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39,401,626 | The demonstration was organised by Houthi rebels, who occupy the city and much of Yemen's north.
The rallies in Sanaa came on the second anniversary of the Saudi-led military intervention against the Houthi rebel movement.
More than 7,600 people have been killed in the conflict since it began in March 2015.
Millions of citizens have been displaced and the country has also been pushed to the brink of famine.
Yemen conflict: How my country has changed
Yemen crisis: Who is fighting whom?
The war is being waged between forces loyal to President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and those allied to the Houthis.
The Houthis support the country's former authoritarian president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, who ceded power to Mr Hadi in 2012 after a 2011 uprising.
Mr Saleh made a rare appearance at Sunday's rally and addressed the crowds.
The throngs converged in Sabeen Square, where they waved the country's flag and chanted that they would "resist to the end".
"I participated in the protests against the aggression [by the Saudi-led coalition]. Maybe our voice will be heard by the world over to stop the war,'' one protester, Ahmed Mohsen, told The Associated Press news agency.
The conflict has its roots in the failed political transition after Mr Saleh handed power to Mr Hadi.
Houthis opposed to Mr Hadi took over the capital, Sanaa, forcing him to flee to the southern port city of Aden.
Alarmed by the rise of a group they believed to be backed militarily by regional Shia power Iran, Saudi Arabia and eight other mostly Sunni Arab states began an air campaign aimed at restoring Mr Hadi's government.
However, after two years of fighting, no side appears close to a decisive military victory.
Various rounds of UN-mediated peace talks to end Yemen's conflict have failed. | Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Yemen's capital on Sunday to call for an end to war in the country. |
40,319,069 | The plan to build 400 homes next to Flatts Lane Country Park, Normanby, was initially rejected by Redcar and Cleveland Council.
But that decision has now been overturned by a planning inspector, despite opposition.
Theakston Land, which owns the site, said it was delighted and that a large part of the land would remain green.
The council said it rejected the scheme for "sound planning" reasons and is disappointed its decision has been overturned.
Environmental campaigner, Craig Hornby, said the building work, due to begin at the end of 2018, would destroy woodland and kill wildlife.
He said: "We ran a really strong campaign and got more than 800 letters against the plan and more than 1,000 signatures, but what we did counted for nothing.
"Our voices don't count and the process is completely undermined - the whole thing stinks."
Chris Harrison, spokesman for Theakston Land, said the scheme would create 125 jobs and make up for a shortage of new homes.
"The scheme as we see it can make really big contribution to meet Redcar and Cleveland's housing requirements," he said.
"Over the last 15 years the council's consistently failed to meet housing requirements year on year."
He said in one recent year only 61 homes were built in the area. | Campaigners claim their protests have been ignored after a £45m housing scheme on Teesside was approved. |
34,903,081 | 24 November 2015 Last updated at 00:09 GMT
When she looked at the data, she says: "It wasn't all about actresses - it actually also revealed that [in] other departments there was also great wage disparity - editors and sound mixers..." and so on but this is now changing.
"Now if women take action, the company has to prove that they were not discriminating against them" she says.
She tells the BBC's Sam Asi about what action is being taken.
Our 100 Women season showcases two weeks of inspirational stories about the BBC 100 Women and others who defy stereotypes around the world.
Like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram using the hashtag #100Women. Listen to the programmes here. | US actor Patricia Arquette reveals what happened after she called for pay equality in her Oscar acceptance speech earlier this year. |
40,293,528 | He "focused on our differences rather than our things that unify us", the Iowa congressman said.
A gunman ambushed Republican lawmakers during baseball practice at a Virginia field, injuring four people.
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise remains in a critical condition following Wednesday morning's attack.
He had a third operation on Thursday morning at a Washington DC hospital, where he has been visited by President Donald Trump.
The shooting has sparked some introspection in the US capital, with calls for Republicans and Democrats to turn the heated rhetoric down a notch.
Mr Trump himself has been accused of increasing the war of words, both on the campaign trail and in some of his strongly-worded tweets lashing out at opponents since taking power.
But the White House spokeswoman on Thursday denied he bears any responsibility, saying he is the one who has been attacked.
"But I think, as a whole, our country certainly could bring the temperature down a little bit," she added.
Earlier, Mr King told radio station WHO in his political heartland of Iowa: "I do want to put some of this at the feet of Barack Obama.
"He contributed mightily to dividing us. He focused on our differences rather than our things that unify us. And this is some of the fruits of that labour."
Fox News host Sean Hannity also laid the blame on Democrats for the Virginia shooting, arguing the left had "de-humanised" Republicans and painted them as "monsters".
"When Democrats continue to dehumanise Republicans and paint them as monsters day in and day out, year in and year out, well the climate around the country, it becomes more than toxic, and the tragic results, of course, follow," he told his viewers on Wednesday night.
He also claimed that "virtually no one on the left has denounced this vile behaviour".
However, leaders of both parties were quick to condemn the attack, which elicited a rare spirit of unity on Capitol Hill.
Republicans and Democrats have used the attack to point out the toxic rhetoric that has led to deep political divisions across the US.
The suspected gunman, James T Hodgkinson, succumbed to his injuries from the firefight with police and died.
Police said on Thursday the 9mm handgun and 7.62 rifle believed to have been used by the suspect were purchased legally.
It has emerged he was a former volunteer for Senator Bernie Sanders' 2016 Democratic presidential campaign and posted incendiary anti-conservative rhetoric on social media.
Mr Sanders immediately denounced the attack and investigators have said it is too early to determine a motive.
In the wake of the attack, Republican congressman Thomas Massie introduced a bill on Thursday that would allow those with gun permits in their home states to carry weapons in Washington, DC.
Mr Massie said the measure is aimed at helping lawmakers, who are exposed in the nation's capital, to protect themselves and "avoid a tragic situation".
Mr King has previously raised eyebrows for his controversial statements.
He once promoted the "birther" conspiracy claiming that Mr Obama was not born in the US and suggested some undocumented immigrants have large calf muscles because of drugs he said they were smuggling across the border.
On 'subgroups'
"This whole 'old white people' business does get a little tired, Charlie. I'd ask you to go back through history and figure out where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that you are talking about? Where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilisation?" - on MSNBC, July 2016
On undocumented immigrants
"For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there that, they weigh 130lb and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75lb of marijuana across the desert." - 2013
On black men
"You know that statistically the greatest danger to a black man in America is another black man." - to Buzzfeed in July 2016
On lawnmowers
"I had a strong, Christian lawyer tell me yesterday that, under this decision (gay marriage legalisation) that he has read, what it brings about is it only requires one human being in this relationship - that you could marry your lawnmower with this decision. I think he's right." - to Dickinson County News in July 2015 | Republican Steve King has blamed Barack Obama for fuelling divisions that led to an attack on Republican lawmakers, when Mr Obama was president. |
26,418,560 | When our 40-seater plane landed at Bamiyan airport, I wondered how it might be possible to hold a skiing race in such a remote part of Afghanistan.
The airport, without tarmac runway or passenger lounge, is a world away from Bamiyan's ambition as a tourism destination, but as you walk out, the clear blue skies and amazing mountain views are stunning.
I came to watch the 4th Afghan Ski Challenge, a competition for local and international skiers meant to promote winter sports in this mountain region. On the morning of the race I was as excited as the 50 male and female skiers who gathered at the Koh-e-Baba mountain range.
After the countdown, the group, including 30 Afghans, started racing up the hillside, a height difference of almost 500m (1640ft). No lifts here, but plenty of enthusiasm.
This year the ski challenge included a wooden ski category. Some locals are making their own skis from wood and plastic. One of the skiers told me that his father was too poor to buy him real skis. "It's easy to make something that you really want," he said.
Alishah Farhang was the first crossing the finishing line in the main race. "I tried hard to achieve this" he said, standing on the winner's podium. Later he told me how much it meant to him: "Since I came across skiing, my life has changed a lot, I have new experiences, new friends and new contacts."
Alishah is now working as a paid instructor for Bamiyan ski club. The club provide classes in the winter season as well as skiing gear for hire.
Amateurs were also trying their luck on the slopes, often with mixed results.
Prizes for the winners included a Swiss watch, a sport camera and a ski jacket. But many competitors just turned up in their normal everyday clothing.
I was one of the few outsiders among the spectators because Bamiyan is remote and difficult to get to. The province's highways are dangerous with insurgents frequently stopping cars and air travel is very expensive.
The race was guarded by some armed policemen, but luckily they were not called on and were mainly busy protecting themselves from the sun.
For most Afghans, skiing is a very alien concept. But the Bamiyan ski club and the Aga Khan Foundation which supported the event are determined to attract more people and spectators to the sport.
Bamiyan has the best winter conditions in all of Afghanistan according to the organisers who also run short ski schools. In time they hope that the sport may attract more tourists to the province, its hotels and markets. | The BBC's Kawoon Khamoosh has been to Bamiyan province to see Afghans strap on skis and boards and tackle the white stuff. |
38,235,758 | The 10ft (3m) high design stands on the Edinburgh Road in Peebles.
Commissioned by the Bonnie Peebles committee it took Kev Paxton and his team at Edinburgh-based ArtFe thousands of man hours to complete.
The sculpture includes four horseshoes from Hello Sanctos, the horse on which Brash won gold at the 2012 Olympics.
Brash became the first person to win showjumping's grand slam last year aboard the same horse.
Community group Bonnie Peebles said they wanted to "recognise the amazing achievements of local lad Scott Brash who has gone on to be world number one showjumper".
Artist Mr Paxton said: "We try to make everything we do unique and as soon as we were approached about this project, we knew the direction we wanted to take.
"I have Borders blood in me and felt connected to the idea right from the start."
The Bonnie Peebles committee raised all the funds for the project via private donations and local fundraising. | A sculpture made out of tons of old horseshoes has been put up in the home town of Olympic showjumping gold medallist Scott Brash. |
37,911,725 | It has issued a yellow "be aware" warning which is in place from 15:00 GMT on Tuesday until 10:00 on Wednesday.
Much of the snow is expected to fall on higher ground but heavier bursts could reach lower levels and driving conditions may become difficult.
The warning covers Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Powys, and Wrexham. | Snow could fall across parts of Wales, according to the Met Office. |
39,080,743 | The Tory MP has written to Chancellor Philip Hammond, to express a "number of concerns".
The tax office has cracked down on a number of schemes that created artificial losses for investors.
Those losses allowed investors to lower their overall tax bills.
Mr Tyrie said in his letter that his office had been contacted by an increasing number of people concerned that HMRC investigations into such schemes were "not always fair nor what anyone could have expected".
That had resulted in "financial calamity" for some individuals, as well as considerable difficulties for HMRC in closing down some schemes.
"Many have said that, when these schemes were being sold, they were not considered to be aggressive avoidance but just a deferral of tax, and they were often marketed as routine tax management," Mr Tyrie told the Chancellor.
"Whether or not these claims are valid, it does appear that many individuals are facing very severe financial distress as a consequence."
An HMRC spokesperson said: "We have worked hard to tackle abuse in the system on behalf of the vast majority of investors who play by the rules, ensuring they are enforced fairly, and with sensitivity."
Commenting on the correspondence, Mr Tyrie said: "If a tax avoidance scheme is found by the courts to be illegal, then investors in the scheme have no option but to repay the tax that they have avoided.
"But HMRC needs to treat people fairly, including investors in what are now considered to be tax avoidance schemes, and to be transparent and timely in their approach."
Some investors in film schemes have been hit with Accelerated Payment Notices, which give taxpayers 90 days to pay the disputed amount of tax.
Their use has been controversial because some tax advisers claim they scare taxpayers into paying up rather than contest claims in the courts.
Some 60,000 notices have been issued since their introduction in 2014 and have raised £3bn.
Although some consider the notices to be draconian, as they can require taxpayers to stump up sums described as "life-changing", HMRC has won various attempts to challenge their legality.
In August last year HMRC claimed victory in a tax avoidance battle over schemes worth more than £820m run by Ingenious Film Partnership and Icebreaker.
The Ingenious scheme tried to use artificial losses arising from backing a range of films including Avatar, Life of Pi and Die Hard 4. The Icebreaker scheme attempted to create artificial losses from limited liability partnerships.
HMRC said both schemes saw users claim more in tax relief than they had invested - a claim that Ingenious disputed.
Ingenious called the Tax Tribunal decision "arbitrary and subjective". | HMRC has rejected criticism by Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the Treasury select committee, over its response to the exploitation of tax breaks for the film industry. |
37,880,886 | The striker curled a left-footed shot past Adam Smith in the 92nd minute to give his side their first victory since late September.
John-Joe O'Toole had given Northampton a first-half lead from close range, but Max Ehmer equalised after the break.
The home team started well, but it was the visitors who scored first in the 36th minute as O'Toole squeezed a header through two defenders after being left unmarked in the six-yard box.
The Gills then hit back early in the second half as Ehmer slid in at the back post to convert a flick from Emmanuel-Thomas.
Both sides had chances to take the lead but the game appeared to be petering out into a draw.
However, Emmanuel-Thomas - Gillingham's top scorer this term - pounced late on to give the hosts a win that moves them away from the relegation zone.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Gillingham 2, Northampton Town 1.
Second Half ends, Gillingham 2, Northampton Town 1.
Foul by Billy Knott (Gillingham).
Zander Diamond (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Gillingham. Conceded by Paul Anderson.
Goal! Gillingham 2, Northampton Town 1. Jay Emmanuel-Thomas (Gillingham) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner.
Bradley Dack (Gillingham) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Paul Anderson (Northampton Town).
Hand ball by Paul Konchesky (Gillingham).
Attempt blocked. Jay Emmanuel-Thomas (Gillingham) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Brendon Moloney (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Kenji Gorré replaces JJ Hooper because of an injury.
Corner, Gillingham. Conceded by Brendon Moloney.
Foul by Billy Knott (Gillingham).
Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Jay Emmanuel-Thomas (Gillingham) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Paul Anderson (Northampton Town).
Foul by Jake Hessenthaler (Gillingham).
John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Bradley Dack (Gillingham) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Gillingham. Bradley Dack replaces Frank Nouble.
Attempt missed. Matthew Taylor (Northampton Town) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Foul by Josh Wright (Gillingham).
Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Ryan Jackson (Gillingham) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by JJ Hooper (Northampton Town).
Foul by Frank Nouble (Gillingham).
Zander Diamond (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Alex Revell replaces Marc Richards.
Attempt missed. Paul Anderson (Northampton Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Jay Emmanuel-Thomas (Gillingham) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Frank Nouble (Gillingham).
Paul Anderson (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Gillingham. Conceded by Brendon Moloney.
Attempt blocked. Frank Nouble (Gillingham) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked.
Attempt missed. John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Ryan Jackson.
Goal! Gillingham 1, Northampton Town 1. Max Ehmer (Gillingham) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jay Emmanuel-Thomas following a corner.
Corner, Gillingham. Conceded by Zander Diamond. | Jay Emmanuel-Thomas grabbed an injury-time winner as Gillingham recorded their first League One victory in eight games by beating Northampton. |
20,576,420 | News agencies, including Reuters and Bloomberg, reported that Delta Air Lines was the interested party according to unnamed sources.
Billionaire Richard Branson holds a controlling 51% of Virgin.
A partnership with Virgin would allow US-based Delta to access the lucrative transatlantic business travellers market between the US and London.
Singapore Air bought its 49% stake in Virgin in 2000 for about £551m ($884m). Since then Singapore Air has injected further capital into Virgin and now values its total investment at £600.25m.
Singapore Air said in a brief statement that it was "in discussions with interested parties" to possibly divest its shareholding, but did not name the potential buyers.
It added that the talks may or may not lead to a transaction.
Delta, the second-biggest US airline, has been looking to buy into Virgin for more than two years, as it looks to increase its access to London's Heathrow airport.
Virgin is the second-biggest airline at Heathrow airport, where landing slots are hard to acquire.
Virgin has also been looking for investors, hiring Deutsche Bank in 2010 to look into its options. | Singapore Airlines says it is in talks to sell its 49% stake in Virgin Atlantic. |
34,566,543 | The government estimates more than 50,000 people are still missing.
The two sides will work together in a specialised unit to recover remains of those killed from unmarked mass graves and locate those still alive.
The issue was a key sticking point in negotiations to agree a broader peace deal.
The International Committee of the Red Cross will also help in the search for the disappeared.
It is set to be a harrowing process for the victims' families, and for Colombia as a whole, the BBC's Will Grant reports.
Last month, the Farc and the government agreed a deadline of six months for a peace agreement to be signed, a moment which was marked by the first public handshake between the Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos, and the leader of the Farc, Rodrigo Londono, alias Timochenko.
On 1 October the Farc announced a halt to the rebels' military training.
•An estimated 220,000 killed
•More than five million internally displaced
•More than seven million registered victims
•About 8,000 Farc rebels continue fighting
Sources: Unit for Attention and Reparation of Victims, Colombian government
What is at stake in the Colombian peace process? | Colombia's government and Farc rebels have agreed measures to find people who disappeared during the country's decades-long civil war. |
32,531,175 | Founder David Byttow said: "Secret does not represent the vision I had when starting the company" and that he believed in "failing fast".
The app was created, in part, to promote free speech but was criticised for promoting cyber-bullying.
User numbers have dwindled in recent months. Secret said it would return some of its $35m funding to investors.
It is a big turnaround for the company that was the talk of Silicon Valley, both among investors and users of the app, just a year ago.
Founded in 2013 by two former Google employees, the company was backed by some big names including actor Ashton Kutcher, Alexis Ohanian - a founder of Reddit, and Google Ventures.
The anonymous nature of messaging on the app led to its early adoption by technology sector workers, who used it to post rumours of forthcoming products or company mergers.
It was also used for political discussion in Russia and in Israel.
But the service was criticised for allowing people to defame others while remaining anonymous. It was banned in Brazil for promoting cyber-bullying.
A redesign of the app last year prompted users to "think before they post" and made it easier for users to flag up abusive content.
But user numbers have been falling in recent months, with some of those remaining complaining of an increase in the number of posts of a sexual nature and that public chat had become dominated by users from Indonesia.
In his blog post on Medium, Mr Byttow said: "I believe in honest, open communication and creative expression, and anonymity is a great device to achieve it.
"But it's also the ultimate double-edged sword, which must be wielded with great respect and care.
"I look forward to seeing what others in this space do over time."
Secret is not the first app to attract millions of dollars in funding only to flop shortly afterwards.
In 2012, photo and video-sharing app Color closed just 12 months after its launch having raised $41m from investors.
In June that year, Napster founders, Shawn Fanning and Shaun Parker launched their video-chat site Airtime, attracting $33m in funding.
It had very limited success, with Fortune magazine reporting that it had had to be quietly relaunched two years later.
"The truth is that there is fierce competition right now to get in early on any start-up that looks buzzy - who wants to be the guy that turned down WhatsApp in 2009 or Snapchat in 2012?
And if that means throwing a few million dollars at companies which appear to have no moral or business compass, then so be it."
Read Rory's blog
In closing Secret just 16 months after its launch, Mr Byttow said: "This has been the hardest decision of my life and one that saddens me deeply."
"Unfortunately Secret does not represent the vision I had when starting the company." | Anonymous messaging service Secret, at one stage thought to be valued at more than $100m (£66.5m), is shutting down. |
41,013,837 | Deputy First Minister John Swinney made the announcement during a visit to Jedburgh Grammar School, one of the schools which will be replaced.
The other sites involved are in Glasgow and South Lanarkshire.
Mr Swinney said the schools would offer "inspiring learning environments" and other wider community facilities.
The proposals in Jedburgh would see Parkside and Howdenburn primaries and Jedburgh Grammar shut and replaced by a new campus for children aged two to 18 at Hartrigge Park.
In Glasgow, Sighthill Community Campus will replace St Stephen's Primary and St Kevin's Primary while in South Lanarkshire both Underbank Primary in Crossford and Walston Primary in Elsrickle will be replaced.
Mr Swinney said: "We originally aimed to build or refurbish 55 schools across Scotland at the outset of the programme in 2009 and have now more than doubled that commitment.
"The projects are also a welcome boost to the local economy, creating apprenticeship opportunities for young people and construction jobs across the country."
Gemma Boggs, education delivery director at the Scottish Futures Trust, said they were delighted four more schools would be built from the programme budget.
"This will benefit 1,000 more pupils and will take them out of poor-condition schools and allow them to learn in well-designed, fit-for-purpose schools aligned to modern teaching methods," she said.
The investment was also welcomed by Carol Hamilton, Scottish Borders Council's executive member for children and young people.
"During extensive consultations we have carried out with the community, it was obvious that a new campus was required to provide the children and young people with the education and learning experiences that they need," she said.
"We thank the Scottish government for their support and look forward to delivering a facility which will prove a real asset to the Jedburgh community." | A £28m investment is to be be shared between four new schools across Scotland in the latest phase of the Schools for the Future programme. |
33,557,531 | As his motorcade rolled into Oklahoma City on Wednesday night, about 10 rebel flags were in the crowd, alongside some US flags.
Critics of the emblem, used in battle by southern states in the US Civil War, say it is a symbol of slavery.
A backlash against the flag has grown since a gunman killed nine black people at a church bible study last month.
Dylann Roof, who was charged with the killings, was pictured holding the flag.
The incident comes a week after the flag was removed from the grounds of the South Carolina state capitol grounds in Columbia, after years of bitter argument.
Large retailers like Walmart have also been clearing their shelves of any trace of the emblem.
But some of the flag-wavers told local newspaper Tulsa World that the flags were not "a racial thing" but merely "in protest".
There were also people holding US flags and signs supporting the president.
People took to social media to express how they felt about the contentious flag flying upon Mr Obama's arrival, saying the actions of a few do not represent the people of Oklahoma.
Others shrugged it off and said the US president has dealt with this kind of thing before.
Others called flying the flags "supporting Oklahoma heritage".
Mr Obama was in Oklahoma to visit El Reno Federal Correctional Institution, making him the first sitting president to visit a federal prison. | People waving Confederate flags have greeted President Barack Obama as he arrived at his hotel in Oklahoma. |
39,295,767 | Lynda Banks, 51, competes in the sports' Masters 2 class, which is open to 50 to 59-year-old competitors.
The head of Inverness' Smithton Primary retained her title at the GB Powerlifting Masters Classic Championships in Belfast.
Ms Banks only started competing three years ago at the age of 48.
Since taking up the sport, she has competed in Commonwealth, World and International championship events in Canada, Finland and the US.
She is a Commonwealth Champion and was placed third at last year's World Championship in Texas.
Formerly head teacher at Strathdearn Primary School, in Tomatin, near Inverness, Ms Banks took up the post at Smithon Primary five weeks ago.
Her new pupils learned of her powerlifting abilities during a school assembly held on themes of "trying" and "achievement".
Ms Banks said: "I did a deadlift in front of them.
At the GB Powerlifting Masters Classic Championships in Belfast at the weekend, Ms Banks squatted 105kg, 110kg and then 115kg - which broke her previous squat personal best and also GB records by 7.5kg.
Her three attempts in the bench were 55kg, 60kg but she failed to bench 62.5kg.
She then went on to deadlift 127.5kg, 135kg and 145kg. The last was 5kg under what she had lifted before.
Her title winning total of 320kg gave her a new personal best total.
"They then watched a video of me on YouTube deadlifting 150kg for a bronze medal. They burst into applause."
She said: "Some of them, once they were back home, told their mums, dads and grandparents to type 'Ms Banks' into YouTube."
Ms Banks was encouraged to take up power lifting by Gavin Laird, her coach at the gym in Inverness where she trains.
She said: "I had fancied a new challenge and my target had been to do one chin up.
"I tried deadlifting weights and really loved it. After a while I said to Gavin 'how about doing a competition?'."
She has not looked back since her first competition, which was held in Dumfries. She is now hoping for a call up to the GB team for the World Championships in Belarus in June.
The head teacher said she enjoyed being part of the family atmosphere of her sport, and hopes her role in it inspires others to take up powerlifting or other pursuits.
She said: "I love powerlifting. I only wish it was something I discovered 20 years ago." | A primary school head teacher has retained a British powerlifting championship title for the third year running. |
32,972,397 | The operation at La Chapelle, near Gare du Nord station, began at dawn.
The migrants - mainly Sudanese and Eritreans - are being moved by bus to migrant shelters in the capital.
Late on Monday a mass brawl broke out between several hundred African migrants living rough in Calais. Tents were set ablaze, iron bars were used, and 24 were injured, officials say.
Fourteen of the injured were admitted to hospital, and police reinforcements later restored order.
The AFP news agency says the clash happened in the so-called "new jungle" - a makeshift camp where 2,000 migrants live, near a reception centre providing hot meals.
The clash reportedly involved Sudanese and Eritreans, who have travelled to Calais hoping to get to the UK.
In Paris, city health officials who visited the camp at La Chapelle earlier reported that it was unhygienic and overcrowded, posing a public health risk.
The camp was set up several months ago but in February began attracting migrants who had crossed the Mediterranean to Italy.
French media said an estimated 200 of those living there were hoping to travel to the UK or Scandinavia while the rest were seeking asylum in France.
Social affairs minister Marisol Touraine told French radio that the decision to dismantle the camp was taken because of the threat of health epidemic primarily for those living there.
"We clearly have to ensure that each one from the camp is rehoused quickly in good conditions," she said. | French police are evicting an estimated 360 migrants from a makeshift camp under a Paris railway bridge. |
39,350,959 | Both Dumfries and Galloway Council and National Museums Scotland are bidding for the artefacts.
The Scottish Archaeological Finds Allocation Panel is meeting to discuss the hoard's future.
It will make a recommendation on where the treasure should go to the Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer.
The find was made by a metal detectorist in south west Scotland in 2014.
Dumfries and Galloway Council wants to house the hoard in a new art gallery being built in Kirkcudbright.
Their bid has been backed by a local campaign which delivered a 5,000 signature petition to the Scottish Parliament earlier this week.
They have both argued that the treasure should be returned to the region where it was found.
It had been hoped a joint bid could be agreed with NMS but that has proved impossible.
NMS said it believed it had put forward a proposal which benefitted both organisations.
It would see some of the hoard go on display permanently in Kirkcudbright and, on occasions, the entire collection hosted in the town.
However, no agreement has been reached between the two bodies and it will now be up to the SAFAP to make a recommendation.
It assesses the applications according to a number of criteria with a presumption that they should be allocated locally unless a "convincing argument" for placing it elsewhere can be made.
Other factors taken into account include:
If an organisation bidding to host a hoard disagrees with the recommendation made by the panel it can make a case for it to be reconsidered.
That would result in the case being deferred for further consideration at a future meeting. | An expert panel is to meet to help decide where a Viking treasure hoard discovered in southern Scotland should be permanently housed. |
18,003,028 | Jersey was liberated from Nazi occupation on 9 May, 1945.
For the first time, the Jersey Human Rights Group will lay a wreath at an event to remember slave workers brought to Jersey during the occupation.
Bob Hill, who set up the Jersey Human Rights Group three years ago, said: "It is important that the lessons of the past are not forgotten."
Mr Hill added: "We have always been very supportive of this event and we approached Mr Gary Font, the organiser, who was our guest speaker in February.
"We were moved by the story of his father, Francisco Font, who was a forced worker in the Channel Islands."
Meanwhile a 91-year-old Jersey man who risked his life to help others during the occupation is to be honoured at the service later.
Bob Le Sueur helped escaping Russian prisoners of war and will be at the Jersey Slave Workers Memorial to remember the thousands of people forced to work for the Nazis during World War II.
He will speak at the ceremony and will be joined by community leaders, representatives of faith groups and the families of forced workers at the commemoration later at the crematorium at Westmount in St Helier. | Human rights violations across the world will be remembered at a ceremony to mark Jersey's Liberation Day. |
38,796,338 | Statistics from NHS England show 7,163 patients were put in the wards in 2016, up from 4,248 in 2015.
In April 2011, fines were introduced to try to eradicate the problem, leading to a fall from thousands per month to hundreds.
The Patients Association said the rise was "concerning" and that the wards should be scrapped.
Its chief executive Katherine Murphy said single-sex wards are an "important component of preserving patient dignity" in hospitals.
"It is really concerning that over the past year there has been a sharp increase in the number of patients being placed on mixed-sex wards, as a result of mounting hospital pressures," she said.
"Protecting standards of patient safety must remain at the very heart of the NHS and eliminating mixed-sex hospital accommodation is central part of this."
Since April 2011, trusts have been fined £250 when a patient is placed on a mixed-sex ward and since the previous year, statistics have been published on how many breaches of the mixed-sex accommodation rules there have been each month.
In December 2010, there were 11,802 breaches and this dropped to 907 in December 2011 and 314 in the same month in 2012.
In 2014 there was a total of 2,585 patients placed on mixed-sex wards - a figure which increased by 177% in 2016.
Dr Jacqueline McKenna, director of nursing and professional leadership at NHS Improvement, said in some situations there was "no alternative".
"This includes situations where patients need urgent, highly specialised or high-tech care such as in intensive care units. When making this decision, staff must make sure that it is in the interests of all patients affected and work to move patients into same-sex accommodation as quickly as possible.
"A small number of patients (especially children and young people) will actively choose to share with others of the same age or clinical condition, rather than gender."
She added: "The aim of the NHS is to reduce mixed-sex accommodation and ensure privacy and dignity for all patients, but sometimes the need to treat has to take priority, particularly when hospitals are exceptionally busy."
A breach in rules is counted as soon as a patient is placed in a mixed-sex ward and does not depend on how long they stay there.
Single-sex accommodation means patients sharing sleeping, bathroom and toilet facilities only with people of the same sex.
Wards are allowed to be segregated into distinct bays as long as they have separate facilities. | The number of patients placed in mixed-sex wards in England has risen by almost 70% in the last year. |
32,593,187 | The aid group says survivors reported up to 40 people fell into the sea as a rescue vessel was approaching.
Those rescued arrived in the Sicilian port city of Catania on Tuesday.
At least 1,829 people have died so far this year trying to cross the Mediterranean, a 20-fold increase on the same period in 2014.
Giovanna di Benedetto, Save the Children's representative in Catania, said the latest incident was thought to have happened on Sunday, but the exact toll was not known.
"They [survivors] said there were 137 people aboard an inflatable boat that deflated or exploded - it wasn't clear - and that some of them fell overboard," Ms di Benedetto told AFP news agency.
"Some said 'very many' died, others said 'around 40'," she added. The survivors were picked up by a Maltese merchant ship and five bodies were also recovered.
Dramatic footage of the rescue, obtained by The Associated Press (AP), shows migrants desperately jumping off a deflating dinghy, and trying to climb up ropes and a rope ladder to the merchant ship.
One of the migrants, Astoy Fall Dia from Senegal, told AP she managed to survive because she knew how to swim and stayed close to the dinghy.
She described hearing the "boom" of an explosion, before the merchant ship came to the rescue.
"There was the big ship there and they threw down ropes, someone grabbed on to the rope, all the other people started pushing to try to save themselves but then people started falling in the water."
About 100 people were found on a second boat, with no deaths reported, the aid agency added.
The number of migrants attempting to make the perilous journey across the Mediterranean has risen in recent weeks as smugglers take advantage of fair weather.
In the past three days about 7,000 people have been rescued and 10 bodies recovered off the Libyan coast, according to the Italian coastguard.
Italian and French ships picked up survivors from wooden and rubber boats on at least 17 separate operations.
Meanwhile Turkey's coastguard on Tuesday said it had rescued more than 600 people trying to cross the Aegean Sea in the past week, Reuters reports.
More than 400 were men, women and children fleeing Syria, while the rest came from Iraq, Afghanistan, Myanmar (also known as Burma) and various African countries, the office of the Izmir provincial governor is quoted as saying.
The latest deaths come as naval chiefs from 26 European countries are due to discuss the migrant crisis at talks in Naples, southern Italy.
EU nations agreed last month to triple funding for rescue operations run by European border agency Frontex, contribute more boats and patrol aircraft for rescue efforts, and look at ways to target smugglers' boats with military strikes.
Figures correct up to 19 April 2015
More on the Mediterranean's deadly migrant routes
Who are the people smugglers? | Dozens of migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean after a boat carrying an estimated 137 people deflates south of Sicily, Save the Children says. |
38,260,918 | Darren Burnett lost his semi-final 21-20 to Ryan Bester of Canada, the man he beat to win Commonwealth Games gold at Glasgow 2014.
The men's fours (Ronnie Duncan, Iain McLean, Paul Foster & Alex Marshall) were well beaten by New Zealand.
Lesley Doig and Lauren Baillie lost out to Welsh duo Laura Daniels and Jess Sims in their pairs semi-final.
Doig won silver in the singles event last weekend, with Foster and Marshall also taking bronze in the men's pairs.
Meanwhile, England's Sophie Tolchard and Ellen Falkner also secured a bronze medal after beating Kelsey Cottrell and Karen Murphy of Australia 17-12 in the elimination round of the women's pairs. | Scotland collected three more bronze medals at the World Bowls Championships in Christchurch, New Zealand. |
21,170,445 | The European Commission-funded study tested the assumptions of the system used by NICE (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence).
Researchers concluded the watchdog's system failed
to reflect variations in views on illness and disability.
NICE called the study "limited" and said the measure it used was the best.
NICE uses a method called quality-adjusted life years (QALY) for assessing the value of new drug treatments in England and Wales. A similar system is used by the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC).
The formula looks at the cost of using a drug for a year and weighs it against how much someone's life can be extended and improved. Generally if a treatment costs more than £20,000-30,000 per QALY, it would not be recommended as cost-effective by NICE.
The European Consortium in Healthcare Outcomes (ECHOUTCOME) researchers will present their findings at a conference in Brussels on Friday.
Their work has already prompted a backlash by UK-based experts, who defended the current system for making decisions.
The researchers analysed a detailed questionnaire with more than 1,300 respondents - including 301 in the UK.
Their findings criticised the QALY system for grading different states of health. The researchers said people varied in their views about the impact of different levels of illness or disability, and in their approach to risk.
They also found that people's willingness to sacrifice remaining years of life in order to have better health varied enormously over different periods of time.
The researchers said 71% of the respondents would prefer to live 15 years in a wheelchair than die after 10 or five years in a wheelchair - but the remaining 29% said they would prefer to die earlier rather than spend 15 years in a wheelchair.
The project leader, Ariel Beresniak, a French doctor and economist who used to work in the drug industry, said: "Important decisions are being made on the basis of QALY, but it produces the wrong results.
"This isn't a scientific way to classify and prioritise the drugs - mathematically, it's flawed.
"We think it is time to open this debate, particularly as some of the newer European countries are trying to organise their health assessment systems and might be considering QALY.
"NICE has made negative recommendations about many major innovative drugs, based only on arbitrary incremental cost per QALY.
"Agencies such as NICE should abandon QALY in favour of other approaches."
A similar method is used by Canada and Australia for assessing new treatments.
The researchers suggest instead using a cost-benefit approach - such as how many cases of remission a drug can provide, or how many relapses it might prevent.
A NICE representative said: "We need to use a measure that can be applied fairly across all diseases and conditions. The QALY is the best measure anyone has yet devised to enable us to do this.
"It's developing and improving all the time and the criticisms in this rather limited study haven't shaken our confidence in its value to NICE in helping make decisions on the best way to use new and sometimes very expensive drugs and other health technologies."
John Cairns, professor of health economics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a member of the NICE's appraisal committee for 10 years, said: "QALYs are certainly not perfect and we should be looking for better ways of informing decision making.
"But getting rid of an imperfect system without replacing it with a better one is not the way forward."
Dr Andrew Walker, an economist at the University of Glasgow, with 10 years' experience of reviewing new medicines at the SMC, said: "I am amazed it has taken these authors three years and one million euros to establish what we already know, that QALYs are not perfect.
"Anyone who makes decisions using QALYs and who cannot think of at least three issues with them is not thinking hard enough.
"As an alternative they propose cost per remission in arthritis, but I ask them to tell me how they define remission, how long remission lasts and how much we are willing to pay for one remission.
"If we want to spend more on cancer medicines, it has to come from somewhere. The researchers speak as though there were no budget limits." | The formula used by the NHS to recommend which drugs should be funded is "flawed" and should be scrapped, researchers say. |
13,506,041 | David Headley was testifying against Tahawwur Rana, a Chicago businessman accused of helping plan the attacks.
Mr Rana is accused of providing Headley with a cover to scout attack locations.
Mr Rana has pleaded not guilty. His lawyers say he was tricked by Headley, a former friend.
More than 160 people were killed in November 2008 when a group of 10 men stormed a train station, hotels and cafes and a Jewish centre, shooting and throwing bombs.
At the opening on Monday of Mr Rana's trial, Headley testified that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) and militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) coordinated with each other.
The ISI provided military and moral support to the group, he said.
He said a Pakistani agent paid him $25,000 (£15,500) for the operation. Headley has separately said he was trained by LeT.
Pakistan believes Headley is an unreliable witness and analysts expect Islamabad to flatly deny alleged links between militant groups and the Pakistani secret intelligence service.
Mr Rana denies the 12 charges that have been levelled against him.
His lawyers say he was tricked by Headley, a longtime friend from their days at a Pakistani military school. Mr Rana was arrested in 2009, and if convicted, he faces a life sentence.
By Zubair AhmedBBC News, Chicago Federal Court
Headley's testimony revealed an insight into the workings of LeT and its alleged links to the ISI. He had free access to the group's leader, Hafiz Sayeed, who has been charged by India as the mastermind of the attacks.
Besides LeT, said Headley, two other militant organisations - Hizb-ul-Mujahedeen and Jaish-e-Mohammed - worked "under the umbrella of the ISI". He named several men who he said were officers in the ISI who collaborated with LeT, including one called Maj Iqbal.
Headley said he took pictures and video of the sites and shared them with the ISI officer and LeT members. Headley said he was drawn to LeT in 2000 after he attended one of its meetings.
He said LeT was planning attacks on India and he joined them because he hated India for dismembering Pakistan in 1971. He said the Mumbai attacks had been planned in 2005 but the dates were not firmed up until later.
Q&A: Tahawwur Rana trial
"David Headley... has been manipulating people for years. Dr Rana is by far and away not the first," Mr Rana's lawyer Charles Swift said in his opening statement.
Prosecutors say that in 2006 Mr Rana allowed Headley to open an office of his Chicago-based immigration services firm in Mumbai, which Headley then used as cover to scout sites for the 2008 attack.
"The defendant knew all too well that when Headley travels to a foreign country, people may die," assistant US Attorney Sarah Streicker told jurors on Monday.
"The defendant didn't carry a gun or throw a grenade. In a complicated and sophisticated plot, not every player carries a weapon. People like the defendant who provide support are just as critical to the success."
In November 2008, the 10 gunmen attacked the Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels, a Jewish centre and a major train station, each of which Headley had scouted in advance.
In March 2010, Headley, a US citizen who spent much of his childhood in Pakistan, pleaded guilty to taking photographs and video of the targets. He could face up to life in prison and a $3m (£1.86m) fine.
In addition, prosecutors say Headley and Mr Rana plotted an attack, which was never carried out, on Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, in revenge for its printing of cartoons featuring images of the Prophet Muhammad.
Also charged with planning the Mumbai attack are four Pakistanis, including one said by prosecutors to be a Pakistani intelligence officer. None are in US custody. | A man who scouted sites for the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks has testified in a Chicago trial that the Pakistani intelligence service had links to the group that carried out the attacks. |
35,563,061 | Goa's Agriculture Minister Ramesh Tawadkar said peacocks were damaging crops and could be culled.
Monkeys, wild boars and wild bison, Goa's state animal, would also be culled under the plans.
Shrinking forest cover in Goa has left less space for wildlife, which is encroaching on human habitat.
Mr Tawadkar said a committee had been formed to assess the peacocks' impact, along with that of the other animals.
"Some farmers said that peacocks also were damaging their crops in fields in hilly areas," he told Indian news agency IANS.
The birds are currently protected under India's Wildlife Protection Act of 1972.
The minister said he was aware of the peacock's status but insisted the government would follow a procedure whereby the bird could also be classified as a nuisance.
Animal rights groups have opposed the plans.
"If Goa wants to remain on the tourist map, people expect it to be a paradise for animals too," said Poorva Joshipura from PETA India.
Last month Goa's state government sparked outrage when it reclassified the coconut tree, which previously had protected status, as a palm because it does not have branches.
Officials said the move was necessary to make it easier to fell "economically unviable" and dangerous trees.
But environmentalists fear large numbers of coconut trees could now be removed to make way for development. | An Indian state has proposed reclassifying the country's national bird - the peacock - as vermin, local media report. |
32,114,241 | "First, I wouldn't feel embarrassed playing," said 2014 Ryder Cup player Stephen Gallacher.
"Golf is one of the best games because you've got a handicap. I can be six-under par playing a guy off 18 who's seven under his handicap and I'm beat.
"That's the beauty of golf."
Speaking to BBC Sportsound producer Paul Bradley, Stephen said the main thing was "to get the passion of the game back".
"The fitness stuff just comes once you get a love for it.
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"Go to the range, hit a few balls, maybe get a couple of lessons, then get back out on the turf, play nine holes."
Paul, who has just returned to the sport to improve his fitness, agreed.
He said: "My own fear I had was making a fool of myself - if I'm going out with three pals I don't want to hold them back.
"So I've found the lessons invaluable. At least I'm getting the ball off the tee."
Stephen suggested returning golfers "get back to the fundamentals".
"Get the set-up right, get the grip right, get your posture and your aim right," he said.
Paul admitted he hadn't played for about 10 years after family life had got in the way.
Stephen said: "Take the family out with you. There's not many sports you can go out and play with your kids and your wife and compete."
If you want to get back out on the green, take a look at Get Inspired's page on how to get into golf. | What can Scotland's number one player teach a lapsed golfer about getting back into the sport? |
35,634,810 | The South African faces Asian Football Confederation president Sheikh Salman, former Fifa deputy general secretary Jerome Champagne, Jordanian Prince Ali and Uefa general secretary Gianni Infantino in the race to succeed Sepp Blatter.
Blatter, 79, banned for eight years for ethics violations, was already stepping down this month.
The Swiss had been in charge of world football's governing body since 1998, having won June's election ahead of Prince Ali before resigning days later.
Blatter is now barred from all football-related activities, along with suspended Uefa president Michel Platini, who has withdrawn from the Fifa race.
The pair deny any wrongdoing and are appealing against their bans. They should find out the result ahead of this week's extraordinary congress meeting in Zurich.
Sexwale, 62, said on Monday he was a "realist" over his chances and hinted at striking a deal, adding: "It's like the Vatican, you never know what will come out."
Meanwhile, Infantino said he hoped to get most of Africa's 54 national votes, despite the Confederation of African Football (CAF) endorsing Sheikh Salman - his fellow frontrunner.
Both men were talking at a news conference held together after visiting Robben Island, where Sexwale spent 13 year imprisoned.
The vote of up to 209 Fifa member federations takes place with the organisation embroiled a corruption scandal with dozens of senior officials indicted by United States' prosecutors.
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Meanwhile, a survey of 25,000 football fans by anti-corruption campaigning organisation Transparency International, found 69% had no confidence in Fifa.
And when asked which of the five presidential candidates was the best man to run Fifa, 60% answered "none of the above".
The survey, which included supporters from 28 different countries, also found that 43% said their enjoyment of football had been affected by the Fifa corruption scandals. | Fifa presidential candidate Tokyo Sexwale says he is "open to negotiations and alliances" with his rivals before Friday's vote. |
37,647,354 | The 20-year-old had been due to be on loan at Sincil Bank until 26 October.
He scored once in seven games, his only goal a winner against Tranmere, and goes into Colchester's League Two trip to Doncaster on Saturday.
"Would like to thank everyone at Lincoln for making me feel welcomed, really enjoyed my time, all the best for the season," he said on Twitter. | Colchester United have recalled striker Macauley Bonne from his loan at National League side Lincoln City. |
35,642,665 | Tries for Ben Currie and Kevin Penny gave the hosts an early lead.
Craig Hall and Anthony Tupou touched down for Wakefield either side of a Kurt Gidley try for Wire.
But two tries from Chris Sandow and one from Currie secured a home win, despite Jonny Molloy's late try for Wildcats.
A difficult night for Wakefield began before kick-off, with full-back Ben Jones-Bishop suffering an injury in the warm-up.
Both sides struggled to create chances with ball in hand, but a string of Wakefield errors allowed the hosts to control field position throughout the first half.
Warrington dominated the game in all areas after the interval as they earned their third successive win, but their celebrations were dampened when highly impressive half-back Gidley was taken off after taking a blow to the head.
Warrington head coach Tony Smith:
"The results are okay but we know there is a lot more to come.
"A few players were off their game and we haven't quite hit the straps yet.
"We lacked some tempo but Wakefield played very well. They are a huge improvement on last year and I'm not saying that because my elder brother is their coach."
Wakefield head coach Brian Smith:
"We self inflicted at times and there was some very loose passing at the start and end of the game.
"But we competed very hard and if anyone looks at the scoreline they will think it lopsided but it wasn't.
"I have to give a big rap to my younger brother with Warrington having the makings of a very good team.
"If they are not up there or thereabouts at the end of the season I will be very surprised."
Warrington: Russell; Penny, Evans, Atkins, Lineham; Gidley, Sandow; Hill, Clark, Sims, Currie, Hughes, Westerman.
Replacements: Dwyer, King, Julien, Cox.
Wakefield: Hall; Lyne, Arundel, Walton, Johnstone; Miller, Finn; Scruton, Howarth, England, Molloy, Ashurst, Simon.
Replacements: Sio, Tupou, Arona, Annakin.
Referee: Richard Silverwood | Tony Smith's Warrington maintained their perfect start to the season and went top of Super League by beating Wakefield, who are coached by his older brother Brian. |
40,065,671 | The 34-year-old former New Zealand international joined the Vikings from Hull FC in 2015 and has also played for New Zealand Warriors and Leigh.
"It was an easy decision to extend my time at the Vikings," he told the club website.
"My family and I love the town and I'm honoured to represent the club. I still feel that I have a lot to offer." | Widnes Vikings hooker Aaron Heremaia has signed a new one-year deal to keep him at the club for the 2018 season. |
35,671,446 | Clive Wright earns about £100,000 a year as Conservative-led Shropshire Council's top official.
The council's leader told the 2016-7 budget meeting, at which a 4% council tax increase was agreed, the rise would be performance-related.
Although budget plans, including the rise, were made public last week, it was not discussed at the meeting.
Lib Dem leader Roger Evans, who voted against the budget plans, said he would have supported a "small rise" but had been given "no justification" for how the council had arrived at the 20% increase.
He said "the first he knew" about the rise was from local media. He said there were two paragraphs relating to the pay rise in the council's budget agenda.
Councillors approved the 2016-17 budget and agreed to "further develop" proposals for 2017-18 and 2018-19 at Thursday's meeting. The council tax rise means a £46 annual increase for a Band D property.
The authority has already made £40m of cuts over the past financial year.
Mr Evans said: "I'm surprised members weren't informed about it within the budget proposals at the meeting.
"The chief executive works hard and, when compared to other local authorities, he may well not be paid the same.
"But given the constraints Shropshire Council is running on and the budget cuts over the next two years... the Tories are talking about shutting swimming pools and leisure centres to balance the budget... I just plead to the public that I did not vote for it."
Mr Wright's salary is 55% lower than that of his predecessor, because of changes to the council's pay scale.
Council leader Malcolm Pate said the chief executive's salary would still be below average despite the increase and the authoority would not be able to fill the vacancy if he left.
He said it was important "to have the right person" running the council and the increase left him "still nearly 20% below the lowest paid county chief executive in the country". | A council chief executive is to get a 20% pay rise because he is "grossly underpaid", councillors have been told. |
38,511,281 | At issue is a deal awarding the broadcast rights to several African football tournaments to a media company, Lagardere Sports.
According to the Egyptian Competition Authority, Hayatou is suspected of not opening up the tender to free and fair competition as required by Egyptian law.
Caf is based in Cairo so the authorities say it must follow their laws.
African football's governing body had no comment to make, while Hayatou could not be reached.
The 70-year-old is currently in Abjua, Nigeria ahead of Thursday's Caf annual awards.
Hayatou was elected as Caf president in 1998 and is serving his seventh term in office.
Lagardere is not the subject of the referral, but says the allegation is wholly unfounded. | Confederation of African Football president Issa Hayatou has been referred to Egyptian prosecutors for investigation over allegedly abusing his position. |
39,604,693 | The Latics' hopes of remaining in the Championship are out of their hands and they will go down if Birmingham City avoid defeat by Aston Villa on Sunday.
In a quiet first half, Wigan almost broke the deadlock when Craig Morgan fired over the bar from close range.
Nick Powell could have given the hosts a vital three points but Rickie Lambert was on hand to block his shot.
The result leaves Wigan six points adrift of safety with two games still to play, but they will be relegated if 21st-placed Birmingham draw or beat city rivals Villa in their game in hand on Sunday.
Cardiff, on the other hand, remain in 13th place thanks to the draw, but their winless run on the road stretched to six league games.
Both sides struggled to gain a foothold in a tepid affair, with the first shot on target not coming until well after the hour mark.
Powell had scored five goals in his last three games but could not find the net on a day where Wigan desperately needed to win to have any chance of avoiding the drop.
Relegation for Wigan would see them drop down to League One after only one season in the Championship.
The Latics have been unable to recover from a poor start to the season which saw them take only five points from their first nine games.
Their form resulted in the departure of manager Gary Caldwell just five months after their promotion, but Warren Joyce's appointment failed to produce a turnaround, and he too was sacked in March, replaced on an interim basis by Graham Barrow.
Regardless of who has been in charge, Wigan have been unable to provide a consistent threat going forward, with Nick Powell their leading scorer with only six goals in an injury-hit campaign.
Northern Ireland international Will Grigg, League One's top scorer last season, has scored only five goals this term, while Omar Bogle has found the net just three times since his winter deadline day move from Grimsby.
Those struggles have contributed to the Latics having the second-worst goalscoring record in the division, managing a meagre 39 goals in 43 games.
Wigan interim manager Graham Barrow: "To be honest, the only thing I'm disappointed about is the result. That's probably as good a 90 minutes as we've played for quite a while. I think we've played well in spells, both since I've been in charge and all season. But certainly from start to finish, it was as good as we've played.
"If I'm being brutally honest, I thought we missed our opportunity in the first 20-25 minutes by not being that little bit more ruthless, That's the only thing I can fault about the performance.
"I've said all along I'd like to take it all the way. If we get the right result tomorrow we can take it to the second-last game of the season, which I think would be an achievement. I'm not trying to escape anything but, since I've been in charge, we've never been in charge of our own destiny. I wanted to get in control of that, but we haven't managed to do that."
Cardiff manager Neil Warnock: "It's incredible what they've done since I've been here [to climb above Wigan and away from trouble]. The lads have really knuckled down really well. It wasn't a pretty game but you can see the spine of the team is very good.
"If we can add a few goals and a bit more quality in certain areas I'm looking forward to a good season next year.
"I don't think anyone needs to be asking me what I'd like to get out of the next two games. Huddersfield are my old club and Newcastle are a team I'd love to beat, if I'm honest. Two wins out of two would be nice and we'll definitely be looking to finish like that."
Match ends, Wigan Athletic 0, Cardiff City 0.
Second Half ends, Wigan Athletic 0, Cardiff City 0.
Foul by Stephen Warnock (Wigan Athletic).
Anthony Pilkington (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dan Burn (Wigan Athletic).
Joe Bennett (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Matthew Connolly.
Greg Halford (Cardiff City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ryan Tunnicliffe (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Greg Halford (Cardiff City).
Attempt blocked. Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Greg Halford replaces Kadeem Harris.
Attempt saved. Ryan Colclough (Wigan Athletic) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Reece Burke.
Nick Powell (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Ralls (Cardiff City).
Attempt blocked. Rickie Lambert (Cardiff City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ibrahim Meite.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Bruno Ecuele Manga.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Alex Bruce replaces David Perkins.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Ibrahim Meite replaces Craig Noone.
Nick Powell (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Craig Noone (Cardiff City).
Attempt blocked. Nick Powell (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is blocked.
Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Matthew Connolly (Cardiff City).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Nick Powell (Wigan Athletic) because of an injury.
Attempt blocked. Joe Ralls (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Craig Noone.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Matthew Connolly.
David Perkins (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Joe Ralls (Cardiff City).
Attempt missed. Aron Gunnarsson (Cardiff City) header from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Craig Noone with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Shaun MacDonald.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Craig Morgan.
Offside, Cardiff City. Sean Morrison tries a through ball, but Craig Noone is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Dan Burn (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Nick Powell (Wigan Athletic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Michael Jacobs with a cross.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Sean Morrison.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Ryan Colclough replaces Jamie Hanson.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Nick Powell replaces Gabriel Obertan.
Delay over. They are ready to continue. | Wigan Athletic face an immediate return to League One after they played out a goalless draw against Cardiff City. |
37,458,908 | Marvin Sordell and Chris McCann both fired home after the hosts gifted possession to the Sky Blues who, under caretaker boss Mark Venus, became the first team to take any points from Vale Park this season.
The visitors took the lead after 36 minutes when experienced midfielder Michael Brown lost possession to Gael Bigirimana, who charged into the box and pulled back to Sordell, who smashed home from close range.
REACTION: Coventry City caretaker manager Mark Venus talks to BBC Coventry and Warwickshire
City doubled their tally after 72 minutes when Paulo Tavares was robbed of the ball in midfield by Daniel Agyei, who found McCann in the box to fire into the roof of the net.
Just six minutes earlier, the away side almost capitalised on one of many Vale mistakes when home keeper Jak Alnwick presented the ball to Agyei from a roll-out, but the keeper redeemed himself by tipping the subsequent shot wide.
City's first league win of the season lifts them off the bottom of the table while Bruno Ribeiro's Vale drop to sixth.
Reports supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Port Vale 0, Coventry City 2.
Second Half ends, Port Vale 0, Coventry City 2.
Attempt missed. Ben Purkiss (Port Vale) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Gael Bigirimana.
Attempt missed. Marcus Tudgay (Coventry City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Gezim Shalaj (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Lewis Page (Coventry City).
Sam Hart (Port Vale) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Gael Bigirimana (Coventry City).
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Jordan Willis.
Paulo Tavares (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ruben Lameiras (Coventry City).
Foul by Gezim Shalaj (Port Vale).
Jamie Sterry (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Coventry City. Marcus Tudgay replaces Marvin Sordell.
Attempt missed. Ruben Lameiras (Coventry City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Sam Foley (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lewis Page (Coventry City).
Sam Hart (Port Vale) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Marvin Sordell (Coventry City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Sam Hart (Port Vale).
Attempt missed. Alex Jones (Port Vale) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Substitution, Coventry City. Ruben Lameiras replaces Daniel Agyei.
Goal! Port Vale 0, Coventry City 2. Chris McCann (Coventry City) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Daniel Agyei.
Sam Foley (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gael Bigirimana (Coventry City).
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Jak Alnwick.
Attempt saved. Daniel Agyei (Coventry City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Delay in match (Coventry City).
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Nathan Smith.
Attempt blocked. Gael Bigirimana (Coventry City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Gael Bigirimana (Coventry City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Paulo Tavares (Port Vale) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Paulo Tavares (Port Vale).
Lewis Page (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Port Vale. Quentin Pereira replaces Michael Brown.
Substitution, Port Vale. Gezim Shalaj replaces Anton Forrester because of an injury.
Anton Forrester (Port Vale) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jordan Turnbull (Coventry City). | Managerless Coventry City ended this season's 10-game League One winless run by winning at Port Vale - just two days after Tony Mowbray's resignation. |
33,107,479 | Moirai Capital Investment Ltd's proposal will see all the elements of the £120m project built around the existing Oasis leisure centre.
The new complex will cover more than 30 acres and also includes a skate park, hotel, restaurants and cafes.
Morai revised its original proposal following a public consultation.
Last year, Swindon Borough Council extended the planning application deadline for the development after the firm failed to meet the original deadline.
A condition of the lease was that the firm refurbished the Oasis. The work to the 37-year-old site was delayed but has now been completed at a cost of £2m.
Morai's Martin Barber said consideration had been given to the "best possible layout for the project" as well as traffic management and its potential environmental impact.
"We are confident that the submission we have made takes account of all these and other factors," he added.
Swindon Borough Council's Garry Perkins said: "I am satisfied that now Moirai have put together a proposal that matches the council's ambitions for the North Star site.
"I look forward to hearing more as they get closer to turning these plans into a reality and gain commitments from prospective operators."
Morai said if planning permission is granted the development could open in late 2017.
Forward Swindon has also completed a feasibility study for a bridge linking the North Star site with Swindon railway station.
The company, which is responsible for delivering economic growth in the town, anticipates that many visitors to the new facility will arrive by train and is seeking funding for the structure. | Plans for a leisure complex incorporating a ski centre, 5,000-seat concert venue and cinema in Swindon have been submitted. |
34,716,887 | Northern Ireland-born Rankin, 31, played for Ireland from 2007 to 2012 before switching allegiance to England in the hope of playing Test cricket.
But he suffered cramp in his sole Test appearance against Australia in January 2014 and then dropped out of favour with his adopted country.
Rankin is reported to be set to hold talks with Ireland in the coming weeks.
Ireland officials did approach the fast bowler last summer in the hope of convincing him to return to international duty with his native county.
At that stage, Rankin remained hopeful of being named in one of England's winter squads but that did not come to pass.
Rankin will be eligible to return to Ireland duty on 17 January, which will mark two years since his final one-day appearance for England.
The seamer also played seven one-day internationals and two Twenty20 internationals for England.
If Rankin does return to the Ireland fold, he will available for the World Twenty20 in India in March.
A lack of bowling strength has been Ireland's main weakness in recent years and Rankin's return would be a major boost for coach John Bracewell. | Warwickshire pace bowler Boyd Rankin is being linked with a return to international duty with Ireland. |
37,184,218 | Selsey Academy suffered extensive damage and much of its contents were destroyed in the blaze on Sunday.
More than 75 firefighters tackled the fire as huge plumes of black smoke spread across the West Sussex town.
Meanwhile the 453 pupils will be taught at four locations in the Selsey area.
The school also said the start of term had been delayed until 12 September.
Head teacher Tom Garfield, writing to parents, said: "I am sorry for any difficulty these arrangements will cause, but the extra time is essential to allow staff extra time to prepare to teach in these new surroundings." | Pupils at a burnt-out school are to return to temporary classrooms on the site by early autumn, the head teacher says. |
22,615,566 | Those detained include eight Saudis, a Turk, and a Lebanese citizen. Eighteen people were arrested in the same case in March.
Saudi Arabia, which is predominantly Sunni Muslim, has recently repeatedly found itself at odds with Iran, an overwhelmingly Shia Muslim nation.
Iran has denied any involvement in spying in Saudi Arabia.
Those arrested in March included an Iranian, a Lebanese and 16 Saudis. The Lebanese suspect has subsequently been released, officials said.
Shortly after their detention, the Saudi authorities said the suspects were gathering information about installations and vital areas, and were linked to Iranian intelligence services.
Saudi Arabia's Shia minority is concentrated in the country's eastern province, and community leaders there were quoted by Reuters news agency as saying all the Saudi suspects detained in March were Shia.
Tensions between Riyadh and Tehran deepened in 2011 when Saudi Arabia deployed troops to the Gulf island kingdom of Bahrain to help crush an uprising there. | Saudi Arabia has arrested 10 more suspects in what it says is a spy ring linked to Iran, state media report. |
36,996,849 | Durham began day three at Taunton on 130-5, needing 46 runs to win with five wickets in hand - but they collapsed to 136 all out in just 17 minutes.
Jack Leach (4-46) struck twice in the first over, dismissing Graham Onions and Paul Coughlin in consecutive balls.
Stuart Poynter fell in Leach's next over, before Roelof van der Merwe removed Mark Wood and Chris Rushworth.
The spinner's two wickets in two balls to wrap up the win gave him figures of 4-45.
Somerset are up to second in Division One as it stands, three points behind leaders Middlesex, and have leapfrogged Durham, who slip to third.
BBC Newcastle's Martin Emmerson
"As capitulations go this was right up there from Durham and was dreadful to see.
"Durham coach Jon Lewis says he can't blame his players for what happened, but on a pitch which offered excessive turn from the first morning they should have had an idea of what was likely to come.
"Chris Rogers, the Somerset captain, says the pitch was too dry and the groundsman didn't quite get it right. Ironically, it is now getting a drenching as I write this - but it offered plenty for Durham's seam bowlers too.
"Whether the umpires feel the need to report it is another matter. It was a bizarre match that featured 13 ducks and no score above 200. Make of that what you will." | Somerset took five wickets in 22 balls on the third morning to complete an astonishing 39-run win over Durham. |
11,788,104 | The singer-songwriter, who shot to fame in 2008 with her chart-topping single Mercy, is about to release her second album Endlessly.
The bubbly 26-year-old is immediately engaging and is full of smiles and chatter.
"I'm an open book," she explains. "I wouldn't write songs if I had no intention of sharing the experiences that I went through."
A two-year hiatus gave the singer - full name Aimee Ann Duffy - a chance to "take stock" and think about her next move.
She laughs off press reports that she suffered a breakdown during that time, calling it "too dramatic and too much like a Hollywood movie".
She does admit, though, that becoming an overnight success did take its toll.
"It was a wild, fun, exhilarating experience and at times it felt as though I was falling apart at the seams," she says.
"I did have hold of the reins," she continues. "I did feel like I could keep things together - just about.
"But it was the right time to go and make a new record. Trust me, I was ready for that."
Duffy retreated back to Wales for a rest, squeezing in a debut acting role in independent movie Patagonia.
Despite having been offered several Hollywood parts, she chose the predominantly Welsh-speaking film "because it was a little homage to the girl I used to be".
Although proud of the film, she is not certain whether she will continue with acting.
"I'm about to say something that I probably shouldn't say, but I really don't know what's ahead of me," she laughs.
"Media training would want me to say that I completely know what I want for the future, that I'm a calculated young woman, I'm clever and I've got it all together - but I have absolutely no idea."
Bad habits
Last year Duffy's debut record Rockferry won her the Grammy for best pop vocal album.
Even now, though, the singer - who grew up in the small Welsh town of Nefyn - still has "weird moments realising that people know who I am".
It's a far cry from her early years when she was asked to leave the school choir.
"I was about eight years old and I remember thinking to myself: 'I think you're going to regret that, Mrs Roberts,'" she laughs.
Duffy has achieved a level of success that most artists would envy. Yet she does admit she has picked up some bad habits along the way.
She never warms up her voice before singing, enjoys spending hours in the bath and has a fondness for the occasional tipple.
"It's good to get drunk and to go out and let your hair down," she says.
"I sometimes enjoy a hangover. That kind of hot flush where you feel like you're having palpitations makes me feel slightly alive."
For the time being, though, socialising will have to take a back seat while she promotes her latest record.
Comparisons
The first single off the album, Well, Well, Well, was released earlier this month.
Asked what her expectations are for the record, Duffy admits that chart success may take some time.
"I'm aware of wanting a slow start and a way of easing myself back into everyone's consciousness," she explains.
"I hope I get a few months to wind up. Well, Well, Well is something I want to sit out there, reminding everybody of my return."
Nor does she seem overly concerned by the continual comparisons made between herself and some of her contemporaries, such as Amy Winehouse and Adele.
"I still get the Dusty Springfield comparison daily," she says.
Another person to whom the star is regularly compared is singer Charlotte Church.
They are both Welsh singers who have enjoyed enormous success. Like Church until recently, Duffy is also in a relationship with a rugby player.
But Duffy sees no similarities. "It's really only here [in the UK] that we are compared," she says.
"In America they don't really know what rugby is. All they know is that I've got a yum, six foot tall, dark, handsome squeeze."
She is not, in short, a woman to fret over what is written about her.
"You won't really get me worrying about things," she says.
"You don't really have any control over anything, good or bad, I am a victim of circumstance as we all are."
Endlessly is released on 29 November. | After two years away from the limelight, Welsh pop star Duffy is back. |
36,895,145 | Economy Secretary Ken Skates said a bid was not feasible after a study revealed costs of between £1.3bn and £1.5bn.
The Commonwealth Games Federation [CGF] said it was "surprised" by the figures quoted, with the 2014 Glasgow Games having cost £543m.
Plaid Cymru and Tory politicians attacked the decision not to bid.
Both parties had backed the idea, with Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies calling the announcement "pathetic".
The Welsh Government had been exploring the possibility of making a bid with a number of bodies including local councils and Sport Wales.
Ministers had preferred an all-Wales plan which Mr Skates said "would have helped to ensure the benefits of the games were felt across Wales".
The feasibility study put the cost of that option at between £1.3bn and £1.5bn, but it found that Commonwealth Games Wales (CGW) would not have submitted such a bid as it would not meet the requirements of the Commonwealth Games Federation.
In contrast, a bid focused in south east Wales was thought to have cost around £220m less and was said to be the most "compelling" option to secure votes from the Commonwealth Games "family".
Mr Skates said: "Given the high cost, our understanding that an all-Wales bid was less likely to be supported and the current funding uncertainty following the vote to leave the EU, we have reluctantly concluded that the bid for the 2026 Commonwealth Games is not feasible."
He said the work was not wasted and has "highlighted the need for us to undertake a review of sports facilities in Wales with a view to increasing our spread of world class venues".
But David Grevemberg, chief executive of the CGF, said the federation was "surprised by the ambitious costs quoted and attributed to the games, given the last edition of the games in Glasgow in 2014 was operationally delivered for £543m - and indeed £32m under budget - according to an independent Audit Scotland report".
Helen Phillips, chairwoman of CGW, said the organisation was disappointed but understood the reasons for the decision.
Plaid Cymru shadow health secretary Rhun ap Iorwerth said: "Investing in sport is crucial for the nation's health.
"Sadly, by failing to recognise this, the Labour Welsh Government have scored a major own goal."
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said: "There are of course uncertainties about the world post-Brexit, but the economic benefits of the Commonwealth Games are vast."
Mr Davies said it was "rather pathetic that the Welsh Government is once again attempting to use Brexit as a smokescreen to disguise a lack of ambition and imagination".
Analysis by BBC Wales political editor Nick Servini
To blame the dropping of the bid on leaving the EU makes it an issue just at the point when the messages are critical.
The danger for ministers is how the failure to bid for the games contrasts with virtually every other statement saying that Wales is open for business.
Critics will argue that the role of a government at times like these is to provide confidence.
But there will be many who say this is sensible at a time of huge uncertainty.
More from Nick | Wales will not bid for the 2026 Commonwealth Games, Welsh ministers have said, blaming the high cost and funding uncertainty due to Brexit. |
39,089,667 | British Airways i360 said the stoppage on Friday afternoon was caused by a damaged cable.
The tower will be closed on Saturday and Sunday. Ticket holders will be offered alternative times or refunds, British Airways i360 said.
Passengers reported having to use a temporary toilet in a tent erected in the pod during the delay.
Jummers tweeted: "We've gone up the i360 of Brighton. It's stuck. We've been up here like an extra half hour. They're setting up toilets in this public room."
A British Airways i360 spokesperson said: "A back-up data cable came into operation and enabled the pod to return to the ground, where passengers disembarked."
In September the observation pod broke down three times in five days shortly after opening.
A load imbalance caused 180 passengers to be stuck in mid-air for two hours with no proper toilet facilities. The i360 pod was carrying a private party, including a heavily pregnant woman.
Further problems occurred when one of the sensors around the pod docking stations at ground level became loose.
On that occasion two hundred passengers were stuck at ground level for more than an hour.
Two hours later there was a second technical fault leaving another group of visitors stuck in the pod.
The tower - branded the world's thinnest tall building - offers views of up to 26 miles of the Sussex coastline and opened on 4 August.
The 531ft (161m) viewing tower stands on the site once occupied by the entrance to Brighton's ruined West Pier.
Visitors ascend 450ft (137m) in a 360-degree curved-glass pod. | Brighton's i360 attraction has been closed after passengers were stranded for over an hour following a breakdown. |
38,248,989 | Laura Mvula, and Gareth Malone and the Invictus Choir, will also sing during the show to a star-studded audience and millions watching on BBC One.
This year's event is at the Genting Arena in Birmingham from 18:40 GMT.
Williams will provide the soundtrack to a special moment in the programme which celebrates the achievements of British Olympians and Paralympians at Rio 2016.
"I'm honoured to perform in such an iconic BBC programme," he said.
"It's been a truly amazing year for sport and I can't wait to take to the stage in Birmingham in front of such sporting heroes."
Birmingham's own Mvula, whose album The Dreaming Room was nominated for this year's Mercury Prize, will perform the show's opening number.
Choirmaster Gareth Malone will be joined by the Invictus Choir, made up of wounded ex-armed services personnel, in a moment dedicated to remembering those sporting icons that have died this year.
The BBC Concert Orchestra will provide the musical score to the programme throughout the evening.
A shortlist of 16 contenders has been named for the main Sports Personality award.
The last remaining tickets for the event are on sale now. | Singer Robbie Williams is to perform at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year show on 18 December. |
36,582,026 | Writing in the Guardian, he said sterling would "decline precipitously" if the Leave camp won Thursday's vote.
Meanwhile, former retail bosses of the UK's biggest chains warned the price of essentials such as food and clothing would rise in the event of a Brexit.
But Vote Leave said the UK would be more prosperous outside the EU.
"The EU is costly, bureaucratic and blind to the impact it has had on people's wages and soaring energy bills," said Vote Leave chief executive Matthew Elliott, who accused Mr Soros of wanting to give more power to Brussels.
Mr Soros made a fortune betting against the pound on Black Wednesday in 1992, when Britain left the ERM, and said Brexit would cause even bigger disruption.
Mr Soros said in his article that leaving the EU would see sterling fall by at least 15%, and possibly more than 20%, to below $1.15 from its current level of around $1.46.
"The value of the pound would decline precipitously," he writes. "It would also have an immediate and dramatic impact on financial markets, investment, prices and jobs.
"I would expect this devaluation to be bigger and also more disruptive than the 15% devaluation that occurred in September 1992, when I was fortunate enough to make a substantial profit for my hedge fund investors.
"British voters are now grossly underestimating the true costs of Brexit. Too many believe that a vote to leave the EU will have no effect on their personal financial position. This is wishful thinking."
Justice secretary and Leave campaigner Michael Gove said Mr Soros had long been a strong supporter of deeper economic integration and had been wrong over the euro, believing it would be an "anchor of stability" for Europe.
"The truth is that economic forecasters like George Soros have got things wrong in the past," he told Radio 4's Today. "They were the people who argued that we should join the single currency. The single currency has brought misery to the continent."
The expected drop in the pound coupled with supply chain disruption would cause the prices of food, drink and clothing to spike, according to the former chief executives of the UK's biggest supermarkets including Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Morrisons and Waitrose as well as M&S and B&Q.
The average household could be £580 a year worse off as a result, retail union USDAW has predicted.
USDAW said it had calculated its figure based on an expected fall in sterling in the event of the UK's exit from the EU, together with expected new tariffs imposed on imported EU goods including food, drink and clothing.
Mr Soros warned that the Bank of England's ability to respond to a recession or fall in house prices was limited, with many monetary tools already having been used to steer the UK out of the global financial meltdown.
Sixty years of investing experience had taught him that the only winners would be financial speculators, he said.
Mr Soros writes: "Today, there are speculative forces in the markets much bigger and more powerful. And they will be eager to exploit any miscalculations by the British government or British voters,"
"Brexit would make some people very rich - but most voters considerably poorer," Mr Soros said.
Sterling has already see-sawed in the run-up to the referendum as investors speculate on the likely outcome.
How trade and the UK's economy are affected by membership of the EU.
Last week, the pound fell sharply after polls suggested the Leave camp was gaining ground. On Monday sterling saw its biggest daily gain since 2009 on fresh polls suggesting Remain had renewed momentum.
In 1992, Mr Soros used his Quantum Fund investment vehicle to bet successfully that sterling was overvalued against the Deutsche Mark, forcing then-Prime Minister John Major to pull the pound out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.
On Thursday evening and through the night, some of the world's biggest banks are expected to have senior traders working during what some people think could be the most volatile trading for sterling since Black Wednesday.
Vote Leave hit back at claims that an EU-exit would mean a rise in the cost of living.
"Independent experts are clear, EU membership and the meddling court that comes with it have put up prices and hurt our economic growth," Mr Elliott said. "If we Vote Leave, we can take back control of the £350m we hand to Brussels every week and spend it on our priorities."
The claim and counter-claim from business and industry has intensified as the Referendum nears.
Vodafone chief executive Vittorio Colao, who has already said he backs Remain, has urged the UK to stay part of the growing "digital single market".
"We think the digital single market is the next big opportunity for the economy in Europe in general and for Britain in particular," he told the BBC's Today programme.
"So from our point of view it would be a missed opportunity - a great missed opportunity if Britain was trying to sit outside of of it and not shaping it from inside."
Earlier this month Lord Bamford, chairman of JCB - one of Britain's most successful manufacturers - wrote to his company's 6,500 employees in the UK to explain why he favoured a vote to leave the European Union.
And last week, entrepreneur Sir James Dyson told the Daily Telegraph Britain would gain more from leaving the EU than it would lose. | Legendary investor George Soros has warned of "serious consequences" for British jobs and finances if the country leaves the EU. |
35,534,612 | The Electrify Africa Act of 2015 will give legal backing to Mr Obama's flagship Power Africa scheme, which is trying to improve access to electricity through public-private partnerships.
It took nearly two years to be passed in both houses of the US Congress.
About two-thirds of people in Africa do not have access to reliable power.
Africa Live: BBC News updates
Observers say the new legislation is likely to ensure that the scheme continues even after Mr Obama leaves the White House in 2017.
The scheme has set itself the long-term target of doubling electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa.
The legislation would "improve the lives of millions in sub-Saharan Africa by helping to reduce reliance on charcoal and other toxic fuel sources that produce fumes that kill more than HIV/Aids and malaria combined," said House Foreign Affairs committee chairman Ed Royce, a long-time supporter of the initiative.
It would also "promote the development of affordable and reliable energy", he added, in a statement on Monday.
Management consultant firm McKinsey estimates that it will cost $835bn (£575bn) to connect the entire continent's population to electricity by 2030.
Aside from the US government, African governments, development partners, and the private sector are all involved in the Power Africa scheme.
The US government has made financial commitments of $7bn to support the scheme, which it says in turn has drawn a further $43bn in investment pledged from other public and private partners. | US President Barack Obama has signed into law an initiative aimed at bringing electricity to 50 million people in sub-Saharan Africa by 2020. |
34,784,811 | Junior home minister Kiren Rijiju said Anup Chetia, a leader of the United Liberation Front of Assam (Ulfa), was being brought to India from Dhaka.
Chetia was jailed in 1997 for illegal entry into Bangladesh and possessing huge amounts of foreign currency.
The rebels have fought for a separate Assamese homeland since 1979.
Mr Rijiju told reporters on Wednesday that a team of Indian federal investigators were bringing back Chetia.
However, according to the AFP news agency, Bangladesh's Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said he had no information that Chetia was being handed over to India.
The Press Trust of India news agency reported that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called up his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina to thank her for handing Chetia over to the Indian government.
In 2009, the government in Bangladesh launched a crackdown on Indian separatists operating out of its territory.
More than 50 rebel leaders and activists have been handed over to India since then, while others have been arrested while trying to enter Bangladesh to avoid capture in India. | India says Bangladesh has handed over a jailed separatist rebel leader whose group has been fighting Indian rule in the north-eastern state of Assam. |
36,834,066 | Lees' remark came after Saggers awarded a no-ball for a breach of fielding regulations during a T20 Blast defeat by Nottinghamshire on Friday.
The 23-year-old has been handed a two-match suspension by Yorkshire, suspended for 12 months.
"I regret the comments made and I would like to offer my sincerest apologies to Martin," Lees said in a club statement.
"These comments are uncharacteristic and were made in the heat of the moment."
Following Yorkshire's three-wicket defeat at Trent Bridge, which leaves them eighth in the North Group, Lees said: "It's boiled down to a terrible decision by the umpire.
"I don't know how, from 40 yards away, you can tell if someone is in or out of the ring, and it's cost us 12 runs.
"Even if someone is out by a yard, can you see that from 40 yards? He said that he watched the bowler from his run-up all the way and said he watched me all the way.
"I don't think he's doing his job properly if he's looking at me when the bowler's bowling.
"I don't how he can track it. I don't know how he can track all seven players in the ring."
Lees will be suspended if he breaches the England and Wales Cricket Board's disciplinary code within the next year. | Yorkshire one-day captain Alex Lees has apologised after calling a decision by umpire Martin Saggers "terrible". |
40,697,807 | David Willey made 118 off 55 balls, the highest T20 score by a Yorkshire batsman, as they totalled 233-6.
And although Whiteley hit six maximums in an over from Karl Carver that also contained a wide, Willey bowled him for 65 as they fell short on 196-7.
There were also wins for Birmingham Bears, Lancashire and Somerset.
And there was a tie between Sussex and Kent at Hove, where the home side were asked to chase a rain-reduced target of 88 off eight overs and ended on 87-3 when Laurie Evans was run out off the final ball of the game.
The South Group matches between Hampshire and Surrey, and Glamorgan and Essex, were both abandoned without a single ball being bowled.
Whiteley's assault on spinner Carver was not the only incident-packed over in Worcestershire's game against Yorkshire.
Australian John Hastings was also on the receiving end as one of his three overs for the Rapids cost him 34 runs.
It began with four no-balls, and also included six runs given away in wides, plus two sixes and two fours, and he ended Yorkshire's innings with figures of 2-58.
Hastings tried to repair some of the damage when he opened the batting in Worcestershire's reply with two sixes of his own, but was caught at deep mid-wicket after making 24 off 10 balls.
Joe Clarke scored 51, but it was Whiteley who gave their run-chase belated impetus as he did even better than Alex Hales, whose six successive sixes for Nottinghamshire against Birmingham Bears in 2015 were spread over two overs.
Lancashire's game at Old Trafford began in painful fashion for Liam Livingstone as he needed treatment after being hit on the arm in Durham seamer Chris Rushworth's opening over.
The England T20 player was in the firing line again later in the home side's innings when he was struck by a powerful shot by team-mate Dane Vilas.
However, it did not stop Livingstone scoring a 34-ball half-century and his 61 was the top score in a total of 174-5.
Durham, who like Worcestershire have yet to win a T20 game this season, lost their way after opener Cameron Steel was dismissed for 37 by Jordan Clark (3-36) and they finished on 143-8 to lose by 31 runs.
And their disappointment was compounded by the loss of opening batsman Adam Hickey, who had to leave the field after injuring his arm while trying to take a catch during Lancashire's innings.
Pollock is a famous name in South African cricket circles, and pace bowler Shaun Pollock had a spell in county cricket with Warwickshire between 1996 and 2002.
Opener Ed Pollock is no relation - born in High Wycombe - but he certainly made a big impression on his T20 debut for Birmingham Bears with 66 off 40 balls against Derbyshire at Edgbaston.
The 22-year-old left-hander struck three sixes and five fours before falling to Hardus Viljoen, but New Zealander Colin de Grandhomme weighed in with an unbeaten 65 off 28, including five maximums, as they reached 197-4.
De Grandhomme's compatriot Grant Elliott then claimed 4-37 with the ball as Derbyshire were restricted to 177-4 in reply to lose by 20 runs, their second defeat in three days.
"Ed is that kind of cricketer, he's quite carefree, goes out and is really aggressive. It was a punt today (to pick him) but it came off," Bears skipper Ian Bell told BBC WM.
Elsewhere, Eoin Morgan hit seven sixes in his 59 for Middlesex, but Somerset's James Hildreth made 63 off 34 balls as they reached 166-5 off the penultimate ball to win by five wickets.
Is Whiteley's over the best hitting you have seen in T20 cricket? | Worcestershire's Ross Whiteley hit six sixes in an over in a losing effort as they went down by 37 runs to Yorkshire at Headingley in the T20 Blast. |
18,181,971 | England manager Roy Hodgson instantly restored Rooney after a two-match suspension in place of Andy Carroll with orders to make a belated mark on the campaign after sitting out the draw against France and victory against Sweden.
And after missing a simple header in the first half, the Manchester United striker ensured England topped Group D to set up a quarter-final meeting with Italy in Kiev on Sunday.
England could have met world and European champions Spain but that eventuality was avoided by Sweden's 2-0 win against France, and Rooney's first goal in a major tournament since scoring twice in the 4-2 victory over Croatia in Lisbon at Euro 2004.
"We hope Wayne Rooney will get fitter. Steven Gerrard is a massive plus and if he can keep this form then England have a chance. We're not playing great football, we're just getting results."
Ukraine, however, will complain long and hard about a contentious second-half incident when Marko Devic's shot clearly crossed the line before it was scrambled away by John Terry, only for the officials to remain unmoved.
The incident immediately revived the debate about goal-line technology, with a final decision on whether it is introduced expected to be taken in Zurich on 5 July.
England will regard it as a measure of justice for Frank Lampard's disallowed goal against Germany in Bloemfontein at the 2010 World Cup - but it was also an illustration of how they rode their luck for long periods in front of a predictably partisan home crowd.
But once again Hodgson's men found a way to get the result they required and there is a real air of respectability about their campaign even though they had to survive a first-half siege from a Ukraine side desperate for the win they needed to progress.
Oleg Blokhin's side lost the talismanic Andriy Shevchenko to the substitutes' bench because of a knee injury but still showed enough to put England through real turmoil in spells.
A lack of match sharpness was perhaps to blame for Rooney squandering England's best chance after 27 minutes.
It appeared he only had to make clean contact with Manchester United team-mate Ashley Young's cross to score but his far-post header lacked conviction and went tamely wide of keeper Andriy Pyatov's goal.
Either side of Rooney's fluffed chance, it was a tale of Ukrainian domination as they attacked England down both flanks and showed the greater fluidity of the teams.
Scott Parker was desperately urging England's players to keep possession - but it was easier said than done amid waves of Ukraine attacks and it needed a penalty area block from the Tottenham midfield man to thwart Devic.
England keeper Joe Hart had to save smartly from the dangerous Andriy Yarmolenko, who also raised the hopes of the Donetsk crowd as he evaded several challenges in the area before running out of space.
However, Rooney made no mistake with his second headed opportunity, Steven Gerrard's delivery from the right once again the creative source. The cross took two deflections and slipped from the grasp of Pyatov for a simple far-post header from the Manchester United striker.
The crowd was momentarily silenced but Ukraine refused to lose heart - and they were robbed of an equaliser when once again an effort that had crossed the line was not spotted by officials.
Artem Milevskiy should have done better than send a header wide but the real controversy came when Hart partially stopped Devic's effort and Terry desperately scrambled back to hook the ball off the line.
The Ukrainians immediately demanded a goal and their claims were vindicated as replays showed the ball crossed the line before Terry's intervention.
There was still time amid the drama for Ashley Cole to almost mark his 97th cap with a goal but the erratic Pyatov made a fine recovery save after another inelegant attempt to deal with a cross.
With 20 minutes left it was time for the entrance of Ukraine's great sporting icon Shevchenko.
He received a thunderous ovation as his country looked to him to rescue their Euro 2012 campaign but it was a task beyond even the veteran striker, who was soon booked for a rash challenge.
Before the game manager Hodgson had said England could dream a little - ahead of the confrontation with Italy in Kiev, they can now afford to dream a little more.
Full Time The referee blows for the end of the match.
Andy Carroll challenges Yevgen Selin unfairly and gives away a free kick. Direct free kick taken by Andrei Pyatov.
Andriy Yarmolenko takes a shot from just inside the penalty box which clears the crossbar.
Anatoliy Tymoschuk crosses the ball, blocked by Scott Parker.
Ashley Cole takes the free kick.
Substitution Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain comes on in place of Wayne Rooney.
Booking Andriy Shevchenko is cautioned by the ref for unsporting behaviour.
Andriy Shevchenko challenges Ashley Young unfairly and gives away a free kick.
The ball is delivered by Serhiy Nazarenko.
Outswinging corner taken by Serhiy Nazarenko from the right by-line played to the near post, clearance made by John Terry. Outswinging corner taken right-footed by Serhiy Nazarenko from the right by-line to the near post.
Joe Hart takes the direct free kick.
Substitution Andy Carroll comes on in place of Danny Welbeck.
Anatoliy Tymoschuk gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Steven Gerrard.
Wayne Rooney challenges Anatoliy Tymoschuk unfairly and gives away a free kick. Anatoliy Tymoschuk takes the direct free kick.
Effort from just outside the area by Serhiy Nazarenko goes over the target.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Yevhen Khacheridi by Danny Welbeck. Yaroslav Rakitskiy restarts play with the free kick.
Booking Ashley Cole is shown a yellow card for time wasting.
Substitution Serhiy Nazarenko replaces Denys Garmash.
Substitution Artem Milevskiy goes off and Bohdan Butko comes on.
Yevgen Konoplianka produces a right-footed shot from just outside the penalty area that goes harmlessly over the target.
The ball is swung over by Oleg Gusev, Glen Johnson manages to make a clearance.
Corner taken right-footed by Steven Gerrard, Wayne Rooney takes a shot. Save made by Andrei Pyatov.
Joleon Lescott takes the free kick.
Booking Yaroslav Rakitskiy goes into the book.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Yaroslav Rakitskiy on Steven Gerrard.
Yevgen Konoplianka takes a shot. Joe Hart makes a save.
Anatoliy Tymoschuk takes the direct free kick.
Booking Steven Gerrard shown a yellow card.
Steven Gerrard challenges Denys Garmash unfairly and gives away a free kick.
The ball is swung over by Oleg Gusev, Ashley Young gets a block in. Corner taken by Yaroslav Rakitskiy.
Substitution Marko Devic goes off and Andriy Shevchenko comes on.
Substitution Theo Walcott joins the action as a substitute, replacing James Milner.
James Milner crosses the ball, Andrei Pyatov makes a save. Shot from 12 yards from Ashley Cole. Save made by Andrei Pyatov. Inswinging corner taken right-footed by Ashley Young from the left by-line, save by Andrei Pyatov.
Yevhen Khacheridi fouled by James Milner, the ref awards a free kick. Yevhen Khacheridi restarts play with the free kick.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Yevhen Khacheridi by Ashley Young. Anatoliy Tymoschuk takes the direct free kick.
Strike comes in from Wayne Rooney from the free kick. Andriy Yarmolenko produces a cross.
Booking Anatoliy Tymoschuk booked for unsporting behaviour.
Marko Devic takes a shot. John Terry makes a clearance. Anatoliy Tymoschuk concedes a free kick for a foul on Scott Parker.
Short corner taken by Yevgen Konoplianka. Andriy Yarmolenko delivers the ball, Artem Milevskiy has a headed effort from close range and clears the bar.
Unfair challenge on Denys Garmash by Wayne Rooney results in a free kick. Yevhen Khacheridi takes the free kick.
A cross is delivered by Ashley Young, Yaroslav Rakitskiy makes a clearance.
Unfair challenge on Ashley Cole by Denys Garmash results in a free kick. Free kick taken by Ashley Young.
The ball is delivered by Ashley Young.
Effort from a long way out by Yevgen Konoplianka goes wide right of the goal.
Unfair challenge on Artem Milevskiy by John Terry results in a free kick. Denys Garmash takes the free kick.
James Milner takes a shot. Yaroslav Rakitskiy gets a block in.
The ball is delivered by Yevgen Konoplianka, blocked by Ashley Cole. Outswinging corner taken right-footed by Yevgen Konoplianka from the right by-line.
Yevgen Konoplianka takes a outswinging corner to the near post, clearance made by Danny Welbeck.
The ball is crossed by Oleg Gusev, save by Joe Hart. Corner taken by Yevgen Konoplianka played to the near post, clearance by Ashley Cole.
Yevgen Konoplianka takes a inswinging corner from the left by-line played to the near post, clearance by Glen Johnson. Inswinging corner taken by Yevgen Konoplianka from the left by-line, Scott Parker makes a clearance.
The assist for the goal came from Steven Gerrard.
Goal! - Wayne Rooney - England 1 - 0 Ukraine Wayne Rooney finds the back of the net with a headed goal from inside the six-yard box. England 1-0 Ukraine.
The ball is sent over by Steven Gerrard,
Corner taken by Steven Gerrard from the right by-line to the near post, Anatoliy Tymoschuk makes a clearance.
Unfair challenge on Ashley Cole by Andriy Yarmolenko results in a free kick. Ashley Cole takes the free kick.
The second half has started.
Half Time The half-time whistle blows.
The ball is delivered by Denys Garmash.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Yevgen Selin by James Milner. Direct free kick taken by Yaroslav Rakitskiy.
Corner taken by Yevgen Konoplianka played to the near post.
A cross is delivered by Oleg Gusev, blocked by Joleon Lescott.
Effort from outside the penalty area by Scott Parker goes wide left of the target.
Foul by James Milner on Artem Milevskiy, free kick awarded. Free kick taken by Yevgen Selin.
Denys Garmash has an effort at goal from long range that goes wide left.
Ashley Young sends in a cross, Yaroslav Rakitskiy manages to make a clearance.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Denys Garmash on Danny Welbeck. John Terry takes the free kick.
Marko Devic produces a cross, clearance made by Glen Johnson.
Shot by Ashley Young from 25 yards. Yevhen Khacheridi gets a block in. Outswinging corner taken right-footed by Steven Gerrard, Header from deep inside the area by John Terry goes over the bar.
Andriy Yarmolenko takes a shot. Save by Joe Hart.
The ball is swung over by Ashley Young, Close range header by Wayne Rooney misses to the right of the goal.
The ball is crossed by James Milner.
Anatoliy Tymoschuk concedes a free kick for a foul on Ashley Young. Direct free kick taken by Steven Gerrard.
Corner taken by Steven Gerrard from the left by-line played to the near post.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Yaroslav Rakitskiy on Glen Johnson. Free kick crossed right-footed by Steven Gerrard, Andrei Pyatov makes a save.
Effort on goal by Oleg Gusev from just outside the area goes harmlessly over the target.
The ball is swung over by Oleg Gusev, John Terry manages to make a clearance.
Yevgen Konoplianka takes a shot. John Terry gets a block in. Effort from just outside the area by Anatoliy Tymoschuk goes over the target.
Centre by Yevgen Selin, save by Joe Hart.
Effort on goal by Yaroslav Rakitskiy from a long way out goes over the bar.
Inswinging corner taken from the left by-line by Steven Gerrard, save by Andrei Pyatov.
The ball is delivered by Glen Johnson, clearance made by Oleg Gusev.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Ashley Young by Anatoliy Tymoschuk. Steven Gerrard takes the free kick.
The ball is delivered by Yevgen Selin. Marko Devic takes a shot. Blocked by Scott Parker.
Centre by Ashley Cole, save by Andrei Pyatov.
Foul by Artem Milevskiy on Glen Johnson, free kick awarded. Steven Gerrard takes the free kick.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Denys Garmash by Wayne Rooney. Anatoliy Tymoschuk takes the direct free kick.
Denys Garmash produces a right-footed effort from long distance that goes harmlessly over the bar.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Danny Welbeck on Yaroslav Rakitskiy. Free kick taken by Yevgen Selin.
Yevgen Konoplianka takes a shot from a long way out which goes wide of the right-hand post.
The ref blows the whistle to start the match.
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Live text commentary | Wayne Rooney marked his England return with the goal that secured a place in Euro 2012's last eight - but it was a rough passage eased by helpings of good fortune and controversy against Ukraine. |
39,489,420 | Judiciary officials said that the uncle of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad was handed $300m of public money when he was sent into exile in 1984.
Now aged 79, he was placed under formal investigation in France last year.
Some of his fortune ended up in property in Marbella and Puerto Banus on the south coast, officials said.
While his brother Hafez al-Assad was in power, Rifaat was renowned for the brutality with which he crushed an uprising in the Syrian city of Hama in 1982. Last year he was said to be living in Paris.
He is under investigation in France for concealing stolen assets, money laundering and fiscal fraud. Several luxury properties have already been seized by French authorities in Paris and an appeal by the exiled former vice-president was turned down.
Rifaat al-Assad has in the past said he was given the money by the Saudi royal family.
The general council of Spain's judiciary said it was acting after French investigators found that part of his fortune had ended up in property in the Marbella area, under the name of companies managed by his wives and two of his children.
In a statement (in Spanish), it said that 15 properties search orders had been carried out, mainly in Puerto Banus on the Costa del Sol. While the bank accounts of 16 individuals linked to the exiled Syrian were being blocked, another 76 accounts were also affected.
Investigators said in total 503 properties linked to the family had been found, ranging from car parks to holiday homes, flats and a luxury hotel. Their total value was put at €691m (£590m; $735m) and all had been seized, they said.
One of the properties was a large farm called La Máquina worth an estimated €60m. | Spain has ordered properties to be seized and bank accounts frozen in a money laundering investigation linked to the family of Rifaat al-Assad. |
40,073,160 | Uncapped Dollman, 32, scored Exeter's second try but limped off the field early in the second half after suffering a knee injury.
The 32-year-old was called up by Wales in midweek to replace injured Cardiff Blues teenager Rhun Williams.
Wales face Tonga and Samoa in June's two-Test tour.
Dollman discovered his international call-up earlier in the week as he was preparing for the Premiership final at Twickenham.
Wales prop Tomas Francis was a second half replacement for Exeter, who edged past Wasps in extra time and to win their first ever Premiership title. | Full-back Phil Dollman is an injury concern ahead of Wales' summer tour after suffering an injury in Exeter's Premiership final win over Wasps. |
32,335,806 | Net earnings for the first three months of the year were $2.75bn (£1.84bn), up 41% from a year earlier. Net revenue came in at $10.6bn, up 14%.
This was the highest quarterly revenue in four years, the bank said.
Separately, Citigroup posted net income of $4.77bn, up by a fifth compared with a year ago.
Despite the jump in profits, total revenue fell slightly to $19.74bn. A 10% fall in costs, largely legal and restructuring, amounting to almost $1.3bn, helped explain the increased profitability.
"We are pleased with our results this quarter and the fact that all of our major businesses contributed," said Goldman chief executive Lloyd Blankfein.
"Given more normalised markets and higher levels of client activity, we remain encouraged about the prospects for continued growth."
Net revenues at Goldman's investment banking arm were up 7% at $1.91bn, while those at the bank's fund management arm were flat at $1.5bn.
The best performing division was market making - which provides liquidity to the market by setting bid and offer prices to brokers wanting to buy and sell shares - where net revenues came in at $3.93bn, up 49% on a year earlier.
The overall earnings figures were slightly below expectations, and Goldman shares were down about 1% in early trading in New York.
This week has seen a number of big US banks, including JP Morgan and Bank of America, report improved earnings. | US banking giant Goldman Sachs has reported a sharp rise in profits thanks in part to an improvement in trading activity at its investment banking arm. |
35,345,118 | The Australian Grand Prix was brought forward to 20 March, forcing teams to re-think their production schedules.
But Sauber will stick with their initial plan, which means they will run a modified version of their 2015 car at Barcelona from 22-25 February.
The 2016 car - the C35 - will appear for the first time at the second test at the same track from 1-4 March.
The pre-season schedule has been cut from three four-day tests to two this year as part of an effort to control costs.
The 2016 season was originally due to start on 3 April but was brought forward because of the need to cram a record 21 races into the calendar.
Sauber will retain the same driver line-up as in 2015, with Brazilian Felipe Nasr partnering Swede Marcus Ericsson.
Meanwhile, McLaren have become the first team to announce the date for the public unveiling of their new car.
The Honda-powered MP4-31, which will be driven by Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button, will be unveiled online on 21 February. | Swiss Formula 1 team Sauber will not run their 2016 car until the second and final pre-season test. |
38,387,302 | The Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin, the chaplain to the speaker of the House of Commons, blamed institutional racism.
On Tuesday, a new suffragan bishop of Woolwich was named - the first black man to be made a bishop in 20 years.
The Church is hiring a minority ethnic vocations officer to attract more black people into the clergy.
The Reverend Karowei Dorgu's appointment as Woolwich's bishop follows that of the Most Reverend John Sentamu, now Archbishop of York, who was announced as Bishop of Stepney in 1996.
The archbishop is the only bishop from an ethnic minority to lead a Church of England diocese at present.
There are now a total of five black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) individuals in the senior ranks of the Church of England - archdeacon or above.
Mrs Hudson-Wilkin, who is originally from Jamaica, said the only conclusion she could draw was that the Church has been institutionally racist.
"We are visible yet invisible," she said. "I do not believe that the Church recognises that we are there.
"With my hand on my heart, I do not believe that the Church respects and embraces its minority ethnic membership."
Asked if she was describing the component parts of institutional racism, Mrs Hudson-Wilkin replied: "I suspect that I am."
She said: "It's really a heavy burden to say that because that is the Church that I belong to, that is the Church that I love, but if someone else can genuinely give me another rationale as to why we are not there in senior leadership roles within the Church, then I'm prepared to consider it."
In November, 29 senior black and Asian Anglicans signed a joint letter to the Church Times in which they said it should be "a matter of deep shame for the Church that the entirety of its BAME senior leadership could fit in the back of a London cab".
Signatories included barrister Courtenay Griffiths QC and former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Trevor Phillips.
Earlier this year, the Church of England announced that it was hiring a national minority ethnic vocations officer to attract more BAME people into the clergy.
Its figures show the proportion of non-white clergy rose slightly from 3.1% in 2012 to 3.4% in 2015.
The proportion of BAME senior staff - archdeacons and above - rose from 1.2% in 2012 to 2.2% in 2015.
The Bishop of Rochester, the Right Reverend James Langstaff said the figures were "absolutely clear" evidence of institutional racism.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I've said that myself in the past, yes. Other people use other language - they talk about unconscious bias."
Bishop Langstaff said the Church is doing an "awful lot" to address diversity, with programmes to develop people's talent and foster people's vocations, as well as working with the groups who make the appointments.
He said: "These are often Crown appointments rather than Church appointments, but the Crown is advised by commissions and committees and we're working really closely to try and do unconscious bias training with these people in order to tackle these really serious issues".
He said the appointment of the new Bishop of Woolwich was to be rejoiced, adding: "I would hope that we are going to have others following in the next few years."
Mrs Hudson-Wilkin said the Church of England could learn a lesson from thriving Pentecostal churches, many of whose pastors are black.
"Not only are there black leadership in the Pentecostal churches, but we see that here are lots of young people in those churches.
"Those young people see reflections of themselves. They are able to say 'I belong'.
"They cannot see those reflections of themselves within the Church of England." | A number of leading Anglicans have complained about the lack of ethnic minority clergy who make it to senior levels in the Church of England. |
33,362,719 | The new year-round service, which is expected to carry 26,000 passengers annually, will start on 2 December.
Flights will operate twice-weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays between Glasgow and Milan Malpensa.
The airline already flies to Milan from Edinburgh, London Gatwick and Luton airports. | Budget airline Easyjet has announced that it is expanding its Scottish network with a new route from Glasgow to Milan. |
36,712,483 | The words were written in chalk after the graffiti on the memorial near where Mr Foot lived in Plymouth was removed.
Some of the words read: "We are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves..."
The graffiti is being investigated by Devon and Cornwall Police.
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The memorial, near Mr Foot's family home in Freedom Fields, was found daubed with swastikas and references to the British National Party and English Defence League on Sunday.
Plymouth Labour councillor Chaz Singh welcomed the "positive" message of the mystery pavement artist.
"It touches you when you have a response like that," he said.
"Plymouth is a beautiful city to live in and the minds of a few should not stop us from being who we are."
The words were later cleaned from the pavement by the city council.
In response, Mr Singh said: "It was such a positive message, I can't understand how anyone in their right mind would have sanctioned removing it."
Councillor Dave Downie, cabinet member for safer and stronger communities, said the street services team were "aware of the sensitivity of the site" but they had to remove the writing "as it is technically still graffiti". | Words from former Labour Party leader Michael Foot have appeared on a pavement next to a memorial to him that was daubed with swastikas. |
37,543,172 | The Viola has been rusting on the island of South Georgia for decades.
If the vessel can be brought back by spring, it could form part of a maritime heritage legacy trail for Hull City of Culture.
Marine engineer Ros Spink, however, said breeding seals nearby were "a consideration".
After the war, the Viola was a whaler, seal-catcher and support vessel for scientific expeditions but has since been rusting 7,750 miles away in South Georgia.
In 1982 it was one of the vessels targeted by Argentine scrap metal merchants in the landing that sparked the Falklands War.
•Built in Beverley in 1906
•Thought to be the oldest surviving steam trawler
•Requisitioned by the Admiralty to sail to war from Hull in September 1914 with a crew of local fishermen
•Hunted U-boats and swept for mines
•After the war, was a seal-catcher and scientific support vessel
•In South Georgia since 1927
•Mothballed in the 1960s
•Targeted by Argentine scrap metal merchants in the landing that sparked the Falklands War in 1982
Ms Spink and John Simpson from Solis Marine Consultants will determine whether the ship can be made strong enough to be transported to the Humber in January or February.
"The Viola is sitting in a trench so we need to see if she can be re-floated and lifted in a cradle," Ms Spink said.
"An operation in 2004 removed the oil from the ship but there are other environmental considerations."
Breeding seals were "a consideration" but unlikely to hamper the survey, Ms Spink said.
"Hundreds of seals come ashore in summer to have pups and apparently can be quite aggressive defending their young. They could be on the jetty alongside the vessel," she said.
"We can't fence off the area, we don't want to disturb or distress them, we just have to give way and keep our distance until they lose interest."
Paul Escreet, chairman of the Viola Trust, said £3m would pay for the survey, another trip to South Georgia to carry out repair work, hire of a cargo ship and crew for transportation, fuel and restoration.
If restored, the ship may join the Spurn Lightship and Arctic Corsair in a trail of Hull's maritime heritage. | Engineers are flying to the South Atlantic in a fresh push to bring a rusting World War One trawler back to England. |
35,540,589 | After a government inspector found "serious shortcomings" in its original plan for 29,000 properties, the local authority announced 7,000 extra homes.
Extra development sites have been allocated, with a number of extra greenbelt sites being earmarked around Knutsford, Wilmslow and Macclesfield.
Cheshire East's revised plan will now be submitted back to the government inspector in June.
Councillor Rachel Bailey, who is due to become the next leader of the Conservative-run council, said: "We are doing everything possible to progress the Local Plan and to speed up its completion."
The authority insisted its previous plan - for 29,000 homes - was criticised by the government inspector only because the borough's economy was likely to grow faster than anticipated.
Cheshire East Council has previously described itself as being "besieged" by housing developers.
A local development plan would make it more difficult for developers to build on land which has not been earmarked for development. | Plans to build 36,000 new homes have been approved by Cheshire East Council. |
22,426,570 | The taskforce, meeting for the first time, has also proposed tougher penalties for clubs whose players, officials or fans are guilty of racism.
They include points deductions and elimination from competitions.
Ghana's AC Milan midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng, who led his team from the field in protest at racism from supporters at a friendly game, is a taskforce member.
Member associations will vote on the measures at Fifa's annual congress in Mauritius at the end of May.
The new taskforce, formed by football's world governing body in a bid to combat discrimination in the game, is led by Jeffrey Webb, a Fifa vice-president from the Cayman Islands.
Penalties for racism would start with stronger fines or games played behind closed doors.
They would be followed by points deductions for offending teams or even elimination from competitions.
The proposals would apply only to Fifa-mandated competitions but sources close to the discussions have told the BBC they expect Fifa to encourage other confederations to adopt the same or similar measures.
European football's governing body Uefa already adopts a monitoring system in co-operation with Football Against Racism in Europe (Fare). It is expected that Fifa's proposal would be administered along similar lines.
A second taskforce meeting is planned for the autumn to look at plans for an education programme across football. | Fifa's new anti-racism taskforce wants extra observers at games to specifically monitor racist or discriminatory behaviour. |
40,281,455 | Mae wedi bod yn AS Westmorland a Lonsdale ers 2005, ac fe olynodd Nick Clegg fel arweinydd y blaid yn dilyn etholiad cyffredinol 2015.
Mewn datganiad, dywedodd ei fod "wedi rhwygo rhwng byw fel Cristion ffyddlon a gwasanaethu fel arweinydd gwleidyddol".
Dywedodd y dylai fod wedi delio'n "gallach" gyda chwestiynau'n ymwneud â'i ffydd yn ystod yr ymgyrch etholiadol, gan gynnwys ei farn am ryw rhwng pobl hoyw.
Mynnodd mai ei benderfyniad personol ef oedd gadael, a'i fod yn parhau â chefnogaeth y blaid yn dilyn yr etholiad cyffredinol.
Fe wnaeth y Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol gynyddu nifer ei ASau o wyth i 12 yn yr etholiad yr wythnos diwethaf, er i'w siâr o'r bleidlais ostwng.
Fe wnaeth y blaid golli eu hunig aelod seneddol o Gymru - Mark Williams - hefyd, wrth i Blaid Cymru gipio sedd Ceredigion ganddynt. | Mae Tim Farron wedi camu o'r neilltu fel arweinydd y Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol. |
30,374,665 | The Friends of the Newport Ship have until the New Year to move the 15th century vessel's remains.
The ship's timbers are being moved in stages from the Maesglas warehouse where it has been stored, to the new unit in Queensway Industrial Estate.
The Welsh government has agreed to pay £20,000 per year for rent.
Chairman Phil Cox of Friends of the Newport Ship said the group hoped to eventually take over the management of the ship.
They are trying to raise £100,000 to kickstart a project to build a museum to house the ship once conservation is complete.
The first storage tank is being moved on Monday for construction the following day, ready to receive the first batch of ship timber frames.
The remains of the 15th century ship were uncovered when work started on the construction of the Riverfront theatre next to the Usk river in June 2002.
It dates back to the reign of Edward IV in the 1460s.
Experts believe the ship was used as a trading vessel along the Atlantic seaboard.
It is the most complete surviving example of its type from the period.
The ship is believed to have been built in either south west France, the Basque country, or Portugal but there is no evidence showing why it came to rest in Newport.
Work on restoration began a few months after the boat was found, when the remains were moved from their resting place. | Newport's medieval ship is being moved from its current home to a new warehouse after securing funding for another three years. |
35,883,284 | Committed campaigners can be found shivering on the odd street corner, but they know Scotland is not fertile territory for them and they have hardly any prominent Scottish politicians backing them up.
Tom Walker won't let that put him off. A doctor, who has never been politically active before, he has been inspired to get out there and campaign against the odds.
He is not a member of any political party, he got through the whole of the Scottish independence referendum without feeling motivated to do any canvassing - but the idea of Brexit has him fired up and out on the streets.
At least he has plenty of different coloured leaflets to hand out.
Brexiteers are so few and far between in Scotland the competing leave campaigns cannot afford to squabble amongst themselves.
So they have teamed up together and Tom can give you literature produced by "Grassroots Out", "Vote Leave" or even "Labour Leave".
Dr Walker claims he meets plenty of voters who do want to get out of the EU.
People whose voice is not being well represented in the debate in Scotland. Polls suggest that around a third of Scots are planning to vote to leave.
There is clearly a strong vein of Euro scepticism running through Scotland. But there are almost no senior politicians or public figures who are campaigning to leave.
Only one Tory MSP, Margaret Mitchell, says she is an outer.
All five party leaders in the Holyrood parliament support the UK's continued membership of the EU and very few of the rank and file have publicly disagreed with them.
Even some of those with the most sceptical pedigrees have decided to vote to remain.
When I popped in to a Conservative Party meeting in Edinburgh convened to debate the "EU - In or Out", it was obvious talking to people over the free wine and rather classy sandwiches (parma ham and mozzarella on ciabatta, very European) that almost half of the audience were hoping to hear strong arguments against EU membership.
But all three men on the panel were advocating a vote to remain.
The organisers hadn't found a speaker prepared to argue the case for leaving.
One of those speakers was Alex Johnstone, a Conservative MSP who has long been known for his highly sceptical views.
He describes the EU as a "failed project". And then says he will vote to remain a part of it.
He admitted to me that many people will be surprised and disappointed by his decision.
But he is typical of most Scottish Tories. And without a vigorous debate among the political class there is little to spark discussion among voters.
People who do want to leave the EU can legitimately complain that their views are simply not being represented by their elected representatives. It is something of a democratic deficit.
There are few well known leavers. Like Jim Sillars, former deputy leader of the SNP.
Once he pioneered a policy of "independence in Europe" but he has changed his mind since then and is now one of the few high profile politicians campaigning to leave.
Others include former Labour MP Tom Harris, who is now heading up the Vote Leave campaign in Scotland, and another former Labour MP, Nigel Griffiths, who is running Labour Leave.
But they are up against Nicola Sturgeon and nearly all of the SNP as well as the leader of the opposition Kezia Dugdale, the Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson, the Lib Dems and the Greens.
One reason why there are so few politicians prepared to defy their party leadership and campaign to get out of the EU could be the imminent elections to the Scottish Parliament on 5 May.
They are consuming far more time and attention than the EU referendum.
And MSPs standing for re-election don't think this a good moment for their party to seem to be split on a big issue like Europe.
Voters too are far more concerned by arguments over new tax rates in Scotland than they are about European regulations. It is hard for the EU debate to break through.
Scots already have plenty of referendum experience. We have had four referendums in Scotland since the 1975 vote on membership of the Common Market.
So far this year's vote on the EU has not sparked anything like the fervour or enthusiasm that accompanied the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence.
Without well known, passionate advocates on both sides of the debate it will remain something of a damp squib. | It can be a rather lonely experience trying to persuade Scots to vote to leave the EU. |
34,989,719 | Dr Ajay Mathur said coal would be restricted if there was help to pay for "more expensive" green energy.
India is expected to become the world's biggest importer of coal by 2020 as it seeks to expand electrification.
Other nations welcomed the statement, saying that it enhanced the chances of a new agreement.
India's national climate plan, submitted ahead of this meeting, suggests a significant role for coal going forward.
According to the document, coal "will continue to dominate power generation in future".
The country is planning on expanding its production of coal to 1.5 billion tonnes of the fuel by 2020. That would require the equivalent of opening one new coal mine every month until the end of this decade.
India's need for coal is driven by the huge numbers who do not have electricity, estimated to be around 300 million people.
In these negotiations the government has adopted a hard line, saying that the need to develop using fossil fuels trumps the needs of the climate.
In recent days, the Indian Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar told BBC News that his country had every right to continue using as much coal as it needed.
"We are increasing our renewable targets tenfold in the next 15 years but we will require coal because it is the need of the hour for my people to grow."
But on Wednesday, Dr Mathur, a senior negotiator in the Indian delegation, adopted a much more conciliatory line.
He argues that the cost of solar, which has declined by 75% in 4 years, is still double the cost of coal.
If cash was provided to make the capital investments in renewables cheaper, India would use more sun and wind, and less coal.
"We look forward to an agreement that enables financial support from the countries that have developed on the backs of cheap energy, to those who have to meet their energy with more expensive but low carbon energy," Dr Mathur said.
When asked if the amount of coal that India consumed would reduce if more money was available from a Paris deal, he replied: "Absolutely.
"We are very clear that solar and wind is our first commitment, hydro and nuclear all of these non-carbon sources are what we will develop to the largest extent we can.
"What cannot be met by these will be met by coal."
The Indian delegation would be pushing for a "just and sustainable agreement" here in Paris, Dr Mathur said.
Development was still the main aim for India. But the country had to find a different way of doing it, even compared to the greenest European countries, he said.
"What I am truly fearful about is say if India moves onto a path of Denmark, and even has two cars for 10 people, we will be swamped. Even the Denmark paradigm does not work for us."
US lead negotiator Todd Stern said the Indian statement was encouraging.
"We support the notion of India greatly increasing [renewables]. Prime Minister Modi has made pledges that are quite enormously impressive actually with respect to the development of renewable energy, the total of what he has pledged is 175 gigawatts in a very short period," he told a news conference.
"We provide assistance to India, we invest in India, many other countries do, we certainly want to work with our Indian partners to encourage and to help, exactly what they are trying to do and do our best to help them realise that."
China has also announced steps to upgrade many power plants in an effort to clean up the air and reduce carbon, according to the the official Xinhua news agency, quoting the State Council.
Any coal stations that do not meet the new standard by 2020 will be shut down, the agency reported.
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28,838,577 | Kerry Capper said she wanted to keep an eye on Libby Bennett, from Erdington, Birmingham, when her daughter was ill.
The mother has been summoned to court after failing to pay a £60 fine for keeping the girl, who has had a tumour on her kidneys, off school.
Birmingham Council said no reason was given for the absences and Miss Capper did not attend a subsequent meeting.
Libby, who attends Paget primary school and was diagnosed with cancer five years ago, is still under the care of Birmingham Children's Hospital.
Her cancer has not returned but she still needs regular check-ups.
Miss Capper said: "Libby woke up... saying that she's got a sore stomach and I get scared... I want to keep my eye on her."
The mother's legal team, Glaisyers, said the council was being "heavy handed and inflexible".
But the authority said it took a "robust stance" on unexplained absences from school.
The school "contacted the parent inviting her to a meeting to talk through any issues and concerns", the council said.
A council spokesman said: "When there was still no response a penalty notice was issued and when this was not paid the matter was sent to magistrates."
Miss Capper is accused of keeping her child off school for seven days between January and March.
Miss Capper, who said she was unemployed and on benefits, admitted not always phoning the school when Libby was off, claiming her mobile phone did not always have credit.
She said after being invited to a meeting, she went in on the wrong day and missed a second date which was "accidental".
"I said 'apologies I've missed that appointment'.
"The teacher just said 'I'm sorry mum, it's getting sent to court now'. Then I got a penalty notice... (of) £60.
"But I couldn't afford to pay that at that time."
Miss Capper said she was due at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on 5 September. | The mother of a seven-year-old girl who battled cancer is being prosecuted for not sending her to school. |
36,405,048 | Leading 3-2 overnight, the Lionhearts started well with wins for overseas selection Koryun Soghomonyan of Armenia and England's Luke McCormack.
Radoslav Pantaleev of Bulgaria gave the Lionhearts an unassailable lead, with Frazer Clarke sealing the result.
The Lionhearts will face Cuba in the final on 4 June in Uzbekistan.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | The British Lionhearts qualified for their first World Series of Boxing final by beating reigning champions Kazakhstan 7-3 at York Hall in London. |
40,220,882 | Previous Tigers boss Marco Silva left to take over at Watford after Hull were relegated from the Premier League in May.
Slutsky won three Russian titles with CSKA Moscow and managed the national side at Euro 2016.
He recently told BBC World Service he had been learning English for the past five months.
Slutsky, who is friends with Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, will arrive in East Yorkshire next week and is Hull City's fourth boss in less than a year.
The 46-year-old told the club website: "I am delighted to become the head coach of Hull City and I am very much looking forward to the challenge of guiding the club back to the Premier League.
"I already know that this is an important club with a big and loyal fanbase, I've had a good feeling about it ever since meeting the Allam family and I can't wait to get started."
Hull vice-chairman Ehab Allam said Slutsky's "attention to detail, thoughts on playing style and his ambition made him the stand-out candidate" for the role.
BBC Radio Humberside sport editor Matt Dean
This looks a real coup for Hull City and the mood in the city around his appointment is one of excitement.
The buzz stems from Slutsky's pedigree, having most recently managed Russia and CSKA Moscow, where he won three titles and managed in the Champions League.
It is a bold move by the club's owners but it is seen as less of a risk given that the Allams have demonstrated fairly sound judgement with their previous appointments.
Slutsky has never managed outside his homeland and English football has never before had a Russian boss, but his admission of having studied English football from the Premier League to League One demonstrates his desire to succeed in England.
On the surface he appears a very different character to Marco Silva, but his appetite for success looks comparable.
Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is a close personal friend and that link could open up some intriguing avenues for recruiting players as the club looks to mount a serious challenge to get back to the Premier League at the first attempt. | Championship club Hull City have appointed former Russia boss Leonid Slutsky as their new head coach. |
32,530,334 | Dr Francis Collins, National Institutes of Health director, was responding to reports that the first embryos had been modified in China.
He argued there were "serious and unquantifiable safety issues", big ethical questions and no compelling medical reason to do it.
He said the NIH would not fund such research in the US.
The advent of "Crispr technology" - which is a more precise way of editing DNA than anything that has come before - has spurred huge progress in genetics.
But there had been growing concern these tremendous advances were making the modification of human embryos more likely.
Dr Tony Perry, a pioneer in cloning, told the BBC News website in January that designer babies were no longer "HG Wells" territory.
Concerns were also raised in the journal Nature as rumours circulated that it had already taken place.
Last week a team at Sun Yat-sen University, in Guangzhou, reported using Crispr to modify defective parts of DNA that lead to a blood disorder called beta thalassaemia.
Their world first, reported in the journal Protein and Cell, showed the correction was successful in seven out of 86 attempts.
However, there were a number of other "off-target" mutations introduced to the genetic code.
The embryos used were "non-viable" so could never have led to a child.
There have been repeated calls for a worldwide freeze on such research while society as a whole decides what should be allowed.
However, the US National Institutes of Health has made its position clear - that no such research should take place.
Dr Collins, who was also a key player in the Human Genome Project, released a statement saying: "The concept of altering the human germline in embryos for clinical purposes has been debated over many years from many different perspectives, and has been viewed almost universally as a line that should not be crossed.
"Advances in technology have given us an elegant new way of carrying out genome editing, but the strong arguments against engaging in this activity remain.
"These include the serious and unquantifiable safety issues, ethical issues presented by altering the germline in a way that affects the next generation without their consent, and a current lack of compelling medical applications."
Dr Marcy Darnovsky, from the Center for Genetics and Society in the US, argued: "There is no persuasive medical reason to manipulate the human germline because inherited genetic diseases can be prevented using embryo screening techniques, among other means.
"Is the only justification for trying to refine germline gene editing the prospect of so-called enhancement?" | Modifying the DNA of embryos is a "line that should not be crossed", a leading figure in US research says. |
39,879,186 | The 31-year-old leaves Seaview after winning two Premiership titles with Stephen Baxter's team.
Clarke moved to Crusaders from Glentoran in 2014 and he has also played for Omagh Town and Newry City.
He was close to joining the Mallards three years ago before opting to sign for Crusaders. | Ballinamallard United have bolstered their midfield for next season by bringing in midfielder Richard Clarke from Crusaders. |
36,542,417 | The pro-Leave justice secretary said the government could not limit the number of arrivals from inside the EU.
On a Question Time special, a Spanish woman who works in the UK criticised him and said: "We are not the enemy".
Mr Gove also attacked chancellor George Osborne's "Brexit Budget" warning of emergency spending cuts.
A letter claiming the chancellor's position would be "untenable" if he tried to cut NHS, police and school spending has been signed by 65 MPs.
Mr Gove said he would not back such a Budget and criticised "dire warnings" coming from the Remain campaign.
"I think it's a shame that the Remain camp are talking this country down," he said.
In other referendum news:
Prime Minister David Cameron will make the case to remain, in a second Question Time special on Sunday.
During his 45-minute grilling, the justice secretary was challenged by audience members over warnings from financial institutions and other bodies about life outside the EU.
Responding to a woman who said leaving would make it more difficult to trade with other EU countries which are the "lifeblood" of her business, he said other countries would "take leave of their senses" if they chose not to continue to trade with the UK.
He conceded there would be "bumps in the road" if voters back Brexit, but said the UK "will be in a better position to deal with them".
He said: "My view is that whatever happens in the future we will be in a strong position to deal with any crises that occur as a result of leaving the EU."
Mr Gove said his father had to close his fish merchant business because of EU policy. And he criticised The Guardian after it said his father had contradicted his version.
"My dad was rung up by a reporter from the Guardian who tried to put words into his mouth," he said, adding that his father was "clear... that the business he invested so much care and time in had to close as a result of the Common Fisheries Policy".
On immigration, Mr Gove said if there is a vote to leave, the government would "bring down the numbers" in the Parliament after 2020, by which time the UK's exit would have been completed.
A Spanish audience member - who is unable to vote on 23 June - said she had lived in England for 14 years and did not feel "welcome" as a result of Mr Gove's call for a crackdown on EU migration.
"You use us to your convenience, and when we are no use to you any more you chuck us out," she told him.
Mr Gove said he valued her contribution but that it was "undeniable" that "to continue to have support for migration we need to be able to control the numbers".
Working people's wages were "held down" by immigration, he said, calling for the UK to "take back control".
The Question Time programme is the latest in a series of special referendum shows being broadcast on the BBC.
Campaigners from both sides will take each other on in a live debate at Wembley Arena on 21 June. The line-up has yet to be announced. | Michael Gove says leaving the EU is necessary for people to support Britain's "multi-racial, multi ethnic society". |
36,352,370 | The prime minister said the weekly shop would increase by almost 3% - equivalent to an extra £120 a year on food and drink for the average family.
The former bosses of four major High Street retailers said Brexit would increase prices and put jobs at risk.
But the Economists for Brexit group argues that leaving the EU would boost the UK economy by 4% in 10 years.
Both sides in the EU referendum debate stepped up warnings on the core issues of the economy and immigration.
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As he sought to focus his arguments on the economy, Mr Cameron wrote in The Sun on Sunday that clothes prices would also rise by 5%.
He questioned whether such price increases would be "worth it".
Mr Cameron told ITV's Peston on Sunday that the analysis was based on a "simple and straightforward" calculation that the UK's exit from the EU would lead to a 12% fall in the value of sterling and a sharp rise in inflation.
"Today we're part of a single market of 500 million people. The Leave campaign want us to come out of that market," he said.
"If we are doing less trade, less investment, that is going affect our economy. That will make us poorer as a country. In the end, it's not surprising if your currency falls."
Former chiefs of Tesco Sir Terry Leahy, Sainsbury's Justin King, Marks & Spencer Marc Bolland and B&Q owner Kingfisher have warned that leaving the EU could have a "catastrophic" impact on Britain's economy.
In an article in the Mail on Sunday they said it would send prices in the shops higher and risk a rise in inflation, job losses and further falls in the pound.
Other EU countries could "exploit" exit negotiations for their own benefit, they added, saying: "It's difficult to imagine that French farmers will continue to allow British lamb to be freely imported."
How trade and the UK's economy are affected by membership of the EU.
However, there have been competing claims by opposing sides over what impact leaving the EU would have on the UK's economy.
A group of eight influential economists from the group Economists for Brexit previously argued that leaving the EU would boost the UK economy by 4% in 10 years, and prices in the UK would fall by 8% without EU import tariffs.
Also on Sunday, Leave campaigners warned that if Britain remained in the EU it would be vulnerable to the entry of murderers, terrorists and kidnappers from countries on the path to EU membership.
The accession of Turkey, Albania, Montenegro, Serbia and Macedonia would bring 12,726,000 guns into the single market, Vote Leave said.
The government insists that the UK and other EU members have a veto on new members joining the EU.
This issue covers immigration and free movement within Europe.
But armed forces minister Penny Mordaunt said the migrant crisis was likely to accelerate Turkey joining the EU and the referendum was the UK's "only chance" of making clear its opposition.
She told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: "I don't think the EU is going to keep Turkey out. It is going to join. It is a matter of when.
"If you are going to pursue an expansion policy, you have to allow us the tools to protect our own interests, to protect our national security.
"That we do not have. If you are going to ever expand the EU, you have to allow us to mitigate the security risk that comes with that."
Writing in the Mail on Sunday, former Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling accused Leave campaigners of "fearmongering" over new countries joining the EU.
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With just over a month to go until the 23 June referendum, a poll by Sunday newspaper The Observer and Opinium has suggested that Conservative voters are switching to the Remain camp.
According to the poll, 48% of Tory backers say they want to stay in the EU, compared with 41% who want to leave.
The first Opinium/Observer referendum poll in early April showed 44% of Conservative voters in favour of leaving against 39% who backed staying in.
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With a little over a fortnight until the 7 June voter registration deadline, 28 million UK households are to be targeted in a £2.4m campaign by the Electoral Commission to persuade people to vote, starting this week.
As well as a major advertising campaign, every known household with a postal address in the UK will be sent a booklet on how to register to vote, and what to do on polling day. | Household bills would rise and wage growth slow if the UK voted to leave the EU, David Cameron has warned. |
40,178,085 | 6 June 2017 Last updated at 16:41 BST
In the run-up to a general election, MP candidates will make public appearances to talk about their ideas, to try to convince people in their area to vote for them.
So Hacker went on BBC politics programme Newsnight to be interviewed about his ideas.
Watch the video to find out how he got on and click here to find out more about his journey to become an MP. | Hacker has been finding out what it takes to become a Member of Parliament (MP). |
35,121,380 | Robert Fidler, 66, hid the building behind straw bales for four years when he built it in Redhill, Surrey.
Following almost a decade of legal battles he has been told to demolish it by June or face three months in prison.
He said: "This is our home. Everybody who comes here says they just feel this is home."
Mr Fidler, who gave the BBC a tour of his property, said: "It's got such a warmth about it.
"We have so many things going on the kids love to be here."
He added: "We've got three bedrooms and one little box room so it's not as big as people seem to think.
"At least we can enjoy it for this winter.
"Then we'll have to start making plans, maybe they'll let us keep part of it? Reduce the size of it or something, maybe reduce it to a bungalow?"
Mr Fidler said he had contacted firms to find out how much the demolition of his property would cost but as he had until June to comply with the court he would not be tearing down his house in the middle of winter.
Reigate and Banstead Borough Council first told Mr Fidler to demolish his home in 2007.
In November, he appeared in court again and claiming he could not destroy the castle as bats, which are protected by law, were roosting in the property.
However, a High Court judge disagreed, giving him a three-month suspended sentence.
He said Mr Fidler would be jailed for his "defiance" if the property was not demolished by June. | A farmer who built a mock Tudor castle without planning permission is preparing to spend his last Christmas in his home before it is demolished. |
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Ex-footballers Denis Law and Francis Lee are made CBEs, along with former F1 and motorcycling champion John Surtees.
Broadcaster Sue Barker becomes an OBE, as do Ronnie O'Sullivan, Chris Froome and Chrissie Wellington.
There are MBEs for Carl Frampton, Mark Cueto, Tracey Neville, Jacqui Oatley, Steph Houghton and Fara Williams.
McCoy, 41, rode more than 4,300 winners in his career and is only the second jockey, after Gordon Richards in 1953, to become a Sir.
Champion jockey 20 years running, for every year he was a professional, McCoy was given the BBC Lifetime Achievement Award earlier this month.
He described his knighthood as "surreal".
"I never thought anything like this would be bestowed upon me," said the Northern Irishman, whose official title will be Sir Anthony McCoy OBE. "You can't be recognised in any higher way.
"For the number of years I was competing, I always tried to be as successful as I could, but this honour has as much to do with the people who helped me on the way as it does with myself."
Heather Rabbatts is arguably the most influential woman in domestic football through her role as a director at the Football Association.
Born in Jamaica, she became the FA's first female board member in 2012, having previously served as executive deputy chair at Millwall.
The 60-year-old has spoken out in support of former Chelsea doctor Eva Carneiro in her dispute with the club and ex-Blues manager Jose Mourinho.
In June, Rabbatts resigned from Fifa's anti-discrimination taskforce following Sepp Blatter's re-election as president.
Scotland great Denis Law played for Manchester United between 1962 and 1973, winning two league titles.
"The letter actually came through the post to my old address," said Law, 75. "It may well have arrived there a few years ago!
"When we did find out, we actually kept it from the family and my daughter was annoyed with me because she found out from elsewhere."
Francis Lee, 71, won the league with Manchester City in 1968 and also played a key part in the FA Cup success in 1969 and the League Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup triumphs in 1970.
Striker Lee played 27 times for England and also helped Derby County become league champions in 1975.
Broadcaster Sue Barker and England football captain Steph Houghton are among the high-profile women recognised.
Appointed an OBE for services to broadcasting and charity, Barker won tennis' French Open in 1976 at the age of 20.
When injury ended her playing career in the mid-1980s, she moved into broadcasting and the 59-year-old now fronts the corporation's tennis coverage as well as quiz show A Question Of Sport.
Jacqui Oatley, 40, was the first female commentator to appear on the BBC's Match of the Day programme in 2007 and has been appointed as an MBE for her services to broadcasting and diversity in sport.
Tracey Neville, 38, coached the England team to third place at the Netball World Cup and becomes an MBE.
So does Manchester City defender Steph Houghton, 27, who captained England to third place at the Women's World Cup.
Liverpool Ladies and England midfielder Fara Williams said it was a "massive shock" to receive a letter saying she had been appointed an MBE.
"I thought someone was taking me to court," said the the 31-year-old Londoner, who has played 148 times for England and was once homeless for six years.
John Surtees, the only man to win world titles on two and four wheels, has been appointed a CBE.
The 81-year-old Englishman won seven world motorcycling championships between 1956 and 1960.
He secured the Formula One world title in 1964 with Ferrari and formed his own race team before retiring from competitive driving in 1972.
Surtees is also the oldest surviving F1 champion, and the oldest surviving 500cc/MotoGP world champion.
Cyclist Chris Froome, 30, has been appointed an OBE after becoming the first Briton to win the Tour de France for a second time.
Triathlete Chrissie Wellington, 38, is recognised for winning four Ironman titles and her campaign work for equality in sport.
Nicknamed The Rocket for his quick-fire potting, Ronnie O'Sullivan, 40, has won the World Snooker Championship five times and is considered by many to be the greatest player of his generation.
IBF super-bantamweight boxing champion Carl Frampton is appointed an MBE, as is former England wing Mark Cueto, who retired from rugby union in May.
Annamarie Phelps, the chair of British Rowing who competed in the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, has been appointed a CBE for services to her sport.
Three other sporting administrators - the LTA's first female president Catherine Sabin, president of British Cycling Bob Howden, and former chief executive of British Canoeing Paul Owen - all become OBEs.
Knighthood:
AP McCoy OBE, for services to horse racing.
Damehood:
Heather Rabbatts CBE, for public service and services to football and equality
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE):
Denis Law, for services to football and charity; Francis Lee, for services to football and charity; Annamarie Phelps, for services to rowing; John Surtees OBE, for services to motorsport.
Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE):
Sue Barker MBE, for services to broadcasting and charity; Chris Froome, for services to cycling; Robert Howden, for services to cycling; Ronnie O'Sullivan, for services to snooker; Paul Owen, for services to canoeing; Catherine Sabin, for services to tennis; Chrissie Wellington MBE, for services to sport and charity.
Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE):
Yvonne Anderson, for services to the Special Olympics; Ian Beggs, for services to rugby; James Callander, for voluntary services to athletics; Mark Cueto, for services to rugby; Janice Eaglesham, for services to disability sport; Roger Fennemore, for services to sport; Carl Frampton, for services to boxing; Heather Galbraith, for services to equestrianism; Pamela Gallant, for services to people with special needs, particularly through sport; Roy Harrison, for voluntary service to cricket in Northern Ireland; Stephanie Houghton, for services to football; Gaynor Jones, for voluntary service to golf and the development of women's golf in Wales; Brian Lee, for services to football; Dianne McMillan, for services to swimming and disability awareness; Stephen Miller, for services to sport; Ian Mirfin, for services to disability sport; Cargin Moss, for services to taekwondo; Tracey Neville, for services to netball; Jacqui Oatley, for services to broadcasting and diversity in sport; Ronald Webster, for services to tennis in Scotland; Anne Whitworth, for services to hockey in the north-east; Fara Williams, for services to women's football and charity. | Champion jump jockey AP McCoy has been knighted and football administrator Heather Rabbatts made a dame by the Queen in the New Year Honours List. |
36,685,455 | Scotland international Fletcher scored 23 goals in 108 appearances for Premier League side Sunderland after joining from Wolves for £12m in 2012.
The 29-year-old ended last season on loan with French side Marseille, for whom he scored twice in 14 games.
He has won 28 caps for Scotland, having made his debut against Croatia in 2008.
Fletcher started his career with Hibernian, scoring 52 times in 189 games to set up a £3m transfer to Burnley in 2009, before signing for Wolves after one season at Turf Moor.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Championship side Sheffield Wednesday have signed striker Steven Fletcher on a four-year contract following his release by Sunderland. |
33,122,420 | The beer - Allsopp's Arctic Ale - was brewed in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, for an expedition led by Sir George Nares in 1875.
It was discovered in a box in a garage in Gobowen, Shropshire.
The beer had been expected to fetch £600 at the auction at Trevanion & Dean in Whitchurch earlier.
The winning offer came from a private collector from Scotland, a telephone bidder.
Aaron Dean, a partner at the auctioneers, said: "The internet went bonkers when the item came up.
"There were three bidders in the room and there were people on the telephone too.
"It was a great historical object. We have all seen empty bottles from the 19th Century but this bottle went all the way to the Arctic circle and came all the way back.
"How many more of those will we see? Not many. There are many collectors when it comes to exploration and this fitted into that. It was historically fun."
Mr Dean said it would be possible to drink the beer as his research suggested it would be "sweet tasting with a hint of tobacco".
However the auction house said part of its appeal was the fact the bottle had been unopened for so long. | A 140-year-old bottle of beer brewed for an arctic expedition has been sold for £3,300 - more than five times its estimate. |
36,407,054 | Murray, 29, will be seeking a repeat of the form that saw him overcome Ivo Karlovic in the third round on Friday.
But Isner is a much stronger all-round player than Karlovic and has pushed Murray hard in previous meetings.
The match is scheduled third on Court Suzanne Lenglen but could be delayed because of rain.
The American, seeded 15th, accepts Murray would have benefitted from his match against Karlovic.
"He's definitely got some reps in against a pretty big serve," he said. "But my serve is a little bit different. I think I can back it up better, as well.
"He's played the big points better than me, which is one of the reasons why he's number two in the world. So I'm going to have to step up when I get opportunities - if I get them.
"It's a match I would love to win, and a match I believe I can win."
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Britain's world number two Andy Murray faces big-serving American John Isner on Sunday for a place in the French Open quarter-finals. |
18,056,971 | One witness who fled by swimming said she thought she was going to die, but preferred to drown than be shot.
Another described pulling a bullet from her thigh before swimming for safety.
Breivik, 33, admits killing 69 people at the youth camp on Utoeya and eight people in a Oslo bomb attack last July. He denies criminal responsibility.
Fighting back tears as she recounted her ordeal on Utoeya, Silja Kristianne Uteng, 21, told the court she fled across the camp site into the lake and "swam for her life" along with several others, but saw the killer appear at the shore.
"I thought that now I will die," she said. "I thought that I would rather drown than be shot." She managed to swim the 600m through cold waters to the mainland.
Ms Uteng said she only realised she had been shot in the arm when she took off her jacket and saw blood and a bullet hole.
Another survivor, Lars Groennestad, 20, said Breivik had shot him in the shoulder, narrowly missing his spine but puncturing his lung.
He said he had run to hide under trees, covering himself in soil to reduce the likelihood of being spotted, and waited until police came to help him.
A third witness, Frida Holm Skoglund, 20, asked for Breivik to be removed from court, as she was too nervous to testify before the man who tried to kill her.
She recounted how she fled into woods and removed a bullet from her thigh, after at first not believing it when a friend pointed out that she had been shot.
"I thought it was nonsense, that it was not a real bullet. But I felt something sharp in my thigh, and it was the bullet," she told the court. "So I took it out and I threw it away from me. But it did not hurt."
By Lars BevangerOslo
Anders Breivik has been confronted with the first of those he shot and wounded but who survived at Utoeya.
One very slight, and in her own words very nervous, young girl asked to have him removed from court before she took to the witness stand.
Frida Holm Skoglund felt she could not give testimony while the man who tried to kill her less than a year ago sat only a few metres away.
Her small voice and slight build was an enormous contrast to her story of survival. She told the court how she had managed to remove the bullet from her wound herself before taking to the icy waters and swimming until an asthma attack almost made her go underwater.
Speaking in court today, she had one message for the killer: "We won, he lost. Norwegian youths can swim."
Asked about Breivik's demeanour during his shooting spree, she said he seemed calm, but "aggressive on the trigger".
She then told how she and several friends went into the water and swam for their lives. She said she had been the leader of a group from her part of Norway and the three youngest had all been killed.
Despite her loss, when asked whether she had a short message for their killer, Ms Skoglund said: "We won, he lost!"
Monday's fourth witness, Ane Kollen Evenmo, 17, said she was trying to flee in a boat with several others when she saw Breivik, wearing a police uniform, on the shore of Utoeya.
Thinking Breivik was a police officer, she waved to him for help, but realised her mistake when he began shooting at the boat, she said.
Breivik claims to have been defending Norway from immigration and says he attacked the Labour Party youth event on the island of Utoeya because of the party's support for multiculturalism.
Last week, the court heard from survivors who escaped unhurt, as well as the last of evidence from coroners who carried out post mortem examinations on Breivik's victims.
The trial's outcome hinges on whether the court finds Breivik to have been sane. If it does, he could face 21 years in prison, if not, he is likely to be held indefinitely in a psychiatric institution.
Breivik seeks to prove his sanity, as he wants to demonstrate that he acted out of ideological motivations. | Witnesses who were shot and wounded by Anders Behring Breivik on Utoeya island have told of their extraordinary escapes at his trial in Oslo. |
30,659,960 | Terry Hamer, 34, of Sidney Street, Whitechapel, was charged with killing John Keenan, who was found at 01:30 GMT.
A post-mortem test found he died from a brain injury following an assault.
Mr Hamer was remanded in custody at Thames Magistrates' Court. He will next appear at the Old Bailey on Tuesday.
A 25-year-old woman who was arrested on suspicion of murder has been bailed until February. | A man charged with murder following the death of a 43-year-old man at a New Year's Eve party in east London has appeared in court. |
20,188,167 | The church, where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified, has had its bank account frozen at the request of Hagihon over an unpaid $2.3m bill.
The dispute has left hundreds of priests, monks and teachers unpaid.
The church has traditionally not been charged for water, but Hagihon says it is owed money for the past 15 years.
According to the Israeli newspaper Maariv, there was a tacit agreement between the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem - which, along with the Armenian Orthodox Patriarchate and the Roman Catholic Franciscan Custos, is jointly responsible for the Church of the Holy Sepulchre's administration - and a former mayor of the city that the church would be exempt from water bills.
But in 2004, Hagihon sent a demand to the church for 3.7m shekels ($950,000; £590,000). It was backdated to when the company took over the water supply in the late 1990s.
The Patriarchate reportedly believed it was a mistake because Hagihon did not press it to pay. The company is now demanding that the bill, which has risen to 9m shekels ($2.3m; £1.4m) including interest, be settled.
A Hagihon spokesman said Israeli law did not permit any exemptions.
The company had not taken other enforcement steps, such as shutting off the water supply, in order not to disrupt activities at the site, he added.
Father Isidoros Fakitsas, Superior of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, told the Associated Press that an agreement had been reached with Hagihon a few weeks ago.
Under the deal, various denominations of the church would pay their monthly bill and the 9m-shekel debt was to be forgotten, he said.
But to his surprise the Patriarchate's bank account was blocked, making it impossible to pay stipends to some 500 priests and monks, 2,000 teachers and the running costs of more than 30 schools.
According to Maariv, other services have also been affected, including telephones, internet and electricity, as well as companies supplying food.
Father Fakitsas said the Patriarchate would be able to function despite the frozen bank account and that it would try to find an alternative if matters became too difficult, such as opening another bank account.
Patriarch Theophilos III wrote a letter to Israel's prime minister and president warning that the "enforcement of this unjustified step undermines the sanctity and offends the sensitivity of the site".
He told Maariv: "If nothing changes we intend to announce... for the first time in centuries, that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is closed."
The other Christian denominations which jointly manage the church are said to support the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in its battle.
The Israeli tourism ministry said the issue was between the Patriarchate and the Jerusalem municipality, but that it was trying to mediate between them and hoped that the dispute would be resolved quickly. | The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem has warned that it may shut its doors to pilgrims in protest at a dispute with an Israeli water company. |
22,936,044 | Alec Stewart and bowling coach Stuart Barnes have taken temporary charge.
They will be at the helm for Friday's County Championship game with Yorkshire while the club search for a long-term successor to Adams, who ended his playing career to join Surrey in 2008.
"Chris Adams is someone I love talking to about cricket. I find him pretty straight on things. Of course he'll be sad to have departed this way, it's been a tough five years but I suspect it won't have come as a complete shock.
"I could say Surrey are the Manchester United of cricket, although their executive director Alec Stewart would take great offence and say more Chelsea. Either way they demand and not hope for success.
"It's a growing trend to sack a coach mid season and that can be attributed directly to two divisions and increased prize money. It's not a criticism, just a fact.
"Closely linked is the power players now have. The dressing room is increasingly influencing decisions.
"Winning Division One earns the players £351,493.85 to be shared. The second division is much lower at £87,873.46. Players not having the opportunity to win the top prize can be fatal for coaches.
"Money is nowhere near as big as football and the coaching roundabout will not reach those silly levels but expect one or two departures a summer."
Under him, the club won promotion and the CB40 in 2011, but are without a Championship win this term.
"Chris and Ian have worked really hard for the club and we appreciate their endeavours during the past five seasons," said Surrey chief executive Richard Gould.
"The club has decided it is now time to make a change in order to progress further."
Although it is uncommon for managerial staff to leave counties mid-season, Adams' departure is by no means unique.
Last summer Northants parted company with head coach David Capel, ending his 33-year association with the club, and in July 2007 Richard Pybus left Middlesex at his own request, less than six months after being put in charge of the first team.
By asking former England captain Stewart, 50, to step into the breach, Surrey are looking to ensure dressing room stability.
He is an executive director at the club, having spent his entire playing career with Surrey before retiring in 2003.
Stewart, whose father Micky also played for the county, made his Surrey debut at the age of 18 and went on to represent them for 22 years. During his domestic and international career he scored nearly 35,000 first-class runs.
He will oversee professional cricket at Surrey until the end of the season, while 42-year-old Barnes, who was appointed last October after leaving Gloucestershire, where he had been on the coaching staff for 15 years, will look after the team on a day-to-day basis.
"The club felt it was best to make this decision to help the club move in the direction they wish to move in," Stewart told Test Match Special.
"The club have made a tough decision. It's never nice to tell people they are no longer employed but sport is tough and you have to make some tough decisions and hopefully some right decisions."
Reacting to the news of Adams' departure, another ex-England captain Michael Vaughan posted on Twitter: "The first sign that cricket will become like football eventually.. A county coach sacked mid season."
Following their successes in 2011, Surrey endured a difficult season last summer following the tragic death of batsman Tom Maynard in June.
Despite the devastating effect the news had on the club and Maynard's team-mates, Adams managed to rally the side and help them avoid relegation in their first season back in Division One.
Adams, whose contract was due to expire at the end of this summer, had put his faith in Rory Hamilton-Brown as skipper in 2010, but he was allowed to leave following the death of Maynard, a close friend.
Surrey's signing policy last winter was to go for experience over youth, bringing in South African Graeme Smith as captain and former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting along with Gary Keedy and Vikram Solanki.
However, their plans were disrupted when Smith hurt his ankle in early May, an injury that has ruled him out for the season.
They drew their first two Championship matches with Smith in the side, but lost the two immediately after his injury, although they have drawn three games since.
Their one-day form has also been poor and they currently lie sixth out of seven in their YB40 group with two wins from seven matches.
Gould said they were in no hurry to appoint successors to Adams and Salisbury, but were still hopeful that this season could be a positive one for the team.
"We have particular ambitions for this season and wanted to make sure we had enough time to make changes and then hopefully deliver on some of those ambitions," he told the Surrey website.
"We need to be able to attract the best calibre of person and we're not going to set ourselves a tight deadline for that.
"We're very fortunate to have Alec Stewart available to take over for the next few months and we'll be using the time that gives us to get the very best result for Surrey Cricket Club." | Struggling Surrey have parted company with team director Chris Adams and first-team coach Ian Salisbury. |
36,570,577 | Dyfed-Powys Police said officers were called to Mwnt at 19:50 BST on Friday after reports of a car going through a field and over the edge.
A 42-year-old man from north Wales died and his family have been informed.
Gwbert coastguard and Cardigan rescue teams were deployed - along with both Cardigan lifeboats and the St Athan search and rescue helicopter.
It was initially thought the man had been taken to hospital, but police confirmed he died at the scene of the crash. | The driver of the car which plunged over a cliff in Ceredigion died at the scene, police have said. |
36,384,789 | One tiny city is preparing to greet them, despite concerns about its size.
Wales will play England in the northern city of Lens on 16 June.
The town has a population of under 40,000, but as many as 100,000 fans are expected to arrive there.
Ticketless fans are being urged to travel to larger towns in the area such as Lille.
But for those planning to brave the crowds in Lens, what should they expect when they get there?
In a similar way to many towns in Wales, Lens once had a booming coal mining industry.
"There is a lot of testimony of the mining heritage in the town," said Marlène Virey, from the Lens tourist office.
"We have got the two big slag heaps, so you could have a walk on them," she said.
The mining mountains, or "terrils" as they are referred to locally, dominate the landscape.
There were 340 of them in the area during the 1970s, but 200 remain today.
The Nord-Pas-de-Calais mining basin was recently registered on the UNESCO list of world heritage sites, which protects the slag heaps from damage.
Base 11/19, named after the two mining shafts, is one of four main protected sites in the basin. It sits just outside Lens.
The two slag heaps are 186m (610ft) tall, said Tino Cioffi, a tour guide who tells visitors about the mining history of the town.
Formed from rocky mining spoils, they are "the highest mining mountains in all of Europe," he claimed.
The site was established by the Societé des Mines de Lens in 1894, operating for almost a century before being closed in 1986.
It was "really terrible" said Mr Cioffi, leading to "high unemployment" levels in the town, at almost double the national rate.
Lens will play host to four games during the competition, in the Stade Ballaert-Delelis, which will hold 38,000 fans.
Anyone else arriving will be competing for a spot in the 10,000 capacity fanzone, or the handful of bars and pubs in the town centre.
For those left on the streets, purchasing and drinking alcohol has been banned on match days.
Sylvain Robert, the Mayor of Lens told BBC Wales he was worried they will not be able to cope with the influx of people.
A much-needed economic boost was given to the town in 2012, with the arrival of the £109m Louvre-Lens museum, an outpost of the Louvre art gallery in Paris.
It opened on the site of a disused colliery. A modern building of glass and aluminium, it is aptly sandwiched between the football stadium and the mining mountains.
"It's a collection of 205 artworks," said Bruno Cappelle, from the Louvre-Lens team.
"They are all coming from the Paris Louvre and you can see a little bit of everything, so you've got all the techniques and all the civilisations that you could see in Paris."
To time in with the Euro 2016, they have a special exhibition on this summer, celebrating their much-loved local football club - RC Lens.
"It's a big collection of objects and testimonies, by supporters of the local team.
"This is really something very important here in Lens.
"There used to be the mines and football, now there is football and the museum," he said.
For Welsh fans searching for further links to home, many restaurants in the town centre serve a surprising local delicacy.
Welsh rarebit became popular after soldiers fighting in World War One brought it over with them, said Mr Cioffi.
Much of Lens was destroyed during the War and the town is surrounded by major remembrance sites at Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, Vimy Ridge and La Maison Blanche, Cabaret Rouge Cemetery, Loos Memorial and Dud Corner Cemetery.
Capacity concerns aside, the town seems really excited to welcome Welsh fans.
"For the inhabitants, it's very exciting to welcome other football supporters, because in Lens, it's a tradition to support football - the inhabitants are fond of football," said Ms Virey.
Mr Cioffi said: "Lens people I think, will support the Welsh team of course.
"We have the same history and it's a small team, like Lens.
"And I hope to drink some beers with Welsh people." | Welsh football fans will travel to France in their thousands this month, after qualifying to play in the European Championships for the first time in 58 years. |
33,236,486 | Shelby Holmes, from Towyn, Conwy, described the experience as "absolutely marvellous" if "not exactly the norm" for someone from her background.
The fifth-generation travelling showman won a place to study English literature at Trinity College in 2012 after gaining two A*s and a B in her A-levels.
This was despite missing weeks of school every year because of her family's work.
Ms Holmes had no idea what to expect from university explaining: "Usually the kids go on to do the family business.
"Families in showmen cultures work as a single business unit and everyone pulls their weight."
So, was it difficult for the girl from the fairground to fit into Oxford's notoriously grand cloisters?
Not at all. Ms Holmes explained: "I didn't really know what to expect.
"Everyone has heard about Oxford and about how posh everyone is and how different everyone is but it didn't take long to find friends and fit in. Everyone was brilliant."
And she credits her time at university for opening her eyes to new possibilities.
She said: "I always used to think that showmen were in this very small corner of the world and I didn't think much about letting people know about us.
"Going to Oxford and seeing all these different kinds of people from different backgrounds, from all sorts of different countries and having that wonderful mix of cultures... I thought, you know what, if all these other people can go to Oxford why can't a few more showmen go?"
Ms Holmes now plans to further her studies with a master's degree in history of art in the hope of realising her "big dream" to manage a house for the National Trust.
But this summer you will find her working at the fair as usual, remaining modest about her achievements.
"I'm not anyone particularly special," she said.
"I just did a bit of work and got into a university that plenty of other people get into.
"I didn't do anything particularly crazy or brave. It was just what I wanted to do." | A woman from a travelling community who has spent much of her life working at fairgrounds has just completed a three-year degree at Oxford University. |
38,611,940 | The woman said she was with her mother at a radio station in Portsmouth aged 12 when the incident happened in 1977.
She told the jury the alleged indecent assault was "horrible" and "wrong".
Mr Harris, 86, denies seven charges of indecent assault and one of sexual assault.
He is appearing at court via video link from Stafford Prison.
Giving evidence at Southwark Crown Court via video link, the woman said she and her mother approached Mr Harris as he left the radio station, where he had been taking part in a programme.
She said: "I was quite pleased seeing him in real life because I'd seen him on television... It was nice seeing someone famous."
The woman went on to describe how Mr Harris signed an autograph for her mother before turning to her.
"He said: 'I think it's your turn now. Let me give you a little cuddle,'" she said.
"He put his arm round me, one round my back, one down the lower part of my body, up my skirt and into my knickers.
"He touched me where nobody had touched me before."
She added: "I pulled away, it didn't feel right. I didn't know anything about sex, I was completely unworldly.
"It just felt horrible, it just felt wrong. It was seconds before I pulled away.
"My mum was standing less than a foot away from me."
She said Mr Harris signed her autograph book and they left.
The woman said she told her mother what had happened but was not believed.
She reported the alleged indecent assault after Mr Harris was convicted of indecently assaulting four other women in 2014.
Defending, Stephen Vullo QC said the year the woman had written in her autograph book was incorrect, adding: "I can't agree with you that he was there [at the radio station] in 1977."
The court heard the woman also said she had been abused by a family friend during her childhood and that her mother had not believed her about that.
She denied that she had come forward to seek the "support and attention" she did not get in relation to that incident.
Mr Vullo said: "Can I just put to you that the allegation you make against Mr Harris is not true?"
She said: "I say it is true."
The jury has been told Mr Harris is currently serving a prison sentence and is appearing at the trial via video link because of his age and poor health.
The hearing at Southwark Crown Court continues. | A woman who alleges she was indecently assaulted by TV presenter Rolf Harris has told his trial how he put his hand up her skirt after she asked for an autograph. |
39,341,020 | The claim was made in a letter from a purported whistleblower who says hundreds of email accounts were monitored without legal authority.
The letter claims officers shredded documents to cover up the monitoring, despite being ordered to preserve them.
Scotland Yard says the allegations in the letter are "deeply troubling".
A spokesman for the IPCC said: "We have begun an independent investigation related to anonymous allegations concerning the accessing of personal data.
"We are still assessing the scope of the investigation and so we are not able to comment further."
If the alleged whistleblower's allegations are true, the hacking would be unlawful if personal communications were intercepted for any other reason other than to combat major crime, terrorism or some other serious public need. Such monitoring must be approved by the home secretary.
A public inquiry into undercover policing was announced in March 2015 following controversy surrounding the conduct of some officers.
And last month, the IPCC revealed it was investigating whether the National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit inside Scotland Yard had shredded documents, despite orders to preserve them for the inquiry.
Green Party peer Baroness Jenny Jones has now revealed that she received a detailed letter days later, making new and more extensive allegations against the Met.
It says that the document shredding had been happening "for some time and on a far greater scale" than the IPCC had been aware of in order to cover up illegal gathering of intelligence on protest groups.
"For a number of years, the unit had been illegally accessing the email accounts of activists," says the letter.
"This has largely been accomplished because of the contact that one of the officers had developed with counterparts in India who, in turn, were using hackers to obtain email passwords."
The writer claims several hundred campaigners were targeted and officers would be tasked to read the emails and pass on any contents deemed valuable.
While the letter is anonymous, it contains detailed information to support the writer's assertion that he or she is a serving detective and provides the email passwords of 10 people who were allegedly targeted.
Colin Newman, a volunteer for Greenpeace in Cornwall, is on the list. He regularly dresses up as a fish to draw attention to threats to the oceans.
The former civil servant told the BBC he had been arrested twice for taking part in direct action and cautioned for trespass in a protest against coal-fired power stations.
But he stressed that he neither considered himself anti-police nor "a threat to national security". He said he had attended training sessions with police forces to help them understand and manage peaceful protests by campaigners like him.
"When I was told I was on this list I was at first surprised, then angry and then felt violated," he said.
"I trust the police. But some of my emails were very private - they include details of counselling. I have had sleepless nights."
Baroness Jones said: "This illegal hacking is one of the worst cases of state snooping that I've ever heard. The personal information within the letter is accurate and it could only have been obtained illegally.
"There is more than enough to justify a full scale criminal investigation. It is completely unacceptable that the police can stick their noses into the lives of innocent people without a shred of evidence that they are involved in terrorism or serious crime."
A spokesman for Scotland Yard confirmed that it was taking the allegations seriously.
"All possible steps are being taken to ensure that all relevant material and associated computer systems are preserved to assist the IPCC's investigation," said the spokesman. "Whilst at this stage the allegations have not been thoroughly investigated, they are deeply troubling and the MPS will provide the IPCC with its fullest possible support. "
Next month the Metropolitan Police is expected to face pressure at a rare public preliminary sitting of the undercover inquiry over claims that it is failing to co-operate with the already-delayed probe.
In a statement, Lord Justice Pitchford, the chairman of the inquiry said: "We would welcome the opportunity to speak with the author of the letter and I would urge that person to contact the Inquiry on terms of confidentiality." | The police watchdog is investigating whether Scotland Yard detectives used hackers in India to target campaigners, including Greenpeace organisers. |
31,701,230 | Zane Lowe is giving up his evening show after nearly 12 years and heading to Los Angeles to work for Apple in a role which is so far unknown.
Newsbeat has spoken to some of the bands who got their first play through Zane.
From the "ignition in his head" to his domination of indie and rock music, here's what they said.
Listen to what they had to say.
"He'll be sorely missed, I've never met anyone more enthusiastic," Serge from Kasabian tells Newsbeat.
"He cares and he knows more about tunes and music and especially about new artists than anyone.
"He turned me onto things I would have never listened to and he would be there at the front and always supportive, that is the thing about Zane.
"He is like positive, positive, positive and that energy will be massively missed but God bless him and good luck to him."
"I was sad about it because he is such an institution," says Lauren Mayberry from Chvrches.
"The first time I did a phone interview with Zane Lowe, I was really worried and very nervous because I remembered leaving school early when I was younger so I could get home in time to see him interview Queens of The Stone Age.
"But never tell him that because it is embarrassing.
"He has been really supportive of the band and I think it will be sad for the UK music scene but maybe it will be good news for Apple iTunes streaming - that's what my bet's on."
"For us, I feel like he is the John Peel of our time," Laurie Vincent from Slaves tells Newsbeat.
"We used to do band practice and then I'd drive home listening to Radio 1 and be annoyed that we weren't being played by Zane Lowe.
"So getting played by Zane Lowe was my first goal with radio.
"Gutted, sad news but I am glad he is not just sticking with what he is doing, I think moving on and reinventing yourself is an important part of life."
"The thing I found about Zane when we first met him is that he genuinely is as enthusiastic as he comes across on the radio," Felix from The Maccabees says.
"He genuinely does hold that much information and I thought that was a really heart warming thing about Zane, from getting to know him.
"Zane is a really wonderful person."
"I think Zane is incredible," Big Sean tells Newsbeat.
"He is one of those voices that so many people are familiar with. I feel like he brought out the best in people which made for the best interviews.
"I personally have never interviewed with him, maybe I met him once but you feel like you know him just because of his personality, how he is
"Some of his interviews are and probably will be some of my favourite interviews of all time, so shout out to Zane and congratulations on a new chapter, you dominated this so congrats."
Peace are another band who got early support from Zane.
"Over the past two years I've kind of kept in touch with him via email, I've sent him tracks that we've been working on," frontman Harry Koisser says.
"It's really enjoyable to listen to someone talk about any band, especially your band, where you can tell when he likes something.
"There's this ignition in his head and he suddenly becomes really passionate.
"I sent him an email to say thanks for everything while I've got a chance to say it, best of luck in the future.
"He emailed back straight away and was genuinely thankful.
"I just wish him the best of luck and whatever he does he is going to be himself and he is just going to bring that somewhere else.
"I think a big part of it is just the length and the quality of quantity he has given in the past and he takes risks as well."
"It's definitely a shame, he was a big supporter of my music from the very start, I do believe he gave Trouble Town its first play," Bugg says.
"He knows a lot about his music and he is certainly a character that I think is going to be missed.
"He created memories and now we get to create new ones in the future."
"I have nothing but good things to say about Zane Lowe," says Frank Turner.
"He helped out a Million Dead, he's helped me out, he has helped out countless bands.
"Something a friend of mine said about Zane Lowe ages ago which I think is very true, is he could have collected his pay check and done about a quarter of the work he actually did.
"He worked hard to find new music.
"I just love the way one week he would be interviewing Foo Fighters and the next some band you had never heard of and it was a genuine music nerd's passion."
"Zane was one of the main guys at Radio 1 who has his ear to the pulse and is able to play some of the newest stuff," Bipolar Sunshine tells Newsbeat.
"He ripped my first song off SoundCloud and started playing it so I hold high regard for him."
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | Kasabian, Chvrches, Slaves, Big Sean and Jake Bugg are all a bit gutted about this man leaving Radio 1. |
39,193,326 | Daw hynny wedi iddo gael ei wahardd am fis o'i swydd fel cynghorydd yng Nghaerdydd am sylwadau y gwnaeth wrth un o swyddogion y cyngor.
Dywedodd datganiad gan grŵp y blaid: "Gyda chytundeb Neil, mae grŵp Plaid Cymru wedi penderfynu y dylai gael ei wahardd dros dro o'r grŵp tra bod cytundeb ar y ffordd ymlaen yn cael ei ddarganfod yn dilyn digwyddiadau diweddar."
Ychwanegodd y datganiad fod arweinydd y blaid Leanne Wood wedi cyfarfod gyda Mr McEvoy cyn i'r grŵp gyfarfod gan benderfynu tynnu'r cyfrifoldeb o fod yn llefarydd y blaid ar chwaraeon a thwristiaeth oddi wrtho.
Mae ymchwiliad arall gan y blaid yn ehangach yn parhau.
Mae'r Aelod Cynulliad wedi galw'r tribiwnlys wnaeth ei wahardd rhag bod yn gynghorydd am fis yn "ffars".
Dywedodd y tribiwnlys fod Mr McEvoy wedi bwlio swyddog o Gyngor Caerdydd drwy fygwth diogelwch ei swydd mewn digwyddiad ym mis Gorffennaf 2015, pan oedd mewn llys yn y ddinas yn cefnogi tenant cyngor oedd yn wynebu cael ei gyrru o'i chartref.
Yn dilyn ei wahardd o grŵp Plaid Cymru ddydd Mawrth, dywedodd Mr McEvoy mewn datganiad nad oedd yn ymddiheuro am ymladd achos ei etholwraig ac y byddai'n mynd â'i achos i'r Uchel Lys er mwyn dangos ei fod "yn gwneud y peth iawn".
Ychwanegodd nad oedd yn gallu gwneud sylw pellach gan ei fod angen derbyn cyngor cyfreithiol a bod y gwaharddiad o'r grŵp yn un dros dro.
Dywedodd cadeirydd grŵp Plaid Cymru yn y Cynulliad, Dai Lloyd AC: "Gyda chytundeb Neil, mae grŵp Plaid Cymru wedi cytuno y dylai gael ei wahardd tra'n bod ni'n dod i gytundeb ar ffordd ymlaen yn dilyn digwyddiadau diweddar.
"Cyn y cyfarfod grŵp fe wnaeth arweinydd Plaid Cymru, Leanne Wood, gyfarfod Neil McEvoy a phenderfynu ei dynnu allan o'r cabinet cysgodol a chymryd ei gyfrifoldebau portffolio oddi arno."
Dywedodd Mr Lloyd yn gynharach bod "proses ddeuol" yn mynd rhagddi - gydag ACau yn cwrdd gyfochr ag ymchwiliad cenedlaethol.
Ychwanegodd mai cadeirydd Plaid Cymru fyddai'n gwneud y penderfyniad terfynol am ddyfodol Mr McEvoy.
Yn y cyfamser, mae grŵp o ymgyrchwyr hawliau merched a merched sydd wedi gorchfygu trais yn y cartref wedi ysgrifennu at Blaid Cymru yn galw ar y blaid i adolygu ei chefnogaeth i Mr McEvoy.
Mae'r rhai sydd wedi arwyddo'r ddogfen yn cynnwys Rachel Williams, llysgennad ar ran Cymorth i Ferched Cymru, ac un sydd wedi dioddef o drais yn y cartref ei hun.
Galwodd y llythyr ar i Blaid Cymru i "gymryd y camau angenrheidiol (yn cynnwys gwaharddiad tra bod ymchwiliad i gwynion newydd) i sicrhau nad oes ganddo [Mr McEvoy] blatfform i ymosod ar sefyllfa fregus bresennol merched yng Nghymru".
Dywedodd Ms Williams wrth BBC Cymru ei bod yn aelod o'r Blaid Lafur.
Mae Mr McEvoy wedi cyhuddo Cymorth i Ferched yn y gorffennol o "gamdrin plant wedi ei ariannu gydag arian cyhoeddus". Ymddiheurodd am y sylwadau'n ddiweddarach wedi iddo dderbyn rhybudd swyddogol gan Blaid Cymru.
Mewn ymateb i'r llythyr, dywedodd Mr McEvoy: "Dwi wedi brwydro'n gyson dros y gorthrymedig. Dwi'n cefnogi dynion a merched sydd wedi dioddef trais yn y cartref." | Mae Neil McEvoy AC wedi ei wahardd dros dro o grŵp Plaid Cymru yn y Cynulliad. |
39,164,316 | Aidan Nesbitt should have broken the deadlock when he volleyed over the bar after Queens goalkeeper Lee Robinson punched the ball into his path.
However, Morton were ahead when Ross Forbes cut inside from the right and found the net from a tight angle.
It was enough to move Morton to within three points of second-placed Falkirk with two games in hand.
The scoreline could well have been more handsome for the home side, though Joe Thomson did have the ball in the net for the Doonhamers only for the offside flag to cut short celebrations.
Laurence Shankland saw a long-range effort tipped over the bar by Robinson, with Lee Kilday then heading the resulting corner just wide.
Jamie Lindsay also went close when he burst into the box and rifled in a low drive that the goalkeeper did well to repel with his feet.
Morton substitute Ricki Lamie shaved the crossbar but one goal was enough for the hosts.
Match ends, Morton 1, Queen of the South 0.
Second Half ends, Morton 1, Queen of the South 0.
Joseph Thomson (Queen of the South) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Aidan Nesbitt (Morton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joseph Thomson (Queen of the South).
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Joseph Thomson.
Foul by Jamie Lindsay (Morton).
Scott Mercer (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Scott Mercer.
Kudus Oyenuga (Morton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jamie Hamill (Queen of the South).
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Jamie Hamill.
Substitution, Morton. Kudus Oyenuga replaces Michael Tidser.
Corner, Queen of the South. Conceded by Ricki Lamie.
Foul by Lawrence Shankland (Morton).
Dale Hilson (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Ross Forbes (Morton) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Darren Brownlie.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Jamie Hamill.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Daniel Carmichael.
Attempt missed. Ricki Lamie (Morton) left footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is high and wide to the left.
Corner, Queen of the South. Conceded by Michael Doyle.
Ross Forbes (Morton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Scott Mercer (Queen of the South).
Substitution, Queen of the South. Daniel Carmichael replaces Lyndon Dykes.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Derek Lyle replaces Stephen Dobbie.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Dale Hilson replaces Kyle Jacobs.
Attempt blocked. Ross Forbes (Morton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Jamie Lindsay (Morton) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt blocked. Andy Murdoch (Morton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Lee Kilday (Morton) header from very close range is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Lee Robinson.
Attempt saved. Lawrence Shankland (Morton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Attempt blocked. Dom Thomas (Queen of the South) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Chris Higgins.
Goal! Morton 1, Queen of the South 0. Ross Forbes (Morton) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the right to the top left corner.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Scott Mercer.
Attempt saved. Joseph Thomson (Queen of the South) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Lyndon Dykes (Queen of the South) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Michael Doyle (Morton) wins a free kick on the left wing. | Greenock Morton moved above Dundee United into third in the Championship with victory over Queen of the South. |
30,504,104 | The Grade II public convenience, at the top of Whiteladies Road, in Clifton, is still in use and was built by Glasgow-based W.MacFarlane in the 1880s.
English Heritage said these "often humble structures" were "important to the streetscene of our cities".
Bristol City Council, which owns the cast-iron urinal, said it "remained very well used and appreciated".
An English Heritage spokesman said: "Historic elements of the public realm, including street furniture and public facilities, are particularly vulnerable to damage, alteration and removal and where they survive well, they will in some cases be given serious consideration for designation."
He said the urinal was a "relatively rare surviving example of a once common type of building" and represented the "civic aspirations of the authorities in the Bristol suburbs in the late Victorian period".
"In times of austerity, facilities and structures such as this set of urinals are under increasing threat, and where there are found to be deserving of protection English Heritage will recommend to the Secretary of State that they be added to the National Heritage List for England," he said.
Maggie Shapland, from the Clifton and Hotwells Improvement Society said: "We are really glad it makes it harder to destroy our heritage by raising awareness and we are highly delighted to keep part of our historic streetscape."
Two other similar structures were listed in Bristol in 1977 on Horfield Common and Mina Road Park. | A rare Victorian public urinal has been listed by English Heritage for its "special historical interest". |
34,117,394 | The scale drawings of the Mackintosh were made by Queensland University of Technology professor George Cairns in the 1990s as part of a Phd at GSA.
He has now donated them to the art school in the hope they can aid efforts to restore the iconic building.
GSA is still engaged in a bid to raise £20m to restore the Mackintosh.
Prof Cairns said: "I am delighted to be able to return to Glasgow today after so many years and to be able to donate this set of drawings which I made as part of my doctoral thesis to the GSA.
"I hope very much that they will prove of interest and use to the teams working on the restoration of the Mack and to generations of students who have the privilege to study Mackintosh's masterpiece."
GSA said it would add the drawings to its "significant archive of material relating to Mackintosh's masterpiece".
They will be digitised and accessible for academic and public research through the GSA's online archives in the coming months.
Liz Davidson, senior project manager for the Mackintosh Building restoration project, said: "We are keen to continue to access as much information as possible about the building in planning our approach to the restoration.
"Professor Cairns has already been generous in his time in liaising with the design team and these particularly detailed drawings are going to be an invaluable source of information." | The project to restore Glasgow School of Art's (GSA) fire-damaged Mackintosh building has been boosted by a donation of detailed architectural drawings. |
35,866,102 | Hamm was competing in the Freeride World Tour event in Fieberbrunn when the accident occurred.
He suffered broken ribs, shoulder and arm, plus internal injuries, which resulted in extensive blood loss.
He had a second operation on Thursday and doctors are optimistic he will be able to make a good recovery.
Last month, Devon-born Hamm told BBC Sport about his near-death experience in 2008, when he was caught in an avalanche. | British freeride snowboarder Sascha Hamm remains in intensive care in hospital in Austria after suffering multiple injuries in a crash. |
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At that year's Beijing Olympics, Hoy became the first Briton in 100 years to claim three gold medals at one Games.
Hoy won two further gold medals at the London Olympics and is the most successful British Olympian of all time in terms of gold medals.
He was knighted in 2009.
BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2015 is broadcast live from Belfast on Sunday, 20 December from 19:00 GMT on BBC One. Further coverage on BBC Sport's online platforms and Radio 5 live. | In 2008, cyclist Sir Chris Hoy was named Sports Personality of the Year. |
35,532,592 | A disciplinary hearing in Cardiff heard that Lee Lewis, 33, led the girl into the cave for a "passionate kiss".
The outdoor pursuits leader at Cardiff and Vale College in Barry is then accused of starting a two-year sexual relationship with her.
He did not appear at the hearing, which is continuing.
The qualified medic and PT instructor faces seven counts of misconduct.
Mr Lewis began teaching the girl when she was 14 and spent one day a week at the college where Mr Lewis taught public services, the hearing was told.
The girl, referred to as Student A and now 18, said: "I found his power attractive.
"I thought it was thrilling, meeting up with him. He told me he was in the army, and was also a personal trainer.
"I wasn't comfortable because I wasn't sexually active before and I kept trying to avoid it. He told me he would train me."
The Education Workforce Council misconduct panel heard Mr Lewis used WhatsApp and Facebook to send "flirty" messages to the girl. describing her as "special and amazing".
The girl admitted she was "flattered" by the attention, which included trips in his car, visits to McDonalds and adventure days out with the college.
Student A said: "When I went on the rock climbing trip we ended up kissing in a cave. It was passionate."
The girl said they began a two-year sexual relationship. The hearing was told he asked her to keep it secret at first, saying he would lose his job.
In February 2015, the girl said Lewis become "emotionally abusive", accusing her of not spending enough time with him and threatening to expose their relationship to her mother.
Student A said Mr Lewis began stalking her and his behaviour became "controlling and manipulative".
She said: "I didn't want my family to know because I was ashamed at what I was doing."
She said she eventually told Mr Lewis it was over, but he began bombarding her with apologies and threatened to kill himself if she left him.
In June 2015 she told staff about the relationship and Mr Lewis was reported to education officials.
Her tutor, Joanna Hughes, told the hearing how the "bubbly and cheerful girl" became "fragile and vulnerable" during the course of the relationship, during which time she was regularly absent from college. | A teacher seduced a 16-year-old pupil in a cave on a school trip before beginning a sexual relationship with her, a teaching panel has heard. |
24,076,691 | It now expects the economy to expand by 5.3% this year, down from its earlier projection of 6.4% growth.
The new growth outlook is in line with the projections of the central bank and many other economists.
The council also warned that keeping the fiscal deficit within the budget target of 4.8% of gross domestic product (GDP) "could be a challenge".
In its latest economic outlook, the council said that the fiscal deficit during the first four months of the current financial year had already reached 62.8% of the budgetary provision for the full year.
India's growth has been hurt by a range of factors in recent months. including a slowdown in key sectors such as mining and manufacturing.
At the same time, a lack of crucial reforms has seen foreign investors become sceptical of entering the country.
The situation has become worse in recent months as many investors have pulled out from the country.
A slowdown in India's growth, coupled with a recovery in developed markets such as the US - which has made India a less attractive investment option - has prompted them to look for other options.
The prospect of the US withdrawing a key stimulus programme sooner than expected and a possible rise in interest rates in the US have also played a role in the pull-out.
This has hurt India's currency, which has dipped as much 20% against the US dollar since May this year.
That has made imports more expensive, hurting India's economy even more, not least because of its already high current account deficit.
A current account deficit happens when the country's import bill is bigger than its earnings from exports. A widening deficit puts strain on the nation's foreign exchange reserves.
In its report, the council said the sharp decline in the currency had not only hurt efforts to bring the deficit under control, but was a hurdle in kick-starting growth.
"The currency problems have momentarily interrupted the process of revival of growth," it said.
It added that the currency situation needed to be "stabilised as soon as possible". | The Indian prime minister's economic advisory council has lowered the growth outlook for the current financial year. |
36,060,887 | Tommy Rowe made it 1-0 with his second goal in as many games when he headed in Gary McSheffrey's inswinging corner.
Andy Williams headed in Nathan Tyson's back-post cross to double their lead.
A draw or loss could have seen Rovers relegated if Fleetwood and Shrewsbury had won, but the win leaves Darren Ferguson's side three points from safety with two matches left to play.
Rovers now have two wins and a draw from their last three games and travel to bottom side Crewe next Saturday before a final-day match against automatic promotion contenders Burton Albion.
Coventry manager Tony Mowbray told BBC Coventry & Warwickshire:
"I feel as disappointed as I've been in the team all year. Where is the team that we saw beat Gillingham 4-0, Millwall 4-0, Wigan 2-0?
"Maybe it's a bit too much for a few young players. I'm really disappointed for the supporters who've come out for them.
"In my mind the promotion push was over quite a while ago, while mathematically you could still do it and you keep going but I don't think it was realistic to think that we were going to do that." | Doncaster Rovers staved off relegation from League One for another week with an impressive win over Coventry. |
11,443,211 | On the one hand, he has certainly antagonised the Muslim world by calling for a ban on the Koran, which he likened to Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.
On the other, he was voted politician of the year in 2007 by the Dutch political press, partly because of his "well-timed one-liners".
His Freedom Party went from winning nine seats in the 2006 election to 24 in 2010, taking a bigger share of the vote than the Christian Democrats - the main party in the outgoing government. He did not formally join the new government coalition - but it relies on his party for support.
If his views on Islam are inflammatory, his other opinions sit in the Dutch libertarian tradition, and he argues that he is only "intolerant of the intolerant".
Instantly recognisable for his mane of platinum blond hair, which earned him the nickname "Mozart", he is a charismatic leader.
Mr Wilders made a high-profile foray into the world of global politics on 11 September 2010, when he marked the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with a visit to Ground Zero in New York.
In a speech to a rally against the construction of an Islamic centre
near the site, he contrasted the "forces of Jihad" with New York's tradition of tolerance, which he tied to his own country's.
His speech echoed themes from Fitna (which roughly translates from Arabic as "strife"), his hugely controversial film which juxtaposes the Koran with 9/11 and other atrocities.
No TV company in the Netherlands would broadcast the 17-minute film and some Dutch politicians tried to impose a ban before Mr Wilders posted it on the internet in March 2008.
Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen complained the furore over Fitna could endanger Dutch companies, soldiers and residents abroad.
Asked about the impact of his film, Mr Wilders said: "It's not the aim of the movie but people might be offended, I know that. So, what the hell? It's their problem, not my problem."
Attempts by the Freedom Party leader to carry his anti-Islam message abroad have brought him into conflict with other Western states.
The British Government tried to ban him from the UK on the grounds that he posed a threat to public security, though the move was later overruled by the courts.
Former colleagues describe Mr Wilders as a 24/7 politician with no time for other interests.
Born in the Limburg town of Venlo in 1963, he came from a Roman Catholic background but has since said he is not religious.
The son of a printing company director, he began a career in social and health insurance, and socio-economic policy brought him into politics, as a speech-writer for the Dutch Liberal Party (VVD).
He was elected as a city councillor in Utrecht in 1997 and MP the following year, but he disagreed with the party's support for Turkish entry into the EU and left it in 2002 to strike out on his own.
It is a measure of his meteoric rise through Dutch politics that since the 2010 election, the VVD has found itself relying on Mr Wilders to support its coalition with the Christian Democrats, though the Freedom Party remains outside the government.
Mr Wilders has prompted comparisons with Pim Fortuyn, the maverick political leader who famously described Islam as a backward religion.
Fortuyn was murdered by an animal rights activist in 2002, shortly before an election.
It was another high-profile murder, in November 2004, which altered Mr Wilders's career dramatically: the slaying of Dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh by a radical Islamist.
Together with ethnic Somali politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Van Gogh had produced the short film Submission, which featured an actress in see-through clothing with Koranic script on her body.
Although he had no involvement in the film, Mr Wilders was given a permanent bodyguard, as was Ms Hirsi Ali, because of their outspoken views on Islam.
The Freedom Party's policies include banning the burka, the Muslim garment that covers most of the body, and banning Muslim Halal slaughter (as well as Jewish Kosher slaughter). He says such practices are incompatible with Dutch values.
Mr Wilders, whose wife is Hungarian, is adamant that he is not a racist.
He told the BBC his intention had only ever been "to have a debate about freedom of speech and the threat of Islamisation of our Western societies".
"It's not my intention to have anything at all to do with violence," he said.
"On the contrary, I despise violence - I just want a debate."
Unlike other figures on the fringes of European politics, he has never been accused of anti-Semitism. On the contrary, he is a strong admirer of Israel, visiting the country frequently.
"My allies are not Le Pen or Haider..." he told the Guardian newspaper
, referring to other European far-right leaders.
"We'll never join up with the Fascists and Mussolinis of Italy. I'm very afraid of being linked with the wrong, rightist, Fascist groups."
One of his criticisms of Muslims in the Netherlands is their conservative stance on sexual freedoms, such as gay rights.
"I believe we have been too tolerant of the intolerant," he told the BBC.
"We should learn to become intolerant of the intolerant."
Amsterdam judges moved in January 2009 to try Mr Wilders for inciting hatred and discrimination, arguing that "by attacking the symbols of the Muslim religion, he also insulted Muslim believers".
However, acquitting Mr Wilders of all charges on 23 June 2011, Judge Marcel van Oosten said: "The bench finds that your statements are acceptable within the context of the public debate." | Geert Wilders, the prominent Dutch politician cleared of inciting hatred against Muslims over his campaign against Islam in public life, is a deeply divisive figure. |
33,180,930 | That dull thud you can hear in high offices of state across Europe at the moment is the sound of the rule book crashing to the ground after being thrown out of the window.
No-one appears to be thinking twice, and no-one is saying nothing. The barbs are flying thick and fast as Greece seems to be stumbling towards default.
The Greeks accuse the International Monetary Fund of criminal responsibility for their current plight; they say the rest of Europe is trying deliberately to humiliate them.
The Europeans accuse the Greek government of lying to its people, of amateurism and double-dealing.
It is mendacious, they say, and playing with fire.
Officials in Brussels mutter darkly about a betrayal of trust.
The diplomatic style of European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker usually involves a slap on the back and a kiss on the cheek.
But even he seems to have lost his sense of humour when it comes to dealing with Greeks, who are most emphatically not bearing gifts.
How did it come to this?
Five years of austerity and crisis in Greece have produced the deepest recession ever seen in a modern industrialised economy.
And the depth of that recession - more than a quarter of the economy wiped out - produced Syriza, the coalition of the radical left.
It came to power at the beginning of this year determined to change an economic relationship it has described as servitude: reliant on loans to keep the economy afloat so that it could pay back the debts owed to the same people who were now lending it more money.
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There was, I think, a working assumption in official corridors in Brussels that there would be some sound and fury, a few howls of protest, but eventually the Greeks would play ball.
Because they would have no other choice.
That meant they would have to do what previous governments had done - push through more reforms of the public sector, cut salaries and pensions, and raise more money through taxation.
But five months of tortuous negotiations later, and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says the toughest battles are just about to begin.
So far he hasn't blinked. We can't take any more, he says, and the Europeans have to look seriously at restructuring our debts.
The last five months, it seems, have just been the warm-up.
The trouble is, time is fast running out.
If all the predictions made in the past few weeks that Greece was running out of money had come true, the country would have gone bankrupt several times already.
But there is a limit. And officials in Athens have emptied pockets and rummaged down the back of the national sofa, looking for every last piece of spare change.
There's not a lot left.
So what would happen if Greece did finally empty the coffers, and it was forced to default?
The honest answer is no-one can say for sure. But European politicians have been lining up to warn of looming catastrophe - capital controls and a collapse of the banking system, a state of emergency and possible exit from the euro.
In the short term, Greece's economic misery would almost certainly get worse.
But Greek citizens are not the only ones with plenty still to lose. Because countries, governments and in the end taxpayers in the eurozone, having bailed out the banks, now own the vast majority of Greek debt.
And if the radical leftists who hold power in Athens did walk away shouting a plague on all your European houses, the rest of the eurozone would all be left with billions of euros, and in some cases tens of billions, in unpaid debts.
So however hard this is proving to be, all the main players still have an interest in compromise.
Can they find one?
Ceremonies are taking place on Thursday a few miles away from Brussels, in the rolling Belgian countryside, commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.
The Duke of Wellington described his victory over Napoleon - a turning point in European history - as the "nearest-run thing you ever saw".
Today's European battles are thankfully fought on different terrain. But it would be wise to prepare for another very close shave. | Diplomacy, someone once said, is the art of thinking twice and then saying nothing. |
37,108,767 | The British Medical Association said the government had "rowed back" on promises, and the CEO of Sainsbury's said the plan did not go far enough.
MP Sarah Wollaston said the plan showed "the hand of big industry lobbyists", but a minister said it was "ambitious".
Measures include a voluntary target to cut sugar in children's food and drink.
The plan asks the food and drink industry to cut 5% of the sugar in products popular with children over the next year.
It says the ultimate target is a 20% sugar cut, with Public Health England monitoring voluntary progress over the next four years.
The plan also calls on primary schools to deliver at least 30 minutes of physical activity a day and to help parents and carers ensure children get the same amount at home.
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School sports will also get more funds - boosted by a tax on sugary drinks to come into force in 2018.
The childhood obesity strategy also says:
Much of the response to the government's childhood obesity plan has been critical.
Even one of the big supermarket chains has suggested it does not go far enough.
Mike Coupe, chief executive of Sainsbury's, says there should be a tougher regime including compulsory targets for sugar and mandatory traffic light labelling.
The government plan involves a voluntary 20% sugar reduction scheme.
Theresa May seems to have concluded that the sugar levy on soft drinks - announced in the Budget in March - was enough government intervention.
Health organisations and campaigners are almost universally of the view there should have been wider action.
Some, though, acknowledge that the package unveiled today, including a boost for school sport, is a step in the right direction, albeit a small one.
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Dr Wollaston - who is chairwoman of the health select committee - said it was "really disappointing" that "whole sections from the original draft have been dropped", including measures on advertising junk food to children and on promotions such as two-for-one deals.
She told BBC Radio 5 Live that these could have made a "real difference really quickly", and added: "I'm afraid it does show the hand of big industry lobbyists and that's really disappointing."
She welcomed measures on cutting sugar in foods and keeping the tax on sugary drinks, but said it would be some time before these took effect.
Referring to Prime Minister Theresa May's pledge to tackle heath inequality, Dr Wollaston said the government should not make such promises then - as the "first litmus test of that" - put the "interests of advertising marketers ahead of the interests of children".
Labour's Dianne Abbott tweeted: "Theresa May has given in to food & drink industry at the expense of our children's health."
But Jane Ellison, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, said the plan was the "most ambitious programme of reformulation that any developed country has taken".
Ms Ellison, who was formerly the public health minister involved in drawing up the strategy, said the government was acting on the "best advice" from public health experts.
Asked about concerns the government had "watered down" the proposals to limit junk food advertising, she said the UK already had some of the "toughest restrictions in the world".
A Department of Health spokeswoman added: "The childhood obesity crisis has been decades in the making and it will take years to sort it. We will measure progress carefully and are not ruling out further action if results are not seen."
Professor Parveen Kumar, chairwoman of the British Medical Association's board of science, said the government had "rowed back on its promises by announcing what looks like a weak plan rather than the robust strategy it promised".
"Although the government proposes targets for food companies to reduce the level of sugar in their products, the fact that these are voluntary and not backed up by regulation, renders them pointless," she said.
TV chef and food campaigner Jamie Oliver said he was "in shock" at the "disappointing" plan.
"It contains a few nice ideas, but so much is missing," he wrote on Facebook.
"It was set to be one of the most important health initiatives of our time, but look at the words used - 'should, might, we encourage' - too much of it is voluntary, suggestive, where are the mandatory points?"
The Obesity Health Alliance - a coalition of 33 charities, medical royal colleges and campaign groups - said the plan fell "disappointingly short of what is needed", with some anticipated measures "significantly watered down or removed entirely".
Sir Harpal Kumar, chief executive of the charity Cancer Research UK, said the measures were a "missed opportunity" in the fight against childhood obesity.
Councillor Izzi Seccombe, of the Local Government Association, said it was "disappointing" that a number of measures that it had called for - such as giving councils the power to ban junk food adverts near schools - had not been included.
Mike Coupe, chief executive of Sainsbury's, said the plan was a "welcome first step".
But he said: "We need a holistic approach to tackle childhood obesity, including compulsory measured targets across all nutrients - not just sugar - and mandatory traffic light labelling across all food and drink products, regardless of whether they are consumed inside or outside the home."
Ian Wright, of the Food and Drink Federation, said: "Soft drink companies are already making great progress to reduce sugars from their products, having achieved a 16% reduction between 2012 and 2016.
"Indeed, many individual manufacturers have a proud track record of reformulation to remove salt, fat and sugar from food and drinks and this work will continue."
He said the target to reduce sugar was "flawed" because it focused on "the role of this single nutrient, when obesity is caused by excess calories from any nutrient".
Gavin Partington, of the British Soft Drinks Association, said his industry had been "singled out" by the "punitive" tax on sugary drinks.
He called for more "holistic" policy on obesity which did not "pick on one category". | The government's childhood obesity plan has been attacked by health experts, campaigners, MPs and the boss of one of Britain's biggest supermarkets. |
35,934,850 | McDermott first took on the post with the USA Hawks last July, sealing qualification for the tournament with wins against Jamaica and Canada.
The 46-year-old has become one of the most successful coaches in Super League, with three titles and two Challenge Cup wins as Leeds boss.
"I'm very pleased to have been invited to continue my role," he said.
"What's already been achieved is the result of a lot of hard work and commitment, with much more preparation required.
"I'm looking forward to working alongside a dedicated group of people that have demonstrated the desire to succeed and are willing to make the necessary changes in order to adapt."
Former Salford, North Sydney Bears and Canberra Raiders forward Sean Rutgerson will also continue as assistant coach. | Leeds Rhinos head coach Brian McDermott will take charge of the United States at the 2017 Rugby League World Cup. |
34,278,725 | The £350m move will initially see 900 workers relocating from sites such as Porton Down in Wiltshire to the former GlaxoSmithKline labs in Harlow.
Public Health England says the move is a "big step forward for UK public health science".
But Salisbury MP John Glen has said he is "extremely disappointed" now the decision has been confirmed.
The new facilities, based on the site currently owned by GSK, will create a centre for research, health improvement and protection working on international health threats, such as Ebola.
The chancellor made the announcement while visiting Harlow this morning.
It was not only crucial for the future of research in public health, but it was also the right decision for the taxpayer, he said.
Duncan Selbie, Public Health England chief executive, said it was a "big step forward".
"Giving our world leading scientists world class facilities, located in the region with the greatest concentration of academic and commercial expertise in life sciences, will ensure we can deal with the health challenges we face now and are certain to in the future," he added.
But Salisbury MP John Glen, whose constituency covers the Porton Down site, said: "I am extremely disappointed to hear this decision has finally been confirmed.
"I have had four debates and lobbied hard for five years but the question now is how to maximise the opportunities for a brighter future for Porton.
"I met the chancellor yesterday and he has readily agreed to support a task force for Porton." | Public Health England's labs are moving to Essex from Wiltshire, Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed. |
35,041,621 | Winger Andrew Fenby scored a hat-trick as The Exiles, bottom of the English Premiership, ran in six tries in total.
The hosts secured the try-scoring bonus point before half-time, with Alex Lewington, Johnny Williams and Aseli Tikoirotuma all going over to seal an emphatic victory.
Greig Tonks kicked two penalties for Edinburgh's only points of the game.
Fenby, making his first start since the opening Premiership weekend, cut inside from the blindside wing from halfway to cross for his first try before squeezing over in the corner four minutes later from Sean Maitland's pass.
Winger Lewington then found space behind Edinburgh's back line for Irish's third try on 27 minutes after picking up a reverse pass 40 metres out.
Irish had the bonus point in the bag as Williams snuck over in the corner before the break for his fifth try in four games.
Edinburgh saw more of the ball in the second half, but could not break down their opponents.
Centre Tikoirotuma added the fifth try on the hour and Fenby completed his treble, running on to a kick over the top from Lewington.
Irish move to the top of Pool Five and face Edinburgh again at Murrayfield on Friday in their next game.
London Irish assistant coach Clark Laidlaw told BBC Radio Berkshire:
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"We're certainly happy with the win and happy with certain aspects of our game.
"We scored a few really nice tries, a couple that we've been working on for a few weeks and haven't quite pulled off previously.
On Andrew Fenby's hat-trick:
"We're delighted for him. He's been frustrated and we've been having regular chats on where he's working on his game.
"He's taken on that feedback and he's working hard on his game and he's got the rewards."
Edinburgh head coach Alan Solomans said:
"We were very poor. Our strength in depth was found wanting.
"Our defence was the worst I have seen this season and our inability to finish was poor.
"We must have had five opportunities to score and didn't take any of them."
London Irish: Maitland; Lewington, Tikoirotuma, Williams, Fenby; Geraghty, McKibbin; Court, Ellis, Franks, Sheriff, Sinclair, Narraway (capt), Gilsenan, Treviranus.
Replacements: Stevens, Smallbone, Halavatau, Sisi, Cowan, Allinson, Brophy-Clews, Waldouck.
Edinburgh: Fife, Brown, Allen, Strauss, Katoa, Tonks, Fowles; Sutherland, Cochrane (capt), Andress, Bresler, Toolis, Ritchie, Watson, Du Preez.
Replacements: Turner, Shiells, Berghan, Bradbury, Dean, Hidalgo-Clyne, Kinghorn, Hoyland. | London Irish went to the top of their European Challenge Cup pool with a bonus-point win against Edinburgh. |
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