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37,090,723 | Resuming on 49-0, already ahead by 171, opener Horton struck 10 fours and one six before falling to spinner Saif Zaib just one run short of a century.
Leicestershire eventually declared on 292-6, setting Northants an unlikely target of 415 off 51 overs.
The hosts reached 118-1 before the two captains agreed on a draw.
Skipper Alex Wakely finished unbeaten on 53, with Rob Newton the only batsman to fall for 22. | Leicestershire were unable to force victory on the final day of their Division Two match at Northamptonshire, despite Paul Horton's 99. |
36,647,458 | The 172-40 vote, which is not binding, follows resignations from the shadow cabinet and calls on Mr Corbyn to quit.
Mr Corbyn said the ballot had "no constitutional legitimacy" and said he would not "betray" the members who voted for him by resigning.
The leader's allies have told his critics to trigger a formal leadership contest if they want to challenge him.
Opponents of Mr Corbyn are meeting to decide what to do next and whether to rally round a single candidate to put up against him, with names in the frame including former frontbenchers Angela Eagle and Yvette Cooper.
The BBC's political correspondent Iain Watson said they still hoped Mr Corbyn would step down voluntarily.
As Mr Corbyn's future was being fought over, thousands of demonstrators - many of them young people - gathered outside Parliament to show their support for the EU and to protest at the outcome of the Brexit vote.
David Cameron is currently meeting EU leaders for the first time since the outcome of the referendum - with senior EU officials saying the process of starting formal exit talks cannot be delayed indefinitely.
The result of Tuesday's no-confidence ballot - in which there were four abstentions - has led to further resignations from Labour's frontbench and more calls for Mr Corbyn to make way.
Labour's leader in Scotland, Kezia Dugdale, suggested Mr Corbyn's position was untenable, telling the BBC: "If I had lost the support of 80% of my MSPs I could not do my job."
I am told its unlikely - though these days the unlikely has a habit of happening - that we will get a formal challenge to Jeremy Corbyn tonight.
As one opponent put it "he should stew in his own juice" and see how uncomfortable it is for him in the Commons chamber to have so few MPs on his side. The hope is that he ignores the advice of his advisers and thrown in the towel.
I hear strong rumours of a meeting between key union supporters of Labour and a likely attempt will be made to get Jeremy Corbyn to go.
Under this scenario Tom Watson would become interim leader and either lead the party into a genuinely snap election or oversee a proper leadership contest to a more relaxed timescale open to all comers rather than an Eagle/Corbyn battle.
As things stand if Jeremy Corbyn still digs in his heels and MPs must unite behind one alternative, Angela Eagle looks the most likely… but don't rule Tom Watson out just yet.
Labour MP and Corbyn critic Wes Streeting said the vote was "unprecedented", adding: "I think Jeremy just has to accept now that his leadership is untenable."
But following the result the leader issued a statement saying the government was "in disarray" following the vote to leave the EU, adding: "Labour has the responsibility to give a lead where the government will not."
He added: "I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60% of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning. Today's vote by MPs has no constitutional legitimacy.
"We are a democratic party, with a clear constitution. Our people need Labour Party members, trade unionists and MPs to unite behind my leadership at a critical time for our country."
The most recent resignations from Mr Corbyn's top team include shadow justice minister Andy Slaughter, shadow culture minister Clive Efford and shadow local government minister Liz McInnes who backed Mr Corbyn in the ballot but said the overwhelming result left him with no option but to stand down.
Dave Sparks, a Labour councillor in Dudley and a former chair of the Local Government Association, warned that if Mr Corbyn stays, the party was looking at its support disappearing in England as it has melted away in Scotland.
Mr Corbyn faced calls to resign at a stormy meeting in the House of Commons on Monday after more than 20 members of his shadow cabinet and a similar number of junior ministers walked out, questioning his performance during the EU referendum and ability to lead the party into what they believe could be a snap election.
But one of Mr Corbyn's allies, newly promoted shadow health secretary Diane Abbott, said the no confidence vote "has no meaning".
"MPs don't choose the leader of the Labour Party, the party does," she told Today.
"I think it is really sad that colleagues have chosen to stage this three-ring circus because they don't want to have a leadership election because they are not certain of winning a leadership election. "The way to resolve this is to have a leadership election."
The new shadow cabinet line-up includes:
Shadow cabinet: Who’s in, who’s out?
On Monday, Mr Corbyn announced a reshaped shadow cabinet to replace those that had walked out but several positions in his top team remain to be filled after the mass resignations.
The shadow cabinet walkouts - in a bid to oust Mr Corbyn - came after the sacking at the weekend of shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, who told Mr Corbyn he had lost confidence in his leadership.
But Momentum, the campaign group that grew out of Mr Corbyn's successful leadership bid, has said 4,000 people attended the rally outside Parliament, and Mr Corbyn has also been backed by the Unite, GMB and Unison trade unions. | A motion of no confidence in Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been passed by the party's MPs. |
32,799,390 | Andre Thompson, 47, of Maidstone Prison, Kent, was charged in relation to the incident at Woodhill Prison on 20 November.
A 27-year-old man was taken to hospital after being assaulted at the prison in Milton Keynes.
Mr Thompson is due to appear at Milton Keynes Magistrates' Court in June.
Following the incident, Thames Valley Police said the victim was in a stable condition. Police have confirmed that the victim has now returned to Woodhill Prison.
The family of the victim called for a full investigation into what happened following the incident. | A man has been charged with grievous bodily harm with intent following an assault that left a prisoner with life-threatening injuries. |
30,449,508 | Joint funded by the UK and Welsh governments, the station is located on the Ebbw Vale to Cardiff line in the Bassaleg area of Newport.
Served by the existing hourly service, the single platform station has ticket machines, information screens, car parking and CCTV.
The first train from Ebbw Vale arrived at Pye Court 09:15 GMT on Sunday.
Welsh transport minister Edwina Hart said: "I want to ensure people have access to the efficient and comfortable public transport services they need.
"Together with the new Ebbw Vale Town station, which is opening soon, Pye Corner will improve access to jobs and services for many people along this busy route." | It was all aboard this weekend as the first train pulls into a new £3.5m rail station at Pye Corner in Newport. |
35,556,783 | The halt will not apply to the battle against jihadist groups Islamic State (IS) and al-Nusra Front.
The 17-member International Syria Support Group (ISSG) also agreed to accelerate and expand aid deliveries.
The announcement comes as the Syrian army, backed by Russian air strikes, advances in Aleppo province.
The move threatens to encircle tens of thousands of civilians in rebel-held parts of the major city of Aleppo.
The Syrian government has not yet responded, though a key rebel coalition welcomed the announcement.
"If we see action and implementation on the ground, we will be soon in Geneva," Salim al-Muslat told reporters, referring to the Swiss city where the UN is trying to get peace talks between the Syrian government and rebels off the ground.
More than 250,000 people have been killed and 13.5 million displaced in almost five years of fighting in Syria.
Both Sergei Lavrov and John Kerry admitted, repeatedly, this was only progress on paper. Some diplomats are already saying "it's not worth the paper it's printed on".
There are still major gaps. One of the biggest is that Russia's bombing of Aleppo and what it calls terrorist targets is not included in the possible truce even though its actions are seen by many as strengthening Syrian government forces.
On the issue of delivering desperately needed aid to besieged areas, UN officials say they are determined to seize this new opening.
The next week will confirm whether Syria's government and opposition forces are ready to provide access denied for so long.
It will be a week which tests the commitment of all outside players, as well as Syrians on all sides.
That, in itself, is some progress. But moving towards talks to end Syria's devastating war will still take far more than that.
US Secretary of State John Kerry admitted the ceasefire plan was "ambitious" and said the real test would be whether the various parties honoured the commitments.
"What we have here are words on paper, what we need to see in the next few days are actions on the ground," he said.
A task force chaired by the US and Russia will work to implement the truce through consultations with Syria's rival groups.
Aid deliveries for besieged Syrian communities are due to begin as early as Friday.
To try to immediately step up aid deliveries to besieged and hard-to-reach areas in Syria
For a US/Russia-led task force to work to achieve a "cessation of hostilities" across Syria beginning in one week's time
"Cessation of hostilities" will exclude action against so-called Islamic State group, jihadist group al-Nusra Front and other UN-designated terrorist groups
To work towards an eventual ceasefire and implementation of a UN-backed plan for political transition in Syria
Mr Kerry made the announcement alongside his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov and the UN special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura.
Mr Lavrov said there were "reasons to hope we have done a great job today". An earlier proposal from Russia envisaged a truce starting on 1 March.
At the news conference Mr Kerry again suggested that Russian strikes were targeting what the West sees as moderate opposition forces, rather than terrorists, as Moscow says.
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said the cessation would only work if Russia halted its raids, although Mr Lavrov said they would continue.
The ISSG also agreed that peace talks involving the Syrian government and rebels should resume as soon as possible.
Initial talks were suspended just days after they began earlier this month in Geneva, in the wake of the Aleppo offensive.
Thousands of people displaced by the fighting have been stranded at the border with Turkey and aid agencies have warned of a rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation.
Why is there a war in Syria?
Anti-government protests developed into a civil war that, four years on, has ground to a stalemate, with the Assad government, Islamic State, an array of Syrian rebels and Kurdish fighters all holding territory.
Who is fighting whom?
Government forces concentrated in Damascus and the centre and west of Syria are fighting the jihadists of Islamic State and al-Nusra Front, as well as less numerous so-called "moderate" rebel groups, who are strongest in the north and east. These groups are also battling each other.
How has the world reacted?
Iran, Russia and Lebanon's Hezbollah movement are propping up the Alawite-led Assad government, while Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar back the more moderate Sunni-dominated opposition, along with the US, UK and France. Hezbollah and Iran are believed to have troops and officers on the ground, while a Western-led coalition and Russia are carrying out air strikes. | World powers have agreed to seek a nationwide "cessation of hostilities" in Syria to begin in a week's time, after talks in Munich, Germany. |
20,527,341 | The county's director of cricket Steve Rhodes has just returned from a 10-day trip down under to meet the left-handed opening batsman for preliminary discussions over a return to New Road.
Hughes did not repeat his Middlesex heroics of 2009 when he hit 574 County Championship runs in just three games.
But he performed creditably enough this summer, notably in one-day cricket.
I wasn't totally sure how Phil would fit into our dressing room. But he proved to be a really good fun character
He averaged more than 100 for Worcestershire in hitting 402 runs in his eight FL t20 appearances, scored 498 runs in nine CB40 innings at 83.00 and also compiled 560 runs in Championship matches at 35.00.
"I wasn't totally sure how he'd fit into our dressing room," Rhodes told BBC Sport.
"But he loved it with us, came out of himself and proved to be a really good fun character."
Hughes has continued his form back in Australia's summer, hitting 518 runs in five Sheffield Shield matches for South Australia, as well as making 250 runs in four Ryobi One-Day Cup games.
In the light of next season's Ashes series, that could lessen Worcestershire's hopes of re-signing Hughes
But, if he fails to get selected and can be tempted into committing to a further season at Worcester, it would massively increase the relegated county's chances of making an instant return to top-flight Championship cricket.
"We had a verbal agreement with him at the end of last season," Worcestershire chief executive David Leatherdale told BBC Sport. "Now Steve Rhodes has had another chat with him out in Perth.
"And it could all depend now on who gets picked for what tour parties."
Rhodes' trip to Australia also allowed him to monitor the progress of two of Worcestershire's younger players who have headed there over the first half of the winter. wicket-keeper Ben Cox and paceman Nick Harrison. | Worcestershire have opened negotiations to bring back Australian Phil Hughes as their overseas player for next season. |
36,896,371 | Florin Gheorghe, originally from Bucharest, was arrested at his Meadowbank Court flat in the city on Sunday after the woman went to a police station and made the allegations.
He is also charged with inciting prostitution.
The defendant, who stood in the dock with an interpreter, faces five charges.
He is accused of raping the woman, falsely imprisoning her and assaulting her, occasioning her actual bodily harm.
He is also charged with trafficking into the UK for sexual exploitation and with causing or inciting prostitution. The defendant, who denies the charges, is alleged to have committed the offences between 19 June and 24 July.
When the charges were put to the defendant he nodded to confirm he understood them.
A detective constable in the PSNI's Human Trafficking Unit told the court she believed she could connect the defendant to the five charges. She said the defendant had a pre-prepared statement at the time of his interview in which he denied the allegations and then made no further comment.
The officer confirmed that while the complainant has made a verbal statement, she has not yet made a written nor recorded statement.
The officer said that the complainant was medically examined on Sunday. A defence solicitor said the defendant and the complainant were partners.
"She is pregnant with his child and she is alleged to have discovered infidelity on his part which caused her to make her complaint," he said.
The detective constable said when being medically examined by a doctor on Sunday, the complainant had indicated she had undergone a termination when in Romania.
The officer said that £935 and 610 euros were found in the defendant's flat and the complainant said the cash was earnings she made through prostitution.
The solicitor said the defendant, who has been in Northern Ireland for only five weeks, said he earned the money as a casual labourer in Dundalk.
The solicitor said no bail application was being made because the tenancy of the defendant's flat had expired.
Mr Gheorghe was remanded into custody. | A 29-year-old man has appeared at Londonderry Magistrates' Court charged with raping a Romanian woman. |
31,515,460 | 18 February 2015 Last updated at 07:06 GMT
It's all down to the need to get lots of food - and fast.
Both animals use their tongues, or their trunk, to grab food in the wild - like humans would use their hands.
But they also need to eat fast to avoid dangerous predators, so it's thought their 'grabbers' have evolved over 1000 of years to become long and strong. | Researchers think they've worked out why giraffes have super strong tongues, and why elephants have really long trunks. |
34,760,060 | The Icelandic-born actor, 68, died on Saturday of pancreatic cancer at his home in Maine, US, his agent said.
The 1974 film depicts how five friends visiting their grandfather's country house are hunted by Leatherface and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.
Hansen's character is "one of the most iconic evil figures in the history of cinema," said agent Mike Eisenstadt.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, directed and co-written by Tobe Hooper, went on to become a classic slasher film, which features a psychopath murdering several victims.
Six sequels were made, most recently in 2013 with Texas Chainsaw 3D.
Fans on Twitter rushed to pay their respects, and Grvyrd Shift Sisters tweeted: "I've gotten a chance to hear Gunnar Hansen talk at horror cons a few times. So funny, witty, and engaging."
The British Film Institute added: "We're sad to hear that Gunnar Hansen, the original Leatherface, has passed away."
Reykjavik-born Hansen moved to the US when he studied English and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Texas,
His agent said that Hansen published his book, Chain Saw Confidential, in 2013, detailing behind-the-scenes information on how the film was made. In it he revealed that the inspirations behind the film had included the fairytale Hansel and Gretel.
Hansen, a keen naturalist, also published Islands at the Edge of Time in 1993, depicting his journey along America's barrier islands from Texas to North Carolina.
He is survived by his partner of 13 years, Betty Tower. | Gunnar Hansen, the actor who played terrifying villain Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, has died. |
40,530,316 | The cyber-attack caused havoc for businesses around the globe, but mainly in Ukraine.
The potential solution only works if the ransomware secured administration privileges to the machine.
However Positive Technologies said the concept is currently too technical for most average computer users to run.
"Once you have a proof of concept of how data can be decrypted, the information security community can take this knowledge and develop automatic tools, or simplify the methodology of getting the encryption reversed," said the firm's Dan Tara.
The company says in a blog that the creators of the ransomware made mistakes in programming the encryption algorithm Salsa 20 that was used with administration rights.
Mr Tara said his team had not expected to get this result when it started investigating the outbreak.
"Recovering data from a hard drive with this method requires applying heuristics, and may take several hours," said Head of Reverse Engineering Dmitry Sklyarov.
"The completeness of data recovery depends on many factors (disk size, free space, and fragmentation) and may be able to reach 100% for large disks that contain many standard files, such as OS [Operating Systems] and application components that are identical on many machines and have known values."
It is impossible to work out how many victims would have had their administration privileges taken over.
Without this, the ransomware carries out a different method of encryption which is only reversible with a private key obtainable from the criminals behind it.
However the email address that was provided was initially shut down meaning that they were not contactable by victims who chose to try to pay.
The research team's finding only works on the recent Petya ransomware and its variants.
"It doesn't look like a working solution yet but it gives cause for hope," said security expert Prof Alan Woodward, from the University of Surrey.
Salsa20, which activates when the ransomware has admin privileges, corrupts a device's Master File Table (MFT), meaning that files are lost forever.
"What they seem to have discovered is that there's a portion of the MFT that isn't corrupted and they are suggesting they may have found a way of recovering that," Prof Woodward added.
"If that is true, that would be a significant finding. It may actually allow people to recover the so-called boot disks, that contain the original operating system, which we were assuming you couldn't do."
Earlier this week the perpetrators of the attack appeared to have accessed the ransom payments they raised and made fresh demands.
Consumer goods giant Reckitt Benckiser, which makes Nurofen painkillers, Dettol cleaner and Durex condoms, said the attack may have cost it £110m because of lost production and delivery time, the Financial Times reported. | A security firm says it has managed to decrypt files damaged by the recent Petya ransomware attack, on one infected computer. |
10,630,683 | The country's Chamber of Deputies had already approved the legislation.
The vote in the Senate, which backed the bill by just six votes, came after 14 hours of at times heated debate.
The law, which also allows same-sex couples to adopt, had met with fierce opposition from the Catholic Church and other religious groups.
The legislation, backed by President Cristina Fernandez's centre-left government, passed by 33 votes to 27 with three abstentions.
Outside Congress, as the debate continued into the early hours of Thursday, supporters and opponents of the bill held rival demonstrations.
"Nearly every political and social figure has spoken out in favour of marriage equality," said Maria Rachid, president of the Argentine Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transsexuals.
"And we hope that the Senate reflects this and that Argentina, from today forward, is a more just country for all families," she told the Associated Press.
Your commentsQ&A: Argentina gay marriage law
Ines Frank, from a group called Argentine Families Argentina, said opposition was not discrimination "because the essence of a family is between two people of opposite sexes".
There have been several gay marriages recently in Argentina, some of which were annulled by the Supreme Court, creating a legal controversy.
Civil unions between people of the same sex are legal in Buenos Aires and in some other provinces but there was no law to regulate it on a country-wide level.
Argentina's capital is widely considered to be among the most gay-friendly cities in Latin America. It was the first Latin American city to legalise same-sex unions.
Same-sex civil unions are also legal in Uruguay and some states in Brazil and Mexico, while gay marriage is legal in Mexico City.
To send your views, please join in our debate | Argentina has become the first country in Latin America to legalise gay marriage after the Senate voted in favour. |
40,349,361 | However, football's world governing body will open disciplinary proceedings against the Italian champions after asking both clubs last month for "clarification on the deal".
The enquiry was believed to concern who was involved in the £89.3m transfer, and how much they were paid.
It has been reported Pogba's agent, Mino Raiola, earned £41m from the deal.
A Fifa spokesman said: "We can confirm that disciplinary proceedings have been opened against Juventus FC. We cannot comment further as proceedings are ongoing.
"We can confirm that no disciplinary proceedings have been opened against Manchester United."
It has been alleged Fifa's interest in the transfer could be related to the issue of third-party ownership, although that has been denied by Raiola.
France midfielder Pogba, 24, is in his second spell at Old Trafford, having left the club for Juventus for £1.5m in 2012.
The France midfielder first joined United from French side Le Havre in acrimonious circumstances in 2009. He returned to the club last summer for a world record fee of 105m euros.
United also agreed to pay Juventus 5m euros (£4.5m) in performance-related bonuses plus other costs, including 5m euros if Pogba signs a new contract.
When they confirmed the transfer, Juventus said the "economic effect" to their club was "about 72.6m euros".
A book published in Germany last month - The Football Leaks: The Dirty Business of Football - and reproduced in media reports, included what it says is a breakdown of the fee for the France international.
When contacted by the BBC last month, Raiola declined to comment and said the matter was in the hands of his lawyers. | Manchester United have been cleared by Fifa of wrongdoing in the deal to sign Paul Pogba from Juventus last August. |
40,161,016 | The 22-year-old attacking midfielder has moved to Fir Park from Reading on a two-year contract.
"He can unlock doors, playing in little pockets across the front three, left side, right side or in behind the striker," Robinson said.
"He is a really good signing for the club and gives us something different."
Tanner is a graduate of Reading's youth set-up, and scored on his first-team debut against Newport. Loan spells at AFC Wimbledon and Plymouth Argyle, twice, followed, and he scored six goals in 34 appearances for the latter this season.
He becomes Motherwell's third signing of the summer - after Alex Fisher and Gael Bigirimana - as Robinson looks to rebuild following a campaign that saw the team finish ninth in the Premiership.
"I'm delighted to have joined, having good talks about the club with Stephen Robinson and Martin Foyle. It's a good day for me," Tanner said on the club website.
"I have a really positive feeling about the club and feel they are really building for the future."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Motherwell manager Stephen Robinson believes his latest signing, Craig Tanner, will be a creative force for the side. |
29,203,857 | The blaze caused extensive damage to the iconic Mackintosh building and destroyed its famous library.
GSA had identified books for priority replacement that were in high demand by students, staff and researchers.
The art school said it had now replaced almost a quarter of these books thanks to the "huge generosity of private individuals and institutions".
Duncan Chappell, academic liaison librarian at GSA said: "In the three-month period since the fire we have successfully replaced 22% of the volumes we identified as a priority because they were in high demand and used regularly by our students, staff and researchers.
"We have been very touched by the generosity shown to us which is testament to the affection in which the Mackintosh Library was held by so many."
Among the many books received were Agnes Miller Parker's XXI Welsh gypsy folk-tales, donated by Blackwells Rare Books.
The volume is illustrated with original wood engravings and published by Gregynog Press (1933), one of the most important British private press of the inter-war period.
The limited edition - number 216 of 250 - has its original mustard bevel-edged sheepskin binding.
An anonymous donor also gave the art school Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring) 1898-1903, published by Gerlach and Schenk.
This was the official magazine of the Vienna Secession and helped popularise Art Nouveau across Europe.
GSA said the rebuilding of its lost collections "could take many years". | Glasgow School of Art (GSA) has replaced 22% of its most popular books that were lost in a fire in June. |
37,260,157 | They were discovered during an archaeological dig at Burnswark in Dumfries and Galloway.
Investigations have been ongoing at the flat-topped hill near Lockerbie over the past fortnight.
Dark organic soil was also found nearby which could be the remains of a bag or sack for the bullets.
Archaeologists have been trying for centuries to assess the role of Burnswark in the Roman occupation
One theory is that it may have seen the first battle in the Roman invasion of Scotland around 140 AD.
During the latest dig, small numbers of the lead bullets were initially found with identical 4mm holes in them which were something of a mystery.
However, an expert in sling shot ballistics showed how the deadly weapon would make a terrifying "screeching noise" after it was fired.
Now a much larger find of the bullets has been made.
"We have had a good second season digging at Burnswark and can confirm that we have excavated the most significant hoard of Roman bullets in Britain," said John Reid, of the Roman heritage group the Trimontium Trust.
"It is becoming increasingly clear that these are likely to have been deposited in a single brief episode.
"This greatly strengthens the suggestion of a Roman assault on the hill top which appears to have been occupied at that time." | A cache of more than 180 Roman lead sling bullets - thought to be the largest ever found in Britain - has been unearthed in southern Scotland. |
35,980,624 | The stones will be stored before eventually being re-erected at a different location.
They will be relocated within the new park, south east of the current site.
The Stone Circle was established in 1979 by the Glasgow Parks Department Astronomy Project, guided by the Scottish author Duncan Lunan.
Mr Lunan organised the construction to accurately mirror the rise and fall of the sun and moon over the city.
It was claimed to be the first authentically aligned stone circle built in Britain in about 3,000 years.
The regeneration work in Sighthill Park is part of a five year programme due to finish in 2019.
It plans to deliver about 800 new homes for sale and rent and a new community school campus.
The development also includes a new footbridge across the M8 to connect Sighthill with the city centre and a new road bridge across the railway to link Sighthill and Port Dundas. | The standing stones of Sighthill Park in Glasgow are being temporarily removed as part of the £250m regeneration of the area. |
36,879,296 | Jason Lee Gibbs, 44, was on his way home from work on his mountain bike on Friday when he collided with a vehicle.
He got up, rode home and went to bed after the crash, which happened between 13:10 and 13:50 BST in Manchester.
Mr Gibbs later suffered a cardiac arrest and was taken to hospital. He died early on Sunday.
Officers are investigating the crash, which happened as Mr Gibbs rode home to Moss Side from Gorton.
PC Neil Pennington said: "Unfortunately, we don't have full details of where the collision happened or what vehicle was involved, but I am urging anyone who saw the collision or was involved to come forward.
"It may not have appeared serious at the time, but a man has died, and any information you have, no matter how small, could help us piece together what happened."
Police do not know if the vehicle was moving or stationary. | A cyclist died after a road accident, hours after getting back on his bike and continuing his journey, Greater Manchester Police said. |
33,510,924 | Every house in the country is receiving a unique seven-digit identifying code, known as an Eircode.
The system has been criticised by some organisations that say its database has "gaps and inaccuracies".
Shannon airport in County Clare, for example, is listed on the system as being based in County Limerick.
The Eircode website is now live and the public can use it to search for up to 15 addresses a day.
Eircode's commercial manager Alan Dignam told Irish state broadcaster RTÉ he believed the new system will make industry more efficient by using an exact latitude/longitude mapping system that will drive down costs.
He also acknowledged that there are some issues that still need to be ironed out.
Households will be notified of their new Eircode within two weeks.
Neil McDonnell, the general manager of the Freight Transport Association of Ireland, said that while revenue, social welfare and the health service would benefit from the system, it does not go far enough to help the parcel and package industry.
Conradh na Gaeilge, an organisation promoting the Irish language, also criticised the new system, saying that "up to 50,000 place names are inaccurate or completely missing from the database".
Its president, Cóilín Ó Cearbhaill, said the country's department of communications was "treating those of who wish to use Irish in our lives as second class citizens" because "the new postcode system won't acknowledge the Irish-speaking community".
Sat-nav systems do not recognise Eircodes yet, but negotiations are taking place with digital mapping companies to change this "within months". | One of the Republic of Ireland's three major airports has taken flight and 'relocated' under the country's new postcode system. |
32,281,961 | There was some damage to cars nearby, but no reports of injuries. The embassy is not currently operational.
On Sunday, gunmen opened fire from a passing car on a security post at the South Korean embassy.
The militant group Islamic State said it carried out that attack.
The device at the Moroccan embassy in the Bin Ashour area of Tripoli was left in a bag at the gate.
The blast in the early hours on Monday morning was "very strong, and the house was shaking for few seconds," a witness told the AFP news agency.
It was unclear whether there was anyone in the embassy at the time and no one has yet said they carried out the attack.
Morocco has hosted UN-sponsored talks between rival Libyan government factions.
In Sunday's attack on the South Korean embassy, a Libyan security guard and a civilian were killed, with a second guard wounded.
Three South Korean nationals - two of them diplomats - were in the official residence at the time, which is in the same compound, the official added. They were unhurt.
The embassy itself has been closed for several months, but officials continue to use it.
Libya has been in turmoil since the Nato-backed removal of former leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
IS has a presence in different parts of Libya, and says it is behind several attacks on foreign targets in Libya including embassies and oil fields. | A bomb has exploded at the gates of the Moroccan embassy in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, security officials say, hours after two people were shot dead outside South Korea's embassy. |
29,935,449 | They said their study on rats heralded a "huge breakthrough" towards developing effective treatments.
There is no cure for the disease, but medication and brain stimulation can alleviate symptoms.
Parkinson's UK said there were many questions still to be answered before human trials could proceed.
The disease is caused by the loss of nerve cells in the brain that produce the chemical dopamine ,which helps to control mood and movement.
To simulate Parkinson's, Lund University researchers killed dopamine-producing neurons on one side of the rats' brains.
They then converted human embryonic stem cells into neurons that produced dopamine.
These were injected into the rats' brains, and the researchers found evidence that the damage was reversed.
There have been no human clinical trials of stem-cell-derived neurons, but the researchers said they could be ready for testing by 2017.
Malin Parmar, associate professor of developmental and regenerative neurobiology, said: "It's a huge breakthrough in the field [and] a stepping stone towards clinical trials."
A similar method has been tried in a limited number of patients.
It involved taking brain tissue from multiple aborted foetuses to heal the brain.
Clinical trials were abandoned after mixed results, but about a third of the patients had foetal brain cells that functioned for 25 years.
Using embryonic stem cells may be preferable, as it is easier to get hold of the large numbers of cells needed for transplant by growing them in the laboratory.
It also opens up the possibility of using less ethically charged sources of stem cells, such as those made from adult tissue.
The charity Parkinson's UK said the research "could be a stride towards clinical trials in people with Parkinson's".
Its director of research and development, Arthur Roach, said: "This important research is a key step along the way in helping us to understand how stem cells might shape future Parkinson's treatments.
"There are important potential advantages of these cells over the foetal-derived cells used in past cell transplantation work.
"This study could be a stride towards clinical trials in people with Parkinson's but there are still many questions that need to be answered before this development can be tested in people with the condition." | Stem cells can be used to heal the damage in the brain caused by Parkinson's disease, according to scientists in Sweden. |
21,328,411 | The call comes amid fears that children are increasingly exposed to online pornography and forced to send indecent images of themselves to others.
The charity ChildLine is holding assemblies in every UK primary school to tell children how to stay safe in the digital age.
Claire Lilley, of the NSPCC, said: "We are facing an e-safety time bomb."
Ms Lilley said online abuse was one of the biggest child protection issues of our time.
"Young people tell us they are experiencing all sorts of new forms of abuse on scale never before seen.
"The internet and mobile phones are now part and parcel of young people's everyday lives. They are the first generation who have never known a world without them.
"The benefits are huge, both socially and educationally, but so too are the dangers."
ChildLine says its helpline took some 3,745 calls about abuse via the internet and mobile phones last year, with most callers aged between 12 and 15.
Some 250 callers said they were being groomed for sex online.
There was also a 70% increase in calls about online pornography with 641 calls, some from children as young as 11 years old.
The campaigners also highlighted previous research which has shown that many teenagers see "sexting" and hard core pornography as "mundane", while cyberbullying is a growing and insidious problem.
On Monday the Child Exploitation and Online Protection group (CEOP) warned that paedophiles are increasingly forcing children to carry out sexual acts online.
The NSPCC says that schools need to step in as the issue is something that parents struggle to keep up with.
It is calling for lessons in all schools on internet safety with young people themselves sharing tips for keeping safe online and more advice for parents on how to talk to their children about the issue - just as they would about being wary of drugs or strangers.
It also wants all internet service providers to provide easy systems to allow parents to install online blocks and filters in their homes.
However some experts argued against blanket filtering of the internet. Phil Bradley, of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, described it as "like using a hammer to crack a nut".
He warned that blanket filtering could have unintended consequences such as blocking legitimate websites on sexual health and identity.
"When it comes to the internet... children need to learn how to use it safely and how to differentiate the good from the bad."
A government spokeswoman said web safety was taught in schools as part of the personal, social and health curriculum but it shouldn't just be left to teachers.
"Just as parents would teach their children to cross the road safely, they should also help them learn how to stay safe online.
"The industry also has a vital role to play. Websites children use to network should be fully moderated and internet companies should provide parents with all the tools and information they need - including access to parental controls."
Tips for promoting internet safety are available online on Tuesday, 5 February, which is Safer Internet Day | Pupils as young as five should be given lessons in how to use the internet safely, urge campaigners. |
32,487,541 | In a modern office in western Kabul, dozens of handsome, carefully groomed young men are queuing patiently. The well-fitted suits and Western hair styles wouldn't be out of place in a fashion show.
And that's where many of them would like to be.
More than 300 young men and women have come to a photo studio in the Gawhar shopping mall to register with the new Kabul Modelling Club and Management, the first ever such initiative in Afghanistan.
All are amateurs with an ambition to follow in the steps of the world's big modelling stars and become professional.
"My role model is Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli," one of the hopefuls, Mohammad Fayaz, told me. "I have been inspired by his style."
He says it's tough to try and be a fashion model in Afghanistan because of the economic and security problems.
"But because I'm passionate about modelling, I've come to have a go. Luckily things are getting better and we have more freedoms to follow our interests than in the past."
After a recruitment drive through social media, Fayaz and his fellow models now go through a three-day casting process which includes a professional photo shoot.
Each participants registers personal details like age, weight and eye colour.
The organisers of the initiative are two Kabul media companies, the Classic Studio of Photography and Vision Media Production.
They say the aim is to bring together all amateur and professional models under one umbrella and produce a directory of Afghan models for the industry to use.
"We decided to bring together everyone who is interested in modelling and wants to appear on TV, in advertisements, magazines, on billboards and even in movies," Edris Salehi, one of the organisers, says.
The idea was born from after an international investment company declined to use existing Afghan models because the same faces appeared in different advertisements again and again.
Some production companies have used foreign actors to get around the limited choice.
In several TV adverts made in Pakistan and running on Afghan channels, you can watch foreign men and women whose voices have been dubbed with local languages for the Afghan audience.
Afghan production companies were unable to come up with new faces to re-version the advert for the Afghan market.
Just 13 years ago, young men were unable to were the kind of outfits on show here.
The Taliban enforced a strict dress code of traditional clothes (Pirahan-Tunban) and even youngsters were not allowed to style their hair or beards.
Short hair, long beards, a white cap and turban where the norm.
All that has changed and today there are numerous shopping malls in Kabul offering Western clothing brands.
Shop windows feature short-sleeved ladies dresses which women wear at private parties and indoor, female-only wedding ceremonies.
Men, too, ask for Western brands and while in most parts of the country the burka and traditional dress is the norm, in the centre of Kabul you find girls and boys with modern dress and style.
But despite the changes, conservative traditions still set strict limits for any aspiring fashion model, especially women.
Only a few young women turned up for the fashion shoot and all declined to talk to me.
Women appearing on TV is a red line for many families, never mind modelling, despite the presence of many female television anchors on various stations.
It's a problem for producers and directors who often have to opt for Iranian, Pakistani and Tajik actors and models.
"Afghan actors and actresses are not flexible with roles," says Roya Sadat, the owner of Roya Film House, who has years of experience in Afghan movies, TV series and video shoots.
She says that the most difficult part of filming is casting, especially casting for female roles.
"When we want to cast actresses, sometimes they read the script, and when they find a scene unusual, they refuse to take part," Roya Sadat says.
"Unusual" refers to scenes which may upset conservative audiences.
"In one of my TV series there was a scene where I showed a husband and wife at bed time," Roya recalls.
She says that, knowing the sensitivities, they decided to turn the lights off in the scene as soon as the couple lay down.
But it still was too much for some, Roya says:
"When the series was broadcast, the actress called me and said that she was beaten by her family, who wanted to know what had happened when the lights went off!"
Roya says that despite such incidents, there's been much change over the past decade and things are getting easier for models and actors.
Aspiring models like Fayaz hope to use these new freedoms.
He says he hopes that the new modelling register will open up opportunities and establish a professional industry in Afghanistan.
"There are many aspiring models like me in Kabul and in other provinces of the country," Fayaz says: "But we are not organised, so having a professional agency will bring us all together so we can become more established." | Dozens of aspiring models are being signed up in a new initiative aiming to bring more Afghan faces to the country's advertising and TV industry, reports BBC Persian's Kawoon Khamoosh in Kabul. |
36,591,750 | That would be a substantial increase on the five at London 2012, following four in Beijing (2008), five in Athens (2004) and three in Sydney (2000).
Beth Potter has already qualified for the 10,000m in Rio, while Callum Hawkins, Tsegai Tewelde and Derek Hawkins have been selected in the men's marathon.
A top-two finish at the Alexander Stadium will be sufficient for all those who already have the necessary Olympic qualifying time.
BBC athletics commentator Steve Cram, the former world 1500m champion and Olympic silver medallist, and triple Scottish Olympian Lee McConnell discuss the prospects for five other Scots hoping to make it.
The 29-year-old from Perth won the opening Diamond League race in Doha in early May and followed that with a third place in Rome and two second-placed finishes in Birmingham (in a photo finish) and Lucerne.
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Only six hurdlers worldwide have run faster than the two-time Commonwealth Games silver medallist this year.
McConnell: "Eilidh is a fantastic athlete. She went into the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow two years ago as a poster girl knowing everyone in Scotland was expecting her to get a medal and she delivered a silver. She showed she can cope with that pressure.
"Now she has got herself in a really good place. She got married to Brian last year, he has moved down to Bath and is her constant support, with her side by side.
"She used to go into races and sometimes deliver, sometimes not. But last year she was pretty consistent and this year she has been really consistent again.
"She is confident she can go up against anyone in the world and be as good as them; that is a big thing."
Cram: "Eilidh has come first and second in two big events recently and she is moving into the medal zone in the 400m hurdles."
The 25-year-old from Edinburgh set a new Scottish indoor record earlier this year and the Commonwealth silver medallist has maintained her form outdoors.
She has ran under two minutes three times in finishing third in Rome, fifth in Rabat and fourth in Birmingham - and won a slower race in Lucerne last week.
McConnell: "Lynsey has some really tough competitors [South African Caster Semenya and Burundian Francine Niyonsaba among them] in her event.
"It is going to be really tough to win a medal in Rio, but she is a fantastic competitor."
The defending British champion is already confident of being able to challenge for a medal in Rio, once the matter of sealing her place on the plane is confirmed.
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She opened her season with a victory in France, set a new Scottish record in finishing second in Oslo's Golden Mile a fortnight ago and finished fifth in a tough race in Stockholm last week.
Cram: "Laura is in the middle of a really interesting development part of her career. She is turning into a real world-class athlete.
Having switched from the 3,000m steeplechase following a string of ankle problems and surgery, the 25-year-old from Dundee set a 5,000m personal best (15:09.94) in her first race for 22 months in California last month.
She has also set a 3,000m best as her return to the track continues apace and is around 10 seconds off her mother, and coach, Liz's best effort over 5,000m (14:59.56).
Her main rivals will be fellow Scots Steph Twell - the 26 year-old who leads the UK rankings - and Laura Whittle, 30, who like Twell wants to make up for missing London 2012 through injury.
McConnell: "To think 'what else can I do?' when your body is not allowing you to do something and come out and change to the 5,000m takes a lot of guts.
"But Eilish has had quite a few good races now in the build-up to the trials. She is a really strong competitor. I hope she does well because she has had a tough time."
The 24-year-old from Dunblane is full of confidence after smashing two long-standing Scottish records already this season.
He broke Nat Muir's 36-year-old 5,000m record in Holland - despite running the last lap with only one shoe - and followed that with another when finishing second to Mo Farah in the 3,000m in Birmingham.
He also set a new 10,000m personal best in winning the Vitality London race in late May.
Cram: "He has had an incredible summer already. He broke my old mate Nat Muir's record and looked good when he came in behind Mo Farah in Birmingham, so he is in great shape.
"I think he will be definitely be selected."
Women:
Lennie Waite (3,000m steeplechase) - Final 14:46 Sun
Men:
Chris O'Hare (1500m) - Heats 17;04 Sat; Final 15:05 Sun
Jake Wightman - (1500m) - Heats 17;04 Sat; Final 15:05 Sun
Allan Smith (high jump) - Final 14:03 Sun
David Smith (high jump) - Final 14:03 Sun
Jax Thoirs (men's pole vault) - Final 12:35 Sun
Mark Dry (men's hammer) - Final 15:14 Sun
Chris Bennett (men's hammer) - Final 15:14 Sun | Four Scots have already qualified for Great Britain's athletics team for this summer's Olympics and hopes are high that that number could rise to as many as 12 after this weekend's trials in Birmingham. |
32,604,680 | Liberal Democrat Mick Longhurst, 82, had been due to stand for Mole Valley District Council in Surrey's Holmwoods ward.
Returning officer Yvonne Rees said she was cancelling Thursday's election and will set a new date in due course.
Mr Longhurst, who died on Saturday, had served as a councillor in the ward since 2000.
Voting in the general election will take place as planned.
Ms Rees said: "We will send out poll cards to let people know.
"I am following the protocol set out by law and will announce a new date for the election in the near future."
Other candidates who had also been due to contest the race for two council posts, will not need to be re-nominated.
"There will be an opportunity for other candidates to put their names forward," Ms Rees said. | A district council election has been cancelled at the last minute after one of the candidates died. |
39,266,383 | The British Chiropractic Association (BCA) says items such as skinny jeans, high heels and handbags can "wreak havoc" on our bodies.
However, the research has been rejected by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and other back experts.
They say we shouldn't be afraid of our clothes.
Here are the top five items which the BCA says may cause us harm.
The BCA claims skinny jeans reduce mobility "even if it's just walking that you're doing".
"Restrictive clothing can lead to a loss of 'bounce' in your stride and the natural shock-absorbing qualities in your walk, causing pressure in your joints."
The BCA claims heavy handbags are a particularly common cause of back pain in women. They advise we should avoid bags that must be carried in the crook of the arm "as the weight of these held away from your body pulls one shoulder lower than the other".
The BCA claims "large hoods can mean you strain your neck in order to see".
The BCA claims high heels force us to hold our bodies "in a manner which promotes tension in your spine".
The BCA claims mules have no support at the back of the foot which will increase strain on the legs and lower back.
They also warn that new trends such as as asymmetric hemlines, oversized sleeves and hoods and heavy jewellery can also create problems for the wearer.
The BCA's poll of 1,062 people found 73% had suffered back pain and 33% were not aware that clothing could affect their back, neck or posture. They warn that any item of clothing that restricts movement, or that leads people to stand or walk unnaturally, can have a negative impact on the posture, back or neck.
"Our advice is to consider your back and neck health when making clothing choices - moderation of outfits that limit your movement is recommended. You should choose clothing to suit the activity you are doing and try investing in a backpack for days when you have a lot to carry around."
But Dr Mary O'Keeffe, who is a back pain expert at the University of Limerick, says their research is "complete scaremongering and there is no scientific evidence to support any of it".
"Simply put, skinny jeans, parka jackets, necklaces and any other clothing items do not cause back pain.
"There is no scientific evidence of an association. This may seem counterintuitive, as women with back pain might report back pain when wearing or carrying certain items. However, to assume that the back pain was caused by these is definitely putting the horse before the cart."
Steve Tolan, head of practice at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, says "reading scare stories about skinny jeans is probably more harmful than actually wearing them.
"People should wear whatever is comfortable and they feel good in - skinny jeans and hoodies included. They certainly shouldn't fear that their clothes are going to do them harm as there is no evidence for that.
"What is probably more relevant is whether a woman thinks that they are wearing something that is damaging their back, says Dr O'Keeffe.
"The beliefs about the jeans and bags may not only be incorrect, but detrimental if they cause worry about the spine being fragile and discourage women from moving normally and wearing what they want.
"Misconceptions regarding the causes and treatments of low back pain are widespread. This story about skinny jeans and heavy bags is just another myth in the long list of myths about back pain.
"It fits with the misconception that load and movement are bad and that the spine is a vulnerable structure that is easily damaged. Strong evidence shows that this is not true."
Experts advise:
What do you think? Join the conversation on our Facebook page. | There has been a warning that fashion items may cause posture problems and back and neck pain. |
31,035,435 | 29 January 2015 Last updated at 13:28 GMT
The victim was dragged across the ground and pushed to the floor before his attacker ran away with the stick.
Police have said the pensioner is now too traumatised to return to work.
Staff and pupils at the nearby Gosford Park Primary School have called him an "asset to the community" and wished him a "speedy recovery".
Joanna Gosling reports. | An 82-year-old lollipop man helping children to cross a road in Coventry has been assaulted by a man who stole his sign. |
32,181,370 | Earlier on Saturday, Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) confirmed that a fault in a conductor had caused problems for customers in Newtownards.
Engineers worked to restore power.
Later NIE confirmed power had been restored to the homes. | Power has been restored to the homes of 850 people in County Down. |
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United were 3-1 ahead with 30 minutes remaining before a controversial David Nugent penalty sparked a comeback.
Van Gaal said: "It is not good because we had the game in our pocket and gave it away. Not because of Leicester; we gave it away and I don't like that.
"We have too many players who want to seek for the goal."
The Dutchman refused to criticise referee Mark Clattenburg for not penalising Jamie Vardy for a barge on Rafael just outside the box moments before the Brazilian defender conceded the penalty which Nugent converted.
"For the first penalty it is always the referee [who you talk about] but you don't have to do that as a player," added the 63-year-old.
"You know you are in the penalty area and you allow the referee to whistle if you make a challenge. I don't know if it is a penalty but we have to look at ourselves because we made such big errors as a team."
Within two minutes of Leicester scoring their second Esteban Cambiasso had equalised for the hosts and, in the final 10 minutes, Jamie Vardy put the Foxes ahead before a Leonardo Ulloa penalty made sure of victory.
"We didn't keep ball possession in the right way," said Van Gaal. "Leicester have already showed against Arsenal and Stoke that they can come back and they did it very well.
"Leicester had five shots on goal, and that was it. These five goals were existing because we made errors in ball possession.
"We created a lot of chances and made superb goals but you have to do that over 90 minutes, not 60 minutes. It was not enough. You have to kill the game and we didn't do that."
The former Barcelona and Bayern Munich coach refused to blame his defence for the defeat and instead put the responsibility on the team.
"You cannot say the defence was weak," he said. "You play like a team, Leicester showed that. We did not play like a team in the second half and that is not only defence. In a defensive situation the whole team is responsible, not just one defender."
But Van Gaal will need to urgently address his team's defensive issues for next Saturday's Premier League match against West Ham as he is likely to be without the suspended Tyler Blackett and the injured Jonny Evans.
Blackett was sent off for the foul on Vardy, which led to Ulloa's late spot-kick, and will be suspended on Saturday, while Van Gaal must await the result of a scan on Evans after the centre-back was forced from the field in the 30th minute and left the stadium on crutches.
"I don't know how bad it is," said Van Gaal of Evans's injury. "We will see tomorrow [Monday], he will probably have a scan." | Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal said his team threw away victory as Leicester came back from a two-goal deficit to secure a remarkable 5-3 win. |
40,624,858 | It was a third win out of four for coach Danny Kerry's side, who were beaten 1-0 by Japan on Wednesday.
They went ahead in Johannesburg through Sarah Haycroft's deflected shot, Shona McCallin made it 2-0 before Ireland levelled with two goals in two minutes.
Alex Danson fired in a rebound in the third quarter as England went through into Tuesday's quarter-final games.
Goalkeeper Maddie Hinch, who made a fine save in the early stages when the match was goalless, said: "We didn't panic and knew the next goal would be crucial and knew we could find it."
England were two goals up by half-time, having taken the lead when Haycroft broke down the right and crossed onto an Irish foot, which deflected the ball into the net.
Then Lily Owsley, making her 100th international appearance, won a penalty corner and McCallin was perfectly placed at the left-hand post to guide home Giselle Ansley's drag flick.
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After the interval Ireland staged a dramatic recovery as Nicci Daly's reverse shot deflected in off Ansley's stick and Kathryn Mullan's bobbled effort through a crowded circle snuck past Hinch.
Ireland continued to press but on the stroke of the final break, Danson's 102nd international goal proved decisive.
From a penalty corner, Ansley's effort was saved and Danson was the quickest to react as she rattled in the loose ball.
The top four teams from the Johannesburg tournament will go through to the World League Finals in New Zealand in November. | England finished on top of Pool A at the Women's Hockey World League Semi-Finals after beating Ireland 3-2. |
33,189,700 | Lee Roberts told Mold Crown Court Anthony Munkley shot Sion Davies after a row over £7,000 drugs money.
Mr Davies, 25, died after falling off a balcony at Mr Munkley's Caia Park estate flat in Wrexham last October.
Mr Roberts, 33, and Mr Munkley, 53, both deny murder. His wife, Gwenythe Munkley, 55, denies helping her husband evade arrest.
Mr Roberts said he was at Mr Munkley's flat because he believed cannabis was due to be delivered.
He told the court Mr Davies arrived and Mr Munkley said he would get the money and went to his bedroom.
But he returned with a crossbow and shot Mr Davies, he claimed.
Mr Roberts said he had nothing to do with the killing himself.
The prosecution say Mr Davies was stabbed and slashed with knives, shot with a crossbow, and was pushed or fell three storeys from the flat.
Mr Munkley has claimed Mr Roberts was not there and previously told the court the attack was carried out by a Geordie man he did not know. He has denied owing Mr Davies money.
Mr Roberts told the jury he used cannabis daily but was not a minder for Mr Munkley and was not involved in his cannabis business.
He said: "They [Mr Munkley and Mr Davies] were arguing about money, Munkley was going mad and was saying money he had given him to pay for drugs had gone missing."
Mr Roberts said he broke up fighting between them, but Mr Munkley then shot Mr Davies twice with a crossbow.
He said Mr Davies ran onto the balcony, jumped over the railings and began to slide down.
"I grabbed his arm and tried to pull him back up, but I couldn't," he said.
Mr Roberts said he had identified himself on mobile phone footage, previously shown to the jury, which showed him holding a knife in his hand at the scene.
He said he picked the knife up for his own protection and did not see Mr Davies injured with a knife or knives.
The trial continues. | One of two men charged with murdering a Wrexham man has told a jury his co-defendant shot him with a crossbow. |
38,609,896 | Lewis, 22, had spent his entire career at National League side Macclesfield, scoring 16 goals in 94 league games.
"I play as a box-to-box midfielder that likes to get forward and I'll be aiming to produce a few goals as well," he told the club website.
"The manager (Shaun Derry) played in my position at the highest level so I'll be able to learn a lot."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page or visit our Premier League tracker here. | League Two side Cambridge have signed Macclesfield midfielder Paul Lewis until June 2020 for an undisclosed fee. |
32,681,155 | Jonathan Evans told BBC Radio Wales Labour campaigns were too generic and irrelevant to most voters.
He said issues such as the so-called bedroom tax were not decisive.
"There are 400 families affected by that supplement change in Cardiff North... that's a message going to 70,000 people," he said.
"Our messages however were all local, they were relevant to local concerns, very often they were personally addressed and very often they came from neighbours of those people."
Mr Evans told the Sunday Supplement programme: "I think the sophistication in the way that the Conservative party has now been campaigning in this election is something not yet picked up on.
"But it is something that we will certainly be carrying forward over the next 12 months (to the 2016 assembly election)."
Meanwhile Newport West Labour MP Paul Flynn said his party had to win over disillusioned voters to recover from election defeat, claiming ex-Labour leader Ed Miliband had been "a liability from day one" and that "contempt for the political system was deeply rooted". | A campaign based on community issues in marginal seats was the key to election victory, the chairman of the Welsh Conservatives has said. |
40,380,584 | The Metropolitan Police says it will consider manslaughter, health and safety and fire safety charges.
Seventy-nine people are feared dead after the blaze destroyed 151 homes in the Kensington tower block.
The government has ordered immediate testing of the Hotpoint fridge freezer that was involved.
Whirlpool, which owns Hotpoint, said: "We offer our most profound condolences to the victims, those who have lost loved ones, homes, and possessions, and to their friends and families."
Nine of those who died in the 14 June have been formally identified so far. Nine people remain in hospital, with three people still in critical care.
Police said the fire had not been started deliberately and the speed with which the fire spread was "unexpected".
127 flats
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20 residential levels
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Preliminary tests on the samples of insulation showed it burned soon after the test started, and more quickly than the cladding tiles.
However, they both failed the police's safety tests - which are similar to those being carried out by the UK government.
By Kevin Peachey, BBC News
Anyone who has a white Hotpoint fridge freezer model number FF175BP or graphite fridge freezer model number FF175BG should register their appliance with the manufacturer to receive any updates.
Generally, the model number is found on a bar code on a sticker behind the salad container in the fridge.
These models were discontinued in 2009, but 64,000 were sold between March 2006 and July 2009. It is not known how many are still in use.
Owners should ring 0800 316 3826 or visit the Hotpoint website.
Fires connected to fridge freezers and other electrical appliances are relatively common.
More general advice on registering an appliance, should there be a recall, and other safety tips are available online on charity Electrical Safety First's page.
Some 250 specialist investigators have been deployed to find out what happened.
All criminal charges are being considered "from manslaughter onwards".
Every company involved in the building and refurbishment of Grenfell Tower will also be looked at as part of the investigation.
Det Sup Fiona McCormack said police had been in the tower "from top to bottom", adding that next week a lift would be installed to the outside of the building.
But she did say the forensic search "may not be complete until the end of the year".
"There is a terrible reality that we may not find or identify everyone who died due to the intense heat."
Det Sup McCormack says the tests carried out on the cladding and insulation were "small scale" but added: "All I can say at the moment is they [the tiles and insulation] don't pass any safety tests."
The cladding, insulation, fixings and installation will be examined both individually and how they worked together.
"The investigation will be exhaustive," said Det Sup McCormack.
"As we learn more, the scope and scale may well grow. We will look at the refurbishment. We are looking at the panelling and the entire facade of the building."
She said she wanted to hear about anyone who was in the tower, whether or not they were meant to be in the building.
She said: "I do not want there to be any victims of this tragedy that we do not know about.
"Our priority is to understand who was in Grenfell Tower. We are not interested in people's reasons for being in Grenfell Tower."
She said she was concerned they did "not have the complete picture" and reassured people not to be nervous about contacting them.
"There may well be people who no one has contacted us about - who they know were in the building or have close links to Grenfell Tower.
"The Home Office has assured us that they are not interested in people's immigration status and we are not interested in looking at that.
"What we are interested in is making sure that we know who is missing and we take every possible step to establish if they are safe and well."
Whirlpool said it was working with the authorities to obtain access to the appliance so that it could assist with the ongoing investigations. | The Grenfell Tower fire in London started in a fridge freezer, and outside cladding and insulation failed safety tests, police say. |
34,848,159 | Chancellor George Osborne will unveil the results of his spending review setting out, along with other departments, the path for the health budget. At a time of intense pressure on the health service, the Treasury's decision about future spending totals and the timing of increases will be critical.
If any reminder were needed about the creaking finances of NHS organisations in England, it came today with the latest survey of finance directors by the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
100% of respondents at hospitals (the acute trusts) expect to end the year in deficit, up from 77% four months ago. Two-thirds of all trusts (taking in other sectors, such as ambulance services and community health, as well as hospitals) now anticipate overspending this year. The response rate among these provider trusts was just over 50%.
Worryingly, for health ministers and the NHS leadership, a large majority of finance directors don't believe the £22bn of efficiency savings set out in the Five Year Forward View are achievable on current plans and assumptions. 84% of respondents say they need extra financial support to deliver the required productivity gains. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they want the £8bn of annual extra cash promised to the NHS in England by 2020 to be "frontloaded" - in other words, getting there sooner rather than later.
Looking longer term, the Health Foundation and Institute for Public Policy Research have chipped in with an analysis of the likely funding gap for health and social care over the coming years. Their report covers the UK and argues that even after the extra £8bn promised for England by 2020, and the consequential increases under the usual formula for the devolved administrations, there will be a gap of £2bn in health funding in that year. In essence the report says the efficiency savings hoped for will not materialise in full.
On adult social care, the two think tanks are more gloomy. They predict a potential funding gap of £6bn in the UK by the 2020/21 year and that does not factor in the costs for care providers of implementing the mandatory National Living Wage. The authors conclude that despite the pressures the NHS should limp on, but there "must now be real doubts about the sustainability of the current financing system for adult social care".
Heated debates are continuing in Whitehall as the clock ticks down to next week's big announcement. Simon Stevens, head of NHS England, is pressing for the frontloading of the £8bn extra annual funding without strings attached. The Treasury will resist the idea that further conditions can be demanded when the government has already agreed to Mr Stevens' original call for the new money to reach £8bn a year by 2020 on top of £2bn extra for this year.
A Department of Health spokesperson said: "We are committed to the values of the NHS which is why we have invested £10bn to fund the NHS's own plan for the future and spending as a proportion of government spend has increased in every year since 2010."
Mr Stevens knows this is the last chance to secure a financial settlement for the NHS for the rest of this parliament. He can hardly return to the Treasury in a couple of years time and admit to getting his sums wrong. For his part, George Osborne has to balance the demands of the health service against the pleas from Whitehall's other big spenders. It's a process which will go right to the wire. | There's just a week to go until a policy announcement which could prove the most significant for the NHS in this Parliament. |
17,112,521 | Sir Elton called 13-year-old Tallia Storm on her mobile after listening to a CD she had given to the star's partner, David Furnish.
Soul singer Tallia said it was "surreal" to speak to Sir Elton, who was one of her musical heroes.
She will perform at the Falkirk Stadium concert on 10 June - the only Scottish date on Sir Elton's 2012 UK tour.
Tallia spotted Mr Furnish when she was on holiday abroad this Christmas and gave him a letter and CD to pass on to Sir Elton. The singer called her the following day.
The 13-year-old, from Killearn in Stirling, said: "I really didn't know what to say at first but he was so excited about my music and said he thought my signature was incredible.
"He was just so nice, warm and totally down to earth. We spoke a few times and then he called my mum that night to explain what he had in mind.
"I don't actually think I will take it all in until I am standing on his stage at Falkirk - someone will have to pinch me for sure." | A Scottish teenager was asked by Elton John to open his Falkirk concert in June after he heard her singing. |
37,484,236 | Matthew van Rooyen, from Bridgend, said: "We have got Jeremy Corbyn as leader, whether we like it or not."
He was speaking during a debate on plans to give Welsh Labour more autonomy from the UK party.
The proposals include a seat on Labour's ruling national executive committee.
Supporters of Mr Corbyn have opposed allowing Welsh Labour leader Carwyn Jones to nominate the Welsh representative and want that person elected by party members.
Some delegates tried to delay a vote on the proposals, prompting a debate on whether to have a debate.
Mr van Rooyen, speaking at his first party conference, said: "What a shame it is that some colleagues are trying to block it."
The conference chairman rebuked delegates for the response they gave him: "Colleagues some individuals booing there... be respectful to the speakers, you may not agree but be respectful."
Mike Payne from GMB Wales told the conference: "It is time we stopped the prevarication, comrades, and get on with it."
Delegates will vote on the changes later on Tuesday. | A Welsh delegate at the Labour conference has been booed after questioning Jeremy Corbyn's appeal as leader. |
33,797,275 | John Noble, 43, had already admitted the lesser charge of causing the death of Chris Dennehy, 58, by careless driving on the A38 near Lee Mill.
But he was found not guilty of the more serious charge after a trial at Plymouth Crown Court.
Noble, of Horrabridge, Devon, will be sentenced at a later date after pre-sentence reports are prepared.
The court had earlier been told Noble had reached over for his mobile phone moments before he struck and killed Mr Dennehy, from Plympton, on 5 September last year.
His lorry was travelling 54mph along the straight road when the victim was struck by the nearside wing, said prosecutor Piers Norsworthy.
The victim was wearing a high-visibility jacket and a white helmet.
Mr Dennehy had worked at Tescos at Lee Mill for 35 years and rode to work daily. | A lorry driver has been cleared of causing the death by dangerous driving of a cyclist on a Devon road. |
40,768,114 | Another 19-year-old was left seriously injured after being attacked at the Red club in Cross Shore Street at about 02:20 on Saturday.
He was taken to Inverclyde Royal Hospital, where his condition was described as serious but stable.
The arrested man is expected to appear at Greenock Sheriff Court on Monday. | A 19-year-old man has been arrested over an attack on a man outside a nightclub in Greenock. |
40,670,060 | Dalman rejected a newspaper report suggesting there was fresh impetus in attempts to sell the club.
Owner Vincent Tan would consider offers at the "right price" but Dalman said there had been no serious bids.
"We do not want anything to disrupt our mission for this year, which is to have a real go at it in the Championship," Dalman told BBC Wales Sport.
"We are really looking forward to this season. We are very excited about it."
The speculation centred on a brochure for prospective buyers put together by Dalman's company WMG.
It is understood this brochure has been in existence for years and is routinely available should the club receive any approach about a possible sale or sponsorship.
But the Tan and Dalman are keen to quell fresh speculation as Warnock embarks on his first full campaign as manager, after galvanising the Bluebirds following a poor start in the Championship last season.
In addition to Cardiff, Tan has interests in MLS side Los Angeles FC, Bosnia's FC Sarajevo and Belgium's Kortrikt Voetbalt CBVA. | Cardiff chairman Mehmet Dalman wants to protect manager Neil Warnock from any uncertainly over the club's ownership. |
37,666,447 | Nasri, on a season-long loan from Pep Guardiola's side, struck from close range to double Sevilla's lead after Franco Vazquez opened the scoring.
Two goals in three minutes from David Timor and Alexander Szymanowski brought the hosts level.
However, Pablo Sarabia curled in a stunning late winner for Sevilla.
The win was Sevilla's first away from home in La Liga in 23 games and took them to the top of the table before Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid both won later in the day to reclaim the top two places.
Match ends, Leganés 2, Sevilla 3.
Second Half ends, Leganés 2, Sevilla 3.
Vitolo (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Carl Medjani (Leganés).
Attempt missed. David Timor (Leganés) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left following a set piece situation.
Foul by Vitolo (Sevilla).
Víctor Díaz (Leganés) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Vitolo (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Víctor Díaz (Leganés).
Attempt blocked. Robert Ibáñez (Leganés) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Vitolo (Sevilla) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Víctor Díaz (Leganés).
David Timor (Leganés) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Pablo Sarabia (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David Timor (Leganés).
Goal! Leganés 2, Sevilla 3. Pablo Sarabia (Sevilla) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner.
Corner, Sevilla. Conceded by Martín Mantovani.
Ganso (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rubén Pérez (Leganés).
Foul by Ganso (Sevilla).
Rubén Pérez (Leganés) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Sevilla. Ganso replaces Vicente Iborra.
Samir Nasri (Sevilla) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Vicente Iborra (Sevilla) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Samir Nasri (Sevilla).
Rubén Pérez (Leganés) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Sevilla. Vitolo tries a through ball, but Pablo Sarabia is caught offside.
Substitution, Leganés. Darwin Machís replaces Omar Ramos.
Vitolo (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David Timor (Leganés).
Foul by Nico Pareja (Sevilla).
Rubén Pérez (Leganés) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Sevilla. Nico Pareja tries a through ball, but Vitolo is caught offside.
Pablo Sarabia (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Diego Rico (Leganés).
Substitution, Sevilla. Pablo Sarabia replaces Wissam Ben Yedder.
Goal! Leganés 2, Sevilla 2. Alexander Szymanowski (Leganés) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Rubén Pérez with a through ball.
Offside, Sevilla. Luciano Vietto tries a through ball, but Samir Nasri is caught offside.
Goal! Leganés 1, Sevilla 2. David Timor (Leganés) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Alexander Szymanowski.
Substitution, Leganés. Robert Ibáñez replaces Gabriel. | Manchester City midfielder Samir Nasri scored his second goal in four games as Sevilla briefly moved top of La Liga after winning at Leganes. |
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Aguero was offside when he headed in Aleksandar Kolarov's free-kick.
Vurnon Anita equalised with a low curling shot before Magpies keeper Karl Darlow excellently saved Jesus Navas and Kevin de Bruyne strikes.
City keeper Joe Hart saved from Georginio Wijnaldum late on to ensure Newcastle remain in the bottom three, just behind Sunderland and Norwich.
The England keeper's block denied the home side a winner which would have lifted them out of the relegation places.
Newcastle are now one point and a place behind Sunderland and two adrift of the Canaries, who lie just outside the drop zone.
BBC Radio 5 live summariser Alan Shearer believes Newcastle would have been assured of survival had they appointed manager Rafael Benitez earlier and the Spaniard has certainly added some steel and discipline to the Magpies.
United had not beaten City in their last 18 league games, losing the last 12, although they did at least go into Tuesday's match of the back of a 3-0 win over Swansea on Saturday.
The home fans might have feared the worst when Aguero's goal was allowed to stand but their team responded with the type of character and commitment they have been lacking for much of the campaign.
Andros Townsend's work-rate and desire on the right set the example to his team-mates and the ovation he received when substituted showed how the Magpies faithful appreciated his efforts.
Centre-back Jamaal Lascelles, who recently criticised the "heart" of the Newcastle players, also stood out with his commanding performance.
Whether Benitez can now maintain his side's improvement and steer them to safety in their final four games - which are against Liverpool, Crystal Palace, Aston Villa and Tottenham - remains to be seen.
Benitez was hoping the visitors would be distracted by the first leg of their Champions League tie against Real Madrid next Tuesday.
However, City have yet to secure a top-four spot to book a place in Europe's top competition next season and, while they were not at their best, they certainly applied plenty of pressure.
Aguero's goal made him the second fastest player to reach 100 goals in the Premier League, behind Shearer, and City's failure to build on that had plenty to do with the resolve of Newcastle.
The Argentine's goal was allowed to stand but such an error could be changed at 2018 World Cup in Russia with Fifa president Gianni Infantino hoping video referees will help officials with "game-changing" decisions at the tournament.
The visitors had the boost of having centre-back Vincent Kompany back after six games out with a calf injury, but he looked rusty on his return.
The Belgium international gave the ball away to Sissoko before Hart came to his rescue by rushing out to clear, while Kompany was also booked for a late challenge on the Newcastle midfielder.
"The hardest part of coming back from injury is getting back to the level of the Premier League," said Kompany. "The more games you play the better you will feel. Overall, it was a positive day."
Winger Raheem Sterling came on as a substitute to make his comeback after five games but could not inspire his side to a winner as they remain third.
Newcastle manager Rafael Benitez: "The fans appreciate the effort of the players. Everybody is trying to do everything to stay up.
"Hopefully we have momentum, but we cannot have influence on other teams' games. We have to keep believing and hopefully win the next game.
"I said when I came that it is an intimidating place for other teams. That is what we are looking for and that is what we have."
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Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini: "I am happy. We started winning the game but we could not have the control after that. We knew that it was very tough.
"The officials have nothing to do with the result. I didn't see the team with the energy from Saturday, but we play after three days at the end of the season and it is not easy for the team to recover."
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Former Newcastle striker Alan Shearer: "The one thing that stood out for me was the atmosphere. The crowd's reaction towards the players where they gave them a round of applause. There's a little bit of hope now when there wasn't a few weeks ago."
Manchester City host Stoke on Saturday (12:45 BST), prior to playing Real Madrid next Tuesday.
Newcastle's relegation battle takes them to play manager Rafael Benitez's former club Liverpool on Saturday (15:00).
Match ends, Newcastle United 1, Manchester City 1.
Second Half ends, Newcastle United 1, Manchester City 1.
Moussa Sissoko (Newcastle United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Moussa Sissoko (Newcastle United).
Foul by Fernando (Manchester City).
Rolando Aarons (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Cheick Tioté (Newcastle United).
Substitution, Newcastle United. Rolando Aarons replaces Ayoze Pérez.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Aleksandar Kolarov.
Eliaquim Mangala (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Eliaquim Mangala (Manchester City).
Georginio Wijnaldum (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Georginio Wijnaldum (Newcastle United) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Georginio Wijnaldum (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Aleksandar Kolarov (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left following a corner.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Karl Darlow.
Attempt saved. Wilfried Bony (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Wilfried Bony (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Cheick Tioté (Newcastle United).
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jack Colback (Newcastle United).
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Moussa Sissoko (Newcastle United).
Substitution, Manchester City. Wilfried Bony replaces Jesús Navas.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Georginio Wijnaldum replaces Andros Townsend.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Moussa Sissoko.
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andros Townsend (Newcastle United).
Fernandinho (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jack Colback (Newcastle United).
Attempt saved. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Sergio Agüero.
Substitution, Manchester City. Fernandinho replaces Yaya Touré.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Eliaquim Mangala.
Substitution, Manchester City. Raheem Sterling replaces Fabian Delph.
Vincent Kompany (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Vincent Kompany (Manchester City).
Moussa Sissoko (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jesús Navas. | Newcastle recovered from Sergio Aguero's controversial goal to earn a valuable draw with Manchester City. |
36,830,617 | Hughes hit 122, his third century of the season, and shared a third-wicket stand of 181 with Madsen (90) as Derbyshire moved from 78-1 to 413-6.
Just two wickets fell in the first two sessions, both to Graham Wagg, on a flat pitch in scorching temperatures.
The visitors reached stumps at Colwyn Bay leading by 72, with captain Billy Godleman unbeaten on 66.
Godleman and Shiv Thakor with an aggressive 29 pushed Derbyshire into the lead in the evening session and set up the chance of giving Glamorgan an awkward target to chase.
Despite a tough day for the bowlers, Glamorgan wicketkeeper Mark Wallace took his tally of catches in the match to eight, one short of the club record held by Colin Metson.
The blazing heat was in sharp contrast to the teams' previous meeting in April at Derby, which was interrupted by snow, sleet and hail.
Glamorgan wicket-keeper Mark Wallace told BBC Wales Sport: "It was hard work, harder if you're a bowler but we get so many games when it's cold and windy, you can't complain- it's been beautiful, proper North Walian weather.
"Hopefully it'll be less warm, overcast and better bowling conditions so we can pick up these last four wickets. As soon as they got ahead the game gets a little bit different but it's a good pitch, it's a small ground and any total around 200 is still very chaseable.
"(Eight catches behind the wickets) shows how well the seamers have bowled on a pretty unresponsive surface, but four more wickets to get, we'll take them any way they come."
Derbyshire batsman Chesney Hughes told BBC Radio Derby: "I enjoyed that one, the last four games I haven't got the scores I wanted to, so to get a hundred meant a lot and I thought I played well for it, because the ball swung for the majority of the morning.
"It's a pitch that's taken 30-degree heat for two days so it is breaking up and getting harder, so we know as a team that if we can get by that morning session and get a decent score on the board, it's game on.
"Ten first-class hundreds and I think I'm just starting to be a player now, so I look forward to scoring more!" | Derbyshire fought back through Chesney Hughes and Wayne Madsen to take the match against Glamorgan into day four. |
36,723,828 | Amanda Spielman, who has no teaching experience, failed to show "passion" or an understanding of the "complex role", education select committee MPs said.
But the committee cannot veto her appointment if the education secretary wants to force it through.
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan said she was the "best person" for the job.
Mrs Morgan wrote to the cross-party select committee, saying she was "surprised and disappointed" but remained "wholeheartedly in support of Amanda as the best person for this crucial role".
The current Ofsted boss, Sir Michael Wilshaw, steps down at the end of the year.
Amanda Spielman, born in 1961, left Clare College Cambridge in 1982 with an upper-second-class degree in mathematics and law.
She qualified as a chartered accountant in 1985 and went on to work for leading City firms as an accountant, market analyst and investment adviser.
By the late 1990s, she was working for Nomura International, making equity investments worth between £250m and £500m.
After the birth of her first child in 2001 she focused on part-time study, consultancy and voluntary work.
Her portfolio included:
In 2004, she became research and policy director for the Ark academy chain.
From 2011, she chaired exams regulator Ofqual three days a week, working with then chief executive Glenys Stacey.
She also continued with her consultancy work, giving development advice on public-private education partnerships in Uganda, India and Pakistan for Ark, and as an external reviewer for the TeachFirst education charity, though she has since resigned from these positions.
Last week, Ms Spielman, who is currently chairwoman of the exams regulator Ofqual, appeared before the committee for pre-appointment questioning.
She was grilled by MPs, who were visibly frustrated by her answers on a range of issues on several occasions throughout the hour and 40 minute hearing.
Their report said:
Conservative committee chairman Neil Carmichael said he and his colleagues were "unconvinced" that Ms Spielman was the right person to lead Ofsted, to raise standards and improve the lives of children.
"Ms Spielman's responses on child protection were particularly troubling and did not inspire confidence that she grasped the importance of Ofsted's inspections in preventing children being held at risk through service failure.
"As a committee, we did not leave the session with the view that Amanda Spielman was prepared for the vast scope and complexity of this important role."
He added: "It is unusual for a select committee to find itself unable to support the government's preferred candidate for a public appointment.
"However, it is our responsibility to hold government to account and the seriousness of our concerns regarding this appointment has led us to produce this report to the House of Commons.
"We call on the secretary of state not to proceed with Ms Spielman's appointment."
But, in her letter to the committee, Mrs Morgan said: "I chose Amanda because it is clear to me that the education and social care systems... will benefit hugely from her evidence-based approach, her system-level thinking and her clear commitment to raising standards."
The job advertisement for head of Ofsted, posted in February and March, attracted 32 applications, and five shortlisted candidates went on to be interviewed by the recruitment panel. | MPs have rejected the government's choice for the next head of Ofsted, saying they have "significant concerns" about her suitability for the job. |
35,422,857 | The reaction in the immediate wake of the terrorism attacks in Brussels have shown the differences in Republicans and Democrats in tone and substance. It has also laid bare the divide between the isolationist tendencies of the Republican insurgent candidates and decades of GOP orthodoxy on international affairs.
Republicans appealed to fear and retrenchment, with Texas Senator Ted Cruz saying "we need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighbourhoods before they become radicalised" and called for sealing the border against "terrorist infiltration".
Donald Trump doubled down on his call to ban Muslims from entering the country and "close up our borders until we figure what is going on", adding that "we have to be very, very vigilant as to who we allow into this country".
In an interview with the Washington Post editorial board the day before the Brussels attack, he questioned the utility of the Nato alliance and said, "I know the outer world exists and I'll be very cognisant of that. But at the same time, our country is disintegrating, large sections of it, especially the inner cities."
Aside from tweets and headline-grabbing sound bites, the Republican candidates offered little of substance, even though this was the week when both Mr Cruz and Mr Trump unveiled their foreign policy teams.
Both Democratic candidates adopted a sober tone, speaking of alliances with European countries, stepping up efforts to share intelligence, working with Arab allies and embracing American Muslims.
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders may not agree on matters of foreign policy but they both upbraided Mr Cruz for his patrol proposal. President Barack Obama chimed in too, as he ended his historic visit to Cuba.
"As far as the notion of having surveillance of neighbourhoods where Muslims are present, I just left a country that engages in that kind of neighbourhood surveillance, which, by the way, the father of Senator Cruz escaped for America, the land of the free," said Mr Obama.
Mr Sanders said "there is a lot of work to be done to protect our country, as well as to protect our allies in Europe and elsewhere, by the way". But pressed on details, including on the alliance with Arab countries to counter the so-called Islamic State (IS), he remained vague and said none of it would be easy.
As a former secretary of state, Mrs Clinton gave the most comprehensive reaction at Stanford University, during a speech scheduled in reaction to the Brussels attacks.
She devoted a large chunks of her address to criticising the Republican candidates saying that: "If Mr Trump gets his way, it will be like Christmas in the Kremlin" and dismissed Mr Cruz's proposals as that of someone was "in over [his] head".
Mrs Clinton spoke in detail about the importance of the Nato alliance, the need for an ''intelligence surge" but she gave few new policy prescriptions.
She was careful not to distance herself from the president who remains very popular with Democrats. She did repeat her call for a safe zone in Syria - the only public point of disagreement with President Obama - and was the only candidate to link an end to the conflict in Syria to the broader approach to dealing with the threat in Europe.
Mr Trump immediately tweeted: "Just watched Hillary deliver a pre-packaged speech on terror. She's been in office fighting terror for 20 years — and look where we are!"
The bluster was quickly dismissed by Clinton advisors.
"The last few days have been a test. The race is not be an entertainer-in-chief but to be commander-in-chief," said Nicholas Burns, Harvard professor and former state department official who currently advises Mrs Clinton. He said Mr Trump had lost his bearings when he questioned the role of Nato barely a day before the Brussels attack.
"You can't succeed in this fight unless you're doing it with 20, 30 countries. Does Trump want to do this alone?"
In a highly divisive election year, full of mud-slinging and name-calling, Democrats and members of the Republican establishment agree on one thing - they are aghast at the isolationism on display by Mr Trump and Mr Cruz. And it is the intra-GOP debate on foreign policy that is the most interesting to observe as it unfolds.
In an open letter earlier this month, 121 members of the GOP foreign policy establishment denounced Mr Trump's vision of "American influence and power in the world [as] wildly inconsistent and unmoored in principle. He swings from isolationism to military adventurism within the space of one sentence."
Mr Cruz didn't fare much better. His list of foreign policy advisors include a notorious Islamophobe, Frank Gaffney, and Walid Phares, a right-wing Christian Lebanese with ties to one of Lebanon's brutal wartime militias.
So the question now is how does the aftermath of the Brussels attack actually affect the campaign? Needless to say, each side believes it plays to their strengths as each claim they have the better answer to the security concerns and the long-term policy challenges.
Mr Burns said that the former secretary of state had responded "calmly and decisively", showcasing her leadership and experience. Mrs. Clinton is often described as a hawk, which is why some of the signatories of the open letter against Mr Trump have indicated they would be open to voting for Mrs Clinton as president if Trump is the Republican nominee.
But the co-ordinator of the letter, Elliot Abrams, a former deputy national security advisor to President George W Bush, now at the Council on Foreign Relations and an advisor to Mr Cruz, said the current mood in the country still "helps the Republican nominee, whether Trump or Cruz. Republicans still have an advantage on security issues and they appear tougher."
Mr Cruz and Mr Trump's approval ratings went up a few points after the Paris and San Bernardino attacks, although Mrs Clinton still leads by a wide margin when Americans are asked who they trust most on terrorism or in an international crisis.
This is where the isolationism of Mr Cruz and Mr Trump can end up being a disadvantage - the more complicated the crisis becomes, from Europe to Libya and Egypt, the less they will be able to argue that the only answer is to pull up the drawbridges. | The Brussels attacks have thrust foreign policy and counter-terrorism to centre stage in the presidential campaign, and provided further insights into the different instincts and worldviews of the candidates. |
35,539,518 | The 27-year-old was sick during a gym session last week and was taken ill again later in the evening.
"He's very worried because he thought it was an off day, and it might just be a virus that has hit him hard," Torquay manager Kevin Nicholson told BBC Sport.
"But with all that's gone on lately in football with things like heart problems we couldn't take any chances."
Verma joined Torquay on loan from Kidderminster in November and the deal has since been extended until the end of the season.
"He's feeling fine now but the doctors have told him to do pretty much nothing, so he's bored out of his mind as he just has to rest until he's given the all-clear," Nicholson said.
It is hoped Verma will get the result of his tests on Monday, but he will miss Torquay's game with Chester on Saturday, having also sat out Tuesday's FA Trophy draw with Macclesfield.
"He was in a gym session and he was sick," Nicholson said.
"The immediate reaction when that happens is the lads take the mick as he they thought he was broken in the gym, but it's not like him as he's a very fit lad.
"He started immediately with headaches and then in the evening he collapsed when he went to go to the toilet.
"He went to be looked at by the doctor the next morning and they couldn't get to the bottom of what it was after having all kinds of tests and since then he's been out of commission and he's had a few other tests."
In December 2014, winger Courtney Cameron was taken to hospital by a teammate after suffering acute headaches and dizziness, which was later diagnosed as a problem with his teeth. | Torquay United midfielder Aman Verma is undergoing tests after collapsing at home after a training session. |
39,291,319 | Joshua, 14, and collie cross German shepherd Biscuit, three, were the overall winners in the Scruffts award for crossbreeds at the event.
More than 1,400 people entered Scruffts regional heats around the UK in 2016, with Joshua triumphing in the good citizen dog scheme category.
In the final at Crufts at Birmingham's NEC, he won the overall Scruffts title.
This involved beating winners of five other categories such as most handsome dog, golden oldie, best rescue and child's best friend.
"I'm very happy with the way Biscuit performed and I hope I did everything right." said Joshua, from Prestatyn.
"He's lovely with humans and loves everybody. He likes other dogs and think everyone wants so be his best mate." | A schoolboy from Denbighshire has become the youngest winner of a Crufts dog show award. |
38,546,432 | In October, the FA signed a six-season overseas broadcast rights deal for the FA Cup - reportedly worth £820m.
Glenn said the FA could raise the current £25m fund because of the deal, which starts from the 2018-19 season.
"The FA Cup is a great way of redistributing money to the lower leagues," Glenn told BBC Radio 5 live.
"The prize fund is £25m," Glenn told Sportsweek. "We're looking to increase that over the coming years and hopefully benefit the smaller clubs."
Glenn also said the FA may look at introducing a "unity" payment which would help split money more equally. Under the current system, clubs receive a larger amount of money if their game is televised.
Sports minister Tracey Crouch warned last month that the government will legislate to force through FA reforms if the governing body does not make changes itself, setting a deadline of April for the FA to "set a path to reform".
Glenn reiterated some of the concerns of five former FA executives, including previous chairman Greg Dyke, who said the organisation was held back by "elderly white men".
Figures show that of the FA Council's 122 members, 92 are aged over 60, eight are women and four are from ethnic minority backgrounds.
"It's over-represented by white males who are quite old and it doesn't reflect the people actually in the game and that's the opportunity," said Glenn.
"With council reform, we'd like to see term limits and the government would like to see term limits so you can't stay there for life.
"You might do three sets of four years and then move on so fresh blood can come through."
The FA Cup third round saw many top-flight sides rotate their squad, with Bournemouth making 11 changes before they lost 3-0 away at League One side Millwall.
But Glenn said he is happy for teams to use the competition to juggle their resources.
"I think Bournemouth were an outlier. Eddie Howe can make his own reasons for it," he said.
"It doesn't upset me. The Premier League teams really understand the value the FA Cup brings them.
"People want to do well in the cup, but the positive side is that these bigger clubs have big squads, you want to give people game time.
"Giving a chance for young players to get real-game experience is not a bad thing." | The Football Association plans to increase FA Cup prize money with the aim of helping lower league clubs, says chief executive Martin Glenn. |
25,738,428 | And while Zara is the grand-daughter of the monarch, niece of the next king and cousin to the king after that - she is not someone of royal rank.
She is of course, part of the family that is royal and which we know as the Windsors - even though in her case she took the surname of her father, Capt Mark Phillips, the cavalry officer whom Princess Anne married at Westminster Abbey in November 1973 (and from whom she separated in August 1989).
But as the child of a daughter of the monarch, Zara was never entitled to the rank of "Her Royal Highness". At the time of her birth in 1981 much was made of the fact that her parents had declined to give their daughter a title (just as they had when Zara's elder brother, Peter, the Queen's first grandchild, was born in 1977).
But formal royal rank was never offered for the simple reason that under the ancient and, many may feel, somewhat arcane or even outdated customs and practices of the British royal family, being the child of a daughter simply doesn't automatically cut the mustard when it comes to royal styles and titles.
In the case of the daughter of the famously no-nonsense Princess Anne, (or "Princess Royal" as she became in June 1987), Zara Tindall probably regarded her relatively unencumbered status as a considerable asset and advantage.
It allowed her to get on with her life with a degree of freedom that a good many of her cousins must often have envied.
Both Zara's parents were champion horse riders: the Princess Royal competed in the British three-day-event team at the Montreal Olympics in 1976; Capt Phillips had competed in the same event at the Munich Olympics four years earlier and had been a member of the team which won the World Championship for Britain in 1970.
Little surprise then, when Zara started to show the same passion for equestrian sport and demonstrated that she had her parents' aptitude for it, that another champion began to take shape.
She was helped, of course, by the ready availability of advice and support from her family and she had access to the horses and training grounds without which it would have been very much more difficult to translate a natural ability into a world-beating skill.
But Zara showed that she had her mother's single-minded focus and determination to prove herself at the very highest levels of equestrian competition.
It culminated in the silver medal which she won with the other members of the British three-day event team at the London Olympics in 2012 - a victory which brought joy to her parents and grandparents.
Zara Tindall has navigated a careful path. She's the least royal of the Queen's grand-daughters. Compare her, for example, to Prince Andrew's daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, both of whom do have royal rank as children of the son of a monarch.
Neither of them has yet fully resolved the challenging dilemma of what you do with your life when you're a princess and a "Her Royal Highness" at a time when there's no great demand for you to be a full-time functioning younger royal.
Zara hasn't always got it right. There have been moments when her critics would say she's been too attracted to the blandishments of the commercial world or the trappings of the celebrity magazine circuit. Such temptations are never far from someone with her family pedigree.
There were also some well-publicised ups and downs in her earlier romantic life - but given her forthright personality and her unsolicited newsworthiness, who could have imagined that it would be otherwise?
In the summer of 2011 she married the former England rugby player Mike Tindall. He's certainly not the archetypal royal bridegroom or husband but then Zara has never wanted, or needed, to conform fully to whatever it might be that's expected of a grand-daughter of the Queen.
And that, almost certainly, has been the secret of both her success and her happiness. | Zara Tindall has given birth to a girl, the Queen's fourth great-grandchild. |
37,212,676 | The 41-year-old, who led Yorkshire from the second division to consecutive County Championship titles, is returning to his native Australia.
Yorkshire will wait to appoint the successor to Gillespie - who took over in 2011 - after the season ends.
"Jason feels the close season is an appropriate time to part company," a Yorkshire statement said.
Gillespie's wife and their four children have recently returned to Australia, where the former fast bowler also coaches the Adelaide Strikers in Australia's Big Bash Twenty20 competition.
Gillespie's last match in charge will be the Division One match against Middlesex starting on 20 September, which could decide the County Championship title.
Second-placed Yorkshire, aiming to win three titles in a row for the first time since 1968, are just five points behind Middlesex with four matches left.
Both of Yorkshire's limited-overs campaigns in 2016 ended in semi-final defeats. They lost to Durham in the T20 Blast, and on Sunday lost to Surrey in the One-Day Cup.
In May last year, Gillespie held talks with England's director of cricket Andrew Strauss over replacing the sacked Peter Moores as national coach, before the role eventually went to Australian Trevor Bayliss.
Gillespie was also linked with a coaching role with Australia earlier this summer and revealed he met head coach Darren Lehmann, but said at the time he was not offered a job and "wouldn't be applying for a role" either.
Yorkshire and England fast bowler Liam Plunkett told BBC Sport: "I'm sure it's a tough decision for him. He's a family man. Maybe that's one of the reasons why he's leaving is he wants to be with his family." | Yorkshire coach Jason Gillespie will leave his role at the end of the season, the county have confirmed. |
31,857,637 | The road was partially open for a time following the rock fall at midday.
But police, in consultation with Bear Scotland and Forestry Commission Scotland, have now shut the A82 from Invermoriston to Drumnadrochit.
Forestry staff have been searching the area to find the location of the fallen boulders so they can check for other loose rocks. | Two large rocks have fallen on to the A82 about two miles (3km) north of Invermoriston in the Highlands. |
30,002,287 | Brought up in the deprived Lincolnshire seaside town of Skegness, Mr Atherton today runs a restaurant empire which turns over almost £70m a year.
Whereas he once spent his summer holidays looking after the donkeys on Skegness' main beach, he is now a well-known personality on UK cookery TV shows, flies regularly in business class to check on his outlets in Singapore and China, and has a swanky headquarters in Soho, central London.
Mr Atherton, 43, puts his success down to two factors - "hard work and common sense".
And he is keen to stress that when in London he still makes time every day to be head chef at his first and main restaurant, Pollen Street Social, which holds a Michelin star.
"Becoming a chef transformed my life," he says.
Born in Sheffield, after his parents separated when he was four, Mr Atherton and his mother moved to Skegness.
As money was tight, they spent their first three years there living on a caravan park.
His mother eventually found a new partner and together they opened a guest house.
Yet Mr Atherton only got a bedroom in the off season, as all summer he was again relegated to a caravan in the back garden so that all the rooms could be rented out.
As soon as he turned 11, his mother and stepfather insisted he got a job so he could contribute to the household income.
"Some people say this was mean, but it taught me an important lesson in life - nothing is free. Perhaps it is a northern mentality, but it put me in good stead," he says.
And so, the young Mr Atherton spent his summer holidays getting up every day at 5am to feed, water and clean the town's donkeys. And then lead young tourists up and down the sand.
"Yes, I was a donkey boy, I did that for three or four seasons, and I loved it."
His interest in cooking started a bit later when he decided to take home economics at school "because there was a girl in the class who I fancied".
He immediately took to cooking and his mother suggested he joined the Army Catering Corps. It turned out to be a rare wrong career turn.
"I absolutely hated it," he says. "I did my basic training, but just couldn't get on. I got into some fights.
"Between my stepfather and my sergeant they decided it was time for me to leave. So I went back to Skegness with my tail between my legs."
After a few weeks down in the dumps Mr Atherton got a job in the kitchen at a local hotel, where his cooking talents soon impressed the owner.
Mr Atherton recalls: "He said I was a natural cook - it was the first time someone had ever said I was good at something.
"He also said that if I was serious about getting better I should move to London. So that's what I did, and my life just took on another form.
"I worked my way through all the top kitchens in London and then France and Spain, and that was it."
After learning his ropes in a number of prestigious restaurants, in 2001 Mr Atherton started to work for fellow celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, who he says is still the biggest influence on his career.
Considered to be Mr Ramsay's "right hand man", Mr Atherton spent nine years with his mentor, most prominently as head chef at a restaurant called Maze.
Yet in 2010 Mr Atherton decided to leave and go out on his own. As newspapers reported at the time, it was not a happy parting.
"It didn't end well, but there was no malice from my side," says Mr Atherton.
"Of course I understand why he was upset, I was one of his main guys, and no-one likes to see one of his main guys go.
"But I just wanted to be free… I always wanted to be master of my own destiny."
So Mr Atherton quit, remortgaged his house to raise £500,000, and started to look for premises to open his first restaurant.
With a Singapore-based multi-millionaire friend coming on board as his outside investor, Pollen Street Social opened in London's Mayfair in 2011 to immediate rave reviews and full bookings.
Within two years the other restaurants started to follow. Those overseas are tie-ups with local partners who bring in both capital and understanding of the restaurant scene in their city.
Now with eight overseas restaurants, and more to open next year in New York, Dubai and Sydney, does Mr Atherton ever worry that he is spreading himself too thin?
He says that while people will always make the accusation, he had his team work very hard to run the business "very sensibly".
"We just use our common sense," he says. "Look after the staff, pay your tax on time, and do cash flows every single day. It is very simple mathematics. Only then can you do the fun stuff like run the restaurants."
Yet for all the time spent on the business side of things, Mr Atherton says he is still first and foremost a working chef. This he says helps keep him firmly grounded.
"I don't take the success for granted, it is really important to look after success, to cherish it."
And despite his long working hours, Mr Atherton also makes sure he reserves time to spend with his two daughters.
Such is his belief in the importance of saving time for his family that he has teamed up with retailer Notonthehighstreet.com to launch a campaign called "Dadpreneur Movement".
This aims to help shine a light on the issues and challenges facing modern working fathers. | With 15 upmarket restaurants in the UK and Asia, celebrity chef Jason Atherton has gone a long way for a boy who had to spend part of his childhood living in a caravan. |
35,383,089 | John Williams VC, from Cwmbran, was one of 11 decorated for bravery after the battle on 23 January 1879.
Roads were closed for a short time for Saturday's annual parade in Llantarnam where a new gravestone to the soldier was erected in 2013.
About 150 British soldiers defended the mission station against 4,000 Zulus.
The events were immortalised in the 1964 film Zulu starring Michael Caine.
The Anglo-Zulu war saw Britain fight against the Zulu kingdom in South Africa and brought an end to Zulu independence. | A parade and service has been held to honour a soldier who won the Victoria Cross in the legendary defence of Rorke's Drift in the Anglo-Zulu wars. |
40,075,890 | Wrth arwain yr oedfa un o'i negeseuon oedd bod angen gweddïo dros gyd-ddyn gan feddwl yn arbennig am y rhai a ddioddefodd wedi ymosodiad Manceinion.
Ar raglen Bwrw Golwg Radio Cymru bu Martyn Geraint yn manylu ar ei brofiad. Dywedodd bod mam a chwaer ei weinidog yn Eglwys Coedpenmaen, Pontypridd wedi cael eu hanafu ar ôl yr ymosodiad yn Arena Manceinion. Roeddent wedi mynd yno i gasglu dwy o ferched y chwaer a oedd wedi bod yn y cyngerdd.
Eleni cafodd yr oedfa ei chynnal mewn neuadd ym Maesteg yn hytrach nag yn y pafiliwn. Bydd y pafiliwn yn agor nos Sul ar gyfer y cyngerdd agoriadol. Ymysg y sêr fydd yn perfformio bydd seren y West End, Sophie Evans, Only Boys Aloud a Dawnswyr Bro Taf.
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Yn ôl Tegwen Morris, Cyfarwyddwr Merched y Wawr: "Mae'r awyrgylch yn hyfryd ac yn gyfeillgar. Mae lot o fwrlwm yma wrth i stondinwyr baratoi ac wrth i'r ymarferion olaf gael eu cynnal yn y pafiliwn."
Yn ystod yr wythnos bydd 200 o blant a phobl ifanc yr ardal yn cael cyfle i ddangos eu talentau mewn dwy sioe gyda'r nos. Bracchi yw enw'r sioe gynradd ac fe fydd y plant uwchradd yn perfformio Y Ferch o Gefn Ydfa yn Theatr Sony, Coleg Pen-y-Bont.
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Meddai Aled Siôn, Cyfarwyddwr Eisteddfod yr Urdd: "O Bontypridd i Borthcawl, a Phontyclun i Faesteg, mae trigolion yr ardal wedi rhoi o'u gorau dros y ddwy flynedd diwethaf i sicrhau bod pawb yn ymwybodol fod Eisteddfod yr Urdd yn dod i Ben-y-Bont ar Ogwr, Taf ac Elái yn mis Mai 2017. Mae'r croeso a'r ymroddiad i godi arian wedi bod yn anhygoel.
"Hoffwn ddiolch o waelod calon i bob un unigolyn sydd wedi cyfrannu at lwyfannu un o wyliau ieuenctid mwyaf Ewrop yn yr ardal brydferth hon o Gymru. Diolch hefyd i Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr am eu cefnogaeth ac i Goleg Penybont am adael i ni ddefnyddio tir eu campws ar gyfer y Maes hyfryd eleni."
Mae'r Urdd yn gofyn i ymwelwyr gyrraedd yn gynnar gan y bydd mesurau diogelwch mewn grym yn dilyn ymosodiad Manceinion. | Roedd 'na nodyn emosiynol yn oedfa Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yr Urdd Pen-y-bont fore Sul wrth i Martyn Geraint ddweud ei fod wedi cael ei gyffwrdd yn bersonol gan ymosodiad Manceinion. |
32,094,331 | Supporters say the law prevents the state from forcing people to provide services contrary to their religion.
Similar bills are being considered across the US as court rulings have made gay marriage legal in more states.
Several groups plan to do less business with the state, and celebrities criticised the law on Twitter.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association said it was "especially concerned" about how the law would affect its employees and student athletes.
Next week, the NCAA will host the finals of its annual basketball tournament in Indianapolis, the state's capital and its largest city.
On Friday, Arkansas moved closer to passing a similar "religious freedom" measure.
Several large conventions based in Indiana -- including the large gamer gathering GenCon -- have threatened to hold their events elsewhere because of the law.
Salesforce, a California company with ties to Indiana, cancelled all employee travel to the state and said it was considering decreasing its investment in Indiana.
Governor Mike Pence said he signed the law to "help protect churches, Christian businesses and individuals from those who want to punish them because of their Biblical beliefs".
Mr Pence, a Republican, said he would not have signed the law if he thought it was discriminatory.
Corporate executives such as Jeremy Stoppelman of Yelp and Tim Cook of Apple have urged other states not to follow Indiana's example.
"These laws set a terrible precedent that will likely harm the broader economic health of the states where they have been adopted, the businesses currently operating in those states and, most importantly, the consumers who could be victimised under these laws." Mr Stoppelman wrote in an open letter.
Sponsors of the bill say it is closely modelled on a federal religious freedom law passed in 1993 and that 19 other states already have similar laws.
But Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard, a Republican, said the law sends a "wrong signal" to visitors and could make the state seem unwelcoming.
Star Trek star George Takei, who has a large following on social media, has pushed for a boycott of the state. The term #BoycottIndiana has been a top trending topic on Twitter for more than a day.
"Sad this new Indiana law can happen in America today," Hillary Clinton, a presumptive presidential candidate, wrote on Twitter on Thursday. "We shouldn't discriminate against people because of who they love." | Activists have encouraged a boycott of Indiana after the US state enacted a "religious freedom" law, which they say discriminates against gay people. |
33,682,087 | Australia won by 89 runs at Worcester and victory in the Test match at Canterbury next month would put them on the brink of regaining the Ashes.
But Edwards said: "Test cricket is a format that suits our style, and we will be looking to come back strongly.
"This Ashes series is still wide open - there is a long way to go yet."
If all the remaining matches - comprising one Test and three Twenty20 internationals - are completed, England must win the Test and one T20, draw the Test and win two T20s, or win all three T20s to retain the Ashes.
Edwards admitted England were second best in the ODI series, which Australia won 2-1.
"Unfortunately we have been a bit inconsistent and ultimately outplayed during the last two matches," she said.
"Australia have shown why they are the current world champions in this format.
"We now have a few days off to recharge, before joining back up as a squad at the National Cricket Performance Centre in Loughborough to prepare for the Test match." | England captain Charlotte Edwards says the Women's Ashes is still "wide open" despite Australia claiming a 4-2 lead with a win in the third ODI. |
10,715,629 | At prime minister's questions, Mr Clegg said Labour's Jack Straw would have to account for his role in the "disastrous" decision to invade.
Mr Clegg later stressed his opinion was a "long-held" personal one.
Foreign Secretary William Hague, who backed the war, said his history on the issue was "different" to Mr Clegg.
As regards the government's official position on the legal basis for war, a spokesman for the deputy prime minister said "it awaits the outcome" of the Chilcot inquiry looking into the background to the war.
"The deputy prime minister was expressing his long-held view about the legality of the Iraq conflict," he added.
"His views on the matter are very well known and widely documented."
The Conservatives backed the then Labour government's decision to commit troops to Iraq in 2003, with current key figures such as Mr Hague, Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne all supporting the war.
The Lib Dems, led at the time by Charles Kennedy, opposed the war and have consistently questioned its legality.
Lord Goldsmith, attorney general in the run-up to the war, has said he advised ministers that it was lawful on the basis of Iraq's failure to comply with existing UN resolutions on disarmament dating back to 1991.
In his first appearance at prime minister's questions, Mr Clegg told Mr Straw - himself filling in for acting Labour leader Harriet Harman - that he was happy to "account for everything we are doing in this coalition government".
He added: "Maybe he one day - perhaps we will have to wait for his memoirs - could account for his role in the most disastrous decision of all, which is the illegal invasion of Iraq."
As foreign secretary in the run-up to the war, Mr Straw was a crucial figure in backing the conflict and he told the Iraq war inquiry earlier this year that the UK could not have committed troops without his support.
Mr Hague, who was not in the shadow cabinet in 2003 but voted in favour of the war, distanced himself from Mr Clegg's comment later on Wednesday during a statement in Parliament on Afghanistan.
"The deputy prime minister has a different history from mine on that subject," he said in answer to a question from Labour MP David Hanson.
"That is certainly true."
It was up to ministers who were in power at the time "to account for their actions", he added. Mr Clegg was not an MP at the time of the war.
The Chilcot inquiry is continuing to examine the background to the UK's participation in the 2003 conflict and its aftermath.
However, it is not clear whether the inquiry, whose remit is to "establish, as accurately as possible, what happened and to identify the lessons that can be learned", will draw specific conclusions on the legal basis for the invasion.
Several witnesses, including former minister Clare Short, have taken issue with the war's legality. | Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has had to clarify the government's position on the Iraq war after telling MPs the conflict had been "illegal". |
27,224,887 | She told MPs an inquiry had found 27% of searches may have been illegal.
She said that if the number of stop and searches did not now come down, she would seek to change the law.
The move follows a consultation, which highlighted concerns that stop and search was used too widely and was unfairly targeting ethnic minorities.
Labour say the plans do not go far enough.
Recent figures show only about 10% of more than a million searches lead to an arrest, with black people six times more likely to be stopped than those who are white.
At present, police can stop someone if they have reasonable grounds to suspect they are carrying illegal drugs, a weapon, stolen property or something which could be used to commit a crime, such as a crowbar.
By Danny ShawHome affairs correspondent, BBC News
One of the most telling contributions in the Commons debate after Theresa May's announcement came from the black Labour MP Diane Abbott.
Stop and search, she said, was the one issue that "poisoned" relationships between police and urban communities more than any other. Indeed, the high level of stops in London, particularly among young black men, was considered to be a factor which contributed to the riots in 2011.
Since then, the Metropolitan Police has cut its use of stop and search and increased its arrest ratio - improvements highlighted by the home secretary to show that forces can make a difference without the government having to change the law.
It's believed legislation was ruled out after objections from Downing Street, who feared it could be construed as being soft on crime.
However, under Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, officers can also stop and search someone without suspicion that they are involved in wrongdoing if approved by a senior officer, for example, because there is a fear that serious violence could take place.
Mrs May said when misused, stop and search was an "enormous waste of police time" and "hugely damaging to the relationship between the police and the public".
She referred to a recent inquiry by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC), which found that more than half of all forces in England and Wales were ignoring some rules on stop and search.
"It is very clear that in a large number of cases the reasonable grounds for suspicion were not there and one can only therefore assume, given that black people are six times more likely to be stopped and searched than a white person, that it is precisely the fact that they are a black person that has led to that stop and search taking place.
"It is absolutely disgraceful and sadly... this is a feeling that has come through to young people in black and minority ethnic communities that this is what happens and that this is, if you like, a way of life."
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The BBC's home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said the home secretary had wanted to go further, but her original proposals were blocked by Downing Street which was worried they might leave the Conservatives looking soft on crime in the run-up to the general election in 2015.
Responding to Mrs May in the Commons, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper asked her: "Why aren't you banning the use of targets given to police officers to stop and search a certain number of people?
"Why won't you put the guidance on race discrimination on a statutory basis?
"And why won't you insist that all forces abide by case law rather than some?"
She added: "Your plans have been frisked of serious substance and we need to know why you have backed down."
"Your advisers have blamed 'regressive attitudes in No 10'. But why have you listened to them?"
Rachel Robinson, policy director at campaign group Liberty, said the proposals were "a half-hearted mix of voluntary, patchy measures", adding: "Public trust is wearing thin and today was a missed chance for real change."
Labour's Diane Abbott, who was Britain's first black woman MP, said successive governments had "failed to act" on the problem, so Mrs May deserved "some credit... for having taken things as far as you have done".
"There is no single issue that poisons relationships between urban communities and the police more than stop and search," she told the Commons.
Conservative Charles Walker gave an example of one of his constituents who had been stopped 50 times between the ages of 13 and 18, adding that he would have a sense of "total desolation and alienation" if that had happened to one of his children.
Mrs May said a consultation held last year in England and Wales into stop and search attracted more than 5,000 responses and found very different attitudes towards the practice.
Seventy-eight per cent of those aged between 55 and 74 thought it was an effective tool, but just 38% of those between 18 and 24 agreed.
Of white respondents, 66% believed it was effective, compared with 38% of black respondents.
The Metropolitan Police said stop and search was increasingly being used in a more targeted and effective way, but it recognised there was "much more to do to improve confidence across all communities in the use of the powers".
Shauneen Lambe, executive director of campaign organisation Just for Kids Law, told the BBC: "Obviously, we think it's great that it's finally been recognised that stop and search has been used discriminatorily and unnecessarily, but our concern is how well these plans will be implemented.
"I think that with an intent and an ethos things can change, but we do feel their need to be greater sanctions for misuse too." | Police stop and search powers in England and Wales are to be overhauled with a revised code of conduct, Home Secretary Theresa May has said. |
18,633,375 | Councils for Denbighshire, Flintshire and Conwy want to use the site in Waen, Rhuallt, near St Asaph, to recycle 22,000 tonnes of food waste a year to produce electricity.
Planning permision has yet to be secured.
Meetings are being held in Waen Parish Hall on Friday and Saturday.
The council consortium first announced the £7.5m project last year.
Since then, a new preferred bidder, BiogenGreenfinch, has been announced after an initial prospective partner withdrew.
In March the company obtained permission to build and manage an anaerobic digestion plant at Llwyn Isaf, near Caernarfon, for Gwynedd council to process local-authority collected food waste.
Anaerobic digestion is the process of recycling food waste and agricultural waste into renewable fuel to generate electricity, heat and fertiliser for farmland.
Representatives of BiogenGreenfinch and Denbighshire council will explain the project and answer any questions.
The proposed plant will generate electricity for the national grid proviiding enough to power homes in St Asaph for a year.
It will treat food waste from local households and businesses, all of which could be sent to landfill, said the company.
Meetings are being held in Waen Parish Hall on Friday, 16:00-20:00 BST, and Saturday, 10:00-14:00 BST. | Public consultation is being held over plans to turn a former Denbighshire abattoir site into a food recycling plant. |
34,575,975 | Or is it as misunderstood as it is mouth-watering? And in need of a welcome return to our plates?
As the campaign against sugar has ratcheted up over the past year or two, there have been growing voices trying to redeem fat.
For decades it has been labelled public enemy number one and a "low-fat" food label is used to convince us that what we're buying is healthy.
The problem is low-fat can mean vegetables or just clever marketing for "we took out all the fat and then pumped it full of sugar".
So there I was having a moment in the supermarket - a tub of low-fat yoghurt in one hand and a full-fat one in other - pondering which was actually better for me.
If I had a third hand, it would have been scratching my head. And I'm not alone.
"When there's a huge wall of yoghurt, even I find it paralysing," said Susan Jebb, a nutrition professor at the University of Oxford.
When you take the fat out of products, particularly dry ones like cake or biscuits, then something has to replace it.
"It tends to be sugar - the calories in digestives and low-fat digestives are almost the same," Prof Jebb continued.
"Lots of yoghurts are rammed with sugar, that is the thing that annoys me about yoghurt."
There is a simple answer with yoghurt - a few brands are both low in fat and sugar, although I need to chuck in a bit of fruit to make it palatable.
But what about the case that we should be eating more fat?
Some have argued that the message about cutting all fats when discussing bad saturated fats from processed foods was oversimplified.
While others have made the case that favouring carbohydrates in our diet - particularly refined carbs like white bread and pasta, is playing havoc with our hormones to increase the risk of type 2 diabetes and making us pile on the pounds.
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We do all need fat in our diet - it contains essential fatty acids and is important for absorbing fat-soluble vitamins such as A, D and E.
The question has always been: "How much fat should we eat?" And the mantra has been low-fat, high-carb.
The World Health Organization advises that between 30% and 35% of our calories should come from fat arguing there is "no probable or convincing evidence" that the total amount of fat in our diet is altering the risk of cancer or cardiovascular disease.
So when it comes to the total amount of fat (and there is a separate argument when we come to consider different types of fat) it's really a question of how it affects our waistlines.
And fat is certainly calorific.
A gram of fat is worth around nine calories - twice the amount as carbohydrate or protein at four calories per gram.
Too much fat, like too much of anything, will make you put on weight and it is incredibly easy to overeat calorie dense foods.
So it appears to be an easy target for people trying to lose weight.
"There is very good evidence that if you cut down on total fat it causes a small reduction in weight, but it's not big," said Dr Lee Hooper from the University of East Anglia in the UK.
She conducted a large review of 32 separate trials, involving around 54,000 people.
It showed people who shifted between 5% and 10% of their calories away from fats lost around 2kg during the studies.
However, she is not convinced the weight-loss is actually down to fat but more a result of people thinking more about what they eat and avoiding burgers, ready meals and other processed foods.
"I suspect they'd do exactly the same thing if they targeted sugar," she concluded.
So how do diets compare when we target carbs?
Doctors at the Harvard School of Public Health in the United States reviewed 53 weight loss trials involving 68,128 people.
The results, published in the Lancet medical journal, showed that both low-carb and low-fat approaches led to decent weight-loss.
But those eating relatively more fat actually lost marginally more weight.
Dr Deirdre Tobias, who led that study, told me: "If you're trying to reduce your calories and you take out the fat then you get a lot of bang for your buck, but that strategy clearly doesn't play out.
"Fat has been villainised because there's a mentality that 'fat makes you fat'. I think our evidence pretty much puts a nail in that coffin."
She is not saying that carbs are the villain instead, but that the best diet is the one you can actually stick to - some people would find it pretty easy to give up on white bread and pasta while others would find it impossible.
But she did warn that focusing on simply avoiding fat risked missing out on known beneficial foods - such as nuts, oily fish and olive oil - or convincing yourself that a low-fat muffin is healthy.
Cutting carbohydrates rather than the fat has also shown some benefit in patients with type-2 diabetes, at least for a short while.
When refined carbs are digested they rapidly lead to a spike in blood sugar levels and in turn of the hormone insulin. People with type 2 have difficulty controlling their blood sugar levels so preventing the spike could help in theory.
Although studies show the advantage of cutting carbs was not sustained in the long-term.
In the UK the total amount of fat being eaten is broadly in line with recommendations, but with slightly more saturated fat than advised.
Dr Hooper concluded: "I would be saying we don't need to be cutting down on fat, but we do need to think of the type of fat."
That's an issue we'll consider on Wednesday when we ask: "Is butter back?"
But clearly there is never going to be health advice to just pour cream down our throats and polish off all the pies and biscuits we can.
Even drowning a salad in olive oil could lead to weight gain.
Going overboard on fat, just as having too much sugar or refined carbohydrate, is a bad thing. Sugar is just stealing the headlines at the moment.
"The reality is that nutrition comes and goes in waves, we've had a fat wave and we're for sure in a sugar frenzy," says Prof Jebb.
She says she worries "enormously" when people reduce all the nation's health problems to being "all about fat or all about sugar".
We need to think about both.
Follow James on Twitter. | Is fat the great evil of our time responsible for seducing us into an early, extra-wide, grave with its delicious succulence? |
40,131,678 | The female foal was spotted in the water on Thursday by a dog walker who contacted the animal welfare charity.
The animal, who has been nicknamed Mischief, was later reunited with her mother.
The Scottish SPCA was assisted by Scottish Fire and Rescue's water rescue team to bring the animal safely to shore.
SSPCA inspector Heather Lawson said, "Once she was out of the water it was important to keep her warm.
"My colleagues Dawn-Vale Lowdon and Emma Sergeant and I draped her in blankets and towels until the vet arrived to give her a check over.
"Apart from being cold, exhausted and hungry she didn't appear to have any other injuries.
"She's now been reunited with her mum and has been given the name Mischief.
"We'll be checking up on her today as she was very exhausted and she'll be monitored to ensure she makes a full recovery." | A three-day-old foal has been rescued by the Scottish SPCA after falling into the River Clyde in Wishaw. |
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After sweeping changes to the Nations Cup this week, the Central African nation will now have to prepare for eight more teams than expected.
"I spoke this morning with our country's hierarchy and the decision is that Cameroon is ready to host," Tombi A Roko Sidiki told BBC Sport.
After reports of slow progress in Cameroon, Morocco is keen to step in.
There are some countries who would like to host this competition but they should keep quiet
"Morocco will not hesitate for a second to respond favourably to any invitation to host this Nations Cup," said the country's FA president Faouzi Lekjaa.
Caf has announced that its inspection team will visit Cameroon in September with the country having had to deny reports its preparations were behind schedule.
Morocco was set to host the 2015 Nations Cup until it lost the finals following concerns over the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
The Moroccan capital Rabat hosted this week's symposium on African football, where decisions such as moving the Nations Cup from January-February to June-July were taken.
This was among a raft of changes overseen by Ahmad, the Malagasy who was elected president of the Confederation of African Football (Caf) in March.
However, Sidiki is not impressed by the Moroccan manoeuvres with regard to the next Nations Cup.
"There are some countries who would like to host this competition but they should keep quiet and think about other editions and not 2019 because Cameroon will be ready," he rallied.
Moving the Nations Cup to June allows Cameroon an extra five months to prepare for the finals.
Sidiki said he backed the expansion to 24 teams, a decision which Caf executive committee member Amaju Pinnick says will triple the African body's income.
Despite the presence of debutants Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea and Guinea-Bissau in recent years, Sidiki believes the expansion will open up the finals to more teams that have never qualified.
"Cameroon has always been participating but in life, you don't need to see only your position as you should think about those who are dreaming each year to be part of this famous competition.
"This is why we think this is a right and good decision."
The country's national team are the reigning African champions. | The next Africa Cup of Nations hosts can cater for an expanded 24-team finals, says the head of Cameroon's FA. |
36,343,434 | Well, if you have the potential for good karma, you may consider signing up to Buddhist monk Phra Subin Paneeto's micro-lending scheme, which is spreading across Asia, as Hoang Nguyen finds out.
Meanwhile, Carolina Valladares and Mohamad Chreyteh head to Jordan to find out how aspiring businesswomen are bypassing the banks.
No collateral? No problem....
For the past 24 years, Buddhist monk Phra Subin Paneeto has been the go-to guy for Thai people who need a loan but can't go to a bank as they have no assets a financial institution would be prepared to lend against.
Phra Subin Paneeto, however, has faith in something he believes is far more powerful: the rule of karma.
In the 1980s, the monk witnessed first-hand the poverty and social problems affecting Thailand's remote towns and provinces after he embarked on a country-wide pilgrimage.
But it was not until 1992 that he could gather enough support to start a micro-lending operation to help local villagers in the southern province of Trad to deal with their money-related difficulties.
The scheme, which combines Buddhist teachings with a community-based management method, has resulted in a micro-banking network, which today holds $63m (£43m) of deposits and loans.
Borrowers take out loans for necessities such as food, clothing, medicine and home repairs. Some also seek larger sums for building houses and purchasing land for cultivation.
The scheme, known as Sajja Sasom Sab, is run as a co-operative, accepting only people who live locally. Members contribute a small amount monthly.
The reason they choose to take out loans from this scheme instead of going to banks is because banks require collateral and credit history.
However, borrowers, who are also depositors, pay low or even no interest when they take out the loans. There are conditions though. They have to find at least three guarantors to whom they are not related.
"I'd say to them the money in the community must not be lost; so people need to solve the problem together with the community, by the community and for the community. They can't take out the loan and not pay it back," Phra Subin Paneeto warns. "So anyone who is not honest, there won't be anyone willing to be his guarantor."
He believes that this screening mechanism not only ensures that all members have their say in how the scheme should work but also helps the community to come up with its own solutions to the problems members face.
"This is called the rule of karma, the joint action in the community," he says.
His micro-lending network has spread across 40 provinces in Thailand, with similar schemes introduced in neighbouring Laos and Myanmar.
He says there have been problems in remote parts of Thailand due to ageing populations and a shortage of young, educated workers. Also, much of the countryside's population relies on the agriculture sector, which does not necessarily provide social security.
Therefore any profits the scheme produces are used to take care of the elderly or the sick in the villages instead of being shared out as dividends.
"I always say: do not focus on the profit but on the welfare of the people and the community instead," Phra Subin Paneeto explains.
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Every week Raeda Jaryan drives her car to see Abu Ali, the owner of a banana tree plantation in the Jordan Valley. They greet each other cheerfully, drink tea, and later, they discuss business.
For the next half an hour, she will carefully choose the dried leaves that will adorn her handcrafted baskets.
In Jordan, a country were most women in rural areas are meant to stay at home, with little prospect for employment, Mrs Jaryan had hoped for a better future.
But Mrs Jaryan is a woman who likes to forge her own path and after taking a course on how to make baskets out of banana leaves she turned to a Microfund for Women (MFW) branch in her area asking for a loan.
She impressed them and returned home with not one, but two loans. And with that money she expanded her business, employed several women in her community, and started contributing to the income of her household.
During the past 20 years, about 125,000 women have benefited from MFW, a microfinance institution in Jordan focused on helping poor women with no assets to get out of poverty.
The programme began as a Save the Children initiative in 1994 before operating as a local NGO called the Jordanian Women's Development Society. It went through yet another change in 1999 when it was registered as a not-for-profit limited liability company.
But its success has not been the result of a smooth pathway.
"Women initially came to us in secret. It was not culturally acceptable for a woman to take out a loan. Their husbands were not happy about it and they would come and say to us, 'We are going to take this loan but please can you make sure no-one knows about it,'" says Muna Sukhtian, the chief executive of MFW.
There are 54 branches across Jordan. And, surprisingly, over time it has become common practice for men to ask for a loan too.
"That shows that changes happen," Ms Sukhtian points out.
Yet, challenges persist. Still many women in Jordan, and all over the world, have no access to financial services because they have no assets to begin with, so conventional banks will not lend money to them.
According to the UN, globally women are far less likely to have a bank account than men, with the gap widest in South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
On paper, lending money to poor women with no business experience could be seen as a very risky enterprise. But MFW hasn't found this to be a problem.
Since the scheme began, MFW has given more than 816,000 loans with 96% to women between the ages of 18 to 60. It has become one of the main microfinance institutions in the country.
But, Ms Sukhtian says, they still have a long way to go.
"We exist because we want to empower women, and it is known all over the world, women are the ones with the highest burden of financial challenges that come because of poverty."
She wants to expand the powerful enterprise throughout the region, and has no plans to slow down. | What do you do if you need to borrow money but the bank turns you down? |
39,716,458 | Hosts Malpas were leading 3-0 against West Mon when the Division Three East C match was abandoned for fighting.
Malpas' Lewis Bowden received the biggest WRU ban, nine weeks, with Gareth Sefton out for three. Malpas also banned a fan for life.
West Mon players Samuel Edwards (six weeks), David Redwood (two) and Dion Perry (two) were also banned.
The WRU stated it "takes these matters very seriously and is committed to promoting the positive values of rugby union". | Five players who were sent off in a Welsh Rugby Union National League game have received bans. |
34,470,702 | 8 October 2015 Last updated at 15:57 BST
The event took place at Help for Heroes Phoenix House Recovery Centre in Catterick.
Army veteran Chris Yates, who was injured in 2011 when a truck tailgate gave way and fell on him while he was serving with the Royal Engineers, said: "It's definitely a confidence booster. There's no way I would have gone out there a year ago, but Help for Heroes have given me that confidence." | Injured servicemen and women have taken part in a fashion show aimed at helping them on their road to recovery. |
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Students can follow every stage of a patient's care, from A&E to the operating theatre, and they work shifts to gain a true understanding of what it is like to work in a hospital.
Neil Bradford reports. | A simulation hospital complete with dummy patients has been set up at the University of Bedfordshire to train nurses. |
37,893,926 | Douglas Henshall won the television actor award and the show clinched the TV drama category.
Producer Rebecca O'Brien, writer Paul Laverty and Ken Loach - filmmakers behind hits like Sweet 16, The Angels' Share and My Name Is Joe - received an outstanding contribution award.
A BBC Scotland investigation Britain's Puppy Dealers Exposed won the current affairs category.
Edith Bowman hosted the event, held at Glasgow's Radisson Blu hotel, with James McAvoy and Bill Paterson among the stars handing out awards.
Shetland - an ITV Studios production for BBC Scotland based on the Ann Cleeves novels - was nominated in four categories.
Douglas Henshall won the best TV actor award, beating off strong competition from Outlander star Sam Heughan and Peter Capaldi who was also nominated for his Dr Who performances.
Heughan's Outlander co-star Caitriona Balfe triumphed over Ashley Jensen and Annie Wallace to win the TV actress prize, delighting the many Outlander fans who had gathered outside the venue.
Peter Mullan received the film actor award for his role in Hector, while Couple In A Hole's Kate Dickie won this year's film actress award.
Sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys won the Comedy/Entertainment category for the second year in a row, beating off competition from Scot Squad and Two Doors Down.
Britain's Puppy Dealers Exposed, a BBC Scotland investigation by Samantha Poling, Sandeep Gill and Liam McDougall, was honoured in the current affairs category.
The award for best single TV documentary went to Dunblane, Our Story, an STV production for the BBC.
Martin Compston, who shot to fame after he was picked from obscurity to play the lead role in the Ken Loach film Sweet 16, presented the outstanding achievement to film award to screenwriter Paul Laverty and producer Rebecca O'Brien for their work with Sixteen Films.
"I owe my entire career to Ken, Rebecca and Paul," Compston said.
"Apart from being possibly the most important film makers Britain has ever had, they're just three lovely people who have taken a chance on people like myself and they deserve to be honoured in this way."
Hair and make-up artist Christine Gant's work in the industry over 35 years was also recognised with an outstanding contribution award.
Bafta Scotland director Jude MacLaverty said: "This has been another incredible year for Scotland's film, television and gaming industries and we're honoured to be celebrating this tremendous mix of talent tonight.
"Once again, we offer our warmest congratulations to all our worthy winners."
The winners at Bafta Scotland 2016
Actor Film - Peter Mullan, Hector
Actor Television - Douglas Henshall, Shetland
Actress Film - Kate Dickie, Couple in a Hole
Actress Television - Caitriona Balfe, Outlander
Animation - No Place Like Home, Cat Bruce, Neil Jack - KoLik
Children's Programme - All Over The Workplace, BBC Scotland/CBBC
Comedy/Entertainment - Mrs Brown's Boys 2015 Christmas special
Current Affairs - BBC Scotland Investigates: Britain's Puppy Dealers Exposed, Liam McDougall, Samantha Poling, Sandeep Gill
Director Film/Television - Douglas Mackinnon, Sherlock, The Abominable Bride
Factual Series - This Farming Life, BBC Studios/BBC Two
Feature Film - Tommy's Honour, Gutta Percha Productions, SellOutPictures
Features/Factual Entertainment - Supershoppers, Firecrest Films/Channel 4
Game - Glitchspace, Space Budgie
Short Film - Isabella, Ross Hogg, Duncan Cowles
Single Documentary - Dunblane: Our Story, STV Productions/Berriff McGinty Films/BBC One
Specialist Factual - Imagine... Richard Flanagan: Life After Death, BBC Studios/BBC One
Television Drama - Shetland, ITV Studios/BBC One
Writer Film/Television - DC Moore, Not Safe for Work
Outstanding Contribution to Craft - Christine Cant
Outstanding Contribution to Film - Sixteen Films, Ken Loach, Rebecca O'Brien, Paul Laverty | TV crime drama Shetland was one of the big winners at the Scottish Baftas. |
35,409,423 | Sheikh Miskeen, which lies on one of the main routes from Damascus to the city of Deraa and the Jordanian border, fell after a month-long battle.
Russian warplanes were reported to have played a key role in the offensive.
Russia's foreign minister meanwhile declared its intervention had changed the course of the conflict in Syria, ahead of the start of peace talks.
Sergei Lavrov also warned it would be impossible to negotiate a political settlement without allowing Kurdish groups to attend.
The UN has invited Syria's government and opposition to indirect "proximity talks" that are due to start in Geneva on Friday, but a statement released on Tuesday did not give any details as to who had been invited or how many groups may take part.
There was a delay in sending out the invitations because of disagreements over who should be included in the opposition delegation.
Government soldiers and allied fighters, including members of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, took control of Sheikh Miskeen overnight, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
But fighting was continuing on the western outskirts of the town on Tuesday, the UK-based monitoring group said.
"The town is very important for both sides. They have both fought fiercely. Now by taking it, the regime has cut off the rebels links between eastern and western Deraa [province]," its director Rami Abdul Rahman, told the Reuters news agency. "The destruction in the town is huge."
The region is the last where secular and nationalist rebel factions still hold substantial territory.
The government's offensive in Sheikh Miskeen was the first to be launched in the south following the start of Russia's air campaign against opponents of President Bashar al-Assad on 30 September.
On Tuesday, Russia's foreign minister told a news conference in Moscow that its intervention in Syria had "really helped to turn around the situation in the country" and "helped towards reducing the territory controlled by terrorists".
Mr Lavrov also stressed that no-one had supplied proof to support widespread allegations that Russian air strikes had caused civilian deaths in Syria.
Moscow says it is targeting "all terrorists", above all members of the so-called Islamic State group (IS), but activists say many of its strikes have hit civilians and Western-backed rebels.
The Syrian Observatory, which relies on a network of sources on the ground, said last week that the Russian air campaign had killed 1,015 civilians, as well as 1,141 rebel fighters and 893 Islamic State (IS) militants.
Mr Lavrov also said it would be a "grave mistake" to accede to a demand by Turkey not to invite the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) to the upcoming peace talks.
The Kurdish party's YPG militia controls large parts of northern Syria and is a key ally of the US-led coalition against IS.
The PYD is an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which Turkey and a number of Western countries consider a terrorist organisation.
Mr Lavrov also denied that Russia's military intelligence chief had travelled to Damascus in an attempt to persuade President Assad to step down.
More than 250,000 people have been killed since the uprising against Mr Assad erupted in March 2011. Eleven million others have been driven from their homes. | Government forces have retaken control of a strategically important town in southern Syria, activists say. |
39,155,279 | A statement by John Francis Hanley was read to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).
Mr Hanley was migrated to Australia aged six and placed in the Castledare Orphanage near Perth, run by Roman Catholic order the Christian Brothers.
The children were "beaten, abused and used for the Brothers' perverted desires," the inquiry heard.
Mr Hanley, who was born in 1947, described being sexually abused by two Christian Brothers, both in his bed and in their rooms.
Another man - who he said "was part of the Christian Brothers paedophile ring" - collected boys from the home and abused them elsewhere, the inquiry heard.
Mr Hanley was one of thousands of children moved from the UK to Australia after World War Two.
He said the Christian Brothers withheld his real name, which prevented him tracing his real family later in life.
"I believe it was part of the cover-up to ensure my mother could never find me," he said.
Many years later, when he accessed a Catholic Church document containing his mother's name, he said he discovered that "I'd had a mother all along and I'd been lied to all my life".
He had been deprived "of my family, my identity, my culture and even my own name".
"What kind of country would do that to its own little children," he asked the panel.
Former child migrant Michael O'Donoghue gave evidence in person to the inquiry.
He was sent to Australia in 1953 and said that Christian Brothers at the Clontarf home had made children kill stray cats.
Some cats had been burned alive and even roasted over camp fires, he told the panel.
Mr O'Donoghue described being raped by two members of the order - Brother Murphy and Brother Angus - but said he had been too scared to report what was happening for fear of being beaten.
Describing the sexual abuse, he said he still blamed himself "in a sense" even though he knew he should not.
"It was disgusting then and I still think it's disgusting," he said.
Another former child migrant described to the inquiry the abuse she suffered at Goodwood Orphanage near Adelaide.
The anonymous witness - who was sent to Australia in 1949 - said "she was beaten into submission" by the time she left the home.
She gave evidence that during her time at the orphanage, the institution was visited by the then Archbishop of Adelaide Matthew Beovitch.
A group of the British girls "got together" and decided to tell him about the beatings.
The inquiry heard that when he asked whether they were happy, they said "mother superior beats us all the time with her strap".
The archbishop demanded the strap, asked the nun to promise she would not hit the girls and then asked: "Are you happy now children?"
But after telling the archbishop, the girls were "thrashed" with a wooden chair leg by the mother superior. The witness said she was unable to sit down for a week after the incident.
The witness also described being sexually abused by a man in the cabin of the ship that was transporting her to Australia.
The captain of the vessel took the girl through its decks looking for the man, who she identified.
The inquiry was shown a letter from the Orient Steam Navigation Company regarding the sexual assault on the child migrant ship.
The letter described the incident as "unpleasantness" and said that no physical harm was done.
"What a shocking lie. That's a terrible lie," said the witness.
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Child migrant 'ate grain meant for pigs'
A key area of the inquiry will be what the institutions involved in child migration knew about the mistreatment of the children they were responsible for the care of.
This week, the inquiry has heard harrowing evidence of sexual and physical abuse, none of which was reported to the police.
The inquiry will be given further evidence about what action was taken. | A former child migrant has described the Australian orphanage he was sent to as "a concentration camp". |
39,335,613 | Substitute Elliott Whitehouse thought he had won it for the Imps with 10 minutes remaining but Deacon, the star of Sutton's memorable run to the fifth round, pegged the visitors back to leave them top on goal difference alone ahead of Tranmere Rovers.
Just over a fortnight after their cup adventure came to an end with a 5-0 quarter-final defeat at Arsenal, Lincoln ran out at Gander Green Lane - the scene of Sutton's loss to Arsene Wenger's side in February.
Sutton created the better chances in the first half and captain Jamie Collins controlled the ball and spun in front of the same goal he scored the penalty which knocked out Leeds, but skied his effort from 10 yards.
Bedsente Gomis then headed narrowly over from Kevin Amankwaah's long throw-in moments before half-time.
Early in the second half Sean Raggett, Lincoln's goalscoring hero against Burnley, almost repeated the trick with a downward header which was deflected up on to the crossbar.
Burly Imps striker Matt Rhead was then frustrated by a fine reaction save from Will Puddy, who kept out a fierce volley at the far post.
Lincoln got their noses in front when Sam Habergham swung in a late corner which Whitehouse rose highest to nod home.
But the final word went to Deacon, who charged at a tiring Lincoln defence before lashing the ball high into the net from the edge of the box.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Sutton United 1, Lincoln City 1.
Second Half ends, Sutton United 1, Lincoln City 1.
Goal! Sutton United 1, Lincoln City 1. Roarie Deacon (Sutton United).
Substitution, Sutton United. Craig Dundas replaces Kevin Amankwaah.
Goal! Sutton United 0, Lincoln City 1. Elliot Whitehouse (Lincoln City).
Substitution, Lincoln City. Adam Marriott replaces Lee Angol.
Substitution, Sutton United. Adam May replaces Adam Coombes.
Substitution, Sutton United. Daniel Spence replaces Gomis.
Lee Angol (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Elliot Whitehouse replaces Alan Power.
Jamie Collins (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half begins Sutton United 0, Lincoln City 0.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Harry Anderson replaces Terry Hawkridge.
First Half ends, Sutton United 0, Lincoln City 0.
Alan Power (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Roarie Deacon ensured the battle of the FA Cup giant killers ended all square with a stoppage-time equaliser as Sutton drew with National League leaders Lincoln. |
33,518,258 | Film studio Warner Bros is looking for a girl between the ages of eight and 12 to play the character of Modesty.
"Modesty is a haunted young girl with an inner strength and stillness," the studio said. "She has an ability to see deep into people and understand them."
The casting call will take place at the Excel Centre in London on Saturday.
The chosen youngster will star opposite Eddie Redmayne in what is bound to be one of the biggest film releases of next year.
Rowling has written the script for the film, which is based on a Harry Potter spin-off book she published in 2001.
Redmayne will play "magizoologist" Newt Scamander, who writes a Hogwarts School textbook about the weird and wonderful fictional creatures he encounters.
Hopeful actresses have been invited to start queuing from 9am on Saturday.
They will follow in the footsteps of actors Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, who played Ron Weasley and first heard about Harry Potter auditions on Newsround more than 15 years ago.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is expected to be released on 18 November 2016. | An open audition is to be held to find a girl to star in JK Rowling's Harry Potter spin-off film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. |
33,788,816 | The new contestants will be battling it out to be crowned Britain's top baker.
The competition is really tough.
The bakers will have to create spectacular show-stoppers, and take on tricky technical challenges every week to impress the judges.
Nancy Birtwhistle was crowned the winner in 2014 with a spectacular baked windmill.
The giant cake was made out of ginger and orange biscuit, with red caramel sails.
This chat page is now closed. | The Great British Bake Off returns to our screens on Wednesday. |
39,967,455 | Investigators say they believe Pavel Tveretinov, from Sacramento, stole hives for more than three years.
Bees are a huge industry in California where they are rented out to pollinate almond trees and other valuable crops.
Mr Tveretinov, 51, was arrested on suspicion of possessing stolen property and released on bail.
Detectives investigating a long spate of thefts got a break in the case in April when a tip-off led them to an address outside the city of Fresno, the Los Angeles Times reported.
There they found Mr Tveretinov in a beekeeper suit tending to more than 100 hives. He was arrested when it became clear that the beehives had been stolen.
Authorities suspect he had been stealing the hives at night, when the bees are dormant, and renting them out for cash.
Investigators in Fresno say Mr Tveretinov is suspected of stealing 2,500 hives worth about $875,000.
Thefts of beehives have become increasingly common around the world in recent years.
In March, police in New Zealand revealed that 400 thefts had been reported over a six month period. The country's honey industry has been booming, with huge exports to markets in Asia. | A beekeeper has been arrested on suspicion of stealing thousands of beehives, worth almost $1m (£770,000), from Californian almond orchards. |
33,005,307 | The transporter ship Courage caught fire off the coast of Essex on Tuesday and arrived in Southampton a day later.
Scores of damaged vehicles are expected to be found when firefighters open the deck. It is hoped the inspection can take place on Friday.
Hampshire Fire and Rescue said it needed to "confirm there were no remaining pockets of fire".
The BBC understands the ship was carrying about 600 vehicles and around 100 have been damaged.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency has issued a "prohibition notice" to stop the ship being moved until deemed safe.
A spokesman said there were no issues in terms of pollution because the fire had been contained.
A Hampshire Fire and Rescue spokeswoman said: "The ship was monitored throughout the night with no obvious signs of fire and the compartment remaining cool. This situation remains the same with no immediate danger or threat of fire.
"Crews are currently in attendance at the dock and continue to work in partnership with the key partner agencies: the ship's owners, Harbour Master and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, to assess the affected compartment.
"The next steps are to asses the damage, confirm there are no remaining pockets of fire and start the ventilation process to make the vessel safe for other agencies and crews."
The crew of the US-registered Courage, which was 40 miles off Harwich on the Essex coast, tackled the blaze using the ship's inbuilt CO2 system after fire broke out on board on Tuesday night.
The vessel, which was heading to Southampton, spent Wednesday afternoon anchored off the Isle of Wight.
Specialist firefighters from Hampshire were winched on board before it completed its journey.
Owner American Roll-On Roll-Off Carriers said it did not know how much damage the ship or the cargo had sustained.
It was carrying a mix of commercial and US military vehicles, it added. | Firefighters are yet to assess the damage on a cargo ship that caught fire while travelling to Southampton. |
37,336,610 | It said "ultimately we don't control the roads" and urged vehicles not to cut through Axbridge, in Somerset, but to "stick to the main road".
Mayor Ian Laken said road works caused by digging up the A371 "will have an impact on the town".
The £27m project involves laying 30km of new water main from Barrow Gurney to Cheddar to supply 280,000 homes.
Ben Newby, from Bristol Water, said: "It's a very narrow piece of road there and could cause all sorts of problems - so people really need to stick to the main road.
"We apologise in advance for the disruption. It is inevitable with a scheme of this size but we do need to put the pipeline in to secure the supply for now and for the future."
Mr Laken said: "The major concern is how it will impact on the town and the traffic. There's only one way in and one way out into Axbridge.
"If the road works take place on the bypass, thereby shutting one lane and having traffic lights, people may use it as a cut-through. This will snarl up the town.
"We can't stop people coming through the town but we would ask people not to use it as a shortcut."
He said they had "expressed their fears" to Bristol Water and said the company had been "extremely positive in liaising with us".
A public meeting is taking place at Axbridge Town Hall at 19:30 BST. | Bristol Water is warning drivers not to use a town as a shortcut while a 30km (19 mile) pipeline is built. |
31,627,613 | The suspension - the third one of the season - will now last a week and cover just the Greek Super League.
The government took action in a bid to crack down on football violence.
The suspension follows violence at Sunday's Super League match between Olympiakos and Panathinaikos, as well as a brawl between club officials at a board meeting on Tuesday.
It had been announced earlier on Wednesday that all professional matches would be suspended "indefinitely".
But after a second meeting with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, deputy sports minister Stavros Kontonis confirmed that the suspension would be limited to this weekend's top-flight action.
Kontonis said the government and football authorities would reconvene next Wednesday and the Super League would only resume on condition that promises given for containing crowd violence were adhered to.
Deputy sports minister Kontonis: "Under the current circumstances, it is impossible to have Super League games played this weekend.
"The decision of the government regarding the combatting of violence is definitive and irrevocable. If the situation remains the same, there will be another suspension."
Greek football journalist Panos Polyzoidis, who was at the Panathinaikos-Olympiakos match, told BBC Radio 5 live: "The league was recently suspended, but this decision indicates the government's inability to come up with concrete measures to tackle the problem.
"Football-related violence has been going on 30 or 40 years and the state has not taken any systematic measures to tackle problem. The suspension will make no difference."
Fans hurled flares, rocks and bottles at officials during Panathinaikos's 2-1 victory over leaders Olympiakos. An executive meeting of Super League officials was then called off after a Panathinaikos official claimed he had been punched by Olympiakos security personnel.
The first suspension followed the death of a fan after clashes between fans of third-division teams Ethnikos Piraeus and Irodotos. The second followed an assault on the assistant director of the refereeing committee. | The Greek government has backtracked on its decision to suspend professional football in the country indefinitely. |
38,489,024 | Police were called to the river near Holly Terrace at about 13:30 GMT on Sunday.
With the help of North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, the body of a man was recovered from the water a short time later.
Officers are investigating how the man, who has not yet been identified, came to be in the river.
In recent years there have been concerns about the number of deaths in the River Ouse and the Foss, also in York.
Three people died in the rivers in 2011, including 21-year-old Richard Horrocks, who jumped from a balcony to celebrate his last shift at a bar.
York student Megan Roberts, 20, soldier Tyler Pearson, 18 and Ben Clarkson, 22, who was found in the Foss after he went missing, all died in 2014.
Soldier Stephen Fry, 20, died in 2015 and student Christian Palmer, 20, died in July 2016. | A man's body was pulled from the River Ouse in York after it was spotted by a member of the public on New Year's Day. |
35,978,129 | The 36-year-old was appointed on 31 December after six games as interim boss, when the Glovers were the Football League's bottom club.
He took over following the departure of former manager Paul Sturrock.
Way's side have lost just three of their 16 league games since and have climbed to 19th in the table, 14 points clear of the relegation zone.
Way, whose previous contract had been due to expire this summer, was part of the Yeovil team that reached the Football League in 2003.
His career, which included 273 appearances for Yeovil, was ended after a car crash in February 2010 and he subsequently joined the Somerset club's coaching team.
"We have found an extraordinary leader and manager in Darren, who has the full backing of everyone at Huish Park, not only to build a squad, but a club that will achieve and sustain League One status within the next five seasons," chairman John Fry the club website.
Way added: "I feel very proud and honoured to have signed a new contract.
"I have a vision for the club where I can nurture the future talent; this is a fantastic football club to build a future for and I will take 100% responsibility in making sure I do that." | Yeovil Town manager Darren Way has signed a new three-year contract with the League Two club. |
35,154,411 | Zuhair Kutbi's lawyer and son said half the sentence was suspended, but that he was also banned from writing for 15 years and travelling abroad for five, and fined $26,600 (£17,900).
It is not clear on what charges Mr Kutbi was found guilty.
He is believed to have been detained in July after saying Saudi Arabia should become a constitutional monarchy on TV.
The 62-year-old is the latest in a string of human rights activists, reformists, journalists, and dissidents to have been jailed in the Gulf state.
Before Monday, Mr Kutbi had been sentenced to months in prison and fined at least three times since the 1990s for calling for reforms and criticising prison conditions in Saudi Arabia, according to Amnesty International.
He had also reportedly been made to sign a pledge not to discuss public issues with the written or broadcast media, or on his social media accounts.
However, during an appearance on the satellite TV channel Rotana Khaleejia on 22 June, Mr Kutbi spoke about "what he regarded as necessary reforms in Saudi Arabia, including transforming the country into a constitutional monarchy and combating religious and political repression", Human Rights Watch said.
The comments attracted considerable attention on social media, and on 15 July security officers arrested Mr Kutbi at his home in the city of Mecca.
On 10 August, HRW said Mr Kutbi was being held without charge, but that investigators had suggested to members of his family that he might face trial for inciting public opinion, insulting the judiciary, or offending symbols of the state.
Mr Kutbi's lawyer, Ibrahim al-Midaymiq, and his son Jameel confirmed his latest prison sentence in separate posts on Twitter on Monday, but gave no other details. | A Saudi writer who has called for political reform is reported to have been sentenced to four years in prison. |
37,653,459 | The activist group ILGA-Europe called it "clear progress" that "another European country has dispensed with the shameful practice of sterilisation".
But it regretted that trans people in France will still have to get a court to recognise their gender change.
Laws in Denmark, Malta, Ireland and Norway have gone further, it said.
In those countries, legal gender recognition relies on the principle of "self-determination" - dispensing with medical or judicial requirements.
That principle was also advocated by the Council of Europe - the top European human rights watchdog - in an anti-discrimination resolution last year.
The Council of Europe says transgender people often face discrimination in Europe, in the workplace, housing, health services or in the form of bullying and hate speech.
Gender has to be specified on passports, driving licences and many other essential documents.
Activists estimate there are tens of thousands of transgender people in France, but there are no official figures.
The French law passed on Wednesday gives trans people - adults and minors - the right to change their legal status in court. Previously such a change required proof that the person had been sterilised irreversibly.
Stephanie Nicot, head of the French LGBT Federation, deplored the fact that trans people would still have to go to court. "We're not offenders, and judges have more important things to do!" she said, quoted by Le Figaro (in French).
The UK, Spain and some states in the US also no longer require transgender people to be sterilised before they can get their gender officially changed. | Gay and transgender activists have welcomed a new French law that lets transgender people change their legal status without having to be sterilised. |
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Blues started well and led 10-3 after Kristian Dacey's try, but shipped 19 points after full-back Dan Fish was yellow carded for a professional foul.
Two tries by Eli Walker and scores by Alun Wyn Jones and Dmitri Arhip secured a bonus point before half-time.
Further tries by Ben John, Dan Evans and Josh Matavesi hammered home Ospreys' dominance, with Tom James and Rey Lee-Lo replying for Blues.
The result lifts the Swansea-based side into second place in the Pro12 table behind Ulster - who lost to Connacht - and overtaking the Blues, who suffered their second defeat of the season, in the process.
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Ospreys coach Steve Tandy created the biggest headlines in the build-up to the game when he selected Sam Davies at fly-half ahead of Wales number 10 Dan Biggar.
And the 23-year-old stand-off rewarded his coach's faith with an assured performance before giving way to Biggar on the hour.
But his task was made easier by the dominance of the home pack after they saw-off Blues' energetic opening.
The match also saw the return to action of Ospreys flanker Dan Lydiate, who came off the bench for his first game since 29 May, when he was injured captaining Wales against England.
But wing Jeff Hassler was taken off the field on a stretcher with an ankle injury, and Wales scrum-half Rhys Webb limped off late in the game.
Blues, so impressive in winning their opening four games of the season, were ruthlessly punished whenever they made mistakes.
They were in the driving seat when Fish had a clearance kick charged down by Davies, and the full-back compounded the error when he pulled back the fly-half.
Referee Nigel Owens produced a yellow card and by the time Fish returned to the action Ospreys had scored three tries and were leading 22-10.
Moldova prop Arhip's try secured a bonus point before half-time and any hopes of a second-half fight back were extinguished when John scored 26 seconds after the interval after Blues made a hash of the re-start.
Evans' try was reward for another fine attacking display, while man-of-the-match, Ospreys flanker James King, had a serious rival for that honour in the shape of his captain and second row Jones.
Ospreys: Dan Evans; Jeff Hassler, Ben John, Josh Matavesi, Eli Walker; Sam Davies, Rhys Webb; Nicky Smith, Sam Parry, Dmitri Arhip, Bradley Davies, Alun Wyn Jones (Capt), James King, Justin Tipuric, Dan Baker.
Replacements: Scott Baldwin, Paul James, Ma'afu Fia, Rory Thornton, Dan Lydiate, Tom Habberfield, Dan Biggar, Ashley Beck
Cardiff Blues: Dan Fish; Blaine Scully, Garyn Smith, Rey Lee-Lo, Tom James; Gareth Anscombe, Lloyd Williams; Gethin Jenkins (capt), Kristian Dacey, Taufa'ao Filise, Macauley Cook, Josh Turnbull, Josh Navidi, Ellis Jenkins, Nick Williams
Replacements: Matthew Rees, Rhys Gill, Scott Andrews, James Down, Cam Dolan, Tomos Williams, Steven Shingler, Matthew Morgan
Referee: Nigel Owens (WRU)
Assistant Referees: Sean Brickell, Gareth Newman (WRU)
Citing Commissioner: Aurwell Morgan (WRU)
TMO: Tim Hayes (WRU) | Clinical Ospreys hammered Cardiff Blues in the first Welsh derby of the season. |
36,974,693 | If it is true that nice guys always come second, the New Zealander - who died on 3 August aged 73 - won the respect and admiration of the sport many times over... | Chris Amon was one of F1's most talented drivers never to win a race. |
35,482,001 | Chris Bakken, the project director for Hinkley Point C in Somerset, will take up a new role at US energy company Entergy in April.
EDF Energy said he had decided to return to his home country to pursue "new professional opportunities" and spend more time with his family.
He has been in charge of the £18bn Hinkley Point C project since 2011.
A final investment decision for the nuclear project was postponed by EDF Energy last month.
Hinkley is due to start generating power in 2025, and is expected to provide 7% of the UK's electricity once it is running. | The man in charge of Britain's first new nuclear power plant in 20 years is to leave the project. |
37,506,331 | Wayne Keightley, 42, of Rutland Street, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, had already been convicted of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal.
Leicester magistrates sentenced him to 10 weeks prison and banned him from keeping a pet for three years.
The RSPCA, which brought the case, said Gypsy was left "terrified and in pain" but was now recovering well.
Keightley claimed the female Staffordshire bull terrier fell as he tried to escape a gang who had broken into the flat.
He said he threw a vase through the second floor window before jumping himself and breaking his ankle.
His trial earlier this month heard he told paramedics at the scene he had been drinking and had taken drugs.
The defence insisted Keightley had been a "dog lover all his life".
District Judge Tim Daber said: "Thankfully the injuries seem to be superficial, but it was the result of quite an horrific act, for whatever reason that act was committed."
Keightley was jailed for a further four weeks after activating a suspended sentence for knife possession. | A man who committed a "horrific act" in throwing a nine-week-old puppy out of a upstairs window has been jailed. |
34,867,312 | Operator EDF Energy said the cracks in three graphite bricks were found during planned maintenance on Reactor Three.
The firm insisted there were no safety implications and the finding had no impact on the operation of the reactor.
A similar issue - known as "keyway root cracking" was identified in Hunterston's other reactor last year.
EDF Energy said it was publicising the latest findings "as part of its commitment to openness and transparency".
Station director Colin Weir said: "Nuclear safety drives everything we do. This means we work within very large safety margins. This applies to graphite bricks too.
"The level of cracking which is considered reasonable is far below anything which would affect the reactor's safe operation.
"It is accepted by our regulators and materials experts that cracks will occur in some of the bricks and that the core will lose some of its mass as part of the normal ageing process."
Mr Weir added: "The observations were anticipated and are in line with our understanding, so our view of the best estimate lifetime planning date of 2023 has not changed."
Hunterston B has two advanced gas-cooled reactors, similar to those found at nuclear plants around the UK.
The core of the reactors is made up of thousands of graphite bricks.
The station began operating in 1976 and its working life has already been extended to 2023 - well beyond its planned closure date.
Scottish energy minister Fergus Ewing said he had received assurances that there were "no immediate" safety implications and it was safe to continue generating electricity - but the problems illustrated that Scotland's nuclear facilities had a limited lifespan.
He added: "The Scottish government is opposed to the building of new nuclear capacity in Scotland, as it would divert billions of pounds away from renewable alternatives where Scotland has a key competitive advantage.
"Subject to strict safety considerations, extending the operating life of Scotland's existing nuclear stations can help to maintain security of supply while the transition to renewables and cleaner thermal generation takes place."
WWF Scotland director Lang Banks said the issue with cracks in both reactors emphasised the need "to embrace the clean energy transition".
He said: "Despite the assurances given by the nuclear industry, with cracks now found in both reactors it's clear the problem is spreading and that we can expect this facility to become even more unreliable in the future.
"News of more cracks in the country's ageing fleet of nuclear power stations underscores why we're right to be taking steps to harness cleaner, safer forms of energy." | Cracks have been discovered in bricks which make up the core of one of two nuclear reactors at the Hunterston B power station in Ayrshire. |
26,714,184 | Former children's minister, Tory MP Tim Loughton, said the £438m reduction in spending was "disproportionate".
Youth workers warned that the long-term cost of the cuts would be "enormous".
But the Local Government Association said funding cuts meant there were "no easy choices" and spending on things like child protection came first.
The figures, released to BBC Radio 4's World at One after a Freedom of Information request to the Department for Education, outline the amount spent by local authorities on providing services like youth clubs and other out-of-school activities.
The spending also covers education for excluded pupils, teenage pregnancy services and drug and alcohol support programmes.
Figures from s251 budget statements. Some councils may fund youth services from other budgets
They show that, in real terms, the amount spent by councils fell from £1.2bn in 2010-11, to £791m in 2012-13.
The biggest cut in percentage terms was in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea which reduced its budget by 78%, or £5.1m, while Tower Hamlets cut spending by £9.4m - a 65% reduction.
Outside the capital, Tameside, Stoke-on-Trent and Warrington all cut spending by more than 70%.
The amount being spent increased in seven out of 152 areas, including Oldham and Hertfordshire.
Tory MP Tim Loughton, who was children's minister until September 2012, said "councils clearly are cutting youth services disproportionately".
He said a requirement that councils must provide "sufficient leisure-time activities" for teenagers, but only "so far as reasonably practicable", meant youth services were a "soft touch".
"Because they don't have to statutorily provide youth services they have too often been at the top of the queue when cuts come along," he said.
Mr Loughton also described a decision to move responsibility for young people from the Department for Education to the Cabinet Office as a "retrograde step".
He said youth policy "should be back in the Department for Education where you've got that clear interface with what young people do in schools".
Fiona Black, chief executive of the National Youth Agency - the national body for youth work, said the cuts will lead to problems in the long term.
She said: "We're going to see more young people in the criminal justice system, more young people who perhaps aren't engaging in education. The cost of that to taxpayers is enormous compared to the very small investment in youth services."
But David Simmonds, who chairs the Local Government Association's children and young people's board, said councils faced "no easy choices".
Some councils, he said, "have been badly affected by the level of reductions in government funding and that's meant we've seen some areas where the level of funding going into youth services has gone down really quite substantially".
He added that councils had to prioritise some services over others.
Mr Simmonds said: "The government has made some decisions about how to respond to the overall austerity situation.
"Councils are faced with rapidly rising demand, in particular for child protection services. So in order to fund that we need to look at the things that have a less direct and less immediate impact on the lives of children and young people."
Update 2 April 2014: Kensington and Chelsea points out that the reduction in its funding is because youth services have been spun off in a free-standing staff mutual which is funded separately.
Listen to the full report on The World at One at 13:00 on BBC Radio 4 or catch up later on BBC iPlayer. | The amount of money spent on services for teenagers in England has fallen by 36% in the past two years, according to figures released to the BBC. |
12,429,234 | Japan has been through two lost decades, while China has been growing at a breakneck pace.
With its population shrinking, Japan needs to look overseas for growth to avoid being left further behind, but there is concern that instead, the young are becoming more inward looking.
It is recruitment season in Japan and for those soon to graduate, the pressure is on.
Dressed almost identically in black suits, they crowd into recruitment fairs where companies mount presentations about their businesses.
This is the starting point for the next generation of salarymen, who even these days stand a good chance of holding a decent job for life.
But few companies will consider those who have already graduated.
So the students must succeed now, or risk being condemned to the growing ranks of temporary, insecure workers.
Seisuke Hayashi, who goes to the well-respected Waseda University, is starting early.
He isn't due to graduate until next year, but he spends his Friday evenings being coached for job interviews and pays for the privilege.
First lesson, how to enter the room. The approved method is march confidently, briefcase in right hand, coat folded over left arm, before stopping and bowing.
He would have liked to study abroad, but missing the recruitment round, the company seminars, fairs and interview sessions is just not worth the risk.
The number of Japanese going to foreign universities has fallen by a fifth since 2004.
"The Japanese are afraid of doing something different," says Seisuke Hayashi. "We are lacking in initiative. We like to follow in each other's footsteps, graduate after four years at university and get a job. That's the mainstream."
In Ginza, Tokyo's glitziest shopping street, the coaches carrying Chinese tourists are a reminder of the changing economic order.
They're big spenders now and many of the shops have signs in their windows confirming they welcome Chinese credit cards.
Business leaders here regularly complain that Japan's young have become more inward looking even as the economy has fallen behind.
And that's a problem, because Japan's own population is ageing and shrinking.
Some companies and individuals are waking up to the outside world and the prospects it offers.
The clothes chain Uniqlo has one of its flagship stores in Ginza.
There's little prospect of growth in Japan, so it is already opening stores abroad.
The company has declared its ambition to be the biggest chain in the world by 2020, but there was a problem.
With little experience abroad, most of its employees spoke only Japanese.
So they have all been told they must learn English, by this time next year.
"We need to expand stores outside of Japan," says Daisuke Hase from Uniqlo. "To do that, we need to hire people in each local market.
"At the moment, 90% of employees are Japanese. In future, it may be 10% Japanese and 90% of people outside Japan. We need to communicate with those employees and to do that, we must have one common language and we chose English."
Elsewhere, there are more signs of change.
At the Tokyo Sushi Academy, they are overturning centuries of tradition. Japan's recruitment practices are rigid, but nowhere more so than in the handling of raw fish.
To become a sushi chef usually requires a long apprenticeship, with years of mopping kitchen floors before being allowed to touch the ingredients.
But at the academy, they are teaching the basics in months.
And almost all the trainees want to open restaurants in foreign countries.
"I hope more Japanese will go abroad," says Hiroshi Shimamura as he combines raw salmon, green wasabi paste and rice into neat sushi pieces.
"When I was growing up 20 years ago, a lot of young people wanted to, but it seems that has changed. I hear people don't even want to take business trips now. It's hard for me to imagine."
Now Japan has been overtaken by China, many believe it is doomed to relative decline, to slip further down the global ranking.
Unless more of the young discover the drive to seek new opportunities for the economy abroad. | Japan's GDP figures are the final confirmation that the country has been overtaken by China as the world's second-biggest economy. |
40,769,521 | Adam Lyth top-scored with 59 as Yorkshire made 223-5 in their 20 overs.
But Hales struck four sixes and 14 fours in his 47-ball 101 before Steven Mullaney hit a six to win the game with five balls to spare.
Elsewhere, Joe Clarke hit eight sixes in an unbeaten 124 as Worcestershire beat Durham by eight wickets.
Clarke faced only 53 balls as he steered his side to victory with 11 balls remaining after former England batsman Paul Collingwood struck his and Durham's first Twenty20 century, finishing 108 not out as his side posted 201-2.
Jos Buttler made an unbeaten 80 off 43 balls but ended up on the losing side as Adam Hose marked his debut with 76 to guide Birmingham Bears to a five-wicket win over Lancashire at Edgbaston.
That victory takes the Bears level on points with Yorkshire at the top of the North Group, where they are also joined by Derbyshire, who beat Leicestershire by seven wickets in a low-scoring game.
Yorkshire's 223-5 was their joint third-highest total in T20 cricket and the most they had ever made in an away match.
In reaching their target, Nottinghamshire pulled off their biggest run chase in this format of the game and the second highest in all T20 cricket in England, beaten only by the 226-3 Sussex made to beat Essex by seven wickets at Chelmsford in 2014.
Riki Wessels and Hales got Notts' reply off to a flying start, putting on 87 for the first wicket in just 5.4 overs.
Hales went on to become only the second batsman to score a T20 century for the county after Wessels became the first to reach the landmark in the victory over Derbyshire on 21 July.
When Hales was finally removed by David Willey, Notts still needed 47 off 5.3 overs but Mullaney's 17 off six balls saw them home with plenty to spare.
Notts head coach Peter Moores said: "Today we saw an unbelievable innings by Alex Hales. He is becoming a bit of a specialist in producing extraordinary performances and in some ways he made batting look simple but still scored at an unbelievable rate."
Glamorgan moved two points clear at the top of the South Group with a 25-run victory over Kent at Canterbury.
An unbeaten 77 from former South Africa batsman Jacques Rudolph, 43 not out off 26 balls by compatriot David Miller and 50 from Aneurin Donald helped the Welsh county post 199-2.
Joe Denly hit 68 and Sam Northeast 60 in Kent's reply but they fell well short, closing on 174-4.
Somerset moved up to second after beating Sussex by 32 runs on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method at Taunton in a game shortened to eight overs per side because of rain.
Corey Anderson hit three sixes in his 41 off 17 balls, while Steve Davies contributed with 25 off 13 deliveries as Somerset made 102-3.
Only Stiaan van Zyl (42 not out) could make double figures as Sussex could only muster 71-4 in response.
What is your favourite Alex Hales limited overs innings? | England one-day batsman Alex Hales hit a century as Nottinghamshire chased 224 to beat Yorkshire by five wickets in the T20 Blast at Trent Bridge. |
35,584,562 | Jon-Paul Pittman latched onto Andy Monkhouse's header to put Grimsby ahead but Giuseppe Sole headed Bruno Andrade's free kick to equalise.
Amond struck his first of the night when he headed in Evan Horwood's cross and added to his tally soon after.
Just before half-time, Amond struck from 25 yards out to make sure of all three points for the hosts.
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Grimsby boss Paul Hurst told BBC Radio Humberside:
"Three good goals. I thought they were good play and we've had a goal disallowed, plus a couple cleared off the line.
"You just think is it going to be one of them nights and things going against you, but overall second-half I thought we were relatively comfortable.
"It keeps us that bit of a cushion at the minute. But there are a lot of teams still interested in the play-offs." | Padraig Amond scored his 24th league goal of the season to help Grimsby Town to victory against Woking. |
22,013,080 | Within hours, the five children who lived at the home were dead, while a sixth was critically ill in hospital.
By the end of the month the children's parents, Mick and Mairead Philpott, stood accused of starting the fire.
So what was it about the couple that saw them change, in the police's eyes, from parents devastated by an arson attack into suspects capable of killing their children?
Tapes played during the couple's trial at Nottingham Crown Court suggested the scene at Victory Road on the night of the fire was one of panic.
Philpott can be heard shouting down the phone to the emergency services: "Help me! My babies are trapped inside!"
The couple claimed they had been asleep in the conservatory downstairs when the fire broke out.
The six children, Duwayne, 13, Jade, 10, John, nine, Jack, eight, Jesse, six, and Jayden, five, were all upstairs.
Philpott claimed he used a ladder in what Derbyshire Police described as "apparent valiant attempts" to rescue them.
However, Det Supt Kate Meynell was starting to hear a different side to the story from the Philpotts' neighbours, who had also tried to rescue the children that night.
She said: "Within a few days they commented on how they felt they were making more effort to rescue the children and that Michael Philpott was not as instrumental as he should have been."
The fire began in the hallway, below the letterbox, where petrol had been poured. Police found a petrol can near Victory Road and a glove which was taken as evidence. The blaze was clearly arson.
The police began their investigation by eliminating those closest to the family. A man Philpott was accused of assaulting was also ruled out.
More than 5,000 statements were taken by the 88 officers working on the case. The police even checked on everyone who had bought petrol in a container within a five-mile radius of the house in the days before the fire.
But their suspicions began to centre on the couple after they gave a press conference on 16 May.
Assistant Chief Constable Steve Cotterill described Mick Philpott's behaviour as the most astonishing thing he had seen in three decades of policing.
"I would have expected him to be completely and utterly destroyed," he said. Instead, Mr Cotterill said, it was like watching an actor playing a part. "It was a sham, in my view."
Officers had to tread carefully in investigating their suspicions.
Mick Philpott had a certain celebrity status, having appeared on the Jeremy Kyle show.
The police used covert recordings in the couple's hotel room to find the evidence to back up their suspicions.
Philpott was heard to tell his wife: "You make sure you stick to your story" and "They're not gonna find any evidence are they? You know what I mean?"
The evidence led to the couple's arrest on 29 May - initially for murder, although the charges were later changed to manslaughter.
In turn, those arrests brought about a chain reaction. People who knew the couple felt able to share their suspicions with the police.
"It gave some witnesses the confidence to come forward and talk about their concerns," said Det Supt Meynell.
By early November, forensic evidence had revealed there was petrol on the Philpotts' clothing and that of the couple's friend Paul Mosley. He too was arrested.
But what motive could have prompted a father to set fire to his house with his children trapped inside?
The police discovered that on the morning after the fire, Philpott had been due to face his former mistress Lisa Willis in court over access to his four children with her. The fire was an attempt to frame her in order to win custody of them.
But while the police's case was ultimately successful, Det Supt Meynell remains sorrowful.
She said: "I would never lose sight of the fact six children have died in the most horrendous circumstances at the hands of their mother and father and their friend." | On Friday 11 May 2012, Derby woke up to the news there had been a fire at a house in the Allenton area. |
37,672,229 | Williams shone for Scarlets in their 28-11 Champions Cup win over Sale.
Caretaker Wales coach Rob Howley names his squad for the autumn internationals on Tuesday and Pivac expects to see centre Jonathan Davies feature due to his partnership with Williams.
"I thought Scott and Jonathan [Davies] combined very well and it augurs well for Wales going forward," Pivac said.
"Scott was in a moon boot for the first half of the week with a sprained toe, and so I thought he played pretty well," he continued.
"The medical team managed him really well and for him to go 80 minutes was very impressive. It was pleasing to see him step up.
"You would expect to see Jamie Roberts and Scott in the squad selection, along with Jonathan, and whichever way they go it will be a good combination."
Pivac was thrilled with the start his side made in the European Champions Cup, but knows it will still be tough to qualify sharing a group with champions Saracens and 2014-15 winners Toulon.
Saracens inflicted a first European home defeat on Toulon on Saturday, as they won 31-23 against the French side and Scarlets travel to Allianz Park to face the reigning champions in their next Champions Cup game.
"This is a very tough pool, we had a look at the Saracens v Toulon game and both of those sides are going to be a step up again," Pivac told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
"We have to keep building, take confidence from this performance and throw the kitchen sink at Saracens. This is a very, very tough pool.
"We are in with two giants of the game who in the last two years have held up the silverware. We are under no illusions it will only get tougher from here, but we need to get tougher as a group.
"There are a few areas we can improve on." | Scarlets coach Wayne Pivac says Scott Williams is making a big claim for an international starting spot. |
37,832,536 | Stephen Ackerman, 48, from Loughton, Essex, was found guilty of 18 counts of fraud totalling more than £60,000
He visited West Ham football club's training ground to sell players and backroom staff luxury Christmas hampers in December 2014.
Snaresbrook Crown Court heard £13,270 was taken from Mr Allardyce.
Ackerman will be sentenced later this month.
Snaresbrook Crown Court heard Ackerman, who went by the name Mark Kingston, took payment for the hampers using a handheld chip and pin device.
But Ackerman never supplied the goods and in the following weeks some of the victims noticed unauthorised payments, running into thousands of pounds, charged to their bank accounts.
Acting Det Sgt Jamie Snell, from Newham CID, said: "Ackerman preyed on the trust of people he approached and essentially told an elaborate pack of lies in order to get them to part with their cash.
"He defrauded a total of £61,047 from his victims and thought that due to their fame they would never report the matter to the police.
"He is a confident and accomplished fraudster and we are delighted to have received this verdict from the jury today." | A conman who tricked former England manager Sam Allardyce and striker Andy Carroll out of thousands of pounds has been convicted of fraud. |
34,981,973 | The decision, described by Nato head Jens Stoltenberg as "historic", comes 16 years after the alliance bombed Montenegro during the Kosovo war, when it was still part of Yugoslavia.
Montenegro's accession would result in "retaliatory actions", said a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Accession talks are expected to take about a year to complete.
The invitation to Montenegro is Nato's first expansion into eastern Europe since Albania and Croatia joined in 2009.
The mountainous Adriatic state of 650,000 people has a small military with about 2,000 active members.
Nato diplomats say it sends a message to Russia that it cannot veto the alliance's expansion - but Russia has said it will retaliate.
"The continued eastward expansion of Nato and Nato's military infrastructure cannot but result in retaliatory actions from the east, i.e. from the Russian side, in terms of ensuring security and supporting the parity of interests," Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Mr Peskov added that it was too early to specify what the retaliatory actions would be.
Montenegro is now on its way to becoming Nato's 29th member, some 16 years after Nato bombs were dropping on Serbian military targets in the country.
It is an indication of the dramatic changes in the region. Montenegro's government believes that its eventual membership will be good news for the western Balkans and will contribute to increasing stability in the region.
Montenegro has tiny armed forces. Its navy largely comprises two ex-Yugoslav frigates. Thus it is unlikely to be a major contributor to Nato's collective security.
For Nato it is a further demonstration that the alliance's door remains open to new members. The invitation for Montenegro to begin the process of membership has clearly irritated Moscow, which regards Nato expansion as a provocation, while Nato insists that this decision has nothing at all to do with Russia.
Montenegrins themselves remain divided over joining.
Many remain angry that Nato bombed Serbia and Montenegro in 1999 as part of a strategy to halt the killing and expulsion of ethnic Albanians in Serbia's then southern province of Kosovo.
The country has also seen an influx of Russian money, homebuyers and tourists since splitting from Serbia in 2006.
The government of Milo Djukanovic - which is in favour of joining - has resisted calls from some opposition parties for a referendum on the issue.
However, Nato diplomats point to polls that suggest public opinion is narrowly in favour of joining.
Besides Montenegro and Georgia, the other current candidates for Nato membership are Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia. | Nato has invited Montenegro to join the US-led military alliance, in its first expansion for six years. |
22,976,246 | Plans for the Westgate Centre include 70 new shops, a roof-top terrace with views over the city and a basement car park with more than 1,000 spaces.
The Westgate Alliance believes 3,000 jobs could be created. It is submitting a planning application to Oxford City Council in the summer.
An Oxfordshire Green Party spokesman called the plans "excessive".
He added: "We want this council-owned site to include more affordable housing than the current plans.
"Few cities are building this type of shopping mall due to changes in shopping habits. We think it could end up a white elephant and/or impact on other retail offerings within the city.
"Oxford's independent traders would be the worst hit."
But the owners have said the new complex will be "one of the leading shopping and entertainment destinations in the UK".
Sara Fuge, development manager, said: 'We want to create an exciting new destination in the heart of Oxford that will attract visitors from across the city and beyond."
And Bob Price, leader of the city council, said: "This is an incredibly exciting project that will transform the retail and leisure experience in Oxford."
The new development will retain the current library and add a 10,000 sq m (32,808 sq ft) John Lewis department store.
About 30 new homes, as well as cafes, restaurants, covered streets, public squares and a cinema have also been proposed.
The current building was constructed in the 1970s. Westgate Alliance wants the new complex to be completed by 2017.
A public exhibition of the proposal is running at the centre until 28 June.
Ian Hudspeth, leader of Oxfordshire County Council, said: "This is a fantastic opportunity to share these proposals with the local community and we hope to get as much feedback as possible." | A £400m project to transform a shopping complex in Oxford city centre has been unveiled to the public. |
40,653,126 | GSK wants to sell the Horlicks business in the UK, where it is marketed as a bedtime drink.
The company wants to keep the Horlicks business in India where it marketed as a nutritional drink to children and has seen strong growth.
A sale would be the first major move by chief executive Emma Walmsley who succeeded Sir Andrew Witty in April.
Earlier this year, when revealing her first set of results as GSK's boss, Ms Walmsley said that she wanted to prioritise GSK's drugs business.
"I want to make that more at the heart of where we spend our leadership time and what we spend our time talking about," she said at the time.
Pharmaceuticals makes up the bulk of GSK's revenue, accounting for £16.1bn of a total £27.8bn in annual sales.
The Horlicks brand, which is more than 100 years old, is housed within the consumer healthcare division, which Ms Walmsley led prior to taking over the top job at GSK, and it generated £7.2bn in sales over 2016.
Although Horlicks is popular in India, GSK noted when it announced its full year figures there had been a general slowing of the health food drink category in the country "which impacted the performance of the nutrition category and Horlicks in particular".
This continued in the first quarter of the year. | Pharmaceuticals giant GSK is considering selling off its Horlicks business, the BBC understands. |
29,307,130 | The young adult fiction adaptation beat two other debuts into second and third spot - Liam Neeson's A Walk Among the Tombstones took $13.1m (£8.01m) at two.
Comedy drama This Is Where I Leave You entered at number three with $11.9m (£7.3m).
The Maze Runner had a relatively low budget of $34m (£20.8m).
Based on the book by James Dashner, it tells the story of a group of teenage boys mysteriously locked inside a giant maze.
"Our little $34 million-budgeted film is pretty darn strong," said Chris Aronson, head of distribution for Fox.
"No-one had launched a young adult title in September. We took a risk, but it paid off."
Fox also had success recently with another young adult film, The Fault in Our Stars, which took $125m (£76.4m) and only cost $12m (£7.3m) to make.
"It shows the pitch-perfect strategic planning of Fox," said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak.
"Teenagers are probably the most fickle creatures on the planet to figure out. So marketing to this particular group is tricky and there have been a lot of casualties in this young adult war."
A Maze Runner sequel entitled The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials is set to open in September next year.
Last week's number one, The Good Deed, starring Idris Elba, dropped to number four. | Science fiction film The Maze Runner has debuted at the top of the North American box-office with $32.5m (£19.9m). |
33,936,119 | China's cabinet also ordered officials to "crack down unwaveringly on illegal activities to ensure safety".
The operators of the Tianjin site have been accused of "clearly violating" safety rules.
Fires were still burning 36 hours after the blasts, and chemical experts are testing for toxic gases.
There was one bright moment on Friday when 19-year-old firefighter Zhou Ti was pulled from the rubble alive, state-run news agency Xinhua reported. But 21 firefighters are reported to be among the dead and several more are missing.
The cause of the blast is still being investigated.
In a report, Xinhua said the cabinet, the State Council, had ordered "governments at all levels to reinforce the safety management on dangerous chemicals and explosives".
They should "firmly implement special regulatory measures for highly toxic chemicals such as cyanide, as well as inflammable and explosive materials".
The reference to cyanide followed reports in the People's Daily that 700 tonnes of sodium cyanide were at the Tianjin site. Ammonium nitrate may also have been present.
Officials have only confirmed that calcium carbide, potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate were at the warehouse.
Chinese officials, though, have admitted there are discrepancies between accounts from the company and from customs, and that damage to company offices had made it hard to identify the chemicals.
More than 200 chemical and biological experts from the military are on site but officials insist that the air and water quality levels in Tianjin are safe.
However, the People's Daily quoted the Beijing News as saying that sodium cyanide had now been detected in the sewage and leakage had been confirmed.
Many residents could be seen wearing air-filtering masks. One, Ma Wiehan, told Associated Press: "I don't usually wear a mask but I don't quite trust what the government says."
People's Daily said the Tianjin facility, operated by Ruihai Logistics, had "clearly violated" safety rules that say dangerous materials must be stored at least 1km (0.6 miles) away from public buildings and main roads.
State media said the manager of the Ruihai Logistics site had been detained.
In its new directive, the State Council "urged governments at all levels to learn bitter lessons from the two massive blasts and to crack down unwaveringly on illegal activities to ensure safety".
"The lessons are extremely profound," it said.
Fire officials have defended the actions of the team who responded to the initial report of a fire on Wednesday night, amid suggestions that using water on some of the chemicals could have led to the blasts.
Calcium carbide reacts with water to create the highly explosive acetylene.
Fire department official Lei Jinde said: "We knew there was calcium carbide inside but we didn't know whether it had already exploded. At that point no-one knew, it wasn't that the firefighters were stupid."
They would not have sprayed water on calcium carbide, he said, although he admitted it was a large warehouse and the team could not be sure where that substance was.
Chemical experts suggest an acetylene blast could then have detonated ammonium nitrate for a much larger blast.
There were two explosions. The first was equivalent to about three tons of TNT, the second - some 30 seconds later - was equivalent to 21 tons.
From his hospital bed, rescued firefighter Zhou Ti said: "I was knocked on to the ground by the first blast. I covered my head and don't know what happened after that."
Thousands of comments have been posted on Chinese social media hailing the firefighters' bravery.
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Fires are still sending plumes of smoke over the destroyed buildings, burned-out vehicles and crumpled shipping containers that bore the brunt of the explosions.
The Tianjin Port Group Company said dozens of its employees remained unaccounted for, according to Xinhua.
Of the 721 people injured, 25 are in critical condition and 33 are serious.
Officials said more than 6,000 residents forced to leave their homes had been relocated at several nearby schools that are being used as temporary shelters.
Rows and rows of cars were incinerated - Renault alone said it may have lost some 1,500 vehicles. | China has ordered a nationwide check on dangerous chemicals and explosives following explosions in Tianjin that left 56 dead and 721 injured. |
36,008,280 | The Briton floored his American opponent with a peach of a right-hand counter and after Martin was knocked down again, the referee called a halt.
The 26-year-old is his country's sixth bona fide heavyweight world champion.
Joshua is also just the fourth man to win a pro heavyweight world title while still a reigning Olympic champion.
And he is the first Briton to win both the super-heavyweight Olympic gold and a version of the world heavyweight title - London-born Lennox Lewis was fighting for Canada when he won the 1988 Olympic super-heavyweight title in Seoul.
Listen to BBC Radio 5 live's Mike Costello describe the closing moments of the fight
Joshua's victory now brings a super-fight against fellow Briton and WBA and WBO champion Tyson Fury a step closer.
Champion Martin, who was making the first defence of the title he won in January, entered the ring wearing a tall crown, a fur-trimmed, velvet cape and a smile as broad as his shoulders. But the smile soon disappeared.
Some thought previously unbeaten Martin, 29, would trouble Joshua with his southpaw stance - he was the first left-hander Joshua had faced in the paid ranks - but he barely threw a punch in anger.
It took Joshua half of the first round to find his range but when he did, he landed with three or four big right hands that appeared to rattle the champion.
The challenger staggered Martin with a sweet left hook early in the second, before a beautifully timed right put him on the seat of his pants.
Martin rose at eight but after another massive right put him down again, referee Jean-Pierre van Imschoot counted him out on his feet, one minute and 32 seconds into the round.
Remarkably, Joshua now has 16 knockouts from 16 pro fights and has only boxed 34 rounds in total. His only fight to go past three rounds was a seventh-round stoppage of Dillian Whyte last time out.
Joshua joins Floyd Patterson, Muhammad Ali and Leon Spinks as the only men to be professional heavyweight world champions while still reigning Olympic champions.
Patterson won middleweight gold at the 1952 Helsinki Games and went on to beat Archie Moore to claim the vacant world heavyweight title on 30 November 1956 (Gennadiy Shatkov succeeded Patterson as Olympic middleweight champion in Melbourne just one day later).
Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, won light-heavyweight gold in 1960 before dethroning Sonny Liston in 1964; Spinks won light-heavyweight gold in 1976 before dethroning Ali in 1978, in only his eighth paid fight.
While nobody has won a world heavyweight title faster than Spinks, Joshua surpasses Ali (20 fights), Lennox Lewis (22) and Mike Tyson (28).
Frank Bruno, Lewis, David Haye and Bob Fitzsimmons complete the list of Britain's heavyweight world champions. Herbie Hide and Henry Akinwande were WBO title-holders when the belt was not taken seriously by many of the elite fighters in the division.
The IBF belt was stripped from Fury when the Manchester boxer opted for a rematch with Wladimir Klitschko rather than a mandatory defence.
Should Fury beat Klitschko in their rematch on 9 July, a blockbuster meeting between the two Britons would be inevitable.
Also in the mix is former heavyweight world champion Haye, who returned to the ring with a first-round knockout of Mark de Mori in January and fights again next month. | Anthony Joshua stopped Charles Martin in two rounds at London's O2 Arena to claim the IBF heavyweight title in only his 16th professional fight. |
33,651,705 | They face tough targets to recycle household waste - and if they don't hit those targets, they will be hit hard by fines.
Over the last couple of years, this has meant changes to what rubbish is collected, when it is collected and how it is collected.
Some decisions have proved unpopular, with this fact illustrated by the reaction to Cardiff council's new system that was launched on Monday.
Cardiff was the worst-performing authority in Wales when figures for December 2014 were released, recycling 48% of its waste. The Welsh government has set each local authority a target of hitting 58% by March 2016.
In an effort to meet this target, Cardiff council has spent £1.6 million on waste collection changes that include reducing the size of its black refuse bins and sending out green waste wheelie bins.
Some residents, who don't have gardens, called the new green bins a "waste of money" and protested by taking them to city hall last Thursday, saying they "ruined" the look of the area.
Alison Hambury in Llandaff North, Cardiff, said her block of eight flats was given nine green bins and eight black bins.
"I'm all for recycling, I just don't really see the point of all the bins and I don't see how we're saving money," she said.
But Julie Richardson from Canton said she participates in surveys for the council, and had said yes to the wheelie bins.
"We used to have black bin bags and now the seagulls can't attack my bins any more. It makes the street cleaner."
Bob Derbyshire, Cardiff council's Cabinet Member for the Environment, said claims the public was not informed about the move "frankly beggars belief".
He said the council conducted a survey, consultations, and a publicity campaign.
Other councils around Wales have experienced problems. Rhondda Cynon Taf council, for example, estimated that 20% of recycling bags left by residents are "contaminated" with the wrong type of waste. It has told its workers not to collect these.
In Merthyr Tydfil, some residents complained new bins for non-recyclable were too small, while in Blaenau Gwent, there have been concerns that some residents may struggle getting new recycling trolleys up steps to their properties.
With questions raised about decisions made to avoid hefty fines, here is a look at what councils are doing around Wales.
On Anglesey, there is an alternate weekly collection of green waste and refuse alongside a weekly collection of dry recycling and food waste.
This method started as a trial in 2005 and was rolled out to the whole island by 2007. While a spokesman said there were initial "teething problems", recycling rates have improved and there have been no issues with things like fly-tipping. Anglesey was recycling 55% of its waste in December 2014, 3% short of the target required by March 2016.
Blaenau Gwent is the joint third-worst performing authority in Wales (December 2014 figures showed it recycled 51% of its waste).
To address this, it has recently started a process of sending out new Troliblocs (a stack of three recycling boxes on a wheeled trolley) to its residents. These separate paper, metals, plastics and glass and cardboard, and all houses should have these by October.
The cost of the new system will be between £3.8m and £4.3m, with some of this cost met by a Welsh government grant.
When the new system replaces the collection of bags in the Autumn, the council hopes that it will generate income as well as improving recycling rates. Because the materials are already sorted, officers estimate between £150,000 and £250,000 could be made annually. Black bags will also be collected every three weeks.
While some residents were concerned about storing the Troliblocs or moving them down steps outside their properties, the local authority said it would supply alternative systems if people were struggling to manage them.
Bridgend has one of the longest-established systems in Wales. It gave a contract in 2010, that runs until 2017, for weekly collections of paper, glass and cardboard in black boxes, plastics and tins in hessian sacks and food waste in caddies. Black bags are collected fortnightly.
The council is on target to achieve the Welsh government target of 58% by 2015-16, with rates fluctuating between 56% and 58% over the months from December 2013 to December 2014.
Caerphilly council spent £1.45 million on its recycling scheme in 2009 - this comprised of £1m for bins, £350,000 for food caddies and £100,000 towards a doorstep education campaign.
It now runs a weekly co-mingled recycling collection using the bins, a weekly food and green waste collection and a fortnightly rubbish collection.
A spokeswoman said the outlay has made a "significant" difference. Caerphilly council currently recycles 56% of its waste.
Cardiff council was the worst performing local authority in Wales, achieving 48% in December 2014. But it expects this figure to rise to 53% when a new league table is published in August.
The authority has spent about £1.6m on new wheelie bins and launched a new collection initiative on Monday.
Carmarthenshire council officers believe they are on course to hit the 60% recycling mark for 2014-15.
Its system was introduced in 2008 and is reviewed regularly, with minor changes made.
Food waste is collected weekly, while blue bags for mixed recyclables and black bags for non-recyclables are collected on alternate weeks. In addition, the council has five household waste recycling centres and 170 bring-it-yourself sites.
Between December 2013 and December 2014, Ceredigion's recycling rate jumped higher than that of any other council in Wales - from 55% to 62%.
The system it uses sees weekly collections of different recyclable materials in a clear plastic bag and food waste, which is collected separately by the same vehicle. Residual waste is collected fortnightly.
This scheme has been in operation since 2010, and while it puts the local authority on target for 2015-16, a review is currently taking place to see if money could be saved by using an alternative collection method.
There are seven options being looked at by council officers, which include keeping the system as it is, fortnightly recycling collections and separating materials further.
Conwy collects dry recyclables (cans, paper, plastic, card and batteries) and food waste weekly. Green garden waste, textiles and small electrical items and non-recyclable waste are collected fortnightly.
The whole local authority has been covered since November 2013 and the council is confident it will meet the required rate of 58% by March 2016.
Denbighshire has had the same system in place since April 2009 and achieved a 70% recycling rate between April and June 2014.
This sees mixed dry recyclables, black bins and green bins collected fortnightly and food waste collected weekly.
Changes to garden waste collections in April, saw them switched from a free opt-in service to a chargeable collection. Projections for 2015-16 suggest that this will achieve its aim of reducing council spending by £400,000 per year.
Like most other councils, Denbighshire does not fine residents for mistakes, but leaves bins unemptied if they contain the wrong waste.
While the council has already hit the 2024-25 target (70%), officers are concerned that changes to Welsh government requirements for collections may affect its performance going forward.
In Flintshire, residents separate recycled materials, which are collected and transported in different vehicles.
This method has been in operation since 2012 and achieved a 56% rate in December 2014.
It is predicted that changes in collection methods for the 15,000 households in Dwyfor will lead to savings of £100,000. When these are rolled out completely to the 19,000 homes in Meirionnydd and 26,000 in Arfon, Gwynedd council predicts it can make annual savings of £414,000.
Currently, the council collects food waste brown bins and blue boxes for recyclables weekly, and brown wheelie bins for garden waste fortnightly.
The changes in Dwyfor, introduced in October 2014, and recently to Meirionnydd, will see non-recycled waste collected every three weeks. A nappy collection service has also been introduced, as well as a three-tiered cart to make recycling easier.
A spokesman said: "We are confident that the new arrangement will help to avoid the substantial financial penalties that the council (and by extension Gwynedd residents) would face if it was to fail to hit national recycling and landfill targets."
A new system was introduced in January, with officers saying it is too early to predict the impact it will have on recycling rates (Merthyr Tydfil was the joint third-worst recycler in Wales in December 2014, with a figure of 51%). However, it is hoped the new system will bring savings of £1,038,000 annually.
The Welsh government gave the council £2m to improve rates last August. The first phase was rolled out in January, when 240 litre wheeled bins were replaced by new 140 litre bins. At the time, some residents took to Facebook to complain these were not big enough to fit all their rubbish in.
From June, residents were also asked to separate their recyclables rather than put them in the same container, while garden waste collections changed from weekly to fortnightly and seasonal from April to November.
Monmouthshire council has been running a scheme for over five years where it collects residual waste fortnightly and recyclable material weekly. This achieved a rate of 65% by December 2014.
There has been a recent change to collection days, that allow vehicles to cover the whole area quicker. It is hoped this will save the local authority around £250,000 a year.
The local authority is on track to achieve 58% recycling by March 2016, after posting a figure of 57% in December 2014.
It has introduced a number of initiatives aimed at improving rates, including Recycle Plus, which was launched in July 2014. This saw a 180 litre bag sent out to residents, which allows them to recycle a wider range if items, such as plastic, card, cartons and aerosols.
In Newport, blue boxes for papers, mobile phones, printer cartridges and textiles, green boxes for glass, cans and aerosols and food caddies are collected weekly. Garden waste and cardboard collections take place fortnightly.
In December 2014, the local authority recycled 52% of its waste.
Pembrokeshire has a twin stream system, where mixed dry recyclables are collected in sacks while there are separate containers for collecting food and glass. It achieved a rate of 65% in December 2015, meaning it has already hit its 2015-16 target.
Powys currently collects recycling weekly in a kerbside multi-box system that comprises of an aqua box for glass, blue box for paper and card, a red box for plastic and cans and a kitchen caddy for food waste.
This has helped Powys achieve a rate of 52% and there are no plans to change it.
However, the council will be holding a consultation in August as it considers a plan to collect rubbish every three weeks. As well as encouraging residents to recycle more as it seeks to achieve an "extremely challenging" rate by 2015-16, it hopes this would also save the council £500,000 a year.
In December 2014, it recycled 50% of its waste.
The council estimated that 20% of bags left out for recycling are contaminated with wrong types of waste and now leaves stickers on these without collecting them.
Swansea has trialled a number of different methods in an effort to increase its recycling rate.
In April, 3,200 pink recycling bags were sent out to residents in St Thomas, Bonymaen, Pentrechwyth, Pontlliw and Pontarddulais as part of a trial.
These were twice the size as the old bags used, and designed to be heavier so they did not blow away.
In December 2014, Swansea recycled 57% of its waste.
Currently, Torfaen recycles 52% of its waste, but hopes changes to collections will help it achieve the target of 58%.
Recyclables and food waste are collected weekly and cardboard and green waste fortnightly. From September, black wheelie bins will be changed from a 240 litre size to 140 litres. "Many residents continue to use their wheelie bins to dispose of waste that could be recycled - by reducing the amount of general waste we collect we expect to see an increase in recycling rates," a spokesman said.
This change is not expected to free up any extra cash, with any savings countered by the cost of the new bins.
In April 2015 changes were made, with the most significant, a new charge for the collection of bulky items of £15 for up to three pieces. It is hoped this will save the authority £270,000 a year.
Despite concerns that this may lead to an increase in fly-tipping, there was a reduction in the Vale of Glamorgan between April and June 2015.
Since 2011, different recyclables and food waste have been collected weekly, with residual waste and garden waste fortnightly.
Vale of Glamorgan hit 56% recycling in December 2014, but officers say it is too early to say whether or not it will achieve 58% by 2015-16.
Residents in 350 properties recently took part in a pilot, trialling different collection ideas. What the council found was that a "one size doesn't fit all" and said it would take into account the type of home people live in before introducing new methods.
The trial took place partly because the collection fleet is "becoming old and inefficient" and will need replacing. Wrexham achieved a 57% recycling rate in December 2014.
Currently, black bags and food waste are collected fortnightly, while residents also have a blue bag for card and newspaper and green box for plastic bottles.
Tim Peppin, the Welsh Local Government Association's (WLGA's) director of regeneration and sustainable development, said that if local authorities do not meet targets, Welsh ministers have the power to impose fines.
These would amount to £200 for every tonne by which an authority fails to meet its target. For example, if an authority needs to recycle 4,000 tonnes more to hit the percentage target, it could potentially be hit with a £800,000 fine.
The Welsh government has set its authorities targets of recycling 58% by 2015-16 and 70% by 2024-25.
While in theory, large fines could be applied, in practice, Mr Peppin said this may not happen.
The target for 2012-13 was 52% and no authority was fined then for missing the target. Mr Peppin said that the possibility of fines would increase if an authority was seen to be doing nothing to improve recycling rates.
Looking at the landscape in Wales, he said Cardiff faced particular problems. With a large student population, multiple occupancy buildings such as halls of residence and a relatively high number of flats, he said it would be difficult for it to develop a standard approach for collecting across the city. Different methods would need to be employed in the different types of buildings.
Major venues and attractions such as the Millennium Stadium and Motorpoint arena also create problems in that they bring large amounts of people into the city who create waste.
He added that there are collection issues in authorities like Rhondda Cynon Taf and Blaenau Gwent, saying: "The geography of the valleys creates challenges associated with inaccessible back lanes, difficulties taking waste receptacles through terraced houses, lack of space on pavements at the front of some properties and delays to traffic caused by collection vehicles."
However, a Wales-wide rate of 56% puts the country well ahead of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, who are all around the 45% mark.
The European Union target is currently 50%, although discussions have taken place over increasing the level to 70%.
Despite Wales' good target-led results in comparison to the rest of the UK, Rhondda Cynon Taf leader Andrew Morgan, who is the WLGA spokesman on waste, said the aim of "no waste by the 2050s" is unrealistic.
He said: "The concern is the next target (after 2015/16) is 70%, that's why some local authorities are going to three weekly collections. But each local authority must determine for itself what's best in its own area.
"The targets do get more challenging."
Environmentalist and author Tony Juniper also called for producers to do their bit. He said there should be national standards and packaging such as films, cans and plastics should be designed to fit in with recycling schemes. | Where there's muck there's brass goes the saying - as Welsh councils have been finding out. |
39,849,848 | The area close to Mullaghfad Forest, near Fivemiletown, has special status due to its population of hen harriers.
It forms part of a Special Area of Protection which affords its conservation status under EU rules.
The fire service said there had been 511 gorse fires in Northern Ireland since the start of May - 302 gorse fires at the weekend.
At least 80% of the weekend fires were started deliberately, the fire service said.
Mullaghfad is part of a large forest area which includes Crocknagrally, Jenkin and Fardross forests.
It is home to about 10 breeding pairs of hen harrier, a quarter of the Northern Ireland population.
The habitat is also one of the best examples of upland blanket bog in Northern Ireland.
It is the second day that the fire service has been on the site.
Dozens of personnel are involved in battling the blaze and specialist equipment, including tanker lorries bringing water to the site, have been deployed.
It is understood the fire may have been started in a number of different locations.
There has been a consistent problem of unregulated burning in the area.
In 2004, a large fire destroyed about 400 hectares of bog and destroyed hen harrier nests.
'Deliberate'
Meanwhile, the Cuilcagh Mountain trail has been closed to the public due to the gorse fire which started on Sunday.
The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) has been battling hundreds of fires in the last week.
The majority of these incidents (407) occurred in either the Southern (245) or Western (162) areas.
Downpatrick, County Down, and Lurgan, County Armagh, have been the busiest stations with 46 and 41 incidents respectively.
Area Commander Maurice Rafferty appealed to the community to "remain vigilant when in the countryside".
"Deliberate fire setting has major consequences - it ties up our vital resources from other more serious incidents and potentially puts people and property at risk.
"These fires can easily spread and even a slight change in wind direction can pose a serious risk to life, property and the environment." | A large moor on fire in County Tyrone is a key habitat for a protected and vulnerable bird of prey. |
35,771,347 | Losses mounted in late trading to leave the FTSE 100 1.8% lower at 6,036.7 points.
Direct Line was one of several companies going ex-dividend, along with BHP Billiton, which fell 4.9%.
Supermarket chain Morrisons, which recently returned to the FTSE 100, was another big faller, shedding 4.5%.
The decline came after the retailer posted a further drop in annual profits as a result of the price war in the supermarket sector.
Shopping centre owner Intu Properties, a recent entrant to the FTSE, was the top riser, adding almost 1.5% to 299.8p.
The company, whose centres include Lakeside in Essex and the Trafford and Arndale centres in Manchester, is worth just over £4bn.
On the FTSE 250, estate agent Savills rose 5.2%, while OneSavingsBank was the biggest faller, losing 7.8%.
On the currency markets, the pound rose 0.6% against the dollar to $1.4301, but tumbled 0.9% against the euro to €1.2810. | (Close): London's leading shares closed almost 110 points lower on Thursday, with insurer Direct Line leading the slide with a 9% fall. |
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