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35,178,777 | The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) had 14 flood warnings and eight alerts in place on Saturday.
The Met Office has weather warnings in place for rain covering much of southern and eastern Scotland on Boxing Day.
Forecasters said a band of heavy rain would sit across the country until late evening on Saturday.
Premiership matches due to be hosted by Dundee United and Partick Thistle on Saturday were among five Scottish games postponed because of waterlogged pitches.
Stormy weather also forced the cancellation of an annual Boxing Day dunk in the North Sea.
Up to 200 people had been expected to take part in the Nippy Dipper fundraising event at Aberdeen beach.
Police in the Scottish Borders appealed for motorists to take extra care after heavy and persistent rainfall.
Response Inspector Bryan Burns, of Police Scotland, said: "The Borders has seen a significant amount of rain fall since Christmas day and this is set to continue.
"As such, there has been localised flooding and a number of roads are now closed including the A698 Denholm to Hawick , B6405 Denholm to Minto, along with various unclassified roads throughout the region and local diversions are in place.
"Unfortunately, a minority of drivers are choosing to ignore the diversions and are instead taking the chance of driving through flood waters."
He added: "Temperatures are expected to plummet this evening and ice will form on road surfaces making them treacherous during Sunday (Dec 27). Please reduce your speed and drive to the conditions."
The Met Office has also issued an early warning of strong winds for Tuesday 29 December.
The Tuesday weather event is expected to be named Storm Frank.
The Met Office said a rapidly deepening depression, passing to the west of Ireland and Scotland, was likely to bring a swathe of severe gale force winds, accompanied by heavy rain, across parts of western and northern Britain on Tuesday.
The weather warnings are available here. | Heavy rain has brought flood warnings for areas of the Scottish Borders and Tayside. |
37,098,814 | The 22-year-old cemented the outside centre position last season and his form saw him play for England's second team in South Africa during the summer.
James has joined hooker Cameron Neild in committing to the club.
"I'm more than delighted to sign with the club moving forward with the players that have signed recently," he told BBC Sport.
"One lucky season like last year doesn't define you as a player so I've got to move on and keep pushing forward."
Director of rugby Steve Diamond added: "I have every confidence he will build on his first full season with us and am sure he will be pushing towards an England call-up in the not too distant future." | Sale Sharks and England Saxons centre Sam James has signed a new four-year contract. |
36,897,886 | Reports of dead fish in the River Leadon, in Gloucestershire, were first made on Friday, before tests revealed high levels of the gas, earlier.
Sarah Dennis, from the agency, said: "The total quantity is unknown at the moment but we believe it could be several thousand."
The cause of the leak has not yet been confirmed by the authorities.
Ms Dennis added: "I can't confirm where this has come from - this will be an ongoing legal investigation."
She said the agency was removing fish from the river where possible, but added that if any dead fish were seen in the river people should call the agency in to remove them. | Several thousand fish have died after ammonia leaked into a river, the Environment Agency has confirmed. |
36,806,488 | Authorities in the tourist town of Eilat said Julie Pearson died after collapsing in a guest house.
But her family believe she was beaten to death by a former boyfriend.
The hotel worker, from Kinross, collapsed and died on 27 November last year after visiting the Dolphin guest house in Eilat.
She had moved to the town in September 2014 as she had family connections there.
The police report claimed that Miss Pearson's death was from natural causes.
However, it also acknowledged that she appeared to have been beaten by her ex-boyfriend the day before she died.
Her family in Scotland have been demanding answers as they believe the authorities did not carry out a thorough investigation at the time.
It has taken the family eight months to obtain a post-mortem report.
It was released to them last week in Hebrew, and it does not rule out the possibility that the beating Miss Pearson received played a role in her death.
Although the family has not had an official translation of the report, their Israeli lawyer has read it. He told them the findings suggest there could be doubts over the cause of Miss Pearson's death.
Her aunt, Deborah Pearson, who lives in Blackburn in West Lothian, said she wanted the case re-examined and Miss Pearson's former partner investigated.
Mrs Pearson said: "I've spoken to the doctor at the Forensic Institute in Israel and he told me there is a possibility that the beatings contributed to her death so when it is fully translated [the report] then I do want it to go back to court and I want this man punished for what he has done.
"I believe that he is responsible and I want justice for Julie and I won't stop until I get justice for Julie."
Hannah Bardell, MP for Livingston, said: "It always makes me sad when we have cases such as these when someone has been killed or died in unknown circumstances and we have to get so heavily involved.
"It should be the case that the systems and processes are in place to support a family but unfortunately it doesn't appear in this case that they have been so we have to keep fighting to get justice for Julie." | The family of a woman who died in Israel have said a post-mortem report into her death casts doubt over claims she died of natural causes. |
36,181,575 | Vast numbers of dead fish have appeared across some 200km (125 miles) of coastline since early April.
A government investigation has so far found no links to a steel plant owned by Taiwanese firm Formosa Plastics.
But many of the demonstrators in Hanoi blamed the company, and carried placards saying "Formosa Out".
Other signs read "Formosa destroying the environment is a crime" and "Who poisoned the central region's waters?"
On Friday Environment Minister Tran Hong Ha said the die-off was "a very huge and serious environment disaster" and admitted that the government had been slow to react.
He said Formosa Plastics had been ordered to dig up an illegal waste pipe at its plant. The company has said there is no evidence that it linked to the die-off. Investigations into the cause are continuing.
Large protests are rare in Vietnam, but police agreed to clear roads to allow Sunday's demonstration to go ahead.
Much of protesters' anger in the past week has focused on a Formosa Plastics official, since dismissed, who said people in Vietnam had to choose between industry or its fishing industry, adding: "You can't have both."
"Here is Vietnam's territory and there shall never be any case in which a Formosa steel plant has the right to tell the Vietnamese people to choose," protester Cao Vinh Thinh told Reuters in Hanoi.
Many of those angry at the die-off have been writing online, using the hashtag #toichonca, or "I choose fish".
Fishermen along the affected coastline are banned from selling their stocks, but seafood industry officials said exports, that bring in $6.6bn (£4.5bn) a year, would not be affected. | Hundreds of people have held a rare protest in Vietnam against the unexplained mass death of fish on the country's central coast. |
40,892,066 | "It was a definite grab. A very long grab," said the 27-year-old, who is suing Mr Mueller, 55, over the alleged incident, which he denies.
"It was intentional," she told the court in Denver, Colorado.
"I felt him grab on to my ass cheek under my skirt. He grabbed my ass underneath my skirt."
The singer, who was responding to questions from Mr Mueller's lawyer, added: "He stayed latched on to my bare ass cheek as I lurched away from him. [His hand] didn't let go.
"It was a very shocking thing. I had never dealt with something like this before."
The alleged assault is said to have occurred in 2013, during a Denver stopover on Taylor Swift's Red tour. Mr Mueller, then a host on the top-rated radio station KYGO, had been invited to meet her before the show.
Ms Swift complained to KYGO and the station fired Mr Mueller two days later.
Mr Mueller sued the singer, saying that Ms Swift's allegation cost him his job. She countersued one month later, describing the groping incident as "completely intentional".
When Mr Mueller's lawyer, Gabriel McFarland, asked why her bodyguard did not interfere when the alleged incident happened, she said: "No-one could have expected this to happen... It had never happened before. It was horrifying and shocking."
She also rejected the assumption that she misidentified Mr Mueller, saying: "I'm not going to allow you or your client to say I am to blame."
The 55-year-old denies any inappropriate behaviour. Earlier in court, when asked if he had grabbed her, he said: "No, I did not."
Ms Swift took the stand the day after her mother gave her testimony and described how she wanted to "vomit and cry" when her daughter told her about the alleged incident.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | US singer Taylor Swift has described in court the moment she says she was groped by radio DJ David Mueller during a meet and greet. |
39,627,807 | Dr Robin Chakraverty said the amount of L-carnitine was well within World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) limits.
Dr Chakraverty said the substance was given to help the Briton's performance.
He said he gave 13.5 millilitres of the legal supplement, below the maximum allowed of 50ml within six hours, by injection and not via drip.
The use of the substance, given to Farah in 2014, is being looked at by the US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) - which has called it an infusion - to determine whether rules were broken.
The injection was made in consultation with Farah's American coach Alberto Salazar.
Salazar and Farah, Olympic champion in both the 5,000m and 10,000m in 2012 and 2016, have strongly denied breaking any rules.
Dr Chakraverty, formerly the chief medical officer for UK Athletics (UKA), now works with the England men's football team,
He told the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee on Wednesday there had been staffing cuts at UKA and he had been responsible for the healthcare of 140 athletes in an "immensely busy" job.
"Where we have had lapses is when you're on the road, when you're travelling, and that is probably the unique thing about this role. Not all our athletes train in one area," he said.
"When you are constantly on call for athletes you travel to those athletes. If you don't record it straight away - which I didn't in this case - then it can get forgotten because you have all these other things. That is just the scenario. It is not an excuse."
In March, the BBC reported that UKA staff may not have properly recorded the use of L-carnitine - a naturally occurring amino acid often prescribed as a supplement for heart and muscle disorders.
Ed Warner, the UKA chairman, told MPs that not recording injections was "inexcusable" although Dr Chakraverty said record keeping had since improved.
Farah was given the injection during preparations before his full London Marathon debut in 2014, in which he finished eighth.
Salazar has been under investigation by Usada and UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) since 2015, following claims of doping and unethical practices made in a BBC Panorama programme.
At a meeting of the committee earlier this year, a doctor who received a 'mystery package' for cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins in 2011 said he had no record of his medical treatment at the time.
Ex-Team Sky medic Dr Richard Freeman had a laptop containing medical records stolen in 2014, the committee was told in March.
Team Sky and British Cycling's record-keeping was questioned at the earlier hearing and when it was raised again on Wednesday, Warner replied: "Please don't tar us with the same brush".
He said UKA was keen to centralise its records and now handles all of Farah's medical care.
"There was a period of a few months in which we allowed Mo to go to Oregon and be treated by a local GP over in America, and we were observing his medical care from afar," said Warner.
"A decision was taken that we had to make sure we were in control of all medical interventions where Mo was concerned. That should always be the case for funded athletes."
An interim Usada report centres on claims a number of athletes at Salazar's Nike Oregon Project were given L-carnitine - some of which were "almost certainly" more than 50ml and therefore doping violations.
Another former UKA doctor, Dr John Rogers, visited a training camp held in France in 2011.
He reported back some concerns about the side-effects of some of the supplements Farah was taking, but stressed there were no worries that anything illegal may have been taking place.
Farah was receiving supplements to help prevent stress fractures and for iron and vitamin D deficiencies.
Dr Rogers told the committee Salazar's knowledge of sports medicine and science at the time was more advanced than any coach he had worked with.
"We had several conversations here and he was very open and transparent about the sports medicine practices he was using," he said.
"There was no concern there were any Wada rules being broken.
"There were some medical concerns around possible side-effects from some of the strategies they were using and it was important I shared that in terms of the continuity of care."
Committee chairman Damian Collins MP said at the start of the hearing that the MPs' final report into anti-doping would now not be published until after the General Election on June 8. | The doctor who gave double Olympic champion Mo Farah a controversial supplement has told MPs that he failed to correctly document the treatment. |
36,158,304 | Candidates will be asked if they were entitled to free school meals, and if their parents attended university.
Anonymised job applications will also be extended for core roles.
The plans come after the BBC faced pressure from ministers to increase numbers of staff from under-represented backgrounds.
A BBC spokesperson said: "Almost half of our workforce is made up of women and the proportion of our workforce who are black, Asian and other ethnic minority is at an all-time high."
"We'll continue doing what works but also develop new and innovative ideas to do even better, and we'll set this out in...our new diversity strategy today."
A 2014 government report found that more than a quarter of senior BBC staff had attended public school.
A BBC source added: "If we're going to serve audiences even better and be the creative powerhouse for the UK at home and abroad, we need the best people working for us and a workforce that reflects the many communities that exist in the UK - that's what these plans will ensure."
The diversity strategy is part of an industry-wide initiative and has been signed up to by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5.
BBC director general Tony Hall said he wanted "to work ever more closely with others, using our influence to bring about real change".
"That's why we've been collaborating with all the broadcasters to introduce a new monitoring system which will allow us, for the first time, to measure how we're performing when it comes to diverse talent on and off screen.
"The BBC belongs to everyone and, because of that, we have a particular responsibility to represent as many voices and views as possible," he concluded.
The news follows last week's pledge by the BBC that by 2020 women will make up half of the workforce on screen, on air and in leadership roles.
At present, 48.4% of BBC employees are women, with women in 41.3% of leadership roles.
The BBC's bid to increase diversity using this strategy is not unusual, according to employment expert Nick Elwell-Sutton, from law firm Clyde & Co.
"We are very much seeing a move towards blind CVs - so they are stripped of any information that may identify where someone went to school and they are invited to interview on the core information of their application," he says.
The strategy is still in the minority, he says, but larger businesses that have the resources to do so are employing it.
For example, PricewaterhouseCoopers said last year it would stop using A-level grades in its selection process to allow for a "fairer" system.
It is also about increasing the talent pool, Mr Elwell-Sutton says.
If you just recruit from a graduate pool, for example, you miss out those who wouldn't consider going to university, he says.
But at the moment, he says it is difficult to tell if the strategy is working. | Staff joining the BBC will be asked about their socio-economic background, as part of a bid to increase diversity at the corporation. |
34,348,167 | Croatian border police are stopping all Serbian vehicles from entering the country in protest at Serbia's decision to transport migrants to the border.
But Croatia's interior minister said the ban did not apply to Serbian people.
The Serbian authorities have responded by banning cargo traffic from Croatia.
Amid escalating tension, Serbia's foreign ministry said the measures were "discriminatory" and "can only be compared with measures taken in the past, during the fascist Independent Croatia", referring to the Nazi puppet state proclaimed in Croatia in 1941, which sided with Berlin.
Croatia's Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic, speaking in Brussels where EU leaders have been discussing a response to the migrant crisis, said Serbia's behaviour was "not normal".
Some Serbian nationals were not let into Croatia early on Thursday, but the Croatian government blamed this on a computer glitch.
Croatia has blocked cargo transport from Serbia since last week, shutting all but one of its crossings in order to prevent more migrants entering the country after a surge of almost 45,000 people arrived in a week.
The Croatian authorities are angry that Serbia has been bussing migrants straight to its border after Hungary sealed its southern border with a metal fence.
Croatia in turn sends them north across its own border with Hungary, which passes them on to Austria, but Zagreb says it cannot cope with the pace of the influx.
The border closures have damaged the economy in Serbia, which is a conduit for cargo to western and central Europe. | Serbia has compared Croatian border restrictions to racial laws enforced by a Nazi puppet state during World War Two, in a deepening row over migrants. |
18,325,949 | Spokesman Sami al-Kurdi told Reuters news agency the FSA had begun attacking soldiers to "defend our people".
At least 80 Syrian soldiers were killed by rebels over the weekend, an activist group said.
The ceasefire is part of UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan - very little of which has been actually implemented, observers say.
The FSA's announcement and a defiant speech by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday have raised questions about the viability of Mr Annan's six-point plan.
On Monday French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said there had been "so many abuses" by the Syrian regime that no lasting solution was possible while Mr Assad remained in power.
But UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has reiterated that Mr Annan's plan "remains central" to resolving the Syrian crisis.
Thirty-one people were killed in Syria across Syria on Monday, largely by government forces, said the Local Co-ordination Committees, a network of anti-government groups.
Earlier the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, a UK-based group, said at least 80 soldiers had been killed in clashes with Free Syrian Army fighters in Damascus and Idlib province.
1. Process led by Syrian parties working with international envoy
2. End to violence by all sides; army troops to stop using heavy weapons and withdraw to barracks
3. Parties to allow humanitarian aid
4. Authorities to free detainees
5. Authorities to ensure freedom of movement for journalists
6. Authorities to allow peaceful demonstrations
Maj Kurdi told Reuters on Monday: "We have decided to end our commitment" to the ceasefire.
The announcement essentially formalises the existing situation whereby both sides have been conducting operations in recent weeks more or less as though the truce no longer existed, says the BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut, neighbouring Lebanon.
Meanwhile, the formation of a new opposition coalition - the Syrian Rebels Front - was announced at a news conference in Turkey.
Spokesman Khaled al-Okla said the new group represented 12,000 fighters, and that it had been formed in part as a response to Arab and international "failure" to "rein in Assad from his crimes".
The developments put pressure on Mr Annan and the international community to find a way to implement Mr Annan's plan - which has universal international support.
Mr Annan is to brief the UN Security Council on Thursday, and will go on to Washington for talks with the US administration.
Russia and China have repeatedly opposed UN-backed Western intervention in Syria - such as the no-fly or buffer zones proposed by some Syrian rebels - and observers say there is no international "Plan B" in Syria if the Annan plan fails.
The US want to try to persuade the Russians to use their leverage with Damascus, to bring about a radical change of direction by the regime, our correspondent says.
But he says there was no sign of that in President Assad's speech to parliament on Sunday. The Syrian leader he insisted Damascus was facing not an internal crisis but an external war, waged against it because of its support for resistance to Israel.
He has denied any government role in the massacre at Houla, in which 108 people were killed - many in house-to-house killings which witnesses said were carried out by pro-regime gunmen. | The rebel Free Syrian Army is no longer committed to the nominal ceasefire in Syria, a spokesman has said. |
38,104,676 | A 20-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman were both arrested at an address in Bow on Friday on suspicion of attempted murder.
A 17-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday night following the attack on suspicion of attempted murder.
He was released on bail until late January 2017.
The officer, in his 40s, was attacked in an alleyway near to the Bow bells pub in Bow road.
He suffered three stab wounds and remains in hospital.
After attacking the officer, the group of four ran off.
Detectives do not believe the group were aware the man they attacked was a police office.
Detectives believe the group of four had arrived in the area via the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) getting off at Bow Church Station. The group was made up of three males and one female.
Detectives also believe the group was involved in another incident on the same night where a motorist was threatened with a knife.
At about 21:00 GMT a man was sitting in his parked car in Purdy Street near to Devons Road DLR station when the group approached his vehicle and threatened him with a knife.
Det Ch Insp Gary Holmes leading the investigation, said: "Whilst we have made two new arrests in our investigation I am continuing to appeal from any witnesses and information.
"Fortunately, whilst our injured colleague remains in hospital with serious injuries, he is making good progress with his recovery, and we wish him well.
"I am sure the thoughts of all officers and staff remain with him, his family and friends at this time." | Police investigating the stabbing of a plain clothes police officer while on duty in east London have arrested two more people. |
19,834,594 | You hear it on stages, like when Marc Benioff, chief executive and co-founder of Salesforce, urged 90,000 attendees at the firm's Dreamforce conference to fill in the visionary hole that Steve Jobs left.
You hear it at cocktail parties. At one by Morgenthaler Ventures, for instance, Apple team members who worked on Siri talked about how they missed Steve Jobs yelling at people.
You hear it on the streets. While standing in line for the newest iPhone - which included one of eBay's top search experts, Andy Edmonds - people noted that the industry was a bit more boring without Jobs.
It's a year after Steve Jobs died. So, what has changed?
After Jobs' death last year I wrote that Apple would be fine.
I still think it'll be fine. Great companies don't just disappear and Apple is still benefiting from momentum put in place by Jobs and his teams.
What are Apple's still existing advantages?
What is missing now that Jobs is gone?
Silicon Valley still hasn't recovered from this loss.
Yeah, it's trying. Larry Page and Sergey Brin over at Google are building self-driving cars and fantastic new wearable computers, but I'm left wondering how Jobs would look at those efforts and find a way to improve them.
Yes, I do wonder if Apple would have released its maps feature in such an early state.
Or, if he had released it, would he have explained to us why he is doing his own maps in a much better way than Mr Cook did. There are good reasons, after all, for Apple to head its own way and build its own mapping technology.
See, Apple and Google are on a collision course around contextual applications and operating systems.
Siri today is a bit stupid. She gives you the same answer she gives me. That's not contextual, or, personalised.
In the future Siri will give us answers based on who we are, the experiences we've had with our devices and the world of the internet, and, even what we're doing.
Our wearable computers, in the future, will be able to know that we're walking, driving, skiing, or shopping. Siri, in the future, will be contextual.
Why do we know that? Because Jobs told the team just that as he convinced them to bring Siri to Apple.
It is here that we are missing Steve Jobs's instincts.
We know a new contextual age is coming where our mobile devices will serve us, but we don't have someone like Jobs who is telling us how we'll get over the uncomfortable feeling that we're being stalked by the technology we're carrying around.
Jobs would have found a way. I'm not so sure that Page and Brin can do the same.
That is why Silicon Valley continues to miss Jobs and it'll be interesting to see if someone or - as Benioff urged - a group of people can fill those shoes.
That continues to be Silicon Valley and Apple's biggest question a year later.
Robert Scoble has been repeatedly listed as one of the world's most influential technology bloggers for his articles on his site Scobleizer. He is also start-up liaison officer at the cloud computing service provider Rackspace. | Steve Jobs is still missed. |
40,238,761 | With play only possible on two of the four days in Ayr, the visitors declared on 403-7.
The Scots reached 223-2 on Saturday, with Munsey 100 not out and Calum MacLeod hitting 79.
It is the third draw in five matches for Scotland, who sit sixth in the eight-team table.
Namibia are bottom of the section, with Afghanistan and Ireland a long way clear in first and second.
The teams now go to Edinburgh for two World Cricket League matches on Sunday and Tuesday. | George Munsey made his maiden first class century as Scotland's rain-affected Intercontinental Cup match with Namibia ended in a draw. |
22,599,321 | Prosecutors said the centre had to register as a "foreign agent" because it was involved in political activity and received foreign funding.
Levada Centre is one of a string of NGOs to be investigated recently.
Critics say the law is meant to tarnish the image of civil society groups.
The BBC's Steve Rosenberg in Moscow says that despite pressure, Russia's most prominent human rights and civil society groups have all refused to register as foreign agents.
In a statement, Levada Centre head Lev Gudkov said prosecutors had not only threatened the organisation with sanctions but had undermined its authority.
"The warning puts the Yuri Levada Analytical Centre in an extremely difficult position, in effect forcing it to cease its activity as an independent sociological research organisation, carrying out systematic polls of public opinion in Russia," the statement said.
Mr Gudkov added that foreign funding amounted to only 1.5-3% of the centre's budget each year.
The law requires the phrase "foreign agents" to be included in all materials produced by all affected NGOs. They would also have to undergo financial audits and issue twice-yearly reports on their activities.
The Russian authorities say the law is needed to protect Russia from outside attempts to influence internal politics.
But critics say it could be used to prevent NGOs denouncing vote-rigging and other abuses.
The term "foreign agent" carries a Soviet-era negative taint in Russia, suggesting spying, correspondents say.
Failure to comply with the legislation is punishable by heavy fines or even a two-year prison sentence.
Last month the election watchdog NGO Golos became the first organisation to be fined under the new law.
Last September, USAID was expelled from Russia after being accused of attempting to "influence political processes through its grants", which had totalled $3bn (£2bn). | The head of Russia's only independent polling agency, Levada Centre, has said it could be forced to close after a warning from officials that it had to obey a controversial new law. |
32,216,741 | The pygmy marmosets at Skansen zoo in Stockholm had been destined for a Riyadh zoo.
"They didn't want the monkeys anymore because of the political situation," said Skansen zoo boss Jonas Wahlstrom.
Last month the Saudi ambassador to Sweden was recalled, after Sweden ended an arms deal in a human rights dispute.
Weighing just over 100 grams (3.5 oz) each pygmy marmosets are the smallest primates in the world.
"It's a little comical. I'll just have to wait until they grant visas to Swedish businessmen again. Maybe monkeys will get visas then too," said Mr Wahlstrom, quoted by Radio Sweden.
Last month Saudi Arabia attacked Sweden's Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom for an "offensive" speech which it called "blatant interference" in its internal affairs.
Saudi Arabia prevented her from reading the speech at a meeting of the Arab League in Cairo.
In the speech, Ms Wallstrom called for "freedom of association, assembly, religion and expression" and for Arab nations to "focus attention on women's rights, women's representation and their adequate resources". | Saudi Arabia has refused to accept four tiny Amazonian monkeys from a Swedish zoo because of a diplomatic row, Swedish media report. |
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Jones, 29, collapsed by the side of the pitch during Sunday's League 1 game at London Skolars and was later pronounced dead of a suspected cardiac arrest.
Donations for Jones's wife, Lizzie, and their five-month-old twins have already passed £70,000.
The Rugby Football League's target is £100,000 but Fawcett says it "needs to be over £1m".
The RFL's benevolent fund has so far received 4,500 donations and will be boosted further by proceeds from Keighley's next match against Coventry at Cougar Park on Sunday, which Jones' family is expected to attend.
"At the time of writing, the fund that has been set up for Lizzie, Bobby and Phoebe stands at £72,000 and I know that there is a huge amount of fundraising to be done over the coming weeks," Fawcett said.
"We all know that there will be a wave of donations from all the rugby league clubs, in particular, over the course of next week which will smash the RFL's current £100,000 target for the fund.
"This is fantastic and amazing and yet it is simply not good enough."
Jones, who began his career at hometown club Halifax, scored more than 1,000 points in 150 appearances for Keighley and won 12 caps for Wales.
Keighley are to retire Jones' squad number six and rename their main stand the Danny Jones Stand. | Keighley chairman Gary Fawcett hopes a fund set up for the family of the late Danny Jones will eventually top £1m. |
23,360,103 | Mr Greaves, 68, was attacked with a pick-axe handle as he made his way to St Saviour's Church in High Green.
Ashley Foster, of Wesley Road, High Green was cleared of murder but found guilty of manslaughter at Sheffield Crown Court.
Jonathan Bowling, 22, of Carwood Way, Pitsmoor, Sheffield, admitted murder. Both will be sentenced on Friday.
There was confusion in court after the clerk only asked the jury foreman whether Foster was guilty of murder.
When the foreman said "not guilty" there were celebrations from Foster's family.
But as Mr Greaves' widow Maureen looked shocked and confused, the jury foreman, who had already been asked to sit, shouted "but guilty of manslaughter".
The jury of six men and six women returned its verdicts by a majority of 11-1 after 13 hours of deliberations.
After the verdict was clarified, Mrs Greaves sobbed in the public gallery and was comforted by members of her family.
Speaking afterwards, she said: "Society needs protecting from people who do such evil acts and I am satisfied and relieved by the result of the court today, however no sentence will bring Alan back.
"Alan was a wonderful man who is so dearly missed. Our lives will never be the same again."
The Reverend Canon Simon Bessant, the vicar at St Saviour's, said: "We condemn absolutely the evil attack upon Alan as he walked to church to play the organ on Christmas Eve night.
"Alan was intending to celebrate the coming of light at Christmas, yet he himself was the victim of darkness just a few minutes away from the doors of the church."
Det Supt Matt Fenwick, who led the investigation, said: "Alan Greaves suffered an appalling, extremely violent and totally unprovoked attack as he walked to church.
"In a matter of minutes, Jonathan Bowling and Ashley Foster had left an innocent man for dead."
The three-and-half week trial heard how retired social worker Mr Greaves suffered horrendous head injuries during the attack and died in hospital three days later with his family around him.
The court heard how Foster and Bowling had left a family gathering on Christmas Eve.
Prosecutors said they were stalking the streets of High Green looking for someone to attack. If they had not killed the pensioner it would have been someone else, the jury was told.
Giving evidence during the trial, father-of-two Foster claimed he shouted to try to stop Bowling attacking Mr Greaves and was a distance away at the time.
He said he did not tell police what happened because he was terrified of Bowling and his family. | A 22-year-old man has been found guilty of the manslaughter of organist Alan Greaves on Christmas Eve in Sheffield. |
40,516,639 | Caroline Hope, from Clydebank, had been working as an English teacher when she was diagnosed with colon cancer.
Her recovery was undermined when she contracted E.coli during an operation to remove a tumour.
A JustGiving page has raised £31,000 for a medical evacuation to Scotland.
Current guidelines strictly limit the repatriation of UK citizens for medical reasons.
Ms Hope, who is 37, moved to Turkey four years ago to teach at an international school in the country.
Her employer had taken out medical insurance to cover her stay at the Medical Park Hospital in Izmir, but that insurance is due to expire at the end of July when her contract of employment concludes.
Ms Hope's brother Scott Hope arrived in Turkey on Wednesday fearing the worst for his sister.
However, he told BBC Scotland: "She's mainly spent the day asleep, but she's still over the moon about everything that's happened. She can't believe that all the people have basically come together and have managed to get the money to get her home."
He added: "We're trying to finalise the paperwork. They required some medical reports that had to be translated into English. This has been one of the major setbacks.
"But her friends here in Turkey have been very supportive, the medical staff here have been great, the nurses have been fantastic and everyone is trying to pull together to get all this paperwork sorted so we can get her home as quickly as possible.
"I'm trying to give an estimate of maybe Sunday that we can get her back into the UK"
Mr Hope said the doctors in Turkey had been in contact with doctors at the Beatson cancer treatment centre in Glasgow and that they were expecting his sister to be admitted there once she returned to Scotland.
He added that any money raised above and beyond that required to get Ms Hope back home would be donated to the Beatson.
Writing on the JustGiving page set up to raise £29,000 for the medical evacuation to the UK, Ms Hope's friend Bella Shek wrote: "We've smashed our target, unbelievable!
"Thank you, Thank you, Thank you so much. We can now get Caroline home.
"On behalf of Caroline, her family and all her friends, the support from all of you and the general public, many of whom have never met Caroline before, has been truly overwhelming."
Ms Hope's mother Catherine has also arrived in Turkey to help organise her daughter's return to Scotland.
On Tuesday, she told BBC Scotland that she was struggling to come to terms with what had happened to her daughter. She described how her son Scott had broken the news to her about her condition.
She said: "Scott said to me on Saturday, 'Mum, Caroline is dying'.
"He said, 'We've got to get her out of there. I've phoned the British Consulate and they said they can't repatriate as they don't have an arrangement with Turkey'". | The brother of a gravely ill Scottish woman who contracted E.coli while receiving cancer treatment in a Turkish hospital says he is hopeful of getting her home at the weekend. |
38,218,202 | The call last week sparked alarm as the US does not have formal relations with Taiwan, which China views as a breakaway province.
China lodged a diplomatic complaint in response.
The White House said officials had assured China of their "continued commitment to a one-China policy".
Mr Trump's phone call was followed by two tweets in which he criticised China's monetary policy and its operations in the South China Sea.
Mr Trump has downplayed his conversation with Ms Tsai, calling it a courtesy call.
On Monday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said it was "hard to determine exactly what the aim was" behind the president-elect's actions.
But he said the US policy on Taiwan had "been in place for nearly 40 years, and it has been focused on promoting and preserving peace and stability".
"The adherence to and commitment to this policy has advanced the ability of the United States to make progress in our relationship with China and, of course, has benefitted the people of Taiwan," said Mr Earnest.
Beijing sees Taiwan as a province and aims to deny it any of the trappings of an independent state. It has threatened to use force if Taiwan formally declares independence.
Taiwan is not recognised by the US as an independent country and the two have no formal diplomatic relations, but it also does not recognise Beijing's claim over Taiwan.
China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang said US-China relations were always conducted on a "win-win" approach.
"To maintain such sound momentum of development, it will take both sides to work together on the basis of upholding major principles in bilateral relations," he said.
On Tuesday, an opinion piece in the overseas edition of China's People's Daily newspaper said that "provoking disagreements with China will not help resolve US domestic problems, won't help achieve the new Trump administration's domestic agenda".
"Provoking Sino-American frictions, messing up US-China ties will also not help 'Make America Great again'," said the article by Jia Xiudong. | The White House says it has sought to reassure China after President-elect Donald Trump's phone call with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen. |
39,179,396 | In December, five ex-FA bosses asked the government to intervene and change an organisation they described as being held back by "elderly white men".
In February, MPs with "no confidence" the FA would reform itself warned they could legislate to force it to.
Only one woman sits on the current 12-member FA board - Heather Rabbatts.
The FA's proposed reforms seek to:
The reforms still have to be approved by the FA Council, which will debate and vote on the recommendations on Monday, 3 April.
If they receive majority approval they will be taken forward to a vote of the shareholders at the FA's Annual General Meeting on 18 May.
Sports Minister Tracey Crouch has said the FA could lose £30m-£40m of public funding if it does not modernise.
FA chairman Greg Clarke reiterated that he will quit if the plans for reform do not win government support.
"This is a transformational leap forward and if the government don't accept this, I'm not sure what else we can do," he told BBC Sport on Monday.
"If government don't want to accept it, who am I to argue but, of course, I will resign."
BBC Radio 5 live sports news correspondent Richard Conway asked Clarke why there were no plans for dedicated black, Asian and minority ethnic background representation on the proposed new 10-member board.
Clarke replied: "What I would like to see is a path to make sure that not only are we gender diverse but ethnically diverse. What I don't want this to be is empty words.
"I want to find a way to achieve it and be accountable. I just need a bit more time to get there.
"It's really important that the FA is representative to society. Throughout the business world, diverse boards make better decisions. I think that's true in football too."
The FA is effectively run by its own parliament, the FA Council, which has 122 members. Just eight are women and only four are from ethnic minorities. More than 90 of the 122 members are aged over 60. | More women will be appointed to the Football Association's board as part of proposed reforms revealed on Monday after criticism over the way it is run. |
39,921,371 | The girl was repeatedly raped by her stepfather and is due to give birth in about four months, police in the northern town of Rohtak told the BBC.
He has been arrested and detained pending a full police investigation.
Indian law does not allow terminations after 20 weeks unless the woman's life is in danger. The girl's request for an abortion is for the courts to decide.
The tough law was introduced to fight India's skewed gender ratio. A deep-seated cultural preference for sons has led to millions of female foetuses being aborted over the years by pregnant women after undergoing foetal gender testing.
In recent months India's Supreme Court has received several petitions, some from women who were raped, wanting to terminate pregnancies after 20 weeks. The court has always referred the matter to medical experts.
In the latest case in Rohtak town in Haryana state, doctors from the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) met to discuss the family's request to allow the child to have an abortion.
They confirmed the girl's pregnancy.
"The police and the authorities will now take the report to the court which can order whether the child can undergo an abortion," Dr Ashok Chauhan, medical superintendent at PGIMS, told the BBC.
He said the case for a termination was "borderline".
"She is around 20 weeks pregnant, but it could be 19 weeks or it could be 21 weeks. The technology is not so advanced that it can tell you exactly what week she's in."
The pregnancy came to light last week when the 10-year-old's mother, who works as a domestic helper, suspected her child was pregnant and took her to see a doctor.
Reports said the girl was often left at home when her mother went to work. She told her mother that she had been repeatedly raped by her stepfather, who had warned her not to say anything.
The stepfather was arrested after the mother lodged a police complaint, senior Rohtak police official Pankaj Nain told the BBC. | A panel of doctors has met in India to discuss the case of a 10-year-old rape victim who is seeking an abortion. |
40,024,825 | Three-year-old Cheryl Grimmer went missing from a shower block at a New South Wales beach.
A 63-year-old man, originally from Britain, was arrested in March and charged with her abduction and murder.
A court heard the man confessed in 1971, but police had not believed him.
The man, who was 17 at the time, had also given details about the possible location of her remains, the Wollongong court heard on Wednesday.
Police initially discounted his information, believing it was inaccurate, but it had since been supported by other evidence, a magistrate was told.
The accused man cannot be named because he was a minor at the time.
Police have said they do not believe Cheryl's body will be found.
Defence lawyer Laura Fennell questioned whether the new evidence should be admissible because it was given by a minor who had been suffering mental health issues.
But the magistrate denied bail, saying the prosecution case appeared to be strong.
The man has not formally entered a plea. | A man accused of killing a UK-born toddler in Australia in 1970 once gave information to police about her possible resting place, a court has heard. |
40,760,648 | The team from SparkFun Electronics was able to open a SentrySafe safe in around 30 minutes.
The robot is able to reduce the number of possible combinations from one million to just 1,000, before quickly and automatically trying the remaining combinations until it breaks in.
After the robot discovered the combination was 51.36.93, the safe popped open - to rapturous applause from the audience of several hundred hackers.
SparkFun’s Nathan Siedle told the BBC: "That was one of the scariest things we’ve done. Lots of things can go wrong, and this was a very big audience.
"We’re really happy it opened up.”
A spokeswoman for SentrySafe could not be reached on Friday.
But speaking to Wired magazine earlier this month, when the team demonstrated its method on a smaller safe, a spokeswoman for the safe maker said: "In this environment, the product accomplished what it was designed to do.
“[It] would be realistically very difficult, if not impossible, for the average person to replicate in the field.”
The latest demonstration was performed at Def Con, the largest gathering of underground hackers in the world.
The SparkFun team was not able to travel with a weighty safe, and so bought a new one that was opened up for the first time on stage.
The team joked the safe could have been cracked sooner - but they had to fill their 45-minute time slot.
The robot, which cost around $200 to put together, makes use of 3D-printed parts that can be easily replaced to fit different brands of combination safe.
It cannot crack a digital lock - although vulnerabilities in those systems have been exposed by other hacking teams in the past.
The team’s work began when Mr Siedle’s wife Alicia bought a safe on eBay that was cheap due to the previous owner not knowing what the combination was.
“She gave it to me for Christmas,” Mr Siedle said.
The mechanism in the safe consists of three dials which, when aligned, allow the safe to be opened. Each dial can be any two digit number - meaning one million potential combinations.
But the robot doesn’t simply try every combination. It is able to suss out one of the dials within 20 seconds by detecting the size of indents on the dial. In simple terms, the “solution” indent is slightly larger than the “incorrect" indents. In the demonstration, this method meant the team discovered the third and final number was 93.
The other two dials cannot be measured - but eliminating one greatly reduces the number of possible combinations.
It was made easier when the team also discovered that the safe’s design allows for a margin of error to compensate for humans getting their combination slightly wrong.
For example, if one dial is set to open at 14, using 15 and 13 will work as well. It meant the robot could check every third number, making it possible to quickly test the remaining combinations much faster than a human being.
Using this method, they could cut down the number of possible combinations to around 1,000 - a far more manageable challenge.
Before the attempt, Mr Siedle told the BBC the robot could be easily adapted to tackle any combination safe.
“We designed it for a particular type of safe, but it doesn’t really matter - you can actually 3D-print a coupler that can match any safe that you may have.”
Some SentrySafe models come with an additional lock and key, but the team was able to unlock it by using a Bic pen.
“No matter how much money you spend on a safe… nothing is impervious,” Mr Siedle said.
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You can reach Dave securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370 | Using a cheap robot, a team of hackers has cracked open a leading-brand combination safe, live on stage in Las Vegas. |
19,365,328 | The group has an office in Belfast with fewer than 100 employees. Aviva said no employees in Northern Ireland would be affected.
It said redeployments and voluntary redundancies meant the actual number of people losing their job in the UK would be fewer than 800.
Aviva said it had already streamlined senior management roles and would create some new roles.
The Unite union has described the cuts as "totally unacceptable".
In a statement, Aviva said that its aim was that no one area in the UK "in terms of business or location will have a disproportionate impact".
"We recognise this is a difficult time for employees and will do everything we can to support them as we continue with our consultation process," it said.
David Fleming of Unite said: "Our members face being asked to pay the price of boardroom failure and Unite is dismayed that what started out as a shareholders' revolt on executive pay will result in a jobs cull.
"This is totally unacceptable."
Last year, Aviva announced it was to cut almost 1,000 jobs in the Irish Republic. | Insurance group Aviva has announced that up to 800 positions in the UK could be at risk as it continues its £400m cost-cutting programme. |
38,778,990 | Kyle Wootton looked to have won it for the hosts, turning home after Dan Holman hit the angle of post and bar.
But Jaanai Gordon levelled for Newport in the third minute of injury time to make it four unbeaten for the Exiles.
Neither side could make inroads in a cagey first half, with Newport coming the closest with shots from striker Ryan Bird and defender Sid Nelson.
Newport remain bottom of League Two, while Cheltenham are 20th.
Newport County boss Graham Westley told BBC Radio Wales Sport:
"I thought we were the better side and the tale of the tape tells you that. Over the course of the game we deserved to win.
"To have lost the game would have been a travesty, and I thought the players showed they have developed character.
"We are happy with the point. We are four unbeaten and long may that continue.
"Our fans were astonishing today as well. They played their part for us."
Match ends, Cheltenham Town 1, Newport County 1.
Second Half ends, Cheltenham Town 1, Newport County 1.
Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Newport County 1. Jaanai Gordon (Newport County) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Josh Sheehan.
Corner, Newport County. Conceded by Jack Barthram.
Attempt missed. Darren Jones (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt saved. David Pipe (Newport County) header from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jaanai Gordon (Newport County).
Jack Barthram (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jaanai Gordon (Newport County).
Foul by Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town).
Mitch Rose (Newport County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Ryan Bird (Newport County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner.
Corner, Newport County. Conceded by Liam Davis.
Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Daniel Wright replaces Kyle Wootton.
Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Diego De Girolamo replaces Dan Holman.
Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jaanai Gordon (Newport County).
Attempt blocked. Sean Rigg (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Newport County. Josh Sheehan replaces Craig Reid.
William Boyle (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jaanai Gordon (Newport County).
(Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Sean Rigg (Newport County).
Corner, Newport County. Conceded by James Rowe.
Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Mitch Rose (Newport County).
James Rowe (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jaanai Gordon (Newport County).
Corner, Newport County. Conceded by Manny Onariase.
Substitution, Newport County. Jaanai Gordon replaces Aaron Williams.
Corner, Newport County. Conceded by Jack Barthram.
Liam Davis (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by David Pipe (Newport County).
Substitution, Newport County. Sean Rigg replaces Scot Bennett because of an injury.
Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Newport County 0. Kyle Wootton (Cheltenham Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Dan Holman (Cheltenham Town) hits the right post with a right footed shot from outside the box.
Attempt missed. William Boyle (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is just a bit too high.
Kyle Wootton (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sid Nelson (Newport County). | Newport County boosted their League Two survival hopes with a last-gasp equaliser at Cheltenham Town. |
11,925,617 | They are not down-and-outs, but students, who we are told are from "good families".
They live in Tarn Taran, a typically bustling market town in Punjab, one of India's wealthiest states.
They burn the brown powder, a low grade form of heroin, over metal foil, and then inhale the smoke it makes though a rolled-up 50 rupee ($1) note.
"I started taking it when I was at school," one tells me.
"Smack is easily available at all the schools and colleges in the border area. I reckon that most of the 18 to 25 year olds here take drugs," he says.
Punjab has had a drugs problem for many years, but what the student says confirms the widespread fear that things there have recently become much worse.
All sectors of society have been affected, including ones you would least expect.
Tarn Taran's government-run rehabilitation clinic is treating a policeman, two farmers and a professional wrestler.
"It's as if we're sitting on a time bomb that can explode at any time," said Dr JPS Bhatia, who has run a rehab clinic in the region's main city, Amritsar, for the past 15 years.
"It [the rate of addiction] is definitely on the rise and it is increasing so much that the scenario at the moment is that of an epidemic," he said.
No-one knows exactly how many new addicts there are, but a recent study by the Guru Nanak Dev University in Amritsar suggested that as much as 70% of young Punjabi men were hooked on drugs or alcohol.
While the well-off take heroin, the poor take sedatives or other cheap medicines that are easily available at pharmacies, despite government efforts to limit access to them.
Historically, India's north-eastern region, next to Burma and close to the poppy-growing regions of the Golden Triangle, has had the most addicts.
But the bulk of the world's heroin now comes from Afghanistan, and its main route into India is through Punjab, via Pakistan.
It is a heavily guarded frontier, but cross-border gangs know well how to exploit gaps in the fence.
"What they do is put the contraband in large tyre tubes and float them across the water so that the person on this side of the border can collect it," said Tarn Taran's police chief, Pritpal Singh Virk.
"Certainly I'm worried about it and so are my high-ups. My seniors are always on to me to catch more smugglers and more drug peddlers and we're doing it," he said.
But despite frequent drug seizures, more keeps coming in.
Just as importantly Punjab, with its growing economy, has an ever larger number of willing customers.
The area's main wealth comes from its farms, and several times I hear stories of landowners selling their property to feed their habit.
"The middle class and the affluent are the worst victims of this crisis," explained Dr Bhatia.
"They are not labourers who don't have to worry about getting up in the mornings. They can sit at home taking heroin, while someone else does their work," he said.
One of Dr Bhatia's patients is Vishal Bamber. He actually became hooked on heroin in England where he lived for 10 years, and only returned to Punjab last year.
He did so because he said the treatment here is much more effective than what he was receiving in London.
But while his own experience of India might be hopeful, Mr Bamber has been horrified to see what has happened to the place while he was away.
"I was, like, oh my god, what's happened to my home? It used to be so clean but the vibes have changed and I'm so shocked," he said.
"There was a time when there was prosperity in this state, people were so energetic doing things, trying new things. But this is now such a sad state. The map of Punjab has changed."
One of the worst affected areas is Maqboolpura, on the edge of Amritsar.
So many of its men have died or deserted their families after becoming addicted that it has become notorious for being "the village of widows".
One woman I meet has lost two husbands, and is now struggling to care for her new one, and her eldest son, who are both addicts.
At least there is hope for most of the children of the area - a charity school run from the house of the headmaster.
"The situation here is pathetic, pathetic," its director, Brij Bedi, told me.
"We encounter drug addicts in the daytime. Sometimes they become very violent also. They're drunk or have taken drugs.
"Sometimes they try to abuse also, but they don't bother us, we're very bold, we're very strong, we're not scared of them.
"At least the children won't touch drugs. They've taken a pledge that they'll fight drug abuse," he said.
"Some want to become lawyers to get justice for the people of this area, while some want to become police inspectors to catch those people who sell it.
"The police know exactly who sells the drugs, but the tragedy is they are helpless. They are gutless people."
There are many critics of the government, but according to Dr Bhatia, Punjab is now waking up to the problem, and beginning to understand how to treat it.
"They say that growth always comes from a crisis situation, and so as we have a crisis here in Punjab there is growth also. We can be very positive that things are moving in the right direction."
But he admits that a much greater effort is needed if this problem is ever to be contained. | In the ruins of an abandoned house close to India's border with Pakistan, three friends gather to take smack. |
32,516,948 | Patrick and Barry Lyttle, along with their father, were met by family at Dublin airport after travelling on separate flights.
Barry hit Patrick outside a Sydney nightclub in January. Patrick spent a week in a coma but has recovered.
Throughout the judicial process the Ballycastle brothers stood together.
Patrick asked the court to show leniency to his brother.
Arriving home on Wednesday night, he said: "Of course for myself and my family it has been tough, but we've come through it positively and we've got the right outcome.
"We're all home together."
Barry Lyttle was given a suspended sentence for punching his brother.
After being embraced by his supporters, who greeted him with 'welcome home' signs and balloons, he said: "I just can't believe the welcome I've got today and it's just so good to be home.
"I'd just like to thank everybody for all the support Patrick and I have got. This past four months have been terrible but hopefully we can put it all behind us now and move on with our lives as best we can."
He acknowledged that if his brother had not made such a good recovery, their homecoming could have been very different.
"It could have been different, yes, and we just have to thank god and thank all the support we got. It's really pulled everybody through - Dad, Patrick and I - and without all the support, to be honest we don't know where we would be.
"But it's good to be back. It's really, really good to be back and I'm looking forward to my life again."
During the court case, the Lyttle brothers both promised to speak to young people in Ireland about the consequences of violence, in return for a more lenient sentence.
Barry Lyttle said they were looking forward to getting involved with restorative justice groups in Northern Ireland, to "raise awareness that bad things can happen from unexpected events". | The County Antrim brothers at the centre of a prosecution for grievous bodily harm in Australia have returned home to Ireland. |
39,253,192 | 14 March 2017 Last updated at 07:26 GMT
The strong winds and low temperatures caused water from Lake Ontario to blow over the house and then freeze.
It is part of a winter storm that is expected to bring blizzard-like conditions from New York City to Boston this week.
More than half a metre of snow is expected in some areas.
The mayor of New York has called on people to stay indoors to stay safe. | A house near a lake in New York in America became covered in ice. |
37,929,148 | Banks say they are altering guidelines and will inform people more promptly and put better trained staff in place.
The decision follows an independent report which said for some losing their bank branch was like a "bereavement".
The UK has lost 1700 bank branches in recent years as customers switch to online banking.
The British Bankers Association's pledge to update its Access to Banking Protocol - the guidelines covering the way banks manage branch closures - comes in response to an independent report by Professor Russel Griggs.
Professor Grigg's report said banks were using the correct "robustness and rigour" when deciding whether to shut branches, but could "significantly improve" the way they engage and communicate with their customers over the closures.
"Many of those receiving this information [that a branch is to close] will disagree with it and be unhappy about it," he said.
"I likened it to one group as a bereavement, which may seem harsh but in terms of the emotion it generates I think it is very similar."
The British Bankers Association (BBA) said it would be working with Professor Griggs to update the guidelines.
"As Professor Griggs recognises, we are in the midst of a consumer-led digital revolution in the way we do our day-to-day banking. However, banks are very aware no customer or business should be left behind and branches play an important role in the life of local communities," said Anthony Browne, chief executive of the BBA.
The BBA said its updated guidelines will suggest that banks:
The new guidelines come into effect in 2017.
Caroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK said she welcomed the results of the review but said "it's clear that banks need to give much more thought to what their older customers actually need.
"The over-65s are a highly diverse cohort... but many remain digitally excluded and are unable to access online banking or embrace new technologies." | High Street banks have promised to give more support to those customers who are affected by plans to close local branches. |
29,712,012 | In an update of his 2013 autobiography, excerpts of which have appeared in the Guardian, the former boss also responds to claims Moyes was hand-picked by him.
"Antiquated was a bizarre description of the structure I left behind," said Ferguson, who retired in 2013.
He added: "There appears to be a view out there that there was no process [appointing Moyes]. Nonsense."
Moyes was sacked by United in April 2014 after just 10 months in charge.
He left the club seventh in the table and they finished with 64 points - their lowest total in the Premier League era. The Old Trafford club also had their worst home record since 1978 during his reign.
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Ferguson said that his fellow Scot had found the move from Everton to United "a massive jump".
He added: "As the results deteriorated, each defeat was a hammer blow to him.
"I could see that in his demeanour. In January we bought Juan Mata and that gave everyone a lift but I could see the walls squeezing in, leaving David with less and less room to breathe.
"I know that feeling from 1989, when we went through a terrible spell. You feel you are being crushed. The results gnawed away at David. Nobody could dispute how disappointing the season was. And it cost a man his job."
According to The Guardian, Ferguson also says that he was not consulted when the decision was made to sack the 51-year-old.
In response to suggestions that an ageing squad was handed to Moyes, Ferguson states that 11 of the side that won the title by 11 points in 2012-13 were 25 or under.
"Chelsea started the current season as favourites for the title, with a squad that also had six players in their 30s. I don't hear any grumbles about the age of their group," he added. | Sir Alex Ferguson has denied successor David Moyes inherited an "antiquated" structure at Manchester United. |
34,509,899 | QUB wants to increase the number of students from just over 1,500 to about 4,200 across its faculties by 2020.
International students pay much more in fees but their intake does not reduce the number of places available to students from Northern Ireland.
QUB staff have also been set targets for the research funding they generate.
Some faculties have been asked to double their research income, while staff have also been set individual income targets.
According to the document, each faculty has been set targets to increase the number of international students.
In 2013-14, for instance, the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences had 510 international students, but by 2020 this is expected to increase to 2,020 students.
The other faculties - Engineering and Physical Sciences, and Medicine, Health and Life Sciences - are expected to at least double their intake to 1,243 students and 905 students respectively.
While students from Northern Ireland - and those from European Union countries - attending QUB currently pay £3,805 a year in tuition fees, international students can pay anything from about £13,000 a year to just over £33,000 a year for those taking specialist medical courses.
Places available for local students are capped, while places for international students are not.
QUB has also set targets for staff at each faculty to raise the amount of research income they generate.
Staff in Engineering and Physical Sciences are expected to more than double the faculty's research income from £19.6m to £38.6m.
In Medicine, Health and Life Sciences, research funding is also expected to rise from £30.1m to £60m.
Individual staff have also been set targets to bring in research grant funding as part of their job descriptions.
The BBC has seen some of these targets.
For instance, a senior lecturer in English is expected to generate £48,000 by 2020, and a senior lecturer in history £69,000, but a senior lecturer in Anthropology is expected to raise almost £200,000 over the same period.
Staff in all faculties have been set similar individual targets, and the University and Colleges Union (UCU) has expressed concern about the implications.
In a statement it said: "Queen's management needs to recognise that staff are stretched to their limits.
"A survey carried out by Queen's UCU indicates that 90% of respondents considered that the targets being set by management were excessive and beyond what was expected in comparable institutions.
"Setting very high income and other targets for staff under already under pressure is not the answer and risks severely damaging the morale of hard pressed and loyal staff and their confidence in management."
In April, QUB announced it was cutting 236 staff posts through a voluntary redundancy scheme, but last month it warned staff it may have to make compulsory redundancies.
An internal review into the future of QUB is also currently ongoing.
This is expected to report before Christmas, and may recommend the closure of some courses and departments.
QUB's funding from Stormont's Department for Employment and Learning was cut by £8m earlier this year. | The number of international students at Queen's University, Belfast (QUB) is set to almost treble, according to an internal presentation seen by the BBC. |
38,117,838 | The group was meeting to consider if it should recommend a new referendum on abortion law in the Republic.
Currently abortions are permitted only when the mother's life is in danger.
The Citizens' Assembly is meeting for a weekend-long session in Malahide, County Dublin.
Speaking at the meeting, Dr Brendan O'Shea, a member of the regulatory body for general practitioners, said financial constraints were leading some women to carry on with unwanted pregnancies.
Meanwhile, a speaker from the HSE's Sexual Health and Crisis Pregnancy Programme, Janice Donlon, said that between 2010 and 2012 an average of 821 women on the island of Ireland were sent abortion pills annually.
Cork obstetrician and gynecologist, Professor John Higgins, said over 2014 and 2015, the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act had facilitated 26 terminations.
Most arose from a mother's life-threatening physical illness, with just three involving the threat of suicide.
Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist, Anthony McCarthy, quoted international research on the damaging effects of pressurising women in crisis pregnancies.
The specialist at the National Maternity Hospital said that the surveys consistently found that women who are pressurised to have an abortion, or not to have one, suffer significant mental health problems because of that.
The chair of the assembly, the Supreme Court Judge Mary Laffoy, told members their meetings between now and March will be their most difficult as they debate the issue.
On Saturday morning, the assembly heard an address on the history of the Eighth Amendment.
The amendment, introduced in 1983, essentially gives constitutional protection to an unborn child.
Outside the meeting, a small group of protestors staged a demonstration.
Prof Eoin Carolan of UCD said that although abortion had been illegal in Ireland since 1861, the 1983 amendment made it clear for the first time that the right to life applied to the unborn.
Prof Carolan recalled that in 1992, the Supreme Court ruled in the X case that abortion is allowed where there is a real and substantial risk to the life, as distinct from the health, of the mother and where the risk could only be avoided by the termination of her pregnancy.
He said that the risk could be from either a threat of suicide or because of a physical condition. | A group that advises the Irish government on abortion has been told poorer women are accepting crisis pregnancies because they cannot afford a legal termination. |
31,896,694 | The Irish narrowly missed out on a place in the quarter-finals, but may not feature in 2019 when the tournament is reduced from 14 to 10 teams.
"Why don't 10 teams just play cricket and every other country in the world not bother?" said Porterfield.
"It's the ICC, supposedly global. They have to develop the game."
Batsman Porterfield was speaking after Ireland's seven-wicket defeat by Pakistan, which meant they missed out on a spot in the last eight on net run rate after winning half of their six Pool B games.
Ireland have beaten a Test nation in three successive World Cups, with their victories in Australia and New Zealand including wins over West Indies and Zimbabwe.
"We've shown what we can do," said the Warwickshire left-hander. "The ICC can't say that they are having fewer teams to make the World Cup shorter, because the next tournament is longer than this one."
Eight places in the next tournament will be allocated according to the world rankings, with Ireland likely to compete for the two remaining spots in a qualifying competition in Bangladesh.
If they fail to qualify, it would be the first World Cup without the Irish since 2007.
"I'd love to think that we haven't played our last World Cup game," said 30-year-old Porterfield. "I'm sure the ICC are hoping everything blows over and they don't hear much from us, then it's easy to sweep under the carpet."
Ireland have the opportunity to earn Test status via the 2017 Intercontinental Cup, but Porterfield says his team need more one-day internationals against top sides before thinking about playing the longer form of the game.
"Yes, it's something we want and the pathway is there, but we need to play the volume of fixtures before we get to that stage," he said.
"We have six weeks until the next game, a one-off fixture against England. It's great that we've got that fixture, but it's a big gap. Those are the gaps that need to be filled before we build for Test status."
Ireland would have reached the last eight for the second time if they had beaten Pakistan in Adelaide, but saw their total of 237 overhauled with 23 balls to spare.
"It's difficult to say it was a missed opportunity," added Porterfield. "We've beaten two Test nations and played some very good cricket.
"We're disappointed. We came in with high hopes because we believe we can beat anyone. When we sit and reflect, we can be very happy with what we have achieved."
Listen to highlights from Test Match Special's and 5 live Sport's 2015 World Cup coverage. | Ireland captain William Porterfield says the International Cricket Council should develop the game rather than cut the number of teams at the World Cup. |
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The Scottish Football Association want to ensure that the experience of the finals in Holland is fully utilised.
Thirty-five coaches of female teams from across Scotland have been analysing Europe's top national sides.
The intention is to apply what they learn on the pitches of Peterhead, Perth and Paisley.
The hope, too, is to capitalise on the continuing growth of the women's game, with the national team having reached the finals of a major tournament for the first time.
The number of registered players has already doubled in the past six years, going from 5,541 in 2011-12 to 12,885 in 2016-17 according to the Scottish Government.
"First and foremost we want to continue the quality of coaching that girls are getting in Scotland," said Donald Gillies, head of girl's and women's football at the Scottish FA.
"We want to be able to say that players are getting exposed to the best practice regardless of whether or not it's men or women."
With European funding this group, from Scottish Women's Premier League 1 down to Division 2, have been meeting coaches from clubs across the Netherlands, including Ajax, as well as taking part in scouting and analysis of the European Championship matches.
Gillies told BBC Scotland: "The group is really good because it's filled with people from the length and breadth (of Scotland) and all levels of experience.
"So for coaches who are working at a lower football league level they're seeing things for the first time that they perhaps haven't considered.
"We are not looking to replicate what Holland or anyone else is doing, but if it gives the opportunity for them to think about things a different way, and improve what they are doing at their own club back home, then we certainly want them to be able do it.
"For the coaches at the top end of the game in Scotland - whether it's Hibs, Celtic or (Glasgow) City - they're looking at things a lot more in depth and there's plenty for them to get out of it as well, whether it's tactically, mentally or physically."
Gillies believes that the achievement of qualifying for the finals of a major tournament is vital for future success, and the governing body is aware of their responsibility to capitalise on it.
"We're at a point now that their status as role models is at such a level where other women are interested in playing and coaching," Gillies said.
"We've got a number of mentor programmes, we've got our very strong coach education programme at grassroots and now we want to start churning out more high-quality coaches and certainly a more regular amount of female coaches back home in Scotland."
Gillies said the group of 35 coaches have been following the European championship participants closely, to learn as much as they can.
"(There have been) loads taken from the games, like Holland who are fantastic to watch from their style of play, physicality, ability and their pace," Gillies said.
"From a sport science perspective, it's interesting to ask how they have got them to that standard and what they have done in their programmes at grassroots and senior game (level)." | While Scotland's Euro 2017 players focus on trying to reach the knockout stages, a group of coaches are using the tournament to build for the future. |
38,684,228 | You can see highlights of Manchester City v Tottenham on Match of the Day at 22:30 GMT on Saturday on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.
Spurs face another big test at Manchester City on Saturday but they will be full of confidence after putting in one of their best performances of this campaign when City came to White Hart Lane at the start of October.
Back then, City had a 100% record in the league under Pep Guardiola but I still thought Spurs would beat them, and make a statement of intent. They did.
I also said then that I thought Mauricio Pochettino's side would go the distance in the title race this time, and part of the reason I felt that was because the experience of being in one, and losing it, builds strength of character.
Their younger players like Dele Alli and Harry Kane have developed in other ways too. They have both taken a step up, in fact the whole team has.
Spurs have had some criticism over some of their summer signings, but you do not need to go and buy lots of players when the ones you have already got are dramatically improving year on year.
I still think their squad is stronger now, though, especially in the central midfield which is key.
Last season, when Eric Dier and Mousa Dembele played together there, Spurs looked solid - they only lost one out of 26 league games with them both in the team.
In the games I saw, it was not the same whenever Pochettino switched things round in that department. The tempo dropped and it seemed some of the team's belief disappeared too. They lost five of the 12 league games they played without at least one of them.
So the addition of Victor Wanyama, who joined from Southampton for £11m in the summer, was massive.
Having Wanyama there means Pochettino can play Dier at centre-half without losing anything in the middle of the park.
Far from it, in fact, because Wanyama and Dembele have formed the most powerful central midfield partnership in the Premier League.
The other reason I think Spurs have progressed is their manager. Pochettino has gone up a level too.
Antonio Conte has rightly been given a lot of praise for his results in his first season at Chelsea after switching formation in September to play with three at the back.
But he has used that system throughout the majority of his coaching career, and he knows how it works.
It would have been more of a surprise if Conte had come to England and played with a 4-4-2 or 4-2-3-1 and cracked the Premier League that way.
Nobody expected Pochettino to play with three centre-halves - before the start of this season he had only done it on one occasion since he arrived in English football with Southampton in January 2013.
But he has now used it five times since the start of November, starting with the derby against Arsenal at Emirates Stadium, when Spurs were struggling in the Champions League and missing several key players.
Everyone said it was a good time to play them, but Pochettino switched things round, got an unbelievable point and almost won the game right at the end.
Since then, Pochettino seems to be able to switch between a four and a three whenever he likes and be as successful. That has allowed him to adapt his side as the season goes along, reacting to where they were struggling.
The loss of Jan Vertonghen for a few weeks with an ankle injury is big because of the stability he brings to the team, but I am sure Kevin Wimmer will slot in pretty smoothly if they continue with a three.
Pochettino's sides are always solid at the back but a few weeks ago he felt as if he wasn't getting as much out of his attacking players as he could, and that is not the case now with that formation.
While Tottenham don't have the strongest squad in the Premier League, I can understand why some people think they have got the best team.
When everyone is fit, they do not have a weak link in their strongest XI - everyone fits perfectly together into their style of play.
Spurs clearly have some outstanding individuals too of course. Hugo Lloris is arguably the best goalkeeper in the top flight - I don't think you can split him, Thibaut Courtois or David de Gea.
For me, Danny Rose and Kyle Walker are by far the best full-backs in the league and I said last season that I saw Vertonghen and Toby Alderweireld as the two best centre-halves.
They are definitely the best defensive pairing in the Premier League anyway, but I am still confident Spurs will be able to cope while Vertonghen is injured.
As I have already said the midfield unit is extremely strong, and you could make a great case for Harry Kane being the best striker too.
Kane won the golden boot last season and is on fire at the moment too, but if I were to dissect every single position then there would be players from other clubs that, on paper, are better than what Spurs have got.
Having them instead might weaken Tottenham as a team, though. For example I would have Eden Hazard ahead of Christian Eriksen but without Eriksen you might lose some of the things that make the whole team tick.
Eriksen does not give you everything that Hazard would but he and Dele Alli have just started to get their almost telepathic understanding with Harry Kane going again.
The way those three link up is a good example of why Spurs are doing so well, and all over the pitch they have units or partnerships that have the same sort of understanding.
The biggest contrast between City and Tottenham at the moment is at the back. I think that is because unlike Pochettino, City boss Pep Guardiola does not have the players to play the way he wants to.
Guardiola has also tried playing with three centre-halves but it did not work because he used Raheem Sterling and Leroy Sane as his wing-backs when they do not suit that role.
In the centre of defence, City have not found a partnership that is anything like the one Vertonghen and Alderweireld have either, and it does not help that they constantly chop and change their backline.
Guardiola has been tweaking things in attack too and, again, I am not sure it has helped some of their players.
Kevin de Bruyne was playing brilliantly at the start of the season, creating chances, scoring lots of goals and also winning the ball, but that was when he was playing centrally and he did not have the same impact when he was pushed wide.
I don't get why Guardiola did that. In September he was talking about De Bruyne being second only to Messi in terms of players he has coached. Well, you don't move Messi, do you?
Sergio Aguero has not been his usual deadly self in front of goal recently either, and I think he has been up and down all season.
Aguero has been sent off twice, including the retrospective red card he got against West Ham, and both incidents came through frustration.
You would not want to take that will to win out of his game because it is part of what makes him so brilliant but he does not look like a happy player at the moment.
That might be down to the system, but he is so good that at some point he will find form again and really take it out on the opposition - I just hope it is not Tottenham who take the hit.
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Tottenham are flying at the moment - on a six-game winning run in the league, scoring goals for fun and probably playing better than ever under Pochettino.
They will have seen the way Manchester City have been defending recently and it will fill them with confidence ahead of their trip to Etihad Stadium on Saturday, as will the results of their recent meetings - Spurs have won the last three.
When they met at White Hart Lane in September, I knew Pochettino would look to press high up the pitch, and I looked at the way City were playing and thought it would play into Tottenham's hands. It did.
On form alone, I should probably be even more certain of a Spurs win this time, but the thing that keeps sticking in my mind is Guardiola's pride.
It has taken a massive hit in the last few weeks, especially in last week's 4-0 thumping at Everton which was his heaviest domestic defeat in more than nine years as a manager.
People like Pep are seriously dangerous when that happens, because they are born winners.
Just when you think things are going to get really hard for them, they dig deeper and find something within themselves to make their situation drastically different.
City have got lots of world-class players who can win games on their own. They are not playing particularly well at the moment, but it only takes one of them to perform on Saturday, and Spurs could be in trouble.
Jermaine Jenas was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan. | I am not surprised that Tottenham are doing so much better than they were at this stage last season, because I always thought what happened to their players when Leicester went on to win the league would help them go on to the next level this year. |
33,865,166 | Families spent the night in a school hall after the 500lb bomb was found in the basement of a building site on Temple Street, in Bethnal Green, on Monday afternoon.
A 200m (650ft) exclusion zone was set up around the device.
Residents have been told they can now return to their homes.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said the German WW2 air delivered bomb could have caused "mass destruction" if it had detonated.
A spokesman said a bomb disposal team from the Royal Logistics Corps, 621 Squadron and 11 EOD Regiment assisted the emergency services.
The bomb, which was found by contractors, was thought to have been dropped over the capital during German bombing raids in the early 1940s, but did not detonate, said the London Fire Brigade (LFB).
An Army spokesman thanked residents for their patience.
The spokesman said: "We understand the disruption this has caused but be reassured my team has been working tirelessly through the night in order to minimise the inconvenience to everyone involved.
"The bomb has been in the ground for more than 70 years but unlike a fine wine does not improve with age. It is potentially more dangerous today than the day it was made."
The bomb was located in the cellar of a three-storey building, which had severely restricted access. The military had to dig around the device to neutralise the fuse using a chemical process called immunisation, the MoD said.
The military, London Fire Brigade and the Met Police helped remove the bomb at about 14:10 BST.
Beds, food, drinks, and wash bags were provided to about 150 evacuated residents at the Bethnal Green Academy on Monday evening, which was used as a rest centre.
John Biggs, the mayor of Tower Hamlets, said: "Many thanks to the emergency services who worked tirelessly with us to make the area safe as soon as possible."
Last night, residents took to Twitter to share their experiences.
Rachel Walker wrote: "WWII bomb in #BethnalGreen has resurrected Blitz Spirit."
Several roads were closed and police warned of "significant traffic disruption" into the morning rush hour.
Two other unexploded bombs were discovered and safely removed from sites in London earlier this year - one in Bermondsey in March and another in Wembley in May. | An unexploded World War Two bomb that prompted the evacuation of 700 people in east London has been made safe and removed by the military. |
40,974,891 | Shari and Danny Butcher are on holiday in the Spanish city and were among those who fled the scene of Wednesday's attack on Las Ramblas.
Thirteen people were killed and dozens more were injured in the attack.
Members of an Irish family are among those who were injured.
"This is mind-altering for me - I can't wait to get home," Mrs Butcher told BBC Radio Foyle.
Mrs Butcher, from Limavady, said she and her husband were having a drink when they heard a bang.
"Then people started to scream and run towards us, the police were running and blowing whistles," she said.
"When we heard another loud bang Danny stood up and looked across and saw a couple of people lying on the pavement.
"I got up and ran - everybody was panicking and screaming.
"Danny shouted after me: 'Don't panic.'"
She said she slipped and "had a bit of a panic attack".
"At this point we still didn't know what had happened - I just visualised the London attack.
"It was awful - we could have been killed.
"People from all over the world were there enjoying a holiday."
Sharon and Martin Kane, from west Belfast, were on their honeymoon in Barcelona when the attack happened.
Mr Kane said they were asked to get off the bus they were travelling on.
"Before we knew it everybody started rushing," he said.
"We saw a girl fall and smash her head off the ground and everybody tried to get on the bus panicking.
"Everybody was falling all over themselves, people crying and shouting."
The couple then took cover in a nearby hotel.
"It was just like back to the 1970s and 1980s in Belfast when I was a child, the same things happening - a bomb going off in the city centre," Mr Kane said.
Husband and wife Norman and Pederlita Putot, who are from the Philippines but are Irish citizens, were in the city with their Irish-born children, Nathaniel and Pearl.
Mr Putot and his son are among the injured and are still in hospital in Barcelona, while Mrs Putot and her daughter escaped unhurt.
The five-year-old boy has a broken femur and his father has knee injuries.
The so-called Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the atrocity, and Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has said it was a "jihadist attack".
In a linked incident, five suspected terrorists were killed by police in the Spanish seaside resort of Cambrils.
Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney said it was a "miracle" that more Irish people were not hurt in the Barcelona attack.
He said Spain is the main holiday destination for Irish people and the connections between the countries "are really, really strong".
"Nearly two million Irish people this year will travel to Spain on their holidays," said Mr Coveney.
"You can safely say that probably over 300,000 Irish people are in Spain today.
"It's a miracle that more Irish people weren't involved, given that there are so many Irish people in Spain, Barcelona and Cambrils at this time of year."
The UK's Foreign Office has said a "small number" of Britons were hurt and it is investigating reports that a child with British nationality went missing during the attack.
It has also issued travel advice for those going to Spain.
Irish citizens are being advised to follow the advice of local authorities.
Anyone with concerns for the safety of people in Barcelona can contact the consular assistance team in the department on 01-4082000 or the Irish embassy in Madrid on +34 914364093.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland has issued safety advice for people at home and abroad in the event of a weapons attack.
Assistant Chief Constable Barbara Gray said the intention was to increase "public awareness and vigilance, and ensuring our residents know what action to take in the unlikely event of an attack".
Flights to the city are unaffected.
A book of condolence for the victims of the attacks has opened at Belfast City Hall. | A County Londonderry woman has told of the moment a van ploughed into crowds in Barcelona, yards from where she was sitting outside a bar with her husband. |
37,132,116 | Supporters ran onto the pitch and violence broke out among rival fans after Hibernian beat Rangers 3-2 at Hampden Park in Glasgow.
Police said that a total of 63 people had now been arrested over the incident on 21 May.
The five men arrested are aged 16, 23, 25, 29 and 36. They are due to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Friday. | Five more men have been arrested over the pitch invasion and disorder at the end of the Scottish Cup Final. |
38,369,049 | Commuters are facing a second day of delays in a 48-hour strike by guards over proposed changes to their roles.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said he would be willing to "thrash out a workable solution" with the government.
But Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said the unions had failed to come to the table for talks.
The RMT claimed that in three recent agreements on rail contracts the role of conductors had been retained.
It said the arrangements cover Great Western, East Coast and TransPennine Express contracts, in addition to the deal achieved on the Scottish government's rail contract this year.
Mr Cash said: "All we are asking is for [the government] to authorise a similar deal on its Southern rail contract. This would provide a basis for a Christmas truce."
But the Department for Transport said the union's claims were misleading and the three contracts did not stipulate whether services should be run with or without guards.
How services are run on these franchises is down to the individual train companies, the Department for Transport‎ added.
The Transport Secretary added: "I have reaffirmed my offer for talks with the unions if they call off strike action, but they have failed to come to the table.
"No jobs are being lost and no pay is being cut... The unions want to take the rail industry backwards and stop the roll out of new, modern trains."
RMT union members walked out at midnight on Sunday in a dispute over guards' roles on new trains.
Under the changes already being brought in by Southern, drivers take responsibility for opening and closing the doors and guards become on-board supervisors.
However, the union fears job cuts and has raised safety concerns.
Shadow Transport Secretary Andy McDonald said it was within the government's "gift" to bring about a suspension of the strikes.
He added: "The government should acknowledge that the whole issue of the dispatch of trains from platforms is in need of review.
"It must take this opportunity to resolve the dispute and sort out Southern's unacceptable service."
A Southern spokesman said: "We invited the RMT to talk to us last week and, to show good faith and a genuine interest to find a solution, to call off their strike action.
"We're happy to listen to their proposals to help us implement our modernisation plans with the driver in full control of the train."
Southern said services during the strike would be "significantly disrupted" with no trains on some routes and no service after 18:00 GMT on others.
Previous RMT strikes have affected about 40% of services but Southern said an overtime ban instigated by the train drivers' union Aslef would add to the disruption.
Meanwhile, a study of the economic impact of the Southern dispute has put the loss in terms of Gross Domestic Produce (GDP) at around £300m.
The University of Chichester examined the impact on productivity of both the RMT and Aslef strikes - basing its calculation on the thousands of commuters who are late, missed work or have had to work from home.
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35,765,116 | The theft took place at a taxidermy warehouse in Wandsworth on the evening of 1 March, at about 19:20 GMT, Metropolitan Police said.
Antiques taken included a globe and 18 stuffed animals.
It is believed the thieves came in a Luton van with a grey cab and white body, using axle grinders to break in.
Det Con Edward Bird said: "This was not a random crime, the burglars had came prepared and well equipped. This was a criminal enterprise and these thieves need to be stopped before they commit further crimes.
"The items they stole are of high value and are very distinctive." | A chimpanzee wearing a top hat, a lion and a zebra are some of the stuffed animals worth £100,000 that have been stolen from a south London warehouse. |
39,542,846 | The Barca forward received a booking for blocking a free-kick before going on to receive a second yellow for a foul on Diego Llorente.
His sarcastic applause as he walked off could result in him receiving more than the standard one-match ban.
Barcelona are second in La Liga.
Coach Luis Enrique's side remain on 69 points, three behind Real Madrid, who drew their derby against Atletico Madrid earlier on Saturday and have a game in hand. Barcelona face their fierce rivals after next week's match against Real Sociedad.
Under Spanish league rules, Brazil international Neymar, 25, would receive a longer suspension if his reaction to the sending off is deemed as contempt for the officials. | Neymar's decision to tie his laces as a delaying tactic in Barcelona's 2-0 defeat at Malaga might eventually contribute towards a suspension for the crucial El Clasico game on 23 April. |
36,325,428 | James Thompson took his own life last year shortly after Leicester's Bradgate Unit said it was full, although he was offered inpatient treatment elsewhere.
An inquest returned a conclusion of suicide and that the care he received was good.
His family said they were satisfied with the verdict but added that they had concerns over funding.
The 44-year-old chef, who lived in Leicester, had a history of mental health problems including anxiety and depression.
His family have previously said he "begged" to be sectioned but the inquest heard that while he had seen health professionals he often did not engage in treatment.
He was offered inpatient treatment but there were no beds available in Leicester and he did not want to go elsewhere.
Bill Timson, Mr Thompson's stepfather, said: "I am concerned about the level of mental health funding.
"There wasn't a bed for James when the time was absolutely necessary as far as we're concerned. He was offered a bed... but it was going to be out of the area."
Assistant coroner for Leicester Dianne Hocking concluded Mr Thompson died as a result of suicide and the care he received from Leicestershire mental health services was good.
In a statement, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, which is responsible for mental health services in the county, said: "We were deeply saddened by the death of Mr Thompson.
"We want to extend our sincere sympathies to Mr Thompson's family on their tragic loss and would welcome the opportunity to meet with them, if they wish." | The family of a man who killed himself said mental health services should be better funded. |
24,052,448 | The memorial to John Jobbins disappeared in undergrowth in Trevethin in the years after his death in 1934.
Volunteers have been clearing the grave ahead of a full restoration this year.
The battle was immortalised in the 1964 film Zulu with Sir Michael Caine and Stanley Baker.
Pte Jobbins' war medal is held by the Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh in Brecon.
The restoration of his grave at St Cadoc's church in Trevethin follows that of another VC hero, Pte John Williams Fielding's grave, in nearby Llantarnam, Cwmbran, in April.
Stephen Vaughan, secretary of the Veterans Association Pontypool Branch, said volunteers did not want memories of soldiers' service to be lost.
"Jobbins didn't get the Victoria Cross medal like Fielding but we couldn't leave the grave overgrown like that," he said.
"Our goal is that this man is looked after, to get an annual service to celebrate his life and make sure the sacrifice he and other soldiers made are remembered."
Pte Jobbins joined the regular army in 1877, having become "bored" of his job as an ironworker, according to museum curator Bill Cainan.
He was part of the 24th Regiment of Foot (2nd Warwickshire Regiment), based in Brecon, which sailed to South Africa just before the Zulu War.
According to Mr Cainan, Pte Jobbins wrote to his parents in Trevethin in February 1879 to tell them he had survived the battle.
"The original medal he received for his service in the war was lost, but his replacement is still part of our collection," he said.
After the war, Pte Jobbins returned to the Pontypool area, married and had eight children. He worked in the local steelworks and coal pits.
He died on 22 September 1934, aged 78, at his home in Pontnewynedd.
Pte Jobbins' grave was rededicated by the Anglo-Zulu War Society in 1995 with a new plaque but became lost in the undergrowth. | The grave of a soldier is being restored in Torfaen over 130 years after he fought in the legendary defence of Rorke's Drift in the Anglo-Zulu war in South Africa. |
37,052,856 | It was found at North Queen Street on Tuesday morning and was declared a "viable device".
The police have now launched an attempted murder investigation.
Det Ch Insp Peter Montgomery said it was "lucky" that no officers or members of the public were hurt.
"This incident also caused massive inconvenience, disruption and upset for the local community of north Belfast," he said.
During the operation, a number of families had to leave their homes and several roads in the area were closed.
Police have said they want to speak to the driver of a white van that was seen in North Queen Street just before midnight on Monday 8 August.
Det Ch Insp Montgomery added: "I am appealing for anyone who noticed any activity in the North Queen Street area, close to Spamount Street, between Monday evening and Tuesday morning." | A pipe bomb that was discovered in north Belfast on Tuesday was most likely thrown at a passing PSNI vehicle the night before, police have said. |
23,260,199 | Earlier, 50 people were unaccounted for after Saturday's blast in Lac-Megantic. There are 15 unidentified bodies.
Authorities have launched a criminal investigation into what happened, but they have ruled out terrorism.
The boss of the train's US owner is due later to visit the scene, a day after he admitted "partial responsibility".
At least 30 buildings were razed by the fireball from the explosion that rocked the town on Saturday morning.
But the entire town centre is being treated as a crime scene, with several additional streets cordoned off by police tape.
By David WillisBBC News, Lac-Megantic
It is difficult to sum up the sense of shock that has engulfed this close-knit community. Life in the town beside the lake is normally so very tranquil and polite. But in the early hours of Saturday morning the French-speaking residents of Lac-Megantic had their peace shattered - in possibly the most violent and horrendous way imaginable.
The heart of the town has been destroyed. As tends to be the case in such circumstances, everyone knows somebody who was affected. One man I spoke to had lost five of his neighbours - as well as the home in which he grew up.
Oil trains have been rolling through this part of Canada for years - their cargo growing increasingly larger in accordance with heightened demand for crude. Some here saw this as a disaster waiting to happen. Now Lac-Megantic faces the long and painful task of rebuilding.
Quebec Police Inspector Michel Forget said that while investigators had ruled out terrorism as a motive for the attack, several other options - including criminal negligence - remained under consideration.
"This is an enormous task ahead of us," the police inspector said. "We're not at the stage of arrests."
Some 200 officers were still conducting searches on Wednesday morning.
But police said the effort was taking a toll on some crew members and two people had to be taken off the operation over worries for their physical condition.
"This is a very risky environment," said Quebec Provincial Police Sgt Benoit Richard.
"We have to secure the safety of those working there. We have some hotspots on the scene. There is some gas."
Authorities have asked the relatives of those still missing to provide DNA samples by bringing in toothbrushes, razors and other items.
But the authorities have also warned some of the bodies may have been burnt to ashes in the explosion.
The train, carrying 72 cars of crude oil, was parked shortly before midnight on Friday in the town of Nantes about seven miles (11km) away.
Local firefighters were later called to put out a fire on the train.
While tackling that blaze, they shut down a locomotive that an engineer had left running to keep the brakes engaged.
Shortly afterwards the train began moving downhill in an 18-minute journey, gathering speed until it derailed in Lac-Megantic and exploded.
The fire department and the train's owners have appeared to point the finger at one another over the disaster.
Rail World chief executive Edward Burkhardt suggested on Tuesday evening that firefighters shared some blame.
"We don't have total responsibility, but we have partial responsibility," he told reporters in Montreal.
Earlier this week he told the media he had received hate messages.
The train was carrying oil from the Bakken oil region in the US state of North Dakota to a refinery on the east coast of Canada. | Sixty people are now thought to be dead or missing after a freight train carrying crude oil derailed and blew up in Quebec, Canadian police say. |
26,917,693 | Mr Hagel, who arrived in the port of Qingdao from Japan, is thought to be the first senior Western official to board the vessel.
China bought it from Ukraine in 1998 and has spent 10 years refitting it.
It is seen as a potent symbol of China's ambition to modernise its navy, amid a strategic shift in the region.
The fact that the US secretary of defence was allowed to step on board the carrier will be seen as a sign that the two countries may be willing to engage in more military co-operation, reports the BBC's Martin Patience in Beijing.
Washington has repeatedly called for more transparency from Beijing on its military spending, our correspondent adds.
US officials said that the defence chief's visit to the Liaoning at Yuchi naval base - which took place after a US request - lasted about two hours.
No further details were immediately available and journalists accompanying him on the China visit did not go with him.
The carrier was built in the 1980s for the Soviet navy but was never completed.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the rusting hull - then called the Varyag - sat in dockyards in Ukraine.
A Chinese company with links to China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) then bought the Varyag, saying it wanted to turn the vessel into a floating casino in Macau.
In 2001 the ship was towed to China. The Chinese military confirmed in June 2011 that it was being refitted to serve as the nation's first aircraft carrier.
Earlier this year, it completed sea trials in the South China Sea, where China has overlapping territorial claims with several South East Asian nations.
Beijing's more assertive stance on this issue in recent years has led to a rise in tensions between China and its neighbours, particularly Vietnam and the Philippines.
China is also embroiled in a separate dispute over East China Sea islands that are controlled by Japan.
In Tokyo, Mr Hagel addressed regional territorial disputes, saying Chinese authorities should have "respect for their neighbours".
"You cannot... redefine boundaries and violate territorial integrity and sovereignty of nations by force, coercion and intimidation, whether it's in small islands in the Pacific or large nations in Europe," he said.
The Liaoning aircraft carrier has already attracted controversy. Late last year, Mr Hagel criticised China as "irresponsible" after the near-collision of a US warship and a Chinese naval vessel in the South China Sea.
The US said its guided missile cruiser, USS Cowpens, was operating in international waters on 5 December when the Chinese vessel - which was accompanying the Liaoning - forced it to take evasive action.
State-run newspaper Global Times, however, quoted an expert as saying that the US boat had been "harassing" the Liaoning as it carried out drills. | US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has toured China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, at the beginning of a three-day visit to China. |
36,238,918 | The Spiders were ahead after five minutes when Sean Burns converted from the penalty spot.
John Gemmell headed the Bully Wee level 10 minutes later, but Queen's Park took control after the break.
Vinnie Berry fired home from close range and David Galt stunned the home crowd from all of 30 yards.
Clyde had finished the League Two season one place above their visitors, had beaten second-top Elgin City to reach the final and were seeking a fourth straight victory.
But the side who finished in fourth spot had the upper hand in games against Barry Ferguson's team this season - winning three and drawing the other.
And the Spiders were quick into the ascendency.
When 40-year-old former Rangers centre-half Marvin Andrews fouled Galt inside the penalty box, defender Burns handed the Glasgow side the advantage at Broadwood.
Striker Gemmell's fourth goal for Clyde since joining from Albion Rovers in January levelled for the Cumbernauld side.
However, Berry found the bottom corner to re-establish the lead after an hour.
Fellow midfielder Galt gave them daylight when he struck a superb effort from distance with six minutes remaining.
It puts the Spiders, who lost in last season's final, in firm control as they look to go one better after the second leg at Hampden Park.
Clyde manager Barry Ferguson: "The first half, we did well, but we lost a bad second goal and the third you can't do anything about.
"We've still got a lot to play for, but I'm missing a few through suspension, so I'll have nobody on the bench and I am sitting here trying to work out a team.
"We'll need to go with what we've got, but it's not over - it's only half time and we'll go and have a blast at it.
"I've told them I've played in loads of games where we've come back from two goals down."
Queen's Park head coach Gus MacPherson: "We're delighted. We had to work extremely hard for it.
"They were certainly the stronger team in the first half and we were having to defend deep.
"But we stood up to it, rode our luck a bit, but once we settled we looked dangerous.
"David Galt's was a tremendous striker, but it hasn't decided anything."
Match ends, Clyde 1, Queen's Park 3.
Second Half ends, Clyde 1, Queen's Park 3.
Chris Smith (Clyde) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by William Mortimer (Queen's Park).
Attempt missed. Sean Burns (Queen's Park) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt missed. Marvin Andrews (Clyde) header from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Scott McLaughlin (Clyde) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by William Mortimer (Queen's Park).
Scott Linton (Clyde) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gavin Mitchell (Queen's Park).
Attempt saved. William Mortimer (Queen's Park) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Scott Linton (Clyde) right footed shot from the left side of the box is too high.
Substitution, Queen's Park. William Mortimer replaces John Carter.
Scott McMann (Clyde) is shown the yellow card.
Scott McMann (Clyde) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Ryan McGeever (Queen's Park) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal! Clyde 1, Queen's Park 3. David Galt (Queen's Park) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Vincent Berry.
Attempt saved. Conor McVey (Queen's Park) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Clyde. Ross Millen replaces David Gormley.
David Gormley (Clyde) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by John Carter (Queen's Park).
Attempt missed. Jordan Kirkpatrick (Clyde) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Substitution, Clyde. Jamie Watson replaces John Gemmell.
Substitution, Queen's Park. Joe Bradley replaces Paul Woods.
Substitution, Queen's Park. Conor McVey replaces Liam Brown.
Substitution, Clyde. Sean Higgins replaces David Marsh.
Scott McMann (Clyde) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by John Carter (Queen's Park).
Corner, Clyde. Conceded by William Muir.
Attempt saved. Scott Linton (Clyde) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Jordan Kirkpatrick (Clyde) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Vincent Berry (Queen's Park).
Goal! Clyde 1, Queen's Park 2. Vincent Berry (Queen's Park) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
David Gormley (Clyde) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Scott Linton (Clyde) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Sean Burns (Queen's Park).
Attempt saved. David Galt (Queen's Park) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. John Carter (Queen's Park) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Liam Brown (Queen's Park) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jordan Kirkpatrick (Clyde). | Queen's Park put one foot in Scottish League One with a play-off final first-leg win over Clyde that will be difficult to overturn on Saturday. |
30,589,521 | The 18-year-old, who is yet to make a senior competitive appearance, signed a two-year professional deal with the Shropshire club in February.
England Under-18 international Burton was needed by Nuneaton after Christian Dibble, on loan from Barnsley, was recalled by his parent club on Monday.
Dibble had made five appearances for the club since arriving in November.
Nuneaton are currently 23rd in the Conference, four points above bottom club Telford, their Boxing Day opponents.
Meanwhile, the red card shown to Nuneaton midfielder James Armson during Saturday's 2-0 defeat by Halifax has been rescinded, meaning he will be available for Friday's game. | Nuneaton Town have signed goalkeeper Callum Burton on an undisclosed-length emergency loan from Shrewsbury Town. |
37,031,773 | The pair, both in their 30s, were removed from the plane when it arrived at City of Derry Airport earlier on Wednesday.
It followed a request from the pilot of the 06:55 BST flight.
The pair were released several hours after being arrested on suspicion of endangering an aircraft.
In a statement, Ryanair said: "The crew of this flight from London Stansted to Derry requested police assistance upon landing in Derry, after two passengers became disruptive in-flight, who were removed and detained by police.
"We will not tolerate unruly or disruptive behaviour at any time and the safety and comfort of our customers, crew and aircraft is our number one priority. " | Two women have received community resolution notices for disorderly behaviour on a Ryanair flight from London Stansted. |
22,398,356 | The $22bn (£14bn) contract is Japan's first successful bid for an overseas nuclear project since a tsunami wrecked the Fukushima power station.
The deal was signed by visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said it would transform relations with Japan into a "strategic partnership".
"What happened at Fukushima upset all of us. But these things can happen. Life goes on. Successful steps are being taken now with the use of improved technology," the Turkish prime minister added.
The deal comes as part of renewed efforts to promote Japanese nuclear technologies abroad, despite concerns over safety.
One of the Japanese firms included in the consortium is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, one of the companies behind the Fukushima plant damaged in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Turkey is also prone to earthquakes, and the government cited Japan's expertise in earthquake protection as one of the factors in signing the deal.
The other firms are Itochu Corporation and French utility group GDF Suez.
Japan is looking to boost exports of its technological expertise as it attempts to increase economic growth and escape two decades of near stagnation.
Fast-growing Turkey, meanwhile, is planning to invest in domestic energy generation to reduce its dependence on imports as the economy expands.
The new nuclear plant will be Turkey's second. It is currently dependent on imported oil and gas to meet 97% of its energy needs. | The Turkish government has signed a deal with a Japanese-French consortium to build a new nuclear power station. |
39,519,933 | The National Trust hopes the plan will improve visitors' experiences, keep people safe and address conservation requirements.
The new system will mean tourists are allocated a one-hour slot to cross the bridge.
The tickets will be sold at the site are only valid on the day of purchase.
The popularity of Northern Ireland's Causeway Coastal route, which boasts links to HBO's Game of Thrones, has increased in recent years and record numbers visited the bridge in 2016.
"With tremendous visitor growth to the site over recent years we were keen to identify solutions that will enhance the visitor experience; ensure that we are keeping everyone safe whilst also addressing the important conservation requirements," said Frank Devlin of the National Trust.
"The introduction of timed tickets will enable us to manage the increasing volume of visitors to the Carrick-a-Rede island.
"All visitors will be required to present their tickets at their allocated time period, before crossing the bridge."
The bridge is 18 inches wide and can only accommodate eight people at one time.
It is Northern Ireland's sixth most popular tourist attraction and was visited by 354,000 people in 2015. | Timed tickets are being introduced at Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge to deal with crowds at the world-famous north coast attraction. |
36,829,414 | Jackson, 29, joined Rovers on a short-term deal from Barnsley in January and scored twice in 19 games for the Championship club last season.
He will help plug the gap left by Tom Bradshaw, who has moved to Oakwell in the pursuit of Championship football.
Jackson is Saddlers' boss Jon Whitney's ninth signing of the summer.
"I want to come here, play as many games as I can, score goals and cause defenders problems," Jackson told Walsall's website.
"It's a new challenge for me being a senior in the changing room, but from what I know and have seen in my short time here, the set-up looks really good.
"The club just missed out [on promotion] last season and hopefully they can learn from it and be up there again this year."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Canada striker Simeon Jackson has signed for League One side Walsall on a two-year contract after leaving Blackburn Rovers. |
36,882,675 | The newlyweds, who have not been formally identified, had just married when the Suzuki Ignis they were in and an HGV collided on Friday on the A64.
Joy and Derek Green also died at the scene between Malton and Scarborough at Scampston, according to their daughter who has posted a Facebook tribute.
The 26-year-old driver of the lorry was uninjured.
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Melanie Ann Green said in the tribute: "Yesterday was the worst day of my life.
"I know a great many people loved my parents, they were amazing, wonderful, weird people, they opened their hearts to the entire world. They were my world."
Ms Green named the newlyweds as her "Uncle Paul and his partner Sue".
She said the two couples were returning from the wedding in Leeds.
She has asked people "to respect our grief and our privacy".
Traffic Sgt Paul Cording, of North Yorkshire Police, said people at the scene had been confronted by "the carnage of a very serious road traffic collision".
Officers said those killed were from Scarborough and Leeds.
The road was closed in both directions to allow investigators to examine the scene, with it reopening early on Saturday.
Witnesses have been asked to contact North Yorkshire Police. | A newlywed couple and two wedding guests died when a lorry and a car crashed head-on in North Yorkshire. |
35,833,543 | Only once have they won it and converted that position into a clean sweep of all five games.
However, against France on Saturday, I fully expect England to deliver coach Eddie Jones a Grand Slam in his first campaign.
This is why.
We should not be afraid to speak what we see - this French side is a poor one in comparison to the great teams of the past.
We always ask which French team is going to turn up, but if we are brutally honest, over the past eight years or so it is difficult to recognise France as the scary, brilliant, exciting, attacking side that used to run through teams.
There have been a couple of notable wins, namely over Australia in 2014 and New Zealand in 2009, and there was a dramatic victory the last time the teams met in Paris in the Six Nations.
They also ran red-hot favourites New Zealand close in the 2011 World Cup final.
But France have failed to fire far more often than they have produced those stirring performances.
If a backline of Francois Trinh-Duc, Maxime Mermoz, Gael Fickou, Scott Spedding, Virimi Vakatawa and Wesley Fofana play their best rugby, if all the offloads stick, if they read each other as if they are telepathic, we are in for a heck of a game.
But, even if they do, I would like to think that England would hit them in the tackle.
In truth I just can't see France threatening in this way; there has not been any indication that this side has it in them.
By contrast, you go through the England squad and a lot of them are playing some of the best international rugby of their careers.
Flanker Chris Robshaw seems to have been freed up without the captaincy and number eight Billy Vunipola could well be the man of the tournament.
Second row Maro Itoje has made a huge impact and is working well alongside George Kruis.
In the backs, the settled 10-12-13 combination of George Ford, Owen Farrell and Jonathan Joseph looks fluent while the back three - wings Anthony Watson and Jack Nowell especially - have been razor sharp.
Jones has tinkered with his line-up for Paris, bringing in Danny Care at scrum-half.
He is a sharp, sniping number nine and is quicker in pace and thought around the breakdown than Ben Youngs, who he has replaced.
He is going to come out fizzing, determined to prove he should be first choice. It is a clever piece of psychology to take the fight to France.
For most teams in the championship, you can outline a clear philosophy.
England hit in close with forward runners, assess the options and - when the time is right - probe space out wide.
Wales are slightly in transition this year, but have a direct style with big midfield runners creating holes to fall back on.
Scotland's ethos has been dubbed "ruck and run" as a result of their eagerness to recycle quickly and keep the ball in hand.
But France just don't look like they know what they are doing - their gameplan seems a random mix of ideas.
They appear torn between playing it tight with an emphasis on the set-piece and mauls, and giving the French public what they want with a more expansive game.
France have made more than twice as many offloads as any other team in the tournament.
They are trying to play off the cuff, but it is so long since they did that as a national side - and so few of their clubs do it in the Top 14 - that they are really struggling to make it work.
They have given away 64 turnovers while England have restricted the opposition to just 45. Nine of those turnovers against France have come inside their own 22, compared to just three conceded by England in that section of the pitch.
Both France coach Guy Noves and England counterpart Jones are new to their roles.
The way they have gone about their jobs is quite different though.
In his short time in charge to date, Noves' team has continually been in flux.
He has called up sevens specialist Vakatawa for the Six Nations, when the winger's last game in 15-man rugby was in December 2013.
He shunted the talented Fofana out from the centre to the wing for the defeat by Scotland last weekend and has done so again for Saturday.
And most crucially he has continued a trend of tinkering with the half-back partnership. Predecessor Philippe Saint-Andre never found a combination he was happy with and Noves looks similarly undecided.
He has kept Trinh-Duc and scrum-half Maxime Machenaud in place for this game but opted for Sebastien Bezy and Jules Plisson earlier in the Championship.
This latest duo is France's 19th different half-back partnership since 2011 and no team can be consistent with that many changes in the positions where all the decisions are made.
Jones has tweaked England's ethos and tactics but in terms of personnel has kept most of the squad used by former boss Stuart Lancaster.
Away from the pitch, Jones also operates with greater freedom.
He reports to Rugby Football Union chief executive Ian Ritchie, formerly of Wimbledon.
Ritchie may know lots about tennis, but he will have to bow to Jones' greater rugby knowledge and, surely, whatever demands he makes.
In contrast, Noves has to contend with French rugby legends in their federation's hierarchy - Fabien Pelous, Serge Blanco and Jo Maso all hold prominent positions - as well as the power of the domestic clubs in France.
For example, France's top players turned out for their clubs in the free weekend in the middle of the tournament - no other coach has to put up with those competing demands.
The famous defeat against Scotland in the Grand Slam decider at Murrayfield in 1990 was only my sixth Test for England.
People played up the psychology of that game - Scotland captain David Sole's slow walk onto the pitch, the anti-English sentiment in the crowd, the 10-year wait since our last Grand Slam - but, as I always tell people, Scotland were just an extremely good side.
I had no baggage or hurt and pain from the past, I just wanted to win a game of rugby.
I had no idea how big the Grand Slam was in 1990. The next year I understood.
I had the pain of losing that game at Murrayfield and understood how big the match against France was as we went for the Grand Slam again.
But we knew, as I think this England team should, that if we played our best rugby we would win.
Everyone kept things as normal as possible in the build-up. Captain Will Carling was not any more or less vocal, neither was Brian Moore up front.
When you have a mix of carefree youth and steadying experience it works well - and I think England do have that mix.
These Grand Slam games are rarely won by a huge margin - 2003 was an exception when England romped away 42-6 against Ireland.
If England get a fast start the French crowd could turn against their own and things could get ugly for the hosts - but it would be a brave man to predict a cricket score.
That said, I do think the visitors will win, by seven to 10 points. | Since the Five Nations became Six in 2000, England have gone into the final game of the championship on five occasions knowing that victory would give them a Grand Slam. |
35,287,291 | The decision comes after the assembly swore in the three opposition members, who had been suspended by the court.
The court said the ruling applied to all acts that have been taken or will be taken by the current assembly.
The move is likely to escalate the political turmoil gripping the crisis-hit country.
Four lawmakers were barred by the Supreme Court - three from the opposition and one allied with the government - after the Socialist Party alleged irregularities during last month's vote for a new congress.
The opposition claimed the the ruling was designed to strip it of a so-called "super-majority" in the assembly and swore in the three barred members. The supermajority gives the opposition extra powers such as removing judges from the top court.
That prompted the court to retaliate by declaring the assembly's decisions void. It said in a statement: "Decisions taken or to be taken by the National Assembly while these citizens are incorporated will be absolutely null."
The four legislators are all from the rural and sparsely populated southwestern state of Amazonas.
"The logical, sane and democratic step is for the National Assembly's leadership to revoke the swearing-in of these lawmakers," said the Socialist Party deputy leader and former National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello.
"If the National Assembly is in contempt, nobody is going to recognize it," he said.
The legislature was to sit on Tuesday, and the opposition bloc was planning to table an amnesty law for jailed activists, and government legislators intended to propose a declaration of "national emergency" over the economic crisis.
Venezuela's Supreme Court has almost always ruled in favour of the government during the last 17 years of socialist rule under President Nicolas Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez. | Venezuela's Supreme Court has ruled all actions of the opposition-held National Assembly are void until three banned members are removed from office. |
36,686,702 | Yew Tree Farm, near Coniston in the Lake District, was one of a number of properties she owned.
Open days will be held this Saturday and next, and a Herdwick sheep-themed exhibition is on show in the barn.
The property is now owned by the National Trust.
Current tenant, farmer Jon Watson said: People can go on the creaky floorboards, see Beatrix's furniture and look at her pictures.
"Beatrix bought the farm back in about 1930 and saved it from being turned into a forestry plantation.
"She was a great champion of the Herdwicks. She really believed in them, promoted them where she could and insisted her farm kept them."
The exhibition in the barn is running daily until 10 July and will feature photographs, paintings, spinners and weavers.
Famous for her stories featuring Peter Rabbit, Potter was also a prize-winning breeder and became the first woman to be elected president of the Herdwick Sheep Breeders' Association.
However, she died in 1943 before taking up the position.
She left 4,000 acres of land and countryside to the trust, as well as 14 farms. | A farm once belonging to Beatrix Potter will open to the public later as part of celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of the author's birth. |
37,691,717 | The game on 5 November falls outside World Rugby's Test window, which contravenes English Premiership rules.
But it appears North and Roberts - and the injured Taulupe Faletau - could have special dispensation to play.
"Having spoken to the players, some of them are available for the Australia game," said Howley.
"We've had no formal conversations with any of the English clubs.
"The players I've spoken to are the likes of Jamie, George and Toby [Taulupe Faletau]."
Harlequins' Roberts posted a message on his Instagram account saying he was "looking forward to meeting up" with the Wales squad next week.
Northampton paid a fine of £60,000 in 2013 after their wing North played for Wales against Australia in a match which took place outside of the international window.
North had agreed a three-year contract whereby he would be available for all Wales games, but the 24-year-old has since signed a new deal.
Centre Roberts, meanwhile, is in the second year of his Harlequins contract and any fresh release could prompt more action by Premiership Rugby Limited against its clubs.
Wales also believe Toulon full-back Leigh Halfpenny will be available to line up against the Wallabies.
Bath number eight Faletau has been picked to lend experience to Wales training, although he is unlikely to be fit until the latter half of November if at all.
His inclusion, along with Roberts and North as the three wildcards under the Welsh Rugby Union's senior player selection policy, meant that Bath fly-half Rhys Priestland misses out.
Only three players who have signed new contracts outside Wales can be included in any squad.
Japan-based lock Dominic Day, Gloucester prop Nicky Thomas and scrum-half Rhodri Williams are the others affected by the rule.
Meanwhile, Wales captain Sam Warburton could make his return for Cardiff Blues against Pau in the European Challenge Cup on Friday 21 October, following a cheekbone injury. | Wales coach Rob Howley says they will have England-based pair Jamie Roberts and George North available to face Australia in their opening autumn Test. |
38,519,965 | Barnaby Cork was out with his family when he was struck outside the Thame Leisure Centre in Oxfordshire at 10:30 GMT on 10 December.
Despite attempts to revive him, he died on his way to hospital in air ambulance, the Oxford court heard.
Oxfordshire Coroner Darren Salter said it was a "tragic case" and adjourned the inquest until 23 March.
Barnaby's father Stefan has set up an online fundraising page to raise money for the Thames Valley Air Ambulance and has raised more than £27,700 so far. | An inquest into the death of a four-year-old boy hit by a car outside a leisure centre has been opened. |
36,227,685 | "I've been as a spectator before and this year I'm really hopeful of getting a ride," she told BBC Sport.
Trainer Jane Chapple-Hyam said she has two potential mounts earmarked for her 30-year-old fellow Australian.
Payne could ride Solar Deity in the Royal Hunt Cup, and The Twisler in the Gold Cup on Ladies' Day.
"When she was in England before, she rode me a winner," said the Newmarket-based trainer. "We are friends.
"She's won a Melbourne Cup and I'm a Melbourne girl. so let's give it a go."
Payne, who made history in November by winning the Melbourne Cup on 100-1 shot Prince Of Penzance, said she might also be booked by Australia-based owners OTI Racing for one of their horses at the meeting, which starts on 14 June.
"I'm heading over to England in June, coming over to hopefully ride at Royal Ascot, riding in Sweden and travelling around Europe and coming back to Ascot for the Shergar Cup in August," she added.
"Hopefully I can then come back to Australia, and really concentrate on the spring when hopefully there will be more opportunities from last year's success.
"And, who knows, Prince Of Penzance might be able to come back and have another crack at it."
Payne rode Iasia to victory for Chapple-Hyam at Warwick seven years ago.
"She was very canny and walked the track twice and worked out that going round by the far rail would be better," said the trainer.
Solar Deity was only bought last Friday with a view to running at Ascot, while The Twisler's long-term target could be a crack at the Melbourne Cup
The Twisler will make his seasonal debut this month, either in Berlin on 15 May or at Goodwood or York later in the month.
If he runs in the Gold Cup, it would see a female jockey riding for a female trainer on a horse part-owned by a woman on Ladies' Day in a race named in honour of the Queen's 90th birthday.
"It will be hard, he'd be a 33-1 shot, and we're in the lap of the gods as we'd want some overnight rain. We'll be the only ladies wanting it to rain on Ladies' Day," added Chapple-Hyam.
In August, Payne will be in the team of female jockeys looking to retain the Shergar Cup at Ascot, where she expects to ride alongside Irish jockey Cathy Gannon and Canadian Emma-Jayne Wilson.
Payne, who told chauvinists to "get stuffed" after her Melbourne Cup triumph, will compete against male riders representing Great Britain and Ireland, Europe and the Rest of the World.
"The Shergar Cup is a prime example of matching it with the guys. The female team beat everybody last time," she said.
"They've got the best jockeys from all around the world competing. The girls' team was the most successful and took out the riding honours.
"I'm just over the moon to be invited. It's such a prestigious event and I've watched it for many years. I'm so excited to be joining the girls' team and can't wait for us to show them what we've got." | Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup, has revealed she is set to ride at Royal Ascot for the first time next month. |
37,094,141 | Among his kit were a hat of brown bear skin and a quiver made from roe deer.
Despite being well preserved and studied, the 5,300-year-old mummy's various leather items had not all been identified at the species level.
These findings, published in Scientific Reports, reveal a mix of wild-hunted animals with sheep, goat and cattle related to modern domestic breeds.
The researchers say this points to Copper Age people choosing carefully between different wild and domesticated animals when looking for materials to make their clothes.
But Oetzi's motley wardrobe, including a coat made from at least four separate goat and sheep hides, could also suggest a more haphazard and desperate approach - stitching together whatever scraps of skin were available.
"It clarifies what we already knew - that the Iceman was an agropastoralist; that the majority the food and resources that he used were of domestic origin," said the paper's first author Niall O'Sullivan, a PhD student at University College Dublin based at the Institute for Mummies and the Iceman in Bolzano, Italy.
"But we also know, from earlier experiments, that he supplemented his living with food from wild sources. His last meal was composed of ibex and red deer.
"Our study shows that, as well as for food, for the manufacturing of leather he also used both wild and domestic animals."
The Iceman's belongings that the team pinpointed were:
These various leathers were all identified based on mitochondrial DNA - the separate, smaller genome found in the tiny compartments that turn food into energy inside living cells.
When Oetzi was discovered in 1991, famously well preserved in the ice of the Italian Alps, this type of ancient DNA analysis was impossible.
"25 years ago, the study of ancient DNA was in its infancy," Mr O'Sullivan told BBC News. "It would not have been possible to infer, to the same extent, the species of origin or how domesticated the leathers were."
Even today, he and his colleagues were surprised by how much they were able to learn.
"We analysed nine samples and for each one, we were able to reconstruct either a whole mitogenome or a partial mitogenome. We were very happy with that."
Follow Jonathan on Twitter | DNA analysis of Oetzi the Iceman's clothes has traced their origin to at least five different species of animal. |
34,734,144 | Police and UK Border Force officials made 167,000 seizures in 2014-15 - a fall of 14% over the previous year and the largest drop since 2006-07.
There was, however, a substantial rise in the amount of heroin confiscated by authorities.
Policing minister Mike Penning said there were "promising signs" that drug laws and policies were working.
Officials carried out 29,705 seizures of class A drugs in 2014-15. Cocaine was the most common type found, with authorities confiscating 3,387kg in more than 15,000 seizure operations.
In April cocaine with an estimated street value of £500m was recovered from a North Sea tug, in the biggest single class A drug seizure in the UK.
In the same period, 1,113kg of heroin was confiscated by police - up from 647kg in 2013-14: a rise of 72%.
The latest figures show class B drugs accounted for most of the seizures - 132,253 in total - the majority being herbal cannabis.
More than 360,000 cannabis plants were confiscated in 11,612 operations, along with 15,000kg of the prepared drug.
Total seizures of anabolic steroids were also up significantly. This was due to a number of very large seizures made by the Border Force.
The City of London Police had the highest number of confiscations per million people, while outside the capital the highest number was by Dyfed-Powys Police in Wales. Lincolnshire Police recorded the lowest number.
Mr Penning said: "Seizures are just one part of a complex picture in our fight against drugs. Our strategy is clear - we must prevent drug use in our communities, help those who are dependent to recover and ensure law enforcement agencies stop the supply of drugs and the organised crime associated with it.
"There are promising signs our approach is working - with a downward trend in drug use over the last decade and more people recovering from dependency now than in 2009-10."
But Harry Shapiro, a drug information analyst, said the statistics were not a reliable indicator of the general impact of drug policies.
He said: "One year's large seizures can distort the picture and overall, seizure figures often tell us more about enforcement activity than the actual amount of drugs available on the streets."
Mr Shapiro, who worked with former drugs charity DrugScope, added: "A good example of how it is difficult to do a simple read across from seizures to the drug situation is the fact that heroin use is falling and the number of seizures went down, yet the amount of heroin seized showed a significant rise." | Drug seizures in England and Wales have fallen to the lowest number in a decade, Home Office figures have shown. |
36,962,112 | More than £400,000 is needed towards repairing the instrument, which is the largest in a private house in Europe.
It has 2,300 pipes and 52 speaking stops, but several no longer work, while broken pistons mean there are several missing notes.
It is now being played in twice-weekly recitals to raise money through donations.
It was built in 1891 by "Father" Henry Willis and took two and a half years to transport in sections to the estate in Woodstock, Oxfordshire from Camden in London.
A spokeswoman said during its illustrious history it had "entertained kings, emperors and wounded World War One soldiers".
She added: "The Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) visited for a week, and greatly enjoyed the organ, particularly Wagner opera transcriptions.
"Three years later, the German Emperor visited Blenheim with His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and listened to a recital of Wagner and Handel.
"He likened playing the organ to 'steering a great battleship', and was so taken by the organist that he invited the latter to play in Berlin, an invitation that was later accepted.
"During the First World War the Long Library served as a convalescent hospital, and the organ was much used for the entertainment of the troops."
The organ was commissioned by the 8th Duke of Marlborough George Charles Spencer-Churchill - who was Winston Churchill's uncle - and his wife Lillian. He died a year after its installation.
The inscription above it reads: "We leave thy voice to speak within these walls in years to come when ours are still." | The restoration of a giant 125-year-old organ at Blenheim Palace is to be funded through a series of concerts. |
33,069,726 | Andrew Byrne, an anaesthetist who attended the 1989 FA Cup semi-final as a spectator, first went on to the pitch to give CPR to an unconscious fan.
A police officer then asked him to go to the stadium's gymnasium, which was being used as a temporary mortuary.
The new inquests also heard about 26-year-old Barry Bennett's final moments.
Dr Byrne, a consultant anaesthetist who was based at the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, had been watching the match with Nottingham Forest supporters in the south stand at the Sheffield ground.
When the match was halted six minutes after the 15:00 BST kick-off because of a terrace crush at the other end of the ground, Dr Byrne went on to the pitch to offer assistance.
The court heard footage showed him crossing the pitch at about 15:40 BST.
The senior medic, who became emotional while giving part of his evidence, recalled how, on his way into the temporary mortuary, he stopped in a "long corridor" to help a man who was lying on his back struggling to breathe.
It appeared as if the man was swallowing his tongue, Dr Byrne told the jury.
He said he then pulled the man's jaw forward, successfully restarting his breathing.
After this, Dr Byrne was taken into the gym and asked to confirm that 16 casualties had died.
He said all 16 were dead and that he did not think their faces had been covered.
Dr Byrne told the court: "I will be honest with you, I wanted to get out as quickly as I could.
"It was one of the most awful experiences of my life."
Dr Byrne was working in the gym between 16:00 and 16:15 BST but said he had "no idea of time. Time stood still".
BBC News: Profiles of all those who died
The jury was also told about how Liverpool fan Barry Bennett, a tugboat worker described as "loyal and loving to his family and friends", got caught up in the fatal terrace crush at the Leppings Lane end.
He travelled to Sheffield in a car with a group of friends.
One of them, Kevin Carroll, described being separated from Mr Bennett outside the turnstiles and then going into the ground through an opened exit gate.
A complete match ticket was later found among Mr Bennett's possessions.
The jury saw a picture of him in distress inside pen three on the terraces. The image was taken between 15:06 and 15:08.
Mr Bennett was taken off the terraces and moved to the opposite end of the pitch, but it remains unclear how that happened.
He was seen in pictures timed at about 15:32, receiving CPR.
Among those who tried to revive him was off-duty ambulance officer Andrew Turner, a Nottingham Forest fan at the game.
He was seen with Mr Bennett in one photograph timed at 15:32 and in another taken 10 minutes later.
Mr Turner said: "After a while of our resuscitating it didn't look like we were going to get any further with him."
Glyn Phillips, a practising GP and Liverpool fan who had escaped from pen three, also tried to help.
He said someone who appeared to be close to Mr Bennett was "beside himself with grief".
After working on Mr Bennett for "a matter of a few minutes at most", he said he remarked to a woman who was helping: "He has gone".
Mr Bennett was eventually taken to the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, where a doctor confirmed his death.
Ian Johnston, another friend who had travelled with Mr Bennett to the match, identified his body in the stadium's gymnasium early the following morning.
The inquests, sitting in Warrington, Cheshire, are due to resume on 15 June. | A doctor who was asked to confirm the deaths of 16 of the 96 Hillsborough victims said it was "one of the most awful experiences" of his life. |
38,444,253 | Oliseh, who stood down as Super Eagles coach ten months ago, previously played for Dutch giants Ajax from 1997 to 1999.
Fortuna Sittard confirmed his appointment on their website, saying he had signed an 18-month contract.
Oliseh, 42, has an option to extend it for another season.
He will take charge of training at Fortuna Sittard for the first time on 2 January.
The club's Turkish owner, Isitan Gün, said he was 'very happy' to announce Oliseh's arrival.
"With Sunday Oliseh we signed a young and ambitious coach with vision, one players look up to," Gün said.
"We were looking for someone who plays attractive football combining it with the will to win. We think Sunday is the right one for this job," Gun added.
Oliseh, who also played for Juventus and Borussia Dortmund during his club career, earned 63 caps for Nigeria.
He helped his country win the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations and Olympic gold in 1996.
Before taking on the role of head coach with Nigeria, Oliseh had previously coached Belgian lower tier side Verviétois. | The former Nigeria coach and captain, Sunday Oliseh, has been appointed as head coach of the Dutch second tier club Fortuna Sittard. |
14,206,113 | Hushovd timed his burst to perfection to leave his fellow Norwegian behind in the final metres at the finish in Gap.
Frenchman Thomas Voeckler retained the yellow jersey, but Australian Cadel Evans and three-time winner Alberto Contador both made significant gains.
Mark Cavendish stays top of the sprint standings with a lead of 34 points.
After a cagey opening, the stage came to life as the peloton took on the slopes of the Col de Manse, the stage's only category two climb.
It's a little bit scary when Contador attacks
A 10-man breakaway group, without any of the general classification contenders, was strung out as Cervelo-Garmin's Ryder Hedjedal reeled in Russian rider Mikhail Ignatyev to reach the summit with team-mate Hushovd and Boasson Hagen a short distance behind.
The trio came together with two kilometres to go and the Cevelo-Garmin colleagues took turns to attack before Hushovd pounced in sight of the line, with an outnumbered Boasson Hagen unable to respond.
Further back Contador looked back to his bullying best and apparently recovered from the knee injury that hampered him earlier in the Tour.
The Spaniard made several attempts to pull away as the gradient increased, and although Voeckler initially covered his breaks, the pressure told.
Contador broke free of the race's overall leader, as well as brothers Andy and Frank Schleck, with only Evans and Samuel Sanchez able to to follow.
Evans held his nerve best on the tricky descent to La Rochette and by the time he crossed the line had moved into second place ahead of Frank Schleck in the overall standings and within one minute 45 seconds of Voekler.
Contador, who was caught up in a pile-up on the race's opening stage, nibbled 18 seconds off the four-minute deficit between himself and the yellow jersey.
Andy Schleck, especially, struggled on the final downhill stretch and an advantage of one minute 45 seconds over Contador was reduced to less than 40 seconds.
"It's a little bit scary when Contador attacks," admitted Voeckler.
"With the kick he has in the climbs, I probably should have left the others chase but it's not my style.
"We didn't expect him to attack today, rather in the next few days and I must admit I got stuck, but most of the others struggled too. I should have stayed in Evans's wheel."
The race's decisive stages are expected to come over the next three gruelling days in the Alps, with Voeckler himself having openly admitted he is not confident of retaining the lead until the finish in Paris.
At 2,645m, Thursday's finish at Galibier Serre-Chevalier is the highest in the race's history before the riders ascend the Galibier again the following day en route to Alpe d'Huez.
STAGE 16 RESULT
1. Thor Hushovd (Nor/Team Garmin-Cervelo) 3hrs 31mins 38secs
2 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor/Team Sky) same time
3 Ryder Hesjedal (Can/Team Garmin-Cervelo) at 0:02
4 Tony Martin (Ger/HTC-Highroad) at 0:38
5 Mikhail Ignatyev (Rus/Katusha Team) at 0:52
6 Alan Perez Lezaun (Spa/Euskaltel-Euskadi) at 1:25
7 Jeremy Roy (Fra/FDJ) at same time
8 Marco Marcato (Ita/Vacansoleil-DCM) at 1:55
9 Dries Devenyns (Bel/Quickstep Cycling) at same time
10 Andriy Grivko (Ukr/Astana) at 1:58
OVERALL STANDINGS
1. Thomas Voeckler (France/Europcar) 65 hrs 24 mins 34 secs
2. Cadel Evans (Australia / BMC Racing) +1.45
3. Frank Schleck (Luxembourg / Leopard) +1:49
4. Andy Schleck (Luxembourg / Leopard) +3:03
5. Samuel Sanchez (Spain / Euskaltel) +3:26
6. Alberto Contador (Spain / Saxo Bank) +3:42
7. Ivan Basso (Italy / Liquigas) +3:49
8. Damiano Cunego (Italy / Lampre) +4:01
9. Tom Danielson (U.S. / Garmin) +6:04
10. Rigoberto Uran (Colombia / Team Sky) +7:55 | World champion Thor Hushovd outsmarted Edvald Boasson Hagen to surge past the Team Sky rider and take his second stage win in the 2011 Tour de France. |
35,048,219 | The Beatles spent time at the 18-acre ashram, meditating and writing songs in 1968. Many of the songs made it onto the band's iconic White Album.
The ashram was run by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a flamboyant self-styled Indian guru, who died in 2008.
It was abandoned by the guru and his followers in the 1970s.
But the retreat, which was taken over by the local forestry department in 2003, remained a big draw with Beatles fans from all over the world. They would usually sneak in by climbing the walls or paying a small bribe to a gatekeeper.
The derelict ashram is located on the fringes of a tiger reserve. A meditation hall with colourful graffiti on the walls is the main attraction.
Authorities opened the ashram to visitors on Tuesday, and are charging Indian and foreign tourists 150 ($2.24; £1.49) and 700 rupees ($10.49; £7) respectively.
"We have cleaned up the place and lined the pathways with flowers. We are making some gardens and putting some benches for visitors," senior forestry official Rajendra Nautiyal told the BBC.
"We are introducing a nature trial and bird walk. We also plan to set up a cafeteria and a souvenir shop at some point. We want to retain the place's rustic look."
However visitors will not be allowed to draw on the walls on the ashram without permission from the authorities, he said.
The Beatles had planned a three-month retreat at the estate in 1968, but, according to some accounts, it descended into farce.
Ringo Starr went home after 10 days complaining about the spicy food.
Paul McCartney stayed for a month, while John Lennon and George Harrison left abruptly after six weeks.
Paul Saltzman, author of The Beatles in Rishikesh, says the band wrote some 48 songs during their stay.
The retreat itself - leased to the guru by the government in 1957 - was gradually reclaimed by nature after being abandoned. | An abandoned spiritual retreat in the Indian town of Rishikesh where The Beatles learned to meditate has been opened to the public. |
36,108,762 | It is said to involve thousands of scammers, some of them pretending to be government officials to extract money from victims.
The scam has reportedly cost mainland Chinese victims billions of yuan and to have driven some to suicide.
Earlier this month a group of suspects, including Taiwanese, were deported from Kenya to China, angering Taiwan.
On Friday, Chinese officials said those 45 Taiwanese suspects will face trial on the mainland, refusing Taiwan's request they be sent back to Taiwan.
Both China and Taiwan have for several years been pursuing suspects in what appears to be a huge scam operation, in terms of both scale and spread.
In comments released to state media, China's public security ministry said it believed the scammers were operating mostly out of South East Asia, Africa and the Pacific Islands. Besides the Kenya case, there were also recent arrests in Malaysia.
The officials claimed to have arrested 7,700 telecoms fraud suspects, of which about 4,600 are Taiwanese, in South East Asia in the past seven years - since they signed a formal agreement with Taiwan to jointly tackle crime.
Many of the other suspects are said to be Chinese.
The scammers have made staggering amounts of money - one of the worst cases saw a person in Guizhou city tricked out of 117m yuan (£12.6m; $18m) last December.
Many of the victims are elderly, along with teachers, farmers, manual labourers, and students. Officials added that the scams had bankrupted families and businesses, driving "many victims" to suicide.
It has been difficult to ascertain if the criminals belong to the same ring or are separate syndicates, but their techniques have been similar.
They usually contact victims over the phone or on popular messaging apps like WeChat and QQ, and their main ruse involves pretending to be a public security official telling the victim he or she is suspected of money laundering and needs to transfer more money for investigations.
Other methods reported (in Chinese) include scammers pretending to be insurance agents or employees of online shopping sites.
In February, China's public security ministry released a warning to the public listing 48 types of telecoms scams, which also include hacking victims' messaging accounts to obtain their banking details.
The Chinese authorities' comments indicate that previously, when suspects were nabbed for committing crimes in a third country, both sides would separately deal with their own suspects.
But now Taiwanese suspects have been deported to the mainland, instead of their home, to face charges. This has angered Taiwan, which has accused China of "extrajudicial abduction".
China regards Taiwan as a breakaway Chinese province not an independent country.
It insists it has jurisdiction over the Taiwanese as their suspected victims have all been mainland Chinese.
It also claims that in many cases, Taiwanese suspects often go unpunished by Taiwanese authorities and the scammed amounts thus cannot be recovered.
Earlier this month China criticised Taiwan for releasing a group of Taiwanese suspects arrested in Malaysia.
Correspondents say the dispute is likely to sour already strained cross-strait relations.
The move by China is also seen by some as yet another sign of heavy-handedness, after the recent suspected abductions of five Hong Kong booksellers. | A recent diplomatic row between Taiwan and China has cast light on a massive international telecoms fraud problem. |
36,889,558 | Chief Inspector of Prisons Peter Clarke described Swaleside Prison, on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent as "dangerous" and its segregation unit as "filthy".
He said: "On the basis of the very clear evidence before us... Swaleside was not a safe prison."
However, he added there were signs "it had started to stabilise".
Two years ago, an unannounced inspection of the jail found some prisoners were too scared to leave their cells for fear they would be assaulted, and that staff shortages were "affecting every area of the prison".
In October 2014, a prison officer was attacked with a blade during a disturbance and was taken to hospital with an injury to his scalp.
In the latest inspection of the category B training prison, which holds more than 1,100 men, a survey found 69% of inmates had felt unsafe at some point.
More than 52% of prisoners polled said it was easy or very easy to get drugs at the prison, while 45% said the same about alcohol.
Last week, a man was jailed for using a drone to send the psychoactive drug known as Spice and tobacco into the jail.
Mr Clarke said: "In many respects, outcomes at this inspection have further deteriorated in all four of our healthy prison tests, with safety in particular being of concern.
"To put it bluntly, the only sensible conclusion we could reach, on the basis of the very clear evidence before us, was that at the time of the inspection Swaleside was not a safe prison."
But he added: "Despite the fact that by any standards this is a poor report about a dangerous prison, we left Swaleside with some optimism that the prison had started to stabilise.
He said the new governor "appeared to have a very clear understanding of the challenges he and his team faced".
"The very early signs, at the time of the inspection, were that his determination to grip difficult issues had been welcomed by many prisoners and staff alike, who told us they wanted to see the prison improve."
Frances Crook of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: "This is yet another dreadful report into a failing prison and one which reiterates the systemic problems faced in prisons across the country.
"When we send people to dangerous prisons with such high levels of violence and nothing productive to do, it should be no surprise that they are swept into ever deeper currents of crime," she added.
Inspectors visited Swaleside from 29 March to 8 April 2016. | A jail where a prison officer was attacked two years ago is still "not safe" with "far too high" levels of violence, an inspection has found. |
37,565,823 | Aron Thrandarson opened the scoring on 47 minutes as swirling winds and heavy rain hampered play.
Oliver McBurnie then had a penalty well saved by Runar Runarsson after the home goalkeeper had fouled the striker.
Elias Omarsson doubled the Icelanders lead as they moved above France and Macedonia in the qualifying table.
Scotland hopes of reaching next year's European Championship finals were extinguished after a heavy defeat in Ukraine last month.
That prompted the early exit of coach Ricky Sbragia, with Gemmill stepping up from his role with the under-19s and under-17s.
Looking ahead to the next mission, Gemmill introduced several players from the Under-19s but they could not resist a motivated home side that has lost just once in qualifying.
With two victories from nine matches, Scotland end a hugely disappointing campaign in Macedonia next week.
Iceland lead Macedonia on goal difference, with France one point behind. | Scot Gemmill's first match in charge of Scotland U21s ended in a 2-0 defeat as Iceland went top of Group 3 with one round of fixtures remaining. |
39,550,049 | Marc Richards' header gave Northampton a 21st-minute lead, but Sadler headed home Shrewsbury's equaliser midway through the second period, while home pair David Buchanan and John-Joe O'Toole were both sent off.
Shrewsbury started brightly as Louis Dodds fired wide and Alex Rodman's header was saved by home goalkeeper Adam Smith.
But the Cobblers broke the deadlock when Richards headed home Hiram Boateng's cross.
Dodds went close as Shrewsbury looked for a quick response, but Shaun Whalley was thwarted by Smith and Ryan Yates missed from close range.
Northampton almost doubled their advantage when Alex Revell's near-post effort was saved by Jayson Leutwiler, while Dodds saw Smith tip his shot over the crossbar before the goalkeeper kept out his header from the subsequent corner.
The Cobblers were reduced to 10 men when Buchanan picked up a second caution early in the second half and Shrewsbury equalised in the 66th minute when Whalley's free-kick was headed home by Sadler.
Whalley was denied by Smith and Stephen Humphrys also went close as Shrewsbury chased the winner.
O'Toole was sent off in stoppage time after picking up his second caution and Shrewsbury went close to snatching victory when Jack Grimmer headed wide.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Northampton Town 1, Shrewsbury Town 1.
Second Half ends, Northampton Town 1, Shrewsbury Town 1.
Aristote Nsiala (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Marc Richards (Northampton Town).
Foul by Ryan Yates (Shrewsbury Town).
Brendon Moloney (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Shrewsbury Town. Conceded by Aaron Phillips.
Attempt missed. Ryan Yates (Shrewsbury Town) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Rod McDonald replaces Alex Revell.
Second yellow card to John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town).
Shaun Whalley (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Shaun McWilliams (Northampton Town).
Attempt missed. Alex Revell (Northampton Town) header from very close range misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Aristote Nsiala.
Substitution, Shrewsbury Town. A-Jay Leitch-Smith replaces Stefan Payne.
Foul by Stefan Payne (Shrewsbury Town).
Paul Anderson (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jack Grimmer (Shrewsbury Town).
Shaun McWilliams (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Ryan Yates (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Marc Richards (Northampton Town).
Foul by Ryan Yates (Shrewsbury Town).
John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Stefan Payne (Shrewsbury Town).
Lewin Nyatanga (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Aristote Nsiala (Shrewsbury Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Shaun McWilliams (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Aristote Nsiala (Shrewsbury Town).
Shaun Whalley (Shrewsbury Town).
(Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Shaun McWilliams replaces Matthew Taylor.
Foul by Stefan Payne (Shrewsbury Town).
Zander Diamond (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Junior Brown (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town).
Corner, Shrewsbury Town. Conceded by Lewin Nyatanga.
Attempt blocked. Stephen Humphrys (Shrewsbury Town) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Shaun Whalley (Shrewsbury Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Northampton Town 1, Shrewsbury Town 1. Mat Sadler (Shrewsbury Town) header from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Shaun Whalley following a set piece situation. | Mat Sadler's second-half equaliser earned Shrewsbury a valuable point at nine-man Northampton Town. |
35,015,272 | The man, who has not been named, was crossing Manchester Road near the junction with Hollins Road in Failsworth, at 22:20 GMT on Friday.
The 59-year-old was taken to hospital but died a short time later.
Police said he was hit by a red Honda Jazz. The driver stopped at the scene but police have asked for witnesses to contact them.
In particular they would like to speak to the occupants of a light-coloured Hackney cab and a Mitsubishi Shogun waiting to turn right on to Hollins Road at the time. | A pedestrian has died after being knocked down in Oldham, police say. |
32,483,179 | One Labour strategist says, frustrated, "if it wasn't for Scotland we would be looking at 310, 320, maybe even a majority".
What happens will matter enormously, no question.
Strategically, it makes sense for the Tories to try to draw voters back to them by talking up the "threat" of a Labour administration that can only function with SNP support, and for the SNP to suggest they would usher in Labour to neutralise the feeling many Scottish voters have harboured for a long time that there is no point voting for the SNP in a general election because only Labour can beat the Tories.
But if we are trying to work out what is actually going on, rather than just focusing on the extraordinary drama of the Scottish saga, it is just as important to look at what is happening - and who is winning - in the territories where, traditionally, general elections are won and lost.
Those are the marginal seats where the incumbent MP has less than a majority of 10%.
And by that equation there are 194 seats where voters' decisions can shift the outcome for the country, according to this BBC estimate.
There is no fixed definition of a marginal: but if we choose to define them for the 2015 election as seats with majorities of 10% or less that require a swing of 5% for the incumbent party to lose, then there are currently 194 such marginal seats in Britain:
82 are Conservative
79 Labour
27 Lib Dem
3 SNP
2 Plaid
1 Green
The important thing is the big majority of those seats where there could be a change - unlike the majority of parliamentary seats that don't change party allegiance for decades - are in England.
And the conversations with voters that are being logged and reported on by Labour activists in those kinds of seats, are a big part of the reason why - although Ed Miliband's team won't say it publicly - that the party believes it has some reasons to be cheerful, not about winning outright, but that hard graft may well pay off.
Labour sources tell Newsnight that its ground campaign is, in many parts of the country, better run, and more fruitful than their opponents' efforts.
They now have 200 organisers working in the field, have spoken to 2 million voters since the start of the year and are well on their way to speaking to more than 4 million voters by the time polling day comes.
The belief, it is one to one contact, not the vigorous war being fought on our TV screens and in newspaper columns, that will shift opinions.
They make great play of their online efforts too - with around 20,000 people signing up to volunteer through their digital campaign since the start of the year.
Although the Conservatives are significantly better financed, Labour believes they are out-manning and out-playing them in some places.
In the first phase of the campaign numbers from the market research firm Opinium suggested Labour had talked to 40% of potential voters, nearly twice as many as the Tories, on 21%.
Some 65% of likely voters have had some form of party literature from Labour, only 42% from the Conservatives.
Lord Ashcroft, the Conservative peer who has been behind enormous marginal polling studies has often reported a similar picture - that the Labour ground war seems in many parts of the country to be reaching more voters.
What's that, I hear you cry? "They would say that, wouldn't they?"
Well of course, but in talking to candidates privately - it is more rare to find a Conservative candidate who is enthusiastic about the progress of their campaign, than a Labour candidate who believes their ground war is going much better than they had expected.
It is the pavement pounding, the envelope stuffing, and the persuasion in close seats that really counts.
However fascinating and fundamental the way voters are shifting in Scotland, just because something new becomes vitally important, the old rules do still apply.
The marginals still matter.
PS I can't help myself but noting however one staggering fact as it looks likely that Scotland is heading towards a total inversion of its Westminster representatives.
In 2010 not a single Scottish seat changed hands. This time, nearly all of them might.
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Policy guide: Where the parties stand | A Labour meltdown in Scotland is potentially so dramatic, and might have such far reaching consequences for the complexion of not just the next government, but also the future of the left in the UK, that there are very good reasons why it has drawn so much attention. |
34,702,143 | Neil Bonner and Rebecca Prosser were arrested by the Indonesian navy off the island of Batam on 28 May and their trial started in September.
The pair are charged with violating immigration laws.
They were filming footage for a National Geographic show about maritime piracy in South East Asia.
Batam island is just south of Singapore and near the Malacca Strait, an important international shipping lane.
Prosecutor Bani Ginting, in his closing remarks to court, said the two journalists were "legally and convincingly guilty" of misusing their tourist visas for "inappropriate activity".
Indonesian prosecutors are recommending that the pair should be sentenced to five months in jail and pay a fine of more than $3,000 (£1,944).
Their lawyer, Aristo Pangaribuan, told the BBC that what they did was a "misdemeanour" rather than a criminal act.
Journalists wanting to report from Indonesia need a special press visa.
Reporters without Borders said journalists caught working without a press visa in Indonesia were usually deported.
The Foreign Office said: "Our embassy staff are providing assistance to two British nationals detained in Batam, Indonesia.
"We are also in regular contact with their families and legal representatives. We have had a number of discussions with Indonesian authorities regarding this case, and will continue to follow it very closely."
The UK journalists were working for London-based production company Wall to Wall and the trip was being funded by National Geographic.
A Wall to Wall spokesman has previously said: "Neil, Rebecca and Wall to Wall are co-operating fully with the relevant authorities, and we hope that Neil and Rebecca will be released and reunited with their families as soon as possible."
Rebecca Prosser's sister, Natalie Prosser, told the BBC: "Becky is a very strong woman... but she is in a mainly male prison, there are only a handful of women there".
She said the trial was "taking its toll" on the documentary maker and that she "has coped very well in difficult circumstances".
Some local journalists held a protest outside court last week and Zuhri Muhammad, the Batam-based chairman of the Alliance of Independent Journalists, told the BBC that he regarded the trial as a threat to all journalists in Indonesia.
"This trial means that the authorities have criminalised journalists for doing their job".
Reporters without Borders said nine Indonesians, including the pair's fixer Ahmadi, are facing a possible two-year jail term or a fine.
Last year two French journalists were "victims of Indonesia's draconian immigration laws" when they were convicted of "misusing an entry visa", the group said.
Reporters without Borders said they had been arrested in the eastern province of Papua for trying to do a report about separatists in the region.
They were held for two and a half months and their sentence covered the time they had already been detained. | Two UK journalists are facing a prison sentence for allegedly filming a documentary about piracy in Indonesia while on a tourist visa. |
38,584,264 | She was walking along Harcourt Hill, Botley between 19:45 and 20:10 GMT on Tuesday evening when she was approached from behind by an armed man.
He took her to Raleigh Park where he raped her, Thames Valley Police said.
A traffic collision involving a black VW Golf in Wytham shortly before 23:00 is being linked to the investigation.
A forensics tent has been put up in the park with a cordon surrounding it and police are combing the area, with increased foot patrols in place.
The offender is described as white, about 30 years old, muscular and just under 6ft. He was wearing dark black clothing, with a hood up and a balaclava covering the lower part of his face.
A 38-year-old man is currently in police custody.
Senior investigating officer Det Insp Jim Holmes said: "We are appealing to anyone who saw or heard anything unusual in the area to come forward.
"We are particularly interested in hearing from anyone who may have seen a man matching the description running away from the Harcourt Hill area shortly after 20:25, or anyone who saw a man matching the description with a woman in that area last night.
"We are also interested in speaking to residents in Wytham... we are linking this road traffic collision to the rape."
An Oxford Brookes spokeswoman said the university was co-operating with inquiries. | A man has been arrested after a woman was raped at knifepoint in a park near Oxford Brookes University's Harcourt Hill campus. |
32,129,296 | The 54-year-old ex-Labour MP is accused of scuffling with two boys aged 14 and 15 during the confrontation in Camden on 17 October, 2014.
Joyce was not present at Westminster Magistrates' Court, but denies two counts of actual bodily harm and one of causing criminal damage.
He will appear on 1 May for trial.
Mr Joyce formerly represented Falkirk as a Labour member and later as an independent, but announced in 2012 that he would not seek re-election in May. | Former Falkirk MP Eric Joyce is to stand trial accused of attacking two teenagers and causing £200 worth of damage to groceries in a London shop. |
32,707,658 | Five men aged between 17 and 19 were found guilty of involvement in last summer's robberies, which saw jewellery worth up to £150,000 stolen each time.
Kingston Crown Court heard they targeted business including the Dorchester Hotel and Rankins Jewellers.
The men were jailed for between three and 10 years each.
The court heard the gang used mopeds to reach and escape from their targets.
Fred Gosling, 18, of Portpool Lane, Camden, and Skye Roberts, 19, of Cubitt Street, Camden, were sentenced to 10 and six years imprisonment respectively for committing robbery between 9 June and 11 July 2014.
Gosling was also found guilty of attempted robbery at Rankins Jewellery on 22 July 2014 alongside Hermon Yemane, 18, of Highbury New Park, Islington, who was jailed for six years, and the 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, who was sentenced to four-and-a-half years.
Adel Soufie, 18, of Hazellville Road, Islington, was jailed for three years for conspiracy to commit robbery on 23 July 2014, to which the 17-year-old, Yemane, Gosling and Soufie also pleaded guilty.
Det Con Martin Lappin, from the Flying Squad, said: "This was a well planned and orchestrated series of robberies. I have no doubt that had we not apprehended these men when we did they would have continued to commit further offences.
"I am pleased with the sentences that have been handed down as they highlight that armed robberies are not victimless crimes."
Reed Roberts, 24, of Cubitt Street, was found not guilty of conspiracy to commit robbery between 9 June and 11 July 2014. | A gang of teenage moped-riding armed robbers have been jailed for a spate of smash and grabs at some of London's most exclusive hotels and shops. |
34,611,352 | Liberty Global, which also has a 10% stake in UK TV company ITV, has not formally announced its offer and has until 19 November to decide if it will.
The deal would allow Liberty Global to expand its reach in the Caribbean where it lacks a mobile phone presence.
Cable & Wireless said the deal could be a combination of cash and shares.
Liberty Global, which is owned by billionaire John Malone, has a strong foothold in Latin America and growing presence in the Caribbean.
Last month Liberty abandoned talks with Vodafone about a swap of business assets in Europe's mobile phone, broadband and TV markets.
In November 2014, Cable & Wireless paid $1.85bn (£1.2bn) for Columbus International, a fibre-based telecommunications firm that Mr Malone owned a stake in.
The deal gave the Liberty Global owner a 13% voting stake in Cable & Wireless.
Liberty Global operates in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2013 it bought Virgin Media expanding its presence in the UK. | Cable & Wireless Communication shares soared 21% after it confirmed it was in takeover talks with Virgin Media owner Liberty Global. |
35,412,946 | The judges said Frances Hardinge's Victorian murder mystery The Lie Tree would "grip readers of all ages".
Hardinge beat bookmakers' favourite, debut author Andrew Michael Hurley's gothic horror The Loney, to win the £30,000 prize.
The previous children's novel to win was Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass in 2002.
Receiving the award, a clearly surprised Hardinge said: "It is a fantastic time to be writing children's fiction and YA (young adult) fiction.
"For those people who might be hearing this who think that children's and YA fiction is not their thing please do come and explore - there's a beautiful jungle out there."
The Lie Tree, the author's seventh novel, tells the story of Faith Sunderly whose family have left England for a remote island to escape a scandal.
When Faith's father is found dead under mysterious circumstances, she sets out to uncover the truth and discovers a strange tree that feeds off whispered lies.
James Heneage, chair of the final judges, said: "Part horror, part detective, part historical, this is a fantastic story with great central characters and narrative tension."
Hardinge, he added, "brilliantly articulated" the voice of a precociously intelligent 14-year-old in a male-dominated Victorian society.
"There is something deep inside me that wants it to be a bestseller," he said. "It's a book to read in one or two sittings. It is a real page turner."
2015 COSTA CATEGORY AWARD WINNERS
Costa First Novel Award: Andrew Michael Hurley - The Loney (John Murray)
Costa Novel Award: Kate Atkinson - A God in Ruins (Doubleday)
Costa Biography Award: Andrea Wulf - The Invention of Nature (John Murray)
Costa Poetry Award: Don Paterson - 40 Sonnets (Faber)
Costa Children's Book Award: Frances Hardinge - The Lie Tree (Macmillan Children's Books)
Frances Hardinge was brought up in Kent and studied English Language and Literature at Oxford, where she also lived for many years. She now lives in Isleworth.
She started writing her first children's novel, Fly by Night, whilst working full-time as a technical author for a software company. Her other books include Verdigris Deep, Gullstruck Island, Twilight Robbery, A Face Like Glass and Cuckoo Song.
As well as Hurley's The Loney, Hardinge's The Lie Tree beat a shortlist that consisted of novelist Kate Atkinson for A God in Ruins, Scottish poet Don Paterson for 40 Sonnets, and historian and writer Andrea Wulf for The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, The Lost Hero of Science.
Heneage chaired a final judging panel that included comedian, writer and actor Katy Brand, actress and author Jane Asher, broadcaster, writer and actress Janet Ellis, writers Louise Doughty, Matt Haig, Penny Junor, Martyn Bedford and poet and children's author, Julia Copus.
The winner was announced on Tuesday night at an awards ceremony held at Quaglino's in central London.
The Costa prize honours outstanding books by authors based in the UK and Ireland and was previously known as the Whitbread award.
Last year's Costa book of the year went to Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk. | A children's novel has been named Costa Book of the Year for only the second time in the prize's history. |
36,851,108 | Centre for London said commercial property prices in the capital were already falling and a slow-down in the residential sector was predicted.
It said infrastructure works like Crossrail 2 were often dependent on property development.
A City Hall spokesperson said the mayor was "committed" to the projects.
In its report, Centre for London said: "Planned schemes like Crossrail 2 and the Bakerloo line extension are premised on developer contributions.
"On a smaller scale, parks, playgrounds and affordable homes are also funded by private developers as planning obligations, rather than being funded through government grants or borrowing."
There should be guaranteed investment in London's infrastructure "perhaps through government borrowing secured against future tax revenues," the report said.
A spokesperson for Sadiq Khan said the mayor was "committed to building a modern, world-class and affordable transport system, including pushing ahead with exciting schemes like Crossrail 2".
The report Strange Days: London after the EU referendum arose from discussions between a panel of industry experts, academics and researchers shortly after the 23 June referendum.
There are also warnings about the threat to London's economy from future restrictions on migration which might lead to a "haemorrhage" of 600,000 EU-origin workers.
"Mainland Europe does not just supply London's waiters and construction workers, but also many of our bankers, architects, designers, and lawyers."
The impact was being felt immediately, it is claimed.
"Anecdotal evidence suggested international candidates were already turning down job offers because of uncertainty, and there was a real danger that current EU workers would begin to look for opportunities elsewhere, voting with their feet before Brexit negotiations have brought any clarity to the situation."
The panel said there were strong arguments to explore special arrangements for the capital, including a "London-only" work permit, and more powers for London to meet its own skills and training needs.
"A global city's economy will always require immigrants as well as local skills, but devolution could enable the two to be better linked, through initiatives like matching permits for high skilled immigrants with a requirement for apprenticeships for Londoners."
While London voted 60:40 in favour of remaining in the EU, the proportion voting against indicated a strong sense of "exclusion" which raised concerns about social cohesion.
There was a "worrying poverty gap" in the capital, the report said.
"The city may create wealth, but many Londoners see little of it.
"London is a city where the implicit contract of modern social security is frayed - the city's employment levels are high, but one in five people in working families is poor, compared to 15% in the rest of England." | Investment in London's transport system could suffer from the impact of Brexit if a slump in the property market continues, a think tank has claimed. |
32,254,036 | Nigel Farage's party is standing in 624 of the 650 Westminster constituencies, according to the Press Association. That is 66 more than 2010.
Natalie Bennett's Green Party is standing in 571 seats - far more than the 335 they contested last time.
The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats are fielding full slates in England, Scotland and Wales.
Those three parties will not be contesting the re-election of Commons Speaker John Bercow in Buckingham, in accordance with tradition, but Mr Bercow will face a challenge from Green and UKIP candidates.
The Conservatives are also standing in 16 of Northern Ireland's 18 constituencies.
Meanwhile, the SNP is contesting all 59 seats in Scotland and Plaid Cymru all 40 in Wales.
The British National Party is standing in just eight constituencies.
That is a dramatic reduction from the last general election, when it stood 338 candidates.
The overall number of candidates across the UK, including all parties and independents, appears to be down slightly, from 4,150 to 3,963.
Figures also suggest more woman are standing than in 2010, with 1,020 compared to 854 last time.
George Galloway's Respect is standing in four constituencies- seven fewer than 2010.
UKIP's Mr Farage said: "We are delighted to be standing in almost all constituencies in the country.
"It is a significant increase on 2010 and means that in all four nations of the UK, there is now the chance to vote UKIP, a chance that we hope millions will take up."
BNP spokesman Simon Darby denied the decline in the number of candidates for his party reflected a collapse in the party's support and membership.
He said the party could have fielded more candidates, but took the decision not to waste deposits.
Nominations closed on Thursday. | UKIP and the Green Party are fielding a record number of general election candidates, figures suggest. |
40,402,181 | The Belfast Telegraph is hailing its front-page splash as an exclusive.
The former first minister and DUP leader, Arlene Foster, has written that she believe a political deal with the Tories, which would facilitate DUP support for a minority Conservative government, is imminent.
Mrs Foster has also said she is determined to restore power-sharing executive at Stormont as Thursday's deadline looms large.
The Telegraph also features an opinion piece from celebrity economist David McWilliams.
He argues that demographic changes in Northern Ireland are making a united Ireland more likely and that the Dublin government must have a plan to deal with a pro-united Ireland majority, even if many south of the border do not wish to consider the possibility.
The News Letter's lead, "Son's justice plea after reunion with mother", is the story of a Portadown man the paper says was "forcibly removed from his mother as a baby by the Catholic Church".
He is now appealing for "justice for the victims of abuse at former mother and baby homes".
Eunan Duffy was separated from his birth mother in a mother-and-baby home in Newry in 1968 but has now been reunited with her after discovering he had been adopted in February 2016.
Mr Duffy, 49, is calling on the PSNI to treat "forced adoptions" as a form of human trafficking.
Also in the News Letter is the claim from Conservative peer Lord Patten that the DUP is "toxic" and that any Tory-DUP deal will result in the Conservatives looking like the "nasty party".
Inside the paper, a two-page feature focuses on the Ulster Volunteer Force.
The articles are based on the work of Sandhurst historian Aaron Edwards, who was brought up in north Belfast, and has now published a new history of the organisation.
He writes that the "spectre of paramilitarism" is likely to continue in Northern Ireland until the political environment changes.
"Time to do a deal call from church leaders" is the Irish News front page headline.
The paper describes a letter sent by the churchmen, appealing to Northern Ireland politicians to strike a deal on restoring power-sharing at Stormont, as a "dramatic intervention".
The letter, signed by five prominent church leaders, was sent to the leaders of the five main parties and warned that if the impasse continues then the most vulnerable people in society were being put at risk.
The Irish News front page shows a jubilant Down Gaelic football manager, Eamonn Burns, hugging the county's full-back after the Mourne men won their Ulster championship semi-final clash against Monaghan on Saturday night in Armagh.
On the inside pages, the paper reveals that bonfire material has been dumped on Bloomfield Walkway in east Belfast.
The Irish News says the incident comes just days after they revealed that Belfast City Council has been storing thousands of pallets on behalf of Twelfth night bonfire builders.
The site off the Upper Newtownards Road features graffiti critical of both the Irish News and the BBC, possibly due to media coverage of the bonfire issue and how materials are gathered for them.
And finally, in a scene reminiscent of the shark attack horror film Jaws, the Daily Mirror's front page picture features tourists fleeing "shark terror" in Majorca.
The distinctive fin of the species breaks the water as an 8ft Blue Shark, described as a "killer" by the paper, closes in on swimmers.
When it was captured later, however, it was found to have been suffering from a head injury - possibly caused by human hand - and had to be put down. | The front pages of Northern Ireland's newspapers have a variety of stories today, from political deals, church pleas, forced adoption to a shark attack. |
38,776,761 | Speaking in response to a comment about it being "a lovely sunny day," Lord Morrow said: "It's hot. Yes, the boilers are all working."
Mrs Foster replied: "Stop".
The (RHI) scheme was set up to encourage uptake of eco-friendly heat systems over the use of fossil fuels.
But its overgenerous offer of fuel subsidies meant it could cost taxpayers an extra £490m.
Some politicians hit out on social media at the exchange shown on BBC's Newsline.
Alliance Leader Naomi Long reacted on Twitter saying, "Nothing as amusing as risking £480m of tax payer's money, Lord Morrow? Except this joke's on all of us."
TUV leader Jim Allister said, "Frivolous remark today by DUP Chair, Lord Morrow, about the boilers all being on, shows DUP just doesn't get it. Voters do."
The DUP has been contacted for comment. | There has been condemnation from some political parties of an exchange between DUP party chairman Lord Morrow and former First Minister Arlene Foster on Friday. |
32,901,890 | It appears that the criminals used stolen personal data taken from other websites that had been hacked, to pretend to be legitimate users.
The Internal Revenue Service was warned of the potential for unauthorised access to the accounts in March.
The online IRS' Get Transcript app involved in the breach has been shut down and an investigation is underway.
The scam's perpetrators managed to set up fake tax returns and file for tax refunds. The IRS told the New York Times that it had paid nearly $50m (£32.5m) in refunds before it had detected the scheme.
The IRS says more than 200,000 attempts to view past tax returns using stolen information were made from February to mid-May with around half of those being successful.
"We're confident that these are not amateurs," said John Koskinen, the IRS commissioner.
"These actually are organized crime syndicates that everybody in the financial industry is dealing with."
Security experts are concerned that the IRS' system appeared not to use multi-factor identification, for example sending a one-off code to a users' mobile phone for them to tap into the website, so as to verify that the person giving the information has access to the phone number on record.
The cybersecurity blog Krebs on Security warned in March that the IRS' system could be breached when it reported on the case of Michael Kasper, who had tried to file his tax return only to be told that he had already done so.
In that case criminals had set up an account in Mr Kasper's name using his social security number, but with a different email address. They filed a false tax return in order to claim a tax refund and had conned the IRS into paying that "refund" into a bank account that Mr Kasper did not recognise.
"The IRS' process for verifying people ... is vulnerable to exploitation by fraudsters because it relies on static identifiers and so-called "knowledge-based authentication" — ie challenge questions that can be easily defeated with information widely available for sale in the cybercrime underground and/or with a small amount of searching online," said the security website, commenting on Mr Kasper's case.
The IRS has sent letters to the taxpayers whose accounts had been compromised, and said it would offer them free credit monitoring.
The authority said its main computer system, which handles tax filings, had not been breached. | A security breach has allowed criminals to access the tax returns of more than 100,000 people in the United States. |
17,574,794 | Lincolnshire Police Authority expects the outsourcing to save money and increase the time officers can spend on the frontline.
The 10-year contract was signed in February but took effect from the start of this financial year.
Ten other authorities have indicated an interest in similar outsourcing.
Barry Young, chairman of Lincolnshire Police Authority, said the new approach would mean the "leanest police force in Britain".
"This is not a total solution and the authority still faces significant financial challenges, but it does provide a solid foundation to secure quality and value for money policing of our communities in the future," he said.
The police authority employed 813 full-time civilian staff as of 14 February.
A total of 544 have transferred, including those working in finance, human resources, custody, the force control room and firearms licensing.
Staff which have not transferred include those working in the occupational health unit and press office.
Under the contract, one approach being trialled is the way detainees are transported into custody after being arrested, called the "street to suite" initiative.
This means a person could be arrested by a police officer but then accompanied to a custody suite by a member of G4S staff.
The police officer could then stay on the street and continue their duties.
The contract with G4S contains an option for an extension to 15 years.
The deal also includes a proposal to build a purpose-built custody suite at the force's headquarters in Nettleham, which was chosen because the force already owns the land.
Lincolnshire Police Authority said it could not say how soon the facility would be built or when a planning application would be submitted. | Two-thirds of the civilian staff working for Lincolnshire Police have transferred employment to a private security company. |
35,991,312 | They shone UV light on a simple, frozen mixture of chemicals mimicking the ices that form in space, between stars.
As it condensed and then warmed up, the ice produced "substantial quantities" of ribose, alongside other molecules.
Published in Science, the research is the first to show that sugars can be produced in such a simple way.
It suggests that these critical molecules could form when similar ices condense around dust grains and comets in the vicinity of a young star.
Previously, nobody knew how a complex sugar like ribose could emerge from the messy, icy environment of a solar nebula - the disc-shaped cloud that preceded our Solar System.
Some of life's other building blocks are better understood. Amino acids, which are strung together to make proteins, have been detected in previous, similar laboratory simulations and also detected in samples from comets and meteorites.
Sugars are more of a mystery - partly because they have proved difficult to detect.
Cornelia Meinert, from the Université Nice Sophia Antipolis in France, said she and her team were probably not the first to manufacture these molecules in astrochemical experiments; sugars, including ribose, may have been there all along - undetected.
"In all the experiments that were run for the last 20-30 years around the world, the sugars were probably there," Dr Meinert told the BBC News website.
"We have a fancy technique called multidimensional gas chromatography - and this was the reason why we are now able to detect them."
So what is the recipe for making ribose in space?
Dr Meinert and her colleagues mixed methanol and ammonia with water, and subjected the cocktail to low pressure and very low temperature (-195C) in a vacuum chamber. They then allowed it to condense on a very cold surface, just as "pre-cometary" ice might settle around dust grains.
As it condensed, they hit the mixture with intense UV light - such as the young Sun would have emitted - and let it to warm up to room temperature.
The resulting residue, when they tested it using multiple "fancy techniques", contained not only ribose, but a veritable cookbook of complex molecules.
"You might think that there are not a lot of organics formed in these ices - but in fact it's the opposite," Dr Meinert said.
"We see a lot of different compounds and classes of compounds: amino acids, acids, alcohols, aldehydes - and the sugars. This means that the sample is very complex."
Importantly, these products could all be dissolved in water; without that solubility, they could never be incorporated into fledgling life-forms.
The results are consistent with evidence of organic molecules recently gathered from the very surface of a comet, Dr Meinert said.
The Philae lander, famously dropped onto Comet 67P by the Rosetta spacecraft in late 2014, detected what one scientist described as "frozen primordial soup" - including some of the precursors for making amino acids and sugars.
Now it seems that sugars themselves - including complex ones like ribose, made from a ring of five carbon atoms - could also be surprisingly common in space.
As Dr Meinert explained, this has potential implications for the likelihood of life in the wider Universe: "These ices are everywhere - so in other star forming systems [as well as ours] you should find amino acids and sugar molecules."
Astrobiologist Dr Lewis Dartnell, a research fellow at the University of Leicester, said the French team had come up with "a very exciting result".
"[It shows] the complexity of astrochemistry and the repertoire of organic molecules that are created beyond the earth in interstellar regions," he said.
Follow Jonathan on Twitter | Scientists have detected ribose - a sugar needed to make RNA and DNA - in laboratory experiments which simulate the very early Solar System. |
30,189,458 | Nias, a boy, was born to mother Malacca and father Hunter at Port Lympne Reserve near Hythe.
Only about 1,500 to 2,000 Malayan tapirs are now thought to exist.
"Nias' birth is fantastic news not only for the future of Malayan tapirs but also for our dedicated hoofstock keepers," said director Adrian Harland.
"We're all really proud of our breeding success with this species."
The animals are usually found in south-east Asia, in the forests and rainforests in the area.
Hunting, illegal timber logging and deforestation are thought to be to blame for the decline in numbers.
The Malayan tapir or Tapirus indicus is also known as the Asian tapir and is the largest of the four tapir species. It is related to both the horse and the rhinoceros.
It is an "odd-toed" ungulate (meaning a hoofed mammal), having four toes on each front foot and three toes on each back foot. Each toe ends in a hoof.
The species has a typical gestation period of around 13 months and are born with white spots and stripes on black skin.
As they grow older they turn darker, helping to provide camouflage in the moonlit forests of their natural habitat.
Nias is the 11th Malayan tapir born at Port Lympne Reserve since 1989, giving it a reputation as one of Europe's most successful breeders of the animal.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | The birth of an extremely rare animal called the Malayan tapir has given keepers at an animal reserve in Kent hope for the endangered species. |
30,309,584 | From the following year, APD for children under 16 will also be abolished, he said.
Critics said the move inflicted "a fatal blow" to the tax.
The measure follows an announcement in the Budget in March to scrap two APD tax bands.
Air passenger duty is charged on all passenger flights from UK airports. The rate of tax varies according to where the passenger is going, and the class of travel.
"This will save a family of four £26 on a flight to Europe, and £142 on one to the US," the Treasury tweeted.
The move will cost the Treasury £40m in 2015-16. The cost will jump to £80m the following year, and rise to £95m in 2019-20.
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Easyjet said that it would "proactively refund" passengers who have already bought tickets to fly after April 2015.
The British Air Transport Association (BATA) said the government move was "an early stocking filler for families", but it "presents significant practical difficulties" for airlines.
"The industry has always said that changes to APD should have at least a 12-month lead in time due to advance bookings," said BATA chief executive Nathan Stower.
Mr Stower noted proposals to devolve APD powers to Scotland, and called for the tax to be put "out of its misery".
Mark Littlewood, director general at the Institute of Economic Affairs, said the move "not only increases tax complexity, but inflicts a fatal blow to the justification for the tax existing at all". | Air passenger duty (APD) for children under the age of 12 on economy travel will be abolished from May 2015, Chancellor George Osborne has said in his Autumn Statement. |
36,847,321 | Andrea G, 45, was found guilty of manslaughter, German media report.
The bodies of eight newborns were found in an apartment in Bavaria last year, but she was only charged in relation to four of the deaths due to the state of decomposition of the other four.
Her estranged husband Johann G, 55, was acquitted on charges of failing to stop the deaths.
The case has horrified Germany, correspondents say.
Presiding judge Christoph Gillot defended the decision not to pass a life sentence.
"When a case like this is tried, you suddenly have a lot of people who know what the right thing to do is - that a supposed 'horror mother' should be locked away forever," he said.
"But we first must try to understand this behaviour. That doesn't mean justifying it but rather trying to comprehend it."
Andrea G had admitted involvement in the newborns' death at an earlier hearing.
The eight bodies were discovered at Ms G's home in the small Bavarian town of Wallenfels following a tip-off from a neighbour.
They had all died between 2003 and 2013.
During her trial, her lawyer said that before the first of the eight pregnancies, she and her husband had quarrelled about an abortion, which never took place.
Her lawyer also said she had the babies at home alone, and had wrapped them up in towels and hidden them whether they showed signs of life or not.
The couple each brought two children into the marriage and conceived three more surviving children together.
Prosecutors had accused them of "sexual selfishness, indifference and callousness" over their handling of the pregnancies.
Although they did not want more children, they continued to have sexual relations without contraception and sterilisation, prosecutors had said.
Germany has been horrified by recent infanticide cases.
In May 2015, a woman was sentenced to 44 months in prison for killing two of her children and and disposing of their remains in a freezer, AFP reported.
In October 2013 builders found the bodies of two babies in Bavaria who had been been dead since the 1980s.
And in 2008, a woman was convicted of killing eight of her newborns, then hiding their bodies. | A German woman has been sentenced to 14 years in jail over the deaths of four of her newborn babies. |
34,284,044 | Rafik Yousef, who was born in Iraq, had previously been jailed for involvement in a plot to kill Iraq's former prime minister Iyad Allawi in Berlin in 2004.
The policewoman, 44, was also shot in the exchange. Her condition is described as serious but stable.
Officials said Yousef should have been wearing an electronic tag as part of his parole conditions.
The officers had been called to reports of a man threatening passersby in the suburb of Spandau with a knife.
Yousef had lived in Germany since 1994, according to local media reports (in German).
"He had been convicted of being a member of a terrorist association and of being involved in a plot to murder the Iraqi prime minister," Berlin police said on Twitter (in German).
In 2008 he was jailed for eight years but was freed in 2013, banned from leaving Berlin and required to wear an electronic tag.
However, the German authorities were unable to deport him as he had refugee status and was at risk of being killed in his native Iraq. | Police in Berlin have shot dead an Islamist who stabbed and seriously injured a policewoman. |
33,174,648 | The company says it will take at least 40 days to destroy all the noodles.
India's food safety regulator says tests have found Maggi "unsafe and hazardous" and has accused Nestle of failing to comply with food safety laws.
Nestle has 80% of India's instant noodles market.
Nestle India has begun a massive logistical operation to source and destroy over 27 tonnes of Maggi across the country. Nestle India has said that this is one of the largest ever recalls not only of its own history, but the entire food industry.
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Further complicating matters is the fact that Nestle is not in possession of all the noodles earmarked to be destroyed.
The company says that 17,020 tonnes of Maggi are currently with distributors, retail outlets and consumers. They have begun buying back noodles by the carton in order to destroy them.
Once the Maggi is all collected, it will take thousands of truck trips to bring them to five facilities where they will be mixed with fuel and subjected to high temperature thermal destruction in cement kilns.
Nestle says that the current capacity is 700 tonnes a day across five facilities, meaning that it will take at least 40 days to destroy the whole stock.
Earlier this month, Nestle began withdrawing the Maggi brand from stores, after regulators said they found higher-than-allowed levels of lead in some packets.
Nestle's global chief executive Paul Bulcke has asked to see the results of the laboratory tests and promised to return Maggi to store shelves soon.
Several states have also been testing the noodles for the chemical monosodium glutamate, widely known as MSG.
On 12 June, the Bombay High Court denied Nestle's request for a stay of the nationwide ban on Maggi.
On Friday the court ruled that as the noodles are being withdrawn anyway "the question of granting stay... at this stage does not arise".
However judges ordered the food authorities to file their responses to Nestle's petition that the ban be completely revoked in time for a further court hearing on 30 June.
Nestle has argued that the tests that found lead are flawed and inaccurate. It says it has carried out its own tests on over 1,000 batches of Maggi noodles, plus commissioned tests at external labs on a further 600 batches.
"All results indicate that Maggi noodles are safe and well within the regulatory limits established in India," the company said.
The instant noodles arrived in India in 1983 and can be found in corner shops across the country. | Nestle will destroy 400 million packets of its hugely popular Maggi noodles, following a ban imposed by India's food safety regulator. |
35,232,090 | In that time, the club appointed a new coaching team and also had an overhaul of the playing squad.
Gloucester also won the European Rugby Challenge Cup, the club's first silverware for four years.
Profit on ordinary activities before taxation was £286,026, while the club's long-term debt was also reduced by 18%.
The club increased turnover by 21.3% over the previous year and the footprint of the stadium was also increased with the purchase of the former Cooper Cowan car site.
"It's been a really good year, it's been a very tough year," managing director Stephen Vaughan told BBC Gloucestershire.
"In business parlance our costs have gone up dramatically in the past 12 months, so we've had to work even harder to keep a self-sustainable model. So I'm really pleased we've been able to do that when we've invested not just in the playing department, but have also bought a big chunk of land at Kingsholm for work in the future out of working capital."
The club also held two successful concerts at their Kingsholm Stadium home in the summer, with over 26,000 people watching Madness and Elton John perform.
Gloucester are controlled by Ryan Walkinshaw, who took over following the death of his father Tom - a former Formula 1 team owner - in 2010. They have been owned by the Walkinshaw family since 1997 but are currently looking for new owners.
"We are still talking to people," added Vaughan.
"Have we found the people that are right? not yet. I'd like to be in a position in the next six to eight weeks where I would like to say categorically we've either got a new direction or we are comfortable how we are." | Gloucester Rugby have recorded an operating profit for the fifth straight year, for the period up until 30 June 2015. |
30,455,187 | The Dalai Lama, who is visiting Rome, had requested a meeting.
A Vatican spokesman said that although the Pope held him "in very high regard", the request had been declined "for obvious reasons".
Correspondents say the Vatican does not want to jeopardise efforts to improve relations with China.
China describes the Dalai Lama as a separatist and reacts angrily when foreign dignitaries meet him.
The Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959 after Chinese troops crushed an attempted uprising in Tibet.
He now advocates a "middle way" with China, seeking autonomy but not independence for Tibet. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.
"Pope Francis obviously holds the Dalai Lama in very high regard but he will not be meeting any of the Nobel laureates," a Vatican spokesman said. He added that the Pope would send a video message to the conference.
A spokesman for the Dalai Lama said he was "disappointed at not being able to call on His Holiness the Pope but he does not want to cause any inconvenience".
Analysts say the Vatican and China are at odds over control of the Catholic Church in China.
The Chinese Communist Party oversees an official community, known as the Patriotic Association and believed to number about 12 million people, but there is also a much larger underground Church that is loyal to the Pope.
A serious bone of contention between China and the Vatican is which side should have the final say in the appointment of bishops.
A Vatican official said the Pope's decision was "not taken out of fear but to avoid any suffering by those who have already suffered".
The last time the Dalai Lama was granted a papal audience was in 2006 when he met former Pope Benedict XVI.
The Dalai Lama is in Rome for a meeting of Nobel Peace Prize winners. It was initially to be held in South Africa but was relocated to Rome after South Africa refused the Dalai Lama a visa. | Pope Francis will not meet the exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama because of the "delicate situation" with China, the Vatican says. |
36,687,901 | She said she will move forward with the team's findings on whether to charge the Democratic presidential nominee.
Her comments come a day after it was revealed that she met privately with former President Bill Clinton, prompting strong criticism.
Ms Lynch described the meeting as "social".
She admitted, however, the meeting "cast a shadow" over how her role in the case would be perceived.
"[But] it's important to make it clear that that meeting with President Clinton does not have a bearing on how this matter is going to be reviewed, resolved and accepted by me," she told the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado.
The FBI is investigating Mrs Clinton and her aides over whether they mishandled classified information on a private email server she used while serving as Secretary of State.
Ms Lynch, appointed by Democratic US President Barack Obama, will decide whether to prosecute Mrs Clinton after she has been briefed on the investigation's findings.
The Attorney General insists she will move forward with whatever recommendations are made.
Ms Lynch and Mr Clinton's meeting sparked public criticism from both Republicans and Democrats, who said it created an appearance of impropriety.
Ms Lynch has maintained that she did not discuss the email investigation into Mrs Clinton and instead discussed topics including grandchildren and golf.
She said the recommendations will be contained in a final report produced by the team of investigators and prosecutors and reviewed by Justice Department lawyers and FBI Director James Comey, who will then brief Ms Lynch on the findings.
"This case will be resolved by the team that's been working on it from the beginning," she said. | US Attorney General Loretta Lynch says she will accept the findings of the FBI and prosecutors investigating Hillary Clinton's private email use. |
39,868,259 | Silicon Valley will be keenly watching - it's the first glimpse at how the company may perform long term, and it comes at a time when the company faces an existential threat from its biggest, perhaps only, rival: Facebook.
When Snap floated on the market in March, its price surged by 44% to give it a value of almost $30bn.
But make no mistake, Facebook's F8 recent developer's conference was an onslaught on Snapchat's future. The disappearing messages app, popular with teens, has seen its core features lifted wholesale by Facebook's engineers and offered to its own 1.9bn users, a figure which dwarfs Snapchat's base.
Facebook's own head of messenger, David Marcus, admitted to me that Snapchat got there first with innovation in ephemeral messaging and augmented-reality filters - but the message from him was essentially: what does it matter? Facebook thinks it can bring the technology to the next level, crushing Snapchat in the process (something you suspect Mark Zuckerberg has had his eye on ever since he was snubbed by Snap founder Evan Spiegel).
The key thing to look out for on Wednesday is Snapchat's user growth, though as I'll explain in a moment, it won't be the whole picture.
An inability to attract new users has continually hobbled Twitter on Wall Street, and it's growth that will most likely dictate which way Snap's shares go in after-hours trading. It's not expected to be good news - the company has already warned growth is slowing, a symptom of saturation in its core market, the US.
That warning came amid intense competition from Instagram, the Facebook-owned messaging app that launched its own version of Snapchat's "Stories" feature in the middle of last year.
"Snapchat's growth is being cannibalised by Instagram Stories in literally every single market in the world," according to ValuePenguin, a financial research service.
But Snap can't blame all its user abandonment on Instagram or Facebook. In India, a massive campaign to boycott the app took hold after Mr Spiegel was quoted as saying he didn't want to "expand into poor countries like India".
Snap disputes the accuracy of the quote - but nevertheless, Snapchat's user rating in the region plummeted. If Snap decides to break out user numbers region-by-region on Wednesday, we may get an indication of just how damaging that boycott has been.
At the last official count, Snapchat had 160m active daily users (Instagram Stories had 200m).
But Snap will be able to get around having relatively few users by proving that those users are both young and keen to engage.
Key to this is its Discover tab, where bespoke content from major publishers is shared, peppered with ads. According to a recent piece in the New York Times, publishers like Mashable are very impressed with Discover so far - considering it an "important source of revenue".
Contrast that to how some publishers feel about Facebook. USA Today recently asked the FBI to investigate the proliferation of bots on the platform after estimating that almost half of its Facebook following were spam accounts.
The last official figure we had on how many people were viewing content on the Discover tab was 100m per month. Expect that to go up, and expect it to be the company's favourite metric on Wednesday. Investors will be even happier if Snap announces some new exclusive deals for video because, you guessed it, Facebook is breathing down its neck on that front, too.
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You can reach Dave securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370 | Snap, the company that owns Snapchat, is posting its first earnings as a public company on Wednesday. |
17,798,266 | The contract was won by US-based company Titan Salvage and an Italian firm specialising in underwater ship repairs, Microperi, Costa Cruises said.
Under the plans, the Concordia will be re-floated in one piece and towed to a port on the Italian mainland.
Thirty-two people died when the ship hit rocks off the Tuscan island of Giglio with 4,200 people on board.
The operation, which is expected to take a year, still needs to be approved by the Italian authorities.
The ship lies half-submerged on its side on a steep underwater incline, near the island's main port.
Airbags will be used to re-float the ship once the gash ripped into its port side when it ran aground has been mended, the BBC's David Willey reports from Rome.
Once the Concordia has been removed, the sea floor will be cleaned and measures taken to help marine flora to regenerate.
Work to drain more than 2,000 tonnes of fuel and sewage from the ship was completed last month, easing fears that the pristine waters around Giglio could be badly polluted.
The salvage operation will use the port of Civitavecchia, on the Italian mainland, as a base, in an effort to minimise the impact on tourism and port activities in Giglio.
"As was the case with the removal of the fuel, we have sought to identify the best solution to safeguard the island and its marine environment and to protect its tourism," Costa Cruises chief executive Pier Luigi Foschi said of the winning tender for the operation.
Nine people are being investigated in connection with the disaster, including the captain, Francesco Schettino, who is under house arrest on suspicion of manslaughter. He denies any wrongdoing.
Thirty bodies have been recovered from the vessel, with a further two people still missing. | Work to salvage the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship is due to start next month, the owners say. |
24,989,044 | But she was swiftly replaced by Robbie Williams - whose Swings Both Ways is his 11th chart-topper.
As the album chart celebrates its first millenium, we look at the records that paved the way, starting with the UK's first ever chart topper, in 1956.
The first album chart was published in the Record Mirror in July 1956. It listed just five albums, and Frank Sinatra was leader of the (rat) pack.
Songs For Swingin' Lovers was his 10th solo album and is still, arguably, his greatest swing collection.
A challenge to the tide of rock and roll that was sweeping over America, it's a loose concept record about a man who leaves his lover and pursues a new romance.
Backed by Nelson Riddle's fresh, hip arrangements, Sinatra sounded on top of the world - delivering some of his best-known performances on You Make Me Feel So Young and I've Got You Under My Skin.
Given a perfect five-star review by Rolling Stone, it was the UK's number one for three weeks, and the fifth best-selling album of 1956 (number one was the soundtrack to Carousel).
But albums were still niche products. Only 12 million were sold in 1956 - compared to 100.5m in 2012.
It took 15 years for the 100th number one to roll around - thanks mainly to The Beatles, who spent a combined three years in pole position.
But it was John Lennon who scored the chart centenary with his second solo album, Imagine.
A huge commercial success both in 1971 and immediately after his murder, it is less abrasive and more fondly remembered than his debut, Plastic Ono Band.
Every facet of his mercurial personality is on display: He's head-over-heels on Oh Yoko!; vulnerable on Jealous Guy; and venomous on How Do You Sleep? (a thinly-veiled character assassination of Paul McCartney).
But it is the optimistic, simple title track that endures. Lennon confessed it was "anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-Âconventional [and] anti-capitalistic" but "because it is sugar-coated it is accepted".
"It was just what John believed," said Yoko Ono. "That we are all one country, one world, one people. He wanted to get that idea out."
Released in July 1978, Boney M's Nightflight To Venus was the band's most successful record, clinging to the top spot for four weeks.
It contained several global hits, including Brown Girl In The Ring and Rivers Of Babylon - but not, strangely, that year's Christmas number one, Mary's Boy Child.
The band were the brainchild of German pop svengali Frank Farian (later responsible for Milli Vanilli), who reached a creative peak on this wilfully experimental third album.
The seven-minute title track was a freaky space odyssey, which envisaged an interstellar journey to a terraformed planet.
"It took almost 90 years to cool down the planet from its 500 degrees to the current pleasant 75 degrees, and to transform the atmosphere to make it inhabitable for Earth people," noted the narrator, over a pounding drum track based on Cozy Powell's hit Dance With The Devil.
It set the record up to be a space-age disco concept album, but the idea was immediately ditched on track two - Rasputin - a deranged ode to a 19th Century Russian mystic.
Compilation albums were included in the main countdown until 1989, and the Now... series regularly outsold all the competition.
The third instalment was released in July 1984 and contained four number one singles - including Wham's Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go and Duran Duran's The Reflex.
But the tracklisting also provides a few insights into the year's prevailing social issues. Special AKA's Nelson Mandela reflected the increasing disquiet over South Africa's apartheid laws, while Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel delivered a funky anti-drugs message on White Lines (Don't Do It).
Other songs on the 30-strong tracklist included Queen's I Want To Break Free, Tina Turner's What's Love Got To Do With It and The Weather Girls' wedding disco staple It's Raining Men.
The sleeve starred the series' short-lived (and frankly unnecessary) porcine mascot, and exhorted fans to "complete your collection!" by purchasing the two preceding volumes, as well as their VHS and Betamax companions "for all you videoholics".
Thirty years later, and the series is thriving - Now 83 was the fastest-selling album of 2012.
But the most successful instalment was number 44, which kicked off with Britney Spears ...Baby, One More Time, and shifted a remarkable 2.3m copies in 1999.
Selling 400,000 copies in just four days, Wild! was the second in a run of five consecutive number one albums for synthpop duo Erasure.
Despite the titular exclamation mark, it was their most mature record to date, opening with a sombre piano instrumental, and taking melodic flights of fancy on the hit single Blue Savannah.
At the time, frontman Andy Bell was one of the few openly gay pop stars and, while the record addressed gay themes (Drama! is about a "drama queen" who puts his friends through "one psychological drama after another"), the band were careful not to be too outrageous.
"If we did an openly gay video, it wouldn't get played on MTV," Bell told Australia's Countdown magazine in 1990.
"By approaching it the way we approach it - not being too aggressive or shouting at people, just showing them it's part of life but not the only thing in life - it's easy for people to deal with, and maybe there will be fewer people afraid to come out."
One in every 20 chart-toppers is a "best of" album - the first being The Best Of Ball, Barber & Bilk, - a 1962 collection of jazz standards by trumpeter Kenny Ball, trombone player Chris Barber and band leader Acker Bilk.
Deacon Blue's greatest hits reached number one in May 1994, featuring Scot-rock classics like Dignity, Real Gone Kid and their plaintive cover of Burt Bacharach's I'll Never Fall In Love Again.
The band had survived through sudden, head-turning success and the John-and-Yoko romance between frontman Ricky Ross fell and bandmate Lorraine McIntosh. ("Nobody in a band wants the backing singer going out with the lead singer," she admitted to Scotland's Daily Record last year).
But, three weeks after Our Town was released, Deacon Blue announced they were splitting up.
"As George Harrison once said, all things must pass," said Ross.
Now reformed, they released a new album, The Hipsters, in 2012.
During the recording of I've Been Expecting You in spring 1998, producer Guy Chambers kept track of the work in -progress on a whiteboard, hung on the wall of Wheeler End studio in rural Buckinghamshire.
Scrawled along the top in black marker was the legend: "Robbie Williams' difficult second album (which isn't that difficult after all)."
"It's effortless, really," he told a documentary crew who turned up to film the sessions.
An ebullient victory lap after the success of Angels, the album's success was equally effortless - sailing to number one, going 10x platinum and selling more than three million copies.
Williams, at the peak of his fame, was so cocksure he could get away with self-aware lyrics like this, from Strong: "In the early morning when I wake up / I look like Kiss but without the make-up / And that's a good line to take it to the bridge."
Singles No Regrets and She's The One still form part of his live show today. The only real misfire was the leaden, James Bond-sampling Millennium - a cynical ploy for airplay as the year 2000 approached.
In total, Williams has scored 11 number ones - putting him on an even footing with Elvis.
TV talent shows were hitting their stride in 2003, with Will Young, Gareth Gates, Girls Aloud and Liberty X all racking up the hits - but British indie was about to get a much-needed shot in the arm.
Liverpudlians The Coral were among the first out of the gates, blazing a trail for the likes of Franz Ferdinand, Snow Patrol, Keane and Razorlight.
Source: Official Charts Company
The band had scored a minor hit the previous year with the jangly, Merseybeat throwback Dreaming Of You, and their second album cemented their success.
Praised by the NME for its "brutally concise and beautiful pop songs", it spawned the top 10 singles Don't Think You're The First and Pass It On.
But the band were taken aback by their swift rise.
"The smell of money's got into everyone," singer James Skelly told the Guardian. "Sony don't have any other good bands, there's just us, so everything's being put on us. I feel like apologising to people in a way, about how in your face everything is."
He needn't have worried. Their chart reign lasted a week, after which Robbie Williams' Escapology claimed the top spot.
Norah Jones reached number one just three years after The Coral, a sign of the music industry's ever-decreasing attention span.
The constant churn at the top of the charts also coincided with a downturn in sales, which were sinking faster than a brick in a swimming pool - from 237m in 2004, to 128m in 2009.
The decline is neatly encapsulated by Norah Jones' triptych of number ones. Her debut, Come Away With Me, sold 2.4m copies in 2003. The follow-up, Feels Like Home, managed 900,000. Not Too Late, released in 2007, scraped in with sales of 100,000.
A deliberate step away from the coffeehouse jazz of her earlier records, it was also Jones's first collection of original material.
She made gentle stabs at politics - lamenting the re-election of President Bush in My Dear Country and portraying the US as a leaky boat in Sinkin' Soon - and, ultimately, the musical experimentation ensured her longevity.
"I don't expect to sell millions of records every time. I just don't think that's gonna be possible," she told CBS news.
"I feel like I've had my cake and I've eaten it and it tasted great. And I don't need another piece."
Oasis set a chart record in 1997 that still stands today, when their third album Be Here Now sold 660,000 copies in seven days - the highest-first week sales in history.
But, as songwriter Noel Gallagher freely admitted in the ensuing years, the bloated, cocaine-fuelled album was not his finest moment.
"Just because you sell lots of records, it doesn't mean to say you're any good," he noted. "Look at Phil Collins."
Time Flies was the band's swansong - a double disc anthology released the year after their acrimonious split backstage in Paris.
Over 27 tracks, it sketched how the band "dragged English guitar music out of the gutter" (Noel's words) with football terrace anthems like Wonderwall and Supersonic.
Oasis celebrate their 20th anniversary next year, but there is little hope of a reunion.
"I don't think there's any unfinished business," Noel said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine this week. "I don't think that we left anything unsaid, do you know what I mean?"
In a neat echo of Frank Sinatra's inaugural chart-topper, Robbie Williams' 1,000th number one is also a swing album.
Packed with razzamatazz renditions of standards like I Wanna Be Like You and Puttin On The Ritz, it easily outsold the competition, including teen troubador Jake Bugg and boyband JLS.
Swings Both Ways is Williams' second stab at the genre, and finds him in a relaxed, playful mood.
Among the covers are six original songs, including the pomposity-puncturing No-One Likes A Fat Pop Star ("When I get faint, I chew through my restraints / The best meal that I've had all week," he sings).
"I'm enjoying working and I couldn't come straight out with another pop album," Williams told Q Magazine.
"I wanted to do something else, and that something else shaped up to be a swing-style album."
The record is Williams' 11th number one - including two greatest hits - putting him on level pegging with Elvis.
Only Madonna (12) and The Beatles (15) have done better.
You can see details of all 1,000 UK number one albums on the Official Charts Company website. | Last Sunday, Lady Gaga scored the 999th UK number one album, with her brazen pop opus ARTPOP. |
33,113,132 | Mr Justice Nicol said the Home Office's system to "fast track" certain cases contained "structural unfairness".
The process accelerates legal hearings and appeals, while keeping the individual detained at all times.
The government said it was disappointed by the judgment and would be appealing.
The judge said that despite a number of safeguards, applicants were not able to properly prepare their cases and their lawyers were also put in an unfair position.
Ruling on a case brought by campaign group Detention Action, the judge said: "In my judgment the Fast Track Rules (FTR) do incorporate structural unfairness. They put the appellant at a serious procedural disadvantage.
"The appellant is always detained and, as is obvious, the fact of detention places additional obstacles in the way of achieving all that has to be done before a tribunal hearing.
Fast-track removals were introduced more than a decade ago because the then government believed too many people were abusing the system.
But critics have long said the speed of the procedure is manifestly unfair, not least to individuals who may have complex but genuine claims for protection.
Mr Justice Nicol has put a stay on his judgement, and that means that the fast-track system remains in operation and asylum seekers within it can still be removed.
But if the government loses the eventual appeal, it could deal a major blow to an important part of the removal system.
There have been previous judgements against parts of the system - but this one is more important because the court said it was wrong that ministers could impose time limits, rather than giving discretion to tribunals. That's something which the judge said looked like sacrificing fairness "on the altar of speed and convenience".
"What seems to me to make the FTR structurally unfair is the serious procedural disadvantage which comes from the abbreviated timetable and curtailed case management powers."
During the case, the government had argued that the system was fair because asylum seekers could ask for a 10-day adjournment before a final decision.
But the judge said the power to adjourn had a "very limited role" in ensuring a just outcome.
"Therefore I find that the claimant's challenge to the legality of the Fast Track Rules succeeds," the judge concluded.
Although Mr Justice Nicol has ruled the system illegal, he has put a temporary delay on his judgement coming into force to allow the government time to consider an appeal.
The Detained Fast Track system plays a key role in immigration removals and can lead to someone leaving the country in about 22 days.
The system was created in 2003, and was applied to 4,300 asylum seekers in 2013.
Reacting to the judgement, Detention Action director Jerome Phelps said: "We are pleased that the Fast Track appeals process has been found not just unlawful but ultra vires [beyond the government's powers].
"But we are shocked and disappointed that a stay has been granted, given that this is an area of law requiring the highest standards of justice and fairness.
"By granting the stay, it appears that the judge considers that the severe potential consequences to asylum seekers, including removal in breach of the Refugee Convention, are outweighed by the inconvenience to the Home Office and Lord Chancellor of suspending the process."
The Refugee Council welcomed the ruling, with chief executive Maurice Wren saying: "Today the courts have recognised the detained fast track appeals system for what it is: fundamentally unfair and a grotesque caricature of British justice.
"This is an important step forward in the battle to stop government officials arbitrarily and shamefully imprisoning some of the world's most desperate people who have simply asked for our protection."
The government says Detained Fast Track is an important part of the UK's immigration system.
A spokesman said: "It contributes significantly to the speed and effectiveness with which asylum cases are processed - including swiftly removing those found not to be in need of protection - and saves the taxpayer money." | The future of a key part of the government's system to remove failed asylum seekers is in doubt after the High Court ruled it was unlawful. |
37,747,619 | Perry's agent Tim Hancock said the writer, who was also behind Hi-de-Hi! and You Rang M'Lord?, had died at his home on Sunday after a short illness.
He said he had "never met anyone... with as big a heart as Jimmy".
Ian Lavender, who played Private Pike in Dad's Army, said Perry's death was "the end of an era".
Speaking to BBC Breakfast, Hi-de-Hi! actress Ruth Madoc said: "He was my great, great friend... he will be sorely missed.
"He understood comedy, and the comedy that he produced and wrote will stand the test of time. Lots of generations to come will love it still."
Shane Allen, BBC controller of comedy commissioning, said Perry's shows would be remembered for many years to come.
He said: "Jimmy Perry is a Goliath of British comedy writing. He was behind some of the longest running and most loved sitcoms on British television spanning the 60s, 70s and 80s."
In a tweet, comic Jack Dee said: "RIP Jimmy Perry. Amazing contribution to British telly. Watched Dad's Army only yesterday. Still as funny as when I watched it as a kid."
Simply Red singer Mick Hucknall and comedian Miranda Hart were among the other stars to take to Twitter to pay their respects to Perry.
In his writing, Perry drew upon his own experiences of being in the Home Guard during World War Two and as a Redcoat at Butlin's holiday camp.
Perry devised Dad's Army alongside producer David Croft and the pair also went on to create It Ain't Half Hot Mum, about an Army entertainment troupe during the war.
Dad's Army ran from 1968 for 80 episodes over nine years and the character Private Pike was based on Perry himself.
"He has been a part of my life for such a long time, half of an amazing partnership," Ian Lavender added.
Roy Gould, who worked as a production manager on Hi-de-Hi and You Rang M'Lord? said Perry was meticulous in his attention to detail.
"Jim always researched the material very, very, very well. In rehearsal and on location, Jim would have the script in his hand and make sure that everything was going absolutely right. He never left anything to chance," he told the BBC.
'Allo 'Allo! actress Vicki Michelle tweeted a photograph of herself with Perry, and wrote: "So sad we have lost #JimmyPerry a brilliant comedy writer & true gentleman. He leaves us such a legacy."
Perry also wrote some of his theme tunes, penning Holiday Rock for Hi-de-Hi! and winning an Ivor Novello Award in 1971 for the Dad's Army theme Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mr Hitler? | Comedians and friends have paid tribute to the "amazing" contribution to British TV of Dad's Army creator Jimmy Perry, who has died at the age of 93. |
35,994,765 | But a shortage of available recruits is reported to be helping to push up starting salaries.
Evidence collated from about 100 employment consultants during March showed the fourth consecutive month of increasing permanent placements.
This was at a faster rate than the UK average, but slower than the figure for February.
However, the survey evidence suggested the growth in temporary postings has been only modest, and slower than the UK as a whole.
It pointed to a pick-up in demand for further permanent recruits. And the increase in temporary jobs becoming available was the strongest since December 2014.
The strongest growth in hiring was in health and social care, computing and hospitality. However, there were declines in demand for senior management, professionals and blue collar roles.
The fall in the availability of suitable recruits was the sharpest since last July.
Starting salaries in permanent jobs were on the rise in March, as were hourly rates of pay for temporary staff. However, the rate of pay inflation appeared to be slowing from February.
The Markit survey evidence comes after other economic indicators pointed to tough trading conditions for private sector firms during autumn and winter, but some signs of more optimism about the months ahead. | Recruitment has picked up in Scotland, according to a survey from Markit data consultancy. |
33,802,713 | Detectives revealed new details about the mother-of-three's death at her home in west Belfast at the weekend, as they appealed for help to catch her killer.
They have released a photograph of a knife, similar to one that they believe was used to attack her.
The 30-year-old's body was found following the fire at her home at Hazel View, Lagmore, on Sunday, 2 August.
The following evening, police announced they were treating her death as murder, saying they believed that she may have been killed before the fire.
In a fresh appeal on Thursday, the officer leading the investigation, Det Supt Kevin Geddes, said: "I can confirm that Jennifer was stabbed during the attack early on Sunday morning.
"We are appealing to anyone who has come across a knife like this since Sunday to contact us."
The knife is almost 14 inches long and has distinctive orange and white markings.
A 39-year-old man, who was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of withholding information about the murder, remains in custody.
Mr Geddes said detectives were "following a definite line of inquiry".
He added: "We are particularly interested in the movements and whereabouts of a man seen leaving Jennifer's home at 4.20am on Sunday.
"We believe he walked from Hazel View, through Lagmore to Poleglass. We believe he was wearing a grey T-shirt or sweat top and a light-coloured bomber jacket.
"At some stage, we believe he got rid of the grey top and light-coloured jacket and obtained a red and gold sports jersey.
"We are appealing to anyone who lives on the route between Hazel View and Poleglass and who has knowledge of any of these items of clothing or the knife to contact us."
Mr Geddes also thanked the local community for their support and "the enormous amount of assistance" they have provided to police investigating the murder. | Belfast murder victim Jennifer Dornan was stabbed before her house was set on fire, police have said. |
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