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The 70-year-old Time Team presenter joined anti-tunnel campaigners to fight the plans, saying they placed the area's wider archaeology at risk.
The protest by the Stonehenge Alliance was staged outside a consultation event in London earlier.
Highways England said it was working to find "the best solution possible".
The public consultation on its plans for putting the A303 into a 1.8-mile (2.9km) dual carriageway tunnel runs until 5 March.
Highways England says the move would cut congestion and improve journey times.
The scheme has the backing of English Heritage and the National Trust.
Speaking outside the Society of Antiquaries at Burlington House, Robinson suggested a longer tunnel.
He said: "I think the proposal we are being offered is a really old-fashioned one.
"It assumes what needs to be protected is that little clump of stones."
He said it was only over the past three decades archaeologists had begun to comprehend the wider significance of the site.
"That's a high-class Wiltshire Disneyland experience," he said.
"Once it's gone, we'll never get that back.
"If you were going to protect Buckingham Palace, you wouldn't put a tunnel in halfway down the Mall."
The Stonehenge Alliance wants other options to reduce traffic to be fully explored.
Spokeswoman Dr Kate Fielden said: "We want a genuine consultation with real choice.
"Both of Highways England's options involve huge and damaging new roadworks gouged into our most important ancient landscape."
A spokesman for Highways England said: "We fully understand the cultural heritage of the site and one of the broad objectives of the scheme is to help conserve and enhance the World Heritage Site by removing the sight and sound of traffic and make it easier to reach and explore."
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Actor and broadcaster Sir Tony Robinson has said plans for a tunnel near Stonehenge in Wiltshire are too "old-fashioned" in outlook.
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Powys's cabinet wants to replace two schools in Brecon with a new-build English medium secondary, and close Llandrindod Wells High School.
The council said three schools were in special measures and it had to "take action for the sake of our learners".
The cabinet has voted for a full consultation to be carried out.
People from Llandrindod Wells gathered outside the town's council offices to oppose the plan to shut Llandrindod Wells's school and the dual-language Builth Wells High School, replacing both with a new dual-language site in Builth Wells.
Deputy mayor Jon Williams, who is also on the board of governors at Llandrindod Wells High, said the council's figures did not add up.
"We have got the full backing of the townsfolk and the business people because if the high school was to shut and move to Builth Wells it would have a knock-on effect on the town's businesses and the future of the town," he told BBC News.
He said no other option had been put forward, but suggested a better solution to sustain both schools would be to retain Llandrindod Wells High as an English-medium school and convert Builth to a Welsh-medium only school.
"Llandrindod has a bigger catchment area so we are already drawing in pupils from 10-15 miles away," he said.
"It would extend their journeys to up to 23 miles every day [to go to Builth] or they'd have to travel 30 miles the other way to Newtown."
In south Powys, Gwernyfed and Brecon secondary schools would also close and be replaced by an English-medium secondary school in Brecon under the plans.
Arwel Jones, schools' cabinet member, said the plan allowed for a broader post-16 curriculum at one location, would improve cost effectiveness and efficiency, cut maintenance costs and reduce surplus places.
He also said the proposed new site in Builth Wells would provide a "critical mass" of pupils at post-16 level, enabling more subjects to be taught in one location and reduce travel and transport needs.
He added: "Decisive action is needed in the region to strengthen our secondary provision. Three of the four secondary schools are in special measures and the fourth is subject to Estyn monitoring.
"We must take action for the sake of our young learners."
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About 600 pupils, parents and teachers have gathered to hand in a petition against plans to reorganise secondary school education in Powys.
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Attorney General Thelma Aldana has asked for Samuel "Sammy" Morales and Jose Manuel Morales to be detained ahead of a trial.
It is a blow for President Jimmy Morales, who pledged to clean up politics during his 2015 campaign.
The former comedian said his support for his family was "100%", but so was his respect for the law.
His official Twitter profile said: "The rule of law must prevail above all things."
Samuel, the president's older brother, and Jose Manuel, his son, are accused of fraud. The exact amount involved is unclear, but figures range from $12,000 (£9,700; €11,200) to $26,000.
Ms Aldana said so far it had been determined that neither Sammy nor Jose Manuel had made any money from the transactions.
Another eight people have been detained in connection with the allegations.
Sammy said he was not concerned by the proceedings as he had not "committed any crime", while Jose Manuel voluntarily handed himself over to the authorities.
His father, President Morales, was elected on a wave of public anger over a corruption scandal that led to the arrest and trial of his predecessor, retired General Otto Perez.
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The brother and son of Guatemala's "anti-corruption" president are to face trial for fraud.
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A multi-faith prayer and release of doves is due to take place at 09:15 BST.
Organisers are encouraging attendees to wear or accessorise in "green for Grenfell" in a display of "reverence and respect amidst the revelry".
A "ring of care" will be formed around the tower by police.
More than 80 people are believed to have died when fire engulfed the Grenfell Tower block of flats on 14 June. The carnival route passes near the tower.
Pepe Francis, chairman of the carnival trust, said: "We support the suggestions of the local community and wider carnival community to start this year's carnival earlier.
"This will be the first opportunity for visitors to carnival to pay their respects for those affected by Grenfell."
Hundreds of hand-drawn tributes, flowers and candles will be protected by fencing, while the public have been asked not to take selfies at the site.
A reflection zone will be placed near the burnt high-rise, where performers will lower the volume of their music.
MP Emma Dent Coad, who likened the carnival to a wake, will give a speech ahead of the dove release.
At 15:00 on both days, hundreds of thousands of revellers along the route are expected to pause and observe a minute's silence to mark the tragedy.
A spokesman for Grenfell United, a residents and survivors group, said: "We hope people will follow these requests from us and our friends and family in the wider community.
"They will enable people to pay their respects; be conscious of our vulnerability; and show solidarity for our ongoing demands for housing and full justice, in the creative spirit of carnival."
Steel barriers, concrete blocks and a ban on vehicles will be in place to protect revellers from the threat of terrorism.
Scotland Yard said there was no specific intelligence but security plans had been "thoroughly reviewed" after the Barcelona attack.
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Notting Hill Carnival will open with a special ceremony as a "small act of remembrance" following the Grenfell fire tragedy.
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The defendant, identified as Chayapha, was arrested in June and charged with sedition for a posting allegedly opposing the military government.
A strict lese majeste law makes it a crime to criticise Thailand's royals.
Prosecutions have soared since the army, which styles itself a champion of the monarchy, seized power last year.
Critics have said the broadly-worded lese majeste laws are being used to silence dissent and opponents.
The woman was found guilty on Tuesday at a hearing at which she did not have a lawyer present, a court official told AFP news agency.
"From her Facebook posts, she was found guilty of defaming the monarchy, threatening state security and violations of the computer crimes act," the official was quoted as saying.
The single mother's 19-year sentence was cut in half because she pleaded guilty.
Her lawyer Thanathorn Thananon said he had only heard of the sentence after it was handed down.
"The defendant was originally called in and charged with sedition for posting on Facebook that a counter-coup against the junta was imminent," he said, the Bangkok Post reports.
"Further investigation by the authorities found content that brought about lese majeste charges.
The military courts failed to inform us that a hearing was taking place. They only told the defendant to appear at short notice."
Since its coup last year, the military government has arrested a string of suspects, accusing them of claiming or using connections to the monarchy for personal benefit.
"Since Thailand's coup, it hasn't been hard to get thrown in jail for criticising the junta," Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch, told Reuters, referring to another lese majeste case.
"Now, all you have to do is press 'Like' on your Facebook page."
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A military court in Thailand has sentenced a woman to nine-and-a-half years in prison for defaming the country's monarchy on Facebook.
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National Records of Scotland (NRS) figures showed Jack was top for a seventh consecutive year, while Emily rose from third to replace Sophie.
James, Lewis and Oliver remained the second, third and fourth top boys' names, with Logan up one to fifth.
Olivia dropped from second to third among the girls, while Isla remained in fourth with Jessica up two to fifth.
The rest of the boys' top 10 was made up of Daniel (down one place to sixth), Noah (up six to seventh), Charlie (up one to eighth), Lucas (down one to ninth) and Alexander (down three to 10th).
Harry (down five to 15th) was the only name to drop out of the top 10.
Ava (which remained sixth), Amelia (up one to seventh), Lucy (down three to eighth), Lily (up two to ninth), Ella (down one to joint 10th) and Sophia (up three to joint 10th) made up the rest of the girls' top 10.
The only name dropping out was Millie (down five to 15th).
Big climbers in the 2014 baby name top 50 included:
Around the country, James was top in four council areas while Noah took the top slot in Angus and Lewis came out on top in North Ayrshire.
For the second year in a row, Muhammad was the most popular boys' name in Glasgow.
Sophie was the top girls' name in 12 areas, Grace was top in Inverclyde and Ellie in Moray.
NRS registered the births of nearly 26,900 boys and more than 25,600 girls in the first 11 months of 2014.
Parents chose more than 7,400 different first first names, with almost 4,800 of these being unique.
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Jack and Emily were the most popular first names for babies whose births were registered in Scotland in 2014.
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Meddai: "Mae'r lle yma mor brydferth ac o fewn cyrraedd mor hawdd i lynnoedd, mynyddoedd a rhaeadrau rydw i wrth fy modd yn tynnu eu lluniau.
"Felly ychydig fisoedd wedyn fe symudais yma a dyna'r penderfyniad gorau wnes i erioed."
Mae wedi bod yn crwydro'r unigeddau ym Meirionnydd a'r ardal i greu casgliad o luniau bendigedig o gyfoeth naturiol ei fro mabwysiedig ym mis Mai 2017.
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Daw Marcin Liberacki o Kraków yng Ngwlad Pwyl yn wreiddiol ond ar ymweliad â'r Bala fe syrthiodd mewn cariad efo'r lle.
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The independent Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 said recycling and regeneration had been a success.
But it said much more could be done to minimise the impact of future Olympic Games on people and the planet.
Commission chairman Shaun McCarthy said London had set high standards for future Olympic host cities to follow.
Previous Olympics have been criticised for the environmental damage they caused through waste, construction and transport.
Sustainability was at the heart of London's bid for the Olympics and the commission said organisers had largely succeeded in achieving it.
For example, the venues were told to be made of at least a quarter recycled materials - that included using disused gas pipes in the Olympic Stadium.
The Olympic Park was praised for regenerating a derelict area and benefiting wildlife, and the commission said it was amazed by the success of public transport.
But it said the challenges for future host cities were off the Olympic site, including the social ethics of some of the manufacturers and sponsors associated with the Games.
Mr McCarthy said the use of temporary venues for the Games was "unprecedented".
And he hailed Stratford in east London, the site of the Olympic Park, as one of the best connected places in Europe after long-term investment in public transport infrastructure.
He said London 2012 was the world's first public transport Olympics "despite all the predictions of doom and gridlock".
Mr McCarthy said: "In the main, London's sustainable Games have been a massive success but like the best sports teams there is a need to continuously improve.
"I wish the IOC [International Olympics Committee] and future host cities success in proving they can do better."
He also said an increase in sports participation was likely to be short lived and it would take "investment in community and school sport and a clear plan to tackle the current obesity crisis".
He added: "The cheerful volunteers made the experience a joy. I even saw some people on the Tube talking to each other! Why can't it be like that all the time?"
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London 2012 has been the greenest Olympics ever, the commission set up to monitor the environmental impact of the Games has announced.
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The Royals secured their play-off place with a 1-0 win over Wigan on Saturday and are third with a game left to play.
"For us, it's important to stay up there and be happy with where we are going into the semi-final," Stam said.
"It's going to hard and a big battle as all the teams up there are good and have quality individuals."
Stam, who took charge of Reading in the summer, praised the squad's achievement in finishing in the top six.
"I'm very proud of the players," he told BBC Radio Berkshire. "A top six finish is something you hope for at the beginning of the season, but that depends on the progress of the team.
"It's a big achievement and a big compliment to the squad in how they've done this season."
Reading travel to Burton for their final game of the regular season on Sunday and would face sixth-placed Fulham in their play-off semi-final as things stand.
But, former Manchester United defender Stam is not too concerned with who they might face.
"We're going to give it our best shot," he said. "We want to finish the final game well as we don't want to go into the play-offs with a disappointment."
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Reading manager Jaap Stam believes momentum rather than a highest-placed finish will be most important going into the Championship play-offs.
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Waltham Forest council was also told to pay £16,000 in costs for contravening health and safety guidelines.
The council said it "fully accepted" it should have done more at the time.
In January the council pleaded guilty to charges under the Health and Safety at Work Act and the Control of Asbestos regulations.
The council was issued with the fine on Friday at Southwark Crown Court after pleading guilty to the charges at Westminster Magistrates Court in January.
In a statement, a Waltham Forest council spokesperson said: "We fully accept that the council should have done more in the past to manage the safety of our buildings.
"Throughout this process we have taken the matter extremely seriously, and we have been working with the Health and Safety Executive to make sure that nothing like this happens in the future."
The case was brought by the Health and Safety Executive and related to two incidents in November 2006 and two more in January 2009.
Unison said the issue was discovered when a local resident was refused access to requested files because of the risk of exposure to asbestos dust.
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An east London council has been fined £66,000 for failing to control employees' exposure to asbestos in their town hall basement.
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The 36-year-old from Eastbourne uploaded two sexually explicit pictures of his ex-partner that were taken when they were in a relationship.
He also posted non-sexual images of three women with offensive captions.
Sussex Police said the case would be reviewed in light of "concern". Police and crime commissioner Katy Bourne has asked the force to clarify its policy.
The man was arrested and cautioned in April after the victims contacted officers.
The force has been criticised for issuing a caution by the mother of one of the victims, Eastbourne MP Caroline Ansell and Polly Neate, the boss of charity Woman's Aid.
Sussex Police said the man, who has not been named, "made full admissions and expressed remorse" and its original decision "fits the national framework for out-of-court disposals".
But Det Supt Nick May told BBC Sussex the force was going to look into the case "in view of the concern that has been raised and the interest that this has caused".
"One of those aspects that particularly concerned me was around the potential for threats being made to one of the young women and I want to make sure, absolutely, that those are looked into appropriately," he added.
Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner Ms Bourne said: "What worries me is that whilst I heard Sussex Police's response I actually don't feel very reassured at this point in time.
"Sussex Police claim that they put victims first and I would disagree that they have in this instance."
Revenge porn became an offence in April 2015 and refers to the act of a partner or ex-partner purposefully distributing images or videos of a sexual nature without the other person's consent.
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Sussex Police is to review its decision to caution a man who admitted posting revenge porn images online.
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The university has recommended accommodation at Pantycelyn is closed at the end of this academic term.
It said the move was part of a bid to make Pantycelyn "fit for purpose" and said the building would still be used for Welsh language services.
But it is unclear how long it could be closed for.
The latest recommendation was made by the university's finance committee on Friday after "lengthy, rigorous" discussions.
Alternative Welsh medium accommodation could be made available on its Penglais campus from September, the committee said.
The recommendations will now be considered by the university's council in June.
The decision comes after students campaigned to save the halls of residence in April 2014.
Miriam Williams president of the UMCA - Aberystwyth's student union for Welsh speakers - said: "Yesterday's meeting reminds me of the situation facing Pantycelyn residents in 2005, when the University had plans to turn the hall into offices.
"This regression is unacceptable. Pantycelyn has been, and should remain as a Welsh-medium halls of residence."
Bethan Williams from Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg (Welsh Language Society) said the university had betrayed the Welsh language and its students.
"What value do they place on the Welsh language? The halls are one of the few Welsh language communities left in Wales. We will not let them do this," she said.
"The University's senior officers have tried to deceive students - they are not suitable to hold public office. Our local branch in Pantycelyn will discuss what we will do to support the campaign to ensure the halls stays open as student accommodation next term."
Pantycelyn has traditionally been where Welsh-speaking students stay at Aberystwyth University, and where Prince Charles spent a term as a student in 1969.
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Halls of residence for Welsh-speaking students at Aberystwyth University have been threatened with closure.
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Tindle Newspapers Ltd, which is buying the titles, said it was "delighted".
The deal includes three weeklies - the Isle of Man Examiner, Isle of Man Courier, and Manx Independent - as well as the iomtoday.co.im news website.
Sir Ray Tindle, who established Tindle Newspapers Ltd, said: "We are unable to meet the whole of the staff until completion of the agreement."
He added: "Everyone at Tindle Newspapers will make them all very welcome just as soon as we are able to do so.
"I am convinced that local weekly papers will be with us for a very long time. Everyone wants to read about their own community, and they want to read about it in depth."
Tindle publications include the Enfield Gazette and Advertiser, the Cornish Times, Farnham Herald and the Monmouthshire Beacon.
On its website, Isle of Man newspapers said staff were informed of the deal on Friday.
The deal is expected to be finalised at the end of July.
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The Isle of Man newspaper titles are to be sold off by Johnston Press Plc in a £4.25m deal, it has been confirmed.
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Before 9 July, a regular reward of 25 bitcoins was handed out to those who were first to verify which coins had been spent.
Now, the leading team of "miners" who verify a chunk of global transactions will receive only 12.5 bitcoins.
The halving of the reward is scheduled to take place every four years to limit bitcoin inflation.
Created in 2008, bitcoins have slowly become accepted as a form of payment by increasing numbers of shops, stores and services.
One of the latest to back Bitcoin is cab company Uber, which has started letting passengers in Argentina pay for journeys using a Xapo debit card they can fill with bitcoins.
Bitcoin miners are essential to the operation of the virtual currency because they collaborate to maintain the central record of transactions known as the blockchain.
Verifying a chunk of transactions, known as a block, involves a complicated mathematical operation, and many miners use dedicated hardware to crank through the possible solutions to the cryptographic puzzle it represents.
The mining process is carefully engineered to limit the opportunities for fraud and to ensure coins are handed out on a regular basis.
The financial reward for solving the puzzle also helps motivate people to stay involved.
The first halving event took place in 2012, when the reward for mining a block dropped from 50 bitcoins to 25.
One bitcoin is now worth about £500 ($645), making the reward each time a block is added to the blockchain equal to about £6,244.
Many mining pools operating thousands of dedicated computers seeking to be the first to get the solution to the bitcoin puzzle and reap a reward operate on very thin margins.
Reuters reports one company, Sweden's KnCMiner, filed for bankruptcy in May, citing the losses it would suffer when the reward halving took place.
Competition among miners has increased thanks to the intervention of many Chinese companies, who are now thought to control about two-thirds of the computational power working on Bitcoin's blockchain.
Daniel Masters, who runs a bitcoin-based hedge fund, told Reuters: "It turned out that the Chinese, who really stormed into the mining market in the last couple of years, could just do this whole thing cheaper."
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The financial rewards for being involved with the Bitcoin virtual currency have been halved.
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Williams, who plays for Scottish Premiership side Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC, was with the team for this summer's tournament in France.
His canvas portrays the team's celebrations at winning a historic appearance in the semi finals.
Williams' other artwork has been inspired by the landscape and culture of Dyffryn Nantlle, where he grew up.
It includes paintings of slate quarries near where he lived in north west Wales.
Since moving to Inverness, he has also created paintings of Highland cattle.
Williams spent five months planning and painting the Euro 2016 canvas called Together Stronger.
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Welsh international goalkeeper Owain Fon Williams has completed a painting of the Wales team at Euro 2016.
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The incident happened on the westbound carriageway between junction 11 at Reading and junction 12 Theale at about 16:50 GMT.
South Central Ambulance Service said a man was struck by a car close to Reading services. An air ambulance has landed on a nearby field.
The road is likely to remain closed for some time and drivers are advised to avoid the area if possible.
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The M4 is closed westbound near Reading after a man was hit by a car.
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Eurostat said its initial estimate found inflation slowed to 1.5%, from 2.0% in February.
The European Central Bank targets inflation of close to, but below, 2%.
With inflation running close to that target, ECB chief Mario Draghi has been under pressure to wind-down efforts to stimulate the eurozone economy. But the latest report could ease that pressure.
According to Eurostat, the decline in inflation was partly due to lower oil prices, but food price inflation also eased.
"March's sharp slowdown in eurozone inflation was partly driven by temporary factors that will reverse in April, but the big picture is that inflation is now on a downward trend," said Jack Allen, eurozone economist at Capital Economics.
"There is little sign that declining unemployment is putting much upward pressure on wages and prices."
The ECB has been attempting to stimulate the eurozone economy with negative interest rates and a bond-buying programme.
Economists say the easing of inflation pressures will allow the ECB to keep those stimulus measures in place.
"The ECB is likely to maintain its view that the economic recovery has not put inflation on course to meet its medium-term goal. So we expect it continue purchasing assets well into 2018, and leave interest rates on hold until even later," Mr Allen said.
Dennis de Jong, managing director at UFX.com, said: "The decline this month after a four-year-high last time may indicate inflation has hit its peak, although you can't rule anything in or out at the moment. Germany especially will be hoping Draghi can continue to keep it under control."
The data did not have a big impact on the euro, which was trading a little higher against the dollar at $1.0687.
A revision of the inflation data, based on more complete information, will be released on 19 April.
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Inflation in the eurozone slowed dramatically in March, according to official estimates.
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Tony McMahon's curling free-kick beat keeper Daniel Bentley to give Bradford the lead after an aggressive start.
Wes Thomas came close to a second as he cut inside to pick up Josh Cullen's pass but chipped his shot over the bar.
Stephen McLaughlin shot over the bar for Southend after the break, but James Hanson's header deflected in off Bentley to secure victory for Bradford.
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Bradford City eased to their third victory in four games as they beat Southend United at Valley Parade.
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One item was found on a sandbank by an amateur US investigator in late February and the other in December by a South African tourist.
MH370 disappeared in March 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, carrying 239 passengers.
Despite a huge search, only one fragment of the plane has been found.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) confirmed to the BBC that they had received the debris from Mozambique on Sunday and were "working with the Malaysian investigative team to analyse it".
Malaysia's transport minister has previously said there is a "high possibility" the debris found in February came from a Boeing 777, the same model as missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
Australia is leading the search for the plane as it is suspected to have gone down in waters closest to the country.
Specialists from Boeing are assisting in the analysis work.
So far, the only debris confirmed by investigators to have been from the missing plane is a fragment of wing found on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion.
Another piece of debris found recently on the island is unlikely to have been from the missing plane, Australian investigators have said.
The location where the various pieces of debris have been found is consistent with models of ocean currents, which show where the sea might have carried wreckage from the suspected crash site.
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Two pieces of debris found in Mozambique which may have come from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 have arrived in Australia for analysis.
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Oxford's Balliol College beat Wolfson College, Cambridge, by 190 to 140 in the final of the BBC Two show.
The series was a hit on social media, in large part due to fan favourite Eric Monkman, who captained Wolfson.
Despite his team's loss some took to Twitter to describe the 29-year-old as the "people's champion".
Host Jeremy Paxman told Wolfson they had been "entertaining".
Professor Hawking told the two teams: "I have said in the past that it is not clear whether intelligence has any long-term survival value - bacteria multiply and flourish without it.
"But it is one of the most admirable qualities, especially when displayed by such young minds.
"Many congratulations to both teams but especially to Balliol College Oxford on becoming series champions on University Challenge, a programme I have long enjoyed."
It was only the second time in the quiz's 55-year-history that the trophy presentation had taken place outside the studio.
In the segment, Paxman congratulated the winners and told Wolfson there was "no shame in being runners-up".
Balliol then toasted their win with glasses of port.
Oxford colleges had lost to Cambridge for the past three years - until the 2017 final, broadcast on Monday night.
Here is a selection of some of the questions Balliol answered correctly to beat Wolfson. Answers at the bottom of the story.
Monkman, from Canada, was applauded by fans for his enthusiastic performances and the encyclopaedic knowledge he displayed.
He had scored 120 of his team's 170 points in a previous round, with the hashtag #Monkmania springing up for fans to praise his prowess.
But in the end, the Balliol team captained by Joey Goldman proved too strong for Monkman and his teammates.
Answers: 1. Alexandria 2. Neoplatonism 3. Immanuel Kant 4. Moho
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Professor Stephen Hawking has presented the winning University Challenge team with their trophy - and revealed he is a long-time fan of the show.
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Mr Alves resigned on Thursday after being linked to a corruption scheme.
Brazil's Prosecutor General Rodrigo Janot presented evidence to the Supreme Court saying that Mr Alves had a secret bank account in Switzerland.
He became the third cabinet minister to stand down since interim President Michel Temer came to power last month.
All are implicated in a major corruption scandal at the state oil company, Petrobras.
Mr Alves denied the allegations.
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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court released testimony by an ex-executive implicating 20 politicians including Mr Temer.
In a television broadcast, Mr Temer dismissed the testimony as frivolous lies.
The allegations come from Sergio Machado, the former chief executive of Petrobras subsidiary Transpetro.
Mr Machado is himself under investigation and has made a plea bargain with prosecutors.
He said that both Mr Temer and Mr Alves asked him for money for electoral campaigning and knew it would come from an illegal kickbacks scheme that diverted billions of dollars from the national oil company.
Mr Alves also denied the accusations against him and said on social media that contributions to his campaigns had been made through official channels and declared to election authorities.
He said on Thursday that he was resigning in order "to avoid embarrassing" the government.
Henrique Alves, a member of Mr Temer's PMDB party, is the third minister to step down after former Transparency Minister Fabiano Silveira and former Planning Minister Romero Juca both resigned over leaked phone recordings linked to the Petrobras scandal.
Mr Temer took office on 12 May after the Senate voted to begin an impeachment trial against President Dilma Rousseff for breaking the law in the management of last year's budget.
She said the accusations were politically-motivated and described the impeachment proceedings against her as a coup.
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Brazilian prosecutors have made a formal allegation of tax evasion and money laundering against former tourism minister Henrique Alves.
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Richard Safadi, 47, of Carmarthen, and Mandy Galinsky, 53, of Ammanford, charged customers more than £1.6m in VAT but only gave £40,000 to HMRC.
The pair, directors of Penybanc Car Sales and Ammanford Metal Recycling, spent the money on holidays and cars.
On Wednesday, they were given suspended sentences at Swansea Crown Court.
A HMRC investigation found Safadi had failed to file a single tax return on his personal income, despite becoming a millionaire.
He stole more than £280,000 in tax that should have been passed on to HMRC.
Galinsky claimed she had not earned a penny since 2009, but investigators found she had earned more than £500,000 and kept the £230,000 she should have paid in tax.
They also pocketed £640,000 in Corporation Tax - in total, stealing £2,786,374.
The court heard they enjoyed "lavish lifestyles" with all their personal expenses, including on holidays, credit card bills and loan agreements for their vehicles - paid out of company expenses.
Both had rental properties, holiday homes in Kenya and drove high-end cars including Range Rovers, Bentleys, a BMW and a Rolls Royce.
Colin Spinks, assistant director of HMRC's fraud investigation service, said the pair stole an "extraordinary amount of cash to fund lifestyles most people can only dream of".
He said: "Between them, the pair took advantage of the tax system at every opportunity and stole money from where it was intended - funding vital public services."
The pair pleaded guilty in August 2016 to failing to pay the correct tax for their used car dealership and scrap metal company, or pay the tax due on their personal income.
Safadi, who has paid back nearly £890,000, was sentenced to 24 months in jail, suspended for two years.
Galinsky was sentenced to 10 months in prison, suspended for 18 months.
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Company directors from Carmarthenshire defrauded the taxman out of £2.7m to fund extravagant lifestyles, a court has heard.
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The Belfast super-bantamweight will take on Mexican Alfredo Chanez at the 9,500-capacity UIC Pavilion.
"I didn't think my first fight was the best performance but given the magnitude of the event and the occasion it was understandable," said Conlan.
"This time I'll be able to show what I've really got."
The 25-year-old stopped Tim Ibarra inside three rounds on his professional debut at Madison Square Garden on St Patrick's Day.
Conlan's opponent on Friday has won four and lost four of his professional outings so far, but has not been knocked out.
"I'm focused on what I have to do and now I just have to go and perform," added the former world amateur champion and Olympic bronze medallist.
"The Irish people in Chicago have been unbelievable and have turned out for the media workouts in their numbers. I've been made very welcome and I'm grateful for that."
Conlan added that it would be "very special" to be part of the undercard of Manny Pacquiao's world title fight in Australia on 2 July if he defeats Chanez.
Pacquiao will defend his WBO welterweight title against Australia's Jeff Horn in Brisbane.
Conlan hopes to fight in Belfast in December as he continues his progression through the professional ranks.
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Michael Conlan says he is feeling "relaxed, very confident and very focused" before his second professional fight in Chicago on Friday night.
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Calum Kerr said "every effort to explore any avenue" had been made to keep Burgons of Eyemouth open.
The company started consultation over plans to close the facility last month.
Spokesman Trevor Bartlett said negotiations with potential buyers had been ongoing and would continue for as long as possible.
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP Mr Kerr said: "Unfortunately it does seem that despite discussions with the Scottish government, Scottish Enterprise, Scottish Borders Council and myself, the plant is going to shut."
He said the company "clearly felt it had to act to prevent further losses and possible insolvency".
He pledged to "pull all the stops out" to help workers set to be made redundant.
During attempts to save the factory, Mr Kerr managed to find savings of about £30,000-a-year with local farmers willing to use empty crab shells as fertiliser rather than the firm sending the shells to landfill.
"It would have been a helpful saving but unfortunately and despite all our efforts, it came too late," he said.
"The loss of Burgons is a severe blow to Eyemouth.
"We now need to do everything we can to make sure that these skilled and committed workers find new employment, hopefully locally and as quickly as possible."
Mr Bartlett said it was grateful to Mr Kerr for his efforts towards seeking ways of keeping the business alive.
"Unfortunately, though, there have been too many other reasons for the losses which have been supported by the parent company for three years, preventing its growth, so it has been with great reluctance that we have made this decision," he said.
"As the only company to offer continued employment when the previous owners were looking to sell, we feel we have done our best for the workforce and are confident that the employment opportunities are far better now than they were three years ago and we wish all the staff well as they seek other work."
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An MP has said efforts to save a crab meat factory which employs more than 80 staff in the Scottish Borders have proved to be "in vain".
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"Our hearts are broken. The shock waves of grief and denial are still sweeping through our family as we come to grips with what has happened," it read.
"You touched so many lives, maybe even more than you realised," it continued.
Bennington's body was found at a private home in Los Angeles on Thursday. The LA County Coroner said he apparently hanged himself.
He had previously struggled with addiction and had spoken to BBC Newsbeat about depression and suicide.
The statement continued: "In the past few days, we've seen an outpouring of love and support, both public and private, from around the world.
"Talinda and the family appreciate it, and want the world to know that you were the best husband, son, and father; the family will never be whole without you."
Bennington, 41, had six children, three with his wife Talinda.
The band are storming into this week's UK album and singles charts following Bennington's death, according to the Official Charts Company's midweek update.
Seven of the band's albums are on course to enter the top 40, with their debut, 2001's Hybrid Theory, currently at number three and One More Light, released earlier this year, at five. Meteora, the group's first UK number one, at seven.
Three of their hits are also on course to reach the singles charts. In The End - Linkin Park's first UK top 10 back in 2001 - is on course to re-enter at nine.
2003's Numb is at number 13, while Numb/Encore, the band's 2004 collaboration with Jay-Z, is at 29.
Artists can only have a maximum of three songs in the top 40 at any one time. The rules recently changed in an attempt to stop A-list artists elbowing newer acts out of the way.
Formed in 1996, Linkin Park have sold more than 70 million albums worldwide and won two Grammy Awards.
Meteora topped the Billboard 200 chart in 2003 and is regarded as one of the biggest indie rock records of all time.
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Linkin Park have released their first official statement after the death of frontman Chester Bennington last week.
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The Reds have kept clean sheets in four of the six matches Dunne, 23, has played in since his arrival at the start of the month.
"He has done well in what had been a problem position for us," Crawley manager Mark Yates told the League Two club's website.
"We're delighted to have him with us for the remainder of the season."
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Crawley Town have extended left-back Charles Dunne's loan from Blackpool until the end of the season.
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Medical staff failed to recognise Diane Thomas was eight months pregnant and in labour when she suffered "horrendous" stomach cramps, the inquest was told.
She was admitted to the Royal Cornwall Hospital but gave birth before getting access to an ultrasound scan.
The hospital said it was reviewing the hours scanning was available.
The inquest at Truro City Hall was told doctors believed Dianne Thomas, who was overweight, was experiencing a miscarriage when she reported suffering bad stomach cramps for two days.
She was admitted to a gynaecological ward the Royal Cornwall Hospital on 30 March but could not access an ultrasound scan until the following day.
In a police interview, Ms Thomas, from Madron, Penzance, said the following morning she reported "really bad pain" but a nurse had told her "if you were in that much pain you would be rolling around on that bed".
She said she went to the toilet and said within 15 minutes she gave birth to Ellie Nicholls in what she described as "a bad shock, like it was all a dream".
Nurses and a doctor described in statements how the baby had been initially stuck in the toilet and had then survived "for a few minutes" but resuscitation efforts failed.
The gestation period was believed to have been between 31 and 33 weeks.
Expert paediatrician Prof Peter Fleming said there was a chance Ellie Nicholls could have survived if her mother had been on a labour suite, but it was "very unlikely" as she had suffered a "very severe infection".
Karen Watkins, a consultant obstetrician from the Royal Cornwall Hospital told the inquest "the hospital recognised, if there had been access to a scan when Diane was admitted, the correct gestation may have been detected".
She said the hospital was looking at extending those scanning hours.
The coroner for Cornwall, Dr Emma Carlyon, concluded that Ellie Nicholls died of natural causes.
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A baby died after being born into a hospital toilet by a 41-year-old woman who did not know she was pregnant, an inquest has heard.
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United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) said it was "struggling to fill rotas" over the next few weeks.
Grantham and District Hospital's A&E unit has been closed overnight since last August because of the shortage.
The trust said it was "working hard to maintain a safe service" and urged people to visit A&E for only "serious or life threatening" conditions.
More on this and other stories from across Lincolnshire
Dr Suneil Kapadia, medical director at ULHT, said: "We are putting in steps to change our medical model. This means doctors from other specialities will be asked to support A&E senior decision makers to diagnose and treat medical and surgical patients who come through the doors."
In a statement, the trust said its "supply of doctors is drying up".
"We are overly reliant on short and long term agency doctors to fill staff rotas and due to a recent change in national tax rules (known as IR35), the availability of agency doctors has drastically reduced."
Boston Pilgrim A&E unit was also affected, but to "a lesser extent", the trust said.
Dr Kapadia warned people to "stay away unless they need emergency health treatment".
ULHT employs about 17 doctors across its three sites in Lincoln, Boston and Grantham, and needs a minimum of 21 to keep all of them open for 24 hours.
The trust took the controversial decision to close the Grantham unit at night to enable it to maintain safe staffing levels at its two other A&E departments, both of which take a higher number of patients.
It said it had extended the A&E's opening times by an hour, but campaigners branded this move as "ridiculous".
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Hospital bosses have declared Lincoln's accident and emergency unit a "critical incident" due to a shortage of doctors.
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Tom Rainey and Lawrence Walters, both 23, are rowing the 23ft (7m) boat Yves, to Salcombe, Devon, with the aim of beating a 119-year-old record.
Team Ocean Valour aims to raise money in memory of Mr Rainey's father Luke, who died from a brain tumour in 2012.
The pair reported on their blog after the first day that "despite being knackered spirits are high".
The current record of 55 days and 13 hours was set in 1896, by Norwegians George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen.
Mr Rainey said the Brain Tumour Charity had helped his family after his father died.
"It was a port in what would otherwise have been an unweatherable storm," he said.
Oil industry worker Mr Rainey, from Salcombe was joined by engineer Lawrence Walters from Bristol in April, after rowing partner Sam Coombs, 25, from Somerset pulled out with a back injury.
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Two men have begun a bid to be the fastest and youngest double crew to row 3,800 miles from New York to the UK.
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Despite being branded as Britain's most disappointing tourist attraction, Dismaland has sold out everyday for five weeks and attracted thousands of people to Weston-super-Mare.
The exhibition at a derelict seafront lido featured work by famous artists including Damien Hirst.
The attraction has proved to be the mysterious artists biggest show yet.
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Banksy's Dismaland is set to close permanently on Sunday evening.
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Kate del Castillo is a Mexican actress who brokered the deal between the Hollywood star and the most wanted man in Mexico and also was present at the meeting.
She is an actress who does not shy away from controversy.
Back in 2012, del Castillo made an open appeal to El Chapo urging him to use his drug trafficking empire for love, not violence.
She even said that she believed more in El Chapo than in "governments that hide the truth".
According to Sean Penn, the drug lord's lawyer contacted del Castillo after the appeal because El Chapo wanted to send her some flowers.
That was the starting point that led the actress to become the go-between for the Rolling Stone interview.
Kate del Castillo is a famous name here in Mexico for her acting roles.
Born in Mexico City in 1972 into an acting family, she is best known for her portrayal of drug boss Teresa Mendoza in the soap opera La Reina del Sur (Queen of the South).
La Reina del Sur is a drama based on the novel of the same name by Spanish author Arturo Perez Reverte.
In the series, del Castillo plays a young woman from Mexico who rises through the ranks of the Sinaloa drugs cartel to become the most powerful drug trafficker in southern Spain.
But for this latest "role", del Castillo has moved away from the fictional world of drug lords and is now at the centre of a real and very controversial drug trafficker's tale.
Del Castillo has not given any public comments since the Rolling Stone interview was published on Saturday.
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While there has been much criticism heaped on US actor Sean Penn for meeting fugitive Mexican drugs lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, there is another well-known name behind the interview between the actor and the cartel leader.
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About 25,000 properties in Grangemouth, Falkirk and the Lower Braes will join the scheme, which the council started implementing last year.
Falkirk Council was the first in the UK to cut general household waste collections to once every three weeks.
Under the new system, the amount of waste discarded by households has reduced on average by 2kg per week.
Council bosses said the service has led to a reduction of about 400 tonnes of material sent to landfill per month, representing a significant saving in landfill tax.
It is estimated that once the whole Falkirk Council area is participating, 9,000 tonnes of landfill material will be diverted to recycling per year, saving £385,000.
Letters to residents will be issued from this week to the third phase areas explaining the changes, followed by a detailed information pack.
Council environment spokesman Craig Martin said: "The new service has been a success thanks to the support of residents who have made the effort to recycle more every week, particularly food waste.
"The increase in recycling means a reduction in the amount we pay in landfill charges and this is a saving we can use elsewhere. Last year we spent £2.5m sending material to landfill, much of which could have been recycled.
"We're confident that this final round of changes will be as successful as the first two and look forward to the support shown by our communities."
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The final phase of a project to cut bin collections to once every three weeks is to be rolled out in Falkirk.
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Gcina Mhlope is a traditional storyteller who narrates her tales in four South African languages. She also travels the country distributing books and helping to set up libraries in rural areas.
Video journalist: Christian Parkinson
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In a world dominated by technology and mobile devices one South African woman is working hard to keep her ancestors' stories alive - through the spoken word.
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The £2.3m programme spearheaded by Mayor George Ferguson is nearly half complete, with 20mph zones operating in areas such as Clifton and Redland.
But Tory councillor Lesley Alexander wants the rollout stopped for a scientific assessment of their effect and impact on road safety.
Mayor Ferguson said the scheme's efficiency was already under review.
He said regular traffic counts, speed counts and household interviews were being undertaken, and local support for the zones was "clear".
Ms Alexander said the road safety case for the zones was not "conclusively confirmed" by either of the two pilot trials conducted in Bedminster and east Bristol.
She said with recent reports suggesting these speed limits were "actually making roads more dangerous", she was calling on the mayor to "urgently stop and assess the efficacy of the controversial speed zones".
She said a "more targeted approach" should be taken, with speed limits "only installed in places of obvious sensitivity or where there is local demand".
Campaign group Alliance of British Drivers has called for the government to halt the rollout of 20mph zones following increases in 20mph accidents.
However, Mayor Ferguson said the reduced speed limits introduced in Bristol were "undeniably helping to make streets safer and improve quality of life for local communities".
Areas including Eastville, Frome Vale, Hillfields, St George and Fishponds are expected to adopt the zones before the end of the year.
In January, many roads in the centre of Bristol and in Clifton, Cotham, Bishopston and Redland had the speed limit reduced from 30mph to 20mph.
The city-wide roll-out is due to be completed by March next year.
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The rollout of 20mph traffic zones across Bristol should be halted, according to Conservative councillors.
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Each year the library chooses films for preservation which are "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".
This year's 25 additions bring the total number of preserved films to 700.
Other inductees this year include The Princess Bride, The Breakfast Club, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 thriller The Birds.
To be eligible for preservation, films must be at least a decade old.
The announcement of The Lion King's inclusion comes three months after Disney announced the movie would be remade as a live action film directed by Jon Favreau.
The original animation was released in 1994 and later adapted for the stage.
Other films to be added this year include Lost Horizon, Funny Girl, East of Eden and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.
Paris Is Burning, a 1990 documentary that explored drag ballroom dance culture through the eyes of New York City's black and Latino LGBTQ community, is also among the inductees.
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The Lion King and Thelma & Louise are among 25 films that will be preserved by the US Library of Congress.
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Dutchman Jonker returns to Wolfsburg three years after leaving his role as assistant manager to join Arsenal.
"I've remained in contact with Wolfsburg, but the inquiry did come as a bit of a surprise," said Jonker, 54, at a news conference on Monday.
Former Arsenal forward Freddie Ljungberg will be Jonker's assistant.
Jonker takes over with Wolfsburg two points above the relegation zone.
"This is a huge challenge," he added. "All that counts is getting the 40 points as quickly as possible."
Ismael was sacked on Sunday - two days after a 2-1 home defeat by Werder Bremen, their fourth loss in five league games, left them on 22 points with 12 games remaining.
He was initially appointed on an interim basis after Dieter Hecking, now at Borussia Monchengladbach, was sacked seven games into the Bundesliga season.
Wolfsburg are 14th in the 18-team table.
Jonker's first match in charge is at 11th-placed Mainz on Saturday (14:30 GMT).
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Andries Jonker has left his role as Arsenal's academy manager to become Wolfsburg's third boss of the season, after the sacking of Valerien Ismael.
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Assistant manager Junior Lewis has also been dismissed, with Neil Redfearn taking over until a permanent replacement is appointed.
Hockaday, 56, was a shock appointment in June with his only managerial experience at non-league Forest Green.
Leeds were beaten by Bradford in the League Cup on Wednesday after losing 4-1 at Watford on Saturday.
Owner Massimo Cellino had been set to fire Hockaday at the weekend but changed his mind and said: "It's too simple to sack him - I am more responsible than him now."
But just five days later the former Cagliari owner has done another U-turn and ended Hockaday's unhappy reign, who saw two wins and four defeats.
"The results since the start of the season have meant we needed to act and make this decision," said Cellino, who took control of Leeds in April.
"After the defeat at Bradford I realised that my decision to keep David at the club following the defeat at Watford was wrong and I had to change my mind on the coaches' position.
"As a club we will now begin our search for a new head coach."
Leeds's last managerial departure was also in newsworthy circumstances.
When Cellino's deal to take the majority shareholding of Leeds from GFH Capital was confirmed in January, Brian McDermott was sacked, only to be reinstated a day later.
He eventually left by mutual consent at the end of the season.
In 22 years in charge of Italian side Cagliari, Cellino sacked 36 managers.
United's next match is at home to Bolton in the Championship on Saturday.
Redfearn, 49, will be in the dugout, as he was in the aftermath of Simon Grayson's sacking in 2012, and a year later when Neil Warnock left.
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Leeds United manager Dave Hockaday has been sacked after only six games in charge of the Championship club.
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Five people, including three children, were taken to Glan Clwyd Hospital after suffering smoke inhalation.
The fire, at the home in Ffynnongroew Road, started at about 09:15 BST after one of the children switched on the cooker, which had pans left on it.
The family left the house when the smoke alarm went off.
The kitchen was badly damaged by smoke from the blaze which was extinguished before fire crews arrived.
The family was taken to the Bodelwyddan hospital as a precaution.
Jane Honey, deputy head of community safety for the fire service, said: "This highlights the importance of having a working smoke alarm and not to leave combustible items on the hob."
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A family was taken to hospital after a child turned on a cooker setting a pan of oil on fire at a house in Rhyl, North Wales fire service has said.
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Three others were seriously injured in Wednesday night's blast at the factory in West Midnapur district.
It was not immediately clear how the fire started.
Accidental explosions are common at Indian fireworks factories, which provide fireworks for weddings, festivals and other ceremonies.
In 2012, 34 people were killed and 30 others injured in a massive blaze at a fireworks factory in the southern Tamil Nadu state.
In the latest explosion near Pingla, the owner of the illegal factory and his wife have died. The building owner has been arrested.
The BBC Bengali's Amitabha Bhattasali in Kolkata (Calcutta) says the villagers are claiming that the death toll is higher, and that several bodies are still lying in a nearby pond.
Earlier this week, at least nine people were killed in an explosion at a fireworks factory in the western state of Maharashtra.
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At least 11 people have been killed in a blast at an illegal fireworks factory in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, police say.
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It's being released in March 2017 and will mean that some businesses will need to adapt their equipment to take the new coin.
Vending machines and parking machines will all need to be adapted before March next year to make sure they can accept the new coin.
The new pound coin will be more secure than the existing round coins, as it has been designed to make it much hard to copy or make fake counterfeit coins from.
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Shops and vending machine operators have been told to make sure they're ready for the new 12-sided pound coin.
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There were 78,970 geese recorded at the Angus reserve last year, beating the previous record of 65,060 set in 2010.
The Scottish Wildlife Trust said 56,637 had been recorded so far this year, approaching the 60,000 annual average.
Emma Castle-Smith, assistant visitor centre manager at Montrose Basin, said: "We are hoping this could be another record-breaking year."
She explained: "Seeing these amazing birds en masse is breathtaking for anyone lucky enough to witness it."
The geese have migrated 1,200km (745 miles) from Iceland and Greenland for the winter.
About 372,000 pink-footed geese spend the winter in the UK, thought to be about 90% of the world's population.
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A record number of pink-footed geese could flock to Montrose Basin, according to conservationists.
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The update, released earlier this month, stops many cameras being used for Skype or to broadcast and stream footage.
The cause seems to be a change in the way Windows 10 handles video so it can be used by more than one program at a time.
Microsoft said it was working on a fix but has not given any date for when the patch will be available.
Soon after Windows Update 1607 was distributed in early August, many people started reporting webcam problems to Microsoft via its support site. The trouble affected both webcams connected via USB cables or on the same network and meant either that footage could not be streamed, or that images froze after a while.
The problems even affected webcams working with Skype and Lync - both companies owned by Microsoft.
Comments on the support thread suggest millions of people have been inconvenienced by the bug. Some companies said customers who used webcams for internet banking had complained because they could no longer verify transactions.
Analysis put the blame on changes to the video encoding systems with which Windows 10 works. The update ends support for two widely used encoding systems so it became possible for more than one application to use video as it is being shot. Prior to the update Windows 10 only allowed one application access to a stream.
A Microsoft camera engineer who responded to complaints on the support thread said the company had done "a poor job" of letting people know about the change.
"We dropped the ball on that front, so I'd like to offer my apologies to you all," he said.
He added that Microsoft was working on a way to fix the problem and get webcams working again. The fix is likely to be released in September.
Microsoft has yet to officially comment on the problem.
Changes to the way Microsoft handles updates also seem to have made the problem harder to fix. Prior to update 1607, Windows 10 users could roll-back to a previous version within 30 days of it being installed. The update cut that to 10 days giving people little chance to switch back to the earlier version of Windows 10 under which their webcams worked.
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A Windows 10 update has stopped many popular webcams from working.
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The elections will be Myanmar's first openly contested polls in 25 years, following decades of military rule.
The ruling Union Solidarity Development Party, which has been in power since 2011, is holding a rally in Yangon.
Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) is expected to make major gains on Sunday, though she is barred from the presidency.
But the BBC's Jonah Fisher in Yangon says there are no reliable opinion polls in the country, also known as Burma, so no-one really knows how the vote is going to play out.
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On Friday, campaign signs and stickers were being taken down ahead of a day of "silence" in the campaign, from midnight until polls open on Sunday.
Former Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ms Suu Kyi is barred from the presidency, even if the NLD wins, because of the constitution which disqualifies anyone with foreign offspring.
But at a press conference on Thursday, she repeated her insistence that if her party wins she would lead the government anyway and be "above the president".
Ruled by the junta for nearly half a century, Myanmar has seen economic and political reform in recent years.
However, according to the constitution 25% of all parliamentary seats will still be reserved for the military in this election. Therefore, the NLD must take 67% of all contested seats in order to gain a majority.
Ms Suu Kyi has already raised concerned about poll fraud and voting irregularities. In the 1990 election, the NLD won a majority, but the results were largely ignored by the generals.
For its part, the government has warned that rapid change could lead to civil unrest.
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Candidates in Myanmar have entered their final day of campaigning ahead of Sunday's general election.
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To mark the 60th birthday of TMS, an Agnew XI captained by Phil Tufnell will face a Boycott XI skippered by Michael Vaughan on Thursday, 24 August at Sports Park Weetwood (part of the University of Leeds), the day before the Headingley Test between England and West Indies.
As well as Tuffers and Vaughan, other ex-England internationals taking part will include Charlotte Edwards, Graeme Swann, Lydia Greenway, Ed Smith, Isa Guha and Ebony Rainford-Brent.
They will be joined by other familiar TMS voices including Alison Mitchell, Simon Mann, Simon Hughes, Charles Dagnall and Fazeer Mohammed - and cricket-loving celebrities including Olympic runner Yohan Blake, BBC Radio 1's Greg James, McFly's Harry Judd, Tom "Draco Malfoy" Felton from the Harry Potter films, BBC Breakfast's Naga Munchetty, comedians Andy Parsons and Dom Joly, and actor and dancer Adam Garcia.
Commentary will be provided by TMS's Henry Blofeld and Dan Norcross, joined by special guests including Paralympic legend Baroness Grey-Thompson and actor Jim Carter (best known as Carson the butler from Downton Abbey) - while TMS's ex-England pair Vic Marks and James Taylor will be umpiring.
You can apply for tickets on the BBC Shows and Tours website until Tuesday, 1 August.
Tickets will be allocated by a random draw - with 40% of tickets going to Leeds and Bradford postcodes (LS1-LS29, BD1-BD24), 30% to surrounding Yorkshire postcodes (BB, BD, DN, HD, HG, HU, HX, LS, OL, S, WF and YO), and 30% to the rest of the UK.
Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis - full details can be found on the website.
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They're regular sparring partners on Test Match Special - but BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew and ex-England batsman Geoffrey Boycott will finally be able to settle a few scores on the cricket field, and you could be there to watch.
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Alan Knight, 47, from Swansea, conned his neighbour out of £40,000 but was caught by police on shopping trips and holidays.
Knight then admitted himself to hospital claiming his health had worsened, Swansea Crown Court heard.
He was sentenced on Friday.
Judge Paul Thomas QC said Knight, who waived his right to attend the hearing, was devious, a "dishonest a man as I have ever come across".
He said he should serve half his sentence.
Last month, Knight's court case was told he was living on benefits after claiming he had suffered a massive neck injury in a fall.
The court heard he claimed his injury had caused him to have seizures which left him in a comatose state.
But the whole time he was attempting to evade prosecution after carrying out an elaborate fraud targeting neighbour Ivor Coslett Richards' life savings and shares over a three-year period, the court heard.
It also heard how he "systematically" funnelled £41,570 out of the pensioner's bank account, which he used to pay for holidays and to buy a caravan in Dorset.
Jim Davies, prosecuting, said CCTV footage showed Knight "in high spirits as if he had won the lottery".
The judge said an aggravating feature was that Knight had attempted to put the blame on others for his actions since being arrested in 2011.
He lied to police claiming his estranged son had burgled Mr Richards' home which led to his arrest before a subsequent investigation found it was without foundation.
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A fraudster who pretended to be a quadriplegic and in a coma for two years to allegedly evade justice has been jailed for four and a half years for theft and forgery.
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Appiah, who will also take charge of the national team for locally-based players, has been offered a two-year contract to start work 1 May.
He replaces Avram Grant who stepped down as coach after the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.
It is a second stint in charge for Appiah, who led the Black Stars from 2012 until 2014.
Since leaving the Black Stars following a poor World Cup campaign, he has been coaching Sudanese side Al Khartoum.
The Black Stars failed to get out of the group at the World Cup in Brazil and were also beset by off-field problems with players being expelled from the team and a row over pay.
Ghana's first qualifier for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations is in June when they host Ethiopia, the other teams in Group F are Sierra Leone and Kenya with only the pool winners guaranteed a place in Cameroon.
Appiah will also be trying to reach his second consecutive World Cup finals in Russia in 2018.
Ghana currently have just a single point from their two games so far in World Cup qualifiers leaving them five points behind Group E leaders Egypt.
Uganda and Congo-Brazzaville are the other two teams in the group.
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The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has re-appointed Kwesi Appiah as the coach of the Black Stars.
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The Rob Marshall-directed film was previously announced but no release date was given.
Marshall said he was "humbled and honoured" to be taking on the story.
Mary Poppins, which starred Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, was a major success when it was released in 1964 and picked up five Oscars.
Based on the books of PL Travers, it told the story of a magical nanny who arrived to help Mr and Mrs Banks and look after their children Jane and Michael.
Travers wrote eight books about Mary Poppins, which were published between 1934 and 1988, but only the first has previously been adapted for the big screen.
A Disney spokesman said the sequel would take up the story of a "now-grown" Jane and Michael, and Michael's three children, who will be visited by Poppins in "Depression-era London... following a personal loss".
"Through her unique magical skills, and with the aid of her friend Jack, she helps the family rediscover the joy and wonder missing in their lives," he said.
Jack, a street lamplighter who did not appear in the original film, will be played by Lin-Manuel Miranda, who created and and performed in Broadway hit, Hamilton.
The script will be written by Finding Neverland screenwriter David Magee, who will be "drawing from the wealth of material in Travers' seven additional novels", the spokesman added.
Marshall, who previously directed Chicago and Into The Woods, said the "iconic original film means so much to me personally".
"I look forward to creating an original movie musical that can bring Mary Poppins, and her message that childlike wonder can be found in even the most challenging of times, to a whole new generation," he said.
Marc Shiaman and Scott Wittman, best known for their work on the Broadway adaptation of Hairspray, will produce the music for the film.
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Disney's sequel to the classic children's film Mary Poppins, starring Emily Blunt as the magical nanny, will debut on Christmas Day in 2018.
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West Mercia Police said a post-mortem carried out on 16 September had not established the cause of his death.
Investigators are examining dental records to work out his identity. The skull was found on 20 August by junction four of the M54 at Shifnal.
Tests determined the remains had been at the scene for at least two years.
The skull was found by maintenance workers at the eastbound exit slip road of the motorway.
Police are being helped by the National Crime Agency, the UK Missing Persons Database and forensic anthropologists to identify the person, the force said.
A police search by the slip road ended on 10 September.
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A near-complete skeleton was found by a Shropshire motorway slip road after a man's skull was discovered there last month, police have revealed.
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Neil Mahrer, from Jersey Heritage, is separating the hoard of about 70,000 coins, which have fused together after hundreds of years in the ground.
Jersey Heritage hopes to recruit more experts to help.
Mr Mahrer said if additional help could not be found it would limit how much could be achieved by one person.
He said: "We are hoping that we'll be allowed to get two new members of staff specifically to work with me on this and then we can do it as a three-year project.
"We want to put some of the material on show in an exhibition here [in Jersey] in 2014 so we have really got to make a start to try and free up some of this jewellery so we can see what we've got."
He also wants to examine a pottery vessel full of axe heads and other items found in Jersey earlier this year.
The two hoards of historic treasure are on display at the Jersey Museum this weekend, one for the first time and one for the last time.
The group of axe heads found in a pottery vessel has never been seen by the public before, and the hoard of Celtic coins will be seen for the last time before conservation experts take it apart.
While the hoard of coins has been on public display before, a Jersey Heritage spokesman said some islanders had still not seen it.
The coin hoard, discovered in a field, is thought to be worth about £10m.
Mr Mahrer said he would start separating the coins in the new year so this would be the last time anyone could see them as they were discovered.
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Jersey Heritage has said it is hoping to secure more help to examine a Bronze Age coin hoard found in the island.
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The 30-year-old, who has also been handed his county cap, has scored 1,196 runs across all formats in his first season with the Chelmsford side.
And he has excelled with the ball, taking 43 County Championship wickets at an average of 17.79.
"Jesse has shown this season he is one of the best players in world cricket," said Essex head coach Paul Grayson.
"I'm sure this will be exciting news for the club's members and supporters, who get to watch him in action for another two seasons.
"He has fitted in really well to the dressing room and we feel that having Jesse in the team will only improve our hopes of challenging for silverware again in 2015."
The last of Ryder's 18 Test caps for New Zealand came in December 2011, and he looked to have re-established himself in the Twenty20 side earlier this year, but was dropped for a breach of discipline.
Ryder is trying to help Essex win promotion to Division One of the County Championship, and took five wickets as Worcestershire were dismissed for 84 on Tuesday.
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New Zealand all-rounder Jesse Ryder has signed a new deal to stay at Essex for another two years.
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The department has confirmed to the SNP that eight of the RAF's fleet of 100 Tornado GR4s have so far been fitted with a collision warning system.
Angus Robertson, the SNP's defence spokesperson, has criticised the pace of the programme of work, describing it as a "shambles".
The MoD said it is committed to introducing the TCAS II safety system.
But Mr Robertson said: "The programme is clearly in chaos.
"Over 20 years after ministers recommended that these systems would save lives they remain largely uninstalled."
The MoD has been criticised over delays fitting the system since a mid-air collision in 2012 between two Tornados over the Moray Firth, off the coast of Caithness.
Three men were killed and another seriously injured in the incident involving the jets that had flown out of RAF Lossiemouth in Moray.
Earlier this month, the UK's military aviation watchdog the Military Aviation Authority urged the MoD to fit collision warning devices to its new Typhoon fighter jets with "full haste".
A spokesman for the MoD said: "Whilst we are committed to introducing a collision warning system on the Tornado GR4 aircraft as soon as possible, this is the first time that we are aware of, that any combat jet in the world has been fitted with a collision warning system - a system which has been designed for use on slower and less agile civilian aircraft.
"Trials of TCAS II have revealed some compatibility issues which we are working hard to resolve but in the meantime, we are continuing to gradually roll it out to as many Tornado aircraft as possible to obtain early beneficial use of the system.
"Air safety is at the core of all our aviation activity and we take very seriously our obligations to our people and the wider community to ensure that our activities are both as safe as reasonably practicable and comply with relevant policy and legislation."
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The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has come under renewed fire over its efforts to install safety equipment on RAF jets.
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The data for 2012 shows a marked rise on the 12.7 million cases in 2008.
In that time the number of deaths has also increased, from 7.6 million to 8.2 million.
The rising burden of cancer is being driven by a rapid shift in lifestyles in the developing world to more closely reflect industrialised countries.
Rising rates of smoking and obesity as well as people living longer are contributing to the rise.
Lung cancer, which is mainly caused by smoking, was the most common cancer globally, with 1.8 million cases - about 13% of the total.
The WHO also described a "sharp rise" in cases of breast cancer. Both the incidence and mortality have increased since 2008. The disease in now the most common cancer in women in 140 countries.
Dr David Forman, from the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer, said: "Breast cancer is also a leading cause of cancer death in the less developed countries of the world.
"This is partly because a shift in lifestyles is causing an increase in incidence, and partly because clinical advances to combat the disease are not reaching women living in these regions."
The WHO said there was an "urgent need" for the advances made in detection, diagnoses and treatment of breast cancer to be implemented in developing nations.
The WHO predicts the number of cancer cases will soar to more than 19 million a year by 2025.
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The number of people being diagnosed with cancer in the world each year has leaped to more than 14 million, the World Health Organization says.
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The song, which features Bruno Mars, was due out in January.
The British DJ and producer changed the date after it was performed on the X Factor on Saturday.
Contestant Fleur East's version of the song spent three days on top of the iTunes chart before being trumped by Ronson's original.
Uptown Funk is the first single from Ronson's Uptown Special album which is due out next year.
Fleur East admitted that she performed the song after being handed it a just hours before the live show.
She said: "I don't think anyone expected my performance to be as popular as it was.
"We didn't expect it to go to number one on iTunes. That's crazy like."
Seemingly wanting to benefit from the hype generated by Fleur, Mark Ronson, bought forward the song's release date.
X Factor boss Simon Cowell and Mark Ronson are both under the Columbia Records umbrella and critics have suggested this is a clever PR move.
Changing the release date of the song was seen as a gamble by some.
Uptown Funk has entered the charts at the most competitive time of year - the race for Christmas number one.
Although some bookmakers have suspended bets on the song staying on top of the charts over the festive period.
However it faces competition from the Band Aid charity single and the X Factor's winner's single - which ironically could belong Fleur.
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Mark Ronson was forced to release Uptown Funk five weeks early but that hasn't stopped the track racing to the top of the Official Singles Chart.
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Around 120 schools have closed across Wales in recent years, due to lower pupil numbers and financial pressures.
Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Powys have been particularly affected.
Ministers said they understood rural schools' challenges and council funding took account of the higher costs of providing education in such areas.
A Welsh government spokesman added that education spending per head in Wales was higher than in England.
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Rural schools "exhausted by the continual threat of closure" need more money, parents and pupils have said in a petition to the assembly.
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The 23-year-old left-back for fourth-tier Wilrijk-Beerschot was playing in a tournament in Hemiksem when he collapsed on Friday.
He was placed in an induced coma and his club confirmed his death on Monday.
In late April, Lokeren defender Gregory Mertens, 24, died after collapsing during a reserve game.
A club statement said Nicot "fought like a bear" and was the "idol of our supporters".
It described him as "always in a good mood, always making time for an umpteenth selfie with a fan".
Three years ago Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba, then 23, suffered a cardiac arrest in an FA Cup game with Tottenham. He was "in effect dead" for 78 minutes but survived, although he never played again.
Nicot's team-mate Wesley Snoeys said: "So many questions. Always the same question comes up: why why why? You left us far too soon. I will never forget you. Forever in my heart."
Jef Snyders, another Wilrijk-Beerschot player, added: "Football will never be the same anymore. Rest in peace mate."
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Lower-league footballer Tim Nicot has become the second Belgian player to die of cardiac arrest in the past two weeks.
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The 23-year-old spent the second half of last season on loan at Glanford Park and Iron boss Graham Alexander is keen to bring him back.
"He has got other clubs interested in him but we're in the race," Alexander told BBC Radio Humberside.
"I think there might be a better deal from another club but it comes down to a lot more than money sometimes."
Crooks scored three times in 12 appearances for Scunthorpe during his loan spell, having failed to make an impact at Ibrox following his summer 2016 move from Accrington.
"I'm always hopeful," Alexander said.
"I know there's a will from all parties, but these deals are business deals and we'll see how it goes over the next few days."
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Scunthorpe United are in discussions with Rangers over a permanent deal for midfielder Matt Crooks.
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The plans include a new multi-story car park and knocking down the 1937 arrivals building.
The building, which has already lost two floors due to safety concerns, has been called "unsafe" by airport bosses.
But Christopher Scholefield, from Save Jersey's Heritage, said plans to demolish the Art Deco terminal would be a loss to the island.
"Why is it that the interesting, genuine, historical, architectural artefact has to be knocked down in order to replace it on virtually the same footprint?
"If we ended up with what they're going to build... it won't be horrible, but we'll have something that's not genuine anymore."
Group chief executive officer of Jersey's airport and harbours, Doug Bannister, said: "It's actually not so original because it's been added to year after year... over the decades.
"It's an obstacle and what that means is it's too big and too close to the runway. It's currently unsafe."
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Designs for redeveloping an airport "remove" its Art Deco past, a heritage campaigner has said.
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The girl was found in the Green Park area near Wimpson Lane, Southampton, at about 17:30 GMT on Tuesday.
She was taken to hospital for treatment following the attack but has since been discharged.
A 13-year-old girl arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm has been bailed until March.
Hampshire Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward.
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A 13-year-old girl suffered a serious head injury during a clash in a park involving about 40 teenagers, police have said.
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Ghana fans massed behind a goal after 82 minutes of the game to seek refuge from missiles being thrown at them.
Bottles rained down as police battled to gain control, while a helicopter hovered over the stadium.
Play resumed for just three minutes as Ghana completed a 3-0 win to reach Sunday's final against Ivory Coast.
The Black Stars had taken a 2-0 lead into half-time, having opened the scoring when Jordan Ayew dispatched a penalty after Kwesi Appiah had been fouled by keeper Felipe Ovono.
They doubled their lead when Mubarak Wakaso drilled home following a counter-attack.
At the end of the first period, crowd unrest was already evident, with the Ghana players shielded by police in riot gear as they left the pitch.
Then, after Andre Ayew had tapped in Ghana's third on 75 minutes and with only eight minutes left, the focus turned to their fans, who left the stands to seek safety behind one of the goals.
Play was stopped as bottles continued to be thrown by the home supporters, littering the running track around the pitch. Chairs were also thrown after being ripped from the stands.
With Equatorial Guinea only stepping in as replacement hosts in November, there were plenty of concerns about preparations and security before the tournament began.
Two quarter-finals were then moved from Ebebiyin and Mongomo amid reported fears of potential crowd issues, although the Confederation of African Football blamed the poor state of the pitches.
When police moved in to try to restore order in Malabo, it took a considerable amount of time before the Ghana fans were safely escorted from the stadium.
There were doubts about the match resuming, with officials locked in discussions at the side of the pitch as the players remained on it.
Once the field was cleared of objects, the match restarted, only for the referee to bring the game to an end three minutes later.
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Ghana's Africa Cup of Nations semi-final against hosts Equatorial Guinea was halted for 30 minutes because of crowd trouble in Malabo.
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Police Scotland and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (GGC) said that ecstasy - especially in crystalline form - was "potent" and potentially deadly.
They said there had been recent cases of young people "experiencing significant adverse effects".
The warning comes with the UK's outdoor music festival season under way.
Det Insp Michael Miller, Police Scotland's national drug co-ordinator, said: "Any drug can be dangerous and MDMA in crystalline form is likely to be far more concentrated.
"These incidents highlight the dangers of taking MDMA in both its crystalline and pill form.
"These drugs are potent and you are putting your health at risk if you take ecstasy."
He added: "The festival season has now started, ecstasy and other drugs will be in circulation with some people trying them for the first time.
"The police message is clear - taking any illicit drug puts your health in danger and if you are found with illegal drugs you will be reported to the procurator fiscal and may be arrested."
Dr Richard Stevenson, NHS GGC's consultant in emergency medicine, said anyone who feels unwell after taking illegal drugs should seek medical help as soon as possible.
"A description or if possible the substance/tablet taken brought with the patient to the department to assist in treatment would also be helpful."
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A health warning has been issued about the dangers of ecstasy (MDMA) after some young people became ill on taking the drug in tablet or crystal form.
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Greg Moffat, 22, had previously been found guilty of carrying out the attack on his 23-year-old victim at a flat in Airdrie.
The rape took place in the early hours of 16 March last year.
The victim was part of a group who had gone back to the flat following a night out at a local club. She went to sleep, but was awoken by Moffat raping her.
Moffat, from Airdrie, later said "sorry" to the woman.
After being arrested, he insisted he and his victim were involved in a consensual sex act rather than full intercourse.
However, giving evidence, the woman told the court she wanted her attacker to "tell the truth".
She said: "I don't know why he is just not admitting it. I cannot believe why he would say that. I don't know why this happened."
The court was also told that the rape had shattered the woman's life.
The jury later found Moffat guilty of rape.
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A man who raped a sleeping woman after sneaking into bed beside her has been jailed for four years.
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Jack Dunn was depicted as being complicit in the cover-up of the Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandal.
Open Road, which distributed the film, has now acknowledged Mr Dunn actually sought to help victims of abuse.
"We acknowledge that Mr Dunn was not part of the archdiocesan cover-up," it said in a statement.
Fabricated dialogue in the movie made it appear as if Jack Dunn, a former student and spokesman for Boston College, had downplayed the extent of the Catholic priest sex abuse scandal.
The scene Mr Dunn appears in was based on an interview with reporters that occurred at Boston College High School in 2002 after the school was informed that three former teachers had abused students during the 1970s.
At one point in the scene, Mr Dunn, portrayed in the film by actor Gary Galone, says: "It's a big school, Robby. You know that. And we are talking about seven alleged victims over, what, eight years?"
The on-screen character later says: "This is ridiculous. You are reaching for a story here."
Mr Dunn, who is still a trustee of Boston College High School, had threatened legal action against makers if the scene portraying him was not removed.
However, no lawsuit was ever filed and makers said in November that they had "respectfully declined" to alter the film.
In a statement released on Tuesday, the film's distributor, Open Road, said: "As is the case with most movies based on historical events, Spotlight contains fictionalised dialogue that was attributed to Mr Dunn for dramatic effect."
As part of a settlement, Open Road have agreed to cover Jack Dunn's legal fees and make donations in his name to two charities. All legal actions have been dropped.
Mr Dunn said in a statement: "This agreement will never end the painful experience of being falsely depicted in a film, but it gives me the opportunity to move forward with my name cleared and my integrity in place."
He said he hoped the agreement "causes Hollywood to reassess how it portrays scenes in movies that claim to be based on actual events".
Spotlight won two Academy Awards last month - best picture and best original screenplay.
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The makers of Oscar-winning film Spotlight have acknowledged a character in the film was not accurately portrayed.
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Moray MP Angus Robertson says he has been told by an "impeccable source" at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) the former air station could be closed.
The MoD is carrying out a review of its property portfolio and land no longer needed is being sold off and the money raised invested in the armed forces.
Kinloss is not among sites named in the review and the MoD said no decisions have been made about future ones.
Earlier this year, the SNP raised concerns that Fort George near Ardersier could be closed as a military barracks as part of defence cuts.
Mr Robertson said the closure of Kinloss Barracks would be "a betrayal" of promises made to people in Moray following the decision end of the site's life as an RAF station.
RAF Kinloss was home to Nimrod surveillance aircraft before all of those stationed there were retired in 2010 and new planes were scrapped.
The site closed as an air station in 2012 and the Army now occupies the former air station.
RAF personnel and jet aircraft continue to operate from nearby RAF Lossiemouth.
Mr Robertson said: "At that time the UK government promised an army presence at the base and for that to be under threat in such a short space of time is totally unacceptable.
"Moray's communities have been massively supportive of our military personnel based both at Lossiemouth and Kinloss."
A spokesperson for the MoD said: "MoD land currently spans about half a million football pitches.
"We are looking to sell what we don't need so new homes can be built on it.
"Every penny made will be invested back into defence on things like the new maritime aircraft at Lossiemouth or the new destroyers being built on the Clyde.
"We've currently named 22 sites but no decisions about future ones have been taken."
The 22 sites are all in England, except Craigiehall, an Army headquarters in Edinburgh.
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The SNP has raised concerns about the future of Kinloss Barracks in Moray.
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The man had shouted abuse at waiting parents and pushed two women to the ground outside St Luke's CE School in Longsight on Wednesday afternoon.
He walked away but later returned to the school carrying two knives and threatened officers who had been called to the scene, police said.
He was shot with a Taser and arrested on suspicion of affray.
Det Insp Gareth Davies said the man had been "verbally and physically aggressive" causing "understandable distress to those parents who had arrived to pick their kids up from school".
"Officers arrived within minutes and were able to quickly resolve the situation," he added.
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Police shot an armed man with a Taser following a disturbance outside a primary school in Manchester.
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The well-known London Road Fire Station in the city centre is to be refurbished and expanded.
A boutique hotel and spa, restaurants, bars, flats, and offices are included in the plans, while a new glass prism will feature in a central courtyard.
Final tours of the building are taking place on Saturday and Sunday.
Tour guide Jonathan Schofield said his visits to the station, which closed in 1986, have been "the most popular and in some ways, the most emotional".
"The building speaks to the heart of Manchester with not only its scale and presence, but also its human story," he said.
Plans for the building's refurbishment have been submitted to Manchester City Council.
Developers Allied London, who bought the building in 2015, hope to start work on the redevelopment later in the year and said it would be "sensitively refurbished and expanded" to "preserve its unique character".
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Heritage enthusiasts will have a final chance to tour a Grade II-listed former fire station in Manchester ahead of its planned redevelopment.
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The bid focuses on promoting the town's historic textile and weaving industries, which created the Paisley Shawl and the famous Paisley Pattern.
The competition is run by the UK department of culture, media and sport.
Although Paisley does not have city status, the competition is open to large towns and urban areas.
Renfrewshire Council is spearheading efforts to secure City of Culture status for Paisley.
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The authority believes the regeneration of the town's culture sector could help support 250 new jobs and bring £88m to the local economy.
Council leader Mark Macmillan said: "Paisley was once at the heart of the global textile industry and by connecting that heritage to the future through a new transformed museum, we aim to bring the world to Paisley.
"The museum will become the cultural, social and economic heart of the town. It will be transformed for tourists and local families alike, and be the base for extensive community outreach supporting weaving, natural history, science and nature."
Derry-Londonderry was the first city to host the title in 2013. Hull will host the 2017 version, during which the 2021 winner will be announced.
Paisley's bid to succeed Hull kicked off on Friday with two days of events.
These include live performances, an outdoor party and a light show projected against the backdrop of the 850-year-old Paisley Abbey.
Those who attend are being encouraged to wear the Paisley Pattern.
Part of Paisley's bid involves creating a hub to build links with national museums, international institutions and local art groups.
A £500,000 "cultural pot" is to be established to support community projects, while the architecture of the town and buildings will also be promoted.
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Paisley has launched its bid to become the UK City of Culture in 2021 with a £56m plan to create a national museum of textile and design.
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Deaths rates from heart disease between 2004/05 and 2013/14 dropped by 43%, according to official figures.
The number of people dying after a stroke also decreased by 41%.
The Scottish government said the figures showed its strategy for tackling heart disease was working.
Figures from ISD Scotland found the gap in death rates between the most and least deprived communities had narrowed by 33%.
For patients admitted to hospital with their first heart attack, the chances of surviving at least 30 days have risen from 85% to 92% over the same period.
The figures also show a 30% drop in the number of new cases of heart disease.
In 2013 there were 7,239 deaths in Scotland where coronary heart disease was the underlying cause.
Treating and preventing heart disease is a national clinical priority for Scotland.
Public Health Minister Maureen Watt welcomed the figures.
"It's tremendous news that fewer people are developing heart disease or suffering strokes, and that fewer people are dying," she said.
"I'm also encouraged to see that health inequalities are reducing in this area, with the gap in mortality rates between the most deprived and least deprived communities falling over time."
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Mortality rates for two of Scotland's biggest killers, stroke and heart disease, have fallen in the past decade.
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One of its fighters carried out the suicide attack on the Coptic Christian cathedral, the group said in a statement.
Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi had earlier named the attacker as Shafik Mahmoud Mohamed Mostafa, 22.
Mr Sisi said the attack caused "pain to all Egyptians".
IS named the attacker as Abu Abdallah al-Masri.
President Sisi used his address at a service for victims on Monday to urge the government to amend the country's terrorism laws, which he said were "restricting the judicial system" in its battle to prevent such attacks.
He also declared three days of national mourning for the victims of the blast.
The Christian minority in Egypt has frequently been targeted by Islamist militants.
Egypt has seen a wave of attacks by militants since 2013, when the military overthrew President Mohammed Morsi, an elected leader who backed the Muslim Brotherhood, and launched a crackdown against Islamists.
Some of Mr Morsi's supporters blamed Christians for supporting the overthrow.
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So-called Islamic State say it was behind a bomb attack on a church in Cairo on Sunday in which at least 25 people were killed.
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Swissport said the jobs will include positions in passenger check-in as well as baggage and freight handling.
The salaries of the new posts average out at £16,000.
The expansion will bring its workforce at Belfast International to about 350, making it the biggest employer at the airport.
Swissport said its expansion was based on planned airline growth, with Ryanair due to begin operating a new hub at Aldergrove later this year.
"These jobs are demand driven," said the airport's operations director Alan Whiteside.
"The fact they do not depend on a single penny of support from the government means we are seeing a win-win for the wider economy and the taxpayer," he added.
Earlier this month, security company ICTS announced it was taking on 40 extra staff at the International, partly because of Ryanair's arrival.
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Worldwide cargo handling business Swissport is creating 100 new jobs in an expansion of its operations at Belfast International Airport.
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The assault on a hotel in the capital, Ouagadougou, was claimed by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
The death toll has risen to 30 after a French-Moroccan photographer died from her injuries.
Three gunmen were killed in Friday's operation, Mr Valls said. AQIM on Monday released their photos and names.
AQIM said the assault was carried out by the al-Murabitoun battalion led by Algerian jihadi Mokhtar Belmokhtar.
Six gunmen opened fire on unarmed patrons at the Cappucino cafe before taking refuge at the nearby Splendid Hotel where they held several hostages, the French PM told parliament.
Both places were popular with UN workers and foreign residents.
"Three were killed and three others were being sought," Mr Valls said.
Among the 30 killed were three French nationals, he added.
French special forces based in West Africa were involved in the operation to end the hotel siege in its former colony.
The others who are known to have died include:
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Three people involved in last week's Islamist attack in Burkina Faso are still at large, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said.
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State-owned CalMac had competed with private firm Serco Caledonian Ferries Limited for the Scottish government contract to run the services.
CalMac already operates the routes on the west coast of Scotland, which include the inner and outer Hebrides.
It was named the successful bidder of the new contract in May.
The contract, which was awarded by the Scottish government's Transport Scotland, covers an eight-year period from 1 October.
The deal includes a separate contract which sees CalMac taking responsibility for ferry operations at 24 ports on behalf of Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd (CMAL).
CalMac managing director Martin Dorchester said: "Now that the contracts have been signed we can start to share information with staff and customers about our ambitious plans to transform the experience of ferry travellers during the lifetime of the contract."
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Caledonian MacBrayne has formally signed a new £900m contract to continue operating the Clyde and Hebrides Ferries Network.
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The American is expected to sign for $31m (£23.9m) next campaign, rising to $33m for 2017-18, his agent has said.
James led the Cavaliers, his hometown club, to their first NBA championship last term after rejoining in 2014.
"I can't be more excited than this opportunity once again, to defend our crown, defend our title," he said.
In a video posted on sports news site Uninterrupted, James added: "We all know last year as a magical, inspiring, all the words you can come up with, it was an unbelievable season."
James, four times the NBA's most valuable player, won two championships for the Miami Heat before returning to the Cavaliers.
His agent Rich Paul released the details of the contract - which is yet to be completed - to ESPN, with James reportedly earning a rise of more than $8m for next season.
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LeBron James will be the NBA's highest paid player next season after agreeing a reported $100m (£77.2m) three-year contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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The 19-year-old, who made 19 appearances for the Scottish Premiership side last season, has agreed a two-year deal at the Amex.
Centre-back Hall, who is a Northern Ireland Under-19 international, will initially join Albion's under-21 squad.
"Ben is an excellent young prospect," Seagulls boss Chris Hughton told the club website.
"His challenge is not only to progress but to be ready to make that step up into the first-team squad."
Motherwell say Hall, who joined Well from Dungannon Swifts in 2013, was offered several new contracts to stay at Fir Park.
"We have been in discussions with Ben for the best part of five months," manager Mark McGhee told his club website.
"However, we have always been conscious that this may happen and, as such, have been working on a replacement, which we hope to announce soon."
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Championship side Brighton & Hove Albion have signed defender Ben Hall from Motherwell for an undisclosed fee.
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More than 2,600 names were released on dormantaccounts.ch.
New Swiss banking regulations mean that if an account containing more the 500 Swiss Francs ($505; £335) has been left dormant for 60 years, ownership of the funds reverts to the state.
Around 80 safety deposit boxes have also been gathering dust since 1955.
The deadline for submitting a claim is one year from the date of publication of the account holder's name.
"By publishing this information, the banks are making a last attempt to re-establish contact with the customer," said Claude-Alain Margelisch, chief executive of the Swiss Bankers Association.
He added that the new regulations - which took effect in January - also create legal clarity about dormant assets.
The banking lobby group said that banks may charge their costs to claimants who file clearly unfounded requests.
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The Swiss banking industry has released the names of holders of dormant accounts, in the hope they will come forward to claim over $44m.
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The city centre road was closed from Waverley Bridge to the Mound for more than an hour.
Officers were called to the 200ft Gothic tower in East Princes Street Gardens at about 14:00.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "We were called because of reports of concern for a person at the monument."
A woman involved in the incident was said to be safe and well.
A spokesman for Police Scotland said: "We can confirm that the incident at the Scott Monument came to a peaceful conclusion at around 15:30."
"Officers are now working to reinstate traffic in and around the area of Princes Street."
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A section of Edinburgh's Princes Street has reopened following an incident at the Scott Monument.
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Mourinho has appeared to criticise the desire of Luke Shaw, Chris Smalling and Phil Jones to return from injuries.
Sutton told BBC Radio 5 live Mourinho was "running the risk of turning the dressing room against him".
"To call them out for not playing through the pain barrier is deeply unfair," he added.
Left-back Shaw will miss the remainder of the season with a foot injury he picked up during United's 1-1 draw with Swansea on Sunday.
Neither Jones, who has a toe injury, nor Smalling, who has a knee injury, have played for United since 19 March but are close to a return to first-team action.
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"Managers I have played under would say things in the dressing room but back you in public. Mourinho just shoots from the hip. I think further down the line that leads to trouble," said Sutton.
"Having said that, in my opinion, what he is saying to the Manchester United board is, 'I don't want these players at the club. I need to replace them'. He is not daft - he knows what he is saying."
Mourinho has appeared to indirectly criticise the trio in recent weeks.
Speaking of Shaw in April, he said: "I cannot compare the way he trains and commits, the focus, the ambition. He is a long way behind."
After Sunday's draw with Swansea, he said during a news conference: "I prefer not to speak about Phil Jones and Chris Smalling.
"I prefer to speak about Juan Mata giving everything to be available. I am grateful for that."
The Red Devils face La Liga side Celta Vigo in the Europa League semi-final first leg on Thursday.
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Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho is "humiliating players" by questioning their commitment, says ex-Blackburn striker Chris Sutton.
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Duncan Banks, 39, was found dead at the property in Skye Road, Dunfermline, at about 17:00 on Monday.
Following a post-mortem examination officers confirmed they were treating his death as murder.
Mr Banks' family said he was a popular character with a "heart of gold who wouldn't hurt a fly" and they had been left "utterly devastated" by his death.
Det Ch Insp Keith Hardie, of the Major Investigation Team, said: "Following the conclusion of a post-mortem I can confirm that the death of Duncan Banks is being treated as murder.
"I ask anyone who was in the area of Skye Road between 11:00 on Sunday, September 27, and 17:00 on Monday, September 28, and who noticed any unusual behaviour to come forward.
"Mr Banks was the victim of a violent assault and we are committed to tracing anyone who was involved in his death.
"Such acts of violence have no place in society and I would again urge anyone who has any relevant information to contact police immediately on 101. Alternatively, information can be passed anonymously through the charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111."
Mr Banks' family issued a statement through Police Scotland, which said: "Duncan was a beloved son and a much-loved brother and uncle and we have all been left utterly devastated by his death.
"He was a very popular character, who had a heart of gold and wouldn't hurt a fly.
"Whenever he could, he would try to help his friends and family with any problems they had.
"We have been overwhelmed with the support we've received from our friends and the local community during this awful time and we are all so grateful for the messages of sympathy we continue to receive."
West Fife Area Commander Ch Insp Irene Ralston said: "I want to reassure the local community that, although this is a serious and violent crime, it is not a common event in Fife and we are doing everything in our power to bring whoever is responsible to justice.
"We have high visibility patrols in the Skye Road area and have set up an incident bus.
"Anyone who has concerns is welcome to speak to an officer there."
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Police have begun a murder inquiry after a man was subjected to a "violent assault" at a flat in Fife.
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The watercolour, which has rarely been seen in public, has remained in the Austen family since it was created.
Estimated to fetch up to £200,000, it was commissioned by the author's nephew, Rev James Edward Austen-Leigh, in 1869 to accompany his biography of the author.
An engraving of the painting will appear on the new £10 note from 2017.
The portrait was based on the only confirmed portrait of Austen made during her lifetime by her sister Cassandra.
Austen-Leigh did not think his aunt's depiction was a true likeness however, so commissioned Maidenhead artist James Andrews to create a more "satisfying version" based on his own memories.
In his biography, titled Memoir of Jane Austen, he described her as "a clear brunette with a rich colour".
"She had full round cheeks, with mouth and nose small and well formed, bright hazel eyes, and brown hair forming natural curls close round her face...she never was seen, either morning or evening, without a cap."
Dr Gabriel Heaton from auction house Sotheby's said Andrews' portrait - which became the accepted image of Austen and spawned many reproductions - was "part of our cultural history".
"This is the most important likeness of Jane Austen ever likely to appear on the open market," he said.
"The painting was commissioned for the first full-length biography... which was crucial in transforming her from a novelist into a national figure.
"The portrait gave readers an image with which they could identify and which even seemed to embody the character of her work."
The painting will be sold at a Sotheby's London auction on 10 December.
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A painting described as the definitive portrait of Jane Austen is to be sold at auction in December.
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The International Champions Cup friendly was the first sporting event to be held at the new $1.1bn (£830m) home of NFL side Minnesota Vikings.
Bertrand Traore headed the opener for Chelsea before a Giacomo Bonaventura free-kick drew the Italian club level.
Brazil midfielder Oscar's brace sealed it for Antonio Conte's side.
Kante, who left Premier League champions Leicester for a fee in the region of £30m, came on as a second-half substitute.
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Summer signing N'Golo Kante made his first appearance for Chelsea as two goals from Oscar saw the Premier League side beat AC Milan 3-1 in Minneapolis.
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The RSPCA had planned to wait until the end of the winter breeding season before trying to catch the seal at Horsey beach.
However, he has not been seen since late December.
Alison Charles, RSPCA hospital manager, said: "We will just never know now if it's a happy or sad ending."
It was believed the bull seal's deep wound was caused by netting.
Experts said it had been too risky to try catching him for treatment when he was surrounded by females until the end of the breeding season in late January.
Any action could also have disturbed mothers with their pups.
If he was darted, there was a danger he could bolt into the sea, lose consciousness and drown.
Peter Ansell, from the Friends of Horsey Seals group which monitors the colony, said: "He might be dead or he might have swum off to pastures new.
"It's highly unlikely we will see him again - it will remain a mystery."
The RSPCA had assembled a team and equipment at its East Winch centre near King's Lynn to try to catch their first wounded seal.
Ms Charles said: "I recently went to inspect two females who also had been seen with netting around their necks, but it had fallen off.
"Their wounds were healing and it seems it may have been possible for them to use their flippers and nails to it.
"The bull seal's wounds could also have healed."
Volunteers counted 1,018 pups at Horsey this winter - a record for the colony since seals began using the public beach north of Great Yarmouth in 2003.
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A seal spotted on a Norfolk beach with a wound around its neck has vanished and its fate is likely to "remain a mystery", wildlife experts have said.
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The 25-year-old from Cornwall left it late to finish third alongside her guide Nicole Walters.
"At one point we didn't think we were going to do it, but we managed to get it on the line," Reid told BBC Sport.
"I'd love to go to Tokyo - it's one of my favourite places in the world and I think I'm young enough to compete."
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Reid, a former world champion and European silver medallist, was competing in the first ever Para-triathlon at a Paralympic Games.
"My dad didn't think I'd finished third because we were in fourth place up until the last 100 metres," she added.
"He sat back and it took him about half an hour to realise that we'd crossed the line in third place."
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Melissa Reid says she plans on competing at the 2020 Paralympics after winning a bronze medal in the PT5 Para-triathlon in Rio.
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said half a billion litres were taken from the pipeline that runs north-east from Lagos.
Long queues have formed at petrol stations across Nigeria in recent days.
Governments blame pipeline vandalism and theft in the oil sector for fuel shortages and damaging the economy.
An NNPC subsidiary told a Senate committee that "incessant hacking" of the System 2B pipeline had "made the task of providing seamless flow of petroleum products to retail outlets more burdensome".
The pipeline stretches 250km from the financial hub Lagos to the city of Ilorin.
The company said it was working to resolve the issue.
"We have been pushing 35 million litres every day to the market and there's no reason why there shouldn't be fuel," said Esther Nnamdi Ogbue, managing director of the Pipelines and Product Marketing Company, a subsidiary.
She blamed "sharp practices" such as hoarding in some areas.
Nigeria is Africa's biggest oil exporter, but a lack of refining capacity means drivers rely on imported petrol and there are frequent fuel shortages.
In May the country was brought to a virtual standstill after importers shut depots over subsidy payments.
President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to scrap the subsidy scheme, which critics say is rife with corruption, but a previous attempt to stop the payments led to violent mass protests in 2012.
However, in August NNPC managing director Emmanuel Kachikwu said the subsidies were an unsustainable drain on the economy, which has suffered as global oil prices have fallen.
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Thieves have stolen nearly $250m (£165m) of oil from a single pipeline this year, Nigeria's state oil company says.
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The city council gave its support to the plan after squatters from the Iffley Open House campaign group repeatedly occupied disused properties.
They included a vacant car showroom, an Oxford University building and a former Italian restaurant.
Campaigner and former councillor Elise Benjamin said the squatters had raised awareness of homelessness in the city.
The council motion said the decision was taken because of the growing number of rough sleepers, and the "significant number of long and short-term vacant buildings in Oxford".
It will now commission a report by September into how empty properties could be made available for use as temporary homeless shelters.
The group, which included about 20 homeless people, had to leave the buildings they occupied after several court orders were granted against them.
Ms Benjamin said: "There was an astonishing public response, so positive, so many many people contributing their time and donations.
"We believe that can continue and with the council supporting us we have an even better chance that there will be that same response again."
On New Year's Eve, the group moved into a car showroom on Iffley Road owned by Wadham College.
They were evicted in February and they occupied Osney Mill, which is owned by Oxford University.
A court order was granted to repossess the property in March, and the group moved to a former Italian restaurant in Summertown, then empty flats above a Sainsbury's in Cowley Road.
The have since left for health and safety reasons and are believed to be staying with friends.
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A proposal to use empty buildings in Oxford as temporary homeless shelters has been backed by councillors.
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Laura Matthews, 29, was told her signature - "L. Skywalker" - infringed a trademark in July this year.
She was issued with the document several weeks later, after threatening to take legal action.
But she has now been told the passport was issued in error and has been cancelled.
Ms Matthews told the BBC the decision has left her feeling "upset, frustrated and disappointed".
A Home Office spokesman said: "Protecting the integrity of the UK passport is vital and we do not accept a change of name for frivolous reasons."
In a letter to Ms Matthews, the Passport Office said its "published guidance provides that we will refuse to recognise a change of name... if it is made for a bet or frivolous purpose.
"Additionally, in your case, the signature used in the passport is different to your surname and by your own admission was done for 'a laugh'".
"Regrettably, an error was made in issuing your passport," the letter said.
"I am sorry that the error was made but I have to inform you that your passport will be cancelled."
Ms Matthews, from Southend in Essex, added the middle name using a deed poll in 2008 "for a bit of fun".
She had not renewed her passport since adding the moniker, and experienced several weeks of delays when she tried to do so in April.
She was told the delays were because her signature "infringed a trademark".
Her passport was issued at the end of August after she contacted a law firm specialising in intellectual property law and said she would take legal action unless her application was approved.
Ms Matthews said this was the fourth time the Passport Office had changed its mind about her case.
"Now I'm not sure if it's my signature they have a problem with, or my middle name," she said.
"All I know it's extremely disappointing that I've been let down again by an organisation which doesn't seem to know if it's coming or going.
"I don't think I'm going to be able to fight it. I don't know what else I can do."
The Home Office spokesman added: "We have apologised to the applicant and agreed to meet the cost of a new passport in a name that meets the published guidance."
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A woman who added Skywalker as a middle name has had her passport cancelled after being told her application was "frivolous".
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Police said the child was struck by a red Renault Master van on Brechan Rig in Elgin at about 17:30 on Friday.
The van was being driven by a 46-year-old man who was uninjured in the incident. The identity of the child has yet to be released.
Police have appealed for witnesses to the crash or anyone who saw the van in the time before the accident to come forward.
Sgt Steve Manson said, "My thoughts, and that of my officers, are very much with the family and friends of the seven-year-old boy who sadly died in this tragic collision.
"I would appeal to anyone who may have seen the crash or who may have seen the red Renault Master van shortly beforehand and who hasn't yet spoken with police to do so as a matter of urgency to help us piece together exactly what happened."
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A seven-year-old boy has died after being hit by a van in Moray.
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Bent rescued a point for the Rams against Sheffield Wednesday, heading in the equaliser a minute after coming off the bench on Saturday.
Derby, already assured of a play-off spot, are unbeaten in five games.
"The main thing is that we go into the play-offs full of confidence and not losing games," Bent said.
Former England striker Bent said falling at the first hurdle of the play-offs against West Ham in his last season with Ipswich Town in 2004-05 was a harsh early lesson in his career.
"A fair few years ago now at Ipswich, our season had gone because we only managed to win one out of our last five games. We went into the play-offs with no real confidence," Bent told BBC Radio Derby.
As for his own personal form, Bent was pleased to make an impact as a substitute having not featured since Derby's 3-3 draw with Rotherham in March.
The goal was the former Aston Villa, Sunderland and Charlton forward's first since netting the winner in Derby's 2-1 FA Cup third-round win against League Two side Hartlepool in January and only his second in the Championship this season.
Bent scored 12 goals in 17 games during a loan spell at the iPro Stadium from Villa last season, before signing a full-time deal last summer.
"The boys have been joking it was my first touch in three months, it was nice," Bent said.
"It was a while for that one to come. It's been difficult to get minutes on the pitch with the team playing really well, Chris Martin at the top of his game and the two wide men playing well.
"To be match sharp is impossible if you play a few minutes every four or five weeks, but when you do get on the pitch you want to help the team out, and it worked."
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Striker Darren Bent was relieved to score with his first touch in six weeks to keep Derby County's unbeaten run intact ahead of the play-offs.
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Fans who buy a ticket before the end of May will receive 25% of their money back if the club sell less than 15,000 tickets by the end of July or 50% if they sell more than that amount.
Leeds have not finished in the top six of the second tier since 2006.
The Elland Road side can not finish in the play-off places this season.
The club said in a statement: "We are more determined than ever to gain promotion from the Championship and are fully committed to doing everything we can to return this great club to the Premier League in 2016-17.
"With the full support of our fans, we believe we can achieve this goal next season."
Leeds have not played in the top tier of English football since relegation from the Premier League in 2004.
Head coach Steve Evans said on Monday that he believed he was the right man to lead the club back to the top division.
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Leeds United have promised to give fans who buy a season ticket for 2016-17 a refund of up to 50% - if the club fail to reach the Championship play-offs.
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They will discuss the latest findings in treatment, outcomes and prevention of the disease.
It is the first time that Northern Ireland has hosted the international conference.
Dr Anna Gavin of the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry, said the number of people diagnosed with the disease in NI was likely to increase.
"We have an aging population," she said.
"Some of the work that is going to be presented at the conference indicates that in the next 20 years, we are going to see two thirds of an increase in the number of cancer patients that are diagnosed in Northern Ireland and across the UK.
"So that means we have to be smarter with the resources that we have."
About 11,000 people in Northern Ireland are currently living with cancer.
The conference, organised by Queen's University, will be attended by patients, charities and chief medical officers from the UK and Ireland.
Up to 500 people are taking part in the Belfast event at the Europa Hotel.
The Northern Ireland Cancer Registry is funded by the Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland and hosted by Queens University Belfast.
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Some of the world's leading cancer experts are gathering in Belfast.
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It said suicide was a "major public health problem" that was too often shrouded in taboo.
The WHO wants to reduce the rate of suicide by 10% by 2020, but warned that just 28 countries have a national suicide prevention strategy.
Campaigners said there needed to be more education in schools.
The WHO analysed 10 years of research and data on suicide from around the world.
It concluded:
It said limiting access to firearms and toxic chemicals was shown to reduce rates of suicide.
And that introducing a national strategy for reducing suicides was effective, yet had been developed in only a minority of countries.
Dr Margaret Chan, the director general of the World Health Organization, said: "This report is a call for action to address a large public health problem, which has been shrouded in taboo for far too long."
Social stigma attached to mental health disorders is known to stop people seeking help and can ultimately lead to suicide.
The WHO also attacked the reporting of suicide in the media, such as the details revealed about the death of Hollywood actor Robin Williams.
There was also a call for countries to provide more support for people who had previously made a suicide attempt as they were the most at-risk group.
Dr Alexandra Fleischmann, a scientist in the department of mental health and substance abuse at WHO, said: "No matter where a country currently stands in suicide prevention, effective measures can be taken, even just starting at local level and on a small-scale."
Jonny Benjamin, a suicide campaigner in the UK, told the BBC: "I think there needs to be much more public awareness around suicide and how to approach people that may be experiencing suicidal thoughts and feelings, too few of us know how to react when they see someone who may be at risk of taking their life or experiencing those thoughts and feelings.
"I think there needs to be much more public awareness, much more education in schools as well because, as statistics today have shown young people are especially at risk of taking their own lives."
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Somebody dies by taking their own life every 40 seconds, according to a significant report by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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It has also doubled the prison term for offenders to 20 years.
Activists hope the law will encourage more slaves to take legal action to secure their freedom and will encourage the courts to punish slave owners.
Mauritania abolished slavery in 1981, but activists say it is still widely practised and many in the West African country inherit their slave status.
According to the AFP news agency, the new law, passed on Wednesday, also criminalises "10 other forms of slavery", including forced marriage and handing a woman over to another man without her consent after the death of her husband.
Boubacar Ould Massoud, chairman of campaign group SOS Slavery, told the BBC it also provides for legal help for victims and enables them to seek compensation.
He said it was laughable to think that slavery did not exist in Mauritania.
"Often judges sympathise more with the slave owners than with the slaves. Slavery cases taken to court have up until now referred to the slaves as 'non-paid workers' or 'exploited and underage workers,'" he told BBC Afrique.
Anti-slavery activists in Mauritania also say they have faced harassment from the authorities.
AFP reports that three anti-slavery activists will be judged on appeal on 20 August in the central town of Aleg.
They include two members of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement in Mauritania, a well-known non-governmental organisation.
They had been sentenced to two years in prison for "membership of an unrecognised organisation", the agency reports.
According to a 2014 survey by anti-slavery campaign group Walk Free, Mauritania has the highest number of slaves as a proportion of the population, at 4%.
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Campaigners have welcomed Mauritania's new anti-slavery law which makes the offence a "crime against humanity".
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The proposed Digital Bill of Rights would protect personal information and impose tougher penalties on theft and illegal sale of data.
The party has pledged to introduce it within six months of a new coalition government.
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said the bill would "stop information about our lives being misused".
"We need to ensure that consumers, businesses, journalists and our children are protected in the online world," he said, launching a consultation on the plans.
The party said the bill would "beef up" powers for the Information Commissioner to inspect companies that break data protection laws.
It would give legal rights to compensation for consumers from companies which get people to sign up online to deliberately misleading or unreadable terms and conditions.
Other measures contained in the proposal include a code of practice for websites to correct defamatory or inaccurate information.
It would also enshrine in law the responsibility of the government to defend press freedom for journalists and citizen journalists online.
Julian Huppert, the Lib Dem's election candidate for Cambridge, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that individual rights could be enforced without harming freedom of expression.
"Yes you want free speech but we've said for many, many centuries, that there should also be the right not to be defamed," he said.
"I think it is right to protect the citizen from having that sort of attack."
In 2013, more than 500 writers from around the world signed an open letter to the United Nations urging it to create an international bill of digital rights.
The letter condemned the scale of state surveillance after whistle-blower Edward Snowden leaked information about surveillance carried out by the US Government.
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Plans for new laws to protect people's rights online have been unveiled by the Liberal Democrats.
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Clyde lost 2-1 at Montrose, while Stirling Albion beat promotion hopefuls Elgin City 1-0.
Montrose are now five points off fourth-placed Annan Athletic and nine behind Elgin.
City are ahead of Clyde on goal difference but have played two more games than the bottom two sides.
Dale Carrick fired Cowdenbeath in front against Edinburgh, who were level by the 17th minute through Dougie Gair's penalty following Liam Henderson's foul on Joe Mbu.
Josh Walker's strike in the second half put City ahead and Cowden then had Fraser Mullen sent off.
At Forthbank Stadium, Stirling and Elgin were tied at 0-0 until Sean Dickson struck in the third minute of stoppage time.
Clyde, playing their first match since manager Barry Ferguson's resignation, fell behind to Kerr Hay's early strike and Greg Pascazio fired Montrose's second.
Peter MacDonald pulled one back for Clyde after the break.
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Edinburgh City overtook managerless Clyde and moved seven points clear of opponents Cowdenbeath by winning 2-1 at Central Park.
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Two Squadron RAF Regiment have returned from a six-month tour protecting the Nato airbase at Kandahar.
Aircraft brought the airmen home from Cyprus to Brize Norton before they travelled on to meet their families at their base at RAF Honington.
Their role in Afghanistan was to protect the key Nato airbase in southern Afghanistan from enemy attack.
However during the tour they lost two airmen.
Senior Aircraftman Luke Southgate was killed in February in an explosion north of the airfield.
On the day the airmen returned a short ceremony was held in his home town of Bury St Edmunds and a plaque was unveiled celebrating his life.
His family also planted a tree in his memory.
Last weekend Senior Aircraftman Kinikki Griffiths from One Squadron RAF Regiment was killed in a road accident while on patrol near Camp Bastion in Helmand province.
Described as an "exceptional" member of the regiment, he died just a few weeks before his 21st birthday.
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Families gathered at an airbase in Suffolk on Monday evening to welcome home their loved ones from Afghanistan.
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At least 30 people were killed in the blaze.
Three of their names have now emerged.
Five-year-old Isaac Shawo has been described by his mother as a "beautiful boy".
He was a pupil at Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary School and lived in Grenfell Tower with parents Genet Shawo and Paulos Petakle and brother Luca, who is three.
He reportedly got separated from his family in the smoke and the BBC has now learned that he died.
Artist and photographer Khadija Saye, 24, whose artwork is being shown in the Venice Biennale, lived on the 20th floor of Grenfell Tower with her mother, Mary Mendy.
Labour MP David Lammy confirmed her death, writing on Twitter: "May you rest in peace Khadija Saye. God bless your beautiful soul. My heart breaks today. I mourn the tragic loss of a wonderful young woman."
He said she was a "talented artist". His wife is her employer and mentor. and she had been filmed for a BBC documentary.
Khadija's work in Venice is based on Gambian spiritual practices and is being shown in the Diaspora Pavilion. She had written on Facbeook: "It's been a real journey, tears shed, highs and lows, but mama, I'm an artist exhibiting at the Venice Biennale and the blessings are abundant!"
Syrian refugee Mohammed Alhajali, believed to have been 23, came to the UK in 2014 and was studying civil engineering while living in North Kensington.
Syria Solidarity Campaign said: "[He] undertook a dangerous journey to flee war and death in Syria, only to meet it here in the UK, in his own home."
He had been in a flat on the 14th floor with his brother Omar but the pair lost each other in their attempt to leave the building.
Mohammed then returned to the flat and tried to call family members in Syria but could not get connected to them, so spoke on the phone to a friend in the country for two hours while he waited to be rescued.
The brothers had been due to join the Syria Solidarity Campaign on Saturday to take part in The Great Get Together, celebrating the life of murdered MP Jo Cox and marking Refugee Week.
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The names of some of those who lost their lives in the huge fire at Grenfell Tower in west London have been confirmed.
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The US had proposed a travel ban and asset freeze on army chief Paul Malong and rebel general Johnson Olony for continuing to fuel conflict.
The Russian ambassador to the UN said sanctions might aggravate the situation, AP news agency reports.
Fighting has continued in South Sudan despite last month's peace deal.
Both sides signed the agreement to end the 20 months of conflict under intense regional and international pressure.
The fighting between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and his former deputy Riek Machar has forced more than 2.2 million people from their homes in the world's youngest state, which broke away from Sudan in 2011.
At least seven ceasefires have been agreed and then shattered - and US diplomats want to maintain the pressure to ensure the most recent deal succeeds.
Russia's UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin said he felt sanctions were not the solution after his country's talks with the foreign ministers of South Sudan and Sudan.
"The United States, very often they just say: 'Sanctions, sanctions, sanctions', and in some cases it severely aggravates the situation," AP quotes him as saying.
According to the Reuters news agency, Venezuela also requested that the sanctions proposal be put on hold.
A hold does not mean the proposal is dead, but it delays its consideration, the agency reports.
Angola wanted to give the parties more time to implement the peace deal, it said.
Fighting broke out in South Sudan in December 2013 after President Kiir accused former Vice-President Machar of plotting a coup.
Mr Machar denied the charges, but then mobilised a rebel force to fight the government.
On Tuesday, President Kiir reiterated his reservations about the deal in a televised national address as both sides accuse the other of breaching the ceasefire.
He again listed points such as the demilitarisation of the capital, Juba, and the appointment of a foreigner to monitor the agreement as "a violation of sovereignty".
However, he did express his commitment to the agreement.
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Russia and Angola have opposed moves at the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on a South Sudan general and a rebel commander, diplomats say.
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West Yorkshire Police said the 28-year-old victim was seriously injured in the assault at around 21:35 BST on Friday in Alliance Street.
Four boys aged 14, 15 and two aged 16 have been arrested in the Armley and Bramley areas.
They were held on suspicion of racially aggravated grievous bodily harm and violent disorder.
Police are treating the attack as racially motivated due to comments made at the time.
Ch Supt Paul Money of West Yorkshire Police met Polish Consul General, Lukasz Lutostanski, on Monday.
The force and consulate are raising awareness among the Polish community of how to report hate crimes and police patrols have been increased in the area.
Ch Supt Money said: "Given the understandable concern that this incident has caused among people in Leeds, particularly the local Polish community, and the wider focus there has been on it, we have prioritised the investigation to ensure that we are doing everything we can to bring our enquiries to a successful conclusion.
"I want to reiterate that hate crime and hate incidents are completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated in any form.
"The police work closely in partnership with the council and other agencies to tackle hate crime and we encourage anyone who has been a victim to report those incidents."
Police enquiries are continuing to trace further suspects.
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Four teenage boys have been arrested in connection with a racist attack on a Polish man in Leeds.
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The 21-year-old began his career in the Manchester United academy before moving to Macclesfield Town in 2013.
Rokka went on to join Radcliffe, where he scored 16 goals for the Northern Premier League Division One North side in the 2016-17 season.
"Elliot's an exciting player who will create chances and get fans off their seats," manager Micky Mellon said.
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Tranmere Rovers have signed winger Elliot Rokka from Radcliffe Borough on a one-year contract.
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The court ruled on the Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) ban on the train operator's MyFerryLink service.
In June Eurotunnel announced it was selling its two MyFerryLink passenger ferries, but retaining a freight ferry.
Now the company has announced its last ship, the Nord Pas-de-Calais, would be put up for sale.
The CMA said: "The Supreme Court has ruled that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) took the correct approach in assessing whether Eurotunnel's acquisition of three ferries and related assets formerly owned by SeaFrance should be treated as a merger."
The Eurotunnel Group said it was "extremely disappointed" by the decision.
"MyFerryLink had hoped to restart an activity with the freight-only ferry, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, which would have ensured 130 jobs," a spokesman said.
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Eurotunnel is to abandon its plans to run freight-only ferry services between Dover and Calais after a Supreme Court ruling.
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A bomb squad was called to Wingfield Road, Trowbridge, after the bottles - thought to contain "old military flares" - were unearthed.
People living near the building site - opposite an entrance to John of Gaunt School - have been told to leave their homes or stay indoors.
The fire service said it was unsure exactly what chemicals were involved.
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"We're dealing with an unknown hazard and have called the military who have more experience", a spokesman said.
The Army team is expected to detonate the devices before 20:30 GMT.
Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue said a large amount of smoke would be generated and people living in the immediate area should keep their windows and doors shut.
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Builders working near a school dug up a number of glass bottles containing "wartime incendiary devices".
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Scottish Borders Council (SBC) has been successful in a first stage bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund for the project in Duns.
Development funding of more than £50,000 has been awarded to help work up a full bid for about £645,000.
The council has already committed almost £620,000 to the scheme.
Community fundraising aims to bring in a minimum of £300,000 towards the project.
It would see the existing Jim Clark Room in Duns expanded and enhanced to allow cars and trophies to be put on display.
A total project cost of about £1.65m has been attached to the scheme.
It is hoped the development could be completed by 2018 - the 50th anniversary of Clark's death at Hockenheim in Germany, aged just 32.
The driver was born in Kilmany in Fife, but raised in the Borders, and was crowned Formula One world champion in 1963 and 1965. He won a total of 25 grand prix races.
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Plans for a museum celebrating the achievements of two-time Formula One world champion Jim Clark have reached another funding landmark.
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