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21,733,911 | The 28-year-old Team Sky rider, who led by 32 seconds going into Sunday's final stage - a 9.6km individual time trial - won it in 19 minutes, 16 seconds.
American Andrew Talansky was 23 seconds adrift on the stage to maintain second place overall, 55 seconds behind Porte.
Nairo Quintana was third on the stage while Jean Christophe Peraud's fourth place lifted him to third overall.
But all eyes were on Porte, who as the overall race leader was the last rider to leave the start.
He set off at a frenetic pace, led by 21 seconds at the intermediate time check and maintained his form to the finish.
His time was just four seconds outside that of team-mate Sir Bradley Wiggins, who set a record on the stage when he won the race last year.
"I can't believe it," he said. "I'm the first Aussie to win and it's just an honour to have my name up there with all the big champions like Wiggins."
Last year Wiggins went on to win the Tour de France after triumphing in the Paris-Nice but Porte said his thoughts would now return to helping his team succeed on the three-week race in July.
"I'm still doing my apprenticeship and learning off Brad and Chris [Froome] and I don't expect to ride for general classification at the Tour - maybe next year at the Giro.
"I'm in a good place at the moment and don't really want to change anything. Whatever happens we're going to have a hell of a team for the Tour de France."
Colombian Quintana had set a challenging time of 19mins 43secs which proved too tough for all but Talansky and Porte.
Talansky beat Quintana's time by four seconds but any hopes the Garmin rider might have had of taking the overall win were quickly ended by Porte. | Richie Porte produced a stunning climb up Col d'Eze to become the first Australian to win the Paris-Nice race. |
39,926,756 | The duo are included in a seven-strong team which is Ireland's biggest world championship selection since 2009.
Shane Ryan and Nicholas Quinn are included along with fellow Rio Olympian Oliver Dingley who was Ireland's first Olympic diver competitor in 68 years.
Sloan and Ferguson booked Budapest berths at last month's Irish Nationals.
Sloan, 23, broke Ryan Harrison's national 200m freestyle record from 2009 as he secured a World Championship qualifying time of 1:47.41.
The Bangor man also broke the Irish 100m freestyle record last month.
His club-mate Ferguson will compete in backstroke events in Hungary, prior to heading to the USA for his main summer target, the World Junior Championships in Indianapolis.
Sligo swimmer Mona McSharry will also gain major championship experience in Budapest before heading on to the World Juniors.
Ferguson and McSharry both won European Junior medals in Hungary last year.
American-born Ryan reached the 100m backstroke semi-finals in Rio and will also compete in several other events in Hungary.
Mayo man Quinn will swim in the breaststroke events in Hungary while Brendan Hyland will complete in the medley relay along with Ryan, Quinn and Sloan.
Sloan, Quinn, Ryan and Hyland will also compete as part of 12-strong Ireland team at the World University Games in Taipei in late August.
Ulster trio Curtis Coulter, Conor Brines and Calum Bain will also make the Taipei trip.
World Swimming Championships - Budapest 15/30 July
Jordan Sloan (Bangor), Shane Ryan (NAC), Nicholas Quinn (Castlebar), Mona McSharry (Marlins), Conor Ferguson (Bangor)
Diving
Oliver Dingley (Shamrock Diving Club)
World University Games - Taipei 20/27 August
Shane Ryan (Penn State University), Nicholas Quinn (University of Edinburgh), Jordan Sloan (Ulster University), Brendan Hyland (Dublin City University), Rory McEvoy (University of Limerick), Conor Brines (Queen's University Belfast), Darragh Greene (University College Dublin), David Prendergast (University College Dublin), Calum Bain (University of Stirling), Curtis Coulter (Queen's University Belfast)
Diving
Jack Ffrench (Maynooth University), Natasha MacManus (Princeton University)
European Diving Championships - Kiev 11-18 June
Oliver Dingley (Shamrock Diving Club), Jack Ffrench (Shamrock Diving Club) | Northern Ireland swimmers Jordan Sloan and Conor Ferguson have been named in the Irish team for the World Championship in Budapest in July. |
39,592,351 | The Takeover Appeal Board (Tab) ruled last month that King had "worked in concert" with three others to take control at Ibrox in 2015.
King did not meet Wednesday's deadline to make an offer of 20p per share.
Tab has now petitioned the Court of Session in Edinburgh in a bid to have its order enforced.
King could also face "financial cold shouldering", which means no city investors or institutions are allowed to deal with him.
At the time of last month's ruling, King said he did not agree with the findings or the share price, saying that, even if he proceeded with an offer, it would be rejected by an "overwhelming majority of RIFC's shareholders".
The Tab ruling said King, along with George Letham, George Taylor and Douglas Park, had acted as a "concert party" to acquire shares in Rangers International Football Club, rather than acting as an individual.
It said he was therefore required to make an offer to buy all the shares in the holding company.
There are approximately 87 million RIFC shares, with King, Letham, Taylor and Park owning 34%. | Rangers chairman Dave King faces a legal fight after defying an order to make an offer for all shares in the club's holding company. |
36,377,559 | Organisers of the Little Stoke Parkrun said they were given until 28 May to reach an agreement with Stoke Gifford Parish Council or "leave the park".
They have decided to cancel Saturday's free-for-all run "on safety grounds".
Last month councillors voted to charge Parkrun saying it was "unfair" to expect residents to pay for the event.
The decision was met with widespread criticism with Parkrun saying it would search for a new venue as its ethos remained to offer weekly 5k (3.1m) runs at no financial cost to each entrant.
However, on Wednesday Parkrun said it had yet to determine the long term future of the Little Stoke gathering but had to cancel the final scheduled run on the 28th.
"We appreciate that this will be frustrating to our runners and volunteers, but the last thing we want is the strength of feeling to boil over from either parkrunners or local residents," a statement online said.
"We hope to provide you with a further update next week," said the organisation.
The council said its original statement still stood which was that the three-year-old event had led to "increased wear on the park" and Parkrun had refused a request to contribute "a small monetary amount towards the upkeep". | The final Parkrun has been cancelled at the site near Bristol where a council became the first to request a contribution towards the park's upkeep. |
12,400,529 | The Egyptian-born Google marketing executive first played a role in organising the opposition through Facebook, only to disappear into police custody for 12 days.
Emerging again, he denied he had done anything heroic at all, instead paying tribute to the young activists who had been on the streets since 25 January.
But his return to the public eye - marked by an emotional TV interview on 7 February which gripped Egyptian viewers - re-energised the movement just as it seemed to be losing steam.
The fact that hundreds of thousands of protesters returned to the streets of Cairo the day after he spoke testifies to his appeal.
He was hailed on Facebook and Twitter as a hero, Egyptian blogger Issandr el-Amrani noted.
"You know how this has been a leaderless movement and they're saying they want to designate him as a leader of the youth component in this movement," Mr Amrani told the BBC World Service.
Mr Ghonim walked free after a campaign waged by Google on behalf of its marketing manager for the Middle East and North Africa.
The search engine giant may not have been aware that its Dubai-based manager had been running a popular Facebook page, with 400,000 Egyptian followers, outside of office hours, BBC technology correspondent Mark Gregory reports.
Named after Khaled Said, a businessman who died in police custody in Alexandria last year, the page played a crucial role in organising the protests.
The "We are all Khaled Said" website became a rallying point for a campaign against police brutality. For many Egyptians, it revealed details of the extent of torture in their country.
The 30-year-old executive says he was blindfolded for most of his time in custody, threatened with torture but not actually hurt.
Soon after being freed, he appeared live on one of Egypt's most watched talk shows, on the Dream 2 television channel.
"This is the revolution of the youth of the internet, which became the revolution of the youth of Egypt, then the revolution of Egypt itself," he said.
"I'm not a hero, I slept for 12 days," he continued.
"The heroes, they're the ones who were in the street, who took part in the demonstrations, sacrificed their lives, were beaten, arrested and exposed to danger."
He was shown video of some of those who had died during the protests, events he was seeing for the first time.
He burst into tears, insisting it was the fault of the authorities, not the campaigners, and left the studio - a human response that provoked a wave of sympathy.
"Ghonim's tears have moved millions and turned around the views of those who supported [Mubarak] staying," the website masrawy.com wrote two hours after the interview.
At least 130,000 people have joined a Facebook page titled "I delegate Wael Ghonim to speak in the name of Egypt's revolutionaries" since the interview, the Associated Press news agency reports.
Addressing the giant rally on Tahrir Square on 8 February, Mr Ghonim declared: "We won't give up."
Fifi Shawqi, a 33-year-old upper-class housewife, said she had come to the square with her three daughters and sister for the first time after seeing the interview with Mr Ghonim, whom she had never heard of before the TV appearance.
"I felt like he is my son and all the youth here are my sons," she told AP.
During his TV interview, the Google executive came over as a passionate Egyptian patriot, who even expressed some empathy for the officers who had interrogated him because they, too, seemed to love their country.
"They were 100% convinced that foreigners are behind us, that someone manipulates and finances us," he said.
"But if I was a traitor I would have stayed in my villa with my swimming pool in the Emirates. We are not traitors."
Google issued a statement welcoming its employee's release, without commenting on his political role.
Mr Ghonim has thanked Google for its support, explaining that he tricked the corporation into allowing him to return to Egypt from Dubai last month, citing a "personal problem".
It is not yet clear what, if any, political ambitions the young executive harbours, beyond "putting an end to all the rubbish" in Egypt. | In Wael Ghonim, Egypt's anti-Mubarak street movement finally found a hero to rally around after a period of leaderless protest. |
36,017,520 | The party, which won two seats in the 2011 election, is hoping to beat the record seven seats it secured in 2003.
Other promises include a permanent ban on fracking and recruiting 4,000 full-time equivalent teachers.
The Greens believe they have the right approach to deliver a "bold Holyrood and a better Scotland".
The party saw its membership jump to more than 9,000 in the wake of the independence referendum, which had seen the party campaign for a "Yes" vote.
It is the second political party to publish its manifesto ahead of the Scottish Parliament election on 5 May. UKIP detailed its election pledges last week.
The Greens want to see those earning more than £150,000 a year pay a 60p income tax rate - a 15p increase on the current rate - with a new 43p rate introduced for those earning £43,000 or more.
After publishing its manifesto, the party's co-convener Patrick Harvie said: "We are the only party proposing to cut income tax for those earning less than the average while asking those on high incomes to contribute a fairer share.
"Scotland can raise extra funds fairly for public services while also tackling inequality.
"Our manifesto shows how a vote for the Scottish Greens is a vote for a bolder Holyrood, for a plan to deliver lasting jobs, high-quality social care and good homes for all. The Scottish Greens are best placed to meet the challenges of our time."
The party's key pledges also include; | The Holyrood manifesto of the Scottish Greens has pledged to create 200,000 jobs in oil and gas decommissioning, renewables and housing. |
39,742,670 | The claim was included in a list of "racial micro-aggressions" in an equality and diversity unit newsletter.
But the university was criticised for being "insensitive" to autistic people who can struggle making eye contact.
It said it had made a mistake and not taken disabilities into account.
The university originally said "racial micro-aggressions" might include: "Not making eye contact or speaking directly to people."
It described the behaviours as "subtle, everyday racism" which can be alienating.
But Twitter users criticised the newsletter and academics argued the guidance was "trivialising racism".
David M. Davis tweeted: "This is just discrimination against autistic people. One sign of autism is avoiding eye contact. How dare Oxford be so insensitive."
In a series of tweets, the university replied: "We made a mistake. Our newsletter was too brief to deal adequately and sensibly with the issue.
"We are sorry that we took no account of other reasons for difference in eye contact and social interaction, including disability.
"Oxford deeply values and works hard to support students and staff with disabilities, including those with autism or social anxiety disorder."
Emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent, Prof Frank Furedi, said the newsletter's authors "need a reality check". | Oxford University has apologised for saying that avoiding eye contact could be "everyday racism" after it was accused of discriminating against autistic people. |
38,525,086 | Figures for the 2015/2016 autumn and spring terms showed the county ranked in the lowest performing 25%.
About 14% of secondary school pupils skipped 10% of their classes, compared with 12.3% of pupils nationally.
The council said the responsibility was largely that of the organisations behind the county's academies.
Following a meeting of the county council performance and scrutiny committee on Thursday, councillor John Howson said: "Frankly, the regional schools commissioner - the civil servant responsible for academies in Oxfordshire - needs to mount an inquiry into this.
"In the past I'm sure the council, as the local authority, would not have taken this without delving into what the consequences were."
The Department for Education figures, released in October, show 4,319 Oxfordshire pupils were classed as being "persistently absent" during the autumn and spring terms recorded.
As part of new Oxfordshire children's services all schools - including those under academy control - will now have a nominated community support worker in a bid to resolve absences.
The children's services comprise eight central hubs across the county, with support workers who will work alongside teachers and health workers to provide "early help for children".
Steve Harrod, the council's cabinet member for education, said: "The council has already written to schools offering to work with them to address the underlying causes of persistent absence... in addition the safeguarding board has picked up persistent absence as an issue and the council's new children's service will be supporting pupils in schools to help tackle the problem.
"If there is no improvement then there may be a case for the schools commissioner to step in." | Concern has been expressed over truancy levels in Oxfordshire schools after it emerged the county has some of the worst rates in England. |
40,300,269 | "We hope to confirm a record tomorrow which will raise some money for the many people affected by this tragedy," the pop impresario wrote on Thursday.
Cowell, who lives in the same London borough as the now burnt-out tower, called the blaze "heartbreaking".
It is not yet known which acts will appear on the single or when it will be released.
Seventeen people are known to have died in the fire, though there are fears the death toll could exceed 60.
Cowell previously produced a charity single for the victims of the Haiti earthquake.
Mariah Carey, Kylie Minogue and Sir Rod Stewart were among the stars who appeared on the 2010 version of REM's Everybody Hurts.
It has also been announced that a special "Night of Comedy" will be held at the Hammersmith Apollo in aid of people affected by the fire.
Jo Brand, Kevin Bridges, Alan Carr and Michael McIntyre are among those who are lined up to appear at the west London venue on 27 June.
Oscar-winning German composer Hans Zimmer expressed his condolences at the first of two London concerts on Thursday and pledged to donate proceeds from the evening to those affected.
"We stand with you London," he tweeted after Thursday's event at the SSE Arena Wembley. Zimmer has composed music for such films as The Lion King, Gladiator and Interstellar as well as the soundtrack for TV's Planet Earth II.
Singers Adele and Rita Ora have both made personal visits to the scene of the fire, which broke out shortly before 01:00 BST on Wednesday morning.
Adele attended a vigil that took place in west London on Wednesday night, while Ora helped out with the relief effort.
Actor and director Noel Clarke also went to assist victims, while singer Lily Allen has been on hand to give support and interviews to the media.
Former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson also used social media this week to exhort the "people of Kensington... to give what you can spare."
Other fundraising initiatives include a #Grime4Grenfell event that was held on Thursday in the Shepherd's Bush area.
In related news, the BBC has announced it is to show a different instalment of its new Saturday night singing series Pitch Battle than the one originally scheduled.
"Due to song lyrics and themes, the decision has been taken to replace the original opening episode," the corporation said in a statement.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Simon Cowell has said he intends to record a charity single to help the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire. |
34,684,973 | The blaze took hold at the Colectiv club on Friday night, causing a stampede for the exit.
Emergency response chief Raed Arafat said 155 people were being treated in hospitals in the Romanian capital.
The fire is believed to have been caused by fireworks that were let off inside the club.
"The only information we have is that fireworks were used in the club and after that the tragedy happened. Of course, this is under investigation," Mr Arafat told the BBC.
The pyrotechnics were reportedly part of a show by a heavy metal band.
Witnesses said a spark on the stage ignited some of the polystyrene decor. A pillar and the club's ceiling caught fire and there was an explosion and heavy smoke, they added.
"People were fainting, they were fainting from the smoke. It was total chaos, people were trampling on each other," Victor Ionescu, who was at the club, told local TV station Antena 3.
Up to 400 people may have been inside the club, which was hosting a free rock concert.
Local journalist Sorin Bogdan told the BBC the club was in a converted former factory with two small exit doors, only one of which was possible to open initially.
A witness quoted by Romania's state news agency said terrified concert-goers had to break the second door down to escape.
Many of those being treated in hospital were suffering from smoke inhalation and severe burns, Mr Arafat said.
At least 25 people were reported to be in serious condition at the Municipal Hospital.
Staff at another hospital said most of the people they treated were teenagers aged between 14 and 16.
Prime Minister Victor Ponta said he was cutting short a visit to Mexico to return to Bucharest.
Romania's President Klaus Iohannis wrote on his Facebook page that he was "deeply grieved by the tragic events that happened this evening in downtown."
He added: "It is a very sad day for all of us, for our nation and for me personally." | Twenty-seven people - mostly teenagers and young people - have been killed after fire broke out at a nightclub in Bucharest, officials say. |
39,747,878 | The four-time champion was 0.263 seconds clear of team-mate Kimi Raikkonen while Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas was 0.670secs off the pace.
Lewis Hamilton, seven points behind Vettel in the championship, was fourth quickest, 0.039secs off his team-mate.
Hamilton had a difficult day and also struggled on his race-simulation run.
But Bottas' form was more encouraging on the long runs, matching Vettel's pace as they practised for the first stint of the race in the final part of the session.
Vettel played down the significance of Ferrari's performance, saying: "On paper this looks like a Mercedes track and I am sure they did not show everything today.
"They did not get their lap together. The gap you see is artificial ... it is a circuit that suits them. They will be strong tomorrow."
Hamilton appeared to be struggling with his car throughout the day - he aborted his first two attempts at a fast lap, made a series of mistakes and was slower than Bottas in both sessions.
"It has generally been a tricky day," said Hamilton. "The Ferrari is definitely quickest as they have been all year so far and we will work to try to pick up some pace tomorrow."
"If we can get out tyres working properly I think we can be closer and similar. There is no difference to our car compared to the previous races so the gap is still very close between us as it has been in the past."
The Red Bulls of Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo were fifth and sixth but 1.4 seconds off Vettel's pace, and the Dutchman ground to a halt with an engine problem midway through the session.
It was another difficult day for McLaren-Honda. Stoffel Vandoorne suffered an engine problem at the end of the first session which required a change of power-unit.
That has resulted in the Belgian receiving a 15-place grid penalty because he has already used too many of the six constituent parts of the engine. Vandoorne is now on his fifth turbocharger and fifth MGU-H, the part of the hybrid system that recovers energy from the turbo, when only four changes are permitted in the entire 20-round season.
Team-mate Fernando Alonso was 12th quickest, 2.6 seconds slower than Vettel. | Sebastian Vettel led a Ferrari one-two in second practice at the Russian Grand Prix as title rivals Mercedes appeared to struggle for pace. |
40,382,876 | Snap Map lets people search for places such as schools and see videos and pictures posted by children inside.
It also lets people locate their "friends" on a map that is accurate enough to determine where people live.
Snap, the company behind Snapchat, stressed to the BBC that location sharing was an opt-in feature.
Snap Map was launched on Wednesday and was promoted as a "new way to explore the world".
Video clips and photos that members have posted publicly can be discovered on the map, while members who have chosen to share their location can also be seen on the map by those they have added as "friends".
However, members can add people they have never met to their friends list too.
A message to parents posted by St Peter's Academy in Staffordshire warned that the location-sharing feature lets people "locate exactly where you are, which building you are in and exact whereabouts within the building".
One parent described the update as "dangerous" while another said she could not find the setting to disable it.
People have expressed concern online that the app could be used for stalking or working out exactly where somebody lives.
"If you zoom right in on this new Snapchat map thing it literally tells you where everyone lives? Like exact addresses - bit creepy no?" wrote one user called Leanne.
"This new Snapchat update is awful. An invitation for stalkers, kidnappers, burglars and relationship trust issues," suggested Jade.
Snap told the BBC that accurate location information was necessary to allow friends to use the service to meet, for example at a restaurant or crowded festival, and said points of interest on the map, such as schools, were provided by third-party mapping service Mapbox.
Concerned parents could find out more information on its Privacy Center website, a spokesman told the BBC.
"With Snap Map, location sharing is off by default for all users and is completely optional. Snapchatters can choose exactly who they want to share their location with, if at all, and can change that setting at any time," a Snap spokesman said.
"It's also not possible to share your location with someone who isn't already your friend on Snapchat, and the majority of interactions on Snapchat take place between close friends." | An update to Snapchat that shows publicly posted images on a searchable map has raised safety concerns among parents. |
35,411,684 | A study has examined how long alleged conspiracies could "survive" before being revealed - deliberately or unwittingly - to the public at large.
Dr David Grimes, from Oxford University, devised an equation to express this, and then applied it to four famous collusions.
The work appears in Plos One journal.
The equation developed by Dr Grimes, a post-doctoral physicist at Oxford, relied upon three factors: the number of conspirators involved, the amount of time that has passed, and the intrinsic probability of a conspiracy failing.
He then applied his equation to four famous conspiracy theories: The belief that the Moon landing was faked, the belief that climate change is a fraud, the belief that vaccines cause autism, and the belief that pharmaceutical companies have suppressed a cure for cancer.
Dr Grimes's analysis suggests that if these four conspiracies were real, most are very likely to have been revealed as such by now.
Specifically, the Moon landing "hoax" would have been revealed in 3.7 years, the climate change "fraud" in 3.7 to 26.8 years, the vaccine-autism "conspiracy" in 3.2 to 34.8 years, and the cancer "conspiracy" in 3.2 years.
"The mathematical methods used in this paper were broadly similar to the mathematics I have used before in my academic research on radiation physics," Dr Grimes said.
To derive his equation, Dr Grimes began with the Poisson distribution, a common statistical tool that measures the probability of a particular event occurring over a certain amount of time.
Using a handful of assumptions, combined with mathematical deduction, Dr Grimes produced a general, but incomplete, formula.
Specifically, he was missing a good estimate for the intrinsic probability of a conspiracy failing. To determine this, Dr Grimes analysed data from three genuine collusions.
The first was the surveillance program conducted by the US National Security Agency (NSA), known as PRISM. This programme involved, at most, 36,000 people and was famously revealed by Edward Snowden after about six years.
The second was the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, in which the cure for syphilis (penicillin) was purposefully withheld from African-American patients.
The experiment may have involved up to 6,700 people, and Dr Peter Buxtun blew the whistle after about 25 years.
The third was an FBI scandal in which it was revealed by Dr Frederic Whitehurst that the agency's forensic analysis was unscientific and misleading, resulting in the imprisonment and execution of innocent people.
Dr Grimes estimates that a maximum of 500 people could have been involved and that it took about six years for the scandal to be exposed.
The equation he created represents a "best case scenario" for conspirators - that is, it optimistically assumes that conspirators are good at keeping secrets and that there are no external investigations at play.
Crunching the numbers from the three known conspiracies, Dr Grimes calculated that the intrinsic probability of a conspiracy failing is four in one million.
Though this number is low, the chance that a conspiracy is revealed becomes quite large as time passes and the number of conspirators grows.
The Moon landing hoax, for instance, began in 1965 and would have involved about 411,000 Nasa employees. With these parameters, Dr Grimes's equation suggests that the hoax would have been revealed after 3.7 years.
Additionally, since the Moon landing hoax is now more than 50 years old, Dr Grimes's equation predicts that, at most, only 251 conspirators could have been involved.
Thus, it is more reasonable to believe that the Moon landing was real.
Prof Monty McGovern, a mathematician at the University of Washington, said the study's methods "strike me as reasonable and the probabilities computed quite plausible".
Dr Grimes added: "While I think it's difficult to impossible to sway those with a conviction... I would hope this paper is useful to those more in the middle ground who might wonder whether scientists could perpetuate a hoax or not." | It's difficult to keep a conspiracy under wraps, scientists say, because sooner or later, one of the conspirators will blow its cover. |
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Australia thrashed Ireland, who were already eliminated after losing their first three group games, by seven wickets in Delhi.
But they needed New Zealand to beat South Africa to clinch their place in the last four.
The White Ferns duly recorded a seven-wicket victory to top the group with four wins from four matches.
Australia finished second and could face England in the semi-finals on Wednesday if England beat Pakistan in their last group game in Chennai on Monday.
England lead Group B with six points, while West Indies and Pakistan have four each and India have two.
Ireland's openers failed to score from the first 11 deliveries as Australia bowled a tight line.
Clare Shillington broke the shackles with a six and then hit three successive boundaries before falling for 22.
Cecelia Joyce hit three fours in her 22, but the Irish managed only two boundaries in the last 15 overs.
Kim Garth top-scored with 27, but took 46 balls to do so, and in total there were 65 dot balls in Ireland's 91-7.
Ciara Metcalfe dismissed Australia's Alyssa Healy for six, courtesy of a superb one-handed catch by skipper Isobel Joyce.
Garth saw off Meg Lanning, the top-ranked international women's batter, but Elyse Villani stroked six boundaries in her 43 from 35 balls, before being well caught by Lucy O'Reilly off Garth with just seven required.
Ellyse Perry finished unbeaten on 29 as Australia eased home with 40 balls to spare.
In Bangalore, South Africa were bowled out for 99 after being sent in to bat by New Zealand, with Sophie Devine and Leigh Kasperek grabbing three wickets each.
The White Ferns replied with an opening stand of 57 between skipper Suzie Bates, who hit 29 off 25 balls, and Rachel Priest, who smashed a run-a-ball 28.
Both openers fell in the space of two overs, but Devine hit an unbeaten 27 with three fours and a six to complete a dominant all-round performance. | New Zealand and defending champions Australia have qualified for the semi-finals of the Women's World Twenty20. |
39,596,927 | The decision removes any chance of Russia competing this year, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) said.
Ukraine is refusing to allow Julia Samoilova to perform at Eurovision because she has visited Crimea, the peninsula seized by Russia in 2014.
The EBU has condemned the ban.
It says Ukraine is undermining the non-political nature of the contest.
The union, which produces Eurovision, said it had offered two possible solutions to Channel One. The proposals were for Ms Samoilova to perform via satellite from Russia or for another contestant to be allowed to travel to Ukraine to take her place.
Both were rejected and the broadcaster has now announced it will not televise the event.
"Unfortunately this means Russia will no longer be able to take part in this year's competition," the EBU said. "We very much wanted all 43 countries to be able to participate and did all we could to achieve this."
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Ukraine's travel ban on the Russian performer "thoroughly undermines the integrity and non-political nature" of the contest and its mission to unite nations in friendly competition, Frank Dieter Freiling, chairman of the event's steering committee said.
But he added: "Our top priority remains to produce a spectacular Eurovision Song Contest in May."
Russia and Ukraine have been at loggerheads since the annexation of Crimea and the subsequent separatist conflict in east Ukraine which Moscow is accused of stoking.
Ukraine is hosting Eurovision because its singer, Jamala, won in Sweden last year. She took the crown with 1944, a song about Josef Stalin's mass deportation of Crimean Tatars during World War Two.
The alleged political overtones of the song annoyed many Russians.
Moscow is especially irked by the ban on Samoilova, 28, as she uses a wheelchair and the slogan of this year's Eurovision is "Celebrate diversity". | Russian broadcaster Channel One will not broadcast the Eurovision Song Contest next month because the country's competitor has been barred from host country Ukraine. |
37,312,495 | Organisers say the scheme will see them join local people to practice their English, share cultures and get involved with community activities.
Scotland has become home to 1,000 Syrian refugees since a summit was held last year aimed at helping to address the international crisis.
It has not yet been decided which councils will host the pilots.
Equalities Secretary Angela Constance said the project, which has been given £85,000 of funding, would build on the English language training all Syrian refugees have received.
She said: "We have been inundated with offers of support from the public since we launched our Scotland Welcomes Refugees website last year and I am pleased that we can take advantage of these kind offers and get people volunteering locally.
"Many of the refugees owned their own businesses or were teachers before war and terrorism forced them to flee Syria.
"I hope this project will also allow them to share their skills and talents to help strengthen and diversify our communities."
At last September's summit, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said that Scotland should accept 1,000 refugees "as a starting point for a meaningful discussion".
The UK government has agreed to resettle 20,000 Syrian refugees through its vulnerable persons resettlement (VPR) scheme over the next five years. | An English language project for Syrian refugees living in Scotland is to be piloted by four local authorities. |
36,464,725 | The annual event attracts some of the best thoroughbreds, jockeys and trainers in the world.
It is also known for its attention-grabbing display of hats.
You can follow the latest news and selected race commentaries on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra.
Full race schedule: (Time, race, status, distance)
14.30 The Queen Anne Stakes (Group 1) 1m
15.05 The Coventry Stakes (Group 2) 6f
15.40 The King's Stand Stakes (Group 1) 5f
16.20 The St James's Palace Stakes (Group 1) 1m
17.00 The Ascot Stakes (Handicap) 2 ½m
17.35 The Windsor Castle Stakes (Listed) 5f
Full race schedule: (Time, race, status, distance)
14.30 The Jersey Stakes (Group 3) 7f
15.05 The Queen Mary Stakes (Group 2) 5f
15.40 The Duke of Cambridge Stakes (Group 2) 1m
16.20 The Prince of Wales's Stakes (Group 1) 1 ¼m
17.00 The Royal Hunt Cup (Heritage Handicap) 1m
17.35 The Sandringham Stakes (Listed) (Handicap) 1m
Full race schedule: (Time, race, status, distance)
14.30 The Norfolk Stakes (Group 2) 5f
15.05 The Tercentenary Stakes (Group 3) 1 ¼m
15.40 The Ribblesdale Stakes (Group 2) 1 ½m
16.20 The Gold Cup (Group 1) 2 ½m
17.00 The Britannia Stakes (Heritage Handicap) 1m
17.35 The King George V Stakes (Handicap) 1 ½m
Full race schedule: (Time, race, status, distance)
14.30 The Albany Stakes (Group 3) 6f
15.05 The King Edward VII Stakes (Group 2) 1 ½m
15.40 The Commonwealth Cup (Group 1) 6f
16.20 The Coronation Stakes (Group 1) 1m
17.00 The Duke of Edinburgh Stakes (Handicap) 1 ½m
17.35 The Queen's Vase (Listed) 2m
Full race schedule: (Time, race, status, distance)
14.30 The Chesham Stakes (Listed) 7f
15.05 The Wolferton Rated Stakes (Listed) 1 ¼m
15.40 The Hardwicke Stakes (Group 2) 1 ½m
16.20 The Diamond Jubilee Stakes (Group 1) 6f
17.00 The Wokingham Stakes (Heritage Handicap) 6f
17.35 The Queen Alexandra Stakes (Conditions) 2m 6f | The five-day Royal Ascot meeting includes eight Group One races, with the feature race starting at 16:20 BST each day. |
37,156,522 | More than 200 nations took part in the Games, with 59 of those managing to secure a much sought-after gold.
But for some countries in Rio, victory was just that little bit more special - it was their first gold medal.
Here are the nine countries that achieved golden firsts:
Fiji's rugby sevens team returned to a heroes' welcome after their comprehensive win over Great Britain in the final earned the country's first-ever Olympic medal.
Shops and banks were closed and the country came to a standstill as Fijians poured into the streets to celebrate.
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama declared a public holiday and free buses were provided to take people to the celebrations in the national stadium in the capital Suva when the team returned home.
Jordanians were thrilled when Ahmad Abughaush beat Russia's Alexey Denisenko in the final of the taekwondo men's 68kg to claim gold.
Jordan's royal family stayed up to watch the historic feat and King Abdullah II telephoned the 20-year-old business student to congratulate him on his win.
The king also reportedly sent him a private plane to fly Abughaush back from Rio and Queen Rania congratulated the athlete on Twitter.
There was also an historic golden first for another Middle Eastern country, when 19-year-old Ruth Jebet won the women's 3,000 metre steeplechase for Bahrain in the second fastest time in history.
Sheikh Nasser Bin Hamada al-Khalifa, who's the son of the king and head of the Bahrain Olympic Committee, congratulated her on Twitter.
As well as royal congratulations, ordinary Bahrainis also took to the social network to express their delight at the golden first.
Joseph Schooling's win over his childhood idol Michael Phelps in the 100m butterfly swimming race meant he could take home his country's first ever Olympic gold medal.
Dubbed "The Flying Fish", Schooling said he was "ecstatic" with his win and Singaporeans seemed to feel the same with praise for the 21-year-old flooding social media.
A photo of Schooling with the American at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 soon went viral.
Singaporeans took to the streets to congratulate their star swimmer on his return home for a victory parade.
There was a first-ever Olympic medal for Kosovo - and it was a gold. Majlenda Kelmindi couldn't hold back the tears when she won the women's 52kg judo.
The win was particularly poignant for the country - as it was the first time it had taken part in such a major international sports event.
Kosovo declared independence in 2008 and it was only accepted as a fully-fledged member of the International Olympic Committee in December 2014.
Prime Minister Isa Mustafa personally welcomed the 25-year-old at the airport on her return and an open-top double-decker bus was arranged for Kelmindi so that she could greet the thousands of fans who welcomed her in the streets of the capital Pristina.
Having missed out on a medal at London 2012, Vietnam's Hoang Xuan Vinh made up for it in Rio by securing gold in the 10m air pistol.
The 41-year-old army colonel ended Vietnam's six-decade wait for an Olympic gold - and almost made it two but had to settle for silver in the 50m air pistol.
He is expected to receive $100,000 (£76,300) from the state to mark his achievement - 50 times the average national income of $2,100 (£1,603).
Dilshod Nazarov won the gold medal in the men's hammer for Tajikistan, bringing his country its first gold medal since it gained independence in 1991.
A signature collecting campaign has started in Tajikistan which asks President Emomali Rahmon to give the country's highest award - the title of "Hero of Tajikistan" - to Nazarov. The title has been given to only six people since 1997 with the last one awarded 10 years ago.
Monica Puig - the world number 35 - was the ninth Puerto Rico athlete to win a medal - but the first to step on top of the podium when she won gold in the tennis.
She beat world number two Angelique Kerber of Germany to become the first unseeded player to win the competition since the sport was reintroduced to the Olympics in 1988.
It was also a golden milestone for Ivory Coast, with Cheick Sallah Cisse taking gold with a final kick in the last second of the men's under-80kg taekwondo final against Britain's Lutalo Muhammad.
It was only the second medal the West African country had ever received at the Olympics, but they then got a third when Ruth Gbagbi claimed bronze in the women's under-67kg class.
Kuwaiti national Fehaid al-Deehani won gold in the double trap shooting, but not for his country - the army officer won it as an independent athlete.
Al-Deehani competed under the Olympic flag after Kuwait was banned by the International Olympic Committee.
By Catherine Ellis, BBC UGC and Social News | The 2016 Olympic Games may have come to an end, but the joy and jubilation is continuing across the world. |
38,414,626 | The 20-year-old has scored six goals this season, including both in City's 2-0 win over Mansfield last week.
Championship clubs are reportedly interested in signing the striker.
"I'm sure there'll be lots of clubs interested in him one day, but at the moment he's our player and I don't really want him to go," Tisdale said.
Watkins made his City debut as a teenager in May 2014 and was given his first start in the Devon derby at Plymouth Argyle in November 2015.
"He's a good young player and he's a very good age for someone who's playing regular league football and scoring goals," Tisdale told BBC Sport.
"He's athletic and I'd be amazed if there aren't clubs looking at him, but that's the same for other players as well and I'm not looking for players to go, we're just getting things going, but we'll see what happens."
Exeter have done major deals in the last two January transfer widows - Matt Grimes left for Swansea City in a club-record £1.75m deal in 2015 and Tom Nichols joined Peterborough United for an undisclosed fee - believed to be six figures - at the start of this year.
"You can't get ahead of yourself, you just have to keep working hard and if people are talking about you then you're obviously doing something right," said Watkins.
"I just want to keep working hard and help the team climb up the table." | Exeter City boss Paul Tisdale says he would not be surprised if offers come in for striker Ollie Watkins during next month's transfer window. |
34,516,277 | Does this mean the risk has increased of pernicious deflation - or endemic price falls that would dissuade us from spending and investing today, in the hope of picking up bargains tomorrow?
Are we on the brink of much lower growth, lower wage rises and an increase in the real (or inflation-adjusted) burden of the country's huge debts?
Certainly it would be foolish to discount this risk as nugatory, but also to overstate it.
The new trend that matters, the main contributor to inflation going from zero (or "noflation") to negative, is that clothing and shoe prices rose at their slowest rate between August and September since 2008.
To be clear, clothing prices are not falling. But a pronounced slowdown in their rate of growth - from 4% to 2.8% - failed to offset the deflation we've experienced for some time in food and energy.
So could this softness in the clothing market be suggestive of a disturbing weakening in the economy - at a time when much of the rest of the world, especially China and the emerging economies, are experiencing marked slowdowns?
Well I have talked to major clothing retailers this morning and they largely blame this erosion in their pricing power on our Indian summer.
When you can go outside in a T-shirt, as was possible in London this morning, people aren't buying winter coats or jumpers.
But there are other signs that growth may be moving down a gear: unemployment has stopped falling; surveys of service companies and manufacturers suggest the last three months of the year may see a gentle reduction in the rate of expansion.
None of this means the recovery is over.
The return to mild deflation is probably not the canary in the coalmine, squeaking "recession now".
But it does tell us that growth remains fragile.
And it also suggests that although the governor of the Bank of England may be right that the decision on whether to end the era of almost-zero interest rates may come into sharper focus at the end of the year, he and his colleagues are likely to delay that first rise in the cost of money for some months yet.
PS: John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn may be among the small number celebrating signs of a weakening economy - in that maybe it makes their flip-flopping on whether to support the government's deficit-reduction legislation seem a bit less arbitrary and capricious. | For the second time this year we have mild deflation - or prices falling at an annual rate of 0.1%. |
37,445,919 | Tora Betsi, two, has neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), which can cause tumours, development and other heath problems.
There are two specialist centres in England for NF1 patients with complex issues but none in Wales.
The Welsh Government said it was difficult to provide services for all rare conditions.
Tora's mum Lisa Thomas, who is a GP, first raised concerns about her daughter's health when she was born with a brown spot, which looked like a birthmark, on her body.
She told the Newyddion 9 programme her daughter now had 15 spots, her head is also larger than other children's, she is shorter than average and is unsteady on her feet.
NF1 can also cause tumours behind the eye, high blood pressure and patients are more likely to develop cancers such as leukaemia.
There is no cure for the condition and no way of knowing how it will affect Tora in future.
Ms Thomas said the only thing the family can do is to make sure Tora eats well and exercises regularly to stay healthy.
One in every 2,500 babies are born with NF1 and there are currently about 1,200 people in Wales living with it.
There are two specialist centres in Manchester and London, which offer advice and care, but patients in Wales must make a funding request to their health board to be seen there.
Ms Thomas said if Tora needed specialist care in future, she would like to see a centre in Wales.
Prof Gareth Evans, who works at the Manchester unit, agreed a specialist centre in Wales would be helpful.
But he said there were not enough specialists or enough complex NF1 patients living in Wales.
A Welsh Government spokesperson said: "It is difficult for any individual country to provide services for all rare conditions where there may be very small numbers of people affected.
"In some cases, people will need to travel to other centres in the UK for expert care and support." | The family of a toddler from Cardiff who has a genetic condition are calling for a specialist centre to be set up in Wales. |
32,927,796 | Most of the money for the upkeep of Down Royal and Downpatrick comes from an annual levy paid by every bookmakers shop.
In the last year the levy has fallen from £2,000 to £1,123 after the expiry of a five-year deal between the courses and the bookies.
The racecourses say that is putting their future in doubt.
However, the bookies say the fall in funding was always planned.
In 2010 the bookies and the courses agreed the five-year deal that set the levy at £2,000.
That has now ended, but with no new deal in place, it has reverted to the lower level.
The courses say that is no longer adequate to cover the basic costs of organising and running quality race meetings.
Jim Nicholson, the chairman of Down Royal, said: "We've been cut by £175,000 this year.
"If it continues at that level we would be very fearful that within a couple of years, our whole industry could be in absolute crisis."
The worst case scenario painted by the courses is that they could close within three years if the levy does not go up to a " fair and reasonable" level.
However, the bookies point out the higher levy was explicitly a temporary arrangement.
Adrian Eastwood from the bookies association, the NI Turf Guardians, said his industry had supported the courses "to the tune of millions of pounds" over the last 25 years.
He said they had agreed to the 2010 deal when presented with "exceptional circumstances" which needed additional funding.
"The proviso was that at the end of five years the additional funding would cease."
It falls to the Department of Agriculture to referee this dispute as it is responsible for the legislation that controls the levy.
The department said the rate of the levy is currently under review and officials have met representatives of the bookies and the racecourses.
It added that the rate will be "subject to the normal, formal consultation process" and that any changes will be in place in time for 2016. | Northern Ireland's two racecourses have warned they could face closure in a dispute over funding. |
35,220,823 | They are the first to be included in the table since 2011, when elements 114 and 116 were added.
The first true iteration of the table was produced in 1869 by the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev.
The new additions were formally verified by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) on 30 December 2015.
The body announced that a team of Russian and American researchers had provided sufficient evidence to claim the discovery of elements 115, 117 and 118.
How do elements get their names?
IUPAC awarded credit for the discovery of element 113 to a Japanese team at the Riken Institute.
The teams responsible for the discoveries have been invited to come up with permanent names and chemical symbols for the now-confirmed elements.
"The chemistry community is eager to see its most cherished table finally being completed down to the seventh row. IUPAC has now initiated the process of formalising names and symbols for these elements," said Prof Jan Reedijk, president of the inorganic chemistry division of IUPAC.
New elements can be named after a mythological concept, a mineral, a place or country, a property or a scientist.
After the responsible IUPAC division accepts the new names and two-letter symbols, they will be presented for public review for five months.
The chemistry organisation's council will then make a final decision. | Four chemical elements have been formally added to the periodic table, completing the scheme's seventh row. |
19,090,660 | British International Helicopters (BIH) is to end its service from Penzance, which has run since 1964, in November.
The company blamed the decision on uncertainty created by legal challenges to its sale of land to supermarket giant Sainsbury's.
St Ives' Liberal Democrat MP Andrew George has called the announcement "appalling" and a "disaster".
BIH has to move from its 15-acre site at the end of October because of the Sainsbury's deal.
It planned to use the proceeds from the sale to buy new aircraft and bid for new business.
But the company, which has not operated services this week, said the decision to close the route was "finally triggered by legal action taken by Tesco and two private individuals".
By Neil GallacherBBC South West Business Correspondent
No surprise that this has rattled an island community that already feels itself to be stuck out on a limb.
The helicopters take about a third of the passengers that go to and fro each year.
Aeroplanes owned by the Steamship Group also operate, but BIH's helicopters carry more passengers.
And the islands' ferry route doesn't operate in the winter.
But there's some reassurance: the Steamship Group says it has plenty of spare capacity for now, especially in the winter when its aeroplanes are less busy.
And it's extending the life of the current Scillonian ferry "until at least 2018".
Two crunch questions remain for now.
- What'll happen to prices under a Steamship air and sea monopoly?
- And, in a few years, what replaces the Scillonian and its current ancient port facility in Penzance?
It's a lot of uncertainty for a small community to shoulder.
It said potential delays caused by the challenges "created too many uncertainties for the passenger service to continue".
BIH said the closure would affect employees and that a formal redundancy consultation process had begun with staff.
The independent Cornwall councillor for Porthleven and Helston South, Andrew Wallis, said BIH's decision was a "kick in the teeth" for the communities of the islands and west Cornwall.
He said: "To me, this is two supermarkets squabbling over a piece of land and the communities of Penzance and the Isles of Scilly are the ones to miss out."
Mr George said he had called for an emergency meeting over the link.
Conservative-Independent led Cornwall Council said it was "extremely disappointed" by the decision to end the service, which has offered as many as 40 flights a day and is thought to be used by up to 130,000 people a year.
It said: "We are keen to continue to talk to BIH about the future of the helicopter service and to see what support can be provided."
The Isles of Scilly Council said it was "deeply saddened" at the move.
The unitary authority said it was pleased services would operate until the end of October because it "ensures there will be no disruption to the holiday season".
It added that its immediate priority was to "ensure the stability of our transport infrastructure" and that "steps are already under way" to do so.
The Isles of Scilly are an archipelago of about 150 islands and rocks some 28 miles (45km) south-west of Cornwall with a population of about 2,200.
The Scillonian ferry service to the islands from Penzance remains, as do Skybus aeroplane services from Bristol, Exeter, Land's End, Newquay and Southampton.
Both are operated by the Isles of Scilly Steamship Group.
Group chairman Andrew May said the company would work with the Scillonian community in an attempt to compensate for BIH's pulling out.
Sainsbury's said it was still committed to bringing a store to Penzance.
BIH said anyone with a flight booked after 1 November would be given a full refund.
A helicopter on the route suffered a fatal crash in July 1983.
Twenty people were killed when the aircraft, en route from Penzance, crashed in thick fog off St Mary's. Four passengers, including two children, and two crew members survived. | A helicopter service from Cornwall to the Isles of Scilly is to end, its operators have announced. |
15,421,376 | The hosts edged to an 8-7 win against France in Auckland to become world champions for the second time.
"The guys dug as deep as they've ever dug before, I'm just so proud of everyone," he said.
"We couldn't have been under more pressure but we stuck to our guns and got there in the end."
The All Blacks went into the match as strong favourites against a France side who had reached the final despite being well below their best during the tournament.
When New Zealand took an early lead through Tony Woodcock's try, it looked as though they would pull away to win convincingly.
They're tough men and I think the whole country should be very proud of every single one of them
But France produced a hugely committed performance and, after a penalty from All Blacks replacement Stephen Donald made it 8-0, Thierry Dusautoir's converted try saw them put New Zealand under huge pressure in a tension-racked final half-hour.
Donald was the fourth-choice fly-half after Dan Carter, Colin Slade and Aaron Cruden - during the first half of the final - all succumbed to injury.
"The key [to winning the tournament] was expecting things like that to happen," said McCaw. "If you hope for the best and don't prepare for it, when adversity comes you're not ready for it.
"When you lose a guy like DC [Carter] it would be easy to drop your lip. But the next guy stepped up. I take my hat off to Beaver [Donald] but it is hard to pick out one guy."
Speaking of their long wait for the title, McCaw added: "I think at some stage some team was going to do it and this group of 30 had the opportunity.
I've got so much respect for what the boys have done over eight years. It's been outstanding
"You just have to keep getting up and believing in the mate beside you and trust in him and make sure you do your job. Everyone around New Zealand has given this team so much over the past six weeks and now we've repaid them.
"There's going to be a lot of stories told as we get older but no-one here can take it away from this group. They're tough men and I think the whole country should be very proud of every single one of them."
For New Zealand coach Graham Henry it was the final game of an eight-year reign, which included defeat by France at the quarter-final stage in 2007.
"Marvellous. The people have been have been outstanding in support of the team and the Rugby World Cup. I'm so proud to be a New Zealander standing here," he said.
"There was a bit of turmoil up there in the coaching box. Richie and the boys just hanging in there right through 80 minutes to win this thing is superb.
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"This is something we've dreamed of for a while, we can rest in peace.
"I've got so much respect for what the boys have done over eight years. It's been outstanding."
Hooker Keven Mealamu described the final as "probably the toughest 80 minutes of our lives".
"We knew it wasn't going to be easy," he added. "The French really came to play tonight and it took an 80-minute effort from us."
Scrum-half Piri Weepu, who was replaced in the 49th minute after a display that saw him miss three kicks at goal, said he hoped the All Blacks' victory would relieve the burden the nation has carried since their win in the inaugural 1987 event.
"I think everyone can sleep easy now and not worry so much," he said. "I think everyone will feel a lot better now." | New Zealand captain Richie McCaw said the feeling was "hard to describe" after the All Blacks ended a 24-year wait to win the World Cup. |
39,676,567 | After few first-half chances, Wrexham broke the deadlock through Jordan White two minutes after the restart.
But, on 73 minutes, Matt Tubbs flicked in James Constable's cross to level.
It left the hosts with only one win from their final five games of 2016-17, while Wrexham had the same record to end their campaign, to also finish in the bottom half.
Wrexham boss Dean Keates was unhappy that a foul was not given against Eastleigh in the build-up to Tubbs' goal.
Wrexham manager Dean Keates told BBC Radio Wales: "I don't want to talk about the officials, but I've seen it back and it's embarrassing.
"They put us under pressure and were getting on top. The lads defended well, but it's two points dropped and it's disappointing.
"We did okay in patches in the game, but obviously it's been a disappointing season."
Match ends, Eastleigh 1, Wrexham 1.
Second Half ends, Eastleigh 1, Wrexham 1.
Rob Evans (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Eastleigh. Tom Bearwish replaces Matt Tubbs.
James Jennings (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Eastleigh 1, Wrexham 1. Matt Tubbs (Eastleigh).
Substitution, Eastleigh. Scott Wilson replaces Craig McAllister.
Substitution, Wrexham. Ntumba Massanka replaces George Harry.
Substitution, Wrexham. Martin Riley replaces Russell Penn.
Substitution, Eastleigh. James Constable replaces Paul Reid.
Goal! Eastleigh 0, Wrexham 1. Jordan White (Wrexham).
Second Half begins Eastleigh 0, Wrexham 0.
First Half ends, Eastleigh 0, Wrexham 0.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Wrexham finished 13th and Eastleigh 15th in the National League after this uninspiring draw. |
39,948,870 | US media say Mr Trump passed on classified information to Russian officials last week, but Mr Putin says this is not the case.
He said he would release a record of the meeting to the US Congress if they requested it.
The news comes amid reports Mr Trump tried to influence an investigation into his team's dealings with Russia.
US media have quoted a memo by former FBI director James Comey that reportedly says Mr Trump asked him to drop an inquiry into links between his ex-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and Moscow.
The fallout from both issues continues to consume Washington, with moves by Democrats to launch an independent commission starting to gather momentum.
As for Mr Trump, he told US Coast Guard Academy graduates in Connecticut: "No politician in history has been treated worse or more unfairly."
Mr Trump met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak at the White House last Wednesday.
The meeting came amid an ongoing FBI inquiry and congressional hearings into possible Russian influence in the 2016 US election.
It also came a day after Mr Trump dismissed Mr Comey from his post.
On Monday, the Washington Post, followed by a number of other US outlets, said Mr Trump had given the Russian officials information relating to the Islamic State group (IS) that could have endangered the source of the information.
The information was reportedly deemed so sensitive it had not been shared with key US partners, let alone Russia.
Mr Trump later defended his right to share the information, and his national security adviser HR McMaster said the president's actions were "wholly appropriate".
On Wednesday, Mr Putin joked that the meeting did not unfold as had been portrayed.
"I spoke to him [Lavrov] today," he said. "I'll be forced to issue him with a reprimand because he did not share these secrets with us."
While in charge at the FBI, Mr Comey was heading an investigation into possible Russian influence on the US election.
The Russia story has already claimed one victim - Mr Trump's first national security adviser Michael Flynn, who was fired after misleading the government over his meetings with Mr Kislyak.
The New York Times reported on Tuesday that Mr Comey wrote a memo following a meeting with the president on 14 February, saying that Mr Trump had asked him to close an investigation into Mr Flynn's actions.
He reportedly shared this memo with top FBI associates.
"I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go," the president told Mr Comey, according to accounts of the memo. "He is a good guy."
Mr Comey did not respond to his request, according to this account, but replied: "I agree he is a good guy."
The FBI chief was later fired by Mr Trump. The official reason was over his handling of the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while at the state department.
But Mr Trump said in an interview last week that "this Russian thing" was on his mind as he made the decision.
The White House denied the allegation that Mr Trump had tried to influence Mr Comey.
"The president has never asked Mr Comey or anyone else to end any investigation, including any investigation involving General Flynn," it said.
A White House official also pointed out that acting FBI director Andrew McCabe had testified last week that there had been "no effort to impede our investigation to date".
The Senate's Intelligence Committee said it had asked Mr Comey to appear before the panel to testify, and had asked the FBI for all relevant documents, including the memo.
House Oversight Committee chair Jason Chaffetz, a senior Republican, said the memo and related documents "raise questions as to whether the president attempted to influence or impede the FBI's investigation".
On Wednesday, the Republican Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, said it was crucial to let investigations run their course before rushing to judgment.
But Democratic members of the House of Representatives said they would try and force a vote to create an independent commission into the Russia ties. Two Republicans backed the move, they said.
Adam Schiff, the highest-ranked Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said this intervention by Mr Trump, if confirmed, amounted to "interference or obstruction of the investigation".
The key legal statute is 18 US Code Section 1512, which contains a broad definition allowing charges to be brought against someone who "obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so".
It has been pointed out that Mr Trump did have the legal authority to fire Mr Comey, but there is a legal precedent for otherwise lawful acts to be considered an obstruction of justice if done with corrupt intentions, the New York Times says.
Legal experts have told the Washington Post that that is not clear in this case as intent is difficult to prove.
However, former federal prosecutor Samuel Buell told the Times: "The evidence of improper purpose has gotten much stronger since the day of Comey's firing.
"Trump has made admissions about that. And we now have evidence that he may have indicated an improper purpose previously in his communications with Comey about the Russia investigation."
The "i" word - impeachment - has already been broached. If this were a Democratic-controlled House of Representatives, articles of impeachment would likely be in the drafting process.
Republicans still call the shots in Congress, however, and it's a significant leap to get them to abandon the Trump presidency and any hope of advancing their agenda for the foreseeable future.
For the rank-and-file to turn on the president will require them to admit their complicity in a failed presidency.
You can't help feeling that the Kremlin is loving this. As the US administration - and the US superpower - staggers from one crisis to the next, Russia is watching and revelling in a political rival tearing itself apart.
President Putin's comments today on America were full of sarcasm and patronising put-downs. He said he was ready to provide the US Congress with a transcript of Foreign Minister Lavrov's conversation with President Trump. But that was surely just another dig at America. He will know that it will take more than a transcript on Kremlin-headed notepaper to make this crisis go away. | Vladimir Putin has waded into the growing row surrounding US President Donald Trump and his links to Russia. |
29,122,477 | She died on Monday in hospital after suffering a stroke last month, Italian news agency Ansa reported.
Magda Olivero made her debut in the 1930s but stopped performing after getting married in 1941.
She was coaxed back on to the stage 10 years later and enjoyed renewed stardom in Europe and the US.
She was still performing in public at the age of 99.
La Scala opera house in Milan - where she made her earliest performances - asked the public to hold a moment of silence before a performance on Monday.
The opera house described her voice as charismatic, her acting as formidable and her intelligence as "ready and cutting until the end".
Italian daily La Repubblica said even in March 2010 when she performed at the Palazzo Cusani in Milan her voice was still "grandiose".
The New York Times described Olivero as a soprano who "for decades whipped audiences around the world into a frenzy of adulation that was operatic even by operatic standards - despite the fact that by her own ready admission she did not possess an especially lovely voice".
It said that over the years bootleg recordings of her voice "passed from hand to covert hand among her legions of acolytes".
"At live performances, she took the stage to screams of ecstasy and left it to thundering ovations," the paper said.
Her signature roles included title parts in Puccini's Tosca, Umberto Giordano's Fedora and Luigi Cherubini's Medea. | One of the great Italian divas, the soprano Magda Olivero, has died at the age of 104 in Milan after a career spanning more than 70 years. |
28,322,355 | In a statement, China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) said it would now assess the data collected by the rig.
China moved the rig into waters near the Paracel Islands - which Vietnam also claims - in May.
The row over the rig led to clashes between ships from the two nations and major anti-China riots in Vietnam.
Vietnam's coast guard told Reuters news agency that the rig was now moving away towards China's Hainan island.
Coast Guard Chief of Staff Admiral Ngo Ngoc Thu said the rig had been moving since late on Tuesday. A senior fisheries official also confirmed that the rig was under way.
The news that the rig was moving came in a CNPC statement carried by China's state-run Xinhua news agency.
"Signs of oil and gas were found in the operation," Xinhua quoted the statement as saying, and CNPC "will assess the data collected and decide on the next step".
China moved its Haiyang Shiyou 981 oil rig into South China Sea waters west of the disputed Paracel Islands in early May, an action the US described as "provocative" and "aggressive".
Government ships from China and Vietnam then clashed there on several occasions, bumping and exchanging water cannon fire as Vietnam sought to block Chinese drilling operations.
Vietnam also saw three days of anti-China unrest during which angry workers targeted foreign-owned factories in some areas, leaving at least two people dead and dozens injured. Several factories were burned down or damaged.
Both nations claim the Paracel islands and in 1974 fought a brief but bloody war over them.
The introduction of the rig came amid broader tensions between Beijing and South East Asian nations over the South China Sea.
China's maritime territorial claims overlap those of several of its neighbours and in recent years it has sought to assert these claims in a more muscular fashion.
Ties with Hanoi and Manila have been particularly badly hit. The Philippines is currently taking China to an international court over the issue.
A statement by China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Hong Lei on the rig's removal pointed out that "the Xisha [Paracel] Islands are integral parts of China" and that the drilling operation was in "indisputable" waters which fell within China's jurisdiction.
China "firmly opposes Vietnam's unjustified disruptions" to operations, he added. | China says the oil rig that sparked a major diplomatic row with Vietnam by drilling in disputed waters has finished work and is being removed. |
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New Street railway station is being covered in 15,000 sq m (161 sq ft) of stainless mirrored steel.
It will join the Bull Ring shopping centre as an eye-catching silver-coloured landmark. | Buildings in Birmingham are changing from dull to dazzling as shiny buildings replace the concrete of the past 50 years. |
40,807,934 | It says the countryside faces a decade of damaging uncertainty in the wake of Brexit unless the government establishes support policies soon.
The Trust said affordable, high-quality food and wildlife-friendly farming can be secured for the current subsidy of £3bn a year.
Other commentators query whether that much cash needs to be spent.
They wonder whether the environmental objectives can be achieved more cheaply.
Currently only a fifth of farm subsidies in the UK goes to support the environment and rural development, so even transferring £1.5bn to the environment would provide a major boost.
But the Trust’s director, Helen Ghosh, said farmers needed reassurance that food standards and environmental protections will be maintained with a promise of the full £3bn to be spent.
“Current uncertainty is prompting some farmers to revert to intensive methods for short-term profits, damaging long-term agriculture and dwindling wildlife”, she warned.
"We have already seen examples of short-term decision-making, where farmers, in response to uncertainty about the future and income, have ploughed up pasture which was created with support from EU environmental money.”
The question of how much cash is needed to protect wildlife and provide “ecosystem services” like flood prevention and water catchment is debated.
The consultancy Agra Europe has previously concluded: "What is certain is that no UK government would subsidise agriculture on the scale operated under the CAP."
Warwick Lightfoot from the right-leaning think tank Policy Exchange said the current system was so inefficient that environmental objectives might be able to be achieved for less than £3bn.
But a former senior farm specialist at Defra, Martin Nesbit, told BBC News that if the government was serious about wildlife targets, the full £3bn annually is probably needed.
Mrs Ghosh will tell the BBC Countryfile Live event at Blenheim Palace: "We are within touching distance of a vision for the future of farming that sees thriving businesses successfully meeting the needs of the nation into the 21st century and beyond.
"The longer we wait, the more we risk losing all the gains we have made over the last decade."
The Trust itself is a major beneficiary of grants for its wildlife-friendly farming.
The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) recently proposed a new system under which land-owners get paid for contracting to look after the countryside. The farmers’ union NFU is also poised for change.
There are huge questions, though, about how subsidies should be shared and administered; and about what sort of countryside people want.
Re-wilding campaigners want much of the uplands to be left unsubsidised - to return to forests that will catch flood waters and nurture wildlife without public subsidy.
Follow Roger on Twitter. | The National Trust has weighed into the campaign to keep subsidies for Britain's farmers at the current level. |
37,443,204 | Tom Thwaites had special prostheses made so he could walk like an animal.
The spoof awards, which are not quite as famous as the real Nobels, were handed out during their annual ceremony at Harvard University, US.
Other studies honoured during the event examined the personalities of rocks, and how the world looks when you bend over and view it through your legs.
On the surface, all the celebrated research sounds a bit daft, but a lot of it - when examined closely - is actually intended to tackle real-world problems.
And nearly all of the science gets published in peer-reviewed, scholarly journals.
It is unlikely, though, that the German carmaker Volkswagen will appreciate the point or humour of the Ig Nobels.
The firm has been awarded the chemistry prize for the way it cheated emissions tests.
Goat-man Tom Thwaites actually shares his biology prize with another Briton, Charles Foster, who also has spent time in the wild trying to experience life from an animal's perspective.
Clearly, the practice is fast-becoming a national trait.
Mr Thwaites concedes his effort was initially an attempt to escape the stress of modern living, but then became a passion.
He spent a year researching the idea, and even persuaded an expert in prostheses, Dr Glyn Heath at Salford University, to build him a set of goat legs.
Fascinating, if a little bizarre on occasions, was Mr Thwaites' verdict on the whole venture. He developed a strong bond with one animal in particular - a "goat buddy", but also very nearly kicked off a big confrontation at one point.
"I was just sort of walking around, you know chewing grass, and just looked up and then suddenly realised that everyone else had stopped chewing and there was this tension which I hadn't kind of noticed before and then one or two of the goats started tossing their horns around and I think I was about to get in a fight," he told BBC News.
The American science humour magazine, the Annals of Improbable Research, is the inspiration behind the Ig Nobels, which are now in their 26th year.
Thursday night's ceremony was reportedly as chaotic as ever, with audience members throwing the obligatory paper planes while real Nobel laureates attempted to hand out the prizes.
The full list of winners announced at Harvard's Sanders Theatre:
Reproduction Prize - The late Ahmed Shafik, for testing the effects of wearing polyester, cotton, or wool trousers on the sex life of rats.
Economics Prize - Mark Avis and colleagues, for assessing the perceived personalities of rocks, from a sales and marketing perspective.
Physics Prize - Gabor Horvath and colleagues, for discovering why white-haired horses are the most horsefly-proof horses, and for discovering why dragonflies are fatally attracted to black tombstones.
Chemistry Prize - Volkswagen, for solving the problem of excessive automobile pollution emissions by automatically, electromechanically producing fewer emissions whenever the cars are being tested.
Medicine Prize - Christoph Helmchen and colleagues, for discovering that if you have an itch on the left side of your body, you can relieve it by looking into a mirror and scratching the right side of your body (and vice versa).
Psychology Prize - Evelyne Debey and colleagues, for asking a thousand liars how often they lie, and for deciding whether to believe those answers.
Peace Prize - Gordon Pennycook and colleagues, for their scholarly study called "On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit".
Biology Prize - Awarded jointly to: Charles Foster, for living in the wild as, at different times, a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, and a bird; and to Thomas Thwaites, for creating prosthetic extensions of his limbs that allowed him to move in the manner of, and spend time roaming hills in the company of, goats.
Literature Prize - Fredrik Sjoberg, for his three-volume autobiographical work about the pleasures of collecting flies that are dead, and flies that are not yet dead.
Perception Prize - Atsuki Higashiyama and Kohei Adachi, for investigating whether things look different when you bend over and view them between your legs.
For those who cannot abide this sort of nonsense, the real Nobel Prizes are handed out the week after next.
[email protected] and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos | A British man who lived in the Alps as a goat for three days has won one of this year's Ig Nobel prizes. |
36,486,004 | Police opened fire as students were trying to march from their campus in the capital, Port Moresby, towards parliament.
Police say 23 people were hurt.
The students want Prime Minister Peter O'Neill to stand down to answer corruption allegations, which he denies.
Mr O'Neill is also facing a possible no-confidence motion in parliament.
On Thursday, protest leader Noel Anjo told Reuters news agency that the students' demonstrations would continue despite the ban.
"We're not going to give up," he said. "The students are not going to give up until and unless the prime minister resigns or surrenders himself to police and is arrested and charged. This fight will continue."
The court order also bans students from boycotting classes, which they have been doing for the past five weeks.
A statement by Mr O'Neill's office said an investigation was under way to determine to what extent the protests were "promoted by individuals outside the student body".
"The inquiry will also seek to uncover the source of external funding that has underwritten student protest in recent weeks," the statement said.
In 2014 a warrant was issued for Mr O'Neill's arrest, in an investigation into whether he authorised millions of dollars in illegal government payments to a large legal firm.
He has consistently evaded the warrant with court orders, and disbanded the anti-corruption watchdog.
Thousands of UNPG students have been boycotting classes for five weeks, demanding he resign. Classes were officially suspended last month.
In May, Mr O'Neill responded to a petition from students saying that he would not be resigning.
He said the corruption allegations against him were of "questionable political intent", as reported by ABC.
Papua New Guinea was ranked one of the most corrupt countries in the world in 2012 by Transparency International.
According to the World Bank, 70% of the country, the most linguistically diverse in the world, lives in poverty.
The country's higher education minister, Malakai Tabar, welcomed the injunction, Australia's ABC News reported.
"The overwhelming majority of students simply want to go to class, sit their exams and proceed to the next semester," he said, while blaming the violence on "thuggery".
Police commissioner Gari Baki said 23 students were injured, four seriously, local news site EMTV reported. He said an investigation would determine if they were shot.
A handful of police officers were also injured, he added.
Footage obtained by the BBC appeared to show a large crowd of students at the campus running away as shots and tear gas were fired.
Images circulating on social media also showed injured students being carried away.
Opposition MPs had told parliament on Wednesday that four people were killed, but the government and hospitals have denied there were any deaths. | The University of Papua New Guinea has obtained an injunction to stop protests after a number of people were hurt when a demonstration turned violent. |
37,846,929 | St Helens South and Whiston MP Marie Rimmer, 69, faced two charges following an incident outside Shettleston Community Centre on 18 September 2014.
On Tuesday she was cleared of a charge of abusive or threatening behaviour.
She has now been cleared of assaulting a woman by kicking her, after a sheriff found the case against her not proven.
The trial, at Glasgow Sheriff Court, in front of Sheriff Kenneth Hogg, started in April and concluded on Wednesday after a number of adjournments.
Sheriff Hogg said he was "astonished" by some of the evidence in the case, describing it as a "storm in a tea cup".
He said a lack discretion available to the police on the day of the referendum was "very disappointing", suggesting a "yellow card would have been preferable to a red" in the matter.
He said: "I am not clear any party in this case, apart from the lady police officer, has told me what really happened on that day.
"I have unease with the whole evidence and am still unable to form a clear picture."
The sheriff said he found the case not proven and told Ms Rimmer she was free to go.
Speaking outside court following her acquittal, Ms Rimmer said: "I know what happened that day. I'm clear what happened that day.
"I've been acquitted today. I just want to get on with life now. I've answered the charges."
Ms Rimmer was elected to Westminster in 2015 with a majority of more than 20,000, and had previously served as a local councillor for decades. | A Labour MP has been cleared of attacking a Yes campaigner in Glasgow on the day of the Scottish independence referendum two years ago. |
39,041,752 | Salford led at the break after Gareth O'Brien and Kris Welham tries cancelled out Ryan Hall's finish.
Jimmy Keinhorst's second Super League try of the season put Leeds in front, but Logan Tomkins crossed to level with 10 minutes remaining at Headingley.
Sutcliffe's score, which had a dubious looking forward pass in the build up, ended the visitors' hopes late on.
The Rhinos took five games to pick up their first win in 2016, so to have two on the board after three matches is a boost for Brian McDermott's side.
Danny McGuire, making his first start of the season linked up well for the hosts, particularly with a fine kick for the Hall try, while Salford's O'Brien underlined his importance with a strong display that yielded a try.
Leeds shaded the match in terms of chances, enjoying large stints of possession in the Salford half - particularly in the opening 40 - and were clinical after the break.
The visitors were unfortunate to have George Griffin's first-half score chalked off for a forward pass - particularly given the drama surrounding Sutcliffe's effort at the end - and the Red Devils showed defensive mettle throughout.
Their promise lies in the quality of halves Robert Lui and Michael Dobson, who impressed as they staked their claims to compete with import half-back Todd Carney for a spot in the side.
Leeds head coach Brian McDermott:
"I'm going to be very diplomatic, I actually didn't see the pass. But enough people shouted for it. If it was, it was.
"I can understand his frustration. But you've got to ask the question, 'Is that why the try was scored?'.
"From my point of view, I won't be rolling my eyes on Monday and saying to the fellas, 'We were lucky'."
Salford head coach Ian Watson:
"The ref and the officials weren't great all game. There was a dead-set penalty we should have had 30 metres out in front of the posts. Gaz O'Brien doesn't miss that one, he kicks that and that's our win at Leeds.
"What's happened on the back of it has just compounded that - it was a massive forward pass. The fact there are only three people in the ground who don't see it is unreal.
"We were adamant as a group we were going to come here and get something. It was a win we wanted and I thought the boys deserved it.
"I feel we've been let down by an outside factor. It's a cruel way to lose a game."
Leeds Rhinos: Golding; Briscoe, Watkins, Keinhorst, Hall; McGuire, Burrow; Garbutt, Parcell, Singleton, Ward, Ablett, Jones-Buchanan.
Replacements: Cuthbertson, Sutcliffe, Ormondroyd, Moon.
Salford Red Devils: O'Brien; Bibby, Sa'u, Welham, Johnson; Lui, Dobson; Kopczak, Tomkins, Mossop, Griffin, Jones, Flanagan.
Replacements: Wood, Tasi, Krasniqi, A Walne.
Referee: Chris Campbell. | Leeds recorded their second win of the season with a late try from Liam Sutcliffe denying a spirited Salford. |
35,593,162 | Known as Woody island by most, it is occupied by China, which calls it Yongxing. It is also claimed by Vietnam, which calls it Phu Lam, as well as by Taiwan.
Reports of the presence of missiles on the island have added to concerns about the militarisation of the South China Sea. Here is what we know about Woody Island. | The largest island in the disputed Paracel archipelago in the South China Sea is now believed to host surface-to-air missiles. |
36,494,702 | France has been in the grip of industrial action, mainly over reforms to labour law, and a train strike could affect Friday's opening match.
Train drivers are threatening to strike on a line serving the Stade de France in St Denis just outside Paris.
The stadium will host Friday evening's match between France and Romania.
Football fans arriving in Paris and several other cities this week have been greeted by the sight and smell of uncollected rubbish sacks as trade unionists blockade incinerators.
The country is also on high alert since the jihadist attacks on Paris in November, and is recovering from flood damage in central and northern regions.
Mr Hollande said everyone had a duty to ensure that the competition was allowed to proceed without incident.
"I appeal to everyone's sense of responsibility because if the state must do its duty - and it will, it will take all the measures that are necessary," he said on Thursday.
"At the same time, it is also necessary that those who are taking part in actions, or who are organising them should also shoulder their responsibility... so that this great event can be a shared popular festival."
Sports Minister Thierry Braillard appealed to the unions to think about the football fans.
"While there are times when strikes can take place, we are now on the eve of an event during which they are going to prevent some fans from getting to the stadium," he said. "That's just not normal."
But train driver Berenger Cernon, secretary general of the CGT union at the Gare de Lyon in Paris, was unapologetic.
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"It's not us who determine the calendar," he said.
"We did not decide that the Euro will take place on this date. There is a social movement going on now, the re-organisation [of labour] continues, the labour law continues.
"We want the negotiations on the collective agreements be open for everybody. So yes, clearly this will disturb the Euro [tournament] and we will continue the strike."
He added that efforts were under way to try to resolve the situation although so far they only concerned the state rail company (SNCF).
Nearly 3,000 tonnes of waste have gone uncollected in Paris, according to the authorities.
Zahier, a waiter in a restaurant in the Latin Quarter where rubbish spilled out of bins into the narrow, cobbled streets, told AFP news agency: "Customers are looking out at the dustbins, so obviously it's making them lose their appetite."
Mounds of waste have also been building up in the southern city of Marseille, which will host four Euro 2016 matches, including England's clash with Russia on Saturday. | French President Francois Hollande has warned against attempts to disrupt Euro 2016 with strike action, on the eve of the football tournament. |
37,915,256 | The 34-year-old Englishman was told to return to train with the under-20s last week following a six-week suspension for a training ground row with team-mates in September.
The former Burnley and Manchester City player has not been at training since Thursday.
Barton has made eight appearances for Mark Warburton's side this season.
The once-capped England international left Burnley under freedom of contract at the end of last season, signing a two-year contract at Ibrox.
But he was suspended from the Scottish Premiership side following a training-ground row with team-mates including midfielder Andy Halliday in September.
It came after Barton and Halliday played in Rangers' 5-1 Old Firm defeat, the club's biggest loss to their local rivals since going down 6-2 in August 2000.
The result prompted discussions, which Barton claimed "involved some sharp disagreement". Barton later apologised for "overstepping the mark".
Barton is also facing Scottish FA charges for breaching betting rules. He was charged with placing 44 bets on games between 1 July and 15 September. | Rangers midfielder Joey Barton has been signed off with stress as negotiations on a severance deal continue. |
21,577,594 | The days of the lowly password are numbered.
The fact is that the way we users typically deal with having multiple passwords for our online accounts makes us too vulnerable to spyware, phishing and identity theft.
Many of us rely on the same password, while many more of us only use three or four passwords.
Ideally, the best password would be something like Az1f6&jWz - but you'd never remember it.
So the industry is looking to ditch passwords, and is turning to a variety of solutions, such as voice recognition, key stroke analysis and finger print identification.
Payments firm PayPal is one of those leading the changes, and president David Marcus says the aim is to make the whole process seamless.
"Like magic, you'll be authenticated, and the payment will go through," he tells BBC World Service's Business Daily.
"We want to move away from passwords, and get to embedded fingerprint scanners on mobile phones.
"You're going to start seeing that type of experience later this year, with a mass roll-out in the year to come."
Earlier this month, PayPal, Lenovo and others announced the formation of the Fido Alliance (Fast Identity Online) to change the way online security checks are carried out.
The idea is that users will be able to select the type of authentication that suits them best - from fingerprint scanning to USB tokens.
"The best protection is the one you don't see - it's the one that happens in the background, that verifies your identity accessing your own data," says Mr Marcus.
For PayPal, solving the password security problem is important because so many people now use it to make purchases - it has 125 million customers in more than 190 countries.
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"You shop offline more than you shop online, but in most of these transactions mobile is involved now," says Mr Marcus.
"As the offline market is 17 times bigger than the online market, there is still huge untapped potential for us."
Since taking over as chief executive last April, he says PayPal has been changing the way it develops services for customers.
"Every large company gets slower after a while, and you need to reinvigorate the troops and invent products that are truly disruptive."
The key driver for this has been the way in which customers are increasingly using phones, tablets and other handheld devices to make purchases.
Last year, PayPal recorded $145bn (£95bn) in total transactions, of which $14bn were via mobile devices, says Mr Marcus.
"But the year before it was sub-$4bn."
Of course, PayPal is not the only company working on solutions that don't require users racking their brains to remember passwords.
In Sweden, behavioural biometrics firm BehavioSec has developed a system, which is already in use in Swedish banks, that focuses on how we behave on our computer or mobile.
"We can capture the rhythm of how users type - the speed between the keystrokes," says chief executive Neil Costigan.
In collaboration with phone manufacturer Samsung, the firm has also developed a smartphone app which learns and then recognizes the way a phone user enters his or her PIN.
Even if someone else who knows your PIN tries to use your phone, they will not be allowed access, as they would also need to mimic your behaviour to fractions of a second, says BehavioSec.
"It is no longer sufficient to enter the correct password or PIN code, it has to be entered the correct way," says Mr Costigan.
Meanwhile, US speech technology company Nuance has developed voice recognition software that is already in use with Barclays Bank in the UK and USAA Bank in the United States.
Nuance's "Nina" app allows companies to add a speech-enabled virtual personal assistant function to their existing smartphone apps.
"USAA Bank has been trialling the technology with a select group of customers, and is now launching the technology globally with a release in 38 languages," says Nuance.
"It is set to be adopted by banks, utilities and telecoms firms worldwide."
A customer can open the app and say "pay my mobile phone bill", and Nina will verify their identity through the sound of their voice and pay the bill, it adds.
Nuance insists that there is no way fraudsters will be able to circumvent this.
All of which should be welcome news for those of us who continually have to email our online retailers for new passwords, because we've forgotten the one we asked them for the last time we tried to buy something from them.
Justin Rowlatt's interview with David Marcus, president of PayPal, was broadcast on Business Daily, BBC World Service, at 08.32 GMT, 1 March 2013 | If you run into problems trying to remember a password on your mobile or computer when trying to buy something, then things could be about to get easier. |
20,261,020 | Since it was first confirmed at a Buckinghamshire nursery in March, the number of cases has slowly increased.
And in late October, ecologists' fears were realised when an important barrier was breached - it was found in the wider environment and the UK's 80 million ash trees were at risk.
The news last month that the disease, caused by the fungus Chalara fraxinea, had been found in woodlands in East Anglia prompted Mr Paterson to impose an import ban on ash trees, and to carry out a nationwide survey to find out how far the disease had spread.
He also convened an emergency summit, bringing together "key stakeholders", to consider what could be done. The resulting action plan, agreed at an emergency Cobra meeting, outlined where the government would focus its efforts.
The plan seems to be pinning a great deal of hope on scientists finding natural resistance within the UK's population of ash trees.
Once identified, researchers would then look to grow the next generation of ash trees that would be resilient to the pathogen.
One of the government's leading scientists, Prof Ian Boyd, is optimistic.
He told journalists: "By next season, we could potentially have resistant forms of ash growing in this country."
Mind the gap
But ash trees, while considered fast-growing within the world of hardwood trees, take decades to reach maturity and produce the seeds that would sow naturally resistant trees.
In the interim, ash dieback will continue to spread and trees would continue to become infected and not be replaced, as Dr Pocock explained.
How ash dieback could threaten Britain's wildlife
"Those that are susceptible to the disease will get hit, and those that are not or less susceptible will go on and will be able to fruit. That is the process of natural selection," he told BBC News.
"But the process of natural selection on trees will operate on much longer timescales.
"If there was a disease that affected an annual plant, the selection pressure on that plant would be such that you would get resistance, and then you would get the spread of the resistant [offspring of the plant].
"You would see a dip in that species population for a couple of years, and then it would be likely to recover," Dr Pocock explained.
"You would expect to see the same thing in trees, but the timescale is at least decades rather than months or years."
So would ecosystems be able to cope with the loss of ash trees from the landscape while the naturally resistant trees matured?
RSPB forestry officer Nick Phillips said UK woodlands were already in trouble.
"The important point to remember here is that woodland wildlife is already in crisis," he told BBC News.
"One in six woodland flowers is threatened with extinction. Our woodland butterflies have halved since the 1990s. Many of our woodland birds have declined by 70% or more.
"This is not the result of tree disease, this is something that has already been going on for some time.
"Our woodland wildlife is already stressed and we don't know yet what effect additional stress will have on it."
Mission impossible
And the outbreak is already shaping the future, as tree managers weigh up the risk of planting ash in woodlands.
This year saw the Woodland Trust create 59 Diamond Woods and its flagship 460-acre (186ha) Diamond Park in Leicestershire to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
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A spokesman told BBC News that, in light of the news that the disease was here to stay, the Trust had taken the decision that it would suspend planting ash saplings and substitute them with other native species.
He added that now that the planting season was opening, there were plans to plant three million trees over the coming months.
"As it stands, we are running all tree planting events as normal. We will substitute any ash saplings for either oak, birch or possible shrubs such as hazel, dependent on the location and what fits best within the current landscape."
And the concern about planting new ash trees is spreading.
Brighton is famed for being home to veteran elms that did not fall victim to the outbreak of Dutch elm disease, thanks to the combination of the city's geographical location and a very robust tree management regime.
However, a spokeswoman for Brighton and Hove Council said such an approach would not work to prevent ash dieback infecting trees.
"The recent outbreak of ash dieback is spread by the wind, and this type of dispersal is impossible to protect against.
"At present, we are not purchasing any ash trees and would avoid the species until we know more about the disease."
So until scientists make a breakthrough and can propagate ash dieback-resistant trees, the situation for ash - a popular street tree - is likely to get worse before it gets better.
Ash is one of just 30-odd native tree species, making the thought of losing it from the landscape a difficult pill to swallow for many people.
"It is very difficult to predict what the impact will be if ash dieback is as serious as the worst fears," Centre for Ecology and Hydrology ecologist Michael Pocock observed.
"The vast majority if not all ecologists will be [recording the spread and impact of the disease] with a heavy heart because, ultimately, we are not ecologists to chart the progress of doom - we are ecologists because we care about the environment and we want to do something positive." | Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has acknowledged that ash dieback is in the UK to stay. |
40,158,309 | Mr Cairns said armed police potentially saved many lives by shooting dead three men at the scene of Saturday's terrorist attacks in London.
The Tory minister said Mr Corbyn had previously opposed such a policy.
However, Labour's Stephen Kinnock immediately rebuked the comment, saying Mr Corbyn said on Sunday police should use "whatever force is necessary".
During a debate on BBC Radio 5 live from Gower on Monday, Mr Cairns pointed out that Mr Corbyn had previously "opposed the shoot-to-kill policy".
"On Saturday night that shoot-to-kill policy saved tens, if not hundreds of people's lives," he said.
Mr Kinnock, when asked in the radio debate if Mr Corbyn supported shoot-to-kill now, said: "Yes."
"He made it clear in his speech yesterday that he would authorise the police and security services to take all necessary measures," Mr Kinnock said.
Welsh Labour leader Carwyn Jones was critical of the prime minister's claims that there was too much tolerance of extremism.
Campaigning on Anglesey on Monday, he said that after six years of being home secretary Theresa May was responsible as it was "on her watch".
He added: "I don't think it is wise to rush into a response in the aftermath of a horrible attack - we have to be clever than that to look for a response which is far more effective."
Meanwhile, Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood has called on politicians to be careful of the language they use when referring to minority communities in the aftermath of the attacks in Manchester and London.
"What the terrorists want is for us to be divided as communities," she said, also while campaigning on Anglesey.
"They want us to turn on each other and, as politicians, we have to be very, very careful to make sure that we talk about this in a way that doesn't help people to turn upon their neighbour."
Opposition parties in Wales have also called for UK government cuts to police budgets to be reversed to boost the fight against terrorism during a campaign debate on BBC Radio Wales.
Labour's Stephen Doughty said community officers were "often the first line in providing community intelligence which is so crucial to the security services" which could potentially prevent terrorist attacks.
Plaid Cymru assembly member Steffan Lewis said such officers could build "a level of trust" and could spot people "who may be susceptible to radicalisation".
UKIP's leader in the assembly, Neil Hamilton, said his party would reverse police cuts and give them more powers to stop and search suspects.
Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Randerson said her party would also reverse cuts and warned of the risk of losing international co-operation to combat terrorism after Brexit.
Conservative candidate David Davies insisted that anti-terrorism and intelligence budgets had been protected while the UK government tackled a budget deficit "inherited from Labour".
He said there was also a need to have "some embarrassing and difficult conversations" with the Muslim community to root out extremists.
A vigil was held, following the London attack, in Swansea's Castle Gardens at 18:00 BST on Monday evening. | Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns has sparked a row over whether Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn opposed a shoot-to-kill policy. |
29,749,149 | The £15m striker, 25, has yet to play this season after tearing ankle ligaments on the Hammers' pre-season tour of New Zealand.
Carroll has started only 12 Premier League matches during an injury-hit 16-month spell at Upton Park.
"It's been a long, hard road again for Andy and one he's been too familiar with recently, sadly," Allardyce said.
"Hopefully he'll have a major impact when he comes back again."
The striker has returned to training and Allardyce expects the England forward to feature in Under-18 and Under-21 games before a possible return to first-team action in mid-November.
"It'll be another two to three weeks, if he has no niggles or problems, before we talk about playing him in the team at any level," he said.
"We'll try to get him through three or four behind-closed-doors games and if that goes all right then we would hope to have him back."
Allardyce says that the former Newcastle and Liverpool forward returned too soon from the foot injury that kept him sidelined for the first five months of last season.
"Last time we got him back he did his ankle but carried on playing, so this time round we don't want to rush him," he said.
Summer signings Diafra Sakho and Enner Valencia have impressed up front in Carroll's absence, and, with West Ham lying fourth in the Premier League table, Allardyce says the club can afford to take extra care over his return.
"We're hopefully going to get him back as quick as we can but we're not going to rush him back because, touch wood, there's no desperate need at the moment." he said. | West Ham manager Sam Allardyce says the club's record signing Andy Carroll could return in "two to three weeks". |
25,430,657 | A Network Rail worker said staff were "genuinely concerned" about excrement, urine and sanitary towels on the tracks.
Network Rail accepted that train toilets which emptied on the track were "outdated and unpleasant" for track workers.
Greater Anglia said it was hoping to phase out toilets which dump waste.
The man who works across the East Anglia region said: "A train would be coming and we'd stand back the recommended distance.
"It's not unusual to feel a spray, a kind of mist in the air. That's bad enough, but then you walk back to where you've been working on the tracks there's [faeces] everywhere."
Passenger waste is discharged from trains not fitted with retention tanks.
The majority of trains running through Cambridge station are operated by Greater Anglia, First Capital Connect and CrossCountry.
More than half of Greater Anglia's trains in the Cambridge area do not have retention tanks. The other two operators' trains do not discharge on to the track.
"We'd like to see them replaced or modified, but this requires effort from across the industry and funding," said a Network Rail spokesman.
The Department for Transport said the government recognised "this is a very unpleasant experience for railway workers and the public" and was "working closely" with Greater Anglia on a fleet upgrade. | Rail workers are being sprayed by human urine and faeces from passing trains, putting their health at risk. |
26,715,982 | PPI expert Cliff D'Arcy told the BBC Lloyds had saved more than £60m over the past year by cutting compensation.
Lloyds refused to be interviewed on the issue. It was offering the correct level of compensation in line with regulatory guidance, a statement said.
Lloyds cites a little-known regulatory provision called "alternative redress".
Alternative redress - also known as comparative redress - allows a bank, in specified circumstances, to assume that customers to whom it wrongly sold single-premium PPI policies would have bought a cheaper, regular premium PPI policy instead.
In such cases, a bank is entitled to deduct the cost of the regular premium policy from the full compensation they would otherwise have had to pay.
For claimants, this deduction can make a large difference to the compensation Lloyds offers.
Mr D'Arcy, who previously worked at HBOS's PPI operation, told BBC Radio 4: "Frankly I'm amazed that this problem has existed throughout the last year and hasn't emerged into the light."
Care worker Veronica Rayner had two loans from Halifax, now part of Lloyds Banking Group.
Mrs Rayner told the BBC that when she had taken out her loans she had been unaware that the bank had sold her PPI policies as well.
Payment protection insurance was designed to cover loan repayments if the policyholder became ill, had an accident or lost their job.
However, the policies were mis-sold on a huge scale to those who did not want or need it, or would have been unable to make a claim.
Her £2,300 compensation offer from Lloyds was set out in a seven-page letter with an additional two-page appendix of calculations.
Mrs Rayner said she hadn't realised from the offer letter that the bank had applied alternative redress to her claim.
But after her claim was referred to the Financial Ombudsman, Lloyds was told to pay her an additional £1,200 of compensation - over 50% more than it had originally offered.
"I don't think it's very fair. I think they should just offer people the right amounts and get it done. It's cheating people in a way," Mrs Rayner said.
Lloyds told the BBC 11% of offers it made in the fourth quarter of 2013 on loan complaints were made by applying alternative redress.
Analysis of a large survey of PPI offers undertaken by the PFCA, a trade body representing claims management companies, suggests in some months more than 25% of Lloyds's offers were made by applying alternative redress.
But Lloyds told the BBC only 5% of offers made last year were made in this way.
Mr D'Arcy told the BBC such use of alternative redress was unjustifiable. He said such reductions could legitimately be applied in fewer than 1% of PPI cases.
"A taxpayer sponsored bank is depriving taxpayers of their rightful compensation by using a loophole. It's a scandal coming out of a scandal," he said.
Claims management companies have told the BBC they have routinely been challenging alternative redress offers from Lloyds by referring them to the Financial Ombudsman Service.
Martin Baker, of Swindon-based company Renaissance Easy Claim, said the ombudsman had so far ruled on more than 100 of his clients' cases.
"In every single case our challenge has been upheld, and clients will now be entitled to full redress," Mr Baker told the BBC.
Mr D'Arcy is unsurprised that so many offers are being overturned by the ombudsman.
But he warned that, since nine out of 10 PPI compensation offers were not referred to the ombudsman, most of Lloyds' alternative redress offers were likely to go uncontested.
As a result, Mr D'Arcy told the BBC, "Lloyds is making substantial savings of millions of pounds a month, and customers are being short-changed".
Lloyds Banking Group has refused to say how many alternative redress offers were made in total last year or by how much offers were reduced as a result.
But in a statement it said: "The numbers that have been provided to the BBC by the claims management companies are incorrect and deeply misleading.
Since we started making comparative redress offers last year, that equates to 5% of the total number of complaints that we have dealt with.
For these, we have used a formula agreed with the Financial Conduct Authority. The overturn rate for loans claims is the same whether it is for comparative redress or for other reasons." | Lloyds Banking Group has been cutting the compensation it pays to payment protection insurance (PPI) claimants, a BBC investigation has revealed. |
32,034,899 | He was speaking on Tuesday after the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee published its report on the controversial On the Runs scheme.
Mr Kelly escaped from the Maze Prison in 1983 while serving a jail sentence for the 1973 IRA Old Bailey bombing.
He told the BBC's Talkback he received the pardon, but not as an "On the Run".
The Royal Prerogative of Mercy, commonly known as a royal pardon, allows changes in sentences without the backing of or consultation with parliament.
Last year, Secretary of State Theresa Villiers disclosed that 365 royal pardons had been issued between 1979 and 2002.
It is not clear how many of those pardoned were members of paramilitary groups, or what proportion, if any, were members of the security forces.
The Northern Ireland Office has previously said the vast majority of pardons were not terrorism-related.
Asked by TUV leader Jim Allister if he had received a Royal Prerogative of Mercy, Mr Kelly said: "Actually I have - if you remember, and I presume you do, I was arrested in Holland, and the Dutch quashed all my sentences and the British agreed to that to get me back here, by the way, and yes, it was after an escape.
"But it wasn't a letter to do with On The Runs or to do with this scheme at all."
Mr Allister asked him: "From Her Majesty, the one against whom you were leading rebellion, you have a letter of Royal Prerogative of Mercy?"
Mr Kelly said: "The Dutch said they would not extradite me unless the British (government) quashed the sentences.
"Now it was up to the British (government) to quash the sentences whatever way they wanted to quash them - if they chose to produce a prerogative then that's their choice.
"I didn't care what way it was done - the point was that I came back to Ireland as a remand prisoner as opposed to someone who was doing this length of sentence, because the Dutch came to the conclusion that it was unjust."
The On The Runs were republicans suspected of involvement in terrorist crimes but who had never been charged.
Under the scheme, letters were sent to more than 180 Irish republicans, telling them they were not wanted by police.
It came to light when one letter caused the collapse of the trial of a man accused of the 1982 IRA Hyde Park bomb. | Sinn Féin's Gerry Kelly has confirmed that he received the Royal Prerogative of Mercy after he was recaptured in the Netherlands in 1986. |
39,193,938 | In the first of this double-header, Chancellor Philip Hammond said that he was supporting families while not spending recklessly.
Although the Budget was relatively low-key, other changes were already planned. This adds up to a significant financial impact on millions of people - even before the next Budget in November.
So here is how it could affect you.
The main National Insurance contribution rate paid by the self-employed will rise in the next few years.
It will increase from its current level of 9% to 10% in April 2018, and then to 11% in April 2019 for those making a profit of more than £8,060.
The level for employees for these Class 4 contributions is 12%.
The chancellor said that this would raise £145m a year by 2021-22. On its own, the change announced in the Budget will leave 2.84 million people facing an average annual increase of £240.
As previously announced, Class 2 payments - which have a lower threshold of £5,965 or more in profits a year - will be abolished.
Taken together, only the self-employed with profits over £16,250 will have to pay more as a result of these changes - at an average cost of 60p a week to those affected.
The chancellor said this brought more fairness between the self-employed and employees.
But the move was criticised by the body that represents the self-employed.
"The chancellor should not forget that growth in self-employment has driven our labour market in recent years and punitive rises in tax will make many people have second thoughts about striking out on their own," said Chris Bryce, chief executive of IPSE.
Director shareholders will see a tax break reduced on the dividends they receive.
The tax-free dividend allowance - which only came into force a year ago - will be reduced from £5,000 to £2,000 from April 2018.
That will also affect people with large portfolios of shares.
Experts say that with an Isa allowance of £20,000 available to use from April, many investors will not need to worry.
A new government-backed savings product was promised in November's Autumn Statement - but we did not have date or a rate.
Now the chancellor has said the Investment Guaranteed Growth Bonds will be offered by National Savings and Investments from April, paying interest of 2.2%.
The chancellor described this as a market-leading rate, which it is - but it is only the equal of the best-buy three-year bond on the market now. Critics have already labelled the product as a "sideshow" and "underwhelming".
The bond will be open to those aged 16 and over, subject to a minimum investment limit of £100 and a maximum investment limit of £3,000. Savers must lock in their money for three years.
Official forecasts estimate that the cost of living will rise at 2% or above for the next three years.
There will be no change to previously planned inflation-linked increases in duties on alcohol and tobacco, but a new minimum excise duty is being introduced on the cigarettes targeting the cheapest tobacco.
This, along with the previously announced measures, will mean a packet of 20 cigarettes will cost 35p more from 18:00 GMT on Wednesday. A 30 gramme pack of hand-rolled tobacco will cost 42p more.
Concerns have been raised that many people are falling into a subscription trap, by signing up for a paid-for service without meaning to - for example, when a paid subscription starts automatically after a free trial has ended.
Citizens Advice estimates that two million consumers each year have problems cancelling subscriptions on, for example, TV subscriptions.
Those with mental health problems are often vulnerable to these issues.
The chancellor confirmed that new measures will be considered in a Green Paper in the summer.
A long list of changes, announced in previous Budgets and Autumn Statements will come into force in April or the subsequent months. They include: | Two Budgets in one year have the potential to make a major impression on your household finances. |
27,110,655 | The planned move - aimed at kick-starting the fracking industry - will be included in the Queen's Speech as part of an Infrastructure Bill.
The companies will still need planning permission to drill for shale gas.
But they will be able to install pipes to transport the gas under private land without fear of breaking trespass laws.
Prime Minister David Cameron has also indicated that the government could cut subsidies for land-based wind farms when it has "built enough to meet all our targets".
Ministers fear landowners and anti-fracking protesters would use existing law to block shale gas extraction in the UK, as it suggests prior permission is needed to run pipelines thousands of feet below private land.
BBC political correspondent Iain Watson said the Infrastructure Bill would make clear that putting pipes under private land would not constitute trespass - but it would also give the affected landowners the right to compensation.
Ministers are worried that other countries - especially in eastern Europe - have been making fracking there appear more attractive to investors than Britain.
They believe a clarification in the law will send a positive signal to companies.
The prime minister's official spokesman confirmed the government was looking at ways of making test drilling easier and to ensure there was not "an overburden of red tape and regulation".
He added: "Fracking is something that is very new, certainly in this country, which is why we are looking to see whether there are particular obstacles to the test drilling."
A conference on the potential economic benefits of fracking is to be held in Blackpool on Thursday.
The Infrastructure Bill would also give new freedoms to the Highways Agency in a bid to get more roads built, and planning changes to fast-track developments, according to The Financial Times.
Mr Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne joined forces on Tuesday to promote the UK's construction programme.
The pair, who visited road building schemes, claimed more than 200 rail, road, local transport, broadband, airport and waste management projects were due to start construction over the next year, creating more than 150,000 jobs.
Downing Street said the jobs figure had been calculated using Office for National Statistics data.
The government says £36bn is being spent on the projects, which include flood damage repairs. That figure is made up of £5bn in public investment, £21bn private and £10bn in joint funding.
Mr Cameron said: "This government is backing business with better infrastructure so that more jobs and opportunities are created for hardworking people, meaning more financial security and peace of mind for families."
He also indicated that the government could look at cutting subsidies on land-based wind farms in the future.
Visiting the UK headquarters of the construction group Skanska, in Hertfordshire, the prime minister said: "We have now got the largest offshore wind farm anywhere in the world built off the coast of the UK and another one coming on stream almost as big very, very shortly.
"In terms of onshore wind, obviously there will come a time when we will have built enough to meet all our targets and so I've always said with subsidies, we shouldn't keep subsidies for longer than they are necessary and so that's something we'll be looking at."
Labour said the government's "reheated announcements" about infrastructure masked a failure to deliver and the lowest level of peacetime housebuilding since the 1920s.
Shadow Treasury minister Chris Leslie said: "We need action not words on infrastructure if we're to get a recovery built to last."
According to the Office for National Statistics infrastructure spending fell 11.4% in 2012 but went up by 2% last year.
Before the twentieth century it was assumed a land owner's rights extended from the centre of the earth to the top of the sky. But a series of key court cases have challenged that notion.
1931: US court rules that a sewer 150ft deep was not on land belonging to the home owner above.
1946: US Supreme court rules that transcontinental flights do not trespass on land below.
1978: High Court of England and Wales says aerial photography plane was not trespassing.
2010: UK Supreme Court rules that diagonal drilling down to 2,800ft from an adjacent plot of land is still trespassing under the surface. | Ministers want to give energy companies the right to run shale gas pipelines under private land, Whitehall sources have confirmed. |
30,814,448 | The woman suffered serious burns in the incident in the reception area of Clydebank police station, in the town's Montrose Street, on 7 January.
She is still being treated for her injuries at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner will look at the circumstances surrounding the incident.
A report into the findings of the investigation will then be submitted to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.
Meanwhile, officials at West Dunbartonshire Council are carrying out their own inquiry as the woman is known to have been in touch with council services in the hours before she went to the police station. | Prosecutors have ordered an independent investigation after a 58-year-old woman apparently set herself on fire at a police station in West Dunbartonshire. |
22,283,209 | A fake tweet, from the hacked account of a news agency, wiped $200bn (£131bn) off the New York Stock Exchange. It had claimed there had been two explosions at the White House, and President Obama had been injured.
It was quickly disclaimed and corrected, but some damage had been done.
The Wall Street Journal says much of the stock market reaction was down to automatic scanning of news sites, and instant adjustments. But I am not sure human traders would have been very much better than their machines at showing caution and not panicking.
It does show how central Twitter has become to our world.
Ever since news has been broadcast on the radio it has been possible to get information in real time - but you don't carry a radio with you everywhere, or check it all the time.
The addictive nature of Twitter makes it a powerful tool - and one without boundaries. Lies and truth appear without anyone trying to filter. Not that they should, but it puts a responsibility on the consumer.
Last week the Boston police did not tour the streets in a car and use a megaphone to tell residents of Watertown to stay indoors.
They tweeted it. They tweeted the end of the manhunt too, terse and triumphant. Amid this accurate information straight from the most important source, there was a lot of dross. The problem Twitter presents is how people filter it, and how much they trust it.
There is a danger Twitter itself becomes what is trusted, when it is only a publisher - you have to look to who is saying what. In one sense that is no different to going to a newsstand and choosing to buy one newspaper over another.
But it is different in scale - Twitter bombards, at least if you choose to subscribe to a wide range of people.
It is hugely valuable. My teenager daughter regards it as rather for losers - those who want to babble about what they had for breakfast.
When I first heard about it I thought much the same. Now it is probably the sixth thing I check in the morning. It is important for breaking news, fascinating for recommending articles and blogs I wouldn't have otherwise seen.
But lies and truth appear side by side. Not that there should be a filter, but it makes it all the more important people are more sophisticated, more discriminating.
As a journalist, I've long been irritated when people tell me: "They say…" "Who is the 'they' I ask? The BBC? The police? The government? The National Enquirer? The tabloid press?"
But for many it is an amorphous authority, the juiciness of the information more important than the veracity.
Twitter is indeed a powerful tool, and like all such instruments has to be treated with respect and caution. | Is this the way the world will end, with neither a bang nor a whimper, but a tweet? |
35,087,803 | UN forces deployed after machine-gun fire and rocket launchers were used, as voters waited near a school.
It is hoped the new constitution can help end more than two years of conflict in the CAR between Muslims and Christians.
Presidential and parliamentary elections are also due on 27 December.
The conduct of the referendum is seen a test of whether December's elections can go ahead safely, correspondents say.
Several people were reported to have been injured in the latest violence in the PK5 district of Bangui, but it is not yet clear who carried out the attack.
An earlier incident left several others wounded.
There were also reports of grenade explosions in the city's Gobongo district, with three wounded according to a security source quoted by AFP.
The CAR has been prey to sectarian violence since March 2013 when Muslim Seleka rebels briefly seized power, deposing the Christian President Francois Bozize.
The Seleka group was then itself ousted, leading to a wave of violent reprisals against the Muslim population by the Christian anti-Balaka militia.
A breakaway faction of the Seleka group has called for a boycott of December's elections, saying conditions are not right for a fair vote.
Thousands have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced since 2013.
Eleven-thousand UN peacekeepers are deployed in the CAR.
Some two million people have registered to vote, just under half the population.
Only two weeks ago, Pope Francis visited the country and appealed to Muslims and Christians to live in harmony. | Heavy gunfire has broken out in a Muslim district of the Central African Republic's capital, Bangui, during a referendum on a new constitution. |
39,590,117 | Conservation charity WWF says almost half of the world's 200 designated natural heritage sites are "plagued" by wildlife criminals.
These include the last refuges for critically endangered javan rhinos and wild tigers.
The authors say more co-ordination is needed to target the whole crime chain.
From the Great Barrier Reef to the Galapagos Islands and at many other locations across the globe, Unesco has designated around 200 natural World Heritage sites as being of outstanding international importance and deserving of the highest levels of protections.
WWF looked at the threats to species that are already protected under the Convention on the International Trades in Endangered Species (CITES).
The authors found that these threatened animals and plants are poached or illegally harvested in 45% of natural World Heritage sites.
Many of the parks in the study are home to critically endangered creatures - including Ujung National Park in Indonesia, which is the last stand for around 60 javan rhinos.
The Okavango Delta World Heritage site in Botswana is a key location for elephants in the north of the country, which make up almost a third of all remaining African elephants.
"You have got the world's most cherished species on the one hand, and on the other the world's most cherished sites, they are inextricably linked," said Dr Colman O'Criodain from WWF.
"Of course there's the economic value of these sites, but these are special places, they give you a lump in your throat when you see them and if we really want to cherish these we all have to step up."
Between 1970 and 2012 global wildlife populations declined by almost 60% on average.
According to the report, what's going on here is not just unsustainable practices in fishing and logging, but criminality.
The illegal trade in species is said to be worth around £15bn ($19bn) a year, with the unlicensed timber trade said to be responsible for up to 90% of deforestation in major tropical countries.
Over a two year period, the illegal rosewood trade in Madagascar has cost locals up to $200m in lost income.
Like many other locations, simply designating an important site as part of world heritage, isn't enough by itself to stall the criminals.
"In the case of Madagascar there is a lot of corruption and weakness of government on their side and there is complicity among highly placed people in what is going on but support from importing countries and the wider international communities will help a lot," said Dr O'Criodain.
The report points out that the illegal trade in species at natural heritage sites is having a significant impact on people's livelihoods as the disappearance of rare animals and plants can deter tourists. In Belize, for example, more than half of the entire population are supported by income generated through reef tourism and fisheries.
There is also a more direct and deadly human cost in terms of lives lost, with at least 595 park rangers killed protecting key sites between 2009 and 2016.
Current approaches to stemming illegal trade are just not working, the study concludes.
It suggests that rapidly increased co-operation between CITES and the World Heritage Convention could help turn the tide.
"This report provides a range of options to further enhance co-ordination between CITES and the World Heritage Convention, focused around World Heritage sites," said John Scanlon, Director General of the trade convention.
"It is essential that CITES is fully implemented and that these irreplaceable sites are fully protected. In doing so, we will benefit our heritage and our wildlife, provide security to people and places, and support national economies and the rural communities that depend on these sites for their livelihoods."
Follow Matt on Twitter and on Facebook. | Poaching, illegal logging and fishing are threatening endangered species in some of the world's most iconic natural sites, according to a report. |
26,851,900 | The UK retailer is planning to open stores in markets such as France, India, Russia, China and the Middle East.
The expansion includes 20 food outlets in Paris and lingerie and beauty stores in the Middle East and India.
M&S has reported falling sales in its key UK clothing and homewares unit.
Like-for-like sales at the unit fell 2.1% in the three months to the end of December, the 10th successive drop in quarterly sales. It is scheduled to give its latest sales update next week.
M&S retreated from mainland Europe in 2001, triggering protests from customers and staff.
The new expansion move will see a "bricks and clicks" approach, with flagship stores backed by an online offering.
Chief executive Marc Bolland told an investor seminar in Paris: "We need to build a brand internationally and be dotcom ready. That is where our future is."
In a statement, Mr Bolland said: "Our strategy of becoming an international, multi-channel retailer is more relevant than ever before because of the strong growth potential of international markets."
Steve Rowe, M&S executive director of food, said: "M&S Food is in much demand globally. From toasted crumpets in The Hague to red wine in China, our international customers are very quick to tell us what their favourite M&S products are." | Marks and Spencer has announced plans to open 250 stores abroad and increase international profits by 40% over the next three years. |
24,579,101 | The density of airborne particles was several times above World Health Organisation recommended limits.
Visibility was reduced to below 50m (160ft) in parts of the city, reports said.
Local media have linked the pollution to the city switching on its public heating system for winter.
PM2.5 levels, used to measure the amount of particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometres in the air, were above 500 micrograms per cubic metre on Monday morning, state-run news agency Xinhua reported.
World Health Organization guidelines say average daily concentrations of PM2.5 should be no more than 25 microgrammes per cubic metre.
All of Heilongjiang province's highways, and the Taiping International Airport in Harbin were forced to close, Xinhua reported.
A red alert for thick smog had been issued in the provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning, the news agency added.
Earlier this year, air pollution in China's capital, Beijing, also soared past hazardous levels.
The smog generated extensive discussion on Sina Weibo, one of China's Twitter-like microblogs.
"We were all late for class today because we couldn't find the academic building," microblog user MaltzZz from Jilin province wrote.
Harbin-based Sina Weibo user Backpacker Xiao described Harbin as "today's dead city".
"Beijing, you're no longer alone. You have us too now," he wrote, in reference to the frequent air pollution suffered by Beijing.
Meanwhile, netizen Pen and Ink Silent, a student in Changchun, Jilin, posted the following tongue-in-cheek message: "My mother called... and asked how the air in Changchun was, and if I was coughing. I feel ok, I should be able to live to see my graduation." | Smog has choked China's northern city of Harbin, Heilongjiang province, forcing schools and highways to shut and disrupting flights on Monday. |
25,929,866 | Sisters of Nazareth nuns thumped and kicked children at Termonbacca, the first witness to give evidence said.
The former resident described the home as a "hell-hole" and likened it to a concentration camp.
He said children were forced to clean floors in a chain, with their arms linked and rags under both feet.
The inquiry is investigating abuse claims against children's residential institutions from 1922 to 1995.
The witness said he was once sexually abused by a woman at the home, although he could not recall if it was a nun or a civilian worker.
The Sisters of Nazareth order of nuns ran two homes in Londonderry, Nazareth House Children's Home and St Joseph's Home, Termonbacca.
At the start of the inquiry earlier this month, a lawyer representing the nuns read out an apology for the abuse suffered by children in their homes.
The witness said on Tuesday that this apology had "left him numb".
Later, a second resident of Termonbacca said he was beaten by older boys at the home.
"I thought I was going to die - it was torture to face another day," he said.
He thanked the inquiry for reuniting him with his siblings for the first time in 40 years.
A third witness, a man who is now 74, told the inquiry that he remembers being beaten every day and wetting the bed every night.
He said the children who wet the bed were forced to strip naked and made to stand in a queue to have a bath in Jeyes Fluid.
He broke down as he described how the nuns had gallon drums with Jeyes Fluid that would sting their skin and eyes.
He said it was not too bad if you were first in, but it got topped as each child got into the bath - all being bathed in the same water.
The Derry homes are among a total of 13 residential institutions currently under investigation by the inquiry.
Some of them were run by state authorities, others by voluntary organisations and the remainder were operated by the Catholic Church.
To date, 434 people have contacted the inquiry to allege they were abused as children. | Nuns' treatment of children at a residential care home was "bordering on the psychotic", Northern Ireland's Historical Abuse Inquiry has been told. |
36,565,863 | The International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) decided not to lift the suspension, imposed after accusations of state-sponsored doping.
Individual athletes may compete as neutrals if they prove they are clean.
Mr Putin called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC), to intervene.
Doping, violence: What's gone wrong with Russian sport?
The IOC executive board said it would hold a telephone conference on Saturday to discuss the issue ahead of a full IOC summit in Lausanne on Tuesday.
"There are universally recognised principles of law and one of them is that the responsibility should be always personified," said President Putin.
"The people who have nothing to do with violations, why should they suffer for those who committed the violations?"
The country was suspended by the IAAF in November 2015, after an independent World Anti-Doping Association (Wada) report depicted a culture of widespread doping, with even the secret services involved.
After that, Russia introduced reforms including an overhaul of the rules, the introduction of independent testing, and anti-doping lessons in schools.
A task force has been studying those reforms but a fresh Wada report, issued on Wednesday, made more damaging claims.
Although significant progress has been made to meet the IAAF's criteria, it said, work still remains. In particular:
Wada said officials in Russia were being stopped from testing athletes and threatened by security services.
Rune Andersen of the IAAF said Russian athletics had been "tainted by doping from the top level down."
"The systematic doping that has been ongoing in Russia - it's difficult to pick the clean athletes," he said.
IOC vice-president John Coates said Russia's athletes should remain banned and not be allowed to take part in the Rio Games this summer.
He also said Russia's anti-doping agency and athletics body were "rotten to the core".
Meanwhile, Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva said she would challenge the IAAF's decision in court, saying she was "disappointed and angry".
"We are blamed for something we have not done," she said. "I will not remain silent, I will take measures. I will appeal to the human rights court."
In a statement, Russia's Ministry of Sport said it was "extremely disappointed" by the IAAF decision.
IAAF president Lord Coe said "no politics" were involved in the decision over Russia's ban. He emphasised the unanimous nature of the verdict and the international range of council members.
On Saturday, Russia said it was investigating its former top anti-doping official, who raised the alert before fleeing to the US.
A criminal investigation has been opened into whether Grigory Rodchenkov abused his authority.
Mr Rodchenkov alleged that the Sochi winter Olympics were the apex of a decade-long effort to perfect Russia's doping strategy. | Russia President Vladimir Putin has said it is unfair the Russian athletics team remains banned from international contests, including the Rio Olympics. |
35,306,906 | The cartoon depicts Alan's body alongside a caption suggesting he would have become a "groper in Germany".
It follows the revelation that gangs of migrants carried out organised sexual assaults in Cologne on New Year's Eve.
The magazine has been widely condemned on social media and accused of racism.
Twitter users called the image "disgusting" and "tasteless", as well as accusing the magazine of racism and Islamophobia.
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The controversial cartoon comes a week after the anniversary of the shooting at the magazine, which killed 10 of its staff.
Alan Kurdi has become a touchstone for the magazine's satirists, appearing in a number of cartoons over the past few months.
One, which was rejected as a cover image, showed the boy's body washed up on the beach next to a McDonald's advert, with the caption, "So close".
This latest use of his image seems to be an attempt to satirise those who would blame all migrants and refugees in Germany for the actions of a few, some Twitter users suggested.
The attacks in Cologne have heightened existing tensions in Germany over the country's open policy towards migrants and refugees.
But a series of highly provocative cartoons have cooled the extraordinary outpouring of solidarity with the magazine after the January 2015 attacks.
It has been beset by infighting and its senior cartoonist Luz - the man who designed the first edition after the attack - announced his resignation. | French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is facing yet another backlash after depicting Alan Kurdi, the young Syrian refugee who drowned, as an adult committing a sex assault in Germany. |
39,188,775 | Wood had the first chance of the game when Jai Reason curled wide but Dover hit back with Joe Healy unleashing a shot from the edge of the box which hit the underside of the bar.
Those chances in the first 15 minutes were the best of the first half but Boreham Wood found another gear after the break.
Bruno Andrade grabbed his first 11 minutes after the break as he got ahead of Jamie Grimes to lob Steven Arnold and Shakes made it 2-0 11 minutes later in controversial fashion. He took the ball off Arnold with the goalkeeper claiming he had it in both hands and tucked away.
Shakes was involved in the next goal in the 73rd minute as he beat Arnold to a long ball to set up Andrade and 10 minutes later he too had his second, bursting clear and applying a calm finish.
The 32-year-old then once again found himself clear on goal with four minutes remaining and made no mistake.
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Match ends, Boreham Wood 5, Dover Athletic 0.
Second Half ends, Boreham Wood 5, Dover Athletic 0.
Bondz N'Gala (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Boreham Wood. Ben Goodliffe replaces Dan Woodards.
Substitution, Boreham Wood. Jason Williams replaces Ricky Shakes.
Substitution, Boreham Wood. Tom Hitchcock replaces Kenny Davis.
Goal! Boreham Wood 5, Dover Athletic 0. Ricky Shakes (Boreham Wood).
Goal! Boreham Wood 4, Dover Athletic 0. Ricky Shakes (Boreham Wood).
Goal! Boreham Wood 3, Dover Athletic 0. Bruno Andrade (Boreham Wood).
Substitution, Dover Athletic. James Hurst replaces Richard Orlu.
Substitution, Dover Athletic. Mitchell Pinnock replaces Moses Emmanuel.
Goal! Boreham Wood 2, Dover Athletic 0. Ricky Shakes (Boreham Wood).
Goal! Boreham Wood 1, Dover Athletic 0. Bruno Andrade (Boreham Wood).
Second Half begins Boreham Wood 0, Dover Athletic 0.
First Half ends, Boreham Wood 0, Dover Athletic 0.
Femi Ilesanmi (Boreham Wood) is shown the yellow card.
Joe Healy (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Ricky Shakes scored a hat-trick as Boreham Wood claimed their first win in nine games with a 5-0 rout of National League play-off chasing Dover. |
37,101,097 | Del Potro lost to Andy Murray in Rio having knocked out world number one Novak Djokovic en route to the final.
The Argentine is ranked 141st in the world, with Wimbledon this year his first appearance in the main draw at a major since Melbourne two years ago.
World number 283 Robson, 22, reached the fourth round in New York in 2012.
The US Open begins on 29 August and runs until 11 September.
Del Potro, who won the tournament in 2009, saw his career interrupted by a wrist injury that resulted in him missing large parts of 2010, 2014 and 2015.
But the 27-year-old knocked fourth seed Stan Wawrinka out in the second round of this year's Wimbledon and also beat Rafael Nadal in the Olympic semi-final.
Robson has also faced lengthy spells away from the court following wrist surgery, but won her first title since returning from injury last week at a USTA Pro Circuit event in Pennsylvania.
She has not progressed further than the first round at a major since making the third round in New York in 2013. | Olympic finalist Juan Martin del Potro has been handed a wildcard into the US Open main draw while Britain's Laura Robson will enter in qualifying. |
36,557,967 | 17 June 2016 Last updated at 11:57 BST
Ben Abdullah's business is next to the Birstall library where the 41-year-old held a surgery on Thursday.
Warning: This BBC Radio Leeds interview contains some graphic descriptions of the scene of the attack. | A cafe owner who saw the attack on West Yorkshire MP Jo Cox described the situation he witnessed as being "like a warzone". |
37,360,524 | The Labour Force Survey indicates that unemployment fell by 0.7% over the year to 5.6%.
This is the lowest unemployment rate in Northern Ireland since 2009.
The claimant count has now fallen by 29,600 since the most recent peak in February 2013.
Economy Minister Simon Hamilton said: "I am greatly encouraged by the continuing signs of improvement in economic conditions especially across our labour market.
"Creating more and better jobs is a key priority for me.
"The increase in employee jobs and the increase in the employment rate is hugely encouraging and a further sign that our economy is heading in the right direction."
Wednesday's unemployment figures were accompanied by other positive data on the Northern Ireland economy, said BBC News NI's business correspondent Julian O'Neill.
Figures on the service sector - the biggest part of the local economy - showed growth of 1.7% for the second quarter of 2016, he added.
Annual growth was 4% and there was increased output across all sub-sectors.
The index of production - which mainly measures manufacturing - also showed growth, but at a lower level, added our correspondent.
Output was up 0.6% on the quarter and 0.1% on the year. The food and engineering sectors shrink, while pharmaceuticals performed strongly.
The food and engineering sectors have shrunk, while pharmaceuticals performed strongly, he said. | The number of people claiming unemployment benefits in Northern Ireland fell by 800 in August to 35,100 according to the latest statistics. |
38,972,200 | Remember the "fuss at the bus" between the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and the Ulster Unionists in the 2003 Northern Ireland Assembly election campaign?
Or perhaps Vote Leave's big red machine in the EU referendum campaign sits more freshly in the memory?
Well, this is the Social Democratic and Labour Party's (SDLP) bus - the "Eastwood Express", as the party's leader has dubbed it.
Colum Eastwood acknowledged that it's not exactly the most formidable form of campaign transport.
"It's modest, aye - but we only had a couple of weeks to get ready, so that's about as big as we could manage," he said.
"It's a conversation starter at least."
Vote Leave's Brexit campaign bus featured the controversial and incorrect claim that a UK withdrawal from the EU could boost the NHS by £350m a week.
The SDLP is refraining from plastering any bold claims like that on to the side of its vehicle, but Mr Eastwood did stick his neck out to predict he might soon need a bigger bus.
"The problem is we won't get all our incoming MLAs on it - that's the only problem," he joked.
"We'll be back next year with a 50-seater!"
You can see more of the SDLP's bus in BBC News NI political correspondent Enda McClafferty's interview with Mr Eastwood on BBC Newsline later this week.
Here's an apt debate to be having on Valentine's Day - one hustings in Belfast on Tuesday focused squarely on how politics can improve on sexual health services.
It was organised by the Family Planning Association as part of Northern Ireland's Sexual Health Week and was attended by numerous support organisations.
The feeling among some of those groups was that uncertainty at Stormont would have a damaging effect on the services they can offer.
Mary Crawford, of Brook Northern Ireland, a sexual health service for young people, explained why a return to direct rule would not be in the interests of the group's clients.
"If we have a period where we don't have political stability, then the finance will be an issue for all of us," she said.
"That affects our staffing, it affects our planning.
"But then it also affects the services that we can actually deliver to the clients that we are dealing with, and that is a real difficulty."
And Jackie Richardson, who heads the HIV support charity Positive Life, called for sex education to feature further up on the agenda in the assembly.
"Sex is the one thing and the one issue that affects everybody at some point in their lives, with the exception of a very small minority," she said.
"I think not to have a focus on awareness-raising around that is just negligible."
It's fair to say that there was some surprise on social media when the DUP's Gavin Robinson appeared in this photo on Tuesday afternoon...
That's because the activists he is pictured with represent the Love Equality NI group, which campaigns for same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland.
Mr Robinson's party has, of course, been vehemently opposed to legalising marriage for gay couples.
So, was he sharing the St Valentine's Day love for their cause?
A DUP spokeswoman said he was simply accepting a petition on the issue from the campaigners.
"Our position on this issue remains as was and is well known," she added.
Mr Robinson had a message for his visitors: "Don't forget the chocolates next time," he posted on Twitter.
Roses are red, violets are blue... if you're not registered to vote then it's too bad for you.
St Valentine's Day was the final chance for anyone wanting to have a say in the assembly poll on 2 March to get their name on the electoral register.
The lunchtime queue at the Electoral Office of Northern Ireland's Belfast branch snaked all the way down the stairwell, with people submitting their applications for a vote.
One student in the line said she had little interest in voting before now, but her view had changed.
"It's a big, massive vote this year, so I want to get involved and have my vote counted," she said.
"It may not make much of a difference, but at least I have my say."
And another first-time voter said she was spurred on to vote after the EU referendum result didn't go the way she'd expected.
"The Brexit vote really upset me and I'm really annoyed that I didn't vote," she said.
"I think it's time that I grow up and make a change for the future."
But others weren't so hopeful of change in this election.
"The people that moan about it online aren't always the people that go and vote," one man said.
"We'll be in the exact same position as we always are - we always gripe about it but I don't think anything's going to change.
One regular voter said he was frustrated by recent happenings at Stormont.
But he added: "Will it make me change who I vote for? Probably not.
"I'm no less disgusted with the actions of the people I have voted for before, but I still want to use my vote and I want to make it count."
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31,999,405 | As the crowds streamed towards the stadium known as the Cake Tin on a gloriously sunny Saturday afternoon, it seemed like the message of the Black Caps captain was getting through.
By the time they drifted away into the Wellington night, having seen the Martin Guptill-inspired Kiwis destroy West Indies to earn a place in the semi-finals, the dream was fast becoming a reality.
Guptill's unbeaten 237 was the highest score in a World Cup match, the second biggest in one-day internationals and the fourth best in all List A cricket.
He broke his own record for the highest score by a New Zealander, becoming only the second man to hit a World Cup double ton and the fifth to do so in all ODIs.
McCullum called it the "the greatest ODI innings I've seen live", former New Zealand captain Jeremy Coney said that Guptill "dazzled", while former India batsman Rahul Dravid described it as "incredible".
It was a New Zealand performance befitting the excitement in a country where the World Cup feels like a bigger deal than across the Tasman Sea in Australia.
Whereas Australia has struggled to fill its vast grounds, New Zealand has matched size of venue to magnitude of match to be rewarded with capacity crowds and lively atmospheres.
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And while Australia's larger cities have few reminders that the World Cup is in the area, New Zealand's smaller towns are plastered with paraphernalia.
In a rugby-obsessed nation, cricket is on the television in takeaways and hotel lobbies. Shop windows are given over to cricket-themed displays, while Black Caps flags flutter on the forecourts of a used-car dealerships.
In Dunedin, the city of McCullum's birth, the road leading to its University Oval has been renamed 'Brendon McCullum Drive'.
As for Guptill, he already appears to be living the dream - but it is one that was almost over before it began.
At the age of 13, he was involved in a forklift accident that caused him to lose three toes. As the aspiring cricketer recovered in hospital, his father arranged for former New Zealand skipper Stephen Fleming to pay him a visit.
"Back then I didn't think I would ever play for New Zealand," said Guptill, sensitively nicknamed 'Two Toes'. "I'm lucky enough to represent my country and I'm loving this moment."
Some 15 years later, a merciless assault on the West Indies bowling etched the tall right-hander into New Zealand cricket and World Cup folklore.
Not that the early signs were good. He needed the good fortune of Marlon Samuels dropping a straightforward shin-high chance at square leg in the first over and had to weather the storm of losing more illustrious partners McCullum and Kane Williamson.
However, with the confidence of a century in his last innings against Bangladesh, Guptill built by driving pacemen down the ground and cutting the spinners through the off side.
As he approached 200, the crowd began chanting his name.
When the double century came, the roar was so loud it was as if the whole of New Zealand was celebrating, Guptill's helmet-off, double-armed celebration providing perhaps the moment of the World Cup so far.
In the same Andre Russell over, another boundary took Guptill past Chris Gayle's World Cup best of 215.
Gayle, whose record stood for only 25 days, congratulated Guptill between overs, offering a handshake and telling him "welcome to the club".
Then came the shot that the innings will be best remembered for - Russell forgetting to use the pitch, Guptill swinging to leg, white leather becoming a dot in the sky and landing on the roof of the stand.
Guptill removed his glove and held two fingers to Craig McMillan, telling his batting coach that he had now managed more hits on to the roof of the Cake Tin. As a couple of figures in black walked around the top of the stadium in an effort to find the ball, the word "roof" trended on Twitter.
The crowd continued to shout his name as he strode off at the end of the innings and remained vocal when he reappeared to be interviewed on television.
"I'm incredibly proud of what happened today," said Guptill. "It's pretty cool to hear the whole stadium chanting your name - I've never had anything like that before."
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There were more reasons for noise as the Black Caps sprinted towards victory: Trent Boult taking four wickets to become the tournament's most successful bowler, Daniel Vettori urging his 36-year-old, injury-ravaged body into a Michael Jordan-style leap for a one-handed catch on the third-man boundary.
The Black Caps have rewarded the nation's enthusiasm with seven successive wins in this tournament and the real sense that their seventh World Cup semi-final against South Africa in Auckland on Tuesday could finally produce a place in the final - and even the trophy.
"That would make the nation throb with pride," said Coney. "Success and being in the spotlight doesn't usually sit well. Our style is to be a bit more humble. Talking ourselves up isn't really the New Zealand way."
Maybe, though, the New Zealand way is about to change - especially if a country with a population smaller than that of Yorkshire were to hold both the cricket and rugby union World Cups at the same time.
"Wouldn't that be nice?" suggested Coney, with typical Kiwi understatement.
Perhaps it really is time to dream big, New Zealand.
Listen to highlights from Test Match Special's and 5 live Sport's 2015 World Cup coverage. | Throughout the World Cup, a television advertisement has featured Brendon McCullum telling his country to "dream big, New Zealand". |
36,575,462 | They said a second runway would create tens of thousands of jobs and add £1.7bn a year to the local economy.
Campaigners against the idea have claimed it would cause "unacceptable" levels of pollution.
The government is due to make a final decision over whether Gatwick or Heathrow should expand this summer.
Last July the Airports Commission recommended a third runway at Heathrow as its chosen solution.
The organisations have a combined membership in excess of 15,000 businesses who, it is estimated, employ more than 100,000 people.
Jeremy Taylor, of Gatwick Diamond Business, who co-ordinated the support for the letter said: "This is the clearest indication the prime minister needs that the next runway for the country should be built at Gatwick.
"It is the cheapest and most deliverable option that causes the lowest impact of the schemes under consideration.
"Those who oppose have made a lot of noise for a very small number of people; the quiet majority now feel it is their turn to be heard." | Business leaders from 36 organisations in the South East are taking a letter to 10 Downing Street arguing the case for expansion at Gatwick Airport. |
34,834,756 | Brentford sacked Marinus Dijkuizen in September, with Lee Carsley put in charge of the Championship club until the end of the season.
Despite overseeing an improvement in results, Carsley has said he does not want the job on a full-time basis.
The Bees have not yet made an official approach for Clotet, but the Spaniard is believed to be on their shortlist.
Clotet, 38, joined Swansea's academy in 2013 and was promoted to assist manager Garry Monk when Michael Laudrup was sacked in February 2014.
Brentford, who are 11th in the Championship, are searching for a permanent manager following Dijkhuizen's swift departure.
The Dutchman was only in charge for nine matches, having been appointed in June after the controversial departure of previous boss Mark Warburton.
Carsley won four games in a row in October after starting his reign with two defeats. | Swansea City assistant manager Pep Clotet is among the candidates to become Brentford's new boss. |
34,039,265 | It briefly hit a rate of 14 to the dollar amid concerns about the strength of the Chinese economy, reports the Reuters news agency.
Economies that rely on the sale of commodities - such as South Africa's - have been hit by the slowdown in growth in China, a major source of demand.
The problem was compounded when China unexpectedly devalued its currency earlier this month.
The rand is particularly vulnerable because it is one of the globe's most highly traded emerging market currencies, South African economist Martyn Davies told the BBC.
He added that South Africa's central bank will find it hard to defend the currency against a slide in value, instead the government needs to address some of the fundamental economic issues such as the problems in the power sector.
China is South Africa's number one trading partner and a weakening of the Chinese economy will affect the demand for South African goods.
So, the immediate future is not promising.
While other countries have also been affected by the China slowdown, the situation in South Africa has been made worse by the general state of the domestic economy.
In the past year South Africa's economy has struggled to raise growth above 2%.
One factor is the continued labour unrest leading to regular strikes in key areas such as mining.
Another is the electricity shortages due to poor maintenance of the national grid.
For South Africa, there will be a need for deeper evaluation, even after global markets show signs of recovery.
Several other African currencies have been under pressure in recent weeks over fears of a Chinese economic slowdown.
With oil currently hovering around $40 (£25) a barrel, there are concerns about the prospects for oil-based economies, especially Nigeria and Angola.
The relative strength of the US dollar has also had an effect on - among others - the Zambian kwacha and the Ugandan shilling, which have both hit record lows in the past week. | South Africa's currency has fallen to an all-time low against the US dollar. |
36,092,181 | The 15-year-old had admitted attacking Zadhullah Boota, who was given a community order in 2010 after he was convicted of sexually assaulting her.
Bradford Crown Court heard she "snapped" after he was not imprisoned.
Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC said jailing her would be "callous and cruel" and it was clear the attack had been motivated by the abuse.
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Sentencing the girl to a two-year youth rehabilitation order, he said he believed Boota had been dealt with "somewhat leniently".
"It is self evident that this offence was caused by, and solely relates to, the impact of the offending upon you when you were [a young girl]," he said.
"I hope to be able to help you
"There is no question of locking you up. That would be callous and cruel in the extreme."
The girl, who cannot be identified because of her age, told Boota "I'm going to kill you" before she stabbed him in the stomach in November 2015.
She later handed herself in to police.
The court heard the girl told officers her life had been destroyed by the abuse she had suffered.
She said she felt let down by the justice system when Boota did not go to prison.
The girl, who was originally charged with attempted murder, pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm on Monday.
Gabrielle Shaw, from the National Association for People Abused in Childhood, said child abusers are often given "lenient" sentences which can "re-traumatise" their victims.
"We are pleased that Judge Durham Hall has acknowledged the long-term impacts of childhood abuse on this teenager and that the leniency shown by the legal system towards the man who abused her contributed to what she did," she said. | A judge has spared a teenage girl who stabbed the man who sexually abused her as a child from a prison sentence. |
34,131,423 | Baltimore Circuit Judge Barry Williams said that trying the officers as a group would not be "in the interest of justice".
Freddie Gray, 25, died after sustaining a severe spinal cord injury while riding in a police van in April.
His death sparked nights of unrest and weeks of protests in the city.
Defence lawyers initially sought to have the charges dropped, but Judge Williams denied that request.
Judge Williams also rejected a motion to have the prosecutor removed from the case at a pre-trial hearing on Wednesday.
Defence lawyers argued misconduct by state prosecutor Marilyn Mosby, and wanted an independent prosecutor to handle the case.
They say Ms Mosby violated her obligation to a fair trial by announcing the charges at a public news conference as protests over Freddie Gray's death were already in motion.
Judge Williams called Mosby's public comments about the case "troubling" but said they were not likely to prejudice a jury.
Dates for the trials have not yet been set.
Gray's death, which was ruled a homicide, is one of several involving black Americans and police officers which has sparked unrest and national debate over police and race relations.
The officers pleaded not guilty to the charges, which range from false imprisonment to involuntary manslaughter.
Gray was arrested on 12 April after a police chase on foot in West Baltimore. He sustained a severe spinal injury while being transported in a police van.
Police later admitted he had not been secured by a seatbelt and his request for medical attention at the time was denied. He fell into a coma and died a week later.
His death sparked protests over police brutality, with the city of Baltimore erupting in rioting, looting and arson on the day of his funeral.
Questions over whether the trial should be moved from Baltimore will be raised at a second pre-trial hearing in September. | A US judge has ruled that six Baltimore police officers accused of causing the death of a man in their custody will stand trial separately. |
33,864,292 | Olive Edis, from Sheringham in Norfolk, captured unique photographs of women on the Western Front at the end of World War One.
The archive, made possible by a £81,000 Heritage Lottery grant, will also bring together Edis's other work, including portraits of royal family members.
It will be made available to view on the Norfolk Museums Service website.
Edis, born in 1876, was regarded as a photographic pioneer, being an early user of the Lumiere brothers' autochrome technique and taking some of the first colour photographs of Canada.
Famous figures she photographed included Liberal prime minister David Lloyd George, Prince Albert, who became George VI, socialite Nancy Astor, the first director general of the BBC John Reith, and social reformer Henrietta Barnett.
Her skills were recognised by the Imperial War Museum, which commissioned her to photograph people and the effects of World War One, particularly focusing on women and their changing roles in the armed services.
The online archive will be brought together from her work currently based at Cromer Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, among others.
It will feature photos and journals from the Western Front and portraits of royalty, prime ministers and fishermen in her native Norfolk.
The project will also transform the world's largest collection of her work at Cromer, allowing visitors to use smartphone and touchscreen technology to explore the physical collection and take photos using the techniques she utilised.
Hilary Cox, Norfolk county councillor for Cromer, said the funding would help highlight the "courage, expertise and excellence" of a woman who should be a household name. | The work of Britain's first female war photographer is being brought together in an online archive. |
30,962,289 | Samantha Henderson, 25, from Corfe Castle was reported missing just before 08:45 GMT on Thursday morning.
A 27-year-old man from Corfe Castle, who is known to Ms Henderson, has been arrested on suspicion of her murder.
Det Insp Neil Devoto said police did not yet know of her whereabouts and officers were carrying out extensive enquiries in the area.
Police "strongly believe" that Samantha may have come to harm.
Det Insp Devoto said: "Sadly, our concerns for Samantha are so grave that we have today....arrested a 27-year-old man on suspicion of her murder.
"Our investigations are focused on establishing exactly what has happened to Samantha between Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning.
"I would ask anyone who has seen or heard from Samantha since Wednesday afternoon to contact us."
Samantha is described as white, 1.60 metres (5ft 3 inches), of a very slim build and with blonde hair.
She was seen wearing a grey jumper, blue jeans and slippers. | A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a Dorset woman who has been reported missing. |
36,979,341 | Bennett, 66, succeeded Steve McNamara as the national team boss in February of this year, on the back of an autumn Test series win against New Zealand.
England take on Australia, New Zealand and Scotland in the Four Nations later this year.
The opening Test comes against the Kiwis in Huddersfield on 29 October.
"This is my first opportunity to see the squad in action and I feel an away game is good preparation to see how everyone comes together in a new environment," Bennett said.
Avignon, in France's southern rugby league heartland, has staged many internationals with England's last visit resulting in a 32-18 victory back in 2011. | Wayne Bennett's opening game as England head coach will be a Four Nations warm-up fixture against France in Avignon on Saturday, 22 October. |
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Captain Chamari Atapattu hit a crucial 52 as Sri Lanka stuttered to 114-7.
South Africa looked to be coasting in Bangalore as Dane van Niekerk (24) and Trisha Chetty (26) put on 50 for the first wicket inside nine overs.
But from there the Proteas collapsed, losing five wickets for 24 runs, and they fell short, finishing on 104-7.
Neither team advances from Group A, with New Zealand and Australia going through to the semi-finals where they will play West Indies and England respectively. | Sri Lanka bowed out of the Women's World Twenty20 with a 10-run win over South Africa, with both teams already eliminated from semi-final contention. |
37,601,779 | Towns with a population of under 80,000 - such as Inverness, Perth, Paisley and Hawick - are being encouraged to submit applications to the Carnegie UK Trust.
It has launched the scheme to support matched funding, shared knowledge and the creation of an economic development plan for local areas.
Ten UK towns will be paired to share ideas and boost growth.
The twinning concept grew after the Second World War to promote cultural and commercial ties around the world.
It is being recreated across the UK as a way for councils to work together more closely.
Scottish towns and cities have established hundreds of twin town relationships around the world over the years, such as Falkirk with Creteil, in northern France, Kirkcaldy with Ingolstadt, in southern Germany, and Livingston with Grapevine in Texas.
Head of development at the Carnegie UK Trust Jim Metcalfe said: "The concept of town twinning was conceived to foster greater understanding and trade between communities in different countries.
"With the devolution of power to big, overarching regions increasingly likely, smaller towns are in danger of being left behind.
"Twin Towns UK is an opportunity for local councils facing particular problems to form a partnership with a counterpart elsewhere in the country.
"Having a twinned town is something to be proud of - and we think some towns can find that partner here in the UK."
The selected towns will be supported over 18 months to build ties, receive economic planning support, and have access to funds to kick-start new commercial, voluntary and social enterprise activity, the charity said. | Scottish towns are being asked to apply to a new domestic twinning programme to boost their local economies. |
38,597,423 | The world's fourth largest phone marker shipped 71 million devices in 2015 - up from 6.6 million in 2012.
But it experienced weaker demand in the past 12 months, with third-quarter sales down 27%, according to analysts.
Experts say Chinese phone makers are struggling in an increasingly competitive global market.
In an open letter to staff, Xiaomi's chief executive Lei Jun said: "In the first few years, we pushed ahead too fast.
"We created a miracle, but also drew on some long-term growth.
"So we have to slow down, further improve in some areas and ensure sustainable growth for a long-term future."
Since launching its first phone in 2011, Xiaomi has expanded rapidly, with sales surging to 57.6 million by 2014, according to market trackers IDC.
But the privately-held firm only sold 39 million phones in the first nine months of 2016, and its full-year sales are unlikely to match 2015's.
The firm, which also sells appliances and runs retail stores, admitted in November it still made no profit from its phones.
Francisco Jeronimo, a research director at IDC, told the BBC: "Chinese phone makers are all facing the same problems.
"The overall smartphone market globally is very tough and not growing, so what they need to do is attract clients away from other brands.
"But they are not that well known, especially outside China, which makes it hard to compete against the likes of Apple and Samsung."
It comes after rival Chinese smartphone business, LeEco, also claimed it had grown too quickly in November.
In a letter to his staff, founder Jia Yueting said the company was consequently facing cash-flow problems and difficulty raising funds.
Despite Xiaomi's challenges, Mr Jun said he was optimistic about the future.
In his letter he claimed the firm's Indian sales hit $1bn (£816m) for the first time in 2016, while sales of its smart appliances reached $2.2bn (£1.8bn).
He also said Xiaomi had applied for more than 16,000 patents around the world, of which 3,612 had been granted.
"Only by constant innovation will we be able to introduce breakthrough products in the intensely competitive high-end smartphone market," he said. | Chinese mobile phone giant Xiaomi has said it will not disclose how many handsets it sold in 2016 after claiming it had grown "too fast". |
40,720,653 | The 33-year-old was released by Wolves in May having made just six appearances last season in an injury-hit year.
His signing follows a brief trial period with The U's on their pre-season trip to Portugal earlier this month.
"It's an exciting place to be, a good club heading in the right direction," he told BBC Radio Oxford. "I want to play games and contribute."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Oxford United have signed former Newcastle United and Wolves defender Mike Williamson on a one-year deal. |
37,138,935 | The former Rovers midfielder netted in the 94th minute after Ryan Sessegnon's cross was only half cleared.
In a match with few chances, Danny Graham beat the offside trap early on but the Rovers striker could only blast over the crossbar.
Cairney's late goal leaves Blackburn bottom of the Championship with just one point from five matches.
Fulham moved into second place in the table as they continued their unbeaten run in the league, but were lucky not to concede when goalkeeper David Button spilled Anthony Stokes' 20-yard shot before collecting at a second attempt with five minutes remaining.
Earlier, Whites debutant Neeskens Kebano was unlucky not to get on the scoresheet in the first half, as his rasping drive was tipped over by Jason Steele before his header from the resultant corner went just wide.
Graham squandered a golden opportunity at the start of the second half to put Blackburn ahead as his first-time shot was tipped just wide of the post.
And Fulham's persistence paid off as Cairney's left-foot strike, his second goal of the season, gave the away side a third win of the season.
Fulham manager Slavisa Jokanovic:
"They're some very strong words but Tom Cairney can be a Premier League player. His quality, he's clinical.
"He's a player who doesn't lose passes. He normally completes around 90%. We know him, he played for this club though I'm not sure what style he played.
"We tried to find pace with the ball. We moved Blackburn from one side to the other side. We tried to dominate the game and I have to be happy and satisfied with what my team offered during the game.
Blackburn manager Owen Coyle:
"I've been in the game long enough to know it can be a very cruel game and I think that happened. I thought our level of performance was terrific.
"We restricted them to very few opportunities. I thought, when we went, we had one or two chances ourselves.
"The disappointment of course is we've lost the goal that decides the game so late and we had opportunities to clear it.
"It's hard to take for the players and the fans because they were great, they got behind the team and really backed the players and created a good atmosphere.
"What I do know moving forward, if we perform like that and as we look to Wednesday to add to the squad, then I know it will leave us in a good place and a platform to drive ourselves up the Championship table."
Match ends, Blackburn Rovers 0, Fulham 1.
Second Half ends, Blackburn Rovers 0, Fulham 1.
Goal! Blackburn Rovers 0, Fulham 1. Tom Cairney (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner.
Corner, Fulham. Conceded by Derrick Williams.
Cauley Woodrow (Fulham) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Gordon Greer (Blackburn Rovers).
Attempt missed. Cauley Woodrow (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Sone Aluko.
Substitution, Fulham. Lasse Vigen Christensen replaces Neeskens Kebano.
Offside, Blackburn Rovers. Craig Conway tries a through ball, but Liam Feeney is caught offside.
Offside, Blackburn Rovers. Jason Steele tries a through ball, but Anthony Stokes is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Anthony Stokes (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Craig Conway.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Liam Feeney replaces Ben Marshall.
Hand ball by Derrick Williams (Blackburn Rovers).
Foul by Neeskens Kebano (Fulham).
Craig Conway (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Fulham. Jozabed replaces Scott Parker.
Foul by Tomas Kalas (Fulham).
Craig Conway (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Hope Akpan (Blackburn Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kevin McDonald (Fulham) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Hope Akpan (Blackburn Rovers).
Attempt missed. Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Craig Conway.
Foul by Michael Madl (Fulham).
Anthony Stokes (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Sone Aluko (Fulham).
Tommie Hoban (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Anthony Stokes replaces Sam Gallagher.
Tomas Kalas (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sam Gallagher (Blackburn Rovers).
Foul by Tom Cairney (Fulham).
Craig Conway (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Fulham. Cauley Woodrow replaces Matt Smith.
Delay in match Danny Graham (Blackburn Rovers) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Hope Akpan (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Danny Graham.
Attempt blocked. Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Craig Conway.
Scott Parker (Fulham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Scott Parker (Fulham).
Hope Akpan (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Kevin McDonald (Fulham) wins a free kick in the attacking half. | Tom Cairney's injury-time goal gave Fulham a dramatic victory against Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park. |
17,250,542 | Nutritionists discovered gluten in a supplier's shepherd's pie and beef bolognese, which are both used by schools across the county.
The county council said it has 20 pupils registered with gluten-intolerance or coeliac disease.
The council said no children had had an adverse reaction.
Councillor Andrew Grant said: "Our nutritionists regularly monitor the ingredients used by our suppliers in the food we provide and it was as a result of these checks that we picked up the discrepancy between the labelling and the actual ingredients.
"While the quantity of gluten a child may have consumed is quite small, it is nevertheless completely unacceptable for a child with allergies to be exposed to this risk.
"We've requested a full investigation into the circumstances of how this has happened and we're confident the problem is confined to these two particular meals."
The local authority said gluten, a wheat protein, was found in a gravy powder which was used in the two meals.
Gluten triggers an auto-immune response in those that are intolerant to the protein.
It leads to inflammation of the small intestine, which eventually damages the lining of the intestine, making it less able to absorb nutrients. | Schools in Northamptonshire have been told not to serve two "gluten-free" meals after they were found to contain the protein. |
33,844,627 | Sandra Major, 61, was on a bus returning from the Apprentice Boys parade when it was attacked in Dungiven on Saturday. Four people were injured.
Her sister, Margaret Ritchie, was with her at the time of the attack.
"There was blood all over her face and glass everywhere," Margaret said. "I was hit and was knocked off my feet."
"My sister was slumped over her seat and there was a big hole in the window," she told BBC Radio Foyle.
"It was a brick that hit my sister. It was incredibly frightening.
"I shouted her name a number of times and there was no response.
"When I saw the state of her face it really shocked me.
"They had to remove glass from her face at the Ulster Hospital. She can barely speak and doesn't really remember what happened."
Ms Ritchie said her sister would have to have extensive dental work following the attack.
"We are all in a state of shock. She doesn't think she will ever go on a bus again," she said.
"We have been going to the parade for 15 years and never had any bother. There wasn't one flag, no band uniforms and no chanting on that bus.
"We can't blame the good people of Dungiven."
Fr Aidan Mullan told the BBC on Sunday that the attack was "shameful".
A 16-year-old boy arrested after the attack on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm has since been released on bail pending further inquiries.
DUP Deputy Mayor of Belfast, Guy Spence, said: "There is no doubt that this was a very traumatic experience.
"It is disappointing and it's something we do not want to see.
"There needs to be a review as to how and why this happened.
"I'm not aware of any wrong doings on this bus or any other bus passing through Dungiven."
Sinn Fein MLA Cathal O'Hoisin said: "This is entirely unjustified and I condemn it.
"I hope Sandra makes a full recovery. I will be meeting with the police."
The Police Service of Northern Ireland's district commander Supt Mark McEwan said: "I felt disappointed.
"Between 10,000 and 15,000 were enjoying the Apprentice Boys parade and it was a successful day.
"It is incredibly unfortunate that this happened in Dungiven but we have to keep this in perspective."
Jim Brownlee, the Governor of the Apprentice Boys of Derry, said: "This attack was absolutely disgraceful.
"The police helicopter might have been better deployed in areas such as Dungiven.
"There is always going to be a negative but we should keep hold of the positives. Saturday was a very successful day in general." | A Belfast woman needed 30 stitches to her face and lost five teeth after being hit with a brick during an attack on a bus in County Londonderry. |
12,733,348 | For nearly 18 years it was wrongly assumed that they had died in a suicide pact.
In March Hazel Stewart was found guilty of murdering her policeman husband, Mr Buchanan and her then lover's wife, Mrs Howell.
Her ex-partner, former Dentist Colin Howell, pleaded guilty to the murders last year.
The court-case centred on a real-life story which involved sex, religion, adultery, murder, cover-up and then - 20 years later - a confession.
In the dock was Hazel Stewart, a former Sunday school teacher. Back in 1991, she was having an affair with the local dentist Colin Howell.
And one night in the summer of 1991, they killed their respective spouses. They did it in such a way as to make it look like two suicides, rather than two murders.
A few weeks after the funerals, Stewart and Howell then continued their secret affair. They kept it going for another five years.
But even when they broke up and married other people, they didn't admit to the murders.
Then, two years ago, out of the blue, Colin Howell confessed to his Church elders, and then to the police, about what they'd done.
For almost 20 years, Colin Howell got away with murder and lived a seemingly happy, normal existence.
Folly a deux
But then two things happened which changed his life. First, his 22-year-old son, Matthew, died in an accident in Russia.
Second, he lost a fortune when a business deal in the Philippines went wrong. One or both of these incidents may have been the trigger for his sudden confession. If he hadn't eventually confessed, the truth would probably never have come out.
Professor of criminology David Wilson explained that this turn of events could have been motivated by selfish reasons.
"Well it's certainly not going to be remorse and its certainly not going to have be guilt, that led him to hand himself in," Mr Wilson said.
"This is a classic case of calculation in terms of 'it would be better to 'fess up' rather than face the circumstances he was currently living in.
"I also think it was intimately bound up with the relationship he had with his new wife, who has since moved back to the US.
"For a very long period of time Colin Howell has been a cunning, manipulative and controlling man and I think you would have to place his desire to bring these murders to the authorities attention within that manipulative context.
"I think there is some criminoloigical background we could use here and in particular one would like to look at this in terms of a folly a deux, the psychological concept, literally meaning a madness shared by two," Mr Wilson added.
"Historically there are some other folly a deux we can look to such as between Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, and again with Fred and Rose West.
"Usually within a folly a deux there is a more dominant male figure who will manipulate a more subservient disciple, or a female figure to share a world view which is frankly unbelievable.
"The strength of Colin Howell was his ability as a fantasist to convince somebody like Hazel Stewart that that world was possible."
This type of behaviour was illustrated by the fact that Colin Howell could be in the garage making a slide for his child whilst devising the pipe he would later use for the murders.
Mr Wilson said this type of behaviour was categorised as compartmentalising.
"It was how he was able to have the very public face, the public rituals of being a businessman, a dentist, a Baptist lay-preacher, whilst all the time the private realities behind those public rituals were ones that could include psychopathy and ultimately murder.
"I think in the end, his confession was probably related to the fact that he was overwhelmed by the amount things he had to compartmentalise."
Throughout the court case of Hazel Stewart members of both families stood in the gallery.
On one side the children of Lesley Howell, wanting to find answers about their mother's death. Sat opposite them were the children of Hazel Stewart, who, despite losing their father, chose to stand by their mother throughout the court case.
Many people were surprised by this but Mr Wilson said it is not unusual.
"Often one finds that the families of murder victims react in a variety of ways, not just a stereotypical way so actually her children standing by her is not that odd at all." | Lesley Howell, 31, and Trevor Buchanan, 32, were found in a car full of exhaust fumes in Castlerock in 1991. |
36,647,948 | Mr Hunt, who said he was "seriously considering" a bid for the Conservative leadership, said this should be either through a general election or a second referendum.
He called for a "sensible compromise" on free movement in exchange for single market access.
Chancellor George Osborne said he would not try to replace David Cameron.
But Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb is set to declare he will stand in the contest, and backbencher John Baron is considering taking part.
The PM's resignation following the UK's vote to leave the EU has triggered a Conservative leadership contest, with Boris Johnson and Theresa May seen as the frontrunners.
A source close to Mr Johnson said he would not call a snap general election if he becomes prime minister, adding that he believed the referendum result would give him the mandate he required to negotiate the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
In an article for the Daily Telegraph, Mr Hunt said the UK should negotiate a "Norway plus" option for the UK with Brussels, which would see "full access to the single market with a sensible compromise on free movement rules".
Leave campaigners say the UK will get access to the single market without having to accept free movement of people - but other EU leaders have said this will not be possible.
Mr Hunt told the BBC the terms of any UK-EU trade deals would be a "huge decision" and that people should have the chance to give their verdict.
He said this could either be through a referendum or as part of the Conservative manifesto for the 2020 general election, saying the government could wait until this time before triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which sets in place a formal two-year process for leaving.
Nominations for the Conservative Party leadership will open on Wednesday and close the following day and a new prime minister and party leader will be unveiled on 9 September.
Mr Cameron has said he will quit as prime minister and Conservative leader by October, after the UK voted by 52% to 48% to leave the EU. He had campaigned hard for a Remain victory.
Ruling himself out of the contest, Mr Osborne, who campaigned to remain in the EU, said: "I don't think I can be the person to bring this party together at the moment."
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: "I was full-throttled in arguing for remaining in the EU and because half my party wanted to leave the EU I don't think I can be the person to bring this party together, at the moment."
The chancellor said the right candidate to lead the party and the country was the person who is "able to articulate the clearest, crispest version of what relationship we are seeking" with the EU.
His view, he said, was that the relationship should involve "the best possible terms of trade" for services and goods.
Asked if he believed the next leader could be someone who campaigned for Remain, Mr Osborne said: "Absolutely."
But he said he was not backing any candidate "at the moment", saying his focus was on the UK's financial and economic situation.
Business Secretary Sajid Javid confirmed to the BBC he would be supporting Mr Crabb, who was promoted to the Department for Work and Pensions after Iain Duncan Smith resigned from the government in March.
Mr Baron, who represents Basildon and Billericay in Essex, is considering standing on his record as a long-time Brexit backer, to ensure the referendum decision is honoured.
The party's 1922 committee will oversee the contest. Its executive has suggested the contest should follow the system used to elect David Cameron in 2005, which would see MPs pick two candidates to put to the wider membership.
MPs wanting to stand need to be nominated by two others to get onto the ballot paper. If there are three or more candidates, a ballot or series of ballots will be held of all the party's 331 MPs to whittle down the field to two. In each round, the candidate with the fewest votes will be eliminated.
After that, a vote of the wider party - in which all Conservative members will have a say - will be held to choose the winner, with hustings taking place.
The suggested timetable had been for a leader to be in place by 2 September, with nominations opening on Wednesday 29 June and closing by noon on Thursday 30 June. However, the Conservative Party's board and the 1922 committee extended the date of the result by a week to 9 September.
It means the party will have a new leader in time for its autumn conference, which starts on 2 October - the deadline David Cameron had set when he announced his intention to resign.
According to a YouGov poll for the Times, Home Secretary Theresa May is favoured by 31% of Conservative voters to become the next leader, against 24% for Mr Johnson.
Another Leave campaigner, Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour she was "thinking very hard" about whether to throw her hat in to the ring.
Asked if she was considering running - or if it would be better to stand aside and allow a May versus Johnson contest - she said: "I'm really thinking about it very hard." | People should have their say on the terms of the UK's exit deal with the EU, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said. |
34,369,487 | Sergey Andreyev said Poland had blocked a coalition against Nazi Germany several times in the run-up to war.
He also said the USSR's invasion of Poland in 1939 was not an aggression.
Relations between Poland and Russia have been poor in recent years, with Poland one of Moscow's sharpest critics over its intervention in Ukraine.
The row comes a day after Poland's ambassador in Moscow was summoned over the vandalising of graves of Soviet soldiers in a Polish village.
Poland has also condemned the desecration at the Milejczyce cemetery.
In an interview with a private Polish TV station aired on Friday evening, Mr Andreyev said that Poland had stood in the way of an alliance against the Nazis.
"Therefore Poland partly bears responsibility for the catastrophe that ensued in September 1939," he said, referring to the Nazi invasion of Poland.
He appeared to be referring to Poland's refusal to allow the transit of Soviet troops through its territory.
Mr Andreyev also said that the Soviet invasion of eastern Poland later that month was not an aggression but "to ensure the safety of the USSR" when the outcome of the German invasion of Poland was already clear.
The ambassador added that relations between Poland and Russia were at their lowest ebb since 1945, because Poland had frozen political, cultural and humanitarian contacts.
The Polish Foreign Ministry said Mr Andreyev had "undermined historical truth".
"We take it as a lack of respect for the memory of the victims of the NKVD [Soviet secret police]," it said in a statement, referring to the repression which followed the Soviet invasion. | Poland is to summon the Russian ambassador over remarks which appeared to suggest he said Poland was partly to blame for the start of World War Two. |
35,145,243 | Ted Trim, from Theydon Bois, was declared the winner after final heats in Essex and West Sussex on Saturday.
More than 200 people competed in six-car 10-lap races around a 28ft (8.55m) circuit at the events, but no-one could beat the best time of 2015, set by Ted.
He won with 24.49 seconds. His time was recorded in Harlow in August.
He said he had come across the competition while out shopping and had just decided "to have a go".
"I'm happy and surprised because I'd never played before," Ted said, adding that he would be defending his title next year.
The teenager said he had since bought a Scalextric set.
Other heats during this year were also held elsewhere in the UK and Europe.
The final rounds took place at the English Martyrs Church Hall in Goring-by-Sea, and at Marquee Models in the Harvey Centre, Harlow.
Competitors raced against each other using Maserati Trofeos, a Bentley Continental and a Chevrolet Camaro.
They used the same Scalextric Digital layout as the other championship events and use the same models of Scalextric cars and controllers.
Prizes were awarded for the fastest time each hour and to the overall winner and top under-16 racer of the day.
Local schoolboy Vlad Howe was the winner in Goring-by-Sea, having set the fastest time of the day of 32.53 seconds.
His father said: "I've got boxes of Scalextric in the loft. Maybe it's time to get it down."
In Harlow, the winner of the day was 66-year-old Colin Gill, with the fastest time of 29.3 seconds. | A 14-year-old boy has been crowned this year's Scalextric World Champion after playing the classic slot car racing game for the first time. |
37,274,201 | The AfD was founded in 2013 as an anti-euro party but has turned its focus to immigration and Islam. It now has MPs in nine of Germany's 16 state parliaments, and is aiming to win its first seats nationally in next year's federal elections.
What does the AfD stand for, and why has its popularity grown?
The AfD has capitalised on a nationalist backlash against Chancellor Merkel's welcome for more than a million migrants and refugees in 2015.
Anxiety about immigration dominated the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania election on 4 September, enabling the AfD to take second place (almost 21%), behind the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD - 30.6%) but ahead of Mrs Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU - 19%).
When the numbers of migrants arriving in Germany surged in 2014-2015 the AfD made that the focus of its party platform. There were contacts with the anti-immigration Pegida movement, which staged weekly marches against what it called "the Islamisation of the West".
The AfD also adopted some of Pegida's anti-establishment rhetoric, for example the slogan "Luegenpresse" ("lying press"), which has echoes of the Nazi era.
Germany must reintroduce permanent border controls and the EU's external borders must be "completely shut", the AfD says. That position contradicts Schengen - the EU's free movement zone, covering most of Europe, where border checks are generally minimal.
AfD leader Frauke Petry has said German police should "if necessary" shoot at migrants seeking to enter the country illegally.
The AfD calls for stricter asylum rules to curb abuse of the system, including vetting of claims in countries of origin that are deemed "safe", to stop so many migrants coming to Germany.
In May 2016, the AfD adopted an explicitly anti-Islam policy, and its programme (in German) has a section explaining why it believes "Islam does not belong to Germany".
There is no room for Muslim practices and beliefs that go against "the free, democratic social foundation, our laws and the Judaeo-Christian and humanistic bases of our culture", it says.
So the AfD would ban foreign funding of mosques in Germany, ban the burka (full-body veil) and the Muslim call to prayer, and put all imams through a state vetting procedure.
"Moderate" Muslims who accept integration are "valued members of society", the programme says. But it argues that multiculturalism does not work.
An estimated three million people of Turkish origin live in Germany, most of them Muslims.
The AfD rejects as "degrading" the EU's controversial deal with Turkey, aimed at stopping the influx of migrants via the Balkans.
In return for Turkish help in reducing the numbers reaching the Greek islands, the EU offered visa-free travel to the Schengen zone. Turkey also wants to see real progress in its problematic negotiations to join the EU.
The AfD's launch in early 2013 was all about challenging the eurozone bailouts and rejecting the EU's arguments for keeping the euro.
It has since veered right with policies on migrants and Islam but still promises to give German voters a referendum on the euro.
The party's first leader, Bernd Lucke, led a group of economists who objected to the bailouts of Greece and other struggling southern European countries. They said German taxpayers should not be made liable for massive debts incurred by profligate eurozone governments.
Mr Lucke left the AfD in 2015, arguing that it was becoming increasingly xenophobic. It was the first of several high-profile power struggles in the AfD.
The party tapped into widespread German anxiety about the Greek debt crisis, and seven AfD members were elected to the European Parliament in 2014. However, only two of those MEPs remain in the AfD, after policy disputes.
Its anti-euro policy echoes the Euroscepticism of other right-wing parties in Europe, especially the French National Front (FN), the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and Austria's Freedom Party (FPOe).
More powers must return to the nation states, the AfD says, opposing all "centralising" moves in the EU, and anything that smacks of Euro-federalism.
If the EU fails to reform and continues centralising, the AfD says, the party will seek to pull Germany out of the EU.
In another echo of anti-EU parties, the AfD argues that elite, establishment politicians are too remote from ordinary voters, and that more policies should be decided by Swiss-style referendums.
AfD leader Frauke Petry has launched an alliance with Austria's FPOe, which is hoping to win a re-run presidential election in October.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants. | The right-wing nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) has pushed Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling conservatives into third place in a regional election. |
37,937,563 | Food Standards Scotland (FSS) imposed the blanket ban after finding strains of the bacteria in batches of Dunsyre Blue and Lanark Blue.
In a separate development, FSS has released details of risk assessments they undertook.
It said the food poisoning was a "major food incident".
Producer Errington Cheese has insisted its products are safe.
Now a judicial review of the decision has been dropped, the FSS has agreed to pay "reasonable judicial expenses".
Lanarkshire-based Errington Cheese was linked to an E.coli outbreak in July in which a three-year-old girl from Dunbartonshire died.
In September the FSS imposed a ban on all cheese produced by the firm. People were advised not to eat the cheese and to return it to the seller.
After the legal challenge to the order was dropped, the watchdog confirmed it had issued a revised order in relation to Errington Cheese products.
It stressed that the full product withdrawal remains in place as the cheeses are "regarded as a risk to health".
Errington Cheese claims there is "no evidence" linking its produce to the outbreak.
It launched the judicial review because it wanted FSS to make its evidence public and open to scrutiny.
Company founder Humphrey Errington told BBC Scotland that FSS lawyers had now offered to pay the firm's legal costs if it dropped the judicial review.
However the watchdog denied the claim and in a statement it said: "FSS has not agreed to to pay Errington Cheese Ltd's legal fees in full.
"FSS has agreed to pay the reasonable judicial expenses incurred in connection with the raising of the judicial review."
Mr Errington said the firm had also been offered a meeting with Food Standards Scotland to resolve their differences.
"We have accepted that," he said.
"It's a major 'back off' off from them," he added. "It's a big, big step but it's far from getting us back in the market.
"Our aim is get them to see that our cheese is not a risk to health."
In a statement on its website, Errington Cheese said: "This continues to be proving a long and frustrating battle and it continues to be the case that we are currently prevented from selling any cheese by the authorities.
"We continue to fight to re-open our business and to prove our innocence and are frustrated that we are being denied the opportunity to see our case vindicated."
In a statement, Food Standards Scotland confirmed that samples taken from different batches of different cheeses tested positive for E.coli O157 and for other strains of the bacteria.
FSS chief executive Geoff Ogle said: "This outbreak led to one fatality and 11 people being hospitalised.
"This was a major food incident where there was a significant risk to public health, with a tragic outcome.
"We have therefore decided to release the three versions of our risk assessment, each undertaken as new information became available, as well as our final risk management decision document."
Details were published on the FSS website. | A Scottish cheesemaker linked to a fatal E.coli outbreak has dropped a legal challenge against a ban on the sale of all of its products. |
34,130,619 | The trial, on 60 people, published in the Lancet, found none of those with type 2 had been cured by medication and diet alone.
The surgery improves symptoms both through weight loss and by changing the way the gut functions.
Experts said the results were "remarkable" and that too few people were getting access to the surgery.
The team, at King's College London and the Universita Cattolica in Rome, compared standard drug therapy with surgery to rewire the digestive tract.
The operations reduced the size of the stomach and left less of the intestines exposed to food.
Prof Francesco Rubino, who operated on the patients, told the BBC News website: "Surgery is able to produce prolonged remission in 50% of cases, patients get to levels of blood sugar that is non-diabetes for five years.
"However, 80% who had surgery were able to maintain 'optimal control' [of blood sugar] despite only taking one drug or nothing at all."
While some of those patients still had type-2 diabetes, they were easily keeping their sugar levels to recommended levels.
The patients who had surgery were also less likely to have heart problems, a common side-effect of uncontrolled diabetes, and reported improved quality of life.
Prof Rubino added: "Treating surgically, rather than medical therapy, appears more cost-effective, as there is less use of medication."
The results were better two years after surgery. However, some patients relapsed in the past three years.
The surgeons say there still needs to be continual monitoring of blood sugar levels even after the operation.
Drs Dimitri Pournaras and Carel le Roux, from Imperial College London, said diabetes was "the plague of the 21st Century" and that the results were "remarkable".
They added: "Surgery for diabetes seems to be safe, effective in terms of glycaemic [sugar] control, and is now associated with reduced complications of diabetes.
"The ultimate question is whether diabetes surgery is associated with reduced mortality."
However they said surgery needed to "become more available because only a few patients who will benefit are currently offered this potentially life-saving option".
New rules in the UK have been introduced that should increase the number of patients being offered weight loss surgery. | Weight loss surgery cures half of patients with type-2 diabetes, for at least five years, a study suggests. |
33,554,975 | The bird became trapped on the road at Whittington near Downham Market in Norfolk.
The driver travelled slowly to Graham Gillis Auto Repair where technicians removed the bird, which was then taken to the RSPCA centre at East Winch.
Craig Plumley, animal welfare officer, said: "It is the first time I have known it happen in the 19 years I have been working at the RSPCA."
Mr Plumley said the bird of prey was a victim of "very unfortunate timing".
"He got hit by the car at the exact moment it swooped up from catching a mouse - the dead mouse was also found in the grille," he said.
"You can't prepare for anything like this, but the driver did the right thing by driving slowly to a garage and the garage was really good in getting the kestrel out."
The RSPCA said the bird had been X-rayed and had no broken bones and it hoped to release it back to the wild soon.
Sue Levings, from East Winch wildlife centre, said: "Apart from tail feather damage, the bird is making a good recovery.
"He is receiving treatment for a wound, but it is eating well and it seems bright." | A kestrel that flew into a car's grille has been released by garage mechanics. |
35,278,183 | Croft, who played 21 Tests and 50 one-day internationals, will work with the spin bowlers for a 12-day period.
The 45-year-old is currently on the coaching staff at his former county Glamorgan.
England are also set to re-hire former limited-overs captain Paul Collingwood as a coach for the World T20.
Collingwood worked with England during the white-ball part of their tour of the UAE and assisted then coach Ashley Giles at the 2014 World T20.
Andrew Strauss, director of England cricket, said: "Robert has had success in both domestic and international cricket during his career and he'll have plenty to offer the dressing room."
Croft, who played first-class cricket until the age of 42, said: "It's extra experience for me and if the opportunity presents itself to help the lads I will. I'm there to observe and primarily be a sounding board for the spin bowlers, but will give any additional help as required.
"Looking from afar, this England team seems to have a no-fear attitude at the moment.
"There's a confidence about these England players and the side is well balanced in terms of age and experience." | Former off-spinner Robert Croft is to join England's coaching staff for the one-day leg of their tour to South Africa. |
36,949,673 | Cole Stockton's curled finish put League Two side ahead.
Greg Halford's penalty equalised, only for Dunn to restore Morecambe's lead before the Championship side struck twice in two minutes through Jerry Yates and Anthony Forde to make it 3-2.
Dunn's second forced the tie to extra time, when he scored again and Kevin Ellison netted before Yates' reply.
Forward Dunn, on loan from Liverpool, scored from the penalty spot two minutes into injury time after he was fouled by Richard Wood in the box, giving Morecambe renewed hope of completing an upset.
Former Rotherham winger Ellison fired the Shrimps ahead for only the second time in the game in the 113th minute before then setting Dunn up for his treble with two minutes to go to make it 5-3.
There was still time for Rotherham to score again, with Yates giving Jim Bentley's Morecambe reason to be nervous when he struck in the final minute of extra time.
Rotherham manager Alan Stubbs: "First of all it was obviously disappointing and secondly the manner of the goals is not good enough.
"They were goals that at this level we shouldn't be conceding. It is an area that we are looking to make stronger. You look at tonight and people will say you can see why.
"As a team we need to do better than what we did, that was the same on Saturday. We should be doing better."
Morecambe manager Jim Bentley: "It was excellent, credit where credit is due, I thought the players were absolutely magnificent against a strong team away from home.
"I am emotionally drained, it was a long night, but the players were fantastic and they deserve every pat on the back that they get tonight. I am very proud of them, we deserved it."
Match ends, Rotherham United 4, Morecambe 5.
Second Half Extra Time ends, Rotherham United 4, Morecambe 5.
Attempt blocked. Danny Ward (Rotherham United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Greg Halford (Rotherham United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Kevin Ellison (Morecambe).
Goal! Rotherham United 4, Morecambe 5. Jerry Yates (Rotherham United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Anthony Forde.
Goal! Rotherham United 3, Morecambe 5. Jack Dunn (Morecambe) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kevin Ellison.
Attempt missed. Jack Dunn (Morecambe) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Goal! Rotherham United 3, Morecambe 4. Kevin Ellison (Morecambe) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Foul by Richard Wood (Rotherham United).
Kevin Ellison (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Jerry Yates (Rotherham United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Lee Molyneux (Morecambe) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Kevin Ellison (Morecambe) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Foul by Mason Warren (Rotherham United).
Tom Barkhuizen (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Anthony Forde (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Michael Rose (Morecambe).
Second Half Extra Time begins Rotherham United 3, Morecambe 3.
First Half Extra Time ends, Rotherham United 3, Morecambe 3.
Attempt missed. Andrew Fleming (Morecambe) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt blocked. Anthony Forde (Rotherham United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Jon Taylor (Rotherham United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Jerry Yates (Rotherham United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Hand ball by Kevin Ellison (Morecambe).
Attempt missed. Richard Wood (Rotherham United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Rotherham United. Conceded by Ryan Edwards.
Attempt blocked. Anthony Forde (Rotherham United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Danny Ward (Rotherham United) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
First Half Extra Time begins Rotherham United 3, Morecambe 3.
Second Half ends, Rotherham United 3, Morecambe 3.
Attempt missed. Jack Dunn (Morecambe) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Will Vaulks (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andrew Fleming (Morecambe).
Attempt blocked. Jack Dunn (Morecambe) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Richard Smallwood (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michael Rose (Morecambe).
Goal! Rotherham United 3, Morecambe 3. Jack Dunn (Morecambe) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the centre of the goal.
Penalty conceded by Richard Wood (Rotherham United) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Morecambe. Jack Dunn draws a foul in the penalty area. | Jack Dunn's hat-trick helped Morecambe past Rotherham after extra time in an EFL Cup first-round thriller. |
37,727,426 | The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) in Stanmore, north west London, set up the appeal in a bid to raise £400,000 for its spinal injuries unit.
It said government money goes to frontline staff and services, making "investment in facilities difficult".
The GMB union said it was a "damning indictment" of the lack of NHS funding.
The 'Make it Possible' project is a first for any NHS trust and breaks new ground, with the ideas for improving care coming from patients and families.
The proposals are then assessed by a panel of experts for viability before a funding appeal is launched.
The first project is to help expand the RNOH spinal injuries unit, to include new equipment to rehabilitate patients and add six more beds to the ward.
About £126,000 of the £400,000 needed has been raised.
Rob Hurd, chief executive at the RNOH, said: "We have to be frank, capital is constrained in our National Health Service and investment in facilities is really difficult at this time.
"We are putting all our money into frontline nurses, doctors and providing the services. That means the infrastructure that we have got doesn't get replaced as quickly as we would like. So we need the help of donations and charitable sources to make those additional investments.
"So we really value those donations because without them we cannot even get started."
The GMB union has criticised the government for the hospital's reliance on public donations.
National Secretary Rehana Azam said: "That the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital is asking members of the public to crowdfund improvements is a damning indictment of this government's reluctance to properly fund the NHS.
"It seems that it's not just workers and patients who're expected to suffer at the hands of NHS cuts; apparently the public's bank balances are too."
A Department of Health spokesperson said £10bn is being invested nationwide into the NHS, including about £4bn extra this year and a further £20bn to fund capital programmes such as maintenance and building projects.
It added: "Where trusts need additional funding for capital projects they can apply for it to ensure facilities are of the highest standards for patients."
Patient Marcus Perrineau Daley, 26, a DJ, model and fitness expert, who was left paralysed from waist down in a road accident last year, is fronting the crowdfunding campaign for the new unit.
He said: "No-one ever thinks it's going to happen to them but in a second my life changed forever.
"I had to wait months to be transferred to Stanmore to begin my road to recovery - the funds raised by this campaign will help ensure that patients like me can receive specialist help as quickly as possible." | An NHS trust has launched a crowdfunding appeal to buy equipment for a new hospital unit because "it cannot get started without donations". |
38,477,667 | Fresh from getting an OBE in the New Year Honours, Coleman will join about 1,500 other runners for Nos Galan.
The race is held in Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taff, every 31 December.
Coleman, 46, called the race a "fantastic tradition" and said he was "very excited" and looking forward to a "great night".
He told BBC Wales he was glad not to have to complete the whole 3.1 mile (5km) race, adding: "We'd be there all night."
Nos Galan, founded in 1958, celebrates the life of Welsh runner Guto Nyth Bran, who died in 1737, aged 37.
Coleman will lay a wreath at the runner's grave in Llanwonno graveyard.
The mystery runner is meant to represent the spirit of Guto Nyth Bran and previous participants include rugby player Shane Williams, sprinter Linford Christie and cyclist Nicole Cooke.
"The tradition's fantastic, a huge history and I'm in great company with the people who've done this before me," said the Wales boss.
Traditionally, the race ended at midnight, but this was later changed to accommodate families wanting to watch and take part, so it now finishes at about 21:30 GMT.
There is a children's race, an elite race and a 3.1-mile (5km) adult fun run.
Chairwoman of the Nos Galan Committee, Ann Crimmings, said: "The appearance of such a sporting icon as Chris Coleman will no doubt boost the popularity of our event even further as he has decided to bring such a memorable year for himself and the Wales team to a close on the streets of Mountain Ash." | Wales football manager Chris Coleman has been revealed as the mystery runner in an annual race. |
34,267,265 | Although several companies have developed "super hi-vision" resolution test models, this is the first such TV to be made commercially available.
The 8K format provides 16 times as many pixels as 1080p high definition. It creates an image so detailed that it can appear three-dimensional.
However, the 85in (2.16m) device's 16m yen ($133,000; £86,000) price is likely to limit sales.
Interest is expected to come mainly from broadcasters and other companies involved in testing the format.
One analyst suggested it would not become a serious proposition for members of the public until the turn of the decade.
"We're not expecting 8K TVs targeted at consumers to be released until at least 2016, and we don't expect they will cross one million units until after 2019," said Abhi Mallick, from IHS Technology.
"Japan's NHK is the only broadcaster so far to announce plans to create and broadcast 8K content."
But he added that the relatively small size of people's homes in Japan might mean many families would not be interested.
"Japan's a region in which the average size of TVs sold tends to be smaller, and we think the minimum size 8K TVs would be sold at would be 65in."
He added that for the time being, he expected manufacturers to focus their efforts on trying to convince families to buy 4K sets instead.
They provide a quarter of the resolution of 8K, but are being made in sizes of up to about 100in to create "cinema-like" experiences in the home.
Due to technological restraints, owners of Sharp's LV-85001 will have to use workarounds to take advantage of its full capabilities.
Its built-in TV tuner cannot actually receive broadcasts in 8K. Instead, video has to be fed in via four separate HDMI cables, which are needed to handle the quantities of data involved.
The resulting image delivers 104 pixels per inch.
That is about a fifth of the density of modern high-end smartphone displays, but is more than enough to allow people to read relatively small-sized text or make out intricate details when standing close to the screen.
While 8K content and 8K cameras are still rare, the Japanese news site AV Watch, which was first to report Sharp's TV, suggested the product could be used in hospitals to provide keyhole surgeons with better imagery.
Each frame would contain the same detail as a 33.2 megapixel photo.
Another expert suggested the tech might appeal to marketers.
"The attraction will be for commercial applications - video walls and things like that," said Chris Green, a tech consultant at Davies Murphy Group.
"8K screens could offer a very interesting video alternative to today's shop window and billboard displays - which show static advertising - because their extreme clarity means they can show lots of text and would be as readable as a poster."
Japan's NHK streamed live 8K footage from last year's World Cup in Brazil and intends to begin public tests of the format over satellite in 2016.
The corporation plans to show all of Tokyo's 2020 Olympic Games in 8K and begin regular broadcasts in super hi-vision resolution the same year.
However, IHS Technology believes it could be China that drives initial demand for the technology.
"China has had the fastest adoption of 4K televisions in the world - there is a demographic there of higher income consumers who want to buy TVs that will impress their neighbours," said Mr Mallick.
"That's often regardless of whether they can accept the content.
"Many of the early 4K TVs that were shipped into China lacked HDMI 2.0 ports, so they won't be able to receive 4K content that's since become available from set-top boxes." | Sharp has announced plans to sell an 8K television screen from October. |
40,609,556 | The county take on Somerset in Cardiff on Saturday evening, before facing Essex away on Sunday afternoon.
"It's a bit crazy, but it's mind over matter," said Rudolph, Glamorgan's limited-overs captain.
Somerset also face a rapid turn-around as they take on Middlesex at Uxbridge the following day.
They are still without New Zealand all-rounder Corey Anderson with a back injury, suffered after making 81 on his debut in the defeat against Surrey.
The Glamorgan squad will face a late-night coach trip to Chelmsford straight after the televised Somerset match, but Rudolph is not planning on much, if any, rotation in his squad.
"There's nothing we can do about it, so we have to make sure that mentally we're in a good space and when we get on that bus trip, guys need to sleep," Rudolph told BBC Wales Sport.
"The difficult thing after night games, I've found it very difficult to just go to bed early so quite a few will be awake on the bus trip and maybe we'll shorten the warm-up a bit to make sure guys are fresh.
"Hopefully when this one's out of the way, we're back to Friday and Sunday so we're back into normal rhythms."
Glamorgan beat Sussex away in their second game of the competition after losing at home to Hampshire in the opener.
Glamorgan (from): David Lloyd, Aneurin Donald, Jacques Rudolph (c), Colin Ingram, Chris Cooke (wk), Kiran Carlson, Graham Wagg, Craig Meschede, Andrew Salter, Owen Morgan, Marchant De Lange, Timm van der Gugten, Michael Hogan.
Somerset (from): Jim Allenby (c), Johann Myburgh, Steve Davies (wk), James Hildreth, Peter Trego, Adam Hose, Tom Banton, Roelof van der Merwe, Lewis Gregory, Craig Overton, Josh Davey, Tim Groenewald, Max Waller, Michael Leask. | Glamorgan captain Jacques Rudolph says it is "crazy" his players will have to play two T20 Blast fixtures 200 miles apart inside 24 hours. |
36,392,131 | The matches were just too tough given the travelling time at the end of an energy-sapping season.
The Scots instead played Nigeria in London, while Michael O'Neill took the Northern Ireland squad out to face Alexis Sanchez, Luis Suarez and company.
O'Neill's side lost both matches but it doesn't appear to have done them any harm as they prepare to take their place at the European Championship party, with the Scots once again pressing their faces up against the door.
Indeed, many within O'Neill's camp point to that double-header in 2014 as being key to their recent success story.
The wondering of what might have been for the Scots was perfectly illustrated by Steven Naismith - a man who has just suffered the ignominy of relegation from the Premier League with Norwich City.
"It's not great to be the warm-up act," he said, as he and his Scots' team-mates prepare to take on the role of sparring partner for Italy and this summer's party hosts, France.
It is a marked change in tack by Strachan as he gets ready to lock horns with two European footballing superpowers.
Up first are the four-time world champions Italy in Malta, the soon-to-be scene of Scotland's opening World Cup qualifier.
The Italians face Republic of Ireland, who beat Scotland to qualification, in Group E of the forthcoming Euro finals and view Strachan's side as similar opponents.
Their fine-tuning will ensure a difficult night for Strachan's patchwork squad with a Euro 2016 opener against Belgium less than three weeks away.
While the Azzurri are not at the peak of their powers these days - they have won only one World Cup finals match since their fourth coronation in Berlin in 2006 - head coach Antonio Conte guided them through an unbeaten, if uninspiring, qualification campaign.
Finishing ahead of Croatia at the top of their group, they qualified with a game to spare.
The gulf between the Italians and the Scots is demonstrated by Conte's refusal to select the legendary Andrea Pirlo and striker Sebastian Giovinco because they ply their trade in Major League Soccer.
The standard is not high enough for Conte's taste. He has described it as "paying the consequence", albeit the classy Pirlo has just celebrated his 37th birthday and has not hit the heights he once did as he plays out the twilight of his career in New York.
The current squad are aiming to win the European Championship for Italy for just a second time and go one better than 2012, when they were blown away by a Spanish siege in the Kiev final.
At 38, you would forgive Gianluigi Buffon if he was relaxing with a large glass of Chianti in hand these days.
Far from it. The Juventus goalkeeper set a new Serie A clean-sheet record of 974 minutes this season as he lifted his seventh Scudetto.
The 156-times-capped Buffon is not the only 2006 alumni to continue to report, with Juve team-mate Andrea Barzagli adding his experience to the squad.
Those two, along with another Bianconeri legend, Georgio Chiellini, are likely to go to the finals as Conte prepares to whittle his squad down to 23.
It is a group that will be minus midfield maestros Claudio Marchisio and Marco Verratti because of injury.
Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli will also have a watching brief, for very different reasons, having scored a paltry once while on loan at AC Milan this term during what has been a troubled time since his virtuoso performance took the Italians past Germany in their Warsaw semi-final four years ago.
Instead, Conte, who will take over at Chelsea after the finals, has been leaning on Graziano Pelle and, with the Southampton marksman having scored 14 goals in the Premier League this season, is likely to again.
A criticism of Conte has been a reluctance to give youth prominence, with the likes of Juve defender Daniele Rugani, Davide Zappacosta of city rivals Torino, club-mate Marco Benassi, Brazilian-born Jorginho, Lorenzo Insigne of Napoli and Fiorentina's Federico Bernardeschi all aiming to impress against the Scots and make the final cut for the finals.
Riccardo Montolivo and Daniele De Rossi remain important cogs in midfield, with Roma's Alessandro Florenzi certain to add to his 15 caps in the coming weeks along with Manchester United's Matteo Darmian.
The last time the nations clashed left the most bitter of tastes for Scotland as Spanish referee Manuel Gonzalez earned hate-figure status by awarding an Italian free-kick that began a chain of events that cost Scotland a place at Euro 2008 as a Christian Panucci header took the then world champions to Austria and Switzerland.
The stakes were at their highest on that wet November night in 2007 and, while the same cannot be said of this particular joust, like O'Neill, it might just be something Strachan appreciates in the fullness of time. | Two years ago, Gordon Strachan turned down the opportunity to take his Scotland team to South America for acid testers against World Cup-bound Chile and Uruguay. |
34,217,252 | Sergeant Alexander Blackman was convicted of murdering the injured captive in Afghanistan but his supporters say it was manslaughter.
Author and campaigner Frederick Forsyth said the court martial that convicted Blackman "stank from top to bottom".
Joshua Rozenberg, who presents Radio 4's Law in Action, said it would be "an uphill struggle" to reopen the case.
A new legal team - led by Jonathan Goldberg QC - is seeking a review, arguing that he should have been convicted of the lesser charge of manslaughter.
Blackman, of Taunton, Somerset, was convicted in 2013 and lost an appeal in May last year, but his 10-year minimum term was reduced to eight years.
Blackman's wife Claire told the Daily Mail: "The fact that he is now serving a life sentence for killing a dying Taliban insurgent is just wrong, this was war.
"Had the roles been reversed that man would have tortured my husband before killing him.
"We will not give up the fight to bring Al home."
Mr Forsyth, who is leading the campaign, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the evidence that Blackman was "nearly feral with exhaustion" was not produced at court.
"There is a very, very clear case that you can get a fighting man so tired, so consumed by battle fatigue and combat stress that he is hardly even thinking straight and there is provision in British law for that," he said.
He claimed that at the end of Blackman's trial, all seven members of the jury "put their caps on and saluted him."
"Honourable men do not salute a perjurer and a murderer", he said.
Mr Forsyth said the verdict had been a five to two majority, but Mr Rozenberg said the argument that it was unfair to have a majority verdict was dismissed so "it would be hard to overturn that".
Campaigners hope the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates suspected miscarriages of justice, will look at Blackman's case.
Commission spokeswoman Sally Berlin said the organisation has yet to receive an application from the campaigners or legal team, but if one is submitted it will consider the case.
Mr Goldberg said there are three routes to a manslaughter verdict including loss of control, unlawful act manslaughter and diminished responsibility and he said all could be argued.
Mr Goldberg said Blackman suffered from battlefield stress syndrome and this was not presented to "any of the previous courts" as grounds for reducing murder to manslaughter "as we think it should have been".
He said if Blackman had been convicted of manslaughter he may not have been jailed.
The killing, on 15 September 2011, took place after a patrol base in Helmand province came under fire from two insurgents.
One of the attackers was seriously injured by gunfire from an Apache helicopter sent to provide air support and the marines found him in a field.
Footage from another marine's helmet-mounted camera showed Blackman shooting the Afghan prisoner in the chest with a 9mm pistol.
Blackman told him: "There you are. Shuffle off this mortal coil."
The court martial board in Bulford, Wiltshire, found Blackman guilty of murdering the insurgent. Two other marines were acquitted.
It was the first time a member of the British armed forces had faced a murder charge in relation to the conflict in Afghanistan, which began in 2001.
Blackman was also "dismissed with disgrace" from the Royal Marines. He had served with distinction for 15 years, including tours of Iraq, Afghanistan and Northern Ireland.
Blackman had denied murder, claiming he believed the victim was already dead and that he was taking his anger out on the corpse.
A Ministry of Defence spokesperson said: "We respect the authority and decision of the court."
The Mail claims crucial evidence was deliberately withheld from the original court martial and says it will reveal "extraordinary and compelling new evidence" in the "coming days".
The paper reports that it has seen confidential papers which claim panel members who convicted Blackman were "deliberately kept in the dark".
The paper claims the court martial was never given evidence of alleged operational failings by Blackman's commanders, which meant his troop was "isolated, under-manned, under-resourced and under daily Taliban assault".
All of this was "directly affecting his state of mind at the time of the shooting", which led to Blackman not receiving a fair trial, it is claimed.
Blackman, 41, told the Mail: "I made a split-second mistake, but I had been sent to a brutal battlefield to fight a war for my country.
"At the end of my trial, the establishment lined up to portray me as evil, because it suited them… to show the world how politically correct we are.
"I have been made a scapegoat."
Blackman's case is due to be discussed in the House of Commons on 16 September. | A campaign has been launched to review the case of a Royal Marine jailed for life for killing a Taliban insurgent. |
38,609,553 | The 70-year-old from Nevada had returned to the US in August with an infected swelling in her right hip after a long stay in India.
She died in September.
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report said the infection was "resistant to all available antimicrobial drugs".
The women had repeatedly needed hospital treatment in India after breaking her right leg. An infection got into the bone and then spread to her hip.
She was seriously ill when she arrived in a US hospital - her immune system was going into overdrive in an attempt to fight the infection causing inflammation throughout her body.
This escalated and ultimately she died from septic shock.
Samples of the infection taken from the wound were sent to the CDC for testing.
They showed she was infected with Klebsiella pneumoniae - which normally lives in the gut without causing disease.
The analysis found the superbug was resistant to all 26 available antibiotics in the US including the "drug of last resort" - colistin.
The CDC said: "[Infections] that are resistant to all antimicrobials are very uncommon."
But the case remains a warning of the dangers of what the CDC calls untreatable "nightmare bacteria".
Some scientists have argued we are on the cusp of the "post-antibiotic era" with cases like this in Nevada becoming more frequent.
Dr David Brown, chief scientist at Antibiotic Research UK, said: "It is still quite unusual for a bacterial infection to be resistant to such a large number of antibiotics.
"Fortunately it is an extreme case, but it may soon become all too common.
"It happened because of her personal history of multiple hospitalisations in India, however, the ease of global travel does mean that such cases will increase."
The tests showed the bacteria did have low levels of resistance to fosfomycin - but that is approved in the US only as an oral treatment for uncomplicated cystitis.
Prof Laura Piddock, from Antibiotic Action and the University of Birmingham, said: "Despite such multi-drug resistant bacteria being rare, this report is a salutary tale of the dire outcome for some patients when potentially useful drugs are not available.
"In circumstances such as this, where doctors are faced with the inability to treat a life-threatening infection, they need the flexibility to use antibiotics licensed for use in other countries and shown to be active in the laboratory against the patient's infecting bacterium."
Follow James on Twitter. | A superbug that could not be treated with 26 different antibiotics has killed a woman in the US, officials report. |
37,389,958 | The Sussex batsman, 37, requires minor knee surgery and has been replaced in the squad by Sean Terry, who made his debut against Afghanistan in July.
Tim Murtagh will join the squad in South Africa after Middlesex's final County Championship game next week.
Ireland face South Africa in Benoni on 25 September before meeting Australia at the same venue two days later.
"It's obviously a blow to lose someone of Ed's calibre but Sean Terry is a batsman of undoubted promise," said Ireland coach John Bracewell.
"Given the likely pitch in Benoni, and the likelihood we will facing two majority pace attacks, the selectors felt that Sean was the logical replacement."
Joyce produced impressive form for Ireland over the summer as he hit two centuries against Afghanistan at Stormont, including a series-saving unbeaten 160.
Murtagh, 35, will delay his departure to South Africa in order to be available for Middlesex's County Championship game against Yorkshire, starting on Tuesday, as they aim for a first title in 23 years.
"This match means a huge amount to both Tim and Middlesex. Having played with the club for 10 years, it would be the culmination of one of his most fiercely held ambitions," said Cricket Ireland's performance director Richard Holdsworth.
Middlesex have agreed to fly Murtagh out to South Africa as soon as the game finishes, in time for him to join the squad ahead of the first game against South Africa. | Ed Joyce has been ruled out of Ireland's one-day games against South Africa and Australia later this month. |
27,390,066 | The Scottish Rugby Union said it was "saddened to learn" of the death of the former Scotland and British Lions prop.
He made his international debut against France in 1954 and won 40 consecutive caps for his country.
Mr McLeod, dubbed the "Hawick Hardman" due to his strength and fitness, was inducted into Scottish Rugby's Hall of Fame last year.
As well as playing for the British Lions in 1955 and 1959, he played 14 times for the Barbarians between those years.
His last international was a draw against England in March 1962.
Off the field, he worked in the building trade and went on to own a sports shop.
He played all his club rugby for Hawick, went on to be president, and was named in the club's greatest ever team.
Current Hawick president Rory Bannerman said: "He was the consummate professional and a legend throughout the rugby world.
"He will be a well-missed figure cycling up and down the High Street in Hawick where you didn't want to get in his way just like on the field.
"Hugh was probably the greatest ever player to pull on the green jersey for Hawick." | Tributes have been paid to Scottish rugby great Hugh McLeod, from Hawick, who died on Monday at the age of 81. |
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It was a moment of inspiration that belied his status as a striker without a club following his release from Reading. His turn hypnotised the Belgium defence and his finish swept Wales into the unknown, a first semi-final at a major tournament.
On the pitch and off it, the celebrations were wild and joyous.
While Robson-Kanu embraced his team-mates and coaches on the Wales bench, the red shirts in the crowd did the same.
To the Wales fans who had waited for this since the 1958 World Cup, it did not matter that they were vastly outnumbered by the multitudes of Belgians who had made the short journey over the border to Lille.
The Welsh national anthem, 'Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau', still reverberated around Stade Pierre Mauroy at a spine-tingling volume.
This, after all, was their moment.
"You dream about nights like this," said manager Chris Coleman after watching his side eclipse every one of their predecessors by striding so majestically into a semi-final against Portugal on Wednesday.
This was Wales' greatest performance and their greatest result.
Wales are the smallest country by population to reach the last four of a European Championship.
Victory in Lille was all the more remarkable as it came against a Belgium side ranked second in the world and blessed with a generation of players earmarked for greatness.
Despite the star quality of Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale and Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey, Wales' ranking of 117th as recently as 2011 demonstrates why they travelled to France as underdogs.
They were supposed to be back home by now but, to the delight of those in France and Wales, their Euro 2016 voyage continues.
"We were as far away from where we are now as you can be," said Coleman. "The whole experience for us is uncharted territory.
"All we can do now is keep reiterating to them to never forget what it has taken for them to get here."
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Such has been the momentous nature of their campaign, there have been several occasions to debate Wales' greatest results and performances.
The demolition of Russia was a thrilling display of attacking football, while the tense second-round victory over Northern Ireland saw them emulate the class of 1958.
However, in terms of the significance of the result and the majesty of the display, Wales' win against Belgium dwarfs every other achievement.
They had to overcome adversity, falling behind and seeing three of their five defenders booked as they tried to contain rampant opponents.
But they fought back with fiery determination and, crucially, had the composure to adhere to Coleman's game-plan.
Bale is the talisman of this team, a force of nature whose pace and power changes games - but he cannot win matches on his own and this triumph was further evidence that Wales' success is built on their team ethic.
All five defenders were pivotal to Wales' revival, quelling the threats of Eden Hazard and Kevin de Bruyne, while Joe Allen and Ramsey took control in midfield.
The scorers of Wales' goals embodied this side's propensity for defying the odds, starting with captain Ashley Williams, who toiled as a semi-professional before climbing the leagues with Swansea City.
Then there was Robson-Kanu and his second-half replacement Sam Vokes, the Burnley striker who also spent last season in the Championship.
"We showed again we are about the team - the subs that came on did really well too, said left-back Neil Taylor, who scored his first international goal against Russia.
"We had three different scorers and I should have scored myself - it was a very good save."
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Wales will have to call on that strength in depth when they face Portugal on Wednesday after Ramsey and Tottenham defender Ben Davies received yellow cards that mean they will be suspended for the semi-final in Lyon.
"Rambo and Ben are big losses," admitted Coleman. "Everything their country has asked they've delivered. We wouldn't be sat here without them."
Their absences will create opportunities in midfield, where Jonny Williams, Andy King and David Edwards will be vying to replace Ramsey - and in defence, with Jazz Richards and James Collins the options.
Wales have proved their success is based on collective excellence rather than a smattering of individuals - but there is no escaping the personal duel set to dominate the build-up to Portugal: Bale v Cristiano Ronaldo.
Team-mates at Real Madrid, they are the most expensive and second most expensive players in history. Two extraordinary forwards, both key figures for their countries.
Yet the real intrigue is based on their relationship, one which has seemed strained at times.
Publicly, they deny any claims of tension. Privately, as fierce competitors, each will surely be desperate to claim victory against the other.
After the win against Belgium, Bale and his Wales team-mates were eager to stress this will be a game between Wales and Portugal, not just Bale and Ronaldo.
Wales' players will be playing for their country, their fans, for each other - and for Davies and Ramsey, Taylor says: "Hopefully we can get to the final for them."
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Robbie Savage: I'm supposed to going on holiday tomorrow. I didn't think Wales would get this far. I can't tell my kids I'm not coming on holiday but when will Wales ever do this again?
This is the best Welsh performance I've witnessed. Something special is happening here tonight.
Dean Saunders: We have seen so many dark days in Welsh football. We played for so many years and have never qualified for a tournament, let alone got this far. I just can't believe what has happened. We can win this. Portugal haven't won a game in 90 minutes yet.
Gary Lineker: Wow. Just wow. What an incredible performance. One of the greatest performances in the history of British football. | If Hal Robson-Kanu's winner in Wales' Euro 2016 opener against Slovakia was the scuff of dreams, his goal in the quarter-final victory over Belgium was the swivel that turned Welsh football on its head. |
39,479,596 | Currently club's in England's top flight can spend £1.85m on their squad, with another £175,000 allowed for a marquee player outside of that.
Koukash called from an increase in the cap in 2013 when he bought Salford and hopes to discuss the matter at a Super League meeting this week.
"The cap is very, very restrictive," he told Rugby League Extra.
"The fact that it is the same as it was five years ago tells you something and it is restricting you - you can't even keep it with the rate of inflation.
"I'm not saying every owner or club is going to be able to do it but the fact that you're telling everybody to keep it below that level and the likes of [Leigh owner] Derek Beaumont, myself and [Warrington owner] Simon Moran - we've got the funds, we could go out and invest in trying to build stronger teams."
After only securing their Super League status with an golden-point drop-goal in the Million Pound Game against Hull KR last season, Salford are fourth after winning five of their first eight games in 2017.
It is the second full season for head coach Ian Watson after he replaced Iestyn Harris in 2015 and Koukash believes the 40-year-old former Red Devils scrum-half has made a difference.
"Ian is a fantastic coach and what makes him one is the fact he is a very, very nice person," he told BBC Radio Manchester.
"A coach is a leader more than anything else and his players are his soldiers - if the soldiers trust in the leader they'll do their best, and that is what I think has made an awful lot of difference this year.
"We've got a very young side. This side will improve this year from last year and I believe they will improve further next year as well."
Meanwhile, Salford have announced assistant coaches Martin Gleeson and Willie Poching have signed new contracts. | Salford Red Devils owner Marwan Koukash has reiterated his desire for Super League to increase the salary cap. |
27,813,978 | The pressure on places means there are now 77 primary schools with more than 800 pupils, up from 58 last year.
The number of infant classes unlawfully above the limit of 30 pupils has more than doubled since last year to 549.
The figures are from the Department for Education's annual census.
This snapshot of schools in January 2014 shows a rising school population that is increasingly ethnically diverse and in which almost one in five primary pupils speaks English as a second language.
There are 8.3 million pupils enrolled in England's schools - up by 1% since January 2013, driven by an increase in numbers of primary age children.
This is the fifth successive year of rising primary school numbers, after a previous long downward trend.
But the census shows that there are currently fewer primary schools than when the numbers began to rise in 2009-2010.
There are signs of the pressures being placed on the system.
The number of primary schools with more than 800 pupils has risen by a third - and this trend is likely to continue, with many schools adding extra classes in response to rising demand.
Although only a small proportion of the total, the number of infant classes "unlawfully" exceeding limits on class sizes has risen in a year from 0.4% to 0.9%.
But a much larger proportion are over this 30-pupil limit in a way deemed as lawful, because these extra pupils are in categories that are exempt from the limits.
There are 4.2% of infant classes over the maximum limit, up from 3.7% last year, with reasons such as admitting pupils who have moved into the area outside of the usual admissions round.
Ethnic minority pupils accounted for 60% of the increase in the number of pupils in primary schools, says the census.
Almost 30% of pupils in primary schools are now from ethnic minorities - up by 1% since last year.
But there are very wide regional variations.
In the 14 central London boroughs, more than 80% of pupils in primary schools are from ethnic minorities. In north-east England the figure is about 10%.
There are more than a million children who have a first language other than English.
In primary school, this is 18.7% of pupils, up by 0.6% since last year. In secondary school, the proportion without English as a first language has risen by 0.7% to 14.3%.
In inner London, 56% of pupils do not have English as a first language. In the North East the figure is 6%.
Labour's shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt says the government had failed to deliver "small schools with smaller class sizes".
Mr Hunt accused the government of creating a "crisis in school places" in which "thousands more children are being crammed into overcrowded classes, threatening school standards".
A Department for Education spokesman said: "The average infant class size is up only marginally, from 27.3 to 27.4. However, we recognise the significant pressure on school places as a result of demographic trends over the last decade.
"That is why we are giving local authorities £5bn to spend on new school places over this parliament — double the amount allocated by the previous government over an equivalent period.
"This funding has already led to the creation of 260,000 new school places, all of which are in areas where there is a shortage of places, and many more new places are planned." | The impact of the population boom on England's school system is revealed in annual official figures - showing more super-size primary schools and infant classes over legal limits. |
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