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22,220,002 | The Armagh paper ran a story this week on DRD Minister Danny Kennedy's railway service consultation exercise.
Getting a gripping headline out of a story like that might have been a tough chore for most journalists.
The Gazette, however, ran with "Over £100m! Is this the rail price? Is this just fantasy? Caught up in land buys, No escape from bureaucracy!".
In case you're one of the few people reading this who doesn't recognise that ancient call to prepare to bang your head up and down, here are the first few lines of the fabled Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen:
"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality".
The Ulster Gazette's deputy editor Richard Burden is the man responsible for that outstanding bit of glam rock pastiche.
"I just always liked to do that type of headline. If there's a film, a song, a lyric - anything that springs to mind and it lends itself, you'll try to fit the words in round it," he says.
But why choose Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody? Is it some deep and meaningful commentary on Danny Kennedy's plans for our rail network?
"They're my favourite all time band, so it was an obvious thing for me.
"It's one of those iconic songs, the tempo and the lyrics lend themselves to the headline. You recognise it right away, it's not an obscure song, I think it's pretty obvious what it's on about.
"Campaigners in Armagh might say that the amount of money involved or suggested doesn't add up and it just lent itself to the lyric, you know - is it a real price or is it just fantasy?".
Richard and the Gazette are no strangers to the art and science of witty headline wrangling.
"I like to do unusual headlines, something that catches the imagination; it gets more people to read the actual story," he says.
"There's no point telling the whole story basically in the headline, because then there's no need to read what comes after it."
Richard seems most pleased with his newest baby, but there are a few past masterpieces which would do any hack proud.
"We had one story on an upturn in Christmas sales. The headline was The Tills Were Ringing Out For Christmas Pay."
"Asda had been interested in acquiring the former Drumadd Army Barracks and decided to withdraw from that as Tesco had expressed an interest in town, the obvious one there had to be Asda la Vista. It's a bit of fun, but it does get people talking."
When covering a controversy over Armagh council increasing parking charges at one of their facilities, the Gazette dubbed it The Charge of the Tight Brigade.
A debate about introducing a one-way system around the Mall in Armagh gave Richard another chance to dip into his big bag of lyrics.
"That had to be One Way or Another, obviously going for the Blondie reference.
"We've had a lot of toxic waste dumping and that going on around south Armagh. There was one at Carnagh forest so the headline there was Forest Dump.
Richard admits that sometimes, he's had to sacrifice his art for the greater good.
"There's probably a few that come close to the knuckle. We've looked at it and we thought 'oh no we'll not go ahead with that'," he says.
"You have to ask yourself too: is it offensive? Will people take it the wrong way? You make a collective decision."
Among some of his greatest hits, Richard recalls:
And Richard's Bohemian Rhapsody tribute in this week's paper has now attracted official approval.
"We were giving the minister the opportunity to respond - he was going to write a platform piece. He couldn't help commenting on the headline - he admitted he thought it was very good.
"It was very nice that Danny Kennedy would concede that he was quite amused by the headline himself."
Any way the wind blows... | If you recently found yourself head banging your way through an article about a department for regional development consultation paper rather than yawning you were probably reading the Ulster Gazette. |
26,046,379 | A number of its main supports on the eastern side appear to have been washed away, splitting the former pavilion into two sections.
The pier, which is not maintained and was shut in 1975 after being deemed unsafe, burnt down in 2003.
On Tuesday, Brighton's Seatown Rockers tweeted †| A major part of Brighton's ruined West Pier has collapsed after being battered by winds of up to 70mph and rough seas. |
17,237,717 | The Health and Social Care Committee (HSCC) has endorsed the view there is a public health case for better public toilet provision.
But the Welsh government said provision was a matter for councils and there was no plan to make it a statutory duty.
A petition asking for the implications of toilet closures to be investigated was delivered to the assembly in 2010.
In the same year, a councillor cycled the length of Wales to raise awareness about a lack of public toilets.
Llais Gwynedd councillor Louise Hughes rode 153 miles (246km) from Gwynedd to Cardiff to meet AMs to ask for an improvement.
She said she was pleased with the HSCC's report.
"All the hard work that not only myself and other people have put in has paid off," she said.
"My ultimate goal is that it becomes a statutory provision that local authorities have to provide public toilets."
Businesses in many parts of Wales are filling the gaps as the number of public toilets falls
The British Toilet Association said the number had fallen about 40% in a decade.
The HSCC's report came in response to the petition that was submitted.
It says potential solutions exist which "merit further investigation by those more expert in local government matters".
Mark Drakeford, chair of the HSCC said: "Lack of public toilet provision does not just affect older people.
"It can be an issue for those with disabilities, with bladder and bowel conditions or those with young children.
"If a person doesn't feel confident in leaving their home without knowing where there is adequate toilet provision, it can leave them alone and isolated, and can impact on both their physical and mental health."
A Welsh charity, which published its own report in 2009, welcomed the HSCC's report.
Age Cymru's campaigns coordinator Rhea Stevens said: "Public toilets are a lifeline for older people, providing them with freedom, independence and the confidence they need to lead fulfilling and active lives.
"Yet despite this, public toilets are disappearing from our communities at an alarming rate and assertive action is needed to halt this decline."
She added: "The National Assembly for Wales should now take action on the report's recommendations, and further investigate solutions to address the decline of public toilets."
The Welsh government said the provision and maintenance of toilet facilities was a matter for councils, taking account of local needs and priorities.
"We have no plans to make this a statutory duty," said a spokeswoman.
"In 2010-11 we provided local authorities with funding totalling £107,000 to facilitate greater public access to toilets through the Public Facilities Grant Scheme.
"Some 217 businesses across Wales are participating in this scheme, which reimburses local authorities to a maximum of £17,500 per local authority per year for payments of up to £500 made to local businesses for allowing free public access to their toilet facilities." | A campaign for public toilets in Wales to be kept open has been backed by Welsh assembly members. |
31,851,243 | Among the proposals are plans to introduce shared bins, scrap extra Christmas collections and charge £20 for replacement black bins.
A public consultation on the issue will run until 1 April.
Sheffield City Council claimed the proposed changes were the result of government-imposed cuts which have meant it must save £63m by 2016.
Under plans to introduce shared bins it said: "Shared bins will be provided, rather than individual bins for every household, in areas where there is limited space at each property to store bins, and there is space in the local amenity to provide shared bins".
Councillor Julie Dore, the Labour leader of Sheffield City Council, said: "Part of our budget savings involve coming up with proposals for our waste service that increase efficiency where possible, while still providing a good service for everyone in the city.
"We welcome people's views and will act upon them so that we do what is best for Sheffield in terms of waste management and recycling." | Plans to shake up bin collection services in Sheffield to save £3.4m have been outlined by the council. |
35,750,654 | The move will come into effect in September and will affect all 39 special schools in Northern Ireland.
It will mean pre-school children with moderate to severe learning difficulties will attend school for 2.5 hours instead of at least 4.5 hours a day.
The cut was revealed by the Education Authority (EA) in a letter to a parent.
It confirms that from September 2016 "all pre-school children will receive 2.5 hours in pre-school per day".
The EA said the move "is designed to increase the opportunity for children to access special school places," and will provide "greater regional consistency".
However, a body that represents special school principals and governors said the cut will "hold back and restrict the development of children with complex needs".
In a submission to the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Strategic Leadership Forum for Special Schools (SLFSS) said they "totally disagree" with the move.
They said it will have a range of impacts including:
Francine Wilson's three-year-old son Aodhan, is due to start pre-school at a special school in September.
"Aodhan has Down's Syndrome and we were hoping in September 2016 he would get five hours of nursery placement," she said.
"Receiving two and a half hours will, I believe, result in delayed development in Aodhan, both educationally and socially."
However, a spokesperson for the EA said the reduction was "in line with the Department of Education's 'Learning to Learn' policy".
"There has been a progressive move towards part-time places in all sectors," the spokesperson said.
"This policy recognises the research evidence that there is no discernible difference in children's development at the start of primary school between those who received part-time and full-time pre-school provision.
"This move is designed to increase the opportunity for children to access special school places, preferably nearer to their homes."
"The provision of increased access and greater regional consistency is a priority," they added. | The amount of nursery and pre-school provision for children in special schools is to be reduced. |
35,331,250 | Russell nudged Queens ahead when he tapped in Derek Lyle's cross at the back post.
Jake Pickard, Russell and Mark Millar had earlier been denied by Alloa keeper Scott Gallacher.
Michael Duffy rattled the crossbar for Alloa while substitute Ryan Conroy had a free-kick tipped on to the post. | Iain Russell helped maintain Queen of the South's Scottish Championship play-off push with the only goal against bottom-of-the-table Alloa Athletic. |
39,152,075 | A doctor from the International Red Cross (ICRC), based in nearby Irbil, confirmed the incident to the BBC.
An 11-year-old boy has severe respiratory and skin problems and a month-old baby was also injured.
The ICRC doctor said the substance used was still unknown, but it was being treated as a chemical attack.
The injuries were apparently caused in two separate incidents when mortar fire hit houses in east Mosul and victims complained of a foul smelling chemical.
The victims' symptoms suggested exposure to a "blistering chemical agent", ICRC Middle East director Robert Mardini said. They included blisters, redness in the eyes, irritation, vomiting and coughing.
The use of chemical weapons is forbidden under international law, he added.
It is not yet known who is to blame for the attack, but the mortars were apparently fired from west Mosul - which is still held by so-called Islamic State (IS).
IS have long been suspected of making and using crude chemical weapons in territory it controls in Iraq and neighbouring Syria.
The World Health Organization said it was aware of the case and was working with the ICRC to prepare for further cases.
While the attack is the first recorded use of any chemical weapons in the battle for Mosul, there have been isolated incidents elsewhere in the fight against IS in Iraqi and Syrian territory.
In September last year, the US military said IS militants fired a rocket containing a mustard agent at American troops at Qayyarah air base near Mosul. There were no casualties reported.
They are also suspected of being behind suspected chemical attacks on Kurdish forces in northern Iraq.
According to a report released last November by the UK-based IHS Conflict Monitor, IS is suspected of having used chemical weapons on at least 52 occasions since 2014, with a third of those in areas around Mosul.
IS is not the only actor in the region accused of using chemical weapons, with the Syrian government alleged to be behind a number of chlorine gas attacks on civilians during the country's six-year long civil war.
The use of chlorine as a weapon is prohibited under the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention. | Twelve civilians have been injured in Mosul in what appears to be the first chemical weapon attack in the battle for the IS stronghold. |
40,117,302 | It followed an altercation between a number of people on the Ramelton Road area of Letterkenny at about 04:00 local time on Thursday.
A woman who intervened is also being treated for a knife wound to her arm. Gardaà have arrested a man in his 30s.
Both victims were taken to Letterkenny University Hospital for non-life threatening injuries. | A man in his 20s is in hospital after being stabbed several times in County Donegal. |
35,943,194 | The red kite, an adult female, was discovered injured at Low Marishes, near Malton on 25 March.
North Yorkshire Police said the bird had received medical attention was now being treated at a rescue centre.
Red kites are protected under schedule 1 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and anyone found killing one can face up to six months in jail.
Wildlife crime officer, PC Jez Walmsley, said the fact the bird had survived and might live in the wild again did not diminish the severity of the crime.
"This is a magnificent bird of prey that has been deliberately targeted and shot," he said.
"We are extremely lucky to be able to see these birds in the wild here in Ryedale, and as a community we should be appalled that someone has chosen to try to kill it."
PC Walmsley urged anyone with any information to contact the force.
Red kite numbers in the British Isles have been steadily increasing since the beginning of a reintroduction programme in the 1980s, according to the RSPB.
It is still afforded the highest level of protection and it remains an offence to take, injure or kill a red kite or to take, damage or destroy its nest, eggs or young.
Offenders can face fines of up to £5,000 and/or a prison sentence of up to six months. | A bird of prey was "lucky to survive" after being targeted with a shotgun in a North Yorkshire field, police say. |
34,741,035 | The cross-code international, 26, has left Bath and rejoined NRL side South Sydney Rabbitohs on a three-year deal.
"I want to thank everyone at England Rugby and Bath for some great memories over the last 12 months," Burgess said.
"I must also thank Bath especially for granting my release to return home to my family, who I have missed more than I could have imagined."
Burgess started his career in Super League with the Bradford Bulls, before joining the Rabbitohs in 2010.
After playing 96 games for the club, where he won the NRL title in his last game, he joined Premiership side Bath and just 21 appearances and 10 months later, was called up to the England squad for the World Cup.
However, the tournament hosts went out of the competition at the group stages, and Burgess was a controversial selection, picked at centre rather than in the back row where he had been playing for Bath.
"I am extremely excited to be joining back up with South Sydney," he added. "I cannot wait to get back into the Rabbitohs culture, full of great people and passionate members and supporters.
"I had a wonderful time in England and learnt a lot about the game of rugby union as both a back and a forward, and I have definitely developed as an all-round player and athlete after that.
"I'm now very lucky to be given the chance to come back to Souths and serve this club."
Rabbitohs head coach Michael Maguire said he "could not be happier to see Sam coming home to the Rabbitohs".
"He had an enormously positive impact on our club, both on and off the field, throughout the five seasons he was here, and to be bringing back one of the game's most dominant players is fantastic for not only our club, but the game itself," added Maguire.
"He wanted to test himself in rugby union and achieved many of his goals, becoming a dual international for England and representing his country at a World Cup.
"The next chapter is for him to return to the game he was born to play and we are over the moon that he is coming home to do that with his Rabbitohs family here at South Sydney."
Chief executive John Lee added: "It has taken a couple of months for this to come to fruition. Sam has a certain amount of gravitas. He brings an X factor to our club."
Burgess will be reunited with brothers George and Tom, who both extended their deals with the club until the end of the 2018 season, while oldest brother Luke plays for another Sydney team, Manly. | Sam Burgess says family reasons were behind his decision to return to rugby league after one season in rugby union. |
40,486,466 | The host team of Ding Junhui and Liang Wenbo won the first three frames, before Wales rallied.
But China A then clinched the deciding fifth fame in the best-of-seven match.
Wales had finished top of Group A with four wins and one defeat - including a 4-1 success over defending champions China B.
Wales' other pool wins were over Finland, Norway and Malaysia, while they lost 3-2 to Brazil after already clinching a quarter-final spot.
The World Cup format sees 24 teams competing for the biggest prize in pairs snooker and the top two teams in the four groups advanced to the quarter-finals. | The Wales team of Ryan Day and Mark Williams are out of the 2017 Snooker World Cup after losing to China A in the quarter-finals in Wuxi, China. |
38,025,057 | After just 23 days on the job, Mr Flynn was forced out over revelations that he had discussed lifting US sanctions on Russia with their ambassador to Washington, and that he lied to the US vice-president about that conversation.
Since his departure, revelations have kept on coming.
Since Mr Flynn left the White House the Pentagon has launched an investigation into whether he failed to disclose payments from Russian and Turkish lobbyists that he was given for speeches and consulting work.
In March, he registered with the US government as a "foreign agent" due to his work for the Turkish government.
Former President Barack Obama warned Mr Trump against hiring the former general less than 48 hours after the November election during a conversation inside the Oval Office.
Mr Flynn has requested immunity from the congressional committees investigating alleged Russian meddling on the 2016 election in exchange for his testimony, but so far no committee has taken him up on the offer.
"As a former military officer, you simply cannot take money from Russia, Turkey or anybody else," said Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz.
"And it appears as if he did take that money. It was inappropriate, and there are repercussions for a violation of law."
Mr Flynn was all but written off two years ago when he was removed from his post as a Pentagon intelligence chief by Mr Obama.
But the retired US Army three-star lieutenant-general was one of Donald Trump's closest advisers and most ardent supporters during the 2016 campaign.
His importance was underlined just days before his resignation, when he was with the president at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida as he hosted his first foreign leader there, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
In the past, Mr Flynn has complained he was fired from the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) in 2014 after just two years for telling hard truths about the war on Islamist extremism.
Mr Flynn said the US is losing a global war against Islamist extremism that could last for generations.
But insiders have suggested his exit at the DIA may have been related to his unpopular overhaul of the agency.
Former US officials who worked closely with him described him as extremely smart, though a poor manager.
Indeed, Mr Flynn, a father-of-two who married his high-school sweetheart, went on to become one of the Obama administration's most outspoken critics, all the more surprising as he was a life-long Democrat.
But the Rhode Islander said he no longer recognised the Democrats as the party he once supported.
He instead decided to align himself with Mr Trump, a man whom he rated as a hustler and outsider like himself, part of a larger fight against "the dishonesty and deceit of our government".
Mr Flynn was an almost evangelical supporter of Mr Trump.
"We just went through a revolution," he said after the businessman's shock election victory.
"This is probably the biggest election in our nation's history, since bringing on George Washington when he decided not to be a king. That's how important this is."
Mr Flynn and Mr Trump shared many views, including the advantages of closer ties with Russia, renegotiating the Iran deal and combating the threat from Islamic State militants.
Like Mr Trump, Mr Flynn called the 2003 invasion of Iraq a strategic blunder.
Even the areas where the two disagreed at first were quickly smoothed over.
Gen Flynn's declaration that he was pro-choice was quickly amended to pro-life in July, after it sparked outrage among Trump supporters.
And, like Mr Trump, he was no stranger to controversy.
Back during his days at the DIA, he apologised for a presentation which suggested make-up made women "more attractive" and encouraged people to dress for their body shape.
He later said neither he nor the agency "condone this briefing".
In 2016, his appearance at a banquet held in honour of the Russian government, where Gen Flynn sat two seats away from Vladimir Putin, raised eyebrows, with his apparent warmth towards Moscow concerning some national security experts.
More controversial yet have been his views on Islam.
In February 2016, he tweeted "fear of Muslims is RATIONAL".
In August, he spoke at an event in Dallas, Texas, for an anti-Islamist group Act for America, saying that Islam "is a political ideology" and that it "definitely hides behind being a religion".
Some expressed concern at how much influence Mr Flynn could wield over a president with little international experience.
But for all his critics, there were those who stood behind Mr Flynn, a man who built a reputation as an astute intelligence professional during his three decades in the US Army.
David Deptula, a retired air force lieutenant general who used to work with him, praised his willingness to "speak truth to power and not politicise his answers". | Michael Flynn's short tenure as Donald Trump's national security adviser ended in controversy when he resigned over contacts he had made with Russia before Mr Trump took office. |
35,559,488 | It was named best film while DiCaprio won best actor and Alejandro G Inarritu best director.
The Mexican director described the win as "overwhelming". He said DiCaprio's "talent and commitment" to the "risky project" had "kept the film breathing".
The ceremony at London's Royal Opera House on Sunday was hosted by Stephen Fry.
Reaction to Bafta winners
DiCaprio, who plays fur-trapper Hugh Glass, said he was "humbled and honoured" and praised the influence of British actors on his acting career. He also used his win to wish his mother a happy birthday.
Many of Monday's newspaper front pages carried pictures of DiCaprio, with The Independent noting that his win "puts him in pole position to win his first acting Oscar" at the end of the month.
This years Bafta awards was watched by a live audience of 4.5 million people - slightly down from last year when nearly five million tuned in.
It's also less than the 5.06 million that the 9pm slot on Sunday usually attracts for BBC One.
Apocalyptic action movie Mad Max: Fury Road took four awards: for make-up and hair, editing, costumes and production design.
Brie Larson won the best leading actress award for her role as a kidnapped mother in Room.
Director Lenny Abrahamson, who picked up the award on her behalf, called her "one of the best actors of her generation."
Both supporting acting prizes went to British winners.
Steve Jobs star Kate Winslet was named best supporting actress, beating double nominee Alicia Vikander, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rooney Mara and fellow Brit Julie Walters.
Picking up her statuette, Winslet praised her fellow nominees - saying it had been "an extraordinary year for women".
She also gave thanks to the real Joanna Hoffman, Jobs's loyal colleague, who she said was "so wonderful telling her stories to me".
Writing in the Guardian, Peter Bradshaw says Kate Winslet's award confirmed she is "almost uniquely capable, at this stage of her career, of playing the lead or the character support".
Mark Rylance won best supporting actor for his role as a British-born Soviet agent in Bridge of Spies.
The first award of the night, for outstanding British film, went to period drama Brooklyn, in which Saoirse Ronan plays a young Irish woman who emigrates to New York.
Its director John Crowley said: "One of the things this film is about is kindness of strangers - as this film has made its way out into the world the warmth of response has been overwhelming."
Star Wars actor John Boyega won the Rising Star Award, the only one of the awards to be voted for by the public.
"I haven't been doing this for a long time - it's a fluke," said the London-born actor, who had earlier got the loudest shouts from film fans along the red carpet.
"I'm going to share this with all the young dreamers who are determined and hard-working - this is for you."
Best documentary went to Amy Winehouse film Amy, about the singer who died in 2011.
Director Asif Kapadia said he had wanted to show "how intelligent and how witty she was before it all went out of control".
Producer James Gay-Rees took a swipe at the way she was treated by the media: "Next time someone like that comes along let's try to be a bit more grown-up about it."
But Mitch Winehouse, Amy's father, tweeted: "Please don't congratulate me on the Amy film winning Bafta. This is a one dimensional, miserable and misleading portrayal of Amy. Asif knows."
Emmanuel Lubezki 's win for cinematography for his work on The Revenant was his fourth Bafta.
The Mexican has won for the past three years, having previously picked up statuettes for Birdman and Gravity. He will be hoping to repeat that feat at the Oscars in two weeks' time.
Some critics praised the Baftas for giving The Revenant so many trophies, given its popularity with audiences as well as critics.
The Telegraph noted: "Here's the unexpected lesson of this year's Bafta Film Awards: the industry and the public are more closely in sync than you'd think," wrote Robbie Collin.
Film awards often go to industry favourites rather than crowd-pleasing hits.
But The Revenant has topped the UK box office chart, grossing more than £18m to date.
Financial crash comedy The Big Short won the award for adapted screenplay.
Director and writer Adam McKay thanked studio Paramount "for taking a risk on this movie".
"This movie is not just about banking, it's about income inequality, and making choices for society that are made by all of us and not just by a select few," he said.
The obituary section included tributes to Alan Rickman, Maureen O'Hara, Omar Sharif, David Bowie, Ron Moody, Frank Finlay, Saeed Jaffrey and Sir Christopher Lee.
Sir Sidney Poitier was honoured with the Bafta Fellowship for his outstanding contribution to film. He was unable to attend the ceremony in person due to health reasons.
However, in a video message from his home in Los Angeles, he said: "Thank you for your warm embrace and this extraordinary moment - a memory I shall cherish always."
Angels Costumes, the world's longest-established costume house, now in its 175th year, received the outstanding British contribution to cinema award.
The Baftas have largely avoided the diversity row that has engulfed this year's Oscars.
A small demonstration by members of the Creatives of Colour Network took place near the red carpet.
Australian actress Rebel Wilson made light of the diversity issue on stage when she presented the award for best supporting actor, saying she had been "practising my transgender face" in the hope of winning a future award.
"The Baftas have diverse members, and that's what we all want to see in life isn't it? Diverse members," she said.
Her speech went down well on Twitter, credited with lightening the mood of the ceremony which was otherwise serious in tone.
In contrast, host Stephen Fry upset the social media community with comments about Jenny Beavan, who won the best costume design award for Mad Max: Fury Road.
"Only one of the great cinematic costume designers would come to an awards ceremony dressed as a bag lady," he said.
After ruffling feathers on Twitter with the comment, he later posted a picture of himself with Beavan, taken after the ceremony.
"So just a word to the tragic figures who think calling Jenny Beavan a bag lady was an insult. She's a dear friend and she got it. Derrr." He said, trying to defuse the criticism.
But Fry has since deleted his Twitter account.
The Guardian noted that his comment was one of the few controversial moments in this year's ceremony: "On the plus side, it's the closest thing we had to drama this year," wrote Benjamin Lee.
In a year where there has been no clear front runner during awards season, The Revenant's five wins puts it in pole position for best picture at the Oscars in a fortnight.
The omens are good.
With the exception of last year's Boyhood, for the past seven years the best film winner chosen by Bafta voters has gone on to win an Academy Award.
So why did it win? Maybe it was that The Revenant is unashamedly cinematic. Its chilly widescreen vistas and adrenalin-pumping action sequences demand to be seen on the big screen.
Leonardo DiCaprio finally shook off his bridesmaid status - he's been nominated for lead actor four times - and won his first acting Bafta.
Many think his Oscar is already in the bag.
Only The Revenant and Mad Max - with four awards - were multiple winners on Bafta night.
Bridge of Spies and Carol both led the Bafta field with nine nominations.
In the end, Steven Spielberg's espionage thriller won just one prize - for Mark Rylance's performance - while love story Carol left empty-handed. | Wilderness drama The Revenant, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, has dominated this year's Baftas. |
37,594,986 | The 25-year-old took the first set after a tie-break before American eighth seed Keys fought back in a semi-final lasting two hours, 35 minutes.
The 11th seed will now face Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska in the final on Sunday.
The last British woman to make the world's top 10 was Jo Durie in 1984.
"It's really special, I feel very blessed to be coming back for the final," said Konta after a hard-earned victory in Beijing on Saturday.
Britain also has a finalist in the men's event, after world number two Andy Murray beat Spain's David Ferrer in straight sets.
Konta was ranked 146th in the world as recently as June 2015.
She is only the fourth British woman to make the top 10 since the WTA rankings began in 1975 - after Durie, Virginia Wade and Sue Barker.
Konta led 4-2 in the first set before losing three games in a row. She rallied to take the opening set on a tie-break before unravelling in the second as Keys took the tie into a third set.
Keys broke in the first game but Konta immediately responded before going on to secure a place in Sunday's final.
Former British number one Jo Durie speaking to BBC Radio 5 live
It really is a terrific accomplishment. To get into the top 10 you need to be consistent week after week on the tour.
It will give Konta better seeding at Grand Slams and other players will be very wary of her. She has been proving she can beat those in the top 10, that she belongs there and she is a player to watch out for.
You have a greater aura and take it onto the court. The only thing, which can sometimes be a negative, is the lower-ranked players are now gunning for you and seem to play their best against you.
It has all happened in last 15 months for Jo Konta. She has gone from 150 to the top 10. It is amazing. Next year she goes straight into the Australian Open where she got to the semi-final. She is very good at keeping in the moment, focussing on herself and it is literally point by point with her. | British number one Johanna Konta moved into the world top 10 after reaching the final of the China Open by beating Madison Keys 7-6 (7-1) 4-6 6-4. |
36,460,728 | She is claiming constructive dismissal and is also bringing separate legal action against Jose Mourinho.
The former manager called her "daughter of a whore" in Portuguese when she treated a player, the tribunal heard.
Lawyers for Chelsea revealed that she chose to take the case to a hearing rather than accept the payout.
Dr Carneiro, 42, alleges the comment was made by Mr Mourinho, who left Chelsea in December, when she ran on to the pitch at Stamford Bridge during a Premier League match against Swansea in August to treat injured forward Eden Hazard.
She is claiming sex discrimination and harassment against the club's former manager following the incident and constructive dismissal against Chelsea.
"This is a tale of two employees, one good (Dr Carneiro) and one bad (Mr Mourinho)," said Mary O'Rourke QC, appearing for the claimant
"The bad employee forces the good employee out of the job of her dreams and the employer does nothing to stop it.
"The bad employee berates, sexually harassed and demoted the good employee for carrying out her professional duties, namely her health and safety duties as the first team doctor, pitch-side.
"Rather than investigating and disciplining the bad employee, the employer allows the bad employee to confirm demotion... and to continue with his job."
Documents submitted by Dr Carneiro's legal team allege Mr Mourinho - now manager of Manchester United - suggested she should work with Chelsea Ladies following the Swansea game.
They allege that on 10 August Mr Mourinho told Steve Atkins, head of communications and PR at Chelsea, that he did not want the first team doctor on the bench at the next match, saying: "She works in academy team or ladys (sic) team not with me".
They also claim Chelsea took no action following complaints about sexually explicit chanting at various away games - in particular at Manchester United and West Ham - and a lack of female changing facilities.
Dr Carneiro claims she was not provided with a club suit, and regularly had to endure sexually explicit comments from her colleagues.
She also alleges she was called a "filha da puta" - Portuguese for "daughter of a whore" - during the Swansea game by Mr Mourinho and that she was verbally abused after the match when the team returned to their dressing room.
"As she ran on to the pitch she heard clearly from behind her the words filha da puta," said Mary O'Rourke QC, for the claimant.
"She's a Portuguese speaker. It was not filho da puta, it was filha da puta… you say filha da puta when you are denigrating a woman. He is saying it to the back of the claimant who is doing something he didn't like… that is the context."
However, Daniel Stilitz QC, for Chelsea, said Mr Mourinho's evidence was that he shouted 'filho da puta'.
"Filho da puta is a phrase he often uses," Mr Stilitz said, adding that it meant son of a bitch. "There is no sexist connotation."
He said that Mr Mourinho used the phrase frequently at the training ground and during matches.
The FA ruled on 30 September 2015 that "the words used do not constitute discriminatory language" after consulting an independent academic expert in Portuguese linguistics.
Dr Carneiro was "preoccupied with developing her profile" and associating herself with the first team in a way discouraged by the club for backroom employees, Chelsea's legal team added.
This involved signing autographs and having photographs taken with members of the public, nominating a high-profile first-team player when she uploaded a video to YouTube as part of the "Ice Bucket Challenge", and seeking to position herself behind Mr Mourinho during televised matches.
Chelsea and Mr Mourinho, 53, will also argue that Dr Carneiro would still be in her job if she had not resigned - she argues that she had no choice but to leave the club and was therefore constructively dismissed.
The football club's legal team said it would show the club had taken steps to settle with Dr Carneiro because it believed that it was "in no-one's interests that this dispute should be determined through litigation".
"They are conscious that, whatever the facts of the matter, it is likely to be widely and incorrectly assumed that they could have avoided this coming tribunal," Chelsea's legal team added.
The tribunal, which is being heard at the London South Employment Tribunal in Croydon, was adjourned until 14:00 BST on Tuesday.
The case is anticipated to be heard over seven to 10 days | Former Chelsea first team doctor Eva Carneiro rejected a £1.2m settlement from the club, documents submitted to her employment tribunal show. |
35,625,313 | A man, covering his face and holding what appeared to be a handgun, demanded cash from staff at the One Stop store in Bordon at 18:40 GMT on Saturday.
A quantity of cash and other items were handed over by a staff member before the offender fled the scene on foot.
Police appealed for information from customers in the store and said extra patrols were being carried out. | An armed robber is being sought by police following a raid on a Hampshire convenience store. |
37,573,630 | The shooting happened on Hewitt Avenue in Sunderland at 20:40 BST on Wednesday.
A 39-year-old man and a 16-year-old male have been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm.
Northumbria Police said it believed it was an isolated incident, with no risk to the wider public. | A 15-year-old boy is in a critical condition in hospital after being shot while riding a motorcycle. |
30,916,340 | Les Merton, 70, from Redruth, was found guilty of 16 counts of indecent assault against girls as young as seven and four counts of indecency with a child.
Truro Crown Court heard Merton would show them pornographic videos of fairy tales and make them drink alcohol before indecently assaulting them.
He would also play cards and then ask the loser to carry out a sexual act.
Merton told his victims: "This is our little secret - our special game."
The offences happened between 1983 and 2004.
Merton was made a bard in 2004, has written several books of poetry and is the author of a book called The Official Encyclopaedia of the Cornish Pasty.
Judge Christopher Clark said: "Despite this there was a dark sinister and depraved side of your personality.
"You are a paedophile."
The judge also passed a sexual offences order.
Cornish bards are appointed by the Cornish Gorsedh, which honours people for "outstanding contributions to Cornwall and its ancient culture, history and language".
Merton was given the bardic name Map Hallow (Son of the Moors) when he was conferred with the honour. | A Cornish bard and author has been jailed for 13 years for child sexual abuse. |
29,833,131 | The acquisition gives the Chinese firm control of the unit's Moto and Droid-branded handsets as well as its 3,500 employees, 2,800 of whom are based in the US.
Lenovo said the deal made it the world's third bestselling smartphone-maker after Apple and Samsung.
That knocks its country-mate Xiaomi back down into fourth spot, based on data from two market research reports.
Lenovo stated that a total of 100 million mobile devices were on course to be shipped from its existing mobile phone business combined with that of Motorola's over the current fiscal year, which ends in March.
Motorola has found recent success with its "budget" Moto G models. The original version, released last year was the bestselling phone in the business's history.
More recently it has also entered the wearables sector with the Moto 360 smartwatch, and announced its first Nexus device - a 6in (15.2cm) "phablet" marketed by Google, which will be one of the first phones to offer the Android 5.0 operating system.
Lenovo is the world's bestselling PC maker, a position it attained after the takeover of IBM's personal computer business in 2005.
Its smartphones are already big sellers in Asia and the Middle East, but they have not been sold in North America and Western Europe.
While Lenovo and Motorola handsets do compete for sales in India, there is little overlap elsewhere between the two divisions at this point.
"We're now planning to introduce Motorola-branded products back into China," Aymar de Lencquesaing, Lenovo's president of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, told the BBC.
"But right now what we intend to do is leverage the stronger brand in each particular market.
"For the most part, think of the developed mature world - that's going to be Motorola-driven. Emerging markets will be Lenovo-driven.
"Some markets will overlap and over time nothing says that in any given market we couldn't have a dual brand strategy. But, let's put it this way, it's probably smarter for us right now to walk before we run."
He ruled out cutting jobs at Motorola and confirmed that the division would remain headquartered in Chicago.
Lenovo had previously stated that one of the reasons it bought the division for $2.9bn (£1.8bn) was to take advantage of Motorola's existing relationships with network operators in North America and Europe.
One analyst said that this could offer a way to launch Lenovo-branded handsets in those regions if the company later decided to make the move.
"Lenovo has proven it can manufacture quality phones and it is already well known as a PC brand in Europe and the US," said Ronan de Renesse from the telecoms consultancy Ovum.
"So, it doesn't have the cheap aspect to its brand that some of the other Chinese manufacturers have to deal with."
Mr de Lencquesaing added that a nearer-term advantage to the tie-up was that Motorola would benefit from his company's supply-line efficiencies.
The takeover does not include Motorola Solutions, which makes communications equipment for utility and emergency workers. The two Motorola businesses formally split in 2011.
Google paid $12.5bn to acquire Motorola Mobility in 2012. It said the key motivation for the deal was the firm's patents, which it is keeping hold of. | Lenovo has completed its takeover of Google's Motorola Mobility division. |
34,987,039 | Malorie Bantala, 22, from Peckham, suffered life-threatening injuries and gave birth at 32 weeks to a stillborn boy following the attack.
Kevin Wilson, and a 17-year-old boy, allegedly wore helmets and attacked her when she refused a termination.
Both defendants deny grievous bodily harm and child destruction.
The court heard on 15 June Mr Wilson, of Longfield Estate, Bermondsey, and the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, attacked Miss Bantala in the street near her south London home.
They focused the attack on her stomach, jurors were told.
Jonathan Rees QC for the prosecution said: "It was a cowardly and callous attack, each male wearing a motorcycle helmet in an apparent effort to conceal his identity.
"It is the prosecution case that one of the attackers was the unborn baby's father - Kevin Wilson.
"He had made it clear that he didn't want the baby to be born and was not pleased when Miss Bantala informed others that he was the father.
"We say that he took matters into his own hands and decided that he would end the pregnancy by violence," he said.
Jurors were told Miss Bantala and Mr Wilson, a teaching assistant, met in the summer of 2011, ahead of their first term at the University of Bedfordshire in Luton, and had a casual relationship over the following few years.
In December 2014, Miss Bantala, then 21, phoned Mr Wilson to tell him she was pregnant and that he was the father, but he replied saying "why are you doing this to me?" and told her he was not ready.
During the attack, the court was told, Miss Bantala recognised the taller male as her ex-boyfriend.
She was said to have been knocked to the ground and "vicious blows" rained on her as she curled up trying to protect her stomach.
The prosecutor said the victim shouted "Kevin" to get them to stop. Neighbours who saw the attack heard her scream and shout "Kevin, I'm going to kill you, watch".
When emergency services arrived, Miss Bantala told police her ex-boyfriend was responsible for the attack, adding: "He doesn't want the baby."
At the hospital doctors were unable to find the baby boy's heartbeat and he was stillborn.
Denying allegations, Mr Wilson told police he was visiting his brother and a friend on his estate.
The trial continues. | A pregnant woman was brutally beaten and lost her unborn baby after her ex-boyfriend said he was not ready to be a father, the Old Bailey has heard. |
26,650,863 | France's highest court upheld the jail sentence against Jerome Kerviel but ordered a review of the 4.9bn euros (£4.1bn) in damages he was told to pay.
The court said a lower court decision had not taken into account the bank's own responsibility when it ordered him to make good the bank's entire losses.
Kerviel's lawyer called it "a victory".
"We are starting afresh," said David Koubbi.
"We are going to ask for an expert assessment to establish exactly what happened at Societe Generale. This is the end of the Jerome Kerviel case and the beginning of a new case against Societe Generale."
The bank responded by saying: "Jerome Kerviel has lost his court case. Societe Generale has won. There were failings at the Societe Generale but they have been repaired."
Societe Generale revealed in 2008 that Kerviel had run up $50bn (£33bn; 38bn euros) of unauthorised trades which had to be unwound.
The process cost the bank 4.9bn euros - the biggest loss of its kind in history.
A new civil trial will take place to decide the eventual damages Kerviel will have to pay.
Kerviel has spent the past three weeks walking back to Paris from Rome, where he met Pope Francis, and is currently near Bologna.
He told the BBC the walk was helping him to come to terms with his past and his future.
Kerviel has always admitted the unauthorised trades, but said officials at Societe Generale knew what he was doing but turned a blind eye as long as it was making money, says the BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris.
Kerviel said: "The only goal was money, money, money for the bank. I didn't care about what I was doing."
He said he was not trying to evade justice: "I am going back to France - I remain at the disposal of justice and the police, so if they want me I am available." | The French rogue trader who caused huge losses at bank Societe Generale has lost his appeal against a three-year jail sentence. |
33,746,503 | Signings confirmed in May, June and July can be found on previous transfer pages.
For all the latest rumours, check out the Gossip page and for all the manager ins and outs, see the current manager's list.
Transfers organised into Premier League, Football League and Scottish Premiership by the buying club, then listed in alphabetical order by the player's surname. Prominent global transfers will also be included.
Premier League
Fabio Borini [Liverpool - Sunderland] £10m
Anders Lindegaard [Manchester United - West Brom] Free
Dieumerci Mbokani [Dynamo Kiev - Norwich] Loan
Football League
Barry Bannan [Crystal Palace - Sheffield Wednesday] Undisclosed
Sergi Canos [Liverpool - Brentford] Loan
Marco Djuricin [Red Bull Salzburg - Brentford] Loan
Lucas Piazon [Chelsea - Reading] Loan
Ryan Fredericks [Bristol City - Fulham] Undisclosed
Idriss Saadi [Clermont Foot - Cardiff] Undisclosed
Scottish Premiership
Riccardo Calder [Aston Villa - Dundee] Loan
Martin Woods [Shrewsbury - Ross County] Free
Global
Jason Denayer [Manchester City - Galatasaray] Loan
Julian Draxler [Schalke - Wolfsburg] Undisclosed
Emanuele Giaccherini [Sunderland - Bologna] Loan
Javi Guerra [Cardiff - Rayo Vallecano] Undisclosed
Javier Hernandez [Manchester United - Bayer Leverkusen] £7.3m
Hernanes [Inter Milan - Juventus] £9.5m
Brown Ideye [West Brom - Olympiakos] Undisclosed
Adnan Januzaj [Manchester United - Borussia Dortmund] Loan
Olivier Kemen [Newcastle - Lyon] £550,000
Mario Lemina [Marseille - Juventus] Loan
Modibo Maiga [West Ham - Al Nassr] Undisclosed
Emmanuel Mayuka [Southampton - Metz] Undisclosed
Felipe Melo [Galatasaray - Inter Milan] £8m
Loic Nego [Charlton - Videoton] Undisclosed
Jose Angel Pozo [Manchester City - Almeria] Undisclosed
Stefan Scepovic [Celtic - Getafe] Loan
Ricky van Wolfswinkel [Norwich - Real Betis] Loan
Etien Velikonja [Cardiff - Lierse SK] Undisclosed
Jelle Vossen [Burnley - Club Brugge] Undisclosed
Premier League
Kevin de Bruyne [Wolfsburg - Manchester City] £55m
Global
Kingsley Coman [Juventus - Bayern Munich] Loan
Dante [Bayern Munich - Wolfsburg] Undisclosed
Lazar Markovic [Liverpool - Fenerbahce] Loan
Ivan Perisic [Wolfsburg - Inter Milan] £14.5m (reported)
Premier League
Jonny Evans [Manchester United - West Brom] Undisclosed
Football League
Michael Agazzi [AC Milan - Middlesbrough] Loan
Callum Elder [Leicester - Peterborough] Loan
Fernando Forestieri [Watford - Sheffield Wednesday] Undisclosed
Christopher Forrester [St Patrick's Athletic - Peterborough] Undisclosed
Elvis Manu [Feyenoord - Brighton] Undisclosed
Tommy Oar [Utrecht - Ipswich] Free
Daniel Pudil [Watford - Sheffield Wednesday] Loan
Glen Rea [Brighton - Southend] Loan
Scottish Premiership
Tyler Blackett [Manchester United - Celtic] Loan
Ryan McLaughlin [Liverpool - Aberdeen] Loan
Global
Aymen Abdennour [Monaco - Valencia] £22m (reported)
Premier League
Leandro Rodriguez [River Plate Montevideo - Everton] £500,000 (reported)
Son Heung-min [Bayer Leverkusen - Tottenham] £22m
Ola Toivonen [Rennes - Sunderland] Loan
Football League
Fernando Amorebieta [Fulham - Middlesbrough] Loan
Devante Cole [Manchester City - Bradford] Free
Callum Harriott [Charlton - Colchester] Loan
James Husband [Middlesbrough - Fulham] Loan
Piotr Malarczyk [Korona Kielce - Ipswich] Undisclosed
Joe Maguire [Liverpool - Leyton Orient] Loan
Jak McCourt [Leicester - Port Vale] Loan
Stephen McLaughlin [Nottingham Forest - Southend] Undisclosed
Victor Nirennold [Unattached - Fleetwood]
Simonas Stankevicius [Leicester - Oldham] Loan
Cameron Stewart [Ipswich - Doncaster] Loan
Daniel Tozser [Parma - QPR] Free
Scottish Premiership
Billy Mckay [Wigan - Dundee United] Loan
Theo Robinson [Doncaster - Motherwell] Free
Global
Marcos Lopes [Manchester City - Monaco] Undisclosed
Adil Nabi [West Brom - Delhi Dynamos] Loan
Football League
Joey Barton [QPR - Burnley] Free
Mustapha Carayol [Middlesbrough - Huddersfield] Loan
Jose Manuel Casado [Almeria - Bolton] Free
Owen Garvan [Crystal Palace - Colchester] Free
Jordy Hiwula [Huddersfield - Wigan] Loan
Emyr Huws [Wigan - Huddersfield] Loan
Jesse Joronen [Fulham - Stevenage] Loan
Shaun Maloney [Chicago Fire - Hull] Undisclosed
Nathaniel Mendez-Laing [Peterborough - Rochdale] Free
Oscar Threlkeld [Bolton - Plymouth] Loan
Michael Turner [Norwich - Sheffield Wednesday] Loan
Global
Mario Balotelli [Liverpool - AC Milan] Loan
Pavel Pogrebnyak [Reading - Dynamo Moscow] Free
Aleksandar Tonev [Aston Villa - Frosinone] Undisclosed
Football League
Stephen Kingsley [Swansea - Crewe] Loan
Gabriel Tamas [Unattached - Cardiff]
Harry Wilson [Liverpool - Crewe] Loan
Global
Fabio Coentrao [Real Madrid - Monaco] Loan
Football League
Tom Flanagan [MK Dons - Burton] Free
Murray Wallace [Huddersfield - Scunthorpe] Loan
Mark Yeates [Bradford - Oldham] Free
Scottish Premiership
Darnell Fisher [Celtic - St Johnstone] Loan
Global
Juan Cuadrado [Chelsea - Juventus] Loan
Marko Marin [Chelsea - Trabzonspor] Loan
Football League
James Alabi [Unattached - Ipswich]
Carlos Edwards [Unattached - Millwall]
Joe Lewis [Cardiff - Fulham] Loan
Liam O'Neil [West Brom - Chesterfield] Undisclosed
Adam Yates [Port Vale - Northampton] Loan
Premier League
Kenedy [Fluminense - Chelsea] Undisclosed
Football League
Kadeem Harris [Cardiff - Barnsley] Loan
Izale McLeod [Crawley - Notts County] Undisclosed
Luke O'Neill [Burnley - Southend] Loan
Football League
Jacob Blyth [Leicester - Cambridge] Loan
Nicolai Brock-Madsen [Randers - Birmingham] £500,000
Janoi Donacien [Aston Villa - Wycombe] Loan
Joel Grant [Yeovil - Exeter] Free
Andre Gray [Brentford - Burnley] £9m
Tom Lawrence [Leicester - Blackburn] Loan
Olly Lee [Birmingham - Luton] Free
Josh Murphy [Norwich - MK Dons] Loan
David Norris [Unattached - Yeovil]
Sam Patterson [Unattached - Shrewsbury]
Jordan Stewart [Glentoran - Swindon] Undisclosed
Global
Mehdi Abeid [Newcastle - Panathinaikos] Undisclosed
Thomas Eisfeld [Fulham - Vfl Bochum] Undisclosed
Mesca [Fulham - AEL Limassol] Undisclosed
Premier League
Nicolas Otamendi [Valencia - Manchester City] £32m
Pedro [Barcelona - Chelsea] £21m
Football League
Zak Ansah [Charlton - Newport] Loan
Andrew Boyce [Scunthorpe - Hartlepool] Loan
Reece Burke [West Ham - Bradford] Loan
Kyle Ebecilio [FC Twente - Nottingham Forest] Loan
Lee Evans [Wolves - Bradford] Loan
Francesco Pisano [Cagliari - Bolton] Free
Tim Ream [Bolton - Fulham] Undisclosed
Christian Scales [Crystal Palace - Crawley] Loan
Alex Smithies [Huddersfield - QPR] Undisclosed
Ryan Watson [Leicester - Northampton] Loan
Scottish Premiership
Josh Parker [Red Star Belgrade - Aberdeen] Loan
Global
Alex Sandro [Porto - Juventus] £18.6m
Premier League
Gokhan Inler [Napoli - Leicester] Undisclosed
Florian Thauvin [Marseille - Newcastle] £12m (reported)
Football League
Connor Goldson [Shrewsbury - Brighton] Undisclosed
Josh Laurent [Brentford - Newport] Loan
Aaron Mclean [Bradford - Barnet] Free
Diego Poyet [West Ham - MK Dons] Loan
Global
Remy Cabella [Newcastle - Marseille] Loan
Filip Kiss [Cardiff - FK Haugesund] Loan
Football League
Alex Fernandez [Espanyol - Reading] Loan
Ayo Obileye [Charlton - Dagenham & Redbridge] Loan
Josh Wakefield [Bournemouth - Yeovil] Loan
Wellington Silva [Arsenal - Bolton] Loan
Global
Mateo Kovacic [Inter Milan - Real Madrid] Undisclosed
Roberto Soldado [Tottenham - Villarreal] £7m (reported)
Premier League
Alessandro Diamanti [Guangzhou Evergrande - Watford] Loan
Botti Biabi [Falkirk - Swansea] Undisclosed
Football League
Brad Jones [Liverpool - Bradford] Free
Premier League
Baba Rahman [FC Augsburg - Chelsea] Undisclosed
Football League
Angel Martinez [Millwall - Chesterfield] Free
Football League
Reece Wabara [Doncaster - Barnsley] Free
Premier League
Nathan Ake [Chelsea - Watford] Loan
Clinton N'Jie [Lyon - Tottenham] Undisclosed
Adama Traore [Barcelona - Aston Villa] £7m
Football League
Aaron Chapman [Chesterfield - Bristol Rovers] Loan
Maxime Colin [Anderlecht - Brentford] Undisclosed
Shaquile Coulthirst [Tottenham - Wigan] Loan
Rouwen Hennings [Karlsruher - Burnley] Undisclosed
Chris Kettings [Crystal Palace - Stevenage] Loan
Jacob Murphy [Norwich - Coventry] Loan
Jamie Murphy [Sheffield United - Brighton] Undisclosed
Lee Novak [Birmingham - Chesterfield] Loan
David Nugent [Leicester - Middlesbrough] Undisclosed
Connor Ogilvie [Tottenham - Stevenage] Loan
Jack Phillips [Prescot Cables - Accrington] Free
Scottish Premiership
Scott Allan [Hibernian - Celtic] Undisclosed
Premier League
Mason Holgate [Barnsley - Everton] Undisclosed
Football League
Paolo Hurtado [Pacos de Ferreira - Reading] Undisclosed
John Lundstram [Everton - Oxford] Free
Premier League
Oriol Romeu [Chelsea - Southampton] £5m
Josh Vickers [Arsenal - Swansea] Free
Football League
Uwe Hunemeier [Paderborn - Brighton] Undisclosed
Chris Kirkland [Sheffield Wednesday - Preston] Free
Scottish Premiership
Iain Vigurs [Motherwell - Inverness] Free
Global
Edin Dzeko [Manchester City - Roma] Loan
Premier League
Xherdan Shaqiri [Inter Milan - Stoke] £12m
Football League
Hope Akpan [Reading - Blackburn] Free
Clevid Dikamona [Poire-sur-Vie - Dagenham & Redbridge] Free
Ben Hamer [Leicester - Bristol City] Loan
Jussi Jaaskelainen [West Ham - Wigan] Free
Emiliano Martinez [Arsenal - Wolves] Loan
Scottish Premiership
Oliver Davies [Swansea - Kilmarnock] Loan
Jake Taylor [Reading - Motherwell] Loan
Global
Cristian Battocchio [Watford - Brest] Undisclosed
Premier League
Salomon Rondon [Zenit St Petersburg - West Brom] £12m
Football League
Modou Barrow [Swansea - Blackburn] Loan
Bradley Barry [Brighton - Swindon] Free
David Edgar [Birmingham - Sheffield United] Loan
Josh Ginnelly [Shrewsbury - Burnley] Undisclosed
JJ Hooper [Havant and Waterlooville - Port Vale] Free
Rory Watson [Hull - Scunthorpe] Loan
Global
Dame N'Doye [Hull - Trabzonspor] £2.2m
Football League
James Caton [Shrewsbury - Mansfield] Loan
Alex Davey [Chelsea - Peterborough] Loan
Brian Murphy [QPR - Portsmouth] Free
Joe Pigott [Charlton - Southend] Loan
Connor Roberts [Swansea - Yeovil] Loan
Premier League
Serge Gnabry [Arsenal - West Brom] Loan
Football League
Reece Brown [Unattached - Bury]
Dominic Calvert-Lewin [Sheffield United - Northampton] Loan
Harry Cornick [Bournemouth - Yeovil] Loan
Shane Ferguson [Newcastle - Millwall] Loan
Grant Hall [Tottenham - QPR] Undisclosed
Tom Hitchcock [MK Dons - Stevenage] Loan
Jamie McCombe [Doncaster - Stevenage] Free
Moses Odubajo [Brentford - Hull] £3.5m
Callum Robinson [Aston Villa - Bristol City] Loan
Renny Smith [Arsenal - Burnley] Free
Cristhian Stuani [Espanyol - Middlesbrough] £2.8m
David Tutonda [Cardiff - York] Loan
Bryan Van Den Bogaert [Royal Antwerp - Crawley] Free
Liam Wakefield [Doncaster - Accrington] Free
Josh Wright [Leyton Orient - Gillingham] Free
Stephane Zubar [Bournemouth - York] Loan
Global
Esteban Cambiasso [Leicester - Olympiakos] Free
Kostas Mitroglou [Fulham - Benfica] Loan
Premier League
Yann M'Vila [Rubin Kazan - Sunderland] Loan
Ivan Toney [Northampton - Newcastle] Undisclosed
Football League
Jak Alnwick [Newcastle - Port Vale] Loan
Darren Ambrose [Ipswich - Colchester] Free
James Brophy [Unattached - Swindon]
Alex Cairns [Leeds - Chesterfield] Free
Ben Davies [Sheffield United - Portsmouth] Free
Nathan Delfouneso [Blackpool - Blackburn] Free
Prince-Desir Gouano [Atalanta - Bolton] Loan
Dion Donohue [Unattached - Chesterfield] Free
Kane Ferdinand [Peterborough - Dagenham & Redbridge] Free
Ryan Fredericks [Tottenham - Bristol City] Undisclosed
Oscar Gobern [Huddersfield - QPR] Free
Gavin Gunning [Birmingham - Oldham] Free
Nicholas Hamalainen [QPR - Dagenham & Redbridge] Loan
Aaron Hayden [Wolves - Newport] Loan
Luke Hendrie [Derby - Burnley] Free
Greg Leigh [Manchester City - Bradford] Free
Christian Mbulu [Brentwood - Millwall] Free
Bryn Morris [Middlesbrough - Coventry] Loan
Civard Sprockel [Othellos - Notts County] Free
Jamie Stephens [Newport - Barnet] Free
Tony Thompson [Rotherham - Morecambe] Free
Marnick Vermijl [Sheffield Wednesday - Preston] Loan
Scottish Premiership
Dario Zanatta [Unattached - Hearts]
Global
Angel Di Maria [Manchester United - Paris St-Germain] £44.3m
Premier League
Bakary Sako [Wolves - Crystal Palace] Free
Football League
Emmerson Boyce [Wigan - Blackpool] Free
Stephen Dobbie [Crystal Palace - Bolton] Free
Danny Guthrie [Reading - Blackburn] Free
Aurelien Joachim [CSKA Sofia - Burton] Free
Shaun Miller [Coventry - Morecambe] Free
Sean Murray [Watford - Wigan] Loan
Joe Newell [Peterborough - Rotherham] Undisclosed
Jack Ryan [Preston - Morecambe] Loan
Modou Sougou [Marseille - Sheffield Wednesday] Free
Craig Tanner [Reading - Plymouth] Loan
Andrew Taylor [Wigan - Reading] Loan
Rhoys Wiggins [Charlton - Sheffield Wednesday] Undisclosed
Lawrie Wilson [Charlton - Bolton] Free
Global
Aly Cissokho [Aston Villa - Porto] Loan
Premier League
Max Gradel [St Etienne - Bournemouth] Undisclosed
Lee Tomlin [Middlesbrough - Bournemouth] £3m
Football League
Chuba Akpom [Arsenal - Hull] Loan
Stuart Dallas [Brentford - Leeds] Undisclosed
Jonathan Douglas [Brentford - Ipswich] Free
Adam Le Fondre [Cardiff - Wolves] Loan
Elliott Hewitt [Ipswich - Notts County] Free
Ellis Iandolo [Unattached - Swindon]
Paul Konchesky [Leicester - QPR] Loan
Sakari Mattila [Aalesunds - Fulham] Undisclosed
Stephen McGinn [Dundee - Wycombe] Free
Kevin McNaughton [Cardiff - Wigan] Free
Jeffrey Monakana [Brighton - Bristol Rovers] Loan
Steve Morison [Leeds - Millwall] Undisclosed
Sheyi Ojo [Liverpool - Wolves] Loan
Nick Townsend [Birmingham - Barnsley] Loan
Lawrence Vigouroux [Liverpool - Swindon] Loan
Premier League
Yohan Benalouane [Atalanta - Leicester] Undisclosed
N'Golo Kante [Caen - Leicester] Undisclosed
Connor Wickham [Sunderland - Crystal Palace] £7m
Football League
Thierry Audel [Macclesfield - Notts County]
Jonathan Burn [Middlesbrough - Oldham] Loan
Matt Clarke [Ipswich - Portsmouth] Loan
Giles Coke [Sheffield Wednesday - Ipswich] Free
Paul Corry [Sheffield Wednesday - Northampton] Free
Michael Nelson [Cambridge - Barnet] Free
Ben Nugent [Cardiff - Crewe] Free
Paul Robinson [Portsmouth - AFC Wimbledon] Free
Matt Richards [Cheltenham - Dagenham & Redbridge] Free
Reece Thompson [Frickley Athletic - York] Undisclosed
Larsen Toure [Arles-Avignon - Ipswich] Free
Jordan Turnbull [Southampton - Swindon] Loan
Bobby Zamora [QPR - Brighton] Free
Scottish Premiership
Mathias Pogba [Crawley - Partick Thistle] Free
Premier League
Jake Kean [Blackburn - Norwich] Free
Football League
Paul Anderson [Ipswich - Bradford] Free
Billy Bodin [Northampton - Bristol Rovers] Free
Sam Hoskins [Yeovil - Northampton] Free
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28,956,813 | The callback affects products sold between September 2010 and June 2012.
The US Consumer Safety Commission (CPSC) said more than six million of the affected cables had been sold in the US and Canada alone.
It follows reports that people had been injured as a result of the China-made kit burning users.
The announcement comes nine months after a separate issue forced the company to pull its Chromebook laptops from sale after reports that their chargers had been overheating.
The latest case involves power cords marked with LS-15 on their sides that were sold alongside HP and Compaq "notebook" and "mini notebook" PCs as well as other hardware.
"HP customers affected by this program will be eligible to receive a replacement AC power cord for each verified, recalled AC power cord at no cost," said a message on the firm's site.
A CPSC webpage adds details of previous incidents: "HP has received 29 reports of power cords overheating and melting or charring resulting in two claims of minor burns and 13 claims of minor property damage."
HP is not the only computer-maker to have been involved in such action over recent months: | HP has ordered a worldwide recall of power cords that had been sold with its laptop computers and other accessories, including docking stations. |
34,676,352 | Bailey died in hospital after the incident at Cults Academy at about 13:30 on Wednesday.
The 16-year-old accused, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared in private at Aberdeen Sheriff Court.
The boy was also charged with having a blade or point on school premises. He made no plea and was remanded.
He is expected to appear again on 6 November.
Relatives of Bailey said in a statement on Thursday: "There are no words. Bailey is our beloved boy and our heart. Our hearts have gone with him."
It added: "A special son, brother, grandson and friend - he never failed to make us smile (most of the time). He will always be our boy.
"We don't know what we will do without our junior 'man about the house'.
"We need time now to look after each other and send our love to all those who care for Bailey."
Cults Academy is a secondary school with 1,050 pupils from age 11 to 18.
The school was closed on Thursday and Friday but will re-open on Monday, with special assemblies being held.
The nearby Cults Parish Church was packed for a vigil on Thursday evening.
Many people wrote messages of condolence and support for Bailey's family.
Church of Scotland minister, the Reverend Ewen Gilchrist, said: "Bailey Gwynne's family will hear about this and the number of people here and hopefully it will give them a bit of light in the darkness. | A teenage boy has appeared in court charged with murdering 16-year-old Bailey Gwynne, who was stabbed at his Aberdeen school. |
27,583,564 | Both countries are blaming the other for the incident.
Vietnam's coast guard said the boat was encircled by 40 Chinese vessels before it was rammed, reports said.
But Chinese state media outlet Xinhua said Vietnam's boat collided with its vessel after "engaging in harassment".
The BBC's Martin Patience says that whatever the truth, the sinking is likely to further escalate tensions between the two countries, given that for the past few weeks they have engaged in skirmishes at sea.
The two are locked in an intensifying dispute over South China Sea territory.
Vietnam has protested against China moving its Haiyang Shiyou 981 rig to waters also claimed by Hanoi, at a spot near the disputed Paracel Islands.
Monday's incident happened just 17 nautical miles from the rig, Vietnamese reports said.
Xinhua on Tuesday claimed that Vietnam had "on many occasions dispatched various boats with the sole intention of harassing Chinese-linked companies drilling in that part of the ocean".
It said China had made serious representations to Vietnam to request that it "halt its harassing and destructive activities".
Vietnamese media meanwhile reported that China deployed "a fast attack missile boat and a minesweeper" around the rig on Monday.
China's refusal to move the rig sparked anti-China protests in Vietnam earlier in May, which left at least two people dead and several factories burnt.
Vietnamese legislators are preparing to sue China in an international court over the rig and other attacks on Vietnamese ships, according to local media.
China in recent days has upped its rhetoric on the South China Sea.
On Monday, a spokesman for China's foreign ministry addressed a recent attempt by Vietnam to list its historical claims to the Paracel Islands, saying it was "absurd and laughable".
On the same day, Xinhua published a commentary in English which accused Vietnam of wanting to "disturb and play up the normal drilling of Haiyang Shiyou 981".
Written by Chinese law professor Yang Zewei, the commentary states: "Hanoi should know that such drilling in the said area is China's sovereign right endowed by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea."
"Vietnam should immediately stop any interruptive activities and undertake corresponding consequences and international responsibilities for its provocations.".
Japan has urged calm. Government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said it was important that "relevant countries abstain from unilateral actions that raise tensions".
Meanwhile, Vietnam is preparing to prosecute "hundreds of suspects" involved in the anti-China protests earlier in May, and has already jailed two participants, according to local media.
China has for decades claimed a U-shaped swathe of the South China Sea.
But tensions have flared up in the region recently as China seeks to assert its claims in a more muscular fashion with a beefed-up maritime presence.
Its actions have upset several neighbouring countries, including the Philippines - which is taking China to a United Nations tribunal. | A Vietnamese fishing boat has sunk after it collided with a Chinese vessel near a controversial oil rig in the South China Sea, amid tensions between the two nations. |
39,704,754 | Two children were among those whose bodies were recovered.
There were two survivors, including a pregnant woman. The survivors, from Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo, said there had been between 20 and 25 people on board.
Hundreds of people have died since 2015 trying to cross from Turkey to Greece.
The numbers dropped dramatically from March last year, after Turkey and the EU agreed a deal to stem the flow of people.
But there are fears that numbers attempting the crossing could begin to rise again if the deal is affected by nose-diving relations between the two sides.
The bodies of six women, a child and two men were recovered in Greek territory, while six men and a child were found in Turkish waters, said Greek and Turkish coastguard officials.
The survivors said the boat had capsized on Sunday night.
"The number of people crossing the Aegean to Greece has dropped drastically over the past year, but this tragic incident shows that the dangers and the risk of losing one's life remains very real," said Philippe Leclerc, Greece representative for the UN's refugee agency UNHCR, according to Reuters news agency.
In a separate incident, an Iranian man died amid a high-speed chase involving a van of illegal migrants and Greek police near Greece's north-eastern border with Turkey after the van overturned, reported AFP news agency.
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. | At least 16 people have drowned in the narrow strait separating Turkey from the Greek island of Lesbos, say authorities and the UN. |
36,368,045 | The National Trust recently invited tenants to rent out Parc Farm on Great Orme in Llandudno for just £1 a year.
On Wednesday, the first of the many applicants will get to visit the farm, fields and buildings at the remote coastal site.
Would-be shepherds would need to help protect Great Orme's fragile landscape.
It has rare habitats and species - some of which the charity said exists nowhere else on Earth.
The National Trust said its announcement the farm was to be let had sparked enquiries from across the world and at one point saw staff dealing with more than 100 enquiries an hour.
National Trust general manager William Greenwood said: "The volume of interest has been incredible.
"People clearly want to give nature a helping hand and ensure this special place is healthy, beautiful, rich in wildlife and culture and is enjoyed for ever for everyone.
"It seems to have really caught the public's imagination, and we're really looking forward to welcoming some of those potential applicants to Parc Farm for the official viewing day, to give them a taste of just what that one pound buys."
The National Trust bought parts of the iconic Great Orme headland, including Parc Farm and its associated grazing rights, in 2015.
Mr Jones said the tenant needed to be a "very special person" with excellent shepherding skills, prepared to work hard and share how they look after the landscape with the Great Orme's many hundreds of thousands of visitors.
He added: "And while it may be called Parc Farm this tenancy is no walk in the park, it will involve long hours, and a lot of hard work in a landscape which is exceptionally exposed to extreme weather." | Hundreds of people have applied to take on a £1m farm in north Wales for a peppercorn rent. |
34,522,268 | Russian air power is now being used to support offensives by Syrian government forces and their allies on the ground.
What is the goal of this new phase of the operation?
US-based analyst Michael Kofman, of the CNA Corporation and a scholar at the Kennan Institute, says the Syrian Army is seeking to retake territory lost this year in Hama and Latakia provinces, pushing north and east towards Idlib and Aleppo.
"Ideally, they would like to move the front line back up to the city of Jisr al-Shigour and the Turkish border, blocking off access to Alawite areas, and consolidate control in the centre of regime territory around Homs," he says.
"With Iranian support, and Russia's air force, the Syrian Army hopes to make quick gains on the ground."
Dmitry Gorenburg, an expert on the Russian military at the Davis Center at Harvard University, agrees.
"The goal remains to consolidate government control of key areas in the western part of the country and around Damascus, as well as ensuring that connections between the two areas remain under government control," he says.
This would explain the pattern of strikes, which have been primarily targeting rebels located near those areas, rather than in the country's east and north, which happen to be the parts controlled by so-called Islamic State (IS) and the Kurds, respectively.
The Russian Air Force has significantly stepped up operations, averaging 50-60 strikes per day and reaching some 86 targets hit on 13 October.
Mr Kofman says Syrian government forces are making gains - but have taken a hit from rebels armed with US-supplied hardware.
"Earlier supplied US-made TOW anti-tank missiles, funnelled by the CIA into Syria from Saudi stocks, are taking their toll," he says.
"So far, the Syrian offensive is making progress in both Hama and Latakia provinces."
Andrew Tabler, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, says the destruction of arms depots by the Russians affects the rebels' ability to fight back.
"In the end, though, the [Syrian President Bashar al-]Assad regime still lacks manpower - reports indicate that its forces are being augmented by Iran and other Shia militias."
So the Russian bombing campaign is weakening the non-IS opponents of the Syrian government, and infuriating their backers in the Gulf.
To an extent, the disparate opposition forces are being pushed to form tacit alliances as they are squeezed between the Syrian government offensive on the one hand and the advance of IS fighters on the other.
Already questions are being raised about what further assistance they can expect.
The US is stepping up ammunition deliveries to groups that it backs, though as Syria analyst Joshua Landis notes, "the real question is whether the US is committed to helping Syrian rebels win - which seems doubtful".
He adds: "[US President Barack] Obama has already said he doesn't want to fight Russia over Syria, but he could help the Saudis escalate arms deliveries."
Mr Landis points out that stepping up arms supplies carries no guarantee as to whose hands the weaponry actually falls into.
Indeed, some analysts believe that if the Syrian government makes significant advances, then the Saudis and others may not be terribly cautious about where their weaponry goes.
Mr Kofman says: "To them, this is not about Syria; this is the most important conflict along the Sunni-Shia contestation of the Middle East, playing out in the war in Yemen, Syria, northern Iraq and elsewhere. Arguably, that fault line is more defining for the region now than the Arab-Israeli one."
The US decision to abandon its plan to train and equip thousands of so-called moderate opponents of the Syrian government is, Mr Kofman says, "an embarrassment".
But, he adds: "What is collapsing is not the programme, but what semblance of a strategy the US had in Syria.
"The CIA-run supply programmes will continue, and the funding from that $500m (£325m) Pentagon programme will likely be shifted into weapons drops for Kurds against IS and a more liberal policy of supplying Syrian rebels in general."
What about the possibility that having relieved pressure on President Assad's forces, the Russians will turn to a third phase of their campaign and step up attacks against IS?
Michael Kofman thinks this unlikely
"I don't think the Russian Air Force will go after IS in any meaningful way; from Moscow's perspective this is a problem for the US and their Kurdish allies to handle.
"The ideal scenario [for Moscow] is to have no daylight in the Syrian conflict between the Syrian state and IS, clarifying it, and in effect legitimising Assad given the only other actor is IS."
Dmitry Gorenberg, tends to agree, noting that for now IS is simply not really in Russian President Vladimir Putin's sights.
"I don't think it's a big problem in the short term, but Putin will want to make sure that the narrative that his strikes are helping IS does not take hold in the international media," he says.
"So I certainly do see the possibility of more strikes against IS. Even now, it's not so much that Russia is avoiding hitting IS, it's just that they aren't in the territory that's of highest priority."
In backing the Syrian government so explicitly, President Putin risks embroiling Moscow in the broader proxy war in the region pitting the Saudis and their supporters against Iran and its allies.
The wider struggle against IS cuts across this basic fault line, adding to the complexity.
None of the experts that I spoke to believe that the Russian involvement will lead to any resolution to the conflict.
Mr Kofman says: "Syria is dead, and it cannot be revived."
Mr Landis argues current Western policy towards the Syrian government is too simplistic.
"The notion that Assad can go and the state institutions can be preserved is a fiction.
"Unfortunately, most Middle Eastern authoritarian regimes are built in the image of the ruler.
"If you destroy the man or family, you must also destroy the state.
"Think of Saudi Arabia without the Saudi royal family or of Jordan without the Hashemites."
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38,721,900 | Erwin and Krystian Markowski, both from Nottingham, recruited the vulnerable men to work at the Sports Direct warehouse in Shirebrook, Derbyshire.
The pair controlled their victims' bank accounts and kept most of their wages, totalling £35,000, between 2015 and 2016, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
They have both been sentenced to six years in prison for modern slavery.
Erwin, 38, of Cedar Road, and Krystian, 35, of Harcourt Road, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to arrange travel with a view to exploitation and fraud by false representation.
They were given a two-and-a-half year sentence for fraud to run at the same time as the six years.
Updates on this story and more from Nottinghamshire
The Markowskis paid for the Polish men to travel to the UK, but when they arrived their passports were taken and they were "totally isolated".
Some victims spoke of being treated "like a piece of rubbish" and said the brothers "destroyed their lives".
One man was promised a flat but received a urine soaked mattress.
The case came to light when one of the victims reported his ordeal to police in January 2016.
During the sentencing, Judge Stephen Coupland, said it was a "planned and systematic" scheme of "human trafficking".
He said: "You employed a spotter in Poland to identify people who were vulnerable. Your intention, by selecting vulnerable people, was to make it easier to control them over here.
"You controlled their ability to contact others by using physical and verbal threats, using actual violence on occasions."
The prosecution accepted it was not "forced labour" but said the workers had "very little choice".
Chief crown prosecutor Janine Smith said: "The Markowskis preyed on vulnerable people in Poland and promised them accommodation and a tempting wage in order to lure them to the UK.
"The reality upon arrival was a life of squalid living conditions and near total control by the defendants."
Det Con Sarah Fearn, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: "The Markowski brothers financially benefited from the hard work of others and in return the victims were left feeling used, distressed and manipulated."
In a statement, Sports Direct said it welcomed the conviction and "will not tolerate these kinds of behaviour". | Two brothers who trafficked 18 people from Poland to the UK and conned and threatened them have been jailed. |
36,187,031 | 2 May 2016 Last updated at 15:52 BST
As the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge she is fourth in line to the British throne after her grandad Prince Charles, her dad Prince William and her brother Prince George.
The Princess' full name is Charlotte Elizabeth Diana. She was named after her grandmother and great-grandmother The Queen.
Newsround takes a look a look back at her first year. | Princess Charlotte turns one-year-old on 2 May 2016. |
36,206,692 | The party took 48 of the 63 seats up for grabs in Rotherham in the first election since the authority was put under government control in 2015.
Meanwhile, in Sheffield, Labour has so far secured 56 of the 84 seats to give it an unassailable majority, with the Lib Dems taking 20 seats.
In Barnsley Labour took 19 of the 21 seats with the Barnsley Independent Group claiming the remaining two.
In Rotherham, UKIP gained two seats to take their total to 14, though group leader Caven Vines lost his seat in Rawmarsh.
Sole Conservative councillor Chris Middleton lost his seat in Sitwell ward, while Rotherham child sex abuse whistleblower Jayne Senior was elected in the Valley ward for Labour.
Clive Jepson was elected as an Independent in Anston and Woodsetts ward, where 19-year-old Katherine Wilson was elected for Labour.
Councillor Chris Read, leader of the Labour group, said: "It's a really pleasing result. It's a vote of confidence from the public of Rotherham and the changes that we're making, a chance to have another four years to see them through."
Mr Read said he was pleased Ms Senior had decided to stand for Labour adding: "Who better to be part of our team tackling Child Sexual Exploitation than Jayne who has been at the forefront of that fight for so long."
He described Miss Wilson as a "fierce campaigner" who would bring a "fresh attitude, a new approach and real enthusiasm" to the party.
In Sheffield, Kieran Harpham, the son of former Labour MP for Sheffield Hillsborough and Brightside Harry Harpham who died from cancer in February, followed in his father's footsteps by being elected as a Labour councillor for Sharrowvale and Broomhill.
Elsewhere, former council leader Lord Scriven was elected as a Liberal Democrat councillor for Sharrowvale and Broomhill.
The Greens and UKIP both took four seats. | Labour has retained control of both Rotherham and Sheffield Councils. |
24,917,394 | Researchers compared the proportion of teenagers in England with good grades with figures for those with places at "high status" institutions.
The gap between the groups is not simply due to grades, they conclude.
"We need to talk about other possible causes," said Dr John Jerrim of London University's Institute of Education.
The researchers also looked at the extent of the access gap between the social classes to elite universities in Australia and the United States.
"Although academic achievement is an important factor, a substantial proportion of the elite university access gap in each country remains unexplained.
"This suggests that there are working-class children whom, even though they have the grades to attend, choose to enter a non-selective institution instead," said Dr Jerrim, who led the research.
The study suggests that children of professionals in England are 3.2 times more likely to go to a Russell Group university than working-class children.
But the study found that the gap was not just down to poorer grades among working-class pupils.
Once the researchers had taken pupils' exam achievements into account, they found that teenagers with good grades from professional families were 1.4 times more likely to go to one of these universities than working-class pupils with similar grades.
The research suggests the access gap is in fact less pronounced in England than in the United States and Australia.
In Australia, children of professionals are 2.7 times more likely to attend a highly selective university than their working-class peers but only half of this difference is explicable by high school grades, say the researchers.
In the United States entry to elite private universities is dominated by students from professional backgrounds who are more than six times more likely to attend than those from working-class families.
The researchers say less than half (48%) of the difference is explained by high grades.
The figures for leading US public universities show wealthier students are 3.3 times more likely to attend, with around 40% of the difference explicable by grades, says the study.
The paper will be presented to a summit on university access organised by the education charity Sutton Trust.
Dr Jerrim will also tell the summit about differences in student funding in the three countries.
Bursaries for low and middle-income students at Harvard, for example, can allow them to graduate "debt free", despite fees of more than £37,000 a year, he will say.
Dr Wendy Piatt, director general of the Russell Group, said the report showed the main reason pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds were less likely to go to leading universities "is because they are not achieving the right grades" in the right subjects.
"It is also the case that some very bright students are not encouraged to apply for leading universities. We cannot offer places to those who do not apply or who have not done the right subjects to study their chosen course.
"Access is an issue for leading universities across the globe - there is no silver bullet to this entrenched problem."
Dr Piatt said the group was working hard to tackle the access gap, "pumping millions more into outreach programmes" and publishing advice to help students choose their A-levels.
Pam Tatlow, chief executive of the million+ group said: "The Sutton Trust wrongly assumes that the interests of well-qualified students are best served if they study at a small number of universities which label themselves as elite.
"Students are much more savvy than this. They understand that high-quality, top-class degrees leading to high-flying, professional careers are available at a wide range of universities. It is therefore unsurprising that they choose to study at these universities." | Richer teenagers are three times more likely to go to top universities than working class pupils, even if they have the same grades, research suggests. |
36,048,600 | That compares to a record £1.4m profit made by Yeovil in 2013-14, when they finished bottom of the Championship.
The club currently lie 20th in League Two, 13 points clear of the drop zone.
"These figures demonstrate the true cost of our relegation from the Championship and the size of the job we have in keeping Yeovil in the Football League," said chairman John Fry.
"However, with Darren Way at the helm, we now have our losses under control and, not only does our Football League future look secure, the squad and club is being rebuilt back to winning ways." | Yeovil Town have announced a loss of £692,000 for the year ending June 2015, as they were relegated from League One. |
37,508,528 | Campaigners from North Wales Deaf Association (NWDA) said they do not know who placed it there on Tuesday, but "appreciate the support".
The group has been left "frustrated and angry" at a £50,000 annual funding cut from Conwy council.
But the authority said talks took place 18 months before funding was cut and it is probing a bench being "defaced". | A plaque has been placed on a bench near Conwy castle appearing to protest against cuts to deaf services. |
40,975,565 | Neath Port Talbot council said the building on Cyfyng Road, Ystalyfera, was unoccupied and in a "ruinous state".
People living in 10 houses on the road were ordered to leave last week over fears a landslip could cause the properties to collapse.
But many residents have said they are scared and "in the dark" about the future of their homes.
The council said eight of the 10 affected properties have been vacated, with families either moving or having moved into alternative accommodation.
But one tenant is said to be appealing a notice served on their home.
The local authority said "no family will be left in B&B or other emergency accommodation."
Thousands of tonnes of rock, soil and trees first slipped down the hillside behind the houses in 2012, with a further two landslides this year, causing some gardens to drop away.
The council defended its decision to evacuate families, saying it had "a duty to protect residents against the risk of imminent harm".
"If there was a simple solution to dealing with landslips it would have been found long ago," the council said.
"It is important to note that the landslip area is largely in private ownership, but the council's main priority throughout has been and continues to be the safety and wellbeing of the affected residents."
A public meeting is set to be held to update the community on the current situation. | A house on a street hit by a series of landslips is set to be demolished. |
34,135,603 | Since Tuesday, migrants have been prevented from boarding trains there amid disagreement over EU policy.
Many in Budapest have tickets and want to travel north, but Hungary, led by anti-immigrant Prime Minister Viktor Orban, says it is enforcing EU rules.
Germany, Italy and France have demanded a fair distribution of refugees.
At least 2,000 people are now waiting to travel from Keleti station, having been prevented from getting on trains on Tuesday. Some were involved in scuffles with police on Wednesday night.
They had bought tickets after Hungary briefly appeared to abandon efforts on Monday to register migrants, allowing huge numbers to board trains to Vienna and southern Germany.
"We don't want to stay in Hungary, we want to go to whatever place we want," one Syrian man, Mohammed, told the Associated Press agency. "They are forcing us to stay here."
Elsewhere in the Hungarian capital, thousands marched in solidarity with the migrants, and demanded the government do more to help them.
"The government is carrying out policies which are inhumane, un-Christian and lack solidarity," one protester, Veronika Kramer, told AP.
But in southern Hungary, hundreds of members of the neo-fascist group Jobbik confronted people walking into the country along railway lines from Serbia.
What will happen in Brussels? - Chris Morris, BBC Europe correspondent
Viktor Orban is an often controversial figure known for his plain speaking.
His government in Budapest has been notably critical of the European Commission's role in the migration crisis, seeing it as too soft. Today's talks are unlikely to produce a meeting of minds.
The Commission is drawing up plans due to be unveiled next week that would create a permanent mechanism to distribute migrants across EU countries, under a formula based on wealth and population.
All EU countries would be required to take part in the scheme, except Britain, Ireland and Denmark - but even they are coming under pressure to offer more voluntary assistance.
On Wednesday, Germany, Italy and France called for "fair distribution" of refugees throughout the EU.
But when he meets European leaders in Brussels, Mr Orban is likely to stress his opposition to taking in more migrants.
Italy and Greece have complained that they are overwhelmed by the numbers arriving on their shores. And while countries such as Germany are prepared to accept large numbers of asylum seekers, others are not.
On Wednesday, UK Prime Minister David Cameron said that taking "more and more" refugees was not the answer.
The human cost of the crisis was made clear on Wednesday when five children were among 12 migrants who drowned in Turkish waters while trying to reach Greece. Images of a child's body washed up near the resort of Bodrum circulated widely on social media.
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The number of migrants entering Europe has reached record levels, with 107,500 arriving in July alone.
Germany expects to take in 800,000 migrants this year - four times last year's total.
EU interior and justice ministers will meet in Brussels on 14 September to address the crisis.
The word migrant is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "one who moves, either temporarily or permanently, from one place, area, or country of residence to another".
A refugee is, according to the 1951 Refugee Convention, any person who "owing to a well-founded fear" of persecution is outside their country of nationality and "unable" or "unwilling" to seek the protection of that country. To gain the status, one has to go through the legal process of claiming asylum.
The word migrant has traditionally been considered a neutral term, but some criticise the BBC and other media for using a word they say implies something voluntary, and should not be applied to people fleeing danger.
Battle over words to describe migrants | Hungary's leader is due in Brussels for talks on the migrant crisis, with thousands still stranded at a Budapest railway station. |
35,879,592 | The first German side to win a European title (the 1966 European Cup Winners' Cup) and champions of Europe in 1997. Three-time German cup winners.
Yet Borussia Dortmund say they are enjoying their "best season ever" - despite lying second in the Bundesliga, behind Bayern Munich.
After 27 of their 34 league games this season, 20 wins, four draws and just three losses mean they have 64 points.
It is the most, they say, at this stage of a season in the club's 106-year history.
Dortmund won the league in 2010-11 and again the following year, when they set a Bundesliga record of 81 points. After 27 games of that season, they had 62 points - two fewer than they have this year.
Bayern broke that record the following season, winning the title with 91 points as Dortmund slipped to second, also their finishing position in 2013-14.
Now - 10 months on from an uncharacteristic seventh-place finish under Jurgen Klopp - they are five points behind Bayern, but 16 ahead of third-placed Hertha Berlin.
And Dortmund know they, and Bayern, are well ahead of the rest.
"You would have won the championship with this points tally 15 years ago," the club add. | They are eight-time league champions and one of the most successful clubs in German football history. |
34,773,149 | Grant Thornton said the largest cost was from frauds that had traditionally been offline, such as tax (£38m), welfare (£6m) and tax filing (£1.7m).
Mike Harris of the firm said criminals were targeting businesses of all sizes as well as individuals.
"For organisations, the key defence strategy is around employee awareness," he said.
"Make sure they understand when cyber attacks are targeting them, and know how to respond and make the right decisions.
"For example, it can be as simple as when you get an email from somebody you don't know, don't click on any links.
"They also have to focus on keeping technology securely configured and up to date."
The company said that in Northern Ireland, copyright infringing software had an annual cost of £19m, cybercrime clean-up costs were £12.5m and illegal music downloads cost £1.35m. | Cybercrime is costing the Northern Ireland economy almost £100m a year, an accountancy firm has claimed. |
22,844,117 | During the interview he was asked, "How many one pence coins could you fit into this room?"
He immediately started doing some calculations, and after a minute or so, announced his "best guess" on the answer.
He did not get the job.
What the bank had wanted was someone who could come out with any old answer, but who would have the confidence to convince the markets that they were right.
Such challenging questions are becoming ever more commonplace in interviews, it seems, as employers seek to separate the wheat from the chaff.
"There is much more competition for jobs, and employers are also becoming more risk averse," says Claire McCartney from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
"It's difficult for people to stand out if they ask the routine questions, so doing things differently will help them get the best candidate," she says.
With so many self-help websites, candidates can also be quite practised on standard interview questions, says Claire.
In a new report, the jobs website Glassdoor collected 350,000 interview questions from candidates who had faced a grilling.
Glassdoor says anyone going for a job these days needs to be ready to answer such challenging questions, along with all the standard enquiries.
So what sort of questions are employers asking, and what is their real purpose? We asked two experts to give us their answers.
This question was asked by an interviewer at an investment bank in the City of London for a job as a sales trader.
Rusty Rueff is a career and workplace expert at online jobs information service Glassdoor.
Former head of human resources at Electronic Arts (EA) and PepsiCo.
Current chairman of the Grammy Foundation, which promotes music and music education.
Why the question is being asked:
Rusty Rueff, a career expert at Glassdoor, says:
This question is testing a candidate's creative skills, including how a candidate can solve difficult and even unusual challenges that might arise. Candidates should think through a response out loud.
Remember that the interviewer is more interested in how you get to an answer, versus what the answer might be. Also keep in mind that some questions are unrealistic without compromises being made.
Suggested answer:
"To get to this answer, can you provide me further detail, for example, how big is the giraffe? How big is the fridge? Are we in a country where killing a giraffe is legal or not?"
Demonstrating that you need facts and truths before jumping to a conclusion can be an advantage.
Continuing on: "If the giraffe can die, then fitting one into the fridge has to do with emptying out the rest of the refrigerator's contents and using the tools around me to ensure it fits. What tools do I have to work with in this space?"
This question was asked by an interviewer at a mining company for a job as a dry bulk marketer in London.
John Lees is the author of How To Get A Job You'll Love and Job Interviews: Top Answers To Tough Questions.
He runs his own own career coaching consultancy.
Why the question is being asked:
John Lees, author of Job Interviews: Top Answers to Tough Questions, says:
This question looks oddball but is a humorous and creative way of testing deductive reasoning, which requires you to make and check realistic assumptions and make a recommendation of best course of action.
Your choice is far less important than the thought process you reveal when answering.
Suggested answer:
Demonstrate each step of your thinking:
"OK, well I reckon both might kill me, but I would start by thinking about how aggressive each animal might be. Horses can bite and kick, and even though they are small, being hunted by a pack gives you no escape route."
This question was asked by an interviewer at an international bank for a job as a senior java developer in London.
Why the question is being asked:
Rusty Rueff says:
This question is another example of an interviewer testing a candidate's ability to solve problems creatively. Think through a response out loud.
Suggested answer:
"What we can see, we can find. In this case what if we were to drench the haystack in a colour that would make the needle easier to see?
"Trying to differentiate silver from the gold of hay is hard to do, but if I could turn the hay green, blue, or purple then the silver of the needle would be much more obvious."
The point is to shed a different light on the problem to find a new solution.
John Lees has more straightforward suggestions:
"If the needle is made of steel, a magnet will do the trick. Or you could simply burn the hay off and the needle will remain."
This question was asked by an interviewer at an accountancy firm in Birmingham.
Why the question is being asked:
Rusty Rueff says:
Given this question was asked at a major accounting firm, this question is likely testing both the practical and longer term planning skills of the candidate.
This is an accounting firm after all, so they probably would like to see someone who wouldn't just blow through £1 million. Does this person live in the moment or do they think about the next 10 to 20 years?
Suggested answer:
Again, sound out your thought process. "While it would definitely be exciting to win £1 million, I would want to think through all my options and also be aware of how this money would be taxed before I think about allocating the funds.
"Some of the options I would consider include how I could invest this money, how much I could donate to a charity, and how I could use a portion of it to celebrate the win. But, if you are concerned, I'd still come to work on Monday."
John Lees adds:
"If you can't think of anything, say, 'Great question. What's the best answer you've heard today?'"
This question was asked by an interviewer at a software company for a sales executive role in London.
Why the question is being asked:
Rusty Rueff says:
This question makes a candidate break down a seemingly complex concept. The interviewer wants to see how a candidate can explain an idea in a way that is meaningful and relevant to the end user.
It's also about finding something someone understands from the past in order to comprehend the future. Given this is a sales role, it's a key part of successful selling.
Suggested answer:
"First, it's important for me to let you know that I know my audience well in this case and have done my research on who I'm speaking with.
"My grandma does use the internet, is familiar with websites, but knows nothing yet about social networking. So, in this case, I'd say, 'Grandma, I know you love keeping in touch with your friends and family, and I know you love using the internet to find out new information.'
"Then I would say, 'There is a website called Facebook which allows you to both connect and stay in touch with your friends and family online, while you're also able to follow companies and organisations you like, to find out their latest news and products. Do you have time, Grandma, for me to show you?'" | A colleague of mine once went for a job as a trader at an investment bank in the City. |
36,766,553 | The Three Lions went out of the Euro 2016 last 16 following a 2-1 defeat by minnows Iceland, with manager Roy Hodgson resigning on the same night.
Boothroyd's side begin their Under-19 Championship against France on Tuesday.
"This is what it is about," said Boothroyd. "Taking the players to tournaments, so that they can develop in those environments."
"They are with players they can grow with and go into the older age groups."
England under 19s have been drawn in Group B alongside the French, Netherlands and Croatia for the tournament in Germany.
England's Under 21 side won the Toulon Tournament in May under Gareth Southgate, while the under 17 side lost in the quarter-final of the European Championship to Spain.
"We want to be positive, it is not all doom and gloom," Boothroyd, 45, told BBC Radio 5 live.
Under Hodgson, the senior side reached the quarter-finals of Euro 2012 before going out of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil at the group stages without winning a game.
Meanwhile Wales, under manager Chris Coleman, managed to provide one of the shocks of Euro 2016 by reaching the semi-finals where they lost 2-1 to tournament winners Portugal.
Former Watford boss Boothroyd added: "We have a plan and we have some good people in the system that are working really hard so that we can be proud of being English and not hear about the Welsh all the time.
"I can say that because my wife is Welsh. That is all I have heard about in my house.
"If you play in tournaments and win them, or get to the latter stages, then you are getting experiences. That is what we are looking to do. That is what the development programme is about.
"We want the players to get tournament football experiences so that we are strong and can deal with pressure and can cope with it."
See the full Under-19 Championship schedule | The future of the England senior team is "not bleak at all", according to under 19s coach Aidy Boothroyd. |
35,145,227 | The green beam in the shape of a bicycle shines on to the road 6m (19ft) in front of the cyclist.
It aims to increase cyclists' safety by making them much more visible and to overcome drivers' blind spots.
Sports personalities Jessica Ennis-Hill, Rory McIlroy and Jenson Button have starred in a Star-Wars-inspired short film to launch the new feature.
After a successful trial in September, the Blaze Laserlights are being fitted to all 11,500 hire bikes from early next year.
So far in 2015 there have been nine cyclist deaths on the capital's roads, compared with 13 last year, according to Transport for London.
London Mayor Boris Johnson said: "We're always looking to develop new and innovative ways to help people cycle around the capital more safely and these green lights will help all our cycle hire users to stay seen at night."
The launch video features Ennis-Hill as a Rebel Alliance fighter, Button as a Stormtrooper and a cameo role by McIlroy.
Olympic champion Ennis-Hill said she hoped the new lights would encourage more people to use the bikes in order to "get fit and ease congestion in the capital". | Laser lights are to be fitted to bikes in London's cycle hire scheme to make them more noticeable. |
38,757,629 | Joyon, 60, and team-mates took 40 days, 23 hours, 30 minutes and 30 seconds - Frenchman Loick Peyron held the previous record set in 2012.
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"It's the result of long years of work," Joyon said after arriving at the Channel island of Ushant.
The Jules Verne Trophy is open to any type of boats without restriction. | French skipper Francis Joyon broke the record for the fastest sail around the world by more than four days when he won the Jules Verne Trophy on Thursday. |
40,045,316 | Every year in the capital:
They are big numbers that require big solutions, along with a big dose of political support. But change of that scale could be hard to deliver.
Ten years ago there was a plan to change the way the NHS worked in London, with greater focus put on primary care rather than hospitals.
Sound familiar?
Called "A Framework for Action", it was a plan that delivered some big changes in London with particular success in the new major trauma units and the new specialist stroke centres.
It also promised 100 new so called "polyclinics" to offer a range of services from new buildings.
But the strategy was ditched when the coalition government came to power in 2010.
David Cameron's government had its own plan, which promised a boost for local GP services and a move to more care out of hospital.
Today the arguments remain pretty much the same.
There is wide agreement more care needs to be delivered closer to home and more resources need to be funnelled to primary care and GPs.
Experts say a shift is needed to a proper National Health Service that keeps people well and away from a national illness service, that picks up the pieces when they become unwell.
But how do you get there? Change in the NHS is expensive and also politically difficult.
Moving or cutting services at hospitals for example is often deeply unpopular.
Promises made at elections can make you look opportunistic some years later.
This issue includes NHS funding, A&E delays, operation waiting times and social care.
Campaigners at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, north London, will remember David Cameron promising to keep their A&E open before the 2010 election. It is now closed.
Services across the capital are currently being reviewed under a process known as Sustainability and Transformation Plans, which assess how the NHS will look over the next five years.
There are five of these and all involve moving services around, while some involve the closure or downgrading of A&Es.
All involve plans to save millions in the way services are delivered while also spending millions on new buildings and different services.
All say that doing nothing is not an option. If the NHS continues to spend in the way it is and deliver services in the way it does now, it will face a funding shortfall of more than £4bn in London alone.
If re-arranging hospital services is a challenge, the one facing primary care is just as hard. Shifting the focus to getting patients treated by GPs means finding doctors to deliver that service.
A recent survey by the London-wide Local Medical Committees, showed 42% of practices had a GP or practice nurse vacancy, while 45% of practices had a GP who was planning to retire in the next three years.
In fact, NHS statistics show the city has the highest number of GPs over the age of 55.
"The situation is worse than I've ever seen it"
Willesden GP Dr Adrian Richardson knows the pressures only too well.
His practice nearly closed last year, as three of its partners left, either retiring or choosing to get out of general practice.
"It's sad the situation in this practice was that people felt that options were better outside the practice than in," he said.
"I stayed because I didn't feel it was right to leave 15,000 patients without a proper practice."
He blames increasing workloads and paperwork for the extra pressures.
"The situation is worse than I've ever seen it.
"If you ask me about 2016 it will go down as the worst year of my clinical life."
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All the parties are committing to recruiting more GPs and nurses but doing it quickly is not possible, given the length of time it takes to train them.
All the parties are promising more money for the NHS and social care. There are promises too of more money for new buildings and pledges to rebuild an ageing estate.
There are promises that may be viewed with some scepticism from those working in the NHS and certainly shared by the Nuffield Trust think tank which specialises in analysing health policy.
It said: "Promises of billions extra for the health service can sound like big sums ... unpicking the pledges from each of the manifestos reveals that the NHS looks set to face a further five years of austerity, whoever forms the next government.
"Whichever party forms the next government will have to face some tough decisions about the future shape of the health service, and how it can continue to meet the needs and expectations of its patients and staff."
Hard choices on the NHS lie ahead for whoever wins the election.
What's on offer from the party manifestos:
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UKIP: | The simple statistics for the NHS in London make stark reading and tell you why trying to sort it out and protect it for the future is both incredibly important and extremely challenging. |
37,387,435 | There will also be no direct trains between London Paddington and south Wales, with all services terminating at Bristol Parkway.
Buses will run between Bristol and Cardiff Central, and a shuttle train between the Welsh capital and Swansea.
It is expected to add up to 70 minutes to journeys between Swansea and Paddington.
Network Rail asked people to allow extra time to complete journeys. | The railway line between Cardiff and Bristol will shut this weekend for high speed upgrade work. |
37,344,000 | The 36-year-old failed an out-of-competition test at the Paralympic Games in Rio.
The International Paralympic Committee announced he is no longer eligible to compete in the +107kg class on Wednesday.
The IPC said he had tested positive for the steroid metenolone.
He will now not be eligible to compete until September 12, 2024.
The IPC also announced that Felipe Veloso da Silva, a Brazilian guide runner for T11 athlete Thalita Simplicio da Silva, has received a back-dated three-month suspension. | Saudi Arabian powerlifter Mashal Alkhazai has been suspended for eight years following the second positive drugs test of his career. |
34,946,968 | Andrew Fisher was suspended by the party and faced calls for his expulsion over the August 2014 post on Twitter.
The National Executive Committee said his suspension had now been lifted.
Mr Fisher welcomed the decision but two leading MPs said the "slap on the wrist" was inadequate.
Caroline Flint and Siobhain McDonagh said they were disappointed there had not been a full disciplinary inquiry.
The appointment of Mr Fisher, an economist and former trade union official, to Mr Corbyn's inner circle caused concern among some Labour MPs who questioned statements he had made in the past.
The policy adviser wrote a tweet in August 2014 appearing to endorse the Class War candidate in the Croydon South constituency rather than Labour's candidate Emily Benn. He has since apologised, insisting he had been "misinterpreted".
Other tweets posted from his account, which has since been deleted, were critical of Labour frontbenchers while one message appeared to welcome former shadow chancellor Ed Balls losing his seat in May.
A Labour Party spokeswoman said the NEC had completed its probe into Mr Fisher and that he had been "issued with an NEC warning and his suspension has been lifted with immediate effect".
Mr Fisher said he was "very pleased" with the outcome and had accepted the official warning. "I've been a Labour member for 20 years and all I've wanted is for Labour to be strong and effective - whether in government or opposition.
"I will continue to support Jeremy Corbyn... and help Labour build towards 2020."
After he was suspended earlier this month, Mr Corbyn said Mr Fisher continued to work for him and he retained "full confidence" in him.
But Ms Flint and Ms McDonagh said it was "unacceptable for members to support other parties, delight in Labour MPs losing their seats or to engage in cyber-bullying".
"The chair of this investigation has been subjected to huge pressure, and this has compromised the independence and integrity of Labour's disciplinary process," they said.
"Others have been excluded from our party for less than the activities of Mr Fisher. It would appear that there is one rule for members and one rule for those who work for the party leader." | A senior aide to Jeremy Corbyn who suggested people should vote for a Class War candidate in May's election has been let off with a warning by Labour's ruling body. |
32,258,267 | India's ambassador in Islamabad met Pakistan's foreign secretary to "register our strong concerns" at the release of Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, a government official in Delhi said.
The US and France also voiced concern.
Pakistan hit back, blaming India for what it called "inordinate delay in extending co-operation" over the case.
Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi was released from jail in Rawalpindi on Friday morning.
He had been granted bail in December, but was kept in detention under public order legislation.
That detention was declared void by the High Court, which ordered his release.
Mr Lakhvi still faces trial - along with six other suspects - over the attacks, which left 166 people dead and damaged peace efforts between the two countries.
Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh had earlier called the release "very disappointing and unfortunate".
The ministry for external affairs said it had warned Pakistan that such a move "erodes the value of assurances repeatedly conveyed to us with regard to cross-border terrorism".
The US state department said it too had conveyed its concerns to senior Pakistani officials "over the course of many months and as recently as yesterday".
"Terrorist attacks are an insult on the collective safety and security of all countries," spokesman Jeff Rathke said.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not publicly commented on the development, but on a visit to Paris on Friday it was mentioned by French President Francois Hollande.
"I express to you my indignation each time that a terrorist is freed while he still has responsibility for an abominable act," President Hollande told Mr Modi.
Zakiur Rahman Lakhvi's trial in the Mumbai attacks case still continues, but his release on bail suggests the legal evidence presented in court by prosecutors may not be enough for a conviction.
This contrasts with six years ago, when the interior minister at the time, Rehman Malik, provided graphic details of how a part of the Mumbai attacks conspiracy was hatched in Pakistan. Indian officials have since said that they also handed evidence against Mr Lakhvi and his comrades to Pakistani prosecutors.
Apparently, most of this evidence has not been made part of the case record, indicating legal complications and also perhaps a lack of interest on the part of Pakistani authorities.
Analysts say legal technicalities may be one factor behind his release. Another factor, according to some in the intelligence community, may be the fear in security circles that his "demobilisation" may hurt the morale of Kashmir-focused insurgents, something they say the government does not wish to see.
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In November 2008, a number of gunmen carried out a series of coordinated attacks targeting at least seven high-profile locations across Mumbai, including two luxury hotels.
The attacks were blamed on militants of the Lashkar-e-Taiba group (LeT) which Mr Lakhvi was accused of heading.
He was arrested by Pakistan on 7 December 2008, four days after he was named by Indian officials as one of the major suspects.
During his time in prison, Mr Lakhvi is said to have received special treatment which enabled him to remain in effective contact with the LeT rank and file.
Elements in the Pakistani establishment are known to have provided such facilities to jailed militant commanders whom they believe they may need in future.
The court order to free Mr Lakhvi on bail caused controversy as it came just after militants carried out a massacre at a school in Peshawar last December.
The attack prompted the civilian and military leadership to come together to make a rare call for action against "all shades of terrorism". | India has formally protested to Pakistan over its decision to release on bail the suspected mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. |
35,134,740 | Last year, the local Neighbourhood Partnership voted to ban fishing at St George's Park lake to stop wildlife being harmed by fishing line and hooks.
It has now approved an option proposed by Bristol City Council to destroy the fish rather than relocate them.
But Maggie Waldon, from the Friends of St George Park Group, said it did not support "outright killing of the fish".
The old boating lake, according to Ms Waldon, was stocked with fish about 20 years ago and has been used as a fishing lake for many years.
"It's become very run down and there are far too many fish in there to support any kind of ecosystem," she admitted.
"We would really like to reduce the number of fish but we don't support the outright killing of the fish.
"There are some fish that are very unwell in which case that's fair enough but our policy would be to relocate them and find them new homes."
But Rob Acton-Campbell, chairman of the St George Neighbourhood Partnership, said it "would be more expensive to try and move them".
"We've tried over the last two years to have a permit scheme to try and manage the fishing, but unfortunately there's still been injuries to the swans and the cygnets," he said.
"We were hoping we'd be able to move them somewhere else but the council have had a health check done on the fish and they are very unhealthy.
"And there's nowhere really local that we can move them to that would cope with the number of fish that we've got." | All the fish in a lake in Bristol are to be removed and destroyed in a bid to discourage fishing. |
39,239,133 | An amendment to the Digital Economy Bill means it will be illegal to use "bots" to bypass limits on the maximum number of tickets that can be bought.
Tickets purchased by bots can appear on secondary websites at prices many times greater than their face value.
A Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) spokesman said the profiteering was "simply not fair".
High profile artists such as Adele and Ed Sheeran have previously criticised the touts and asked their fans not to buy tickets from secondary sites.
Last month, resale site Viagogo was accused of "moral repugnance" for selling tickets to an Ed Sheeran Teenage Cancer Trust gig for up to £5,000.
And an £85 ticket to see Adele at the O2 in London last year was reportedly being sold for £24,840.
As part of the touting crackdown, ministers will accept in full the recommendations of a review by Professor Michael Waterson.
In the report, he suggested ticket sellers should have tougher anti-bot measures in place with a facility to report bot attacks, stronger enforcement of existing consumer rights laws, and the threat of further action if the industry does not act against rogue ticket traders.
Ed Sheeran angry after his tour tickets end up on secondary sites
The government said it wants the big companies in the secondary ticket market to do more to identify ticket touts and differentiate them from individual fans who want to sell tickets for events they can no longer go to.
Heavy metal fans Brian and Jane O'Donoghue aim to go to a gig once a month but say that touts make buying tickets "incredibly frustrating".
They recently paid £250 each to see Black Sabbath in Birmingham's O2 Arena, buying from a secondary website where prices were more than double the face value.
"It was the only way," says Brian, 51, from Hereford. "We weighed up going to see Metallica in Copenhagen instead, which including flights and hotel wasn't much more."
He always tries to buy tickets directly but says they sell out "within minutes".
The pair bought face value tickets for their next concert, Iron Maiden, where they have been told to bring their payment card and photo identification.
"That's the way ahead," Brian says. "Although I think there will be a lot of disappointed people who turn up with just their ticket."
If the companies do not make progress, ministers will seek further action to ensure consumer law is being followed.
The government has been under pressure by a number of celebrities to tackle the problem of ticket touting.
You Me At Six singer Josh Francheschi gave evidence to the committee last year calling for bots to be made illegal saying the fans were the "main losers".
Last year, the use of this technology was made a criminal offence in New York after a report found one bot had bought 1,000 tickets in one minute for a U2 concert at Madison Square Garden.
Jo Dipple, chief executive of music industry representatives UK Music, welcomed the move.
"Massive profit is made by people who are taking value out of the music industry and putting tickets out of the reach of music fans," she said.
"Banning bots is a step towards ensuring the ticketing market for live events works more fairly for gig-goers."
Minister of State for Digital and Culture, Matt Hancock, said: "It's unacceptable that touts are misusing technology to bypass security measures and buy up vast numbers of tickets before real fans get the chance, only to sell them on at rip-off prices.
"It's a growing problem that affects too many people."
In December, an enforcement investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority was launched into any suspected breach by this market.
Mr Hancock added: This profiteering is simply not fair, so we are acting to put fans first and improve the chances of seeing our favourite musicians and sports stars at a reasonable price.
"Ticket sellers need to do more, by improving transparency and ensuring that they are acting in the best interests of consumers and help the market work for everyone." | Online touts who bulk buy tickets and sell them for inflated prices will face unlimited fines under government plans. |
38,794,132 | The plan has been put forward by Police and Crime Commissioner Dafydd Llywelyn to help "keep our communities safe".
His predecessor Christopher Salmon stopped CCTV monitoring after a report concluded removing cameras did not result in significant rises in crime.
An average Band D household would have to pay an extra 27p per week under the new plans.
Mr Llywelyn said a consultation at the end of last year confirmed "our communities are willing to pay more for policing".
"Some people might say it is a hike - it's not an easy decision, but I'm not going to shy away from it because I think it's the right thing to do," he said.
The plan would also lead to improvements in Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) grading for the force, he added.
Cllr Gwynne Hopkins, of Carmarthenshire council, said it was a "unique situation".
"I've never agreed to increase a precept by over five per cent, but I've never seen a precept reduce or being frozen either," he said
"So, whilst I'm reluctant to do so, I'm in favour."
But Cllr David Evans of Powys council said he and his colleagues could not support such a "substantial" increase. | CCTV monitoring could be brought back across the Dyfed-Powys police area, two years after it was scrapped. |
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City travel to Old Trafford on Sunday, having won the last five meetings between the rivals.
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Defender Kompany, 29, told Football Focus he believes Louis Van Gaal's side will be desperate to end that run.
"For a long time I felt we wanted it more, but I think they've been hurt pretty badly and they'll want it just as much now," the Belgian said.
"They have their games against Liverpool, which are very important to them. For us, this is the most important game.
"In previous years I think we wanted it more but things change."
Fourth-placed City, who are one point behind United in third, have won twice in their last seven matches and have only a slim hope of retaining their Premier League title.
United last won the Premier League under Sir Alex Ferguson in 2013 but finished seventh last season with David Moyes in charge for most of the campaign.
The Red Devils spent £150m in the summer and Moyes' successor Louis Van Gaal has re-established the team in the top four.
"I thought we were the big spenders in Manchester but that's changed over the years," Kompany said.
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"They have good players, a good manager and a club with history. It was never going to be too long before they got back in there.
"The league's got a lot tougher since they won it last. It's only going to get more tough. I don't think there'll be any team dominating any more. It'll be difficult."
The average age of City's starting line-up for the most recent defeat against Crystal Palace was 29 years and six months but Kompany rejected the suggestion that fatigue had contributed to the team's poor recent form.
"The world champions in 2006 [Italy] were the oldest team in the tournament," Kompany said.
"There always needs to be a story to explain something and in this case it's the obvious thing to point out. Next year, we'll be doing well and people will be saying it's because we have a lot of experience. It's completely irrelevant."
City manager Pellegrini admitted: "It has not been a good season. It was not so bad until the end of 2014, when we were top of the table and also had the FA Cup and Champions League.
"But in the last three months we have thrown it into the garbage." | Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany says Manchester United have regained their desire to win the derby. |
37,210,895 | The funeral for Daniel Sheridan is to take place in his native Dublin later.
The schoolboy was taking part in a practice session when he came off his motorbike and was then struck by another bike driven by his brother, Jake.
"There was nothing I could do, it was like a bad dream," Jake, 18, told BBC Radio Foyle.
The brothers, who were from Tallaght, were regular visitors to the County Londonderry track where the crash happened last week.
Daniel was airlifted to Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, but died later from his injuries.
"Me and Daniel were out practising, it was a beautiful day, but we had a crash and he passed away," Jake said.
"It was really a shock for something like that to happen. There was nothing I could do, it was like a bad dream."
Both brothers raced motocross bikes in competitions in England and had a close relationship.
Jake said Daniel had looked up to him and wanted to "be the best" at everything he did.
"I know he would want me to be strong, he was a very strong human being, even though he was very young," he said.
"I know he knows we loved him.
"It's been one of the hardest weekends of my life. We just need to stick together as a family now." | The 13-year-old boy who died after a motorbike crash in Magilligan was hit by his brother's bike. |
35,954,640 | A key member of its ethics committee, Uruguayan lawyer Juan Pedro Damiani, is being internally investigated for links with Eugenio Figueredo - an allegedly corrupt football official.
Damiani has acted in sensitive ethics cases involving leading football officials since July 2012.
Part of a huge tranche of leaked documents, seen by the BBC, suggest that Damiani and his firm provided legal assistance for at least seven offshore companies linked to Figueredo, a former Fifa vice-president who was arrested last May in Zurich as part of the US inquiry into football corruption.
Figueredo was charged by US authorities with wire fraud and money laundering for his role in the alleged bribery conspiracy.
Despite that, he was extradited to Uruguay in December where he was also wanted on similar charges.
Discovery of his links to Damiani are the result of a leak of over 11 million documents from the internal files of Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based law firm that specialises in helping the wealthy and powerful set up offshore companies.
The documents were obtained by the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung and shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
BBC Panorama and The Guardian newspaper are among 107 media organisations in 78 countries which have been analysing the documents.
The records do not show illegal conduct by Damiani or his law firm but a spokesman for Fifa's ethics investigatory committee told the BBC in a statement: "We confirm that on 19 March the investigatory chamber of the independent ethics committee was informed by the chairman of the adjudicatory chamber, Hans-Joachim Eckert, about becoming recently aware of a business relationship between the member of the adjudicatory chamber Juan Pedro Damiani, and Eugenio Figueredo Aguerre.
"After receiving the information Dr Cornel Borbely, chairman of the investigatory chamber of the ethics committee, has immediately opened a preliminary investigation to review the allegations in question. Dr Borbely is currently looking into said allegations in order to determine if there is a breach against the Fifa code of ethics and decide any further measures."
Fifa president Infantino has spoken repeatedly of a "new era" for football after being elected as Sepp Blatter's successor in February.
The leaked documents linking Damiani to Figuredo are therefore likely to raise questions over the strength of Fifa's background checks into ethics committee members.
In addition, two other executives charged in connection with the US football corruption probe have links to Damiani's legal and accountancy firm.
Hugo Jinkis and his son Mariano are currently under house arrest in their native Argentina, fighting an extradition request to the US on corruption charges.
They are mentioned in correspondence between Mossack Fonseca and Damiani's law firm regarding an offshore company they owned called Cross Trading.
Cross Trading was originally incorporated in 1998, on the Pacific island of Niue.
It then relocated to Nevada, USA in 2006 as Cross Trading LLC.
The leaked papers list Hugo Jinkis as a "beneficiary" of the company.
The records suggest that Damiani's law firm provided services for Cross Trading while it was in Niue as well as in Nevada.
According to the leaked documents Damiani and his law firm, JP Damiani & Asociados, have acted on behalf of hundreds of companies registered with Mossack Fonseca.
A spokesman for Damiani told the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, prior to knowing he was under investigation, that he was not authorised to make statements while officials in Uruguay are investigating allegations of corruption related to Fifa.
He added that Damiani has taken a lead in reporting corrupt practices within Fifa to Uruguayan authorities and to Fifa's ethics committee.
Damiani has not responded to requests from the BBC to comment on the information contained in the leaked documents.
The extent to which Fifa officials and others connected to football have used offshore companies is also suggested in the huge leak of Mossack Fonseca documents.
Jerome Valcke, the secretary general of Fifa from 2007 until he was sacked by the governing body in January this year, also appears in the papers.
Valcke was banned by Fifa's ethics committee for 12 years in February for a series of breaches concerning its code of ethics.
Swiss authorities opened criminal proceedings against him earlier this month concerning "various acts of criminal mismanagement".
Documents suggest not only the extent of Valcke's wealth but also how he used Mossack Fonseca to create and then be installed as the hidden owner of a British Virgin Islands company called Umbelina SA.
Umbellina was used to purchase a 2.8m euro yacht, which Valcke subsequently renamed 'Ornella', after his current wife.
A source close to Valcke said the yacht was declared to the relevant tax authorities.
Furthermore it is claimed the company was not used for any other commercial or business purposes.
There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing by Valcke but the disclosure suggests the extent to which individuals within the football world use offshore companies to hide ownership of assets.
Have you added the new Top Story alerts in the BBC Sport app? Simply head to the menu in the app - and don't forget you can also add score alerts for your football team and more. | Fifa is facing fresh embarrassment just six weeks after Gianni Infantino took over as president of world football's governing body and pledged to clean up the crisis-hit organisation. |
39,627,023 | It follows a letter sent to Durham Police Chief Constable Mike Barton in February which the force said stated "contracts" had been taken out on 57 councillors.
A 39-year-old man from Lanchester, near Durham City, has been charged with sending a malicious communication.
He has been bailed to attend Peterlee Magistrates' Court on 16 May. | A man has been charged over alleged death threats made against Labour county councillors in Durham. |
15,642,719 | Mayor Geoff Gollop and Councillor Kevin Quartley found their vehicles burnt out at their homes, after two separate attacks in the early hours of Monday.
Avon and Somerset Police confirmed officers were called to properties in Henleaze and Bishopsworth.
He said the incidents were being treated as suspicious but it was unclear if they were linked.
"Anyone who was in Fallodon Way, Henleaze, or Kings Walk, Bishopsworth, in the early hours of Monday, is asked to contact police or Crimestoppers anonymously," the force spokesman added.
"Attacks such as these are cowardly and disgraceful, and we wish the investigators well in their efforts at bringing those responsible to justice," a statement from all political parties on the Liberal-Democrat-controlled council said.
Mr Gollop, who represents Westbury-on-Trym ward, said it was more frightening thinking about the fire afterwards.
"At the time the only concern was to get the family clear of the house and make sure we were all safe.
"It's only looking back on it that you wonder why and what caused anybody to think anything can be dealt with in that particular way," he added. | The Lord Mayor of Bristol and a fellow Conservative councillor have had their cars set on fire. |
38,926,137 | Brendan McConville, of the Buddy Bear School, said the authority "can't be proud" of its treatment of the school.
Only one of its 18 pupils has their place paid for by the EA.
The authority said it gives "significant consideration to medical advice" when deciding where children with cerebral palsy should be educated.
Cerebral palsy is a condition caused by a problem in the parts of a baby's brain used to control the muscles.
It can lead to symptoms like difficulty in walking or controlling movement, or speech problems.
However, the severity of the condition varies, meaning that children with it can go to either mainstream schools or a range of special schools.
The Buddy Bear School is an independent school which is recognised by the Department of Education and inspected by the Education and Training Inspectorate.
It is the only school in Northern Ireland to offer an approach called conductive education, which aims to teach children greater control over their movements.
As it does not receive funding from the EA through the common funding formula for schools, it has to meet its yearly running costs through fundraising.
Joanne Reid from Banbridge brings her five-year-old son Jack to the school each day.
He has severe cerebral palsy, which affects his speech and movement.
"He's a happy little child, he's so chatty, he loves music and he's got a strong personality," Joanne said.
"We started the 'statementing' process in October 2014, and it's now 2017 and we still haven't got a finalised statement.
"We still don't know what school the education authority is going to place Jack in, but primarily I want Jack placed in the Buddy Bear trust."
In a statement, the EA said it had "a responsibility to ensure that all children with special educational needs have access to appropriate education provision in line with their assessed needs".
It added: "In relation to children with cerebral palsy, the EA gives significant consideration to the medical advice."
It also said that if parents disagreed with the EA's view on the most appropriate school for their child, there was an appeals process in place.
Gary McCann went through that process for four years to get his nine-year-old daughter Katie a paid-for place in Buddy Bear.
"The tribunal lasted probably about four years all in all, from the time they started the statement to the time it was finished," he said.
"It was time-consuming and very hard on the soul trying to keep motivated and fighting on.
"Thankfully we got there and we won our case."
Brendan McConville said that parents like Gary should not be put through a long battle for statements or funding if they want their children to go to Buddy Bear.
"The Education Authority in my opinion has failed children," he said.
"If you have a parent waiting three years for a statement and an another parent going through an appeals process for three to four years, the EA can't be proud of that."
In response, the authority said that it was "committed to ensuring that all children with special educational needs have access to education provision that best meets their individual needs." | The founder of an independent school in Dungannon for children with cerebral palsy has accused the Education Authority (EA) of failing its pupils. |
35,896,715 | Al-Kuwait forward Hamza Al-Dardour scored a first-half hat-trick as Redknapp's side led 5-0 at the interval at the Amman International Stadium.
Jordan are second in five-team group, two points behind leaders Australia, who they meet in Sydney on 29 March.
They have to beat the Socceroos to reach Asian qualifying's third round for the 2018 finals in Russia.
Former Tottenham boss Redknapp accepted an offer to take charge of Jordan for the two final Group B qualifiers.
Earlier this week, Redknapp said he is open to the possibility of extending his spell in charge of beyond the initial two-game deal.
Championship club Derby County recently announced Redknapp, 69, had joined them as a football adviser. | Harry Redknapp's first game in charge of Jordan ended in an easy 8-0 World Cup qualifying victory over Bangladesh. |
28,466,786 | Members of the Tamarians, an anti-nuclear group, parked the car across the main entrance at 06:00 BST and two members chained themselves to it.
Devon & Cornwall Police said a man and a woman from Somerset had been charged with wilful obstruction of the highway.
The group was protesting against the refitting of Vanguard-class submarines.
Devonport is the repair and refuelling base for the Royal Navy's fleet of nuclear missile submarines.
It is also base for the navy's nuclear-powered hunter-killer Trafalgar-class submarines.
The protest caused heavy congestion in nearby roads.
The pair were released on police bail and are due to appear before city magistrates in August, police said. | Two protesters have been charged with obstructing a road after a car was parked across the main entrance to the Devonport naval base . |
39,566,148 | The 49-year-old made almost 100 Posh appearances and worked as coach at London Road between 2008 and 2011, including a spell as caretaker boss.
He has most recently been assistant to Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink at Burton Albion and Queens Park Rangers.
Lee Glover was sacked as assistant to Posh manager Grant McCann in March. | Former Peterborough United player David Oldfield has returned to the League One club as assistant manager on a trial basis until the end of the season. |
38,533,595 | The move follows a rise in the number of oil and gas operators using unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to conduct inspections and other offshore tasks.
The guidelines were developed by industry and aviation safety experts and UAS operators.
They cover best practice, procedures and the certification needed to be compliant with UAS regulations.
Oil and Gas UK's health, safety and environment director Mick Borwell said: "A small but increasing number of oil and gas operators are using UAS for inspections predominantly, but also for aerial photography, surveying and security.
"The technology is particularly attractive for its use in improving safety.
"For example, sending unmanned aircraft instead of people into confined spaces to conduct inspections reduces risk, and is also effective and efficient.
"We expect their usage to grow."
Mr Borwell said the new guidelines aimed to be consistent with safety and operating standards already adopted on the UK Continental Shelf for offshore oil and gas production and helicopter flight operations.
He added: "The intention is to encourage offshore operators planning on using this emerging technology to think about the whole operating and safety system offshore and not just the air vehicle." | New guidelines on the use of drones offshore have been published by trade body Oil and Gas UK. |
36,902,702 | Salah Nuh Ismail was among those who killed 13 people in the suicide attacks near the city's main airport, the al-Shabab group said.
Also known as Salah Badbado, he quit the Somali parliament in 2010 after denouncing lawmakers as "infidels".
Al-Shabab is fighting to oust Somalia's weak internationally-backed government.
The large airport area in Mogadishu is a secure "green zone" for UN operations, the 22,000-strong African Union peace force and foreign embassies.
The militant group, which is affiliated to al-Qaeda, were forced out of Mogadishu five years ago by African Union (AU) and government troops, but they have continued to carry out bombings in the city.
It has been increasing its attacks ahead of planned elections in Somalia.
Hotels have been attacked by car bombs and armed assault teams over the past few weeks.
The former MP's involvement in the latest attack marks a new trend, as up to now al-Shabab's suicide bombers have tended to be young and uneducated, says the BBC Somali Service's Mohammud Ali Mohamed.
The surname by which Ismail was popularly known, Badbado, means safety in the Somali language, our correspondent adds.
There are conflicting reports about whether he was aged 53 or 57.
Somalia's government has not yet commented on al-Shabab's statement that he was one of the bombers.
Ismail was an MP from 2004 to 2010, when he declared allegiance to al-Shabab at a press conference in Mogadishu and then went missing, our reporter says.
Until then, he was not known to have leanings towards al-Shabab and had been chosen by clan elders to represent the northern Burao region in the Somali parliament, our correspondent adds.
Somalia has been hit by continued religious and clan conflict since the fall of the Siad Barre regime in 1991. | A former MP was one of two suicide car bombers who carried out Tuesday's deadly attacks in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, militants have said. |
36,667,987 | Prof Sir Paul Nurse said the country's research was facing its biggest threat in living memory.
He added that researchers had to have a big voice in negotiations with the EU.
But Leave campaigners say the UK should be able to negotiate a deal to continue to receive European funding and still curb overall immigration..
British science was one of the biggest winners from EU funding. And so it is among those that have most to lose.
UK universities receive 10% of their research funding from the EU, amounting to just over £1bn a year.
Full membership of the funding body requires participating countries to allow free movement of people.
Sir Paul Nurse said that exit from the EU jeopardised the world-class science for which the UK was known.
It risked damaging the economy and could lead to a loss of skills and talent.
"For science to thrive it must have access to the single market, and we do need free movement," he said.
"We could negotiate that outside the EU, which will probably end up costing more money and we would have little influence [in deciding research priorities].
"Or perhaps we should just reconsider this entire mess and see if there is something that can be done to reconsider this once the dust has settled."
The Nobel Prize-winning scientist added that even if the government agreed to reimburse the lost funds, which Leave campaigners had suggested might be possible, it would not replace the important international collaborations that British science needed to remain at the forefront of research.
But Leave campaigners, such as Chris Leigh, from Scientists for Britain, say that there are several ways for the UK to negotiate a deal to continue to receive grants from the main European research programme, called Horizon 2020, and still stop free movement.
He said: "The first involves H2020 access for members of the European Free Trade Association, and, in the case of Norway, Switzerland and Iceland, this does appear to be linked to free movement.
"The second involves countries whose H2020 access is covered by the EU's Neighbourhood Policy, such as Israel, Tunisia, Georgia and Armenia, and this does not appear to require free movement.
"We also note that the current 'partial-access' status of Switzerland has opened up a third option, in that Swiss scientists have full access to Tier 1 H2020 activities, but participate in other aspects of H2020 (Tier 2/3) as a third country, but do so by funding their involvement directly.
"We would, however, urge our own government to recognise the importance of researcher mobility to science, and recommend that any future arrangements should ensure that scientists and students from around the world are still encouraged to visit, study and work in the UK."
British Universities employ about 30,000 scientists from EU countries.
The president of the Royal Society, which represents the UK's leading scientists, Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, said many of them were now facing an uncertain future and so may choose to work elsewhere.
He said: "They are not just statistics; they are people worried about their job security.
"Government needs to act quickly to ensure that these researchers know that their jobs are safe.
"Universities have employed them because they are the brightest and the best, and other countries will know that and will come and get them."
Dr Noemie Bouhana, 40, a French researcher who arrived in the UK 18 years ago, lectures in crime science at UCL and leads an EU-funded project to track terrorism and the radicalisation of young men, involving collaborators across Europe.
She said: "Never in a million years would I get funding from central UK funds for this type of project, which is international, interdisciplinary and involves a mix of engineering and social sciences.
"I was shocked and disappointed when I heard the referendum result.
"At first, I did not believe it.
"I checked on several websites to see if it really was true.
"I then knew that I would not be in an EU country, and I hadn't realised how important that was to me, and I don't want to live in a non-EU country."
Mike Galsworthy, of pro-Remain campaign group Scientists for EU, said the country's current full relationship with the EU brought huge added value for UK science "from our strong policy voice on academic and single market standards through to leading roles on the EU multinational research programme".
He added: "We want to keep as much as possible, but, as the case of Switzerland showed us, negotiations will be complex.
"Much policy voice will be lost, and our renegotiated level of access will revolve around freedom of movement, the relationship with the single market, financial contributions and the interests of the remaining countries."
Follow Pallab on Twitter | A leading scientist has said UK science will suffer unless any post-Brexit agreement allows the free movement of people. |
39,140,441 | Brian Cullinan handed Warren Beatty the wrong envelope on Sunday night, which led to the wrong film being announced as best picture.
The Academy's decision not to employ Cullinan and his colleague Martha Ruiz again in the future has led to some wondering why she is also being punished.
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Now, one of the stage managers has explained.
Gary Natoli told The Wrap that Ruiz was equally responsible for halting proceedings when the wrong winner was announced, but she failed to step in.
"I was in the wings stage left with Jimmy [Kimmel] when they announced La La Land," he explained.
"We watched for about 10 more seconds, and during that entire time Martha was no more than five feet away from us.
"When La La Land was announced, she did not try to get my attention, she did not say anything. And she's supposed to have memorised the winners."
Natoli added that, before the ceremony, he had specifically told the pair that they should get to the stage "immediately" if any wrong winners were announced.
"Brian had done an interview where he was asked about it, so he came up to John [Esposito, another stage manager] and me and told us that in the interview, he said, 'Well, we would tell the stage managers and check with each other and react.'
"And then he said to us, 'Is that what we do?'
"I said, 'If you know who the winner is, you don't need to check with each other. You need to immediately go out and rectify the situation, ideally before the wrong winners get to the mic.' And he said, 'OK, good, that's what we thought.'"
Natoli also gave his own account of what happened on the night from the moment La La Land had been incorrectly announced as best picture.
"I heard John Esposito on my headset say, 'Brian says he didn't think they said the right winner. Can you have Martha check her envelope?'
"That was the first time I heard anything about it."
He radioed another stage manager to find Ruiz and have her open the second best picture envelope.
"[Ruiz] was standing there with the envelope in her hand, very low-key, and John Esposito said that Brian was very low-key too, no urgency. But we had Martha open the envelope, and it said Moonlight."
Natoli said he then instantly told the other stage managers to "Get the accountants out there", but he said both Cullinan and Ruiz hesitated.
"John was trying to get Brian to go on stage, and he wouldn't go," he said. "And Martha wouldn't go. We had to push them on stage, which was just shocking to me."
"I still do not understand the delay," he added. "Brian should have run out there on his own. Martha should have run out there.
"I didn't get on the headset and say, 'Hey, producers, this is what's happening. What do we do?' We took our own initiative and got it done - and if we hadn't done that, we could have been off the air before it was fixed. I'm proud of the way that we handled it, given the lack of response from PwC."
Natoli also said the new design of the envelopes, with the category printed in a much smaller font than previous years, may have contributed to the error not being spotted sooner.
"I'm sure they're very lovely people, but they just didn't have the disposition for this," Natoli said. "You need somebody who's going to be confident and unafraid."
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Quite a few people are wondering why both of the accountants responsible for "envelopegate" at the Oscars have been let go by the Academy, when only one appeared to be responsible. |
39,082,636 | The front window of the property in Lodge Road, Talke, blew out with the force of Friday's blast.
Two dogs, three cats, and 12 rabbits were killed, according to owner Alan Rhodes, who was out at the time.
Fire crews said the house was "well alight" when they arrived. Staffordshire Police confirmed no-one had been injured.
Mr Rhodes said he and his wife kept 50 rabbits and they found out about the blaze through a phone call.
"My wife got a phone call, house is on fire, it's just blown up, the windows have blown through, so we've come back and this is how we found out," he said.
Officers from the RSPCA were also called to the scene.
The cause of the blaze is still being investigated. | Dogs, cats and rabbits have been killed in an explosion and fire at a house in Staffordshire. |
36,384,054 | Hundreds of bones are laid out on the floor and Dr Hilary Ketchum, of the Oxford Museum of Natural History, has kindly offered to piece them all together.
It takes more than an hour to slot the makeshift skeleton of Eve the plesiosaur into place.
And you can clearly see the giant scale of the animal, with its large flippers and long neck.
Plesiosaurs ruled the oceans for more than a hundred million years before dying out at the same time as the dinosaurs.
Despite their dominance of the prehistoric oceans, there are still many unanswered questions about their biology, anatomy and evolution.
Plesiosaurs are really unusual animals, says Dr Ketchum, who looks after geological specimens at the museum.
"They're a type of reptile related to other reptiles like dinosaurs, crocodiles, ichthyosaurs and turtles for example, but actually we're not really sure where they fit in the grand scheme of things."
The animal was spotted by a group of amateur archaeologists from a shard of bone at a quarry.
"One day, one of the members found a little bone over there from the flipper just lying on the clay," explains Dr Ketchum, gesturing at the 165-million-year-old skeleton beside her on the floor.
"On further investigation, they found more and more bone and eventually they discovered the entire skeleton, which is very exciting.
"We think it's possibly a new species but even if it's not, it's very unusual. They're very rare fossils - plesiosaurs, especially nearly complete ones like this."
The fossil was discovered at the Must Farm quarry near Peterborough.
Mark Wildman and members of the Oxford Working Group - a team of amateur and professional archaeologists who search for fossils - nicknamed her Eve, as she was their first major find.
The true gender of the fossil is unclear, as the only confirmed female plesiosaur is a fossil found with a baby inside.
The quarry hit the headlines earlier this year, when a Bronze Age settlement was unearthed.
Eve was discovered in 2014 in a much older layer of the Earth - a swathe of rock from Jurassic times which was once beneath the ocean and is known for containing fossils of marine animals such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs.
The Oxford Clay, as it is called, stretches across much of England, and is exposed in quarries around Oxford, Peterborough and Weymouth, where many of the fossil discoveries of Victorian times were made.
The fossil was donated by quarry owners Fonterra to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, where staff have spent months cleaning and repairing it.
In a laboratory at the side of the museum, conservator Juliet Hay is delicately paring away mud from the reptile's skull with a scalpel.
The skull is still encased in clay that is being removed a flake at a time in order to preserve the delicate bones and teeth.
It is a painstaking task, requiring nerves of steel, but essential to get the skull of the specimen ready for further analysis.
A few weeks later, in the basement of the Life Sciences Building at Bristol University, I meet Dr Roger Benson, who is investigating the fossil.
As the skull goes round in the CT scanner, he tells me about the find.
"I think we're going to see some really beautiful bones," he says.
The skull has already been scanned once at the Royal Veterinary College in London to examine the positioning of the bones and teeth inside the block of clay.
This more powerful CT scanning machine at the University of Bristol could unlock the secrets of Eve the plesiosaur and determine whether she is a new species.
"It's really clear in these high-resolution scans that we've got lots of really well-preserved bones that are going to give us lots of information," says Dr Benson.
"From what we've seen already from the body, we know it has some features that are different to the other animals that we've seen before so it's very likely that this is an animal that is new to science."
He says further examination of the new details of the skull will help to confirm this.
It will also help Juliet Hay to extract the bones with more precision.
"This is a bit like doing a jigsaw puzzle when you do have the lid and its picture," he adds.
Follow Helen on Twitter. | It's the biggest jigsaw puzzle you've ever seen but in this case, there are no instructions on the box. |
40,520,109 | The party is urging the UK and Scottish governments to consider implementing the policy.
The Scottish government said Labour would do better to reverse its view that the UK should leave the EU's single market and the customs union.
And the Scottish Conservatives said no one had the right to "dictate" how long people should work.
Scottish Labour's strategy argues that powers over employment and health-and-safety laws which are repatriated after Brexit could be used to reverse the UK's opt-out of the EU working time directive limiting the working week to 48 hours.
It argues that the move would help to boost productivity and benefit NHS workers in particular.
Speaking on a visit to Leonardo Airborne and Space Systems in Edinburgh, economy spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said: "There are opportunities that come from Brexit, that is the return of certain regulations and powers to the UK.
"We would like to see, in the context of the economy changing anyway - automation is a thing, flexible working is increasing - we want to make sure that we get a good work-life balance for people but we also address the needs of the economy, and with automation the nature of work will change.
"We need to embrace that change, so we want to open a dialogue with businesses to talk about opportunities that Brexit will provide and the EU working time directive is one of them."
Labour said adopting the measures contained in the strategy could boost gross domestic product (GDP) by almost £45bn.
It's plan includes;
The strategy also calls for a commitment to full employment with a focus on the "jobs of the future" in industries such as decommissioning, renewables and financial technology.
Further measures include ensuring that public procurement does not reward companies and organisations that engage in practices such as blacklisting or zero-hours contracts, and an expansion of the Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service.
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said it was important to "inspire a new generation of world-leading scientists and innovators to give our country the skills we all need to succeed".
Responding to Labour's plan, SNP MSP Ivan McKee pointed out that Scotland's economy "has just posted growth figures four times the UK level while unemployment is at record low levels".
He added: "The SNP will work with anyone to support growth in our economy, better jobs and new opportunities but on STEM, financial technology, a modern manufacturing sector and the importance of regional investment, Labour are simply playing catch up.
"The biggest contribution Labour could make would be to end their ridiculous support for the Tories' policy of dragging Scotland and the UK out of the single market and the customs union which would be disastrous for jobs, investment and living standards."
Dean Lockhart from the Scottish Tories said no one should be forced into a long working week "if they don't want to or simply can't".
He added: "However, many people - particularly those running their own businesses - do want to, and will be appalled at the idea of Labour trying to tell them what to do.
"In addition, others may need the cash working those hours brings, for a variety of reasons.
"Labour simply do not have the right to dictate to those people what hours they should and shouldn't be working. These restrictions have been tried elsewhere, and they've been shown to damage the economy." | A call to limit the working week to 48 hours is among proposals in Scottish Labour's new industrial strategy. |
39,461,005 | The 27 images show fire crews battling the blaze, as well as recovery teams and investigators searching the rubble.
American Airlines Flight 77, travelling from Virginia to LA, slammed into the building at around 09:37 local time.
US authorities said the plane struck between the first and second floors of the Pentagon, killing 184 people.
It was previously thought that the images had been newly released because of the fresh date stamp.
But FBI spokeswoman Jillian Stickels said the pictures were first posted online in 2011.
A technical glitch caused them to disappear from the site for an undetermined period of time, she added.
They were restored in recent days to public view once the FBI learned they were missing, according to the FBI spokeswoman. | Photos taken after the attack on the Pentagon on 11 September 2001 have reappeared on the FBI's website six years after they were first released. |
38,091,249 | Thirteen arrests were made after police found two three-day-old babies during a raid on the hospital in Baduria, 80km (50 miles) from Kolkata (Calcutta).
A six-day-old baby was found separately in a room.
Police told the BBC's Rahul Tandon the babies were sold to childless couples.
Senior police official BL Meena said that the hospital largely appeared to target single mothers looking to abort their pregnancies by offering to buy their babies off them.
The hospital was paying 300,000 rupees ($4,368;£3,506) for boys and 100,000 rupees for girls, he said, adding that babies with fairer complexions attracted higher prices.
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But he said that in some cases babies were being stolen from poor women who had just given birth. The mothers were then told their babies had died during childbirth.
"When these women asked to see their dead babies they were advised against it, and so many returned home without seeing them. If they insisted, they were bribed to keep quiet," Mr Meena said.
Police believe that more than 30 children were sold over a two-year period to families in the capital Delhi, the south Indian city of Chennai and also to couples overseas including the UK.
They are trying to trace the children and their parents.
The owner and several staff members of the hospital are among those arrested. Police say they expect to make more arrests in the next few days. | Indian police are investigating cases of alleged baby-trafficking at a hospital in the eastern state of West Bengal, after infants were discovered in cardboard biscuit boxes. |
37,032,517 | Abubakar Sidiq Usman's arrest by the anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), was widely condemned in Nigeria.
His supporters launched a #FreeAbusidiq campaign on Twitter.
Last week, Mr Usman published allegations that EFCC acting chairman Ibrahim Magu was bullying his staff.
Mr Magu has not yet commented on the allegation.
An EFCC spokesman confirmed to the BBC that Mr Usman had been released on bail.
Mr Usman was grateful to Nigerians for speaking out against his detention of more than 36 hours, his lawyer Michael Bello told the local Premium Times newspaper.
His bail conditions required him to "make himself available to the EFCC whenever he received an invitation".
Mr Usman is an extremely popular blogger and a strong backer of President Muhammadu Buhari.
He is also a founding member of the youth wing of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC).
In a statement posted on its Facebook account after he was detained, the APC youth wing said he was being held on "spurious charges".
The EFCC was formed to investigate financial crimes and had overstepped its jurisdiction by detaining him, it said.
Mr Usman is the third blogger to be arrested in Nigeria since the Cyber Crime Act came into force in 2015, the Premium Times reported. | A prominent news blogger in Nigeria has been freed on bail following his arrest on Monday for "offences bordering on cyber-stalking". |
34,962,845 | And now the Commons Health Select Committee says a similar policy in England would help to cut sugar consumption at least in the short term.
The government has consistently been opposed to introducing such a tax, and the drinks industry say poorest families will be hit the hardest.
But Tory MP Dr Sarah Wollaston, who chairs the cross-party committee, says it could cut rates of child obesity.
Currently, one in three primary school leavers are overweight or obese.
In October, Public Health England recommended:
On social media, there has been overwhelming criticism of the idea. And this is reflected in emails received by the BBC.
Helen Attwood said: "I have had type-1 diabetes for 36 years.
"Type 1 is not linked to lifestyle choices and is an autoimmune disease.
"I have to buy sugar regularly, and sugary drinks in particular are great at treating hypo[glycemia]s - one of the issues associated with this disease.
"It doesn't seem fair that I have to pay more to treat a medical condition which I ended up with through no fault of my own. "
But there was also some cautious support for the proposed sugar tax.
One anonymous emailer to the BBC said: "I agree something must be done.
"The school attended by my grandchildren has machines selling cans of fizzy drinks, crisps et cetera.
"It would be a good start if that stopped.
"The answer is not just banning things, it is educating young people.
"The more you ban them, the more they will want them." | In Mexico, a 10% tax on sugar-sweetened drinks led to a 6% reduction in sales. |
36,569,539 | Coates, who replaced Glen Harris in charge of Women's Super League One's bottom side, saw her side go behind to Rachel Williams' swivel and shot.
The Belles levelled with a goal from former Lady Pie Jess Sigsworth.
England player Telford left the field after landing awkwardly, before Ellen White lobbed home the hosts' winner.
Telford had her knee in a brace, as her side's victory leaves them sixth in WSL 1, seven points above Doncaster.
Coates' side are yet to earn a point in their opening four matches since promotion to the top flight, but have three games in hand over the side above them, Sunderland.
Notts County Ladies defender Laura Bassett:
"It's a relief but we deserved it.
"The moves we put together and the chances we created mean everybody's really pleased, and so they should be.
"Belles have some fabulous players and with the new manager we knew we were going to get a tough game, so we had to start with intensity, especially in the second half of the game to get the win."
Doncaster Rovers Belles boss Emma Coates:
"I was really happy with the first-half performance but we struggled to get the ball out wide in the second half.
"We were tiring but I'm not sure if it's physical or psychological. We have to get ourselves out of a bit of a lull at times and manage the game better when we're on top.
"I told the girls it's tough to take because that's the best we've played all season.
"Time isn't on our side but we've got more to build on from what we saw when we get teams back to Doncaster."
Match ends, Notts County Ladies 2, Doncaster Rovers Belles 1.
Second Half ends, Notts County Ladies 2, Doncaster Rovers Belles 1.
Attempt missed. Katrin Omarsdottir (Doncaster Rovers Belles) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Hand ball by Leanne Crichton (Notts County Ladies).
Attempt saved. Lauren Cresswell (Doncaster Rovers Belles) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Notts County Ladies. Chelsea Weston replaces Maja Krantz.
Corner, Doncaster Rovers Belles. Conceded by Amy Turner.
Rachel Williams (Notts County Ladies) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Samantha Tierney (Doncaster Rovers Belles).
Rachel Williams (Notts County Ladies) hits the left post with a header from the centre of the box.
Rachel Williams (Notts County Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sophie Barker (Doncaster Rovers Belles).
Foul by Maja Krantz (Notts County Ladies).
Katrin Omarsdottir (Doncaster Rovers Belles) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Doncaster Rovers Belles. Samantha Tierney replaces Rachel Newborough.
Corner, Notts County Ladies. Conceded by Rachel Newborough.
Attempt blocked. Rachel Williams (Notts County Ladies) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Notts County Ladies. Conceded by Leandra Little.
Foul by Maja Krantz (Notts County Ladies).
Katrin Omarsdottir (Doncaster Rovers Belles) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Aivi Luik (Notts County Ladies).
Rachel Newborough (Doncaster Rovers Belles) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Jessica Clarke (Notts County Ladies) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Goal! Notts County Ladies 2, Doncaster Rovers Belles 1. Ellen White (Notts County Ladies) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Amy Turner.
Jessica Clarke (Notts County Ladies) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Katrin Omarsdottir (Doncaster Rovers Belles).
Substitution, Notts County Ladies. Leanne Crichton replaces Angharad James.
Attempt missed. Rachel Williams (Notts County Ladies) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Foul by Maja Krantz (Notts County Ladies).
Katrin Omarsdottir (Doncaster Rovers Belles) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Notts County Ladies. Conceded by Sophie Barker.
Hand ball by Jessica Sigsworth (Doncaster Rovers Belles).
Foul by Danielle Buet (Notts County Ladies).
Katrin Omarsdottir (Doncaster Rovers Belles) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Aivi Luik (Notts County Ladies) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high.
Ellen White (Notts County Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Leandra Little (Doncaster Rovers Belles).
Second Half begins Notts County Ladies 1, Doncaster Rovers Belles 1.
Substitution, Notts County Ladies. Megan Walsh replaces Carly Telford because of an injury.
First Half ends, Notts County Ladies 1, Doncaster Rovers Belles 1. | Emma Coates' reign as Doncaster Rovers Belles manager began with a defeat by Notts County Ladies, whose goalkeeper Carly Telford was stretchered off. |
39,857,696 | The hatchling, dubbed Baby Louie, was found within a nest of dinosaur eggs.
Palaeontologists have called it Beibeilong sinensis, which translates to "Chinese baby dragon".
They say it is the first known specimen of a gigantic bird-like dinosaur belonging to the group known as oviraptorosaurs.
Although the fossil of the infant dinosaur is small, it would have grown into an adult weighing more than 1,000kg.
The discovery of dinosaur eggs in China, South Korea, Mongolia and North America suggests Beibeilong may have been common around 100 million years ago, say the researchers.
''The geographical distribution and abundant occurrences of Macroelongatoolithus egg remains reveal that giant oviraptosaurs were relatively widespread and perhaps even common in the early part of the Late Cretaceous, even though their skeletal remains are scarce and have yet to be identified in many regions,'' they write in Nature Communications.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, thousands of dinosaur eggs were collected from rocks of Henan, China, by local farmers.
Some were illegally exported, including the specimen, which ended up in the US.
The skeleton of the infant dinosaur caused a stir and was known as "Baby Louie" after the man who photographed it for the cover of a magazine.
The fossil was returned to China in 2013, where it has now been formally identified.
Scientists in China and Canada compared the fossil to previously described dinosaur species and determined that it is a new species.
Commenting on the research, Dr Steve Brusatte of the University of Edinburgh said the eggs give us a glimpse of how some of the biggest, weirdest dinosaurs reproduced.
''It stretches the mind to imagine these wee little embryos growing into a one-ton feather-covered dinosaur that would have looked quite a bit like Big Bird,'' he said.
''And they were weird - with feathers and beaks, but no teeth.''
The baby dinosaur is only about the size of a guinea pig.
However, a previous study estimated that dinosaurs from such eggs could grow into gigantic adults weighing more than 1,000kg.
The eggs found alongside the fossil are of the largest known type of dinosaur egg.
These are common in the fossil record, suggesting that large oviraptorosaurs had a large range during Cretaceous times.
Follow Helen on Twitter. | The fossil of a baby dinosaur discovered in China more than 25 years ago has formally been identified as a new species of feathered dinosaur. |
32,422,627 | The Polish site, now a museum and memorial, saw a 40 per cent increase in visits in the first three months of 2015, compared with the previous year.
Staff advise people wishing to visit to book in advance online.
More than a million people, mostly Jews, died at Auschwitz during World War Two.
"We already see that on particular hours, long waiting may be necessary in order to enter the former camp," said Andrzej Kacorzyk, the museum's deputy director.
"If the attendance continues to grow in such a dynamic way in the months to follow, it may result in the fact that not all persons willing to enter the former camp and learn about the history of Auschwitz in its authentic space will be able to do it."
This year the death camp marked 70 years since its liberation by Soviet soldiers, a possible explanation for the surge in visitors.
But attendances had already been growing, with a record 1.5m people visiting in 2014.
The news came as a former Nazi SS guard at the camp began the second day of his trial on charges of being an accessory to the murder of at least 300,000 Jews.
Oskar Groening, 93, has admitted he was "morally" guilty but said it was up to the court to decide whether he was guilty under criminal law. | The former Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz is attracting so many visitors people may have to be turned away, staff there have warned. |
39,390,276 | Jordan Henderson remains a doubt but Daniel Sturridge, Philippe Coutinho and Roberto Firminho are all in contention.
Everton's Ramiro Funes Mori and Seamus Coleman will not play again this season following injuries suffered on international duty.
Morgan Schneiderlin has a calf injury and is also unavailable.
Guy Mowbray: "Does form go out of the window for derbies? With both teams in fine fettle before the break, let's hope not.
"Everton's upturn goes back to December's derby. Beaten only once since losing at home to Liverpool in the last seconds, they've narrowed the gap on their rivals from 16 points on 1 January to six on 1 April.
"Might a win across the park for the first time this century even prompt thoughts of pipping the Reds (and two other reds) to a top-four finish?
"It might, although Liverpool's performances under Jurgen Klopp in the biggest games means that remains a far-flung thought for now.
"Anfield expects. The match SHOULD deliver."
Twitter: @Guymowbray
Everton manager Ronald Koeman on the injury to defender Seamus Coleman: "It's a big, big blow for the player and a big, big blow for the club.
"In all my years in football, Seamus is one of the best professionals I've ever worked with at any club.
"That mentality will really be helpful to him now in not only coming to terms with what has happened but in setting out on the road to recovery and, over time, in him building himself once more to the level he has maintained over many years here at Everton."
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SAM (Sports Analytics Machine) is a super-computer created by @ProfIanMcHale at the University of Salford that is used to predict the outcome of football matches. | Liverpool are without Adam Lallana for the 228th Merseyside derby because of a thigh problem sustained playing for England earlier this week. |
38,075,287 | The 38-year-old told reporters he had played his last home game for the club following their 3-2 win against Toronto FC in the first leg of the Eastern Conference finals.
The ex-Chelsea striker came on as a 71st-minute substitute in front of a sell-out crowd of 61,000.
Kick-off was delayed by 30 minutes after it was discovered the 18-yard boxes were too narrow.
The white lines had to be repainted and fans cheered as each new line was drawn.
Montreal led 3-0 after 53 minutes, but two late goals by Toronto may prove crucial in the second leg, which will be played on 30 November.
The winner will progress to the MLS Cup final in Seattle or Colorado on 10 December.
Former Ivory Coast international Drogba, who joined Montreal from Chelsea in 2015, has scored 27 goals in 33 games.
Asked about his future after Tuesday's win, he said: "There's still one or maybe two games to go. Next week's game is more important than if it's finished or not.
"Everyone knows it was my last game here. Now let's focus on the semi-final."
Montreal posted a video of Drogba's highlights on their Twitter account and wrote 'Merci, Didier'.
Drogba, who has also played for Marseilles, Galatasaray and Shanghai Shenhua, has not said if he has signed for another club.
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Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Didier Drogba will leave Montreal Impact at the end of the MLS season. |
39,703,053 | The Oxford Bulls took on Sion Sonics on Monday night - another local team featuring players with Down's syndrome.
The friendly game - Oxford Bulls' first - was organised after the team featured in a video with winger James McClean that went viral.
Manager Kevin Morrison said it was "a night to remember".
"We started off with about six or seven players and things just blossomed from there," Mr Morrison told BBC Radio Foyle.
"Things have been crazy the past couple of months since the video with James McClean went viral.
"Footballer Paddy McCourt has also been to meet the boys. The good will and support has been phenomenal.
"We've been training for two years and getting a match was a big thing for the boys."
Sion Sonics have also been training for a year and hoping for a match, just like the Bulls.
"There are different needs within the groups," said Mr Morrison. "Crowds, cheering and a different venue could have been an issue for the boys, so we took them to a parish hall for the match.
"They really enjoyed it every minute and we didn't keep a score.
"As José Mourinho would say, it's not about the result. It was about our boys getting out into the community and they were amazing."
The teams are now resting and players meet later in the week to discuss tactics and their next match.
The Oxford Bulls club was established with the help of the Foyle Down's Syndrome Trust, which provides a wide range of activities for young people and adults with the condition.
A mother, whose 10-year-old son plays for the team, said the club had given her 10-year-old son confidence and helped him make friends. | A team of Londonderry footballers with Down's syndrome has played its first match after featuring in a video with a Republic of Ireland player. |
15,307,006 | Father Lawrence Soper, 80, abbot of the Catholic Ealing Abbey from 1991 to 2000, is wanted over child abuse.
The crimes date back to when he taught at St Benedict's School, a private Catholic school at the west London institution.
A European Arrest Warrant may now be issued after the Metropolitan Police said Father Soper did not answer bail.
The suspect is thought to be at a monastery in Rome.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: "An 80-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of an historical sexual assault.
"He was bailed to a west London police station to March 2011.
"The man failed to appear and inquiries are being made to trace him."
A message on Ealing Abbey's website from current Abbot Martin Shipperlee said: "Many of you will have read news reports concerning my predecessor.
"Accusations have been made against him concerning offences against children."
It continued: "Early in March he left the monastery in Rome where he had been living to travel to London for an appointment with the police.
"Unfortunately he failed to keep that appointment and we have heard nothing from him since and all efforts to contact him have been without success.
"I cannot comment on the details of the police investigation but I must condemn without reservation his failure to co-operate with them." | Police are hunting a former abbot from London over a string of sex offences dating back 20 years. |
40,561,628 | Adam Simmonds is on trial at Southwark Crown Court, where he denies recklessly breaching the data protection act.
It is alleged he disclosed information about a fraud investigation involving Wellingborough MP Peter Bone.
Mr Simmonds said he had asked others about the probe, believing the information was in the public domain.
Talking about a conversation with Northampton North MP Michael Ellis, Mr Simmonds, who is no longer Northamptonshire PCC, said he had himself been "frustrated" about the length of time the investigation into Mr Bone was taking.
He said he had been worried Mr Bone would be "vilified" if the information had entered the media before a decision was made to charge him.
Mr Simmonds told the court: "I felt I owed something to someone under investigation to make sure the system was working."
He said he had spoken to Mr Ellis as a "mentor".
Mr Simmonds added: "I believed the information was in the public domain. People had been talking about it.
"I don't think it [the conversation] was unlawful, unhelpful, unreasonable."
Mr Simmonds, of Northcote Road in Leicester, admits having conversations with a number of Conservative colleagues including Mr Ellis, Daventry MP Christopher Heaton-Harris, former Wellingborough Borough Council leader Paul Bell and the then Northampton Borough Council leader David Mackintosh - about the investigation into fellow Tory Mr Bone.
The court heard Mr Bone had been "quite shocked" after undergoing four hours of questioning from police over allegations he and his wife Jeanette were engaged in fraud involving the care of an elderly relative in 2013.
The investigation was dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service in March 2014.
The trial continues. | A police and crime commissioner (PCC) disclosed information about a police inquiry into an MP as he felt it was within his remit, a court has heard. |
38,037,142 | More than £9.2m was spent by the BBC charity on 159 active projects in every county in Wales last year which helped 20,000 disadvantaged children.
Singer Wynne Evans hosted a night of entertainment and fundraising from Swansea University's Great Hall.
"It's a truly staggering amount," said Jemma Wray, the charity head in Wales. | Children in Need raised £2.55m in Wales as the national appeal total hit £46.6m on a record-breaking night dedicated to former host, the late Sir Terry Wogan. |
32,056,302 | Karl Crimmins, 29, of Bedwas, was given a suspended prison sentence at Cardiff Crown Court for the attack on Tina Evans in January.
He also has previous convictions for other violence offences against women.
Judge William Gaskell said: "You are not fit to be on a dating site or in any relationship."
"Women would have nothing to do with you if they knew they were contacting a serial abuser," he said.
Prosecutor John Lloyd said Crimmins punched Ms Evans in the eye after she made a joke following his complaint about needing car repairs.
She needed stitches above her right eye after it was cut.
Cardiff Crown Court heard Crimmins assaulted a woman in Bedwas, Caerphilly county, in 2008, by pulling her hair and punching and grabbing her by the throat.
In 2009 he grabbed a woman around the neck as she was holding a baby in Caerphilly and there were three more assaults in 2010.
In 2011, Crimmins was back in court after he pushed another partner into a cupboard under the stairs and closed the door.
In a separate incident he held her in a headlock, restricting her breathing and causing her to vomit, the court heard.
Edward Mitchared, defending Crimmins, said the defendant was "a man who had a problem with women".
"He's a misogynist who needs to change his ways," he said.
Crimmins was given a four-month night-time curfew and was made the subject of a restraining order banning him from dating sites.
"It is necessary to protect those who may be at risk of violence from you," Judge Gaskell told him. | A "serial abuser" who admitted unlawfully wounding a woman he met online has been banned from joining dating websites. |
35,559,255 | The 47-year-old has stepped up from his role as academy director until the end of the season following Paul Clement's sacking on Monday.
Wassall told BBC Radio Derby: "It's a massive privilege to take charge of the first team for the next 16 games.
"It's a brilliant opportunity, working at a brilliant club with brilliant players and brilliant people."
Wassall, who played for the Rams between 1992 and 1997 and has spent the last seven years on the coaching staff, added: "Anybody would be a fool not to want this job.
"Outside the Premier League there are not many better clubs, probably in the Premier League there are not many better clubs. Every man and his dog would want that job."
Wassall has been told his job at the academy is safe but he is eager to prove he deserves to stay in the head coach role beyond the end of the season.
"I have nothing to lose," Wassall added. "I have been here seven years and have a great job and have another one now. It's a really exciting prospect.
"I have been told I am completely in charge of first-team affairs and we have to do the very best we can.
"We believe we have great players - we know we have. We are in a great position in the league and will give it our best shot.
"The application, desire, workrate and ability has shone though in training and I couldn't have been more delighted."
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Chairman Mel Morris referred to the need to play in the "Derby way" in the statement that followed Clement's sacking.
"The Derby way is simple," Wassall said.
"We want to be hard to beat and make the iPro in to a fortress, but we also want to try to play attractive football and score lots of goals. That's easier said than done.
"I will manage the team how I want to manage the team.
"I will do it my way. We are in great position. I will not try to be different to anybody else; I will just do it my way." | New Derby County head coach Darren Wassall says he would be a "fool" not to want the job on a long-term basis. |
35,783,049 | The EU was an anachronism which "costs us a huge amount of money and subverts our democracy", the Tory MP said.
He insisted there were no downsides to leaving, suggesting the UK could ape Canada's trade arrangement with the EU.
But David Cameron said it was wrong to say the UK could do a "sweetheart deal" with the EU after walking out.
And in his first major intervention in the referendum debate, former prime minister Tony Blair said he was concerned by the "fervour" of those wanting to leave the EU but he believed that the UK would ultimately vote to remain on 23 June as it was in the national interest.
Mr Johnson, one of a number of senior Conservatives to break ranks with the PM and back EU exit, told activists in Kent that the UK was the most creative country in Europe and was "big enough and strong enough to stand on its own".
If people were faced with the choice of whether to join the EU in 2016, he said they would probably regard the organisation as "a bit mad and idealistic", with huge "costs and bureaucracy" which restricted nation states' ability to make their own laws and control their borders.
"Would anyone in their right mind want to join the EU today?" he said. "It is 50 years old, it is going in the wrong direction. It is time for real reform. The only way to get that is to leave."
Mr Johnson said the UK could forge a new free trade deal with the EU, based on Canada's existing arrangement, and dismissed suggestions by Prime Minister David Cameron that he and other Leave campaigners were willing to sacrifice jobs and growth to achieve a measure of greater independence.
"You look at the plan to increase the efforts to prop up the single currency with an ever denser system of integration, with more and more regulation about all sorts of social and economic issues which will impact directly on this country, I think the risk is increasingly in staying in the project.
"I think the best thing we can do is show a lead, show an example and strike out for freedom."
Taking a swipe at the campaign to stay in the EU, which opponents have dubbed "Project Fear", Mr Johnson quoted US President Franklin Roosevelt, saying "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself", adding "even fear is not that scary".
Canada has been cited by a number of Leave campaigners as a model for how the UK can continue to do business with the EU without being bound by rules on freedom of movement or having to contribute to its budget.
It signed a free trade agreement with the EU in 2014, seven years after talk about closer economic co-operation was first mooted. The agreement, which eliminates 98% of tariffs between the two blocs, has yet to be ratified by either side but is expected to enter into force next year.
Addressing activists in Wales, Mr Cameron said having to negotiate new trading rules from scratch would lead to a long period of unacceptable uncertainty for British business.
"Seven years of not knowing what the arrangements would be for trading with Europe," he said. "Seven years of uncertainty for businesses wanting to invest in Britain not knowing what our relationship with Britain would be.
"They cannot be justified. They cannot be in our national interest. We should reject that out of hand."
One of the key lines of attack from those who want to remain in the EU is what would "out" look like?
Those who want to leave are taunted that they have no clear idea of what kind of trade deal could be struck with Brussels if we withdraw.
But today Boris Johnson provided the clarity that had been requested - look across the Atlantic to Canada, he said.
So now expect the focus of the Remain attack to change.
Far from being grateful for the London Mayor's clarification, the terms of that deal will be denounced.
Already pro-EU campaigners are pointing out just how long it took for a Canadian agreement to be struck - and are questioning if it'd be appropriate for the UK, which is far more reliant on financial services.
As Boris Johnson will find out, throwing aside his comfort blanket of bluster and giving clear answers to questions in this complex EU debate comes with consequences.
Labour MP Chuka Umunna, who is campaigning to Remain in the EU, said the Canadian model excluded the services industry - which accounts for a huge proportion of British employment - and accused Mr Johnson of "playing fast and loose" with jobs linked to EU membership.
"I am fed up with this entertainment, tomfoolery and the rest from Boris Johnson. This will affect my constituents," he told BBC News.
And Mr Blair told Radio 4's Today that the UK's destiny was to "lead in Europe", warning Brexit would lead to economic instability and "damage fundamentally" the interests of the British people.
"I would like to see the pro-European side get out there with a bit of passion and vigour and determination and stand up for what we believe.
But in a further boost for the Leave campaign, the head of the Conservative group of MEPs in the European Parliament, Syed Kamall, has said he believes the UK "could forge a better life outside" the EU.
Mr Kamall, who also heads the pan-European ECR group, said he believed a "fair and balanced" immigration policy was only possible outside the EU. | Mayor of London Boris Johnson has said leaving the EU would be a "win-win for all", urging those backing exit to "hold our nerve and vote for freedom". |
38,514,037 | Former Derby County boss Clement was appointed on Tuesday following the departure of Bob Bradley last week.
The long-serving Curtis, 62, played more than 350 games for the Swans and has been caretaker manager on three occasions and was in charge for the 2-1 win at Crystal Palace.
The club have so far declined to comment.
When Clement's arrival was confirmed, Swansea also announced Nigel Gibbs had been appointed assistant coach, with Karl Halabi named head of physical performance, with both arriving from Tottenham Hotspur.
Ex-Wales international Curtis has held a number of coaching roles with Swansea, and was appointed first-team coach by Michael Laudrup - a role he subsequently kept under Garry Monk, Francesco Guidolin and Bradley.
The former Leeds and Southampton forward has previously been assistant manager, youth team manager and Football in the Community officer at Swansea.
As a player he scored 32 goals during the club's promotion season in 1977-78 and was part of the team managed by John Toshack promoted to the old First Division in 1981. | Alan Curtis will not be part of Swansea City's first team coaching set-up under new head coach Paul Clement. |
41,048,680 | Moments earlier she had been standing by the side of a road preparing to end her own life.
With a husband and nine-month-old baby at home, a stressful job and in a "void" of depression, she had decided to kill herself.
Mrs Northcott, from Pontardawe, Neath Port Talbot, had chosen not to leave a suicide note in the hope her death would be interpreted as a tragic accident.
"I decided [my baby] would better off without me... I would just drag her down," she said.
So she stood by the side of the road, waiting for the right moment: "I'd worked out the best spot to do it. A bus came hurtling down the road.
"I was just about to step out but I looked up and it was a driver I'd been on the bus with many, many times before and he smiled at me.
"So instead of stepping forward I stepped back. The bus went past and I burst into tears."
That moment, 22 years ago, was the catalyst for Mrs Northcott finally seeking help for the anxiety and depression that had blighted her life for as long as she could remember.
Always an anxious child, by the end of primary school she was self harming and became adept at hiding her feelings from others: "It just got worse and worse as I got older really.
"It was like being in complete blackness... like a void.
"I thought if I spoke to someone about it I would be admitting to not being who I was pretending to be and that everyone would hate me."
So on that serendipitous day, she went straight to her GP and for the first time admitted there was a problem: "I couldn't hide anymore."
Then she had to face her family and tell them about her suicide attempt: "The worst thing of all was telling them.
"They were absolutely appalled. They really felt they'd let me down and that wasn't the case at all, I was just really good at hiding it."
She was eventually diagnosed with anxiety and while life still presents its ups and downs, she said the condition was now "managed better".
Mrs Northcott went on to become her town's mayor and put her name to an open letter in her parish magazine about her experience.
"Everyone who mentioned it was really positive," she said. "An awful lot said: 'Me too. I feel like that as well'."
She still believes there is a lack of education surrounding mental health and now, as well as being a town councillor, she campaigns with Time to Change Wales to end the stigma.
"[People have said] 'What have you got to be depressed about?' But unfortunately that's not the way mental health conditions work.
"Quite often people from the older generation, and there are others as well, don't understand why we want to talk about it.
"In the past it was kept under wraps and people had the idea that mental health problems didn't exist. We know now that they did, they were just very well hidden."
She is concerned about people being stigmatised at work: "Managers in some companies will say: 'It's the mental health card' [or call it] 'the new back pain'."
Beth Elliott, 22, came to Cardiff to study as an undergraduate. She was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder after leaving a violent relationship.
"It's a bit like you've got the world and then you're in this bubble. You can see everyone and everyone can see you but you're detached from it," she explained.
She said after "massively underestimating" the stress of university she "crashed" and was self harming, leaving scars on her legs.
On one occasion she was at a supermarket and her scars drew comments from another shopper.
"I was wearing shorts. A little girl was looking and said to her mummy: 'Why does that girl have marks on her legs?' The mum replied: 'She's one of those people who do it because she wants attention but we won't give it to her because that's what she wants'.
"I know it sounds really bad when you say it out loud. People don't understand or don't want to understand."
Another time she recalled being in hospital following a suicide attempt when a member of staff said to her: "I wish people like you would either do it properly or not at all as it's a waste of our resources and both our time."
"There's always going to be those sort of people in the world who don't want to understand and are so set in their ways," she said.
"They think mental health isn't a thing."
Despite these experiences she thinks the situation is improving: "15 years ago if you said mental health people would say 'don't say that, it's a bad word'.
"We watch the Pride of Britain awards every year and hear heroic stories but you don't have to be that sort of hero to save someone's life."
Mrs Northcott agrees: "I've found the best thing is to have just a normal conversation. If somebody wants to talk to you just listen. Don't worry about what you're saying, just let them know they can speak." | If it was not for the smile of a familiar bus driver, Sue Northcott believes she would not be alive today. |
39,642,337 | Speculation is mounting the leader of Plaid will stand against Labour's Chris Bryant in the general election in June.
She has not ruled out the move, which would trigger both an assembly by-election and a leadership contest if she won.
Potential rival Mr Bryant did not want to comment.
Ms Wood took the seat of Rhondda from Labour in the 2016 assembly election when she beat Leighton Andrews, a former Welsh Government minister.
The party leader refused to tell BBC Radio Wales in an interview if she wanted to be on the ballot paper.
She said she had "not ruled anything in or anything out".
Asked on Good Evening Wales why she would not stop the speculation, she said: "We are taking a responsible approach. We're looking at all the options that we have."
"We are discussing things over the next few days and over the weekend," she said.
Under existing Plaid Cymru rules, Ms Wood would also have to stand down as a leader if she left the assembly.
She admitted to the BBC that such a move would be a gamble and, when asked if she was prepared to stop being leader of Plaid, she said rules "can be changed".
It is understood the assembly commission has advised AMs that, because there is no assembly election within the next 372 days, any AMs elected to be MPs on 8 June would automatically lose their assembly seat.
A party insider has told BBC Wales Ms Wood was genuinely considering standing in Rhondda.
Another Plaid Cymru source said Ms Wood expected other strong potential candidates to seek the Rhondda nomination.
They said the leader did not want to rule anything in or out at this stage before there is an idea of who would be interested in representing the party in the seat.
One party figure thought Ms Wood could win, but added: "The question then is, could we hold Rhondda for the assembly?"
But there were good people who could return it for Plaid, the source said.
Plaid Cymru MP Jonathan Edwards said he would welcome Ms Wood to Westminster.
"I'd be delighted to have her here," he told BBC Wales, "if she decided to come here".
On Wednesday, Mr Bryant tweeted he was standing for election again in the seat "because every fibre of my body opposes what [Theresa] May wants to do to this great country".
Dafydd Wigley, a former Plaid leader, told BBC Wales the party should consider fielding "high-profile" people in the general election for the party to secure the momentum the party needs to drive its agenda forward.
My gut feeling is Leanne Wood will decide not to stand in Rhondda.
However, I am cautious and Leanne Wood has previously shown she is prepared to take risks - she is prepared to gamble.
There is a feeling in Plaid Cymru with regard to Rhondda of "if not now, when?".
Some party insiders feel that if they cannot take the seat at a Westminster election now, then it is a case of never.
Leanne Wood would be a very strong candidate to challenge the very experienced sitting Labour MP Chris Bryant - but if she won would she really want to go to Westminster?
Do not forget that there is a nightmare scenario for Plaid Cymru.
Leanne Wood could fail to win the seat at a general election and seriously damage her personal brand. | Leanne Wood is seriously considering putting herself forward for the parliamentary seat of Rhondda, Plaid Cymru sources have told BBC Wales. |
36,589,995 | The 27-year-old scored six times in 18 games after joining the Championship club on loan in January.
Earlier in June, Bristol City's chief operating officer Mark Ashton said they were in "constant contact" with Tomlin.
"I know I've had a lot of messages from the Bristol City fans but no official offer has been made," Tomlin posted on his Twitter account.
Having joined Bournemouth from Middlesbrough for £3m in August 2015, Tomlin has a contract with the Cherries until 2018.
"It's difficult for me to talk about it because he's a Bournemouth player," City head coach Lee Johnson told BBC Points West.
"I'd be upset if other clubs were talking about our players. All I'll say is, everybody knows he was loved here.
"I enjoyed working with him and if there is ever an opportunity to bring a player of that quality in, of course we'd be interested.
"He had a fantastic spell. If it becomes possible, we'll certainly be at the front of the queue."
Johnson has already added Norwich midfielder Gary O'Neil and Preston North End midfielder Josh Brownhill to his squad ahead of the 2016-17 season.
"I'm OK with where we are," Johnson added. "I'd like to have had one or two (more) but we're certainly in the mix for three or four.
"It's just a case of 'can we get them over the line?' But of course there is serious competition, because we're after good players.
"Josh Brownhill is a really good signing for us because we got him at a good price, taking advantage of the rules really, to be able to get him in.
"He took less money, believe it or not, which is a trait of his character, to come to the right club that he thinks is right for his development.
"Gary O'Neil has been there and done it, and will hopefully help people like Josh Brownhill. He's certainly still got his mobility in his legs and that was the key thing is us bringing him in."
Bristol City finished 18th in the Championship last season. | Bournemouth forward Lee Tomlin has claimed that Bristol City are yet to make an official bid to sign him. |
20,889,644 | But this is not a practice session, even though the musician playing is an international performer.
The pianist is stretching his hand out over the keyboard demonstrating to a software designer that he is working with how many notes one hand can span.
"We have taught a computer to write musical scores," says Gustavo Diaz-Jerez, software consultant and pianist.
"Now we can produce modern classical music at the touch of a button."
The team working on the music project, known as Iamus - after the Greek mythological figure who could talk to birds - inputs only basic information.
"We've just told the computer some very general technical things," Mr Diaz-Jerez says.
"We have informed the computer that it is impossible for a pianist to play a 10 note chord with one hand. We only have five fingers on one hand."
Instructing the computer to write musical scores is a milestone in the linkage between technology and music.
An offshoot of artificial life research, the project uses evolution as its basis, according to Francisco Vico, professor of AI at the university.
"Some people don't believe it is possible," he says.
"Each composition has a musical core that becomes ever more complex and evolves automatically."
The software enables Iamus to write countless scores without needing any human help - that is until the music needs to be performed. It is all down to mapping information.
"It starts with very complex structures inside the computer," Mr Diaz-Jerez explains.
"It is very different from other computer-generated music. When people hear the phrase they imagine that you can hear the computer playing music.
"Iamus does something different, it projects the complexity we are growing in the computer into musical structures."
Iamus is fed with specific information setting out, for example, which instruments have to be composed for and the desired duration.
The activity is controlled by an algorithm inspired by biological processes.
Just as human genomes mutated over time to create a multitude of unique people, Iamus alters and rearranges its source material to create complex pieces of music. The only restrictions placed on its output are determined by what can be realistically played by a musician and their instrument.
"It evolves the composition inside the machine," says Francisco Vico.
"Then a human selects from the set of compositions that Iamus provides."
Compositions have been recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra. Violinist and director Lennox McKenzie says it was a first for the organisation.
"This piece is not the sort of thing that you listen to and then walk away whistling a tune," he says of the event.
"It's really quite large in sound. It reminds me a bit of Varese or Frank Zappa."
In a test British amateur musicologist Peter Russell also referred to the music as "artistic and delightful" after hearing it before being told of its origin.
Iamus has the potential to compose in genres other than contemporary classical and for instruments to which it has not yet been introduced.
Mr DÃaz-Jerez explains that at present it uses what we call the tempered western scale - in which there are twelve notes in an octave.
"But if we instruct the computer to use more notes, like for example in Hindu or Arabic music - they have more notes to the scale - then Iamus will be able to compose pieces that relate to those cultures," he says
"So it's just a matter of extending the knowledge of the computer."
It may strike an eerie note that a computer could become a more prodigious composer than Mozart, Haydn, Brahms and Beethoven combined. For now musicians can still take refuge in the knowledge that it still requires their own personal feelings and talent to interpret the machine's music and bring it alive.
Meantime the innovation has opened up the door for a new kind of music sales.
The commercial offshoot of Iamus, US-based Melomics Media, is offering the computer-created compositions at a similar rate to what it would cost to download a track from iTunes, Google Play or some other online store.
But the big difference is that not only can purchasers get a copy of Iamus's creations but also their copyright. And with an limitless number of tracks there's no risk of running out of material. | The sound of keyboard music floats over the modern buildings in Malaga's Technology Park, commonly known as Spain's Silicon Valley. |
32,559,325 | The Communist Party issued the warning to officials, as part of a drive to crack down on corruption and officials extravagance.
The Great Wall of China and the beach resort of Sanya are on the list.
Holding occasional meetings at a beautiful locations has traditionally been seen as a perk by civil servants.
The Communist Party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said bureaucrats would now have to pay for trips themselves and travel in their own time.
It posted pictures of the 21 no-go zones under the headline "don't go to these famous scenic sites for meetings, got it?" | The Chinese government has posted on its website the pictures of 21 tourist spots where civil servants have been banned from holding meetings. |
34,901,158 | BBC Newsnight has learned that both party chairmen and election chief Lynton Crosby were on the board which agreed to appoint Mark Clarke and fund his campaign.
It has also emerged that Grant Shapps, then Tory co-chair, personally read a highly critical report on Mr Clarke's behaviour during the 2010 election before agreeing to back Mr Clarke.
Mr Clarke denies all the allegations against him.
The Conservatives have been under mounting pressure to explain why Mr Clarke was embraced by the party in 2014, despite having been struck off the list of approved Tory candidates after a number of complaints were made about his behaviour during his 2010 campaign in the south London constituency of Tooting.
The party has been engulfed by allegations of bullying, sexual harassment and blackmail since a young activist, Elliott Johnson, took his life in September, having previously complained he was being bullied by Mr Clarke. The decision to give the activist at the centre of the Tory bullying scandal a formal role was approved by the party's senior management team.
One former activist told Newsnight Mr Clarke had sexually harassed and then threatened her. The programme spoke to five more activists who say they made complaints about Mr Clarke.
Mr Clarke strongly refutes all allegations of bullying, harassment, assault or attempted blackmail.
Newsnight understands that in mid-2014, the party's senior management group, made up of co-chairs Grant Shapps and Lord Feldman, as well as Mr Crosby and deputy chairman Stephen Gilbert, discussed whether the party should work with RoadTrip, the organisation Mr Clarke had set up to bus young volunteers around the country.
The party bosses had concerns over Mr Clarke's reputation. "No-one didn't know that he had been a bit of a prat as a candidate," said one source familiar with the discussion. "The question was do we want them doing their thing all over the country or do we want them going to seats we are targeting?"
Mr Shapps is understood to have read the official report on Mr Clarke written after the 2010 election and concluded that it contained evidence that Mr Clarke had been rude and lazy, but that the report did not include more serious allegations such as bullying, harassment or blackmail.
This account of the candidate report appears to conflict with that of another party worker who previously told Newsnight that his submission to the report included a complaint about "extreme aggressive behaviour, verging on violence".
Newsnight understands that Mr Shapps decided to recommend taking Mr Clarke back into the fold after meeting him and being persuaded that Mr Clarke was a reformed character.
The senior team subsequently agreed to co-ordinate campaigning efforts with Mr Clarke and give him the title of Director of RoadTrip, according to a source familiar with the issue. "Grant wrote the letter but everyone took the decision."
It's understood that Grant Shapps also approved a Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) pass for Mr Clarke.
In an article written for ConservativeHome in August 2014, Mr Clarke wrote: "Grant, who always believed in what we were trying to do, ensured that we had the full support of Team2015 and CCHQ."
He also boasted of how he had been given access to the Team 2015 database of activists: "I was sceptical of the Team 2015 database [at CCHQ] until I used it. There are thousands of names of people willing to help and linked to seats… We find that 25 per cent of our attendees come from that database."
Asked about whether the senior management team had approved the decision to bring in Mr Clarke a Conservative spokeswoman said on Monday: "In 2014, Grant Shapps asked Mark Clarke to work in conjunction with the Party's Team 2015 [the Party's own volunteer activist organisation]."
She said the decision to fund RoadTrip had been taken by the senior management team.
The disclosure that other senior party figures were involved in the decision to rehabilitate Mr Clarke will put pressure on current chairman Lord Feldman who has maintained he was unaware of any allegations against Mr Clarke until August when he ordered an internal inquiry.
Tory MP Ben Howlett told Newsnight last week that he raised concerns about Mr Clarke with both Lord Feldman and Baroness Warsi, party chair between 2010 and 2012, as well as with Mr Shapps's office.
However it's understood that Mr Shapps maintains he did not receive any serious complaints about Mr Clarke while serving as party co-chair until May 2015.
James Clayton and Esther Oxford were reporting for BBC Newsnight. Watch their full report into the Tory bullying scandal here. | The decision to give the activist at the centre of the Tory bullying scandal a formal role was approved by the party's senior management team. |
34,446,524 | He served as the interim boss of the company for three months after Dick Costolo stepped down on 1 July.
Mr Dorsey will remain the head of mobile payments company Square, but will step down as chairman of Twitter.
Mr Costolo, who was chief executive from 2010 to this year, had been under pressure from investors unhappy with the firm's user growth.
Twitter had previously said the chief executive job would be a full-time position, which seemed to exclude Mr Dorsey as long as he continued to run Square.
But board member Peter Currie tweeted on Monday: "The board completed a comprehensive process to find the best leader for @twitter, and we were unanimous: @jack."
Mr Dorsey was appointed chief executive on 30 September, according to a US regulatory filing.
Twitter listed its shares on the New York Stock Exchange in 2013, but under Mr Costolo the social network had not been adding users as fast as investors had hoped.
In April, the firm missed Wall Street's forecasts for revenue growth and reported a net loss of $162m (£104m).
Its share price has declined nearly 50% since then.
This will be Mr Dorsey's second stint as Twitter chief executive, having held the position between May 2007 and October 2008.
In addition to his positions at Twitter and Square, he will also stay on as a member of the Disney board. | Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has been confirmed as the permanent chief executive of Twitter. |
39,575,581 | The BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium is dedicated to encouraging women students to enter the IT industry.
More than 150 delegates are expected to attend its 10th annual conference at Aberystwyth University on Wednesday.
Dr Hannah Dee, who set it up, said there was "no reason" IT should be a masculine domain.
Dr Dee, a senior lecturer in computer science at Aberystwyth University, has previously been named the ninth most-influential woman in UK IT.
She created the event after attending a computing conference where she was the only woman, in Prague, Czech Republic.
"It was just a little bit disconcerting. It's not unpleasant, it's just a little bit weird," she said.
She said having insufficient women role modes in the industry was one "important" factor among many, which may discourage girls from studying computing.
Dr Dee added: "I also think there is a real polarization going on at the moment on gender lines.
"Allied with that, is this kind of pinkification of of girlhood where girls are expected to be wearing pink and being girlie and doing princess stuff and boys are expected to do the creative, playing with mud kind of side of things.
"And computing... there is no reason it should be a masculine domain but it's seen as part of that STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) area, so it's seen as being for boys.
"And because childhood is so polarized now we find that girls are moving away from it."
The conference she created is named after the mathematician Ada, Countess of Lovelace, who is often cited as the world's first computer programmer.
It brings together women students, senior women in technology and employers and has been held at different UK cities, but will return to Dr Dee's workplace for its 10th birthday.
Fears have been raised in Wales that female talent is being lost due to the poor take up among girls in STEM subjects.
And academics have said the way computer science is taught in English schools "leaves girls behind".
The event's keynote address will be given by Dr Sue Black OBE, founder of BCSWomen and CEO of TechMums, a social enterprise which provides technical training for mothers in deprived areas.
Other confirmed speakers include Milka Horozova from Google and Carrie Anne Philbin, director of education at the Raspberry Pi Foundation. | A trend for the "pinkification of girlhood" is partly to blame for the lack of women in computing, a women's conference organiser has said. |
19,266,284 | Most galaxy clusters - the largest structures in the Universe - are "red and dead", having long since produced all the stars they can make.
But cluster formation should, according to theory, include a cooling phase, resulting in blue light from new stars.
Writing in Nature, researchers say they have seen evidence that the enormous Phoenix cluster makes 740 stars a year.
In our own Milky Way, only one or two new stars are made each year.
The cluster, some seven billion light-years away, is formally called SPT-CLJ2344-4243 but the researchers have renamed it for the constellation in which it lies.
It contains the mass equivalent to about two and a half million billion Suns.
While astronomers are getting better at spotting these huge conglomerates of galaxies - the Planck space telescope has reported notable hauls of them - there is still much to learn about how they form and what goes on within them.
Just as planets are thought to form by the eventual coalescence of matter that is around after star formation, galaxy clusters are believed to form through colossal galactic mergers - another event that sharp-eyed astronomers have managed to get a picture of, on more than one occasion.
Theory has it that in addition to a central black hole that is usually present, clusters have a great deal of gas at their cores, sprayed from nearby galaxies and supernovae, that should eventually cool down enough to draw together and start the process of star formation anew.
Yet astronomers have only ever seen red, dead regions at clusters' cores; the lack of evidence for the idea was called the "cooling flow problem".
But a find by the South Pole Telescope in Antarctica, with follow-up observations by the space-based Chandra X-ray Observatory, found one bright cluster among several new finds.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology led an international team that went on to use a total of 10 different telescopes worldwide, each looking at different colours of light, to characterise the surprise Phoenix finding.
The Phoenix cluster showed particularly bright emission in the ultraviolet range of the spectrum, corresponding to hundreds of young stars and suggesting that 740 were being born each year.
"Not only is it the most X-ray luminous cluster in the Universe, but the central, most massive galaxy is forming stars at an unmatched rate," said Michael McDonald of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US.
The findings shed light on the interplay between the supermassive black holes that appear to be at the centres of all big galaxies, and the vast tracts of gas that surround them.
These black holes are the source of a kind of tug-of-war - their gravity draws material inward, but they also release huge amounts of energy in the form of jets that tend to heat the gas and keep it at a distance.
The researchers believe that the black hole at the core of the Phoenix cluster's central galaxy must not be putting out much energy at the time we now see it.
Commenting on what he called the "tussle" between the central black hole and the surrounding material, the UK's Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees, from the University of Cambridge, said: "It's not able to hold that infall of gas at bay, and this gas is falling in and forming stars.
"That's a very extreme phenomenon, that's what's so special about this system. This is a fascinating step toward putting this picture together of the tussle." | Astronomers have seen a huge galaxy cluster doing what until now was only theorised to happen: making new stars. |
36,185,271 | 2 May 2016 Last updated at 17:15 BST
The controversial move is designed to keep housing affordable for local residents.
Thousands of landlords let out spare rooms or entire apartments on apps such as Airbnb, Wimdu and 9Flats.
Often landlords seek to fill a short-term vacancy and earn some additional money, but it has proved profitable for people to rent out entire apartments to tourists all year round.
But critics warn that the practice reduces an already limited supply of rental property and drives up rent for local tenants.
From 1 May, a new law known as Zweckentfremdungsverbot - prohibition of improper use - will take effect.
The law, which allows homeowners to rent out only spare rooms rather than entire homes, was passed in 2014 but included a two-year transition period that has now elapsed.
Andreas Geisel, Berlin's head of urban development said it was "a necessary and sensible instrument against the housing shortage in Berlin."
Those caught breaking the new law could be fined up to 100,000 euros (£78,500).
However, critics say the law serves the hotel industry rather than residents. | The German city of Berlin has started to restrict private property rentals through Airbnb and similar short-term letting services. |
32,254,293 | The French government proposed the senior diplomat Laurent Stefanini for the post in January.
It normally takes about a month for an appointment to be approved, but three months on the Vatican has kept a diplomatic silence.
Media reports in France say the French government is refusing to back down over the appointment.
In 2007, France proposed an openly gay diplomat to be its ambassador at the Vatican but was forced to choose another after months of silence.
The French Catholic newspaper La Croix reports that the Vatican has indicated the posting is unacceptable.
Mr Stefanini is openly gay and was posted to France's Rome embassy between 2001 and 2005.
"He is one of our best diplomats. That's why we appointed him. We are waiting for a reply to our request," the foreign ministry in Paris told the AFP news agency.
The BBC's Rome correspondent James Reynolds says that the apparent rejection may not be the Vatican responding to Mr Stefanini's sexuality. One interpretation could be that the Holy See is displeased with France's decision to legalise same-sex marriage in 2013.
It is widely thought that Pope Francis is more tolerant of homosexuality than previous popes after remarking "who am I to judge?" in 2013.
His predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, signed a document in 2005 that said men with deep-rooted homosexual tendencies should not be priests.
But Pope Francis has said gay clergymen should be forgiven and their sins forgotten.
However, he suffered a setback in 2014 after the Catholic Church synod abandoned plans for wider acceptance of gay people. | The Vatican has declined to comment on reports that it has not accepted a new French ambassador because he is gay. |
34,931,675 | HMRC officials visited the global accountancy firm's city centre office on Wednesday and detained the men.
They are Jon D'Arcy, Eamonn Donaghy, Arthur O'Brien and Paul Hollway, the firm's most senior staff in Northern Ireland.
KPMG said it is cooperating with the investigation and the four men have been placed on "administrative leave".
The firm added that it does not have "any indication that this investigation relates to the business of KPMG or the business of our clients".
Mr Donaghy is KPMG's head of tax in Belfast and has been heavily involved in the campaign to have corporation tax powers devolved to the Northern Ireland Executive.
Mr Hollway is the firm's head of corporate finance in Ireland.
Aside from their KPMG roles, the four men are directors in a property investment company called JEAP Ltd.
It made heavy losses when the property market crashed in 2008.
It is not clear if that forms part of the HMRC investigation. | Four partners at the Belfast office of KPMG have been arrested in connection with suspected tax evasion. |
40,400,962 | In 2011, the star played the solar-powered Croissant Neuf stage, playing "to about 500 people".
On Sunday, he closed the festival, attracting a much younger audience than Friday and Saturday's headliners, Radiohead and Foo Fighters.
The 26-year-old admitted he was "very nervous but very excited" to be there.
"For those of you who haven't seen one of my shows before or haven't heard one of my songs, please pretend that you know them," he told the audience.
"For those of you who have, please sing all of the words."
"The aim of tonight is to lose our voices," he added. "I'm going to lose mine as well."
The audience took him up on the challenge; joining in wistfully as he sang the ballads Photograph and Thinking Out Loud.
They didn't quite keep up, however, with the spittle-flecked Take It Back - a whirlwind of wordplay in which Sheeran declared: "I'm not a rapper, I'm a singer with a flow."
The star played, as he usually does, without a band; using a loop pedal to layer his vocal and guitar lines and create a backing track live, on the spot.
This created problems during Bloodstream when his guitar slipped out of tune but, for the most part, the sound was impressive: Sheeran can build up or break down a song at will, a skill honed by years of relentless gigging in his teens.
Highlights included The A-Team, which he sang illuminated by the audience, who held their phones aloft, creating the impression of 80,000 fireflies bobbing around the fields of Worthy Farm.
Sheeran also invited traditional Irish band Beoga on stage to accompany him on Nancy Mulligan, a song about his paternal grandmother.
It was a moment that reeked of cheese but, watched from the side of the stage by his grandfather, Sheeran made it seem genuine.
This is the secret to his appeal. His brand of pop can be innocuous and twee - but Sheeran sells it with an earnest, everyman shtick that demolishes the divide between artist and audience.
However you respond to his music, it is clear he strikes a chord, especially with the YouTube generation who prioritise relatability over the preening mannerisms of, say, Mick Jagger.
Sheeran exploits it effortlessly. On headlining Glastonbury, he told the crowd: "I'd like to say it was a dream of mine, but I never thought I'd get to the point where I was playing this stage, let alone headlining it."
And to Glastonbury itself, Sheeran's appeal to under-30s is paramount: those are the fans the festival needs to replenish its audience and survive.
That's why this year saw more pop and grime acts than ever, from Charli XCX to Katy Perry; from Wiley to Stormzy.
On Sunday, the festival also saw sets from Royal Blood, Courteeners, Foo Fighters, The Jacksons, Radiohead and The Killers - who played a secret show on the John Peel stage on Sunday evening.
"They say you play the John Peel Stage twice in your career - once on the way up, and once on the way down," said frontman Brandon Flowers.
"It's great to be back."
Earlier in the day, the Pyramid Stage briefly turned into Studio 54, with consecutive sets from Bee Gee Barry Gibb and funk band Chic drawing one of the biggest crowds of the weekend.
And LA band Haim literally brought the audience at The Other Stage to its knees.
The band, who were debuting songs from their new album, Something To Tell You, encouraged the crowd to dance lower and lower towards the ground until, eventually, they were lying down on the grass.
"All I wanted was a dance party," bassist Este Haim told the BBC afterwards, "and then Glastonbury danced with me. We tangoed."
Sunday also saw sets from Shaggy, Emeli Sande, London Grammar and Biffy Clyro, who threw down the gauntlet to Sheeran with a ferocious volley of rock riffs on the Pyramid Stage.
There is no Glastonbury in 2018, meaning that there are 731 days until Worthy Farm opens its gates again.
The cows will be pleased.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Pop star Ed Sheeran has headlined Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage, just six years after his debut at one of the festival's smallest venues. |
29,077,495 | Despite its domination of the Chinese internet market, the company has not yet replicated that success on a global scale.
But its flotation on the New York Stock Exchange, expected next week, could change all that and the brand could end up alongside Facebook, Amazon and eBay as a giant of the online world.
It's almost easier to list what Alibaba group doesn't do.
The company's first business was alibaba.com set up by the company's founder Jack Ma in 1999. The website helps to connect exporters in China (and other countries) with companies in over 190 countries around the world.
The system allows a business in the UK to find a manufacturer in China and have a range of goods produced and shipped.
It's not just businesses that use Alibaba's websites. It also owns taobao.com, China's largest shopping website, and tmall.com, which offers a wide selection of branded goods to China's emerging middle class.
Alibaba's reach does not end there, it also runs the online payment system alipay.com, which operates like Paypal.
It also has a large stake in Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, and the online video provider, Youku Tudou, which operates in a similar way to YouTube.
The company also offers online marketing, cloud computing and a logistics operation.
Alibaba's growth in its core business has allowed it to expand into new areas. It recently bought a controlling stake in a film business and 50% of China's most successful football club, Guangzhou Evergrande.
Finally, and possibly most significantly, it has plans to enter the banking industry.
Alibaba's growth from a start-up employing 18 people in 1999 to a worldwide company employing 22,000 is down to its ability to harness the world of internet commerce. It accounts for 80% of all online retail sales in China.
China now has over 600 million internet users, out of a population of 1.3 billion people.
That compares with 277 million internet users in the US and 546 million in Europe.
Alibaba has used that rapidly increasing online market to pioneer smartphone technology in the country, and now controls over 75% of all mobile retail in China.
The research firm Forrester estimates that the number of smartphones in China will grow to 740 million by 2017.
And the good news for Alibaba is that consumers are increasingly choosing to shop with their phones.
According to the Internet Society of China, online mobile payment transactions are expected to exceed $1.45 trillion (£800bn) by 2015.
Unlike eBay, Alibaba does not charge listing fees. Instead it makes most of its revenue from advertising on its various sites.
According to its latest filing with US regulators, 279 million active buyers and 8.5 million active sellers use Alibaba's online services every year and 14.5 billion annual orders are made. So it's not hard to see why advertisers find the websites so appealing.
As the company simply connects customers and businesses charging only a small commission, it does not need huge amounts of infrastructure to make the system work.
Online marketplaces often refer to gross merchandise volume (GMV), which measures the value of items sold and therefore it is seen as an indication of the size of their business.
Alibaba reported GMV of $296bn for the year to 30 June 2014, almost four times as much as eBay reported in 2013. Amazon does not publish a GMV figure but industry estimates put it at $100bn for last year.
Revenue for all of these marketplaces comes from fees and a percentage paid on each sale. On this measure, Alibaba's performance still lags behind the two other e-commerce giants.
But it is Alibaba's lucrative business model that has got many investors excited.
The company's operating margin - a measure of its efficiency - far exceeds those of its rivals.
Not every company boss would dress himself in leather, don a Mohican wig, lipstick and a nose ring and sing Elton John's Can You Feel the Love Tonight? to his 16,000 employees.
That was exactly what Alibaba's founder, Jack Ma, did to celebrate the company's 10th anniversary.
Mr Ma started the company in 1999 with $60,000 raised from around 80 friends in Hangzhou in southern China.
He is now worth an estimated $22bn through his 7.3% stake in Alibaba, according to Bloomberg.
In January Mr Ma announced that he was stepping down as chief executive and has since handed over to a longstanding Alibaba employee, Jonathan Lu Zhaoxi. | Alibaba may well be the biggest business you've never heard of. |
35,014,947 | Homes have been flooded and roads shut after the River Eden burst its banks in Appleby. Flooding has also started in Corbridge and Hexham, Northumberland, and Sedbergh, in Cumbria.
Eleven of the severe warnings are for the River Greta in Keswick.
More than 30 other flood warnings are in place in the North East and Cumbria.
Following our live page for the latest updates across the North East and Cumbria.
Forecasters are predicting more rain later and throughout Sunday.
Fire crews are visiting flooded homes in Appleby to check residents are safe.
In Sedbergh, resident Lester Close said the flooding was the highest he had seen in 54 years living there.
He said: "There's just more and more water pouring down the road, it's horrendous all over.
"Not many roads will be passable now."
According to an Environment Agency gauge on the River Kent in Cumbria, the water is 12in (30cm) higher than in 2010, the previous record.
The Environment Agency said about 60 homes in low-lying parts of Corbridge were expected to be flooded with some already affected.
A spokesman said: "If you are caught in a flash flood, get to higher ground. Stay away from floodwater and don't take risks."
He urged people in the affected areas to move their family, pets and valuables to a safe place.
He added: "Heavy rain is currently falling in the Tyne Catchment and will continue throughout Saturday.
"River levels on the River Tyne are rising and are expected to rise through the day."
The spokesman said some homes in Well Bank had already flooded and the agency expected water to reach the top of the floodwall at the Stanners later.
Northumbria Police said they have also received reports of flooding in parts of Hexham.
Supt Geoff Logan said: "We are working closely with the other emergency services and partner agencies to plan and respond to flooding."
Premises along the River Wear in lower Stanhope in Weardale are also being warned of an imminent flood risk.
Warnings are also in place for the River Tees at Hurworth Place, Newbus Grange and Low Dinsdale after a night of heavy rain fall has swollen the river.
Flood gates at Yarm and Croft have been closed this morning.
Flooding has closed the A591 in Cumbria in both directions between Ambleside and Windermere, and the A6 is closed at Plumpton.
Several events have also been cancelled including the Newcastle Christmas Market. | The Environment Agency has issued 17 severe flood warnings in the North East and Cumbria, meaning the weather could pose a danger to life . |
23,046,307 | Sheikh Hamad's abdication broke the mould of Gulf politics, where rulers traditionally remain on the throne until they die. Sheikh Tamim, 33, presents a younger face as ruler, at odds with the older generations in neighbouring states.
Nevertheless, under Sheikh Tamim's rule Qatar is expected to continue on the path set by his father, with his mother, Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, remaining one of the key driving forces in the country's politics.
Taking over from his father, whose 18-year rule was marked by the emergence of Qatar as an influential player on both the Gulf and world stage, Sheikh Tamim's elevation to emir marks the confirmation of the Al Thani dynasty's grip on power in Qatar.
Al Thani family members hold many key posts in the country's government, and the smooth transition to a new emir underlines a desire for stability in an unpredictable region.
Qatar became an influential regional player under the rule of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa, backing the Arab Spring revolutions and siding with rebels fighting against authoritarian governments in Syria and Libya.
It is also home to the Al-Jazeera TV channel and it has won the right to host the 2022 football World Cup.
Sheikh Tamim was born in Doha in 1980, the fourth son of Sheikh Hamad. He became the Gulf state's heir apparent in 2003 after his older brother Jasim renounced his claim to the throne.
The young Tamim was sent to Britain for his education at Sherborne School in Dorset. Sherborne's only overseas branch now operates in Doha.
After achieving his A-Levels, he followed his father's example by attending the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst.
He graduated in 1998 before being inducted into the Qatari armed forces as a Second Lieutenant. He was appointed deputy commander-in-chief of Qatar's armed forces in 2009.
It is as a sports administrator that the young sheikh has excelled. In 2006, readers of the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram voted him "the best sport personality in the Arab world". That year he chaired the organising committee of the 15th Asian Games in Doha, attended by all member countries for the first time.
A member of the International Olympic Committee, Sheikh Tamim also heads Doha's bid for the 2020 Olympic Games.
As well as the Fifa World Cup, Qatar will also host the 2014 Fina (International Swimming Federation) Swimming World Championships. In addition, Qatar Sport Investments, established by Sheikh Tamim in 2005, owns big-spending French football club Paris Saint-Germain.
Which sports most interest the new emir is unclear, but he has been filmed playing badminton, and seen 10-pin bowling with former Egyptian military chief Mohammed Hussein Tantawi.
Other posts held by Sheikh Tamim include chairman of the Supreme Council for the Environment and Natural Reserves, chairman of the Supreme Education Council, and chairman of the board of directors of the Qatar Investment Authority.
In 2005, Sheikh Tamim married his second cousin Sheikha Jawaher bint Hamad bin Suhaim Al Thani. They have four children.
A second marriage in 2009 to Sheikha Anoud bint Mana al-Hajri brought two further children - in total, three sons and three daughters.
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. For more reports from BBC Monitoring, click here. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook. | British-educated Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani was named emir of Qatar after his 61-year-old father, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, announced his abdication as leader of the gas-rich Gulf state in June 2013. |
37,168,171 | Four other cases of the virus, which is often spread by mosquitoes, were found in Wynwood in Miami, where officials have sprayed pesticides.
The Tampa case involves a woman in Pinellas County without a travel history, suggesting local transmission.
The news brings the total number of the state's local transmission cases to 42.
The governor said officials have yet to declare Pinellas County as a zone of active transmission despite the new case in the area.
The Florida Department of Health (DOH) is investigating whether the Pinellas County resident was infected while visiting a neighbouring county, he added.
"While this investigation is ongoing, DOH still believes that ongoing active transmissions are only occurring in the two previously identified areas in Wynwood and Miami Beach," the governor said in a statement.
Mr Scott said authorities have cleared half of the area in Wynwood believed to be the source of ongoing active transmission and were working to begin aggressive spraying and mosquito abatement efforts in Pinellas County.
State health officials have warned pregnant women against travelling to Miami Beach over concerns of Zika, which can cause life-threatening birth defects.
Health officials believe the virus can cause microcephaly, in which infants develop with abnormally small heads.
Critics of the state's response have accused Mr Scott of delaying updates on the crisis in an effort to downplay the threat to Florida tourists.
But Mr Scott has said he and the state remain "fully committed" to help counties combat the virus's spread.
The governor has also urged Congress to release additional funding to the the state over Zika concerns.
Sources: WHO, CDC, Florida Department of Health
Everthing you need to know about Zika and microcephaly | Florida's governor has announced five new cases of Zika, including one in the Tampa Bay area, 265 miles (425 km) north of Miami. |
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