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31,112,572 | The Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) was "not a safe, effective or responsive service", said the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
The report said there were also concerns about a lack of beds and "urgent action" was needed.
The trust said it would improve services and put patients first.
The CQC report found:
The report recommends leadership "must be more visible and accessible to staff".
But the report also said: "Staff were kind, caring and responsive to people and were skilled in the delivery of care."
Dr Paul Lelliott, CQC's deputy chief Inspector of hospitals, said: "We found a number of serious problems when we inspected the services run by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.
"We were concerned about the safety and quality of care provided by some of the trust's services," he added.
"We were also struck by the low morale of many of the staff that we interviewed who told us that their voices were not heard by those managing the trust."
Trust chief executive Michael Scott said: "Our priority is to make sure we work with staff to improve the services we provide across Norfolk and Suffolk.
"We are under new management, the new team is bedding in, and there is no complacency on our part about the need to continue to deliver improvements.
"I would like to assure our patients, staff and our partners that this is a turning point for the trust and we will continue to do everything possible to address all of the recommendations the CQC has made."
A spokesman for the Campaign to Save Mental Health in Norfolk and Suffolk said: "The regulator confirms what our campaign has consistently said for more than a year." | The mental health trust for Norfolk and Suffolk is being recommended to be placed in special measures after being rated inadequate. |
35,733,759 | Jamie Insall tapped Kyle Wilkie's cross into the back of the net from close range, before Jonathan Page doubled the lead; slotting into the bottom corner from Gary Naysmith's floated corner.
Peter Weatherson pulled one back for Annan with a free-kick but Page headed his second.
Hibs loanee Insall fired into the top corner before Smart Osadolor reduced the deficit | East Fife moved top of League Two with victory over Annan at Bayview. |
35,827,939 | A series of electrical fires led to the system-wide shutdown as workers spent Wednesday inspecting power cables.
Traffic increased significantly on the city's roads, but police reported only minor accidents.
The federal government encouraged employees to work from home, but local schools remained open.
A fire caused major delays earlier this week. And last year, a similar incident caused a train to fill with smoke in a tunnel, killing one passenger.
City officials feared the closure would cause major disruption in the US capital, but the expected commuting nightmare failed to materialise.
Washington's bike-sharing programme offered free 24-hour memberships and buses and streetcars saw increased ridership.
The 40-year-old underground rail system has been halted before for hurricanes and major snow storms, but never over safety concerns.
Local and federal transport officials said the Metro system, which carries more than 700,000 passengers each day, needs more funding to overcome these safety issues.
Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld said the inspection indentified 26 defective areas and repairs were under way. | Washington's Metro, the second busiest subway system in the US, will reopen on Thursday after a unprecedented all-day shutdown over safety concerns. |
37,666,251 | William Roache, who plays Ken Barlow, said she was a "wonderful actress" who could make make you laugh and cry.
Julie Goodyear, who starred as Bet Lynch in the soap, said she was an "amazing actress" and an "absolute joy to play scenes with".
Alexander died peacefully in hospital aged 90 on Friday, her niece said.
She portrayed Hilda Ogden, a sharp-tongued, put-upon housewife who was one of Coronation Street's best-known characters, from 1964 to 1987.
Roache, who has been in Coronation Street since its first episode in 1960, said: "Jean created one of the most iconic Coronation Street characters in Hilda Ogden.
"She could make you laugh, particularly with Hilda's comedy singing, but she could also deliver incredibly moving performances and make you cry. She was a wonderful actress."
Goodyear added: "Jean Alexander was the exact opposite of the character she played, Hilda Ogden. This proves what an amazing actress she was. Jean was a very private person and meticulous in her work. Hilda will be remembered forever as one of the best characters in Coronation Street."
Obituary: Jean Alexander
Coronation St star Jean Alexander dies
Sally Dynevor, who is known for her role as Sally Webster, described her as an "inspiration" and said Hilda would always be her favourite character.
Dynevor worked alongside Alexander after joining Coronation Street in 1986 when her character Sally moved in with Hilda and Kevin Webster, played by Michael Le Vell.
In a tribute on twitter, she wrote: "Jean Alexander, RIP. What a wonderful woman, and such an amazing and talented actress."
She went on: "Michael and I loved her, and any scenes we did with her we always wanted to do our very best."
Le Vell, who plays Kevin Webster, said her death had come as a "shock" and described Alexander as "the biggest iconic soap character to walk the planet".
He added: "My proudest and most exciting moment on the show was when Kevin and Sally moved in with Hilda as it meant I would have loads of scenes with her.
"She was such a warm, caring person and a joy to work with. She was also great fun. We used to watch snooker in the green room with her as she loved snooker.
"For such an iconic character she was always one of the first people to make a new arrival feel so welcome."
Other cast members have expressed their sadness at the news of her death.
Jennie McAlpine, who has played Fiz Brown on Coronation Street since 2001, tweeted: "So sorry to hear about Jean Alexander. I would have loved to work with her. Thankful to have met her though. Rest in Peace Jean x."
Antony Cotton, who joined the cast as Sean Tully in 2003, said Alexander was "magnificent", adding: "My favourite episode of Coronation Street ever, was Hilda singing 'Wish Me Luck...'"
Kym Marsh, who plays Michelle McDonald in the soap, wrote: "RIP Jean Alexander. A true soap icon. Never will you be forgotten."
Former Coronation Street actress Georgia May Foote, who played Katy Armstrong between 2010 and 2015, tweeted: "Such an incredible actress. My thoughts are with your family."
Daran Little, Coronation Street script writer from 2000 to 2010, said Alexander "reached into the hearts of viewers - she was everyone's nan, everyone's nosy neighbour".
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: "I think the great thing about Jean playing Hilda is that Jean was absolutely nothing like Hilda - she was sophisticated and quiet, she was an ex-librarian, she used to love doing crosswords and she used to pad up coat hangers for charity.
"And when she put the curlers on, she became something else."
Alexander left the soap in 1987 and went on to join the cast of Last of the Summer Wine as junk shop owner Auntie Wainwright, who she played for 22 years until 2010.
Actress Kate Robbins, who appeared alongside her in an episode of the sitcom, tweeted: "Acting with Jean Alexander was, for me, a dream come true. Diminutive in size but a giant of talent. #RIPJean."
Other stars took to social media to pay tribute to the actress.
Sherlock Holmes actor Eddie Marsan said Alexander was "one of the best" while Homeland star David Harewood described her as a "legend".
John Whiston, creative director at ITV Studios, said fans of Coronation Street will "know how sad it is" to hear the news of her death.
He added: "Hilda Ogden was the earthy heart of the show for very many years, and the brilliance of Jean as an actor was that she could shift from high comedy to deeply emotional and moving drama in a heartbeat.
"That takes real skill and real acting but also real humanity. That is what the world has lost with her passing." | Stars of Coronation Street have paid tribute to "inspirational" Jean Alexander who played one of the soap's most famous characters, Hilda Ogden. |
36,521,649 | A jointly organised permanent gallery space will become part of V&A East, in a cultural complex created in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
It will be the first time in 170 years the Smithsonian has opened a long-term exhibition venue outside of the US.
The Smithsonian's collection includes 137 million artefacts.
"We will be able to inspire and educate more people than ever before," said Smithsonian secretary David Skorton.
"With the V&A in London, we can build bridges to other countries and continents and share our work with the world."
However, Skorton said the gallery space "would not be a Smithsonian outpost in London".
"It would be a collaboration with the V&A, giving both of us opportunities to engage with diverse audiences in innovative ways. What we learn through this collaboration will enable us to better tell our stories not only in London, but in the United States and around the world."
The V&A's deputy director and chief operating officer Tim Reeve added: "Working very closely with the Smithsonian, as well as the other partners in and around the Olympic Park, is one of the key reasons the V&A is committed to developing a new museum, and this proposed collaboration represents an exciting opportunity for us to explore the synergies between two world-class institutions and their collections and knowledge."
The announcement is the product of a January 2015 initiative between the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) - which is overseeing the development of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park - the V&A and the Smithsonian.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan and former London Mayor Boris Johnson have been heavily involved in the implementation of the project.
"Growing London's cultural sector is one of my core priorities as mayor, so I welcome this trans-Atlantic collaboration between two of the world's most prestigious institutions," Khan said.
"These plans would create an exciting new cultural destination in East London, which will help many more people enjoy the extraordinary collections managed by the Smithsonian and the V&A.
"It is great news for everyone who wants to see London's cultural and creative sectors even bigger and better."
The Smithsonian was founded by British chemist James Smithson - the illegitimate son of the first Duke of Northumberland.
When he died in 1829 a clause in his will bequeathed his fortune to the United States to create in Washington "an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men".
Smithson had never visited the US but in 1904 Alexander Graham Bell, a regent of the Smithsonian, brought his remains to Washington where they were re-interred at the institution that bears his name. | The Smithsonian has announced plans to work together with the Victoria and Albert Museum on a major international collaboration in London. |
33,547,473 | Team number one Chris Froome leads the Tour, with Welshman Thomas lying in fifth place overall.
After his dominant victory on stage 10, Froome stressed he was a clean rider - a sentiment echoed by Thomas after Team Sky maintained that lead on stage 11.
"It's a shame that's the way the sport is at the moment," said Thomas.
"You kind of understand why in a way because of the past. But you don't see that happening if a tennis player plays really well or if a footballer is really good.
"It's just a shame that if you do a good performance on a bike everyone just assumes it's in the wrong way.
"That's the way it is, but we've just got to keep doing what we're doing. I've got a clean conscience and that's it."
Team Sky claimed on Monday their computers had been hacked by critics convinced 30-year-old Froome is using performance-enhancing drugs.
But as the team maintained their dominance - Froome leads by two minutes and 52 seconds - all the riders are coming under scrutiny.
Double Olympic gold-medallist Thomas, who won road-race gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, says it is difficult to ignore the issue.
"It's not the nicest thing to hear," Cardiff-born Thomas added.
"It's the first time I've had it directed at me, but that's life and if you take to heart what every guy says about you you're not going to be very happy." | Geraint Thomas says it is a "shame" the success of Team Sky at the Tour de France has led to questions about doping. |
38,310,591 | The satirical TV show said the former education secretary had pulled out of Friday's show owing to "unforeseen circumstances".
She angered Downing Street by querying why the PM had spent £995 on a pair of leather trousers.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson joked that they were actually "lederhosen".
The so-called "trousergate" row dominated several newspaper front pages, with a number of Conservative MPs having their say on the matter.
Mrs Morgan had been booked in September to appear on this week's Have I Got News For You, due to be hosted by Match of Day presenter Gary Lineker.
But Hat Trick Productions, which makes the long-running satirical show for BBC One, said she would no longer be taking part. No reason has been given.
Mrs Morgan, who was education secretary under Mrs May's predecessor, David Cameron, appears to have annoyed Downing Street in recent days.
After Mrs May was photographed for the Sunday Times in a pair of flared "bitter chocolate" leather trousers, Mrs Morgan said: "I don't think I've ever spent that much on anything apart from my wedding dress."
The Mail on Sunday then showed a tense series of text message exchanges between Ms Morgan and the prime minister's joint chief of staff, Fiona Hill.
In a speech on Tuesday, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who has been the subject of jokes by the prime minister, made light of the situation.
He joked of Mrs May - who went on a walking holiday in the Swiss Alps this summer: "Our wonderful PM actually wears lederhosen."
Lederhosen are actually leather shorts, rather than long trousers, connected to the chest and shoulders via straps, and are traditionally worn in parts of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. They were sported by the Von Trapp boys in the 1960s musical film The Sound of Music.
The cheapest pair of lederhosen shown on bavaria-lederhosen.com sells for just under 65 euros (£54.50).
Meanwhile, Sir Bernard Ingham, press secretary to former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has warned that Downing Street must "learn how better to handle" Mr Johnson, whom he dubbed "the blond bombshell".
He said: "Mrs May - and certainly her apparatchiks - are acquiring an early reputation for slapping down wayward ministers when there are gentler ways of coping with their deviation from the straight and narrow.
"Perhaps Johnson has for too long led a relatively carefree existence as a journalist, backbencher and Mayor of London - not to mention campaigning for the Tory leadership - to hold himself in check in central government.
"If so, he had better soon accept he is now only a cog - though a big one - in a wider machine. Otherwise, things could get awkward." | Tory MP Nicky Morgan has pulled out of a planned appearance on Have I Got News for You, after a row over her criticism of Theresa May's wardrobe. |
38,852,174 | Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) sent a request from its chief executive, Charles Horton, to RMT general secretary Mick Cash to hold meetings.
Mr Horton has asked Mr Cash that discussions be held "without the threat of further industrial action".
The union is embroiled in a dispute over the role of conductors.
Earlier, the union said it was considering more strikes on Southern's rail network, despite drivers' union Aslef reaching an agreement with bosses over changes to the role of guards on trains.
Under a deal between the rail operator and Aslef announced on Thursday, drivers will operate the train doors and in return the train company has agreed there will always be a second member of staff on every train, the BBC understands.
Earlier on Friday, RMT assistant general secretary Steve Hedley said it was "scandalous other people think they can do a deal that affects our members".
He added: "We are not bound by that deal. The dispute is still on."
In the letter, Mr Horton apparently told the RMT his negotiating team was willing to meet next week "in a spirit of open and positive dialogue".
Mr Horton said: "[Aslef] were prepared to come to the table, with passengers liberated of any threat of strike action.
"Both parties arrived ready to listen, have an open mind and ready to do a deal."
As I understand it, the Aslef union has agreed that drivers will operate the train doors - that is a huge climbdown.
In return, the company has agreed there will always be a second member of staff on every train - that is a huge climbdown, too.
In other words, a compromise has been reached.
Working practices will be modernised but train crew will also see this deal as a way of protecting safety.
Not quite done-and-dusted but I imagine the drivers will approve it.
Mr Horton added: "We would call on the RMT to follow that same consensual spirit and leadership and come to the table with the courage, confidence and conviction to settle their dispute."
In a regular Westminster briefing, Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said talks needed to happen to end the "untold misery" caused by the dispute. | The RMT union has agreed to meet Southern rail's parent company for talks in an attempt to settle their long-running dispute. |
36,307,116 | The DUP, Sinn Féin, the SDLP and the Alliance Party are due to meet on Tuesday to discuss a draft document on Stormont's programme for government.
However, the SDLP and Alliance have yet to decide if they will form part of the Northern Ireland Executive.
The Ulster Unionists said last week they would not be taking a department.
Instead, they will form Stormont's first ever official opposition.
The draft document on the key points of the programme for government - a plan of priorities and action for the new Northern Ireland Executive - is "weak", according the the SDLP's Claire Hanna.
She added that it contains "a lot of very aspirational language which wouldn't allow anybody to hold any future government to account".
But Mr McGuinness of Sinn Féin said it is based on a model previously tried out in Scotland and Finland.
He added that he wants all of the sectors of civil society to buy into the final programme for government.
The BBC has seen an early draft of a framework document prepared for the politicians by Stormont officials.
It contains 33 indicators of the direction the power-sharing executive wants Northern Ireland's society to move in.
On health matters, they include reducing health inequality; increasing healthy life expectancy; reducing preventable deaths, improving the quality of the healthcare experience; improving mental health; improving health in pregnancy; improving support for adults with care needs and to improving support for looked after children.
In terms of education, they document targets an improvement in improve educational outcomes; reducing educational inequality; improving the quality of education; improving the skills of the workforce in employment and improving child development.
Employment and economic aims are improving the number of people in work; reducing the number of people who are economically inactive; increasing the number of people working in good jobs; reducing poverty; increasing the size of the economy; increasing the competitiveness of the economy; increasing innovation in our economy; improving transport connections for people, goods and services; improving internet connectivity; increasing the use of public transport and active travel.
Other targets include improving the perception of public services; improving citizen safety from crime; improving the supply of suitable housing; to increase respect for each other; improving cultural participation; increasing the confidence and capability of people and communities; increasing environmental sustainability; improving our attractiveness as a destination; increasing the perception of society as shared; and increasing opportunity for our most deprived communities.
An accompanying document makes some tentative suggestions about how progress towards achieving these goals could be measured.
But at this point it does not contain any specific targets like the job creation, investment and visitor numbers pledges contained in the Programme for Government 2011-15.
The draft framework document also contains 13 proposed outcomes.
They are:
According to last year's Fresh Start agreement, officials were due to have a framework for a future programme for government prepared by the end of last month.
The current talks were then supposed to resolve a draft programme for government that could be put to the Northern Ireland Assembly for its approval.
Critics claim this timetable is already slipping as the politicians are currently considering a framework rather than a fuller draft programme.
The document seen by the BBC is expected to be amended by the parties then put out to a three-month public consultation.
A full programme for government will be published towards the end of the year, alongside a new budget, economic strategy, investment strategy and social policy plan. | Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has said he expects the Stormont parties could allocate government departments at the start of next week. |
37,340,277 | The hilarious 16-minute film has Bollywood actress Aditi Rao Hydari playing Draupadi as a saucy, salacious modern woman who is flirtatious and shops for sexy lingerie.
Mahabharat, created more than 2,000 years ago, is a complex story of the mythological Kurukshetra war. It is the longest known epic poem in the world, about 10 times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined.
Director Akshat Verma's Mama's Boys is a modern take on the curious tale of Draupadi's five husbands, although it remains faithful to the narrative of the original story. The actors and actresses are dressed as mythical kings and queens in reams of beautiful silk and heavy gold crowns, but the setting is contemporary and they speak in a mix of Hindi and English.
The film opens with the warrior prince Arjun, one of the Pandava brothers, bringing home his new wife Draupadi and trying to introduce her to his mother, Kunti.
As Kunti is busy doing household chores and has her back turned to the couple, she tells Arjun to "share whatever you've brought with your brothers".
Now Arjun is obviously not happy with this arrangement - who can blame him for not wanting to share his wife? - and starts lobbying his brothers to tell their mother that it's not a great idea and that she should reconsider.
There have been attempts in the past to retell the Mahabharat from Draupadi's perspective, but generally she is unhappy at the idea of being "shared". In Mama's Boys however, she's excited at the prospect of multiple husbands and actively seduces them.
Not just Draupadi, the Pandavas of Mama's Boys are also very different from the way they were in the original epic and Verma's script is full of risque and suggestive dialogue.
The eldest Yudhishthir - a virtuous man who never lied - is a rakish gambler who lusts after Draupadi as she emerges from the swimming pool in her almost-backless blouse.
Bheem, the bodybuilder, can't take his eyes off her posterior as they sweat it out together in the gym.
Nakul and Sahdev - the twins and the youngest of the siblings - are gay but realise that having Draupadi as their wife will help them keep their cover intact.
Over the past week, many Indians have taken to social media to praise the film as "mischievous and irreverent", "funniest" and "interesting":
But this unusual take on the epic has predictably not gone down well with some Hindu hardliners and one group, called the Hindu Sena, has lodged a complaint with the police.
"Akshat Verma and the team of Mama's Boys have deliberately and maliciously acted intending to outrage religious feelings of Hindus by insulting its religion and religious beliefs by making fun of its religious book," the complaint said.
Reports say the police are investigating the complaint to see if there is any merit in it.
Following the complaint, Mama's Boys can no longer be watched on the YouTube channel of the LargeShortFilms, as the makers have decided to restrict its viewing, although the film is still available on the internet.
Director Verma, meanwhile, has said his intention was not to offend anyone and that he was just trying to explore what went on in the minds of the characters. | Mama's Boys, a short YouTube film based on Draupadi's polyandrous marriage to five Pandava brothers from the ancient Hindu epic Mahabharat, is a hit with online audiences in India, but has angered some hardline Hindus, writes the BBC's Geeta Pandey in Delhi. |
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Former England paceman Bob Willis has talked up Borthwick's talents, and head coach Trevor Bayliss has also referenced his impressive county form.
Borthwick, 26, has five first-class centuries to his name so far in 2016.
"It's not up to me," Borthwick told BBC Look North. "All I can do is keep putting in performances for Durham."
He added: "Hopefully if it [a call-up] does come I'll be ready."
The emergence of Borthwick as a batting threat has been a progressive one, having initially emerged as a spinner before his climb up the order with Durham.
His one Test appearance for England came in the 2013-14 Ashes series, while his two one-day games for the national side were in 2011.
"Stats and results have shown that I'm a batsman who bowls leg spin, batting at three I'm more of a batsman," Borthwick added.
"The way we have set our bowling attack the last few years has been with the four seamers with me as the part time leggie." | Durham all-rounder Scott Borthwick says all he can do is maintain good performances for his county amid speculation about an England call-up. |
39,844,951 | The 20-year-old played Sheffield Shield cricket for New South Wales and impressed in UAE in the North v South series during March.
He is widely regarded as an England prospect, but is yet to play a first-class match for his county this season.
"There's been a lot said, which is fair enough as leg spin isn't the most-common thing," he told BBC Sport.
"But, I'm just focusing on what I'm doing."
After being omitted from Hampshire's opening three County Championship games, Crane has taken nine wickets in their opening four matches in the One-Day Cup, including 3-53 in a seven-wicket win against Gloucestershire on Sunday.
"It's great to be playing," he told BBC Radio Solent. "There's been a lot said asking why I'm not playing in the County Championship, but to be honest, Hampshire have been quite right not to play me.
"In two games at home, a seamer has gone down injured and had they been fit, we'd probably have beaten the two strongest sides in the country.
"Hopefully I can keep bowling well in the One-Day Cup and get a go in red-ball cricket after it's finished. I'll just keep focusing on trying to improve and contributing as much as I can." | Hampshire leg-spinner Mason Crane says he has given little thought to stories about him during an eventful winter. |
39,663,395 | MH370 disappeared while flying to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board in 2014.
Australia, Malaysia and China called off their hunt for the jet in January.
Analysing drift modelling of a real Boeing 777 wing part for the first time, scientists backed a December report about MH370's likely location.
That location is an area of approximately 25,000 sq km (9,700 sq miles) lying north of the earlier search zone in the southern Indian Ocean.
"Testing an actual flaperon [wing part] has added an extra level of assurance to the findings from our earlier drift modelling work," said Dr David Griffin, from Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
Earlier modelling had used replicas of a flaperon recovered from Reunion Island, the report said.
"We've found that an actual flaperon goes about 20 degrees to the left, and faster than the replicas, as we thought it might," Dr Griffin said.
"The arrival of MH370's flaperon at La Reunion in July 2015 now makes perfect sense."
Last year, Australia's Transport Minister Darren Chester said the December report would not be grounds for a new search because it did not give a "specific location" for the aircraft.
Speaking on Friday, he reiterated that position but said the report had been sent to Malaysia for consideration.
"Malaysia is the lead investigator and any future requests in relation to searching for MH370 would be considered by Australia, at that time." | Fresh evidence suggests that Malaysia Airlines flight 370 is most likely located to the north of a main search zone, Australian scientists say. |
29,523,648 | Christopher Kelly, 40, strangled his friend Dorothy Beattie, 51, at her home in Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, on 22 May.
The High Court in Glasgow heard he attacked her after she allegedly made a jibe about his children.
Kelly, who was caught after confessing to a GP, was originally charged with murder but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of culpable homicide.
The court heard how Kelly had previously been a support worker for Ms Beattie, who suffered from a number of medical conditions including seizures.
The divorced mother and Kelly later became friends and often socialised together.
The social care graduate attacked her at her home, however, after she allegedly made "derogatory" remarks about his children.
Kelly grabbed Ms Beattie and strangled her before leaving the flat.
He later returned and on finding her dead sat with her body before moving it to her bed before fleeing.
The court was told Kelly took a train to Edinburgh having used Ms Beattie's bank card to steal £300 from his victim's bank account.
The victim's body was found by her daughter, who had failed to establish contact, on 25 May.
Kelly apparently slept rough in Edinburgh until 28 May when he attended a GP surgery and confessed to killing Ms Beattie.
Kelly told a doctor that "something bad has happened" adding: "I think I killed her."
He went on: "I remember fighting and grabbing her around the neck. I blacked out and don't remember anything until I suddenly became aware she was dead.
"I carried her body to the bed and left the house. I've not been back since."
Kelly also said: "We're just pals - I had been her support worker."
Police were called and Kelly told officers the last few days had been "torture".
The court heard Ms Beattie's injuries involved the use of "significant force".
Judge Lord Bannatyne said the jail-term would have been seven years, but for Kelly's guilty plea.
The judge said: "On any view, given what has been said, this is a tragic case."
Kelly mouthed "sorry" to the victim's two daughters as was lead handcuffed to the cells. | A former support worker who killed a woman he previously cared for has been jailed for five years and three months. |
38,172,005 | A 49-year-old man was walking his dog with a friend when another dog attacked his pet in Bruntsfield Links in Edinburgh on Wednesday morning.
In the row that followed, the victim was grappled to the ground and pelted with a plastic dog ball thrower.
He has bruising and swelling to his knuckles but was not seriously hurt.
Police are appealing for witnesses to the incident which took place at about 10:45.
The attacker is white, 5ft 10in tall, of medium build, with short grey hair and a grey beard.
He was wearing a dark blue jacket, jeans and trainers and was walking a black Labrador.
Sgt Andy Wilson, of Police Scotland, said: "The Meadows is often very busy and this incident may have attracted the attention of anyone who was within the park at the time.
"I would ask any members of the public who witnessed the assault, or can help us identify the suspect, to contact police immediately." | A man was beaten with a plastic dog toy when a fight between two dogs in an Edinburgh Park escalated to include their owners. |
27,322,837 | HMP Shrewsbury was put up for sale by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in February.
Nightclub owner Martin Monahan's bid is one of many under consideration to buy the Grade II listed building.
The agent organising the sale, GVA, said further discussions are needed before a buyer is chosen.
The former prison, which is known as The Dana, closed on 28 March 2013 as part of a programme of prison closures aimed at saving the MoJ £63m.
Mr Monahan, who owns four nightclubs and a restaurant in Shrewsbury, also wants to create business start-up units and a leisure complex at the site.
Any alterations would require the permission of the Shropshire Council because it is a listed building.
The property agents said there had been a "handful" of bids for the prison, which were discussed with the MoJ on Wednesday.
But it needs to ensure there is "substance to the proposals" and while the MoJ had a duty to get the best price for the buildings, it also had a responsibility to consider its heritage and ensure it would be developed responsibly.
The MoJ is in the process of selling off a dozen of its sites around the country.
A decision on the sale is expected next week. | Part of a former prison in Shrewsbury could be converted into a hotel under plans revealed by a local businessman. |
31,927,270 | Mr Schock, 33, is under fire for his lavish spending, using public funds on donor-provided private flights and property transactions involving political contributors.
A congressional ethics investigation was reportedly under way.
The Republican from Illinois has served in Congress since 2009.
In a statement, Mr Schock said he would step down on 31 March, and was doing so with a "heavy heart".
"Constant questions over the last six weeks have proven a great distraction that has made it too difficult for me to serve the people of the 18th District with the high standards that they deserve and which I have set for myself," Mr Schock said, according to Politico, which first reported the story.
Mr Schock was the focus of a Washington Post story about his congressional office, which was decorated in the style of Downton Abbey.
While Mr Schock repaid the government $40,000 (£28,500) for the office renovation, it was the first in a series of increasingly serious headlines about his spending of public and campaign funds.
The Associated Press (AP) used geolocated data from the Illinois lawmaker's Instagram account and his flight records to pin the congressman for more than $40,000 of expenses taken to cover the cost of private flights.
While that is within the rules of Congress to use office funds in this way, it was not in 2013, the year investigated by the AP.
Separately, Mr Schock came under scrutiny for multiple property deals closely related to political donors.
On Monday the AP confirmed that the Office of Congressional Ethics had reached out to Schock's associates to interview them.
And Politico reported on Tuesday Mr Schock billed the federal government and his campaign for 170,000 miles (274,000km) on a personal vehicle over four years. But the vehicle only had about 80,000 miles recorded when he returned it.
Top House Republican John Boehner said Mr Schock "has put the best interests of his constituents and the House first."
"I appreciate Aaron's years of service, and I wish him well in the future." | Representative Aaron Schock is resigning after questions over his use of campaign and public funds. |
39,443,083 | The event doubled up as the Northern Ireland & Ulster Championship for the distance.
O'Flaherty clocked 16 minutes and 18 seconds to finish nine seconds ahead of QUB's Emma Mitchell, with Jessica Craig [17:13] in third.
Bradley held off Letterkenny man Danny Mooney by four seconds to win the men's race in 14:44.
Mooney was second as he was given the same time as third-placed St Malachy's athlete Ben Branagh.
The 5K event started on the Annadale Embankment in south Belfast and covered two and three quarter laps before the finish at the Queen's PEC in Stranmillis.
O'Flaherty, who competed in the steeplechase at last year's Rio Olympics, plans to race in the Great Ireland Run in Dublin on 9 April before heading for a three-week training stint at Font Romeu in the French Pyrenees. | Olympic athlete Kerry O'Flaherty and City of Derry's Conor Bradley took the victories in the Queen's 5K road race. |
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"It's quite an emotional day. I'm full of joy and happiness and light," said the 30-year-old British driver.
He defended the first-lap overtake of Nico Rosberg, which forced his Mercedes team-mate wide and he dropped to fourth before fighting back to second.
Hamilton is now 48 points clear of the German in the title race.
"The inside line is the inside line, so it was my corner," said Hamilton.
"I can imagine Nico was running out of road but that's what happens when you're on the outside."
Rosberg said: "It got really close on the exit of Turn Two and I had to back out of it there and that lost me the race.
"I haven't seen it on TV. For sure it was close. I had to avoid a collision. But it is difficult to comment now."
Sunday was Hamilton's 162nd race, one more than Senna started in a career that ended tragically at Imola in 1994.
The Brazilian won twice at Suzuka in 1988 and 1993 and Hamilton's victory was also his second at the circuit.
"For me to win here at a race where I loved watching Ayrton drive and to match his wins, it doesn't feel real at the moment," he said.
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Rosberg and Hamilton were warned last year not to risk taking each other out in racing situations following an incident in the Belgian Grand Prix when they collided, leading to Hamilton's eventual retirement.
Rosberg was reprimanded by the team after that incident and the two drivers were warned that they risked their future at the team if they damaged each other's cars out on track.
But team boss Toto Wolff expressed no problems with the incident.
"Lewis had a better start and stuck his nose in," he said. "It was a tough corner for both of them."
Hamilton also defended his move in a BBC TV interview, pointing to footage that showed he was ahead as the two drivers began to accelerate out of Turn Two.
"I knew that it was my right of way," he said. "Once I got my car slightly ahead I knew that it was my right of way. I was ahead, so that is my road. I don't particularly think it was too close."
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Asked if he ever feels sorry for Rosberg about coming second best in wheel-to-wheel racing, Hamilton added: "Rosberg was fair. He drives incredibly well and has done a great job this year.
"This is racing and that is what it is all about. There have been times when I have fallen behind. It happens."
Wolff added: "It is always very difficult to race your team-mate. It was a tricky situation for both. Lewis said he had understeer and he ran out of track and two cars side by side in Turn Two is difficult anyway."
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Japanese GP coverage details | Lewis Hamilton said it felt "unreal" after victory in the Japanese Grand Prix moved him level with his boyhood hero Ayrton Senna on 41 race wins. |
40,816,268 | There are 20 MPs and peers from different parties who act as trade representatives abroad.
Mr Duncan Smith said it was "absurd" that this list should include "people who are viscerally opposed to Brexit".
Trade envoys have responded that Brexit is irrelevant to their work.
The former work and pensions secretary was commenting on the fact that some of the current trade envoys voted against the government during the passage of the bill which enabled the triggering of Article 50.
He told the website BrexitCentral: "It is quite unacceptable and high time we appointed new people who believe that what we are doing is positive and full of new opportunity."
But one of the envoys in question - Lib Dem Baroness Northover, who represents the UK in Angola, told the BBC: "He seems to have misunderstood the role of the UK's trade envoys."
She added: "We worked to increase trade before the referendum, and we continue to do so now... Where we stand on the referendum is irrelevant."
The envoy to Oman, Conservative former defence minister Lord Astor of Hever, said he and his colleagues were "doing a huge amount of work around the world, but we'd be doing this whether or not we are in the EU".
He specified that Brexit "hasn't been mentioned" in his interaction with Oman.
He stressed that, like Iain Duncan Smith, he wants to "follow the will of the people in leaving the EU".
A government spokesman said: "The trade envoy programme is a cross-party network of parliamentarians from both Houses whose role is promoting trade and investment between the UK and overseas markets.
"The voluntary roles are appointed by the prime minister and all envoys bring a wealth of experience to help support British businesses in growing and succeeding internationally."
The programme was set up in 2012 under David Cameron to help the UK build links with markets where there is less ministerial engagement, usually developing countries.
The BBC understands all the envoys recently received a letter from the international trade secretary, Liam Fox, confirming they would continue in their roles and the government sees their work as "crucial". | Former Cabinet minister Iain Duncan Smith has been accused of not understanding the role of trade envoys after he called for the removal of those who are against Brexit. |
36,142,781 | Saints dominated possession and territory in the first half but trailed 14-0 at the break through two converted tries from winger Jeff Williams.
After Bath's Chris Cook was sin-binned, Teimana Harrison touched down in the corner and a penalty from Stephen Myler reduced the arrears.
Mikey Haywood powered over late on and Myler converted to seal victory.
Bath capitalised on their scant first-half opportunities, with Williams pouncing on a slip by Saints full-back Harry Mallinder to open the scoring and adding a breakaway second after hacking on a clearing kick.
The hosts had a score from George North ruled out just before half-time for a forward pass from Mallinder but worked their way back into the game when Cook was shown a yellow card for kicking the ball out of Lee Dickson's hands at the breakdown.
Northampton's game was marked by handling errors and a lack of penetration but they kept their composure at the end as Harrison finished well before Haywood dived over following a rolling maul.
Saints' victory keeps their hopes of European Champions Cup qualification alive but if Harlequins win at London Irish on Sunday, Jim Mallinder's side may need to win at Gloucester on the final day of the season to ensure a top-six finish.
Northampton director of rugby Jim Mallinder: "It was similar to the Leicester game last week, conceding two tries out of the blue.
"We were attacking and then we lost two tries and were suddenly 14-0 down.
"But we talked about them having a big set of forwards and tiring in the second half, so we wanted to keep putting them under pressure and thankfully we got the results.
"I was worried all the way through from the first minute to the last to be honest. But we've seen Myler time and time again kick goals like that."
Bath head coach Mike Ford: "We just lost our composure where we wouldn't have done that last year. It's an issue and one we've got to get right for next season.
"We've been competitive all year, but clearly our confidence of winning those small margin games like today has been tough.
"You can analyse too much and start thinking everything's wrong. Once we couldn't make the top six, we took a deep breath and we've played some good rugby in the past few weeks.
"It's difficult to put your finger on it and there are different factors, but I'm confident that this club will be there or thereabouts next year."
Northampton Saints: Mallinder; K Pisi, G Pisi, Burrell, North; Myler, Dickson (capt); Waller, Haywood, Brookes, Lawes, Day, Gibson, Wood, Harrison
Replacements: Marshall, Ma'afu, Hill, Matfield, Nutley, Fotuali'i, Hanrahan, Wilson.
Bath: Watson; Williams, Joseph, Devoto, Banahan; Priestland, Cook; Catt, Webber, Wilson, Ewels, Attwood, Garvey, Louw (capt), Denton.
Replacements: Dunn, Auterac, Lahiff, Day, Houston, Homer, Ford, Clark.
Sin bin: Cook (48)
Referee: Wayne Barnes. | Northampton moved up to fifth in the Premiership table thanks to a second-half comeback against Bath. |
27,547,214 | More than 30 people were killed in the attacks overnight into Friday in north-eastern Borno state, they said.
The raids took place as the UN Security Council approved sanctions against the Islamist group.
It is five weeks since Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls, prompting international outrage.
Nigerian officials say President Goodluck Jonathan is due to travel to South Africa for discussions with other African heads of state on combating terrorism in Africa following on from last weekend's summit hosted by France.
Earlier his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame, said African presidents should take responsibility for their failures and resolve their own conflicts together.
"I find that our leaders, who should have been working together all along to address these problems that only affect their countries, wait until they are invited to go to Europe. Why does anybody wait for that? What image does it even give about Africa?" he said.
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Residents from two of the villages that came under attack said militants had arrived in a convoy and gathered the men of the community together.
They accused them of being members of vigilante groups and killed them all, one villager from Moforo in Marte district who escaped across the border to Cameroon told the BBC Hausa service.
They then burnt down all the shops in the market, leaving the villagers destitute, he said.
Correspondents say that most villages have formed vigilante groups to try to protect their communities from militant attacks.
A resident of Kimbi village in Biu district said the villagers contacted the security forces to alert them to their attack, but were told it was not an area under military control so they could not be helped.
The military has not commented on the allegation.
About 25 men were killed in Moforo, another eight men in Kimbi. It is not known if there were casualties from a raid early on Friday on Kabrihu village near the Sambisa forest.
The latest attacks came after another deadly village raid in Borno and twin bombings which killed 122 in the central city of Jos on Tuesday. The authorities also suspect Boko Haram of being behind those attacks, but there has so far been no claim of responsibility from the group.
Boko Haram was added to the UN Security Council's al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee's list of designated entities on Thursday at the request of Nigeria.
US envoy Samantha Power said it was an "important step" in support of efforts to "defeat Boko Haram and hold its murderous leadership accountable".
It appears staggering that it has taken this long for the UN to take this action. Boko Haram has carried out an extremely brutal campaign of violence especially over the last five years, killing thousands. The Chibok kidnapping was the game changer along with the bombings. The UK and US took similar steps last year but since then the situation on the ground has deteriorated.
Will asset freezes, arms embargoes and travel bans make any difference? Boko Haram is largely financed through bank robberies, extortion, other al-Qaeda groups and ransom payments whilst the region is awash with arms, and barracks have often been looted.
The UN decision suits the Nigerian government which wants to portray Boko Haram as an international issue partly to deflect criticism. The insurgents cross borders but it is chiefly a domestic problem. The kind of travel ban that would suit the vulnerable people in the north-east would be one which stops convoys of militants roaming freely, dishing out terror.
Analysts say it is hard to say what practical effect the move will have.
Boko Haram, which has killed thousands of people in Nigeria through a wave of bombings and assassinations since 2009, is fighting to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state.
The government's failure to prevent attacks since launching an offensive against Boko Haram a year ago has triggered widespread anger, especially since the kidnapping of the schoolgirls from Chibok in Borno on 14 April.
Meanwhile, residents in Bauchi, which is not one of three states under emergency rule because of the insurgency, say the air force repeatedly bombed a forest where there are suspected militant camps on Thursday morning. | Militants in Nigeria have raided three villages and killed those they accused of being anti-Boko Haram vigilantes, residents have told the BBC. |
31,528,981 | Michael Fallon said he was worried about "pressure" from Russian President Vladimir Putin on the ex-Soviet states, which are Nato members.
Russia might use tactics there similar to those it used in Ukraine, he said.
Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander told the BBC he too had "very real concerns" about the situation.
Mr Fallon's comments came after PM David Cameron called on Europe to tell Russia it faced economic and financial consequences for "many years to come" if it did not stop destabilising Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defence has said RAF jets were scrambled on Wednesday after two Russian military aircraft were seen off the Cornwall coast.
Speaking to journalists from the Times and Daily Telegraph during a flight to Sierra Leone, where British troops are helping tackle the Ebola outbreak, Mr Fallon said: "I'm worried about Putin.
"I'm worried about his pressure on the Baltics, the way he is testing Nato."
He said Nato must be prepared for aggression from Russia "in whatever form it takes" - because Russia was likely to use covert tactics such as those he said it had used to annex Crimea and during the current Ukraine conflict.
Russia has denied helping pro-Russian separatists, but it has been repeatedly accused of sending weapons and troops and using propaganda to inflame tensions.
Jonathan Marcus, BBC defence and diplomatic correspondent
The comments from Defence Secretary Michael Fallon are an indication of a fundamental shift in the Nato perception of the crisis in Ukraine.
Nato governments clearly believe that what began as a localised Ukraine problem that strained ties with Moscow has now become a Russia problem, and a Russia problem that is likely to persist for some time.
Ukraine is thus seen as a manifestation of a much broader policy shift on the part of the Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Mr Fallon's belief that there is indeed a potential threat to Nato territory - in particular the Baltic Republics - is widely shared; hence Nato's desire to underline in the most emphatic terms that its security guarantees to its members will be honoured in full.
Mr Fallon went on: "When you have jets being flown up the English Channel, when you have submarines in the North Sea, it looks to me like it's [the situation is] warming up," he said.
Mr Cameron warned that rebels in eastern Ukraine were using Russian military hardware, pointing out: "You can't buy this equipment on eBay, it hasn't come from somewhere else, it's come from Russia and we know that."
He added that one of the principles of Nato - which is made up of 26 European countries as well as the US and Canada - is that an "attack against one or several members is considered as an attack against all".
Elsewhere, Admiral Lord West, a former First Sea Lord and Nato commander, said it was important Nato "stands united at this dangerous and difficult moment".
It could not afford to let a line in the sand be crossed if Russia interfered with the Baltic states, he said.
The UK Joint Delegation to Nato tweeted that Russia had deployed the country's "most advanced anti-aircraft artillery system" in Ukraine. | There is a "real and present danger" of Russia trying to destabilise the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, the UK defence secretary says. |
40,934,890 | South African police said in the late afternoon they did not know where Mrs Mugabe was.
A 20-year-old South African woman has accused Mrs Mugabe of hitting her on the head with an extension cord during a confrontation at a hotel.
She released an image of a face injury online. Mrs Mugabe has not commented.
Gabriella Engels accused Mrs Mugabe, 52, of hitting her after finding her with her two sons in a hotel room in Sandton, a plush suburb north of Johannesburg, the BBC's Pumza Fihlani reports.
The attack is said to have happened on Sunday evening.
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"The negotiations over the suspect handing herself over have not concluded and our investigations have not finalised," police spokesman Vishnu Naidoo told AFP news agency.
Police Minister Fikile Mbalula earlier said Mrs Mugabe had handed herself over to police but was not under arrest, and would appear in court early on Tuesday afternoon local time.
Hours later Mr Naidoo clarified: "The minister learned later that it just didn't materalise as it was supposed to."
In a phone interview for South Africa's News24 news site, she said she and a friend had been visiting the sons, Robert and Chatunga, at the Capital 20 West Hotel.
A bodyguard asked her and her friend to wait in a separate room, after which the assault occurred, she said.
"When Grace entered I had no idea who she was," she told News24.
"She walked in with an extension cord and just started beating me with it. She flipped and just kept beating me with the plug. Over and over. I had no idea what was going on. I was surprised… I needed to crawl out of the room before I could run away.
"Her ten bodyguards just stood there watching, no-one did anything, no-one tried to help me."
"There was blood everywhere," she added. "Over my arms, in my hair, everywhere."
In a statement, they confirmed that on Monday an unnamed 20-year-old South African woman had registered a "case of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm".
She was "allegedly assaulted by a prominent woman at a hotel in Sandton," they said, without naming Mrs Mugabe.
She was due to be treated for an ankle injury, sustained during a road accident last month, according to Zimbabwean media.
It is not clear whether she was travelling on a diplomatic or a normal passport.
Mrs Mugabe is seen as a staunch defender of her husband, 93, and is the leader of the powerful women's league of Zimbabwe's governing Zanu-PF party.
Zimbabwean Information Minister Christopher Mushowe told the BBC he was unaware of the allegations against her. | Zimbabwean First Lady Grace Mugabe has so far failed to appear in a South African court over an assault case despite officials saying she would do. |
40,109,388 | The Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust's service "requires improvement".
In its recently-published report it said the provider achieved 82% of face-to-face consultations within two hours of assessment for urgent patients, compared to a target of 95%.
But the service was rated "good" for its patient care and responsiveness.
The November inspection focused on GP out-of-hours services at six health centres and hospitals in Oxfordshire:
Professor Steve Field, chief inspector of general practice, said overall there was "an open and transparent approach to safety" at the trust.
He added: "Patients said they were treated with compassion, dignity and... there was a comprehensive system in place to keep patients safeguarded from harm."
But he said 11 staff had not completed training in basic life support and performance standards had declined in 2016 "due to shortages of GPs and practitioners".
Prof Field said: "Some risks associated with managing prescriptions and cleanliness of treatment facilities had not been identified during monitoring of the service.
"The provider had not obtained evidence of some recruitment checks and mandatory training in a timely manner."
Trust communications manager Victoria Taylor said: "The inspection, which happened some months ago, identified a number of areas for improvement, all of which have been acted upon.
"Recruitment to the service remains a challenge due to many local GPs reaching retirement age, but we are continuing our recruitment efforts.
"We are proud that the service was rated 'good' for both its patient care and its responsiveness." | An Oxfordshire NHS trust's out-of-hours service missed targets because of a shortage of GPs, inspectors have found. |
35,220,552 | Brian McIlhagga, 42, was beaten and shot in both legs in Riverview Park, Ballymoney, on 5 January 2015.
He later died from his injuries.
As police issued a new appeal for information, they said they believe the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) had a role in the killing.
Mr McIlhagga was attacked by a group of masked men before being dragged from a house and then shot.
A 33-year-old woman who lived in the house was also beaten and four children who witnessed the attack were traumatised.
On Mr McIlhagga's anniversary, police distributed leaflets in the area and set up checkpoints.
Det Ch Insp Michael Harvey said "violence and brutality" in the attack "far exceeds anything I've experienced in 29 years of police service".
"One would have to ask why such a level of brutality was used," he said.
"There was certainly paramilitary involvement in this attack, but another line of inquiry is that there may well have been some sort of personal grudge.
"I believe we have identified a number of the individuals who have attacked Brian and another group of other individuals who may well have been on the periphery of this attack."
No-one has been charged in connection with the murder and police believe that fears about paramilitary involvement have stopped people coming forward.
They have urged anyone with information to help them.
Det Ch Insp Harvey added: "The family needs closure and the community needs justice." | Detectives investigating the murder of a father of five in County Antrim have said they are "tantalisingly close" to making a breakthrough in the case on the anniversary of his death. |
34,144,422 | Wildest Dreams was filmed on location in Botswana and South Africa but some fans have complained that the video hardly features any black Africans.
Director Joseph Kahn said the story line of the video is focused on a film crew visiting parts of the continent in the 1950s and that it would have been rewriting history to include more black people.
Some fans have accused the video of showing an image of Africa that is old fashioned and offensive.
Taylor Swift has not commented on the controversy around the video but in a statement Kahn denied that the video only includes white people.
He said: "The reality is not only were there people of colour in the video, but the key creatives who worked on this video are people of colour."
He went on to say: "We collectively decided it would have been historically inaccurate to load the crew with more black actors as the video would have been accused of rewriting history.
"This video is set in the past by a crew set in the present and we are all proud of our work."
The video has been viewed more than 19 million times since it was released on Monday, but criticism was quick to come online. | The director of Taylor Swift's new video has been forced to defend it after criticism of the way it represents Africa. |
36,421,453 | The North Ledaig Co Ltd, which bought the marina after its previous owners went into administration in 2011, is looking for offers over £975,000.
It said it had made "strenuous efforts" to improve the infrastructure on which the marina relied but with only partial success.
The marina is located on the Isle of Kerrera, close to Oban.
It includes 95 serviced floating pontoon berths, 30 moorings, two boatsheds, as well as a shop, bar and licensed restaurant.
Oban Marina's managing director, Peter Weir, told BBC Scotland that the company had tried to improve infrastructure around the island, including wi-fi and water supplies, but had had limited success.
He said: "We have struggled. We had high hopes when we bought the marina. We were prepared to invest £1m into this place to make it a showpiece for Oban but that didn't happen because of the issues we faced.
"We have invested £250,000 but I am 72 now and I just feel that I am past running it."
He added: "It is one of the most fabulous locations on the west coast.
"It has traded successfully in the past and we are three-quarters of the way to solving the infrastructure issues.
"A younger, more enthusiastic buyer should be able to turn it around and hopefully develop it into the marina it has been in the past and grow it into a showpiece for Oban."
Estate agent Strutt & Parker is handling the sale.
Associate Euan MacCrimmon said: "The sale of Oban Marina offers a rare opportunity to purchase a trading marina located within an area which boasts some of the best sailing in Europe.
"It benefits from several income streams and development opportunities. It is not often a business like this comes to the market and it offers fantastic potential." | Oban Marina has been put up for sale for the second time in less than five years. |
39,368,319 | The sport's governing body began an internal review after several Para-swimmers made complaints.
The complainants are understood to include Rio 2016 medallists.
Swimming was ParalympicsGB's most successful sport in Rio, winning 47 medals - 16 golds of 152 available - and setting eight world records.
But it has now emerged the team, which is based at the Manchester Aquatics Centre, has been embroiled in a bullying controversy for the past two months.
British Swimming has appointed investigators to look into the allegations.
UK Sport said it was aware of the internal review and "disappointed" to hear the claims.
A parent of one of the complainants told the BBC that swimmers were "belittled and criticised".
"We were told elite sport was not about the welfare of athletes but the pursuit of medals. There was a culture of fear," the parent said.
In a statement, British Swimming told the BBC: "Whilst some athletes have expressed some concerns, we have immediately undertaken an independent fact-finding investigation into these.
"The investigation remains ongoing and, until it is completed, we do not propose to make any further comment."
UK Sport said: "While we are disappointed to hear of these allegations, we are reassured that athletes feel able to challenge any behaviour that they are uncomfortable with and that British Swimming are investigating.
"As part of our action plan following the independent review into British Cycling, we will be looking at sharing learnings and best practice across the entire high performance system to ensure we continue to support our best athletes to reach their full potential within a positive performance culture of the upmost integrity and ethical standards."
A British Paralympic Association statement added: "We understand that some athletes have raised concerns with British Swimming, their national governing body. Athlete welfare is of the utmost importance, therefore it is quite right that British Swimming have undertaken an independent fact-finding investigation into the matter, which remains ongoing."
The revelations come amid mounting concern over the culture of high-performance programmes at British sports, and whether medal success has come at the expense of athlete welfare.
Team GB and ParalympicsGB both came second in their respective medal tables in Rio.
British Cycling apologised last month for various "failings" after an independent investigation into allegations of bullying and sexism.
A leaked draft version of the report, due for publication, found there was "a culture of fear" in the national velodrome, and "cracks in terms of the climate and culture… were ignored in pursuit of medal success".
Several former riders and staff have complained about the way they were treated, with track cyclist Jess Varnish saying she was "thrown under the bus" and the victim of a "cover-up".
Former technical director Shane Sutton has always denied any wrongdoing.
British Cycling has introduced an action plan of reforms dedicated to improving training, governance and welfare.
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Last year, British Rowing coach Paul Thompson was cleared of bullying following an investigation.
Former GB rower Emily Taylor had claimed Thompson was "a massive bully". A review concluded more care needed to be taken of athletes' wellbeing and the culture at British Rowing was "hard and unrelenting".
Meanwhile, in 2016 the government asked former Paralympian Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson to conduct a comprehensive 'duty of care review'.
Publication of her report is imminent. It is expected to recommend significant reforms designed to improve the way athletes are treated by governing bodies.
Last month, UK Sport chief executive Liz Nicholl told BBC Sport there is "no excuse for not putting athletes first... there probably hasn't been enough attention in sport about how they do things.
"There's a lot of focus on operational delivery, probably not enough on leadership management and communication." | British Swimming is conducting an investigation after multiple bullying claims were made by Paralympians about a coach, the BBC has learned. |
32,443,037 | Diplomats confirmed to the BBC that they had been told to go to the island prison of Nusakambangan on Saturday.
The request could suggest that the executions of the mainly foreign prisoners are imminent, but no official execution date has yet been set.
The prisoners must be given a final notice 72 hours before their execution.
The group includes people from Brazil, France, Nigeria and the two convicted Australian ringleaders of the Bali Nine heroin-smuggling ring, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.
The 10th death row prisoner, Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso from the Philippines, was being transferred to Nusakambangan prison on Friday.
"We have been told to be there on Saturday," an unnamed diplomat told Reuters news agency.
"We still don't know when the actual date of execution will happen but we expect that it will be in days."
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Earlier, a spokesman for Indonesia's attorney general's office said that prosecutors had been told to begin making their preparations for the executions.
"This order has been issued so that the officials make preparations concerning their role," said spokesman Tony Spontana, as quoted by AFP.
Local media reported that all the prisoners except for the sole Indonesian convict had exhausted their appeals in the Supreme Court, though appeals are continuing for others in lesser courts.
Leonard Arpan, an Indonesian lawyer for the Bali Nine pair, expressed concern over the latest developments.
"I am hoping that the Indonesian government will respect the ongoing legal proceedings and not make a decision on executions until these proceedings have finished," he told the BBC.
"We've filed the constitutional court challenge for the Bali Nine and we are waiting for a result on the court from that."
Mr Arpan said he had spoken to the two Australians - who were sentenced to death in 2006 - earlier in the week.
"They are in good spirits, they are well. We understand that their families are on their way to Indonesia."
Indonesia has faced heavy criticism from the countries whose nationals are facing execution.
Australia has mounted a strong diplomatic campaign on behalf of Chan and Sukumaran, while their families have argued that they are reformed characters and should be shown mercy.
The pair have already had clemency appeals rejected by Indonesian President Joko Widodo earlier this year.
Mr Widodo, who took office in 2014, has a policy of denying clemency to drug offenders, saying the drug trade has caused huge damage to Indonesia. | Indonesia has summoned foreign embassy officials to the prison where 10 convicted drug smugglers, including the Bali Nine pair, will be executed. |
38,162,104 | He takes over from Sam Allardyce who left in September after just 67 days in charge of the team.
When Allardyce left, Southgate stepped up from his role as the England Under-21s boss to look after the senior team for four games.
He oversaw two wins and two draws and has now signed a contract, reportedly for four years.
"I have thoroughly enjoyed working with the players over these past four games and I think there is huge potential," said Southgate.
During his career playing football Gareth Southgate made 57 appearances for England. | Gareth Southgate has been confirmed as the new manager for the England football team. |
32,394,684 | Sir John used a speech in the Midlands to say a Labour-SNP government would mean families paying with "higher taxes, more debts and fewer jobs".
He said a future Labour government would be subjected to a "daily dose of blackmail" from the nationalists.
But Ed Miliband said the Conservatives were putting the future of the UK under threat by talking up the SNP.
The Labour leader told BBC Breakfast Mr Cameron was "playing fast and loose with the union" and risked "setting England against Scotland". He should be "taking on, not talking up" the SNP, he said.
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon described Sir John's comments as an "affront to democracy".
And there has been unease among former Cabinet ministers who served alongside Sir John in the 1980s and 1990s, Lord Tebbit suggesting the party's strategy was "puzzling" while Lord Forsyth said the attacks could backfire and threaten the "integrity" of the union.
In a speech in Solihull, Sir John said he had been warning of the risks posed to the union for 20 years and, as a unionist, he had an "absolute duty" to make sure voters understood the risk the SNP's influence would pose.
"If Labour were to accept an offer of support from the SNP, it could put the country on course to a government held to ransom on a vote-by-vote basis," he said.
"Labour would be in hock to a party that - slowly but surely - will push them ever further to the left. And who would pay the price for this? We all would. We would all pay for the SNP's ransom in our daily lives - through higher taxes, fewer jobs, and more and more debt.
"This is a recipe for mayhem. At the very moment our country needs a strong and stable government, we risk a weak and unstable one - pushed to the left by its allies, and open to a daily dose of political blackmail."
Sir John denied his remarks "de-legitimised" any possible Labour-SNP government.
Referring to Ms Sturgeon, who is not standing for a Westminster seat, he insisted: "If you want to talk about de-legitimising, I would like to know what someone who isn't even a candidate for the House of Commons is doing talking about her party changing the policy and politics of the government of the whole of the United Kingdom," he said.
"That's what's de-legitimising."
Mr Miliband - who has rejected a Labour-SNP coalition - dismissed claims that the SNP would "call the shots" in the event of a hung parliament.
"It ain't going to happen," he said.
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Ms Sturgeon said: "John Major's comments are silly, over the top and, frankly, they don't show him in a particularly good light.
"Scotland's voice deserves to be heard in whatever way the Scottish people choose, and voting SNP means Scotland's voice will be heard more loudly and strongly at Westminster than it has ever been heard before."
Recent polls all point towards there being a hung parliament after 7 May, and suggest the SNP could be the third largest party and crucially hold the balance of power.
As a consequence of this, the "threat" of an SNP link-up with Labour has emerged as a major Conservative line of attack in the election campaign.
Sir John said the SNP's "driving ambition" was an independent Scotland, and it would use its position to demand policies that favour Scotland at the expense of the rest of the UK.
"That is no way to run a country. And nor is it remotely fair to England, Wales and Northern Ireland," he said.
But former Conservative chairman Lord Tebbit said his party's tactics were a distraction from their "primary task which is to elect Conservative members of Parliament".
He suggested the logical conclusion of the Conservatives' arguments was that people should vote Labour to keep the SNP out as "the lesser of two evils" in the majority of Scottish seats where the Conservatives are unlikely to win.
"I think it's a huge scare tactic against Labour," he told BBC's Newsnight.
"Having bungled the Scottish referendum it seems pointless to just irritate Scots by shouting at them from Westminster. The English are irritated into voting for UKIP by being shouting at from Westminster - and the Scots are irritated similarly."
He added: "I just cannot read Mr Cameron's mind. It's a foreign country to me."
And former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Paddy Ashdown accused Sir John of having a "fit of amnesia" about the troubles he experienced as prime minister between 1990 and 1997.
"If there's any prime minister of Britain who will know what it's like to be held to account and indeed be run on the basis of bribes given every day by the extremists, it's Mr Major, who had 16 bastards - he called them bastards, that's his word not mine - in his party," he told the BBC.
He claimed the Conservatives now had 60 "extreme right-wingers" in the party "who will make Mr Cameron weak, just as they made Mr Major weak", and who were in "an unholy alliance with UKIP and the Ulster Unionists". | Ex-PM Sir John Major has claimed that a Labour government supported by the SNP would be a "recipe for mayhem". |
36,394,819 | Attaporn Boonmakchuay said the python was "yanking very hard" as he and his wife tried to wrestle it off.
Doctors said Mr Attaporn, who lost a lot of blood in the ordeal, was making a good recovery.
Workers dismantled the toilet and extracted the python which had slithered through domestic plumbing.
It was released back into the wild.
The incident happened as Mr Attaporn, 38, went to the toilet at his home in Chachoengsao province, east of Bangkok, before leaving for work on Wednesday.
As he used the toilet he said he suddenly felt a sharp pain.
"I felt as though my penis had been severed. The snake was yanking very hard," he said, according to the Bangkok Post.
As the python tried to pull him down, he called for his wife and neighbours to help him, the post reported.
Mr Attaporn told Thai TV that his wife tied a rope around the snake and he prised its jaws open before passing out.
Thai media published images of Mr Attaporn's blood-spattered toilet.
Doctors said Mr Attaporn was recovering well.
"He has a really good attitude... even though his own wife and children were in shock. He's been smiling and giving interviews all day from his bed," said Chularat Hospital director Dr Chutima Pincharoen.
Mr Attaporn said he planned to replace the squat toilet with a sitting one. | A Thai man is recovering in hospital after a 3m (10ft) python emerged from a squat toilet and sank its teeth into his penis. |
35,321,448 | Ozzy's problems came to light when handler PC Paul Huggett noticed a "blue tinge" in his eyes.
Cataracts were diagnosed by a vet but police decided to "give him a chance" and sanctioned the expensive treatment.
PC Huggett said without the operation, Ozzy would have had to retire from his job tracking down contraband drugs, weapons and cash.
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The dog has now returned to work and on his first assignment found "50 rocks of crack cocaine in Peterborough".
Ozzy, who is eight, is part of the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire dog unit and is based in Alconbury, Cambridgeshire.
Cataracts are cloudy patches that develop in the lens of the eye and can cause blurred or misty vision. If untreated the condition is likely to deteriorate.
PC Huggett, who has had Ozzy since the dog was six months old, said: "[Police dogs] use their nose to search, but Ozzy still needs to see where he's going.
"We had a meeting with the bosses and it was decided we would give him a chance.
"He's a very good dog, he's a natural searcher."
The cost of the procedure was in excess of £3,000.
Specialist Newmarket-based vets Dick White Referrals carried out the operation and nursed Ozzy back to health.
"We did a lot of research about where he should go to get the best care and aftercare," PC Huggett said. | A police dog's career has been saved after his bosses agreed to pay more than £3,000 for a cataract operation. |
40,736,830 | The move is seen as the start of an aggressive expansion in the region, which has a population of about 600 million people.
It is also the first time Amazon has gone head-to-head with Chinese rival Alibaba in Asia.
The Singapore service promises two-hour delivery on thousands of items including groceries and electronics.
Its biggest rival will be Redmart, owned by Lazada, which is in turn controlled by Alibaba.
Amazon Prime is a service available to Amazon customers who pay an annual membership fee.
It was first launched in New York in December 2014 and has since expanded to more than 50 major cities in nine countries.
Initially Singapore customers will not have pay for a subscription - but while they can order electronics, toys and sports gear as well as food and drink, the Prime Now service will not initially include other Amazon Prime services including video streaming or Amazon Echo.
Books also seem unavailable to order on the app.
Amazon already has a significant presence in India and Japan but analysts say that South East Asia represents one of the biggest battlegrounds for e-commerce firms.
However, it is a highly fragmented market, comprising many different cultures, languages and regulations.
Singapore is seen as a good testing ground for regional expansion because of the developed infrastructure and relatively wealthy population.
As well as owning Redmart, Lazada also has a presence in several other Southeast Asian countries.
Singapore is seen as a launching pad for many e-commerce giants trying to take on the wider Southeast Asian region - a potential market of 600 million people that could, by some estimates, be worth $70bn.
But Singapore isn't South East Asia, and logistics and infrastructure issues in countries like Indonesia and Thailand have yet to be conquered.
While Amazon may be able to deliver on its two-hour delivery promise in small and efficient Singapore, it's hard to see how it's going to do that elsewhere.
Plus Alibaba has the first-mover advantage, and local knowledge which in Asia goes a long way.
So let the fresh food fight begin. Chances are the customers will benefit most, as price wars will be the name of the game. | Amazon has taken its first foray into South East Asia, launching its Prime Now service in Singapore. |
38,918,451 | The Adidas Yeezy Boost trainers will go on sale on Saturday but some devoted fans have already been queuing in Nottingham for several days.
"This is the only shop in the UK that is doing a camp," said hopeful buyer, 19-year-old Humzah Najib.
The trainers are priced at £150 in the shops but can reach three times that amount in online auctions.
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"As you get close to release time you get a real buzz around and people get real excited," Mr Najib added.
A spokesman for the shop, 18Montrose, said the demand was caused by "the power of the brand".
Those camping out have come armed with sleeping bags, warm clothes and fold-up chairs.
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"Kanye is a giant of popular culture - and he is married to Kim Kardashian - so the hype around his brand is huge.
"But even though people say they they love them, they usually buy them to resell them for a profit.
"The trainers cost £150 but can be resold on the day for up to £500.
"Some of his earlier releases are now worth thousands of pounds.
"And this is a rarity to have an in-store release in a small city - you would expect most of them to be sold online or by lottery."
One man in the queue, Rohan, said: "You also need style if you are an 18-year-old boy - you look at people nowadays and everything is about what you look like."
Another added: "I think there are only about 19,000 pairs released worldwide so obviously everybody is going to try to come and pick up their first pair." | Dozens of "sneakerheads" have set up camp outside a shop selling a new limited edition of Kanye West trainers. |
32,298,797 | Groceries and toiletries were among the items taken from ReadiFood warehouse, run by Faith Christian Group, on Boulton Road in Reading, Berkshire.
A generator, which the charity used to power its street kitchen, was also stolen.
Thames Valley Police said it was investigating the burglary and has appealed for witnesses.
Malcolm Peirce, director of Faith Christian Group, said the charity would have to find the cash to replace the generator.
With regard to food and other items stolen, he added: "I suspect people's generosity will rise to this and we'll find ourselves overwhelmed with jars of coffee before too long and hopefully shampoo and body wash.
"It sets you back, it's upsetting."
A police spokeswoman said it is thought the burglars got into the building by forcing their way in through a window, between 20:00 BST on Sunday and 08:00 on Monday. | A charity has described its upset after hundreds of pounds worth of goods were stolen from a food bank. |
36,231,976 | City were beaten by Real Madrid in the Champions League semi-final on 4 May.
They face Arsenal on Sunday knowing they still have to qualify for next season's competition.
Pellegrini said: "If you are not in the top four it's a disastrous season but if you win the Champions League, FA Cup and League Cup, it's a very good one."
Some of the Premier League's most frequent Champions League qualifiers from the past decade could yet fail to make it into the 2016-17 edition.
Ninth-placed Chelsea, winners in 2012, know they will not finish in the top four.
Liverpool have the slimmest of possibilities to make the top four but could yet qualify for the Champions League as Europa League winners, having made the final in Basel, where they will play Sevilla on 18 May.
One win from the final two games of a season that ends at home to relegated Aston Villa on 15 May will be enough for Arsenal.
It leaves City battling with fifth-placed Manchester United and sixth-placed West Ham, who play each other in the final game at Upton Park on 11 May.
Manchester United will close the gap on City to a single point if they win at Norwich at lunchtime on Saturday. West Ham will be two points behind if they beat Swansea later the same day.
Pellegrini said: "Last year, when we didn't win any titles, it was not a good season but it was not a disaster.
"When you are not involved in the next season's Champions League, that is a disaster for all the big teams."
Sunday's game will be Pellegrini's last at Etihad Stadium as City boss.
After three seasons in charge, the 62-year-old leaves in the summer, with Pep Guardiola arriving in his place.
When the managerial change was announced on 1 February, City officials felt it would have no impact on the team's performance.
However, from a points average of 1.91 per game, City have slipped to 1.77, winning six of their 13 matches and losing five times in the Premier League.
"For a lot of media this season finished on 1 February when people started talking about next season and who was leaving and who was staying," said Pellegrini.
"The players have had to read that since then and it is not easy." | Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini says it is "a disaster" for big teams to miss out on the top four - unless they win every other trophy. |
35,942,767 | The 25-year-old hit the winning runs to send England through to Sunday's World Twenty20 final but was dropped for the final Test against Pakistan in October.
"He'll be a bonus but it would be a shame for him not to get in the England side," Croft told BBC Radio Manchester.
"He had a few cameos here last year and it was great. He's a match-winner."
Croft added: "He's probably not got the record that he wanted but he's one of those X Factor players who can take the game away from you.
"It would be great to get back in the Test side but if not we will obviously benefit from getting him back."
Following Ashwell Prince's retirement at the end of last season, Lancashire have a void in their batting line-up to fill.
"First and foremost the youngsters and the local lads are going to have to put their hands up. We've kept hold of Alviro Petersen, who is another quality Test player from South Africa," Croft said.
"By his terms he was probably a little bit down on runs last year but hopefully if he scores some of the runs Ashwell got then that will be a great help."
Lancashire, who this week announced an operating profit of £763,000, begin their first season back in Division One against Nottinghamshire on 17 April and could have England seamer Jimmy Anderson available.
"Jimmy is going to be here for two or three games at the start of the season," said Croft.
"Having the best spin attack in the country is matched by having Kyle Jarvis, Neil Wagner available too." | Lancashire captain Steven Croft says having Jos Buttler back would benefit the side if he is not selected for England's summer Tests. |
35,612,405 | Southend News Network's stories include a mother demanding a £50 spend on gifts for her son's birthday and a restaurant introducing a £5 breastfeeding charge.
Its creator said he "never thought" his site would be officially recognised.
Southend Council said it was better to "have fun" with the spoof stories rather than get annoyed by them.
Other fake stories published on the site since its launch last October include school pupils being taught by cats because of a teacher shortage and the Dartford Crossing being closed because of "thousands of Kent residents trying to enter Essex illegally".
The local authority said it had received calls from concerned residents about some of the stories, including one about trick or treaters needing a council permit at Halloween.
Following a meeting with council officials, the spoof news site has been added to the authority's media database and is treated similarly to more traditional local newspapers and broadcasters.
The site's anonymous creator, who prefers to be known by the nom de plume "The Chief Reporter", said he had been inspired by satirical news sites such as The Onion, The Daily Mash and The Poke.
"My stories are tapping into the types of things people get wound up about. I like a heated, healthy debate," he said.
"Some of the things I write, I could actually see happening in real life. It's how people feel about their own town, their own lives - it taps into that and builds on it."
The reporter said Southend Council had "recognised we're building up town's public profile" with the site, which has more than 6,000 Facebook likes.
Adam Keating, a media manager at the local authority, said interacting with Southend News Network allowed the council to build on its own social media profile.
"Although their stories might not be correct, they've built up a following we could also engage with," he said.
"People have been commenting on the posts with real issues, and we've been replying with facts about 'the truth behind the spoof'.
"The media landscape is changing, and we're treating Southend News Network in the same way we would other local news sites or community groups." | A spoof news website has been recognised as an "official media outlet" by a council after it gained thousands of followers on social media. |
37,295,769 | Naveen Rabelli had his passport and wallet stolen from his parked tuk-tuk in Sarcelles while using a bathroom.
He is waiting for a new passport to cross the English Channel and finish his journey at Buckingham Palace.
Mr Rabelli is trying to draw attention to renewable energy.
"I have been on road for seven months now, and have been dreaming to get to [the] UK. For four years I have been preparing for this," he told the BBC.
"It really sucks to have lost my passport and 1,000 euros" while en route to Calais to take a ferry to the UK, he said
Mr Rabelli has been helped by strangers along his journey, which took him through Iran, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
He sleeps in his auto-rickshaw when not offered accommodation and managed to save up money along the way.
"People donated. I sold olive oil in [a] market, I sold my postcards, I sold Greek liquor," he said.
The 35-year-old, an Australian national and Indian resident, has worked for Mahindra Reva, an Indian electric car company.
He bought the diesel tuk-tuk for $1,500 (£1,120) and spent $11,500 customising it. It has a top speed of 60km/h (37 mph) and is powered by both electricity and solar power.
The vehicle has a bed and a solar cooker. | An engineer travelling from India to Britain in a self-modified solar and electric-powered tuk-tuk has been robbed in France, derailing the final leg of a seven-month journey. |
40,991,154 | Australian Kyrgios beat David Ferrer 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (7-4) while Bulgaria's Dimitrov advanced against John Isner 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (12-10).
Spain's Muguruza eased past top seed Karolina Pliskova 6-3 6-2, while Halep beat Sloane Stephens 6-2 6-1.
Romanian Halep will become world number one if she wins the tournament.
"I think it's something special to get number one in the world," said Halep, who would move above Czech Pliskova.
"Everyone can get to number one now. The ranking is close. I really want that."
In the men's final, Kyrgios will be chasing his first title of the year after a hard-fought victory over stubborn Spaniard Ferrer.
"He was a nightmare to play, especially because I'm a tall guy and he's not the tallest guy," said Kyrgios, who beat world number two Rafael Nadal in the quarter-finals.
"In the tie-breaks I served well, but I definitely didn't bring my best tennis.
"I'm just really proud that I managed to scrap out the win."
Dimitrov saved a set point in the second set tie-break against American Isner before reaching his first Masters 1000 final.
"It's a good step," said Dimitrov. "I have been on the tour for quite some time now, and I appreciate those moments.
"I'm starting to appreciate them even more."
In the men's doubles, Britain's Jamie Murray and Brazilian partner Bruno Soares continued their flawless run as they eased past second seeds Lukasz Kubot of Poland and Brazil's Marcelo Melo 6-4 7-5 to reach the final.
The pair have not dropped a set at this year's competition and will face France's Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut - who also won their semi-final in straight sets. | Nick Kyrgios and Grigor Dimitrov will meet in the Cincinnati Open men's final while Garbine Muguruza will face Simona Halep in the women's final. |
36,479,415 | One of the strikes hit near the Bayan hospital in the eastern Shaar district, activists and a monitoring group said.
Video footage, purportedly of the aftermath, showed bodies being pulled from burning and destroyed buildings.
It was not clear who was responsible, but government forces are seeking to regain control of the divided city.
In a defiant speech on Tuesday, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad promised to retake "every inch" of the country from his opponents.
Aleppo, he said, would be "the graveyard where the hopes and dreams" of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan - a key backer of the rebels - would be "buried".
The speech to Syria's newly-elected parliament was Mr Assad's first major address since UN-brokered indirect peace talks in Geneva broke down in April.
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Aleppo, once Syria's commercial and industrial hub, has been divided since 2012, with the government controlling the western half and rebel factions holding the east.
But in recent months, government forces backed by Russian air strikes have almost encircled the rebel-held areas and cut off one of the rebels' two routes to Turkey.
The battle for the city led to the collapse of a cessation of hostilities negotiated by Russia and the US, which supports the opposition, at the end of February.
The Local Co-ordination Committees (LCC), an opposition activist network, reported that Tuesday's air strikes had resulted in multiple casualties in the Maadi, Haidariya and Shaar districts.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said children were among at least 10 people killed when the Bayan hospital was hit.
The Syria Civil Defence, whose volunteer search and rescue workers are known as the White Helmets, said 15 civilians were killed in Shaar and that the hospital was hit by two suspected barrel bombs.
The government has denied that its forces drop barrel bombs - oil barrels, fuel tanks or gas cylinders packed with explosives, fuel, and metal fragments - and other unguided weapons, but their use has been widely documented.
The Independent Doctors Association, which describes itself as a cross-border Syrian humanitarian organisation, said an air strike had hit its children's hospital in Aleppo, destroying one floor.
Almost 740 medical workers have been killed in more than 360 attacks on hospitals and other medical facilities since the uprising against Mr Assad began five years ago, according to Physicians for Human Rights.
In April, an air strike blamed on government forces destroyed a hospital in Aleppo, killing at least 50 people including one of the city's last remaining paediatricians. | At least 15 people are reported to have been killed and dozens wounded in a series of air strikes on rebel-held areas in the Syrian city of Aleppo. |
37,174,316 | The repair specialist iFixit published a lengthy blog on Tuesday detailing the issue, and emailed its thousands of followers.
It suggests the cause is two chips that it says are at risk of detaching from a circuit board over time.
Apple has not commented.
But one independent expert expressed caution about the claim, which has since been widely reported.
"There doesn't seem to be any quantification about precisely what percentage of iPhones have been affected, so it's difficult to tell if this is a minor or major problem," Neil Mawston, from Strategy Analytics, told the BBC.
"But if there is a serious iPhone 6 touchscreen issue, Apple will need to acknowledge it openly, respond promptly and offer a reasonable solution to affected customers.
"Apple customers pay a premium for their iPhones, and they expect premium after-sales service."
iFixit claims that "a tonne" of iPhone 6 Plus handsets have experienced the problem - which it dubs "touch disease" - as well as a smaller percentage of smaller iPhone 6 models. Both went on sale in 2014.
"Every repair tech we spoke to told us that the problem is incredibly common," iFixit said.
It claims breaks in the solder used to connect two critical chips to each device's logic board are causing them to lose contact.
The chips are used to make sense of finger presses and swipes on the screen.
"You might notice that the screen is sometimes unresponsive, but it is quick to come back with a hard reset," the blog quotes one repair specialist as saying.
"As the crack deepens into a full separation of the chip-board bond, the periods of no touch function become more frequent."
To begin with, iFixit says, users can rectify resulting glitches by pressing down on the screen or twisting the phone's body, causing the chips to reconnect. But it adds that over time this stops working.
It says a permanent repair is possible if new copies of the chips are soldered on to the board by a specialist.
But it states that Apple Stores are recommending affected out-of-warranty users buy new phones rather than informing them that it would be cheaper to get the logic board repaired elsewhere.
"If the issue is as widespread as repair pros suspect, then Apple should start offering customers solutions instead of excuses. And they need to do it soon," the blog adds.
Newer iPhone 6S and 6S Plus phones are said not to be prone to the fault because the same two chips are connected to a different component in these models.
iFixit gives details of several repair specialists who support its case.
But some of the commentators on its blog remained sceptical.
"I personally cannot say I've ever seen this issue - and I work in a cellular retail location as the de facto tech on-site," wrote one user who did not provide their name.
"I'm not saying the issue does not exist, only that it is likely not as extreme in its severity as described."
A search of Apple's own support forums confirms there are several instances of users complaining about flickering, unresponsive screens.
And the company has been pressured to acknowledge hardware problems in the past, including a flaw with the iPhone 4's antenna and some iPhone 5S batteries.
Apple has a reputation for commenting on such issues only when it has confirmed them and come up with a solution.
But Mr Mawston said: "Apple is facing its toughest ever year for the iPhone, with global market share falling.
"The last thing it needs right now is a perception of iPhone unreliability, so Apple must address any touchscreen glitches, real or perceived, with the utmost urgency." | Apple has been accused of failing to address a "design flaw" said to be causing many iPhone 6 and 6 Plus handsets' screens to flicker and become unresponsive to touch. |
40,684,771 | The Blues also announced the 22-year-old has signed a new six-year deal with the club as he joins the Potters for the 2016-17 campaign.
Zouma, a France international, joined Chelsea from Saint-Etienne for £12m in January 2014.
He played 13 times for Antonio Conte's Premier League champions last season, having recovered from a knee injury he suffered in February 2016.
Stoke manager Mark Hughes described Zouma as "undoubtedly one of the most talented young defenders in the game".
He added: "Whilst injury unfortunately hampered his progress at Chelsea last season, we are certain that we can give him the platform to recapture the form he showed prior to his setback."
Chelsea technical director Michael Emenalo said it was "fantastic" Zouma had "chosen to commit his future to Chelsea".
He added: "Now he has the opportunity to play regularly in the Premier League and we will be monitoring his progress closely while he is at Stoke."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Stoke have signed defender Kurt Zouma on a season-long loan from Chelsea. |
38,680,524 | The move has been expected but talks have dragged on in recent weeks and at times the deal was at risk of collapse.
But a source close to Williams said they were "in the final stages". Another added Lowe's joining was "a formality".
Lowe, 54, will have a seat on the board as part of his new position, a third source said.
A Williams spokesperson declined to comment; Lowe was unavailable.
The Englishman, one of the most highly regarded and successful design leaders in Formula 1, is expected to be given responsibility for all technical aspects of the Williams group.
This includes the F1 team but also the Williams Advanced Engineering business, which conducts projects for other companies.
Lowe still needs to formally complete his departure from Mercedes, who announced they had put him on 'gardening leave' pending his exit on 10 January.
Mercedes will consider allowing Lowe to start work immediately once he has agreed terms with Mercedes for his departure from the team, rather than be forced to sit out for a number of months, as is normal when senior F1 technical figures switch employers.
It is not clear at this stage where Lowe's shares will come from. Equity in the team is split between founder and team principal Sir Frank Williams (51%), US businessman Brad Hollinger (15%), co-founder Sir Patrick Head (9%) and an employee fund (4%), with 21% listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange.
Williams and Hollinger were unavailable. Head told BBC Sport he "couldn't comment" on any specifics to do with Lowe's position at Williams.
"Discussions are still ongoing and until a signature is on a bit of paper nothing's a formality, but it would be good for Williams if they can get him," added Head, who stepped down from his day-to-day involvement in the management of Williams in 2011.
Lowe was the technical leader at Mercedes as they took three consecutive world title doubles from 2014-16 after joining the team in June 2013.
The foundations of that success were laid by former team boss Ross Brawn - who left Mercedes at the end of 2013 - but Lowe's leadership, and the consistency of the technical team under him, has seen Mercedes maintain a superiority that has led to three record-breaking seasons.
Lowe started his F1 career with Williams and was central to the creation of the legendary FW14B car with which Nigel Mansell dominated the 1992 world championship.
Under Head as technical director, Lowe programmed the computer-controlled active suspension system which was a key influence - along with the aerodynamic design of Adrian Newey, now technical chief at Red Bull - in ensuring the car was head and shoulders clear of its rivals.
Lowe moved to McLaren in 1993 and was their technical boss when they won their last drivers' world title, with Lewis Hamilton in 2008.
He came close to re-joining Williams during 2012, when current Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff was a director and shareholder, but instead went to Mercedes with Wolff in 2013.
Williams suffered a decline in form the 2000s, but revived to third place finishes in the constructors' championship in 2014 and 2015, before slipping to fifth last season.
The reasons behind his departure from his position as Mercedes executive director (technical) are not clear, but the split was initiated by the team.
Wolff and Lowe are said to have been in dispute over Lowe's remuneration and level of authority, and whether his ambitions could be satisfied within Mercedes.
The world champions have recruited former Ferrari technical director James Allison as Lowe's replacement but have not yet officially announced his arrival. Allison, 48, is to join Mercedes in the summer when his gardening leave from Ferrari runs out.
A Mercedes spokesman said: "We ask for your understanding that we cannot comment publicly on confidential contractual details. We have said that we will communicate further information in due course and this remains the case."
View the 2017 F1 race calendar here | Former Mercedes technical boss Paddy Lowe is joining Williams and is set to become a shareholder and director. |
37,037,069 | Josh Jefferies netted twice for the colt team and Ryan Hardie and Liam Burt were also on target to set up a tie with League One Stenhousemuir.
Celtic U20 will visit Cowdenbeath while Elgin City will host Hearts U20.
Highland League sides Cove Rangers and Brora Rangers visit Brechin City and Peterhead, respectively, and League Two Arbroath host League One East Fife.
Championship sides enter at the third round and two teams each from Northern Ireland and Wales will be in the fourth round, which precedes the quarter-finals.
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Tuesday 16 August
Aberdeen U20 v Forfar Athletic
Brechin City v Cove Rangers
Elgin City v Hearts U20
Peterhead v Brora Rangers
Partick Thistle U20 v Queen's Park (19:30)
Albion Rovers v Hamilton Academical U20
Cowdenbeath v Celtic U20
Motherwell U20 v Airdrieonians
Stranraer v Spartans
Rangers U20 v Stenhousemuir
Wednesday 17 August
Arbroath v East Fife
Turriff United v Montrose | Rangers under-20s completed the line-up for the Challenge Cup second round after beating Stirling University. |
35,539,761 | The Dowlers revealed they were made aware of the extent of the 13-year-old's suffering in May last year but were obliged to remain silent for eight months while investigations continued.
In the statement, they said they hoped her soul could "finally rest in peace".
Bellfield gave details of Milly's 14-hour ordeal to police last year.
Last month, Surrey Police said serial killer Bellfield had admitted the schoolgirl's abduction, rape and killing for the first time.
The family said they were issuing the statement because they believed what had been revealed so far did not reflect Bellfield's "true heinousness" to the general public.
"We believe that they should know what Bellfield did to our beautiful daughter and sister Milly," the Dowlers said.
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They said 47-year-old Bellfield abducted Milly and assaulted her at his flat near Walton station.
He then drove her to his mother's house and raped her.
After this the killer took Milly to another location where her rape and torture continued, until he strangled her the following day.
The teenager's body was found in September 2002, six months after her murder, in a wood in Yateley Heath, Hampshire - 25 miles from Walton-on-Thames. Experts could not say how she died.
The family also revealed that when Bellfield asked to speak to police about the crime he said he would only talk to female police officers.
Bellfield was given a whole-life prison sentence in June 2011 for Milly's murder.
At this point Surrey Police apologised to the Dowlers for the force's failings in the aftermath of Milly's disappearance. Bellfield - who already had a long criminal record, including for violence - lived along the route the teenager took the day she disappeared, yet although it is claimed officers knocked on his door 11 times they got no reply and he was never questioned.
He was already in jail for the murders of Amelie Delagrange, 22, and Marsha McDonnell, 19, and the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy, 18, when he went on trial accused of killing Milly.
The Dowlers said police shared the details of Milly's ordeal with them last May because the information could have become public - Bellfield had talked to another inmate who was due to be released.
A few days after the family were informed about what had happened to Milly, they said they then heard from Surrey Police that reports of an alleged accomplice were being investigated.
They said learning about Milly's final hours was shocking enough, but the revelation that another person could have been involved was devastating.
The family said they had to remain silent for eight months, but when police finally arrested the suspected accomplice, the person was questioned and released in less than 10 hours because there was no evidence.
The Dowlers said they were left under "unimaginable" pressure and had "had to fight every step of the way".
Their desperation led to a meeting with Home Secretary Theresa May in November.
The statement ended: "Now we know the final hours of Milly's life, perhaps her soul, at long last, can finally rest in peace.
"The general public have always played a huge part in supporting us, for which we are eternally grateful and thankful."
Surrey Police said they had been in regular contact with the Dowler family during the investigation into the circumstances surrounding Milly's murder.
A spokeswoman for the force said: "We recognise this continues to be extremely distressing and our thoughts remain with them."
Bellfield, who now calls himself Yusuf Rahim, lived 50 yards from where Milly vanished but did not become a suspect until he was arrested by police in London for the other offences in 2004.
Police are looking into a number of other crimes in which he is a suspect in the wake of his confession.
When Bellfield was convicted in June 2011, detectives said they believed he could have been responsible for about 20 attacks on women that were never solved. | Harrowing details of Milly Dowler's final hours as she was raped and murdered by Levi Bellfield have emerged in a statement from her family. |
35,381,990 | Alban Church of England Academy in Great Barford reversed the decision after complaints from parents.
The school said children had turned up without a packed lunch or dinner money more than 100 times in the past month.
In a letter to parents, headteacher Sue Lourensz wrote: "I apologise if this has caused any offence."
She said the meals cost £2.10 a day and that its suppliers, Caterlink, had a strict "no debt" policy.
That meant The Alban had to fund the cost of each meal and would then have to recoup the money from parents.
She wrote: "Pupils are reminded to bring the money in the next day but frequently forget and parents then have to be sent texts and even letters if they fail to pay.
"As I am sure you can appreciate, this takes a considerable amount of time to administer and incurs extra costs to the school, which can be ill-afforded with the increasing tightening of school budgets."
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The Bedfordshire school had decided that from next month, if a child arrived without dinner money or a packed lunch, office staff would first try to call parents.
However if no provision were made "the child will be provided with a drink and bread and butter only."
However following complaints from parents, Mrs Lourensz wrote a second letter.
It said: "Following a number of parental concerns regarding the recent school meals letter we have decided to re-think our policy and will not be introducing the new system outlined in that letter.
"I apologise if this has caused any offence, this was not our intention.
"The letter itself was intended to explain the situation and trial a policy that has been successfully adopted by other schools. Please accept our sincere apologies." | A school has apologised for telling parents their children would be given bread and butter when they forget their dinner money. |
35,245,157 | BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson has taken a look at all 32 of this weekend's ties and given his verdict on who will make it into the hat for round four.
All kick-offs 15:00 GMT unless otherwise stated.
Gap = how many league positions separate each team
Exeter 2-2 Liverpool - match report
Wycombe 1-1 Aston Villa - match report
Everton 2-0 Dagenham and Redbridge - match report
Oxford United 3-2 Swansea - match report
Doncaster 1-2 Stoke - match report
Manchester United 1-0 Sheffield United - match report
Chelsea 2-0 Scunthorpe United - match report
Birmingham 1-2 Bournemouth - match report
West Brom 2-2 Bristol City - match report
West Ham 1-0 Wolves - match report
Arsenal 3-1 Sunderland - match report
Norwich 0-3 Manchester City - match report
Southampton 1-2 Crystal Palace - match report
Watford 1-0 Newcastle - match report
Tottenham 2-2 Leicester - match report
Eastleigh 1-1 Bolton - match report
* Away team to win at home in the replay
Hartlepool 1-2 Derby - match report
Ipswich 2-2 Portsmouth - match report
Newport v Blackburn - match postponed
Northampton 2-2 MK Dons - match report
* Away team to win at home in the replay
Brentford 0-1 Walsall - match report
Colchester 2-1 Charlton - match report
Peterborough 2-0 Preston - match report
Cardiff v Shrewsbury - match report
* Away team to win at home in the replay
Huddersfield 2-2 Reading - match report
Hull 1-0 Brighton - match report
Leeds 2-0 Rotherham - match report
Middlesbrough 1-2 Burnley - match report
Nottingham Forest 1-0 QPR - match report
Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 Fulham - match report
Bury 0-0 Bradford - match report
Carlisle 2-1 Yeovil - match report
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Our scoring system has changed this season and a correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is now worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
Last time out, Lawro got seven correct results, with no perfect scores. That gave him a tally of 70 points, which was enough to beat Match of the Day commentator Steve Wilson, who managed three correct results with no perfect scores for 30 points.
Lawro was also up against a state-of-the-art sports-forecasting super-computer called SAM (Sports Analytics Machine) - which scored an impressive 110 points for the third week running to stay top of the guest leaderboard.
We are also keeping a record of the totals for Lawro and his guests (below), and showing a table of how the Premier League would look if all of Lawro's predictions were correct.
Lawro's best score: 160 points (week 19 v Guy Mowbray)
Lawro's worst score: 20 points (week one v Graeme Swann) | The FA Cup third round is famous for shocks and surprises - but where will there be any this year? |
35,638,139 | Ray Wong, 22, co-founded the group Hong Kong Indigenous which advocates for more autonomy for Hong Kong from China.
Scores of people have been arrested in connection with the violence.
On 8 February, police tried to clear illegal food stalls sparking a backlash from those who see them as integral to Chinese New Year celebrations.
Mr Wong, who is due to appear in court later on Tuesday, was arrested on Sunday in a public housing flat along with a 28-year-old man.
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Local media say more than 70 people have been arrested in connection with the Mong Kok clashes, which saw protesters throwing bricks and bottles while police used batons and pepper spray.
More than 90 people were injured.
The unrest was the largest of its kind since massive pro-democracy street protests were held in 2014.
Hong Kong Indigenous is one of several groups in the city's so-called "localist" movement which stands against what it perceives as Beijing's growing influence over Hong Kong.
The other co-founder of the group, Edward Leung, had earlier also been charged with rioting. | Hong Kong police have charged with rioting one of the most prominent activists involved in the Mong Kok clash earlier this month. |
36,826,952 | Tuesday recorded the hottest temperature of the year in Wales so far, with highs of 32.4 C (90.3F) in Porthmadog, Gwynedd, and Cardiff.
Forecasters said it was due to a "plume of hot air" heading northwards from Iberia.
However, a yellow "be aware" warning for rain has been issued for the evening, with thunderstorms likely.
By Tuesday afternoon, temperatures had reached 32.2C (90F) in Usk, Monmouthshire, along with 31.8C (89.2F) in Gogerddan in Ceredigion and at RAF Valley on Anglesey.
Met Office spokesman Grahame Madge said temperatures were expected to reach 30C (86F) in areas including Wrexham and Aberystwyth, with the weather slightly cooler at about 28C in Cardiff and Swansea.
But he warned that it could lead to "intense" thunderstorms later on in the day, with a risk of flash flooding in some areas.
The warning, which covers the whole of Wales, is in place from 17:00 BST on Tuesday until 18:00 on Wednesday. | Soaring temperatures have exceeded 30C in parts of Wales, the Met Office has said. |
20,522,465 | John Crawford, from Marylebone, central London, only found out he had a criminal record when he applied for voluntary work.
Under a new law people can apply for historic convictions for gay sex to be treated as spent.
Mr Crawford hopes others in the same situation will do the same.
He said: "I looked back over my life and realised that all the work I'd lost over the years was due to this criminal record."
The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 which gained Royal Assent in May, changed the law so historical convictions for decriminalised consensual sex offences will not show up on criminal record checks.
Those affected need to apply to the Home Secretary for a formal disregard of their convictions.
The Home Office said 27 people in England and Wales had applied since 1 October.
Mr Crawford received a year's conditional discharge at Winchester Crown Court in 1959 after he was convicted of a sexual offence.
He said: "It was something that gays had to go through in those days. If you were gay you were in trouble with the police.
"Gay guys don't realise how lucky they are to be able to kiss in the street. In my time in the '50s you'd be arrested instantly."
He added: "I came into this world without a criminal record and I don't want to die with a criminal record."
Mr Crawford, a former butler, discovered he had a record when he applied to help gay prisoners at Wormwood Scrubs Prison in Shepherd's Bush, west London.
He said: "I was horrified. I was so upset I walked out."
He added: "I'm trying to let people know in my situation, in my age group, with a criminal record, that they can do something about it and have it wiped clean."
The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 decriminalised sex between two men over 21 in private, with exceptions.
In 2000 the age of consent for sex between two men was amended from 18 to 16, in line with heterosexual sex. It had been reduced from 21 to 18 in 1994.
The Home Office said if a decision was made to disregard a conviction, the Home Secretary would request that data controllers delete all relevant records. | A 73-year-old man who has a criminal record for being in a gay relationship in the 1950s has applied to have his conviction struck out. |
38,041,359 | Dame Shirley is a big supporter of the college, having donated money in 2003 to set up a scholarship fund.
The scholarship is now awarded every year to an outstanding Welsh singer.
Dame Shirley attended the public concert and donated her dress, made by renowned fashion designer Jenny Packham, to raise further funds.
During the evening college principal, Hilary Boulding, announced the naming of the Shirley Bassey studio, in recognition of the singer's support.
Dame Shirley said: "There was nothing when I started, there were no schools or college for me.
"I made it, and I wanted to give that back to my hometown, where I came from in the docks of Cardiff."
Tenor Trystan Llyr Griffiths is a previous recipient of the Dame Shirley scholarship.
"I wouldn't have been able to study at RWCMD without it," he said.
"I had many great experiences while at the college, performing for Prince Charles and many other high profile concerts, and this has been great for me going forward as a performer." | Students from Cardiff's Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama gave a concert in tribute to Dame Shirley Bassey on Saturday. |
32,993,793 | Lower league referee Craig Langton posted the tweet, which related to the 1989 disaster, on 4 April in reply to a post by Charlotte Hennessy.
Her father, Jimmy, was one of the 96 supporters who died at Hillsborough.
An apology was posted by Mr Langton, who is also a firefighter, on his local Fire Brigades Union's Facebook page.
The FA's report into the incident said Ms Hennessy had tweeted indicating someone was selling tickets to a free Hillsborough memorial service.
Mr Langton, from Nottinghamshire, replied: "typical scousers and you want us to believe your innocent in all this. #Blamethepolice'."
The FA said the exchange of messages took place while the ongoing Hillsborough inquests had reached a "very sensitive part of the proceedings, especially relating to the police evidence".
The report states Mr Langton accepted he made a "huge mistake" and that his tweet was "badly worded".
It continues: "That said, he did not seem to show any real understanding of the offence/distress he had clearly caused by his tweet."
He admitted misconduct, with the report stating he had "little choice" due to screen shots existing of the "deemed to be offensive" comments.
Mr Langton, who has been in the fire service for 26 years, was listed as a referee for an FA Cup extra preliminary round this season.
Ms Hennessy said: "I'm satisfied that the FA recognised how offensive his tweet was, I do feel like they have dealt with it appropriately.
"I'm just disappointed that, even within all of these disciplinary hearings he has had to go to, he still doesn't see the severity or the offence that his tweet caused." | A referee who sent an "offensive" tweet to a relative of a Hillsborough victim has been suspended for eight weeks and fined £100 by the Football Association. |
37,271,672 | Mercedes dominated and the rest were left to pick up the pieces as the title battle between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg took another shift.
But, behind the scenes, it is starting to appear as though the sport will soon look very different.
A generational shift is taking place before our eyes among the drivers, with the retirement of Felipe Massa and the year out announced by Jenson Button, which could well also turn out to be goodbye.
And it seems F1 itself may soon have a new owner, with US company Liberty Media in the final stages of a buyout that would see it take over from majority shareholder CVC Capital Partners.
That in itself could lead to a change of seismic proportions, with the eventual departure as F1 commercial supremo of Bernie Ecclestone, who has led the sport with a vice-like grip for 40 years.
Inevitably, although a deal is said to be close, there is a degree of scepticism within F1.
Over the past few years, there have been innumerable claims about modifications to its business structure.
At one stage, F1 was going to be floated on the Singapore stock market. Then it was not. Any number of potential new owners have supposedly been waiting in the wings, only for nothing to happen.
As ever, Ecclestone did little to clear the muddy waters.
Having said all of that, informed sources believe the Liberty Media takeover is real. Some say it could happen as early as this week.
Although it is inevitably a time of uncertainty, the news was greeted with cautious optimism in the F1 paddock.
CVC is not the most popular of owners, the general perception being it has taken a lot of money out of the sport and given very little back.
The apparent pursuit of profit above all else that has characterised the running of the sport in the past decade or so has led to decisions with which many are uncomfortable.
They include the decision to pursue of new races in countries with questionable regimes that have a lot of money to spend on trying to clean their global public image.
And the choice of a tyre supplier based largely on how much money it is willing to spend rather than the regard for which its product is held by teams and drivers.
Of course, the new owners are not buying F1 out of philanthropy and are only in a position to do so because they have made an awful lot of money.
But the assumption is a media group might at least give some more consideration to the quality of the spectacle provided by the sport.
Whatever happens with the takeover, on the track things will definitely be changing in 2017 with the departures of Massa and Button at the end of the year - even if one of them does turn out to be temporary after all.
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Already Max Verstappen is turning heads at Red Bull, becoming the youngest winner in F1 history upon his promotion from the Toro Rosso junior team in Spain in May.
Button is being replaced by the highly promising Belgian Stoffel Vandoorne - a decision McLaren were almost certain to take even if they had not been able to come to a clever compromise deal with the 2009 world champion.
And next year the double world champion Fernando Alonso has a big decision to make about whether to continue his career.
Massa looks set to be replaced by the Canadian Lance Stroll, son of the hugely wealthy businessman Lawrence Stroll, who built the fashion brand Tommy Hilfiger among other huge companies.
And 19-year-old Frenchman Esteban Ocon, who made his grand prix debut with Manor in Belgium just over a week ago, is likely to be given one of the two seats at the factory Renault team next year.
The feeling in F1 is that Vandoorne and Ocon have bright futures - and why not?
Vandoorne has had an impressive career in the junior categories and out-qualified Button on his one-off debut in Bahrain earlier this year.
Ocon beat Verstappen to the European Formula Three title in 2014 and there is undoubtedly a bit of needle between the two.
These are interesting times indeed.
Button is going into what could well be the final seven races of his career. But while he told McLaren he did not want to race next year because he feels he needs a break, he is clearly driving as well as ever.
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His Italian Grand Prix was a highly accomplished performance in which he flat beat Alonso despite being out-qualified.
Button dropped to last on the first lap while Alonso rose from 12th to ninth. But 43 laps later, Button overtook the Spaniard on the pit straight, having made his soft tyres last five laps longer in the second stint,
That enabled him to switch on to the super-softs for his final stint, while Alonso was on the softs, which gave the Englishman a significant advantage.
The deal McLaren has come to with Button is an inspired piece of thinking by chairman Ron Dennis.
Button was wary about fully committing to retirement, not being completely sure it was what he wanted but knowing he did not want to race next year.
This allows him to step back from the sport while still keeping a foot in the door should he change his mind, even if there is no guarantee of anything if he does.
It keeps Button on the McLaren books, which the team's sponsors are thrilled about because he is a marketing dream.
It also gives the team a safety net in the unlikely scenario that Vandoorne disappoints.
Having Button working in the simulator and coming to some races to help the team gives them a reserve driver who is so over-qualified it makes a bit of a mockery of the title.
And it gives Dennis more leverage in negotiations with Alonso next year if he decides he wants to stay on.
If, for example, Alonso demands another $40m (£30m) salary, Dennis can say, "Do you know what, Fernando? How about you take $20m instead? Otherwise, we can always have Jenson back."
Next year, McLaren have hopes of winning races. For now, only Mercedes can realistically expect that every weekend.
And after 14 grands prix, Hamilton and Rosberg find themselves going into the championship countdown only two points apart.
After losing what had seemed a certain victory because of a bad start, Hamilton is concerned about what he sees as the variability of the performance of Mercedes' clutch and is going to be poring over the data with his engineers at the factory on Tuesday in an attempt to improve things.
Had he been able to unleash in the race the speed he had in qualifying, Hamilton might have won anyway, but the characteristics of the Pirelli tyres used in F1 make that impossible.
He reduced Rosberg's advantage from 15 seconds to nine, but the tyres cannot be pushed beyond a certain limit and there was literally not enough rubber on them to keep going at that pace. Gone are the days when drivers can drive flat-out in races in pursuit of the seemingly impossible.
"I could have kept going at the pace I was going," Hamilton said. "Maybe I would have brought the gap down to six. Maybe. Still not enough to win the race.
"To close a 15-second gap, you are going to have to go 0.3-0.4secs quicker per lap probably over that span of time and you are not going have the tyres left at the end of it.
"If I was eight seconds behind in the beginning, I would have closed the gap and put some pressure on and maybe been in a better position, but 15 seconds is a long way to come back.
"Nico drove a great race. He was faultless. Falling back to fifth, I lose so much of my tyres coming back through the field."
Fragile tyres, questionable Mercedes starts, this is business as usual.
Rosberg had bad starts in Hungary and Germany, the two races at the end of July before the summer break.
In one small aspect, though, there was something different about Monza.
All season, Rosberg has stuck rigidly to the same mantra in news conferences: I'm not thinking about the title, I'm just taking it race by race.
After the race on Sunday, though, he allowed the mask to slip just a little.
It was pointed out to him that the season had seen huge swings - a 43-point lead for Rosberg after four races; a 19-point lead for Hamilton after six wins in the next seven, now cut to two points after two consecutive wins by Rosberg.
Had Rosberg's belief in his ability or otherwise to win the title ever changed through all that, I asked him?
"No," he said, "because as I say I am not thinking about it. My belief to win individual races is as high as ever and I showed it today again and that's it, because its my best approach.
"Because if I think about 43 points going to 19, I would lose sleep over that. So I just don't think about it and enjoy winning the races."
Monza was Rosberg's seventh victory of the year, which is one more than Hamilton and already makes it the German's most successful ever season.
Three of those wins have come as a direct result of poor starts by his team-mate.
Hamilton remains favourite for the title, not least because he has access to a pace beyond Rosberg's reach, as he proved again in qualifying in Monza.
But those sorts of statistics are at least enough to give the Englishman pause for thought. | As a television spectacle, the Italian Grand Prix looked much like any other Formula 1 race in 2016. |
36,272,502 | However IOC medical director Richard Budgett said that it would continue to monitor the situation closely.
Dr Budgett was responding to a call by Canadian health Professor Amir Attaran for the Games to be postponed or moved.
Prof Attaran said that the influx of visitors to Brazil would result in the avoidable births of malformed babies.
"If the IOC and the World Health Organisation (WHO) do not have the generosity of heart to delay the games to prevent children being born and disabled their whole lives, then they're among the cruellest institutions in the world,'' Prof Attaran said in a telephone interview with the Associated Press news agency.
"What I'm asking for is a bit of delayed gratification so that babies aren't born permanently disabled."
Prof Attaran - a public health specialist - argues that Zika is far worse than the IOC is willing to admit.
In an article for the Harvard Public Review he says that Rio de Janeiro is more affected by Zika than anyone expected and that all it takes is one infected traveller to start a process that could ultimately result in a "full-blown global health disaster".
He argues that if the Games go ahead, it would be especially unfair on countries like Nigeria, India and Indonesia, which do not have the same resources to fight Zika as Brazil.
But his point of view is hotly contested by Olympic and global health authorities including the WHO, who are adamant the 5-21 August Games will not be derailed by the virus.
The IOC - which adheres to the WHO's advice - insisted there were no plans to relocate or postpone the games.
"The clear statements from WHO that there should be no restrictions on travel and trade means there is no justification for cancelling, delaying, postponing or moving the Rio Games,'' Dr Budgett said.
"The IOC will continue to monitor the situation very closely and work with the WHO, and we're confident as we've been advised by the experts that the situation will improve over the next three months."
A separate IOC statement said that plans were in place to target mosquitoes and deal with their stagnant water breeding grounds..
The statement said it was important to remember the Olympic and Paralympics Games are taking place in the winter months of August and September, when mosquitoes should not be so abundant.
The Olympics are expected to attract about 500,000 visitors from abroad. | The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said that it sees no need to cancel, delay or move the Rio Olympic Games because of the Zika virus threat. |
36,956,721 | However, Keith Vaz - who chairs the influential Home Affairs select committee - said there was a danger of a "two tier system" among UK councils.
His comments followed the publication of a report that showed 38% of Syrian refugees were resettled in Scotland.
The UK government has pledged to take in 20,000 refugees by 2020.
Figures, first released in May, revealed that 610 of the 1,622 refugees arriving in the UK between October 2015 and March 2016 were settled by Scottish councils.
All but seven of Scotland's 32 local authorities took in refugees under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement scheme.
The Scottish government has said Scottish local authorities would provide homes for at least 2,000 Syrians.
Renfrewshire took the most refugees, resettling 68 people and came third in a list of councils across the UK.
Argyll and Bute took in 58 people, while Edinburgh and Glasgow resettled 53 and 51 respectively.
Across the UK, Coventry took in 105 people, while Nottingham took 81 refugees.
At the time of the survey only East Dunbartonshire, Falkirk, Highland, Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands, South Ayrshire and Western Isles councils had taken no refugees under the resettlement scheme.
However, since then eight people have been resettled in the Western Isles while South Ayrshire has taken in seven.
Mr Vaz told Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme: "The commitment made by David Cameron last year that Britain would take 20,000 refugees from Syria was extremely welcome, but that depends on local authorities being able to and being willing to take a very limited number of Syrian refugee families.
"In this respect, local authorities in Scotland like Glasgow and Edinburgh have led the way for the rest of the United Kingdom.
"They've taken their fair share, but there are whole swathes of the rest of the United Kingdom where no Syrian refugees have been resettled and that is a cause for worry because we're never going to meet that target unless everyone takes their fair share."
SNP immigration spokesperson Stuart McDonald MP, who also sits on the committee, said firm action was needed.
He said: "We now need a commitment from our new prime minister that the government will step up - we have already seen Theresa May scrap the position of minister for refugees when we need a concerted effort to improve how the UK is dealing with, and continues to deal with the refugee crisis."
A Home Office spokeswoman said the UK government was "on track" to deliver on its pledge to resettle 20,000 people by the end of the parliament.
She added: "We have also made clear our commitment to bringing very vulnerable children from Europe.
"At the same time we continue to work tirelessly to maintain the security of our border, intercepting attempts to enter the UK illegally and targeting the callous gangs that profit from people smuggling." | Scotland is "leading the way" in efforts to resettle refugees fleeing the war in Syria, according to the chairman of a Commons committee. |
35,100,394 | 15 December 2015 Last updated at 10:42 GMT
He's due to spend more than six months on board the ISS carrying out science experiments, completing a marathon and getting young people excited about space travel.
So, we're building up to this historic event by taking you through every significant moment before he sets out into orbit later this morning. | Astronaut Tim Peake blasts off into space today to become the first British man ever to board the International Space Station. |
33,843,425 | Arsenal should still have dealt with it better than they did, though.
The Gunners were up against an extremely well-organised side, but with the experience they have against teams doing various things to try to stop them in the past, they should have been able to cope.
Yes, Arsene Wenger's side still threatened and West Ham would not have won without their keeper Adrian playing well, but there was a reason why Arsenal did not create as many chances as they normally would at home.
West Ham set up in a diamond shape which meant all four of their midfield players stayed narrow.
The Hammers had a lot of players in central areas - especially when one of their strikers dropped in as well to make it a midfield five - but generally a diamond means you are weaker out wide.
Arsenal's 4-2-3-1 formation did not take advantage of that, however, because too many times when they had good possession their players who were supposed to be wide came inside instead.
The Gunners actually started with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain on the right and Santi Cazorla on the left but Cazorla always looked to come inside and, although Oxlade-Chamberlain had a bit of joy down his flank a couple of times in the first half, he drifted in to to look for the ball.
They created an overload in what you would usually call the number 10 position behind Arsenal's striker, Olivier Giroud, and at times when the Gunners came forward they had as many as five players who were no wider than the lines of the penalty area.
That was easy for West Ham to defend against in their formation and ultimately it meant Arsenal had to try to play some brilliant intricate football to get through.
They are capable of doing that, as we have seen from them many times before, but against the Hammers they came up a team who defended brilliantly and the Gunners did not adapt to try to find a different solution.
You might think the width Arsenal lacked could have come from their full-backs. That is true, but the problem with that is that the opposition can see it coming.
When they join in with attacks, full-backs are usually getting the ball deeper and trying to play balls into the box from further away from the goal, which again is easier to defend against.
On Sunday, Arsenal also missed Hector Bellerin and Kieran Gibbs, who would usually have been at right-back and left-back.
Those two are much more attack-minded and also quicker than Mathieu Debuchy and Nacho Monreal, who did not have much of an impact.
It was only when Theo Walcott and then Alexis Sanchez came on in the second half that the Gunners started to get the ball wide with any purpose, stretch West Ham and get behind their defence.
It took Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger almost an hour to make a change and I am surprised he did not switch his formation or even his personnel at half-time, or alter his instructions to his players.
He could have told Oxlade-Chamberlain not to come inside at all for the first 10 or 15 minutes of the second half.
If Arsenal's passing was quick enough, that would have created two-on-one situations out wide. If the full-back Debuchy gives the ball to Oxlade-Chamberlain in a wide area, it is very hard for Mark Noble, the left-sided West Ham midfielder in their diamond, to get across in time to help Aaron Cresswell.
Then, if Noble does make it, he then leaves some space inside for someone else.
What actually happened was that Oxlade-Chamberlain continued to come inside where Noble and several other West Ham players were waiting.
The problem for Arsenal was that, time and time again, their players would look up with time on the ball and only see team-mates in central areas and it became very difficult for them to find the perfect pass to get through.
You often see some odd results on the opening weekend when the top teams put in some below average performances for various reasons.
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What happened to Arsenal on Sunday does not mean that playing that way, with players coming in off the wings, will not work for them because it definitely will.
Part of the reason West Ham kept them out was that they defended brilliantly.
There were some outstanding individual performances from the Hammers all over the pitch, none more so than 16-year-old Reece Oxford, who showed great maturity in his holding midfield role. It is not easy to be so disciplined in that role, no matter how old you are.
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Ultimately, it was failing to react to what West Ham were doing defensively that cost Arsenal - but normally that would probably mean them drawing 0-0.
Unfortunately for the Gunners, they ended up losing because their new goalkeeper Petr Cech had an afternoon to forget.
Cech was at fault for both goals but that does not change the fact that he is a terrific keeper who will save them many more times than he loses them points in the future.
Danny Murphy was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan. | West Ham were able to beat Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday because they got their tactics right and also because they had the discipline to stick to their plan and make it work. |
38,643,891 | The man he shot, 35-year-old Ross Monaghan, was discharged from hospital after treatment for a shoulder wound.
Mr Monaghan was cleared of a gangland murder in 2012.
He had dropped his child off at St George's Primary, Penilee, shortly before the shooting happened in Muirdykes Road at about 09:05.
Five years ago., Mr Monaghan was cleared of killing Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll after a judge ruled there was insufficient evidence to convict him.
A police spokesman said the man appeared to have been targeted and they were not ruling out a gangland-related attack.
He said there would be extra police presence in the area over next few days to provide reassurance to the public.
The man suspected of shooting Mr Monaghan has been described as wearing a blue padded jacket, blue jeans, a dark woollen bobble hat and a woollen scarf covering his face.
Their was no child in the buggy he was pushing.
Police officers confirmed they were treating the attack as attempted murder.
Det Ch Insp John Kennedy said: "This was a particularly distressing incident for the local community, given it took place close to a primary school.
"Although our investigation is at an early stage, we are carrying out a number of inquiries to establish the exact circumstances of the incident but I do believe that this was a targeted attack focused on one intended victim.
"Whilst forensic and ballistic examinations continue to take place at the scene, detectives are carrying out door to door inquiries in the area and reviewing CCTV. This is a highly-populated, residential area and I am appealing to anyone who may have seen the man with the buggy before or after the incident to come forward with any information."
Additional uniformed officers have been sent to the area following the shooting.
Ch Insp Simon Jeacocke said: "People in the community are shocked and alarmed at this morning's incident and I have high-visibility officers patrolling the area to provide reassurance.
"We are also working closely with our colleagues in Education Services at Glasgow City Council to ensure that pupils, staff and parents are provided with support and information and we have specialist resources such as the mounted branch providing visible, additional support."
A passer-by told BBC Scotland that she heard a bang as she dropped her son off at nursery.
"I heard a big bang and I thought it was like an air rifle going off," she said.
"The kids were asking what had happened."
She added: "All the birds came flying up."
Glasgow City Council had said it was aware of an incident outside St George's Primary School.
A spokeswoman said all staff and pupils were safe and the school remained open.
St George's Primary School tweeted: "All pupils and staff are safe at St George's primary. Police dealing with an incident which happened outside school grounds."
Gangland figure Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll, 29, was shot dead in the Asda car park in Robroyston, Glasgow, on 13 January 2010.
Mr Monaghan was tried for the killing, but was acquitted after it emerged there was no evidence which placed him at the Asda store at the time of the shooting.
He was also cleared of attempting to defeat the ends of justice by disposing of the two guns used in the shooting and torching the getaway car.
William Paterson was convicted of Mr Carroll's murder following a two-week trial in May 2015. He was told he must serve a minimum of 22 years in jail. | A gunman who shot another man outside a Glasgow primary school was pushing a child's buggy when he approached his victim. |
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Scrum-half Cooney scored 13 points in the Irish province's third win in the competition this season, with a try, two penalties and a conversion.
Wales international winger Tom James crossed for the Blues but his side trailed 10-7 at the interval.
The last quarter of the game was scoreless after Aki touched down.
Connacht captain and veteran number eight John Muldoon made some key defensive plays as Pat Lam's men ended a three-match losing streak against Welsh opposition this season.
With Wales due to play their last international of the year this weekend against South Africa, the Blues saw several of their international stars return.
But the visitors opted to leave winger Alex Cuthbert on the bench, while fly-half Gareth Anscombe was not involved.
Cooney's 15th-minute try was executed from close range after a powerful scrum by the home side, with the number nine converting to make it 7-0.
The Blues fought back and were back on level terms soon after when James intercepted a loose Jack Carty pass to score his seventh try of the season, Steve Shingler adding the additional two points.
And the Welsh side had a chance to take the lead after the referee awarded them a kickable penalty, but Shingler pulled his effort wide.
The Blues continued on the front foot as full-back Dan Fish narrowly missed out on a try after he was marginally beaten in a foot race to his kick over the top.
But Connacht led at the break after another powerful scrum forced a penalty, which Cooney comfortably knocked over.
Cooney extended the advantage after the break with his second penalty after the referee spotted a tackle off the ball, before being replaced by 22-year-old Caolan Blade.
Blade almost made an immediate impact as he burst through the Blues defence, before the ball was later knocked on.
The hosts' second try arrived minutes later when winger Niyi Adeolokun split open the defence and centre Aki touched down to finish off a flowing move.
Now trailing by 11 points, Cardiff started to play with more urgency as Rey Lee-Lo and substitute Matthew Morgan linked up nicely down the left wing, but the ball was lost by Tomos Williams at the base of a ruck.
And minutes later they thought they were back in it when Morgan touched down in the corner, only for the TMO to rule it out for a knock-on.
The Blues continued to ask questions of the Connacht defence with a series of line-outs in the Irish side's 22, but the home side's defence remained firm to the end.
TEAMS
Connacht: Cian Kelleher; Niyi Adeolokun, Bundee Aki, Craig Ronaldson, Stacey Ili; Jack Carty, John Cooney; Denis Buckley, Tom McCartney, Conor Carey; Quinn Roux, James Cannon; Eoin McKeon, Jake Heenan, John Muldoon (capt).
Replacements: Dave Heffernan for McCartney (55), Ronan Loughney for Buckley (65), JP Cooney for Carey (67), Lewis Stevenson for Roux (65), Nepia Fox-Matamua for E McKeon (62), Caolin Blade for J Cooney (55), Marnitz Boshoff for Carty (67), Tiernan O'Halloran for Ronaldson (28), Dave Heffernan for McCartney (55)
Cardiff Blues: Dan Fish; Blaine Scully, Rey Lee-Lo, Willis Halaholo, Tom James; Steve Shingler, Tomos Williams; Rhys Gill, Kristian Dacey, Scott Andrews, George Earle, Jarrad Hoeata, Josh Turnbull, Ellis Jenkins (capt), Josh Navidi.
Replacements: Matthew Rees for Dacey (67), Brad Thyer for Gill (71), Taufa'ao Filise for Andrews (71), Macauley Cook for Hoeata (52), Alex Cuthbert for James (69), Matthew Morgan for Fish (38).
Not Used: Shane Lewis-Hughes, Rhodri Davies.
Referee: Nigel Owens (WRU)
Assistant referees: Simon Rees (WRU), John Carvill (IRFU)
Citing commissioner: Eddie Wigglesworth (IRFU)
TMO: Charles Samson (SRU)
Fox-Matamua for E. McKeon (62). | John Cooney and Bundee Aki scored tries as champions Connacht saw off Cardiff Blues 18-7 in Friday's Pro12 game at the Sportsground in Galway. |
34,548,626 | Keith Mead, from Melksham, ran out of his house fearing there had been an accident after hearing a "horrendous noise" on Wednesday morning.
He found tiles and a lump of yellow ice measuring about seven inches (17.7 cm) and weighing about 0.5 kg (1.1 lbs) lying nearby. No-one was injured.
Mr Mead, of Corncockle Close, believes the ice came from a passing plane.
No other houses were damaged.
Mr Mead said: "It was just as if someone had crashed into our house. I looked up and there was a gaping hole where a large lump of ice had impacted the roof."
He said he is "guessing" the ice came from a passing plane, and being "yellowish in colour could possibly be frozen urine".
He picked up the ice, put it in a bag, triple-wrapped it and put it in his freezer, ahead of contacting his insurance company.
Mr Mead said his insurers inspected the damage within two hours of the incident.
Surveyors are due to inspect the roof later and he expects to have the damage fixed "within a week or two". | A rugby ball-shaped lump of ice fell from the sky and left a "gaping hole" in the roof of a house in Wiltshire. |
18,823,897 | The motorway had been closed between junctions two and three in west London since last Friday after a crack was found in the Boston Manor viaduct.
It was shut by the Highways Agency following the discovery in a "sensitive area" of the road structure.
Earlier, the agency said it expected all work to be finished before the start of the London Olympic Games.
By Tom EdwardsTransport correspondent, London
The Highways Agency certainly dampened down expectation when it came to reopening the M4.
Having giving no indication last night that the guidance had changed from a reopening within "the next few days", this morning it was open (for cars only).
Of course, once bitten twice shy. Putting a deadline of Thursday on the reopening did not help when it was missed.
There will be huge relief amongst the Highways Agency and the Department for Transport. While the story has been drowned by the G4S security debacle, by Monday it would have become a huge embarrassment.
The image of an Olympic vehicle stuck in traffic on the A4 could have been beamed around the world.
The aftermath is harder to assess. When I asked the Roads Minister if a national audit was needed of our infrastructure he brushed it off as unnecessary. But many of our road structures are of a similar age and seem to be failing - for example the Hammersmith Flyover.
More public and political scrutiny of London's roads infrastructure is long overdue.
Restrictions on vehicles weighing more than 7.5 tonnes had been in place since March, when hairline cracks were discovered in some of the steel beams.
Problems began when workers "found a further crack in a sensitive location which requires us to keep the viaduct closed until the repair is complete".
Transport Minister Justine Greening said of the travel situation for the upcoming Games: "Obviously there will be disruption - it's almost impossible to have three million visitors in London on some days without it being a lot busier than normal.
"But I think we're well prepared, and hopefully we'll be able to have a fantastic Olympics."
John Woodcock MP, shadow transport minister, urged the authorities to ensure the problem was fixed permanently.
He said: "This is not just an Olympic highway.
"Millions of people use this route.
"They will want to to know the problem has been fixed properly, for good."
The M4 is the main route between Heathrow Airport and central London.
It is vital for transporting visitors into the city for the Games.
It is also the major road link from London to the West Country and south Wales, as well as being a heavily-used commuter route.
Just before Christmas, the Hammersmith Flyover - part of the same route in and out of the capital - was closed for five months after structural defects were found. | The main M4 motorway link between central London and Heathrow Airport has reopened in both directions. |
35,633,211 | Scotland's last victory in the tournament came in Rome in 2014.
"If you put so much pressure on yourself to get a result, instead of trying to win the game, you can go to trying not to lose," said Glasgow Warriors centre Horne.
"If that happens, everyone goes into their shell and you can't have that."
Following defeats to England and Wales, Scotland return to the Stadio Olimpico, where Duncan Weir kicked a last-minute drop-goal for a 21-20 success two years ago.
And Horne, who is returning to the squad after a foot injury ruled him out of the competition's opening fortnight, believes the visitors must take a positive approach to get the best out of their attacking threats.
"We're here for a reason," said Horne, 26. "We've got some of the most exciting outside backs in the world and a fantastic group of players.
"What good is it if the likes of [full-back] Stuart Hogg and the others are getting worried about making mistakes?
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"That's not going to help anyone. We need them to be expressing themselves.
"Any time Hoggy gets the ball in a bit of space I light up because I think something is going to happen. That's what we want. We want it to spread through the rest of the squad."
A muddled display against England was improved upon in Cardiff but several Scotland squad members are still waiting for their first taste of Six Nations victory.
"There's no-one hurting more than the players," added Horne, who has been capped 15 times.
"We're desperate to set the record straight and get that win. We're all gutted at how things have gone.
"We're trying to remain positive. We didn't play well against England but we did against Wales. There were some brilliant moments in Cardiff.
"What you can't forget though is that at this level, the differences between sides are so small. The games are decided on a few instances. The England game showed that. They had two chances and took them to win the game. We had a couple, didn't take them and lost.
"But we're still going in the right direction. It's easy to be negative but that won't get us anywhere.
"There are still three games left. We could win all three and people might see it as a successful Six Nations."
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After a strong showing against France, Italy lost 40-9 at home to England but Horne thinks the scoreline does not tell the full story.
"We will need to be at our absolute best to win," he warned. "They should have beaten France in Paris
"They played some great rugby against England until an interception try knocked the wind out of their sails. The score certainly did not reflect the game.
"It will be tough be we should be excited about going over there and getting tore into them.
"We're looking for a great result and that would kick us on for the games against Ireland and France." | Peter Horne wants Scotland's backs to play with freedom against Italy and not be shackled by the pressure of ending a nine-match Six Nations losing streak. |
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The German is three points behind championship leader Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes after two races.
Ferrari technical boss James Allison said: "Mercedes have a bit more horsepower and a bit more downforce.
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"Until we have closed those two gaps, it's not realistic to talk about title challenges."
Ferrari had their worst season in 21 years in 2014, the nadir of a slump in performance that convinced Fernando Alonso to leave the team two years before the end of his contract because he had lost faith that they could give him a car in which he could win a third world title.
Ferrari have made significant progress this season, thanks in large part to a big step forward in performance from their engine, their biggest weak point in 2014.
But Allison said there was no reason at this stage to revise the aims the team set for themselves at the beginning of the season.
"We thought it was realistic to score a couple of wins," Allison said. "We'll take whatever comes our way and will do our best to close up [the gap] as much as we can.
"But sticking with the objectives we set at the beginning of the year is still realistic."
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen was second fastest to Hamilton in practice at the Chinese Grand Prix on Friday, and the team looks set to be Mercedes' closest challenger over the weekend in Shanghai.
Hamilton appeared to have an advantage in pace of at least half a second a lap in both single-lap, qualifying trim and on race-simulation laps.
But it seemed clear from Friday practice that Ferrari continued to have lighter tyre usage than Mercedes, an asset that was a key factor in Vettel's win in Malaysia two weeks ago.
But the conditions are significantly cooler than in tropical Malaysia - the forecast is for dry weather, with temperatures expected to rise to about 20C in the race from 16C on Friday - so it should be easier for Mercedes to keep the tyre situation under control.
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Vettel said: "For us, target number one is to be right behind Mercedes. You have to accept they are very strong and then as the season goes on we will try to get closer and closer."
Hamilton said: "The Ferraris look like they are just as quick as in the last race but hopefully we're quicker. Generally, it looks like it is going to be quite close."
Chinese GP coverage details
Chinese GP practice results | Ferrari says it is "not realistic" for them to think about beating Mercedes to the title this year despite Sebastian Vettel's victory in the last race. |
34,998,097 | The 32-year-old Ivory Coast international drove at excessive speed on a northbound stretch of the M6 near Keele services on 20 May.
Toure was fined, ordered to pay costs, and given six penalty points at Burton Magistrates' Court in Staffordshire.
Prosecutors dropped a more serious allegation of speeding at 123mph.
Toure had been expected to appear in court for what was due to be his trial, having previously denied the more serious allegation of speeding during the same incident.
However, the midfielder was instead represented by his solicitor, Gwyn Lewis, who told magistrates the footballer "apologised for his behaviour".
In mitigation, Mr Lewis said: "The car comes from Germany, has a German registration, rather than a normal registration, and unfortunately for my client it was a vehicle which had I think not got the correct speedometer - it was showing kilometres [per hour] in terms of miles."
Toure was fined £1,665 and ordered to pay an additional £335 in costs and charges. | Manchester City footballer Yaya Toure has escaped a driving ban despite admitting speeding up to 101mph on a motorway in a turbo-charged Porsche. |
35,237,985 | They have put a sample of the familiar gas under so much pressure that it takes on a previously unseen solid crystalline form.
The team tells the journal Nature that this phase may be just a step away from so-called metallic hydrogen.
Predicted 80 years ago, this exotic substance could lead to ultra-fast computers and even super rocket fuel.
"We think we've reached a state of the material that is probably the precursor to metallic hydrogen," explained Ross Howie, formerly at Edinburgh University but now based in China.
"If you compare what we've observed experimentally with what's theoretically predicted for metallic hydrogen - they're very strong similarities between the two," he told the BBC's Science In Action programme.
The group used a set-up called a diamond anvil cell to compress its sample of molecular hydrogen.
This apparatus is essentially two gems that have been placed in opposition to each other.
Their polished tips, comparable in size to the width of a human hair, are made to press into a cavity containing the sample.
"The volume of hydrogen we use is about a micron cubed - a size that is on the order of a red blood cell," said the Nature paper's lead author, Philip Dalladay-Simpson, from Edinburgh's Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions.
"We use brute force - a large lever arm. We apply about a tonne of force on the back of the diamonds to generate huge pressures inside the cell."
In their experiments, the scientists are able to achieve in excess of 350 gigapascals (3.5 million atmospheres) at room temperature. These pressures are not dissimilar to what would be experienced at the centre of the Earth.
The big squeeze on the molecules of hydrogen gas turns them first into a liquid and then into a solid.
As the pressure gets ever more intense, the atoms in the hydrogen molecules pack closer and closer together, and the electrical conductivity in the crystalline material increases.
Ultimately, the hydrogen atoms should stack so efficiently that their electrons become shared - just as in a metal.
However, the team does not quite see this phase, but rather something that is probably just short of it.
"This would be a mixed structure of different layers, where you might get a layer of hydrogen molecules followed by an atomic layer, and these alternate," said Dr Howie, who is now affiliated to the Center for High Pressure Science & Technology Advanced Research in Beijing.
The work puts new constraints on where the full metallic hydrogen phase might exist: possibly below 450 gigapascals at room temperature.
The ambient temperature is very significant, because if metallic hydrogen can ultimately be produced this way it opens the door potentially to a new type of perfect (zero resistance) conductor - a material to boost the performance of next-generation computers.
"It's been predicted that metallic hydrogen could be a room-temperature superconductor, which is still yet to be achieved with any material," said Dr Howie.
"However, because we are playing with such small quantities, the practical applications at this stage are not clear."
Another prediction for metallic hydrogen suggests it could form the basis of a super fuel, producing substantially more thrust than the standard super-chilled hydrogen used in today's rockets.
Scientists are also fascinated by metallic hydrogen because they think it may account for a large fraction of the internal composition of planets such as Jupiter.
The high pressures and temperatures that exist several thousand kilometres below the gas giant's cloud surface are believed to produce a fluid form of metallic hydrogen. Movement in this electrically conducting liquid is very likely the source of the world's colossal magnetic field.
Nasa has a probe called Juno arriving at the planet later this year to investigate the possibility.
[email protected] and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos | British researchers think they have come close to creating a long-sought new state for hydrogen. |
12,493,448 | Scientists said the burst of radiation and magnetic energy could also disrupt communications equipment.
The phenomenon is caused by charged gas particles that flow away from the Sun as a "solar wind" interacting with the Earth's magnetic field.
The particles "excite" gases in the atmosphere and then make them glow.
The colours depend on the type of gas - a red or green glow is oxygen and the blue and purple colours are produced by nitrogen.
Dr Martin Hendry, senior lecturer in astronomy at Glasgow University, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: "Sometimes the aurora can be a little bit indistinct but on other occasions it can be a very vivid colour.
"In fact the different colours reflect the different chemical elements in our atmosphere being affected and they then interact with the discharge from the sun.
He added: "So if it is a bright one, and the evidence suggests that this might be, it is a large solar flare. It really should be unmistakeable." | The possibility of seeing the Northern Lights in Scotland on Thursday and Friday night has increased after the sun unleashed a giant solar flare. |
30,972,125 | The fire at 04:00 GMT left the ship "listing" and "in pitch black", said Dave Tonkin, whose father is on board.
The ship was without engine power for about five hours.
Fred Olsen, the company which owns the ship, said it was now fully stable and had five engines running with two still not working. There was no danger to passengers or crew, it said.
Gavin Poole, from Wimbledon, south London, said his parents, who are in their 70s, texted him in the early hours of the morning.
"The texts said, 'no engines, fire in the engine room, there's smoke, we're in life jackets and the captain says everything is under control'," he said.
"I spoke to my parents a bit later at 07:30 BST and they were in their cabin still in their life jackets. The fire was out, but half of the ship had power and the other half didn't, and it was listing."
Ken Watkinson, a passenger on board the Boudicca, said the situation had remained calm throughout.
"Around midnight, they announced there were problems with the electricity. I stayed in my bed and this morning it is all back to normal."
He said some cabins were still without electricity, but "the mood is fine and everyone is back to having a good time".
Fred Olsen spokeswoman Rachael Jackson said at no point were holidaymakers asked to don life jackets or gather at muster stations, as the situation was contained by crew members.
"The fire was in the engine room, but has now been extinguished, and no guests or crew have been injured," she said.
The Boudicca listed for "a short period" but was now stable and travelling again, although more slowly than normal, she added.
Two main engines and three auxiliary engines are running, while two other engines are still being mended.
"At the current speed of eight knots, we are currently reviewing the onward itinerary and will make a decision as to our next port of call in due course," she said.
Boudicca left Southampton on 20 January for an 18-night cruise of Cape Verde and the Canary Islands.
The ship's online locator currently shows it off the coast of Casablanca, Morocco. It left Cadiz, Spain, on Saturday, and was due to arrive in Lanzarote on Monday.
The Boudicca currently has 784 passengers and 356 crew on board.
It is one of four cruise liners owned by the UK-based, Norwegian-owned company Fred Olsen Cruise Lines.
The Boudicca made headline last year when Fred Olsen paid £280,000 in compensation to 130 holidaymakers who suffered gastric illnesses on board between October 2009 and May 2010.
The ship was also hit in 2013 when 98 passengers contracted a vomiting bug. | A cruise ship carrying more than 1,000 people was left without power off Morocco after an engine room fire. |
38,106,451 | The historic Brexit vote, terror attacks across Europe, the attempted coup in Turkey, the ongoing war in Syria. There has certainly been no shortage of news in 2016.
But what else should we have reported this year? Is there a story we missed that you'd like to see investigated?
We'd like you to tell us what stories in 2016 you think we should have covered.
It could be a personal experience you had. Or the story of someone you know. Perhaps there's an issue you'd like us to investigate that we haven't looked into already.
Or is there a different angle of a major news story that you think we should have tackled but didn't?
Send us your suggestions using the form below and we will select four of your stories, then you can choose the one you'd like BBC News to investigate.
We'll publish the story at the end of the year.
If you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question. | From David Bowie's death at the start of January to the election of Donald Trump in November - a great deal happened this year. |
37,085,136 | Since March 2012 those with up to £20,000 in their 123 account have earned 3% in savings interest a year.
However from 1 November they will now receive just 1.5%.
Santander said the changes were being made "due to the market expectation of interest rates staying lower for longer".
Earlier this month the Bank of England cut base rates from 0.5% to 0.25%, and signalled that there could be further cuts ahead if the economy worsens.
Santander said that market rates had fallen considerably since the account was first introduced.
However experts have warned account holders not to act hastily, as 1.5% is still amongst the best instant access savings products on the market.
Competitors are also expected to follow suit.
"Clearly the economics no longer stacked up for Santander, but with base rate teetering towards zero it may not be the last bank to trim its in credit current account rate," said Andrew Hagger of Moneycomms.co.uk.
Customers with less than £1,000 in their 123 accounts will now qualify for interest payments, which they did not enjoy previously.
Santander will also raise the cost of an arranged overdraft, from January 2017. | Millions of customers with Santander bank accounts are to receive a cut of 1.5% in the credit interest they are currently paid. |
40,093,573 | The 18-year-old, who can play in defence or midfield, made his full debut last season for the U's.
Carroll started three league games towards the end of the campaign as Oxford finished eighth.
"I've loved my time at the club," he said. "The boss, coaches and players have been fantastic and I want to be part of what's happening here." | Oxford United teenager Canice Caroll has signed a new three-year deal with the League One club. |
40,358,944 | A 61-year-old man, believed to be the doctor who carried out the procedure, has been arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm with intent.
The boy's mother complained to police, saying her son was circumcised without her consent while staying with his paternal grandparents in July 2013.
A 44-year-old man and a woman, aged 47, have also been arrested.
Nottinghamshire Police said they were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.
All three people have been released pending further investigation.
Updates on this story and more from the East Midlands
The doctor previously told the BBC: "It would be inappropriate to comment whilst any investigation is ongoing."
He has not publicly clarified whether or not he had been told the mother had consented to the procedure.
The boy was circumcised in Nottingham on 31 July 2013.
His mother originally contacted social services, then contacted police on 24 November 2014.
There was a police inquiry but the force initially deemed it not to be a criminal matter, and the matter was referred to the General Medical Council.
The boy's mother believes circumcision amounts to MGM, or "male genital mutilation", and is "inhumane".
She says her son, now aged four, has suffered recurring physical problems including inflammation and water infections.
"I am deeply hurt by what has happened to my son and the suffering I have been forced to witness," she said.
"No amount of money in the world could make right what's been done, and my only hope is to raise awareness of MGM and reveal the true suffering this procedure really inflicts on tiny babies.
"My life will never be the same again and I dread my son growing up and learning what happened to him."
Police reopened the investigation after the mother got help from the anti-circumcision group Men Do Complain and leading human rights lawyer Saimo Chahal QC, who wrote to the force. | Three people have been arrested by police investigating the circumcision of a three-month-old boy. |
28,487,299 | It is a Category A prison - the highest security level - but it also holds inmates of all categories sentenced at London courts.
Coulson remains there because he faces a possible retrial at the Old Bailey.
But Mr Justice Saunders said any retrial was "way down the line".
The Ministry of Justice said it would not comment on individual cases.
Prisoners deemed to be of low risk are usually assessed and sent to a suitable prison as soon as is practically possible.
Coulson, who was sentenced to 18 months for conspiracy to hack voicemails, is facing a possible retrial on two counts of conspiring to cause misconduct in public office.
It relates to allegations he was involved in conspiring to pay a police officer for royal telephone directories.
He may have to appear at the Old Bailey.
During legal argument, it emerged in court that, due to the unavailability of counsel, a new trial could probably not take place before Christmas.
Source: HM Inspectorate of Prisons/Ministry of Justice
Mr Justice Saunders, who was the judge in the eight-month hacking trial, said he was "concerned to hear" that Mr Coulson was still at Belmarsh.
He said he would contact the prison governor to explain that any possible retrial would not go ahead quickly.
The judge was speaking during a court hearing at which Crown prosecutor Andrew Edis QC made an application for prosecution costs against the PM's former communications chief.
At an earlier hearing it was revealed that the Crown Prosecution Service estimated that Coulson was liable to pay up to £750,000.
In reference to financial statements supplied to the court, Mr Edis said: "A lot of money has passed through Coulson's hands over the years and there does not appear to be very much left."
Timothy Langdale QC, who represents Coulson, said that his client had been "fully co-operative" in supplying financial information to the court.
It was also revealed that News UK, formerly News International, the company Mr Coulson worked for while at the Sun and the News of the World, may be liable to pay for any costs order made against their former employee.
In 2012, the company was ordered to pay his legal fees in connection with the phone hacking trial.
Mr Justice Saunders reserved his judgement on the issue of costs to a later date. | A judge is to write to Belmarsh Prison's governor over concerns that Andy Coulson is still held there three weeks after the ex-News of the World editor was jailed for hacking. |
32,549,284 | At a Glasgow rally, Mr Miliband said there would be "no deal, no coalition, no pact" with Nicola Sturgeon's party.
Prime Minister David Cameron said the threat of a Labour/SNP government "remains the same".
Ms Sturgeon said a minority Labour government would be "paralysed" if it refused to talk to other parties.
Meanwhile, UKIP's Nigel Farage said he could support a deal with a Conservative and Lib Dem coalition.
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The parties clashed over potential post-election arrangements after Thursday's BBC Question Time, in which Mr Miliband said there would be no Labour government if it involved "deals or coalitions" with the SNP.
Polls suggest a hung Parliament is likely after 7 May, and that the SNP could take a number of Labour seats.
Ed Miliband has been clear for some time he wouldn't be offering the prospect of a coalition to the SNP.
Privately then publicly he stated his approach if he is in a position to form a minority government: He would put forward a Queen's Speech - a legislative programme - without an SNP deal and dare the nationalists to vote it down.
He thinks he is in a strong position because Nicola Sturgeon has said she wouldn't give David Cameron the keys to Downing Street.
But by going even further and saying he would rather not be in government than do a deal with the SNP, he has given Nicola Sturgeon a powerful weapon in her so far successful battle to persuade former Labour voters in Scotland to back her party because - as at the referendum - she can argue that Mr Miliband is too close to the Tories.
So why do it? Well the polls suggest that Scotland has turned from fertile to hostile territory for Labour so he has in effect given up on the prospect of very many former voters returning to the fold.
But in 50 key English marginals, polling for ComRes suggests - after a relentless focus on this by the Conservatives - three out of five voters are worried about the influence the SNP would have over a minority government.
So he decided to try to eliminate this negative rather than pursue an all but lost cause.
Mr Miliband returned to the theme in Glasgow as he addressed Labour supporters having been greeted by some protesters as he arrived to make his speech.
"Nationalist never built a single school... never lifted a single person out of poverty," he said.
He praised former Labour leaders John Smith and Gordon Brown and said the SNP could not "lecture" his party about fighting the Conservatives.
Mr Miliband also renewed his attack on the Conservatives over welfare cuts, saying there were "six days to save your child benefit" after Mr Cameron faced questions about his party's plans on Question Time.
The prime minister, who said child benefit was "vital" to parents, dismissed Mr Miliband's ruling out of an SNP deal.
He said: "What Ed Miliband said last night actually changes nothing.
"Is he really saying that if Labour don't get a majority but if Labour plus the SNP is a majority 'I won't be PM'? Of course he's not saying that.
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"The threat today is the same as the threat yesterday. Ed Miliband propped up by the SNP not governing on behalf of the whole country."
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said people would be appalled by Mr Miliband's refusal to consider a deal with her party, and she said his comments would only galvanise more people to vote for the SNP so Scotland had a decisive voice at Westminster.
She told the BBC her party could vote against a minority Labour budget without bringing the government down if it was not consulted.
Mr Miliband "wants to cling to the pretence that he's going to win a majority," she said.
"The polls say he's not. And if he ends up in the position of being in a minority government then he simply cannot continue to say he's not going to talk to anybody, because that means his own government would be paralysed. And he will not want that to happen."
The Conservatives highlighted a comment from Labour's shadow health secretary Andy Burnham, who said "of course" when asked whether there would be dialogue with the SNP if a minority Labour administration needed to get its policies through the House of Commons.
Labour's Hilary Benn also told the BBC's Daily Politics his party would have to have discussions with the SNP to get a Queen's Speech through parliament, saying such conversations were "the normal to and fro of the House of Commons".
Earlier, on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, UKIP leader Nigel Farage said he didn't want UKIP to go into coalition.
However, he said he could do a "confidence and supply" deal with a Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition.
In such a deal, a minor party would typically support a bigger party in any votes of no confidence which could threaten to topple the government, and in voting through the Budget.
Green Party leader Natalie Bennett said Mr Miliband's comments were "very surprising", saying "he appeared to say that he'd leave David Cameron in place, rather than be prepared to work with the SNP".
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said Mr Miliband had been "foolish" to say he would implement his manifesto in full, even if he does not win a majority.
"It's just another ludicrous claim from Ed Miliband. It's just such a foolish thing to say," he said.
"If you don't win a majority and you have to govern with another party, you don't have the democratic right from the British people to insist on implementing your manifesto in full without any compromises."
Mr Clegg made the comments on a visit to Manchester to set out another of his party's "red lines" before entering into any future coalition.
He said the Lib Dems would insist on securing £8bn funding for the NHS, and making sure mental health issues were treated with the "same esteem" as physical health before entering into any deal with another party.
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38,132,072 | The working group reported to ministers on 11 October, but its conclusions have not yet been published.
A fatal foetal abnormality (FFA) diagnosis means medics believe an unborn child will die either in the womb or shortly after birth.
Sinn Féin's Martin McGuiness has called for MLAs to legislate for FFA cases.
Speaking after a British-Irish meeting in Wales last Friday, Martin McGuinness said he believed cases where there is no prospect of life were "challenging situations which need to be addressed".
The deputy first minister supported the right of any family told they have a fatal abnormality to have their child.
But he also backed the right of families unable to do that to access a termination.
Mr McGuinness said opinion polls had shown people in Northern Ireland are "very compassionate about how such situations should be dealt with".
Alliance Party leader Naomi Long has criticised the executive for its delay in publishing the report's recommendations.
First Minister Arlene Foster confirmed she had seen the paper from the working group, which was originally commissioned by the DUP's former health minister Simon Hamilton.
Mrs Foster recognised that "in a very small number of cases there are heartbreaking issues that have to be dealt with" and the executive needed to make appropriate provision for those matters.
However she added that there is "no point making bad law to deal with one or two circumstances", adding that law should be made after considering all the implications.
The first minister revealed she had already started the process of engaging with her own party about the conclusions of the working group's report and the evidence taken on the issue.
Mrs Foster wouldn't confirm whether the working group had recommended a change in the law, but said she wanted to make sure that "women who find themselves in this very difficult circumstance have the care that they require".
However, a Stormont source has now told the BBC the working group does recommend a change in the law and, depending on the DUP's internal discussions, a paper is ready to go to the executive either in late December or early January.
The working group was chaired by Chief Medical Officer Michael McBride and consisted of six senior officials.
The issue of fatal foetal abnormality has been in the headlines since October 2013 when Belfast woman Sarah Ewart revealed the harrowing details of her journey to England to seek a termination. | A group set up to examine NI abortion law has recommended legislative change in cases of fatal foetal abnormality, Stormont sources have told the BBC. |
38,739,068 | About 80 sterilisation and disinfection unit staff, who are Unison union members, walked out from midnight over pay.
Non-emergency surgery at Morriston, Neath Port Talbot and Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend, is affected.
The health board said it was disappointed by the decision and was working to minimise disruption.
Action was taken over claims for pay parity with workers doing the same job at other hospitals across Wales with another day of action planned for 1 February. | A 24-hour strike is taking place at three Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board hospitals on Wednesday. |
34,323,374 | They are Lord Carlile of Berriew QC, Rosalie Flanagan and Stephen Shaw QC.
Secretary of State Theresa Villiers said they would bring "rigour, integrity and independence" to the job.
The panel has been set up to help address a crisis at Stormont, sparked by a police assessment that IRA members were involved in a murder last month.
Kevin McGuigan Sr was shot dead close to his home in east Belfast on 12 August.
The murder investigation resulted in a breakdown of trust between unionist and republican politicians at Stormont.
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Last Friday, Ms Villiers announced that the government had commissioned an independent assessment of paramilitary groups.
The panel will assess the structure, role and purpose of paramilitary organisations in Northern Ireland.
Their report will be published in mid-October and will be used to inform parties at Northern Ireland's political talks.
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Lord Carlile has been the independent reviewer of national security arrangements in Northern Ireland since 2007.
He is a practising barrister and a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords.
Ms Flanagan has held a number of top posts in the civil service at Stormont, and worked in the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister from 2002 until 2010.
Mr Shaw is a senior barrister who has acted for local and central government as well as private firms and public companies, specialising in commercial and public law work.
In a statement, Ms Villiers said: "I am very grateful to each of the reviewers for agreeing to take on this important work.
"They are all highly respected individuals. I am confident that they will bring rigour, integrity and independence to this important task."
Sinn Féin's Conor Murphy said the panel was unnecessary.
"Nothing and no one can be allowed a veto over the democratic process. Sinn Féin is in government on the basis of our electoral mandate," he said.
However, the DUP's Arlene Foster said she was pleased the panel had been appointed.
"We think it'll be a fuller assessment than we've had thus far and hopefully it will be helpful to the process," she said. | The names of the panel members who will oversee an independent assessment of paramilitary organisations in Northern Ireland have been announced. |
35,755,816 | Figures obtained by charity NSPCC Wales showed a 21% rise on 2013-14, when 1,446 allegations were recorded by the four police forces.
Gwent Police saw the biggest increase, from 226 to 389 - a 72% rise.
More than 320 allegations concerned children aged 10 and under and 135 were aged five and under.
Of the crimes reported involving the youngest children, seven involved children aged just one and under.
NSPCC Wales said alleged victims may now feel more confident about coming forward following greater awareness about sexual abuse and police may have improved their recording methods.
But it added the figures may only reveal a small part of the picture, as many children are afraid to speak about their experiences or say they are not believed.
According to the NSPCC Wales figures, North Wales Police saw a 26.7% increase in allegations from 314 to 398 between 2013-14 and 2014-15.
Dyfed-Powys Police received a 9.7% increase from 299 to 328. And South Wales Police saw a 4.9% rise from 607 to 637.
Each force was also asked for gender-based figures. Of those provided, more than five times as many offences were recorded against girls (1,235) than boys (205). Gwent Police could only supply gender details for 41 of its 389 recorded offences.
In 2013/14, 1,145 offences were recorded against girls and 229 against boys.
The forces were also asked to provide details on crimes that had an online element but only Dyfed Powys and North Wales did so, with 33 crimes in each force area falling into that category.
The figures may only reveal a small part of the whole picture, as many children are afraid to speak about their experiences. A recent NSPCC report also revealed some young victims say they are not believed when they report sex crimes to police.
Des Mannion from the charity said: "These figures paint a very worrying picture of just how extensive these appalling crimes have become.
"A huge rise across Wales is clearly troubling and we will seek to understand why offences have increased so significantly.
"Where better recording of this crime has at least contributed to an increase, police forces must be applauded and we wholeheartedly welcome any boost in confidence that is helping victims to come forward." | The number of child sex allegations reported to police in Wales rose to 1,753 last year - an average of five a day. |
39,906,534 | But, bosses said there had been "no major impact" on the business.
"Like many organisations our plant was subject to a ransomware attack affecting some of our systems on Friday evening," a spokeswoman confirmed.
The government's emergency committee, COBRA, is due to meet to discuss the global cyber attack which also disabled NHS computers in England and Scotland.
The situation at the Wearside plant is "continuing to be monitored", but in line with normal weekend procedures no car production was taking place, the spokeswoman added.
Cyber-security firm Avast said it had seen 75,000 cases of the ransomware - known as WannaCry and variants of that name - around the world.
The attack that also hit about 40 NHS organisations was "unprecedented" in scale, Europe's police agency says. | Car firm Nissan's Sunderland plant has been hit by the worldwide ransomware attack with production affected. |
39,135,109 | A source said employees in the publishing department were told they must apply for new posts as their current roles will be terminated.
The process started a few weeks ago and four posts have since been advertised.
Gomer has refused to confirm or deny if any members of staff have left the business due to the restructuring.
Based in Llandysul, Ceredigion, the company styles itself as "Wales' biggest publisher", printing fiction and non-fiction books in Welsh and English.
Since the process began, it has advertised four roles - a Welsh language editor, an English language editor, a promotional officer and a digital market officer.
BBC Wales understands there is unhappiness among staff and those that have left include Ceri Wyn Jones, the English language editor and Elinor Wyn Reynolds, the Welsh language editor.
Another former member of staff told BBC Wales there were real concerns about the impact of the restructuring - and a danger Gomer Press could lose expertise and talent.
They were also worried about the decision to move jobs from Llandysul to Carmarthen - about 20 miles away.
In a written statement for BBC Wales, managing director of Gomer, Jonathan Lewis, said the purpose of the current restructuring was to secure a firm commercial footing for the company.
He said four jobs have been advertised and the company was hoping to appoint staff by the end of March.
Mr Lewis and Meirion Davies - another senior manager - refused to answer any further questions about the number of workers that have left or are leaving, and whether their departure was linked to the restructuring process.
Several authors who publish books with the company, and a former member of staff, have expressed concerns about experience and skills being lost from the company, and the potential impact of losing these jobs from a rural area such as Llandysul.
The Welsh Books Council said it was aware of Gomer's plans to restructure. In a statement, it said: "The press has a very important role to play in the publishing industry in Wales and the Welsh Books Council wish to see it flourish.
"Gomer is a commercial company and it's important to the literary world in general that they succeed as a business.
"Any period of change is difficult for all involved with the process, especially in a small family company such as Gomer Press. We are confident that things will settle down ad that the press will continue to make an important contribution to the Welsh publishing industry." | Eight members of staff have left Gomer Press because of alleged discontent over a restructuring process, BBC Wales understands. |
39,270,921 | Fernandes, known in Brazil as Bruno, was sentenced to 22 years in prison for the 2010 murder of Eliza Samudio.
The former Flamengo player was released last month on a legal technicality.
"I am very happy for the opportunity I have been given," said Bruno at a news conference.
The signing has been widely condemned in Brazil, and has sparked protests from fans and the withdrawal of several Boa Esporte sponsors.
Both Boa Esporte's main sponsor, Gois and Silva Group, and kit maker Kanxa have removed themselves from association with the club as a result.
At his news conference, Bruno, who has been released pending an appeal, refused to answer questions about the murder of Ms Samudio, his former partner and mother of his child.
Although Ms Samudio was never found, Bruno's cousin told the court her body had been fed to dogs. Prosecutors said she was killed after demanding that Bruno pay child maintenance for their baby son.
At his trial, the footballer admitted to knowing that Ms Samudio had been strangled and her remains fed to dogs, but denied ordering the killing.
"I want to help Boa Esporte to get to the first division," Bruno said after joining his new club.
"I thought several times that I wouldn't make it. But I can't throw in the towel, my wife wouldn't accept it. I have to believe in me."
The 32-year-old added he had been made "very welcome" in Varginha, the city where the club is based.
He said: "People demand a lot of me for what happened in the past. Boa Esporte is opening the doors for me."
He has also said he did not rule out making Brazil's national team, having once been tipped as a likely starter for the 2014 World Cup.
"One should always keep dreaming. One day I dreamed of making my comeback and I am now living this moment." | Goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes, who was sent to prison for killing his ex-girlfriend and feeding her to his dogs, has signed for Brazilian second division club Boa Esporte. |
35,240,143 | Pranav Dhanawade, son of an auto-rickshaw driver, had just scored more than 1,000 runs in a single innings to set a new world record in school cricket.
An army of reporters had descended to find out more about the young cricketer, who The Guardian called "the first cricketer to navigate the nervous 990s".
The teenager was crisp and brief while facing the excited media after his enervating innings.
"I wanted to score big runs. I remember my coach telling me that no one will take me in the Mumbai team if I score these hundreds and two-hundreds," he told The Indian Express newspaper.
Dhanawade's life has changed overnight after he smashed a mind-boggling 1,009 not out for his Smt KC Gandhi School in an inter-school game for the HT Bhandari Cup, an under-16 tournament.
An aggressive batsman by nature, he made merry at the crease for over six and a half hours. He faced 327 deliveries, hit 129 fours and 59 sixes, and ended up with an awe-inspiring strike rate of 308.56.
It surely helped that the opposition Arya Gurukul School weren't fielding their first team for this two-day game.
Their senior players were away preparing for an exam. Some of their bowlers were as young as 11. They batted first and were shot out for an inglorious 31 runs in 20 overs.
Dhanawade opened the batting for Smt KC Gandhi. At lunch, he had scored 45 runs. By the end of Monday he was unbeaten at 652 runs. The ground was small and the boundaries came fast and furious.
"When I go to bat, I only keep in mind that I had to play a big innings and after playing on and on I scored 100 runs, 200, 300, 400 runs," he told the BBC.
The family's phones kept ringing on Monday night. Friends and relatives were delirious: Dhanawade had already broken Arthur Collins' 1899 record of 628 not out, and the Indian school cricket record of 546 runs by Prithvi Shaw.
Tuesday brought with it an avalanche of expectations.
Dhanawade's voracious appetite for runs had not waned: by lunch, he had scored an astounding 921 runs. Spectators and reporters had begun invading the ground during the breaks in play. A few well-wishers cordoned him as he scampered to the dressing room at tea break.
After lunch, he crossed 1,000 runs. KC Gandhi declared with their score on 1,465 of three, and Dhanawade had scored nearly 70% of his team's total. He had his share of luck - a few catches dropped and a couple of stumpings missed by the opponents.
The one-sided contest ended with Arya Gurukul being bowled out for a paltry 56 in the second innings, giving Dhanawade's team an emphatic 1,382-run innings win.
The match umpire says he was impressed with Dhanawade's mindset and fitness.
"I would say he was 101% fit [temperamentally], and even after scoring so much he was not tired," Sunimal Sen told ESPNcricinfo.
"Many times we see that batsmen, after scoring a hundred, say 'Sir we want water', but he did not create this type of disturbance. He was very fit."
Life hasn't been easy for young Dhanawade and his family. His father Prashant, an auto-rickshaw driver, has done everything he could to support his son's cricketing dream.
Dhanawade had taken a two-year-break from cricket due to "some issues". There was a time when his mother Mohini would reprimand him for not focusing on studies.
His father had worked overtime to ensure his son got a cricket kit. On Monday, they stood beside him, beaming with pride, with tears of joy, accepting the accolades. They also learnt that the Maharashtra government had decided to fund their son's studies and sports.
Dhanawade's innings propelled him to the top of the trends on Twitter in India, where reactions to his innings ranged from praise to shock and disbelief. Sachin Tendulkar congratulated him - "You need to scale new peaks!," he tweeted.
But the biggest - and measured - accolade possibly came from Indian cricket captain MS Dhoni.
"To score like that anywhere in the world, in those conditions, is very difficult. Not to forget the age of the individual," Dhoni told reporters..
"We need to nurture him, guide him, because all of a sudden the limelight will be on him. He will be compared with a lot of individuals who have been very successful. It is important for the individuals who are close to him - his coach, his parents - to guide him to move in the right direction."
For the moment, Dhanawade is still soaking in his new-found celebrity and trying to make sense of it.
"I want to become a big cricketer. I want to play for India," he says.
Nishad Pai Vaidya is a Mumbai-based journalist | Visibly exhausted, the 15-year-old boy slumped in a chair at a little-known cricket ground in Kalyan, a Mumbai suburb, on Monday afternoon. |
34,175,380 | Hannah Stubbs, 22, died at her family home in Stafford on 29 August.
A man was questioned after an alleged attack around March and a file was sent to the Crown Prosecution Service to consider charges.
The Keele University student died "following a long period battling depression", her mother Amanda said.
"We wanted to give her the world, but now God has given her heaven," Miss Stubbs' mother told friends and family members on Facebook, adding: "We would appreciate your prayers".
Staffordshire Police is investigating the death and said a report surrounding the circumstances was being prepared for the coroner.
Speaking for the family, Miss Stubbs' aunt, the Reverend Sally Smith, said life would "never be the same again" for her family or friends.
She said "Hannah could not face returning to university" because of the chance she might meet her alleged attacker.
"In any other organisation... a person would be suspended, if there was an allegation made, until the investigation was completed and I would like to see that same thing happen in universities," she said.
"In Hannah's case, if things had been dealt with differently she could well be here today, continuing her studies and looking forward to a life as a physiotherapist."
Keele University said it was deeply saddened to learn of Miss Stubbs' "tragic death".
In a statement the university said: "The welfare and wellbeing of our students are a priority for the university and we provided support throughout this case.
"We work closely with appropriate authorities and professional support agencies from the earliest opportunity." | A student who killed herself after alleging she had been raped "could well be here today if things had been dealt with differently", her family has said. |
39,209,562 | The RAF serviceman has not been seen since a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, in September.
Suffolk Police revealed a bin lorry seized shortly after the gunner vanished was carrying a heavier load than first thought.
The force is now searching a landfill site in Cambridgeshire as a result.
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Det Supt Katie Elliott told the BBC: "I have a strong belief that we will find him here."
Asked for her reaction to the delay in the correct information about the weight of the lorry's load coming to light, she replied: "It's frustrating for me, I think it must be terribly frustrating for Corrie's family."
Det Supt Elliott said she would "have liked to have had the information sooner that would have led us to this point".
She said finding out about the lorry weight mistake was "very sobering".
"We've been working tirelessly on this investigation to try and find Corrie - that's been our priority the whole way through.
"To have that information really reinforced the decision that we'd already made that we needed to come and search this landfill site."
Mr Mckeague was last seen on CCTV cameras walking into a loading bay area of Bury St Edmunds known as the "Horseshoe".
After he was reported missing, signals showed his mobile phone had been in nearby Barton Mills, and matched the route of a bin lorry.
Police were initially told the waste collected from the area weighed 11kg (1st 10lb), too light to have contained Mr Mckeague.
The force has since found out the lorry's load was more than 100kg (15st 10lb).
A search team at the landfill site in Milton, Cambridgeshire - where the lorry's load ended up - has already trawled through 60 tonnes of waste.
It could take the team of eight trained officers up to 10 weeks to sift through the rubbish, which covers an area of about 920 sq m (9,900 sq ft).
Asked if Mr Mckeague's family had wanted police to come to search the site sooner, Det Supt Elliott replied: "We had discussions with the family around coming to search the landfill site at the beginning of the investigation when we understood Corrie's phone [was] tracked at a similar pace to the waste lorry.
"However, the information at that point did not lead us to believe that it was justifiable to come and search here. The strongest line of inquiry at that time was that Corrie had tried to walk home."
Mr Mckeague's family raised more than £50,000 through crowdfunding to hire McKenzie Intelligence Services to work on the case.
Its managing director, Forbes McKenzie, said more work should have been done at the landfill site "from the outset".
He said a number of individuals had commented on the bins in the "Horseshoe" area and the bin lorry that appeared to follow the same route as the airman's phone.
Mr McKenzie said there were "lots of comments" from people who worked in the waste disposal industry who said the information provided about the bins did not add up.
"We would like to think we had something to do with directing [police] to that [landfill] site," he said. | Police searching for missing airman Corrie Mckeague say they are "confident" his body will be found at a landfill site. |
38,502,607 | As the name suggests, Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are short-lived - but powerful - pulses of radio waves from the cosmos.
Their brevity, combined with the fact that it's difficult to pinpoint their location, have ensured their origins remain enigmatic.
Outlining their work at a major conference, astronomers say they have now traced the source of one of these bursts to a different galaxy.
It's an important step to finally solving the mystery, which has spawned a variety of different possible explanations, from black holes to extra-terrestrial intelligence.
The first FRB was discovered in 2007, in archived data from the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia. Astronomers were searching for new examples of magnetised neutron stars called pulsars, but found a new phenomenon - a radio burst from 2001. Since then, 18 FRBs - also referred to as "flashes" or "sizzles" - have been found in total.
"I don't exaggerate when I say there are more theories for what these could be than there are observed bursts," first author of the new study, Shami Chatterjee, told the BBC's Science in Action programme.
All FRBs were found using single-dish radio telescopes that are unable to narrow down the sources' locations with enough precision to further characterise the flashes.
But Dr Chatterjee, from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and colleagues used a multi-antenna radio telescope called the Karl G Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico, which had sufficient resolution to precisely determine the location of a flash known as FRB 121102.
Unlike all the others, this FRB - discovered in 2012 - has recurred several times.
"When we reported last year that one of these objects was repeating, that - in one go - knocked out about half of those models, because for this one source, at least, we knew it couldn't be explosive. It had to be something where the engine that produced this survived for the next flash."
In 83 hours of observing time over six months in 2016, the VLA detected nine bursts from FRB 121102.
"We now know that this particular burst comes from a dwarf galaxy more than three billion light-years from Earth," said Dr Chatterjee. That's a staggering distance from Earth, underlining just how energetic these flashes are.
"That simple fact is a huge advance in our understanding of these events."
The team has published their findings in Nature journal and has outlined them at the 229th American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Grapevine, Texas.
Since this is the only known repeating burst, it's possible it could represent a completely different phenomenon to other FRBs.
In addition to detecting the bright bursts from FRB 121102, the team's observations also revealed an ongoing, persistent source of weaker radio emission in the same region.
The flashes and the persistent source must be within 100 light-years of each other, and scientists think they are likely to be either the same object or physically associated with one another.
"This persistent radio source could be an active galactic nucleus (AGN) at the centre of a galaxy that's feeding (consuming matter from its surroundings), sending out jets, and these sizzles we see are little bits of plasma being vaporised in the jets," said Dr Chatterjee.
"That's not the interpretation we favour. The one we favour is that maybe it's a baby magnetar - a neutron star with a massive magnetic field - and it's got a nebula surrounding it that's powered by the energy being lost by this object. Every once in a while, we're getting a flash from this baby magnetar."
Prof Heino Falcke, who had investigated FRBs, but was not involved in the latest study said that, even without a clear answer, the new findings were a "game changer". But he admitted several features associated with FRB 121102 remained mystifying.
He agreed that some features of the radio source resembled those associated with large black holes. But he said these were typically found only in large galaxies.
He told BBC News: "Why is this spectacular FRB in such a little, very innocent looking galaxy? There are many things coming together which don't make much sense yet.
"Maybe it's a neutron star orbiting a black hole," he said. This might explain the on-off nature of the bursts. But he added: "Why would that produce an FRB where others don't?"
Further research will be needed to clarify the nature of the flashes, and to determine whether all FRBs are caused by the same phenomenon - or have different causes.
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38,022,907 | Your chairman was unceremoniously sacked. The management feud has divided directors.
Meanwhile your customers just don't know what to think.
And to cap it all off, despite the spat being played out in the world's media with a to-and-fro of insult and insinuation, the dumped boss is still very much part of the company.
Sounds pretty horrendous, but that's the reality for 660,000 staff employed by India's Tata Group.
It is the country's largest conglomerate, with stakes in more than 100 independent companies, many of which bear the Tata brand.
And still at the helm or on the board of some of the most high-profile Tata businesses is Cyrus Mistry, the ousted chairman.
The saga, which saw Mr Mistry unexpectedly replaced by his predecessor and company patriarch Ratan Tata, has been a sorry chapter in a usually proud 148-year history of the Tata Group.
So with the fallout of this ugly public ousting still swirling, how do you go to work each day, keeping your chin up and your head down?
Not easily, some say.
"There's a great sense of pride in being a staff member of a Tata company and that follows from the ethical standards that the senior leaders have held themselves to," says Prof Kulwant Singh from the NUS Business School in Singapore.
"All these events have tarnished Tata's reputation and that must affect morale and belief in the Tata Group."
And while it is human instinct to pick sides, that is difficult for employees - not least because it's not entirely clear yet who'll come out on top.
"The staff are caught in the middle and they're watching how this plays out but they won't want to interfere," says Nitish Jain, president of the SP Jain School of Management.
"I think it's obvious that the staff are quite rattled, they want clarity sooner rather than later but they have no choice but to be patient."
Patience will be crucial.
Wrestling control away from Cyrus Mistry may not be so straightforward. His family has been a major investor since the 1930s, and controls companies holding 18% of Tata Sons. And crucially Mr Mistry still has plenty of support.
That explains why, despite everything that has gone on, he is still chairman of Tata Chemicals as well as Indian Hotels, owner of the world famous Taj brand.
Tata Group may own a stake in each of those businesses, but they are separate legal entities, meaning Mr Mistry can only be removed by each company's board.
That's exactly what happened at Tata Global Beverages, for example, the business that runs the Starbucks franchise in India where he was chairman, and at another huge operation Tata Consultancy Services.
But directors at Tata Steel and Tata Motors still can't decide whether to carry out the wishes from Tata headquarters and cut ties.
"There appear to be factions that have emerged within the boards of Tata companies," says Prof Singh.
"At least some of these board members seem somewhat reluctant to follow through on Tata Sons' attempt to oust him."
Under Indian law, Mr Mistry can attend shareholder meetings of any Tata company while he remains a board member of that company. He can also attend those meetings on behalf of a shareholder.
Showing too much loyalty to Mr Mistry could be a dangerous game.
For each of these businesses, the Tata brand is vital. Being able to use that famous name often helps win customers and, when they need it, get financing too.
And so Tata Sons - with its power to take away permission to use the Tata name - could hold a trump card, believes Prof Singh.
"This access to the Tata brand is critical to these companies, so they are likely to comply with the overall wishes of the Tata Group," he says.
With the risk of more damage to morale, reputation and productivity, Prof Singh predicts a resolution soon, especially with Ratan Tata on the hunt for Mr Mistry's permanent replacement.
"I don't see this dragging out for months," says Prof Singh.
"I believe the Tata Group board will want to hand over a settled company to the new chief executive and will therefore try to resolve all of these issues relatively quickly."
You get the impression though that Cyrus Mistry will make this as difficult as possible.
This is someone whose opening salvo was a no-holds-barred nine-page email slamming the Tata business that was leaked to the media.
"If he just exits without putting up a show, his colleagues may consider him too weak. If he puts up a show they might think he's too much of a fighter," says Mr Jain.
"But if he represents his case as he's doing currently, he may negotiate better terms than a lame duck exit, which is what he'd be doing if he just gave up now."
For Prof Singh, the fact that Tata is in this predicament at all seems unnecessary.
"I wonder why they didn't come to an agreement that would have given him a graceful exit to avoid this public humiliation.
"That would have been much smoother because this really is against the Tata way."
Of course it takes two parties to agree, and who knows if they had tried to achieve an amicable split but failed.
But even if Tata eventually manages to oust Cyrus Mistry from all its companies, the group may never be able to silence him. | Imagine you work for a company that has been engulfed in a bitter power struggle for weeks. |
22,528,559 | Mr Russell, who wrote the films Shirley Valentine and Educating Rita - and musical Blood Brothers - gifted the documents to Liverpool John Moores.
He said creating the archive had given him a "much tidier office".
The documents will be held in the university's Special Collections and Archives and be made available online.
The archive, which includes manuscripts, programmes, newspaper cuttings and press releases, financial documents, correspondence and audition notes, offers a "comprehensive representation of Willy Russell's work to date", a university spokesman said.
Amongst the documents are items relating to early stage productions of Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine, which were both later turned into films, the former starring Julie Walters and Michael Caine and the latter Pauline Collins and Tom Conti.
Also included are casting and audition notes around productions of Olivier-winning musical Blood Brothers, which closed in October after spending 24 years in London's West End.
The 65-year-old playwright, who came to prominence in the 1970s through his association with the city's Everyman Theatre, said he was happy the archive would be held close to the venue.
"I have a quiet sense of something fitting in knowing that my manuscripts are housed in a building no more than a few yards from where most of them were written and first performed," he said.
He added that it had "always been my intention that if ever my papers and manuscripts were to be deposited, then it would be with a Liverpool institute".
Dean of the Faculty of Arts Roger Webster said he was pleased the university had been able "to acquire this archive through Willy Russell's generosity".
"It will undoubtedly attract and produce world-class scholarship and we hope to develop a number of research projects around it," he said. | Renowned Liverpool playwright Willy Russell has donated "papers and manuscripts" from across his career to one of the city's universities. |
32,247,532 | Intel applied for a licence to export tens of thousands of chips to update the Tianhe-2 computer.
The Department of Commerce refused, saying it was concerned about nuclear research being done with the machine.
Separately, Intel has signed a $200m (£136m) deal with the US government to build a massive supercomputer at one of its national laboratories.
The Tianhe-2 uses 80,000 Intel Xeon chips to generate a computational capacity of more than 33 petaflops. A petaflop is equal to about one quadrillion calculations per second.
According to the Top 500, an organisation that monitors supercomputers, the Tianhe-2 has been the world's most powerful machine for the past 18 months.
This year the Chinese machine was due to undergo a series of upgrades to boost its number-crunching abilities past 110 petaflops. The upgrades would depend largely on new Intel Xeon chips. The chipmaker informed US authorities of its involvement with the upgrade programme and was told to apply for an export licence.
In a notice published online the US Department of Commerce said it refused Intel's application to export the chips for Tianhe-2 and three other Chinese supercomputers because the machines were being used for "nuclear explosive activities". The relevant section of US export regulations reveals that this covers technologies used in the "design, development or fabrication" of nuclear weapons.
The notice added that the four institutions where the supercomputers would be located were deemed to be "acting contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States".
In a statement given to the IDG news wire, the chipmaker said: "Intel complied with the notification and applied for the licence, which was denied. We are in compliance with the US law."
China is now believed to be accelerating its own home-grown chipmaking efforts to boost the power of the four supercomputers and complete the upgrade programme.
Although Intel has been denied the chance to sell its Xeon chips to China, the company has signed a large deal to build the Aurora supercomputer at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. When finished that machine is expected to have a peak performance of 180 petaflops. | The US government has refused to let Intel help China update the world's biggest supercomputer. |
38,272,320 | County took a 17th-minute lead through former Colchester loanee Elliott Hewitt, who headed in from close range after Duffy had nodded on Carl Dickinson's corner at the near post.
Colchester's Denny Johnstone came close to converting Brennan Dickenson's cross, while Owen Garvan's half-volley flew straight at Adam Collin.
But Colchester equalised in the 24th minute when Kurtis Guthrie sent a fine diving header past Collin from close range, following Johnstone's excellent cross into the six-yard box.
Collin easily saved George Elokobi's weak header just before half-time while in the opening stages of the second half Tom Eastman's header from Dickenson's cross flew just over the bar.
Colchester keeper Sam Walker denied Dickinson at his near post but Duffy put through his own net with 13 minutes to go after Eastman had headed Garvan's free-kick into the six-yard box.
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Match ends, Colchester United 2, Notts County 1.
Second Half ends, Colchester United 2, Notts County 1.
Substitution, Colchester United. Kane Vincent-Young replaces Craig Slater.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Frankie Kent.
Attempt saved. Kurtis Guthrie (Colchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Kurtis Guthrie (Colchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Thierry Audel (Notts County).
Attempt missed. Vadaine Oliver (Notts County) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Jon Stead (Notts County) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Frankie Kent (Colchester United).
Jon Stead (Notts County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Kurtis Guthrie (Colchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Substitution, Notts County. Adam Campbell replaces Jordan Richards.
Substitution, Colchester United. Macauley Bonne replaces Denny Johnstone.
Frankie Kent (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jon Stead (Notts County).
Carl Dickinson (Notts County) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Notts County. Louis Laing replaces Curtis Thompson.
Drey Wright (Colchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Carl Dickinson (Notts County).
Own Goal by Richard Duffy, Notts County. Colchester United 2, Notts County 1.
Attempt blocked. Brennan Dickenson (Colchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Thierry Audel (Notts County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kurtis Guthrie (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Thierry Audel (Notts County).
Foul by Owen Garvan (Colchester United).
Elliott Hewitt (Notts County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Brennan Dickenson (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Curtis Thompson (Notts County).
Tom Lapslie (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Richards (Notts County).
Substitution, Colchester United. Drey Wright replaces Richard Brindley.
Attempt missed. Carl Dickinson (Notts County) header from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt saved. Carl Dickinson (Notts County) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Frankie Kent.
Jordan Richards (Notts County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Owen Garvan (Colchester United).
Tom Eastman (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Vadaine Oliver (Notts County).
Substitution, Notts County. Vadaine Oliver replaces Jonathan Forte. | A Richard Duffy own goal helped Colchester come from behind to beat struggling Notts County and extend their unbeaten run to four matches. |
39,339,063 | Trainee Ford engineer Thomas Putt, 20, and shop worker Nikki Willis, 23, were discovered inside the Ford Fiesta in Fox Crescent, Chelmsford, in December.
Vents had been cut into the car bonnet and the catalytic converter removed, Chelmsford Coroners' Court was told.
Greater Essex Coroner Caroline Beasley-Murray said the deaths were accidental.
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Giving evidence to the inquest, Det Insp Rob Kirby described how smoke from the car's engine came up through the bonnet and into the air intake vents before passing into the cabin.
He said a carbon monoxide detector recorded levels of 400 parts per million (ppm). The maximum level the police device was capable of recording was 500 ppm.
Mr Kirby said he hoped the case would "raise awareness" of the dangers of modifying vehicles.
The inquest heard both Mr Putt, of Wren Close, Leigh-on-Sea, and Ms Willis, of Fox Crescent, Chelmsford, died from inhaling exhaust fumes.
After the inquest, Mr Kirby said the deaths were a "needless event" adding: "There are inherent dangers in modifying vehicles.
"Tom was not inexperienced. He was apprenticed with Ford and had carried out lots of repairs on his vehicle.
"I would urge anybody who has carried out modifications to have their work checked by a qualified mechanic."
Charlotte Ward, of Ford, said: "This was a terrible tragedy, Tom was a popular and talented apprentice, and our thoughts remain with his family, friends and colleagues.
"The coroner's verdict cited modifications, including the removal of the catalytic converter, as a contributing factor and we do not recommend the modification of any Ford vehicle beyond the manufacture's guidelines." | Two young people died when toxic exhaust fumes were pumped into a car's cabin after modifications had been made to the vehicle, an inquest heard. |
37,446,248 | Griffiths is fit to return from injury on Saturday, but Dembele has overtaken him as the top scorer in the meantime.
That leaves Rodgers with a difficult selection decision against Kilmarnock.
"It's not a big worry for me," Rodgers said. "You have to pick a team that works, it's not about finding room in the team for names."
He added: "The team always needs to have offensive and defensive balance and if that means some players miss out, then they miss out. But everyone respects that and the mentality has been superb."
As he prepares for Saturday's meeting with Kilmarnock and then facing Manchester City in the Champions League four days later, Rodgers is happy with the attacking form of his side, although he wants more composure from his players in the final third.
With Dembele having scored eight goals in 14 games this season - including a hat-trick against Rangers - and Griffiths seven in nine, the Celtic manager believes the competition between the two players will be good for his side.
"I'm sure if Leigh had been involved in the last couple of games that he would have helped himself to some goals," Rodgers said.
"The idea is to build a squad that can push each other on. You're always better when you have someone challenging for your position, that keeps you on your toes, you can't have a lazy day in training.
"If it's not happening in games, I can always make changes quickly because of the quality we have."
Dembele believes he and Griffiths can strike up an effective partnership. They have played together, although the Scotland striker was the starting centre-forward, with Dembele on the bench, for several games before he was injured.
The Frenchman is also adamant that he will remain the team's penalty taker, despite missing from the spot in the 7-0 defeat to Barcelona in Celtic's opening Champions League tie.
"Leigh's a clever player so he can bring something to the team as well," Dembele said. "Leigh has his strengths and I have mine.
"We're all here for the good of the team. If I can score, I'll score; if Leigh can score, I'll give the ball to him. In a team, you need to have players who compete, and having Leigh here is a good thing for me. It will make me a better player and him, too.
"With the penalty, sometimes you score and sometimes you miss. When you miss a penalty, you just need to think about scoring the next one. It happens to everyone. I will take the next one."
Rodgers has been content with the way his players reacted to the heavy defeat in Barcelona, recovering with a draw away to Inverness Caledonian Thistle - in which the Celtic manager felt his side had done enough to win - then defeating Alloa in the Scottish League Cup quarter-final.
His focus is on overcoming Kilmarnock on Saturday, and he acknowledges the extent of the step up in level that facing Manchester City four days later will present.
"It's the job of coaching staff to protect the players from [the effects of the Barcelona defeat]," Rodgers said.
"It's important to take a positive from it. It doesn't feel it at the time, it feels like the longest 90 minutes of their lives, but its about putting it into perspective: the opponent they were playing against and then can you learn from it.
"It's a huge jump up from the domestic level to some of the best teams in Europe, but the players have earned the right to be there.
"This Champions League campaign is going to be about learning for us. Of course we're going to give it our best shot in every game, and our homes games in particular are going to be very important for us. We'll relish the challenge when it comes." | Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers says he will not change the balance of his side to play strikers Leigh Griffiths and Moussa Dembele together. |
39,833,969 | Spurs plan to have their new stadium, built on the same site, ready for the 2018-19 campaign and will play their home matches at Wembley next season.
Mauricio Pochettino's side left their current ground, where they have spent 118 years, on a high by staying unbeaten there this season and securing second spot in the Premier League.
Wanyama got Spurs off to the best possible start with a header five minutes in and Kane doubled their lead early in the second half, flicking home from a Christian Eriksen free-kick.
Captain Wayne Rooney gave United hope of a recovery when he poked in from Anthony Martial's low cross, but they were unable to spoil the leaving party.
Defeat means Jose Mourinho's men cannot now finish in the top four.
They can still qualify for the Champions League if they win the Europa League, but Mourinho will have to settle for fifth or sixth place in his first season at the club.
Tottenham's title chances ended last week with their defeat by West Ham, and the trophy went to Chelsea on Friday.
With a Champions League place already guaranteed, Pochettino said their final home match was all about making it a special day for the fans.
The teams walked out to a display of flags around the ground, Spurs legends including Chris Waddle and Glenn Hoddle were invited as special guests, and local musical duo Chas and Dave provided half-time entertainment.
And the Tottenham players gave supporters a first-half performance to remember.
Ben Davies' sublime cross was headed home by Wanyama to give Spurs the early advantage, and they could have extended their lead before the break had goalkeeper David de Gea not denied Son Heung-min and Kane.
Five minutes into the second half, the hosts doubled their lead. Eriksen's free-kick curled into the path of Kane and he out-smarted defender Chris Smalling to poke home his first goal against United.
Spurs' performance dropped off after that, but they managed to hold on - despite Rooney's goal giving them a scare.
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Four of Man United's five Premier League losses this season have been in games played on a Sunday immediately after a European match.
And just like the defeat by Arsenal last weekend, a much-changed Mourinho starting XI put in an average performance in north London.
Martial looked lively in attack but could only curl his best effort wide of the post in the first half.
The Frenchman instigated his side's goal by ghosting past Kieran Trippier before picking out Rooney, who tapped in from close range.
Substitute Marcus Rashford went close at the death, but it proved to be too little too late for the visitors.
United's focus is firmly on winning the Europa League title - they face Ajax on 24 May - and Mourinho said after Sunday's defeat: "The most important thing for us now is having one less match to play.
"We have only one match to play and that's not in the Premier League."
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Tottenham boss Pochettino said after his side's win: "The fans have been fantastic all season. They have helped us a lot during the whole season. It was fantastic, the team played to win.
"Of course we will miss it a lot because White Hart Lane is special but at the same time we welcome the new stadium."
Tottenham play Leicester City on Thursday at the King Power Stadium (19:45 BST), before ending the season at relegated Hull City (15:00 BST) on Sunday.
Manchester United travel to Southampton on Wednesday (19:45 BST), with their final league game coming at home against Crystal Palace (15:00 BST).
Match ends, Tottenham Hotspur 2, Manchester United 1.
Second Half ends, Tottenham Hotspur 2, Manchester United 1.
Offside, Manchester United. Michael Carrick tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Michael Carrick with a through ball.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Georges-Kévin Nkoudou replaces Christian Eriksen.
Eric Bailly (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card.
Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Eric Bailly (Manchester United).
Foul by Victor Wanyama (Tottenham Hotspur).
Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Harry Kane tries a through ball, but Eric Dier is caught offside.
Foul by Mousa Dembélé (Tottenham Hotspur).
Anthony Martial (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur).
Eric Bailly (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Kane.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Kyle Walker replaces Kieran Trippier because of an injury.
Ben Davies (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Wayne Rooney (Manchester United).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Manchester United. Marcus Rashford replaces Juan Mata.
Delay in match Kieran Trippier (Tottenham Hotspur) because of an injury.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Phil Jones.
Victor Wanyama (Tottenham Hotspur) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Victor Wanyama (Tottenham Hotspur).
Anthony Martial (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Daley Blind.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Mousa Dembélé replaces Son Heung-Min.
Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 2, Manchester United 1. Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Anthony Martial.
Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Eric Bailly (Manchester United).
Foul by Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur).
Eric Bailly (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Wayne Rooney following a fast break.
Attempt missed. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Dele Alli.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Ben Davies.
Substitution, Manchester United. Henrikh Mkhitaryan replaces Jesse Lingard.
Substitution, Manchester United. Ander Herrera replaces Axel Tuanzebe.
Foul by Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur).
Eric Bailly (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half. | Goals from Victor Wanyama and Harry Kane earned Tottenham victory over Manchester United in their final game at White Hart Lane. |
34,798,155 | Kicking Horse Coffee, a Canadian firm she had started with her partner Leo Johnson was getting some orders from gourmet stores in Calgary, Alberta, 172 miles (277km) away from their base in the tiny town of Invermere in British Columbia's Rocky Mountains.
They didn't have any cardboard boxes to pack the coffee in, so they scoured the town's lone back alley for any they could use.
When they'd finally taped the package shut, they took it to Skinny's Shoe Repair - the spot where the Greyhound buses stopped in Invermere - and put it on a bus to its destination.
That was in 1996. Since then, Kicking Horse Coffee has become one of the biggest retail success stories in Canada, its distinct black packaging appearing in grocery stores and cafes across the country, as well as in the US.
The company is tight-lipped about its finances, but expects to roast more than 1.3 million tons of coffee this year and has over 85 employees.
And in 2012, marketing research firm AC Nielsen ranked it as one of the top ten commercial brands in Canada, alongside national stalwarts like bakery chain Tim Hortons.
Despite all its success, Kicking Horse Coffee is still based in the same town in which it started.
While the population of Invermere swells in the summer when tourists visit its hot springs and nearby wildlife parks, for the rest of the year it is home to just 3,000 people.
It is not the kind of place you'd expect to find one of Canada's biggest retails businesses - now housed in a modern 60,000 sq ft (5,570 sq m) facility just east of the Columbia River that bisects the town as it drains into Windermere Lake.
Ms Rosenfeld says she never planned to run a successful business.
After university in Montreal, she wanted nothing more than to immerse herself in small-town Canadian life. Building an empire was the last thing on her mind.
So following her graduation in the early 1990s, Ms Rosenfeld and Mr Johnson drove their orange 1972 Volkswagen campervan to Invermere, where they had decided to settle.
"I was really a little bit naive about it," says Ms Rosenfeld, now 46. "I planned to do anything, pump gas, whatever."
But with jobs hard to come by in small town British Columbia, the couple - who had moved into a cabin with no electricity or running water - initially ran a fruit stand that catered to tourists during the summer months.
However, they quickly realised that they needed to set up a business that could be successful all year round.
Ms Rosenfeld says: "You have to be creative and show some grit. The jobs aren't going to come to you."
So taking out a loan they bought a local cafe, which turned a modest profit and enabled them to save up to spend a year travelling the world.
Returning to Invermere in 1996 they took out another loan, and began roasting organic and fair trade coffee beans in their garage, giving the business the name Kicking Horse Coffee.
As sales quickly took off, it soon became apparent that their product was going to be bigger than the town from which it came.
"We realised it was getting big pretty early on, when we started getting feedback and reaction from people," Ms Rosenfeld says.
"We realised it had a ton of potential. Once we got our first grocery account, which was Thrifty Foods on Vancouver Island, and started working that segment of the market we saw the potential to go across Canada."
After positive world of mouth helped Kicking Horse grow in its early days, the ambitious company started to appoint sales representatives across Canada. Major contracts with Canadian retailers soon followed.
However, Kicking Horse's first few attempts to crack the crowded US market failed, and it only started to see success south of the border in 2014.
"There was no full plan or investment in place," Ms Rosenfeld says of its first moves into the US.
"The market there is so massive and diverse... You've really got to pick your areas that you want to focus on.
"There are so many retailers there. The Canadian landscape is really very simple and there are very few players. In the US it's wild, and it's a lot more expensive to go into the marketplace there than in Canada."
Kicking Horse Coffee also faced a potential blip in 2010 when Ms Rosenfeld and Mr Johnson separated and he left the company. Yet Ms Rosenfeld says the firm's growth was unaffected.
To greatly increase the company's further expansion, Ms Rosenfeld sold a minority stake in the business in 2012.
Although the exact value of the deal and the amount of equity involved has not been revealed, private equity firm Branch Brook Holdings has invested millions of dollars in Kicking Horse.
"We've basically doubled the business since then," says Ms Rosenfeld.
With Kicking Horse Coffee now a household name across Canada, coffee industry expert Colin Newell says there are a number of factors behind its success.
Mr Newell, who runs the CoffeeCrew blog, says it benefitted from being "the first out of the gate" in Canada, being at the vanguard of selling fair trade, organic coffee.
"They had a vision and a tireless amount of energy, and ran with the idea. They kept scaling it up and they've continuously grown and pushed their brand around western Canada.
"I don't know if 'aggressive' is really the right word, but they believed in their concept. In 2015, a lot of companies are doing what they're doing on a smaller scale, but they were the first."
Back at Kicking Horse Coffee, Ms Rosenfeld admits that her role as the boss has had to change over the years, specifically in terms of it taking longer to make decisions.
"You know that saying 'ready, aim, fire'? In the beginning, when you're just an entrepreneur, you just fire," she says.
"Now, it's more about ready, and aim. It's been about forming that structure and organisation, and being able to execute."
But despite the changes to the business, Ms Rosenfeld says her enthusiasm remains undimmed.
"It has never felt like work, it has always been fun and continues to be." | Elana Rosenfeld was not even remotely prepared for her first wholesale orders. |
35,088,276 | The party was beaten into third place, despite leading in six of 13 regions in the first round of voting a week ago.
The centre-right Republicans finished ahead of President Francois Hollande's governing Socialist Party.
FN leader Marine Le Pen said that mainstream parties had colluded to keep it from power and vowed to keep on fighting.
"Nothing can stop us now," she told supporters. "By tripling our number of councillors, we will be the main opposition force in most of the regions of France."
Ms Le Pen said the party had been "disenfranchised in the most indecent of ways by a campaign of lies and disinformation".
She had stood as a regional presidential candidate in the northern region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie, while her niece Marion Marechal-Le Pen was the FN's candidate in the race in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, in the south.
After both led with more than 40% of the vote in the first round on 6 December, the Socialist candidates in those regions pulled out so their voters could support Republican candidates in the second round.
The FN actually increased its votes in the second round to more than 6.8 million, from 6.02 million on 6 December as more people voted, according to the ministry of the interior (In French). But the FN share of the vote went down slightly from 27.73% to 27.36%.
There can be no hiding that the results of the elections are a big personal blow to Marine Le Pen.
She has lost the chance to govern a region and show the world that her party is serious. She has been reminded that however strongly the FN performs, the gates of power remain tightly closed.
But in a way that suits her fine.
Because what it all means is that nothing in France has changed. The two main parties continue sharing out the goodies (in this case deliberately conniving to keep hers as well).
Meanwhile unemployment rises; terror stalks; the grim insurrectionary mood continues to spread.
Ms Le Pen's prospects for power may be limited, but her appeal is as strong as ever for France's growing numbers of disgruntled and disaffected.
That French "ouf" of relief? It's also the noise you make when you get a fist in the abdomen.
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The Republicans increased their share from 26.65% to 40.63% and the Socialists from 23.12% to 29.14%.
The overall turnout increased from 22.6 million on 6 December to 26.2 million on Sunday. Sunday's figures are based on a count of 98% of votes so far.
In her election, Marine Le Pen secured 42.2% of the vote in the second round in her region against the centre-right's 57.8%.
Marion Marechal-Le Pen took 45.2%, compared with 54.8% for her Republican rival.
Despite the defeat, the 26-year-old urged FN supporters to "redouble our efforts".
"There are some victories that shame the winners," she said.
Xavier Bertrand, Republican regional presidential candidate in Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie, said the French had given "a lesson of rallying together, courage. Here we stopped the progression of the National Front".
But Socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls was less upbeat. He warned the "danger posed by the far right has not gone away, far from it".
The Socialists suffered a major defeat in the Paris region, Ile-de-France, which shifted to the Republicans for the first time in nearly 20 years.
Republican leader Nicolas Sarkozy said now was the time "for in-depth debates about what worries the French", noting security concerns, unemployment and frustration with the European Union.
These elections were to vote for councils and presidents of the 13 French regions, which have wide powers over local transport, education and economic development.
The Republicans won seven mainland French regions and the Socialists five, with nationalists taking Corsica.
The first round of voting gave the FN the best election results in its history.
It was the first electoral test since the 13 November Paris attacks, in which 130 people were killed - an attack claimed by the so-called Islamic State group.
In the lead-up to the first round, opinion polls suggested that the popularity of the anti-immigration, anti-EU FN had increased since the deadly attacks.
The FN had been hoping a strong performance would boost Marine Le Pen's chances in the 2017 presidential election. | France's far-right National Front (FN) has failed to win a single region in the second round of municipal polls. |
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The Jester from Leicester had not lost a frame in his opening two matches at the York Barbican.
But Selby, 32, was off his best against world number 33 in the third round and was never in front until clinching victory with a fine break of 67.
"I was just scraping through. I don't know how I won the game," Selby said.
"I thought sooner or later I would come out and start performing, but it didn't seem to happen."
Selby, famously described as a "torturer" by Ronnie O'Sullivan for his ability to grind out wins when not at his best, trailed 2-0, 3-2, 4-3 and 5-4, but showed all his renowned battling ability to pull through at the York Barbican.
"Jamie deserved to win the match," Selby admitted. "He played great, scored two centuries and made more breaks. Every time he got chances he seemed to win the frame, in one visit, if not two.
"I had half a chance to win the first frame but he won that and made a great break in the second frame and deserved to be 2-0 up.
"For me to come out at 2-2 at the interval was like winning the lottery.
"I was just happy still being out there at 5-5. The way he played I had no right to be there after 10 frames.
"I thought as long as I get one chance I would be happy. I managed to get two and made a good break and held myself together well.
"And it was probably the best frame I played all match at the end when I needed to."
Selby faces either Dechawat Poomjaeng or Mark Joyce in the last 16, but said he would have to raise his game to continue his run at the tournament he won in 2012.
"Every game is tough and if I play like that, it has probably opened up for them," he said. "I will go on the practise table, work hard and be fresh for Wednesday." | World number one Mark Selby said he had no idea how he came through a final-frame decider with Welshman Jamie Jones at the UK Championship. |
30,033,174 | American rock band A Day To Remember had been onstage for about 30 minutes when the incident happened just after 22:00 GMT.
In a statement, Portsmouth Guildhall said the man appeared to dive off the circle, landing in the stalls.
The man was taken to Southampton General Hospital, where his condition is described as serious.
Fans at the concert said the band stopped playing immediately and it was announced the concert was over.
Following the incident, the band tweeted: "Our thoughts are with the person who was injured at the show.
"Sorry we had to cut the set short due to the circumstances." | A 21-year-old man was seriously injured after falling from a balcony during a music concert in Portsmouth. |
33,038,421 | The Malta-based, Migrant Offshore Aid Station, said it coordinated the operation along with Italian, Irish and German ships.
Italy's coastguard could not confirm the numbers, but said it was trying to help around a dozen other vessels.
The HMS Bulwark, a British Royal Navy ship, is also making its way towards Libya to assist with the situation.
BBC correspondent Jonathan Beale, who is on board, said the ship's crew would launch helicopters and landing craft on Sunday morning in the expectation they would pick up more migrants.
The Bulwark has already saved almost 1,800 people over the past month.
Italian navy ship Driade rescued 560 of the migrants on Saturday, including women and children, while the Irish vessel Le Eithne picked up 310 people.
The numbers of migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean in the hope of reaching Europe, has increased by more than 10% in the first five months of 2015.
Italy's government predicts a total of 200,000 will arrive on its shores this year, up from 170,000 in 2014. | European warships and coast guard vessels have rescued more than 2,000 migrants off the coast of Libya. |
33,989,747 | The screening took place at 17:00 BST at a cinema in the West Midlands town and was followed by a question and answer session with Sir Lenny.
The one-off drama, which was written by and stars the comedian, is a "fantasy memoir" of his teenage years.
Half of the tickets were distributed to homes with Dudley postcodes.
Sir Lenny said: "It is about everything that I love about Dudley in the 1970s... it is a story that is heartfelt and funny and moving."
Speaking before the screening, Steve Waltho, Mayor of Dudley, said: "Lenny Henry is one of Dudley's most famous sons and is as proud of his roots as we are of him.
"We have presented him with the freedom of the borough as a celebration of his achievements and I am sure this drama will capture many of the aspects that helped make him synonymous with the town.
"I am very much looking forward to the special screening of Danny and the Human Zoo and finding out more about the early life of our very own Lenny Henry." | Actor and comedian Sir Lenny Henry premiered his new BBC One drama - Danny and the Human Zoo - in his home town of Dudley. |
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