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37,248,258 | The 47-year-old US singer was treated for breast cancer in 2003 and underwent a double mastectomy when the disease returned in 2013.
She said she wanted to "give as much as I can back to the women and to a cure" and to "make a difference".
She is among the 15 celebrities taking part in the new series of the BBC One dance show, which begins on Saturday.
Anastacia told BBC News she would ask friends to add to her contribution.
She said: "I'm going to try to ask as many of my mates that might have a couple of extra dollars to match what I make.
"So whatever I end up making I just want them to match it."
Anastacia shot to international fame in 2000 with her debut song I'm Outta Love, which she performed on the Strictly Blackpool special last year.
She has not said how much her fee is worth or which charity it will go to.
The star was speaking at the red carpet launch event for the show's 14th series, which will also feature singer Will Young, Olympic high jumper Greg Rutherford, BBC Breakfast's Naga Munchetty and former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls.
Balls revealed he was feeling "totally intimidated".
"I've never danced properly before, let alone on national television," he said. "It's totally out of my comfort zone.
"They're all fit and dynamic and know what they're doing. So it's going to be a struggle but I'm really looking forward to it."
Balls said he was used to facing former Prime Minister David Cameron and ex-Chancellor George Osborne on the floor of the House of Commons - but was not prepared for the dancefloor.
"I've done live TV, I've done performing on a stage, I've done the House of Commons. But doing this on Strictly is like nothing else," he added.
"The House of Commons, David Cameron, George Osborne - has it prepared me for this? Not at all."
Balls lost his seat as an MP at last year's general election.
On Saturday, viewers will see which professional dancers the celebrities have been paired with.
Judges Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli, Darcey Bussell and Craig Revel Horwood will return - although this will be the last series for Goodman.
Long-serving professional Brendan Cole is among those rumoured to be in the frame to take his place next year.
He said: "It's going to be sad not to have Len, he's part of the furniture, and whoever replaces Len [will have] massive shoes to fill.
"If I'm even considered as a possibility, that would be a massive honour. But for now, the focus is on the dancing and whoever I'm partnered with."
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Pop star Anastacia is to donate her fee from Strictly Come Dancing to a breast cancer charity, she has revealed. |
38,940,176 | Kadeem Harris' curling shot gave the hosts an early lead before Junior Hoilett seized on a poor back-pass to put the Bluebirds 2-0 up at half-time.
Neil Warnock's side cut loose at that point, with Craig Noone's volley and an emphatic finish from Kenneth Zohore.
A nonchalant lob from Zohore completed Cardiff's rout, their biggest since a 6-0 win over Bristol City in 2010.
It was a satisfying reunion for Warnock, who had saved the Millers from relegation last season.
This year, however, the Yorkshire club are now 15 points adrift of safety and seem destined for the drop.
Their decline is in sharp contrast to Cardiff's transformation under Warnock, who were second from bottom of the Championship when he took over in October but now find themselves in the top half of the table.
Following back-to-back wins at promotion contenders Leeds and Derby, the Bluebirds entered this fixture as close to the play-off places as they were to the relegation zone - with some even daring to suggest a late charge for the top six could be possible.
There was further cause for optimism as Cardiff took an early lead against Rotherham, with Harris' shot just inside the penalty area arcing beautifully into the far corner to give the diminutive winger his third goal in two games.
If the hosts were functional for the majority of the first half, their second goal shortly before the interval prompted a period of total dominance.
Striker Rhys Healey was taken off on a stretcher with what appeared to be a serious injury and, within a couple of minutes, his replacement Hoilett had seized on a loose back pass from Rotherham's Ben Purrington to tap into an empty net.
Already despondent, that goal seemed to extinguish any vague hope the Championship's bottom side had of salvaging something from this game.
They could do little to stop Cardiff's third, as Harris' jinking run and inviting cross teed up Noone to volley in with a flourish at the back post.
Zohore's whipped finish from a tight angle made it 4-0, and the muscular Danish striker added a final sparkle to the scoreline when, without breaking stride, he elegantly lifted the ball over Rotherham goalkeeper Richard O'Donnell and into the net.
Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock:
"I didn't feel good about the game with it being my own club and the situation they're in. I'd rather be playing Newcastle and Brighton and teams like that because you can't really win.
"I asked the lads to be professional and I was glad to see the second goal go in at half-time and even more happy to see the third one go in because I knew that was the killer.
"I wanted us to step up a gear at half-time. I was disappointed in four or five, which I told them about, and I thought the four or five responded and I thought we were a lot better in the second half."
Rotherham United interim manager Paul Warne:
"I had a makeshift team. I had three of my best players out this week. I thought the first half was poor - there wasn't much in it.
"We had that error just before half-time. I'm not criticising him [Ben Purrington] but to go in 2-0 down made the team talk a little bit different.
"The players are low, possibly not as low as me. They're resilient, try to wash it off and blame it on others. I have to pick them up again.
"To get drummed like that is embarrassing for the club. The fans don't deserve that and I apologise for it."
Match ends, Cardiff City 5, Rotherham United 0.
Second Half ends, Cardiff City 5, Rotherham United 0.
Attempt saved. Anthony Forde (Rotherham United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Stephen Kelly.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Joe Newell (Rotherham United) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Anthony Pilkington (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Foul by Jerry Yates (Rotherham United).
Sean Morrison (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Richard Wood (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City).
Attempt saved. Aimen Belaid (Rotherham United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Jon Taylor with a cross.
Jon Taylor (Rotherham United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Matthew Connolly (Cardiff City).
Goal! Cardiff City 5, Rotherham United 0. Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City) left footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Matthew Connolly.
Offside, Cardiff City. Anthony Pilkington tries a through ball, but Sean Morrison is caught offside.
Aimen Belaid (Rotherham United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Aimen Belaid (Rotherham United).
Junior Hoilett (Cardiff City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Declan John replaces Kadeem Harris.
Attempt saved. Jon Taylor (Rotherham United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jerry Yates.
Attempt saved. Junior Hoilett (Cardiff City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Richard Wood.
Foul by Jerry Yates (Rotherham United).
Joe Ralls (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Anthony Pilkington replaces Craig Noone.
Foul by Ben Purrington (Rotherham United).
Junior Hoilett (Cardiff City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Will Vaulks (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City).
Offside, Cardiff City. Jazz Richards tries a through ball, but Craig Noone is caught offside.
Substitution, Rotherham United. Aimen Belaid replaces Joel Ekstrand.
Attempt missed. Anthony Forde (Rotherham United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Jon Taylor.
Attempt missed. Sol Bamba (Cardiff City) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Craig Noone with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Anthony Forde.
Attempt missed. Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Craig Noone following a set piece situation.
Anthony Forde (Rotherham United) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.
Hand ball by Anthony Forde (Rotherham United).
Attempt blocked. Joe Ralls (Cardiff City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kadeem Harris.
Attempt missed. Kadeem Harris (Cardiff City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Matthew Connolly.
Substitution, Rotherham United. Jerry Yates replaces Dexter Blackstock. | Cardiff City romped to a third successive win as they thrashed Championship bottom side Rotherham. |
36,378,255 | The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) confirmed the Grade II listed prison, shut in 2013, would be made available as a venue in the town's 2016 Year of Culture events.
The Year of Culture initiative is aimed at uniting the town's arts groups and making it a cultural destination.
Alex Brennan of organisers Reading UK said it would be a "fabulous" addition to the Year of Culture programme.
The MoJ said it would be working with a third party to make the venue suitable to host a season of art, literature and music in the autumn.
It said there would be no additional cost to the taxpayer.
Reading East Rob Wilson MP said using the prison would "help celebrate the town's cultural and historical significance".
Mr Brennan said: "It has a central place in Reading's history. It would be a marvellous and rather unusual venue and I really hope something comes of it."
The prison was the subject of inmate Oscar Wilde's poem The Ballad Of Reading Gaol and part of the prison is on the site of a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Roderick Maclean Shot at Queen Victoria in 1882
Amelia Dyer Convicted of baby farming murders in 1896
Oscar Wilde Playwright jailed after 1895 trial for indecency
Arthur Griffith Leading Irish republican interned in 1916
In November 2015 the MoJ said the site would be sold for housing.
A spokesman confirmed archaeological investigations were set to begin shortly before a development plan is formulated.
Reading Borough Council has hopes to take it over the site and has previously criticised the MoJ for "dithering" about making a decision over its long term future.
The empty jail cost the MoJ about £262,000 in the 2014/15 financial year, which covered security and utility bills. | Reading's disused prison is set to be used as an arts venue. |
34,763,687 | A referendum will be held on 5 May on adding about £25 a year to the bill of the average band D property in Devon and Cornwall.
Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Tony Hogg said a 15% the rise could save 350 officers.
It came as the government said changes to the way money was allocated to police would be delayed.
Figures between a 10% and 25% increase were being considered, but senior police sources told the BBC a 15% option was considered a "workable compromise".
Devon and Cornwall Police is expecting a budget cut of £54m a year, with the loss of up to 760 police officers and all 360 community support officers.
The Home Office said: "Crime has been falling, and the police can still find further efficiencies without harming frontline services."
The public consultation will run until Christmas and a YouGov opinion poll will be commissioned as part of the consultation costing under £10,000, Mr Hogg added.
If a referendum is held in May, on the same day as the PCC elections, the estimated cost is about £2m.
Mr Hogg said he had decided not to stand for the role again for family reasons.
Elsewhere, a public consultation and referendum to raise an extra £4.5m for Bedfordshire Police was rejected in May.
Police minister Mike Penning, who announced the delay in allocating money to forces, apologised to the Commons for a "statistical error" in the new formula, which assesses population size and other data to calculate force funding.
The issue had caused "a great deal of concern to police forces", he added.
Andrew White, chief executive to the Devon and Cornwall PCC, who uncovered the error, said the force was "delighted" that the changes were delayed and as the process had lost credibility.
Mr White added: "This is what we have been calling for for some time as the process gradually lost credibility and the admission of the significant errors last week were the final nail in the coffin." | Police bosses claim a rise in council tax would save hundreds of officer posts as it faces budget cuts. |
33,840,550 | A fatal accident inquiry into the tragedy has heard claims that driver Harry Clarke, 58, lied to doctors about his medical history.
The Crown Office said before the inquiry began that no criminal charges would be brought.
In a statement released through their lawyer, the family of victim Jacqueline Morton criticised that decision.
The Crown explained its position in February, saying at the time that there was "no evidence to suggest that the driver's conduct at the time amounted to a breach of the criminal law."
A spokesman for the Crown Office confirmed: "This still remains the case and all the relevant evidence regarding these points was known to Crown Counsel at the time the decision to take no proceedings was made."
A legal source has told BBC Scotland the law was "crystal clear" in that the Crown was now barred from prosecuting Mr Clarke as it had given him a "no proceedings" letter.
He said it was his opinion that saying the driver would not be prosecuted was "perfectly sensible".
Mr Clarke's lawyer would otherwise have advised him to refuse to answer all questions put to him so as not to say anything which might be used against him at a later criminal trial, he said.
This was likely to have prevented the inquiry achieving its aim of discovering as fully as possible what went wrong, he added.
But Mrs Morton's family said they had thought all along that Mr Clarke should face prosecution, and would be making a submission on the matter to Sheriff John Beckett, who is hearing the inquiry at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
They added: "While the evidential position will be determined by Sheriff Beckett, we wish to state that, based on the information given to the families by the Crown to justify their decision not to prosecute at the time, we do not accept that the Crown were in possession of all relevant information when the decision not to prosecute Mr Clarke was announced.
"Submissions to this effect will be made and developed on their behalf in the closing stages of the inquiry.
"We consider that the statement as to the applicable law apparently made by the Crown is simply incorrect. There is no basis in law for the suggestion that a prosecution for causing death by dangerous or careless driving would require to prove that it was foreseeable that the driver would suffer a loss of consciousness on the day of the collision."
The family statement went on to say that the Crown's decision "makes us consider that their focus in the inquiry is on justifying their own decision not to prosecute rather than a robust and thorough investigation of the circumstances that led to this tragedy".
The inquiry has heard Mr Clarke, 58, previously fainted while working as a bus driver but failed to disclose the incident when he joined the council.
It has also heard a claim Mr Clarke "lied through his teeth" to doctors about his medical history.
The inquiry is due to continue on Monday morning.
Solicitor General Lesley Thomson, who is acting on behalf of the Crown, is expected to make a statement on whether Mr Clarke could still be charged with offences not directly relating to the crash, such as failing to disclose information about his medical history when renewing his HGV licence.
She had been asked by Sheriff Beckett last week to give a categorical statement on the issue before Mr Clarke begins giving evidence to the inquiry.
Glasgow City Council confirmed last week that it had suspended Mr Clarke on a precautionary basis pending a full disciplinary investigation into his conduct before and at the point where he commenced employment with the council.
Mrs Morton, 51, from Glasgow, was one of six people who died when the bin lorry went out of control in the city centre on 22 December of last year.
The others were Erin McQuade, 18, her grandparents Jack Sweeney, 68, and his 69-year-old wife Lorraine, all from Dumbarton, Stephenie Tait, 29, from Glasgow, and Gillian Ewing, 52, from Edinburgh.
A further 15 people were injured. | Relatives of one of the Glasgow bin lorry crash victims have called for the driver involved to be prosecuted. |
37,517,735 | Students wait outside the closed gates to find out where they have been reassigned, their alma mater now designated a "terrorist institution".
Fatih is one of 15 universities closed down since 15 July for having links to Fethullah Gulen, the cleric who the government alleges masterminded the coup and who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania.
His educational movement opened schools and universities across Turkey and in 140 other countries from the 1980s.
Now anybody with alleged links to him or the failed takeover is being rounded up in the biggest purge in Turkey's modern history.
Some 100,000 people have been dismissed or suspended, 70,000 detained and 32,000 arrested: from teachers to soldiers, police to judges, aircraft pilots to journalists. Even the country's most famous baklava chef was interrogated. The depth of the purge is staggering.
Nilufer Demircioglu was in her final year of chemistry studies at Fatih University when it was shut down. Of the 14,000 students, some have already been moved - many to universities far from their homes. But with an administrative backlog, she is still waiting to hear if she can complete her course and fulfil her dream of working in a laboratory.
"I never followed Fethullah Gulen," she says. "I enrolled here because I was given a scholarship and it was close to my home. Our political leaders used to come here and promote this university. Now they have stopped me from finishing my studies."
Is she afraid of being forever labelled "Gulenist" due to her university, I ask?
"Everyone is scared that they won't be employed if they have the name of this university on their diploma. Former graduates have even been fired."
The Gulen movement was once close to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan - Islamists reshaping a constitutionally secular country.
But from 2013 they fell out badly. Gulen followers within the police and intelligence services were blamed for orchestrating phone leaks that appeared to implicate Mr Erdogan and his inner circle in corruption.
Many now being rounded up in the post-coup purge say those in power never complained of Gulen's influence when they were using it for their own means.
But the purge has spread beyond suspected "Gulenists".
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Under the post-coup state of emergency, special decrees are netting all those accused of backing "terrorist groups" - a label considered so broad that the EU is insisting Turkey should narrow it if Turks are to be granted visa-free travel to Europe.
The state has targeted 1,100 academics who signed a declaration calling for a halt to Turkey's conflict with the PKK Kurdish militants - and accusing the government of "massacres" in Kurdish areas.
Derya Keskin, a sociology professor, is among those fired from Kocaeli University and expelled from the public service.
"The Gulen movement is against everything we stand for: democracy, justice, secularism and peace," she tells me.
"But since we signed the peace declaration, the university administration wanted to get rid of us. If there is no free thinking or free speech, there can be no science or democracy. The government wants to get rid of everybody who doesn't obey them."
President Erdogan has defended the purge, saying Turkey "needs time to clean up the extensions of these terrorist organisations".
But he has also acknowledged that some innocent people may have been unfairly caught up in the arrests, and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has now talked of crisis centres being established to handle claims from those unjustly accused.
"It is absolutely correct to pursue the arrests and dismissals," says Enes Bayrakli from the pro-government think-tank SETA.
"There might be some mistakes but there will be mechanisms to correct those problems. We must understand the threat Turkey is facing."
Any supposed link to Gulen-affiliated bodies is being scrutinised, such as deposits in the Gulen-linked Bank Asya.
More apparently outlandish connections have been alleged by the government, such as carrying a one-dollar bill, which it says denotes support for the movement.
The "Gulen" label is being widely bandied about. Even I was accused of being "Gulenist" and "close to Pennsylvania" by the pro-government columnist Mehmet Barlas for an article I had written about Mr Erdogan.
But Enes Bayrakli rejects claims of a witch hunt. "A terrorist organisation doesn't just have one dimension," he tells me. "It has an armed section but also a propaganda section. To take it down, you have to address all these issues."
The terrorism charge is being levelled at pro-Kurdish writers, such as the award-winning novelist Asli Erdogan, in prison since mid-August. She was arrested for columns she had written for the pro-Kurdish newspaper Ozgur Gundem, on whose board she also served. A diabetic, she has complained of ill treatment in detention.
"By arresting Asli Erdogan, they're trying to threaten Turkish intellectuals not to confront the Kurdish issue or criticise the government's security measures," says her lawyer Erdal Dogan. "The government is using the coup to hush up its critics. It's not explicable within the legal framework."
President Erdogan says the state of emergency might be needed for another year to crush the "terrorist" threat. More than 130 media outlets have been shut down, the pro-Kurdish IMC TV the latest victim.
The authorities have started releasing 38,000 prisoners, to make way for the new arrests.
Turkish society is undergoing its most dramatic reordering in decades. An emboldened government has a free hand. And there is little sign that it is loosening its grip. | They are just visible on the white stone entrance: the outlines of letters that once spelled out "Fatih University", removed after the attempted coup. |
37,268,846 | World number 84 Edmund, 21, defeated two seeds to reach the last 16 of a Grand Slam for the first time.
But the Briton was outclassed from the start by defending champion Djokovic.
Edmund's defeat means Andy Murray is the last Briton left in the singles, while Djokovic goes on to face France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the last eight.
Djokovic showed no signs of being rusty despite only completing six games in the past two rounds because of injuries to Jiri Vesely and Mikhail Youzhny.
The 29-year-old Serb needed treatment during the third set as the trouble he had with his upper arm in the first round flared up again.
But he came through unscathed to ensure his quest for a 13th Grand Slam title and third this year remains on track.
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"It feels great to play a full match after a weird couple of days when I didn't have too much tennis," said Djokovic.
"I came out of the blocks with high intensity. It's not easy to do that when you have to wait all day to play.
"I made Kyle work for each point and kept him moving around the court."
Edmund's run to the fourth round included victories over 13th seed Richard Gasquet and 20th seed John Isner.
"It's been a great tournament for me," said Edmund. "There are loads of positives to take from the way I've been playing. I've got a lot of learning to do. That's a really good thing.
"To play the world number one on the biggest tennis court in the world... it doesn't get much better than that."
With the start delayed on Arthur Ashe Stadium by Lucas Pouille's stunning win over Rafael Nadal, the players had to wait until 22:00 local time before taking to the court.
Djokovic wasted little time in taking control, chasing down Edmund's best shots and responding with winners of his own.
He wrapped up the first two sets in little over an hour, but Edmund produced some crunching forehands to break Djokovic's serve in the third game of the third set, prompting the top seed to seek a medical timeout.
Edmund levelled the set with a hold of serve to love and he broke Djokovic again to win his third game in a row.
But the Serb broke back immediately and a break to love in the 10th game sealed victory shortly afterwards after an hour and 55 minutes on court.
BBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller:
"Djokovic started the match as if he was making up for lost time. The champion played a high-quality match, moving Edmund around the court.
"The 21-year-old Edmund frequently let rip with his massive forehand and frequently hit the target, but, with Djokovic on the other side of the net, the ball too often came back.
"Edmund was soundly beaten on the night, but his wins over Richard Gasquet and John Isner have contributed to a stellar week. At the start of this year, he had won only two tour level matches in his entire career." | Kyle Edmund's run at the US Open came to an end as world number one Novak Djokovic showed he is back to his best with a 6-2 6-1 6-4 fourth-round win. |
34,814,166 | The FIA has published a "call for expressions of interest" for suppliers of an alternative engine from 2017-19.
It is a 2.2-litre V6 twin turbo, with no energy recovery system. It would compete against 1.5-litre V6 turbo hybrids under an equivalency formula.
The move follows the FIA's failure to get the engine manufacturers to lower the price of their customer engines.
The proposal is being pushed by FIA president Jean Todt and F1 commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone.
Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said the FIA's latest move was "what they said they would be doing" following the breakdown of talks over engine supply in F1.
Todt is keen for the manufacturers to reduce the price of the engines they sell to other teams from the current €18-23m (£12.7m-16.2m) range.
The Frenchman proposed a cost cap of €12m (£8.5m) on engines but this was vetoed by Ferrari last month.
Ecclestone, meanwhile, is motivated by reducing the power of the manufacturers in F1 and has also been concerned by Red Bull's struggle to find a competitive engine for the future.
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Todt has implied he will drop the plan for an alternative engine if manufacturers reduce their prices.
He said that if a compromise could not be found, he would press ahead with the alternative engine and was confident the FIA could operate a fair balance of performance between the two types.
But Wolff said: "A balance of performance does not work in F1."
He said the FIA, Ecclestone and the teams needed to discuss the situation.
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"We need to define what is the objective," he said.
"One person's objective might be to lower the price of the engines. Reducing influence might be someone else's. Reducing performing might be another."
One senior insider said the battle over this issue would "continue for a long time".
Brazilian GP coverage details | Formula 1's governing body has made the latest move in a battle for power, control and influence in the sport. |
22,576,839 | Andrew Moran, 31, from Salford, Greater Manchester, was arrested at a luxury villa in Alicante last week.
He was convicted of armed robbery in his absence after fleeing a Burnley court in 2009.
He faces investigation over drugs and weapons found at his house, Spanish police said.
He could also face charges of escaping from police who tracked him down in Murcia in November by ramming two police vehicles and driving the wrong way down a motorway.
Moran was placed on the most wanted list after leaping from the dock and assaulting four security guards during his trial at Burnley Crown Court in February 2009.
He was found guilty, alongside Stephen Devalda, of taking part in an armed robbery in which Royal Mail guards were threatened with a gun, machete and baseball bat in Colne, Lancashire, in May 2005.
One of the guards was assaulted before the offenders escaped with £25,000.
Devalda, 29, also from Salford, had also been on the run but was captured in Spain in March 2011.
He was later jailed by a judge at Preston Crown Court, for nine years and eight months. | The extradition of one of Britain's most wanted fugitives has been delayed by an investigation into separate charges by Spanish police. |
38,852,517 | The government also said it was "concerned" by the increase, while a former boss of Npower called the rise "shocking".
The company will raise standard tariff electricity prices by 15% from 16 March, and gas prices by 4.8%.
A typical dual fuel annual bill will rise by an average of 9.8%, or £109.
Npower said the changes would only affect about half of its customers. The other half are on fixed-term deals and will see no price rise.
The rise in electricity prices is thought to be the largest since 2008, when some suppliers increased charges by up to 19%. Some gas prices went up by a similar amount in 2011.
Comparison website Uswitch said the rise for dual fuel was the largest for a big six supplier since 2013.
Npower blamed increases in wholesale energy costs and the cost of delivering government policies such as smart meters and the renewables obligation.
The wholesale cost of electricity has risen by 36% since last April.
However, Ofgem said suppliers could easily avoid consumer prices rises by buying energy at forward prices.
"We don't see any case for significant price increases where suppliers have bought energy well in advance. Npower must therefore justify the decision to its customers," a spokesperson said.
The government too joined in the criticism, saying it was "concerned by Npower's plans to increase prices for customers who are already paying more than they need to."
The spokesperson for the Business and Energy department went on: "Suppliers are protected from recent fluctuations in the price of wholesale energy, which they buy up to two years in advance, and prices remain significantly lower than in 2014."
Former Npower boss Paul Massara - who now runs an alternative energy company - called the rise "shocking" in a tweet.
The announcement comes after three other suppliers - British Gas, E.on and SSE - announced they would keep prices on hold until the end of March.
EDF cut its gas prices by 5.2% last month, but will raise electricity charges by 8.4% from 1 March.
Npower said it was the first time it had raised prices for three years.
"This is a hugely difficult decision, and we've delayed the date this takes effect until after one of the coldest months of the year," said Simon Stacey, Npower's managing director of domestic markets.
However, 1.4 million customers on existing standard tariffs will be offered a four-year fixed-price tariff with a 4.8% discount.
Pre-payment customers will not be affected by the increase, and 80,000 people who receive a warm home discount will in effect pay no increase until May. | Energy regulator Ofgem has said Npower must "justify" to its customers why it is introducing one of the largest energy price rises for years. |
36,948,719 | Portsmouth took the lead when Vladimir Gadzhev brought down Kyle Bennett and Curtis Main scored from the spot.
Ryan Haynes volleyed in to level and, with eight minutes remaining, Gadzhev scored from close range and that looked to be enough for a Sky Blues victory.
But Kal Naismith's free-kick sent the tie into extra time before Rose side-footed home two minutes from time.
Match ends, Coventry City 3, Portsmouth 2.
Second Half Extra Time ends, Coventry City 3, Portsmouth 2.
Ruben Lameiras (Coventry City) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Vladimir Gadzhev (Coventry City).
Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Ruben Lameiras (Coventry City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Drew Talbot.
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Tom Davies.
Attempt blocked. Ryan Haynes (Coventry City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Kal Naismith.
Foul by Andy Rose (Coventry City).
Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Goal! Coventry City 3, Portsmouth 2. Andy Rose (Coventry City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Ryan Haynes (Coventry City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Second Half Extra Time begins Coventry City 2, Portsmouth 2.
First Half Extra Time ends, Coventry City 2, Portsmouth 2.
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Kal Naismith.
Attempt saved. Ruben Lameiras (Coventry City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Drew Talbot.
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Alex Bass.
Attempt saved. Jodi Jones (Coventry City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner.
Attempt missed. Adam May (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Ruben Lameiras (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kal Naismith (Portsmouth).
Foul by Jack Finch (Coventry City).
Kyle Bennett (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Ryan Haynes (Coventry City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Drew Talbot.
Attempt blocked. Kyel Reid (Coventry City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Kyel Reid (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kyle Bennett (Portsmouth).
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Cian Harries.
Foul by Jack Finch (Coventry City).
Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Jodi Jones (Coventry City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
First Half Extra Time begins Coventry City 2, Portsmouth 2.
Second Half ends, Coventry City 2, Portsmouth 2.
Attempt blocked. Vladimir Gadzhev (Coventry City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Drew Talbot.
Attempt missed. Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth) header from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right. | Andy Rose netted in the second period of extra time to hand Coventry victory over Portsmouth in the EFL Cup. |
30,306,381 | The 25-year-old, from North Ormesby, was shaping metal when a part from the press fell on his foot on 17 March.
Teesside Magistrates' Court heard that SM Thompson Limited, of Middlesbrough, had allowed dangerous lifting practices to go unchecked over 10 years.
The firm admitted a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) breach and was fined £7,500. It must also pay £1,120 costs.
The hearing heard how the worker had to have the big toe on his left foot amputated and two other toes removed.
He was in hospital for seven days but has since returned to work, the hearing heard.
HSE inspector Paul Wilson said: "This worker's injuries need not have happened.
"The failure of SM Thompson to look properly at the risks involved and then organise the lifting operation properly put staff at needless risk.
"This sadly led to the painful and life-changing injuries suffered by this young man." | A Teesside steel firm has been fined after a worker was crushed by a press and had to have three toes amputated. |
33,502,604 | The Saints have confirmed that an agreement is in place for the transfer.
Schneiderlin now looks set to join Bayern Munich midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger on United's pre-season tour of the United States.
United have already signed PSV forward Memphis Depay and Torino defender Matteo Darmian this summer.
Southampton confirmed they had rejected a bid from United for the 25-year-old France international last week.
But, providing there are no unforeseen issues, Schneiderlin will now join Louis van Gaal, Schweinsteiger and their new team-mates on their flight to Seattle for the start of their US tour on Monday afternoon.
Last summer, Schneiderlin was a target for Tottenham and he missed the start of pre-season after telling the club he was "not mentally or physically ready" to play after a bid was rejected.
But he went on to make 30 appearances for the Saints last season as they finished in seventh place.
Schneiderlin join the Saints from Strasbourg in 2008 for £1.2m and has played for them in League One, the Championship and the Premier League.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Southampton midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin is having a medical ahead of a proposed move to Manchester United in a deal worth in excess of £25m. |
40,354,331 | Many growers blame the weak pound which has reduced their workers' earning power, as well as uncertainty over Brexit, according to a BBC survey.
About 80,000 seasonal workers a year pick and process British fruit and veg.
Most of them are from the European Union, mainly Romania and Bulgaria.
One in five growers says they already have fewer pickers than they need.
British Summer Fruits, the body which represents soft fruit growers, says labour shortages are now the worst seen since 2004.
Recruitment was getting harder even before the vote to leave the EU. But the industry believes Brexit is exacerbating the problem and if access to non-UK workers dries up, it could cripple home-grown berry production.
Their concern is backed up by an in-depth survey of growers by the BBC.
The questionnaire was sent to members of the British Leafy Salad Association and British Summer Fruits, which represent 90% of growers in their sector.
There was a big response. Three-quarters of growers completed the survey, which was carried out between 16 May and 5 June, as harvesting started to peak.
We asked if they had enough seasonal workers for the start of the main picking season:
Meanwhile, 78% of respondents said recruitment had been more difficult than last year, with 20% saying it had been the hardest for years.
At Wilkin and Sons in Essex, the picking season for strawberries is in full swing. But this year, they have 20% fewer workers than they would like.
"We're managing, but we're not comfortable," said joint managing director Chris Newenham.
"Our seasonal workers are a critical resource for us to be able to save our crop each year. And the logical extension of not being able to harvest that crop is that we will have to bring our production in from overseas and that's a position none of us want to see. "
He's not the only one. Of those surveyed, 71% said they would consider reducing UK production if there were future restrictions on seasonal workers.
British Summer Fruits has commissioned its own separate report, just published, on the potential implications for its growers, and consumers, of Brexit.
It warns that soft fruit prices could rise by up to 50% if the UK relied solely on imports.
"It is inconceivable that people who voted to leave the European Union wanted to destroy an iconic and incredibly competitive British horticulture industry," said Laurence Olins, chairman of British Summer Fruits.
"Failure to secure the future of soft fruit production in the UK will have a negative impact on the economy, family budgets, the nation's health, UK food security and the environment," he added.
So why doesn't horticulture, now a £3bn industry, simply try to employ British workers?
The answer is straightforward for Beverley Dixon, from G's Fresh, which employs some 2,500 seasonal workers growing salad crops across large areas of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, as well as other farms dotted across the UK.
"We operate in areas of such low unemployment, so here in Cambridgeshire, it's less than 1.5%," she said.
"So there simply aren't the people available to do the work, added to which UK people tend to want permanent year-round work and this is seasonal work.'
Reliance on migrant workers isn't a specific challenge for the UK, according to David Swales, analyst at the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board.
"If we look at other developed countries around the world, places like Australia and New Zealand, they source labour from the Pacific Islands.
"In the US, they source labour from Mexico and the Caribbean countries. So there are a number of places where countries have to go outside their borders to source the seasonal workers that they need," he added.
The nationalities of these workers have changed over the decades in the UK. There used to be a seasonal agricultural workers scheme which allowed growers and farmers to attract workers from across the world.
The industry says it worked and believes it's the obvious solution now Britain has decided to leave the EU.
During a recent select committee inquiry into seasonal labour shortfalls, the government said net migration figures showed that sufficient labour was available in the UK and that there was currently no need for a seasonal agricultural workers scheme for migrants.
The BBC survey is hard evidence that recruitment has proved tougher this year, with some shortages reported.
A government spokesperson said: "The government places great value on the UK's food and farming industries, both as a crucial component of the UK economy and of the fabric of rural Britain.
"We are determined to get the best deal for the UK in our negotiations to leave the EU, not least for our world-leading food and farming industry, which is a key part of our nation's economic success." | UK summer fruit and salad growers are having difficulty recruiting pickers, with more than half saying they don't know if they will have enough migrant workers to harvest their crops. |
33,061,086 | The King Rat snake was reported as lost from Main Street in Sandhead near Stranraer on Monday.
It is described as being about 5ft 6in long and is black with yellow bands about every three inches along its body.
The snake is not classed as venomous and poses "no threat to the public".
Police said it was likely to move towards heat.
PC Hayley Buchanan said: "Anyone coming across the snake should call Police Scotland at Stranraer on 101.
"The snake is slow moving and has a distinctive yellow dot between its eyes." | Police have asked the public to contact them if they spot a snake which has escaped from a house in the south west of Scotland. |
23,745,906 | The track sold 117,000 copies, some 40,000 more than its closest rival, Avicii's Wake Me Up, according to the Official Charts Company.
Lady Gaga's Applause was the second highest new entry at five. It was released midweek after leaking online.
Last week's number one, Miley Cyrus's We Can't Stop, fell two places to number three.
Goulding's previous highest charting single was her cover of Elton John's Your Song, which peaked at two in 2010.
Burn features on the deluxe edition of the 26-year-old's album Halcyon, which also climbed seven places in the album chart to 19.
"It means the world to me to be number one at the moment," the singer told the chart compiler. "It was always my dream to have a UK number one single and it's been a long time coming."
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Elsewhere in the singles chart, there were four new entries in the top 20.
Arctic Monkeys' Why'd You Call Me When You're High - taken from their new album, AM, which is released next month - was at eight, while The Wanted achieved their ninth top 10 hit with We Own the Night at 10.
Ray Foxx's Boom Boom also entered the chart at 12.
In the album chart, Britain's Got Talent duo Richard and Adam Johnson held on to the top spot for a third consecutive week with their debut record, The Impossible Dream.
The brothers' album of classical renditions of standards such as The Power of Love and Unchained Melody is now tied with Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience for the most consecutive weeks at number one this year so far.
Rudimental climbed five places to two on the chart, while Imagine Dragons remained at three.
White Lies had the highest new entry at four with Big TV, with Passenger's All The Little Lights rounding out the top five. | Singer Ellie Goulding has achieved her first UK number one single with her song, Burn. |
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The outgoing chairman believes its role could be taken on by Britain's Olympic and Paralympic organisations.
A similar system, where sport governing bodies handle funding, is in place in the United States, Germany and the Netherlands.
"You might be able to get rid of loads of overheads," Warner said.
His comments came on the day 11 unfunded sports issued a joint manifesto calling on UK Sport to reform the way it distributes cash.
Quite simply there is not enough to go around
The body was set up in 1997 to allocate National Lottery money to sports and since its inception Great Britain has become a medal powerhouse at Olympic and Paralympic Games - the nation came second in the medal table at both events in Rio last year.
However, the organisation has come under scrutiny in recent months following a series of allegations of bullying cultures within some sporting organisations.
That is because its funding model is based on medal success, leading to claims it has effectively fuelled a 'win at all costs' mentality in some sports to the detriment of others.
For example, an independent inquiry into British Cycling published earlier this month found there was a "culture of fear" in the organisation - an organisation that has delivered scores of medals since 2000 and been feted as one of British sport's greatest success stories.
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"If you put everything on the table, why don't you tear up UK Sport and embrace the British Olympic Association and the British Paralympic Association as the deliverers of the high-performance funding?" Warner said.
"Why would it need to exist if you had a BOA and BPA that were structured in the right way? You might be able to get rid of loads of overheads."
Dame Katherine Grainger, the former Olympic rower who is the new chair of UK Sport, this week told BBC Sport she shared concerns over athlete welfare and was "not surprised" the 11 sports had called for a review.
She said there would be a review of how money is allocated, but added: "As more sports are more successful, the irony is that the money can't go as far.
"If there is anything that can be cut, but not at the expense of success, then it will be."
Some sports issued support for UK Sport and Grainger in the wake of the reform call. A British Equestrian Federation spokesperson pointed out UK Sport was facing reduced National Lottery income as well as increased medal success, adding: "Quite simply there is not enough to go round.
"Any further fragmentation of funding would diminish medal prospects and unsettle athletes when sports are already almost a quarter of the way through the Tokyo funding cycle. We welcome Dame Katherine Grainger's current resolve not to put a winning formula at risk."
Sports minister Tracey Crouch said "there is absolutely no plan to abolish UK Sport", pointing out it had "helped deliver unprecedented Olympic and Paralympic success over the last decade". | The country's sporting bodies could receive more money if funding organisation UK Sport was abolished, UK Athletics boss Ed Warner says. |
38,870,011 | Pegasus dominated their game against Pembroke Wanderers but had to settle for a 1-1 draw.
Jill Ringwood gave Pembroke an early lead but Michelle Harvey equalised.
Ulster Elks, Belfast Harlequins and Ards were all beaten as Hermes-Monkstown remained two points clear at the top.
Ringwood scored after six minutes for Pembroke and it took until the 47th minute for Harvey to find the back of the net to earn a draw from her side's 12th penalty corner.
That goal earned a draw but it is a result that leaves the Belfast side in sixth place in the table.
The point for Pembroke moved them ahead of Belfast Harlequins and Ulster Elks in the three-team battle to avoid relegation.
The Elks lost 1-0 at Cork Harlequins with Michelle Barry getting the only goal of the game and they remain bottom on goal difference from Harlequins who were beaten 6-0 by Railway Union at Deramore.
The scoreline was flattering to the visitors and had Harlequins converted a couple of good first half chances the result might have been different.
Former Irish international Kate Dillon opened the scoring in the first quarter and two goals in the second quarter from Anna May Whelan and a penalty stroke from Orla Fox made it a mountain to climb for Harlequins.
Dillon, with her second, Zara Delaney and Kate Orr scored in the second half.
At the top of the table Hermes-Monkstown maintained their two point lead over UCD after a 4-0 home win over Ards.
Internationals Anna O'Flanagan, with another domestic hat-trick, and Chloe Watkins with a penalty stroke were the scorers.
An Orla Patton goal was enough for UCD to beat Loreto 1-0.
Saturday's results mean that the Ulster sides fill four of the bottom five places in the league. | Ulster's four clubs in the women's Irish Hockey League endured a disappointing Saturday, with Pegasus the only side not to lose. |
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Lina Magull hit the bar for Germany before Anja Mittag scored the winner just before half-time with a fine finish from 12 yards.
England threatened an equaliser after the break with Jordan Nobbs and Demi Stokes going close.
Jill Scott had a chance to score in stoppage time but fired over.
The Lionesses went into the game knowing a victory would give them a great chance of lifting the trophy following Saturday's defeat of hosts and world champions USA.
But Mark Sampson's team could find no way through after Mittag had scored her 50th international goal.
England, who lost 2-1 to France in their opening game, finished the tournament with one win and two defeats.
Their next game is a friendly against Italy at Port Vale (19:45 GMT) on Friday, 7 April.
Match ends, Germany 1, England 0.
Second Half ends, Germany 1, England 0.
Attempt saved. Alexandra Popp (Germany) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lena Petermann.
Offside, England. Karen Carney tries a through ball, but Toni Duggan is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Jill Scott (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Substitution, Germany. Pauline Bremer replaces Sara Däbritz.
Corner, Germany. Conceded by Demi Stokes.
Attempt blocked. Anna Blässe (Germany) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sara Däbritz.
Babett Peter (Germany) is shown the yellow card for dangerous play.
Dangerous play by Babett Peter (Germany).
Siobhan Chamberlain (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Lena Petermann (Germany) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Lucy Bronze (England).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Germany. Lena Petermann replaces Anja Mittag.
Delay in match Josephine Henning (Germany) because of an injury.
Josephine Henning (Germany) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Toni Duggan (England).
Offside, Germany. Anna Blässe tries a through ball, but Sara Doorsoun is caught offside.
Substitution, Germany. Sara Doorsoun replaces Lina Magull.
Foul by Verena Faißt (Germany).
Jill Scott (England) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Sara Däbritz (Germany) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Lina Magull.
Attempt saved. Demi Stokes (England) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, England. Conceded by Babett Peter.
Attempt blocked. Millie Bright (England) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Anja Mittag (Germany) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Anja Mittag (Germany).
Lucy Bronze (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Anja Mittag (Germany) header from the right side of the six yard box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Josephine Henning following a corner.
Attempt missed. Josephine Henning (Germany) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Dzsenifer Marozsán with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Germany. Conceded by Demi Stokes.
Attempt missed. Ellen White (England) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Karen Carney with a cross following a set piece situation.
Substitution, England. Jill Scott replaces Jade Moore.
Verena Faißt (Germany) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Verena Faißt (Germany).
Ellen White (England) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Kristin Demann (Germany) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Kristin Demann (Germany).
Karen Carney (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half. | England rounded off their SheBelieves Cup campaign with a narrow defeat at the hands of European and Olympic champions Germany in Washington. |
35,229,698 | The winner came when his punch looped up and towards the line, although it looked like Boro defender Daniel Ayala might have got the final touch.
It was harsh on Brentford, who saw Alan Judge and Maxime Colin denied by fine Dimi Konstantopoulos goalkeeping.
Button made some fine saves of his own but his error proved costly.
Boro climb six points clear of second-placed Derby with a game in hand.
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The Teessiders began the night four points clear of the Rams and arrived in west London with an unbeaten league record against their opponents stretching back to 1938.
However their position was no concern to the home side who attacked Boro with vigour and caused problems through top scorer Judge's creativity throughout.
Konstantopoulos foiled Lasse Vibe when he capitalised on an Ayala error, and Button was smart to stop David Nugent from a similar position before the break.
Brentford looked to be in the ascendancy after half-time, with Boro again indebted to Konstantopoulos' efforts, but a dangerous corner in a swirling wind proved their undoing as Button's attempted clearance sailed up and towards the goal, and Ayala wheeled away in celebration having claimed to poke in the crucial goal.
Bees boss Dean Smith made all his changes in a bid to overturn the deficit but Boro stood firm to pick up the points and edge further clear of their promotion rivals.
Brentford head coach Dean Smith:
"I'm disappointed with the result but as I've said before we can only control performances and the performance was very good.
"If we continue to look after our performances the results will follow. The performance tonight would have been enough to beat many sides in this division.
"Boro are a good team with good players and we more than matched and at times looked marginally better than them."
Middlesbrough boss Aitor Karanka:
"We have been really lucky because to be fair in the first half Brentford had three chances and we have made two or three mistakes.
"Sometimes you pay for those mistakes, but when you are top of table the luck can stay with you.
"They are confident on the pitch and that confidence means you can make mistakes, but there are another 10 players who know you and are always there just in case." | Middlesbrough extended their lead at the top of the Championship with victory following an error from Brentford goalkeeper David Button. |
35,640,876 | The attack took place in Bar Square around midnight on 20 May 2015.
The man in the CCTV images is described as white, with a local accent, aged between 25 and 35, 5ft 10in tall with a medium build and fair/brown hair.
At the time of the attack he was wearing a black top and denims with a denim shirt or jacket. | Police investigating a serious assault in a bar in Glasgow's Merchant City area have released CCTV images of a man they want to trace. |
37,793,016 | A Twitter post showing a sign outside the Scottish bar went viral after the author seemingly gave up attempting to spell "Monchengladbach" - instead opting for "A German Team".
Gladbach saw the funny side, changing their own English account's Twitter handle to "A German Team" and using it on their team-sheet on social media when they faced Celtic in the Champions League.
But now fans can grab a piece of merchandise reminding them of the anecdote, with scarves sporting the Bundesliga side's 'new name' on sale in the club shop.
Gladbach beat the Scottish champions 2-0 and they meet again in Germany next Tuesday. | It began with a joke, but now Borussia Monchengladbach seem to have fully embraced a new title given to them by a pub in Glasgow. |
40,556,864 | The former Chelsea CEO replaces Nigel Howe, who moves to the role of vice-chairman of the Championship club.
Gourlay, 54, succeeded Peter Kenyon at Chelsea and was also previously a senior director at Manchester United.
"I'm delighted to take up this new position and I consider it a real honour to be presented with the fantastic challenge of guiding the club to the next level," he said.
Gourlay worked at Chelsea for 10 years - five of them as chief executive - and oversaw the appointment of four different managers before leaving Stamford Bridge in 2014.
The club also won the double in his first season as CEO and went on to win the Champions League and Europa League.
At Reading, he is expected to work closely with manager Jaap Stam and director of football Brian Tevreden on footballing matters.
His predecessor Howe, chief executive since 1995, will now focus on the Royal Elm Park development around the Madejski Stadium, as well as plans for Reading's new training ground.
BBC Radio Berkshire's Tim Dellor
Ron Gourlay has a tough act to follow.
Nigel Howe has been central to Reading's success as a club in the past 20 years. It's good he's still going to be involved as vice-chairman, ensuring some stability in the boardroom.
He will continue to have a huge influence, pulling the strings behind the scenes.
Gourlay arrives at Reading with a glowing CV, having done well at Chelsea and Manchester United. He will need all his skills to ensure the new Chinese ownership is a successful chapter in the club's history. | Reading have appointed Ron Gourlay as their new chief executive. |
38,323,184 | We have heard how the system has reached various levels of crisis from "tipping point" and "breaking point" to "on the brink of collapse".
But is it really that bad? And if so, what can we expect in 2017?
Firstly, let's put these predictions in context. Perhaps the most significant warning of recent months came from the Care Quality Commission. In is State of Care report, in October, the regulator said the system was at a "tipping point".
By that, it didn't mean the whole system was about to collapse. The NHS has always found - no matter how acute the pressures - a way of carrying on. It simply prioritises the most in need.
So what was the CQC getting at? Put simply, it was saying the health and care system had reached the point where the gradual deterioration in standards had gathered such momentum that another drop and the rate of deterioration would accelerate exponentially.
So what could that mean for patients? Longer waiting times for sure. Key targets are already being missed. One in 10 patients in England is currently waiting longer than four hours to be dealt with in A&E. This is the worst performance since the target was introduced in 2004. And in Wales and Northern Ireland, the situation is even worse.
But if you want to know how bad it could get, the worst performers give us a clue. In some hospitals, a third of patients have to wait longer than four hours to be seen.
The waiting list for non-emergency operations, such as knee and hip replacements, is also getting worse. Soon there will be 4 million people waiting for an op - that is one in 13 people. So far, the NHS has managed to keep the long waiters - those waiting more than six months or even a year - down to a bare minimum. But as the NHS can only see about 300,000 patients a month, it seems pretty clear that is going to change.
The frightening thing for ministers - and in particular the Treasury - is just how much cash the NHS is swallowing. Over £130bn is spent on the health service across the UK. In England, the budget was increased by 4% in real terms this year.
But still it hasn't got enough. Hospitals continue to rack up deficits. And while the NHS will undoubtedly still manage to balance its books by year end in March because of surpluses elsewhere, the prospects for the next financial year are much gloomier.
The 2017-18 year will see a much smaller rise in the budget - under 1% once inflation is taken into account.
That - to borrow a phrase from former Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson - really will be squeaky bum time. Yes you can always argue the Treasury will step in and provide more funds, but no area of government spending has had as generous a settlement as the NHS. Tough questions will be asked and cuts will undoubtedly have to follow.
Talking of cuts, isn't there a whole host in the pipeline? Yes. In the coming months expect to hear plenty about the catchily named sustainability and transformation plans.
There are 44 of them covering the whole of England and some are pretty radical - involving closures of A&E and maternity units and, in some cases, whole hospitals. Consultations are likely to be getting under way over the next few months and these are bound to provoke local protests.
Another hot topic at the moment is social care - and that brings us back nicely to the original warnings of Armageddon. This covers the council-funded services provided to disabled and elderly people, such as care homes and help in the home for daily tasks such as washing and dressing. And it is what is happening in this sector which many believe could be the straw that "breaks" the camel's back.
At a time when the population is ageing you would think more and more people would be getting help. But the opposite is true. The number of over-65s being helped has fallen by over a quarter in the past five years. This is seen as critical, because the cuts have been linked to the rising numbers of older people turning up at A&E. The care system and NHS are - it is argued - two sides of the same coin.
The government has already tried to take action. Before Christmas, ministers announced that councils would be able to raise council tax more quickly than had been planned. But the jury is out on whether this will actually lead to that much more money being invested in services. And with four times as many people sitting outside the council care system (once you combine those getting no care, paying for it or relying on family) as are inside, any impact is going to be limited.
So where does that leave us? Seasoned observers have started talking about a return to the 1990s when images of overcrowded hospitals and stories of patients waiting years for treatment dogged John Major's Tory government at almost every turn. Could the same happen to Theresa May?
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Follow Nick on Twitter | The past few months - if not the whole year - have seen a constant stream of warnings about impending Armageddon in the health service. |
35,429,021 | Isle of Man resident John Rhys-Davies, 71, said the referendum was "one of the most important [and] constitutionally significant events in recent times".
He said he was "amazed no-one had raised the issue before" with the United Kingdom government.
The Welsh actor was allowed to raise the petition as a British citizen.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has promised a referendum on whether Britain should remain in the EU by the end of 2017.
Mr Rhys-Davies, best known for his portrayal of Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, said: "Daily life in the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey is affected by EU decision-making and a decision to leave or stay affects all islanders.
"Natural justice requires that islanders have a direct say in such a consequential referendum."
As Isle of Man resident for nearly 30 years he continued: "Even if I did not live on the island I would still champion this cause.
"The British people should all have a say - if any of us have a say."
He added: "I feel very strongly that people of the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey should have their say in a referendum that could change all our lives for a generation.
"I'm just a bloke who is British and proud of it and I want a say."
The UK government will respond to the petition if it attracts 10,000 signatures. It will be considered for a Westminster debate if it receives 100,000. | A Lord of the Rings star has launched a petition demanding the right to vote in the European Union referendum for those living in British Crown Dependencies. |
17,030,257 | Mario Monti said the government could not guarantee to finance the cost of the staging the event, estimated at $12.5bn (£8bn; 9.5bn euros).
The decision comes a day before the deadline for cities to submit bids.
Doha, Istanbul, Tokyo, Madrid and Baku are bidding for the event.
Mr Monti made the announcement at a news conference following a cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
"As you can imagine the government has spent much time reflecting upon this decision," he said.
"And we have reached the unanimous decision that the government... doesn't feel that it would be a responsible gesture, taking into consideration Italy's current financial state.
"In essence, if we find ourselves today in such a difficult financial position it is because similar decisions were made by previous governments without having considered the resulting impact in the following years."
Professor Monti is an economist who was appointed to head Italy's government of technocrats amid financial turmoil last November.
A major effort to restructure the economy is under way, correspondents say, though ratings agency Moody's still cut Italy's credit rating by one notch to A3 on Tuesday.
Gianni Petrucci, president of national Olympic body CONI, was quoted by the Associated Press as saying: "Monti has told us no, it's a great sadness.
"It's a dream that has vanished after two years of hard work, the bid was a serious one. I am convinced that you have to make cuts, but when you make cuts, you have to also cultivate a future dream.
"You need to cut and think about investments and the Olympics are a future investment."
"I don't feel humiliated. Of course, doing it on the last day leaves me feeling really, really bad, there should have been more respect. But, as I said with great conviction to Monti, we did everything we could.'' | Rome's bid to host the 2020 Olympics has been scrapped after the prime minister said it would be "irresponsible" given the country's economic plight. |
35,458,600 | The legal annual mean limit is 40 micrograms of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) per cubic metre of air (µg/m3).
ClientEarth, a group of environmental lawyers, is planning High Court action against the government over illegally high readings.
The government said it supported local authorities to tackle air quality.
NO2 is released when fuels such as car diesel or in central heating boilers are burned. There is evidence high levels of NO2 can inflame the lungs and cause long term health issues.
According to research by BBC East, levels of more than 70 µg/m3 have been recorded in Waltham Cross, Bishop's Stortford, Sandy and Watford, with illegal readings taken in places like Castle Meadow in Norwich and the taxi rank in Newmarket.
The figures, although illegally high, are a far cry from some of the readings found in central London where the average annual level of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in Grosvenor Place, near the Queen's central London residence, reached 152 µg/m3 in 2014.
Illegally high readings have also been frequently recorded in cities such as Leeds, Birmingham, Southampton, Nottingham and Derby.
Alan Andrews, a lawyer with Client Earth, said they had been fighting a legal battle with the government for five years because "levels of air pollution in towns and cities across the UK are above legal levels".
He said Client Earth was now planning High Court action against the government because its plans to deal with the problem were "just not good enough".
"Air pollution is one of the biggest public health issues we face as a society," he said.
"A plan which thinks it is okay for us to be breathing illegally high levels of pollution until 2020 to us isn't good enough and we're pretty confident judges looking at it will feel the same way."
A spokeswoman for the Department for Food and Rural Affairs, said: "Our plans clearly set out how we will improve the UK's air quality through a new programme of Clean Air Zones, which alongside national action and continued investment in clean technologies will create cleaner, healthier air | Illegally-high levels of nitrogen dioxide were recorded at more than 250 sites in the east of England, it has emerged. |
23,693,203 | The men carried sticks and wore small gas masks around their necks. Some leaned back against the sandbags. Beyond the barricade, I could just make out the heads of a group of men standing for pre-dawn prayers. No-one appeared to want to leave.
My colleagues and I then drove round the perimeter of the encampment.
Just before 05:00 (03:00 GMT), the sky started to lighten. We saw police officers putting on black flak jackets and testing out gas masks. Rows of police trucks were parked on side roads. It seemed clear that a raid was about to begin.
At 06:40, from a street corner near the encampment, I saw six police jeeps drive at speed down a main road. Officers carrying weapons jumped out and stopped anyone from going forward.
A few minutes later, a single armoured military bulldozer drove down the same road, towards the encampment. The bulldozer began to push away the piles of bricks and sandbags which marked the entry to pro-Morsi territory. Protesters fought back by throwing stones and burning tyres.
At the same time, riot police in armoured personnel carriers advanced through nearby streets.
For more than two hours I heard the crack of live ammunition. The sharp bangs were accompanied by the bass thuds of exploding tear gas canisters.
For a while it was hard to breathe without a gas mask. Some local residents held handkerchiefs to their faces and watched the police deployment from their balconies.
A small crowd watched a confrontation between police and protesters at a nearby junction.
"They are killing us," said one man, who was a supporter of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.
The man had tears in his eyes and he had to speak quietly. The residents around him all were supporting the security forces.
My colleagues and I then walked closer towards the frontline. We were less than 200m from the encampment. Thick trails of black smoke stopped us from getting a look at what was happening around the mosque. But the wind sometimes blew over the sound of a man's voice on loudspeaker from the mosque area. The words were too difficult to make out.
We then decided to leave. As we drove away, two police officers ran towards our vehicle, cocking their pistols to make us stop. They had orders to confiscate camera footage.
They let us go, and we made our way past an outer cordon run by the military and into the centre of Cairo.
No-one had known the exact timing of the security forces's operation. In recent days, the rumours that govern Cairo had predicted the time on several occasions; each prediction had come to nothing.
But the protesters at the Rabaa mosque knew that, at some point, the government would come for them. | At four o'clock in the morning, at one of the entrances to the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque encampment, a dozen guards stood behind a row of sandbags. |
38,820,082 | Bola, 19, signed a professional deal with the Gunners in April after playing regularly for their under-21 side.
Midfielder Grant, 22, has played 17 league games for Forest since joining the Championship club in 2013.
Clackstone, 20, can play at right-back or centre-half, with all three players joining for the rest of the season.
Grant lined up against Notts in a Central League Cup match on transfer deadline day before the deal was agreed.
The trio join on the same day that Notts County boss Kevin Nolan was registered as a player and West Brom forward Tahvon Campbell arrived on loan.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page or visit our Premier League tracker here. | Notts County have completed the loan signings of Arsenal defender Marc Bola, Nottingham Forest's Jorge Grant and Hull defender Josh Clackstone. |
34,631,352 | The collision happened shortly before 18:45 BST on Saturday in London Road.
Kent Police said a car - believed to be a black Vauxhall Astra - hit the man but failed to stop. It was later found abandoned in Grange Road.
The man suffered serious injuries and was taken to a London Hospital where he remains in a "critical but stable" condition.
Police have appealed for witnesses. | A 56-year-old man is in a critical condition in hospital following a hit-and-run in Gravesend. |
33,382,486 | The Queen and Prime Minister David Cameron joined the silence, along with the families of the dead.
Tourists and Tunisians gathered at the scene of the attack in Sousse, where they linked arms to observe the pause.
Inquests into the deaths of the Britons are under way, while the bodies of more victims have arrived in the UK.
At noon the nation fell silent, with businesses, sporting events and places of worship pausing to mark the moment the killings took place.
Tears were shed as hundreds of employees observed the silence at the head office of the travel company whose customers made up the toll of British dead, while flags were flown at half mast on many official buildings.
In pictures: UK and Tunisia fall silent
Walsall Football Club fell silent to remember three generations of one family who were killed.
Fans Joel Richards, 19, his uncle Adrian Evans, 44, and grandfather Charles (known as Patrick) Evans, 78, were among the dead.
Mr Richards's 16-year-old brother Owen survived the attack and was joined at the club's stadium by his mother Suzanne and hundreds of supporters.
Hundreds gathered to pay their respects to Adrian Evans outside Sandwell Council's offices, in the West Midlands, where he had worked as a gas services manager for many years.
"It's such a sad, sad fact that we are having to do this today but we wanted to demonstrate that Adrian Evans was one of our own," said council leader Darren Cooper.
"We are a very, very united community here and I've had expressions from various faith communities about the appalling nature of what has happened in Tunisia."
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The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh joined staff in marking the silence at the University of Strathclyde during an official visit to open a new technology and innovation centre, while Mr Cameron observed the pause at his Oxfordshire constituency of Witney.
The ceremony held at the beach-side scene of the killings was attended by Tunisians, tourists and dignitaries - including Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid.
Mr Essid has told the BBC the slow response of police to the attack was a major problem. He also said he was deeply sorry for the killings.
The British ambassador to Tunisia, Hamish Cowell, laid a wreath on the beach. He said it was "very important to be here in Sousse one week after this appalling, cowardly attack, to remember all those who have lost their lives".
The silence was also observed at the headquarters of the TUI Group travel company in Luton, which owns Thomson and First Choice. All 30 Britons killed were its customers.
Of the 1,800 people on site, about 1,600 stood outside to pay their respects.
The BBC's Ben Geoghegan said some of those gathered in the company's car park wore black ties, while some dabbed away tears.
Passengers and crews on Thomson Airways flights and in TUI offices around the world also fell silent to remember the dead.
A number of mosques observed the silence, including at Birmingham's Central Mosque where more than 6,000 people took part.
Chairman Mohammad Afzal said: "In the Quran it says killing an individual is like killing the whole of humanity. These innocent holidaymakers have committed no sin, had done nothing wrong and their lives were as precious as any other."
Qari Asim, an imam in Leeds, said his mosque wanted to show solidarity with the victims' families, as well as paying "our tribute to the survivors, whose courage and determination still continues to inspire us".
Police officers across the country took part in the silence, while at Wimbledon matches started late to allow the minute's quiet to be observed.
And the silence was also marked at Silverstone, which is hosting the British Grand Prix on Sunday, led by drivers and teams and also observed by the crowds in the grandstands.
Hundreds of people gathered along the gates of Buckingham Palace and lined the nearby pavements during the silence.
And the touring Australia Ashes cricket team joined Essex players and officials to bow their heads during a break in play in Chelmsford.
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The Tunisian prime minister and several government ministers came along with ambassadors from the UK, the US, France, Portugal, Ireland and the Netherlands.
Representatives from Belgium, Canada and Libya also attended the brief commemorative gathering. They all arrived in silence, laid wreaths of flowers in front of the plaque erected on the crime scene before two trumpets gave a solemn salute.
Dozens of tourists had come to pay respects too. Most of them attended in their swimsuits with beach towels wrapped around their waists.
The smell of sun cream floating around was a strange reminder of the 38 people who were killed here, most of them lying on sunbeds, enjoying some relaxing holiday time.
Dignitaries left without a word while tourists and Tunisians - some of whom were hotel staff - formed a human chain, holding hands around the flowers that were laid in the sand throughout the morning.
The first inquests at West London Coroner's Court have been opened by Coroner Chinyere Inyama, and will be adjourned later.
During one of the hearings, the coroner heard Stephen Mellor from Bodmin, Cornwall, was killed by gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen as he shielded his wife Cheryl.
Further inquests are due to be opened at the court on Saturday and Sunday.
Post-mortem examinations will be carried out before the bodies are released to their families.
The bodies of 25 of the British victims have now been returned to the UK.
The Foreign Office said those repatriated on Friday were Christopher and Sharon Bell, Scott Chalkley, Sue Davey, Angie and Ray Fisher, Eileen Swannack and John Welch.
The C-17 aircraft carrying their bodies landed at RAF Brize Norton on Friday afternoon.
The repatriation of the dead is likely to take several days, with two further flights planned for Friday and Saturday.
Among the three Irish citizens killed in the attack were Larry and Martina Hayes, who were buried in Athlone, in the Midlands Region, on Friday - which was the 30th birthday of their only daughter, Sinea.
Other victims included two Germans, one Belgian, one Portuguese and one Russian national.
Tunisian authorities have identified 28-year-old Tunisian student Seifeddine Rezgui as the gunman who carried out the attack.
They are also holding eight suspects in custody on suspicion of being directly linked to the attack, which jihadist group Islamic State has claimed. Four others who were held have been released.
Scotland Yard has previously said its investigation into the attack is likely to be one of the largest counter-terrorism deployments since the London 7/7 bombings in 2005, which killed 52. | A minute's silence has been held across the UK to remember the 38 people - including 30 Britons - killed in the Tunisia beach attack a week ago. |
34,001,622 | I went to some great locations and spent time with some amazing people and had a blast, doing a lot of sport and keeping myself busy in beautiful surroundings.
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I spent a few days at my house in Colorado, went to the Caribbean, where I feel very much at home and really enjoyed the Barbados carnival, and then spent a few days in New York before coming back to Europe for the second half of the season.
There were some pictures of me at the carnival in the papers, but I couldn't care less about that. I was on holiday, doing what I wanted to do, having fun, enjoying the whole event.
I was too busy dancing and just engulfed in the energy and atmosphere to even notice the cameras.
It was an amazing experience. I've been to the Notting Hill carnival and the one in Grenada, where my family originally come from, but Barbados was way better. Trinidad is supposed to have the best one of all the islands, so I'll have to try to get to that as well next year.
I'll be going back to Barbados, for sure, though. The weather, beaches, food are all great and the people are super-friendly.
I feel like I'm at home there in many ways, because it is similar to Grenada in many respects.
Don't think the fact we are on a summer break means it is one long party, though. Yes, I had a great time, but F1 is never far from your mind.
You switch off from racing, but I really got on to my fitness and diet regime.
On my first morning in my house in Colorado I treated myself to some pancakes, but after that I was on a healthy diet trying to lose weight because I was a little bit heavier than I wanted to be by the end of the first half of the season.
I was weighing myself every morning and spending the days doing gym workouts and running from the bottom of the hill to the top, in the same place I go skiing in the winter. That is a killer.
The first time I chilled out and had fun was in Barbados, but even there I was on my diet, although I did train less there than in the first week.
But then I was back on the training when we went to New York, running along the river and doing some hard gym workouts.
It was all about making sure I came back in the best shape I could because there is a long way to go until the end of the season and you need to be as strong and sharp as possible.
The last race before the break, in Hungary, did not go that well for me and I spent some time thinking about that for at least half the first week I was away.
You never plan to have bad days, obviously. It was like: "Oh. That's happened." Inevitably, it affected me - I am an emotional sportsman and I want to win. I started from pole, had a couple of incidents and finished sixth, so of course I was not happy after the race.
But there is nothing you can do about it except learn from it. I wanted to consider how it had come to be that way and I think I've worked out how to rectify that moving forward and make sure that sort of thing does not happen again.
Hungary was a bit of a blip but what is more important is that this has been a really strong season so far.
The way I look at it, I'm 21 points ahead of my Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg after 10 races, and I remember that at this point last year I was more than that behind - and I crashed out in this race. But I still went on to win the title.
Of course, there are always things you want to be better, but I am grateful for what I have and am looking forward to ensuring the second half of the season goes at least as well as the first.
If I drive like I have been so far this year, I should be strong.
From this race, there is a change to the rules governing starts. The teams can help the drivers less in terms of preparing the clutch to be in the best possible position for a good start. More will be in the drivers' hands.
No-one knows how that will play out, but after reflecting on it I think it is going to make F1 more exciting. I feel there are lots of positives in the change.
There is the potential for better starts but also more potential for worse starts. But everyone is in the same boat so I don't feel anything negative about it.
Everyone likes the Spa-Francorchamps track, where the race is held this weekend. It's definitely one of the best circuits in the world, but this is not a grand prix I have particularly loved in the past. It has rarely gone that well for me.
The record books say I have only won here once - in 2010 - but I always think of it as twice, as I "won" in 2008 as well, only to be demoted to third after the race when the stewards decided I had broken the rules concerning gaining an advantage by leaving the track.
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I have had lots of ups and downs at Spa and it is a really hard race to win. Just look at Fernando Alonso - he has never won here. And he's a great driver who has been racing even longer than me.
I know I can be quick here. But I also know it often seems to be a lottery, not least because the weather is so unpredictable here in the Ardennes mountains.
Hopefully I can have a good weekend and finally notch up another win to get the second half of the season off to the best possible start.
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Lewis Hamilton was talking to BBC Sport's Andrew Benson | I come back to racing at the Belgian Grand Prix this weekend feeling great after probably the best summer break of my Formula 1 career. |
38,273,084 | The two goals came either side of the break from Jordan Chapell and James Alabi, who had earlier missed a penalty.
Alabi, who scored four times in 8-2 home win in this same fixture last season, hit the left upright with his spot-kick after being crudely felled in the box.
But Chapell made amends on the stroke of half-time, firing in a low left-foot shot from a narrow angle, before Alabi struck his ninth goal of the season from close range on 53 minutes.
But City had to survive several scares, Shamir Fenelon hitting the left post from 20 yards, before Bernard Mensah hit the bar and home keeper Alex Lynch made a great save to tip over Scott Rendell's powerful shot.
Match ends, Chester FC 2, Aldershot Town 0.
Second Half ends, Chester FC 2, Aldershot Town 0.
Substitution, Chester FC. Will Marsh replaces James Alabi.
Substitution, Chester FC. Matty Waters replaces Elliott Durrell.
Luke George (Chester FC) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Iffy Allen replaces Cheye Alexander.
Elliott Durrell (Chester FC) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Charlie Walker replaces Bernard Mensah.
Substitution, Chester FC. Wade Joyce replaces Evan Horwood.
Goal! Chester FC 2, Aldershot Town 0. James Alabi (Chester FC).
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Kundai Benyu replaces Will Evans.
Second Half begins Chester FC 1, Aldershot Town 0.
First Half ends, Chester FC 1, Aldershot Town 0.
Goal! Chester FC 1, Aldershot Town 0. Jordan Chapell (Chester FC).
Idris Kanu (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Callum Reynolds (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Cheye Alexander (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Chester stretched their unbeaten National League run to seven games as they eventually saw off Aldershot. |
39,978,703 | The cable will have capacity to carry up to 1,200MW of electricity generated by renewable energy projects in the north of Scotland.
In March another ship, the Siem Ruby, used a subsea boulder clearance plough to create a trench in the Moray Firth.
NKT Victoria will lower cables into the trench before it is backfilled.
The first section of cable will be laid from Noss Head in Caithness to a midpoint where it will be joined to a second cable to be laid from Portgordon in Moray.
Led by SSE, the £1.1bn Caithness-Moray Project is to be completed next year. | A ship has arrived at Aberdeen from Sweden to lay more than 70 miles (113km) of high voltage subsea cables from Caithness to the Moray. |
37,166,170 | Sources say opponents of Abdulla Yameen in the tiny island nation are looking to move against him within weeks.
His spokesman told the BBC they knew of claims of an attempt to "overthrow" the government, describing it as a "clear breach of international norms".
The Maldives has seen frequent protests amid fears Mr Yameen's rule could see a return to its repressive past.
The luxury tourist destination only became a democracy in 2008 when Mohamed Nasheed became its first freely elected leader, ending three decades of autocratic rule under Mr Yameen's half-brother, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
The details of what is being planned remain obscure, but when put to the government they described it as a "formal attempt at 'legally' overthrowing the government".
"As in every democracy it is the people, via the ballot, who will decide who will next take office," a spokesman for the government said.
Mr Yameen came to power in 2013. Under his rule, hundreds of political activists have faced charges and several senior figures have been given long jail sentences including Mr Nasheed, who now lives in self-imposed exile in the UK.
But despite heavy restrictions, rallies regularly take place against his rule in the cramped streets of the capital, Male, away from the white sand beaches of tourist resorts.
Last Friday, hundreds of opposition activists gathered near the island's artificial beach, loudspeakers blaring out opposition songs. An image of the president gazed down from a billboard close by.
There were some scuffles with police forces, but heavy tropical rains sent most people to shelter. On the other side of the congested island, a weekly protest prayer was being held at a prominent mosque.
Many of the protesters agitated during Mr Gayoom's time in office, pushing for a democratic transition, and are worried about losing their recently gained freedoms.
This month has already seen a strict defamation law come in to force, with stiff punishments for comments or actions considered insulting to Islam or which "contradict general social norms", and tighter restrictions on demonstrations.
The death penalty is also being reintroduced, after a 60-year unofficial moratorium. The moves have drawn criticism from the UN, the UK, the EU and the US.
"It's the worst it's been," says Zaheena Rasheed, the editor of the Maldives Independent, a prominent English-language news website.
She says journalists are finding it increasingly hard to report in the current climate, and even operate at all. Three major news outlets have already closed this year.
One of her reporters, and an active blogger, went missing two years ago, and is thought to have been murdered. It is not clear who was responsible.
After his abduction, Ms Rasheed received a message saying she would be next, and arrived at her office to find a machete embedded in the door.
"Journalists are already facing death threats, harassments, murder attempts," she says. "Now we are seeing the courts and the laws silence journalists."
The government defends the new defamation law, saying it seeks to "safeguard ordinary citizens against baseless allegations" and encourages a "higher standard of reporting".
But instead of bolstering his authority, his critics say the new legislation simply exposed just how threadbare the government's support really is.
Politically isolated
The government has said it remains committed to human rights, and that any legal action is a matter for the judiciary. But politically, Mr Yameen has become increasingly lonely.
He is battling a broad opposition coalition led by his former deputy, Mohamed Jameel, and which includes former President Nasheed, now in exile in the UK.
Meanwhile, his own party has split, with a breakaway faction led by his half-brother and former ally, former President Gayoom. Last month, Mr Yameen admitted that the break was a "gift" to the opposition.
"The people of the Maldives will find a way to get rid of this dictator," says Eva Abdulla, an outspoken opposition MP, from her airy apartment in central Male.
"He's lost all support from within his own political party," she says. "He doesn't have any kind of support from the independent institutions, he doesn't have support from the security forces."
Credible sources have told the BBC that moves will be made against the president soon.
"The feeling is there is no other way out of this," one source said.
The president's spokesperson confirmed to the BBC that the "administration is aware of claims, by those organising outside of the Maldives, of this move.
Such a plot is "disingenuous to the people of the Maldives and in clear breach of international legal norms," Mr Ibrahim Shihab said. | A move to oust the president of the Maldives is being planned, the BBC has learned. |
32,589,582 | Huw Jenkins, 54, of Tonmawr, died following the incident on the A7 near Galashiels, last May.
Alastair Brearley, 67, told the hearing at Selkirk Sheriff Court how an HGV went into the back of a tractor and trailer being driven by Mr Jenkins.
He said the front end of the trailer "rose like a horse on two feet".
Mr Brearley said there were bits of glass and debris from the front of the lorry as he passed but when he looked in his wing mirror the vehicles were still moving.
He added: "I expected to see them stop but they continued down the road which I felt was bizarre.
"I later heard about the accident on the news with police asking for witnesses and that's when I came forward."
Police witnesses described how they had raced to the accident scene but while en route they noticed a lorry which had come to a halt with a front bumper and metal grille at the front badly damaged and a cracked windscreen.
PC Darren Howlett said he approached the driver, John Boyes, who was in the passenger seat.
The officer said: "He asked me what happened and I replied I was hoping he could tell me that.
"He did not have a clue at what had happened. He appeared very confused."
PC Howlett said the lorry's paperwork was in order along with the tachographs while an alcohol breath test was negative.
Special Constable Mark Laidlaw said Mr Boyes was under the impression his lorry had been struck by another vehicle.
He said: "He did not understand what had happened or why his lorry could not move.
"He kept asking me what happened.
"I felt he was suffering from a severe state of mental shock and had no recollection of the events."
The inquiry was told that following the collision Mr Jenkins had been thrown through the rear window of the John Deere tractor and was lying on the road - dead by the time police arrived.
The inquiry into his death continues. | An inquiry has heard evidence from a driver who witnessed a crash which claimed the life of a man from south Wales working on the Borders Railway. |
37,911,865 | Murtagh, 35, has reached agreement on a two-year addition to his existing deal.
"I've been extremely proud to represent Middlesex for the last decade," said Lambeth-born Murtagh.
"To have seen the side develop and grow to the point where we became county champions has been one of the most rewarding things I've achieved."
Murtagh has played for both London clubs, having moved to Lord's from neighbours Surrey in 2007.
He has gone on to make 277 appearances for Middlesex in all forms of the game, scoring almost 3,000 runs and taking more than 700 wickets, 557 of them in first-class cricket.
"I am delighted that, in all probability, Tim will finish his career with Middlesex," said managing director of cricket Angus Fraser, who was part of the last Middlesex team to win the title, in 1993.
"No current player will ever come close to overtaking the number of wickets Fred Titmus took for the club (2,361) but Tim's achievements will quite rightly be recognised.
"Last season, he overtook Norman Cowans' first-class wicket tally for the club to enter the top 25.
"Norman, quite rightly, is a Middlesex legend and Tim, having helped the club win its first County Championship for 23 years, should now be looked on in a similar manner." | Ireland seamer Tim Murtagh has extended his contract with county champions Middlesex, tying him to Lord's until at least 2018. |
35,542,054 | Mohammed Uddin, from Barking in east London, travelled to Syria in November 2014 but was detained for not having any travel documents when he returned to Turkey on 12 December.
The 29-year-old was stopped by counter terrorism officers when he arrived at Gatwick Airport on 22 December 2014.
He pleaded guilty to one charge of preparing acts for terrorism.
Sussex Police said security checks had led officers to suspect Uddin, of Wilmington Gardens, Barking, had been involved in terrorist-related activity.
He was also found to be in possession of extremist material.
Assistant Chief Constable Laura Nicholson, who leads counter-terrorism across the South-East, said "proactive work of Gatwick Airport port officers" had led to the capture of Uddin.
Sue Hemming of the Crown Prosecution Service said it had been "very clear" Uddin had "meticulously planned his trip".
"Online searches had been carried out relating to 'Islamic State fighting', which strongly implied a more sinister purpose to his trip," she said.
Uddin was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court on Tuesday. | A man who travelled to Syria to fight with the so-called Islamic State has been jailed for seven years. |
22,882,726 | Nevertheless, this latest incident, which saw him dropped for the Champions Trophy match against New Zealand after allegedly attacking England batsman Joe Root in a bar, shows he needs to change his ways.
Anyone who has followed Warner's career will see a story of a gifted batsman - an explosive player like England's Kevin Pietersen or fellow Aussie Adam Gilchrist, someone who can destroy a bowler's confidence and turn a game in an hour - but one who is frequently controversial.
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Only last month he was fined £3,700 by Cricket Australia for directing some colourful language towards journalists on Twitter after his picture had appeared, unfairly, in a story connected with corruption in the Indian Premier League.
A kid from the back blocks with a strong personality, he is outgoing, likes talking to people and always has an opinion. He is popular with his team-mates and respected in the dressing room. He has that lively and nocturnal side to his personality.
But he is 26 now, and off the field he needs to change. He can be belligerent and has not handled the pressure of international cricket as well as he might have done. This is his last chance. He needs to be more in control of himself and grow up or lose his place in the team.
Warner has had a tough upbringing, raised in housing commission accommodation at Matraville in Sydney, and has played grade cricket for Eastern Suburbs Cricket Club for 10 years.
His family have supported him throughout his career, and his parents, Howard and Lorraine Warner, run the canteen at the club, while older brother Steve is also a hard-hitting batsman there.
Figures correct as of 12 June, 2013
His talent is not in question, but his reputation for explosive hitting has rather worked against him at times.
I am on Eastern Suburbs' committee and saw him destroy bowlers during his teenage years. At under-16 level he made phenomenal scores and he kept doing that into his 20s.
His arrival in the game was via limited-overs cricket rather than the first-class game and it took him a year to get his place in the New South Wales Sheffield Shield side. He played limited-overs cricket for Australia before he'd made a first-class appearance for his state side.
He got a chance in a Twenty20 game and smashed a South African attack including Dale Steyn at the MCG, scoring 89. From that moment he had arrived and was a white-ball demolition expert. Unfortunately for Warner, it is a reputation he cannot get rid of.
He has now played 19 Test matches but I didn't expect him to make it to that level. No-one was certain if his game was good enough in the longer form, but we were all stupid to think he would not be successful.
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Nevertheless, our opinions were shared elsewhere and it has taken him a long time to prove he is more than just a tonker, someone who can clear the boundary at will.
And unfortunately his attempt to change his style is exactly where he is going wrong, with seven single-figure scores in his last nine innings while playing in the IPL for the Delhi Daredevils or one-day internationals for Australia.
He is no longer playing like David Warner: he is thinking about the game too much and his confidence has been shaken.
Warner's pride will also be hurting after this latest off-field incident too - and so it should be. I hope he thinks he let his team-mates down.
I want to hear the full facts, but he should certainly get a rap on the knuckles and be told to modify his behaviour.
Four players were dropped from the Indian tour for not doing their homework and giving a presentation to the rest of the squad and this would seem to be a much more serious offence.
What it again highlights is the lack of discipline in the Australia squad, something we have seen since the retirements of Ricky Ponting and Michael Hussey.
"I don't think David Warner is as good as he was 12 months ago and we are not seeing the game we are used to.
"He has a different mentality to his batting game, he used to be see-ball, hit-ball but there's more technique involved now and a bit more thought.
"He is one of those people that can destroy you but at the moment you do not feel that, you feel you will get a dot ball or even his wicket.
"I don't think it's a fear of failing, he is stronger than that, he is just trying to adapt his game and trying to be an all-round cricketer."
The incident in India was managed very clumsily. It was a huge embarrassment, made Cricket Australia look a laughing stock and suggested the management had lost the trust of the players.
Head coach Mickey Arthur and captain Michael Clarke need to pull this together, get the respect of everyone and make sure everyone is playing as a team. They all have a responsibility to be at their best and to contribute, but some of the guys have lost the plot as far as that goes.
As for what this does to Australia's chances of beating England and winning the Ashes, it does not change anything. Australia's chances were not good before and they are not good now.
But on that score, Clarke's back injury is a bigger concern than Warner's behaviour.
I wouldn't expect people that follow the game closely in Australia to think we will win the Ashes - a lot of people have resigned themselves to the fact we can't - but there will be a view we might sneak a Test or two.
I wouldn't say we won't win, but there's not a lot of belief in this Australian team. This line-up cannot score runs consistently.
A focused and on-form Warner would certainly boost their chances.
Jim Maxwell was talking to BBC Sport's Michael Emons | David Warner is a loose cannon for Australia, but he is still a potential match-winner. |
17,728,039 | Many games on the iOS platform are free to download but offer game add-ons, some of which cost nearly £70.
The group said it was too easy for children to run up big bills without "authorisation of their parents".
Apple had called for the case to be dismissed, pointing out that in-app purchasing can now be disabled.
However, US District Judge Edward Davila said the hearing could now go ahead.
Apple's purchasing system allows users to enter their credit-card details once and then authorise future payments for apps and other items with just a password.
In a recent update to its iOS software, Apple added extra steps in the in-app purchasing process, including the requirement to enter an additional password to buy items within apps.
It is now also possible to turn the feature off entirely.
However, the group of parents, led by attorney Garen Meguerian, said children were still encouraged to buy items by the games' addictive nature, and parents might not be fully aware of the financial implications.
Apple has not yet responded to requests for comment on the case.
Other mobile platforms, such as Google's Android, also offer in-app purchasing functions.
In a court filing
first made in 2011, Mr Meguerian highlighted several titles which he believed were developed "strategically to induce purchases of Game Currency".
Among them was Smurfs' Village, developed by Capcom. While the game itself is free, in-app purchases available in the "Smurfberry Shop" range from £2.99 to £69.99.
A warning message in the game's description states that Smurfs' Village "charges real money for additional in-app content".
It is possible to play the game without spending money. However, progress is typically far slower for the player.
One review of the game states: "You really wont get anywhere with just the free stuff."
In-app payments have been the subject of scrutiny in the US. Last year, the practice was investigated by the US Federal Trade Commission which ruled developers must do more to warn parents about the content of their games.
In the UK, Niamh Bolton told the BBC she felt "physically sick" after learning her 10-year-old daughter had totted up a bill of more than £1,500 while playing Tap Pet Hotel.
The game, developed by San Francisco-based Pocket Gems, is part of a wider "Tap" series which was also referred to in Mr Meguerian's court filing.
Ms Bolton said the purchases, which were made before Apple added the in-app disabling feature, were made within two hours.
"It was more than our monthly mortgage repayment," she told the BBC.
"We didn't have that sort of spare cash in the bank account."
She was able to get the money refunded after contacting Apple customer services.
"The difficulty we had was contacting iTunes," she said.
"I had to go through a series of very difficult steps to send an email to them." | Apple is being sued by parents who claim the iPhone-maker is unfairly profiting from in-app payments in games aimed at children. |
40,894,967 | Monica Thompson says nurses were negligent in allowing her to breastfeed her four-day-old baby, Jacob, while sedated and without supervision.
According to the lawsuit, nurses brought Mrs Thompson's son to her ward bed at around 03:00 on 6 August 2012.
After drifting off, she awoke to find the infant unresponsive.
Earlier that night she had been given "narcotic painkillers and sleep aids" by nurses at the Portland Adventist Medical Center in the state of Oregon, her lawsuit states.
Her son had been born "healthy" by Cesarean section, according to the lawsuit.
Six days after the accident, he was removed from life support, after doctors advised he would never recover from the brain damage.
Mrs Thompson is seeking compensation for the baby's "desperation and anxiety" and her own "severe emotional distress upon unintentionally killing her firstborn child".
"She called for a nurse while she tried to get him to respond," her lawsuit claims.
"Mrs Thompson tried to stimulate her son's suckling reflexes without success.
"She touched his eyes and got no response. She poked him and talked to him with no reaction.
"When no nurse came to help, Mrs Thompson carried her son to the hallway and frantically yelled for help."
The Portland Adventist Medical Center said in a statement: "This was a tragic event and our thoughts and prayers continue to be with the family.
"Adventist Medical Center is committed to providing quality, compassionate care to all of our patients.
"We are reviewing the claims being made and we are unable to provide any additional information at this time."
The American Academy of Pediatrics has previously recommended infants should not sleep in the same bed with parents, due to the risk the child could be smothered under an adult's shifting weight.
Some countries, such as Finland, have reduced their infant mortality rate by distributing cardboard box cribs to every new mother. | A US mother who accidentally smothered her newborn son as she slept is suing the hospital where his death occurred for $8.6m (£6.6m). |
39,799,508 | Kimberly Adie, 27, says staff at a Winnipeg nail salon turned her away because of her size.
She and her fiancé had gone to get a weekend pedicure together on a whim.
This is not the first time a nail salon in North America has made headlines for the way overweight clients have been treated.
A couple of salons in the US have been criticised for billing larger clients a surcharge on top of the regular bill.
In this latest incident in Winnipeg, Ms Adie said that when she walked into the salon, two women who worked there stared her up and down.
Then the salon manager told her they could not take her as a client, saying repeatedly she would not "fit".
Her fiancé was told he could have get a pedicure.
"I was so stunned they told me I wouldn't fit in their chairs and yet they wanted to take my fiancé," she said.
Ms Adie and her fiancé went to another salon. By the time they arrived, she said she was in tears.
"I felt so ashamed of myself and so embarrassed about what I looked like," she recalled, but her fiancé cajoled her into getting the pedicure she wanted.
She has received many positive messages since coming forward from others who have had similar experiences.
"They're glad someone was able to step up and voice what happened, instead of hiding behind a curtain and just accepting (it)."
No one from the A1 Nail Pampers nail salon was available for comment on Wednesday.
But the salon owner told CTV News Winnipeg that she was sorry about the incident and that they had been unable to accommodate Ms Adie on a busy Saturday.
In 2010, a nail salon in Georgia made headlines for admitting it added US$5(£3.9) to the bill for overweight clients as a sort of insurance to pay for any damage to the pedicure chairs.
More recently, a customer at a nail salon in Memphis, Tennessee claimed there was a sign announcing that people who were overweight would face an extra service charge.
The owner denied ever posting the sign but told a Memphis news station in March that he had considered posting one in the past.
Ximena Ramos Salas, managing director of the Canadian Obesity Network, says she hears similar "heartbreaking" stories a lot.
Ms Adie did the right thing by speaking out because it can help counter stereotypes around weight, she said.
"We live in a society where more people have larger bodies than not. That means we have to start accommodating for people who live in larger bodies," Ms Ramos Salas said.
"That means businesses need to change, airlines needs to change, everyone needs to start changing." | A Canadian woman who says she was denied a pedicure because of her weight says she went public about it because "everyone deserves pampering". |
25,650,212 | The bridge over the River Cerne in Charminster, which has listed status by English Heritage, becomes backed up with water during heavy rainfall.
St Mary the Virgin church flooded with over 1ft (30cm) of water on Saturday.
West Dorset MP, Oliver Letwin, said: "It's a ridiculous situation where the protection of one bit of heritage is putting other bits at risk."
Mr Letwin has called on English Heritage to allow the bridge to be replaced as previous works by the Environment Agency have not prevented the village flooding.
He said: "The bridge is a perfectly nice bridge, but it's not a great national monument.
"We're not going to get a really effective flood protection scheme unless this bridge is replaced."
Several homes in East Hill and West Hill areas of the village were also flooded during the recent heavy rainfall.
An English Heritage spokesman said: "We have been in discussions with the Environment Agency about a range of flood defence options for Charminster which would involve retaining the listed bridge over the River Cerne.
"This bridge has architectural and historical significance and any plans that would involve demolition would need careful consideration and justification."
The church is expected to be closed until April due to the damage caused by the flooding. | An MP is calling for a bridge regarded as the cause of flooding to a Grade I-listed church in Dorset to be removed. |
37,399,477 | After a goalless first half, debutant defender Corina Schroder slotted the hosts ahead after a spell of pressure.
Schroder then brought down Liverpool's Rosie White in the area and Katie Zelem levelled from the penalty spot.
But Kerys Harrop restored the Blues' lead on 70 minutes, nodding in from Jessica Carter's long throw, to inflict Liverpool's first WSL 1 loss since May.
Match ends, Birmingham City Ladies 2, Liverpool Ladies 1.
Second Half ends, Birmingham City Ladies 2, Liverpool Ladies 1.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Kate Longhurst (Liverpool Ladies) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Delay in match Charlie Wellings (Birmingham City Ladies) because of an injury.
Foul by Kate Longhurst (Liverpool Ladies).
Charlie Wellings (Birmingham City Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Katie Zelem (Liverpool Ladies) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Ashley Hodson.
Offside, Liverpool Ladies. Katie Zelem tries a through ball, but Shanice Van de Sanden is caught offside.
Offside, Birmingham City Ladies. Jessica Carter tries a through ball, but Charlie Wellings is caught offside.
Offside, Birmingham City Ladies. Melissa Lawley tries a through ball, but Alex Windell is caught offside.
Kate Longhurst (Liverpool Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Abbey-Leigh Stringer (Birmingham City Ladies).
Jessica Carter (Birmingham City Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Shanice Van de Sanden (Liverpool Ladies).
Substitution, Birmingham City Ladies. Charlie Wellings replaces Freda Ayisi.
Attempt missed. Gemma Bonner (Liverpool Ladies) header from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Laura Coombs with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Liverpool Ladies. Conceded by Sophie Baggaley.
Substitution, Liverpool Ladies. Ashley Hodson replaces Caroline Weir.
Attempt blocked. Coral-Jade Haines (Birmingham City Ladies) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Alex Windell.
Attempt missed. Shanice Van de Sanden (Liverpool Ladies) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Laura Coombs.
Attempt missed. Coral-Jade Haines (Birmingham City Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Foul by Caroline Weir (Liverpool Ladies).
Jessica Carter (Birmingham City Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Caroline Weir (Liverpool Ladies) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Katie Zelem.
Substitution, Birmingham City Ladies. Alex Windell replaces Chloe Peplow.
Sophie Ingle (Liverpool Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Freda Ayisi (Birmingham City Ladies).
Substitution, Liverpool Ladies. Kate Longhurst replaces Rosie White.
Goal! Birmingham City Ladies 2, Liverpool Ladies 1. Kerys Harrop (Birmingham City Ladies) header from the left side of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Jessica Carter.
Substitution, Birmingham City Ladies. Meaghan Sargeant replaces Corina Schröder because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Corina Schröder (Birmingham City Ladies) because of an injury.
Goal! Birmingham City Ladies 1, Liverpool Ladies 1. Katie Zelem (Liverpool Ladies) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Chloe Peplow (Birmingham City Ladies) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty Liverpool Ladies. Rosie White draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Chloe Peplow (Birmingham City Ladies) after a foul in the penalty area.
Siobhan Chamberlain (Liverpool Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Dangerous play by Chloe Peplow (Birmingham City Ladies).
Foul by Natasha Harding (Liverpool Ladies). | Birmingham City moved above Liverpool into fourth in Women's Super League One with a 2-1 home win over the Reds. |
24,517,456 | A committee led by Peter Field, the Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex, has been set up to organise a series of events in Battle, near Hastings.
It is hoped a senior member of the royal family will help mark the anniversary of the battle which led to the conquest of England by the Normans.
A memorial service for the Saxon and Normans who were killed will be held.
The day's event will end with a military band and marching display through the town centre of Battle and a flag lowering ceremony at dusk. | Plans are under way to mark the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 2016. |
35,235,904 | Captain Amla finally departed for 201, while Bavuma made an unbeaten 102 as the Proteas declared on 627-7, two short of England's first-innings total.
Faf du Plessis hit 86, while Chris Morris contributed 69 after the hosts lost three wickets for 10 runs.
England reached 16-0 at the close, leading by 18.
Openers Alastair Cook and Alex Hales successfully negotiated a testing six overs in the final half hour.
A draw seems the most likely outcome on a flat Newlands wicket but South Africa will be looking to dismiss the tourists cheaply on day five to set up an unlikely triumph and square the four-match series.
In reaching 100 off 141 balls, Bavuma also became the first black African to score a Test century for South Africa as the hosts' middle order overcame their struggles in the first Test to make England toil.
England squandered numerous chances to exert control and potentially set up victory by dropping eight catches in South Africa's innings, which contributed to them spent 211 overs in the field.
England's missed chances:
Root was also culpable for failing to pick up a mistimed drive with Amla on 197, initially running in the wrong direction and failing to recover his ground.
Despite the reprieves handed to both batsmen, Amla and Du Plessis showed tremendous resistance in the morning session to chip away at the overnight deficit of 276, with Amla reaching his fourth Test double century off 461 balls.
Having batted for almost 12 hours, Amla eventually fell to delivery from Broad that nipped back slightly to hit the top of leg stump via inside edge.
Du Plessis soon followed, edging James Anderson to Ben Stokes at third slip, before Quinton de Kock fell into England's trap by guiding a Broad short ball to Anderson at backward square-leg.
Still trailing by 180 at 449-6, South Africa's position looked precarious but Bavuma and Morris counter-attacked fluently as the new ball lost its potency and the England attack their discipline.
Bavuma, in particular, unfurled some exquisite strokes, equally comfortable driving through the covers or rolling his wrists on the pull.
His 167-run stand with Morris - a South Africa record for the seventh wicket - all but erased England's advantage and ended only when Morris drove Finn to short extra-cover.
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew:
Bavuma's magnificent unbeaten century transcended cricket.
I have followed South Africa and witnessed their first tour after they came back into world cricket in 1991 following the wilderness years of apartheid.
I watched their first Test match back - their first in the West Indies - which was very significant, but the hundred by 25-year-old Bavuma is absolutely up there.
Bavuma, as the first black African to score a century for South Africa, is massively symbolic.
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Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott on Test Match Special: "If England had caught most of those chances they would have won the match.
"As a coach, sometimes say nothing. They're not bad catchers but they've had a bad day at the office - a really bad day. It's madness."
Ex-England captain Michael Vaughan: "Sometimes when you draw you think who has got the better of the draw.
"The way South Africa have fought back, with all their engine room back in the runs, it should serve them well going into the rest of the series." | A double hundred from Hashim Amla and Temba Bavuma's maiden Test century saw South Africa continue to frustrate England in Cape Town. |
37,025,019 | Reds head coach Dermot Drummy knows the former Ghana Under-20 international from his spell as a coach in the Premier League club's youth set-up.
Defender Pappoe, 22, played for Hemel Hempstead Town in National League South last season.
He is eligible to make his debut for Crawley in Tuesday's EFL Cup tie against Wolves.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | League Two side Crawley Town have signed former Chelsea youngster Danny Pappoe on non-contract terms. |
36,103,874 | It will be known as the bet365 Stadium from August after the club agreed a naming rights deal with the betting firm, who own the club.
Capacity will rise to more than 30,000 with the filling in of the corner between the DPD and Marston's Pedigree Stands, creating 1,800 new seats.
The Britannia building society name ceased to exist in 2013.
The Potters moved from the Victoria Ground to the Britannia Stadium in 1997.
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Chief executive Tony Scholes thanked Britannia and the Co-operative Bank for their "tremendous support" over the past 19 years, but said it wanted to maximise income.
"The Premier League is constantly evolving and to ensure that Stoke City remain as competitive as possible it's important we explore as many ways as possible of generating revenue."
The football club has agreed a six-year stadium naming rights deal with its owner, who has also extended its shirt sponsorship for a further three years.
The redevelopment of the stadium will be completed in time for the start of the 2017-18 season, the club confirmed.
John Coates, joint chief executive of bet365 and vice chairman of Stoke City, said there was "no doubt" the gambling company, based in the city, had benefitted from the shirt sponsorship agreement.
"We have been looking to extend our portfolio of sports sponsorship and entering into a stadium naming rights agreement with Stoke City seemed a natural fit, especially as the city of Stoke-on-Trent is home to bet365."
The Potters are currently ninth in the Premier League, with four games left until the season finishes. | Stoke City Football Club have announced they are to rename and expand the Britannia Stadium. |
25,534,486 | He has pledged to end the culture of privilege in Indian politics, and used public transport to reach the ceremony.
Mr Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), or Common Man's party, won 28 of the 70 assembly seats and was able to form a government with Congress party support.
The Congress party lost control of Delhi, winning only eight seats.
"This is a huge victory for the people of Delhi,'' said the former civil servant, to applause from tens of thousands gathered at the ground. "The people of Delhi have shown that elections can be fought and won with honesty."
Earlier, the main opposition BJP, which emerged as the single largest party with 32 seats, declined to form a government.
It said it would sit in opposition since it did not have the support of 36 legislators needed to rule Delhi.
The AAP had initially taken a similar stand, only to change its mind in saying it had received "overwhelming support" from voters to go ahead and form a government.
The AAP - whose party symbol is a broom - was born out of a strong anti-corruption movement that swept India two years ago. | Arvind Kejriwal, the leader of a new anti-corruption party in India, has been sworn in as Delhi's chief minister at the city's Ramlila Ground. |
37,616,409 | Michael Coyle, whose address was given as care of The Simon Community in Ballymena, was sentenced on Tuesday.
He admitted pulling a knife from his pocket on Christmas day and shouting at a driver in Nippy Taxis office: "I will slash you" and "I will behead you".
The judge said Coyle had left the taxi driver and his family terrified.
Three weeks after Coyle threatened the driver, he asked the man to retract his statement to police.
He also threatened to wait for the taxi driver outside his place of work.
The judge said the courts had to protect taxi drivers who provided an important public service, particularly on Christmas Day.
The defendant pleaded guilty to three charges: threats to kill, possessing a knife with intent and intimidating a witness. | A 34-year-old man who threatened to "slash and behead" a Londonderry taxi driver after shouting he was "just like Isis" has been jailed for 14 months. |
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The Scot, 34, finished last with a time of 109.00 after an early mistake.
Gargaud Chanut won France's second gold of the Games with 94.17, while Slovak Matej Benus took silver and Japan's Takuya Haneda got the bronze.
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Florence will compete again for a medal on Thursday in the men's C2 double with Richard Hounslow.
Florence became Great Britain's first Olympic slalom medallist with a C1 silver at Beijing 2008 but has never won gold at a Games.
"I'm most disappointed not to have put in a good run. I just didn't really get it right today," Florence said.
"I'm lucky that my Olympics isn't over just yet."
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | France's Denis Gargaud Chanut won Olympic gold in the men's canoe slalom as Great Britain's David Florence finished 10th in Rio. |
35,733,493 | Max Gradel slotted the home side in front after a cross was palmed into his path but Modou Barrow cut in from the right and curled in a shot to equalise.
Joshua King drilled in a strike to restore Bournemouth's lead, only for Gylfi Sigurdsson to fire in and level.
But Steve Cook headed in late on to clinch the win for the Cherries.
Relive Bournemouth's win over Swansea
The Cherries have earned 10 points from their last four games and, while that may not secure their Premier League survival mathematically, to the home crowd it will feel like they have one foot in next season's top flight.
Eddie Howe's side have now won eight of their last 16 league games - form that has earned them mid-table status.
With difficult matches coming up against Tottenham and Manchester City, and a run-in which includes trips to Everton and Manchester United, Bournemouth have won the games they needed to win.
"We still feel we have more work to do but we are moving in the right direction," said Howe. "We have to keep achieving. We go into a tough run of fixtures but ones we can look forward to."
Gradel reacted to his neat, low finish to open the scoring by running straight to the Bournemouth bench to celebrate with the backroom team.
After a lengthy spell in the treatment room with a cruciate knee injury, the midfielder's joy at scoring his first goal of the season was clear for all to see.
"One thing came in my mind and that was to thank the coach, he did a lot for me," the 28-year-old said. "When people are loyal to you, you have to give something back.
"Twice [the knee injury] happened to me and it is never easy. The coach believed in me and when I was thinking that I couldn't give up and I was thinking of my family."
Defeat was Swansea's first since head coach Francesco Guidolin was admitted to hospital with a chest infection on 2 March.
Despite having been released on Monday, the Italian sat out Saturday's game to aid his recovery, leaving first-team coach Alan Curtis to lead touchline duties once again.
The Swans had been impressive in their two back-to-back wins without the 60-year-old, partly thanks to the in-form Gylfi Sigurdsson.
But the Iceland international's seventh goal in 11 games was not enough to earn the visitors a point, though they are eight points clear of the drop zone.
Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe: "Swansea showed good character but our lads showed even better character to deal with those setbacks and find another gear."
On Max Gradel's goal: "It meant everything the club and everything to the player himself who has had a difficult time [through injury]. But the way he has come back is a breath of fresh air."
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Swansea manager Alan Curtis: "I thought we gave them three goals. They were individual mistakes. We got ourselves back in and had chances to go in front but it wasn't to be. We are disappointed. We need to lift ourselves now.
"Forty points is what we are aiming for. Once we get there - if we get there - we will push on. There is still a lot of work to do."
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Bournemouth travel to title-chasing Tottenham on Sunday 20 March, while Swansea host bottom club Aston Villa on Saturday 19 March. | Bournemouth secured a third successive league win with a dramatic victory over Swansea which moved them 13 points clear of the relegation zone. |
40,582,757 | The proposed Bill came top in a poll of voters - across the UK and within his constituency - from a shortlist of six.
Mr Bryant said: "I will be urging every single MP to turn up to vote for this bill to protect the protectors - it's the least they deserve."
He came top in a ballot of MPs seeking to introduce a private member's Bill.
Mr Bryant said 33,900 votes were cast in his online poll, 483 of them from his constituency, with the bill to curb assaults on emergency staff attracting 10,764 first preferences.
The next most popular choice was a bill to allow refugees' families to join them in Britain.
Mr Bryant said he would present the Crime (Assaults on Emergency Staff) Bill - to make attacks on emergency workers such as police, fire and ambulance crews an aggravated offence - in the Commons next week.
"It is already a specific offence to attack a police officer conducting their duties under Section 89(1) of the Police Act 1996, but that provision is far too weak and has proved ineffective in protecting officers," he said.
"Prosecutions are rare, sentences are extremely lenient - and there is still no legal protection for paramedics, doctors or nurses.
'What my poll shows is that my constituents and the country think it is high time to change the law."
In June, figures indicated attacks on south Wales firefighters had almost trebled in the past year.
Hospital staff in Wales were physically attacked more than 18,000 times at work over five years, according to figures published last December. | Rhondda Labour MP Chris Bryant will introduce a proposed new law to crack down on attacks on emergency workers doing their job. |
35,144,366 | The review will examine whether the law gives enough support to officers making a "split-second" decision to shoot.
It follows concerns from senior police that firearms officers do not have the necessary legal or political backing to work with confidence.
Labour has warned of possible damage to community relations with the police.
Gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people in Paris when they attacked a concert hall, a major stadium, restaurants and bars almost simultaneously on 13 November.
BBC political correspondent Chris Mason says the atrocity has provoked deep soul-searching within government and among the police, raising the question of how the UK would cope if something similar were to happen here.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe is understood to have raised concerns with David Cameron about the legal position of armed officers.
The issue was also discussed at a National Security Council meeting on counter-terrorism last week.
Currently, the Criminal Law Act 1967 allows police to use "reasonable force", while the Criminal Justice Act 2008 recognises the defence that an officer had an "honest and instinctive" belief that opening fire was reasonable.
The internal review - to be carried out by the Home Office, the Attorney General's office and the Ministry of Justice - is expected to examine whether those laws go far enough to protect armed officers and prevent them hesitating in the event of an attack.
Of the 130,000 officers in England and Wales, around 6,000 are trained to use guns, but the government has announced plans to significantly increase that number.
A firearms officer was arrested last week over the fatal shooting of Jermaine Baker, 28, in Wood Green, north London. The Independent Police Complaints Commission is also investigating the incident.
There have been warnings that fears of lengthy investigations, public inquiries and even prosecutions following a shooting could deter police officers from taking up firearms roles.
Former Met Police commissioner Lord Blair told Sky News the "investigative and judicial processes" needed to change, rather than the law.
"When somebody is shot dead, of course the police have to account for what has happened, but some of these cases take five, seven, 10 years to resolve. That's completely absurd."
He added: "These are men and women who go to work to do an incredibly dangerous job for which they volunteer and if they do their duty and shoot somebody because they have to... they should not be treated as criminals."
Officers must consider whether the use of "reasonable force" has a lawful objective and basis. Their options include:
An officer must also determine how immediate and grave a threat is, and whether any action short of using force could be deployed instead.
The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 says that what amounts to reasonable force should be considered in light of the circumstances a police officer is faced with - and what they honestly and instinctively believed they were faced with - at the time.
A government source said: "We must make sure that when police take the ultimate decision to protect the safety of the public they do so with the full support of the law and the state - there can be no room for hesitation when lives are at risk."
But Jeremy Corbyn told the Sunday Times: "There has to be a very robust and strong independent inquiry into what the police do. Like any other public organisation, they must be held to account. I hope this is not a political stunt."
Following Paris, Mr Corbyn told the BBC he was "not happy" with police operating a shoot-to-kill policy, but later backtracked, insisting he supported any "strictly necessary force".
His shadow business secretary, Angela Eagle, told the BBC there must be "safeguards" to prevent wrongful shootings, but added: "We also need to give our armed police the confidence if they are dealing with a marauding terrorist... they can get that person down and get them on the ground and save life."
Lib Dem leader Tim Farron said police officers "must feel protected", but the law must be reviewed "in a calm and collected manner and not in a knee-jerk response to terror attacks".
The Met Police are also planning to increase the number of officers able to use Tasers.
The prime minister is thought to be in favour of the move in light of the response to the recent stabbings at Leytonstone Underground station, in which a Taser was used. | The prime minister has ordered a review of the use of guns by police in England and Wales following the Paris attacks, the BBC understands. |
35,843,946 | Her ex-boyfriend Simeon Carr-Minns, known then as Jim, asked Pte Cheryl James if she was seeing someone else two days before she died.
She was found dead with a bullet wound to the head on 27 November 1995.
The 18-year-old from Llangollen, Denbighshire, was one of four recruits to die at the base in seven years.
Mr Carr-Minns had been seeing Pte James for two months before she died but they had broken up, the Woking inquest heard.
He said he and Pte James had discussed marriage and made plans for him to meet her parents.
But the inquest heard he asked her on 25 November if she was seeing someone else and later that evening he found her with another man, the next day her mood was unusually up and down, and she died on 27 November.
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Mr Carr-Minns was asked whether their conversation on 25 November in Deepcut's Naafi bar had been heated.
He said: "Slightly impassioned, maybe, but not raised voices. It was never that.
"But I would have been quite anxious about it. I was never angry, more upset."
The inquest heard that later that evening he found her with another man, Pte Paul Wilkinson, on a bed in a disused block, looking "dishevelled".
The hearing was told that on the following evening of 26 November, Pte James and Mr Carr-Minns had sex at a party where Pte Wilkinson was also present.
Mr Carr-Minns said: "She would be laughing and joking one minute and quite aggressive or sad or angry the next minute.
"She seemed to go from one state to the other. I had not seen her like this before."
That night he walked her back to her own block and then went back to his own barracks after she asked him to come back and visit her the following day.
The next morning Mr Carr-Minns received a phone call and heard Pte James had died.
He said the news left him "absolutely devastated" and he "collapsed" in the phone box.
He said he told police in 2002 that "at no time" had Pte James indicated she might kill herself.
Previously in the inquest, evidence was read from a Surrey Police review which suggested Mr Carr-Minns "should be considered as a suspect".
But coroner Brian Barker QC said he was not under any suspicion and the family had indicated in open court they did not think him a suspect.
A first inquest into Pte James's death in December 1995 recorded an open verdict. This second inquest was ordered after High Court judges quashed the original findings.
The hearing continues. | A recruit who died at Deepcut had split with one boyfriend and was seeing another soldier in a love triangle at the Surrey base, an inquest has heard. |
34,844,461 | Roy Hodgson's side are one of the top seeds, while the other three are among six nations in the pot of bottom seeds.
There will be six groups of four teams for next summer's finals in France.
The winners and runners-up in each group will qualify for the knockout phase as well as the four best third-place sides.
England, holders Spain, Belgium, Germany, Portugal and hosts France complete pot one.
Meanwhile 2012 runners-up and four-time world champions Italy are one of the teams in pot two.
Pot three contains Sweden and Poland.
The finals will start on Friday, 10 June, with the final taking place at Stade de France on Sunday, 10 July. | England will have a 50-50 chance of being drawn against Wales, Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland in the Euro 2016 draw on 12 December. |
35,953,098 | Having seen Leicester beat Sunderland earlier, Tottenham scored three goals in six second-half minutes to stay seven points behind the Foxes.
Dele Alli slotted in from inside the area and Toby Alderweireld headed home, before Erik Lamela's sweet strike.
Anthony Martial drove straight at Hugo Lloris after a weaving run, to register the away side's only shot on target.
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Kick-off was delayed by half an hour as the United team bus was stuck in London traffic en route to White Hart Lane.
And they barely provided a threat in the match, taking until the 62nd minute to test goalkeeper Lloris and capitulating in the second period.
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Spurs had not beaten their opponents at home since 2001, a run of 14 games, while manager Mauricio Pochettino was winless in six previous games against United.
But the home side ended that sequence with a stunning passage of attacking play to stay second in the table and in touch with leaders Leicester.
There was concern among the home fans as the deadlock lasted for 70 minutes, before Alli - who turns 20 on Monday - latched on to Christian Eriksen's pass for the opener.
Four minutes later, Alderweireld looped in a header to calm the nerves, and Argentine Lamela, who missed a header from six yards out in the first half, stroked in his 10th goal of the season.
Tottenham, who have conceded the fewest goals in the league this season (25), still need help from leaders Leicester if they are to clinch their first league title since 1961, but this deserved victory keeps their title bid alive.
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Having turned up to the ground late, United seemed set up to contain the opposition and finished with just five shots in the match.
Defeat means the Red Devils face a struggle to finish in the Champions League places at the end of the season, slipping four points behind rivals Manchester City, who currently occupy the crucial fourth place.
Bizarrely, Louis van Gaal decided to substitute young striker Marcus Rashford at half-time and sent on winger Ashley Young, who played as the furthest man forward for the second 45 minutes.
Young made little impression, while 18-year-old right-back Timothy Fosu-Mensah was United's best player, defending robustly with five tackles, five interceptions and six clearances during his 68 minutes on the pitch.
Just two minutes after the Dutchman was replaced by Matteo Darmian because of injury, Tottenham broke the deadlock in a move that came from his side of the pitch.
The scoreline might have been worse for Van Gaal's side, as goalkeeper David de Gea saved a deflected Eric Dier shot and tipped over Harry Kane's looping header.
Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino:
"I think it's true we sent a message that we are there, waiting and fighting.
"If Leicester fail we need to stay there, it's important. Seven points is a difficult gap to reduce but we need to believe.
"The performance like today, and the result like today, showed that this team believes."
Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal:
"Tottenham is a great team and I have said that also in advance of this match. But, until the first goal, I think we were a good team who were playing good in Tottenham and we also had a big chance for a goal.
"Yes, 3-0 is a big negative result but the way that we have played until the first goal was good."
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Tottenham travel to Stoke in the Premier League on Monday, 18 April (kick-off 20:00 BST), while Manchester United face West Ham in their FA Cup quarter-final replay on Wednesday, 13 April (19:00 BST).
Match ends, Tottenham Hotspur 3, Manchester United 0.
Second Half ends, Tottenham Hotspur 3, Manchester United 0.
Foul by Ashley Young (Manchester United).
Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Ryan Mason replaces Dele Alli.
Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) is shown the yellow card.
Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Attempt missed. Mousa Dembélé (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Dele Alli.
Offside, Manchester United. Daley Blind tries a through ball, but Anthony Martial is caught offside.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Son Heung-Min replaces Harry Kane.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Kyle Walker.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Nacer Chadli replaces Erik Lamela.
Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Erik Lamela tries a through ball, but Kyle Walker is caught offside.
Ashley Young (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ashley Young (Manchester United).
Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Memphis Depay (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card.
Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur) is shown the yellow card.
Morgan Schneiderlin (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur).
Attempt missed. Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Eric Dier.
Attempt blocked. Marcos Rojo (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Michael Carrick.
Attempt missed. Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Toby Alderweireld following a corner.
Attempt saved. Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Christian Eriksen with a cross.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by David de Gea.
Attempt saved. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Erik Lamela with a cross.
Foul by Matteo Darmian (Manchester United).
Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Memphis Depay (Manchester United).
Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Manchester United. Memphis Depay replaces Juan Mata.
Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 3, Manchester United 0. Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Danny Rose.
Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 2, Manchester United 0. Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Erik Lamela with a cross following a set piece situation.
Matteo Darmian (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Matteo Darmian (Manchester United).
Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Matteo Darmian (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur). | Tottenham maintained their Premier League title challenge with a thumping victory over Manchester United. |
39,936,628 | Constable Kerr, 25, was killed by a booby-trap car bomb in Omagh on 2 April 2011. The attack was carried out by dissident republicans.
A 27-year-old man has been arrested in Omagh and a 40-year-old man was brought into police custody from prison.
They are being questioned under the Terrorism Act in connection with the police officer's murder. | Police investigating the murder of Constable Ronan Kerr six years ago have arrested two men. |
36,498,272 | Footage shows Thomas Birkbeck, 31, swerving in and out of traffic and hitting several vehicles after failing to stop on the A1 near Catterick.
His Audi was eventually stopped by police near Boston Spa.
Birkbeck, of Silverdales, Dinnington, Rotherham, admitted four charges, including dangerous driving.
Following the pursuit on 17 May a large amount of cannabis was discovered in the vehicle Birkbeck was driving.
He also pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified, driving without insurance, and possession of cannabis with intent to supply.
A woman who was arrested in connection with the incident has been released from bail. | A man caught driving at speeds of up to 150mph with a three-year-old girl in his car during a police chase has been jailed for two years and eight months. |
35,653,245 | Edwina Hart said construction work on the Newtown Bypass will create 90 jobs and apprenticeships.
The four-mile (6.5 km) bypass will run from Llanidloes Road, to the west of the town, to Pool Road in the east.
Ms Hart said a contract had been awarded to Alun Griffiths Ltd, with work to begin on 7 March. | Work on a £53m road aimed at easing congestion around a Powys town will start in March, the transport minister has announced. |
40,248,450 | Sixty-seven people have been killed in protest-related violence in Venezuela since mass anti-government protests started on 1 April.
The Peruvian president said there was "no democracy" in Venezuela.
Mr Kuczynski also called on the Venezuelan government to allow humanitarian aid to be sent.
He was speaking at a meeting of business leaders in the Spanish capital, Madrid.
"There's no democracy in Venezuela. There was an election, but now a large part of the population doesn't feel represented," Mr Kuczynski said.
He suggested that an international commission be formed to resolve the crisis in Venezuela.
He said that while action by the international community could be seen as "an interference", it would be "to safeguard democracy".
The Peruvian leader said that if no action was taken there would be a risk of "a bloodbath, that people may flee to Colombia, that others leave by boat".
Mr Kuczynski has been one of the most vocal critics of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, calling Venezuela's economic and political crisis "a big problem" for the region.
He has in the past discussed Venezuela with regional leaders, including US President Donald Trump.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy RodrÃguez reacted to those talks by calling Mr Kuczynski a "dog" which is subservient to the US. | Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has called on the international community to take action to avoid "a blood bath" in Venezuela. |
39,201,333 | Williams, 35, said she will also miss the Miami Open later this month.
The American, who won an Open era record 23rd Grand Slam at the Australian Open earlier this year, said: "I have not been able to train due to my knees."
She added she would return "as soon as I can".
Indian Wells organisers said a revised draw would be issued later.
Williams only returned to the Californian tournament in 2015 after a 14-year boycott following claims she had suffered racist abuse at the venue.
Her withdrawal means Germany's Angelique Kerber is set to replace her as world number one. | World number one Serena Williams says a knee injury has forced her to pull out of this week's BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells. |
38,623,749 | Newcastle reclaimed top spot in the Championship courtesy of Brighton's slip at Preston while strugglers Rotherham and Wigan earned vital wins against Norwich and Burton respectively.
A much-travelled striker also went bonkers in 20 first-half minutes to end his side's dreadful run of form.
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They say goals come in quick succession for strikers, but for Bury forward James Vaughan, it was more like a flurry against Peterborough.
Having spent all of last season at Birmingham without netting in 747 minutes, the former Everton front man found the back of the net four times within 20 first-half minutes on Saturday.
But the 28-year-old felt he could have bagged six in total in the Shakers' 5-1 home win.
"To be honest, I should've had a couple more," he told BBC Radio Manchester. "But, we got the win and I got a few goals, which is the main thing."
Vaughan's sharp-shooting was made even more remarkable in that it secured Bury's first win in 22 games in all competitions.
"We had a lot of confidence within us, but we just weren't picking up the points," Vaughan added. "Hopefully today we can use that as a springboard and kick on."
Victory lifted Chris Brass' side out of the League One relegation zone on goal difference above Shrewsbury.
Five managers took charge of their new clubs for the first time and for some, it was even a return to familiar pastures.
John Sheridan's second spell in charge of Oldham began with a 1-0 win against Gillingham, who were also managed for the first time by Ady Pennock.
The win was even more significant for Oldham in that it lifted them off the foot of League One.
"The performances aren't the be-all-and-end-all, it's all about the points," former Sheffield Wednesday winger Sheridan told BBC Radio Manchester.
"We're after the points at the moment, so full credit to the players."
There was also a new face in charge at Sheridan's former employers Notts County where Kevin Nolan halted a run of 10 successive league defeats in a goalless draw against local rivals Mansfield.
An emotional Nolan was in tears at the start of his post-match interview when he paid tribute to his grandfather, who passed away on Friday.
"I've managed to put it on the back-burner, but I think he would've been delighted with that performance," he told BBC East Midlands Today.
"Hopefully we can start building on that result as we've got a lot of tough games coming up. That's the standard the players have set and we've got to maintain that now until the end of the season."
Elsewhere, Justin Edinburgh's first game in charge of League One Northampton Town ended in a 2-1 defeat by Scunthorpe. The result was made doubly sweet for the Iron at the top of the division, as will become clear later in the piece.
Finally, in League Two, David Artell was denied a win in his first game as Crewe manager as 10-man Luton came from behind to win 2-1.
It wasn't just first days in new jobs that the fixture list threw up, there was no shortage of derby action across the EFL.
The Severnside derby between Bristol City and Cardiff City in the Championship's early kick-off saw a fine comeback from the Bluebirds.
Kadeem Harris and Anthony Pilkington scored twice within three minutes to complete a 3-2 win for Neil Warnock's side.
Although the other lunch-time kick-off failed to produce any goals in the Nottinghamshire derby, it did give new Notts County owner Alan Hardy a first chance to cast his eyes over his investment.
There was more goalmouth action in Yorkshire where Sheffield Wednesday took the bragging rights over Huddersfield Town with a 2-0 victory.
The Terriers missed the chance to climb to third in the Championship while Wednesday climbed back into the play-off places courtesy of a stunning goal from Ross Wallace and Fernando Forestieri's injury-time second.
Jack Payne saw red for Huddersfield, who are just a point above Wednesday in fifth.
Finally, Wolves and Aston Villa's West Midlands meeting at Molineux began with poignant tributes to their mutual former manager Graham Taylor.
Joe Mason netted the game's only goal as Wolves won 1-0 and gave Paul Lambert victory over his former employers.
The form book was well and truly thrown out of the window at the top of League One where leaders Sheffield United saw their six-game winning streak ended emphatically at this season's bogey-team Walsall.
A 4-1 victory for the Saddlers was their third win in 2016-17 against the Blades in all competitions.
Amadou Bakayoko's opener was cancelled out by Jack O'Connell but after that, Walsall were dominant. Second-half strikes from Jason McCarthy, Joe Edwards and an Erhun Oztumer penalty made for unpleasant viewing for United.
Defeat saw their lead cut down to just a point with second-placed Scunthorpe winning at Northampton.
Also in League One, while one unbeaten streak came to an end, another kept going.
Fleetwood Town have now gone 13 games unbeaten in all competitions after a 3-1 home win against Bristol Rovers, a run which has seen them climb from 13th to sixth in the league.
Their last defeat was on 12 November against Port Vale and since then, Uwe Rosler's side have entered the play-off places and progressed to the FA Cup third round.
Rosler may well fancy his chances of causing an upset against an out-of-form Bristol City when the two sides meet in a replay on Tuesday at Highbury. | Last weekend's FA Cup third round may have created a shortened fixture list in the EFL, but it returned with a full programme across the three divisions on Saturday. |
34,289,480 | Concerns that the virus could cut a deadly swathe through the country has mobilised officials to launch a national immunisation campaign that would embrace all children up to 10 years old.
The threat has also mobilised international organizations, as well as Bill Gates, whose foundation promotes increased vaccinations worldwide and who spoke to President Petro Poroshenko about the polio danger last week.
Olga and Anatoly Makarenko demonstrate the potential obstacles the campaign could face. They have decided not to vaccinate any of their children - Dima, seven, Ksenia, five, and Varvara, one.
And despite knowing something of polio's effects and reading reports that the virus may have already reached Kiev, they won't change their minds.
Dima, Olga points out, has already suffered a bout of whooping cough. But it was just a bit longer-lasting than a regular cough - showing, she claimed, there were no negative consequences.
"The vaccinations are much more dangerous than the illnesses that they treat," said Olga on a late summer day, as her children joyously romped in a nearby playground.
"Nobody knows how the vaccines were stored," she continued. "No-one knows if the expiration dates were changed. Vaccines are a serious thing. There are conditions for transporting, storing and producing them."
They are not alone in their views. Stories abound among the Ukrainian public that children have fallen ill or even died after being immunised.
The fact that some diseases have disappeared from public memory also means that a large number of people are unfamiliar with polio's lethal consequences.
As a result, Ukraine's vaccination rates are the lowest in Europe and the former Soviet Union, and are among the lowest in the world. Less than 14% of one-year-olds have been immunised against polio.
Health experts say that Olga, her husband and other anti-immunisation activists, some of whom include local doctors, are flat-out wrong. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the vaccines used in Ukraine, they say.
"In general, they depend on myths about vaccination," said Dr Tatyana Petrovskaya, head physician at the Our Doctor private health clinic. "These are based on the idea that a child should build up his or her immunities in a natural environment, that the immune system should work itself out by being exposed to illnesses.
"They don't understand how serious these diseases are."
The possibility of a major polio outbreak, amid a largely unprotected population of children, has raised the alert among local and international health workers, who say they don't have a moment to lose.
"The situation is really alarming," said Dr Dorit Nitzan, the head of the World Health Organization's Ukrainian office. "We have an outbreak in the country. And every day that passes without vaccinating the children, the risk is getting higher that more and more children will get sick."
The campaign would be both massive and ambitious. Some five million children will be immunised, with those under six years receiving three doses of the oral polio vaccine. In all, more than 11 million vaccinations will need to be administered.
This would be a challenge for most countries under the best of conditions. Ukraine, in contrast, is currently fighting a war against Russian-backed insurgents in its eastern regions and suffering a severe economic depression.
Adding to this is a health system riddled with corruption and decay, a government often hampered by political infighting and a weak, post-Soviet distribution structure.
Schools require all students to be immunised in order to be admitted, but many parents also pay bribes to falsify their children's documents. Officials say they don't know the true figures of how many children have in fact been vaccinated.
As a result, the vaccination campaign - which should start this week - could face difficulties and even fall short. And the virus could then spread beyond Ukraine's borders to regions in Europe where immunisation rates are also low.
"If you do it really timely - three to six months - the country, the children will be saved," said Dr Nitzan. "But this calls for real leadership, a real concentrated and focused effort. Everyone should join hands."
"Otherwise, Ukrainian children and many other European children will be at high risk."
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The WHO and other international groups are calling for Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to draft a law declaring polio a public health emergency in order to boost the fight against the virus.
This would strengthen Ukrainian officials' hands in dealing with any resistance to the programme. It could also help speed up the purchase of vaccines since, at the moment, only around a third of the needed amount has been obtained.
Ultimately, more cases of polio are inevitable, experts say. The hope is that, with a rapid response, a full-blown crisis can be averted. But given Ukraine's catastrophically low immunisation rates, the chances of a major outbreak at some point are high - maybe inevitable.
"The situation is tragic, whichever way you look at it. If it's going to be now, tomorrow or next month, it's coming," said Dr Nitzan. "And it's coming big time, because children in Ukraine are not immunised against polio and against other diseases.
"We don't have time, so we are going to tell them the truth: 'You are risking your children'," she said, turning again to the specific danger presented by polio.
"Look at your child now," she said. "He might look different for the rest of his or her life." | Health officials in Ukraine are gripped by fears of a major polio outbreak, after it was announced this month that the disease had paralysed two children in the south-western region of Trans-Carpathia. |
36,284,225 | Current leader Mike Nesbitt announced the party's decision in Thursday's first sitting of the new assembly.
Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness said the step was "an act of desperation" that went against Lord Trimble's approach.
But Lord Trimble said he saw "leadership" in the UUP's "bold move".
The former Northern Ireland first minister led the UUP through peace talks that paved the way to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 and the creation of a power-sharing executive at Stormont.
He said the arrangements put in place in the 1998 agreement "were going to evolve".
"In the initial stages we wanted everyone in there working together, but there is actually, in the long-run, a need for an opposition," he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.
"It is a bold move but it's a move which I think reflects what was always going to be the case.
"I think bold moves have to be taken now and again and people have to offer leadership.
"I recognise that in what Mike's doing and I salute him for it."
A bill to allow for the creation of an official opposition at Stormont was passed towards the end of the last assembly term.
Lord Trimble said criticism of the UUP's move by Sinn Féin was therefore ironic.
"Mr McGuinness and Sinn Féin were party to putting those arrangements [to create an opposition] in place, so it's a bit silly to turn round and complain that it's happened," he said.
"Rather than throwing these negative comments at it, what others parties should be doing is saying: 'OK, let's see if this works.'"
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) also criticised Mr Nesbitt for the move, saying it had been his response to a poor result for the party in last week's assembly election.
Lord Trimble disagreed with that assessment.
"I saw a very positive result and I saw growth there, too," he said.
"I see this as a sign of confidence and I hope it's rewarded."
Northern Ireland's main political parties entered negotiations over a programme for government - a plan of priorities and action - for the new Northern Ireland Executive this week.
David Ford, the Alliance Party leader, said the Ulster Unionists had been premature in deciding to move into opposition, and accused Mr Nesbitt of "grandstanding".
"The opportunity was there to discuss and negotiate over two weeks, and Mike Nesbitt didn't even last two speeches before he flounced out," Mr Ford said.
He said his party has been offered the justice ministry, which it held in the previous executive, but it has yet to decide on whether it will accept the position.
"It's not an issue of being offered something," he said.
"It's an issue of whether being in government or not being in government is a better way for delivering what we believe is essential for the people of Northern Ireland." | An Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) move to form the Northern Ireland Assembly's first ever opposition is a "sign of confidence", its former leader David Trimble has said. |
33,374,965 | The holiday was booked for Hammam Sousse, where 38 people - most of them British - were murdered a week ago. Remarkably, they thought it wouldn't be fair on the Tunisians not to go.
"I immediately looked on Google Maps where our hotel was and realised it was right next door [to the crime scene]", Mrs Clark says. "My first reaction was that I didn't want to come, it was too horrific.
"But when you take time to think about it, you realise it could have happened in any beach in any country."
The British couple, from Nottingham, are no stranger here. This is the third time that they've come to Hammam Sousse. They first came in 2013 and decided to return in April this year to celebrate Glynis's 60th birthday.
"It's lovely here. The people are so warm, so friendly - they didn't deserve this," Mrs Clark says.
Travel agency Thomas Cook offered the couple a refund or an alternative holiday in Turkey or in Egypt but they declined the offers.
"It's an absolute bloody shame to find the hotel empty," says Mr Clark, who spent 22 years as a ground crewman in the Royal Air Force and is now working part-time at East Midlands airport.
Thousands of tourists have left since the attack happened.
Jeblai Bouraoui and his colleagues wait in their tourist trains, a few steps away from the beach of Sousse, but no-one shows up.
"We've been here for almost two hours," he says. "I even fell asleep!"
During the month of Ramadan, snoozing is an easy trap for those who fast but aren't keeping busy.
"There was no time for that a week ago," Mr Bouraoui says. "We would do return trips after return trips without a break. We only ran one ride this morning."
That's one ride for seven passengers. Waiting for more to come along runs the risk of losing those seven to impatience.
At about 3.5 Tunisian dinars (£1.15), a return ticket to Port El Kantaoui, less than 15km (10 miles) further along the coast, Mr Bouraoui doesn't even need to count how much they've made so far. He opens his belt bag: it's almost empty.
Tourists have also deserted the main commercial street of the city. In the historical medina quarter, which has long been turned into a tourist shopping maze, there are no sunburnt faces to be seen.
The narrow streets are usually so overcrowded that it is hard to move. The newfound tranquillity would be enjoyable if it weren't a reminder of a sombre reality, a mass murder that sparked a tourist exodus.
Will the tourists return? "Each day that passed since the attack happened, there are fewer customers," says Naoufel Barhoumi.
Mr Barhoumi owns two shops almost facing each other; he sells bags, wallets, sunglasses, bracelets, necklaces and beach towels.
"I only sold one bag today and that was to a Tunisian woman," he says. "We try to remain optimistic but we are already seeing the consequences of the attack."
Walking past is Sylvie Quainay, 53, from France, who arrived the day after the attack. Unlike the many thousands of tourists who booked their holidays through a tour company, Ms Quainay has rented a house for the whole year. This is her third time here in six months.
"I am suffering from arthritis so I come here to find a better weather and bathe in the sea because the combination of dry heat and salt is doing me good," she says.
"What happened is terrible because life is sweet for us here and relaxed. Why should I stop coming? There is nothing we can do. It could have happened in Paris too."
A few winding streets away, the small, covered market is bustling but there is not a tourist in sight. The people here are all Tunisians who have come to shop before they can break the fast later on.
Marouen Dhia and Marouen Rekais are cutting massive chunks of almond or pistachio nougat into smaller bites - a local speciality that residents wouldn't miss during Ramadan. They are busy and smiling.
"This is a delicacy we sell only one month a year during Ramadan," says Mr Dhia. "Tourists would buy some but our main clientele is local."
Back on the main beach, most hotel sunbeds are left empty. A couple of elderly people have gone for a guided horse ride but the volleyball pitch has been deserted and no-one is playing football.
At the El Mouradi Palm Marina hotel next door to the crime scene, where Mr and Mrs Clark are staying, the number of clients has fallen from more than 600 last week to a little more than 100 today.
Mid-July is usually the peak of the tourist season but dozens of people have now cancelled their reservations at the Palm Marina.
"We are disappointed that the hotel isn't full for the people here because this is their livelihood," says Mrs Clark.
"The best way to show solidarity with these people is to come on holiday here," adds her husband. "If people come back, those behind the attack will have lost the battle." | Glynis and Dave Clark, 60 and 58 respectively, did wonder whether to cancel their holiday or change their destination. |
32,382,962 | The prime minister blamed "appalling human traffickers" for the deaths of up to 700 migrants off the coast of Libya on Sunday.
Mr Cameron said a "comprehensive" approach was needed to tackle the problem. He will attend an emergency summit of European leaders on Thursday.
Labour leader Ed Miliband said rescue patrol operations should be restarted.
Mr Cameron spoke to Italian PM Matteo Renzi by phone on Monday and backed his call for an emergency European Council meeting on the migrant crisis.
UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and Home Secretary Theresa May met with other EU ministers in Luxembourg on Monday to help form a series of measures to ease the situation.
It was decided at the meeting that the EU's Triton patrolling service would be strengthened with extra funding and an increased operational area.
Ministers also discussed measures to help resettle migrants in their home countries and to destroy vessels used by people smugglers.
Meanwhile Italy and Malta said they were working on the rescue of at least two migrant boats in the Mediterranean, with hundreds on board, after new distress calls were received.
Mr Cameron said: "This has been a dark day for Europe; it really is horrific the scenes that we've all witnessed on our television screens, the loss of life.
"We've got to deal with the instability in the countries concerned, we've got to go after the human traffickers and the criminals that are running this trade.
"We've got to make sure yes, there is an element of search and rescue, but that can only be one part of this and we should use all the resources we have, including our aid budget which can play a role in trying to stabilise countries and trying to stop people from travelling."
The prime minister has also said: "Britain can do more and lend a hand, and in that spirit I'll be going to the European council meeting on Thursday"
But Labour leader Ed Miliband said search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean should be restarted.
"Europe has got to learn the lessons because we can't have people drowning in European waters in this way, the world standing back aghast and Europe standing back," he said.
The European Union withdrew funding for the "Mare Nostrum" search and rescue operation last year, replacing it with a much smaller scheme known as Operation Triton.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage said the UK's foreign policy was partly to blame for the crisis.
"The fanaticism of [former French president] Sarkozy and Cameron to bomb Libya - and what they've done is to completely destabilise Libya, to turn it into a country with much savagery, to turn it into a place where for Christians the situation is virtually impossible," he told the BBC on Sunday.
"We ought to be honest and admit we have directly caused this problem."
13,500
Migrants rescued 10-17 April
1,600
Feared to have died attempting the crossing so far this year
35,000 Migrants have arrived from North Africa in 2015
218,000 Estimated to have crossed the Mediterranean in 2014
3,500 Migrants died attempting the crossing last year
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg rejected Mr Farage's comments and accused him of trying to score political points.
The deputy prime minister said: "I think the humanitarian reasons why not just ourselves, but other countries, decided to intervene from the air in Libya is well-known.
"Gaddafi could not have been more explicit - he said that he was going to kill every innocent man, woman and child in Benghazi.
"To suggest that intervention is the sole reason for the very profound economic and social dislocation and poverty in the whole of North Africa is both simplistic and taking election-time political point-scoring to a new low."
Mr Renzi said on Monday that his country was working with Malta to rescue at least two boats in distress. He said one of the vessels was a dinghy off the Libyan coast with about 100-150 people on board. The other was a larger boat, carrying 300 people.
Another vessel carrying dozens of migrants has run aground off the coast of the Greek island of Rhodes, killing at least three people, including a child, the Greek coastguard has said. | David Cameron has described the boat disaster in the Mediterranean as a "dark day" for Europe. |
37,544,279 | The tycoon told the BBC he would probably join a club for party donors called the Leader's Group.
This club requires an annual membership fee of £50,000.
Lord Ashcroft - also a former party treasurer - donated millions of pounds to the Conservatives, often targeted at marginal seats, but fell out with ex-prime minister David Cameron in 2010.
Speaking to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, the peer praised Mr Cameron's replacement, Theresa May, for her speech on Brexit to the Conservative conference on Sunday.
Asked whether he would be prepared to donate again, he said: "I think, probably, I might join the Leader's Group again but that's a small sum compared to historically what I have given to the party."
The Leader's Group is described as the Conservative Party's "premier supporter group".
Members are invited to join the prime minister and other senior figures at dinners, drinks receptions and other events, in exchange for their annual £50,000 donation.
Lord Ashcroft, who was ranked 74 in the 2015 Sunday Times Rich List, said he hoped that under Mrs May the party would have "significantly broadened" its funding base so it was not dependent on individuals giving "seven-figure sums".
Asked whether he would be prepared to donate smaller sums, he replied: "Under the appropriate circumstances and the direction in which it's heading, it's very nice to be back."
Lord Ashcroft was deputy chairman of the Conservative Party during Mr Cameron's period as Leader of the Opposition.
In July 2010, he gave up his non-domiciled tax status after a law was passed requiring peers and MPs to be tax resident and domiciled in order to remain in Parliament.
His tax status had long been criticised by his opponents.
When he co-authored a book on Mr Cameron last year, he admitted to having personal "beef" with the prime minister after not being offered a major job in the coalition government following the 2010 general election.
He has been credited with helping to rescue the party's finances in the past, once stepping in to personally guarantee its overdraft when it was reportedly £3m in the red. | Ex-Conservative Party deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft says he will start donating to the party again. |
38,760,671 | The US president said meeting Enrique Pena Nieto would be "fruitless" if Mexico didn't treat the US "with respect" and pay for a new border wall.
The diplomatic spat comes a day after Mr Trump unveiled his plan to build a barrier along the Mexico-US border.
Senate Republicans said the US Congress would move ahead with the plan, and it would cost $12bn (£9.5bn) to $15bn.
Mr Trump told Republican lawmakers in Philadelphia that the two leaders had mutually agreed to cancel the summit, adding, "the American people will not pay for the wall."
"Unless Mexico is going to treat the United States fairly, with respect, such a meeting would be fruitless, and I want to go a different route. We have no choice."
White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters they were looking "for a date to reschedule", adding they will "continue to keep the lines of communication open".
Mr Pena Nieto announced earlier on Thursday he had called off the 31 January trip after Mr Trump suggested he should do just that.
"If Mexico is unwilling to pay for the badly needed wall, then it would be better to cancel the upcoming meeting," the US president wrote on Twitter on Thursday morning.
In a televised address, Mr Pena Nieto said he "lamented" the plans for the barrier.
The Mexican leader told the nation: "I've said time and again: Mexico won't pay for any wall.
"I regret and condemn the decision of the United States to continue construction of a wall that, for years, has divided us instead of uniting us."
Mr Pena Nieto met Mr Trump - then a presidential candidate - in Mexico City in September and came under intense criticism at home. His approval ratings remain low.
Mr Nieto is facing the lowest approval ratings of any Mexican president over the past two decades. Much of that unpopularity is down to Donald Trump. Many Mexicans consider their leader lacks the necessary steel to deal with the new Republican president and has been railroaded on everything from the border wall to Nafta.
So when President Trump challenged - some might even say goaded - him to cancel their meeting, Mr Pena Nieto was left with little other option.
He would have been perceived as very weak if he had travelled to Washington for talks and for many here, it would have been tantamount to accepting Mr Trump's central claim - that Mexico will pay for the US border wall. If not up front, then eventually.
That is simply unacceptable to most ordinary Mexicans who view the wall as unnecessary, inhumane, expensive and ineffective.
As their elected leader, at least for the next 18 months, Enrique Pena Nieto was duty-bound to deliver that message to the White House.
On Thursday, US media reported the chief of US Border Patrol is leaving his job.
It is unclear if Mark Morgan, who heads the agency charged with securing US borders, was forced out or resigned.
Building a barrier along the 2,000 mile (3,200km) US boundary with Mexico was one of Mr Trump's key election pledges.
Mexicans were also outraged when Mr Trump described their migrants as murderers and rapists, while launching his campaign in 2015.
Trade relations are also fraying after Mr Trump pledged to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement and impose border taxes on US firms that move jobs to Mexico.
As he signed the wall-building directive on Wednesday, Mr Trump warned of a "crisis" on the southern US border.
His executive orders also called for hiring 10,000 immigration officials to help boost border patrol efforts.
In other developments: | Donald Trump has hit out at Mexico after its president cancelled next week's visit to the White House. |
39,617,339 | Hamilton was beaten into second place in the Bahrain Grand Prix as Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel took his second win in three races this season.
He said: "They are strong in race trim and we particularly struggle with the rear end. It's difficult to explain.
"They did a great job and we have to make improvements."
Hamilton is seven points behind Vettel after winning in China and securing two second places behind the German.
The three-time world champion added: "It is all small, fine percentages that will make the difference between winning and coming second."
Hamilton apologised to Mercedes for damaging his chances by earning a five-second penalty for deliberately slowing Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo as they pitted for fresh tyres under a safety car early in the race.
But he said he was not sure whether it cost him victory in a race he lost by 6.6 seconds, and in which Vettel said he was measuring his pace once he was in front.
"Possibly I would have been in a better position," Hamilton said, "but that's all ifs and buts."
The Englishman, 32, will get his next chance to overhaul Vettel at the Russian Grand Prix in Sochi later this month.
"I feel pain in my heart (when I don't win) and people will be like 'hey, you finished second, you should be happy', but that's not why we exist," said Hamilton.
"If anyone ever thinks that a driver, or I, should feel happy with second, I don't know what to say. That's not why we exist."
He added: "The disappointment is there and losing points for a team, when you could have won the race, is definitely painful, but I gave it everything I could.
"Ferrari did a great job, but we are going to push hard together - re-gather as a team - and come back fighting."
Vettel refused to be drawn into talk about a title challenge.
"I am not really looking at the championship," the four-time champion said.
"I am really enjoying the car. I was a bit down after qualifying because the gap to Mercedes was so big and we could have been a bit closer.
"But something inside me told me we had a good car and we can do well, so right from the first lap I felt the car was there and the Easter hunt was on.
"They were hiding some eggs but it looks as though we found them today."
Ferrari have bounced back this season from a winless 2016 to have arguably the fastest race car this season following a major change in regulations.
But they have missed out on pole position in all three races. In Bahrain, Hamilton and team-mate Valtteri Bottas gave Mercedes their first front-row lock-out of the season, with the Finn ahead on his first career pole position.
When it was suggested to him Ferrari had an advantage over Mercedes at this stage of the season, Vettel said: "Maybe at the moment but we still have lots of work ahead of us.
"The car is very good in the race but not quick enough to match them in qualifying.
"There is a lot of homework ahead of us but these kind of results certainly help. The people are very happy, they're passionate and full of energy to keep working harder." | Lewis Hamilton said his Mercedes team need to improve if they are to beat Ferrari in their developing fight for the Formula 1 title. |
34,542,771 | His proposals will be published in a letter to European Council president Donald Tusk in early November.
Earlier EU Parliament president Martin Schulz called for "clarity" while German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Britain needed to "clarify the substance" of what it wanted.
Mr Cameron wants to reform the EU ahead of the UK's in-out referendum.
Arriving for his talks with Mr Schulz, the PM, who also met European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker over lunch, said the British renegotiation was "going well" and pointed to the progress of the UK legislation paving the way for the referendum.
"The pace will now quicken, and I'll be again setting out the four vital areas where we need change, laying down what those changes will be at the start of November," he said.
"So we quicken the pace and quicken those negotiations in the run-up to the December Council."
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The December meeting of the European Council will be a chance for Mr Cameron's demands to be considered by his EU counterparts.
On Twitter, Mr Tusk welcomed Mr Cameron's plan to write to him with the UK's demands in early November, saying: "Then real negotiations can start".
Downing Street confirmed the letter would be made public when it is sent in early November.
In the meantime, talks have been taking place between UK and EU negotiating teams, but Mr Juncker said on Wednesday that "huge progress" was not being made and reminded the UK that "it takes two to tango".
BBC Europe correspondent Chris Morris said those involved in the "technical talks" accepted they had "got as far as they can" and that the negotiations needed to "move onto the political level".
The referendum has been promised by the end of 2017, but could be held sooner.
Mr Cameron has not yet set out his demands in detail, but is thought to want exemption from an "ever-closer union", safeguards for non-eurozone countries and curbs on migrants' welfare entitlement.
Speaking at a press briefing with Mr Juncker shortly before Mr Cameron's arrival, Mr Schulz said: "Both of us have made it quite clear that both the Commission and the European Parliament at all stages are willing to engage in constructive co-operation."
He said he hoped for "steps forward", adding: "Above all, we need clarity on what we are going to be discussing over the next few months."
Ms Merkel said it was up to the UK to "clarify the substance of what it is envisaging" in the coming weeks.
She said Germany would work constructively with the British government.
She added: "But it also goes without saying that there are things that are non-negotiable.
"That there are achievements of European integration that cannot be haggled over, for example the principle of free movement and the principle of non-discrimination." | David Cameron says he will set out his EU reform demands within weeks and pledged to "quicken the pace" of talks. |
38,715,523 | The incident happened at the junction of the Ballyrobert Road at about 02:15 on Monday.
No other vehicle was involved in the incident and police are appealing for witnesses.
The A2 Belfast-Bangor road remained closed until midday causing considerable traffic disruption, but has since reopened. | A man has died following an overnight crash on the main road between Belfast and Bangor. |
39,948,091 | The Lib Dems have put a second EU referendum at the heart of their manifesto, saying it would "give the final say to the British people".
They have also proposed legalising and taxing cannabis across the UK.
Scottish Lib Dem candidate Jo Swinson said the party would also take positive steps to support the Scottish economy.
But the SNP argued that the Lib Dems "can't be trusted to stand against Tory cuts", pointing to their "record of betrayal" by forming a coalition government with the Conservatives between 2010 and 2015.
Elsewhere on the general election campaign trail, Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson visited a nursery school to highlight fresh efforts to boost literacy and numeracy standards.
Highlighting last week's figures which showed literacy standards have slipped in Scottish schools, she said: "It is simply not acceptable that we have children in our schools who can't read or count properly, and a first minister at Holyrood who won't listen."
And Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale used a speech to target voters in Scotland who backed remaining in the EU and the UK.
Ms Dugdale said these voters are a "majority for change" who are not served by the "extremes" of either the SNP or the Conservatives, who she accused of hijacking the results of the independence and EU referendums for their own ends.
The Liberal Democrat manifesto pledges to hold a second referendum on the terms of any Brexit deal, with the party hoping to gather support from Remain-backing voters.
The party believes there is no deal that could be as good as continuing EU membership and would campaign to stay in, cancelling Brexit.
Lib Dem leader Tim Farron said Brexit represented "the biggest fight for the future of our country in a generation".
"The Liberal Democrats want you to have your choice over your future," he said.
"You should have your say on the Brexit deal in a referendum. And if you don't like the deal you should be able to reject it and choose to remain in Europe."
Ms Swinson, who was the Liberal Democrat business minister in the coalition government before losing her seat two years ago, said hers was the only party campaigning to stay in both the UK and EU single markets.
She said: "The Conservative hard Brexit puts at risk up to 80,000 Scottish jobs, according to the respected Fraser of Allander Institute.
"The SNP want to break up the UK single market that is worth four times as much. Labour voted with UKIP at Westminster to support hard Brexit.
"We are the only party that will work to keep Scottish business in the UK and EU markets, and offer practical support for business and a transformative investment in education."
She also said the Liberal Democrats were calling on the Scottish government to focus on education as the best route to a strong economy, instead of their "obsession with independence".
The manifesto proposes a new start-up allowance to help budding entrepreneurs in Scotland with living costs in their first six months running a business.
And it pledges to expand the work of the British Business Bank, which it said already helps 2,000 companies in Scotland to grow and create jobs.
Responding to the manifesto launch, SNP candidate John Nicolson said Scotland "has not forgotten the Lib Dem record of betrayal propping up the Tories in government."
He added: "For five years they rubber-stamped Tory austerity - cutting £2.3bn from Scotland's budget for public services.
"They trebled university tuition fees despite promising to abolish them, they scrapped the Education Maintenance Allowance, introduced the bedroom tax, cut disability benefits, and backed Tory changes to the State Pension that deny millions of women the pension they deserve." | Only the Liberal Democrats can keep Scotland inside both the UK and EU, the party has claimed as it launched its general election manifesto. |
29,625,888 | Northampton-born Henry George Gawthorn was one of the artists who created the five posters to promote East Anglia's seaside resorts.
The artworks, produced between 1923 and 1947, were sold at Swann Galleries.
The highest amount paid was £3,459 for a 1933 London and North Eastern Railway poster of Felixstowe by artist John Littlejohns.
The colourful posters were commissioned by rail companies and displayed on station platforms.
The 1926 Clacton poster by Gawthorn sold for £3,301 at Tuesday's auction. | A collection of vintage railway posters fetched £13,207 when they were auctioned in New York. |
40,232,288 | Several students at Hartpury College, in Gloucestershire, were suspended last week after posting a film of themselves killing an injured fox cub.
But the college said the expelled student "was told to leave" because of an "earlier incident involving the death of a cat".
It said it was working "with both the police and the RSPCA".
Gloucestershire Police said the fox cub killing had not been "an act of cruelty" as the cub had been badly injured by a car.
They said one of the students, training to be a gamekeeper, had killed the cub, after it was hit by a vehicle on Monday, to prevent it from suffering.
The college said it had disciplined the students involved because it was "concerned about the manner in which it was put onto the internet".
An open day which had been due to take place this weekend was also cancelled after worries about security following comments posted on social media. | A college student has been expelled after posting images of a dead animal on social media. |
36,865,947 | Leonard "Chip" Hawkes, 70, and Richard Westwood, 73, were due to stand trial next year over allegations they assaulted the teenager in a hotel room in Chester in April 1968.
However, a judge at Reading Crown Court ordered both men be found not guilty.
Prosecutor Owen Edwards said there was no evidence to offer.
Outside the court, Mr Hawkes - father of 90s' pop star Chesney Hawkes - said he and Mr Westwood were delighted a "black cloud" had been taken away by the verdict.
"The past two years and seven months have been the worst time of our lives," he added.
"Our families have had to endure the stress and media publicity and it's taken its toll on all of us."
Mr Hawkes, from Surrey, has undergone treatment for bone cancer.
He said the case had badly damaged his career and revealed he had been attacked by a member of the public before a previous court appearance.
He thanked the two men's families, friends and fans for their "unfailing loyalty and putting up with two grumpy old men".
Mr Westwood, from Berkshire, said his 50-year career had been "tarnished" on the basis of "spurious allegations" and added the accusations had caused "years of trauma".
In a statement, read by his solicitor, he said: "It is too late for me and my family to get back the years of our life that have been destroyed in this process.
"We were punished and suffered for something that was simply not true."
He added he had faced trial by media before police had gathered evidence.
"It is a disgrace and wholly misleading that a single claim dating back more than 48 years ago was never properly investigated before my good character was attacked," he said.
The Tremeloes formed in 1958 in Dagenham, London, and first charted in the UK in July 1963 with a version of Twist and Shout.
They had a string of hits throughout the 60s, including a number one with Silence Is Golden.
Guitarist and vocalist Mr Westwood left in 2012. Bass player and vocalist Mr Hawkes left in 1988. | Two former members of the 1960s' pop group The Tremeloes have been acquitted of indecently assaulting a 15-year-old girl after a gig almost 50 years ago. |
26,455,157 | The Argus reported the remarks made by Lewes councillor Donna Edmunds.
She posted her views after being asked whether she supported Henley-on-Thames UKIP councillor David Silvester, who said the government's support for gay marriage had caused the recent floods.
Ms Edmunds defended her comments as "an essentially libertarian stance".
However, she later issued a statement saying she regretted the remarks.
On the forum, Ms Edmunds said she did not agree with Mr Silvester, who has been expelled by UKIP, but said business owners should be allowed to refuse services to anyone they wanted for any reason.
When The Argus asked her to clarify her statement, Ms Edmunds said it would be OK for a shop owner to refuse her based on no other fact than she was a woman, or if service was refused to a gay person.
She said: "I'm a libertarian so I don't think the state should have a role in who business owners serve."
Norman Baker, Lewes's Liberal Democrat MP, tweeted about his surprise at the capacity of UKIP repeatedly to pick candidates with "abhorrent" views.
And the Conservative Party Press Office tweeted: "UKIP MEP candidate & Cllr says businesses should be able to turn away women, gay & black people. @UKIP do? Nothing."
A spokesman for UKIP said: "Ms Edmunds' comments appear somewhat misguided and we do not endorse the position intimated, but we believe she has apologised for the remarks."
And the party's chairman Steve Crowther later said: "Whilst we are a libertarian party this kind of ultra-libertarianism really goes beyond what is acceptable.
"Society has to have rules and it is certainly not UKIP's policy to allow people to refuse service to each other on the grounds of race, sexuality etc."
Ms Edmunds, an MEP candidate for the South East, issued a statement which said: "I regret what I wrote and can see how an essentially libertarian stance could be broadly misinterpreted.
"I in no way endorse any form of discrimination. I believe in cutting red tape for business and I also strongly believe in an individual's personal and religious freedoms, but I stand against any form of prejudice."
The mother of one added: "I hope this remark has not caused any embarrassment for the party."
Lewes District Council said Ms Edmunds's views were her personal opinion and not shared by the authority.
A spokeswoman said the council had a statutory duty to protect people from discrimination and believed everyone in the area should feel "welcome, safe, valued, included and respected".
She added: "All officers and councillors receive regular training opportunities and there is no excuse for them not to be aware of their duties as council employees and elected members." | A UKIP councillor has said businesses should be able to refuse services to women and gay people, in comments posted on an internet forum. |
14,707,355 | It is a verdict endorsed by many relatives of those who were killed in Britain's worst ever terrorist atrocity.
For them Megrahi will always be the Lockerbie bomber, the man who killed 270 people by blowing up a jumbo jet above a small town in southern Scotland.
Yet the Libyan goes to the grave protesting his innocence.
Guilty or not, his death - more than 23 years after the event which defined his life - does not draw a line under Lockerbie.
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was born in Tripoli on 1 April 1952.
Like most of his compatriots he was a Muslim and his first language was Arabic although he also learned English, eventually acquiring more than a hint of a Scottish accent.
He spent time in the US and the UK but most of his life was lived in his Mediterranean homeland.
He was devoted, said his accusers, to the pursuit of state-sponsored terrorism, culminating in the destruction of a Boeing 747 - Pan Am flight 103 - in the skies above Dumfriesshire, killing all 259 passengers and crew on board and 11 people on the ground in Lockerbie.
And yet the word his supporters repeatedly used to describe him was "gentle".
A "civilised, intelligent, caring man," said the former Labour MP Tam Dalyell. "Quietly-spoken...impeccably-mannered" and "humorous", according to his biographer John Ashton.
Both men believe that Megrahi was wrongly convicted.
By Mr Ashton's account, Megrahi was born into a very poor family, poverty which was "pretty typical" of 1950s Libya.
In the early 1970s he made one of several trips to the UK, to study marine engineering at Rumney Technical College in Cardiff.
The photograph on his student card shows a clean-shaven young man with tousled hair looking directly into the camera lens.
Within a year he dropped out of the course and returned home to a job with Libyan Arab Airlines (LAA), the state carrier.
There followed stints in the United States for training and Libya's University of Benghazi for study before Megrahi returned to the airline.
But there are two very different versions of his career.
Mr Ashton, who worked for Megrahi's defence team and knew him well, reports the Libyan's own version as follows.
He was a flight dispatcher who "rose up through the ranks," becoming head of airline security at LAA, where he was seconded to the secret service to organise training for airline security staff, his only involvement with Libyan intelligence.
His directorship of a company called ABH and a senior position with the Libyan Centre for Strategic Studies were "legitimate" roles.
He admitted travelling on a false passport issued by the Libyan state but said this was because ABH was involved in the purchase of spare parts for aircraft in breach of international sanctions, not for any more sinister reason.
The alternative version of Megrahi's career - advanced by the prosecution at his trial - alleged that his roles at the airline, the business and the think tank provided cover for espionage and terrorism on behalf of Libya's leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
Megrahi was accused of travelling to a string of countries in Africa, Europe and the Middle East to further the terrorist aims of the Libyan state.
He was said to be a cousin, or at least a fellow tribesman, of Said Rashid, a senior member of Libyan intelligence.
This career came to its bloody climax on 21 December 1988 when the bomb he had planted in a suitcase exploded 31,000 feet above Lockerbie.
Three years later Scottish prosecutors formally indicted Megrahi on charges of mass murder. He claimed that it came as a complete surprise.
His co-accused was Al Amin Khalifa Fahima, LAA's station manager at Luqa Airport in Malta, where the two men were alleged to have loaded the bomb aboard an Air Malta flight to Frankfurt before it was transferred to a feeder flight for Pan Am 103.
Eight years after the indictment was issued, under pressure from United Nations sanctions, Colonel Gaddafi handed over the two men for trial at a specially convened Scottish court in the Netherlands.
Their fate lay in the hands of three judges sitting at Camp Zeist near Utrecht.
Throughout the nine month-long trial Megrahi, wearing traditional Arab robes, sat in the dock listening attentively to an Arabic translation of proceedings.
His only son Khaled and one of his four daughters, Ghada, watched from the public gallery, separated from the dock by a bullet-proof screen.
Megrahi exercised his right not to give evidence in his own defence but, in a television interview shown to the court, he told reporters: "I'm a quiet man. I never had any problem with anybody" and said he felt sorry for the people of Lockerbie.
The judges were not impressed. On 31 January 2001 Megrahi was convicted of 270 counts of murder. Fahima was acquitted.
Aphrodite Tsairis from New Jersey, whose 20-year-old daughter Alexia died in the bombing, summed up the feelings of many families of the victims, calling it a verdict of "state-sponsored terrorism", delivered by a "just and equitable court".
Most of the rest of Megrahi's life was spent in Scottish custody fighting that verdict, first at Camp Zeist, then at Barlinnie high security prison in Glasgow and finally at Greenock jail on the Firth of Clyde.
His first appeal was dismissed by a panel of five Scottish judges on 14 March 2002.
His second appeal was making progress when, in the autumn of 2008, he was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer.
The Scottish justice secretary, Kenny MacAskill, visited Megrahi in prison as he considered three options: releasing him on compassionate grounds, transferring him to Libya to serve out his sentence or keeping him in Scottish custody.
On 18 August 2009, without explanation, Megrahi formally abandoned his appeal and two days later Mr MacAskill ordered his compassionate release.
The decision provoked an immediate storm of criticism which Scotland's nationalist government has weathered but which has not yet abated.
Scotland's last glimpse of Megrahi was of a stooped man wearing hidden body armour for fear of reprisals, slowly climbing aboard a Libyan plane at Glasgow Airport.
In Tripoli, Megrahi was given a rapturous official reception and for nearly three years he confounded experts, outraged Washington and embarrassed Edinburgh merely by staying alive.
And then in late summer, as the Arab spring belatedly took hold in Libya, his world began to fall apart again.
On 6 September a BBC team in the Libyan capital was taken to see Megrahi, apparently gravely ill, in his family home.
According to his son, he no longer had access to the expensive, specialised medical care which had reportedly been paid for by Colonel Gaddafi's government.
Khaled al-Megrahi told the BBC: "His body has become very ill and very weak."
Megrahi's death now does not resolve the big questions about Lockerbie.
If he was justly convicted, who gave his orders? Who helped him? And what was the motive?
And if Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was innocent as he always claimed, who were the real culprits? | In the eyes of the law, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi dies a mass murderer. |
37,733,216 | Pat McCann put Sligo ahead on the stroke of half time before second-half goals from Aaron McEneff and Barry McNamee clinched a merited home win.
It was the third game in a row that Derry came from behind to win.
The Candystripes received another boost on Friday with boss Kenny Shiels signing a one-year contract extension to keep him at the club until 2018.
Derry started slowly and carved out just one decent chance in the first half, with Ronan Curtis' smart shot forcing Ciaran Nugent to make a good save with his legs.
Sligo were in the ascendancy before the break and deservedly took the lead in the first minute of stoppage time.
A corner was played short and McCann sent the ball sailing across a crowded square into the top corner of the net.
However it was all Derry in a much-improved second second half.
Rory Patterson was denied several times by the in-form Nugent but the brilliant goalkeeper's defences were finally breached after 64 minutes.
Good work by Josh Daniels down the left was finished off by McAneff, who drilled a low shot from the edge of the box past Martin for his seventh goal of the season.
McNamee clinched the winner when he stroked the ball into the far corner of the net after Sligo failed to clear their lines.
Derry are now assured of third place in the Premier Division. They complete the season away to St Patrick's Athletic next Friday night. | Derry City secured a third-placed league finish with a 2-1 victory against Sligo Rovers at the Brandywell. |
34,455,408 | It has reduced its figure to 3.1% from the 3.3% it predicted in July. The 2016 forecast is down to 3.6% from 3.8%.
"A return to robust and synchronized global expansion remains elusive," the IMF says.
The report also warns that the risks of an outcome worse than its forecasts are more pronounced than they were just a few months ago.
The sharpest downgrades are for emerging economies, especially Brazil, Nigeria, South Africa and Russia.
So the IMF is still predicting growth, but it is distinctly lacklustre growth, especially for the current year.
The developed economies are expected to manage slightly stronger growth than before, reflecting the modest recovery in the eurozone and the return of growth in Japan, though that looks tentative at best.
Receding legacies from the financial crisis are elements in that story, as is the long-lasting support from central bank policies - low and zero interest rates and also quantitative easing, which continues in the eurozone and Japan.
The emerging and developing economies still account for what the IMF calls the lion's share of global growth, but they are slowing, in 2015 for the fifth consecutive year.
One important factor is China's economic transition - from very rapid growth driven by investment and industrial exports to moderate expansion based to a greater extent on Chinese consumer spending increasingly on services.
The IMF mentions that shift as one direct factor behind the emerging world slowdown. But China is also a key element behind other forces,
Oil producers have been hit by the decline in the price of their exports. Nigeria and Russia are striking examples. China's slowdown is one of the underlying forces, along with abundant supplies of crude oil.
The report also mentions the declines of other commodity prices as a factor, especially in Latin America. Some countries also have domestic political issues that have encroached onto economic performance; Brazil for example.
The other downbeat element in this report is the view of risks - how the global economy might perform differently from this forecast.
Financial market volatility is a possible danger, if interest rate rises in the US encourage investors to move funds out of emerging economies more rapidly than they have done already.
Increased debt in the emerging economies, lower commodity prices and slower growth could undermine their financial stability, which could in turn hit wider economic performance.
China's slowdown is another possible trouble spot, if it does not manage its economic transition reasonably smoothly.
There is also the possibility of lower potential growth - that's a wide-ranging term for factors that govern the maximum capacity of an economy to grow if nothing much goes wrong. Weak investment (though not in China) and the effect of longer-term unemployment on workers' skills are examples of forces that could do further damage.
And there's one more risk we have heard about before: Greece. In terms of the international economic impact the situation has calmed greatly. But the IMF warns there is the potential for renewed financial stress in Europe if there is fresh political uncertainty there.
Still, the IMF's main forecast is for growth to pick up somewhat next year - globally and in the emerging economies. It's just that it is still not all that convincing a recovery. | The International Monetary Fund has downgraded its forecast for global economic growth this year. |
37,245,047 | The Seagulls turned down several bids from Premier League side Burnley for the 27-year-old this summer.
Stephens posted on Twitter he had been "reluctant" to submit a transfer request but wanted an opportunity to play in the top flight.
The ex-Charlton man is out of contract at the Amex Stadium next summer.
"The club have been aware for five weeks I wanted to leave to fulfil my ambition of playing in the Premier League," Stephens said in a message to Brighton supporters.
"I'm 27 and recognised this could by my final opportunity to do so, which is why I feel disappointed my chance was taken away.
"I prefer to give you honesty rather than shy away from my actions now the window is closed."
Stephens missed one Championship game for Brighton last season but he has only made two appearances for Chris Hughton's side in the new campaign.
Former Brighton midfielder Warren Aspinall told BBC Sussex:
"All Dale Stephens is trying to do is play at the highest level he can.
"Maybe he can get to the Premier League with Brighton and if not there will be a few takers sniffing around in the summer.
"It is a brave decision from Brighton to waive a supposed £8m fee for him but hopefully it will pay off for the club and the player.
"He is a lad who has always given everything. If he doesn't give it his best shot for Brighton and perform to his highest ability the manager will take him out of the equation." | Brighton midfielder Dale Stephens says he will honour his contract, despite having a transfer request rejected by the Championship club on deadline day. |
37,808,047 | Britt Assombalonga put the hosts ahead by coolly rounding Alex Smithies after midfielder Karl Henry had been sent off for two early bookings.
Hildeberto Pereira's third red card of the season - also after two yellows - gave Rangers fresh hope.
And with time running out, Sylla stole in to head home a left-wing cross from fellow replacement Nasser El Khayati.
Forest showed the greater attacking intent in the early stages and Assombalonga had the ball in the net, only to be ruled offside.
But the recalled striker found the net from a tight angle just four minutes later following a through ball from Pajtim Kasami.
Forest were made to pay for not pressing home their advantage early in the second half as Pereira pulled back his man to receive his second caution.
His departure was the spark for Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink's men to push forward as Olamide Shodipo fired over and Grant Hall headed just wide before Sylla's late effort denied Forest only a second victory in 11 attempts - and a first clean sheet in 14 games.
QPR have still never won at the City Ground in 33 attempts.
There are now only three longer unbeaten home runs in all competitions in English football history than Forest's in this fixture - Liverpool v West Ham (44), Liverpool v Spurs (43) and Liverpool v Stoke (36).
Nottingham Forest manager Philippe Montanier: "I'm frustrated and a little angry. I like my players and I always defend them, but when we lead 1-0 and it's 11 against 10 you have to make sure you don't give your opponents a chance.
"We didn't control the game very well in that situation, making a lot of technical mistakes and conceding a lot of free-kicks and corners.
"This is the first time I've been angry since I've been here and hopefully it's the last time. We had to continue like we were playing in the first half and we didn't do that in the second.
"I think we've given a point to Queens Park Rangers, and it's a game we should have won. We just had to keep the ball and find a solution to score the second goal and close out the game."
QPR boss Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink: "Because of the manner we played, we deserved to get a goal. That is why I was celebrating. That was my emotion at the time.
"We have some young players we are trying to develop. We have foreign players we are trying to bed into the team They will get better. All these things take time.
"It was a harsh sending off, because the first booking was not a yellow card.
"I do not want to talk too much about the referee, I do not want to concentrate on that."
Match ends, Nottingham Forest 1, Queens Park Rangers 1.
Second Half ends, Nottingham Forest 1, Queens Park Rangers 1.
Offside, Nottingham Forest. Pajtim Kasami tries a through ball, but Apostolos Vellios is caught offside.
Foul by Sebastian Polter (Queens Park Rangers).
Damien Perquis (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Nottingham Forest. Henri Lansbury tries a through ball, but Pajtim Kasami is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Apostolos Vellios (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Henri Lansbury with a cross.
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Abdenasser El Khayati.
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Apostolos Vellios replaces Britt Assombalonga.
Eric Lichaj (Nottingham Forest) is shown the yellow card.
Olamide Shodipo (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Eric Lichaj (Nottingham Forest).
Hand ball by Pajtim Kasami (Nottingham Forest).
Attempt missed. Olamide Shodipo (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by James Perch.
Corner, Queens Park Rangers. Conceded by Eric Lichaj.
Jordan Cousins (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Henri Lansbury (Nottingham Forest).
Idrissa Sylla (Queens Park Rangers) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal! Nottingham Forest 1, Queens Park Rangers 1. Idrissa Sylla (Queens Park Rangers) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Abdenasser El Khayati with a cross.
Jordan Cousins (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Henri Lansbury (Nottingham Forest).
Substitution, Queens Park Rangers. Abdenasser El Khayati replaces Jack Robinson.
Attempt missed. Thomas Lam (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Henri Lansbury.
Attempt blocked. Britt Assombalonga (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Sebastian Polter (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Joe Worrall (Nottingham Forest).
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Thomas Lam replaces Chris Cohen.
Foul by Sebastian Polter (Queens Park Rangers).
Pajtim Kasami (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Chris Cohen (Nottingham Forest) because of an injury.
Offside, Nottingham Forest. Eric Lichaj tries a through ball, but Britt Assombalonga is caught offside.
Substitution, Queens Park Rangers. Idrissa Sylla replaces Conor Washington.
Olamide Shodipo (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Eric Lichaj (Nottingham Forest).
Attempt missed. Grant Hall (Queens Park Rangers) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Tjaronn Chery with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Queens Park Rangers. Conceded by Chris Cohen.
Attempt blocked. Sebastian Polter (Queens Park Rangers) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tjaronn Chery with a cross.
Olamide Shodipo (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Eric Lichaj (Nottingham Forest). | Substitute Idrissa Sylla snatched a late draw for QPR at Nottingham Forest as both sides ended with 10 men. |
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They play lacrosse. A sport that has origins from a game played by Native Americans, has about 20,500 registered senior players in England, 350 clubs, 222 university teams and is enjoyed by more than 160,000 students in schools.
As 25 nations descend on Surrey for the 10th Women's World Cup, England, ranked fourth in the world, start their campaign in Guildford on Wednesday against Wales - who are more than just the closest of neighbours as they are also ranked just behind them globally.
This is a team made up of all sorts, who are bonded by a team spirit generated by not only having to earn the privilege to wear an England shirt, but who have had to invest financially in getting themselves and their team-mates on to the field - which they also paid to hire.
"We are amateur and we have to balance things like paying for the physio and where we train," England captain Laura Merrifield told BBC Sport.
"You definitely have to invest a lot into it, but it also shows that the players are playing because they love the sport, they want to be there.
"There is a huge amount of pride in putting on that shirt after all the sacrifices and hard work that has been put into it."
Captaining your country at a home World Cup three years after doctors told you that you may never play again would make for a pretty amazing story.
But that is not even the most interesting thing about 29-year-old Merrifield, who is a giant of the game in more ways than one.
At 6ft 1in, she stands above the rest - and she points out that she is "deceptively quick for a big girl" - but she was also among the first British players to truly star in the United States' thriving college league, where more than 60,000 spectators turn out for their biggest occasions.
In 2010, she won the NCAA title with the University of Maryland, where she was attending on a full scholarship, picked up a championship ring and shook then-President Barack Obama's hand for her efforts.
"She is a living legend, really," said England head coach Phil Collier.
"I don't want to hold her up too much in that way, but she is a leader on and off the field. Players look up to her, she leads by example. She is sort of a Martin Johnson character - she's the first over the top when something needs doing, she is softly spoken, but when she talks people listen."
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Being the first English-born player to captain her US college team, being one of the few English players to be named in the World Cup All-World Team and leading your country to European gold goes a long way to justifying the legendary status.
It is also enough to have offers of a professional contract in the USA put in front of her.
But what the teacher is focused on is a home World Cup and what is shaping up to be a seminal moment for the sport in England.
Stood on a freshly mowed and marked lacrosse field, with the grey-stoned Wycombe Abbey School where she works in the background, this is a player who takes pride on influencing the next generation one player at a time.
The enormity of pushing for glory on home soil and the exposure it would give the sport is not lost on Merrifield either.
"When we win a medal I think it will be huge for the sport," Merrifield said. "I don't want to focus on that too much, because it is one game at a time, but it would be fantastic if we could win a medal.
"I really hope that this summer will be the peak of my career. I can't wait to get out on the field."
Merrifield struggles to contain the smiles every time the conversation turns to leading her country out for a home World Cup.
The tough and tiring times - battling back from a chronic shoulder injury, helping to run tournaments, coaching clinics and organising fundraising nights to help pay to get her and her team there - only add to the experience.
"I feel incredibly honoured to be in the position and very excited to take the team to the next level," she said.
"I absolutely love the sport and will put anything into helping support my team go forward."
Jane Powell is coming up to four years as a national talent development manager for England lacrosse. She joined the sport after being involved in the Beijing and London Olympics as head of coaching for England hockey, having previously played for England and captained and coached her country in cricket as well.
With little funding going to the sport, most of which goes into the grassroots game, Powell admits the challenges are many.
"I've often thought that it is a little bit like playing uphill against the wind and sometimes the referee isn't on your side. And yet, we can still win," Powell told BBC Sport.
On the field, there is a pedigree for success - one that has been recently enhanced by a Test series win in Australia, success over the Canadians and a rare moment of leading the USA at half-time in a recent tournament.
"We have to believe that if we are successful, it will help. That is our goal - we will keep being the best that we can be so people recognise what we are doing as a sport," she added.
"Last year when we played in Australia, it was a tipping point for this squad and self-belief. They are now a more confident team, but for the sport this World Cup could be a tipping point."
Collier, the first male to coach an England senior women's side, said they are "already winners" as European champions and after years of dominating the Home Nations Series.
"We shouldn't go into it with typical English fear of losing that you see in football in particular," he said. "We go into the World Cup positive, and see it as an opportunity to play our game.
"This is a fantastic chance to inspire the next generation of players and go down in history. This is to be seen as an opportunity and not as a burden. The girls have earned this opportunity, they need to see this as a positive."
Take your trailblazing England captain and line her up in a team that boasts attacker Megan Whittle, top scorer for American National Collegiate Champions Maryland last season, and Princeton's Olivia Hompe, who was one of five nominees for the 2017 Tewaaraton Award - given to college lacrosse's best player - and you "start to give yourself a chance" according to Collier.
Whittle and Hompe are two players who qualify to play for England on parentage and bring an attacking edge with them.
The team is blessed with big characters and battle-hardened athletes, from fellow attacker Sophie Brett, defenders Ashleigh Gloster and Annie Hillier, experienced midfielder Lucy Lynch and "big-game player" Kirsten Lafferty, the doctor who volunteers as a crew member of Salcome Lifeboat.
Lafferty has done a more elaborate juggling act with her lacrosse ambitions than most, taking a break from the sport to work as a doctor and then missing pre-World Cup training session while serving on the high seas.
"It's pretty hectic and you get pretty knackered, but it's worth it because I love playing," she said.
"Everybody wants a gold medal. Once you get into this level of competition, you'd be foolish to not want that.
"For us, I think, we've got some big games, we're realistic about what our competition's like, we know it's going to be ridiculously tough.
"If we can get ourselves into the final, it's just one game isn't it? So that's what we want and hopefully a big result will be that much more inspiring to other people watching the sport."
Lafferty also played the very important part of trying to bring the team together by hosting their pre-tournament team bonding weekend in Devon.
And what secrets to their success did they find in the south west? A shared passion for Love Island.
"We're a funny bunch," admitted Hompe. "Everyone's been really excited for every episode of Love Island, so I can only imagine how excited they're going to be for the World Cup." | A "living legend", two American hotshots and a doctor who volunteers on a lifeboat - meet the England World Cup contenders you probably have not heard of. |
36,332,557 | "If seeing is believing, I couldn't believe the condition of the camp," says Rabbi Harry Jacobi, 90, as he meets some of the 400 children who call the Jungle home.
"This is not a concentration camp... yet I feel so furious. I am ashamed with the whole of Europe not doing enough for the refugees here. This camp should be closed tomorrow."
Earlier this week, the 90-year-old rabbi and peer Alf Dubs - two men who were once refugees themselves - travelled to the camp to meet a new generation in peril.
The men met "Ashraf" and "Misaq" from Afghanistan who have lived in the Jungle for eight months.
They tell the boys about their personal refugee journeys. Rabbi Jacobi fled Nazi Germany when he was 13 and never saw his parents again. Labour peer Lord Dubs was aged just six but was later reunited with his mother and father.
In turn, the boys tell them what they think will be good about life in Britain - school and playing cricket, like they did at home.
The youngsters ask how long they have to wait to get to Britain.
"We're going to do our best, we're pushing hard to make the government do it quickly," says Lord Dubs.
"It's a great country. I hope you get there soon."
Misaq says his father was killed by the Taliban - "Bomb, bomb" he says in the few words of English he knows. His mother is back in Afghanistan and he has little contact with her. Both had made it across Asia and Europe after their families paid people smugglers.
Every night the boys say they are afraid - particularly of people who drink.
"Please tell him we were forced to leave. We haven't come here through our own will, we were forced out and this isn't somewhere we should be. You are the first one to come here properly and ask us what we want, we want to thank you," they say to their visitors via a translator.
Lord Dubs says he can identify with one of the boys.
"He was about the same age I was when I came on the train from Prague," he explains.
According to charity Citizens UK, the two boys both have a legal claim to come to Britain, after the High Court ruled that asylum applications for children with a relative in Britain should be dealt with by the UK so they can be reunited.
For months, Lord Dubs lobbied the government to do more to help these children and others in Europe's migrant crisis - and last month it finally agreed to do so.
His campaign continues because there is no certainty yet how many children will eventually come to the UK - or how soon.
Number 10's position is that the first arrivals are expected "before the end of the year".
Lord Dubs and Rabbi Jacobi said the government's commitment was not enough.
"I think I am far more determined than ever to push the British government to say, 'Look, these are young, unaccompanied, refugee children here, the amendment in Parliament was designed to deal with those children, to help them get to Britain, we should get a move on,'" he says.
"The conditions are intolerable for children to be on their own, we shouldn't as a civilised continent allow this to go on for another day longer."
Almost 90,000 unaccompanied minors seeking asylum in Europe
Most are male and aged between 16 and 17
13% are under 14 and some as young as eight or nine years old
Two largest nationalities are Afghan and Syrian
Source: Eurostat
As conflict with Nazi Germany loomed - and it became increasingly apparent that Europe's Jews weren't safe - the UK took in 10,000 of their children. The last ship arrived two days before war was declared.
Many of these children, like Rabbi Jacobi, who was 13, never saw their parents again. He had initially escaped in 1939 from Berlin to Holland, which was invaded by the Germans the following year.
"So we were anxiously waiting what would happen to us, and Holland was unprepared," he explains.
"So on 15 May, five days after the invasion, it looked as if Holland would be occupied and a non-Jewish woman persuaded a cargo boat captain to take us away," he said.
"We had no idea where we would go... but five days after leaving Holland we arrived at Liverpool."
Lord Dubs' escape from the then-Czechoslovakia was different. Aged six, his father had already made it to the UK - and his mother was also later able to flee.
"I can still see her standing at Prague station, German soldiers with Swastikas," he said.
"I was one of the youngest. I didn't fully realise what was going on - but when we got to the Holland border the older children cheered. I knew it was significant but I didn't know why."
The Kindertransport is a story of the triumph of hope in the face of the worst possible odds. So what's it got to do with Calais?
The circumstances are completely different - but many of the Kindertransport veterans say the moral imperative to act is the same.
Home Office officials in London must now find homes in Britain for both eligible Calais children, but also an unspecified number from France, Italy and Greece under the commitment given by the prime minister to Lord Dubs.
But just 33 of 157 identified in Calais have so far moved to the UK - and many cases could take months to resolve because of the proof needed by officials.
Liz Clegg, from the charity Help Refugees, says children have been killed in lorries and by traffic around the camp because of their determination not to remain in France.
"They are too young and they have been told by people at home to go to the UK.
"So we can't stop them from attempting to get on the lorries or go to the trains," she says.
"They are on a mission. Any one of these children could die tonight."
Watch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel. | Surviving members of the "Kindertransport" that brought 10,000 refugees to the UK on the eve of World War Two have visited the infamous Calais Jungle to meet lone children seeking asylum in the UK. |
38,593,696 | HM chief inspector of probation, Dame Glenys Stacey, highlighted large caseloads in a report on Staffordshire.
The Reducing Reoffending Partnership, which owns the area's Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC), said probation experts "work hard".
The Ministry of Justice said a "robust action plan" was in place.
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In 2014 probation services in England and Wales were divided into a new National Probation Service (NPS) and 21 privately-owned rehabilitation companies.
High-risk individuals are managed by the NPS while CRCs are responsible for other offenders.
Dame Glenys said the area's NPS and the Staffordshire and West Midlands CRC needed to improve the quality of their work.
The report said the CRC's programmes, including Drink Impaired Drivers Programme and one to address domestic abuse, "are staffed by a well-resourced and experienced team".
The CRC also commissioned specific services for women service users, the report stated.
But Dame Glenys said too much of the CRC's "bread and butter work to protect the public was wanting".
The report said assessments of the risk of harm were done "to an acceptable standard", but they "were not followed through sufficiently well".
It also said some officers were responsible for up to 80 cases.
Dame Glenys said the work of the NPS in the region was of "sufficient quality", but there were "notable weaknesses" in places.
Reducing Reoffending Partnership chief executive, Catherine Holland, said: "Our team of probation experts work hard to keep the people of Staffordshire and Stoke safe by reducing reoffending.
She added it would use the report's findings to "further strengthen our work".
A Ministry of Justice spokeswoman said providers were "rigorously" held to account for their performance, adding a "robust action plan" for the area was in place to address the inspectorate's concerns.
The plan includes developing a new tool to assess offenders' risk. | Probation officers are supervising up to 80 offenders at any one time - leaving the public at greater risk, a watchdog has warned. |
37,931,552 | The Republican is widely expected to recruit from a select cadre of loyalists as he assembles his cabinet-in-waiting.
Two posts have already been hired, with a series of executive branch appointments to follow in the coming weeks.
As well as his top team, the president-elect has about 4,000 government positions to fill.
Mr Trump has hired a host of lobbyists and corporate consultants to help him navigate the Washington DC "swamp" that he pledged to drain.
Mr Priebus, 44, has been chosen as Mr Trump's White House gatekeeper.
As chairman of the Republican National Committee, he was a bridge between the Republican nominee and a party establishment that was embarrassed by its own presidential standard-bearer.
But he has never held elected office and brings no policy experience to the White House in a role serving as a liaison to cabinet agencies.
Mr Priebus is close to House Speaker Paul Ryan, a fellow Wisconsinite, who could be instrumental in steering the new administration's legislative agenda.
Though not a cabinet appointment, Mr Bannon could wield immense influence behind the scenes as one of Mr Trump's key advisers.
The Breitbart News executive will be the president's senior counsellor, though he will work as "equal partners" with Mr Priebus, creating twin power bases in the West Wing.
A number of critics have denounced Mr Bannon, a former Goldman Sachs banker, as a supporter of white supremacy.
The firebrand conservative helped transform Breitbart into the leading mouthpiece of the party's fringe, anti-establishment wing.
The combative conservative, an early Trump supporter who made it on to the shortlist of running mates, has been tipped as America's top diplomat.
As Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1994, Mr Gingrich masterminded the Republican wave election that won control of the chamber from Democrats.
The 73-year-old former Georgia legislator quit the speakership because of ethics violations.
Mr Gingrich, who recently accused Fox News presenter Megyn Kelly of being "fascinated" by sex, made a failed run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2011.
One of Mr Trump's most ardent surrogates, Mr Giuliani is being mentioned for the post of America's top prosecutor.
As New York Mayor during 9/11, he became the face of the city's resilience amid the rubble of the World Trade Center.
He also introduced NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy, which critics said was a form of racial profiling.
Mr Trump, who ran as the law-and-order candidate, has championed the tactic.
Mr Giuliani, a former New York prosecutor, ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.
After his own Republican presidential campaign foundered this year, the New Jersey governor promptly endorsed Mr Trump.
Mr Christie, 54, currently overseeing Mr Trump's White House transition, has been mentioned for various posts in the administration, including commerce secretary.
But he has been tainted by a scandal over the closure of a major bridge linking New Jersey and New York City, allegedly to punish a local mayor.
Since presidential cabinet appointments must go before the Senate, confirmation could be problematic while this cloud hangs over him.
The US senator from Alabama is being touted as a possible Pentagon chief.
At his victory bash in New York, Mr Trump said of Mr Sessions, "he is highly respected in Washington because he is as smart as you get".
The 69-year-old was a supporter of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, which Mr Trump recently called "a terrible and stupid thing".
Mr Sessions sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Judiciary Committee and the Budget Committee.
Mr Flynn, a retired three-star US Army lieutenant general, helped Mr Trump connect with veterans despite the candidate's lack of military service.
He claims he was forced out of his role as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2012-14 because of his views on radical Islam.
During the campaign, he pilloried the Obama administration's approach to the threat posed by the Islamic State group.
Mr Trump himself floated the idea of naming his finance chairman for the post of Treasury Secretary.
But it's unclear whether Mr Trump's supporters would welcome the idea of handing the levers of national tax policy to a consummate Wall Street insider.
Mr Mnuchin amassed a fortune during his 17 years at Goldman Sachs, before founding a movie production company that was behind such box office hits as the X-Men franchise and American Sniper.
However, a Trump aide has also confirmed they have asked JPMorgan boss Jamie Dimon to be US Treasury Secretary; it's not clear how he responded. | US-President-elect Donald Trump's team is taking shape as he prepares to move into the White House. |
37,653,702 | In March, the Isle of Portland Aldridge Community Academy's (IPACA) accounts revealed it had taken government loans of more than £500,000.
The Department for Education (DfE) said at the time it was "a going concern".
Dorset County Council, the academy's co-sponsor, said it was unaware of the latest development.
Regional Schools Commissioner Rebecca Clark - who IPACA said would comment on behalf of the school - has declined to comment until the financial notice to improve is published on the DfE website.
The DfE has also refused to comment - but the BBC has seen correspondence, issued in August, confirming the warning.
IPACA - an independent trust - is also sponsored by the Aldridge Foundation.
From January it is set to join London-based Aldridge Education - a multi-academy trust.
Chairman John Tizard and vice-chairman Matt Longshaw of IPACA board of governors resigned earlier this week over the changes.
Mr Longshaw said he did not believe Aldridge Education had "the best interest of the school at heart".
About 1,000 parents have also signed an online petition against the plans, and about 40 gathered for a protest at the site on Wednesday.
However, Aldridge Education said IPACA governors had voted to join the trust and added all of its schools retained their individual community identities.
The school, which caters for children aged four to 19, opened in 2012 and previously operated across three sites.
It moved to former Ministry of Defence building Maritime House in September.
Governors previously said the delayed move put it under "significant financial pressure" because of the costs involved in working across three sites. | A school has been issued with a government warning over its finances, shortly after two of its board members resigned, the BBC has learned. |
36,177,423 | The 24-year-old Australian Open semi-finalist was trailing 6-4 2-1 in her first-round match against Caroline Garcia of France, the world number 51.
Fit-again Briton Laura Robson suffered a 6-4 6-2 first-round defeat by fourth seed Victoria Azarenka of Belarus.
Heather Watson could not capitalise on a lucky loser place as she lost 7-5 6-4 to Australia's Daria Gavrilova.
Former British number one Robson missed 17 months with a wrist injury, and has won just one WTA main draw match since returning last summer.
The 22-year-old, using her protected ranking of 58 to enter, saved five match points but lost in 84 minutes to the world number five.
She lost a keenly contested opening set in 40 minutes against Azarenka, the two-time Australian Open champion, who is ranked fifth in the world after winning the titles in Indian Wells and Miami this year.
But in the first meeting between the pair, Azarenka raced 4-0 ahead in the second after winning six games in succession and soon recorded her 25th victory in 26 matches this year.
Watson, 23, lost to Croatia's Mirjana Lucic-Baroni in qualifying on Saturday but went through as a lucky loser after illness forced out Yulia Putintseva.
However, the Briton was beaten 7-5 6-4 by 22-year-old Gavrilova, the world number 39.
British number three Naomi Broady lost 3-6 6-3 6-3 to Monica Puig in the final round of qualifying on Saturday.
Never want to miss the latest tennis news? You can now add this sport and all the other sports and teams you follow to your personalised My Sport home. | British number one Johanna Konta retired from the Madrid Open with an upper respiratory illness. |
38,369,698 | The lexicographer selected surreal - which means "unbelievable, fantastic" - after spikes in searches following terrorist attacks and the US election.
The attacks in Brussels, the Bastille Day massacre in Nice and the attempted coup in Turkey all saw an increase in how often people searched for the word.
But the single biggest spike in look-ups came the day after Donald Trump's election, said Merriam-Webster.
"It just seems like one of those years," said Peter Sokolowski, the dictionary's editor at large.
"Surreal" is also defined as meaning "marked by the intense irrational reality of a dream", according to Merriam Webster.
It joins Oxford's "post-truth" and Dictionary.com's "xenophobia" as the top word of 2016.
There were also smaller jumps in searches for the word after the death of Prince in April and the June shootings at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
"Surreal" first emerged around 1924, when a group of European poets, artists and filmmakers founded the Surrealism movement, which focused on accessing the truths of the unconscious mind by breaking down rational thought.
Merriam-Webster, which first began tracking search trends in 1996, found a similar search spike for the word after the 9/11 attacks, according to Mr Sokolowski.
"We noticed the same thing after the Newtown shootings, after the Boston Marathon bombings, after Robin Williams' suicide," Mr Sokolowski said.
"Surreal has become this sort of word that people seek in moments of great shock and tragedy."
Other words that made the cut for top searches in 2016 are "bigly", a term attributed to President-elect Donald Trump, and "deplorable", which Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton used to describe Trump supporters. | Dictionary Merriam-Webster has named "surreal" as its word of the year. |
38,958,828 | Centre Alex Dunbar, hooker Fraser Brown and back-row forwards John Barclay and John Hardie all suffered knocks in Sunday's bruising 22-16 loss to France.
Captain Greig Laidlaw has returned to his club, Gloucester, for treatment on an ankle injury.
Number eight Josh Strauss also suffered a "heavy blow to his flank".
Brown, Barclay and his replacement, John Hardie, all left the field after head knocks, while Dunbar returned to play after a four-minute break.
A statement from Scottish Rugby said the Glasgow centre "passed his HIA [head injury assessment] 1 during the match but developed some symptoms, possibly in keeping with concussion, after the match".
Brown and Dunbar are considered concussion victims and will be subject to the graduated return to play protocol.
Experienced scrum-half Laidlaw limped out after 25 minutes, with Glasgow's Ali Price coming on for his second cap.
Barclay also requires further assessment on a shoulder injury, with its management in the hands of his club, Scarlets.
Allan Dell and Zander Fagerson were both replaced during a punishing defeat, but the props are not considered fitness doubts for the visit of Wales, who, like Scotland, have one win, one loss and one bonus point in the tournament. | Four Scotland players will have head injuries assessed before their Six Nations match against Wales at Murrayfield on 25 February. |
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After over a year of searching for a new home - following last January's decision to end their groundshare with Harlequins - there was a real possibility the club's 34-season history would come to an end.
"We were probably dead five times, with no pulse there. I thought it was gone quite a few times," said head coach Tony Rea.
However, in an 11th-hour deal, the capital's Super League club agreed a groundshare at The Hive and a partnership with Barnet FC which saved them from going out of business.
Since the turn of the year Rea has recruited 15 new players for the new campaign, which they get under way at Widnes Vikings on Sunday.
"Despite all the bombs going off around us, the players and the owner have stayed strong and resilient and pushed their way through it," Rea told BBC London 94.9.
"If you look back you go brain dead.
"You'd have liked to have done it different but it wasn't the circumstances. They are what they are."
Rea is a stalwart of the rugby league scene in London.
He ended his playing career with the Broncos in 1996 after a two-year spell in the capital and became chief executive of the club.
The Australian was then head coach from November 2000 until July 2006 and returned to the post in July 2012 when Rob Powell was relieved of his duties.
Having been one of the few people to remain with the Broncos through a redundancy programme as they looked to secure their future, Rea has since added ex-Great Britain international Sean Long and experienced coach Joe Grima to his backroom staff.
A succession of new players have arrived in north London - even in the week leading up to their opening league game the Broncos strengthened their squad, signing three players on Thursday.
"A lot of people do a hell of a lot more than I do but I am trying to make sure they have something to believe in," Rea added.
"I just think the players coming in have been the ones who have really embraced it.
"Sometimes you hear them talking in the sheds about how to build a crowd.
"They are so respectful, so diligent and such quality blokes.
"When you see them get better every day it is worth it. We have got hungry people and we've got determination."
A core of players did continue training in the early weeks of pre-season despite the uncertainty surrounding the club and their own futures.
"There was still a good bunch of lads coming in, even right up to the period where we thought we might have been folding," newly appointed captain Matt Cook said.
"I was staying with [Broncos prop] Olsi Krasniqi at the time as I'd moved out of my house in south-west London. I knew we were either moving to north London or worse I'd be moving back up north with family.
"Luckily Olsi put me up for a while and that shows just what a good set of lads we have got in our team, looking after each other.
"We had trained for quite a period where we still didn't know what the outcome would be. It starts to creep into your mind whether we were doing it for nothing."
The deal with Barnet FC will see the Broncos train at Underhill and play their home matches at The Hive.
Bees owner Tony Kleanthous has never attended a rugby league game but argues the partnership with the Broncos can be beneficial for both clubs, who he believes can "grow together".
"They were in a bad way and needed some help and we were in a position to provide that support," Kleanthous said.
"This was a club where all the infrastructure had gone.
"They have come up like a phoenix from the ashes. I see it as a new beginning."
Having played in south-west London for the last seven years during their groundshare with rugby union side Harlequins, Rea says the switch north of the Thames to Barnet has re-energised their set-up.
"If you are benchmarking against where we have been before, it is very good," Rea added.
"It is in a very good way and people are smiling and enjoying their work. We need to utilise that and keep building.
"It's been funny up here. You just do it. There's been no negative.
"One little nuance I've noticed is that people look at your tracksuit hard when you are walking up the street. It is fun and they're looking at something new in the Broncos and you get lots of questions.
The club has gone on for a long time and it has never been plane sailing. It's never been simple
"That gives you a bit of a buzz, a bit of a drive and a bit of pride too."
Despite the difficulties suffered over the winter, the Broncos are keen to not be written off for a season in which relegation has been reintroduced to Super League.
"It spurs all the lads on, even though they are young lads and might not be well recognised at the minute," back row Cook said.
"We don't want to be called rubbish, too young or not good enough. It is more motivation really.
"I know the young guys want to show we are here to contend and will not be an easy ride for anyone."
For Rea, the Super League campaign offers a "great opportunity" for his young side.
"It's not daunting," he said.
"We will run straight towards the few challenges that are in front of us and take them on.
"We haven't written ourselves off. I can understand why people would say that but it won't enter into our thinking.
"The club has gone on for a long time and it has never been plain sailing. It's never been simple."
The Broncos are not short of youth and enthusiasm, but after the adversity off the pitch over the winter they can expect further tests of character this season.
Interviews with Tony Rea, Matt Cook and Tony Kleanthous by BBC London 94.9's Ian Ramsdale. | In early December, London Broncos were on the brink of administration, homeless and had seen 16 senior players leave the club. |
38,955,348 | Liz Truss said the growth of the prison population is down to more criminals serving time for violence and sex crimes.
She argued for early intervention and better reforming inside prisons, but not shorter sentences.
Her speech comes as secret filming for the BBC revealed chaos in one of the biggest prisons in the country.
Speaking to the Centre for Social Justice, Ms Truss said: "Reductions by cap or quota, or by sweeping sentencing cuts are not a magic bullet, they are a dangerous attempt at a quick fix."
The most recent figures put the population of inmates in England and Wales at 85,523 - an increase of almost 90% since the 1990s.
Of those, the Prison Reform Trust calculates an average of 20,000 prisoners are held in overcrowded conditions.
But Ms Truss said it was a "counsel of despair" to say prisons are "too full". Instead, she said the answer to crowding was reform.
In 2016, 119 people killed themselves in prisons in England and Wales - the highest number since records began in 1978.
Taking questions following her speech, Ms Truss said she would be meeting with the family of Dean Saunders, who died in Chelmsford Prison after he was found electrocuted in his cell.
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A BBC Panorama investigation, which involved secret filming in HMP Northumberland, has highlighted the scale of the problems facing prisons.
An undercover reporter discovered widespread drug use, a lack of control, door alarms that did not go off in one block and a hole in an internal security fence.
The Ministry of Justice said it would investigate the "extremely serious allegations" at the Acklington jail.
Ms Truss said targeting sexual offenders more effectively had increased the number of prisoners.
Since 2000, there has been a 140% increase in sex offenders being sent to prison and a 50% increase in the length of sentences for sex crimes.
Ms Truss said current sentence lengths "better reflect the severity" of certain crimes like domestic violence, rape and child abuse.
She argued prison numbers will go down through earlier intervention from the courts and if prisons get better at reforming offenders.
The current rate of re-offending within a year of conviction is 25.3%. The justice secretary called this "appalling".
Ms Truss rejected calls to reduce the number of prisoners in England and Wales by half, warning such a move would be "reckless" and would "endanger the public".
She said: "We also need to get better at intervening earlier by giving our courts the right tools for reform.
"There can never be an excuse for committing crime but too often people end up in prison because our interventions to tackle problems like drug addiction or mental health issues don't work as well as they should.
"Community sentences are most effective when they tackle the problems that contribute to the offender's crime."
The justice secretary said the Prison and Courts Bill - due to be published this month - will "enshrine in law that reforming offenders is a key purpose of prison and that the Secretary of State has a responsibility for delivering it".
"This will usher in the biggest reform of our prisons in a generation. It will transform our prisons from offender warehouses to disciplined and purposeful centres of reform," she added. | Prison numbers cannot be cut with "dangerous quick fix" solutions, the justice secretary has said. |
37,361,266 | Greener Journeys, which aims to promote bus and coach use, looked at the impact of congestion on bus travel in the UK.
It concluded that bus speeds in Glasgow were falling faster than anywhere else in the UK and services could be threatened if the trend continues.
Bus operator, First Glasgow, has now called for action to tackle congestion.
The Greener Journey's report said bus speeds in Glasgow were dropping by 15% per decade, compared to an average of 10% for the rest of the UK.
The report said that this had contributed to a 22% decline in passenger numbers across the Strathclyde area in the last decade.
Report author, Professor David Begg, a former chairman of the UK government's Commission for Integrated Transport, said that traffic congestion in Glasgow was a key factor behind the fall in bus speeds and passenger numbers.
"If you combine falling bus speeds with relatively cheap subsidised competition from an impressive urban rail network and cheap and abundant public car parking, it explains why Glasgow has experienced an alarming decline in bus patronage over the past decade," he said.
"Traffic congestion is a disease which, left unchecked, will destroy the bus sector.
"This is a dire and sensational prediction, but the evidence uncovered in this research leads to no other conclusion."
Prof Begg, who has also served as a board member of First Glasgow's parent firm, First Group, added: "Urgent action is required from industry, local government and Whitehall to reduce people's reliance on cars and encourage more sustainable modes of transport."
The report also claimed that if journey times continue to decline at the current rate, bus passenger numbers will drop by between 10% and 14% every 10 years.
First Glasgow said congestion leads to increased operating costs which, in turn, leads to increased fares, further deterring passengers.
The firm's interim managing director, Alex Perry, said: "This report paints a stark picture for bus transport in Glasgow but we believe that by working with our partners and stakeholders in the city to reduce journey times we can turn things around.
"Sadly, significant falls in bus patronage are often portrayed as being primarily due to the actions of the bus operators.
"However, this report lays bare the significant impact congestion has on our city and on bus passengers."
Glasgow City Council said it was "committed" to making public transport more attractive.
Bailie Elaine McDougall, the council's executive member for transport, said: "Glasgow has been very proactive in promoting bus priority and continues to work positively with both the operators and Strathclyde Partnership for Transport.
"Our city centre transport strategy recognises the Renfield Street-Union Street corridor as being a key bus route through the city centre and we are about to start work to introduce traffic management measures which will reduce congestion and improve the flow of buses on this busy city centre street."
Scottish Green MSP Patrick Harvie said: "Glasgow could have a high quality, affordable public transport system, cleaner air, good journey times and safety for people walking and cycling, but we need to look to the many other European countries which have achieved all of this for years.
"Public transport must be seen as a public service, deserving public investment and regulation, instead of a free market system which fails so many people.
"Making neighbourhoods easier to get about by walking, cycling and public transport can transform congested, polluted and neglected spaces into healthier, fairer and more vibrant places to live." | Congestion in Glasgow is behind an increase in bus journey times and an "alarming" drop in passenger numbers, a transport campaign group is warning. |
23,250,977 | A vet in Mexico forced large dogs to swallow drug packages before they were flown into Milan, police say.
On arrival, they were killed and dismembered to retrieve the cocaine in a case which has outraged animal rights activists.
The Ecuadorean, Peruvian and Salvadoran nationals will face trial in Italy.
The suspected gang members, between 19 and 37 years old, are thought to be part of youth drug gangs known as "pandillas".
The gangs go under the names Trebol, Neta, Latin King Luzbel and Latin King Chicago, according to the investigative judge Fabrizio D'Arcangelo.
Mr D'Arcangelo told reporters the armed gangs were involved in several crimes in and around Milan.
The drug trafficking operation was first uncovered in March, when 75 suspects were arrested.
Animal rights organisations have reacted angrily at the trafficking scheme.
They say many of the dogs must have died before arriving in Italy, as a small leak of cocaine would have been enough to kill them.
The 49 Latin Americans will stand trial for organised crime and court proceedings have been set for 9 October. | An Italian judge has ordered 49 suspected Latin American gang members to stand trial for allegedly using dogs to smuggle cocaine into the country. |
40,707,374 | Wales' largest mass participation race takes place around the capital's streets on Sunday, 1 October.
A spokesman for organiser Run4Wales said the number of entrants breaks last year's record of 22,000 runners.
Since its inception in 2003, it has become the UK's second largest event of its kind and last year participants raised £2.5m for charity.
This year's route starts outside Cardiff Castle and will take runners past Cardiff City Stadium to Penarth, before they cross to Cardiff Bay and complete a loop of Roath Park Lake. | The Cardiff Half Marathon is a 25,000 sell-out for the first time, organisers have confirmed. |
34,209,894 | The NUJ wants assurances from Trinity Mirror, which runs Wales Online and the Daily Post, that it is not dumbing down into "celebrity-focused 'click bait".
The Connected Newsroom strategy will include the targets from January.
The group said concerns were unfounded and the focus is on content that audiences want to read.
Martin Shipton, chairman of the NUJ's Trinity Mirror group chapel, said the announcement was made along with the net loss of three editorial jobs in its Cardiff newsroom.
"The group's strategy for audience growth is based on greatly increasing website clicks - yet reducing the number of writers will make that more difficult to achieve," he said.
"We are extremely concerned by the potential implications of setting individual click targets for journalists.
"At its worst, this could encourage reporters to sensationalise stories, to trivialise the news and make news out of trivia, and to give up on more challenging, public interest journalism that takes time to research and deliver."
Trinity Mirror said the concerns were entirely unfounded and said important stories would still attract readers.
"The ambition is to grow our local and engaged audience by sharpening our focus on providing content that is relevant to our audiences through the channels that suit them," said Neil Benson, editorial director.
David Higgerson, responsible for Trinity Mirror's regional websites, has written how the changes are not about chasing clickbait but about understanding what readers want - and this did not sound the death knell for investigative reporting.
"Data tells us that people value both the journalism which takes time and effort, and the stories which are quicker to produce too," he said.
While clickbait generally refers to the more provocative, sensationalised stories, the competitive online news market means all providers must attract an audience.
The principles behind clickbait aren't new. Since the infancy of print journalism, tempting headlines have enticed readers to buy papers, or more recently to click.
For commercial news organisations that still rely largely on advertising revenue, it's hardly surprising that journalists are expected to do all they can to attract an audience for their work.
But it's the suggestion that reporters' performance will be measured by the impact of their story that's got politicians worried.
Not every headline from the Senedd has the power to pull a crowd, and after previous warnings about the plurality of Welsh news sources, there's concern that journalists monitoring their clicks will focus only on the most populist stories, and allow the "democratic deficit" to deepen.
The publishers couldn't be clearer - falling newspaper sales means their futures depend on digital growth. It's not unreasonable to expect journalists to write compelling copy, they argue, or for online headlines to be snappy and enticing.
While editors may be counting clicks, the politicians will be monitoring articles to see if the less sensational Senedd stories are still published online under the new regime.
But Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies AM said the plans could have "disastrous consequences for Welsh journalism and in particular coverage of Welsh political institutions".
Liberal Democrat culture spokesman Peter Black AM has written to Trinity Mirror's chief executive expressing concern.
"A story about someone spotting a Kim Kardashian look-alike in Gorseinon could well get more clicks than an article about underinvestment in Wrexham's mental health services, but without more stories like the latter there will be fewer opportunities to drive forward improvements to public services," he said.
Plaid Cymru also fears a "race for website clicks".
Dr John Jewell of Cardiff University's school of journalism, media and cultural studies, said newspapers had always been businesses which needed advertising and answered to shareholders.
But even with a changing media landscape it was still possible for serious news to co-exist with trivia.
"It's not necessarily a race to the bottom," he said.
"If you look at BuzzFeed for example - we know it for listicles but behind that there has been real investment in serious journalism, foreign news and sending reporters out to war zones." | Individual website "click" targets for reporters at Wales' main media group could encourage them to sensationalise the news, a union has warned. |
35,156,023 | 2 January 2016 Last updated at 01:16 GMT
Romy Paris' device ingests small capsules with different functions - for example hydration, UV filtration and anti-ageing - and mixes them into a bespoke serum.
BBC technology reporter Chris Foxx met the cosmetics company's president Morgan Acas in Paris and asked if his device would cost a lot more than ready-made products.
Read more coverage from CES | A machine that can mix a custom-made moisturising cream to suit an individual's needs will be shown later this week at the CES tech show in Las Vegas. |
20,676,677 | Another 21 people were injured when the K-152 Nerpa's fire extinguishing system was activated, releasing a deadly gas.
Captain Dmitry Lavrentyev and engineer Dmitry Grobov are accused of causing "death by negligence".
They were acquitted last year, but the verdict was later overturned on appeal.
The two men deny responsibility and blame faulty equipment for the accident in November 2008 in the Sea of Japan.
The first session of the retrial focused mainly on procedural questions, and the trial was later adjourned until 20 December.
In 2008, the submarine's fire extinguishing system was apparently activated without warning while the vessel was undergoing tests in the Sea of Japan.
The fire extinguishing system - typical on Russian submarines - uses the gas freon, which suppresses fires quickly by displacing oxygen.
But it can also be lethal for any crew members who are still in the area when the gas is released.
All those who died on Nerpa are thought to have suffocated.
It was the worst accident involving a Russian submarine since the sinking of the Kursk in 2000 when 118 people died. | A retrial has begun in the eastern Russian city of Vladivostok of two men accused of causing an accident on a nuclear submarine in which 20 people died in 2008. |
40,788,541 | When you are already Champions League and La Liga holders, not to mention World Club champions, there would not appear to be too many goals left to achieve.
But the Spanish giants have realised that, in the modern sporting world, sustained success does not only take place on the field of play.
Off the pitch, football clubs are up against other leisure activities and interests for the attention - and finances - of potential new followers around the world.
To keep ahead of the game, Los Blancos are working with US technology giant Microsoft on a "digital transformation" - one that will "put the fan at the centre" of everything they do.
The goal is to make its digital operation into a revenue generator for the club.
"In our work with Real Madrid, it is important to realise that we are not just competing on the pitch, we are also competing off the pitch," says Sebastian Lancestremere, the general manager of Microsoft's sports business.
"As well as being a sporting organisation, Real Madrid is a media organisation - one that is providing not just sporting, but also entertainment, material. It is also a huge social platform."
Because 99% of the club's fans cannot get to the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium on matchdays, exciting content and digital services have to be created for these other far-flung millions.
That includes things such as the creation of a virtual stadium that can be accessed on multiple devices.
Meanwhile, Microsoft's cloud and analytics capabilities can highlight key statistics, and also allow fans to make comparisons between different players and different matches.
While actual matches provide an exciting 90 minutes and more of content, Real Madrid believe there is other content that can be just as enjoyable - such as training action and behind-the-scenes insights.
For example, how are player workout regimes organised, to the role of tennis balls in training.
Previously it was felt the relationship was too one-way, and the club was just throwing out content in the hope that some of it would stick.
"Now the aim is to be very agile on content," says Mr Lancestremere. "The fanbase is very fragmented, socially and geographically."
One of the club's biggest fanbases is in Indonesia, and like other top European sides Real are also looking to grow their presence in China. As well as these languages, the club also provides content in Spanish, English, Japanese, Arabic and French.
"Also, football fans are different from how they were 15, 10, even five years ago," Mr Lancestremere adds. "They now consume what they want, when they want, and how they want through different channels."
The club estimates it has 15 channels through which it has a digital relationship with its fans - including via apps, its website, social media, online store, club TV, membership, ticketing, and more.
These are split between first-party channels such as the app which are fully owned by Real Madrid, secondary channels - which have the club logo but are operated by other companies, and third-party channels such as social media.
At present the club is represented on eight different social media platforms: from Facebook and Twitter to Japanese social network Line.
Mr Lancestremere says it is important for Real Madrid, and other football clubs, to be going down this path now in order to capture a growing, digital-savvy, young audience.
"Millennials are going to make up 40% of the global population by 2020, and they spend an hour and a half per day on social media, they consume videos, they play games."
In return the club gets back intelligent information and data about fan likes, their preferences and their choices. That enables the club to tailor its commercial services and offers to supporters, not only for its own products, but towards those of its 13 business partners, such as Adidas or Emirates.
It also means when Real Madrid looks to sign new sponsor deals, they can bring added value in being able to deliver such a large digital audience to potential commercial partners - who will pay more for access to such a sizeable consumer base.
According to valuation and strategy consultancy Brand Finance, the 12-times European Cup/Champions League winners are already the most powerful club brand in the world.
But it says the club is not leveraging its brand to the maximum commercial advantage in a way that tonight's rivals from Old Trafford are doing.
"Whilst Real can bask in the glory of its unparalleled reputation, it could be doing a lot more to capitalise on its on-pitch success," said David Haigh, chief executive of Brand Finance.
"Despite being football's most powerful brand, in terms of brand value, it still trails Manchester United by a considerable margin."
It estimates the Manchester club's brand is worth some $1.733bn (£1.33bn) to Real's $1.419bn.
"Real must now pay as careful attention to its off-pitch strategy as it does to its on-pitch performance," Mr Haigh added.
Hence, the added importance of the creation of a new digital business model in the social media age.
Indeed, Mr Lancestremere says Real Madrid could be considered more like Netflix, in that it creates and streams content, rather than a traditional football club.
"Sports clubs have to be entertainment powerhouses. Football is now part of the entertainment world, 365 days a year," Rafael de los Santos Navarro, global digital director for Real Madrid, explained at a football business forum in London this summer.
"We want to reach, retain, and monetise engagement.
"At the end of the day we are a football club, but we are also a content company, and this is the asset we bring to people. You have to think about all the sources of revenue and positioning yourself for the revenues you are going to make tomorrow." | When Real Madrid take on Manchester United in the Uefa Super Cup final on Tuesday night, they will be playing not only for more silverware, but to add even more supporters to their near 500 million-strong global fanbase. |
36,066,901 | 17 April 2016 Last updated at 13:57 BST
The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or Beam for short, began connecting to the station's Tranquillity module at 10.30am (UK time) on Saturday.
It took about four hours for Nasa astronauts to complete the installation.
It looks like a giant pillow and, when its fully inflated at the end of May, it will be large enough to hold a car.
Astronauts will test the module, which is designed by Nasa and Bigelow Aerospace, for two years to see how it holds up in space. | The first inflatable space home has been attached to the International Space Station. |
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