may close as part of the £1.3m cuts.
A fire engine in Sudbury, where a major fire broke out in September, could be replaced with a smaller "rapid response" vehicle.
Matthew Hicks, of Suffolk County Council, said he was confident an "outstanding service" could be maintained.
"Without question, this is a challenging set of proposals," he said. "However, they have been shaped by the feedback we received during the recent pre-consultation held in the summer.
"I now encourage people to respond to this full consultation so we have a wide range of views to inform our final decisions."
There has been a fall in the number of emergency calls over the last 10 years in Suffolk, in line with other authorities, from about 10,000 in 2004 to about 6,700 last year.
A spokesman for the Suffolk Fire Brigades Union said they were "deeply concerned about the devastating cuts" which, they said, were "nothing but dangerous".
Chairman Andy Vingoe said: "The £1.3m saving could be avoided totally if council tax was increased by less than £1.80 per person in Suffolk per year.
"We strongly urge all residents to reply to the consultation to tell the council that we are not prepared to endure these cuts."
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Twenty full-time firefighters could lose their jobs in Suffolk in order to meet budget cuts of more than £1m.
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Firefighters began tackling the blaze on the ground and first floors of the building in Dock Street shortly before 12:30.
The incident led to the closure of one eastbound lane, resulting in traffic backing up the entire length of the Tay Road Bridge's northbound carriageway.
The fire has been extinguished but crews remained at the scene.
A Scottish Fire and Rescue spokeswoman said a structural engineer has assessed the building as unsafe.
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A fire in a derelict building in Dundee city centre has caused significant traffic disruption.
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The 27-year-old Englishman had already missed four games since going off injured after 25 minutes of the 5 November draw with Hamilton Accies.
Kilmarnock have won one one, drawn one and lost two games during his absence.
Addison has made 13 appearances since joining Kilmarnock this summer after leaving Peterborough United.
His absence, along with an injury to Jonathan Burn, leaves Kilmarnock short of central defenders for Saturday's Scottish Premiership visit by Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
Only Scott Boyd and Will Boyle are available to manager Lee Clark.
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Kilmarnock defender Miles Addison is expected to be ruled out until late January after undergoing surgery on a troublesome foot injury.
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The disturbance involving about five people happened on the town's High Street at about 22:45 on New Year's Day.
A 50-year-old man was assaulted and knocked to the ground. He was taken to the Cumberland Infirmary with face and head injuries.
Anyone who witnessed the incident has been asked to contact the police.
Anyone who saw anything near the Loon Chen restaurant around the time has been asked to contact police.
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A man required hospital treatment following an attack near a Chinese restaurant in Langholm.
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The 25-year old becomes the sixth player to be retained by the Devils, who were runners-up in last season's Elite Ice Hockey League.
The Devils have also retained Jake Morissette, Ben Bowns, Mark Richardson, Joey Martin and Josh Batch.
"Jones is a great skater. His skating ability is his best asset," said coach Andrew Lord.
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Chris Jones has signed a new contract with Cardiff Devils to remain at the Ice Arena Wales for the 2016-17 season.
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Lancashire Police said the 33-year-old woman was discovered dead at a terraced property in Wilton Street on Friday morning.
A seven-month-old girl was found unharmed at the house and taken to a safe place.
The arrested man, 34, was held after being seen "acting suspiciously" on Holmby Street, police said.
He was arrested on suspicion of being in possession of a knife and taken into custody. Soon after, police discovered the dead woman when officers were sent to check on her safety.
Police said a post-mortem examination was taking place to try to establish the cause of death.
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A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman whose body was found at a house in Burnley.
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The authority is using agency staff and contractors to help clear the backlog as the dispute enters its seventh week.
Councillor Lisa Trickett, the city's environment boss, said the authority hoped to find a resolution to the "challenging" situation this week.
The Unite union has warned the action could continue until Christmas unless a "fair deal" is negotiated.
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Ms Trickett, cabinet member for clean streets, recycling and environment, said a contractor had been brought in to carry out an evening collection at tower blocks.
She added a number of agency staff were also being used, with the council facing a basic daily cost of £40,000 due to the action.
"We will look for a resolution this week, we have opened the door and said join us for discussions at [conciliation service] Acas," she said.
"We have agreement on some key areas, it is a case of the union coming and joining us and actually finding a way forward.
"We have to get this bin service back. It's not just the bin service that's suffering, other public services are put at risk by the cost of this strike action."
On Friday, the union said it was balloting refuse collection members to renew its industrial action mandate, which could result in more strikes after the present round ends on 21 September.
The council said it was "very disappointed" by the warning and said Unite was "effectively holding the city to ransom".
The conflict centres on restructuring plans that Unite says are threatening the jobs of more than 120 refuse collectors.
The council says plans will modernise the service and save £5m a year.
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Birmingham's bin strike is costing £40,000 a day, the city council has said.
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The 24-year-old was found dead on a houseboat she was sharing with a local family in Srinagar, Kashmir, in April.
Dutch national Richard De Wit, 43, denies her murder in a trial that has been running since July.
The court heard the witness was missing for "health reasons" and the case was adjourned until 17 January.
Rahim Shoda, the brother of Ms Groves' boyfriend Saeed Shoda, was due to be the fifth and final witness called by the prosecution.
Saeed Shoda, both of his parents and his uncle have already given evidence.
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The trial of a man accused of murdering Guernsey woman Sarah Groves in India has been adjourned after a prosecution witness did not appear.
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Margam Crematorium wants to follow Neath Port Talbot council's policy for free child burials in its grounds.
At present, no fee is charged for stillborn babies or children under one, but it costs £457 for children aged one to 16. The cost for over-16s is £585.
A meeting will be held on Friday where the crematorium's committee has been recommended to scrap the fees.
Swansea Crematorium and Coychurch Crematorium in Bridgend do not charge a cremation fees for children up to 16 but there is a cost to use the chapel.
Separate fees for ashes to be interred or scattered at Margam will remain in place.
The proposal follow's Swansea East MP Carolyn Harris's campaign calling on the UK government to abolish child burial fees.
Ms Harris had to take out a loan to bury her son Martin after he died in a road accident in 1989.
In March, First Minister Carwyn Jones said he would scrap child burial fees - a move expected to cost up to £1m a year.
Councils including Bridgend, Cardiff, Caerphilly, Swansea, Torfaen and Merthyr Tydfil have already dropped their child burial fees.
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A crematorium in Neath Port Talbot could abolish service charges for children aged under 12.
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O'Donovan Rossa was a renowned leader of the Fenian movement in the 19th Century seeking independence from Britain.
His burial in Dublin's Glasnevin Cemetery on 1 August, 1915, was one of the largest political funerals in Irish history.
1916 Easter Rising leader Padraig Pearse delivered the funeral oration.
The event is seen as a pivotal moment in Irish history, as several of those who attended went on to take part in the Rising.
O'Donovan Rossa 's remains had been brought to Ireland by the American liner St Paul from New York to Liverpool.
They were then transferred to the steamer Carlow, which carried them to Dublin.
In the 1850s, O'Donovan Rossa was sworn into the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) known colloquially as the Fenians, a reference to Na Fianna a band of warriors who defended Ireland from invaders in Irish mythology.
The IRB was a small, secret, revolutionary body committed to the use of force to establish an independent Irish republic.
O'Donovan Rossa was imprisoned in various jails in England for his activities and later moved to New York following his release, continuing his efforts to oppose British rule in Ireland.
The funeral cortege on Saturday is expected to feature marching bands, uniformed Irish Volunteer cavalry and a horse drawn hearse as well as a 40-strong uniformed guard of honour.
Some mourners are expected to attend in period dress.
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A re-enactment of the funeral of the Irish republican leader Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa is due to take place in Dublin on Saturday.
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The 64-year-old's body was found close to a wooded area at Ballinascorney Hill in Brittas, County Dublin, on Friday.
Irish national broadcaster RTÉ is reporting that the man has been named locally as Michael McCoy.
Gardaí (Irish police) said they are treating the investigation as a murder inquiry.
The man was reported missing on Thursday morning after he left his home in the Ballinascorney area to walk his dogs.
Police have appealed for anyone who was in the area between 06:30 GMT on Thursday, 29 September and 04:00 GMT on Friday, 30 September to contact them.
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A 41-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the discovery of a man's body in a forest in the Republic of Ireland.
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Police located the vehicle crashed on the Marble Arch Road, Florence Court, after 21:00 BST on Thursday.
Inside, they found what could be up to eight kilos of cocaine.
No-one was in the van. Det Insp Alan Pyper said the suspected drugs were being analysed.
"We are delighted to have recovered this quantity of illegal drugs and our inquiries are continuing to establish a quantity and value," he said.
"I would appeal to anyone who saw a red van in the vicinity of the Marble Arch Road between 21:00 and 22:00 BST last night to contact detectives on the non-emergency number 101."
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A "substantial" quantity of suspected cocaine has been found in an abandoned van in County Fermanagh.
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2 October 2015 Last updated at 07:09 BST
This is something that hasn't been achieved since a woman called Amy Johnson made the journey in 1942.
Amazingly, Curtis-Taylor is now planning to make the 13,000 mile flight in the same type of old aircraft that Amy flew in.
She will fly across 23 countries, making 50 refuelling stops and only use the basic flying instruments that were used 70 years ago.
She hopes to land down in Sydney, Australia in 2016.
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Tracey Curtis-Taylor is a pilot who is attempting to become only the second ever female to fly single-handedly from Britain to Australia.
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Accrington are one of the form teams in League Two, having extended their streak without defeat to 10 games.
McCartan scored an 89th minute free-kick to earn a 1-1 draw with Grimsby, and the 22-year-old is confident John Coleman's side can keep it going over the remaining eight fixtures.
"We don't fear anybody now," he said. "That's the mentality we have."
McCartan has been a major part of Stanley's improvement, having scored eight goals in his last 13 league matches to help them move up to 15th place.
They are yet to lose at home in 2017, but despite being safe from relegation and 10 points outside the play-offs, McCartan thinks they have plenty of motivation for the rest of the season.
He told BBC Radio Lancashire: "To not lose in 10 games is a great achievement, especially considering the position we were in six weeks ago. It shows how strong the lads are mentally, but we've got to keep it going.
"We can go unbeaten until the end of the season, 100 per cent. We've played most of the big boys. We've got Plymouth coming up, but we know we can beat them.
"That's our mentality. As the gaffer said after the Morecambe game, we're a team of winners now."
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Forward Shay McCartan believes Accrington Stanley can extend their unbeaten run to the end of the season.
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Ian McGuigan, 39, of Ty Croes, Anglesey, was locked up for eight years after admitting conspiracy to supply cocaine and a firearms offence.
Anthony Donovan, 33, and Brian Townsend, 36, both from Liverpool were jailed for four years and eight months for the drugs charge.
Caernarfon Crown Court heard it was an "unsophisticated" drugs enterprise.
On 5 September, McGuigan was filmed by police handing over more than £35,000 in cash to Donovan and Townsend, who officers described as "drug couriers".
North Wales Police said McGuigan was watched stashing cocaine in a field, which officers searched and found drugs worth up to £176,000.
Officers also found eight hollow point bullets "designed to expand on impact" in his car and a taser disguised as an iPhone in his home.
McGuigan was given a concurrent five year sentence for these offences.
Speaking after the case, Det Ch Insp Brian Kearney said: "Ian Paul McGuigan was considered by some as 'Anglesey's drug lord' where in fact he was a leech preying on the vulnerable in our towns and villages whilst portraying himself as a legitimate car dealer and horse breeder.
"Until his recent arrest he believed he was untouchable."
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A "drugs lord" who felt "untouchable" and two of his associates have been jailed for a cocaine conspiracy.
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Helina Kotlarova was killed on New Year's Eve. Her cousin Zaneta Krokova, 11, was said to be critically ill in hospital after the crash.
The men - aged 59, 48, 38, 23 and 18 - remain in police custody.
The girls had left a shop near their homes when they were hit by a car in Ashton Road at about 19:15 GMT.
Greater Manchester Police said the driver of the car did not stop.
Helina's sister Sylva, 19, earlier said the two girls were holding hands as they crossed the road, while out with a larger group of family and friends who had already crossed and were waiting on the opposite pavement.
"She had asked mum for £2 as she just wanted to buy some food," she said.
"It is just hard to believe she has gone, she was just too young."
The family of seven sisters and one brother came to England from the Czech Republic eight years ago.
Sgt Lee Westhead from the force's serious collision investigation unit, said: "These are tragic circumstances where a young girl has lost her life.
"Another girl is currently fighting for her life in hospital and specially trained officers are supporting the families involved.
"Officers are trying to establish exactly what happened and we have a dedicated team working to locate the person responsible.
"We are currently carrying out extensive door to door inquiries and have five people in custody, but our investigation continues.
"If you saw a black Golf or a dark Peugeot 807 in the area then I would urge you to contact us.
"We are also keen to speak to the driver of a white van who was driving on the road around the time of the collision."
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Five men have been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after a girl aged 12 was killed in an apparent hit-and-run in Oldham.
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The carmaker is investing £800m at its headquarters in Crewe to develop and build the sports utility vehicle (SUV), which will compete with cars like the Range Rover.
Bentley's owner, Volkswagen, considered making the car in Bratislava, Slovakia, where it already builds SUVs.
The British government lobbied to keep the project in the UK.
Prime Minister David Cameron was at the announcement at Bentley's headquarters.
"I am delighted that Bentley will be building their new vehicle here, not only creating a thousand jobs, but safeguarding many more, as well as increasing training opportunities for highly skilled apprentices," he said.
Chairman of Volkswagen Martin Winterkorn said: "The Volkswagen Group believes in the UK as a competitive location for industrial production.
"Together we will make this new Bentley another true Bentley - powerful, exclusive and successful."
The new car is due to go on sale in 2016.
It will be Bentley's fourth model joining the Flying Spur, Continental GT and the Mulsanne.
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Bentley says the development of a luxury car will result in 1,000 new jobs in the UK.
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The "temporary dismissals" will apply to selected divisions in England's 'step seven' - six tiers below the National League - and leagues below.
Players will now spend 10 minutes out of the game if they are shown a yellow card for dissent.
Men's, women's, adult, youth, Saturday and Sunday leagues have all been picked for the pilot scheme.
The FA said 130 leagues registered interest in the trial and a mixture of leagues across the country were chosen.
Clubs are normally charged a £10 fine for each yellow card but the FA will not be charging this administration fee for those that participate.
Step seven is the bottom level of English football's National League System, which feeds into the country's professional leagues.
The highest league within that structure - step one - is the National League.
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The Football Association has confirmed 32 grassroots leagues in England will trial sin-bins in the 2017-18 season.
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Murray, 29, came through an even first set via a tie-break, but found himself a break down early in the second.
But Edmund, who will rise into the top 50 after beating Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut to make the least eight, then lost three straight service games to allow his compatriot through.
Murray will face Spain's David Ferrer in the last four.
It was a heartening performance from Edmund, who hung tough with Murray in the first set despite failing to win a single point off the Scot's first serve.
The 21-year-old Yorkshireman, who was ranked outside the top 100 in February, was edged out in the tie-break and then ran out of steam after a promising start to the second.
Murray has lost just once in 11 Tour level meetings with other Britons, going down in straight sets to Tim Henman in Bangkok in September 2006. He beat Edmund at the Aegon Championships quarter-finals at Queen's earlier this year in their only previous meeting.
The other semi-final will see Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov play Wimbledon finalist Milos Raonic of Canada.
Dimitrov ended the challenge of Spanish second seed Rafael Nadal in the quarter-finals with a 6-2 6-4 victory.
It is the first time Dimitrov has beaten the 14-time Grand Slam champion and he is aiming to reach his third final of the year.
Raonic advanced after a 6-4 6-4 win over Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta.
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World number two Andy Murray overcame fellow Briton Kyle Edmund 7-6 (11-9) 6-2 to make the China Open semi-finals.
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On Friday a separate squad in which Gavin Henson made his debut lost 21-14 against Montpellier in France.
Another new signing, South Africa full-back Zane Kirchner, made his Dragons debut at Franklin's Gardens.
New coach Bernard Jackman was at the game against Montpellier before travelling to Northampton to see his team routed.
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Dragons were beaten 71-21 at Northampton in the second of their weekend's pre-season games.
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Robbers fled empty-handed after the raid on the store in Donington in Lincolnshire in the early hours of Thursday.
CCTV footage showed a digger repeatedly being driven into the front of the store until part of the building collapsed.
Police said the offenders then fled in a flat bed vehicle and dark blue car.
More on this and other local stories from across Lincolnshire
The Co-op's area manager Simon Taylor said the pop-up shop will operate from a neighbouring pub car park.
He said it would stock a limited range of about 150 items to provide a service while repairs take place. It will open later.
No timescale for the work has been announced, but Mr Taylor said the rear of the building was not as bad as it looks at the front.
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A pop-up shop is to open in a village after its Co-op store was badly damaged in a botched ram-raid.
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Arnold Sube reportedly told the MK Citizen a five-bedroom property in Luton was not suitable due to small rooms and a "lack of storage space".
He told the BBC he had not refused the house, but was waiting for the council's response to some questions.
The authority said if he did not accept a formal housing offer the family would have to look in the private sector.
Mr Sube and his wife, who now have eight children, moved to Luton from France so he could study nursing at the University of Bedfordshire.
They were placed in temporary accommodation with three bedrooms by Luton Borough Council in Bletchley, Milton Keynes.
The authority said the family was asked to view three houses in Luton, all with four or five bedrooms, and after viewing one said they were all unsuitable.
It said Mr Sube would now be formally offered another four-bedroom house, which could be made into five, and if they turned that down the council would no longer be able to help them.
Councillor Tom Shaw, in charge of the housing portfolio, said: "What the law says is once a council's made an adequate offer, then if it's turned down, the council's got the right to say that you are intentionally homeless, please go and look after yourself in the private sector."
Mr Sube said he "hadn't refused the property", but was waiting to hear back from the council about its "suitability and affordability".
He said: "I want four double bedrooms, not even five, I'm not greedy at all, we just want something that can accommodate the family.
"I work, I do two jobs, I'm paying taxes, I'm contributing to the system."
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A family of 10 have been told if they do not accept a house offered to them, the council will no longer help them.
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The Storr, a geological feature of the landscape in Trotternish, Skye, was used for creating scenes in the new movie directed by Steven Spielberg.
Tourism body VisitBritain has promoted The Storr in its new campaign called Oh My Giant Britain (OMGB).
It also features the film's locations in England.
Images of actress Ruby Barnhill, who plays lead character Sophie in the film, at The Storr, Big Ben in London and the Angel of the North near Gateshead have been released on social media.
The BFG launches in the US on 1 July and in the UK on 22 July.
Skye is a favourite with film-makers and provided backdrops for Stardust, which starred Michelle Pfieffer, big budget sci-fi Prometheus and also Snow White and the Huntsman, Keanu Reeves' film 47 Ronin and the latest film adaption of Macbeth.
Last month it emerged that the production team behind The BFG were helped by Highland's Council's small tourism and film unit with its inquiries about locations on Skye.
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Visits to the Isle of Skye could be boosted by a tourism campaign based on the film adaption of Roald Dahl's story The Big Friendly Giant.
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Marchant, 20, has a toe injury while Hill, 22, has an ongoing neck problem.
England will also assess Sale Sharks wing Denny Solomona, who is having treatment on a foot sprain.
Head coach Eddie Jones will confirm the 31-man squad travelling to Argentina on Monday, following the Aviva Premiership final on Saturday.
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Harlequins centre Joe Marchant and Northampton prop Paul Hill have been ruled out of England's tour to Argentina in June through injury.
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Redmayne finished just under two seconds ahead of Malachi Mitchell-Thomas, who had led by 10 seconds on lap two before his bike overheated.
The Laxey racer dedicated his victory to last year's winner Andy Lawson, who died racing at the Ulster Grand Prix.
Mitchell-Thomas set a new lap record on his final lap at 120.565mph.
Billy Redmayne had a seven-second advantage over eventual third-place finisher Rob Hodson from Wigan after the first lap, with Mitchell-Thomas third.
Mitchell-Thomas then surged ahead and had built up a 10-second lead before his bike overheated at the Creg on lap two.
The Horwich teenager lost 16 seconds after pulling over, before fighting back to finish just 1.9 seconds behind last year's runner-up.
The Laxey man, who has served three six-month tours Afghanistan, said: "I finished second to Andy (Lawson) last year and I want to dedicate this one to him.
"The conditions were really tricky over the Mountain but I just got my head down and cracked on. I have a lot of people to thank and it feels great to win."
Mitchell-Thomas, who broke Manx racer Tommy Clucas's 2004 lap record on his final circuit, said: "It was going great but the bike overheated on lap two and I was covered in water.
"I pulled over and it cooled down so I got going again but I couldn't quite catch Billy. We still have the Senior and there is more to come."
Hodson finished 12.2 seconds down in third.
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Manx soldier Billy Redmayne won a thrilling three-lap Junior Manx Grand Prix in challenging damp conditions on Wednesday.
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The incident in the central town of Muxungue followed two police raids on Renamo gatherings earlier in the week.
The police said the meetings were military training seminars organised to destabilise the country.
Renamo has said it will boycott local elections in November and intends to disrupt them.
The party says it feels the electoral process is fundamentally flawed.
Renamo and the governing Frelimo party fought against each other during Mozambique's 16-year brutal civil war, which ended in 1992.
The police said one woman and four officers died in the raid in Muxengue and 10 policemen were injured.
Renamo said it launched the attack in retaliation for the police raids on meetings they were holding in the towns of Gondola and Muxungue.
"Renamo is tired of persecution, humiliations, repression, dictatorship and slavery," AFP news agency quoted Renamo's security chief Ossufo Momad as saying.
A force of about 300 Renamo men have remained armed since the 1992 peace deal, despite efforts to integrate them into the army or police force.
Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama says he needs his own personal bodyguards, and the men usually stay in his bush camp in the Gorongosa mountains in central Mozambique.
The BBC's Jose Tembe in the capital, Maputo, says this week's clashes have created an atmosphere of fear and rumour.
Some people in Muxengue and Gondola have fled their homes fearing further clashes and there is little traffic on the main highway between the central region and the capital, which is in the south of the country, he says.
National elections are due next year.
Mr Dhlakama took 16.5% of the vote in election in 2009 - the fourth time he had lost since the end of civil war.
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At least five people in Mozambique have been killed after members of the opposition party Renamo, an ex-rebel movement, attacked a police post.
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James Lieser, 38, did not return to HMP Greenock on Friday, 24 April. He was last seen by his family in Parkhead, Glasgow, at about 15:30 that day.
Lieser was convicted in 2004 of murdering Steven Collins and had served 11 years of a 12-year sentence.
Police want anyone with information on Lieser's whereabouts to contact them.
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An image of a convicted murderer who failed to return to jail after unescorted leave in Glasgow has been issued by the Scottish Prison Service.
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For six months the International Space Station (ISS) will be his home.
The ISS was launched back in 1998 and astronauts have been living on board ever since.
It's an important place to carry out tests and research that will help future space missions to places like the Moon and Mars.
Take a look at the ISS in numbers:
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Major Tim Peake is getting ready to blast into space to complete his first mission.
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The hosts, who resumed on 23-0 at The Oval needing 230 runs to avoid an innings defeat, lost Rory Burns for 18.
Kumar Sangakkara (84 not out) shared a century third-wicket stand with Arun Harinath (57) before the latter was caught behind off Sean Ervine.
A rain shower saw the players taken off at 16:00 BST, with Surrey on 248-3 and play was called off.
Surrey are now 27 points behind leaders Middlesex with just one match remaining, while Hampshire are six points from safety, but Lancashire and Durham above them have a game in hand.
If Durham and Lancashire pick up a significant haul of points next week, the battle for the final relegation spot could be between Hampshire and Warwickshire, who are separated by eight points with one match left each.
With Hampshire seeking 10 wickets on the final day, Brad Wheal followed up Liam Dawson's early dismissal of Burns by removing Dominic Sibley for 44, caught behind.
However, on a flat pitch Sangakkara remained untroubled, reaching his seventh Championship half-century of the season having hit eight boundaries.
Steven Davies' 57-run unbroken fourth-wicket partnership with the former Sri Lanka batsman saw Surrey creep towards taking the lead in the final session of play before the rain intervened.
Surrey skipper Gareth Batty told BBC Radio London:
"There will be people that will say that after the first four sessions of the game the pitch died and there wasn't a lot (in it) for anybody.
"Fair comment, but you've still got to ride out those pressure situations.
"Hampshire put us on the back foot by going so far ahead, and making it so we were the only team that could be on the wrong end of the result.
"The character shown was great. On the whole, walking away with a draw is not a particularly bad result."
Hampshire captain James Vince told BBC Radio Solent:
"We set the game up nicely for today and the bowlers stuck to it really well and were unlucky not to have a few more wickets.
"On a wicket where it was spinning out of the rough, they have left-handers, if we'd been able to get one or two more in that middle session, I'd have backed us to go on and win it.
"We'll have to see how next week unfolds and then make a plan going into the Durham game (in the final week).
"We're very much still alive, I think."
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Surrey's slim chances of winning the Division One title ended as they drew with relegation-threatened Hampshire.
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The man then shook the hand of the manager at the Aldi store on Wragby Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire Police said.
The force said he walked into the shop, picked up the TV and took it to the cashier to obtain a refund.
Police are appealing for information about the 2 January incident.
More on this and other local stories from across Lincolnshire
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A "brazen fraudster" received a £329 refund for a TV he had just picked up from a shop's shelf, police have said.
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The shadow chancellor told the BBC's Andrew Marr he stood by his claim that victims of the disaster in west London were "murdered by political decisions".
He said "social murder" had occurred and "people should be accountable".
But Mr Hammond told the programme there was "not a shred of evidence to support that" accusation.
At least 80 people are believed to have been killed in the tower block fire in north Kensington on 14 June.
Asked if the politicians who sanctioned cuts were murderers, Mr McDonnell said he did not "resile" from that view.
He cited cuts to local government, to the fire service and the housing crisis.
"There's a long history in this country of the concept of social murder, where decisions are made with no regard to consequences of that, and as a result of that, people have suffered," he told Andrew Marr.
"That's what's happened here, and I'm angry."
He previously blamed the decision to "view housing as only for financial speculation".
John McDonnell's turn of phrase is one that was actually coined more than 170 years ago.
It was in the 19th Century that philosopher Friedrich Engels sought to prove that society commits "social murder" in his book Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844.
"When society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death... When it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life... forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues... its deed is murder," he wrote of Victorian England.
Engels went on to found Marxist theory with fellow German philosopher, Karl Marx. Mr McDonnell recently said there was much to learn from reading Marx's study of capitalism, Das Kapital.
Speaking ahead of June's general election, he said he was going to be the "first socialist in the tradition of the Labour Party".
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Chancellor Phillip Hammond has called comments made by Labour's John McDonnell about the Grenfell fire tragedy "disgraceful".
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The grocery store tycoon and former mayoral candidate took to Twitter to offer a bounty of $5,000 (£3,870).
He told the New York Post newspaper that thieves are stealing cartons of ice cream in order to resell them to smaller shops, known as "bodegas".
Police have received 250 complaints and made 130 arrests, the Post reports.
Mr Catsimatidis, who owns the Gristedes grocery stores, tweeted that the bandits are "wreaking havoc on NYC supermarkets" and told the newspaper that the thefts are being encouraged by the bodegas.
He shared an example of an attempted theft at one of his stores earlier this week in the Chelsea neighbourhood of Manhattan, in which the thieves were filmed on mobile phone cameras.
A man and woman shoved 80 tubs of ice cream into bags and then ran from the store.
But police say that the couple abandoned the frozen treats on the street after they were chased by store employees.
City officials have called the resale of ice cream a public health risk, since the dairy products can become contaminated with germs if left outside of the freezer.
New York City is experiencing a heatwave that is expected to last several more days. Temperatures are expected to reach 110F (43C).
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New York City billionaire John Catsimatidis is offering a financial reward for information leading to the arrest of ice cream shoplifters.
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The new notes will be made of polymer, instead of cotton like the current banknotes, because the Bank says they will be much cleaner.
The £5 note, featuring former UK Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, will be the first plastic banknote.
The £10 note is to go plastic about a year later, this one will also have the image of author Jane Austen on it.
More than 20 countries around the world, including Australia, New Zealand and Canada now use polymer banknotes.
Plastic banknotes are produced from a thin, transparent and flexible film made of polypropylene.
This is coated with multiple layers of special ink (usually white) to the front and the back, that allows the design to be printed onto the note.
The Bank has said that these notes last for 2.5 times longer than paper banknotes.
They will survive a spin in the washing machine, but will still melt under extreme heat such as an iron.
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Plastic banknotes are to be brought into circulation by the Bank of England in 2016.
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The bill aimed to force local law enforcement to obey requests from immigration officers to hold illegal immigrants for deportation.
Sanctuary cities came under fire from Donald Trump in an executive order during his first week as president.
The Texan law was due to come into effect on Friday.
But on Wednesday, a federal judge ruled it was unlikely to withstand constitutional tests, and prevented implementation of key parts of the bill, called SB4.
In a 94-page decision, US District Judge Orlando Garcia commented: "There is overwhelming evidence by local officials, including local law enforcement, that SB4 will erode public trust and make many communities and neighborhoods less safe."
"There is also ample evidence that localities will suffer adverse economic consequences which, in turn, harm the State of Texas."
He said the court could not "second guess the legislature" but the state could not violate the constitution.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the decision made "Texas' communities less safe".
He said he would immediately appeal the decision and was confident the law would eventually be upheld.
Mr Trump's executive order in January covered a range of immigration issues but specifically targeted the 400 or so jurisdictions with policies protecting undocumented immigrants - nicknamed "sanctuary cities".
The presidential order authorised the federal government to withhold funding from cities with such polices.
The Texan bill, passed by the state legislature earlier this year, was set to be one of the first laws of its kind since Mr Trump's order.
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A US federal judge has halted a new Texan immigration law on "sanctuary cities" just two days before it is scheduled to go into effect.
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The man was arrested in Coleraine on Thursday.
He is due to appear in Coleraine Magistrates Court on Friday.
Police said the comments concerned a mosque in the Causeway Coast and Glens area.
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Police have charged a 26-year-old man with threats to damage property over comments made on social media about a mosque.
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Specialist micro-engineer Graham Short visited the Dickinson & Morris Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, on Friday.
It follows the use of one of the special notes at a bakery in Kelso, Scotland, and also a cafe in Wales.
The final note will be spent this week in Northern Ireland.
Updates on this story and more from Leicestershire
Mr Short, from Birmingham, came up with the idea of engraving a 5mm portrait of Pride and Prejudice author Austen on the transparent part of the new plastic Bank of England £5 notes to mark the 200th anniversary of Austen's death next year.
He has included a different quote around each one, ensuring that each note is unique.
Anyone who finds one of the notes has been advised to contact the Tony Huggins-Haig Gallery, which launched the project.
The Bank of England's website states that it is illegal to deface bank notes under the Currency & Banknotes Act 1928.
In a statement, the gallery said it had contacted the Bank of England, which informed them that the notes were still legal tender.
Mr Huggins-Haig told BBC Scotland all of Mr Short's work has an insurance valuation of about £50,000. He also described the notes as like "the Willy Wonka golden ticket".
Mr Short's last work - a minute picture of the Queen on a pinhead - sold for £100,000.
The four notes have the following serial numbers and quotes:
Mr Short, 70, said: "As I enjoy pork pies, I thought where better to spend the English note than in Melton Mowbray?"
Stephen Hallam, from the shop, told the BBC every £5 note is not "inspected with a magnifying glass", but admitted the notes in the shop were "scrutinised" after they were told on Monday that Mr Short had visited the shop.
However, the special note could not be found.
"I'm still here making pork pies... I'm not flying off to Barbados," Mr Hallam said.
Mr Short told BBC Radio Wales' Jason Mohammad programme he chose Square Café in Blackwood High Street in Caerphilly because that was where his mother was born in 1909.
According to the Bank of England, it is against the law to "deface our banknotes (by printing, writing or impressing upon them words, letters or figures, etc.), although the question of whether or not to prosecute in individual cases is up to the police and the courts".
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One of four special £5 notes worth up to £50,000 that feature a tiny portrait of author Jane Austen has been spent in a pie shop.
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The FTSE 100 closed down 0.7% at 5,912.44 after initially being bolstered by strong US jobs figures.
The stats showed 292,000 jobs were created last month in the US, beating expectations.
However, shares in Sports Direct dived nearly 15% to 436.80p after it warned on profits.
The retailer said that since its interim results on 10 December, it had "seen a deterioration of trading conditions on the High Street and a continuation of the unseasonal weather over the key Christmas period".
It added that it also expected similar trading conditions between now and the end of April.
As a result, it says it is "no longer confident" that it will meet its full-year underlying earnings target of £420m, and now expects earnings to be between £380m and £420m.
Shares in Tesco were having a better day, rising 5.5% to 146.90p after Barclays upgraded its rating on the stock to "overweight" from "equal weight".
On the currency markets, the pound fell by 0.006 of a cent against the euro to €1.3314, but was down a cent against the dollar at $1.4519.
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(Close): Shares in Sports Direct dived after it said its profits would be lower than expected, leading the FTSE 100 down.
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Hugh Sim, 30, from Renfrew, was caught after the pictures were spotted in a chat group by police in New Zealand.
He was convicted of sexually abusing the girl, and making and distributing indecent photos.
Sentencing him at Glasgow High Court, the judge said the damage to his victim was "catastrophic".
Sim was assessed as being at a high-risk of re-offending and will be monitored in the community for two years after his release.
Judge Johanna Johnston told him: "You photographed and filmed abuse which took place many times for your sexual gratification. These images were distributed online and found by police in New Zealand.
"The damage you have caused to that little girl is catastrophic and she now has difficulty forming attachments."
The judge said Sim had done his best to conceal his actions and added: "Had it not been for the work of the police in this country and the authorities in New Zealand your offences may never have come to light.
"You have shown no remorse and continue to protest your innocence."
The 30-year-old had denied he was the person in the images, but a former lover identified him by his heavyset build and ginger hair.
During a police inquiry in New Zealand into the members of the paedophile chat group it was established that one of the users had logged on from the UK and an internet search uncovered the subscriber as Sim.
Defence counsel Susan Duff said: "He accepts that he has been convicted of these offences, but maintains his position of claiming he is not guilty."
Sim was placed on the sex offenders register.
Det Ch Insp Fil Capaldi of Police Scotland said: "Hugh Sim's sentence today reflects the gravity of his actions and demonstrates that there is no hiding place for people who commit these types of depraved crimes against children, wherever they may be - crimes which would have impacted on this young girl's ability to enjoy a normal, happy childhood.
"I must praise the swift actions of the Police Scotland officers and detectives from the New Zealand Police Service involved in this inquiry."
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A paedophile who filmed himself abusing a three-year-old girl and posted the images online has been jailed for eight years.
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The 20-year-old has become the Hatters' eighth summer signing, joining on free transfer but with a "contingency sum" due to Palace if he is sold on.
Gray made two first-team appearances for the Eagles and spent much of last term on loan at Hartlepool, scoring six goals in 33 games.
Hatters boss Nathan Jones said they had been chasing the signing "since April".
He continued: "There were a number of clubs that showed an interest in him. We initially thought we might get him on loan, but when we knew that Palace were willing to do something permanent, we jumped at the chance."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
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League Two side Luton Town have signed Crystal Palace midfielder Jake Gray on a two-year contract.
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The care, already "unfit for purpose", is becoming even worse, a letter signed by 400 dentists, in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, adds.
It says the creation by international charity Dentaid of a service for vulnerable patients in West Yorkshire is a sign of the mounting problems.
NHS England said services were improving.
An NHS England spokeswoman said: "These claims are wrong - more patients are getting the dental care they need, and 93% of people got an NHS dental appointment when they wanted one in the last 24 months."
The letter urges ministers to be "fully open and transparent" about the limitations of current provision.
The fact Dentaid, normally associated with providing care in the Third World, is now offering emergency care to homeless people, migrants and the low paid in Kirklees "serves to demonstrate the lack of a proper national dental service", it says.
The letter also calls the levels of tooth decay in children a "national disgrace".
Figures published last year by the Health and Social Care Information Centre showed nearly half of eight-year-olds and a third of five-year-olds had signs of decay in their milk teeth.
The Children's Dental Health Survey for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, carried out every 10 years, also found 46% of 15-year-olds had decay in their teeth - although that represented an improvement on the previous survey.
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Standards of NHS dental care in England have been likened to a "Third World" service, by dentists.
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England beat them 6-0 at the match in Utrecht in the Netherlands, in both teams' first match of the tournament.
Jodie Taylor scored a hat trick, while Ellen White, Jordan Nobbs and Toni Duggan all got on the score sheet too.
England's next match will be against Spain, while Scotland will take on Portugal.
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England got off to an incredible start at the Women's Euros - but it was a night Scotland would probably rather forget.
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The pilot and a passenger died after the aircraft came down in a field off Mains Lane, between Whitwell-on-the-Hill and Wellburn, officers said.
Emergency services were called to the scene near Castle Howard in the Ryedale area at about 10:40 BST.
The Air Accident Investigation Branch has launched an inquiry. Police are yet to confirm the victims' identities.
Supt Mark Grange, from North Yorkshire Police, said the plane was still mostly intact when it landed more than 200m away from the nearest houses.
"It looks like it came straight down," he said.
"It looks like an aircraft, with two wings and a tail fin where it should be.
"It's in a bad way and it's obviously come down heavily. It's sat on its underside so it has not flipped.
"Whether they tried to land like that I don't know."
Eyewitness Andrew Moutrie, 54, from Hovingham, said he was on his way to a football match when he came across the crash scene near the A64.
"It looks like the aircraft attempted a crash landing. It looks like it came through the hedge towards the field," he said.
Supt Grange said the site had been declared safe by the fire service after "worries about the amount of fuel" from the plane.
"We're just preserving the scene until the air investigation branch attend. That's anticipated at about six this evening and then we'll be directed as to the next steps really around the recovery phase," he added.
A cordon has been placed around the crash site and the public has been advised to avoid the area. A number of roads have also been closed.
North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said three crews were sent to the scene - two from Malton and another from York.
A spokesman said up to 20 firefighters attended the crash site and a foam blanket had been placed around the aircraft in case it caught fire.
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Two men have died in a light aircraft crash in North Yorkshire, police have confirmed.
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Caroline Parry was shot in the back at close range near her home last August.
Her new partner Gary Bidmead told Newport Crown Court Ms Parry was underweight and very unhappy in her marriage.
Christopher Parry, 49, from Cwmbran, denies murder but has admitted manslaughter.
On Thursday, Mr Bidmead told the jury he met Ms Parry in November 2012 while she was walking her dog.
He said she was crying at the time and he asked her if she was ok.
Their relationship developed gradually from then, the court heard, but did not become sexual for a long time.
They moved in together in April 2013 and Mr Bidmead described their relationship as "brilliant".
"She was very unhappy in the marriage," Mr Bidmead said.
"He was very controlling and wouldn't let her go out. She wasn't even allowed to go on holiday with her mother."
He went on: "She would have to be in the house by 7pm and wouldn't be allowed out after then. She was way underweight when I met her, she wasn't eating.
"She was allowed to stay with her mother overnight maybe once a month."
But Roger Thomas QC, defending, said Ms Parry would go clubbing and would send romantic texts to Mr Bidmead during her marriage, which would suggest she was not a controlled woman.
Mr Bidmead told the court that after Ms Parry left her husband he would send her texts asking her back and would phone her and become aggressive when she refused.
He said Mr Parry, a driver for the Celtic Manor Resort, would swear, call Ms Parry names and she worried he would harm himself or her.
Earlier, neighbour Jade Mineur said she heard two loud bangs "like fireworks" on the day of the shooting.
She said she heard the shots and looked out of her window just as Mr Parry turned the gun on himself.
Ms Mineur dialled 999 and went outside to help.
She told the court via video link: "I went to the woman and checked her pulse and then I checked the man's pulse and he was alive, I saw his chest move slightly," she said.
Roger Thomas QC, defending, read a section of Ms Mineur's police statement to the court.
She had told police: "The look on his face was as if he was in disbelief himself it had actually happened.
"It wasn't like it was shock like 'I've done it', it was as if he could not believe it had happened."
The trial continues.
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A man who shot his wife dead in a Newport street was "controlling" and would not let her out of the house at night, a court has heard.
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Some council highways officials said they did not start gritting roads until Monday morning as overnight forecasts said it would not freeze.
North Wales Police said it saw a "surge in demand" with calls to its control room with 69 reports of road traffic collisions between 07:00 and 13:00 GMT.
A spokesperson urged motorists to take care on the roads.
An injured man was airlifted to Royal Stoke University Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, after a two-vehicle collision in Pentre Halkyn, Flintshire, at 08:00.
In another incident, a cyclist suffered serious injuries after a collision with a tractor on Hawarden Road, Hope, Flintshire, at 11:35.
Supt Alex Goss from North Wales Police said: "We experienced a surge in demand into our control room reporting collisions across all six counties.
"As a result of two separate collisions two people have been taken to hospital in Stoke with serious injuries and we wish them a full recovery."
Trouble spots in Denbighshire included the A547 near Rhuddlan and the A525 near St Asaph while the A5151 at Trelawnyd, Flintshire, was also affected.
In Anglesey, the A5025 at Pentraeth and B5111 at Llangefni were both affected.
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Denbighshire council said it received several weather forecasts on Sunday, including one at 22:00 stating that temperatures would remain above zero due to cloud cover.
It added: "A further update was issued at 05:00 today [Monday], stating the cloudy skies had cleared unexpectedly and temperatures had dropped. As a result the council deployed its gritters and they are still out and about this morning treating the main roads and problem areas."
Flintshire council said: "The council did not undertake any precautionary gritting yesterday [Sunday] evening because the forecast received by the council did not require it. Temperatures did however fall below freezing this morning in some areas and the gritting fleet were deployed to treat the network."
Further west, Conwy council gritted all its priority routes on Sunday night and Monday morning.
And Gwynedd council said: "We can confirm that parts of the primary network roads were gritted last night based on forecasts for icy conditions."
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Icy conditions led to 69 accidents on roads in north Wales within a space of hours on Monday, police have said.
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Before Plaid's spring conference, she said "two-way conversations" between grassroots activists and local people were crucial to success at the polls.
Ms Wood said she did not see her push for a soft Brexit harming party chances in areas that voted to leave the EU.
The two-day conference begins in Newport later on Friday.
Ms Wood won Rhondda from Labour at the May 2016 assembly election, a constituency which voted Leave in the EU referendum the following month.
She will use the conference to accuse Labour Welsh Government ministers of concentrating on the economy in Cardiff at the expense of the rest of the Wales.
Plaid Cymru is on a "mission to rebalance Wales", she will say in a speech later.
Speaking to BBC Wales at her office in Cardiff Bay, she said: "Most people on the doorstep, they are not talking about Brexit, they are not talking about what goes on here, or really what goes on in Westminster.
"It comes up a bit, but you can have conversations with people that go to the local issues - and people then might disagree with me on something I've said on Brexit, but then they will still say 'I'll vote Plaid because you've done this locally for us'.
"So, if it comes up it's not stopping people - even if they are against what I've said - stopping them from voting Plaid.
"I'm not concerned that's going to be a major issue in the elections or any other of the big things we are all concerned about.
"Most people talk about dog poo."
Her party struck a deal with Labour in the assembly, rather than go into coalition.
That allowed Carwyn Jones to return as first minister, in exchange for including Plaid in preparing policies and budgets.
But Ms Wood said where Plaid has a strong grassroots campaign they hoped to pick up votes from Labour.
In her speech, Ms Wood will accuse Labour of repeating the mistakes of UK ministers by concentrating on the capital city and neglecting the rest of the county.
She will say: "Plaid Cymru would ensure every part of Wales gets the chance to succeed.
"Existing plans lack the ambition needed to rebalance the country."
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Voters are more likely to want to talk about cleaning up dog mess than Brexit before May's local elections, Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood has said.
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However, this celebration of Sunday night's surprise victory over hosts France wasn't on the streets of Lisbon, Porto or Setúbal.
This party was on the streets of Dungannon, County Tyrone.
Among those who took to the streets was 17-year-old Luciano Joao, who has been living in Dungannon since he was 10.
He watched the game at home, then made his way to the town centre where he estimated about 150 Portugal fans were enjoying the country's first ever European Championship.
"Once the match was over and Portugal got the trophy, we all just went out. I called a couple of friends and went up the town and once I was there, there were already all these people out partying," Luciano said.
"It was just completely different from anything else. Just full of delight really."
He said some local Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland fans joined in the celebrations, as did many members of Dungannon's East Timorese community.
Luciano said that while he was optimistic ahead of the game, Christiano Ronaldo's early exit through injury put serious doubts in his mind.
He also admitted that Portugal's indifferent start to the tournament was not inspiring.
"We didn't start off too well, but we got there in the end," he said.
"It was quite a bit of a surprise though."
The celebrations continuing into the early hours of Monday with some fans not getting to bed until about 05:00 BST.
One fan explained to the BBC why he was having trouble speaking the day after the victory.
"Last night I jumped like crazy, I run like crazy and today my voice is gone," he said.
"But no problem, it'll come back again."
Ulster Unionist councillor Walter Cuddy, who runs a newsagents shop in the town, said it was great to see the Portuguese celebration.
"There were a lot of men and women going to work early in the morning that called into the shop and they were still on a high, they obviously were celebrating right through the night," he said.
"We probably have representatives from most countries in Europe here - we are an industrial town - but it's great to see people getting on and everybody was pleased for them."
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Flag-waving Portuguese fans throng the town centre, waving their national flags as they celebrate their team becoming Euro 2016 champions.
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Names of men killed in both world wars may have been left off or wrongly added to the monument, in Bodmin, Cornwall.
A local historian alerted the local council to the errors, which include incorrect spellings and wrong initials.
Mayor Lance Kennedy said "serious research" was needed to establish the extent of the problem.
It is understood errors were made during the process of transferring the names of those killed from memorial plaques around Bodmin to a new monument.
A tape recorder, which was used to list the names, is believed to be behind a number of the mistakes.
Ann Hicks, chairman of the Cornwall Family History Society, said: "They are dishonouring the dead of Cornwall."
Mr Kennedy said there were "undoubtedly" mistakes which could include both names missed off and names wrongly etched on.
The work to research the names and amend the panels would cost the tax payer around £10,000 and could take as long at 18 months to complete, he added.
"This must be done, and it's got to be done right."
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A war memorial which has been littered with mistakes since it was created in 1989 may cost £10,000 to fix, a council has said.
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The 34-year-old, who was detained on Wednesday in Birmingham, can be kept in police custody until the evening of 23 November.
He was arrested on suspicion of "the commission, preparation and instigation" of acts of terrorism under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
A search of a property in the city has been completed.
West Midlands Police said the arrest was planned and intelligence-led and there was no threat to the public's safety.
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More time has been granted to question a man held on suspicion of terrorism offences.
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All are members of the Diocese of West Yorkshire and Dales Motorcycle Club, formed for clergy and lay motorcyclists.
Ten bikes will start the trip on Monday from Leyburn in North Yorkshire.
Reverend Michael Hepper from St Matthew's in Leyburn said it would be a "very different kind of retreat".
The 725-mile round trip will begin with a 200-mile ride to Barnard Castle, over the moors to Hexham and through the Kielder Forest to Jedburgh and Edinburgh.
The riders will continue to Fionnphort on the west coast of Scotland via the Trossachs and the Isle of Mull.
The "pilgrimage" ends on the island of Iona, known as "the cradle of Christianity" because St Columba is said to have landed there by coracle from Ireland in AD563, bringing the Gospel.
Mr Hepper said the trip would be "a spiritual experience and an adventure".
Reverend Neal Lefroy-Owen, of St Hilda's, Halifax and St John's, Warley, said: "It's great to be able to share my love of riding with fellow Christians from the new diocese and to get to know them better."
Reverend Canon Stephen Kelly - area dean of Wakefield and priest in charge of Woolley and West Bretton, Reverend Canon Paul Tudge of Farsley near Pudsey, and Reverend Vic Iwanuschak, Incumbent of All Saints Pontefract will also take part in the pilgrimage ride.
Five lay riders and four pillion passengers will accompany them.
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Five Yorkshire vicars are preparing for a five-day motorbike "pilgrimage" from Yorkshire to Iona off the west coast of Scotland.
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The Big Family Cooking Showdown will see 16 families cook their fave family recipes and compete against each other in a series of challenges.
There will be 12 hour-long episodes on BBC Two later this year.
But this isn't the first time Nadiya's been on TV since Bake Off...
While she's presenting on her new show, you might have seen her as a judge - on CBBC's Junior Bake Off!
She judged the junior bakers alongside chef and food writer Allegra McEvedy. The series was won by vlogger Nikki.
The baker has also been on her own show called The Chronicles of Nadiya.
In the two-part programme Nadiya travelled to Bangladesh, the country where her family is from. She got to explore different recipes and visit places she'd never been to before.
In April 2016, Nadiya baked for Her Majesty the Queen.
She said she thought it was a joke when she was asked by Buckingham Palace to make the Queen's 90th birthday cake!
And she's also been busy writing.
Nadiya popped in to Newsround to tell us about Bake Me a Story, her book that brings together baking and reading stories.
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Big news for Bake Off 2015 winner Nadiya Hussain - she's going to co-host a new food series with Strictly's It Takes Two presenter Zoe Ball.
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Alex McFarlane, 50, of Wood Green, Basildon, Essex, admitted seven offences, including one related to driving at 109mph in a 50mph area, Essex Police said.
A court heard he had had a nervous breakdown resulting in debts which he could not repay if unable to drive.
The law states drivers with more than 12 points on a licence within a three-year period can face disqualification.
Construction manager McFarlane initially denied seven counts of failing to give information in relation to driving offences when questioned by police.
He later changed his plea to guilty, and he was given six points for each of the counts.
His six speeding offences also included driving at 32mph in a 20mph zone, Essex Police said. The seventh offence involved going through a red light.
The offences took place between June and August 2014.
Southend magistrates agreed not to ban McFarlane from driving after he claimed mitigating circumstances including "exceptional hardship" due to loss of income.
Magistrates heard he had had a nervous breakdown since the incidents, during which time he had built up considerable debts.
He told the court he would lose both his home and his job, and be unable to pay his debts if he lost his licence.
McFarlane was given 42 points on his licence and fined £150 for each offence.
He was warned if caught speeding again he would automatically be disqualified from driving, Essex Police said.
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A man with 42 points on his licence has been allowed to continue driving.
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College friends Morgan Ruig and Evan Shay, both 28, told Australian media they pretended to be national players to get into the game.
News sites around the world, including the BBC, picked this.
But it has since emerged they most likely simply joined an organised tour, which included a golf tournament.
"We were very nervous handing our passports over at the border. There are stories of people not coming home," Mr Ruig had told the Courier-Mail newspaper on Thursday.
He said they were chaperoned throughout their five-day trip which included a tour of the capital, where they placed a bouquet at a monument to the country's leaders.
They performed badly, Mr Ruig said, prompting his caddy to say he had "bought great shame to my family".
Mr Ruig also told Yahoo Sport that officials "thought it was quite funny", and that they had no problems leaving the country afterwards.
"I wouldn't recommend it to a light-hearted traveller. It was pretty hardcore but it was an amazing experience."
But it has since emerged that the men simply joined a two-day "DPRK Amateur Golf Open" organised by a UK-based travel company Lupine Travel.
The event they entered is advertised as being "open to all amateur golfers" except South Korean passport holders, and costs between £749 ($930) and £1,349, not including club hire and tips.
Golf magazine quoted Dylan Harris from Lupine Travel as saying the men had never pretended to be professional golfers, but when some North Koreans asked if they were, "they just decided to go along with it".
"They didn't prank the North Koreans. They pretty much just pranked the media," Mr Harris said.
Mr Ruig and Mr Shay did not respond to the BBC's requests for comment on Thursday, nor did Lupine Travel.
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The story of two Australians who conned their way into a North Korean golf tournament by posing as world-class players has been widely reported.
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The murdered man, found near the banks of the River Trent in Staffordshire in 1971, could be John Henry Jones from Trevor in Wrexham, police have said.
The man's body was found naked with his hands and feet tied. Now his face has been reconstructed using the latest medical and digital techniques.
The name came to light after a dental expert reviewed missing person records.
Mr Jones, 27, went missing in 1970.
He was born on 30 April 1943 and lived in George Avenue in the village that lies between Llangollen and Wrexham.
Police want to speak to anyone who knew knew him.
Officers who investigated at the time, believed the man, who was found wearing nothing but a pair of pink socks and a wedding ring, had been murdered.
The make-shift grave was discovered in Burton-on-Trent by an off-duty police officer. The body had been there for between 12 and 18 months.
Retired Det Ch Insp Peter Hough who was in charge of the investigation said: "I personally hadn't come across anything like it because of the local attention it received.
"The town was a buzz. Still people ask about it."
He said despite "every effort" being made to identify the body, missing persons, dental and fingerprint records failed to reveal who he was and the police were unable to determine how he was killed.
"It's never been out of my mind after all these years but I'm still optimistic," he said.
Now, in a final attempt to identify him, Prof Caroline Wilkinson, from Facelab at Liverpool John Moores University, has created an image of his face.
She said: "This is as accurate as we can get in terms of a depiction."
The method has been tested on living people and about 70% of the reconstructed face should be accurate to less than 2mm.
The facial image was broadcast on BBC's Crimewatch Roadshow in the hope someone will recognise him.
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An unidentified body found buried in a shallow grave 46 years ago could be that of a missing man from north Wales.
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The Vikings led the table after winning six of their first seven games but slipped from the top after losing to Warrington on 25 March.
Betts' side currently lie in fifth place in the table and face league leaders Warrington again on Friday.
"I don't see our form being that bad, we've just lost some games," Betts told BBC Radio Merseyside.
"We've lost some momentum to look at the table, but internally we're still doing some good things."
After conceding 108 points in their opening seven matches, Widnes' fortunes have changed of late, with the Vikings conceding 103 points in their last four games.
"It's about doing the little things well, keeping the confidence high and doing the things we did at the beginning of the year with the same kind of determination," he added.
"We know we've got to get moving back in the league but Warrington are saying the same thing and there are guys who are fighting to get some momentum in their league positions."
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Head coach Denis Betts is not worried about Widnes' recent form despite four consecutive Super League defeats.
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Asghar Bostan, 47, of East Bawtry Road, Rotherham, is accused of raping a female.
Mohammed Yasin, 36, of Lilycroft Road, Bradford, and Qaiser Iqbal, 35, of Bingley Road, Bradford, are charged with two other offences.
The crimes are alleged to have taken place in the town between 2003 and 2006, the National Crime Agency said.
All three are due to appear at Sheffield Magistrates Court on 21 June.
Mr Yasin and Mr Iqbal both face charges of taking a child away from a responsible person and intentionally arranging or facilitating the travel of a female for the purposes of sexual abuse.
The men have been charged under the agency's Operation Stovewood, which has 63 suspects on its list.
A total of 15 men have been arrested, of which six have been charged.
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Three men have been charged as part of an investigation into child sexual exploitation and abuse in Rotherham.
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Adrian Carpenter, 25, of Nantlle, Gwynedd, fell in while walking home from a friend's in Talysarn on 6 June.
A Caernarfon inquest heard he had taken enough heroin, cocaine and diazepam to kill someone not used to them.
He died of asphyxiation caused by drowning. The coroner recorded a conclusion of accidental death.
Mr Carpenter's friend Geynfor Jones told the inquest he had tried to convince him to stay at his house as he had fallen asleep in the road the previous evening.
But the gardener insisted on leaving and had only gone a few yards before lifting a heavy storm drain cover and reaching in head first.
His body was found when a team of refuse collectors spotted his legs sticking out of the drain the next morning.
PC Alexander Higgins said nothing was found when the fire service pumped out the drain, but he believed Mr Carpenter had dropped an item too small to detect.
Senior coroner for north west Wales, Dewi Pritchard Jones, said the circumstances were something he had never come across before.
"He was trying to get at something in that drain. What he was trying to get, we can't say," he said.
"Once he got to a certain point he slid in and there was no way out."
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A man who died after falling headfirst into a drain had been trying to retrieve something while high on drugs, an inquest has heard.
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The prime minister said that "on any reasonable assessment", the government is meeting its carbon reduction and sustainability targets.
He also defended a decision to scrap a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project promised in the Tory manifesto.
He was being quizzed by MPs on the Commons Liaison Committee.
Labour MP Huw Irranca-Davis said everyone from the CBI to accountants Ernst and Young had highlighted how the government was falling behind in this area.
But the prime minister cited research suggesting the UK is second only to Denmark in terms of meeting its commitments.
He said the UK's offshore wind market was the largest in the world and 97% of the solar panels in the UK had been installed since he became PM in 2010.
The SNP's Angus MacNeil asked how the government's domestic energy policies would contribute to the worldwide climate agreement.
Mr Cameron said carbon emissions had fallen by 15% since 2010, funding for low carbon energy was being doubled and the UK was the first industrialised country to phase out coal-fired power stations.
"We have been good to doing what we said we would", he said, adding that his government had a "very good record to speak of".
Mr MacNeil then brought up the decision to abandon carbon capture and storage development projects, saying "one hand of government didn't know what the other was doing".
The PM said it was a collective decision taken by the cabinet, arguing that CCS was not as cost-effective as other technologies and the £1bn earmarked for the schemes could be better spent on flood defences and schools.
He had previously said CCS was "absolutely crucial" for the UK, so the decision to scrap a £1bn competition for a large-scale trial was criticised by the MPs.
CCS is the "Holy Grail" of the fossil fuel industry, the BBC's environment analyst Roger Harrabin says.
If it can be made to work economically at industrial scale, it will capture the emissions from power stations that heat the climate, and bury them deep underground.
That would allow coal and gas to be burned in the low-carbon future deemed essential by all governments at the climate summit in Paris.
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David Cameron has mounted a robust defence of his government's green policies, saying claims it is "backsliding" are "utter nonsense".
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The 23-year-old arrived at Stangmore Park and helped the Swifts climb clear of relegation danger and finish in seventh place in the Irish Premiership.
The central defender had been at Linfield since May 2014.
"Dungannon are my club and I wanted to do well for them when I came here on loan," Hegarty told the club's website.
"I felt we were in a false position in the table.
"I wanted to get us to where we should be and I think I helped do that."
Meanwhile, Dungannon have announced that striker Gary Liggett has not been offered a new contract by Head Coach Rodney McAree.
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Former Rangers player Chris Hegarty has signed a two-year contract with his home town club Dungannon Swifts after a successful loan period from Linfield.
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The force confirmed a formal complaint was received in relation to the incident in Camden, north London, on Friday.
One officer was filmed striking a car windscreen when the driver refused to get out of the vehicle.
The driver, stopped in a case of mistaken identity, was not arrested.
A Met Police statement released earlier said: "The footage continues to be subject to an investigation by officers from the Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS) and the driver of the car has been spoken to by these officers.
"The officers involved in the incident have been identified and have been placed on restricted duties."
The incident took place at 17:00 BST on Friday and was circulated on social media on Saturday.
Leon Fontana, 25, told the Press Association he was the driver and the person who filmed the footage.
The police statement added: "Although the investigation is in its early stages, it has been established that the officers stopped the vehicle based on information relating to a man who is of interest to police.
"On conclusion of the incident, the officers identified that the driver was not the man in question and he was not arrested."
The footage showed a man in police uniform pulling at a partially-opened driver's side window, repeatedly telling the driver "get out of the car".
He ordered the driver to get out of the car one more time before saying "you're not allowed to drive it".
When the driver continued to refuse to leave the vehicle the officer hit the driver's side window with what appeared to be a baton.
Meanwhile, a voice from inside the car said: "I've got a licence. I've got a licence. I've got insurance. You're smashing this for no reason."
The officer could then be seen striking the windscreen, shattering the glass before he sliced around the damaged area with what looked like a cutting tool.
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Two Met Police officers have been placed on restricted duties after social media footage appeared to show a member of the force attacking a car.
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Asif Yousaf, 33, and Jama Ahmed, 26, are accused of murdering 22-year-old Jordan Thomas on 21 December.
Mr Thomas was shot twice in the chest by a lone gunman as he sat in the car on Derek Dooley Way. The driver of the car, Neshaun Ferguson, was also shot.
Mr Yousaf and Mr Ahmed, both from Sheffield, deny charges of murder and attempted murder.
Sheffield Crown Court heard Mr Thomas had been travelling in a silver Ford Mondeo with 28-year-old Mr Ferguson when they were attacked at about 22:15 GMT.
Prosecutor Bryan Cox QC said a burgundy Mitsubishi Shogun had pulled up next to their car and a man had got out and fired three shots into the vehicle before fleeing.
Mr Thomas died as a result of his injuries.
He told the jury that on the day of the killing, Mr Ahmed had travelled to the Birley Spa Lane area of Sheffield to purchase the Mitsubishi Shogun allegedly used in the killing.
He said Mr Ahmed had then made a call to Mr Yousaf at about 21:38.
The court heard that two days before the attack, Mr Thomas and Mr Ahmed had been involved in an altercation between two groups outside the Forward nightclub in Charter Square, Sheffield, after which shots were said to have been fired.
Mr Cox said the incident was linked to an ongoing feud between the groups.
Mr Yousaf's parents, Mohammed Yousaf, 61, and Tazeem Bi, 57, both from Sheffield, are also standing trial accused of perverting the course of justice.
It is alleged they told police their son was at home at the time of the shooting.
The trial continues.
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Two men have gone on trial charged with shooting dead a man as he sat in a car at traffic lights in Sheffield.
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Bailey, 16, died following the incident at Cults Academy on 28 October.
A 16-year-old boy - who cannot be named for legal reasons - has been charged with murder.
A newspaper noticed stated: "Following the sad loss of Bailey, a private funeral will be held. Bailey's family would like to thank the community for their kindness and support."
The accused, who was remanded after appearing in private at Aberdeen Sheriff Court, is also charged with having a blade or point on school premises.
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A private funeral is to be held for Bailey Gwynne, who died after being stabbed at his Aberdeen school.
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Season ticket holder David MacDonald, 50, admitted making his way on to the Hampden pitch after the final whistle.
He gesticulated at Hibs fans after the Edinburgh club's 3-2 win and tried to start a fight with one of them, before he himself was knocked to the ground.
MacDonald, from Glasgow, who has 20 previous convictions, was also handed an 18-month football banning order.
Jailing him at Glasgow Sheriff Court, Sheriff Aisha Anwar told MacDonald: "Your conduct on 21 May, however you may choose to justify it, was deplorable.
"The shameful images of what occurred during the football match were replayed across the world."
The court heard that MacDonald attempted to hit a Hibs fan before being punched to the ground, cutting his head and becoming unconscious before being helped by a first aider.
MacDonald was later traced to his home in the city's Royston area and arrested by police weeks after the game.
Meanwhile, police have arrested five more people in connection with the cup final disorder, bringing the total number of arrests to 55.
Those detained during an operation on Thursday were a 17-year-old male, a 22-year-old man, two 35-year-old men and a 15-year-old girl.
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A Rangers fan has been jailed for four months for his part in a pitch invasion at the end of the Scottish Cup final.
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The hospital was one of several across the country that declared major incidents throughout Tuesday.
Moves to ease the situation included taking clinical staff off non-urgent work to help, and arranging additional transport for those being discharged.
The hospital trust said there remained "a lot of pressure" on its services.
A spokeswoman said its major incident status was de-escalated at 20:00 GMT on Tuesday, but non-urgent surgery on Wednesday would be rescheduled.
On Tuesday, 53 people in the hospital's A&E department were seeking treatment at 13:00 GMT - 15 of whom were waiting for a bed.
Some patients faced almost a 12-hour wait for a bed after the decision to admit them.
"Any occurrence that presents serious threat to the health of the community, disruption to the service or causes (or is likely to cause) such numbers or types of casualties as to require special arrangements to be implemented by hospitals, ambulance trusts or other acute or community provider organisations."
Source: NHS England Commissioning Board
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The Royal Bolton Hospital is no longer under "major incident" status, but all non-urgent operations have been cancelled on Wednesday.
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Negotiations between the clubs had begun late on Thursday night, just hours after Liverpool allowed on loan.
Chelsea were open to allowing the 22-year-old to leave on loan, but the player himself wanted a permanent move.
Liverpool's Charlie Adam has joined Stoke for £5m on Friday.
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Meanwhile, midfielder Jay Spearing has left Anfield to join Bolton on a six-month loan deal, having undergone a medical at the Reebok Stadium.
Sturridge remained with the Chelsea squad in Monaco for Friday evening's European Super Cup against Atletico Madrid.
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Liverpool's pursuit of Daniel Sturridge ended after the Chelsea forward made it clear he was only interested in a permanent move.
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