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35,492,043 | So when Ireland coach Joe Schmidt revealed his contract would not allow him to take a year off to take charge of the tourists, in some people's eyes Sunday's Six Nations match against Wales lost a little of its spice.
It wasn't just a game, it was a presidential candidacy caucus for Schmidt and Wales coach Warren Gatland; the opening round of a campaign which will end in the autumn when the successful candidate will be named.
But wait a second. This is Ireland, chasing an unprecedented third consecutive title against Wales, the side who have so often derailed Irish hopes and, in turn, had their ambitions crushed by the men in emerald.
Celtic cousins, perhaps. Bosom pals - not once the whistle goes. There is no added incentive required.
Ireland and Wales have won six of the last eight tournaments between them and when it comes to sub-plots, there are already enough to populate a season of Quentin Tarantino films.
Here are five of the best.
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Wales ended a 28-year run without a Grand Slam when they beat Ireland 32-20 at a euphoric Millennium Stadium in 2005.
A day of high drama and higher passion saw plenty of needle.
Brian O'Driscoll had a niggle or two with Gavin Henson, and Gethin Jenkins celebrated Wales' opening try by throwing the ball at Ireland fly-half Ronan O'Gara. He missed.
Four years later Ireland came to Cardiff chasing their first Grand Slam since 1948 and were almost denied when Stephen Jones narrowly missed a long-range penalty with the last kick of the game.
In truth, Ireland's 17-15 win was richly deserved with the peerless O'Driscoll scoring one of their two tries in a dominant second-half display.
But even when clearly the better team, the Irish almost let the cup slip.
Warren Gatland's decision to leave Brian O'Driscoll out of the squad for the British and Irish Lions' decisive third Test against Australia in 2013 caused an wealth of Irish indignation.
In fairness, it was not just in the Emerald Isle that eyebrows and danders were raised.
A succession of former players and pundits rounded on Gatland, who claimed to be shocked at the vitriolic criticism he faced.
Suspicions of Wales squad favouritism were further fuelled because O'Driscoll's omission was to make way for fit-again Jamie Roberts, who was partnered with Wales colleague Jonathan Davies and not O'Driscoll, with whom he'd been such a success in South Africa in 2009.
The fact the Lions crushed the Wallabies to register a first series win since 1997 did little to salve the soreness many felt.
O'Driscoll later the same year said Gatland was unlikely to be on his Christmas card list, but in 2014 had mellowed and said he felt no resentment towards the New Zealander.
Fans are not as understanding.
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The match in Cardiff in 2011 was another which left the Irish seething after Mike Phillips scored a runaway try from a quick throw in by Matthew Rees.
It was enough to seal a 19-13 win for Wales - but the try should not have been allowed.
Replays showed a ball boy had handed Rees the ball and that it was different to the one kicked out of play by Ronan O'Gara - both actions against the laws of the game when it comes to a quick throw-in.
"We were robbed," said Ireland skipper Brian O'Driscoll. Though this time it was referee Jonathan Kapland who was the target of his ire, rather than the Welsh players for trying - and succeeding - to pull a fast one.
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Ireland are the defending champions but 2015 really should have been a Grand Slam year for Schmidt's men.
The fly in the ointment was Wales, whose obstinate refusal to buckle in the face of total Irish domination in Cardiff earned a 23-16 win.
Floodlit robbery? That does no justice to Wales' extraordinary defensive display and the brilliance of Scott Williams' decisive try.
But unquestionably Ireland's lack of the cutting edge they later showed against a less resilient Scotland cost them the ultimate crown.
Perhaps the simple truth behind the rivalry between Wales and Ireland is that they tend to meet in big matches.
Aside from the Grand Slam showdowns in 2005 and 2009, both teams were unbeaten going into their 2008 meeting in Croke Park, which saw Wales take the Triple Crown on their way to Warren Gatland's first Grand Slam.
In addition, there was the small matter of the quarter final of the 2011 World Cup, when a fancied Irish team were chop-tackled to a comprehensive defeat by a fresh-faced Wales team.
O'Driscoll later confessed that result was the biggest disappointment of his career - and when you consider what happened to him when he was captain of the 2005 British and Irish Lions, that is possibly a surprising admission.
Make no mistake, Ireland versus Wales will lack nothing. This is never going to be friendly. | It was being billed as the battle between the two men most likely to coach the 2017 British and Irish Lions in New Zealand. |
29,204,518 | The title, which has sold over 54 million copies, allows players to build structures with retro Lego-style blocks, as well as explore a large map and battle others.
The deal was announced by Xbox chief Phil Spencer.
Mojang, whose three founders will leave the company, assured fans that "everything is going to be OK".
Some analysts have speculated the deal is designed to attract more users to Microsoft's Windows Phone devices.
The acquisition comes a year after Microsoft bought the handset and devices division of Finnish mobile phone firm Nokia.
Minecraft is one of the top-selling apps on both Apple's iOS store and and Android's Google Play, and has recently been released for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, further boosting sales.
Last month, it was the third most popular console game, according to market research firm NPD Group, despite being on sale for a while.
The game's developer, Mojang, which was founded in 2009, brought in over $100m in profit last year, and employs about 40 people.
Microsoft said the Mojang team would join its game studio, which is responsible for titles such as Halo, Forza and Fable.
The tech giant's chief executive, Satya Nadella, said: "Minecraft is more than a great game franchise - it is an open world platform, driven by a vibrant community we care deeply about, and rich with new opportunities for that community and for Microsoft."
Mojang's founder, Markus "Notch" Persson, has previously criticised Microsoft, and commented to Reuters that the market for Windows phones was "tiny" and not worth developing apps for.
Minecraft has a large and enthusiastic cult following, many of whom have reacted angrily to what they see as a corporate takeover of a communally-spirited independent company.
"Makes me sick, and sad," wrote one user on a popular Minecraft forum. "It would kill the gaming community," EvilBatsu added.
Others expressed concerns about whether fans would be able to exhibit their skills.
"Not only will it cost more money to play the game it will cost people their jobs too. Many people play Minecraft and upload it to YouTube as their career, but if Microsoft takes over there will for sure be copyright issues."
However some enthusiasts made the point that Microsoft could devote larger resources to upgrading and expanding the game.
In a statement, Microsoft said it would maintain Minecraft across all its existing platforms, with a "commitment to nurture and grow it long into the future".
It added that the acquisition was expected to be concluded by the end of 2014.
In an announcement confirming the deal on its website, Mojang reassured gamers, saying: "Please remember that the future of Minecraft and you - the community - are extremely important to everyone involved. If you take one thing away from this post, let it be that."
With regard to Microsoft, Mojang said: "There are only a handful of potential buyers with the resources to grow Minecraft on a scale that it deserves."
The firm added that "Notch" had decided that he "doesn't want the responsibility of owning a company of such global significance".
Developer Notch on selling Minecraft:
"I've become a symbol. I don't want to be a symbol, responsible for something huge that I don't understand, that I don't want to work on, that keeps coming back to me. I'm not an entrepreneur. I'm not a CEO."
Read his statement in full
James McQuivey of analytics firm Forrester, noted that "Minecraft is one of the most important gaming properties in the world".
"Not only is it profitable, but it continues to increase in profits years after its release, largely due to the passionate fan base that invests in building out their own Minecraft worlds.
"That helps explain why Microsoft would want Minecraft and would want to ensure it is always available on Microsoft's gaming platforms.
Prof Mark Skilton, from Warwick Business School, said the acquisition was about building a "strong customer base" for Microsoft.
"The online gaming industry is fast moving from niche collective enthusiast to mass market and Minecraft is a logical move as big business follows the traffic numbers in the digital world."
Last month, Amazon bought Twitch, a site which allows users to watch other people play video games, for $970m (£597m). | Microsoft has bought Mojang, the Swedish firm behind the popular video game Minecraft, for $2.5bn (£1.5bn). |
17,312,911 | The largest and most controversial of these is Bagram jail, which holds 3,000 detainees, including terror suspects.
Under the deal the US will cede control of Bagram over six months. Reports say they will retain access and be able to block the release of certain detainees.
Handing over US-run jails has been a key demand of Afghan President Hamid Karzai ahead of Nato's withdrawal.
Analysts say the issue has cast a shadow over negotiations on Nato's withdrawal of all of its combat forces by the end of 2014 and the long-term relationship with Afghanistan.
Bagram prison, officially known as the Parwan Detention Centre, is located in one of the largest military bases for Nato-led forces in Afghanistan. It has been at the centre of a number of prisoner abuse allegations in recent years.
Nato is also under intense pressure after days of protests and targeted killings across Afghanistan - over the inadvertent burning of Korans at Bagram - left at least 30 people dead.
The US repeatedly apologised over the incident but that failed to quell public anger.
Correspondents say the deal is the first stage of a mechanism which is still being worked out but will eventually see US-run jails handed over to full Afghan control.
By Bilal SarwaryBBC News, Kabul
US military officials in Kabul told the media that the Afghan government would take charge of about 500 prisoners at the detention centre within 45 days.
There are some 3,000 Afghan and 50 non-Afghan prisoners there. US mentors will continue to provide a logistical support role to their Afghan counterparts.
But observers say serious concerns remain over the Afghan government's ability to secure its prisons. They cite two major jail breaks in Kandahar last year, which resulted in the escape of hundreds of Taliban leaders and commanders.
Analysts say rampant corruption in the government, poor training and low morale in the security forces have made the task of securing prisons even more difficult.
Along with night raids, the transfer of detention facilities has been a major stumbling block in negotiations.
The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by the US and Afghanistan comes after the US missed a deadline Mr Karzai set in January to hand over such jails.
He then gave the US another month to reach an agreement - that deadline was set to expire on 10 March.
On signing the agreement, Gen John Allen, Nato's commander in Afghanistan lauded it as " yet another example of the progress of transition".
Under the terms of the agreement, the US would provide support and advice to the Afghan commander at Bagram for up to a year.
"This MOU illustrates our commitment to Afghan sovereignty, our mutual obligations under international law, and our enduring partnership," a statement released by the US embassy reads.
"We have had our challenges and there will be challenges ahead as we continue negotiation on the framework for our strategic partnership, but this MOU marks an important step forward," it says.
The US has previously handed over responsibility for about 300 detainees at Bagram but said the Afghan government was not ready to fully take control of the prison, the Associated Press news agency reports. | Afghanistan and the US have reached a deal to transfer US-run prisons in the country to Afghan control. |
36,548,886 | Rather like the arrival of a new Doctor Who, the role is the same, but it will look and sound completely different with someone else playing the part.
Apart from some rubber stamping - or an unforeseen political earthquake - the next Ofsted head will be Amanda Spielman, who has been formally recommended by the Education Secretary Nicky Morgan.
It will also mean the departure of Sir Michael Wilshaw, who has become the dominant figure in England's education landscape.
Outspoken and independent, he outlasted the previous education secretary, Michael Gove, and often outgunned the current incumbent Mrs Morgan.
There was little secret about the Department for Education's irritation at Sir Michael's readiness to speak uncomfortable truths that could clash head-on with flagship ministerial policies.
Before the announcement of the ill-fated plans to force all state schools to become academies, Sir Michael's comments about academy chain shortcomings infuriated the education department.
In fact, the only people more worried than ministers about Sir Michael's straight talking were his own press handlers.
Because in a political culture of private briefings, placed stories and pre-formatted comments, he spoke openly and was ready to explain and defend his views.
He overshadowed ministers because he didn't talk in the shadows.
Despite the talk of transparency, anything approaching old-fashioned press conferences, where education ministers could face scrutiny on their policies, are now as rare as hen's teeth.
But his shooting from the hip also made Sir Michael a very controversial figure.
Teachers' unions regularly accused Ofsted of putting unfair and counter-productive pressure on teachers.
There were also very robust run-ins with the private school sector, with independent school leaders left fuming by the Ofsted chief's accusations that they only wanted to share the "crumbs from their table" with state schools.
Sir Michael has said the credibility of Ofsted depends upon its independence - and he managed to make it very difficult to put him into any political pigeon-hole.
He was both a traditionalist and a maverick.
He often criticised the progressive, left-wing theorists running London schools in the 1970s and 1980s. But at the same time was sceptical of those right-wing ideologues eager to outsource as much as possible of the education system.
If there was one thing that defined his time as chief inspector, it was his decision to scrap the word "satisfactory" in Ofsted grades and to replace it with "requires improvement". It was at once arbitrary, absolutist and at the same time ambitious.
Anything less than good would not be good enough for state school pupils under his watch.
So what's going to be different when Sir Michael goes?
There is certainly going to be a change in style.
Sir Michael Wilshaw has been front-of-house for most of his working life.
Before running Ofsted, he spent 26 years as a head teacher in London secondary schools, making his name in high-profile efforts to improve schools in deprived areas.
Amanda Spielman has been a backroom operator, helping to set up the widely-praised Ark academy chain and as the chair of the exam regulator, Ofqual.
At Ofqual, when the exam regulator got tangled up in knots over changes to qualifications, she seemed to be a thoughtful and calming figure in the background.
Heads were deeply unimpressed by Ofqual's approach to exam grades, but Ms Spielman managed to stay above the fray.
But even before she has been officially given the Ofsted job Ms Spielman has been criticised by teachers' unions.
While the unions were not exactly enthusiastic fans of Sir Michael, they couldn't argue with his 43 years teaching experience.
But they have complained that Ms Spielman, a Cambridge-educated former accountant, has never been a teacher and is too close to the academy chain lobby to be impartial.
While she will expect to be attacked from the left, the most pressing challenge for Ofsted is likely to come from the right.
Sir Michael has been a formidable roadblock to deregulating a publicly-accountable state school system.
Even as a former academy head, he was much more interested in scrutinising the practical outcome rather than the ideological intent.
When the government didn't want Ofsted to inspect academy chains, he effectively got round this by ordering mass inspections of their schools.
Like many great head teachers, he walked the fine line between being relentlessly single-minded and being accused of tunnel vision.
And there will be calls to use his departure as an opportunity to "cut Ofsted down to size" and to keep the regulator in line with government policy.
This will be a tough challenge for Ms Spielman.
The role of education watchdog usually brings with it a raft of canine metaphors - and she won't want to be seen as the government's "poodle" or an "attack dog" for academy chains.
She also faces the rising challenge of what is in effect a parallel set of regulators, the regional school commissioners, who are officials appointed by the education department and likely to be much more docile to the demands of ministers.
The job of maintaining school standards is an intensely political balancing act.
Like a regenerating Doctor Who, Ms Spielman will have to escape the comparisons with previous incarnations and make sure she isn't upstaged either by the daleks or the zombies. | Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education, Children's Services and Skills - otherwise known as the head of Ofsted - is in the process of changing identity. |
37,773,748 | The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) seized the 2,700-year-old papyrus from thieves who had taken it from a desert cave near the Dead Sea.
Two lines in Hebrew detail the shipment of wine from the king's household.
"From the king's maidservant, from Na'arat, jars of wine, to Jerusalem," it reads.
"The document represents extremely rare evidence of the existence of an organised administration in the Kingdom of Judah," said Dr Eitan Klein of the IAA.
Archaeologists dated the 11cm by 2.5cm (4.3in by 1in) piece of papyrus to the 7th Century BC and say it is the earliest mention of the city of Jerusalem from a source other than the Bible.
The weather in the Dead Sea region appears to have helped preserve the document.
"Organic material, such as documents, particularly delicate paper like papyrus, perish over time due to their sensitivity to moisture," the IAA's Amir Ganor said.
"The dry climate of the desert is exceptional in that it facilitates the preservation of documents that provide invaluable information regarding the way of life in antiquity and the early development of religions," he added.
The discovery was announced on Wednesday shortly after the United Nations Organisation for Education, Science and Culture (Unesco) adopted a second resolution in a week that Israel said denied Judaism's ties to Jerusalem.
The resolution, according to copies seen by news agencies, mentions only the Islamic name for a key holy site in the city known to Jews as the Temple Mount and al-Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary) to Muslims.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticised the "absurdity" of Wednesday's decision and said he would recall his country's ambassador to Unesco for consultations on how to proceed.
Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat said the resolution was aimed "at reaffirming the importance of Jerusalem for the three monotheistic religions". | Israeli archaeologists have discovered an ancient wine ledger they believe contains the earliest written reference to Jerusalem outside the Bible. |
38,443,156 | The robbery took place at a property in Nightingale Road in Allington near Maidstone between 12:00 and 21:00 GMT on Saturday, Kent Police said.
Three luxury watches, some jewellery and the three firearms were taken during the raid.
No-one has been arrested, a spokesman for Kent Police said. Any witnesses or anyone with any information are asked to come forward. | Three shotguns have been stolen from a home during a burglary. |
39,157,993 | Enillodd yr Adar Gleision y gwpan yn 1927, yr unig dro yn ei hanes i'r gystadleuaeth gael ei hennill gan dîm o du allan i Loegr.
Yn cael eu harddangos mae medal y capten, Fred Keenor, o'r fuddugoliaeth dros Arsenal, a'r crys gafodd ei wisgo gan yr asgellwr Ernie Curtis.
Bydd nifer o luniau, rhaglen swyddogol o'r gêm a chopi o'r gwpan hefyd yn cael eu harddangos yn yr Hen Lyfrgell yng nghanol y brifddinas.
Er hynny, mae'r trefnwyr yn parhau i apelio am fwy o eitemau all gael eu rhoi yn yr arddangosfa.
Dywedodd hanesydd pêl-droed Cymru, Ceri Stennett: "Gan fod y diwrnod yn arbennig ac oherwydd buddugoliaeth Caerdydd, mae'r llawer o'r eitemau hyn wedi dod yn eiddo etifeddol mewn teuluoedd.
"Ond hoffwn glywed gan unrhyw un o Gaerdydd neu dde Cymru sydd ag unrhyw eitemau y bydden nhw'n fodlon eu benthyca i ni." | Mae arddangosfa yn dathlu 90 o flynyddoedd ers i Glwb Pêl-droed Caerdydd ennill Cwpan FA Lloegr yn dechrau ddydd Sadwrn. |
28,624,524 | Fighters said to be from the Nusra Front briefly seized a police station in Arsal, which is home to thousands of refugees from the war in Syria.
On Sunday morning, the fighting was continuing in the mainly Sunni town.
The area has been the scene of regular tension between the Lebanese army and Syrian militias.
Previous border incursions never went so deeply into Lebanese territory.
One report says four Lebanese nationals were killed, including two soldiers, and several others were seized, as rebels roamed the streets while Lebanese helicopters hovered overhead.
The Lebanese army says eight of its soldiers have been killed in clashes, other reports say.
Lebanese Prime Minster Tammam Salam described the assault as a "flagrant attack on the Lebanese state".
A Nusra Front spokesman told Reuters news agency they were demanding the release of a leader, Emad Jumaa, after he was arrested at a checkpoint near the town, which is predominantly Sunni Muslim.
Lebanon's army, which rushed tanks to Arsal, said in a statement it "would not allow any party to transfer the battle from Syria to its land".
Meanwhile, Hezbollah fighters from Lebanon's Shia Muslim community are said to have taken part in an ambush on rebels inside Syria on the side of President Bashar al-Assad.
At least 50 rebels, including members of the Nusra Front, were killed in the attack in the Qalamoun area near the Lebanese border on Saturday, activists and security sources said.
The Nusra Front, al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, has been fighting along with other rebel groups against the Syrian government but has also clashed with fellow jihadist group Islamic State (IS), which is seeking to carve out a new Islamist state straddling Syria and Iraq.
Lebanon now hosts more than a million Syrian refugees, meaning a quarter of its total population is Syrian. | There have been scenes of chaos as rebels from Syria raided a border town in Lebanon, killing members of the security forces and abducting others. |
16,754,985 | People said the "dogging" at Stapleford Woods, south of Lincoln, was forcing ramblers and families to avoid the area.
Lincolnshire Police said it had increased patrols of the site after the complaints.
Council officials are carrying out a day of action at the site and ex-offenders are clearing up.
Jenny Milan, from Stapleford Parish Meeting, said something needed to be done.
"I've been down there two or three times and it's really not very nice.
"Our village is a beautiful village and we don't want to accept this behaviour," she said.
Councillor Richard Wright, from North Kevesten District Council, said the authority would continue to work to stop the issues.
"We're going to be working with the Forestry Commission to clear litter and clear some of the vegetation to give a better view into the woods.
"This is the first day of three that the community payback teams will be there but in the long term we are looking at this as a multi-agency operation," he said.
Insp Mick Jones, from Lincolnshire Police, said it was important to make the public feel safe walking in the woods.
"We need to cut down the anti-social behaviour and cut down the fly-tipping," he said.
"Everybody has got it marked up as an area to patrol. Officers will be patrolling the area, periodically, every day." | A Lincolnshire beauty spot is being cleared of undergrowth after residents complained it was being used for sex. |
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Swansea were beaten 2-1 at Hull and manager Paul Clement has warned his side remain in danger of relegation.
But Cork says Swansea, who were bottom at the turn of the year, can bounce back from Saturday's loss.
"Considering where we were in January to where we are now, we're still three points off it," Cork said.
"We just need to keep up the good form we had in the last couple of months.
"We've been in good form lately and we can't let it affect us."
Hull remain in the relegation zone, but moved up to 18th with a win which took them within three points of Swansea in 16th spot.
Swansea travel to Bournemouth next Saturday, a side two places and three points ahead of them in the bottom half of the table.
"It will be a massive game and it will be nice going into the international game with three points," midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson said.
"All of the games are big games and it's important that we keep picking up points from all of the games.
"We're playing well enough at the moment and there's a lot of confidence in the team as well.
Sigurdsson and Cork reflected on a "frustrating" afternoon for the Swans at the KCOM Stadium.
Substitute Oumar Niasse, on loan from Everton, scored twice for Hull before Alfie Mawson pulled a goal back for Swansea in injury time.
"I thought we created enough chances to a least get a point if not to win the game," Sigurdsson said.
"I think from our point of view they were two sloppy goals to give away."
Fellow midfielder Cork added: "It was a tough game and it was always going to be a hard game because they needed that win.
"We had a lot of chances in the game and we could have made it different and they took their chance at the end and followed that with another one.
"Maybe we could have got back into it at the end, but it was one of those games. We left it too late."
Swansea lost striker Fernando and defender Angel Rangel in the first half while Martin Olsson suffered a knock, but had to carry on with Swansea having used their substitutes.
Top-scorer Llorente suffered a dead leg while fellow Spaniard Rangel twisted his ankle and Clement said the injuries "hurt" Swansea.
"We were very unlucky with injuries," Sigurdsson said.
"Martin had to carry on to make sure we weren't down to 10 men.
"It was very frustrating, but hopefully the boys will be alright for the next game." | Captain Jack Cork says Swansea City should not panic despite losing to fellow Premier League strugglers Hull City. |
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Griffiths, 23, running his first marathon, finished 13th and was the first British runner across the line to qualify the World Championships.
Thie, who coached Griffiths for four years, praised the Swansea Harriers runner.
"He's really strong mentally in terms of staying focussed," said Thie.
Thie, who represented Wales at the 2006 and 2010 Commonwealth Games, said he had high hopes for Griffiths who now coaches himself.
"If you can go out there on your own on a wet windy day and get the training done then when you stand on the start line of a race you are on your own," he said.
"If you're used to that process and not reliant on other people there are benefits to being self-coached.
"I've got a feeling his life's going to change in the running world.
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"He took an opportunity on Sunday. He performed out of his socks and it's a fairytale performance, but he worked so hard it's a justified performance."
Griffiths' finishing time of two hours 14 minutes 49 seconds in London means he has also qualified to run at next year's Commonwealth Games in Australia's Gold Coast.
And Thie believes Griffiths will not be heading down under just to make up the numbers.
"They still have to go through the selection process, there's no absolute guarantee, but I think barring disaster he's on that plane to the Gold Coast," he added.
"It might be a big ask, he's only 23 now,
"You'd think he'd be a real medal shot at 28 but with the progression and the improvement curve he's on, if you're a betting man you might put an outside bet on Josh Griffiths getting close to that podium."
Find out how to get into athletics with our inclusive guide. | Josh Griffiths' life will be changed after his shock performance in the London Marathon, according to his former coach James Thie. |
36,467,725 | Vote Leave has published an "illustrative" dossier of 50 criminals the UK has been unable to deport.
Mr Raab said British families were being put at risk - and argued leaving the EU would make the UK "safer".
Immigration minister James Brokenshire, who backs Remain, said the UK had deported 6,500 EU criminals since 2010.
And he said Prime Minister David Cameron's EU renegotiation gave the UK greater control over deportation - but Mr Raab said the EU had "refused any change" to the rules.
The row comes with just over two weeks to go until the UK votes on whether to stay in or leave the EU, in a referendum on 23 June.
Meanwhile, in other EU referendum campaign developments:
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Raab said the 50 cases in Vote Leave's dossier were an "illustrative set of examples of the kinds of people" the UK cannot remove from the country because of EU rules on freedom of movement.
He was unable to say how many of the criminals were currently in prison, but said they had been convicted for a year or more for offences ranging from murders to "mid-ranking crimes" such as drug offences and fraud.
"We've tried to deport them and can't which means all of them will be released or have been released into the community," Mr Raab told Today.
He added: "It is putting the British public at risk because it effectively means we import criminal risk into the country and then the EU rules tie our hands in dealing with it."
He said Vote Leave was not saying "you can't remove anyone" but argued that the deportation threshold was higher for EU nationals than non-EU nationals, saying eight times as many offenders from countries outside the EU were removed in 2015.
"That shows you the difference in operational bite between the rules in relation to EU nationals and non EU nationals," he added.
Cross-border policing and security collaboration but also freedom of movement.
Arguing in favour of an EU exit, he said the UK would be able to "regain" control of its borders and deport more foreign criminals from the EU, which, he said, would make the country "safer".
He also insisted extradition relations would continue with the EU if the UK voted to leave on 23 June, saying there would be "no public protection lost from being outside" the bloc.
"If you look from Passenger Name Records, to co-operation with Europol, to extradition - these are all things you can have whether you're in or out of the EU but the one thing you don't get unless you're out of the EU is control of your borders."
Responding to Vote Leave's claims, Mr Brokenshire said: "The UK sought greater control over the deportation of foreign criminals in its EU renegotiation - and that's precisely what the prime minister's deal delivered."
He said the UK's ability to deport foreign criminals had been "strengthened", allowing the UK to take into account "the full background of a criminal in a decision over whether to deport".
The minister added: "The bigger picture is that our access to the European Arrest Warrant has allowed us to deport 6,500 European criminals since 2010. That's 130 times the number of criminals Vote Leave have identified.
"If we left the EU, we could no longer use the European Arrest Warrant. That's just one of the reasons we are safer inside the EU, where we can co-operate to deal far more effectively with crime and security."
A report by the Home Affairs Committee said last week that failure to deport 13,000 foreign criminals - equivalent to a "small town" - would lead people to "question the point" of the UK remaining in the EU.
The MPs said it was "deeply concerning" that 5,789 overseas criminals were free in the UK, more than anytime since 2012 - but the Home Office said it deported record numbers of EU criminals last year.
Vote Leave also picked up on a ruling by the European Court of Justice, saying it could put the UK's security at risk.
The ECJ said non-EU migrants illegally entering an EU state in the passport-free Schengen zone should not face detention on those grounds - and should instead be returned to the country they came from under a directive giving them up to 30 days to go voluntarily.
The ruling does not apply to the UK or Ireland, which are not within the Schengen zone.
But Mr Raab said the ruling increased the risk of illegal immigrants entering the UK, "because it weakens the ability of other EU governments to put in place proper checks".
Labour MP and Remain campaigner Emma Reynolds said Vote Leave was "misleading people yet again", adding: "They know perfectly well that this court ruling does not apply to the UK because we are exempt from this directive." | EU free movement rules weaken the UK's ability to remove foreign criminals from the country, justice minister and Leave campaigner Dominic Raab has said. |
34,481,347 | It is a consequence of the way sunlight is scattered by haze particles, say scientists.
The US space agency probe continues to downlink the information gathered during its historic flyby of the dwarf planet on 14 July.
As this data arrives on Earth, the team processes it and studies it.
A black and white image of the hazes was previously released, showing them to be as high as 130km above Pluto's surface.
That picture came from the Lorri camera and was acquired as New Horizons departed the dwarf, looking back to see sunlight skim the edge of the distant world.
This new view comes from the Ralph colour camera system. Again, it is taken with Pluto backlit.
Like Earth, the dwarf has a predominantly nitrogen atmosphere (albeit much more spare).
But it is the interaction of this nitrogen with the Sun's ultraviolet light, in presence of another atmospheric constituent, methane, that is able to create the chunky haze particles.
"That striking blue tint tells us about the size and composition of the haze particles," said New Horizons team member Carly Howett from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado.
"A blue sky often results from scattering of sunlight by very small particles. On Earth, those particles are very tiny nitrogen molecules. On Pluto they appear to be larger - but still relatively small - soot-like particles we call tholins."
The principal investigator on the mission, Alan Stern, had teased Pluto fans in recent days, telling them to expect something special from this week's regular Thursday release of new images.
"Who would have expected a blue sky in the Kuiper Belt? It's gorgeous," he said in a Nasa statement.
If you stood on Pluto and looked straight up, the sky would actually appear black because of the rarity of the atmosphere.
"The haze is pretty thin, so you'd mostly see the colour of the haze as blue sunrises and sunsets," Dr Howett explained to BBC News.
The other important piece of news to come out concerns the detection of water-ice at many locations on the 2,300km-wide dwarf's surface.
More volatile ices tend to dominate the surface, so understanding why the water-ice is seen strongly in some places is an interesting observation that will need to be followed up, the team says.
"We expected water-ice to be there, but we've searched for water-ice in Pluto's spectrum for decades and not seen it before now," tweeted Alex Parker, also from SwRI.
Since 14 July, New Horizons has moved more than 100 million km beyond Pluto. And this puts it about five billion km from Earth.
The vast separation makes for very low data rates. It will be well into 2016 before all the information is on the ground.
[email protected] and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos | The New Horizons mission has returned its first colour image of Pluto's atmospheric hazes and shows them to have a blue tinge. |
36,575,654 | The defence argued those on trial could not have been responsible for the attack as they were in jail.
The judge adjourned the trial, which opened on Monday, to give more time to protect witnesses.
One woman and 31 men are on trial, including a cleric from the Tabliq sect.
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The prosecution did not give any further details about the alleged attack on the witness but did say a court case had started on Friday.
The spate of killings included the head of Uganda's Shia community, Sheikh Abdu Kadir Muwaya, who was shot dead Christmas Day 2014 in Uganda's capital Kampala.
Three days later Sheikh Mustafa Bahiga, a leader of the Tabliq sect was also shot dead.
Sheikh Muhammad Younus Kamoga was one of the Tabliq sect's leaders in Uganda at the time of his arrest.
The BBC's Patience Atuhaire reports from the High Court that the defence said police took the suspects out of jail and forced them to give information against each other.
Our correspondent adds that Judge Ezekiel Muhanguzi ruled that no suspects should be taken out of jail anymore and if police and other agents want access to them, it should be in the presence of their lawyers.
The case is set to resume on 18 July. | A witness in a trial over a spate of murders of Muslim clerics in Uganda was "beaten and castrated" because he agreed to testify, prosecutors say. |
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But what motivates people to get involved in grassroots sports?
For one Glasgow teacher, who had no recent experience of sport, it was a school trip to watch handball at the London Olympics.
Two years on and some of Fiona Kennedy's Kelvinside Academy pupils play for Scotland's under 15s handball team.
The 34-year-old says she was into athletics as a child. However, her involvement in sport fell by the wayside when - like many of us - work and family life got in the way.
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The idea for trying handball was formed during the bus journey home from London, according to her pupils.
"We just thought it would be quite fun to start playing it," said 14-year-old Diego Hidalgo.
Scarlett Green, 14, added: "We just expected it to be something that we would do in our spare time. We didn't realise we would get this far."
"It turned out we were pretty good at it," said Zander Geddes, 14.
Shortly after the school trip, Mrs Kennedy completed a level one training course in handball.
"I just thought why not give it a go," she said.
"And within six weeks we'd entered the Scottish championships, where we came third.
"It's just been an incredible journey since then - we're now Scottish champions four times over.
"Plus seven of the girls play for the under 15s Scotland team, and the boys are ready to start their Scotland journey soon."
Stephen Neilson, of the Scottish Handball Association, said handball participation had doubled in Scotland since the London 2012 Olympics.
"It's such an accessible sport," he said. "The only thing you really need is just a ball and then you can play handball.
"But the most critical aspect of the sport is people like Fiona and the volunteers who can help us develop the sport."
The Kelvinside Academy pupils are clear who they have to thank for starting their handball journey.
Colette Elliott, 13, who now captains Scotland's under 15 squad, said: "Mrs Kennedy really took handball from nothing and just gave us all these opportunities."
Scarlett added: "Because she's been here, it's made such a dramatic change to our sporting lives."
If you know a volunteer who has inspired people to take part in sport, why not nominate them for the BBC's unsung hero award. Go to bbc.co.uk/unsunghero for more information. | Whatever the sport, clubs big or small - they all rely on the good will of volunteers. |
36,617,546 | Brexit could prove to be the biggest blow yet. It sends shockwaves far beyond British borders.
The UK gave the EU a second seat at the UN Security Council, one of only two serious military forces (alongside France), respected diplomatic expertise and a driving force behind making the single market more competitive.
All that will now disappear from the EU display cabinet.
And as Britons anxiously scan the markets, watching the effect of Brexit on the pound, Europeans fear for the future of what had been a nervously recovering euro.
Deeper crisis for Greece perhaps? Italy too is a huge concern.
How will this impact the pockets of hundreds of thousands of families across the continent?
The EU also worries Brexit could reverse 70 years of European integration.
In all my years watching European politics, I have never seen such a widespread sense of Euroscepticism.
Plenty of Europeans looked on with envy yesterday as Britain cast its in-out vote.
Many of the complaints about the EU raised by the Leave campaign resonated with voters across the continent.
Across Europe leading Eurosceptic politicians queued up on Friday morning to crow about the UK referendum result.
"Victory for freedom," tweeted Marine Le Pen of France's National Front.
She has called for a vote on EU membership in France. There are similar voices in Italy, the Netherlands and beyond.
The mood in Brussels this morning is deeply gloomy.
The Brexit vote sends screaming alarm bells; warning that the EU in its current form isn't working.
Two processes will soon be launched here - both fraught with difficulty.
Untangling the UK from everything EU and negotiating a new relationship once David Cameron or his successor formally starts the Leave process.
And a political scramble as the EU tries to save itself, possibly disintegrating further in the process.
Expect deep divisions between EU nations and Brussels bureaucrats about the direction the EU now takes.
Closer union to show a united European front, or reform and a rethink of the European project?
Prime ministers across Europe look nervously over their shoulders at increasingly influential Eurosceptic, more nationalist-minded political rivals. | The Leave vote in the UK is a huge body blow for the EU - already reeling from the migrant crisis, the euro crisis and fears about what is seen as an aggressive Russia next door. |
34,797,252 | The leak happened during a report on state-run Channel One about President Vladimir Putin meeting military chiefs in the city of Sochi.
One general was seen studying a diagram of the "devastating" torpedo system.
Launched by a submarine, it would create "wide areas of radioactive contamination", the document says.
The "oceanic multi-purpose Status-6 system" is designed to "destroy important economic installations of the enemy in coastal areas and cause guaranteed devastating damage to the country's territory by creating wide areas of radioactive contamination, rendering them unusable for military, economic or other activity for a long time", the document says.
"It's true some secret data got into the shot, therefore it was subsequently deleted," said Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
"In future we will undoubtedly take preventive measures so this does not happen again."
The US Defence Department said it had seen the report, but would not comment further.
"We are aware of the video footage, but defer to the Russian navy as to its authenticity," a Pentagon spokesperson told the BBC.
However, the Russian government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta later reported details of the weapon, without showing the diagram, and speculated about a super-radioactive cobalt device. So the leak may not have been accidental.
On the diagram the giant torpedo's range is given as "up to 10,000km" (6,200 miles) and depth of trajectory is "up to 1,000m" (3,300ft).
It was developed by Rubin, a submarine design bureau in St Petersburg.
It would, apparently, be launched by nuclear-powered submarines of the 09852 "Belgorod" and 09851 "Khabarovsk" series.
Rossiiskaya Gazeta called the torpedo a "robotic mini-submarine", travelling at 100 knots (185km/h; 115mph), which would "avoid all acoustic tracking devices and other traps".
Just before the torpedo diagram came into view in the state TV report, Mr Putin could be heard telling the generals that the US and its Nato allies were forging ahead with a global anti-missile defence system "unfortunately ignoring our concerns and our offers of co-operation".
He said the Western defence project was "an attempt to undermine the existing parity in strategic nuclear weapons and essentially to upset the whole system of global and regional stability".
In June Mr Putin said Russia would put more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles into service this year.
The US is developing the sea-based Aegis Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system to counter the perceived threat of short- and medium-range ballistic missiles from Iran or another so-called "rogue" state. Under the plan, air defence missiles will eventually be sited on land in Romania and Poland.
Mr Putin dismissed that Nato argument, pointing to the international deal, agreed this year, imposing limits on Iran's nuclear programme.
"References to an Iranian or North Korean nuclear missile threat are just used to conceal the true plans - their real goal is to neutralise the strategic nuclear potential of other nuclear states... above all, of course, Russia," Mr Putin told the generals in Sochi, a Black Sea resort.
He said Russia would continue developing strategic offensive systems capable of penetrating any anti-missile defence.
According to state-run Rossiiskaya Gazeta, the destructive power attributed to the new torpedo's warhead would fit the description of a cobalt bomb.
That would be a type of thermonuclear warhead with a layer of cobalt-59, which on detonation would be transmuted into highly radioactive cobalt-60 with a half-life longer than five years.
Such a weapon would guarantee "that everything living will be killed", the paper said - there would not even be any survivors in bunkers.
A cobalt bomb has never been tested because of the devastating radiation it would unleash.
"But it can be considered as a means of deterrence - like the Perimetr system, which is on combat readiness, which guarantees retaliation with all of Russia's nuclear forces even if command posts and the country's leadership have been annihilated".
Russian military experts told BBC Russian Service: | The Kremlin says secret plans for a Russian long-range nuclear torpedo - called "Status-6" - should not have appeared on Russian TV news. |
36,538,375 | The 22-year-old, who reached 27th in the world rankings in July 2013, is fully fit after two injury-plagued seasons but is currently ranked 308th.
Other British players allocated wildcards are Liam Broady, Alex Ward, James Ward, Tara Moore and Katie Swan.
German Dustin Brown, who beat Rafael Nadal last year, is another wild card.
Swan, 17, qualified for the main draw at the Miami Open in March, while Hong Kong-born Moore, 23, reached the quarter-finals of the Nottingham Open at the weekend.
Daniela Hantuchova, the 33-year-old Slovakian who reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals in 2005 but is now ranked 163, is another to receive an invitation to the Championships.
Also invited is 37-year-old Czech Radek Stepanek, a qualifier at the French Open who took Andy Murray to five sets at Roland Garros in the first round.
Six more wild cards will be announced in due course, three each in the men's and ladies' singles.
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Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Former British number one Laura Robson will receive a wildcard for this year's Wimbledon Championships, which begin on 27 June. |
37,725,292 | The union's annual Violence at Work Survey 2016 showed a rise of 20,000 to 40,000 violent assaults against public service and local authority workers.
The figures covered the period between 2006 and 2016.
Violent incidents within local authorities rose from 13,206 to 17,605 this year.
Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Stirling reported significant increases.
Unison said the increase could not be explained by better awareness and reporting, and said violence against workers must be addressed by employers and the Scottish government.
Nurses experience four times the national average risk of assault while the figure for care workers is twice the national average.
School assistants are also said to be suffering from high level assaults, mostly against females.
It was also found that 83% of workers surveyed from the voluntary sector said their employer regarded violence as part of the job.
Scott Donohue, chairman of Unison's health and safety committee, said: "Violence against public service workers has increased, with significant increases against local authority workers.
"We cannot ignore a doubling of the figures over 10 years.
"It is also reasonable to make the correlation between the swingeing cuts to councils and increase in violence to council workers."
He added: "Staff tell us if you have to wait longer, or the service you need is no longer available, or a support worker has less time to spent with a client, it's being taken out on those working face to face with the public.
"At very least, councils should fully implement the Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives guidelines 2010, in order that we can make the level of violent assaults fall across Scotland." | More than 40,000 violent assaults against public service workers in Scotland have been recorded in the past year, according to a Unison survey. |
38,552,607 | US carrier United Airlines announced last year that it would stop flights between Belfast and New York.
It said it made the decision because of the route's poor financial performance.
A £9m deal agreed by the Northern Ireland Executive and the airline in a bid to save the route fell through because the financial package breached EU state aid rules.
The route between Belfast International Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport first began in 2005, operated by Continental Airlines.
United took over the operation of the route in 2012 after a merger between it and Continental.
Monday's final inbound and outbound flights came after it was announced that Belfast International is the fifth busiest airport in the United Kingdom for domestic passenger traffic.
More than 5.1 million passengers passed through the airport last year, representing a growth of more than 17%.
Graham Keddie, the airport's managing director, said he was working closely with the government to deliver a major long-haul project that would open up "attractive additional and badly-needed connections".
Ulster Unionist MLA Steve Aiken said the route was "vitally important for Northern Ireland business and Northern Ireland people".
He called on the executive to "invest in [the] success" of the airport by building a dual carriageway link to it and scrapping a tax on air travel.
"It has great opportunity for international flights and development and I would love to see connections to North America and the Middle East," he said.
"That's important [for] driving forward for the future of Northern Ireland."
The South Antrim MLA, whose wife was on the final flight from New York, added that travelling across the Irish border Dublin for a trans-Atlantic flight would create a "considerable amount of hassle" for people from Northern Ireland.
Passenger James Murray, who arrived at Belfast International Airport on the final United Airlines flight from New York, said it was shame for the link to be lost.
"Maybe when they get Brexit out of the road they can get it back again," he added. | Northern Ireland's only daily direct air route to the United States ends on Monday. |
37,473,464 | Mohammed Kadir, 24, is alleged to have killed Jamal Uddin, 71, who was murdered in February over a belief he was practicing "black magic".
Mohammed Syadul Hussain, 24, is accused of assisting Mr Kadir and will appear at Manchester Crown Court on 24 October.
It is thought Mr Kadir has fled to Syria.
Mr Uddin died after he was bludgeoned during an attack at a children's playground in Rochdale.
Mohammed Hussain Syeedy, 21, has already been convicted of Mr Uddin's murder and was jailed for life earlier this month.
He was told he must serve a minimum term of 24 years.
A court heard he was the getaway driver for Mr Kadir, of Chamber Road, Oldham.
Hussain, of Oswald Street, Rochdale was remanded in custody. | A man has been charged with assisting a murder suspect thought to have fled the country. |
39,419,362 | Coleman, 28, will miss several months after breaking his leg when playing for Republic of Ireland against Wales.
"That's one thing Seamus will want us to do, to play well and get some good results," said Jagielka
Everton - seventh in the Premier League - travel to Manchester United three days after facing Liverpool at Anfield.
"We'll all be thinking about him and, come Saturday and Tuesday, I'm sure he'll have the TV on and be cheering us on," added Jagielka, speaking to the club website.
"There'll be no incentive needed, but the circumstances over the last few days might add a bit of a motivational edge on our behalf.
"We want to go out there and play well and it will be nice if we can all get to speak to Seamus beforehand."
Coleman has undergone an operation since breaking his tibia and fibula following a tackle by Wales' Neil Taylor in Friday's World Cup qualifier.
The right-back has played 26 of Everton's 29 league games this season and Jagielka admits such leadership will be missed when the Toffees seek a first win at Anfield since 1999.
"Seamus is a massive part of the furniture," added Jagielka. "All we can do is be there for him." | Everton will use the horrific injury suffered by Seamus Coleman as added motivation for Saturday's derby against Liverpool, says captain Phil Jagielka. |
40,281,639 | United Parcel Service (UPS) spokesman Steve Gaut told the AP an employee opened fire on colleagues before drivers were sent out for deliveries.
The suspect shot himself when confronted by police and later died in hospital, NBC7 and ABC7 reported.
Police said the building was secure but did not offer details on the victims.
San Francisco assistant police chief Toney Chaplin said the suspected gunman was armed with an assault pistol and shot himself as he was confronted by police.
"UPS confirms there was an incident involving employees within the company's facility in San Francisco earlier this morning," the company said in a statement on Wednesday.
"We cannot provide information as to the identity of persons involved at this time, pending the police investigation." | A UPS employee has shot and killed three people before turning the gun on himself at a San Francisco depot, local media report. |
34,955,803 | 28 November 2015 Last updated at 19:42 GMT
She was speaking after taking a boat ride across Valletta Harbour to the spot where George VI landed in 1943 to present the George Cross.
The Queen said any visit to Malta, where she lived with the Duke of Edinburgh for two years shortly after they married, is "always very special for me".
BBC's Nicholas Witchell reports. | The Queen has spoken of her "happy" memories of living in Malta in the 1950s, during the final part of her three-day state visit. |
19,674,045 | The UK study, published in the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases, looked at 4,600 people and found the PARK2 gene was linked to age-related disc problems.
A third of middle-aged women have problems with at least one spinal disc - and the condition is known to be inherited in up to 80% of patients.
Experts said finding the gene could lead to new treatments being developed.
Back pain costs the UK about £7bn a year in sickness leave and treatment costs, but the causes of the condition are not fully understood.
In lumbar disc degeneration (LDD), discs become dehydrated and lose height, and the vertebrae next to them develop bony growths called osteophytes, leading to lower back pain.
The King's College London researchers carried out MRI scans of all those in the study and looked at differences in their genetic make-up.
They found variants of the PARK2 gene appeared to have an effect in people with degenerate discs and influence the speed at which their condition deteriorated.
The researchers, funded by the Wellcome Trust and Arthritis Research UK, say more research is now needed to find out how the gene influences the condition.
But they suggest it could be switched off in people with LDD.
And they say it could be that environmental factors - such as diet and lifestyle - could make what are known as epigenetic changes to the gene.
The researchers say that once the mechanism is fully understood, their finding could lead to the development of new treatments of lower back pain.
Dr Frances Williams, of the department of twin research and genetic epidemiology at King's College London, who worked on the study, said: "We know that people whose discs wear out are at increased risk of episodes of lower back pain, but normal human discs are hard to get hold of to study so until now our knowledge of normal human biology was incomplete.
"Further work by disc researchers to define the role of the PARK2 gene will, we hope, shed light on one of most important causes of lower back pain.
"It is feasible that if we can build on this finding and improve our knowledge of the condition, we may one day be able to develop new, more effective treatments for back pain caused by this common condition."
Prof Alan Silman, medical director at Arthritis Research UK, said: "Lumbar disc degeneration is a common cause of lower back pain, and it's known that up to 80% of cases have a genetic basis, but this is the first time a gene has been identified as linked to this often painful and disabling condition.
"It's a promising start and provides us with the first clue to the genetic basis of this condition, and with further research, may potentially lead to the development of more effective treatments". | Scientists have identified a gene flaw linked to disc problems that are a common cause of lower back pain. |
39,528,515 | The girl, "Abigail", was abused multiple times a week in the 1990s - in the classroom and at the man's home.
A social worker had previously written to warn the council about the teacher - who cannot be named - but he was allowed to continue teaching.
The council offered its sympathy to the victim.
It has agreed an out-of-court settlement of up to £550,000 with Abigail.
Abigail - not her real name - was raped and sexually abused at Sir Harry Smith Community College in Whittlesey, Peterborough, in the 1990s.
"The abuse happened four, five times a week - and it would be in the classroom store cupboard," she said, after other teachers had gone home.
"On several occasions he tied me to a radiator with a dog collar and told me not to move, and made me sit there naked."
The abuse in the classroom took place for "the first three years", from the age of 15. During this time, her abuser also started taking her to his home.
"To do that he would get me to jump in the back of the car, sit behind the seats and be covered up by a blanket - so that when he got to his house, nobody would see me go in."
She said she will "never" be able to forgive him.
"He was an adult, he knew what he was doing was wrong.
"I wanted to have children, which I've not been able to do because I've not been able to have a sexual relationship with my husband - I find it too difficult."
When Abigail reported the abuse to Cambridgeshire police in 1998, the teacher told detectives their relationship was only sexual after she was 18, and that it ended because he was in love with another pupil at the school.
After being questioned, the teacher was released without charge.
The teacher cannot be named for legal reasons, but documents seen by the BBC show the man stood trial in the early 1980s after being accused of sexually abusing two vulnerable girls at another school in Cambridgeshire, but was found not guilty.
A social worker involved with the case was so concerned about the teacher that she wrote a report to Cambridgeshire County Council.
In it she said: "I am aware of what I believe to be substantial evidence of professional misconduct - which was inadmissible in the criminal trials - that the local authority should be aware of before making the decision as to whether or not he should continue to be employed as a teacher."
The BBC believes the council - the teacher's employer - failed to pass on information to the headteacher at Sir Harry Smith Community College, despite this written warning.
The teacher later abused Abigail, and went on to become a deputy headteacher at a school in London.
He has now been banned from teaching for life.
The Department for Education told the BBC: "all public bodies and organisations working with children should have a clear child protection policy which spells out how to raise concerns with local authority children's social care services, the NSPCC, and the police".
A spokesman for Cambridgeshire County Council said: "It is deeply regrettable that these incidents happened in the 1990s, and we offer our sympathy to the victim.
"However, the school itself and the whole vetting and checking process is very different from the systems in place 25 years ago."
Tom Perry from campaign group Mandate Now - which is calling for tighter rules around child protection - told the BBC that police and schools also have a responsibility to report teachers who have committed - or are alleged to have committed - a sexual offence, to the Disclosure and Barring Service [formerly the Criminal Records Bureau].
Watch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel. | Cambridgeshire County Council failed to protect a 15-year-old girl from being sexually abused by her teacher, the Victoria Derbyshire show has learned. |
32,542,765 | The Labour leader told BBC Question Time he "couldn't be clearer" there would be no deals between the parties.
The programme saw the leaders of the three largest Westminster parties questioned separately by the audience.
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Miliband would never be forgiven if he let the Tories retain power rather than work with her party.
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With polls suggesting Labour could lose a number of its seats to the SNP on 7 May, Mr Miliband was repeatedly asked whether his party would work with Nicola Sturgeon's party.
"I am not going to have a Labour government if it means deals or coalitions with the Scottish National Party," he said, ruling out a so-called confidence and supply arrangement.
"It's not going to happen. I couldn't be clearer with you."
He added: "If the price of having a Labour government was coalition or a deal with the Scottish National Party, it's not going to happen."
Ms Sturgeon, UKIP leader Nigel Farage and Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood were also being questioned in separate programmes.
Ms Sturgeon said people would be appalled by Mr Miliband's refusal to consider a deal with her party.
"He sounded as if he was saying that he would rather see David Cameron and the Conservatives back in government than actually work with the SNP," she said.
"Now, if he means that then I don't think people in Scotland will ever forgive Labour for allowing the Conservatives back into office.
Ms Wood said she was still prepared to work with a minority Labour government.
With the first question of the special election edition of Question Time, Mr Miliband was challenged over the note left by former Labour chief secretary to the Treasury Liam Byrne for his successor, which said "there's no money".
He said the note was David Cameron's "regular prop" and that it was his party's "mission" to eliminate the deficit.
Citing comments by shadow chancellor Ed Balls that Mr Byrne's note had been a joke, an audience member said "running a business is anything but a joke", saying someone working in the private sector would be fired if they did the same.
Mr Miliband said his party was "deadly serious" about balancing the books.
He was also challenged by a man in the audience who said it was "ludicrous" he did not accept Labour had spent too much in government.
Labour had "got it wrong" on bank regulation, Mr Miliband said, adding that his party did not "do enough on apprenticeships" or on a "modern industrial strategy".
Speaking on Friday, Labour's general election co-ordinator Douglas Alexander accepted Mr Byrne's note had "not been wise" but said it was the "global financial crisis" which had caused the deficit to multiply, not the actions of the last government.
"Lehman Brothers did not collapse because Gordon Brown built too many schools and hospitals," he told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme.
Mr Alexander, who risks losing his own Paisley and Renfrewshire South seat to the SNP, said it would be a "disaster for Scotland" if the nationalists swept the board, suggesting it would let the Conservatives back into Downing Street.
"The SNP does not want to help the Labour Party, it wants to harm the Labour Party," he said, adding that his party would "not trade away the safety of the country" in any post-election discussions.
* Subscribe to the BBC Election 2015 newsletter to get a round-up of the day's campaign news sent to your inbox every weekday afternoon | There will be no Labour government if it involves a coalition or a deal with SNP, Ed Miliband has said. |
34,059,835 | The visiting team trooped in with their pride hurting not just because of what their driven opponents from Malmo had just done to them but by what their own manager had said about them.
When Ronny Deila accused his team of being "scared" and "frightened" on the night, it was as firm a kick to their collective solar plexus as anything the Swedes visited upon them.
By levelling an accusation of timidity at his players, Deila was calling into question all sorts of things - principally their character.
It was a searing comment, the most serious accusation he could have made. And he was correct.
Celtic failed dismally to front-up. Their go-to players were routed. Virgil van Dijk, Charlie Mulgrew, Scott Brown and Stefan Johansen were all badly beaten in their head-to-heads. Celtic's leaders were cowed.
True, they were the victims of a miscarriage of justice when Nir Bitton's goal was disallowed just before the break, but later on, nobody from the Celtic camp sought refuge in a hard luck story.
Fair play to them for that. Refusing to cling to that life raft was the best part of their night. Goal or no goal, they knew they weren't good enough. Not even close.
Brown, the captain, called it best when he said he was ashamed of the performance. Brown's honesty was commendable in a way that his football was not.
The poverty of Celtic's play was shocking. No sensible person would ever make grand claims about Deila's team, but even if by modest standards this was dreadful.
Their passing was abject to the point of embarrassing. Too often they had a death-wish when in possession. Misplaced pass followed misplaced pass and all the while Malmo's confidence grew as the noise level of their supporters spurred them on.
From early in the evening, Celtic had the appearance of men who were caving in under the pressure. In the end, they went down, not like the lions Deila believed them to be or the pigs they were allegedly accused of being, but mice.
Two goals conceded from corner kicks told its own story. They had their warning that corners could hurt them when Jo Inge Berget smashed in the goal that made it 3-2 in Glasgow, but this is a Celtic team that won't - or can't - learn its lesson.
The verve of their first 20 minutes at Celtic Park was like a snapshot from another era. It was as if the characters who had tormented Malmo in that opening spell in Glasgow had been replaced by a gang of imposters.
Deila slammed his players but he hardly exonerated himself. How could he when he hopelessly misjudged the merits of his team, talking them up like they had made vast progress in the past year.
If they have made any, it's limited and painfully short of disposing of a team like Malmo, a moderate side put together for small money, but one in possession of the kind of mettle that Celtic do not possess.
There was a moment in the lead-up to Malmo's second goal that was, in some ways, illustrative of the difference between the teams. It involved the local talisman, Markus Rosenberg, and Brown, the guy who is supposed to be Celtic's galvanising presence.
A lobbed ball was played into the Celtic half and Rosenberg and Brown competed for it. We say competed but, in truth, it wasn't a contest. Rosenberg got there first, back-headed it and then, as Brown was gathering his thoughts, Rosenberg left him for dead and set off in a beeline for the Celtic penalty box.
The ball went to Berget, who forced a fine save from Craig Gordon. When the ball broke loose, it was Rosenberg who was on to it. As he was forcing a second wonderful save from the Celtic goalkeeper, Brown still hadn't recovered his ground.
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Rosenberg's thinking was quicker and his hunger greater. He was just sharper. They all were.
Malmo won a corner in that moment and promptly scored from it, Dedryck Boyata deflecting a shot into his own net. We remember the hapless endgame from the Celtic defender, but the desire that preceded it from the Malmo striker was indicative of the home team's attitude.
The infuriating thing for Celtic is that they had the winning of this tie and let it slip. At 2-0 and again at 3-1 they had Malmo where they wanted them in the first leg but they couldn't finish them off. What is it they say about giving a sucker an even break?
This was an avoidable failure. Every time Celtic miss out on the Champions League group stage they make it harder on themselves to return. You really have to wonder when Celtic will be back on the big stage.
It is said that their natural habitat now is the Europa League but you wouldn't be too confident in Celtic holding their own in that competition either.
When Van Dijk departs, Celtic's central defensive options will be Efe Ambrose. Boyata - who has something of the Ambrose about him - and young Eoghan O'Connell.
At a push, you could play Mulgrew and Mikael Lustig in there, but that's only creating problems elsewhere.
Up front, Leigh Griffiths is their only realistic option. Nadir Ciftci looks leaden-footed and out of his depth at that level. Stefan Scepovic, a Deila signing, was a waste of £2.2m and Anthony Stokes is miles out of the European picture these days.
The squad has pockets of talent, but it's thin on the ground in a European context and too much of it is given to bouts of flakiness, the kind of thing that Brown said he was ashamed of.
For 20 minutes in the first leg, it was easy to see what Deila was talking about when he spoke of the huge progress made in the last year. For so much that followed those 20 minutes it was hard to see any improvement.
Malmo have done brilliantly to make it through. Their budget is a fraction of Celtic's and their team is a brand new one, still gelling. They're not a formidable side but they have a formidable spirit.
They showed mental strength where Celtic showed weakness. They looked like players who loved the occasion. Celtic, in comparison, were spooked by it.
Malmo got what they deserved on Tuesday - and so did Celtic. They had their chance - and they blew it. | In the minutes after Celtic's lame exit from the Champions League, the mixed zone at the Swedbank Stadium was like a hospital ward for damaged footballers. |
31,097,083 | The number 91 bus hit the trees on Kingsway, near the London School of Economics (LSE) building, in Holborn.
London Ambulance Service said two people were taken to hospital with facial injuries. Two others were treated for minor injuries.
Kingsway was closed between the Great Queen Street and A4 Aldwych junctions, but has since re-opened.
At the scene, London Fire Brigade station manager, Gary Squires, said: "Those involved were very lucky to escape serious injury."
LSE student Ethan Meade said he turned around when he heard a crash.
"I saw the roof fall down off the side of the bus and the glass shatter everywhere.
"The passengers seemed to be sitting there pretty stunned, as you'd expect. Police seemed to handle it very well." | The roof of a bus has been ripped off after it hit overhanging trees in central London. |
33,210,141 | Chilean media say the woman, who is at least 90, went to hospital in the city of San Antonio after a fall.
X-ray tests then revealed the presence of a foetus which weighed around 2 kilos (4.4lb).
The phenomenon, known as a lithopedion, occurs when a foetus dies during pregnancy and then becomes calcified outside the uterus.
Previous recorded cases have also involved women being unaware of the presence of the foetus until decades later.
Marco Vargas Lazo, the director of the hospital called the case "extraordinarily rare," according to the Efe news agency.
The foetus was "large and developed and occupied all of her abdominal cavity," he said.
The patient has now been sent home and doctors say it is unlikely they will attempt to remove the foetus, given the risks an operation would carry for a patient of her age. | Doctors in Chile say that a woman has been carrying a calcified foetus for some 50 years. |
34,934,797 | Speaking outside the Commons, South Down MP Margaret Ritchie said he needed to say sorry.
A majority of Northern Ireland's 18 MPs will support UK air strikes in Syria during Wednesday's Commons vote.
The debate will end with a vote on whether the UK should join other countries in bombing targets in Syria.
The prime minister faced calls from a number of MPs to make an apology.
He declined, but said there was "honour" in voting for or against military action.
Ms Ritchie said it was the wrong decision.
"David Cameron refused today to apologise," she said.
"I feel it would have been better for him to do so because none of us are terrorists who will be going through the no lobby tonight against military strikes."
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has announced its eight MPs will support action against so-called Islamic State.
Speaking during the debate, the party's Nigel Dodds told the Commons that not to back airstrikes in Syria would be a "dereliction of duty".
Mr Dodds said lessons from Northern Ireland needed to be learned on how to deal with terrorism.
The Ulster Unionist Party's two MPs will also support the government motion but SDLP MPs will vote against it.
The leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), Colum Eastwood, said his party's three MPs "will proudly walk through the voting lobbies with our colleagues in Labour, the Scottish National Party, Plaid Cymru and other parties to oppose military action".
Mr Eastwood also called on Prime Minister David Cameron to withdraw remarks he made on the eve of the vote, criticising those who opposed military action.
"David Cameron's remarks describing those opposed to air strikes in Syria as 'terrorist sympathisers' are appalling, inaccurate and offensive in the extreme," the SDLP leader said.
"Opposing military action in Syria that will kill innocents and can only feed the evil we all want to defeat is not sympathy with terrorists, it's part of the lesson we have learned from decades of conflict."
The DUP is the joint fourth biggest party at Westminster, with the same number of MPs as the Liberal Democrats.
In a statement, Mr Dodds said the DUP had sought assurances from the government before promising to support the motion.
"After repeated briefings from the National Security Council on privy council terms, and much discussion with the prime minister and others in government, we have concluded that the time is right for us to act, and to act decisively," the DUP deputy leader said.
"Terrorism requires an answer from all civilised countries. We in Northern Ireland know what it's like for terrorism to be ignored or appeased."
He said the DUP had opposed the "failed strategy advocated in 2013" but said there was "now a realistic chance that overwhelming pressure can be brought to bear" against the Islamic State group.
The Ulster Unionist MPs both have military backgrounds.
Last week, the UUP's South Antrim MP Danny Kinahan told the Commons he wanted to see the Islamic State group "totally defeated".
Northern Ireland's only Independent MP, Lady Sylvia Hermon, said she has not yet decided how she will vote.
She said she will make up her mind at the end of Wednesday's 10-hour debate.
The largest Irish nationalist party, Sinn Féin, has four MPs but they do not take their seats in the House of Commons under a long-standing policy of abstentionism and will not take part in the vote. | The SDLP have criticised David Cameron for failing to apologise for calling opponents of airstrikes in Syria "terrorist sympathisers". |
19,637,833 | Then five men, ranging in age from 86 to 89, officially handed it over to Great Aycliffe Mayor Val Raw for "safekeeping".
Facing declining numbers and increasing frailty, this group of men who fought for their country during World War II has disbanded.
Wilf Coates, 87, was a pathfinder, one of the first in on D-Day in June 1944, reconnoitring and marking out the landing zone for the rest.
"It's sad that we're having to break up," he said. "Lack of members, people dying off. It won't get any better.
"There'll be no Normandy veterans left in time to come."
Ed Murray, 86, is dying of cancer but was determined to take part in the ceremony - and not in his wheelchair.
"I only went to Normandy to complain about the noise," he joked. "I couldn't get back."
Formed in 1982 the Durham branch of the association - the twelfth - had made pilgrimages to northern France and regularly attended Remembrance Sunday events.
Michael Dalton, whose father was in Normandy, said men now in their eighties and nineties were finding it difficult just to attend the association's monthly meetings.
He said some were frail and in ill health and the group felt it was "the right time to call it a day".
Mayor Val Raw promised the standard would be one of the town's "most treasured possessions".
"I know it is given with great pride and it is with great pride that we receive it," she said. "It will be treasured here."
The standard will be put on display in the council chamber at Great Aycliffe Town Council offices. | The standard of the Durham Normandy Veterans Association was dipped once, in a final salute to those "no longer with us". |
35,891,472 | St Nicholas C of E Primary School was praised for its "highly effective teaching" and "ambitious leadership".
Ofsted said the school had been on a "phenomenal journey" since its previous inspection when it was rated as "requiring improvement".
The school said Blackpool was "bouncing back" from "negative headlines".
Secondary schools in the town were described as "dire" last year by the chief inspector of schools, with two thirds of schools rated as either "inadequate" or "requiring improvement".
In contrast, inspectors said pupils at St Nicholas, on School Road, behaved "impeccably", were proud of their school and were highly curious and confident.
The report, following an inspection on 1 and 2 March, also praised staff, governors and parents and said outcomes had "improved rapidly", with "excellent progress, especially in reading and mathematics".
Head teacher Andy Mellor said it was all down to a "truly community effort".
"It has been a hard journey but well worth the considerable effort," he added. "I am sure that it won't be long before other Blackpool schools will be judged outstanding too.
"There have been so many negative headlines... and yet there is so much fantastic work going on in Blackpool schools. Our kids in Blackpool deserve the best."
An outstanding rating was "great for the town", he said, adding: "Blackpool is bouncing back."
Westcliff Primary School was rated outstanding by Ofsted inspectors in 2009. It has since become an academy school and was rated "good" in 2013.
The only other schools rated "outstanding" in Blackpool are specialist schools: Highfurlong School and Park Community Academy. | A primary school in Blackpool has become the first mainstream school in the town to be rated "outstanding" by Ofsted inspectors since 2009. |
32,998,077 | McAuley, 50, with an address at Cavan Bank Walk, Ballyconnell, County Cavan, also pleaded guilty to producing a knife during a dispute at Kilderry, Kilnaleck, Cavan.
This was on 24 December last year.
He also pleaded guilty to threatening to kill his estranged wife's brother Tommy Tully.
This was during the same incident.
McAuley spoke only to answer guilty to each of the charges.
The judge remanded McAuley in custody to Castlerea prison, to appear again at Cavan Circuit Court on 24 November, when he will be sentenced.
The judge also ordered the preparation of a victim impact report on Ms Tully and a probation and welfare report on McAuley. | Prominent republican Pearse McAuley has pleaded guilty to falsely imprisoning his estranged wife Pauline Tully and recklessly causing serious harm to her. |
32,580,969 | The daily wildlife drama surrounding the Norwich Cathedral peregrine falcon family has become addictive viewing for millions of people watching online around the world and for thousands of visitors to the cathedral's watch point.
For one man, observing the chicks' progress has become a labour of love as he spends hours in his "den" recording them via a live web stream to tell their story.
"I really try not to get paternal - but I probably do," said Dave Gittens, a volunteer with the Hawk and Owl Trust (HOT) who is responsible for the live nest-cams.
"I try really hard to be objective, they are wild animals, they are doing things we might find distasteful or difficult to watch - and when they die naturally, to watch a chick go through its last moments of life is terrible."
Mr Gittens said he spends what "feels like 90 days" watching the breeding season - but quickly adds "it's not an arduous task, it's a real privilege to be in a position where you can see these birds."
The peregrine falcons, nesting on a special platform on the cathedral spire 246ft (75m) above the ground, have been breeding in Norwich since 2011 as part of an urban peregrine breeding programme managed by the Hawk and Owl Trust.
This year's chicks, among the first in the city for more than 200 years after the pair's first successful clutch in 2012, hatched at the end of April.
Mr Gittens said the moment was exhilarating.
"The excitement of seeing the first chick hatch, watching with trepidation as they walk up and down the nest ledge.
"Your knees go weak, you get bouts of vertigo for them, you can almost hear the people screaming on Facebook - at this stage they are right on the cusp of being flight ready - but they're only just ready.
"Until you see them flying around and all the rest of it - it's heart-stopping," he said.
Mr Gittens describes himself as "a cog in the wheel" with more than 100 volunteers working on the urban peregrine project.
While he watches the birds in their nest from the comfort of his den, others tackle the elements to take a more "hands-on" approach to capturing images of them.
"I quickly became addicted to these superb and charismatic birds," said Norwich-based photographer Andy Thompson, who can spend more than 270 hours taking pictures of the adults and their chicks during the breeding season.
"It can be quite cold and bleak... but any activity gets the adrenaline going as you follow them around the skies."
"Fledging time is often the most exciting period... but it can also be quite an upsetting time as unfortunately the birds do have accidents and may get killed," said Mr Thompson.
"This is a natural thing that happens in urban and rural nesting areas, but it is still somewhat a blow when a bird you have watched for many weeks is suddenly no more."
The birds are the fastest thing on earth with an ability to fly at more than 200mph (322km/h) when diving for prey, making them faster than a cheetah and on-par with a Formula 1 car.
Wildlife presenter Chris Packham, who returns to RSPB Minsmere in Suffolk for the new season of Springwatch on 25 May, is a big fan of the peregrine and the urban projects.
"They are the fastest things on earth... which struck me as almost unbelievable when I was 10 and still does now," he said.
"They look pure muscle assassin, brutal, totally hard, it's the eye and the moustacial stripe and the massive feet - their weapons.
"If I was re-incarnated as another species of animal there is only one I'd be... and it isn't a pigeon."
The wildlife expert and conservationist is also a keen supporter of the urban peregrine scheme. There are a number of nesting projects on buildings across the country including Bath, Derby and Nottingham.
"If you own a tall building... you should be putting up nest boxes," he said.
The hours Mr Gittens spends watching the peregrines needs an "understanding" from his wife Caroline. She says she is "very proud" of the work as it brings "so much pleasure to millions of people".
"I totally support him... it's something we both enjoy and get a kick out of," she said.
"They are just such a fantastic bird - it's great we have the technology to be able to see them 24/7 - to see the body language and the things they get up to - it's a privilege."
Peregrine falcon numbers declined during the 19th and 20th centuries due to illegal shooting and use of certain pesticides on farms.
The species became almost extinct in the 1960s but became protected in 1981.
There are about 1,500 breeding pairs in the UK, according to the RSPB. The Norfolk-based British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is currently collating data from a peregrine survey recorded last summer with the results expected later in the year.
Early analysis shows "more peregrines are now breeding in lowland England than during the last survey in 2002, especially in the urban environment," said Dawn Balmer from the trust.
Despite the long hours and heart-stopping moments, Dave Gittens said he would never change his hours of watching.
"It's rewarding - it makes you feel you've provided a service to people to bring them closer back to nature." | A grey blur with flashes of yellow streaks across the sky at speeds of 200mph - a "pure muscle assassin" chasing down its prey one minute, a doting parent feeding three chicks at the top of a wind-buffeted cathedral spire the next. |
32,139,432 | The Dash Button can be attached to appliances around the home, and when pushed, processes a delivery request.
The service will only be available to users of Amazon's premium subscription service, Prime.
The tech giant has recently focused on speeding up its ordering processes.
Prime Now, which guarantees one-hour delivery on essential daily items, is available in four US cities, and the company has also been trialling deliveries by drone.
On Monday, the firm launched Amazon Home Services, which allows customers to order professional services such as a handyman or computer technician.
The timing of Dash's launch led some to initially believe it might be an April Fool's joke. Even after it was confirmed as real, some were uncertain what to make of it.
"I'm not sure whether this is genius, or the stupidest thing Amazon has tried yet," commented John Gruber on the Daring Fireball blog.
But one expert was impressed.
"This is absolutely not a gimmick," Aidan Bocci, chief executive of the Commercial Advantage consultancy, told the BBC.
"It may have to go through iterations before it really works, but this is a way to disrupt the linkage that exists between consumption and purchase.
"People typically write a shopping list and then go to the supermarket, but this gives Amazon a way to break in before any of that happens. And it's exactly what the firm should be doing if it wants to have a different approach in the grocery sector." | In an attempt to attract more household goods shoppers, retail giant Amazon has unveiled a device that can place orders to replenish items such as washing powder and razors. |
39,625,517 | Emanuel Balbo, 22, had reportedly quarrelled with a man during Saturday's derby between his Belgrano team and the visiting Talleres in the northern city of Cordoba.
Witnesses said the man had shouted that Mr Balbo was a disguised Talleres fan.
He was then pushed over the edge of a stand, video images showed.
He fell onto concrete stairs from a height of about five metres (16ft).
He was taken to hospital with severe head injuries, where doctors declared him brain dead.
Four people have been arrested over the attack, with the Argentine Football Association calling for "those responsible for this inconceivable assault" to be brought to justice.
Campaign groups say more than 40 people have died in football related violence in Argentina since 2013. | An Argentine football fan has died of head injuries - two days after being pushed from a stand by an angry crowd who thought he was a rival supporter. |
36,771,011 | Six policemen died in a gunfight during an operation to evict the farmers from land they had been occupying.
Eleven protesters were also killed.
The deaths deepened political tensions in Paraguay and were used by congress to oust the left-wing President Fernando Lugo.
Four men received sentences of between 18 and 30 years in jail, while a further seven men and women were given sentences of between four and six years.
The court heard how the clashes occurred near the city of Curuguaty in Canindeyu province in the east of Paraguay when a group of around 250 riot police were sent to clear a group of around 70 subsistence farmers off a property belonging to an agricultural company called Campos Morumbi.
The farmers had occupied the land as part of a demonstration in favour of agrarian reform.
The Paraguayan prosecution service did not investigate the deaths of the farmers who died during the eviction.
Local and international human rights organizations alleged there had been judicial irregularities during the trial.
Five of the accused had gone on hunger strike for more than 30 days.
​Land ownership has long formed the basis for bloody disputes in Paraguay.
According to the 2008 census, 2.6% of landowners hold 85.5% of Paraguay's land while 91.4% of small farmers, with properties smaller than 20 hectare, hold only 6% of the agricultural land.
Campaigners for agrarian reform have focussed on large agricultural conglomerates involved in the export of soy as being the main cause of the unequal land distribution in Paraguay.
The events at Curuguaty became the basis for the opposition Colorado Party to push for the impeachment of President Lugo whom they blamed for the killings. | A judge in Paraguay has sentenced 11 subsistence farmers to up to 30 years in jail for the deaths of police officers during a land reform protest four years ago. |
33,297,796 | The 23-year-old, who is vying with Shane Watson for the Ashes all-rounder berth, brought his hundred up off 93 balls, including five sixes, before retiring on 101.
Watson himself made a 76-ball 81 as Australia reached 322-4 at stumps.
Kent began the day on 203-5 but lost their last five wickets for 77 runs.
Fast bowler Ryan Harris, who has not played a test since January, took his first wickets of the tour.
He had England limited-overs batsman Sam Billings caught behind by Brad Haddin for 24, before Adam Ball holed out to Peter Siddle for 45.
Mitchell Marsh then caught and bowled Mitchell Claydon, before Johnson uprooted Adam Riley's middle stump with the first ball of his second spell.
Ivan Thomas eventually fell for 13 to spinner Fawad Ahmed as Kent were all out for 280.
Australia captain Michael Clarke then decided against the follow-on and promoted himself up the order to opener, in place of Shaun Marsh, to partner Chris Rogers.
The pair's opening stand of 91 was broken when Rogers departed for 45, caught by substitute Sam Weller off Riley's bowling.
Clarke was Riley's second victim, falling for 47, as Australia reached 132-2 at tea.
Watson and Mitchell Marsh then put on a 153-run partnership as Australia upped the scoring rate.
Marsh's retirement and the wicket of Watson left Johnson and Brad Haddin at the crease at the close of play. | Mitchell Marsh scored a rapid century as Australia built a commanding lead of 549 on the third day of their tour match against Kent. |
30,787,155 | The 184 drivers were made redundant in 2012 when Stobart won the contract for Tesco's Doncaster distribution centre.
The case was due to be heard at an employment tribunal in Sheffield on Monday before the deal was struck.
Neither the company nor the drivers' union Unite would comment on the details of the settlement.
The dispute began when Eddie Stobart Ltd (ESL) took over the supermarket's distribution operation in August 2012.
ESL announced job losses following a reorganisation of the business.
Drivers took industrial action which ended in January 2013 when they accepted an improved redundancy package from ESL.
Last August, the former drivers staged protests outside Tesco depots in Doncaster, Goole and Widnes, claiming they had been unfairly dismissed.
In a statement at the time, Tesco said: "When we took the decision to transfer the drivers to ESL in 2012, we did everything we could to offer them all alternative roles at Tesco."
Although details of the final settlement have not been disclosed, a Stobart spokesman said the firm had "reached a without-prejudice settlement with the drivers in Doncaster".
A Unite spokesman said only about 45 drivers had since found other jobs. | Former Tesco delivery drivers who claim they were unfairly sacked by haulage firm Eddie Stobart have reached an out-of-court settlement with the company. |
34,712,887 | The National Association of Head Teachers says increased employer costs for national insurance and teachers' pensions will put schools under strain.
The NAHT says heads are having to cut back on areas such as equipment, maintenance and teaching assistants.
The Department for Education said it was protecting the schools budget.
The NAHT's questionnaire of 1,069 school leaders (the majority of whom, 82%, were primary heads) found that:
The NAHT survey also found almost half of school leaders (45%) thought their budget would be untenable, on current projections, within two years.
Two-thirds (67%) said they would not be able to balance the books in four years' time, and 7% of those surveyed were already running a deficit.
Four in five (82%) said budget cuts would have a negative impact on standards.
NAHT general secretary Russell Hobby said: "Flat cash education spending at a time of rising costs is pushing many schools closer to breaking point.
"Employer costs for national insurance and teachers' pensions will increase by over 5% from this school year, adding to already over-stretched budgets.
"School leaders are being forced to cut spending in all areas, including essential maintenance and - most worryingly - on teachers and teaching assistants.
"Education is an investment in the future, leading eventually to higher productivity, better social outcomes and reduced spending on other public services - cuts to this budget are a false economy."
A spokesman for the Department for Education said: "We are protecting the schools budget, which will rise as pupil numbers increase.
"This government is committed to making sure schools are funded fairly so all pupils have access to a good education - a key part of our core mission to raise standards across the country and make sure every child reaches their full potential.
"We have made significant progress towards fairer funding for schools, through an additional £390m allocated to 69 of the least fairly funded areas in the country - the biggest step toward fairer schools funding in 10 years."
"It is down to councils to determine exactly how funding is allocated to individual schools."
Key cost increases faced by schools include:
Last month, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said spending per pupil in England's was likely to fall by 8% in real terms over the next five years.
The IFS says this will be the first time since the mid-1990s that school spending has fallen in real terms.
At the same time, more than 90 Conservative MPs wrote a letter demanding ministers urgently rewrote the rules for funding schools in England.
In an unusual move, Commons Speaker John Bercow put his name to the letter intended to put pressure on Chancellor George Osborne ahead of the Spending Review. | Nearly two-thirds of school leaders (64%) in England are making significant cuts or dipping in to reserves to fill deficits, a head teachers' union warns. |
26,125,721 | Final approval was given by a committee chaired by President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi following two weeks of talks with delegates from across the country.
The federal structure should be enshrined in a new constitution that must be put to a referendum.
The move is intended to end the complaints against centralisation that fed rebellions in the north and south.
Yemen has also been struggling to deal with the unrest sparked by a 2011 popular uprising that forced long-time President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down, and an insurgency by Islamist militants allied to al-Qaeda.
President Hadi formed the committee to decide Yemen's new structure in late January following the completion of the National Dialogue Conference, created under the Gulf Co-operation Council-brokered agreement that led to Mr Saleh's departure.
Delegates at the NDC agreed to create a decentralised, federal system, and to reverse the political and economic marginalisation that southern Yemenis had suffered since unification in 1994.
On Monday, state news agency Saba reported that the presidential committee had voted overwhelmingly in favour of dividing the country into six federal regions - two in the south - Aden and Hadramawt - and four in the north - Saba, Janad, Azal and Tahama.
The capital, Sanaa, would be a "federal city not subject to any regional authority" and the constitution would "guarantee its neutrality", it said.
The port city of Aden would also have a special status and be given "independent legislative and executive powers", Saba added.
Many politicians from the south had called for a federation of two regions.
They argued that it would put them on a more equal footing with the north while securing their access to a larger share of the country's oil resources, which are located in the south.
Southern leaders swiftly rejected Monday's announcement.
"What has been announced about the six regions is a coup against what had been agreed at the dialogue," Mohammed Ali Ahmed, a former South Yemen interior minister who returned from exile in March 2012 and withdrew from the NDC in November, told the Reuters news agency.
Nasser al-Nawba, a founder of the separatist Hiraak al-Janoubi (Southern Movement), meanwhile vowed that it would continue what he described as its peaceful struggle until independence was achieved. | Yemen is to become a federation of six regions as part of its political transition, state media report. |
30,376,627 | The hearing was due to decide if Ms Stewart can practice again.
Kirsteen Stewart was working at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary when the incidents took place between October 2007 and March 2010.
In 2010 Ms Stewart was suspended for 18 months by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
The NMC said she administered drugs which contributed to the foetus of one or more pregnant women experiencing a condition that caused a slow heart rate.
The ruling came after Grampian health board said it was investigating the care of 22 mothers and babies at Aberdeen Maternity Hospital over a two-year period. | A hearing for a midwife facing charges of administering drugs which led to the lowering of the heartbeats of unborn babies has been postponed. |
39,843,308 | Australia international Klinger opened and stayed in until the 48th over, caught off Joe Denly for 134.
Matt Coles and James Harris took late wickets to restrict the hosts to 275-8, but seamer Liddle tore through Kent.
He dismissed five of their top six, including Daniel Bell-Drummond (90) to restrict the visitors to 264-9.
It was Gloucestershire's second win from five One-Day Cup games and moves them off the bottom of the South Group at the expense of their opponents, two points away from third place.
Kent held a 19-run advantage compared to the hosts at the midway stage, with Sam Northeast (44) assisting Bell-Drummond after Sean Dickson went.
The visitors looked favourites at 200-2 with 12 overs remaining, but wickets fell regularly from then on as they collapsed in the final stages.
Liddle took four wickets in the space of six overs as the pendulum swung in Gloucestershire's favour and Kent lacked the necessary firepower late on to create a grandstand finish. | Michael Klinger's century and Chris Liddle's 5-36 helped Gloucestershire beat Kent by 11 runs and keep their One-Day Cup qualification hopes alive. |
35,905,977 | Bolivia says it owns the Silala spring in a border region and that it is not being compensated by Chile for the use of its waters.
But Chile says it is an international waterway of shared use.
Bolivia had brought up another case against Chile at the Hague-based ICJ, demanding access to the Pacific Ocean.
The River Silala rises in Bolivia but flows down the Andes into Chile.
"We have decided as a pacifist country to go to The Hague so that Chile respects our water in Silala," Mr Morales said.
Bolivia-Chile land dispute has deep roots
Chile's Foreign Minister Heraldo Munoz said the country could file a counterclaim.
"What is clear is that it is not only about the sea, now it is about the rivers and any other excuse to attack our country and its interests," Mr Munoz was quoted by Efe news agency as saying.
Chile uses water from the river to supply mine operations and some northern towns.
In 2013, La Paz took the century-old dispute with Chile over access to the Pacific Ocean to the court, which has yet to rule on the issue.
Bolivia lost 400km (240 miles) of coast to Chile in a 19th-Century war and has been landlocked ever since. | Bolivian President Evo Morales has said his country will file a suit against Chile over a water dispute at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). |
34,044,171 | Policy Exchange has published a report highlighting that FE colleges in England teach a higher proportion of pupils re-sitting exams than schools.
But FE colleges face greater pressures on their budgets than schools.
Two teaching unions have criticised the levy proposal.
Brian Lightman, of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said the idea of a levy was an "own goal".
The report from the right-leaning think tank suggests re-allocating financial support to further education colleges in England which take on pupils who have previously struggled in school.
It proposes that secondary schools where pupils have failed to achieve at least C grades in GCSE English and maths should face a financial penalty of about £500 per pupil which would then be used to support students retaking exams in further education colleges.
There are five times more students retaking English in FE colleges than in schools, says the report.
For maths, almost six times as many retakes are in FE colleges as in schools.
Natasha Porter, author of the Policy Exchange report, said: "It is unfair for some schools to pass the buck to FE colleges who are already facing extreme funding pressures to fix a problem they have not caused themselves.
"To recognise the additional burden on FE colleges and shoulder more responsibility, schools should cough up and pay a re-sit levy."
A Department for Education spokesman defended the existing arrangements.
"Post-16 funding is already allocated on a per pupil basis, and we already provide an extra £480 per student, per subject for all those with GCSE English or maths below grade C," he said.
In terms of funding, while school budgets have been protected in cash terms for the next five years, further education colleges face growing financial problems.
Last month, the National Audit Office (NAO) warned that the further education sector was "experiencing rapidly declining financial health".
At the same time, the number of retakes is likely to increase because of a requirement for pupils to retake English and maths if they fail to get at least a C grade.
Mr Lightman of the ASC said funding for post-16 education "urgently needs to be addressed", but he argued that taking money from schools would be a step backwards.
"Schools are already facing real-terms cuts in their budgets and unprecedented difficulties in recruiting staff, particularly maths teachers," he said, "a re-sit levy would potentially worsen this situation."
John Widdowson, president of the Association of Colleges, welcomed the recognition of the funding pressure on his members and said it was "extremely disappointing" that the government had failed to ring-fence spending for colleges in the way it had for schools.
But Christine Blower, leader of the National Union of Teachers, said the think tank's proposals would in fact "penalise secondary schools without improving matters substantially for further education colleges".
A Department for Education spokesman emphasised the importance of key subjects such as English and maths.
"If young people have not mastered them by 16, it is more likely they will be held back for the rest of their life," he said.
"That is why we want all young people who do not achieve at least a GCSE C in English or maths to continue studying until they reach that standard."
A separate report being published on Tuesday emphasised the achievement gap between rich and poor that had opened by the age of 11.
An analysis of primary school test results in England showed that in the most deprived areas, 31% of pupils did not reach the expected levels in English and maths, compared with just 11% in the wealthiest areas.
The study of the 2013-14 test results was published by the New Schools Network, which supports the opening of free schools.
"This important new research shows the deep inequality that still exists within the state school system," said director Nick Timothy.
"We have many excellent schools in England but it cannot be right that children from poor families are three times more likely to be unable to read, write and add up properly than children from wealthy families." | Schools where pupils fail to get good GCSE grades in English and maths should pay a levy to fund pupils who re-take their exams in further education colleges, says a think tank. |
33,150,011 | Jessica Bradford, now 19, from Rhymney Valley, has about 106,000 signatures calling for smear tests to be carried out from the age of 18.
Women in Wales used to be tested from 20 but that was raised to 25 in 2013.
Miss Bradford's diagnosis came after doctors told her she was "too young" to have the disease.
Instead, she was told she had bacterial infections and then a sexually transmitted infection.
Miss Bradford said because she had received preventative injections at school, cancer had not crossed her mind until she searched for her symptoms online.
She has received five rounds of chemotherapy, 30 of radiotherapy, and three internal radiotherapies and has been in remission for two months.
She and her mother Julie Bradford, 43, divided signatures between two petitions and plan to give the second to Prime Minister David Cameron.
"I'm back on track now," said Miss Bradford.
"But people don't think at age 20 you could have any sort of cancer. You wouldn't think of it.
"Just keep an eye on your body. You know when something is wrong and go straight to the doctors."
The treatment means Miss Bradford, who is engaged to her partner, will not be able to carry her own children but will be able to use her frozen embryos with a surrogate.
Mrs Bradford added: "It's really hard. Jessica is stronger than me, I was in bits.
"She so wanted six children, wanted to be a mother. This is so emotional watching her go through everything.
"I have met so many mothers who have lost their children and they are all very young, from 29 down.
"Jessica had only just turned 18 when she was diagnosed and the cancer was really aggressive. So this is for other people, where early prevention can be key."
Public Health Wales said the screening ages were based on the "best available evidence" about when tests should be undertaken, but that women concerned about symptoms should contact their GP. | A woman diagnosed with cervical cancer at 18 has handed a petition to the Welsh government calling for the screening age to be lowered. |
32,611,657 | Until now, the firm had only sold "developer" editions that were targeted at video games creators and did not represent the Rift's final design.
Facebook bought Oculus VR for $2bn (£1.3bn) in 2014, despite it not having released a commercial product.
The release date means that HTC's rival helmet should be the first available.
The Taiwanese manufacturer has promised to sell its own virtual reality headset, the Vive, to the public before the end of the year.
Oculus' launch date could theoretically coincide with that of PlayStation's Morpheus headset, which Sony has said will be released at some point during the first six months of 2016.
Unlike Morpheus, both the Rift and the Vive are designed to work with PCs rather than a video games console.
"All the hype around virtual reality grew up around Oculus over the last two years, and not to come to market before what is looking like a compelling proposition from HTC represents a moderate surrendering of the initiative," commented Piers Harding-Rolls, head of games at the IHS Technology consultancy.
"But I don't think we're talking about it missing out on huge sales volumes at what will be an early stage of demand for VR."
The virtual reality helmets will allow wearers to see both computer-generated and filmed images directly in front of their eyes.
Users will be able to change their view by moving their heads.
The idea is to give them a greater sense of immersion, helping owners feel as if they are actually within a video game or interactive film or documentary, rather than just watching it.
There was a previous attempt to popularise virtual reality technology in the 1980s and 1990s, but the limitations and high cost of the products limited demand.
However, after Oculus successfully raised $2.4m by crowd-funding in 2013 to make new kit, there has been growing interest in the idea.
Samsung already sells versions of Oculus' kit that use the screens and motion sensors of its Galaxy S6 and Galaxy Note handsets.
But the forthcoming launch of headsets designed to work with more powerful computers has raised expectations of what the associated software will be capable.
"We've got these higher-end devices coming to market, but what we haven't seen yet is fully-realised content," said Mr Harding-Rolls.
"We've seen technical demos or the occasional short level. But the E3 video games expo will be an opportunity for all the stakeholders involved to show off content."
E3 will take place in Los Angeles in June.
For now, potential buyers are being teased with a promise that the Rift has a "more natural fit" and an "improved tracking system" than earlier models shown off by Oculus.
"In the weeks ahead, we'll be revealing the details around hardware, software, input, and many of our unannounced made-for-VR games and experiences coming," the firm said on its blog.
"Virtual reality is going to transform gaming, film, entertainment, communication, and much more.
"E3 is just around the corner - this is only the beginning," it added.
Facebook's challenge is that HTC's Vive is being released as part of a tie-up with Valve, which is one of the leading video game developers in its own right, as well as being the owner of the best-selling PC games platform Steam.
Microsoft has yet to reveal whether it has virtual reality plans for the Xbox.
The firm has, however, shown off an augmented reality headset called the HoloLens, that it says will allow PC users to see graphics superimposed over views of the real world.
The firm has yet to give it a release date. | Virtual reality firm Oculus VR says its much anticipated headset, the Rift, will go on sale to consumers within the first three months of 2016. |
36,204,509 | 4 May 2016 Last updated at 15:46 BST
There are more than 45,000 deaf children in the UK, according to Action on Hearing Loss.
British Sign Language is an official British language used mainly by people who are deaf or experience hearing problems.
It's a visual way of communicating using your hands, facial expression, and body language.
TV presenter Ashley Kendall brings you this week's top stories entirely in British Sign Language. | Newsround is bringing you a special programme as part of this year's Deaf Awareness Week, which takes place between 2-8 May. |
40,416,567 | The Manx gymnasts dominated proceedings in Visby to claiming eight gold, four silver and three bronze medals.
The team finished the day with 28 medals and 32 in total.
The Games, which act as an Olympics for smaller islands, will see 2,500 competitors from 23 different islands around the world compete in 14 sports.
Tara Donnelly claimed a hat-trick of golds in the individual floor, beam and vault, while Nicholas Harvey claimed both the individual high bar and parallel bars titles.
Donnelly said: "We've been working as a team for so long. It is great. It is brilliant to hear the Manx national anthem so many times."
Callum Kewley (individual vault) and the women's team also claimed gold.
The island's other gold medals came from swimmer Guy Davies, who won the men's 100m breaststroke, and the women's tennis team.
Further medals came in the pool, tennis, athletics, cycling, badminton and shooting. | The Isle of Man claimed 10 gold medals at the Island Games in Gotland on Monday to move second in the medal table after the second day. |
38,331,563 | Finding the answer is not as simple as drawing a straight line on a map, as contrary to the belief of ancient philosophers the Earth is not flat.
Map experts at Esri UK have created an interactive map which shows precisely which countries are directly across the sea from the UK coastline.
Pembroke in Pembrokeshire, for example, faces Antarctica 7,898 miles away.
And if you stand on Barmouth beach in Gwynedd you might be forgiven for thinking you were looking towards Ireland, but you would be facing in the direction of Brazil some 4,447 miles away.
Esri UK cartographer Ben Flanagan explained that traditional 2D maps cannot be used to find out what country is across the sea as they "distort the true nature of the globe".
"Instead you need to factor in the curvature of the Earth," he said.
To calculate which country is across the sea the map draws a geodesic line, which represents the shortest route between two points on the globe.
Almost 2,000 points were plotted around the UK coast.
These were placed every time there was a major change in the direction of the coastline.
At each viewpoint it was assumed the person was facing outwards, perpendicular to the coastline. The software then drew straight lines out from the point until another landfall was reached.
Mr Flanagan said: "The map was created to make people think about the relationship between maps and the globe and used to demonstrate just how many neighbours the UK has directly across the sea." | Have you ever stood on a beach in Wales and wondered what was on the other side of the ocean? |
38,131,831 | Already out of the FA Cup, the EFL Cup and the Checkatrade Trophy, Crewe do not play again until 10 December.
"Some of the players definitely need a bit of a brain rest," 51-year-old Davis told BBC Radio Stoke.
"It gives us a chance to get three of the lads back fit, who we should have available in a couple of weeks' time."
Crewe are 10th in the table after only two wins in their past 11 league games. | Crewe Alexandra manager Steve Davis has welcomed a two-week break for his side following their 4-0 loss at Colchester United in League Two. |
36,811,681 | The Welshman, currently competing in the Tour de France, lives in Monaco, 12 miles from the southern French city.
The Team Sky rider won a race which finished in Nice in March.
"When you hear about it in places that you don't live it's bad enough, but when you live just down the road it's scary. It's really sad that that's the world we live in today," he said.
"You try not to think about it once you're going, but certainly this morning when I woke up to the news it was devastating, it's a huge tragedy."
There were doubts Friday's 13th stage at the Tour de France would go ahead after Thursday's attack, where a lorry drove through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day.
Tour officials decided to continue with the race, with a heightened security presence, and Thomas says it was the right thing to do.
"You can't give in to these people and you need to continue and obviously go about it the right way, but we need to all try to keep living our life," he said.
"Surrounding it maybe there will be more police presence and more security, which is good obviously.
"But as bike riders you try to just think about the race and zone into that."
There was a sombre atmosphere at both the start and finish lines on stage 13, with most riders not learning of the news from Nice until they woke up on Friday morning.
There was a minute's silence held before the first rider set off on the course, and another minute's silence was observed as the jersey holders stood on stage after the day's racing had finished.
Thomas is 15th in the overall Tour standings after a seventh place finish in Friday's time trial.
His Team Sky team-mate Chris Froome extended his lead to one minute and 47 seconds by finishing second in stage 13. | Cyclist Geraint Thomas has described the France lorry attack which killed at least 84 people in Nice as "scary". |
40,801,167 | The Education Policy Institute study suggests the most disadvantaged pupils are more than two years behind their classmates when they sit their GCSEs.
These children were those entitled to free school meals for 80% of their time at secondary school.
The Education Secretary has warned of a social mobility emergency.
And in a recent speech, Justine Greening highlighted some areas of the country with an "entrenched disadvantage" - where low skills and poor employment were found in a downward spiral alongside underachieving schools.
The EPI report, Closing the Gap? acknowledged the disadvantage gap had been entrenched in the education system for generations and that successive governments had tried to tackle it.
It analysed official data on GCSE, other test results and pupil background from the national pupil database and distinguished two groups of pupils whose results it compared with all other state school pupils.
As well as the most disadvantaged or persistently poor, researchers looked at disadvantaged pupils - those who have been on free school meals at some point.
And researchers converted academic results into months ahead and behind to make it easier to understand.
It found the attainment gap between persistently poor pupils and their non-disadvantaged peers had widened by 0.3 months to 24.3 months over the past decade.
However, the achievement gap between disadvantaged children and their classmates was found to be narrowing - but at a very slow rate.
The report said: "Despite significant investment and targeted intervention programmes, the gap between disadvantaged 16-year-old pupils and their peers has only narrowed by three months of learning between 2007 and 2016.
"In 2016, the gap nationally, at the end of secondary school, was still 19.3 months.
"In fact, disadvantaged pupils fall behind their more affluent peers by around two months each year over the course of secondary school."
It adds: "At current trends, we estimate that it would take around 50 years for the disadvantage gap to close completely by the time pupils take their GCSEs."
Children from the poorest backgrounds are often dogged by low expectations with the low aspirations their parents have for them and their own low hopes and poor levels of self-confidence.
Before these children even reach school they tend to be months behind their reception classmates.
They are less likely to have suitable books at home, to have space to do homework or learn to read and parents with time and tenacity to help them with it.
So as school progresses, the gap in achievement between them and more financially stable peers tends to widen.
While their wealthier friends gain confidence from dance, drama and sports classes, poorer pupils struggle to gain the vocabulary needed to express themselves in class.
It is hardly surprising that by the time they do their GCSEs, these children on average need an extra two years of study to get to the point academically that their more comfortably off peers have already reached.
The disadvantage gap was generally smaller in London, southern England and eastern England (16 to 18 months), while in the East Midlands and the Humber, northern England and south-west England, the gap is significantly larger, at 22 months by the end of the GCSE year, the report found.
In the Isle of Wight, disadvantaged pupils were found to be well over two years (29 months) behind their peers by the end of secondary school.
Darlington, Derby, Luton, South Tyneside and Thurrock also performed poorly, despite successive attempts to address the issue.
It added: "The present government has acknowledged this burning problem and is seeking to address it, including through a focus on 'Opportunity Areas'.
"This could be a good start, but there are dozens of other areas up and down the country not covered by these areas where social mobility is stagnating or even worsening."
Researchers also acknowledged that 40% the achievement gap between the poorest pupils and others opens up before children even reach school and argued that this is where resources should be focused.
National Union of Teachers assistant general secretary Avis Gilmore said unless investment and the correct interventions are in place, the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers would continue.
"Local authorities and schools are being starved of cash resulting in the closure of - or cutbacks to - many essential support services for those pupils most in need."
Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT teachers' union, said factors common among pupils who are falling behind include child poverty, insecure housing, poor physical and mental health among families and job insecurity.
"These have all seen an increase as a result of the government's austerity programme and reforms to welfare."
The Department for Education said it is targeting almost £2.5bn this year through the Pupil Premium to help schools raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils.
It also highlighted that it is running a £72m programme to create opportunities for young people in areas where disadvantaged people struggled to progress. | The very poorest children in England have fallen even further behind their non-disadvantaged classmates since 2007, research says. |
35,531,887 | However, most of the National Assembly was empty when the measure was approved, by 103 votes to 26.
President Francois Hollande declared a state of emergency after the Paris attacks, allowing police to raid homes and hold people under house arrest.
It expires on 26 February but the government wants the powers extended.
Under Article 1 of the constitutional reform proposals, MPs will have to approve a state of emergency beyond 12 days. This rule is already observed, but including it in the constitution is intended to protect it from legal challenges.
MPs also backed an amendment requiring any extension beyond four months to be referred back to them.
The chamber was only a quarter full during the vote. Out of the total of 577 deputies, 441 were absent.
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The MPs also agreed that "throughout the state of emergency, parliament will meet in special session and cannot be dissolved", against the wishes of both the government and the opposition Republicans.
Monday night's vote is seen as only a first step in the government's proposed legal reforms in response to the 13 November attacks in which 130 people died.
Article 2 of the constitutional reform plan involves stripping convicted terrorists with dual nationality of their French citizenship, a step that has aroused considerable opposition on both the left and right.
Christiane Taubira resigned as justice minister because of the proposal and centre-right MP Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet told MPs in the early hours of Tuesday that no-one supported the idea any more.
However, with a show of hands, the house voted through the proposal later on Tuesday. The amendment does not mention dual nationality. | French MPs have voted to write into the constitution the process of giving the state emergency powers during a security crisis. |
37,882,082 | The Daily Mail branded them "Enemies of the people", while the Daily Express said the ruling had marked "the day democracy died".
Labour called the silence of Justice Secretary Liz Truss "embarrassing" and said she had "let down" the judiciary.
On Thursday, the court ruled Parliament should vote on triggering Article 50.
The judges found that the government could not start the formal process of leaving the EU - the triggering of Article 50 - by using the royal prerogative alone, and would need the backing of Parliament.
That would require publishing legislation to be debated by the Commons and the Lords.
Conservative MP Dominic Grieve said the criticism in parts of the media over the judges' decision was "horrifying" and reminiscent of "Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe".
The former attorney general told BBC's Newsnight on Friday: "The judges did exactly what was asked of them.
"They highlighted that our constitution does not allow you to overturn statute law by decree, which is so well established in this country."
Shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon called on the government to intervene to curb the level of criticism.
"The first duty of the Lord Chancellor, Liz Truss, is to protect the independence of the judiciary, and to be frank her silence on this is embarrassing, and she's letting down the British judiciary and the British legal system.
"Giving judges a roasting isn't part and parcel of any healthy democracy."
Ms Truss has made no comment yet.
Daily Mail columnist Stephen Glover defended his newspaper's stance, saying he did not believe the judges would "feel frightened or worried" by the criticism.
He said they had made a "decisive intervention" in the political process, and "must expect some comeback - and that's what they got."
Some MPs have also attacked the judges, including UKIP MP Douglas Carswell who called them "politicians without accountability".
Bob Neill, Conservative chairman of the justice select committee, said the criticism by some politicians was "utterly disgraceful" and the ruling should be respected, even if it was considered wrong.
He told the Times newspaper: "Some members of Parliament do not appear to understand that this judgement had nothing do with subverting the will of the people."
Chantal Doerries, who chairs the Bar Council, said attacks on the integrity of the judges could lead to the "undermining of the respect of judgements".
Labour said the ruling underlined the need for Mrs May to spell out her Brexit plans to Parliament "without delay".
In a speech in London, leader Jeremy Corbyn said: "We accept and respect the decision of the referendum to leave the EU, but there must be transparency and accountability to Parliament about the government's plans.
"I suspect the government opposes democratic scrutiny of its plans because frankly there aren't any plans."
Meanwhile, Gina Miller, the investment manager and philanthropist who led the legal campaign, has said she plans to report online trolls to police after receiving rape and death threats.
She told BBC Radio 5 live that other abuse included people telling her "I'm not even human, I'm a primate, I belong in a kitchen - that's the nicest of some of them. It is unbelievable.
"I am really cross at the politicians and the media who are whipping this up because they are the ones inciting racism and violence and acrimony."
On Friday, Conservative MP Stephen Phillips resigned over "irreconcilable policy differences" with the government, saying he was "unable properly to represent the people who elected me".
The pro-Brexit campaigner, who has held the Lincolnshire seat of Sleaford and North Hykeham since 2010, accused ministers of ignoring Parliament since the Brexit vote.
The government is to appeal against Thursday's ruling to the Supreme Court next month.
Prime Minister Theresa May has said she is "confident" the government will win and is committed to triggering Article 50 by March 2017. | Labour has urged the government to come out and defend the three judges behind the controversial High Court ruling on the process of leaving the EU. |
34,710,048 | 3 November 2015 Last updated at 11:57 GMT
The victim, 44, was working at a store in Brixton when one of the robbers shot him with what is believed to be a high-powered pellet gun.
The worker requires surgery to remove the pellets still lodged in his eyes.
Police have released CCTV footage of the robbery that took place at about 20:35 GMT on 25 October at the Phambra Foodstore, in Lyham Road. | A shop worker has been shot in the face during a corner shop robbery in south London. |
31,066,976 | Pippa Bartolotti said she understood the appeal by Plaid's general election co-ordinator Lord Wigley, who urged Welsh people in England to vote Green.
But she said Green membership in Wales had "surged" fourfold in 12 months.
"These are people who have joined the Green Party - they haven't joined Plaid Cymru," she told BBC Wales.
Together with the SNP, Plaid and the Greens have said they would form an anti-austerity alliance to maximise their influence in a hung parliament.
The three parties also oppose renewing Britain's Trident nuclear weapons system.
But interviewed for the Sunday Politics Wales programme, Ms Bartolotti said she "wouldn't go that far" when asked to respond to Lord Wigley's comparison of the Trident base in Scotland with Auschwitz - a comment he later apologised for.
A poll for BBC Wales on Wednesday showed support for the Greens had risen from 2% to 6% in Wales since September, but the party remained in sixth place. | The leader of the Green Party in Wales has brushed off suggestions their supporters should vote for Plaid Cymru in seats the nationalists could win. |
31,031,653 | Exeter Chiefs, bidding to reach English rugby's top flight for the first time in their history, have just beaten Nottingham in front of 4,084 fans.
Without a major trophy in the cupboard and having never counted an England international in their ranks, Rob Baxter, only named head coach seven months previous, is the man tasked with leading them to the Premiership.
Success is far from a foregone conclusion.
But roll forward to 30 January 2015 - five years, three England Test stars, two Heineken Cup campaigns and later - and now the club are celebrating another first.
The - Geoff Parling - has been announced.
"They still talk about West Country folk like we've got straw coming out of our ears but we're reasonably intelligent, especially when it comes to rugby," said BBC Radio Devon summariser, and former Exeter captain, John Lockyer.
"We have a European Challenge Cup quarter-final in April, and now there's a world-class lock signing. I say many times on the radio that the club is living the dream - sometimes I pinch myself to make sure it's all real.
"People say Gloucester when they're talking about West Country rugby and that's just over 50 miles from Birmingham. This is the real West Country and Exeter's putting it on the map."
In 2010 Chiefs started doing just that, ending the south west's wait for a top-tier rugby club, and going on to give the region its first piece of major silverware only eight months ago.
Parling will hope to add to that, given the 31-year-old's current club has a trophy cabinet packed to the rafters. Since the Heineken Cup was launched in 1995, Leicester have competed at the top level of European rugby in every season that English teams have entered.
On top of that, last term's ended Tigers' run of reaching nine league finals in a row.
Chiefs were midway through a 13-year stay in the Championship when Leicester started that run, and were still housed at the County Ground - a stadium with just 750 seats.
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"I know it seems like a big difference between Tigers and Exeter but it isn't," said BBC Sport rugby union analyst Jeremy Guscott.
"Rob Baxter's established a top Premiership club now. Sometimes you need a move to freshen things up and Parling can help take Exeter to the next level."
Since 2011, the England national team has operated a policy whereby anyone playing club rugby outside the Premiership is ineligible for selection unless in "exceptional circumstances".
From next season, the division's basic salary cap will with clubs also able to name a second player whose wages are excluded from this, as long as he arrives from outside the Premiership.
Internationals such as Toby Flood, and Delon and Steffon Armitage play in France's Top 14 where there the wage limit is currently 10m euros (£7.8m).
"Geoff will have looked at all the options available to him, I'm sure," said Guscott, who represented England 65 times, as well as the Lions on eight occasions, as a player.
"When most players at what you'd consider the top teams reach their 30s, they look for an extended contract, and unless they're exceptional, those clubs aren't giving them out.
"But Parling is a class player. It's a huge signing for Exeter and I think the fact he's probably turned down big money offers from France shows just how far they've come, and what they're trying to achieve."
Last year, making him the first England international to move to Sandy Park.
Parling's arrival sees the pair reunited in the pack after their time together at Welford Road.
"With Geoff, this is an investment in the man - we're wanting so much more than just a player," Exeter coach Baxter told BBC Spotlight.
"He'll add so much because of his quality, but also his experience and the sort of character he is. We want him to have an impact in helping develop the players we already have at the club.
"He fancied a change, still wants to learn but also wants to contribute to what we're building here.
"I've said exactly the same to him as I did to Tom Waldrom when we signed him - 'we want a lot out of you for a good few years'.
"I'm sure he can deliver."
Rob Baxter was speaking to BBC Spotlight's Dave Gibbins. | Roll back to 30 January 2010. |
38,733,870 | Former world champions Dave 'Boy' McAuley, Barry McGuigan and Wayne McCullough, three of Ireland's biggest boxing names, have all been involved in high-profile rematches with mixed results.
So will Frampton's gamble pay off in Las Vegas and propel 'The Jackal' to bigger and better things? Or will the Belfast fighter live to regret the decision after suffering his first career defeat?
McAuley's first professional fight would influence the rest of his career.
Before he fought Tanzania's John Mwaimu, he decided that if he lost, he would never fight again.
It finished in a draw and he continued to fight, although he carried the result around with him for the next few years.
"Down the line, after four or five fights, I thought I wanted to have a second crack at this guy because I thought I could beat him and the second time I fought him I beat him quite handy," said McAuley.
In his 14th professional fight, McAuley got a shot at the WBA world flyweight title.
Unbeaten until then, he faced a big step up by fighting one of the era's greatest flyweights, Colombia's Fidel Bassa.
"I was still very green behind the ears. I was tense the whole time and inexperience was the main reason that I lost," said McAuley.
The bout was named the 1987 'Fight of the Year' and many people thought he was crazy when he signed up for a rematch, although McAuley says he would have gone for a third fight if given the chance.
"I fought a title eliminator and got the chance to face him again. I had improved my fight game dramatically, but it wasn't enough," said McAuley.
"But I think if I had fought him a third time, I would have had the measure of him."
Frampton's manager McGuigan lost to Peter Eubanks on points in 1981. He then came back and beat him by TKO in December of the same year.
The 'Cyclone' said he simply wanted the blemish of defeat off his record and he was never tempted into a third fight.
Meanwhile, McCullough had two bouts with Oscar Larios in 2005. The 'Pocket Rocket' had lost on a unanimous decision in the first fight that February in California, only to get a rematch in July in Las Vegas.
"People had me winning that first fight. I thought I won it clearly, so I wanted to go back and prove myself in front of fair, commissioned judges in Vegas," he said.
However, McCullough lost out with the fight stopped controversially in the 10th round.
"I had been in the wars with Naseem Hamed and Erik Morales and been busted up but those fights weren't stopped, but here it was and there wasn't a mark on me."
Lose or draw, getting back in the ring is a chance to vindicate yourself as soon as possible. But what happens when you win the first fight and decide to take a rematch?
Faced with the same situation as Frampton is now, McAuley chose to have a rematch with Rodolfo Blanco in 1992, two years after beating him.
"The first fight could have gone either way. It was a tough, tough fight. I wanted to win the second fight because I wanted to prove that winning the first fight wasn't a fluke."
But this time Blanco came out as the victor. McAuley added: "I wanted to put all that negative stuff behind me. And I think I won the second fight pretty clearly, but not on the judges' scorecards unfortunately."
With Frampton's fight on Saturday night one of the year's most eagerly awaited, McAuley thinks the WBA world featherweight champion should win, citing Santa Cruz's possible negative mental state.
He also believes that Santa Cruz should have turned down the first fight with Frampton.
"It will be in the back of Santa Cruz's mind that he was beaten. And he'll be thinking 'what if it happens again?'.
"A voluntary defence means you fight someone you are more than capable of beating. I would have said no - you only fight the likes of Carl Frampton if you have to and they only realised that when they lost."
McCullough thinks Frampton is taking a calculated risk because of his ability to adapt.
"Coming off a win in the last one, Carl will win easier. He now knows what to expect and he will be smarter and have the measure of him this time."
On the possibility of a third meeting in Windsor Park, McAuley says there isn't much hope either way.
"They'll have to honour the first contract. If Carl Frampton wins, there could be a third ... probably not though. And if Santa Cruz wins he'll probably go elsewhere because his boys have drawn the contract up."
With that in mind, it might be unwise to hope for a trilogy, especially if Frampton wins again. Because if you beat someone twice, would it be worth going back for a third time? | After Carl Frampton's dazzling win over unbeaten Leo Santa Cruz in one of 2016's fights of the year, is the Belfast boxer taking a risk by facing the slick Mexican again this weekend? |
12,874,623 | Many people were eventually brought to York station after being stuck on trains for hours.
Middlesbrough passenger Mike Oyston said: "It was just chaos, there was no information at all."
A spokesman for train operator East Coast said: "We sincerely apologise for the queues and inconvenience."
He said the company had tried to keep passengers informed by sending members of staff to York station.
"Part of the problem was that we didn't know the exact times when this situation would be resolved so the amount of information we had was limited," he said.
"Clearly we had a difficult weekend."
However, passengers would be eligible for compensation payments under its '"delay repay" scheme.
Most of East Coast's services were operating normally on Sunday, he added.
However, Mr Oyston said he was angry that he had to arrange for a friend to drive to York from Middlesbrough to take him home.
"There were about 1,000 people waiting to get home from York station," he said.
"We were not told anything. We were directed to the back car park and left to get on with it. We're not happy at all."
Grandmother Pat Feetham, of Hull, also complained of a lack of information after being stuck on a train from Scotland for almost five hours.
"They ran out of food, it was very cold and we didn't know what was happening until a police officer got on the train and said there were buses to take us to York. We're not happy."
As delays continued on some services on Sunday, National Rail Enquiries said a number of train crews and trains were not in the right place to run. It advised people to check before travelling. | Train passengers left stranded by signalling problems on the East Coast main line have complained of being left to fend for themselves. |
37,575,418 | The black and white male has been nicknamed Henry, after King Henry VII who was born at the castle in Pembrokeshire.
The RSPCA said it was a horrible ordeal for Henry, who was very frightened.
He was given antibiotics and pain relief by a vet, and is recovering well.
RSPCA animal collection officer Ellie West said: "It was just by chance someone saw the kitten struggling on the wall. The poor little thing was so frightened. We don't know how he got there.
"He is very sore and bruised and he has torn a bit of his skin on his thigh which should heal. But he is doing really well and is now recovering from his ordeal in our care.
"He's eaten well overnight which is good as he's actually a little skinny under all that fur."
It is believed Henry is a stray cat, but the RSPCA has appealed for information in case he has an owner. | A three-month-old kitten has been rescued by firefighters after becoming trapped 50ft up a wall at Pembroke Castle. |
33,512,241 | The Matterhorn was first climbed on 14 July 1865 by English climber Edward Whymper.
It was an event that attracted worldwide attention and controversy, and, some say, helped the Swiss village of Zermatt become the hugely successful resort it is today.
In the mid 19th-Century, the sport of alpinism was growing in popularity, particularly among the young men of the British upper and middle classes, who were keen to include some mountain climbing in their grand tour of Europe.
By 1865, the great pyramid of the Matterhorn was one of the few unconquered peaks, and Edward Whymper, just 25 years old at the time, had his eye on it.
He had hoped to attempt the ascent from the Italian side, together with fellow climber and mountain guide Jean-Antoine Carrel of Italy, but the plan collapsed when Carrel opted to accompany an Italian climbing party instead.
The competition to be first on the summit was fierce, not just between individuals, but between nations, and Italian sponsors of Carrel's group are thought to have bought off all the other local guides to prevent Edward Whymper from starting his ascent.
In desperation, Whymper arrived in Zermatt, looking for Swiss guides.
Zermatt at the time was one of the poorest villages in the Alps, completely cut off in winter and populated primarily by subsistence farmers. Many were deeply suspicious of the arrival of strangers in their midst.
"People were poor," explains director of tourism Daniel Luggen. "When the first visitors arrived in Zermatt, the local people were afraid the visitors would eat all the food and that they wouldn't have enough to survive the long winters."
Many locals firmly believed the Matterhorn could not and should not be climbed. Superstition was rife, and it was commonly believed that the Matterhorn, which villagers called "Z Hore" ("the peak"), was populated by ghosts and evil spirits.
Nevertheless, there were a few men in Zermatt who were ready to help the "British adventurers". Among them were Peter Taugwalder and his son Peter Jr, both experienced mountain guides.
But, to Edward Whymper's frustration, other British climbers were already in Zermatt, also planning an attempt on the Matterhorn, and demand for guides was fierce.
In the end, the different groups decided to climb together, with Whymper and Lord Francis Douglas joining forces with the Reverend Charles Hudson and his protege Douglas Hadow.
The two Taugwalders were guides and porters, together with a French guide, Michel Croz.
They took what is today the most common route up the Matterhorn, via the Hoernli ridge, 1,000m (3,280ft) of very steep, very narrow rock.
Matthias Taugwalder, who has climbed this route himself, describes it as "like walking on an ironing board, with a 2,000-metre drop on each side".
"If you slip, your only choice is which side to fall: Switzerland or Italy," he says wryly.
But Whymper's climbing party made good time, and by early afternoon the summit had been reached. Whymper and Croz are said to have detached their ropes, running the last few metres to the top.
Once here, they could see the unfortunate Italian group below them, and Whymper gleefully threw rocks down towards them to let Jean-Antoine Carrel know he was too late.
Down below in Zermatt, people watching through binoculars cheered as they saw Whymper and his colleagues waving from the summit.
But the victory celebrations were short-lived. On the descent, Douglas Hadow's lack of climbing experience became clear, and Michel Croz, climbing below him, had to place Hadow's feet in every foothold.
"At one moment, Hadow slipped," explains Matthias Taugwalder, "and he dragged three other climbers (Croz, Douglas and Hudson) with him.
"Peter Sr had his rope wound around a rock, so he had a safe stance, but then the rope broke."
Whymper and the two Taugwalders were the only survivors of the first ascent of the Matterhorn and, as news of the tragedy spread around the world, controversy grew.
Queen Victoria lamented that "England's best blood has been wasted" and suggested mountain climbing should be banned.
In Zermatt, recriminations and investigations followed. Edward Whymper gave conflicting accounts, at times saying the guides should not be blamed, at others hinting that Peter Taugwalder Sr had actually cut the rope in order to save his own life and that of his son.
Neither Peter Taugwalder Sr nor Jr could speak English, and Peter senior could not read or write, so their ability to give an account of what happened was limited. Edward Whymper, however, wrote extensively, and over time his accounts increasingly suggested that Peter Taugwalder Sr had been at fault.
The official investigation cleared Peter Taugwalder Sr of any wrongdoing, but his climbing career was over, and after the accident he emigrated to the United States, only returning to Zermatt as an old man, where he died in poverty.
Matthias Taugwalder studied all the documents relating to the climb, because he and his family felt it was wrong that, although three people returned from the Matterhorn alive, there was only ever "one hero", Edward Whymper.
Matthias now firmly believes the real truth is that Peter Taugwalder Sr "very likely saved Edward Whymper's life", by standing fast as the four other climbers below them tumbled to their deaths, and then by guiding Whymper down the mountain.
As part of the 150th anniversary celebrations, an open-air play, The Matterhorn Story, based on the different accounts of the first ascent is being performed in Zermatt, featuring many local amateur actors, including some from the Taugwalder family.
The play exposes the difficult relationship between the wealthy and ambitious young British climbers, and the poor local farmers they hired to guide them up the mountains.
"One of the goals is to show the world that without the guides, Whymper would not have reached the peak," says Mr Luggen.
"I think it needed both. It needed the pioneering spirit of the British coming here and it needed the hard work of the guides, so the first ascent of the Matterhorn is definitely a team achievement and not the achievement of a single person." | Switzerland is marking the 150th anniversary of the first ascent of its most famous mountain. |
34,745,542 | Alibaba has been accused by its smaller rival JD.com of "forcing retailers" to promote their sales exclusively with its own outlet, Tmall.
JD.com has lodged a complaint with the Chinese industry and commerce watchdog but Alibaba denies the allegation.
The retail giant claims its rival is "panicking because they're losing".
"They simply can't match our customer and merchant experience and logistical scale because Alibaba wins with customers and merchants as we provide a superior experience for users on our platforms," said Jim Wilkinson, Alibaba's senior vice president of international corporate affairs.
The Wall Street Journal reported that a shoe retailer called Mulinsen had declined to promote JD's Singles Day event.
Singles Day began in the early 1990s as a day for people not in relationships to treat themselves, in the spirit of Valentines Day.
The Chinese State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) has accepted the complaint and warned retailers "not to use malicious marketing methods to engage in competition" ahead of the event, according to the Xinhua news agency.
A recent change in legislation bans online retailers limiting promotional activity by their merchants on other platforms.
Last year, Alibaba recorded $9.3bn (£5.9bn) sales during the annual event, which it adopted in 2009. | China's two largest internet retailers have clashed in the run-up to Singles Day, the world's biggest online sales day, on 11 November. |
34,560,615 | The party said it had analysed NHS figures for the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) in Glasgow.
Last week the hospital apologised after A&E waiting time performance fell to a new low.
In the previous week, only 77.2% of patients were seen within four hours.
The Scottish government target is for 95% to be seen and either admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours.
Scottish Labour said a total of 3,852 patients had spent more than four hours in A&E since the hospital opened.
The party's public services spokeswoman, Jackie Baillie, said: "NHS staff in Scotland work incredibly hard to deliver the care that Scots need, but it is clear that even at the new £850m flagship hospital things are going wrong.
"Just last week we saw the hospital needing urgent specialist support for the second time in just four months.
"It's clear that the hospital hasn't been getting the long-term resources it needs from the SNP government.
"The hospital struggled to hit the SNP's A&E waiting time target in the middle of summer and autumn - the problems at the hospital need to be fixed now before winter comes.
"Scottish Labour asked SNP Health Minister Shona Robison back in May to consider pausing the transfer of patients to ease the burden on the new hospital, but she said no.
"Now we see thousands of patients waiting longer than they should have to for care. It's just not good enough and SNP ministers must get a grip."
The £842m facility, formerly known as the South Glasgow University Hospital, started taking patients in April.
Dubbed a "super-hospital", the campus replaced the Royal Hospital for Sick Kids at Yorkhill, the Southern General Hospital, the Western and Victoria infirmaries and the Mansionhouse Unit.
But within weeks there were claims of "chaos" with patients complaining of long waits to be admitted.
In June, the Scottish government announced that a team of experts would be sent in to help staff improve A&E waiting times at the site.
Performance rose markedly as a result, with the hospital hitting a rate of more than 90% since the end of July.
But in the week ending 4 October, the figure dropped sharply, making it the worst performing site in Scotland. | Nearly 4,000 patients have waited more than four hours in A&E at Scotland's newest hospital since May, according to Scottish Labour. |
37,605,939 | 10 October 2016 Last updated at 09:29 BST
The relationship between the rivals is very frosty at the moment and they didn't even shake hands at the start of the TV debate, which is very unusual.
They argued over several different issues, including Mr Trump's comments about women.
At the end, they were asked to say one positive thing about each other.
Mrs Clinton said she admired Donald Trump's children, while he said he respected the fact she never gives up. | Millions of people in America have watched the second of three TV debates between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the two people who want to become US president. |
26,731,256 | Lampeter councillors will decide if they are willing to provide CCTV crime coverage in that town later this week.
Cardigan, Aberaeron and New Quay councils have already decided not to pay for CCTV coverage from April.
Ceredigion council decided to stop funding the system to save £150,000.
It was part of its aim to plug a budget deficit of £9.6m during the next financial year.
The local authority then asked the five community councils if they were willing foot the bill from 1 April.
Following the decision on Monday night, Aberystwyth town and Ceredigion county councillor, Ceredig Davies, said: "It was completely unfair of the county council to expect Aberystwyth town council to pay for CCTV coverage in the town.
"We decided not to pay for the service because we felt that this was a matter for the local authority and the police to pay for the eight cameras in Aberystwyth."
Lampeter town councillors will discuss future provision of the town's six cameras on Thursday.
The Mayor, Dorothy Williams, said the council was prepared to pay up to £15,400 for a 12-month contract to continue CCTV coverage in the town.
It has contributed £7,500 towards the town's CCTV system during the last financial year.
She added: "We have started discussions with Trinity St David's University in Lampeter regarding setting up a monitoring system there."
Aberystwyth: 8
Lampeter: 6
Cardigan: 4
Aberaeron: 3
New Quay: 2
Source: Dyfed-Powys Police
One supervisor and two operators based at Aberystwyth have monitored the 23 town centre surveillance cameras in the county but that will cease on 1 April.
"We have been told that we would have to pay almost £22,000 if we are on our own so we will have to wait and see what happens at Thursday night's meeting," said Mrs Williams.
Last week Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire councils were asked to help fund a review of CCTV services to tackle crime in the Dyfed-Powys area.
The force's Police and Crime Commissioner Christopher Salmon said the police and the local authorities would benefit from a "more consistent" provision of CCTV to tackle crime.
He added that the cost of the review would be split between the councils and the force.
Officers made 414 arrests with the help of evidence from CCTV footage in Carmarthenshire between April and December 2013 - a 61% increase for the same period the previous year.
A Ceredigion council spokesman said that council leader, Ellen ap Gwynn, was in communication with Mr Salmon following earlier discussions on the future delivery of CCTV throughout the region. | The future of CCTV provision to tackle crime in Ceredigion is in the balance after Aberystwyth town councillors decided to reject a plan to take over the service in the town. |
29,045,499 | The art school will host two symposia to explore key questions around the rebuilding of the unique library.
One will be held in Venice in October and the second in Glasgow next spring.
GSA is involved in ongoing efforts to raise £20m to restore its famous Grade A-listed Mackintosh building which was badly damaged by fire on 23 May.
Firefighters managed to save about 90% of the structure and 70% of its contents, although the Mackintosh library was among the most badly-damaged areas.
Officials at the art school have said the symposia will be "fundamental" to informing future construction plans.
Professor Christopher Platt, head of GSA's Mackintosh School of Architecture, said: "What should the plans be for bringing the Mackintosh building into full use once more and how should we approach the particular issue of the Macintosh library?
"These are highly complex questions and by necessity any discussion must involve contributions from many different people and organisations from across the world.
"We will therefore host two symposia, the first in Venice this autumn and the second in Glasgow next spring, to explore the future of a space beloved by so many.
"We have decided to focus on the topic of the Mackintosh library specifically as this is the most delicate and culturally and intellectually significant aspect of the entire post-fire work."
The Venice symposium will feature keynote speakers with figures invited to attend from fields such as architecture and heritage.
The event, on 18 October, is taking place in Querini Stampalia during the 2014 International Venice Architecture Biennale. Members of the public will also be able to attend.
It will be aligned with the Scotland and Venice programme presented by architects Reiach and Hall as part of a residency at the UK Pavilion during the biennale.
Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop said: "The Glasgow School of Art is an extraordinarily well-loved building, both here in Scotland and around the world.
"Charles Rennie Mackintosh's masterpiece has a very special place in the history of world architecture.
"The symposium at the Querini Stampalia, prior to the spring symposium in Glasgow, will provide an important opportunity with an international audience to discuss Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art and, in particular, to consider the highly-sensitive challenges relating to the rebuild of its library."
Details of speakers at the Venice event and of how to book a place will be released in the near future.
Stuart Cosgrove, director of Creative Diversity at Channel 4, will be facilitator for the Building on Mackintosh symposium next month. | Architectural experts are to gather in Italy and Scotland to discuss the restoration of Glasgow School of Art's (GSA) fire-damaged Mackintosh library. |
33,772,170 | Heavy casualties have been reported at al-Anad airbase, north of Aden, after intense fighting there in recent days.
It comes after pro-government forces, backed by air strikes from a Saudi-led coalition, retook Aden two weeks ago.
The Saudis are leading a campaign to defeat the rebels, who control much of Yemen, and restore the government.
Troops and armoured vehicles from the United Arab Emirates - a key member of the coalition - are also said to have arrived in Aden in recent days.
Military officials quoted by the AP news agency say the foreign troops are helping the pro-government forces operate sophisticated weapons, including tanks. The New York Times said the troops had been involved in the fighting at al-Anad.
However, local journalists told the BBC that Emirati troops had recently disembarked in Aden and were deployed as advisers, rather than in combat, while a Yemeni military official denied foreign troops had landed in Yemen.
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The reported deployment of tanks and other armoured vehicles from the United Arab Emirates, which have been seen unloading in Aden over recent days, represents the first major ground involvement by the Arab coalition ranged against the Houthi rebels.
It is a signal that the air campaign launched in March has its limits and it is a sign too that the Saudi-led coalition is willing now to become more engaged in the fighting. The reinforcements may already have had a hand in the recapture of al-Anad airbase: an important asset that could provide a launch-pad for more extensive operations against the rebels.
It is a significant but also risky step. Heavy armoured forces may not be best suited to this kind of struggle and there is always a danger they could become bogged down when facing more nimble opponents. The Arab coalition's military gamble also risks exacerbating regional tensions - Iran has given some support to the Houthi rebels. But it represents a demonstration that, in the wake of the US nuclear deal with Iran, Washington's Gulf allies are determined to do whatever they believe is necessary to ensure their security.
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Al-Anad used to be a base for US troops overseeing drone attacks on al-Qaeda. It was overrun by Houthi rebels as they advanced south in March, forcing President Abdrabbo Mansour Hadi to flee.
"The al-Anad airbase is now back in the hands of President Hadi's men," Nasr Alkaid, a spokesman for the pro-government forces, told the BBC. He said the loyalists were still battling rebels about 4km (2.5 miles) from the base.
Bashraheel Bashraheel, the editor of Yemen's Al Ayyam newspaper, told the BBC that the rebels were overstretched and outgunned.
"The Houthis aren't in an environment that supports them so their defeat was a matter of time," he said. "Their lines of supply have been cut off... and that's why we are seeing this quick collapse."
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There has been no comment from the Houthis on the claims that the base has fallen.
Its recapture could remove a major obstacle for government forces on the road to Taiz, Yemen's third-largest city, where pro-Hadi militia have been clashing with rebels. The rebels remain in control of the capital, Sanaa, and areas to the north.
Sunni power Saudi Arabia regards the Houthis as proxies of Shia rival Iran. It alleges Iran has provided the Houthis with weapons, something Iran and the Houthis deny.
The rebels - backed by forces loyal to the former President, Ali Abdullah Saleh - say they are fighting against corruption and marginalisation of their northern powerbase by Mr Hadi's government.
The conflict has killed almost 4,000 people, nearly half of them civilians, since it escalated with the Saudi-led campaign in March, according to the United Nations.
In other developments: | Pro-government forces in Yemen have retaken the country's largest airbase in a battle with Houthi rebels, government officials say. |
36,983,420 | Mrs Gandhi was admitted to Delhi's Ganga Ram Hospital on Wednesday after sustaining an injury during a campaign event in the city of Varanasi.
Doctors say Mrs Gandhi is making "steady progress".
In 2011 Mrs Gandhi went to the US to receive surgery for an undisclosed medical condition.
In 2014, she was admitted to a Delhi hospital for treatment of an infection. And in 2013, she was taken to a hospital for a few hours after she fell ill in parliament.
On Tuesday, Mrs Gandhi suffered from viral fever and dehydration during a party campaign in Varanasi, the constituency of rival politician and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Uttar Pradesh state. She also reportedly had a fall.
The surgery on Thursday lasted nearly two hours, but a statement from the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, quoted by the Press Trust of India news agency, said she was recovering well.
Reports say she is likely to be discharged in a week.
Mrs Gandhi, 69, is the widow of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
She is the head of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, which has governed India for most of the time since independence in 1947.
Her party lost the 2014 general elections to Mr Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). | The leader of India's main opposition Congress party, Sonia Gandhi, has had surgery to repair a shoulder injury, doctors say. |
26,519,496 | A village at Rendlesham in Suffolk, which would have included a royal hall, was mentioned by the historian the Venerable Bede in the 8th Century.
Suffolk's county archaeologists have been studying a 120-acre (50 hectare) area about 5 miles (8km) from the Sutton Hoo burial site.
An exhibition of some of the coins and jewellery will open this week.
Sutton Hoo contained a burial ship full of treasures under a burial mound.
It was believed to be the grave of King Raedwald, who ruled East Anglia (modern-day Norfolk and Suffolk) and was buried in about AD625.
The Venerable Bede mentioned the "king's village" at "Rendlaesham" in his 8th Century book An Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
Angus Wainwright, archaeologist with the National Trust which owns Sutton Hoo, said: "It's very likely it's King Raedwald's palace and maybe where his descendents lived as well because it's got a longer life than Sutton Hoo.
"Whereas Sutton Hoo is all about death, this village site is about what craftsmen and ordinary people were getting up to in their daily lives."
Prof Christopher Scull, of Cardiff University and University College London and a member of the study team, said: "The survey has identified a site of national and indeed international importance for the understanding of the Anglo-Saxon elite.
"The quality of some of the metalwork leaves no doubt it was made for and used by the highest ranks of society."
Experts believe the king's hall in the timber village would have been about the size of a modern large detached house.
The studies began in 2008 after the owner of the land in Rendlesham alerted Suffolk County Council to illegal looting by people with metal detectors.
The exhibition takes place at the Sutton Hoo Visitor Centre near Woodbridge from 15 March to 31 October. | Archaeologists believe they have found the site of the royal settlement of the Anglo-Saxon kings of East Anglia. |
34,549,387 | Footitt, 29, has joined Division One side Surrey on a four-year deal, citing a desire to play top-tier cricket and enhance his England chances.
Storey told BBC Radio Derby: "There is no point in holding on to a player that doesn't want to be here.
"The challenge to find a replacement is a big one."
Footitt joined Derbyshire in 2010 and claimed 251 wickets in 64 first-class appearances at an average of 25.
His form earned him a call-up to the England set-up during this summer's Ashes and he felt he needed to leave the county to remain in the reckoning for a Test cap.
"We felt Mark could have achieved all his England ambitions with Derbyshire. We respect his decision but our ambition is to produce England players and hold on to our players when they get in to the England side," added Storey.
"Mark made some terrific progress since he joined five years ago We take a big sense of satisfaction of the progress he has made."
Meanwhile, fellow pace bowler Ben Cotton, 22, has signed a one-year contract extension with the county.
The University of Derby graduate took 32 wickets across all formats last season. | Derbyshire were right to let Mark Footitt leave despite the bowler having a year left on his contract, according to chief executive Simon Storey. |
36,864,273 | Data from IHS Markit's Purchasing Managers' Index, or PMI, shows a fall to 47.7 in July, the lowest level since April in 2009. A reading below 50 indicates contraction.
Both manufacturing and service sectors saw a decline in output and orders.
However, exports picked up, driven by the weakening of the pound.
The report surveyed more than 650 services companies, from sectors including transport, business services, computing and restaurants.
It asked them: "Is the level of business activity at your company higher, the same or lower than one month ago?"
It also asked manufacturers whether production had gone up or down.
The PMI is the first significant set of data measuring business reaction to the result of the UK referendum.
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Chris Williamson, chief economist at IHS Markit, said the downturn had been "most commonly attributed in one way or another to 'Brexit'."
He added that the economy could contract by 0.4% in the third quarter of this year, but that would depend on whether the current slump continued.
"The only other times we have seen this index fall to these low levels, was the global financial crisis in 2008/9, the bursting of the dot com bubble, and the 1998 Asian financial crisis," Mr Williamson told the BBC.
"The difference this time is that it is entirely home-grown, which suggest the impact could be greater on the UK economy than before.
"This is exactly what most economists were saying would happen."
A subset of the PMI figures, shows that service companies, such as insurance or advertising, are feeling less positive about the future than at any time since the height of the recession.
The figures in PMI surveys are taken seriously by economists as early warning signs of what is in the pipeline. When there is a downturn, the PMIs generally tell the same story.
So this is a troubling set of results. But it is just one month's worth. It is possible that this is a "shock-induced nadir", as the chief economist at the firm who conducted the survey put it, and that the economy will right itself in the coming months.
In addition, the financial markets have stabilised and in some areas rebounded, in an adjustment after the vote that was described by the IMF as severe but generally orderly.
That said, the survey results do increase the chances of some action from the Bank of England, perhaps an interest rate cut in August, or perhaps even some additional spending plans in the chancellor's Autumn Statement.
Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said the figures provided the "first major evidence that the UK is entering a sharp downturn".
Although he added that the "confidence shock from the Leave vote might wear off over the coming months".
Neil Wilson, markets analyst at ETX Capital, said he thought the UK was "heading for a recession again", and that the data would almost certainly prompt the Bank of England to roll out further stimulus.
The pound has fallen in response to the publication of the data.
The UK's new chancellor, Philip Hammond, urged caution.
"Let's be clear, the PMI data is a measure of sentiment, it's not a measure of any hard activity in the economy.
"What it tells us is businesses confidence has been dented, they're not sure, they're in a period of uncertainty now."
Earlier on Friday, Mr Hammond said that he might "reset" Britain's fiscal policy.
While IHS Markit's reading on the UK economy was worse than most analysts expected, its verdict on the wider eurozone economy was more cheery.
Although business confidence dropped to an 18-month low, the overall pace of economic growth was in line with pre-Brexit trends, and employment across the eurozone rose.
The optimistic outlook is in line with comments made by the president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi, who said on Thursday that Europe's financial markets had "weathered" the uncertainty caused by the vote.
Europe Economics' Andrew Lilico, who argued during the referendum campaign that leaving the EU would be beneficial for the UK in the long term, told the BBC the PMI data was "no surprise", and that it "doesn't tell us much about what Brexit's longer term impact will be".
Mr Lilico said he always expected a short-term reaction, and those who voted to leave, "expected a short-term slowdown too".
The downturn, he added, was "associated with risks in the global economy," as well as Brexit. | Britain's decision to leave the EU has led to a "dramatic deterioration" in economic activity, not seen since the aftermath of the financial crisis. |
39,088,570 | The British number three started well and took the first set but the Canadian top seed hit back to win 4-6 6-3 6-4.
Raonic won five games in a row to seal the second set and go 2-0 up in the decider and help set up the victory.
Raonic will face Argentina's former US Open winner Juan Martin del Potro in Saturday's semi-final.
"I was a little bit slow off the block, got a little down on myself after that and wasn't necessarily focusing on the right things," Raonic told the ATP website.
"I was glad to be able to get out of that midway through the second set.
"But Kyle has very good potential. He takes it to you and has a forehand that's very hard to read. He's constantly improving, so things look bright for him."
Seventh seed Del Potro, who won the event in 2011, beat American wildcard Sam Querrey 7-5 7-5.
In the other semi-final, American world number 21 Jack Sock faces compatriot Donald Young, ranked 69. | Kyle Edmund missed out on his first win over a top-10 player when he lost to world number four Milos Raonic in the Delray Beach Open quarter-finals. |
30,375,080 | He told the BBC: "We are going to have to make savings... we are going to have to cut certain welfare bills like benefits that go to working-age people.
"But the prize is economic stability, growth, jobs in the future, brighter future, I think that's a price that works for our country."
It comes amid a coalition row over future plans to cut spending.
Senior Lib Dem Danny Alexander implied, in a Daily Telegraph article, that the Conservatives were in a "pre-election panic".
Mr Alexander also said that the Tories wanted to "inflict unnecessary pain" on the UK because they were "economically committed" to "shrinking the state ever further".
In an interview with BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson Mr Osborne said voters faced "a real choice between competence and chaos" at the election next May.
He said his Liberal Democrat coalition partners were in "the same mix" as Labour and UKIP.
"What they are offering is a chaotic alternative of higher taxes, higher borrowing and a return to economic chaos. Britain doesn't want to come back to square one."
He denied that comments this weekend made by senior ministers on both sides of the coalition were damaging.
"I know there's an election in a few months' time and there's going to be a real choice for the country."
The chancellor also refused to accept thousands more public sector jobs would be lost with future public spending cuts.
"It depends on the decisions we are prepared to take on pay. If we go on taking what I think are realistic decisions on public sector pay then we can still afford to have people in sufficient numbers in the public sector to do the job we ask of them."
Mr Osborne's comments are the latest in a series of tit-for-tat attacks between the two coalition government parties.
Speaking on Sunday, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said: "I just think the Conservatives are kidding themselves and seeking to kid British voters if they are claiming that it is possible to balance the books, deliver unfunded tax cuts, shrink the state and support public services in the way that everybody wants."
Asked on Monday's BBC Radio 4 Today programme if it was possible for the present administration to survive, given the mounting sniping, Mr Alexander, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said: "Absolutely it is.
"What we have done, and we showed this last week in the Autumn Statement, is work effectively together to deliver a very Liberal Democrat package of measures with lots of income tax cuts, tax reforms, sticking to the path on the public finances.
"So we have shown that we can work well together in this Parliament. What we are doing is something that should be totally unsurprising, which is two political parties - with very different ideologies - setting out their views about the future of this country in a clear and distinct way and I am going to continue doing that for the next five months and beyond but that does not in any way undermine our ability to work effectively together in this coalition to keep the country on the right path."
Asked if there could be another Conservative/Lib Dem administration he said: "As we said at the general election in 2010, we would seek to talk first with whichever party had the strongest mandate in the event of a hung parliament.
"That is the responsible thing to do. What we are doing now is setting out precisely and clearly what are the Liberal Democrat policy objectives in the next parliament." | Chancellor George Osborne has said spending cuts to reduce the deficit are a "price that works for our country". |
37,342,152 | Mr Cameron, 49, who resigned as prime minister after June's EU referendum, said he did not want to be a "distraction" for new PM Theresa May
He said Mrs May had "got off to a cracking start", while she praised his "great strides" on social reform.
Mr Cameron, 49, has represented Witney since 2001, becoming Conservative leader in 2005 and PM in 2010.
Laura Kuenssberg: May's takeover now complete
Speaking in his constituency, he said it had been a "great honour" to be an MP for the area, but said it would be difficult for him to remain on the backbenches without becoming "a big distraction and a big diversion" from the work of the new government.
He denied his announcement was related to the government's moves towards allowing new grammar schools, a policy he rejected as PM.
He said the timing was coincidental, adding that there were "many good things" in the proposed education reforms.
"Obviously I'm going to have my own views about different issues," he said.
"People would know that and that's really the point. As a former prime minister it is very difficult, I think, to sit as a backbencher and not be an enormous diversion and distraction from what the government is doing."
By Laura Kuenssberg, BBC political editor
Friends say that David Cameron's decision has not been made in a fit of pique, he has not merely flounced out because he doesn't like what his successor is doing.
But there was a "very real danger", particularly because he does not support the UK leaving the European Union, that anything he said, any comment he made could "drive a real wedge" between him and the government which could make life harder for Theresa May.
It is not that surprising that the man who used to be in charge has decided to go.
But his departure adds to the sense that May's Downing Street feels more like a new administration after a general election than a continuation of David Cameron's tenure - "it IS a new government", one senior Tory told me, "not everyone has understood that yet".
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Mr Cameron said Mrs May - his former home secretary - had been "very understanding" when he told her of his decision.
Asked about his legacy, and whether he would be remembered as the prime minister that took the UK out of the European Union, he said he hoped his tenure would be recalled for a strong economy and "important social reforms" and that he had transformed a Conservative Party that was "in the doldrums" into a "modernising winning force".
Mr Cameron won a 25,155 majority in 2015 in Witney, which has been held by the Conservatives since 1974.
He said he had not made any "firm decisions" on what to do next, adding that he wanted to continue to contribute to public life.
Mrs May said: "I was proud to serve in David Cameron's government - and under his leadership we achieved great things. Not just stabilising the economy, but also making great strides in delivering serious social reform."
She pledged to continue with his "one-nation government" approach.
Ex-Chancellor George Osborne said he was sorry his "great friend" was stepping down.
"We came into Parliament together, had a great partnership and I will miss him alongside me on the green benches over the coming years," he added.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he wished David Cameron "all the best for the future", adding he got on well with him on a "human level".
Speaking at the TUC conference in Brighton, Mr Corbyn said: "We should respect people who move on to do something else with their lives. I want to wish him all the best for the future."
But Labour's Angela Eagle declined to add her voice to the tributes, telling the BBC Mr Cameron had "put his whole country at risk to settle a debate in his own party" through the EU referendum.
"He has now walked away leaving others to clear up the mess."
Ex-Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, who was deputy prime minister in coalition, said Mr Cameron had shown "great skill" in negotiating and listening to other views during their time in government.
Mr Clegg's successor as Lib Dem leader Tim Farron added: "He has lots of things that he should be proud of but sadly his legacy will be one of accidentally removing us from our closest friends and neighbours in Europe."
Former cabinet minister Ken Clarke told the BBC: "I'm a friend of David's, so I regret to say, I think for history his legacy will be he's the man who accidentally caused Britain to leave the European Union.
"There's no getting away from the fact that that will overshadow every other feature of his premiership."
Mr Cameron initially became prime minister in coalition with the Liberal Democrats, before securing an overall majority in 2015.
He pressed ahead with his pledge to hold a referendum on the UK's EU membership - campaigning hard for a Remain vote and warning of the economic and security consequences of Brexit.
But he finished on the losing side, announcing his resignation the day after the vote, saying outside Downing Street that "fresh leadership" was needed.
At the time, he said he would continue as an MP until the next general election.
The last prime minister to resign, Gordon Brown, remained in the Commons for five years after his general election defeat in 2010, while Tony Blair stood down as an MP when he resigned as PM. | Former UK PM David Cameron has stood down as an MP, triggering a by-election in his Oxfordshire seat of Witney. |
36,468,876 | Mayor of Weymouth and Portland, Councillor Richard Kosior, will now have to use a his own car, or hire a taxi or limousine and driver, depending on the type of engagement he attends.
It comes after former mayor Christine James chose not to use the service and instead opted for her own transport.
The annual cost of running a car and providing a chauffeur was £21,000.
However, providing alternative transport for the last financial year was about £3,100, the borough council's scrutiny and performance committee said.
"Therefore there is the potential to make a significant budget saving in this area," a committee report said.
Mr Kosior, who was elected mayor on 19 May, said: "In these days of austerity and council cuts we can't be seen to be squandering money on chauffeuring me to various functions."
Hired taxis or cars would bear the coat of arms of the borough "for that sense of occasion", he added.
He said he had asked for a review in six months to ensure the new format was still saving cash. | A Dorset mayor's car and chauffeur have been scrapped in a bid to save the council money. |
38,674,111 | Crews were called to the property in Seaview Road, Sandend, between Portsoy and Cullen, at about 01:00.
The man was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary for treatment. He was not thought to be seriously injured.
Four fire engines attended and had extinguished the blaze by about 02:15. No other properties were affected. | A man has been taken to hospital following a house fire in Aberdeenshire. |
36,169,473 | Igor Nesterenko was sentenced to three years and three months in a labour camp for embezzlement. He stole nearly 104.5m roubles (£1.1m; $1.6m), the court in Russia's far east concluded.
Several companies are being investigated.
President Vladimir Putin had warned that some managers might face jail.
"If their guilt is proven, they will have to change their warm beds at home for plank-beds in prison," Mr Putin said, commenting on the arrest of four people involved in the project.
He watched the rocket launch on Thursday in the Amur region, near the Russian-Chinese border, 5,500km (3,500 miles) east of Moscow. A last-minute technical hitch had delayed the Soyuz 2.1a, carrying three satellites into orbit.
It was Mr Putin's idea to build a new space port in Russia to avoid any potential political risks of using the old Soviet launch centre at Baikonur in Kazakhstan.
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Russia would continue to use Baikonur to launch manned missions until 2023. Meanwhile, launches from Vostochny will gradually be increased.
Last year dozens of construction workers went on strike at Vostochny, complaining of unpaid wages. Nesterenko is also being prosecuted in connection with the alleged non-payments.
Nesterenko heads Russia's Pacific Bridge-building Company (TMK) - one of several firms under investigation for suspicious transactions at Vostochny.
The court found that he benefited from a fraudulent scheme run by an associate, Sergei Yudin. | A court has jailed a construction manager at Russia's new Vostochny cosmodrome, a day after the first rocket was launched from the site. |
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They have won more than half of the seats in parliament, with some votes still being counted.
All attention is now on Downing Street where David Cameron will now live for the next five years, along with Larry the act too!
Ricky has been there finding out how big the news is for people around the world. | David Cameron's party, the Conservatives, have won the general election meaning he will stay as Prime Minister. |
35,009,917 | The pair were arrested in Switzerland on Thursday at the request of the US authorities, on suspicion of accepting millions of dollars of bribes.
Napout, 57, oversees football in the South America confederation and Hawit, 64, is interim president for North, Central America and Caribbean football.
The pair are barred from all football-related activity.
They were arrested in a dawn raid on the same Zurich hotel where several officials from world football's governing body were arrested in May.
Fifa's executive committee had been meeting in the city, voting on reforms.
Later on Thursday, the pair were among 16 officials charged by US authorities investigating corruption in the organisation.
US attorney general Loretta Lynch said: "The betrayal of trust set forth here is outrageous. The scale of corruption alleged herein is unconscionable.
"And the message from this announcement should be clear to every culpable individual who remains in the shadows, hoping to evade our investigation: you will not wait us out; you will not escape our focus." | Fifa has suspended vice-presidents Alfredo Hawit and Juan Angel Napout for 90 days. |
39,124,272 | It brings the country close to breaking the Netherlands' record of modern-era uninterrupted economic growth.
Australia's economy had contracted in the third quarter but the surprise 1.1% rise pulled the annual figure back to a 2.4% growth rate.
The recovery was attributed largely to strong exports and consumer spending.
Mining and agriculture enjoyed relatively strong growth in the three months to December.
Iron ore and coal are Australia's biggest exports and reduced demand from China has cooled a mining boom and hurt the Australian economy.
Australia has not had a recession - defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth - since June 1991.
It is now just one quarter short of the Dutch record set between 1982 and 2008.
Treasurer Scott Morrison welcomed a 2% rise in business investment in December - the first rise after a dozen quarters of decline.
"Our growth continues to be above the OECD average and confirms the successful change that is taking place in our economy as we move from the largest resources investment boom in our history to broader-based growth," he said.
ANZ analysts said the figures confirmed that the weakness in the third quarter "was only temporary, and underlying momentum in the economy remains solid".
Capital Economics chief Australia economist Paul Dales said the economy was firmly "back on track".
"The decent rebound in real GDP in the fourth quarter doesn't just dash any lingering fears that Australia was in a recession, but it also boosts hopes that the surge in commodity prices will trigger a rapid recovery," he said.
"The outlook for the next year is reasonably bright," Shane Oliver of AMP Capital told the BBC. "We are seeing a pickup in export volumes and we have seen a big rebound in key commodity prices."
Mr Oliver added: "Growth should probably get back to 2.5%, maybe 3% over the course of this year."
Estimates by the country's central bank point to economic growth rising to about 3% for 2017 on the back of recovering commodity prices. | Australia's economy gained momentum in the last quarter of 2016, allowing the resource-rich economy to extend its 25-year streak without recession. |
34,401,504 | Wayne Ingold, 56, suffered horrific burn injuries outside his home in Witham, Essex, on 8 August 2014.
Aaron Isaac, 19, of Elverson Road, Lewisham, south London, and a 16-year-old boy deny carrying out the attack.
Martin Mulgrew, prosecuting, said Mr Ingold was attacked after he answered the communal door at a block of flats.
"He suffered horrific burn injuries to his face and neck and but for the fact he was wearing spectacles it's likely the fluid would've gone into his eyes," he said.
Giving evidence on the first day of the trial at Chelmsford Crown Court, Mr Ingold told the jury: "[The acid] hit my hands, my face, my neck. I went into my flat and looked in the mirror.
"My face had turned yellow. It looked like melted wax."
The court heard the boy, from Mitcham, south London, who cannot be named for legal reasons, went to hospital after the attack with an acid burn to his eye.
Mr Mulgrew said: "The Crown says he was throwing acid and it splashed back into his left eye."
Both teenagers deny throwing a corrosive liquid with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
The trial continues. | A man who had acid thrown in his face was a victim of mistaken identity and in the "wrong place at the wrong time", a court heard. |
37,951,059 | The news will bring some respite to businesses that import goods, and to holidaymakers buying foreign currency.
For the first time in five weeks sterling is worth $1.26, having sunk as low as $1.21 a month ago. That is a rise of about 4%.
Against the euro, the pound has risen by more than 6% over the same period, up from €1.09 to €1.16.
It jumped further when figures on the construction industry were published, which were not as bad as expected.
One analyst said the US election had put concerns about Brexit "on the back burner".
Donald Trump's election as US President has also raised hopes that the UK may find it easier to negotiate a trade deal with the US.
"This is definitely a rebound after some very positive comments from President-elect Trump," said Rupert Lee-Browne, chief executive of currency firm Caxton FX.
"He's indicated he wants America and the UK to continue with the special relationship, and that has lifted spirits in the currency market."
At the same time there are worries about political stability in Europe. Italy is facing a referendum on constitutional reform, and France will have a presidential election in April next year.
The High Court decision to force a parliamentary vote on Article 50, which triggers the Brexit procedure, has also helped the pound recover.
It eased concerns on the financial markets that the UK could exit the European Union without a good trade deal - a so-called "hard Brexit".
"There's an element of simply a shift in focus behind this," said Jason Lawler, market analyst at CMC Markets.
"The phenomenon of Donald Trump as US President-elect has put Brexit on the back-burner, allowing the pound to creep higher."
The pound's recovery has happened in spite of speculation that US interest rates might rise when the Federal Reserve, the US central bank, holds its next meeting in December, a move likely to strengthen the dollar.
Equally well, higher inflation expectations in the UK mean that interest rates are more likely to rise here, making the pound more attractive.
"But there is always the worry about Brexit - and that could bring sterling down going forward," said Mr Lee-Browne.
Despite the slight recovery in recent days, the pound is still well below the levels it stood at a year ago when it was worth $1.52 and €1.42. | The pound has continued to recover ground following this week's US election result. |
35,380,315 | The FTSE 100 index added 126.22 points, or 2.2%, to close at 5,900.01, after rising 1.8% on Thursday.
Markets had been lifted by hints from the European Central Bank on Thursday that it might introduce fresh measures at its meeting in March.
Speculation of more stimulus action in Japan also lifted sentiment.
Reports that the Bank of Japan could introduce fresh measures helped Japan's Nikkei index to jump by nearly 6% on Friday.
Markets have also been encouraged by a recovery in oil prices, which had hit 12-year lows earlier in the week.
Brent crude was up $2.19 at $31.44 a barrel, while US crude was $2.06 higher at $31.59.
The rise in oil prices lifted shares in energy-related firms in London. Royal Dutch Shell was up 5.2% and BG Group climbed 5%.
On the currency markets, the pound was up by nearly a cent against the dollar at $1.4305, and it rose by more than one euro cent against the euro to €1.3212. | (Closed): UK shares finished the week with gains, as global markets were lifted by hopes of more stimulus action from central banks. |
35,869,662 | Tough bubbles could trap and deliver medication while providing a protective barrier between the wound dressing and the damaged skin, they believe.
The Strathclyde University researchers have begun making a synthetic version of foam.
They are taking inspiration from the tiny Tungara frog from Trinidad.
After mating, the 5cm-sized amphibians whip up a bubbly nest that protects the spawn for days from disease, predators and weather.
The foam is made of at least six proteins that retain the shape and strength of the nest.
Dr Paul Hoskisson and his colleagues say they have worked out the composition of four of these proteins and have begun mixing their own recipe.
When they loaded their synthetic foam with a dye as a test, they found it released it at a steady rate for up to seven days.
Next they loaded it with an antibiotic drug called vancomycin and found the drug was released and worked as it should on infected laboratory samples, without damaging the health of cells.
But they say they are still some way off creating a foam that is as stable as the one made by the frogs.
Dr Hoskisson said: "I'd say we are about half way there, to making a stable foam. Once we do that, we would then need to test it in patients, but that will take a few years yet."
While foams like these are a long way from hitting the clinic, they could eventually help patients with infected wounds and burns, by providing support and protection for healing tissue and delivering drugs at the same time, said Dr Hoskisson.
The researchers are presenting their early work to the Microbiology Society's Annual Conference taking place in Liverpool. | Foam made by miniature frogs to protect their eggs could offer a clever way to deliver healing drugs to burns patients, say scientists. |
35,243,110 | The Britons lost 6-2 6-7 (0-7) 11-9 to the Australian Green team in a tense deciding rubber in Perth.
Britain's hopes of reaching the final now depend on a big win against Germany on Friday, coupled with Australia Green losing heavily to France.
Earlier, Murray had lost a singles match to Kyrgios for the first time.
World number two Murray, who had won all four of his previous meetings against the Australian, suffered a 6-4 7-6 (7-5) loss.
But Watson went on to beat Gavrilova 6-7 (2-7) 6-2 7-5 in a thrilling match to set up a deciding mixed doubles rubber, which Britain lost when Kyrgios served out an ace on Australia's fourth match point.
Both teams had won their opening ties in the round-robin event, which is a warm-up for the Australian Open in Melbourne, starting on 18 January.
Kyrgios and Gavrilova make up Australia Green - one of two squads representing the host country in the eight-team event.
Murray, 28, won his first four encounters against the 20-year-old, including victories at the Australian, French and US Opens last year.
Kyrgios, ranked 30th, broke Murray in the third game of the match and although the Scot saved two set points at 4-5, a backhand winner secured the set for the Australian at the third opportunity.
Murray was broken from 40-0 up in the first game of the second set but immediately broke back.
The two-time Grand Slam winner had a set point at 5-4 but Kyrgios saved it with a fierce forehand and went on to close out the match in a tie-break.
British women's number two Watson, 23, demonstrated her fighting qualities to come back from a set down to defeat 21-year-old Gavrilova and keep the tie alive.
The Briton, ranked 55, could not convert two set points at 5-4 in the first set and the world number 36 raced clear in the tie-break, winning the first five points before clinching it 7-2.
Watson won four games in a row to level the match and appeared to be in control when she went 2-0 up in the decider.
However, Gavrilova hit back and served for the match at 5-3 with the crucial moment coming at deuce when a forehand from the Australian was called in.
Watson's challenge showed the ball landing wide, she converted the resulting break point and then won the final three games to seal victory in two hours 46 minutes. | Andy Murray and Heather Watson face an uphill battle to reach the Hopman Cup final after losing to Nick Kyrgios and Daria Gavrilova in the mixed doubles. |
34,564,894 | The UK's decision to accept 20,000 by 2020 was not adequate and most people wanted to offer more help, they said.
The Bishop of Durham, the Rt Rev Paul Butler, said it was "disheartening" they had not had a "substantive reply".
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said "nobody is doing more" than the UK "to help the refugees in their camps".
The government has offered to accept 20,000 refugees from camps bordering Syria. It has also provided £1bn in aid to Syria, with an extra £100m given to charities to help thousands displaced by the conflict.
There has been debate in recent months about how countries should respond to the migrant crisis. This weekend Hungary closed its border with Croatia, while Slovenia put its army on standby to deal with migrants entering the country.
20,000
more refugees will be resettled in the UK by 2020
4,980
Syrian asylum seekers have been allowed to stay since 2011
25,771 people applied for asylum in the UK in the year to end June 2015
2,204 were from Syria
87% of Syrian requests for asylum were granted
145 Syrian asylum seekers have been removed from the UK since 2011
Bishop Butler said: "As the fighting intensifies, as the sheer scale of human misery becomes greater, the government's response seems increasingly inadequate to meet the scale and severity of the problem.
He added: "There is an urgent and compelling moral duty to act which we as bishops are offering to facilitate alongside others from across civil society."
Downing Street said the government wanted to tackle "the causes and consequences" of the refugee problem and that the UK was the second biggest donor in the world towards helping refugees in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey.
BBC religious affairs correspondent Caroline Wyatt
The decision by the 84 Church of England bishops to go public with their private letter to David Cameron is unusual, and an indication of their deep frustration at not having had what they would see as an adequate response.
But it is far from the first time that Church leaders have clashed with government. The bishops had to defend themselves from charges of political bias earlier this year, ahead of the general election, when they released an unprecedented manifesto that said it was the "duty" of every Christian to vote.
That 52-page letter warned that people felt "detached" from politics and called for a "fresh moral vision of the kind of country we want to be". Although it was careful to praise the work of some earlier governments from both left and right, it was seen by many Conservative MPs as a distinctly left-leaning document, including references to the Trident nuclear deterrent, Britain's relationship with the European Union and the welfare state.
Nonetheless, the bishops themselves would argue that it is their duty to offer moral leadership, and to speak out when they feel strongly that they and their flock wish the government to do more, and offer their help on the major issues of the day - however unwelcome that message may be to some.
In their letter, sent on 10 September, the bishops said they "recognise and applaud the leadership" Mr Cameron had shown when he announced the UK would accept 20,000 refugees but added the UK should do more to help tackle "one of the largest refugee crises ever recorded".
"We believe such is this country's great tradition of sanctuary and generosity of spirit that we could feasibly resettle at least 10,000 people a year for the next two years, rising to a minimum of 50,000 in total over the five-year period you foresaw in your announcement," they wrote.
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The letter, signed by 84 of the Church's 108 bishops, also said they would encourage churches and congregations to make spare housing available to refugees and promote foster caring.
Bishop of Manchester David Walker, a signatory, said he had come under pressure from parishioners to encourage action.
"People want to know what we are going to do," he told BBC Breakfast.
But Mr Fallon said the "real issue" was in Syria.
He told the BBC: "We are spending £1bn helping the refugees in the refugee camps in Syria and now we have announced that we will take 20,000 - 5,000 a year for the rest of this parliament - which is a number we think we can reasonably accommodate."
Neither the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby nor the Archbishop of York John Sentamu signed the letter. Both have called for a compassionate response to the refugee crisis.
The Most Rev Justin Welby has previously offered to help with sanctuary for refugees in the form of a four-bedroom cottage in the grounds of Lambeth Palace.
The bishops' letter comes a week after leading former judges and lawyers criticised the "slow and narrow" response to the crisis. | Eighty-four Church of England bishops have revealed that they wrote to David Cameron last month urging him to accept at least 50,000 refugees from Syria. |
35,379,675 | The 26-year-old impressed during a trial period at Dens Park last week.
Arturo earned a move to Cordoba after a prolific 2013-14 campaign with La Roda in the Spanish third tier.
"We are delighted to have him on board," manager Paul Hartley told the club website. "We look forward to working with him and feel he will be a good addition to the squad."
Arturo will not be considered for Friday's visit to Aberdeen. | Dundee have signed striker Arturo Juan Rodríguez Pérez-Reverte on loan from Cordoba until the end of the season. |
37,826,163 | The floor will house galleries, learning spaces and a restaurant when the £80.1m museum opens in summer 2018.
The upper level will also feature the Michelin Design Gallery, which will showcase the museum's learning and innovation programme.
V&A Dundee will be two separate buildings, connecting on the upper floor.
More than 100 workers are involved in the construction of the museum, with building work scheduled for completion in December 2017.
Bruce Dickson, BAM Construction's regional director for Scotland said the work was progressing "better than we dared expect."
He said: "The job hasn't been held up particularly by weather.
"We've had a really good run through the summer and in the last two months it's really jumped on and is looking excellent.
"We like this type of project."
Mr Dickson said the complex construction was "particularly challenging".
He said: "Bidding on it was an interesting process, building it is an even more interesting process.
"The geometry in this job is absolutely incredible."
Philip Long, director of V&A Dundee, said: "It is thrilling to see the completion of our galleries floor, revealing for the first time the space which will host the V&A's touring exhibitions and showcase the outcomes of our learning programmes.
"The Michelin Design Gallery is central to this, and will be a very inspiring space for community participants of all ages to see what they design showcased within an international museum."
Later this year, the museum's curving concrete walls, which are cast in bespoke moulds, will reach their full height.
The moulds will then be removed to allow 2,250 cast stone panels to be hung on the walls.
Each panel weighs up to 3000kg (472 st) each and spans up to 4m (13ft).
Museum architect Kengo Kuma, who will give a talk in Dundee this week, said in April that he was "very happy" with the progress of the construction. | Dundee's V&A Museum of Design has reached a construction milestone with the completion of its upper floor. |
18,738,906 | Both India and Pakistan acknowledge that the number of militants coming into the territory from Pakistani-administered Kashmir has dwindled significantly.
The Kashmir uprising of the last three decades can perhaps be categorised into two distinct periods - discontent over Delhi's rule surfacing in the 1980s, leading to the rise of groups backed by Pakistan from the early 1990s onwards, and the gradual but dramatic reduction in violence in the territory in recent years.
The influence of militant groups such as Al-Badr Mujahideen, which was once very powerful in the mid-1990s, has now waned to such an extent that it is no longer considered to present a threat.
Another group that has lost influence and power is Jaish-e-Mohammad, launched in 1999 by Maulana Masood Azhar, a former militant commander released by India from prison for the 1999 hijacking of an airliner.
It shot to prominence in 2000 for its role in the attack on the Red Fort in Delhi.
But its activities in Kashmir failed to elicit public support, especially after a 2001 car bomb attack on the Kashmir state legislative assembly which killed more than 35 people, all civilians. Like other militant groups, it treated local people harshly and became unpopular for trying to change their social customs.
Correspondents say that what remains of the insurgency today is led by four main groups:
This Pakistan-based militant group was formed by Hafiz Mohammad Saeed in the early 1990s to put the Kashmir insurgency more firmly into the hands of the Pakistanis.
The group was launched as the militant wing of a charity founded by Mr Saeed in the 1980s to facilitate the induction of foreign militants into the Afghan war against the Russians.
In the late 1990s, LeT emerged as the most dangerous militant group in Kashmir, taking the fight to Indian cities outside of Kashmir including an assault on the Indian parliament in Delhi in 2001, and the Mumbai attacks in 2008 which claimed 165 lives and those of the nine gunmen.
Pakistan banned it in 2002, after which it renamed itself Jamaat-ud Dawa. Mr Saeed publicly distanced himself from LeT activities, though many believe he still commands influence over its rank and file.
It is believed that Pakistan's policy in recent years of scaling down tensions with India caused many LeT cadres to defect to other groups or cease their activities. But the main body of the group remained intact.
Despite a Pakistani ban on militant activity in Kashmir in 2006, its fighters continue to attempt infiltration into Indian-administered Kashmir. These attempts were curtailed however when people living along the Line of Control which divides Indian and Pakistani Kashmir started to hold public protests against their activities.
Given its reputation for being close to Pakistani intelligence, the ISI, many consider LeT to be the only group capable of launching another spectacular attack in India to derail the normalisation in relations between the two countries.
The bulk of LeT's activists are now part of a public campaign in Pakistan against the resumption of Nato overland supplies through Pakistan. Mr Saeed - who was recently put on a US most wanted list - is spearheading this campaign.
Hizbul Mujahideen is considered to be the first militant group that comprised an essentially Kashmiri rank and file membership. It is considered to be pro-Pakistani and was throughout the 1990s the largest of Kashmiri militant groups. Today it is one of a few that still maintain a token presence in Indian Kashmir.
Formed in 1989, Hizbul Mujahideen has had close links with the ISI. It has also been closely linked with Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar - at one point the group's fighters received training at his camps in Afghanistan.
In the late 1990s, when the Taliban overran those facilities, they moved to camps in Pakistan's Hazara region and to Pakistani Kashmir.
More recently however it has suffered morale shattering splits, the most damaging of which was in 2001 when Hizbul Mujahideen's top field commander in Indian Kashmir, Majeed Dar, announced a unilateral ceasefire against Indian forces. His move took the Pakistan-based head of the group, Syed Salahuddin, by surprise. The split led to in-fighting and the subsequent assassination of Mr Dar.
While Mr Salahuddin remains in control of the group, he has largely presided over the erosion of its ranks and his ability to keep the insurgency going is now under question.
Hizbul Mujahideen is now confined to a few isolated pockets, with its militants based in mountain hideouts instead of villages over which they formerly held sway.
Harkatul Mujahideen is another pan-Islamic group that once fought the Russians under the command of Jalauddin Haqqani, now the leader of the Haqqani Network based in Pakistan which today is fighting against US-led Nato forces in Afghanistan.
Harkatul Mujahideen is accused of conducting what Western powers described as the first act of terrorism in Kashmir in 1995, when the group - then known as Harkatul Ansar - kidnapped five western tourists.
This provoked the US to ban the group, but it soon renamed itself Harkatul Mujahideen.
It is made up of highly trained and dedicated fighters - mostly Pakistanis, but also Afghans and Arabs.
But its harsh tactics caused its backers within the Pakistani establishment gradually to withdraw support, causing its influence to decline.
The group's leader, Maulana Fazlur Rahman Khalil, still wields some limited influence within local seminaries in Pakistan and was invited to negotiate a ceasefire in the 2007 Red Mosque siege in Pakistan.
More recently, he has sometimes been seen on stage with religious leaders conducting the campaign against Nato's overland supplies in Pakistan.
The JKLF is a nationalist secular group that has sought the independence of Kashmir from both India and Pakistan.
Drawing on the popular base of Kashmir's nationalist movement, a bomb attack it carried out in Srinagar on 31 July, 1988 in effect marked the start of the insurgency.
The group was formed as early as 1977, with Amanullah Khan as its head. He and another leader, Yasin Malik, organised resistance to Indian rule with help from the Pakistani military regime of General Zia-ul Haq, who, according to Mr Khan, believed that since Islamabad had failed to wrest control of Kashmir from India, it might as well back a movement for its independence.
However, when the insurgency was successfully launched, Pakistan decided to withdraw support from JKLF and instead back groups that wanted Kashmir's accession to Pakistan.
The JKLF as a result found itself sandwiched between Indian security forces and pro-Pakistan militants. By 1990, much of its cadres had either been dispersed, destroyed or absorbed into other groups. Its leadership also split into factions, some of them renouncing militancy.
These groups are now coming together in a non-violent political movement for the reunification of Pakistani and Indian Kashmir. | The insurgency in Indian-administered Kashmir today is a shadow of the uprising of the mid-1990s when bombings and shootings were far more commonplace. |
40,137,623 | The 55-year-old replaces Paul Cook, who left to become Wigan manager earlier this week after leading Pompey to the League Two title last season.
Jackett quit as manager of the Millers in November after just 39 days and five games in charge.
He has twice led sides to promotion from League One, firstly Millwall in 2010 and then Wolves in 2014.
Former Wales defender Jackett also steered Swansea to the League One play-off final in 2006, but they were beaten on penalties by Barnsley.
"We're delighted to announce Kenny as our new manager - he ticks so many boxes for us," chief executive Mark Catlin told the club website.
"He's managed big clubs with big expectations in the past and has plenty of experience of getting sides out of League One."
A Portsmouth statement said the club are in "advanced talks" with Joe Gallen - who worked with Jackett at Rotherham, QPR, Millwall and Wolves - to become assistant manager at Fratton Park.
Since leaving Rotherham, Jackett has spent time working in Tottenham's youth set-up, while awaiting a new managerial opportunity.
"This is a fantastic opportunity for me and I'm looking forward to getting started. It's an exciting challenge," he said of his new job.
"This club has a passionate fan-base and they can be a 12th man for us. Hopefully we can build on the momentum of last season and continue to progress." | Promoted Portsmouth have appointed former Rotherham boss Kenny Jackett as their new manager on a two-year deal. |
32,961,630 | The data, transmitted from remote and icy locations, is now available online to academics around the world.
Seals wearing sensors built at the University of St Andrews have produced nearly 400,000 environmental profiles of the Southern Ocean.
Dr Lars Boehme said the critical flow of information was "like tweeting".
The sensors are said to be non-invasive and fall off when the seals moult, and the university said they are the only devices of their kind that can be attached to animals.
The tags send short pieces of information periodically back to researchers via satellites. This is then processed in St Andrews and shared with international scientists and the Met office for use in weather forecasting.
Dr Boehme, from the St Andrews Sea Mammal Research Unit, said: "The information sent back to us gives us details about the seal's immediate physical environment. It's like tweeting.
"Changes in the polar oceans have global ramifications and a significant influence on weather and climate. Sustained observations are required to detect, interpret and respond to change and a strategic system of observations combining a range of platforms is critical in maintaining the flow of information."
The portal containing the decade of data, named Marine Mammals Exploring the Oceans Pole-to-Pole, was launched on Monday.
Mike Fedak, a professor of biology at the university, said: "The fact that animals have collected the data is an interesting innovation in ocean observation.
"But perhaps of more general importance is that data from these remote and inaccessible places now gives us a much clearer picture of the state of the world's oceans.
"We have shown that data from these far-flung locations is critical to understanding the broader state of the global ocean." | A decade of information about the world's harshest seas has been gathered together from specially tagged wandering seals. |
32,908,122 | The Livingston-based company acquired Winstanley Holdings of Worcester for an undisclosed sum.
The deal will double Transcal's rail division revenue this year from a projected £5.5m to £11.5m.
The firm has worked for a number of franchises in the past five years, including First Great Western and East Midlands Trains.
Transcal operates four divisions, employing 97 people in the UK.
Originally specialising in leather vehicle seats, the company has diversified into rail interiors as well as aviation and furniture.
Transcal has operations in Bristol, Singapore, Indonesia, Poland and Belgium and has a stake in a North American car interiors and seating business.
Managing director and founder Robert Aitken said: "This is an important deal both for Transcal Rail and for our new colleagues at Winstanley.
"It puts us in a leading position to grow the enlarged group through a pipeline of rail franchise refurbishment across the UK network." | Transport seating firm Transcal has expanded by buying a specialist metal fabrication and engineering company. |
38,076,160 | Ben Millar, 22, said he was waiting on a man called Jeffery on Saturday when they began discussing Ireland.
Jeffery said he often visited Ireland and Mr Millar said he wished he could see his family more often.
A note on the dinner receipt read: "Hopefully, this can get you back to Ireland for the holidays."
Mr Millar had served Jeffery and his family for the rest of the evening after their conversation and only discovered the tip after they left.
Mr Millar told ABC News he was shocked by the gesture and that he had never been tipped so well.
His girlfriend, Taryn Kieth, is pregnant and he plans to save the money until his son Killian is born, and then introduce his new family to his Irish relatives in Belfast.
"I also hope I can reach out to Jeffrey so he knows how much I appreciate it," Mr Millar said.
"It means a lot to me, but more to my family back home who will benefit from seeing me again since almost two years."
He said would "love it if Jeffrey could come over when I go back, so I can show him the true Northern Ireland, not just the tourist aspect". | A waiter in Texas was given a $750 (£605) tip by a diner after mentioning he had not seen his family in Northern Ireland for more than two years. |
35,066,928 | She will be one of 16 celebrities taking part in a four-part series aiming to raise money for Sport Relief.
Other stars in the line-up include singers Kimberly Walsh and Will Young, actors Ade Edmondson and Alison Steadman, and former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls.
Judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood will return to critique the bakes.
Former Spice Girl Geri Horner will also be in the kitchen, along with Louise Redknapp, Victoria Coren-Mitchell and Jason Manford.
Representing the sporting worlds, former footballers David James, Chris Kamara and Jermaine Jenas will be taking part.
EastEnders actress Maddy Hill, The Morgana Show's Morgana Robinson and veteran BBC News reporter John Simpson complete the cast list.
Every episode will be presented by a different host, with Edmondson's wife Jennifer Saunders, comics Ed Byrne and Sarah Millican, and Bake Off's regular host Mel Giedroyc each fronting an edition.
The series will air early next year, ahead of Sport Relief in March. | Prime Minister David Cameron's wife Samantha is to take part in a Great British Bake Off charity special. |
40,293,045 | The 41-year-old was shot and stabbed in Birstall, in her Yorkshire constituency of Batley and Spen, on 16 June 2016.
To mark the first anniversary of her death her family and friends have urged people to hold events that celebrate her life.
The Great Get Together, involving picnics, street parties and concerts, runs across the weekend.
Organised by the Jo Cox Foundation, it aims to reinforce the message in Mrs Cox's maiden speech in the House of Commons that "we have more in common than that which divides us".
Mrs Cox's sister, Kim Leadbeater, said the events were "nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with religion".
"Nothing to do with anything other than getting together with people in your communities," she added.
"People are desperate for it - people want something that is about coming together and being positive."
The Labour MP's former constituency is the focus of a number of events.
Schoolchildren across the area participated in special assemblies and Upper Batley High School renamed its conference centre in honour of Mrs Cox.
The new centre was opened by Mrs Cox's parents Gordon and Jean Leadbeater. Mrs Leadbeater said she was delighted to take part in the ceremony.
"There was nothing Jo liked better than getting into the schools," said Mrs Leadbeater.
"She knew that this is where it all started, the grassroots. Start with the children and work up."
Mr Leadbeater added that, although the anniversary was difficult, "what keeps us going is the strength we are getting from people and we can feel the love".
People gathered for "a moment of reflection" close to the site of Ms Cox's murder in Birstall market place.
Children wrote messages on a memorial wall erected in the square.
More than 500 children sang in a choir on the village green in Heckmondwike.
Nationally more than 100,000 events have been planned between Friday and Sunday, the foundation said.
Mrs Cox's widower Brendan said he was "awed" by the numbers of people who planned to take part. | Communities have come together to celebrate the life of the murdered MP Jo Cox. |
39,045,312 | Styles, 16, made history in May 2016 when he became the first player born in the 21st century to feature in a Football League fixture.
"He is an unbelievable talent and a very special player," new Bury manager Lee Clark told the club website.
"I saw him when he came on to the pitch at Chesterfield [on Saturday], and wow - he was awesome."
Styles arrived at Gigg Lane in March 2016 after being released by Burnley and made his debut from the bench in a 3-2 victory over Southend in the final game of last season.
His new deal will run until the summer of 2019.
Youth team boss Ryan Kidd said: "We beat off several Championship clubs for his signature, and it wasn't long before we knew we had someone special in the building.
"Callum has progressed his all round game this season to new heights and his work rate is now matching his undoubted talent." | Bury striker Callum Styles has signed his first professional contract with the Shakers. |
35,330,856 | Coventry's Jim O'Brien had an effort tipped onto the bar before Jack Payne's low effort put the hosts ahead.
Barnett ran onto a Stephen Hendrie through ball to slot home a second.
Gary Deegan was then dismissed for a second yellow on 51 minutes, but Barnett ensured victory from the penalty spot, after City keeper Reice Charles-Cook had fouled Will Atkinson.
Coventry slip to fifth, six points off top spot in League One, after three games without a win, while Phil Brown's Southend climb to ninth, within two points of a play-off place.
Sky Blues boss Tony Mowbray told BBC Coventry & Warwickshire:
"Obviously we're disappointed. We struggled from the start really.
"We haven't got any excuses. We were beaten by a team who were very resilient. They dug in and didn't give us a minute on the ball.
"We came here with a very experienced team. They defended resiliently, put a lot of men behind the ball and made life difficult for us." | Tyrone Barnett scored twice as Southend comfortably beat Coventry City, despite playing almost 40 minutes with 10 men. |
36,963,121 | The now redundant tank, buried on the north side of the cathedral is to be removed in a community dig in 2017.
Now pictures have surfaced of its construction and use by firefighters during the war.
The work is part of a £16m project to renovate the cathedral and its grounds.
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Susan Taylor has found the photographs, some showing her grandfather Frank Brown who was a member of Lincoln Fire Brigade during the war.
The photos show the brigade helping to build the tank and "capture a team working together to help protect our precious cathedral", she said.
A new visitor centre with exhibition space to display some of the cathedral's treasures is planned where the water tank sits.
Cathedral architect and surveyor Nicholas Rank said the dig would reveal historical information from World War Two and from buildings on the site before the water tank was installed.
It would be a chance to see "first-hand the work done to protect the cathedral from threatening air strikes".
Landscaping of Dean's Green is to create a new outdoor space and the West Front is also to be restored under the plans.
The first cathedral on the site built by Bishop Remigius was consecrated in 1092 and building continued throughout the medieval period. | A large, underground tank built in World War Two to provide water should Lincoln Cathedral be hit by an air raid is to be excavated. |
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