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18,171,442 | Michelin said the £20m investment in two production lines would also "provide improved working conditions".
The plant on Campbell Road, which has 1,000 workers, opened in 1927 and is the UK headquarters for the French company.
The funding has been supported by the government under the Grant for Business Investment.
Michelin's new Remix truck tyre retreading operation at the site was visited by Business Minister Mark Prisk.
He said: "This investment is helping to protect over 400 skilled jobs." | The first tyres have rolled off a new production line at Stoke-on-Trent's Michelin factory. |
39,753,839 | A statement by the League One club said the 25-year-old Belfastman had been suspended "with immediate effect".
"The club will make no further comment on the matter at this stage," added the Gillingham statement.
The Gills need a victory away to Northampton on Sunday to guarantee their League One status.
Donnelly, who is out of contract this summer, has scored 12 goals in 66 appearances since joining Gillingham from Swansea in the summer of 2015.
The Northern Ireland man scored in last weekend's 3-2 home defeat by Fleetwood Town. | Former Cliftonville striker Rory Donnelly has been suspended by Gillingham two days before the club's most crucial game of the season. |
33,064,190 | Family friends told the BBC that a Shanghai court had reduced Mr Humphrey's sentence.
His case was connected to the GlaxoSmithKline corruption scandal.
He was released on health grounds and has been moved to a Shanghai hospital for tests relating to cancer.
He will be deported on release from hospital.
Friends of the family said the British consulate in Shanghai is processing an emergency passport. His departure may be as soon as Wednesday.
Mr Humphrey's son, Harvey, said in a statement:
"I am stunned and delighted. I hope to see both my parents as soon as possible. My father may need treatment for his health, but he will soon be able to speak for himself."
Mr Humphrey's American wife and fellow investigator, Yu Yingzeng, remains in prison.
She too was detained in 2013 and sentenced in August last year to two years in prison. She is due to be released on 11 July.
The couple were detained after helping GSK investigate a secretly filmed sex tape of its then top manager in China.
GSK was fined £300m by the Chinese authorities for bribes to hospitals and officials in an attempt to boost sales.
The couple were found guilty of illegally obtaining Chinese citizens' data and selling it to firms including GSK China.
They both admitted buying background information, but said they did not realise this was illegal. | British company investigator Peter Humphrey, jailed in China last August for two-and-a-half years for trafficking personal data, has been released early from prison. |
37,116,148 | This week ex-Hearts skippers Michael Stewart and Gary Mackay said the team looked like one put together by the director of football, Craig Levein.
"It's my team," Neilson asserted.
"I pick the tactics, I pick the team selection, the recruitment is down to me as well, so ultimately if the team is not performing it comes back to me."
On BBC Scotland's Sportscene programme on Sunday, Stewart, referring to the Jambos' tally of 16 yellow cards in a week, said: "The problem is that Hearts' style of football is becoming a bit industrial.
"Robbie took over and it was very attractive football; now it's starting to morph, for me, into a style that's more akin with the director of football."
Neilson, however, spoke positively about his "fantastic" working relationship with Levein and said the infrastructure at Tynecastle is all geared towards leading the club to success.
"Craig's role is to be a soundboard for me," he continued.
"I will go and ask him what his thoughts are on things but ultimately it's down to me to make a decision.
"It's the way football is going at the moment.
"It's a huge club and it's part of football that we have to move with the times. Other people in Scotland might wonder what goes on but if you look down in England and Europe they have been doing this for 20 or 30 years." | Hearts head coach Robbie Neilson has dismissed claims by two former club captains that he is not in charge of all first-team activity. |
34,904,221 | Public Services Minister Leighton Andrews confirmed plans to cut the 22 councils to eight or nine.
The shake-up could result in the loss of up to 1,900 jobs as administration services are slimmed down.
But Bob Bright, the Labour leader of Newport council, complained the plans were advancing without "meaningful discussion".
The Draft Local Government (Wales) Bill, published on Tuesday, forms the basis of consultation but will not become law until after the assembly election next May.
The proposals to bring back bigger county councils are broadly similar to pre-1996 arrangements.
The up-front costs of the merger would be between £97m and £246m, but the Welsh government said it expected that will have paid for itself within two to three years.
The number of councillors would fall from 1,250 to between 700 and 900, although the final decision would be taken by the independent Boundary Commission.
And there would be fewer administrative jobs in local government, with the current number of around 9,000 expected to fall by about 1,400 and 1,900.
Decisions on whether those staff are made redundant, offered early retirement or given new jobs would be taken by the new councils.
Reducing the number of administrative posts would cost up to £40m, with redundancies and early retirement for senior managers costing an additional £6.6m to £12.4m.
Mr Andrews said: "Our vision for local government is for activist councils, engaged in delivering modern, accessible, high quality public services with their local communities."
He added: "There is a real opportunity here for local government to make significant savings for taxpayers and if councils work together, plan well and involve their staff there is the opportunity for savings even greater than the £650m we have identified.
"This means more money for front line public services, more money to invest in communities and more money to support local economic prosperity."
Mr Andrews has previously called the case for fewer local authorities "compelling", but the plans have been criticised by the body representing local authorities, some Labour council leaders and an ex-Labour minister.
Dyfed would be brought back by re-merging Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion, and West Glamorgan would return by joining Swansea once more with Neath Port Talbot.
Cardiff would merge with the Vale of Glamorgan, while a merger between Caerphilly, Torfaen, Blaenau Gwent, Newport and Monmouthshire would create Wales' biggest council, with a population of nearly 600,000.
Bridgend would join Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr Tydfil.
In the eight-council model, Anglesey, Gwynedd and Conwy would merge, as would Denbighshire, Wrexham and Flintshire.
The alternative would see Conwy and Denbighshire merging.
Newport council leader Bob Bright told BBC Wales the lack of "meaningful discussion" with local authorities about the plans "horrifies me".
"We are heading towards this re-organisation in a lemming-like way without any research of the costs and whether it will deliver what the people of Wales deserve and expect," he said.
"If Newport is subsumed into a huge conglomeration, I believe the people of Newport will be short-changed.
"We are in a position of providing regeneration, jobs and economic growth which will radiate out from the city into the valleys and all this will be stunted if we become subsumed into this bigger local government."
Conservative Shadow Local Government Minister Janet Finch-Saunders responded: "We heard similar rhetoric ahead of Labour's last NHS reorganisation, which led to huge deficits and unprecedented pressure on frontline staff.
"Communities will rightly question whether these figures can be trusted and it's local people who continue to be ignored by Labour."
Liberal Democrat AM Peter Black said Mr Andrews was "trying to stitch this process up to benefit Labour", and called for the Boundary Commission to be given the job of making a "fresh map".
Plaid Cymru's Simon Thomas said Labour's "hotch-potch of different educational consortia, health boards and other bodies" with different boundaries proved it was "not capable of planning strategically for a number of different services".
UKIP Vale of Glamorgan councillor Kevin Mahoney said: "While we are all for a reduction in bureaucracy and fewer politicians, this is an arbitrary figure plucked from thin air by failed minister Leighton Andrews, with absolutely no rationale behind the proposed mergers."
Consultation on Welsh ministers' plans is open until 15 February, with a bill due to be presented to the assembly in the autumn if Labour is still in power after the election.
The 500 pages that make up this draft bill will form part of what Labour hope will be an oven-ready plan to dramatically change councils if political agreement can be reached after the election.
And therein lies the problem. The opposition will describe this as the cart before the horse, particularly as agreement has been so difficult to achieve so far.
Nevertheless, there are details here which will be at the centre of a major election debate.
Under these plans, a new administration will have around six months to formally start the process by introducing the legislation in order to hit the timeline of eight or nine new councils being fully operational by April 2020.
The figures that stand out are annual projected savings of £60 to £90m a year; a reduction in "backroom posts" of between 1,400 and 1,900; and a cut in the number of the existing 1,200 councillors - on a basic salary of £13,000 a year - to between 700 and 900.
Officials say the current 22 councils have senior management teams of between eight and 15. They say the senior management teams of the new eight or nine bodies will be the same size.
These will now be pored over in the coming months. | Cutting the number of councils could save up to £650m over 10 years, the Welsh government has claimed. |
38,053,042 | But First Minister Carwyn Jones has not yet confirmed whether he will support the bill - which overhauls devolution.
The Wales Bill promises a simpler constitutional set up, but its detractors say it may reduce the assembly's powers.
The UK government is to hold back the bill's process through Parliament until the vote is considered.
Ministers in London have already made some concessions over the Wales Bill during its passage in the House of Lords.
As well as agreeing to devolving teacher's pay, the government has also agreed to consider giving Wales the power to ban fixed-odds betting terminals.
Mr Jones told AMs, in a document laid in the assembly, that he could not yet confirm whether the Welsh Government will support giving consent to the bill through the vote - known as a legislative consent motion (LCM).
He said he wanted to see the UK government's proposals for report stage - the next stage of the bill's journey through the House of Lords - and the terms of a financial deal between the UK and Welsh governments before he confirmed the Welsh Government's intent.
The Welsh and UK governments are currently negotiating on how Wales' funding would change once AMs begin to use tax raising powers.
It is convention that AMs approve of legislation that affects devolved functions in the assembly through LCMs.
The Wales Office declined to comment, though it said Lord Bourne had told peers that the UK government will not proceed to the third reading stage of the lawmaking process in the Lords - which follows report stage - until the LCM had been considered by the assembly. | AMs will vote on whether to approve the Wales Bill sometime in January, according to the Welsh Government. |
18,970,869 | "According to the GPS [Global Positioning System], we're about 400m [1,300ft] out into the Thames. Here we're on the newest part of England," says the director of civil engineering at the London Gateway project, Andrew Bowen, as he parks on a recently deposited mound of sand and points to a ship surrounded by pipes in the middle of the Thames.
"The dredger is just offshore and is pumping material to create the new land," he says.
The dredger is like a floating vacuum cleaner, sucking up sand and silt from the river bed to deepen the river channel ready for large ships. It then deposits the material on the building site to create land on which the deep-sea port can be built.
London Gateway is being built by the Dubai-owned company DP World at a cost of £1.5bn ($2.35bn), on the site of a former oil refinery in Essex.
The first ships should start arriving by the end of next year and when it is completely finished it will be able to unload six of the biggest container ships in the world at the same time.
Most of the port's customers will be bringing imported goods from China and the Far East to retailers in the UK.
London Gateway chief executive Simon Moore says: "We're just 20 miles away from Europe's largest economic zone, so this is the closest that we can really get to London."
He says the London Gateway plan is reminiscent of hundreds of years ago when London had a flourishing port nearer the city.
"We're bringing London and the UK's hub port back home again to the River Thames."
But Neil Davidson, a ports expert with the consultancy company Drewry, who has worked for London Gateway, is cautious about the new London port, which gained planning permission before the global financial crisis hit.
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"The timing isn't ideal because London Gateway is coming on stream just when the economy is flat. And this is one of the problems," he says.
"The public inquiry for London Gateway was 10 years ago. Well, 10 years ago the outlook for the UK container port industry was very, very different."
But London Gateway is more than just a port. The developers are also building what they claim will be Europe's biggest logistics park - a huge area set aside for warehouses to handle the imported cargo.
At the moment, whatever their ultimate destination, most of the goods imported into the UK are taken by road, and some by rail, to big distribution centres in the Midlands, the traditional logistics hub for the country.
However, at present some goods are being driven north from southern ports to Midlands distribution points, only to be sent down south again.
London Gateway is hoping some companies will want to move their distribution centres to the park at the new port and in doing so, change the logistics map of Britain.
However, whatever gains London Gateway makes, other areas of the UK could lose out - notably the Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk, 75 miles away, which has dominated British container trade for the past 30 years.
Clemence Cheng, managing director of the Central Europe division at Hong Kong-based Hutchison Port Holdings, which owns Felixstowe, says it welcomes competition but Felixstowe will still be the bigger port, even when London Gateway is fully finished.
Felixstowe also recently opened a deep-sea terminal to take the largest vessels.
Mr Cheng rejects the argument companies will be attracted to London Gateway by its closer proximity to the South East and London.
"Now when you look at it, will a manufacturer want to take their truck load of cargo on the M25 motorway, [or] through a very congested railway to go back into London?
"We're the port for Britain. We're not only for London - London is 70 miles away from Felixstowe - but we're servicing the entire country."
The ports get their business from the giant shipping lines that use them, but London Gateway has not yet signed up any shipping companies as clients.
The Danish-owned Maersk is the biggest container ship operator in the world, but it is currently committed to Felixstowe.
Maersk's UK and Ireland operations manager, Mark Cornwell, says London Gateway will be "an outstanding facility", but Maersk remains committed to Felixstowe.
The world economic outlook is uncertain for everyone at the moment and the
shipping industry is facing a tough year
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However, some British ports, such as the Port of Tyne in the north-east of England, have produced record profits in recent years and ports expert Neil Davidson is confident the prospects for ports are better than for their shipping-sector customers.
"Container shipping is a much more homogenous industry, whereas ports are much more unique in what they can offer, and the profitability reflects that."
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. | A vast deep-sea container port is being built 20 miles down the River Thames from London, in Thurrock, Essex - but how will it fare when it opens next year? |
37,112,706 | The Algeria international, 25, had been strongly linked with a move to Arsenal this summer.
He scored 17 goals and added 11 assists last season and was voted the Professional Footballers' Association Players' Player of the Year.
Mahrez joins team-mates Wes Morgan, Jamie Vardy, Kasper Schmeichel and Andy King in signing new contracts.
Manager Claudio Ranieri has also signed a new four-year deal and, after losing midfielder N'Golo Kante to Chelsea, has repeatedly reiterated his desire to keep hold of the club's top players.
Mahrez joined the Foxes from French second-tier side Le Havre in January 2014.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Leicester City winger Riyad Mahrez has signed a new four-year contract with the Premier League champions. |
34,467,291 | The eighth British Art Show features 42 artists who organisers say have made a "significant contribution to art in this country over the past five years".
The exhibition opened at Leeds Art Gallery on Friday.
It will then tour to Edinburgh, Norwich and Southampton.
The chosen artists range from painters and ceramics to those who appropriate everyday objects and others who work with video and even opera.
Anthea Hamilton's free-standing ant farms are supposed to bring normally static sculptures to life, while Jessica Warboys' Sea Painting was made by letting waves wash over paint.
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin have used the data from DNA samples taken from Sigmund Freud's couch to design a series of tapestries.
Laure Prouvost, the 2013 Turner Prize winner, has made a fan, a bouquet of flowers and a hard drive that talk to visitors and each other about the point of their existence, while Lawrence Abu Hamdan has converted objects like boxes of tissues and crisp packets into listening devices.
Another artist, Cally Spooner, has turned YouTube comments into the lyrics of librettos that will be shown on screens and performed in the gallery by a soprano every day.
Curator Lydia Yee said: "One of the things we noticed is that, due to the fact that digital technology is so accessible these days, artists are either embracing it and it's become incorporated in their practice, or they are in some ways reacting against the pervasiveness of it.
"Some artists are returning to working with their hands or using very tactile materials and focusing on objects."
Artist Stuart Whipps has used a Mini that was manufactured in 1979 - the year of his birth, the year Margaret Thatcher became prime minister and the year of the highest level of industrial action since World War Two.
He has taken it apart with the help of former workers from the Longbridge car plant in Birmingham, which closed in 2005. Different parts will be shown in different venues - with the shell in Leeds and the stripped-down engine going to Edinburgh.
It will then be reassembled for the final stop in Southampton with the help of ex-Longbridge workers including 80-year-old Keith Woodfield, who worked at the factory for 30 years.
"I was interested in getting this object, this car, that came out of that tumultuous period as a way to think about that time and its legacy, which we're still living through now," Whipps said.
"Keith said to me, 'How is this art? You're just fixing up a car.' But I don't want to do anything artful to it. The process is the work." | A 1979 Mini and Perspex sculptures containing real ant farms are among the works in an exhibition that is held every five years to show the best in British contemporary art. |
35,188,910 | The diocese has been vacant since April 2014 when Bishop Joseph Toal became Bishop of Motherwell.
Mgr McGee is currently Vicar General of the Diocese of Paisley and parish priest of Holy Family in Port Glasgow.
Reacting to his appointment, confirmed by Pope Francis, he said it was "humbling and frightening", but also "exciting".
He will be ordained at St. Columba's Cathedral in Oban on a date to be confirmed.
He said: "It was very humbling, and indeed frightening, to be informed by the Papal Nuncio that Pope Francis had nominated me to be the new bishop of the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles.
"However, after reflection and prayer I now face this mission with quiet but definite confidence.
"Yes, I remain aware of my limitations but I am even more aware of the power of God's grace which, with our co-operation, overcomes our shortcomings. Experience has taught me that positively answering God's invitations is always to our own advantage."
He said he would be sad to leave the Diocese of Paisley but was "excited" about going to Argyll and the Isles.
"It has an ancient and proud heritage whose roots stretch back almost one and a half thousand years preceding even its spiritual father, Saint Columba," he said.
"I am also mindful of the diocese's rich Gaelic character and I, although not yet a Gaelic speaker, will endeavour to promote its rightful use in the worship of God."
Mgr McGee was born in Greenock in 1965 and educated at St Joseph's Primary School, Greenock, Holy Cross Primary School, Greenock, St Vincent's College, Langbank, St Mary's College, Blairs, and St Patrick's College in Thurles, Ireland.
He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Paisley in 1989.
Administrator of the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles, Monsignor James MacNeil, said: "We welcome him with joy and he can be sure of the support, cooperation, affection and prayers of the community of the diocese as he begins his ministry of leadership and service." | Monsignor Brian McGee has been appointed as the new Bishop of Argyll and the Isles. |
32,586,946 | It shows that, at last, Nepal is returning to a semblance of normality, but it also represents a legacy of terrible danger.
The wrecked houses are the most obvious evidence of the terrible destruction the earthquake wreaked here in Nepal, but the damage to property is far more extensive.
Despite what you see in the news, much of Nepal appears untouched by the earthquake.
But look closer and there are signs that all is not well.
Driving through Kathmandu you notice that, like drunks, many buildings list very slightly to one side. Other have slumped against their neighbours.
Some structures stand erect, but with ugly cracks. The damage to other buildings is invisible.
Yet it is impossible not to sympathise with people who want to go back to their homes. The makeshift camps in which many Nepalese people have been living are dirty, unhygienic places.
It is estimated that nearly 150,000 people were living in tents and under tarpaulins in Tundikhel Park in the centre of Kathmandu last week.
By this weekend there were fewer than 10,000.
"I'm still scared, and our house still has cracks all over it," Tara Magar told the New York Times a couple of days ago, "but we don't want to stay here any longer."
She said she was going home because she just couldn't stand the smell of the park toilets any more.
Fair enough. I know how quickly you can shrug off the risk from earthquakes.
We turned up at our hotel in Kathmandu in the middle of Sunday night, the day after the earthquake struck.
I'd had my own earthquake experience that day. We were filming when the biggest of the aftershocks struck. At 6.9 magnitude it was a major earthquake in its own right.
As the receptionist processed our papers I glanced around the lobby.
I didn't spot the cracks at first, but as soon as I'd seen one I realised the whole place was traced with a spider web of little fissures and fault-lines.
That night I slept at the BBC office in Kathmandu, a building I knew had been checked for earthquake safety.
But by the following night I was exhausted and collapsed gratefully into my hotel bed.
(The hotel assures me, by the way, that it has subsequently got the all-clear from a structural engineer.)
I've met Nepalese people who have lost everything: family, friends, homes and possessions.
These people are unquestionably the priority for aid and assistance.
But the wider structural damage the earthquake and its aftershocks caused cannot be ignored.
As I have written many Nepalese people believe they were lucky, the earthquake could have done much more damage.
But the earthquake danger is not over for Nepal.
The first results from the EU's Sentinel 1 satellite show that last Saturday's earthquake in Nepal did not rupture the surface, reports the excellent Kate Ravillious.
That suggests, say seismologists, that significant strain may still be stored on that segment of the fault: another large earthquake could hit in the coming decades.
Billions will need to be spent to ensure that the damage done by this earthquake doesn't end up massively magnifying the effects of the next one. | The tent cities that used to be in every park and open space in Kathmandu are gradually vanishing as people return to their homes. |
35,503,422 | Paul Milburn, 43, from Surrey, died after being shot in his car in Noke Lane, St Albans, in Hertfordshire on 26 April 1993.
Last June, police appealed for information about the whereabouts of Justin Clarke, 59, who they believed could help with their enquiries.
Mr Clarke was arrested in Berlin on Thursday.
The Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit said he was arrested under a European Arrest Warrant and the extradition process had begun.
An 81-year-old woman from Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, was also arrested on Thursday on suspicion of assisting an offender. She has been released on bail. | A man wanted in connection with a fatal shooting more than 20 years ago has been arrested in Germany, police said. |
38,984,536 | Ex-soldier Dylan Jones, 37, from Llansawel, who had post-traumatic stress disorder, was awaiting treatment when he died, according to his sister.
Amanda Jones believes his life may have been saved had he been treated sooner.
A total of 274 men took their own lives in 2015, an increase of 27% compared with 2014, according to ONS figures published in December.
The Welsh Government said, while it could not comment on individual cases, mental health treatment, support and prevention services were among its "priorities".
Speaking on BBC Radio Cymru's current affairs programme, Manylu, Ms Jones, said her brother had been told in March 2015 he had to wait five months to be treated for PTSD.
But four months later the father to twins took his own life.
"He suffered with terrible nightmares and insomnia and it affected his everyday life very much," she said.
"Dylan did seek help in March 2015 and he was told there was a five months waiting list.
"If he had been seen sooner, would he still be with us here today? I think, yes.
"I think it's important that men in general know that it's important to be able to talk to someone who can help you about mental health issues."
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "Our suicide and self-harm strategy for Wales, Talk to Me 2, focuses on groups of people known to be most vulnerable to suicide.
"For veterans, we continue to make £585,000 available each year to fund the Veterans' NHS Wales Service, providing therapeutic interventions from dedicated veteran therapists in each local health board."
The spokesman said since its inception in 2010, the service has seen over 1,800 veterans, according to figures up to December 2016.
"The expectation for this service is the same as with other mental health services - individual patients, whatever their background, are seen according to clinical need." | A family from Carmarthenshire has called for easier and quicker access to mental health treatment for men. |
36,191,046 | "In the past we worked with a couple of bus and courier companies in East Africa, and we saw that most of them had issues with last-mile logistics," remembers Meshack Alloys, chief executive of Sendy, a Kenya-based logistics website and mobile phone app.
"I actually grew up in a village here in Kenya… I have seen the road network being a problem - as I grew up, I saw how products would basically reach the end person at a cost that was high," says 29-year-old Mr Alloys in his office in Kenya's capital Nairobi, notorious for its severe traffic jams.
In response, Mr Alloys and two friends, who had worked together for a bus company, developed a 24/7 on-demand platform that connects individuals or companies looking to dispatch packages, with motorbike riders offering delivery services.
"There are traditional courier companies that might do overnight or same-day delivery, but they don't do immediate, and they might not go residential," explains Malaika Judd, the 30-year-old US chief operating officer of Sendy, who left a Nairobi-based investment fund to join the start-up.
Sendy initially worked with motorbike riders - known popularly in Kenya as boda bodas - but has expanded to include pick-up trucks, large vans and cyclists.
"These are all crowd-sourced riders," adds Ms Judd. "We don't physically own any of the vehicles or the bicycles, and all the riders, cyclists and drivers work for themselves on the platform."
The platform operates in a way that would be familiar to any user of Uber - a user enters the required delivery route, and is given a price quote. Once the pick-up is requested, users can track the rider, and then follow a package to its point of delivery.
Payment is made through a pre-registered credit card, or using the popular M-Pesa mobile money transfer platform.
Sendy started by using very simple technology that worked with basic phones, using SMS and USSD technology and GPS trackers on bikes. But as the price of smartphones has come down, the company is rolling out a hybrid app that also works on riders' smartphones.
"We wanted to solve this problem using existing assets and people… we didn't want them to buy fancy gadgets, expensive gadgets to do that," says Mr Alloys.
"We looked at how do we make these people utilise their assets to the maximum and bring down the cost."
Since it launched its first product in April 2014, Sendy has completed more than 20,000 deliveries - averaging between 150 and 200 per day - and has around 60 active riders on the platform, all of whom are vetted.
For Sendy rider Geoffrey Oloo, reliability of work is a key attraction of the platform. Riders take away 80% of each delivery fee, which starts at a base amount of KES240 ($2.40; £1.60) for the first 7km.
"You are sure in a day that you will get work because there are so many customers in the Sendy system," he says. "When I am with Sendy I am sure at the end of the day that I will having something in my pocket, something I can take home."
Some 75% of daily deliveries are done for corporate business accounts and the rest for individuals.
Sendy works with businesses including e-commerce firms dispatching purchased goods around the bustling Kenyan capital, food companies offering home delivery, and pharmacies moving medicine to patients.
The company is hoping to launch an investment round within the next six months, having successfully attracted funding from corporate and tech investment funds, as well as local angels, in an earlier investment last year.
The team is eager to expand to new cities - both within Kenya and beyond - using hoped-for funding in the next investment round.
Having watched Sendy's emergence, tech blogger Moses Kemibaro sees scalability as the company's next hurdle.
"I think their big challenge is really scaling it to get as many people as possible onto the service before some big international player checks into the market, which potentially could compromise the opportunity to grow," says Mr Kemibaro.
"Already in Kenya, we have seen other on-demand service providers like EasyTaxi and Uber doing well," he adds.
"Increasingly, you will see such providers moving into markets like Mombasa and Nakuru. I think Sendy do have the same potential, but the question at the end of the day is really whether they have the resources to expand."
The Sendy team also hope that the service will help to offer solutions to some basic infrastructural problems that are common in the East African region.
"Traffic is a huge issue, infrastructure of roads is an issue, quality of data on a map is an issue, addressing is an issue, actually having a house number is an issue, street names is an issue," explains Ms Judd.
"While we are providing these on demand services, we are also improving a lot of the base infrastructure… for example we can collect data on all these addresses, we can save these addresses and I can understand now residential locations.
"We can capitalise on the fact that we can beat the traffic by using individuals on two wheels, cyclists or riders. So all of these challenges are also really cool opportunities for Sendy to beat the alternative solutions out there." | Meshack Alloys knows the challenges of delivering goods in Kenya only too well. |
36,853,247 | Emma Baum, who sustained head injuries, was found at the property on Llwyndu Road, Penygroes, on Monday
David Nicholas Davies, 25, from Trefor, Caernarfon, will appear before Caernarfon magistrates on Friday.
A woman has been released on bail after being held on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.
Det Supt Iestyn Davies said :"Despite an individual being charged with murder, increased police presence in the village will continue to provide reassurance and a point of contact for anyone to provide further information.
"Detectives from the investigation team will also continue to conduct inquires locally.
"I'd reiterate my appeal that should anyone have any information that will help us fully understand the sequence of events that led to the discovery of Emma's body then I'd ask they contact us." | A man has been charged with the murder of a 22-year-old woman whose body was found at a house in Gwynedd. |
40,624,785 | Konta, 26, is the fourth British woman to break into the top five, following her run to the Wimbledon semi-finals.
She matches the achievement of Virginia Wade, Sue Barker and Jo Durie, the last British woman in the top five in 1984.
Murray, 30, lost in the Wimbledon quarter-finals but retains top spot ahead of Rafael Nadal.
The Spaniard could overtake Murray at the pair's next tournament, the men's Rogers Cup in Montreal, which begins on 7 August.
However, the Scot's Wimbledon campaign was hampered by a hip injury and he has yet to confirm whether the recovery process will alter his plans for the rest of 2017.
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Konta further established her credentials as a Grand Slam title contender by reaching her second major semi-final at Wimbledon, and she now heads to the United States and her best surface - hard courts.
The British number one is next due on court at the women's Rogers Cup, which starts in Toronto on 7 August, having chosen not to defend her title at the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford, California.
Konta beat Venus Williams to win her first WTA title in Stanford last year, and could suffer a dip in her ranking as a result.
The world rankings work on a 52-week rolling system, which means success in one year can mean pressure 12 months later as those points are defended.
Konta enjoyed a strong second half to 2016, narrowly missing out on a place at the WTA Finals for the top eight players, and that will be a major goal in the months to come.
Another tilt at a Grand Slam title will begin on 28 August at the US Open, where Konta has reached the fourth round for the past two years.
Konta will pick up her racquet and get back on the practice court having finished Wimbledon at the top of the aces charts and fourth for first-serve returns.
But, while the foundations of her game are strong, Williams exposed some areas for improvement in their semi-final.
"Jo's got a great game," said former British number one Sam Smith.
"She's an excellent athlete and mentally she's a top, top player. If I know anything about Jo, she is going to learn so much from that match against Venus, and apply it."
Konta failed to break into the top 100 in the early years of her career, with a fragile mentality and unreliable forehand two of the major factors.
Her work with both mental and tennis coaches in recent years has proved remarkably effective, and she held up under huge pressure as her Wimbledon run garnered nationwide attention.
Konta's forehand stood up well during tense three-set wins over Donna Vekic, Caroline Garcia and Simona Halep, before Williams broke it down and drew 16 errors in the semi-final.
It was notable both Williams and Garbine Muguruza also struggled with their forehands at key moments in the final, but the Spaniard managed to cut the errors from six in the first set to one in the second.
Williams also dismantled the Konta second serve, making her intentions clear from the opening moments when she stood inside the baseline and dispatched a second-serve return, while the Briton missed service returns at key times in both her semi and quarter-finals.
"Jo didn't use the body serve enough and she can improve her second serve," said Martina Navratilova, a nine-time Wimbledon singles champion.
"She can use her hand more and make that ball jump. She's tall enough and got a nice motion that I think she doesn't take full advantage of.
"But that forehand has got to be more steady, although she's improved it, and the transition game, moving to the net.
"Also the backhand slice, she doesn't use it at all. Her backhand is fantastic but the slice would give it more variety and put the opponent off balance."
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Murray's future is far less certain as we await an update on his injured hip and the rehabilitation plan.
The Briton limped his way through four rounds at Wimbledon before it became "a little bit too sore", and Sam Querrey proved too strong, in their quarter-final.
"Murray and his team have obviously been trying to manage something," said former world number one John McEnroe.
"We don't know exactly what it is, how serious it is, and how much time he'll take off remains to be seen.
"He clearly wasn't moving well, he couldn't push off and lost a lot of speed on his serve."
A team meeting was planned for last Thursday, and a plan of action is expected after consultation with doctors.
Asked whether he would have attempted to play had it been anywhere but Wimbledon, Murray said: "I was in good enough shape to go very deep in the tournament and almost managed to get through to the semi-finals.
"Any Slam, I would have taken that with how I was feeling before the tournament started. I would have been out there for a Slam."
Murray refused to be drawn on the specific nature of the injury beyond confirming he has dealt with it since his early 20s, and "wear and tear" made it an ongoing issue.
The recovery plan could mean anything from a few weeks' rest and physiotherapy, to a much longer lay-off or even surgery.
"I'd say the US Open would be 50/50 at a guess," Giles Stafford, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon specialising in sports-related hip disorders, told the Press Association.
Murray, then aged 26, ended his 2013 season in September to have back surgery and returned at the start of 2014, but spent the year climbing back up the rankings as he rebuilt his form and confidence.
He is next scheduled to play in Montreal in three weeks' time, followed by the Cincinnati Masters the following week and, after a week off, the US Open.
Murray could lose his number one status to Nadal should he skip Montreal but, after eight months in top spot, the ranking is not his priority.
"I haven't played well enough this year to deserve to stay there for much longer," he said.
"If it doesn't happen by the end of Wimbledon, it will happen by the end of the US Open."
If and when he does return this year, Murray will head into the latter stages of the season with a 25-10 record, as opposed to 41-6 after Wimbledon last year. | Britain's Johanna Konta has risen to a career-high fourth in the women's rankings after Wimbledon, while Andy Murray remains men's world number one. |
30,854,434 | The Marches Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), which secured the funding, said the agreement would also release £20m in private investment.
The money is expected to help create thousands of jobs across the counties.
It will also see funding for transport and road projects, which are expected to encourage more house building.
Graham Wynn, Chairman of the LEP, said investment in transport schemes would help "unlock development sites" and "drive economic growth in the region".
Initially, £12.8m is expected to be invested in Hereford and Telford over the 2015-16 financial year.
Kuldip Sahota, leader of the Labour-controlled Telford and Wrekin council, said it was a "good deal" for the town.
Other schemes over the next five years include transport projects in Shrewsbury and plans to improve skills across the Marches area, as well as access to broadband. | Some £75m is to be invested in Shropshire and Herefordshire over the next five years under a government deal. |
12,335,820 | Coilcolor has bought Falcon Steel which was based at the old Alcoa site.
Thirty five people lost their jobs when the company failed but 16 have been re-employed and Coilcolor hopes to take on more in the next few months.
Coilcolor, which makes coated steel, said due to the expansion it aimed to grow its workforce across both cities to around 90 by mid 2012.
Managing director Dean Proctor said the deal safeguard the future of the Swansea plant and Coilcolor would begin manufacture at the Westfield Industrial Park site immediately.
Mr Proctor added: "This deal gives Coilcolor a massive potential for growth.
"Greater capacity means we can offer existing and new customers a leaner, fitter and even more cost-effective service.
"Prospects are now even brighter for the existing company as well as our new team in Swansea and south Wales can boast the largest independent coil coating company in the UK."
Coilcolor makes coated steel in a variety of colours and finishes which are used in the construction industry to clad buildings.
The Swansea site will operate as a separate company to be known as Coilcolor West Ltd but will have mutual shareholders with the existing Newport company.
Mr Proctor said turnover was expected to double from £30m within 24 months. | A Swansea steel company that went into administration last month has been taken over by a Newport-based firm. |
40,175,268 | The rocket - equivalent in weight to five fully laden jumbo jets, or 200 fully grown elephants - was put into space using locally-developed technology; the launch had been planned for a decade.
India is often criticised for spending money on space projects when nearly a quarter of its population live below its official poverty limit.
So why is India so keen on space? BBC Tamil's Sivaramakrishnan Parameswaran investigates.
India argues that the cost of the latest launch was not huge by international standards. It cost about $5m (£6m).
With an expected life span of 10 years, the operating cost per year is narrowed down further - to a level that India's space industry claims is "very cheap".
India has been constantly upping its budget allocation for scientific research, and in particular space research. In fact, this has partly been in response to criticism that it does not spend anything like as much on science funding as it should.
The United States, France and Russia hold nearly 75% of the nearly $6bn (£7.25bn) satellite launch industry - one that is increasingly lucrative.
India now hopes to tap "hugely" into this.
The "space economics" include launching satellites ranging from a few kilos to ones weighing hundreds of kilos.
In a multibillion dollar industry, India has just a share of just above 0.5% - while China has 3% of the market, according to the Satellite Industry Association.
In the past India was unable to lure customers for their satellite launches due to its launch vehicle constraints, making the nation heavily dependent on France for its launches.
That is now a thing of the past.
Most meteorological and communication satellites weigh nearly four tonnes and that needs a massive rocket to launch them.
With the latest launch, India has sent a strong message to the international community that a low-cost alternative is available.
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It recently successfully launched 104 satellites of varying sizes in one go, enhancing its credibility.
The global satellite market - which includes building, launching and sustaining communications between them - is worth $120bn, and has mushroomed in recent years, driven by the increased demand for connectivity.
Analysts say with its lower costs, India could become a hub for the growing satellite launch industry.
Critics question the rationale of India investing hugely in scientific development when comprehensive social development is still lacking.
Millions in India still don't have access to clean drinking water, uninterrupted power supply, toilet facilities, road and rail connectivity among others.
But successive governments have argued that spending on science and technology leads to all-round social development.
The latest rocket launch is a case in point. India hopes it will encourage developing nations to use them for their launches rather than the Western nations.
And regardless of criticism, India is putting up the money - the budget has been increased and there are now plans to launch a mission to Venus. | The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) dubbed the launch of their heaviest rocket yet - weighing 640 tonnes and carrying a 3,000kg satellite - a "historic day". |
36,821,068 | Trailing 1-0 from the home leg, captain David Gray's deft finish levelled the tie after 62 minutes.
The full-back was forced off injured but Hibs survived into extra-time.
John McGinn missed Hibs' first penalty in the shootout, and despite Paul Hanlon, Grant Holt and Martin Boyle converting theirs, Brondby took it 5-3.
It was a harsh way for Neil Lennon's side to exit - at the first hurdle - after taking the game to their hosts in the second half and defending bravely throughout.
The Edinburgh club had never won a European tie in 61 years after losing the home leg, but they came close to making history after deservedly prevailing in normal time.
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The prize of a tie against Bundesliga side Hertha Berlin however goes to Brondby, who kept their nerve in the shoot-out.
Needing to score to keep the tie alive, Hibs barely created a chance in the first half. McGinn had their one sight of goal in the 18th minute, but Martin Albrechtsen swiftly blocked the Scotland midfielder's effort.
But the visitors were not unduly troubled at the other end either as a defence re-enforced with a third centre-back in Liam Fontaine repelled most of Brondby's attacks.
The hosts' best moments came from set-pieces.
Christian Norgaard and Kamil Wilczek - whose strike after just 16 seconds proved the winner at Easter Road - headed over from corners, while Johan Larsson's curling free-kick was just too high.
But it was 36 minutes before Hibs' debutant keeper Ross Laidlaw - taking over from Otso Virtanen after the Finn's first-leg howler - was called into action.
The 24-year-old conceded five goals on his last outing in April 2015 - for Elgin City against Annan Athletic.
But after missing the whole of last season with a lacerated kidney and being released by Raith Rovers, he showed no signs of rustiness as he tipped a powerful drive from Norgaard over.
Hibs began the second half with greater intent and urgency, McGinn's inviting cross from the left flank headed over by Gray, whose last-minute winner in the Scottish Cup final had sent Hibs into Europe.
But the full-back showed great poise to control and flick home Darren McGregor's prodded ball forward with the outside of his right foot, after Brondby failed to clear Dylan McGeouch's corner.
It was reward for a sustained spell of pressure, but served to stir the hosts into life.
Lebogang Phiri and Svenn Crone both sent shots wide of the target, while Teemu Pukki - a player signed by Lennon at Celtic - found himself in space inside the box but his tame effort was blocked.
Gray's energy and commitment was encapsulated in the driving run out of defence that ended his evening, Norgaard sending the full-back sprawling and landing awkwardly on his shoulder.
Hibs survived some late scares - McGregor escaping with a yellow card when he impeded Pukki's run on goal, while the impressive Laidlaw got a hand to Larsson's effort to divert it wide.
But after neither side threatened to win it in extra-time, Hibs' luck finally ran out. | Hibernian's return to European competition ended in heartache as they went out of the Europa League on penalties to Danish side Brondby. |
32,152,502 | Advisers were concerned at the amount of time it could take to exit the ground in the event of an emergency.
The Safety Technical Group (STG) was put together to supervise various safety issues around the new stadium.
The GAA said its studies showed 38,000 spectators could get to a place of safety within eight minutes.
It said it had presented the advisers with this information.
Since the 1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster, emphasis has been put on the time that it takes to ensure people can get out of a sports ground to a place of safety.
The STG is made up of representatives from Sport NI, police, the fire and ambulance services, Belfast City Council and the GAA.
Under a freedom of information request, the BBC obtained the minutes of its last meeting in November 2014.
The GAA did not attend that meeting, but the minutes noted that "neither the design team nor members of the STG are aware of any stadium in Great Britain with similar exiting arrangements".
It adds that the last set of plans it had been given "indicated that the stadium did not comply with the content of the green guide/red guide", which are the safety industry's standard recommendations.
One of the group's major concerns was that any blockage on the Andersonstown Road could push the exit time limit well over the recommended eight minutes.
According to some estimates, in the event of some emergencies, it could take more than 20 minutes for a crowd of 38,000 to get out of the ground to somewhere safe.
This has been rejected by Ulster GAA, which said in a statement that it had employed an experienced design team, that the Casement Park stadium conforms to the guidance in the current red and green guide regulations, and it carried out its own extensive exercise to ensure that 38,000 spectators could be evacuated to a place of safety within eight minutes.
It said these findings had been presented to the STG group.
With approval from Stormont's Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL), the GAA went ahead with a planning application and appointed a contractor, even though the safety group had been advised this would not happen before it had approved the design.
The BBC has also learned that while DCAL had been asked over a 13-month period for documentation on the proposed emergency exiting strategy, it did not provide this.
A DCAL spokesperson said on Wednesday that the STG continued to inform the design process and event management plan, to ensure all the issues raised were addressed.
It added that the stadium could not operate at the required safe capacity without a fully compliant general safety certificate.
Residents living close to Casement Park won a judicial review in December, with the judge saying the decision-making process was "fundamentally flawed".
Carmel McKavanagh of the Mooreland and Owenvarragh Residents' Association said she was angry that the views of the STG had only come to light in response to the freedom of information request.
"Perhaps if we had clear sight of these minutes, we wouldn't have had to end up in court," she said.
The BBC understands that the STG has not discussed the Casement Park redevelopment since its last meeting in November.
In a statement DCAL said: "The Safety Technical Group will be fully involved in any future plans involving Casement Park, contributing to the health and safety design process at appropriate stages." | Design plans for the redeveloped Casement Park stadium in west Belfast were not approved by key safety advisers, the BBC has learned. |
23,045,790 | His whereabouts are unclear after he flew from Hong Kong to Moscow on Sunday. His passport has been revoked.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov insisted Mr Snowden had not crossed the border and rejected what he termed US attempts to blame Russia for his disappearance.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said the US did not seek "confrontation" but Russia should hand over Mr Snowden.
Correspondents say Mr Lavrov's comments suggest that Mr Snowden remained air-side after landing at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, and so has technically never entered Russian territory.
"We are in no way involved with either Mr Snowden, his relations with US justice, nor to his movements around the world," Mr Lavrov said.
"He chose his itinerary on his own. We learnt about it... from the media. He has not crossed the Russian border.
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"We consider the attempts to accuse the Russian side of violating US laws, and practically of involvement in a plot, to be absolutely groundless and unacceptable."
The 30-year-old IT expert is wanted by the US for revealing to the media details of a secret government surveillance programme, which he obtained while working as a contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA).
Speaking during a visit to Saudi Arabia, Mr Kerry said the transfer of Mr Snowden was a matter of rule of law, and that Russia should remain "calm".
He is charged with theft of government property, unauthorised communication of national defence information and wilful communication of classified communications intelligence.
Mr Snowden has applied for asylum in Ecuador. The US has revoked his passport.
Reuters news agency quotes a Moscow airport source as saying that Mr Snowden arrived in Moscow from Hong Kong on Sunday afternoon and was due to depart for the Cuban capital, Havana, the following day, but did not use the ticket.
The source said he was travelling with Sarah Harrison, a British legal researcher working for the anti-secrecy group Wikileaks.
By Jonathan MarcusBBC diplomatic correspondent
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's assertion that the fugitive American "hasn't crossed the Russian border" may well be technically correct - Edward Snowden may. for all we know, remain "in transit" at the hotel, air-side, at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.
But it is hard to believe that the Russians are not exploring what information they can get from Mr Snowden, if any.
He is at the very least a potential intelligence gift horse that has almost literally dropped into their laps.
Mr Lavrov was clearly irked by US pressure, saying that attempts to accuse the Russian side of flouting US laws were "unjustified and unacceptable". Moscow's annoyance is mirrored by Beijing.
As yet it is still too early to say what long-term damage this affair may do to China and Russia's relations with Washington. But the US-Russia relationship in particular could get seriously strained the longer this saga goes on.
Meanwhile, China has also described US accusations that it facilitated the departure of fugitive Edward Snowden from Hong Kong as "groundless and unacceptable".
A foreign ministry spokeswoman said the Hong Kong government had handled the former US intelligence officer's case in accordance with the law.
The White House had criticised what it termed "a deliberate choice to release a fugitive despite a valid arrest warrant".
The Chinese government has expressed deep concern about Mr Snowden's allegations that the US had hacked into networks in China.
Tuesday saw the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party praise Mr Snowden for "tearing off Washington's sanctimonious mask".
In a strongly worded front-page commentary, the overseas edition of the People's Daily said: "Not only did the US authorities not give us an explanation and apology, it instead expressed dissatisfaction at the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for handling things in accordance with law.
"In a sense, the United States has gone from a 'model of human rights' to 'an eavesdropper on personal privacy', the 'manipulator' of the centralised power over the international internet, and the mad 'invader' of other countries' networks."
Speaking during a visit to India, US Secretary of State John Kerry said it would be "deeply troubling" if it became clear that China had "wilfully" allowed him to fly out of Hong Kong.
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"There would be without any question some effect and impact on the relationship and consequences," he said.
He also called on Russia to "live by the standards of the law because that's in the interests of everybody".
Mr Snowden was in hiding in Hong Kong when his leaks were first published.
He is being supported by the whistleblowing website Wikileaks, which said on Sunday that he was heading to Ecuador accompanied by some of its diplomats and legal advisers.
Ecuador is already giving political asylum at its London embassy to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who is wanted for questioning in Sweden over allegations of sexual assault - which he denies.
Mr Snowden's leaks have led to revelations that the US is systematically seizing vast amounts of phone and web data under an NSA programme known as Prism.
US officials have defended the practice of gathering telephone and internet data from private users around the world.
They say Prism cannot be used to target intentionally any Americans or anyone in the US, and stress that it is supervised by judges. | Russia says it has had no involvement in the travel plans of fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden. |
37,524,048 | Gwent Police said a silver Renault Megane and an Iveco Flatbed lorry collided in Garn Yr Erw, near Blaenavon, at about 12:15 BST on Friday.
The driver of the Megane, a 26-year-old from the area, died while the lorry driver suffered minor injuries.
Gwent Police is investigating. | A man has been killed after the car he was driving was involved in a crash with a lorry in Torfaen. |
11,242,772 | The 60 life-size cast iron human figures of Critical Mass, one of Gormley's best-known works, are on show at Bexhill's De La Warr Pavilion.
The Duchess, president of the pavilion, visited the Grade I listed building for its 75th anniversary.
She also toured the Tomok Takahashi Introspective Retrospective exhibition.
Vice-chair of the Pavilion, Sara Stonor, told the Duchess in front of the invited audience: "It was the vision of the 9th Earl De La Warr to create a people's palace in Bexhill. He chose the best architects of his day in Mendelsohn and Chermayeff.
"We continue to this day in choosing the very best international exhibitions and performances to fill this remarkable space."
The pavilion was commissioned by the ninth Earl De La Warr, designed by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff, and opened in 1935.
The Duchess sat down to speak to 100-year-old George Korner, a cousin of Mr Chermayeff.
She then visited Chailey Heritage School for disabled children and young adults in North Chailey, Lewes and met children, staff and volunteers.
Principal Sylvia Lamb and head teacher Simon Yates showed her facilities including the multi sensory studio and horse riding area. | The Duchess of Cornwall has viewed an exhibition by Angel of the North sculptor Antony Gormley on a roof in East Sussex. |
12,199,745 | The town has just a single Grade l listed building - Acklam Hall - and more than 100 Grade ll and II* listed buildings.
The list aims to recognise those buildings of particular local interest which do not qualify for statutory protection.
A further 66 suggested entries arose from consultation with the public.
The list has now been expanded to 92 buildings following a review by Middlesbrough council.
New additions to the draft local list include Middlesbrough Dock, originally designed by William Cubitt, The Navigation Inn, Cargo Fleet Lane, the Evening Gazette offices on Borough Road, Psyche, Linthorpe Road, The Green Tree pub, Gilkes Street and King Edward's Square, Teesside University.
Members of the public are invited to comment on the updated draft local list as part of a consultation which concludes on 19 February.
The council said that while local listing would not offer the protection afforded to listed buildings, it would ensure locally important buildings, and their special qualities, were recognised within the planning system.
Councillor Charlie Rooney, Middlesbrough Council's executive member for regeneration and economic development, said: "For a relatively young town, Middlesbrough has a great number of buildings of interest.
"The first local list was a great talking point. I'm sure this latest round of consultation will prompt people to have another close look at the buildings around them - and I have no doubt there will be some interesting new suggestions."
The revised local list can be found on the Middlesbrough Council website. | New buildings in Middlesbrough have been added to a list which aims to recognise the town's heritage. |
39,155,875 | The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) held the consultative ballot amid claims of a lack of progress in discussions over the agreement.
When it closed earlier, 97% of lecturers backed industrial action, on a turnout of 64%.
Colleges Scotland Employers Association said the strike threat was "disappointing".
They added that it was "totally inappropriate" to threaten industrial action while "constructive talks" were ongoing.
Members of the EIS Further Education Lecturers' Association (EIS-FELA) took part in the ballot.
The EIS-FELA executive has now asked the EIS to authorise a statutory industrial action ballot of its members. The full EIS executive will process this request next week.
Larry Flanagan, EIS general secretary, said: "Scotland's further education lecturers have been extremely patient in waiting for college management to deliver on their pay commitments, but that patience is now exhausted.
"After a year of dragging their feet, it is time for Scotland's colleges to make good their promises to lecturers on fair and equal pay."
EIS-FELA president John Kelly added: "This is an outstanding ballot result which clearly demonstrates the strong feelings held by Scotland's FE lecturers.
"While no lecturer wants to take strike action, we feel our hand has been forced by the actions of Scotland's college managers.
"We are now requesting a full statutory ballot for industrial action, and would urge all members to continue to support our campaign for full delivery of the pay agreement that was promised to us."
Shona Struthers, chief executive of the Colleges Scotland Employers' Association, said it held negotiations with the EIS on Thursday and agreed to continue talks this month.
She said: "Given yesterday's progress, it is disappointing and totally inappropriate that the EIS is threatening disruptive strike action while constructive talks are ongoing.
"Lecturing staff have already received a pay increase for 2016/17 which was above public sector pay policy recommendations, and we are fully committed to honouring the terms of agreement reached last March, including paying the top of the salary scale of £40,000 for lecturers.
"A national pay scale and migration plan has already been jointly developed with the EIS which will give lecturers on average a 9% pay increase over the next two years.
"We came to the negotiating table on Thursday in good faith, open to compromise, and hoping to secure agreement on the implementation of the total package agreed in March 2016, which included bringing pay and conditions together." | College lecturers have voted for industrial action in a dispute over a pay deal agreed almost a year ago. |
35,017,021 | The Met said it was alerted to the incident in Uxbridge Road, near Shepherd's Bush Market, at 15:20 GMT
London Fire Brigade is also at the scene and has set up a cordon alongside road closures. BBC Travel has more.
Carl English, who saw it happen, said: "Roof collapsed moments from me on Uxbridge road. Bricks flying, the guy I walked past got hit, hope he's ok." | Part of a roof has collapsed in west London causing bricks to fall on to the pavement below. |
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The retired 20-time champion jockey was responding to Michelle Payne calling racing "chauvinistic" after she was the first woman to win the Melbourne Cup.
"The female jockeys are very, very competent riders but perhaps a woman should receive an allowance like a filly does in a race," said McCoy.
Female horses carry less weight than males when competing in the same races.
But there is no similar allowance for jockeys - racing is one of the few sports where men and women compete on an equal footing at the highest level.
Some female jockeys regard suggestions of a weight concession as patronising, while others believe it would create more opportunities for women.
"I don't think it would be fair," said leading female rider Cathy Gannon.
"We've been trying to say we're as good as the boys for years so it would be a backward step in my eyes."
Payne rode 100-1 shot Prince of Penzance to victory, ahead of the Frankie Dettori-ridden Max Dynamite, in the Melbourne Cup - known as "the race that stops a nation".
"It was brilliant for her to win the race and tactically she gave Prince Of Penzance a brilliant ride, but I'm not sure that was the time to call racing a chauvinistic sport," said Northern Irishman McCoy in a blog for bookmakers William Hill.
"It's a very physically demanding sport and they're not going to be as physically strong as a bloke. They can't be. Tactically they can be as good but if it comes down to strength in a finish, a woman is not going to be as strong as a man.
"There aren't many sports where women compete against men and on a day-to-day basis. Are women as physically strong as men? No they're not. It's just fact."
Jockey Racheal Kneller welcomed McCoy's suggestion, but is unsure whether it would change perceptions.
"It's a good idea but I don't think it will make any difference. I claim 5lbs and I still struggle for opportunity," she said.
Grade One-winning Canadian rider Emma-Jayne Wilson tweeted: "Brilliant idea - if strength were the only attribute jockeys required to be successful."
Payne was only the fourth female to ride in the Melbourne Cup in its 155-year history.
After her victory on 3 November, she said: "It's such a chauvinistic sport, I know some of the owners wanted to kick me off."
She praised Prince of Penzance trainer Darren Weir and owner John Richards for their support but added: "I want to say to everyone else, get stuffed, because women can do anything and we can beat the world." | Female jockeys should get a weight allowance to help them compete against men, AP McCoy has suggested. |
40,016,767 | Viktorija Ratiuk stabbed 32-year-old Romualds Baluls once in the chest in the flat they shared in Bircham Road, Taunton, on 19 November.
Ratiuk was cleared of murder, but convicted of manslaughter, at a Bristol Crown Court trial.
The court heard a row erupted and Ratiuk attacked Mr Baluls with a knife.
Mr Baluls died from his injury at the scene.
Avon and Somerset Police said: "The decision to use a knife while under the influence of alcohol was catastrophic and Ratiuk will have to suffer the consequences of her impulsive actions." | A woman who killed her flatmate after they had been drinking together has been sentenced to eight and a half years in prison. |
35,862,281 | The social media craze has seen women hold up a piece of A4 paper vertically, to cover their waists.
Chinese state newspaper People's Daily described it as a "fitness challenge".
But people in China and elsewhere have responded with their own photos, arguing that a 21cm (8.3 inch) waist is unhealthy and unrealistic.
The craze began on social networks such as Weibo and WeChat, with users such as actress Zhang Li posting photos, before going global on Twitter and Instagram.
Posting under the hashtags #A4waist and #A4waistchallenge, many internet users showed their disdain for the trend.
Others found creative ways to underline the unrealistic nature of the challenge.
Even the Chinese authorities joined in.
The Ministry of Public Security posted on its Weibo account that the distance between the mainland and the island of Taiwan, which the authorities view as part of China, was "just the size of a piece of A4 paper".
The A4 waist challenge is not the first unusual online beauty craze emphasising thinness to emerge from China.
Previous challenges have included showing off prominent collarbones by balancing rows of coins on them and the "belly button challenge". | Chinese internet users have posted photos online to show they are "paper thin", sparking debate around the world about standards of beauty. |
41,063,616 | Saturday's 27-17 defeat by Wales in Belfast in the seventh place play-off means the Irish will have to qualify for the 2021 tournament.
"That was my last game," confirmed Tierney, whose three-year contract was up until the World Cup.
"I'm proud of the job I've done. Obviously it hasn't ended the way we would have wanted."
Despite successive defeats by France and Australia, Ireland were favourites to beat Wales at Kingspan Stadium but after taking an early 7-0 advantage, the hosts were largely outplayed during the remainder of the contest.
Tierney led Ireland to the 2015 Six Nations title in his first season in charge as they pipped France on points difference.
The Irish finished third in the 2016 Six Nations while they were beaten by England in the Grand Slam decider earlier this season as they took the runners-up spot.
However after reaching the semi-finals at the 2014 World Cup, the Irish, as hosts, were earmarking at least reaching the last four again at this year's tournament but Tierney's side have struggled badly on home turf.
Speaking to the Irish Times this week, injured Ireland prop Ruth O'Reilly criticised the squad's preparations for the tournament, saying that coach had "lost the group" prior to the World Cup.
Tierney said that he had been "disappointed" by O'Reilly's comments.
"The timing of it wasn't great for the players because we were trying to win a match in the World Cup," he added.
The outgoing Ireland coach said that he would be involved in the IRFU's official review of the squad's tournament but said that now was not the time to get into any specifics.
"Once the emotion and the exhaustion of it settles down, we'll review and we'll see where we went right and where we went wrong."
Tierney did say that Ireland must aim to develop "more athletic-based players" in order to compete at the top level.
"That is going to be the challenge - unfortunately not for me. My time is up. But it has been an honour to be coach of the Ireland women's team."
Tierney indicated that he will be moving into another coaching position but said that he was not yet able to divulge more details. | Ireland women's coach Tom Tierney has stepped down following the hosts' disappointing World Cup performance. |
39,708,159 | Both sides scored two first-half tries, but Hull's goal-kicking gave them a 14-10 advantage at half-time, despite Warrington ending the half on top.
The hosts put their stamp on the game in the second half with three further tries without reply from the Wire.
Castleford or Wigan could overhaul Hull with victory in Saturday's meeting.
The influential Albert Kelly scored two tries for Hull while his partner in the halves Marc Sneyd finished with seven goals.
There could be a long ban for Mahe Fonua, after he appeared to make a 'chicken-wing' tackle on Ryan Atkins.
He was sent to the sin-bin for 10 minutes for the incident, but returned to play a key role for Hull in the rest of the game.
Both teams came into the game on the back of revitalised form with Warrington on a run of four wins in a row, but it was Hull who made the brighter start.
Airlie Birds centre Jake Connor was involved in the opening two scores, climbing to take in Sneyd's kick for the first and supplying the killer pass in a sweeping right side move for Fonua to cross for try two.
Warrington's route back into the game came when they forced a drop-out and the ball was worked right to Russell to race in out wide.
Fonua's challenge on Atkins reduced Hull to 12 for a spell and the Wire capitalised from the penalty when Joe Westerman scythed through.
Sneyd popped over a penalty to extend the lead, which was almost wiped out in the second half when Joe Philbin made a huge break down field, but the same player obstructed the defence as Jack Hughes crossed and it was disallowed.
On the back of that let-off, Jamie Shaul bundled in at the corner to quell the visitors' fight-back and after Sneyd's 40-20 kick, Kelly reached out under pressure to touch down a fine score.
Having been kept scoreless in the second half and with time ticking away, Warrington became increasingly desperate and it was punished when Fonua picked off a pass and raced near length of the field before feeding Kelly for his second to seal the win.
Earlier, Hull remembered the life of former player and First World War hero Jack Harrison VC with a minutes applause.
Harrison was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery while fighting on the western front, dying in action on 3 May 1917.
Hull FC: Shaul; Fonua, Connor. Tuimavave, Michaels; Kelly, Sneyd; Taylor, Washbrook, Green, Manu, Minichello, Thompson.
Replacements: Downs, Griffin, Turgut, Fash
Warrington: Ratchford; Russell, R. Evans, Atkins, Lineham; Brown, Patton; Hill, Gidley, Sims, Julien, Hughes, Westerman
Replacements: Cooper, Dwyer, Savelio, Philbin | Hull FC made it four wins in a row to top Super League, at least temporarily, after checking Warrington's recent momentum with a four-try success. |
36,806,038 | Scientists used robotic submersibles to dive more than 2,000m beneath the waves to explore four seamounts off the west coast of Scotland.
The footage revealed vast coral reefs, and an array of crustaceans and fish living in the cold, dark waters.
The team also collected thousands of samples, and believe many species may be new to science.
Dr Kerry Howell, a deep sea biologist at Plymouth University, told BBC News: "Lots of people think of the deep sea as being a sort of desert of mud.
"And in fact these mountain structures are far from that - [there are] so many animals, so much life."
The Deep Links project team, a collaboration between Plymouth University, the University of Oxford, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee and the British Geological Survey, spent six weeks at sea onboard the RSS James Cook.
Of the four underwater mountains they explored, the biggest - the Anton Dohrn - stands at 1,700m tall. It would dwarf Ben Nevis, which has a peak of 1,344m - yet it is totally submerged.
The scientists say until now these unique habitats have been little explored.
Dr Howell explained: "We don't know very much about the underwater mountains off the coast of the UK. We went there initially in 2005, and that was the first time anyone had taken cameras there. But the footage wasn't great and technology has moved on since then.
"So this time we were able to take really sophisticated robots there with HD film, and get really fantastic quality images."
The scientists were able to control the Isis Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) from the deck of the ship, to record video, take photos and scoop up samples as it explored the deep.
They also deployed Autosub 6000, an autonomous robot, to map the mountains.
"You see the sea floor coming out of the gloom, and you don't know what you are going to find," said Dr Michelle Taylor, a deep sea biologist from the University of Oxford.
"This is the first time that anybody has seen this sea mount, has seen the animals that live on this seamount, how they live, what they live on, who lives with them - and that's really exciting."
The team found brightly coloured cold-water coral reefs that stretched for many kilometres. Some of the species were several metres high, while others were thought to be thousands of years old.
They discovered huge sponge gardens crammed with tiny animals, crustaceans, including deep-sea crabs and shrimps, basket stars, sea anemones, and many fish species, including lepidions and chimaeras, which are related to sharks.
It will take the team many months to analyse all of the footage and carefully examine the specimens they collected. Even at this stage, they expect there could be many species new to science.
The team found that overall the seamounts were in good condition, with most designated as Marine Protected Areas.
However, the scientists still found signs of human impact, including litter and trawl marks, and they are concerned about how climate change may affect these habitats in the future.
Dr Taylor said: "It's very important to understand what lives in these locations because they might change - and they might change forever."
Dr Howell added that the reefs were among the best she had ever seen.
"These mountains are British, they are in British waters - and they support such an amazing diversity of life," she told the BBC.
"And the fact the UK has its own coral reefs, people don't appreciate that.
"These reefs are enormous and in really great condition - [they are] so beautiful, so important - and I really hope that people can appreciate what they have on their doorstep."
Follow Rebecca on Twitter: @BBCMorelle | Life is thriving on the UK's tallest underwater mountains, an expedition has revealed. |
35,330,377 | Griffiths hit the net either side of half-time as Celtic beat Dundee United 4-1 at Tannadice to move six points clear at the top of the Premiership.
In recent years, the club have cashed in on the likes of Virgil van Dijk, Gary Hooper and Victor Wanyama, but Deila says Griffiths is going no-where.
"He's vital for us," said Deila.
"He works so hard and is an unbelievable finisher. He's also creating space for the others, for Tom Rogic and for Kris Commons and Stuart Armstrong."
Griffiths got Celtic underway with the opener when he took advantage of a slip by United defender Gavin Gunning before Jozo Simunovic headed in a second.
Simon Murray briefly got the hosts back in the game, but after Griffiths scored a third, Kris Commons volleyed in a sublime fourth.
"To score four goals away is always difficult," Deila told BBC Scotland. "We could have scored more but lost the ball too much.
"There was so much space and they really wanted to go forward.
"Confidence is very important. Winning games gives you confidence so we should be confident. We saw a lot of good play today."
Dundee United manager Mixu Paatelainen saw some positives from his side and urged them to build on that ahead of a crucial home meeting with Kilmarnock next weekend.
Already 11 points adrift at the bottom of the Premiership, United cannot afford to slip further behind.
"I thought the attitude was excellent and we did create a couple of openings," said the Finn.
"Celtic defended well, but on a couple of occasions we got behind them and worried them, but I felt we gave the ball away far too easy.
"We should have been more patient on the ball. We were too anxious.
"Next week is a massive game. That's what I told the players in the dressing-room.
"We put our sights now on next weekend, make sure that everybody is ready and give Kilmarnock a good game.
"They'll come here and be direct and be very dangerous, they've got plenty of power up front and it won't be easy.
"But, if we are patient, we take our positions right and we take care with our passes, we can worry them." | Celtic manager Ronny Deila refuses to put a price on Leigh Griffiths' head after the Scotland striker scored his 50th and 51st goals for the club. |
36,370,471 | The incident, which also involved five other cars and a bus, happened in Fernhill Road on the outskirts of Glasgow at 11:05.
The car driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The male driver of the agricultural vehicle is in a serious condition in hospital.
The road remains closed and police have appealed for witnesses.
Sgt Alison McAuley, of Police Scotland, said: "An extensive recovery operation, which is expected to last for several more hours, is currently underway and Fernhill Road is closed with local diversions in place.
"I would appeal to anyone who witnessed what happened to contact officers."
Firstbus confirmed that one of its vehicles had been at the scene when the crash happened.
"We can confirm one of our vehicles was caught up in the incident at Fernhill Road earlier today and we are providing assistance to the emergency services," a statement said. | A man has died after a crash involving a car and a heavy agricultural vehicle which was towing a digger. |
36,348,728 | Although she opposes abortion, she said the measure was vague and would not withstand a legal challenge.
The state senate on Thursday backed the bill that would have punished doctors who terminate a pregnancy with up to three years in prison. They would also be barred from practicing medicine.
To override the veto, lawmakers require a two-thirds majority in each chamber.
Abortion is legal in the US, and abortion rights activists have already described the bill as unconstitutional.
Two abortion clinics remain open in Oklahoma after the state recently enacted a number of new regulations affecting the facilities.
Ms Fallin, a rising star in conservative circles, has been mentioned as a potential running mate for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Anti-abortion groups said they hoped to use the bill to trigger a legal case that would overturn Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court verdict that made abortion legal in 1973.
Legislation similar to that in Oklahoma was enacted in Utah and Louisiana in 1991 - but the laws were later ruled unconstitutional.
In recent years, conservatives have sought to tighten restrictions on abortion clinics and doctors rather than seek an outright ban.
Abortion rights advocates say these measures are meant to restrict women's access to abortion.
The new laws are particularly widespread in conservative southern states.
This week, South Carolina's legislators passed a bill that would bar abortions after the 19 weeks of pregnancy. | Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin has vetoed a bill that would make abortion a criminal offence in the US state. |
38,610,024 | Businessman Dai Yongge and sister Dai Xiu Li began negotiations in November to buy the club from its Thai owners.
The Premier League, who have a say in takeovers of clubs who could compete in their league, are said to be cautious.
Yongge failed in an attempt to buy Hull City in September after reportedly not meeting the Football Association's fit and proper persons test.
One insider at Reading sees the Chinese offer as the "dream ticket".
However, the deal is dependant on convincing officials that Yongge and his associates are suitable additions to the English game.
Reading sit third in the Championship in manager Jaap Stam's first season in charge, but following a 1-0 defeat by QPR on Thursday, Dutchman Stam made his frustrations public at the uncertainty off the pitch.
"Everybody's asking me questions about what's going to happen," he told BBC Radio Berkshire.
"I don't know if there is going to be any more transfers.
"You need to have clarity within the group, a certain structure within the club with what's going to happen.
"What I thought was going to happen when I joined Reading was to build a team and hopefully make steps towards the Premier League.
"But, with the club for sale, you don't know what the new owners want to do."
Reading have been owned by the Thai consortium of Lady Sasima Srivikorn, Sumrith Thanakarnjanasuth and Narin Niruttinanon since September 2014.
They are understood to have become increasingly squeamish over the outlay required to bankroll the club from month-to-month.
Enthusiasm seems to be waning, despite Reading's exceptional form on the pitch, which has put them in promotion contention. | The proposed takeover of Reading by a Chinese-based consortium is hinging on approval by the Premier League. |
30,933,916 | Ministers welcomed the 28% fall from 420 to 300, between 2009 and 2013, and said they were "taking action" to diagnose the disease early.
But a diabetes charity said performance was "patchy", with only one in three people meeting treatment targets.
Diabetes UK Cymru said the reduced deaths was part of a UK-wide trend.
Commenting on the report, Together for Health - a Diabetes Action Plan, Deputy Health Minister Vaughan Gething said ministers were "taking action to diagnose people with diabetes as early as possible and reduce the number of deaths associated with the condition".
"While we are making good progress, all of us still have a personal responsibility to look after our own health and not put ourselves at risk of falling victim to diabetes," he said.
Diabetes UK Cymru director Dai Williams said the falling number of deaths from diabetes-related conditions had been a "general trend for a number of years" across the UK, yet in Wales "we know that only one in three people with diabetes are meeting treatment targets, that hasn't improved".
While there were "signs" of improved education for people with the disease and better treatment for children being introduced in the future, he said, a major diabetes prevention plan for Wales had been promised 18 months ago and "I've yet to see something happen".
"The headlines sound good, scratch a bit behind them and they're not telling us anything we don't already know - if you look at it in a bit more detail, it is patchy," he said. | Deaths from diabetes-related conditions in Wales have fallen by more than a quarter in four years, a report for the Welsh government has found. |
38,931,180 | In an interview with Israel Hayom, Mr Trump said a peace deal was possible but urged Israel to "act reasonably".
Israel has advanced plans for 6,000 new settler homes since the inauguration last month of Mr Trump, whom it sees as more sympathetic than his predecessor.
Palestinians have warned that chances for peace are being destroyed.
More than 600,000 Jews live in about 140 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem - land the Palestinians want for a future state. The settlements are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.
During the US presidential election campaign, Mr Trump presented himself as a staunch supporter of Israel, and he criticised Barack Obama in December for choosing not to veto a UN Security Council resolution declaring that settlements had "no legal validity" and were an obstacle to peace.
During the first two weeks of Mr Trump's presidency, there was no comment from the White House as the Israeli government approved the construction of new homes at settlements across the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
But the White House broke its silence last week when the Israeli government announced plans to build an entirely new settlement, after it had to evacuate an unauthorised settler outpost built on privately-owned Palestinian land.
On Monday, the Israeli parliament approved a controversial law that would allow the government to retroactively legalise almost 4,000 settler homes built on private Palestinian land, despite the attorney-general warning that it was unconstitutional.
Speaking to Israel Hayom ahead of next week's visit to Washington by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr Trump expressed the belief that he could broker a peace deal after decades of failed negotiations.
"I want Israel to act reasonably in the peace process and that it will finally happen after so many years.
"And maybe there will even be a possibility of a bigger peace than just Israel and the Palestinians," he was quoted as saying in the interview, which was published in Hebrew.
"There is limited remaining territory. Every time you take land for a settlement, less territory remains. I'm not someone who believes that advancing settlements is good for peace. But we are examining a number of options," he added.
Mr Trump also said he was thinking "seriously" about his campaign promise to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a step that is fiercely opposed by the Palestinians.
"I'm learning the issue and we'll see what happens. It's not an easy decision."
The US and many other countries have long said that the status of Jerusalem is dependent on a final peace agreement, and that moving embassies there would prejudge the outcome.
Israel claims sovereignty over the entire city, and regards it as its eternal and undivided capital. The Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state of Palestine. | US President Donald Trump has told an Israeli paper that settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank is not "good for peace" with the Palestinians. |
34,843,008 | Oxford City Council began licensing houses of multiple occupation (HMOs) in 2011 to raise the quality of housing.
It said the scheme had resulted in £3.5m being invested in housing stock.
The National Landlords Association (NLA) said the scheme was not properly enforced and it was driving up rents, forcing people out of the city.
NLA policy offer Gavin Dick said: "I think it's a complete failure by the council, both on the good landlords and for the tenants that are having to live in substandard housing.
"We want the criminals prosecuted and we want tenants living in good accommodation.
"It's having a massive impact on housing costs in Oxford, its driving rents up and driving people out. It's not thought through, its not financed property and people are still living in poor conditions."
The authority estimates about 21,000 people are living in 7,000 HMOs in Oxford.
Council leader Bob Price said: "We have a team of inspectors but we do have to take into account that we don't have a complete register. We rely on the public to tell us that next door to them has been taken over by a landlord and has become an HMO.
"What we do, also, is take particular streets and look through the register of electors, we look at the council tax register and that also gives us indications of problems we can look at."
Landlords who refuse to comply with the rules face a fine of up to £5,000.
The council said it had so far gained about 50 successful prosecutions.
The scheme has been revised and extended until 2021.
Source: Gov.uk | A scheme to crack down on rogue landlords in Oxford has been branded a "complete failure" as half the city's shared houses have not been registered. |
37,893,260 | It follows a mass protest on Friday against Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, better known by his Chinese nickname "Ahok".
A number of police were injured and an elderly man died in violent clashes at the end of the demonstration.
Mr Purnama stands accused of insulting the Koran while campaigning in governorship elections in the city.
In September he dismissed political attacks on him that cited a Koranic verse, which supposedly bars Muslims from choosing non-Muslim leaders.
He said that Islamic groups using the verse to convince other Muslims to oppose him were deceiving voters, who go to the polls in February.
The governor was questioned by police as a witness rather than as a suspect who could then be charged.
Mr Punama is the first non-Muslim Jakarta governor for 50 years and the first Chinese Indonesian to hold the post, making him a double minority in Muslim-majority Indonesia. Only around 1% of Indonesia's 250 million people are ethnic Chinese.
His policies on setting minimum wages, calling for free school education and healthcare, reducing traffic congestion and tackling corruption had won him widespread popularity and he was ahead in polls to win the governorship in his own right in 2017, having inherited the post when his predecessor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo was elected president in 2014.
President Widodo cancelled a planned visit to Australia following Friday's protest, blaming "political actors" for exploiting the situation.
The governor has apologised for any offence his remarks caused. | Indonesian police have questioned Jakarta's Christian governor over allegations he insulted Islam. |
38,159,769 | 30 November 2016 Last updated at 14:58 GMT
Following the sentencing, police released a recording of a 999 call which Maguire made after carrying out the murder, in which he claimed to police that he had returned home and found Mr Ferguson badly injured in his house. | Louis Maguire has been jailed for 17 years for the murder of a man who was beaten to death with a claw hammer in north Belfast. |
27,256,860 | The girls were taken from their school in Borno state by suspected Islamist militants more than two weeks ago.
Borno state's police chief told the BBC that the authorities needed to confirm exactly who was missing as the school records had been burned in the attack.
He said it was now thought that 223 girls were still missing.
The Islamist group Boko Haram has not made any response to the accusation that its fighters abducted the girls from the school in Chibok town in the middle of the night on 14 April 2014.
The group, whose name means "Western education is forbidden" in the local Hausa language, has staged a wave of attacks in northern Nigeria in recent years, with an estimated 1,500 killed in the violence and subsequent security crackdown this year alone.
Abduction sparks social media campaign 'My family is crying and grieving'
Tanko Lawan, Borno state's police commissioner, said the headmistress of the school in Chibok had been working to produce a list of those believed to have been taking their final year exams.
Her task had been hampered as students from surrounding areas had also come to the school to take the exams as it was believed the town was relatively safe from attack.
He said current figures showed that 53 of the girls were believed to have escaped.
But he added that it was difficult to know for sure, as some parents may not have informed the authorities if their daughters had returned home.
"That's why we're appealing to parents to come with their photographs so that we know actually [that] these are the numbers we are dealing with," he told the BBC Hausa service.
Since the kidnapping, the number of missing girls has been disputed and parents have criticised the government's search and rescue efforts.
Earlier this week, a community leader in Chibok said that 230 girls were missing - a significantly higher figure than officials had been quoting - and 43 had escaped.
This week protests have been held across Nigeria, calling on the government to do more to help secure their release.
It is thought that the militants initially took the girls to the Sambisa forest; there have been subsequent reports they have been taken over the borders into Chad and Cameroon and possibly forced to "marry" the insurgents.
Swathes of north-eastern Nigeria are, in effect, off limits to the army, allowing the militants to move the girls with impunity, says the BBC's Will Ross in Abuja.
A security source told Nigeria's Vanguard newspaper that four army battalions have been deployed to the area and an offensive on the forest was planned.
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for international military assistance to be offered to Nigeria in the hunt for the girls.
"We could provide military help to the Nigerians to track down the whereabouts of the girls before they're dispersed throughout Africa - like air support, for example, if that was thought necessary," he told the UK's Guardian newspaper.
Last week, an advisor to Nigeria's president said the government would welcome international assistance.
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau first threatened to treat captured women and girls as slaves in a video released in May 2013.
It fuelled concern at the time that the group was adhering to the ancient Islamic belief that women captured during war are slaves, with whom their "masters" can have sex, correspondents say. | Police in Nigeria have appealed to parents of more than 200 abducted schoolgirls to come forward with photographs of their daughters. |
24,625,018 | Coroner Mary Hassell made the recommendation to Boris Johnson in her report into the death of two cyclists who died on the lanes.
The report said the painted blue lanes are confusing and lull riders into a false sense of security.
Transport for London (TfL) says it is considering the report and will respond formally in due course.
Brian Dorling, 58, from Hounslow, west London, died in October 2011 at Bow roundabout in east London on one of the painted blue cycle lanes introduced in the past few years.
French student Philippine De Gerin-Ricard, 20, was killed on the route in Aldgate in July.
Both had been hit by lorries and in both cases a verdict of accidental death was recorded.
But the coroner's report raised three main areas of concern:
In her conclusion, Ms Hassell said: "In my opinion action should be taken to prevent future deaths and I believe that you and TfL have the power to take such action."
The cycle superhighways were one of Mr Johnson's flagship schemes when he became mayor in 2008. There are currently four in operation and 12 more are planned by 2015.
Transport commissioner Sir Peter Hendy said: "The primary cause of the terrible accident of Mr Dorling was that he and the lorry went through a red light.
By Tom EdwardsTransport correspondent, London
In her report the Coroner raises fundamental concerns about cycling superhighways design in particular cs2.
One of her points is the blue paint encourages cyclists into what's known as the "secondary" position closer to the kerb and where you're much more likely to end up in an HGV's blindspot.
Road safety experts say it is better to be in the middle of the lane in the central, safer, "primary" position where you can be seen.
This flaw seems inherent in the scheme and it is no surprise mayoral policy has shifted to segregate cyclists from busy roads.
Soon we will see that at Stratford High St, which will have the longest segregated cycle superhighway so far.
Campaigners hope it is just the start as the Mayor has indicated the rollout of cycling superhighways will continue.
"We need to make sure that road layouts are safe.
"We've altered it once and no doubt we'll alter it again. If you cycle or drive through a red light you are likely to have an accident. It's really important that all road users look out for themselves and others and conform with the law."
In a statement, Mr Dorling's family said: "Painting part of busy roads blue is a typical PR gimmick but innocent cyclists are dying."
Tom Jones, from Thompsons Solicitors, which represents Mr Dorling, said: "To avoid another tragedy and respect the memory of a father and a husband there needs to be no more Boris flannel but clear answers and real action."
Leon Daniels, from TfL, said work to improve the lanes had already begun.
"Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Mr Dorling and Miss De Gerin-Ricard," he said.
"We provided our full assistance to the coroner to ensure both inquests were a thorough investigation into the circumstances of these tragic incidents.
"Every death on London's roads is one too many and we will continue to do everything we can to reduce the risk to all road users." | London's mayor should take action to prevent further deaths on the cycle superhighways, a coroner has said. |
27,500,375 | The 27-year-old scored eight goals in 39 appearances for the Stark's Park side this season.
Cardle began his career at Port Vale and has had spells with Clyde, Airdrie and Dunfermline.
"We have signed an out and out winger," said Staggies boss Derek Adams. "Joe is very creative and direct which will suit our style of play." | Ross County have signed winger Joe Cardle from Raith Rovers on a one-year contract. |
35,649,433 | The Saudi and Bahraini foreign ministries urged people to leave quickly for their own safety.
But the UAE issued a "complete ban" on travel to Lebanon, and said it would pull out most diplomats from Beirut.
Last week, Saudi Arabia halted a $3bn (£2bn) military aid package after the Lebanese government failed to condemn attacks on the Saudi embassy in Iran.
A Saudi official said the Sunni-ruled kingdom had noted the "confiscation of the will" of the Lebanese state by the Iran-backed Shia Hezbollah movement.
The Saudi embassy in Tehran and the consulate in Mashhad were stormed by protesters in January after the Saudi authorities executed a prominent Shia cleric.
Hezbollah said Saudi Arabia stopped the aid because of economic pressures it faced as a result of the conflict in Yemen, where it is leading a coalition fighting the rebel Shia Houthi movement, and lower oil revenues.
Lebanese Sunni politician Saad al-Hariri meanwhile urged Saudi King Salman "not to abandon Lebanon and to continue to support and embrace it", vowing that the country would "not be a protectorate for Iranian policies in the region".
The Saudi, Bahraini and UAE foreign ministries on Tuesday gave no reasons for the warnings against travel to Lebanon other than safety concerns.
But Bahrain and the UAE, both Sunni-ruled nations, have backed Saudi Arabia in its dispute with Iran. Bahrain followed Saudi Arabia in cutting diplomatic ties, while the UAE downgraded its representation. | Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have told their citizens not to travel to Lebanon. |
37,524,521 | There was a heavy police presence at the demonstration by the Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective (Garc), which opposes an agreement aimed at resolving a long-running dispute in the area.
Over 200 people took part.
The group does not accept the deal that will see an Orange Parade pass the Ardoyne shops on Saturday morning.
The agreement was brokered between another residents group - the Crumlin Ardoyne Residents Association (Cara) - and the Orange Order last weekend.
It has been backed by local politicians, as well as the British and Irish governments.
It involves a voluntary moratorium on future return parades, but Garc says it will protest as long as there are any Orange parades in the area.
A short distance away, on Twaddell Avenue, a loyalist protest parade also took place on Friday evening.
It has happened almost nightly since the dispute over the Ligoniel lodges' return parade began.
That parade also passed off peacefully and a large PSNI security operation was scaled back shortly after 20:00 BST.
Over 400 officers were on the ground during the protest and parade and around 600 officers will return for Saturday morning's parade that will begin at 08:30 BST.
Another Garc protest will take place during that parade. It has been limited to 60 participants by the Parades Commission.
However, Garc spokesperson Damien 'Dee' Fennell said residents of the area "have the right to attend the front of the road...and roads outside their houses and observe the parade for any breaches and I hope as many of them do as possible".
He added: "Tomorrow morning, we're going to see a sectarian parade through this area. It's a return parade. It's something that the people of this area thought was dead, gone and not coming back.
"It's been resurrected by Sinn Féin and the UVF and the people in this area came out tonight overwhelmingly to oppose that deal."
Earlier on Friday, churches appealed to Garc to call its plans.
A community advert placed in the Irish News said the protest would not help ease tensions.
Among the signatories are politicians, academics and sporting organisations as well as the Catholic Bishop of Down and Connor, Noel Treanor, and the Church of Ireland Bishop of Connor, Alan Abernethy.
It stated: "We believe this is the best opportunity we have had in 15 years to resolve an issue, which has divided our community for many years.
"It is our view the introduction of another evening parade, no matter what part of the community it comes from, would inevitably and regrettably, whether intentional or otherwise raise tensions, damage community relations, and has the potential to end in confrontation and undermine a long sought after resolution."
The agreement to which Garc is opposed was announced last week between the Orange Order and the Crumlin Ardoyne Residents Association (Cara).
The group is billing its protest as a "march and rally to oppose ongoing sectarian parades and SF/UVF deal (Sinn Féin/Ulster Volunteer Force)". | A protest against an Orange Order parade in north Belfast passed off peacefully on Friday evening. |
39,854,961 | The Briton, who rides for Team Sky, posted a picture on Twitter of his damaged bike and reported the incident to local police.
"Just got rammed on purpose by an impatient driver who followed me onto the pavement!" the 31-year-old wrote.
"Thankfully I'm okay. Bike totalled. Driver kept going!"
The picture Froome posted was geotagged from Beausoleil in France, which is near his Monaco home.
Froome is not taking part in the current Giro d'Italia but is likely to race in June's traditional week-long Tour de France warm-up event, the Criterium du Dauphine, which he has won three times.
This year's Tour de France takes place from 1-23 July and Froome will be aiming to win the event for a fourth time and third in a row.
The incident follows the death of Italian cyclist Michele Scarponi after he was involved in a collision with a van during a training ride in April. | Three-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome claims he was "rammed" by a car driver while out training in southern France - but says he "wasn't hurt". |
32,884,045 | The British singer was speaking after the UK came 24th in this year's contest - the latest in a long run of poor Eurovision results for the country.
Young found fame when he won the UK's first Pop Idol competition in 2002.
Guy Sebastian, who won the first Australian Idol the following year, finished fifth in Saturday's contest in Vienna.
Asked if he would contemplate following suit, Young told BBC Breakfast: "No, I don't think so because it's going to be a bit of a poisoned chalice."
He added: "I don't want to do it. Please don't make me do it."
Meanwhile, Olly Murs, another TV talent show graduate, has ruled himself out after being tipped as a "perfect" contender by BBC Three Eurovision presenter Scott Mills.
"No, I wouldn't do Eurovision," Murs told Digital Spy. "I think it's always something I've found... new artists normally do it."
It's "not for me", he added.
The UK has only finished in the top 10 once since Jemini's infamous "nul points" of 2003. In 2009, Jade Ewan finished fifth with Andrew Lloyd Webber's song It's My Time.
As a result, it has proved difficult to attract top talent to the contest, with many record companies wary of the negative publicity resulting from a low placing.
Recent entrants have either been unsigned artists or classic acts such as Engelbert Humperdinck and Bonnie Tyler, whose reputations are assured.
The 2015 entry, Electro Velvet, consisted of Alex Larke, the singer in a Rolling Stones tribute band, and Bianca Nicholas, a former contestant on The Voice.
Their song, Still In Love With You, was submitted to the BBC as part of an open call to songwriters, with the final selection made by a "panel of experts".
It scored just five points.
The BBC last allowed the public to choose the Eurovision entrant in 2010, when an unknown singer called Josh Dubovie was sent to Oslo with a mid-tempo, Steps-lite song called That Sounds Good To Me.
The Essex-born singer came last, prompting the BBC to select the 2011 contestant internally. Boy band Blue subsequently came 11th with the ballad I Can.
A study by Eurovision fan site ESC Insight suggests that songs selected by committee tend to fare slightly better than those chosen in a televised vote. However, the difference is marginal.
It is not yet known how the BBC will approach the 2016 contest. | Pop star Will Young has said he would not enter the Eurovision Song Contest because it is "a poisoned chalice". |
38,296,010 | Brecon and Radnorshire MP Chris Davies said the UK government should have a way of being able to "take powers back" from Cardiff after the Pisa results.
Wales fell behind the rest of the UK for the third time in the international tests published last week.
The Welsh Government said it recognised there was "work to do".
During a meeting of the Welsh affairs committee Mr Davies asked Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns if he thought Westminster should be able to put the Welsh Government into the high intervention category.
He said: "Do you not wish there would be a mechanism in there to take powers back to this place to be able to sort out, just as the Welsh Assembly have the powers to put local authorities under special measures and hospitals into special measures.
"Don't you think there should be an opportunity for us to do the same?"
But Mr Cairns said people would be able to have their say at the assembly elections over the devolved matter.
"I think that people, parents, will be able to express their disquiet at the ballot box and challenge the Welsh Government ministers and the Welsh Government as a whole on their success or failure of any particular area of policy," he said.
A Welsh Labour spokesman said: "Devolution is the settled will of the Welsh people, it's sad but unsurprising to see Tory politicians advocating overriding a democratic decision in such a way.
"Rather than pointless politicking, maybe Mr Davies should look to devolution for some inspiration."
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "We remain confident that our emphasis on leadership, teacher development and collective responsibility - rather than grammar schools - will continue to drive up standards in our system.
"The hard work is underway, but we recognise there is more to do." | Westminster should have the power to put the Welsh Government into "special measures" over its education record, a Conservative MP has suggested. |
33,843,768 | He died at his home in Connecticut of natural causes, his family said.
Frank Gifford won the 1956 NFL title with the New York Giants and was inducted into the American Football Hall of Fame in 1977.
After his playing career he moved into TV commentary, working for ABC's Monday Night Football from 1971 to 1997.
"Frank Gifford was the ultimate Giant. He was the face of our franchise for so many years," Giants President John Mara said.
Bob Iger, chairman of ABC's owner, the Walt Disney Company, described Gifford as "an exceptional man who will be missed by everyone who had the joy of seeing his talent on the field, the pleasure of watching his broadcasts, or the honour of knowing him".
Gifford made 367 catches for 5,434 yards with 43 touchdowns, whilst also running for 3,609 yards and 34 touchdowns.
He was the MVP in 1956 and was an eight-time selection to the Pro Bowl.
In a statement released to NBC News, the Gifford family said: "We ask that our privacy be respected at this difficult time and we thank you for your prayers."
Gifford married Kathie Lee Gifford, a host on NBC's Today show, in 1986.
In a Twitter post, she said: "Deeply grateful to all 4 ur outpouring of grace. We r steadfast in our faith and finding comfort in knowing where Frank is." | Frank Gifford - a star American football player and later a broadcaster who helped to popularise the sport - has died aged 84. |
33,428,506 | The quintuplet consists of a pair of closely linked stars - binaries - one of which has a lone companion; it is the first known system of its kind.
The pair of stars orbit around a mutual centre of gravity, but are separated by more than the distance of Pluto's orbit around the Sun.
The findings have been presented at the UK National Astronomy Meeting in Llandudno.
The unusual system lies 250 light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered in data gathered by the SuperWASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets) project.
This uses relatively small and low-cost cameras in the Canary Islands and South Africa to image much of the sky every few minutes.
Measurements of the brightness of individual stars are, over years, assembled into light curves - plots of brightness against time.
When the stars pass in front of one another, they produce a regular pattern of pairs of dips in the light curve.
Data from the new system revealed the existence of two binary stars, one of which was a so-called contact binary.
Co-author Dr Marcus Lohr, from the Open University, told BBC News that these contact binaries were stars that orbit so closely they share an outer atmosphere.
The other star pair - a detached binary - has a separation distance of some three million km. The two binaries orbit in the same plane at a distance of 21 billion km.
Follow-up observations of different wavelengths of light coming from the star system uncovered a fifth star, which is linked to the detached binary star.
"This is a truly exotic star system. In principle there's no reason why it couldn't have planets in orbit around each of the pairs of stars. Any inhabitants would have a sky that would put the makers of Star Wars to shame," Dr Lohr said.
"There could sometimes be no fewer than five Suns of different brightnesses lighting up the landscape."
Dr Lohr said the fact the stars all orbited in the same plane suggested they had all formed out of the same "proto-stellar disk" of dust and gas.
He added that systems containing this many linked stars were extremely rare, but at least one other five-star system had been discovered by Nasa's Kepler planet-hunting telescope.
Follow Paul on Twitter. | Astronomers have discovered a very rare system of five connected stars. |
36,485,755 | The 27-year-old leaves as a free agent after the Scottish champions decided against triggering a clause for another year on his contract.
The Republic of Ireland international moved to Celtic Park in 2010 and scored 77 goals in 192 games.
Stokes spent the second half of last season on loan at Hibernian and scored twice in the Scottish Cup final victory over Rangers at Hampden.
He netted nine goals in 25 appearances in what was his second spell at Easter Road.
New Rotherham boss Alan Stubbs has admitted his interest in working with Stokes again, having recently left Hibs.
"I wouldn't rule out an interest in Anthony Stokes," he said prior to Celtic's announcement. "But we wouldn't be on our own.
"There will be a number of clubs interested him, particularly if it's a free transfer.
"I know him from his time at Hibs and at Celtic. Obviously, it doesn't hurt that I have a good relationship with him already." | Celtic have confirmed the departure of striker Anthony Stokes. |
35,835,407 | The US-backed coalition of mostly Arab states began air strikes a year ago in support of Yemen's internationally recognised government.
A Saudi military spokesman said that the coalition would continue to provide air support to Yemeni forces.
The announcement came as the death toll from a strike on a market this week doubled to more than 100.
Witnesses said at least two missiles hit the busy market in the Mustaba district of Hajja province, north of the capital Sanaa, an area controlled by the Shia Houthi rebels.
Video footage purportedly of the aftermath of the strike showed what appeared to be the bodies of several children. A UN official said 22 children were among those killed.
In January, a UN panel found that coalition air strikes had targeted civilians in Yemen and assessed that some attacks might constitute crimes against humanity.
The Houthi rebels are fighting forces loyal to exiled President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi. The fighting has killed more than 6,200 civilians, displaced millions and pushed the Arab world's poorest country to the brink of famine.
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Saudi military spokesman Brigadier General Ahmed al-Asiri told the Associated Press that the coalition would continue to provide air support to Yemeni forces battling the Houthis.
"The aim of the coalition is to create a strong cohesive government with a strong national army and security forces that can combat terrorism and impose law and order across the country," Mr al-Asiri said.
Only "small" teams of coalition troops would remain on the ground to "equip, train, and advise" Yemeni forces, which are gradually replacing coalition forces, he said.
The attack on the market in Hajja province was the second deadliest in Yemen since the Saudi-led air strikes began, after an air strike hit a wedding party in September, killing at least 131 people.
Mr Al-Asiri said the coalition was investigating the attack, arguing that Tuesday's airstrikes targeted a "gathering area" for Houthi fighters, located about 10km (6 miles) away from the market.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned the strike. He said: "Attacks directed against civilians and civilian objects, including populated markets, are strictly prohibited."
On Wednesday, Jamie McGoldrick, the UN's humanitarian chief in Yemen, said none of the warring parties in Yemen were fulfilling their obligations to protect civilians or facilitate humanitarian assistance.
The war has left Yemen fragmented and facing a humanitarian crisis. Militants from the so-called Islamic State group have also taken advantage of the chaos to wage a series of deadly attacks across the country. | Saudi Arabia has said its military coalition will scale back operations against rebels in Yemen. |
32,842,995 | When the literary heavyweight was invited to the city 90 years ago, it was not in the capacity for which he is most well-known - as the creator of master detective Sherlock Holmes.
Instead, he was on a crusade to spread the word on spiritualism, the religious faith centred on communication with the spirits of the dead.
Conan Doyle was a convert to the religion, and poured his time, effort and personal fortune into its development around the globe.
Such was his influence, he was referred to as the 'St Paul of Spiritualism', having written numerous publications on the subject and toured the world delivering lectures on it.
And now it was the turn of Belfast to hear his addresses. Two nights in the Ulster Hall were scheduled and promptly sold out.
One Belfast man who has just delivered his own lecture of the topic - in the Ulster Hall, of course - says controversy followed Conan Doyle wherever he went, and Belfast was no exception.
"The demand to hear him speak was huge," says Oscar Ross, of The Crew of the SS May Day, Northern Ireland's Sherlock Holmes Society.
"But the churches would've all been united against spiritualism and Conan Doyle came under attack from the mainstream Christian press and the pulpit, long before he even reached Belfast."
On Sunday 12 May, the day of Conan Doyle's arrival, sermons in opposition to his message began.
Letters pages in the newspapers were another battleground, and in between his social engagements and a day-trip to the Giant's Causeway, Conan Doyle fired off a response to the barbs he was receiving.
The Belfast Telegraph mailbag was brimming with correspondence on the visit, so much so that the newspaper's editor decided enough was enough: "The number of letters received on this subject has become so great that it is quite impossible to make space for them."
On the evenings of the lectures, 12 and 13 May, queues four-deep formed outside the Ulster Hall, while opponents handed out Biblical tracts with messages vehemently against what many described as the "spiritualist cult".
Inside the hall, virtually every seat was taken, and Conan Doyle told his listeners that in spiritualism they had something more solid than faith.
The lectures were an "intellectual treat", according to the Telegraph. "Sir Arthur is a gifted and racy speaker," it added.
The spiritualist movement was buoyed and Conan Doyle left the following day. But not everyone was impressed.
"The debate raged on in the newspaper columns," Mr Ross says. "An editorial in the Northern Whig had a snipe, saying: 'The lecturer's attitude of benevolent incredulity was neither enlightening, nor convincing.'"
The Telegraph decided to publish one more letter on the matter, this time from Conan Doyle himself.
He had clearly been stung by some aspects of the reception he had received in the city.
"He points out what he called the 'prejudice' encountered in Belfast," Mr Ross says. "He writes in the letter: 'One paper refused entirely to advertise my lectures.'
"And he also mentions the pickets, what he calls the 'abusive handbills'. The fact he picks up on those things may indicate that one or two of these things may have been unique to the Belfast experience."
More anti-spiritualist sermons followed right through into July, with one preacher taking the lead for the opposition.
"The man who was the big figure against Conan Doyle's visits was Pastor W.E. Tocher," Mr Ross says. "He was a fiery preacher, and he hired the Ulster Hall for a reply to Conan Doyle within two weeks of the lectures.
"Again, the hall was packed to its utmost capacity, and Tocher's chief arguments against spiritualism were based on scriptural quotations."
So, what was the lasting legacy of the visit, if there was one at all?
Michael Flood, who is writing a book on the history of spiritualism in Ireland, says it paved the way for the first spiritualist church in Ireland to open in the city.
"The visit came just at the right time, because it helped spiritualists to come out of the shadows, gave them the ability to speak about it and see they weren't alone," he says.
"People still refer to it as the catalyst that brought people to the religion. It was a wholehearted success and I'm sure even Conan Doyle himself didn't realise how much."
But the religion never blossomed worldwide as Conan Doyle had envisaged, remaining only on the fringes.
"I think if you were to have asked Conan Doyle, he would've wanted to be known as an exponent of spiritualism," Mr Ross says.
"But today he is known almost entirely as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. I don't think that's the legacy he wanted to leave." | Headlines and hectoring, pickets and preachers - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's visit to Belfast in May 1925 was anything but elementary. |
31,676,896 | The 51-year-old will take a short time off work to recover after the bronchial carcinoid tumour is removed.
The BBC said he was aiming to be back working prior to May's general election.
Nick Robinson joined the BBC in 1986 as a trainee producer. He has been in his current role since 2005, having left the BBC for ITV for a short period.
A BBC spokesman said: "Everyone at the BBC wishes Nick a speedy recovery."
The sentiment was echoed by Prime Minister David Cameron and leader of the opposition Ed Miliband who both tweeted their best wishes.
The broadcaster, who has a wife and three children, thanked people on Twitter for their "many kind and generous messages".
The BBC said he had asked that he and his family be allowed "the space and privacy he needs in order to rest and recover fully before returning to work".
Carcinoid tumours are rare and tend to be slow growing and may not cause symptoms for several years, according to Cancer Research UK.
Around 25% start in the lung. | The BBC's political editor Nick Robinson is to have an operation to remove a tumour from his lung. |
36,248,181 | It said all the bidders were interested in the whole of the loss-making business, and it was not considering offers for parts of it.
Tata said it was also clarifying outstanding points with a "number of other interested parties".
The sale includes Port Talbot, the UK's largest steelworks, as well as sites at Newport and Rotherham.
About 4,000 people work at Port Talbot, some 1,300 at Newport, and about 1,200 at Rotherham. Tata also has operations at Corby, Shotton and Teesside.
Tata's Scunthorpe operation, which employs more than 3,000 people, has already been sold to investment firm Greybull Capital for a nominal £1.
The company said all the bidders had progressed to the next stage of the sale process, where they would now receive further information about the business.
Group executive director of Tata Steel, Koushik Chatterjee, said: "We believe that the bids being taken forward offer future prospects of sustainability for the UK business as a whole."
The UK government had been involved in helping to decide which bids would progress, he said.
The government has promised to support any buyer of Tata Steel UK by taking up to a 25% stake in a new business and lending hundreds of millions of pounds.
India's Tata Steel put the loss-making business up for sale earlier this year and is hoping for a quick sale process.
The company has not publicly set a deadline for any deal, but has made it clear it cannot sustain its £1m-a-day losses indefinitely and wants certainty for workers and customers.
"The sales process will continue as announced earlier in an expedited and robust manner," Mr Chatterjee said. | Tata Steel has confirmed that seven bidders are interested in buying its UK operations. |
37,540,795 | That might not, well, quite catch on. But there is certainly a sense of down with the old regime at the Tory conference today. Philip Hammond isn't just a totally different character to the former occupant of the job, George Osborne, but he is intent on junking a fair bit of Mr Osborne's approach too.
His targets for getting rid of the deficit are being ditched. Let's face it, George Osborne missed them time and again in any case, but it is politically a big shift for Mr Hammond and Mrs May to tear up the previous borrowing rules, when balancing the books was the central mission of the government they were all part of.
Instead, there will be a new "framework" but sources close to Mr Hammond believe that setting specific targets is a fool's errand. But given that Mr Osborne's target was extremely unlikely to be met, the political change is perhaps bigger than what it means in practice.
But what's different too, is that the the new chancellor will also borrow money to spend it - there'll be an announcement later to borrow £2bn to spend on housing. There were hints that Mr Hammond might do the same to build new infrastructure.
But don't expect tens upon tens of billions of pounds of public money to gush suddenly across the land. Philip Hammond, a careful, rigorous Conservative, has not suddenly become a full-throttle Keynesian.
Nonetheless it's a distinct change to the previous administration, although whispers suggest that with the uncertainties of Brexit, George Osborne was moving towards shifting his approach before he was unceremoniously dumped.
But what's also different about Mr Hammond is his style - don't expect any flashy announcements or any flashy phrases. In fact, like the overall tone of Theresa May's government, there is a lot less flash.
Yet even in his non-dramatic fashion, he has already made pretty downbeat predictions of what might happen to the economy as the reality of life outside the EU emerges.
Whatever political promises he makes today, what happens to the economy will determine his success or failure as chancellor, and he knows, even without the uncertainties of Brexit, that's not all within his control. | Out with the deficit hawks - in with the conservative pragmatists. |
34,768,054 | The 21-year-old scored his first try with a clever chip-and-chase against Northampton and followed that with a dancing effort against Harlequins the week after.
The ex-England Under-19 international made his debut in April 2013, but made just four outings before this campaign.
"It's good to get my chance and grab it with both hands," he told BBC Sport.
"Sale give a lot of opportunities for young boys, so taking those opportunities is a step forward ."
The former Manchester Rugby Club player was a fly-half growing up, but now hopes to cement a position in the Sharks midfield.
"Anywhere in the centre, I don't mind either inside or outside," he said.
"I'm kind of leaning away from fly-half now as there is too much responsibility for me.
"I'm getting plenty of advice off Jonny [Leota] and Sammy [Tuitupou] who are great role models for me, I couldn't ask for anything better.
"Every day you're reminded boys pushing through like last year with Mike Haley - he was in my year so to see him go through to the first-team motivates you more to push on as a player." | Sale Sharks centre Sam James aims to continue taking his opportunities after his run in the first-team this season. |
32,387,962 | Stones and other missiles were thrown at officers in the Glebetown area.
"This is an extremely difficult and sensitive call to attend for the officers involved," police said.
"It is totally unacceptable that a family who were trying to grieve in a dignified manner, were subjected to having to witness this behaviour." | Police have asked the public to help them identify people who attacked officers at the scene of a sudden death in Downpatrick on Saturday night. |
36,379,252 | The 25-year-old helped Arsenal finish in second place in the Premier League and played in eight of Wales' 10 games as they qualified for Euro 2016.
"I've played in some big games and everybody's eyes will be on this tournament," he told BBC Wales Sport.
"I've never been in a tournament before. I want to come here and show what I'm capable of doing."
This summer's competition will be Wales' first appearance at the finals of a major championship since the 1958 World Cup.
And Ramsey believes Chris Coleman's side can perform well when it matters.
"It was one of my biggest targets to help Wales qualify for a major tournament. It was a big achievement not just for me personally but for this team and our country," he added.
"Now we're here, we don't want to be rolled over every game that we play, we want to make a statement and show we're capable of doing it."
Ramsey believes Wales can draw upon the experience of their squad and do not have to rely on Gareth Bale this summer.
"We're delighted to have him in our team but it's not just him, it's the whole team, we've had to work hard," Ramsey continued.
"Defensively we've been solid, we haven't conceded many goals in the [qualifying] campaign and we have players who can counter-attack and create things and put the ball in the back of the net. I think we have a good balance."
Who do you think should start at Euro 2016? Step into Chris Coleman’s shoes and pick your XI - and then share it with your friends using our brand new team selector. | Wales midfielder Aaron Ramsey says he will use the European Championships to prove he can play at the highest level. |
16,150,178 | John Henshall, 69, from Stanford-in-the-Vale, Oxfordshire, retained a copy of Bowie performing Jean Genie in 1973.
He said: "I just couldn't believe that I was the only one with it. I just thought you wouldn't be mad enough to wipe a tape like that."
It was unveiled on Sunday at an event held by the British Film Institute.
The annual event, Missing Believed Wiped, was the first time the footage had been seen since January 1973.
Mr Henshall said he only kept it because he wanted it for his showreel.
In the footage he used Telefex Fisheye lenses which he had designed himself. He also ended up in the background of one of the shots.
After the recording he asked producers for a personal copy on 2in (5cm) broadcast videotape.
Mr Henshall said: "I didn't realise that it had been wiped by the BBC.
"They'd been looking for it for years, hoping that somebody had maybe pointed an 8mm home movie camera at the screen, because there was no VHS in those days.
"I didn't realise that anybody wanted it. I'd just had it because it was my Fisheye.
"I had loads of ideas for optical effects back then."
Bowie's performance of Jean Genie was recorded on 3 January 1973 and transmitted the following day for the first and only time.
After realising he had a "rarer than rare" piece of television history, Mr Henshall went to Westpoint Television in London to view the footage.
"The hairs stood up on the back of my neck," he said.
"There it was in full broadcast quality. Amazing."
After his time with Top of the Pops, Mr Henshall went on to film professional music videos for Blondie, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Kate Bush, Spandau Ballet, Roxy Music and Queen.
Among other items recovered and shown at Sunday's event were two missing episodes of Doctor Who, a television play by Dennis Potter called Emergency Ward 9 and a comedy sketch featuring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
The first transmission of Jean Genie since 1973 will be in a BBC4 documentary, Tales of Television Centre, to be broadcast in the new year. | A cameraman has been speaking of the moment he realised he owned footage of David Bowie on Top of the Pops which was thought to be lost. |
27,513,080 | On Wednesday in Borno state's Alagarno village, relatives and friends buried 17 of their loved ones after yet another night-time raid by suspected Boko Haram fighters. The insurgents spent four hours killing, looting and torching every building before stealing vehicles and driving away without facing any military response whatsoever.
The night before, people in Shawa village went through hell when the insurgents struck. There were 10 more burials and the insurgents promised to come back to kill all the men and take the women away.
Both these villages are not far from Chibok, where more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped last month. They are still missing.
But these latest 27 victims will not feature in any Twitter campaign like the abducted Chibok girls. They will join the list of thousands who have been killed and forgotten by all but their relatives and friends.
Government officials may not even utter the names Alagarno or Mawa. More troops have been sent to the towns in Borno but these remote villages seem virtually off limits to the military hence the insurgents' ability to attack for several hours and drive around in convoys.
Turning this around will not be easy but equipping the soldiers better would be a start.
Some Nigerian troops complain that they are outgunned by Boko Haram fighters. There have also been complaints over non-payment of salaries so it comes as no surprise that there have been reports of soldiers fleeing rather than fighting when the insurgents roll into a village, guns blazing.
The Chibok abductions led to intense international interest. While politicians around the world did not want to be accused of doing nothing to help rescue them, there will be a reluctance by many countries to become deeply embroiled in this complex conflict beyond sending advisers to Abuja and flying surveillance aircraft many thousands of feet above the war zone.
This is partly because the Nigerian military has frequently been accused of committing gross human rights abuses.
The second side of the violence is the bombing campaign. More than 200 people have been killed since last month in a series of blasts over a wide area from Abuja to Kano and now Jos.
Boko Haram has in the past said it wanted to create an Islamic state. But these blasts appear intended to kill as many people as possible and they are indiscriminate, killing Christians and Muslims, children and adults.
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If the Jos attack was carried out by Boko Haram, then the Islamist extremists have learned to make far more sophisticated bombs in recent years. The twin bombing in Jos was a more ferocious attack than the blasts carried out by Boko Haram in 2012 when it seemed the aim was to foment religious violence.
For more than a decade, Jos, in the Middle Belt of Nigeria, has been the scene of frequent outbreaks of violence that are often described as religious clashes. In fact, they are rooted in competition for land, resources and political power.
Religious leaders have been calling on people to show restraint and not allow the bombings to spark further violence.
Where is this all heading? The ferocity, frequency and geographical spread of the attacks is alarming. There are people who suspect part of the anarchy is tied in with next year's elections and some politicians' thirst for power which goes hand in hand with immense wealth.
These days the president and government officials take less time to condemn the attacks, but there is no real sign that the military has the capacity to turn the tide against this brutal campaign of violence.
That is what terrifies many Nigerians. | The Boko Haram assault on Nigeria is on two very different fronts - first there are the violent raids on villages in the north-east, then there are the bomb attacks over a much wider area. |
26,480,694 | Emmanuel Edet, 59, and Antan Edet, 56, have been charged with holding a person in slavery or servitude and assisting unlawful immigration.
It is alleged the man was brought into the country in 1989 and was denied education or a passport.
The alleged victim, who was moved around addresses in England, approached police at the end of last year. | A couple are to face court over accusations they kept a man as a slave for 24 years. |
33,187,732 | The city council announced a £3.5m deal with airline Emirates to rebrand the Spinnaker Tower earlier this month.
The decision upset 10,000 people who signed a petition against a branding plan as red and white are the colours of football rivals Southampton.
More than 100 litres of red paint, bought in readiness for the work, will now be given away to good causes.
Following "collective feedback", new plans show the tower painted blue and gold.
Blue is the traditional colour of the city of Portsmouth and its football team.
Donna Jones, leader of Portsmouth City Council said: "We have listened to the public and created a new blue, gold and white design that is in keeping with suggestions from residents.
"[It] gives us a unique opportunity to promote Portsmouth around the world."
She said there was "no change at all to the financial deal" following the U-turn.
"We wouldn't have to do any of this if we weren't so desperately short of money. We have a primary school places crisis at the moment - this money is going towards building new classrooms."
However Portsmouth's Liberal Democrat opposition said the saga had made the city the "laughing stock of the country".
Councillor Ben Dowling said: "It's good that the new design isn't red but we still have some fairly serious questions about the process that has taken place.
"Most Portsmouth people are asking 'why didn't we just get asked in the first place?' - someone surely would have pointed out that red wasn't the best idea."
The council said 115 litres of red paint already purchased by the airline would be made available to charities and community organisations in Hampshire.
Sir Tim Clark, President of Emirates said: "We listened to the feedback and worked with the council to adapt the designs in order to create something that Portsmouth residents will be proud of."
An application for advertising consent has been posted on the Portsmouth City Council website.
It states: "Brand logo and brand name will be adhered to the tower legs and lower ground signage base."
There are currently 13 objections to the plans on the planning site.
A number of them, made before the new design was released, ask for full plans to be made available for public consultation.
One states: "As no pictorial representation accompanies this application it is impossible to judge the acceptability of what is proposed. Therefore I object."
The tower is to be called the Emirates Spinnaker Tower in time for the America's Cup World Series sailing event in July.
Branding will remain in place for five years.
If advertising consent is approved the council will be permitted to have branding on the tower until June 2022.
The 560ft (170m) tower opened in 2005 and is owned by the council but run by a private company.
It is believed a planning committee meeting is to be held on 7 July to discuss the application. | A Portsmouth landmark is to be painted blue and gold following an outcry over the use of red in the previous plan. |
33,835,776 | South Wales Police are "concerned over the well-being" of Alec Warburton, 59, who has not been seen since 31 July.
Officers have been searching in and around his home in Vivian Road and a police tent was erected on the street on Thursday.
Police are searching for Mr Warburton's tenant, David Craig Ellis, who they think may have information about his disappearance.
Police are also trying to locate Mr Warburton's green Peugeot 205, which CCTV inquiries have confirmed was being used until 2 August.
A CCTV image of the car, registration M805 HFJ, has been released by officers in the hope somebody will recall seeing it.
Det Supt Simon Davies, said: "We are concerned for the well-being of Mr Warburton as he does not seem to have spoken to, or been seen by anybody, since 31 July.
"We urgently want to speak to David Craig Ellis - a tenant of Mr Warburton - as we believe he may have vital information which could help with our investigation." | Detectives are searching for the tenant of a missing man from Swansea. |
22,989,273 | The term refers to 17 people murdered and secretly buried by republican paramilitaries during the Troubles.
Since searches began, the bodies of 10 of the Disappeared have been recovered.
A further seven people have never been found.
They include west Belfast IRA man Joe Lynskey, Brendan Megraw from Twinbrook and SAS-trained officer Capt Robert Nairac.
The statement was issued to coincide with the launch of a new book The Disappeared Of Northern Ireland's Troubles that collates the personal stories of 14 of the families.
A day of reflection on the Troubles, and the future, is also being held on Friday, the longest day of the year.
"It is a day to reflect on the conflict in Northern Ireland and to acknowledge the deep hurt and pain caused," said Kate Turner, director of Healing Through Remembering.
"It is also a time to reflect on our attitudes with regards to what more we might have done and might now do, in order to bring about a peaceful new society." | Actors Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt are backing an appeal by the families of the Disappeared for information that could lead to the recovery of the victims still not found. |
35,502,574 | Here BBC Wales examines how the allegations first came to light and how they were handled by the authorities.
Even before a major police investigation in 1991, there had been growing concern about allegations of abuse in children's homes across north Wales.
Care workers in the former county of Clwyd had been convicted of sex abuse as long ago as 1976.
In 1986, Alison Taylor, head of a children's home in Gwynedd, approached a local councillor about alleged assaults against children in care.
A police investigation followed but the CPS said no criminal proceedings would be justified.
Ms Taylor was sacked but she continued to make a noise, taking her concerns to government and the media.
Over the next few years, she compiled a dossier detailing complaints relating to children in care in Gwynedd and Clwyd. In June 1991, she presented it to Clwyd County Council.
This, coupled with the fact that between 1987 and 1991, three men had been jailed for sex offences against children in care in Clwyd, prompted the council to act.
It wrote to North Wales Police requesting an investigation, which was later extended to children's homes in Gwynedd.
Between 1991 and 1993, North Wales Police took 3,500 statements from about 2,500 potential witnesses.
The police recommended 20 suspects should be prosecuted.
In the end only eight former care workers were charged.
Seven were convicted, including the former deputy head of Bryn Estyn, Peter Howarth, who died three years into a 10-year jail sentence and John Allen, founder of the Bryn Alyn Community of private residential schools, who was sent to prison for six years.
Meanwhile, Ms Taylor campaigned for a public inquiry; questions were asked in the House of Commons and speculation over more widespread abuse continued.
In 1994 Clwyd County Council commissioned former Derbyshire social services chief John Jillings to conduct an internal investigation.
The so-called Jilllings report was completed in 1996 but it was shelved on the advice of lawyers, for fear it might prompt libel actions and a rash of compensation claims.
The 300-page report was eventually published - in a redacted form - in 2013, following a Freedom of Information request by the BBC.
It noted evidence of "extensive" abuse taking place over "a substantial number of years".
There was also criticism of how the authorities had dealt with complaints of abuse, branding their response "too little and too late".
In May 1995, while the ill-fated Jillings report was still being compiled, the Welsh Office appointed Nicola Davies QC to conduct a separate investigation into the abuse allegations and to examine the need for a full judicial inquiry.
Seven months later, she concluded that such an inquiry would not be in the public interest.
But she did recommend that a detailed examination of the practices and procedures of the social services departments in Clwyd and Gwynedd should take place.
The subsequent report - written by former Birmingham social services director Adrienne Jones and published in 1996 - revealed further failures in child protection.
Declaring that the Government was "determined that there should be no cover-up of events in the past" the then Welsh Secretary William Hague announced a full public inquiry.
High Court Judge Sir Ronald Waterhouse was put in charge.
The £13m inquiry took evidence from more than 650 people.
Its report, "Lost In Care" was finally published in 2000, three years after it began.
It contained 700 allegations of abuse involving 170 individuals.
Sir Ronald found there had been "appalling mistreatment" of children over a period of 20 years.
The report found that a paedophile ring did exist in the Wrexham and Chester areas, with adult men targeting boys in their mid-teens, particularly those in care.
But it said the inquiry had had seen no evidence that prominent public figures were involved in the ring.
Sir Ronald also said Alison Taylor's allegations were "substantially vindicated" and noted that without her complaints, there would not have been any inquiry into the alleged abuse of children in care in Gwynedd.
A total of 72 recommendations were made as a result of the inquiry.
These included the creation of Wales's first Children's Commissioner - which took place in 2001, the implementation of whistle-blowing procedures, allowing social workers to visit children in their care every eight weeks and a nationwide review of the needs and costs of children's services.
The Waterhouse report was supposed to draw a line under events which blighted the lives of so many young people.
But even at the time, critics said its remit was too limited.
The major concern lay with an order which banned the identification of 28 alleged abusers.
Clwyd South MP Martyn Jones called the report a "whitewash".
More than a decade later, in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, allegations of a cover-up emerged once again, when former Bryn Estyn resident Steve Messham said the full scale of the abuse was not uncovered by the Waterhouse report.
Previously abusers identified by Mr Messham had been convicted for their offences.
In November 2012 a Newsnight programme reported him saying that a Conservative politician from the Thatcher era abused him a number of times.
Although not named by the programme, this led to incorrect speculation on the internet that the man in question was former Tory treasurer Lord McAlpine.
The peer denied the reports describing them "wholly false and seriously defamatory".
Mr Messham later said police at the time had showed him a picture of his abuser but incorrectly told him the man was Lord McAlpine.
The BBC issued an unreserved apology for the Newsnight report which led to Lord McAlpine being wrongly implicated in the alleged abuse.
Director General George Entwistle resigned as a result of the error.
In the wake of these fresh claims and the suggestion of an establishment cover-up, Home Secretary Theresa May announced two new inquiries.
One was the Macur review - its remit was to look at the scope of the Waterhouse Inquiry and determine whether any specific allegations of child abuse falling within the inquiry's terms of reference were not investigated.
The other was Operation Pallial, an independent National Crime Agency investigation charged with looking into new allegations and reviewing the historic police investigations.
To date, Operation Pallial has been contacted by 334 people about child abuse in north Wales.
Seven people have been convicted to date, including Bryn Alyn boss John Allen, who was jailed for life, and five members of a predatory paedophile ring, who received a total of 43 years in jail.
A total 102 complaints are being actively investigated and two more trials have been set for 2016, with further trials expected to follow. | The Macur review is the latest in a long line of inquiries, reports and investigations into sexual and physical abuse at north Wales children's homes in the 1970s and 80s. |
38,618,731 | Shots were also heard at the main army barracks in the commercial capital, Abidjan.
The government is currently holding talks with military leaders after a pay dispute led to a two-day uprising.
A rebellion was calmed last week when the government agreed to the military's demands.
But a negotiator for the soldiers said the renewed gunfire stemmed from fears that the government was going back on the deal to pay their bonuses.
Hundreds of soldiers surrounded the building in Bouake where talks were taking place, and fired weapons in the air.
Defence Minister Alain-Richard Donwahi was inside, having flown back into the city earlier in the day to lead negotiations.
Mr Donwahi was briefly held hostage by the military earlier this week.
President Alassane Ouattara appealed for calm following the mutiny, and dismissed the heads of the army, police and paramilitary gendarmes.
Order was believed to have been restored, but the flare-up has renewed security concerns.
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The mutiny began in Bouake a week ago, with soldiers firing rocket launchers.
Protests also took place in the cities of Man, Daloa, Daoukro, Odienne and Korhogo, and, the following day, soldiers took over the army headquarters in Abidjan.
President Ouattara went on national television on Sunday to announce a deal had been struck.
"I confirm that I have agreed to take into account the demands of the soldiers over bonuses and better working conditions," he said.
Aside from better pay, the agreement was reported to include an amnesty for the mutineers.
The mutiny raised fears of a resurgence of the violence seen during Ivory Coast's 10-year civil war, which ended in 2011.
Some of the mutineers were thought to be former rebels who joined the army after the conflict. | Heavy gunfire broke out in Ivory Coast's second-largest city, Bouake, late on Friday, as tensions flared following last week's army mutiny. |
36,665,333 | It was the second rally in two days for Wall Street, which had been rattled by investor concerns over Britain's vote to leave the European Union.
The Dow Jones rose 284.96 points, or 1.64%, to 17,694.6.
The S&P 500 gained 34.68 points, or 1.7%, to 2,070.7 points, and the Nasdaq added 87.38, or 1.86%, to 4,779.2.
Citigroup jumped 4.2%, while American Express rose 3.5% and JPMorgan Chase gained 2.8%.
Several oil and gas production and transportation companies notched solid gains as the price of crude oil rose sharply.
The gains are "textbook buy-the-dip activity following a big sell-off," said Briefing.com analyst Patrick O'Hare. "It may be nice to see, but just be aware that the lack of a fundamental driver leaves the rally effort on tenuous ground."
Nike shares were the best performer on the Dow Jones, rising 3.84% despite reporting a fall in fourth quarter profit to $486m. | (Close): Banks and other financial companies led another broad surge in US stocks, following strong gains for European markets. |
19,349,371 | The former SS man is not German, nor is he living in Germany.
He was allegedly a camp guard in 1944, when about 344,000 Jews from Hungary were murdered in the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers in occupied Poland.
Prosecutors in Weiden, Bavaria, are to decide whether to charge him and try to bring him to Germany to face trial.
The man is believed to have lived in the Weiden area before going abroad after World War II.
German officials have not named him, but the Sueddeutsche Zeitung news website says the suspect is believed to be a Slovak now living in Philadelphia, in the US.
The chief prosecutor at Germany's office investigating Nazi war crimes, Kurt Schrimm, said details on the suspect came to light during the high-profile Demjanjuk investigation.
In March this year Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk, found guilty for his role as a Nazi guard at the Sobibor death camp, died aged 91. He had been sentenced to five years in prison by a German court in May 2011.
Auschwitz was the biggest Nazi death camp where more than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, were murdered. | German prosecutors are examining the case of an 87-year-old Nazi suspect accused of involvement in mass murder at the Auschwitz death camp. |
36,807,947 | David Begley, 47, from Gorseinon, Swansea, made references to rape in messages to Ms Wood as she appeared on a TV debate about the referendum.
Begley, a music promoter and DJ, admitted sending a communication conveying an offensive message.
He was sentenced at Swansea Magistrates' Court.
Ms Wood represented the Remain campaign in debates during the build-up to the referendum vote.
Stephen Harrett, defending, said: "He sent the message on the spur of the moment." | An internet troll has been jailed for 12 weeks for offensive comments posted on Twitter to Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood. |
11,084,758 | Pc Adrian Merron, 46, was due to stand trial on a total of 58 charges.
But the Lothian and Borders officer admitted 10 charges and the Crown accepted not guilty pleas to the rest.
Six of the charges were viewing records about crimes of public indecency. Merron is still suspended from the force while inquiries are carried out.
One charge was looking at information about a domestic incident, another related to a drunk man and another was intelligence on a female involved in prostitution.
The last charge involved the accused logging on to view information relating to a sex assault on a female bus passenger in Edinburgh.
Fiscal depute Gillian More said: "The police witnesses carried out the surveillance and established that the accused was regularly viewing personal information in crime reports, intelligence logs and operational incidents.
"His desktop activity on each computer was recorded by these officers."
Defence agent David Hunter said: "Although there is the statutory defence of accessing the information for police purposes that does not really apply here.
"His nose got the better of him and he was curious."
Sheriff Derrick McIntyre asked Mr Hunter if Merron could be described as a "nosy parker" who was "filling in time"?
The solicitor replied: "There is really no legitimate reason for accessing the information other than curiosity."
A Lothian and Borders police spokesman said: "While he has been under investigation he has been suspended from duty and has had no access to any data systems.
"He will remain suspended while consideration is given to any breaches of the police conduct regulations." | A police officer who admitted snooping through the force computer and obtaining personal data about people has been fined £4,800. |
32,610,658 | The £3.5m 3T MRI scanner at the Royal Hospital for Children is the first in the south of England; the only other in the UK is at Alder Hey in Liverpool.
The scanner's image-guidance technology allows surgeons to conduct scans during a procedure to track progress.
It means children need undergo only one anaesthetic, reducing distress.
Mike Carter, consultant neurosurgeon at the children's hospital said the scanner was "150,000 times more powerful than the earth's magnetic field", providing "phenomenally accurate 3D images".
"It lets us see abnormalities in the brain - such as lesions which cause epilepsy - that we may not have previously been able to see, and allows us to look at the ways memories are formed and where they are stored," said Mr Carter.
The scanner was paid for by the Wallace and Gromit Grand Appeal and through donations to its Gromit Unleashed arts trail in 2013, as well as major donations from Children With Cancer and Garfield Weston Foundation. | Pioneering neurosurgery equipment has been installed at a Bristol hospital, allowing surgeons to operate in the deepest parts of the brain. |
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34,244,370 | A look through the early press archives shows that his most predictable trait as MP of the north London constituency was to do the unpredictable.
Opinions on his style of dress have never been far away, either.
The first half of his tenure tells of a man sympathetic to controversial causes; of rebellion; and even of the gift of an organic marrow.
1983
- Mr Corbyn ignores convention for his maiden speech by making controversial statements. He attacks the Conservative government, newspapers and critics of Islington Council and accuses the government of "robbing Islington of £23m in rate support grant [the central government grant given to local authorities which can be used to finance revenue expenditure]".
He says he will speak up continuously for a borough "maligned by the government and the press mercilessly".
- He campaigns for a lorry ban in Islington following an accident in St Paul's Road in which two people were killed and a house seriously damaged.
He tells the Islington Gazette that "there never was a justification for allowing the size and weight of lorries that exist on our roads and there is even less justification with the completion of the M25 for any opposition to a heavy goods vehicle ban throughout London".
1984
- Mr Corbyn is arrested with 100 other anti-apartheid demonstrators outside the South African embassy.
- He is given his first dressing down for scruffy dress in the Commons with Conservative MP Terry Dicks calling for sanctions against those who do not conform to dress standards. Archway residents tell the Islington Gazette they do not mind that he wears an old polo-necked sweater knitted by his mother.
- His surgeries attract the Islington Gazette's attention because he provides tea, TV and toys and sessions for Turkish people with interpreters.
1986
- Asian Times reports he opposes plans to introduce one-person operation on the 43, 149 and 279 bus routes. He says: "One-person operation is mad. It will make it very difficult for frail and elderly people to get on the bus."
1987
- He receives £250 for wrongfully being arrested outside the South African embassy.
- The hiring of Ronan Bennett - convicted in 1975 for the murder of an Ulster police inspector - as Mr Corbyn's Commons researcher attracts condemnation and raises the issue of security clearance for Commons staff. Mr Bennett's sentence had been quashed on appeal after he served 13 months in prison. [He is now a high profile author and screenwriter, and a murder inquiry was reopened in 2011.]
1988
- More complaints about Mr Corbyn's dress. Conservative MP Richard Holt complains to the Speaker that he is allowed to debate despite not being "properly attired" in a collar and tie. Mr Corbyn tells the Islington Gazette: "Frankly I am not interested in what Tory MPs think of what I wear."
1990
- A letter to the Islington Gazette criticises the time Mr Corbyn spends on international cases. A resident says he is more interested in Central America and Chile than the closure of Twelve Trees residential home.
- He is presented with an organically-grown marrow at Gillespie Park summer fair. Ninka Shepherd who grew it remarks that "he always answers all his letters and [is] one of the most hard-working MPs in Parliament".
- Sending his son Ben to a private Montessori nursery courts criticism. He tells the Chronicle he has no choice because only children with poor parents get a place in a council-run nursery and with his MP salary it rules him out.
1991
- He appears at Highbury Magistrates' Court for not paying his poll tax bill of £481. Sixteen other residents join him, all opposing the levy on grounds other than inability to pay.
He tells the Times: "I am here today because thousands of people who elected me just cannot afford to pay."
1993
- On BBC Radio 4's PM programme he criticises Labour leader John Smith for "failing to articulate the views of the mass of the people".
Islington Labour councillor Greg Hayman tells the Islington Gazette: "It is typical of Jeremy to put the boot into the leadership when John Smith is 20 points ahead in the opinion polls."
1996
- He campaigns for a third inquest to be held into the death of Leon Patterson from Islington, found dead in a police cell in Greater Manchester in 1992.
1999
- The decision over where Mr Corbyn and Claudia Bracchitta's son Ben is to be schooled prompts accusations of hypocrisy.
Ms Bracchitta tells the Observer: "I couldn't send Ben to a school where I knew he wouldn't be happy. Whereas Jeremy was able to make one sort of decision, I wasn't."
The Observer reports that by its GCSE results, Islington is the third worst education authority in the country; while Holloway, where Ben was offered a place, is on the list of failing schools.
2000
- Seventeen years into his job he warns that Labour lost the local council election because "there was a perception they were not delivering quality of service".
- He tells the Highbury and Islington Express: "I remember when Arsenal won the cup at Wembley in 1998 and I missed a goal. I asked the man next to me who scored and he said, 'Marc Overmars. Now, Mr Corbyn, what is happening with my plumbing?'"
Thanks to Islington Heritage Centre. | Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the opposition, has been Islington North MP for 32 years. |
39,584,495 | When the big day came, she posted about the gear, the energy gels, and the coconut waters that would sustain her through the 26.2 miles (42.1km)
Cindy ran the race of her life, finishing the New York Marathon in just 3 hours 17 minutes and 29 seconds - a lot faster than her pace in previous half-marathon finishes, which each took a little over two hours.
"Ran my heart out today and left everything on the course. All the training paid off and qualified for the Boston Marathon!" she posted on Instagram, along with a post-race selfie and a photo with the finisher's medal.
But Cindy's incredible marathon time seemed just a little too incredible to a man sitting at his computer nearly 640 miles away.
Derek Murphy, a former marathoner and business analyst who lives outside Cincinnati, has made a name for himself exposing marathon cheats on his blog, Marathon Investigation.
During his racing days, he frequented online message boards about big races, which occasionally featured a high-profile cheating scandal.
"There was so much tension from those specific cases, I just wondered how many other people cheated," he said.
Murphy's investigative process has evolved since he first started looking at race results.
He has gone from looking at missed split times in public race results to peering into other clues like suspiciously fast race times, starting line and finish line photos, and bystander video footage recorded at races.
When Murphy heard about Cindy's speedy personal record, he started scrolling through the New York race photos looking for evidence that she had honestly run her improbably fast race.
He didn't find any photos of the petite brunette running on the course. However, he did find a photo of a tall, athletically-built man running with Cindy's bib pinned to his shirt.
After Murphy sent the photos and Cindy's former half-marathon times to the New York Marathon organisers and published a story on his blog, Cindy was disqualified.
She is one of about 30 runners identified by Murphy who sought entry into the 2017 Boston Marathon using fabricated times.
At least 15 of those runners were disqualified from showing up at the starting line in Boston's Hopkinton neighbourhood when the starting gun goes off on Monday.
Some of the remaining 15 might get to run the race, but their results will be closely scrutinised. Murphy expects to identify many more people who cheated to get to Boston after the race is completed.
Only the fastest amateur and elite runners can earn a spot in the iconic Boston Marathon.
Men under 35 need a finish better than three hours and five minutes in an earlier marathon to earn a spot. Women under 35 have 30 extra minutes.
While around 30,000 people are fast enough to run the marathon each year, more than 4,500 qualified runners were turned away in 2016 because too many people registered for the race.
"The integrity of the sport is enormously important to us, and to the athletes who run in our races," said a spokesperson for the Boston Athletic Association in an email statement.
"When it comes to qualifying for Boston, we rely on the race organisers and timing systems they employ to produce accurate results, and we also rely on the honesty and integrity of 99.99% of competitors who compete fairly in pursuit of their personal records."
Murphy said he thinks the actual number of cheaters is probably higher than the 0.01% cited by Marathon officials - which would be just three people - but he thinks it is still a small percentage.
Finding those rare cheats can be tough.
"There's no governing body for marathons per se to look at results," Murphy said. "Most of the time race timers and directors definitely do care, but there's a lack of resources."
Cheating in a marathon can come in many forms. Some cut a few miles out of their qualifying race. Others give their racing bib to someone a bit faster. In rare cases, people pay to have their results altered.
Most races have methods in place to detect the most obvious examples of cheating. The race bibs have tracking devices that log a runner's split time at mats placed strategically throughout the course.
Sometimes missed mats and unbelievably quick splits will alert race officials to the foul play. But cheaters often slip across the finish line and into race results unnoticed by race timers. Some of these people claim amazing times - good enough to get into Boston.
Mr Murphy has caught cheats by looking at the distances displayed on GPS watches in finish line photos and by matching finish times with time stamps on video recordings of races.
When a runner whose qualifying time places them in an early corral position at the Boston Marathon but finishes in the back of the pack, Mr Murphy marks their race result as a priority for investigation. Often, if someone's Boston time is much slower than their qualifying time they may have cheated in an earlier race.
Instead of looking back at runners after the Boston Marathon happens as he has in the past, this year Murphy tried to find people who cheated to qualify before race day. He hopes that more honest runners with qualifying times near the cut-off will be able to run the race because of his analysis.
Not everyone agrees with Mr Murphy's methods. On the Marathon Investigation Facebook page, sandwiched between encouraging comments, the occasional criticism pops up, taking the blog to task for going after amateur runners and giving them too much attention.
Women's Running magazine published a critical opinion piece arguing that novice runners who cheat should not make the news.
Mr Murphy isn't always in the business of getting people disqualified from races. Sometimes, he does just the opposite.
Last year, Ryan Lee ran the London Marathon in just over four hours and 13 minutes, but after he finished a race official contacted him to tell him that he was disqualified for missing a timing mat. The race organisers thought he had cut the course.
One missed mat doesn't always mean someone cut a course - sometimes the mats don't cover the entire width of the course and a runner might accidentally run around it. But Mr Lee's time also seemed to be too fast - he appeared to catch up to runners who had started more than 15 minutes before him, very early in the race.
"It really was draining," Mr Lee said. "I raised quite a bit of money for my chosen charity and I put 110% into the actual marathon. To be then called a cheat after that really does make you feel distraught."
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Mr Lee and his mother, Elizabeth Lee, set out to try and prove that he had run the entire race. They tracked down photos of Mr Lee on different points on the course and sought out other runners who had seen him race. But finding sufficient evidence to convince the race director that Mr Lee was innocent was difficult.
"I thought I would never be able to prove that I never did cheat," Mr Lee said.
Mr Murphy heard about Mr Lee's case and began to look at the evidence - video footage of the race, photos, and Mr Lee's split times - and he noticed that Mr Lee appeared with runners who had a start time about 15 minutes before the London Marathon claimed he had started racing.
Crucially, Mr Lee was photographed beside those other runners before race officials said he had crossed the starting line.
Mr Murphy used these photos to prove that Mr Lee had actually started the race much earlier, and ultimately run a race about 15 minutes slower than the London Marathon had recorded.
Even with the missed mat at the 10km mark, Mr Lee's results made sense if his start time had been recorded incorrectly. When the race was presented with all of the evidence, they reinstated Mr Lee's official race times.
Proving foul play on the race course often requires more than just number crunching. Mr Murphy said that Mr Lee's case is a great example of why he looks at more than just race times.
"I was able to vindicate somebody, but if I had just looked at the data, I would have thought he cheated," Mr Murphy said.
Mr Lee still runs, in part because his racing record was cleared. He is planning to run the 2017 London Marathon later this month.
"I would love the do the marathon in America and meet Derek to say thank you for all the help." Mr Lee said.
"Without the help, I would still be known as a cheat." | For months, a runner named Cindy posted motivational photos on Instagram and Facebook, chronicling the miles she put in to prepare for the New York Marathon. |
38,528,239 | Ms Sugden also denied claims that she has the power to initiate a public inquiry into the botched scheme
She added that Mrs Foster and Martin McGuinness had "let her down" over their handling of the RHI crisis.
The justice minister was talking to BBC's Good Morning Ulster.
The RHI scheme is £490m over budget.
Ms Sugden has faced calls to instigate a public inquiry and she said it is possible for any government minister to initiate an inquiry.
However, she added that it is "not a justice department issue" and she would have to "consult with the executive committee" first.
"So people saying I have unilateral power on initiating a public inquiry are misinformed."
Ms Sugden also said she will not support a motion from Sinn Féin for First Minister Arlene Foster to step aside while an independent investigation takes place.
"I could support a motion that asks for an independent investigation. I would be in two minds about an investigation that is caveated by someone stepping aside because essentially that's punishment without proper fair investigation."
Ms Sugden also hit out at the first and deputy first ministers' handling of the RHI issue, but vowed not to resign.
The independent MLA was appointed justice minister in May after the Alliance Party turned down the role.
She agreed to take up the post after talks with First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Martin McGunness.
Theresa Villiers, the then secretary of state, said fresh assembly elections would be required if agreed justice minister could not be found.
"Martin and Arlene have both let me down," she said.
"I have not been sold a pup. But (when I took up the job) I did ask them one thing - let me do my job.
"And increasingly, particularly over the last four weeks, it's been difficult to do my job."
She added: "Resigning takes us down a path of no return quite frankly.
"My resigning will not ultimately collapse the executive but it will provide a significant difficulty for the first minister and deputy first minister as they will have to find an alternative justice minister."
She accused Sinn Féin and the DUP of political posturing and said she had been "very candid in my conversations with the first minster and deputy first minster".
"Over recent weeks I've met with them regularly I've spoke on the phone regularly and made my feelings clear.
"I'm angry about this as much as anyone in NI particularly because I took on this job and I now feel compromised in doing this job." | Justice Minister Claire Sugden has said she supports an independent investigation into the RHI scheme and does not think Arlene Foster should step aside while it takes place. |
37,737,767 | City and boss Guardiola were without a win in six matches in all competitions, but Sergio Aguero flashed in Ilkay Gundogan's through ball to give them the lead.
The Baggies were flat and Aguero struck again, punishing hesitant defending with a powerful, top-corner finish.
West Brom improved hugely after the break but failed to take their chances before Gundogan twice slotted home - first from Aguero's chip and then after being found by Kevin de Bruyne.
The win means City leapfrog Arsenal, who won 4-1 at Sunderland earlier in the day, into first place in the table with 10 matches played.
Tony Pulis' side struck the post through Gareth McAuley late on and should have got one back at 2-0 through Salomon Rondon, but they slip to 15th and are now without a win in their past five games.
Aguero's last goals for City came in the 3-1 league victory at Swansea on 24 September, which was also City's most recent win before today. Who better, then, to set the tone at the Hawthorns?
The Argentina striker's first was rifled in brilliantly after his clever run was matched by Gundogan's quality pass into the space between West Brom's two centre-backs.
His second was spectacular, but equally simple. McAuley and Jonas Olsson both should have cleared a loose ball on the edge of the box but hesitated, allowing the 28-year-old to set himself up and smash home.
That was his seventh league goal of the season - the joint best return with Chelsea's Diego Costa - and ends a spell of six matches without a goal.
West Brom's players were obviously deflated by Aguero's two goals in nine minutes, so Pulis deserves credit for managing to galvanise his side into producing a spirited second-half display.
They might have got themselves back in it when Rondon miscued his finish when meeting James McClean's excellent cross, and Claudio Bravo almost gifted the Venezuela striker a goal when he rashly came to clear and left his goal exposed, but Rondon's header bounced just wide.
But City managed to ride out the pressure and always looked dangerous on the break, with Aguero hugely influential in driving forward on the counter-attack.
He was in search of the hat-trick, but it was Gundogan who expertly slid the ball past Ben Foster to end the Baggies' revival - meeting Aguero's fantastic dinked pass through the back line.
The 26-year-old Germany midfielder was excellent throughout, and his first-time finish for City's fourth capped his best performance since joining from Borussia Dortmund this summer.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola: "When we lose there are always doubts. Also in the second half I had doubts when we didn't play too well.
"I had doubts and saw what we had to improve. It's the first time I have not won in six games. Always you have doubts. Not over the principles.
"We need Sergio. We know how important he is for us when he can convince us how good he is and how important he is for this club.
"I am going to help him to be much, much better. That is my target.
"I'm so, so happy for him because with all of that he is one of the nicest people I have met.
"He is part of the history for this club. He is one of the best."
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West Brom manager Tony Pulis: "In the first half we sat back waiting for it to happen. In the second half we gave it a go but needed to score. As the game opens up they have real quality on the break.
"I'm disappointed with all the goals. We should do better. You look at the money they have spent and their quality and depth is absolutely frightening."
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Manchester City's next game is at home to Barcelona in the Champions League on Tuesday (19:45 GMT kick-off). They next play in the league at home to Middlesbrough in a 15:00 kick-off on Saturday.
West Brom's next match is away to Leicester in a 16:30 kick-off in the Premier League on 6 November.
Match ends, West Bromwich Albion 0, Manchester City 4.
Second Half ends, West Bromwich Albion 0, Manchester City 4.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Fernando (Manchester City) because of an injury.
Aleix García (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by James McClean (West Bromwich Albion).
Aleix García (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Hal Robson-Kanu (West Bromwich Albion).
Goal! West Bromwich Albion 0, Manchester City 4. Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.
Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by James Morrison (West Bromwich Albion).
Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Hal Robson-Kanu (West Bromwich Albion).
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Hal Robson-Kanu replaces Nacer Chadli.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match John Stones (Manchester City) because of an injury.
Fernandinho (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nacer Chadli (West Bromwich Albion).
Attempt missed. Gareth McAuley (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Gareth McAuley (West Bromwich Albion) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Jonathan Leko.
Foul by Fernando (Manchester City).
James McClean (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Manchester City. Aleix García replaces David Silva.
Goal! West Bromwich Albion 0, Manchester City 3. Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Manchester City. Jesús Navas replaces Raheem Sterling.
Attempt missed. Gareth McAuley (West Bromwich Albion) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Chris Brunt with a cross following a set piece situation.
Fernando (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Fernando (Manchester City).
James McClean (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Claudio Bravo.
Foul by Aleksandar Kolarov (Manchester City).
Jonathan Leko (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by James McClean.
Foul by Fernando (Manchester City).
James McClean (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Substitution, Manchester City. Kevin De Bruyne replaces Nolito.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Jonny Evans.
Attempt saved. Chris Brunt (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City). | Manchester City returned to the top of the Premier League in emphatic style as victory at West Brom ended Pep Guardiola's worst run in management. |
22,968,105 | We could hardly claim to know the complexity of the planetary systems that lie beyond the asteroid belt, the chronology of the early Solar System, or the wide range of extraterrestrial environments where biological processes might be at work, were it not for the many exploratory expeditions that we have mounted to these far-flung worlds.
But perhaps, above all, the greatest, most profound legacy of the quest we have undertaken to understand our origins is perspective... that crystalline, uncorrupted view of our cosmic place that erodes all delusion and confronts us with a powerful recognition of ourselves - a recognition that never fails to move us.
It is surely for this reason that of all the millions of images taken of the worlds in our Solar System since the beginning of the space age, those that reach deeper into the human heart than any other, are those of our own home, as it might be seen in the skies of other worlds: small, alone in the blackness of never-ending space and awash in the blue of its blue, blue oceans.
Cassini's first offering to this collection, taken in September 2006 when the spacecraft was placed, for scientific purposes, at significant remove in the shadow of Saturn, has become one of our most beloved images.
This is an image that draws gasps from anyone seeing it for the first time. Small wonder: in it, we behold something human eyes had never before seen - a backlit view of the full resplendent glory of Saturn's rings during an eclipse of the Sun, the smoky blue ring created by the exhalations of the small moon, Enceladus, and - best of all - a sight of our planet, Earth, a billion miles in the distance.
This is an image without peer, an image that can make one weep with joy, love, concern, an abiding sense of fellowship, and unspeakable awe.
As I have contemplated the inevitable and approaching end of our history-making travels through the Saturn system, I have longed to repeat that remarkable image, make it even better, and turn it into something very special.
I imagined making it an opportunity for all of us to appreciate how far we have come in the exploration of our cosmic neighbourhood and to celebrate the uniqueness of our lush, life-sustaining world and the preciousness of the life on it.
I wanted to repeat that image, only this time, tell all the world about it in advance. Proclaim it to everyone everywhere: "On this day, at this time, you, the Earth and everybody on it will have their picture taken ... from a billion miles away!"
This could be a day, I thought, when all the inhabitants of Earth, in unison, could issue a full-throated, cosmic shout-out and smile a big one for the cameras far, far away.
And so it will be.
On 19 July 2013, the Cassini cameras will be turned to image Saturn and its entire ring system during the planet's eclipse of the Sun.
In the lower right, among the outer diffuse rings that encircle Saturn, will be a small speck of blue light with all of us on it.
A mosaic of images covering the rings from one end to the other, some taken in those filters that are used to make a natural colour scene - that looks like what human eyes would see - will be taken at this time.
Also to be recorded: an image of the highest resolution that we are capable of taking, in which we will find Earth and its Moon. One will be a colourless, star-like point of light. The other, of course, will be a pale blue dot.
So, at the appointed time, straighten up, brush your hair, go outside, gather with friends and family, think a thought or two about the starkness of our whereabouts, the beauty of our home planet, the marvel of our existence, and the magnificence of our accomplishments. And then, look up and smile.
For updates on the activities taking place on 19 July, follow @carolynporco on Twitter and visit http://www.ciclops.org/view_event/193/
Carolyn Porco is the leader of the imaging team on the Cassini mission at Saturn and a veteran imaging scientist on the 1980s Voyager mission. She participated in the taking of the famous 1990 Pale Blue Dot image of Earth taken from beyond the orbit of Neptune by Nasa's Voyager 1 spacecraft. | More than 50 years of travelling invisible interplanetary highways around our Solar System, and nearly a decade of orbiting Saturn, have brought us to a keen awareness of the celestial bodies in motion around the Sun, and the series of events responsible for their birth and development. |
38,612,757 | Hillwalkers are encouraged to leave such details with family, friends or another contact in case they get into difficulty on a walk or climb.
But rescue teams and police said they have been involved in searches where this has not happened.
In a joint message, they have asked people to enjoy the hills safely.
Supt Colin Gough, of Police Scotland, said: "We do not want to put anybody off these great outdoor experiences.
"We are all, however, increasingly challenged by searches for people who have left minimal or no information regarding their intentions.
"We know that not everyone will want to leave a written route card, but we are asking the hill-going public, and even those on lower level rambles, to make sure that somebody knows where they are going, so that we have a better idea where to look for them if they are overdue."
Scottish Mountain Rescue, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), Police Scotland and Mountaineering Scotland have issued the joint statement following what they described as a "spate of mountain rescues".
Damien Oliver, assistant director for aviation for the MCA said: "In the last few weeks there have been a number of helicopter rescues carried out in the Scottish mountains in response to people who have become injured, lost and at risk of exposure.
"The UK Coastguard helicopters are equipped to fly in the most hostile of conditions in support of the invaluable work of Scotland's volunteer mountain rescue experts.
"So it's vital that we get the message out to everyone who's planning to go into the mountains to please check the weather conditions for your area before you go and make sure you're well equipped.
"Tell someone your planned route and what time you will be expected back. If you do get into trouble call 999 immediately and ask for the police."
Mountaineering Scotland said it has guidance for walkers on its website. | Mountain rescue teams are being "increasingly challenged" by searches for people who leave little or no information of their routes. |
27,727,510 | The military said officers tracked down Sombat Boonngamanong through the internet. He is wanted for violating an order to report to the ruling junta.
Mr Sombat led an online campaign organising rallies against the army's coup, which took place in May.
The military seized power in Thailand after continuing political unrest.
The move followed six months of political deadlock as protesters tried to oust the government of Yingluck Shinawatra.
But the army's removal of her elected government has drawn widespread international criticism.
Mr Sombat was arrested late on Thursday in the eastern Chonburi province.
"We have a team who tracked him through the internet," army spokeswoman Sirichan Ngathong told the AFP news agency.
Officials said soldiers and police were able to locate the IP address used by Mr Sombat to post his comments.
His arrest has been denounced by Amnesty International who described it as part of "a systematic and widening crackdown on key human rights" by the military.
"Sombat Boonngamanong should be released immediately unless he is charged with a recognisable criminal offence and remanded by an independent, civilian court," said human rights group's Asia director, Richard Bennett.
"This is the latest in a disturbing wave of arrests of people purely voicing disquiet about the military regime. The army's course of action is looking increasingly like a purge."
Hundreds were detained after the coup, but most have since been freed, correspondents say.
Meanwhile, corruption investigators have widened their inquiry into former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, investigating her private assets.
The National Anti-Corruption Commission's investigation is connected to a rice-subsidy scheme, in which the government bought rice from farmers at above-market prices to boost rural incomes.
The commission had already indicted Ms Yingluck over charges of dereliction of duty, saying that she failed to heed advice that the scheme was potentially wasteful and prone to corruption.
Ms Yingluck was detained last month at an undisclosed location as leaders of Thursday's military coup tightened their grip on power.
Mr Sombat previously led a pro-democracy group called Red Sunday, reports the BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok.
He was also one of the only prominent red shirt activists to defy the Thai military by taunting them from his Facebook and Twitter accounts, our correspondent adds.
Mr Sombat has urged followers to stage peaceful public rallies, and has encouraged the flashing of the three-finger salute from The Hunger Games films that has become a symbol of defiance against the junta. | Thai police have arrested a top anti-coup activist who taunted the military government with a Facebook message reading: "Catch me if you can." |
35,161,054 | The sprawling works span the horizon as you drive along the M4.
In its heyday in the 1960s, nearly 20,000 people worked there. The town grew up around it.
Numbers may have dwindled but even with a 4,000-strong workforce, it still has an imposing presence in the Welsh economy.
It is still Tata Steel's biggest UK operation and one of Wales' economic crown jewels.
Another 3,000 work at Port Talbot's sister plant in Llanwern and at Shotton and Trostre.
It might be the car we drive, the tin cans for our food or the washing machine in our kitchen, but the chances are we have a piece of Port Talbot close to hand.
The steel plant has benefited from some significant investments in recent years, including £185m on rebuilding one of its blast furnaces.
But Tata has faced difficulties from different directions.
Port Talbot: The problems
Steelworks use huge amounts of energy. The Port Talbot plant uses as much electricity, for example, as the whole of the city of Swansea a few miles along the motorway.
That bill when it hits the metaphorical mat is a whopping £60m a year - 50% more than other plants in Europe. No wonder, looking long term, Tata recently secured the go-ahead to build a new power plant so it can generate more of its own power to save money.
Then there are problems in the market. Because of overproduction, the Chinese are now exporting twice as much steel to the UK than they did in 2013 and at less than the cost price of UK steel.
Tata is also unhappy about the level of business rates it pays, compared to European competitors.
In all, the plant is said to be losing millions of pounds a week.
Why is steel still so important?
Port Talbot steelworks is a big employer and pays more than double the minimum wage - starting salaries are around £30,000 a year.
It puts £200m a year into the economy just in salaries.
Economist Prof Calvin Jones of Cardiff University has studied the impact of Tata and called it "the most economically important private sector company in Wales".
The economic value of Tata - including the supply chain - was estimated at £3.2bn of output and £1.6bn of value added in Wales in 2010.
But it also supports an estimated 10,000 full-time equivalent jobs off-site.
"These are important [industries] because they are high value added and important because they're iconic," he said. "If we do see continued declines in these industries in terms of employment and output then you start to wonder what Wales is for."
STEEL TIMELINE
1902: The first steelworks at Port Talbot is founded
1923: A second Margam works is finished
1947-1953: The third Port Talbot plant is built and becomes part of Steel Company of Wales. The works employ around 18,000. By this period, the rolling mill at Ebbw Vale has become the biggest of its kind in Europe.
1962: The Queen opens the £150m Spencer works in Newport, later known as Llanwern.
1967: British Steel is formed from 14 different firms as the industry is nationalised
1980: British Steel announces 6,500 job losses with the closure of blast furnaces at Shotton after 78 years. More heavy job losses at Port Talbot and Llanwern.
1988: British Steel is privatised and becomes part of Dutch-owned Corus in 1999.
1990: More than 1,100 jobs are lost at Brymbo steelworks in Wrexham.
2001: Corus announces 6,000 UK job losses - a fifth of its workforce. They include 1,340 at Llanwern in Newport, and 90 at Bryngwyn in Swansea. The Shotton cold strip mill closes with 400 redundancies.
2002: The Ebbw Vale steelworks shuts with 850 job losses, although 300 workers move to other plants.
2007: Corus bought by Tata Steel of India
2014: Tata blames high business rates and "uncompetitive" energy costs for 400 job losses at Port Talbot.
2015: Tata Steel reported a "turbulent year" due to Chinese exports and high energy costs but Port Talbot produced an all time record of 4.19m tonnes of hot metal while the hot strip mill hit speed-of-work records.
In August, it mothballs part of its Llanwern plant for the third time in six years, with 250 job losses.
What does it mean for the local community?
Ex-blast furnace worker Tony Taylor - who retired from the plant in 2015 after 44 years - is a local councillor.
"Port Talbot is the steelworks and the steelworks is Port Talbot," he said.
"If the worst happens to this plant it will blow a cold wind through the town that no-one has ever experienced. It will be a ghost town."
He said the effects would be felt beyond Port Talbot, with workers drawn from as far afield as Bridgend, Swansea and the surrounding valleys.
Swansea University historian Bleddyn Penny has studied the steelworks.
"After World War Two, there was a conglomerate of three steelworks in Port Talbot and it was the biggest in Europe," he said.
"Steel dominates the town economically and physically - you can't really escape it in Port Talbot. From around 1961, steelmaking was more important than coal mining in south Wales and it's defined the town.
"It's hard to think of other workplaces today with 4,000 under one roof. Despite all the pain and cutbacks of recent years, steelmaking is seeped into the whole culture of the town and there's a tremendous pride there." | The town of Port Talbot has for more than 60 years been synonymous with steel. |
40,618,717 | The club announced on their website that Bance put pen to paper after nine hours of negotiations in Cairo.
32-year-old Bance has become a cult hero for Burkinabe fans and has played his league football extensively across Europe and Africa.
The charismatic forward told reporters he is excited about his new challenge.
I know Al Masry is a big team here in Egypt and has a lot of fans and that encouraged me to sign
"I am happy to be here in Egypt and especially with Al Masry," Bance said after signing his contract.
"I had many offers but picked up Al Masry because of their head coach Hossam Hassan who is one of African football's legends.
"Since I was a young I used to watch him playing and it's an honour to play under his leadership today.
"I know Al Masry is a big team here in Egypt and has a lot of fans and that encouraged me to sign," Bance added
Bance, who was born in Abidjan most recently helped ASEC Mimosas win the Ivorian league title.
On the international scene, he has made 67 appearances for Burkina Faso, scoring 21 goals.
He was a key member of the Burkina Faso side which reached the semi-finals of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations, scoring a goal in the defeat to Egypt. | Burkina Faso striker Aristide Bance has completed his transfer from Ivory Coast's ASEC Mimosas to Egyptian side Al Masry on a two year deal. |
31,061,248 | Mr Nesbitt made the comments after emerging from a meeting of Stormont party leaders on implementing the deal.
The five main parties reached broad agreement on 23 December on a number of key issues.
Mr McGuinness said comments about the process unravelling were "silly".
He said he had not seen an attempt by any of the political parties to renegotiate.
Mr Nesbitt said "certain parties have tried to bring forward proposals that they put on the table in November and December, which were not accepted and they are not going to be accepted in 2015".
Northern Ireland Secretary of State Theresa Villiers said on Friday that it was crucial that the Stormont House Agreement was not derailed, but that she believed "the process of implementation is going well".
Peter Robinson has said he doesn't see the Stormont House Agreement "unravelling", as Mike Nesbitt has claimed.
The DUP leader said: "I think everybody's entitled to indicate if there are dangers of various things happening. All I can say is that I don't see them happening and I hope the parties faithfully implement the agreement."
SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell said they had "scanned the whole spectrum of the discussions before Christmas and the Stormont House Agreement" and had expressed their support, but with reservations.
"The stocktaking was useful and there is a process in place now for ongoing monitoring," he said.
The agreement was reached last month following 12 weeks of discussion between the British and Irish governments. | Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness has hit back at remarks from Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt that the Stormont House Agreement will unravel if "people use the process to renegotiate". |
40,222,427 | Nothing matters more than the parliamentary numbers and Theresa May's lack of a majority. The politics of the coming months and perhaps years will be dominated by this one fact.
Now the prime minister could try to get her legislation through vote by vote, issue by issue. But that would be a recipe for instability and unpredictability.
So she has announced that she will try to do a deal with the Democratic Unionist Party, Northern Ireland's largest unionist party.
The DUP have 10 MPs and if they vote with the Conservatives, the government will be able to get its business through Parliament.
The easiest way for the government to ensure regular DUP support in Parliament would be to agree what's called a "confidence and supply" arrangement.
The DUP would promise to back the government in votes of no confidence and supply - or budget - issues. In return, the government would support or fund some of the DUP's policies.
These deals tend to be loose and a long way short of a formal coalition.
Minority governments like this are not uncommon.
The Scottish National Party ran a minority government in Scotland a decade ago. John Major survived without a majority in the dying days of his administration in the mid-1990s. Harold Wilson and James Callaghan governed with minorities for much of the 1970s.
But these governments can be quite constrained in what they can do, passing as little legislation as possible to avoid defeat.
They can also be unstable and short lived, if the deal between the parties breaks down and fresh elections have to be called.
So any arrangement between the Conservatives and the DUP would have a large question mark over it, particularly over how long it could last.
The Institute for Government think-tank says that for minority governments to last and work, ministers, MPs and the media have to change the way they think.
Ministers have to be less majoritarian in their outlook, and be less ambitious and more realistic about what they can achieve. MPs need to learn how to do deals and make compromises.
And the media have to stop viewing every defeat as a confidence issue.
But this does not always happen.
Minority governments can linger on, scrabbling around for votes, spraying around taxpayers' money in return for parliamentary support.
What this means is MPs having to hang around the Palace of Westminster at all hours just in case there are unexpected votes.
This can mean whips - or parliamentary managers - rushing round doing deals with MPs from other parties, threatening some, bribing others. When votes are really tight, it can mean sick MPs being brought from their hospital beds in ambulances so their votes can be counted.
The biographies of MPs from the 1970s can be eye-watering in their depiction of the reality of minority government.
There are also specific risks for the Conservatives in doing a deal with the DUP.
They will be in hock to a party whose views and policies they will not always find palatable.
Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's chief of staff in Downing Street, told the BBC: "The Conservatives have made a big mistake. Theresa May has made herself a hostage to the DUP."
In terms of the politics of Northern Ireland, it may make it harder for the British government to play its traditional role of neutral mediator.
In terms of UK politics, it hooks the Tories to a party that is not known for its social liberalism.
A woman who once described the Tories as the "nasty party" may find herself having to make some rather socially conservative choices.
There are also risks to the Brexit process. A key issue will be the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
All sides are worried about the potential impact on the political settlement if border posts and guards are reinstated, a reminder of the divisions and violence of the past.
Some MPs fear that the DUP could shape this part of the negotiation in a way that could disrupt the sensitive status quo.
The days of the Troubles are gone, and the border posts between Northern Ireland and the Republic lie rusting and unused.
But now the UK is getting ready to leave the EU.
Hospital patients and schoolchildren and cross-border workers are among those who have to make the daily journey. How do they see the road ahead?
Special report: The hardest border
And then there is just the sheer lack of numbers.
Even with the DUP, many of the votes will be tight. It will take discipline and stamina to ensure that all MPs turn up day after day to push through complicated and contentious legislation, such as the enormous Great Repeal Bill transferring EU law into UK law.
This cannot be guaranteed.
Theresa May called this election because she concluded she could not get Brexit through the House of Commons with a majority of 17. She may struggle to do it with a similar majority that is made up of another party's MPs.
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Enter a postcode or seat name | The incontestable truth of this general election is that the Conservative party does not have enough MPs to win votes by itself in the new House of Commons. |
20,667,868 | HSBC is paying $1.9bn (£1.2bn) in fines and forfeitures to assorted federal and state authorities for its inadequate controls against money transfers by criminals, terrorists and countries that are subject to sanctions (such as Iran).
In a statement, HSBC apologised and said it had changed its ways. It expects to reach a settlement soon with the UK's Financial Services Authorities relating to the same offences.
The $1.9bn is significantly more than the penalties HSBC expected to pay - even after its recent upward revision of provisions to cover such charges. Also the cost for HSBC of raising its defences against money laundering and illegal money movements will be $700m (£435m) over five years.
Odd as it may seem, it could however have been significantly worse. HSBC has signed a Deferred Prosecution Agreement for breaches of the US Bank Secrecy Act, the Trading with the Enemy Act and assorted money laundering offences. This is in effect putting the bank on probation.
But if HSBC had been indicted for these offences, that would have meant that the US government and others could no longer have conducted business with it - which would have been humiliating and highly damaging.
The punishment of HSBC comes just a day after another UK based international bank, Standard Chartered, agreed to pay $327m (£203m) for past violations of US sanctions laws and "lack of transparency in connection with certain former payments practices which were terminated in 2007".
Standard Chartered, which also signed a deferred prosecution agreement, had already paid $340m to New York State's Department of Financial Services for the same offences.
Now, for the avoidance of doubt, there is a trend here - which is that every big British bank is struggling to keep control of the costs of fines and compensation relating to a great variety of forms of sloppy practices and misbehaviour in the boom years.
It won't be long before we begin to learn the fines that Royal Bank of Scotland will pay to regulators all over the world for its involvement in the LIBOR interest-rate rigging scandal.
RBS is likely to end up paying more than the £290m in fines and penalties paid by Barclays - though that may not be apparent for a while, since RBS is not expected to reach a big bang settlement with all authorities from Tokyo to Brussels to Washington at the same time.
Then there are the stupendous costs of paying compensation to UK retail customers who were missold PPI credit insurance - which, according to the FSA, was more than £7bn by the end of September and looks set to end up being considerably more than £10bn.
And then there are the difficult-to-pin-down costs of compensating small businesses who were sold inappropriate interest-rate swaps - which will certainly be rather more than £1bn in aggregate and possibly (in an unlikely worst case for the banks) a multiple of that.
In addition, most of the banks face civil cases from disgruntled investors related to these and other alleged failings that stem from the exuberance of the boom years.
All of which is of material interest to the banks' customers and shareholders.
The point, as the Governor of the Bank of England said recently, is that banks may not have adequate capital to absorb the full financial cost of all the punishment being meted out for banks' past sins.
And as you will be tired of hearing, capital is expensive. And when banks are obliged to raise more of it, the burden falls initially on investors and subsequently on customers - who are forced to pay more for banking services to reward the providers of the capital.
Or to put it another way, we are all punished when banks are found guilty. | The price in today's money of past sinning by the UK's biggest international banks is becoming bigger and bigger. |
38,118,032 | The 7-2 favourite crossed the line half-a-length in front of fast-finishing Carole's Destrier (25-1) with Double Ross (50-1) a gallant third.
It was a first victory in the race for champion jockey Richard Johnson, who had finished second on two occasions.
Earlier, Tizzard's Cheltenham Gold Cup favourite Thistlecrack cruised to victory in the bet365 Novices' Chase.
Tizzard is enjoying a golden spell having saddled Cue Card to win last week's Betfair Chase at Haydock.
Native River appeared to be coasting to a comfortable win in Saturday's big race before Carole's Destrier gave him a real fright.
Tizzard said: "It looked like he would win by five lengths, but when Carole's Destrier nearly got to him, he went again. It is a sign of a good, honest stayer.
"We expected a big run, but he travelled better than ever before and jumped beautifully."
The trainer later claimed a treble on the card when Ultragold (9-2) won the bet365 Handicap Chase.
Cornelius Lysaght, BBC horse racing correspondent
Another Saturday, more big-race success for the Tizzards - trainer Colin, wife Pauline, ex-jockey-son Joe and daughter Kim - who make up the very much in-form family-run operation based in Dorset.
On one of the great days of the year, Thistlecrack was flawless, Native Run landed a huge gamble after battling back from losing his long-time lead and then Ultragold got up close to the finish to end a heady day.
Once it was doubted that Native River was quite good enough to join Cue Card and Thistlecrack in the Cheltenham Gold Cup, but after this thoroughly likeable performance, achieved in a decent time, that no longer looks the case.
The one-time dairy farmers three-handed-PLUS in the Gold Cup? More than possible, and what a compelling story for the sport between now and March. | The Colin Tizzard-trained Native River hung on to win the 60th running of the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury. |
38,507,340 | The case against Det Con Nina Bartlett, based at Peterborough, had been due to be held in public.
But a panel on Wednesday decided for it to be heard behind closed doors due to concerns around "medical evidence".
Cambridgeshire Police has not stated the nature of the criminal conviction.
In a public notice, the force said DC Bartlett is accused of searching for her partner's details on the constabulary's computer system without a policing reason.
The detective also allegedly brought discredit upon the force.
Her alleged conduct had "compromised her position as a police officer" and served to "undermine public confidence in the police force", the notice said.
It was ruled for the case to be heard in private at City College Peterborough.
Chairman Peter Nicholls said: "The overriding concern is the physical and mental health of the officer impacting on the ability of the panel being able to do its job fairly to all parties wherever possible and to balance the interest of the public with that of the individuals concerned."
He added: "We would be unable to elicit the full information to do justice not only in the public interest but in fairness and justice to the officer.
"Therefore, balancing these two different factors we have reached the conclusion with some reluctance that these proceedings will proceed in private."
He said the outcome of the case will be made public in "due course". | The misconduct hearing of a detective accused of failing to declare a relationship with a "criminally convicted person" will be heard in private, a panel has ruled. |
40,682,962 | Torbay councillors voted 19 to seven in favour of the vote of the no confidence motion against Conservative elected Mayor Gordon Oliver,
The motion, voted on amid concerns over a £5m deficit, gives Mr Oliver until 24 July to resign.
But Mr Oliver, who has been in post since 2011, said he would stay until 2019 when the office expires.
More on the no confidence vote and other news from Devon
If Mr Oliver does not resign on Monday, the council's chief executive can go to the Secretary of State to ask if his term of office can end early so that Torbay can return to the previous leader and cabinet system.
Fellow Conservative David Thomas, who was behind the no confidence vote, said: "The issue at stake is Torbay Council's future and tonight we saw that overwhelming support to get it back on an even keel.
"It was always going to be a very difficult decision, but a lot of us felt we had to take action now."
Mr Oliver hit back, calling the debate "unnecessary".
"There has to be an understanding by all members of the council that we all stick together and I'm going to be here unless the prime minister or the government wants to remove me," he said.
He added the council should be "looking positively" at the "huge budget problems".
"I wanted to listen to others and learn," he said. "I hope something good will come out of this."
In a referendum in May last year Torbay voters chose to remove the post of mayor after May 2019 and return to having a leader and cabinet model of local government. | A mayor who lost a no confidence vote brought by his own party has vowed to stay on in the role. |
37,002,535 | The figure comes from a poll of 33 estates carried out ahead of 12 August, which traditionally marks the start of the annual grouse shooting season.
The survey results were announced as hundreds of gamekeepers gathered at Edzell in Angus.
They were taking part in a workers' march and community day event.
Bruce Cooper, head gamekeeper and member of the Angus Glens Moorland Group, said: "Members of the public shouldn't forget that, all year round, working folk rely on grouse shooting and this way of life to bring up their families and send kids to schools in these communities.
"It also brings a huge amount to the trades and tourism operators, many of whom are marching with us today.
"These people have seen other industries falter and, if it wasn't for the grouse and other shooting seasons, they would be laying off staff."
Figures collated from regional moorland groups in Angus, Grampian, Loch Ness, Tomatin, Tayside and Central Scotland, Speyside and the Lammermuirs, totalling £6,864,806.
They said the wage figure for the whole of Scotland would be significantly higher.
Research currently puts the value of tourism from field sports - such as shooting, stalking and fishing - at about £155m in Scotland, with the figures expected to grow to about £185m by 2020. | Grouse estates in Scotland spent almost £7m on wages in 2015, including on seasonal workers such as grouse beaters. |
39,647,337 | 19 April 2017 Last updated at 16:41 BST
On the day Scottish Labour published its manifesto, she told the BBC: "There is no doubt the polls are challenging, but we are going to work every single day to win over people who have yet to make up their minds.
"Why? Because Labour councillors are the last thing between the people and the cuts.
"With Labour you can vote against an independence referendum, but you can also vote for high quality public services." | Scotland's Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said that her party would work "every single day" to win over people ahead of the local elections on 4 May. |
10,123,542 | The 24-year-old was kept away from the Riviera by promotional duties for another film, Disney blockbuster Prince Of Persia.
Director Stephen Frears (The Queen) was instead accompanied by Arterton's co-stars Dominic Cooper and Tamsin Greig.
The film is based on Posy Simmonds' comic strip, a reworking of Thomas Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd.
Frears told reporters at the festival that he was glad the film was not in the running for the prestigious Palme d'Or prize.
"You smile a lot more. I'm not going to lose! I've eliminated the possibility of losing!" said the film-maker.
He added that his film would be a hit with overseas audiences, because "they like that sort of British looniness".
Arterton, who also starred in Bond movie the Quantum of Solace, was in Hollywood on Monday night for the US premiere of Prince of Persia.
The actress has the only female role in the film, alongside actors Jake Gyllenhaal and Sir Ben Kingsley.
Since first coming to attention in the BBC adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, the actress has become one of the UK's most in-demand young actresses.
Having completed a well-received stint in West End comedy The Little Dog Laughed this spring, she will appear in three films over the summer blockbuster season - Tamara Drewe, Prince Of Persia and low-budget thriller The Disappearance Of Alice Creed. | British actress Gemma Arterton has missed the Cannes premiere of her latest film, Tamara Drewe. |
37,184,346 | Officers were alerted to the incident in the Inverclyde town's Belville Street at about 23:20 on Wednesday.
On arrival they discovered the man with serious injuries. He died at the scene.
Officers remain at the scene and investigations into the man's death are ongoing. Police have appealed for witnesses or anyone with information to contact them. | Police are treating the death of a 23-year-old man following a disturbance in Greenock as suspicious. |
26,784,236 | Right Sector activists blocked the parliament (Rada) building in Kiev on Thursday night and smashed windows.
They blamed the interior minister for the killing of a Right Sector leader.
Meanwhile, ousted President Viktor Yanukovych has called for a national referendum to determine each region's "status within Ukraine".
He fled to Russia last month after massive demonstrations against him and clashes between protesters and police in which more than 100 people died. The Kremlin says the new government in Kiev came to power illegally.
"As a president who is with you with all my thoughts and soul, I urge every sensible citizen of Ukraine: Don't give in to impostors! Demand a referendum on the status of each region within Ukraine," said Mr Yanukovych, quoted by Itar-Tass news agency.
In his first comments since Crimea voted to become part of Russia, Mr Yanukovych denounced fresh presidential elections planned for 25 May.
Meanwhile, Russia's defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, said that all Ukrainian service personnel loyal to Kiev have now left Crimea and all military installations there are under Russian control.
At a parliament session on Friday, Mr Turchynov, called the Right Sector rally outside parliament "an attempt to destabilise the situation in Ukraine, in the very heart of Ukraine - Kiev. That is precisely the task that the Russian Federation's political leadership is giving to its special services".
Right Sector activists are furious over the death of Oleksandr Muzychko, better known as Sashko Bily, one of their leaders. The interior ministry said he died on Monday night in a shoot-out with police in a cafe in Rivne in western Ukraine.
A member of the far-right group in Rivne threatened revenge for the killing of Mr Muzychko.
"We will avenge ourselves on [Interior Minister] Arsen Avakov for the death of our brother. The shooting of Sashko Bily is a contract killing ordered by the minister," Right Sector member Roman Koval was quoted as saying by the Ukrayinska Pravda website.
The Right Sector played a prominent role in the Kiev protests - and the clashes with police - which led to the removal of Mr Yanukovych from power. Its main support base is in western Ukraine. | Ukraine's interim President Olexander Turchynov has condemned the ultra-nationalist Right Sector, saying the group is bent on "destabilisation". |
40,260,549 | Former Germany Under-21 international Hofmann joined Brentford from Kaiserslauten for an undisclosed fee in July 2015.
The 24-year-old featured in only 33 games in two seasons with the Championship club, scoring four goals.
"It is a move that is in the best interests of all parties," co-director of football Phil Giles said.
"It is fair to say that things haven't worked out as well as either Philipp or Brentford would have hoped since he signed in 2015.
"We were therefore keen to find a new club for Philipp to give him a fresh start and a chance to play games."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Brentford striker Philipp Hofmann has joined German second-tier side Greuther Furth for an undisclosed fee. |
30,485,254 | The Whitevale and Bluevale flats, in the Gallowgate area of Glasgow, will be brought down piece by piece.
The 31-storey blocks, which stand about 85m (278 feet) high, will be demolished by specialist staff on a platform placed on top of the building.
Once the platform is in place, Bluevale will be brought down piece by piece between January and summer 2015. Whitevale will follow by 2016.
Alex McGuire, director of property for Glasgow Housing Association's (GHA) parent company, Wheatley Group, said: "The Gallowgate twins have a special place in people's hearts and in Glasgow's history, but their time has come to an end.
"This unique demolition is another important step in the ongoing regeneration of housing in the city and will ensure our homes are fit for future generations."
The top-down demolition method was chosen due to the towers' closeness to busy roads and a nearby retail park.
The system avoids the need for scaffolding and will see a platform placed on top of each building.
This will allow contractors to remove walls and floors piece by piece. Once work on each floor is complete, the platform descends down the building until it reaches ground level.
Safedem managing director, William Sinclair, said: "We carefully assess every project before developing the safest and most appropriate method of demolition.
"The top-down way is an innovative system designed for the deconstruction of high-rise structures in close proximity to nearby properties."
Bluevale and Whitevale are taller than Glasgow's Red Road flats, although the top floor accommodation in the latter is higher than the Gallowgate flats.
Both towers were regarded as Scotland's tallest residential buildings when they were built in 1969.
They were eclipsed in the early 1970s by three London tower blocks in the 42-storey Barbican Estate.
GHA said the future of the Whitevale and Bluevale site, once cleared, would be "subject to discussion with Glasgow City Council". | Work is starting to demolish Scotland's tallest residential high-rise flats. |
23,288,087 | But growing at a more sustainable pace isn't necessarily a bad thing. Of course, it depends on the nature of the slowdown.
First, consider global economic growth in context. World gross domestic product (GDP) expanded at over 4% during the 2000s before the US and European crises. That is a percentage point higher than during the entire previous half century.
Led by China and India, emerging economies grew at 7.5%, while advanced economies expanded by some 2.6%. Debt-fuelled consumption in the US and in some parts of Europe was one reason. The very strong growth of emerging economies was another.
Before 2000, emerging economies grew at 3.6%, so their growth more than doubled over the next decade. These economies became more globally integrated and many ran trade surpluses selling to the US and Europe, which significantly boosted their economies.
But since the global financial crisis, more of this growth has been debt-fuelled instead of export-driven. The Bank for International Settlements estimates that debt has grown by $33 trillion across the world since 2007. That is equal to half the world economy's annual output.
This isn't the most sustainable source of growth, as the West has learned.
I wrote about the flood of cheap money around the world previously in my 'Great Reversal' pieces - parts one and two.
So when growth slows in places like China, where credit has expanded too rapidly, it isn't necessarily a bad outcome. The challenge is to manage the slowdown. This isn't straightforward.
What is evident is that trade is less a driver of growth now for these countries as Europeans and Americans consume in moderation. This means that countries with large current account deficits (the broadest measure that includes money flows as well as trade), like Turkey and Mexico, may find it harder to finance those deficits. It also means that having a sizeable internal market will be even more important.
This is why companies like Burberry are an indicator of where demand is now found. The British clothing store reached £2bn in revenues for the first time, driven by double-digit sales growth in China and other parts of Asia.
Even though companies like Burberry serve the higher end of the market, they are an indicator of the growth of the new middle class. For instance, despite Chinese exports falling in June at their fastest pace since the global crisis began, and imports also unexpectedly declining, imports of consumer goods rose by 8% relative to a year ago.
In other words, it was imports of raw materials and intermediate goods that went into investment and production which fell. But goods for domestic consumption rose.
Such demand is mostly found in big emerging markets like China and India with their billion-plus populations, but also in Indonesia and Brazil with their 200-million-plus populations. The US, in fact, is the only rich country whose 310 million population places it among the top five countries in terms of size in the world.
Smaller emerging economies dependent on trade will find it harder, particularly those parts of Asia that sell to America and those parts of emerging Europe that sell to Western Europe.
Of course, the key is whether the middle class is borrowing too much to consume. This is why it can still go catastrophically wrong.
As many of these developing countries are still under-banked and rely on cash, the debt problem is more corporate than personal. For instance, private credit extended by banks is just 25% of GDP in Indonesia, 47% in India, and 52% in Brazil. But it is still worth worrying about as a banking crisis would certainly derail growth.
If emerging economies can grow at 6% as forecast by the IMF, then the Fund estimates the world economy will resume growing again at 4% by the end of next year, while the advanced economies could reach 2%.
It would be a good pace, but slower than the heady days of the 2000s. And a more sustainable pace would have a better chance of lasting. | The world economy may be slowing as China and other emerging economies decelerate and the West continues its gradual recovery. |
35,811,333 | The seven-year-old's owner Rich Ricci said the switch was based on the form of the Willie Mullins-trained horse.
"I know we talked about whether he would go for the Gold Cup, that's been our intention all year," Ricci told Channel 4.
"But it's a very difficult race and if he's only 90% then we don't want to ruin the horse."
He added: "We feel the Ryanair is the best alternative. It's not ideal but it's still a great race, it's a Grade One." | Vautour will run in Thursday's Ryanair Chase at the Cheltenham Festival rather than Friday's prestigious Gold Cup. |
24,586,824 | Four people died when the Super Puma crashed on approach to Sumburgh Airport on 23 August.
The ongoing Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) investigation has so far found no evidence of a technical fault.
The investigation will now focus on the effectiveness of pilot monitoring of instruments and the training of crews.
An interim report published by the AAIB said that, as the helicopter approached to within 2.3 nautical miles of the airport, the commander noted that its airspeed had reduced to 80 knots.
The commander increased the collective pitch, intending to maintain the speed.
But the helicopter's airspeed reduced to below 80 knots, unobserved by the crew.
A short time later, there was an automated audio call of "check height", which was acknowledged by the commander, and then a comment by the co-pilot to draw the commander's attention to the airspeed.
At this time, the helicopter's airspeed was only 35 knots and reducing.
There was then a second automated call of "check height" followed by a "100 feet" automated call.
The report stated: "At some point the commander saw the sea, but he was unable to arrest the helicopter's descent and it struck the water shortly thereafter.
"The co-pilot, realising that the helicopter was about to enter the water, armed the helicopter's flotation system.
"After striking the surface the helicopter rapidly inverted, but remained afloat, the flotation equipment having successfully deployed".
There were 18 people on board the helicopter at the time.
Sarah Darnley, 45, from Elgin, Gary McCrossan, 59, from Inverness, Duncan Munro, 46, from Bishop Auckland, and George Allison, 57, from Winchester, lost their lives in the incident.
The AAIB investigators also called for a review of rescue operations in the water surrounding Sumburgh Airport.
A number of lifeboats and helicopters were sent to the scene, but the report said one rescue boat supposed to leave from a slipway to the west of the airport was delayed due to tidal conditions and instead had to leave from the south of the airport.
It took almost an hour to reach the crash scene.
The report said: "It is recommended that the Civil Aviation Authority reviews the risks associated with the current water rescue provision for the area of sea to the west of Sumburgh Airport and take appropriate action."
Oonagh Werngren, operations director of Oil & Gas UK, said: "We now have a greater appreciation of what happened that day but we still don't fully understand why.
"It is important, both for those directly involved in this tragedy and for all the men and women who work offshore, that the AAIB continues its very important task and reaches conclusion in a timely fashion.
"It is also good to see that it is already making recommendations."
She added: "In the meantime there are a number of different investigations under way and Oil & Gas UK will continue to work with the industry, the regulators and relevant bodies to ensure that the lessons are shared and the recommendations appropriately addressed."
Les Linklater, team leader of Step Change in Safety, said: "This bulletin helps us to have a better understanding of what happened but not yet why it happened, and that will form part of the conclusion of the investigation.
"It's very important that we all understand why this tragic accident happened and this will be a significant part of the on-going investigation."
He added: "We will continue to monitor the investigation and act accordingly where safety improvements are identified. We are also continuing to work with the helicopter operators Bristow, Bond and CHC who have already instigated a review, which is focusing on safety-related processes." | Air accident investigators have said a reduction in airspeed that caused the fatal crash of a helicopter off Shetland was not noticed by the pilots. |
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